I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
I can't seem to get any work done today.
Primero! Bush, te puta madre!
spinoza, I refreshed before you did. Ha.
Coño. Segundo. Pero Bush todavia es pendejo.
I'm not frist (again), and Ken Bode's not a liberal.
Still miss him on Washington Week, though.
This is ridiculous. The Post is contradicting their own previous reporting on this.
Gee, lying is hard work.
bob schieffer:
called out rupert murdoch for publishing the photos. lol.
oh yeah, and it's the top story on all the networks.
wapo - now available in new, improved boilerplate edition!
--
mer, you and me both.
www.kexp.org was supposed to help but is just making things harder.
as are the skittles™.
plus i've got a nasty infected hangnail, so typing in xls spreadsheet data is literally painful. at least the pain typing in this box is sort of entertaining/cathartic.
Save public broadcasting. Cut it loose from the CPB and corporate funding. I'd rather get fifteen minutes of morse code than most of what comes out of NPR's two head offices.
I cannot listen and/or watch the MSM and CBP anymore. Though sometimes I think I should, so I will be able to determine when to flee this country.
bob schieffer:
called out rupert murdoch for publishing the photos. lol.
Yeah, Rupert is ascared.
oh yeah, and it's the top story on all the networks.
Really? Hahahahaha.
askeered?
Whatever. Rupert tells Bobby to suck it or they laugh together over a glass of blood red wine.
hey, would someone go to my homepage and tell me if the picture in the last post is obscene or not? I've been getting reports that the site was hacked but it looks OK to me . . .
oh yeah, and it's the top story on all the networks.
bkny
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Instead of the NY Times story about our brave boys torturing and murdering someone they knew was guilty of nothing more than trying to earn a living by driving a taxi.
I watched two grown men start to cry talking about this story. And it is going nowhere.
It's pretty obvious that this whole "Saddam in his undies" thing is a set-up, isn't it?
You can almost hear Rove at the meeting: "The ragheads still worship Saddam, despite all we've done for them. Get a picture of him washing out his delicates, then we'll act outraged abd defend his honor. They'll forget all about our torture chambers and the rose-tossing will commence at last!"
vestal, yep accuses you of leeching an image
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
CPB needs an ombudsman like a dog needs handlebars...CPB was supposed to superpose a layer of insulation between the pharisaical Congress and the charter of PBS/NPR to be fearlessly critical...
The purpose of the free press is to comfort the afflicted by afflicting the comfortable...
(crickets)
.
Gee, lying is hard work.
pie
Journalisming is tough, too.
VV
If you're serious, it looks like you were hacked. If not, ewwwwwwww.
Tomlinson wants to turn NPR and PBS into Fox News Channel.
btw, vespa
that's the image sourcer's phrase.
Bode is a liberal. He believes in liberal dispensations of Scaiffe and Mellon money into his bank account. The more liberal the payments the better.
Thanks, Bo.
Dang.
ese guerro...
i usta go by the moniker 'jodieron' before i got 86'd at Slate the last time...'(we) are fucked'...
Oops. Guess I'll have to post a follow up.
So y'all know, apparently "something awful" is getting stingy with the bandwidth!
all your airways are ours
Hope fades
Into the world of night
Through shadows falling
Out of memory and time
Don't say: «We have come now to the end»
White shores are calling
You and I will meet again
-------
Into the West
I'm thinking of taking up drinking again. Continual outrage just drains one, and it appears that far too many of our fellow countrymen and women are just plain fools. There are days when I feel like Denethor after staring into the Palantir that is CNNABCFOXNBCPBSCBS if it weren't for
Air America, Eschaton, Attaturk, and Pandagon
TBogg, Ntodd, Max Speak too
I read Wolcott, how 'bout you?
Ummm, ok you caught me, I have in fact already started.....
So sue me. (hic)
Fuck (cough, cough) Bush!
ABC Evenging news just had a news story about the resurrection of Jesus. UHG
Liberals need to learn how to infiltrate. That's all there is to it.
Get a picture of him washing out his delicates
Did you notice how *white* his undies were?
Good job, Saddam. (Or photoshop laundry service)
http://tinyurl.com/c2dqr
Machomobile
ABC Evenging news just had a news story about the resurrection of Jesus
well if it happened today, in front of cell-fone cams, etc, it'd sure be news, alrighty...
pero, if they were just rehashing 2000-year-old rumors, uuuhhhhhh, not so much....
ABC Evenging news just had a news story about the resurrection of Jesus. UHG
tom | Email | Homepage | 05.20.05 - 6:56 pm | #
Unless he's actually walking around agin, it ain't news.
The only thing that keeps me sane is that the really smart, educated people I know believe the way I do. I asked somebody yesterday if they thought I had gone around the bend. They said something to the effect of, well shit, it's just our republic that is being dismantled. Nothing to worry about. /snark.
Liberals need to learn how to infiltrate. That's all there is to it.
They know how, but only a few have the keys.
However, if there's a will, there's a way.
Did you notice how *white* his undies were?
Good job, Saddam. (Or photoshop laundry service)
Hahahahaha. I hear he has to scrub his own clothes. He is nothing, if not dedicated to the task.
re infiltration, yeah, we need to get into school boards and low-level things like the crossworshippers did.
kei, action-packed mentalist, and yuri, monolithic fishmonger X
QL in NY ...
I'll gladly keep up the randy commentary.
Echoing a claim that led to CNN executive Eason Jordan’s resignation, the president of the 35,000-member Newspaper Guild asserted U.S. troops deliberately are killing journalists in Iraq.
According to a tape of her remarks, Foley said: “Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or … ah, or … ah, politically. They are also being targeted for real, um … in places like Iraq. What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there’s not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq.”
Foley continued, “They target and kill journalists … uh, from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity. …”
Looks like the right wing blogosphere is going to get another scalp. Ugh. What was she thinking?
They said something to the effect of, well shit, it's just
our republic that is being dismantled. Nothing to worry about. /snark.
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Cue Toby yelping about how nobody
will take you seriously if you keep
saying silly stuff like that.
Atios, You must have missed Presidentail Homeland Security Directive 992... The Hudson Institute is now officially deemed to be centrist.
A second infraction of calling the Hudson Institute will get you up to 2 glowsticks of freedom as a ghost detainee.
I'm thinking of taking up drinking again.
GOOD IDEA!!!
i don't know what poison is your favorite, but the choices of delicasies has probably grown exponentially since you quit...
beers: choices are amazing, and there are some very very good beers out there, not exactly micro-breweries, but small enough...depending on where you live, there's some really great beers (ales, lagers, pils, stouts, porters too numerous to recount here). Today is sheer heaven for the aficionado of the malted hop...
the same is true with hard liquors. I'm a scotch drinker (and beer)... the explosion of single malts is wondrous to behold. there are very few 86 proof blends anymore (my particular favorite is Teacher's Highland Cream)...ya gotta figger if they're flogging JW Red and White Label at the local COSTCO, the quality's probably contentious.
there's a ton of small distillery bourbons, some of 'em down right wonderful, if that's your pleasure...
and specialty tequilas, gin, vodkas by the score...
frankly, you couldnt have chosen a BETTER time to start drinking (again), for either political or potable reasons...
prosit!!!
I like joder cuz it's used almost exactly like fuck in English. Estamos jodios means "we're fucked," in the same metaphorical sense as the English expression. It's also pretty much universal: Chingar and coger, while pretty vile to a Mexican, have different meanings or are meaningless elsewhere.
Back on topic, seems the Bushistas aren't content to bribe and intimidate the corporate media into functioning as a state-run media -- they want PBS to become the real thing. Charming.
And does anyone else get their knickers in a twist when someone laments the "polarization" of U.S. politics? It's more of that false-equivalency crap. If you look at a naked right-wing, warmongering power grab with the obvious goal of permanent one-party rule (which would probably function less like the Nazis or Soviets and more like a more theocratic version of the crony-kleptocrat PRI of Mexico), and all you can do is wheedle, "Things are so polarized! Can't we all just get along?" then you are just not a person to be taken seriously.
ABC Evenging news just had a news story about the resurrection of Jesus
I visited a friend tonight while the house was being shown. She was raised Catholic, but steers clear now and is into bible reading and the OT.
She doesn't believe in evolution, she believes the earth is 6000 years old, and believes Adam looked like modern man, 'cause he sure didn't descend from the apes.
I was aghast. I knew she was doing the bible thang (she told me about going to discussion groups last fall), but had no idea she believed all this stuff.
Her husband doesn't buy it, she said.
Her husband usually looks at her and shakes his head. She's very nice, but a bit ditzy.
Atios, You must have missed Presidentail Homeland Security Directive 992...
*Atrios*
*Presidential*
conservatives are stupid....pass it on.
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Looks like the right wing blogosphere is going to get another scalp. Ugh. What was she thinking?
That they can save the republic?
when are you people going to learn:
truth is relative and subject to change at a moment's notice.
Atios, You must have missed Presidentail Homeland Security Directive 992...
*Atrios*
*Presidential*
pie
pie,
scroll down a few potsts ans sea what i look like!
"Conservatives" aren't, troll.
They actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity
It's true and it's been true since helicopter space was refused to dying journalists in Afghanistan.
pie | Email | Homepage | 05.20.05 - 7:10 pm | #
Hey, namestealer, you used to tout A-man as a Congressman.
Now he's presidential?
Who knew?
O.T. Has anybody seen the new G.E. ad for "clean coal". It's the one with the pouting supermodels carrying pickaxes and running drills while the song SIXTEEN TONS plays in the background. I wonder who is the audience for this thing? I think it's one of the dumbest ads in years. It's like some ad director said "let's show a bunch of vacant beautiful people in miner's helmets. It'll be kewl."
OT: New indictment on Tobin
----- Prosecutors have won a new indictment against a former official of President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign for his alleged misconduct during the 2002 election.
The indictment renders moot multiple motions to dismiss filed by James Tobin, postponing a hearing scheduled for Friday in U.S. District Court. Tobin, of Bangor, Maine, will have to enter a new plea to the revised charges....
At the time, Tobin was a high ranking official of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, whose job was to elect Republicans to the Senate. The 2002 race between Republican John E. Sununu and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, won by Sununu, was considered one of the closest in the country.
The committee was run by Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, now Senate majority leader.
In 2004, Tobin was regional chairman of Bush's re-election campaign.
-----
I'd forgotten that part of the fun was that he has working for Frist when he pulled this crap.
sekmet,
someone earlier pointed out that they left out the "sold my soul to the compnay store" part... gee, why was that?
that commercial is pure crap.
I'm thinking of taking up drinking again.
get to a meeting now! it works if you work it!
yeah, it's been hard on me too.
the good news is there's something else you can do habitually that doesn't hurt you or anyone else, as long as you don't do it in public.
I'd forgotten that part of the fun was that he has working for Frist when he pulled this crap.
it'd be nice if someone in the press would bring up the fact that both this douchebag and Miranda worked for Frist.
It's the one with the pouting supermodels carrying pickaxes and running drills
Black lung and supermodels. Why does Zoolander come to mind?
Over 1600 US troops dead, another couple of hundred of Coalition troops dead, over 100,000 Iraqis dead, 300 billion dollars wasted on an illegal war, Iraq in ruins, our reputation, Constitution, and economy in tatters, and all we got for it was the answer to the burning question: "Saddam -- boxers or briefs?"
CPB Lied, Free Press Died
it ain't the military that is doing that giggal! it is the civilian leadership in the pentagon i strongly suspect.
Ah, "16 Tons."
Reminds me of when Tennessee Williams
died, and one of the local NYC
news anchors announced the obit
as Tennessee Ernie Williams.
I can't
remember which one it was.
It might have been Roland Smith,
but of course they're all
dumb as dirt.
it'd be nice if someone in the press would bring up the fact that both this douchebag and Miranda worked for Frist.
Sean
Yup. Frist has a family of Death Eaters. Fucking Malfoys.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military condemned the publication Friday of photographs showing an imprisoned Saddam Hussein naked except for his white underwear, and ordered an investigation of how the pictures were leaked to a tabloid. Some Iraqis expressed anger, but President Bush said he did not think the images would incite further anti-American sentiment.
"did not think the images would incite further anti-American sentiment."????
More and more of Bush's brain cells die off with every passing day, don't they?
meet the new fuels same as the old fuels...
sekmet--The semiotics for the "clean coal" ad are fairly obvious, working by analogy: GE coal is to regular coal as supermodels are to sooty male miners.
Bonus iconography: vacuous models as heroic workers, combining the virtues from different magazine eras.
when are you people going to learn:
truth is relative and subject to change at a moment's notice.
watertiger -7:12 pm
verdad...truth is fungible. what matters is what counts as grounds for justified belief, the operant conditions whereby 'truth' is knowable...
you used the lowercase (t) yourself, wt, which is why i don't think you'd disagree with me...
truth is relative and subject to change at a moment's notice
just for example, that's what happened when Einstein met Newton...
the terms, the conditions of what constitutes truth can change in an instant...fairly often do so, it seems to me...Thomas Kuhn, et al?
jist syin'
.
O.T. Has anybody seen the new G.E. ad for "clean coal". It's the one with the pouting supermodels carrying pickaxes and running drills while the song SIXTEEN TONS plays in the background.
WTF??! did they listen to the lyrics of that song?? hint: it's NOT about how the coal companies can save us...
it's about as cognitively dissonant as playing "deutschland über alles" in the background of a hebrew national hot dogs commercial.
Bode is a liberal. He believes in liberal dispensations of Scaiffe and Mellon money into his bank account. The more liberal the payments the better.
Bingo! That asswipe could be related to KKKarl Rove, for crying out loud.
Looks like the right wing blogosphere is going to get another scalp. Ugh. What was she thinking?
That it's her responsibility to tell the truth?
How quaint!
WGG,
aye, laddie, aye.
Tennessee Ernie Williams.
WGG- My grandparents used to hang out with Tennessee Ernie Ford in Wyoming and Nevada . . .
This is ridiculous. The Post is contradicting their own previous reporting on this.
Well, just so long as they aren't contradicting their own future reporting on this.
it's about as cognitively dissonant as playing "deutschland über alles" in the background of a hebrew national hot dogs commercial.
don't give santorum any ideas.
BTW, call me a starry-eyed idealist, but I'm gonna bet the head of a reporter's union is gonna show a little more moxie under fire than a network weasel. Bring it on, brownshirts!
sekmet - saw that ad for the first time yesterday. I swear I thought it was a parody of something til the very end.
Anorexic models in a coal mine? WTF?
Someone at the ad agency needs to get back on their meds.
The committee was run by Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, now Senate majority leader.
In 2004, Tobin was regional chairman of Bush's re-election campaign.
What good, moral Christians the Dear Leader and Leader Frist are. They have such nice young men at their beck and call.
it's about as cognitively dissonant as playing "deutschland über alles" in the background of a hebrew national hot dogs commercial.
r@d@r | Email | Homepage | 05.20.05 - 7:22 pm | #
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Bwah ha ha ha ha . . .
Bork.
Rhymes with ...
Bingo! That asswipe could be related to KKKarl Rove, for crying out loud./i> he is. Karl's long lost evil twin.
In conclusion, Bode states, "It is sometimes necessary to take sensitive information on a not-for-attribution basis, as with a whistle-blower, for example. But in granting that privilege reporters need to be able to demand truth in return and to know that their news organizations will stand behind them and enforce that standard."
Friday Quote & Cat Blogging is up! Huzzah!
OT: Keepin' the Heat On
Dean Still Calls for Jail Time for DeLay
-----
Tom DeLay is corrupt. No question about it," Dean said Friday. "This is a guy who shouldn't be in Congress and maybe ought to be serving in jail."...
Dean's needling of DeLay and the GOP came in a brief interview about the future of the Democratic Party. He laid out his plans to build the party's grass roots and reshape its message to attract rural and exurban voters who have been moving to the Republican Party.
He pledged to put a party organizer in every U.S. precinct. He is putting money and time into GOP-leaning states, Dean said, because Democrats must start winning state and national races in places they're currently not competing.
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Spork!!
Bork.
Rhymes with ...
Corksucker!
steve simels--That Tennessee Ernie Williams gaffe sounded like pure Jim Jensen to me.
But Google tells all--it was weatherman Storm Field given one of his first shots at reading "hard" news.
There's a newspaper chestnut to the effect "You can't cover City Hall until you can cover an overturned truck."
re: 'sixteen tons' as an advertising jingle. Is it more offensive to think the ad agency has no idea what the song really means or to think the ad agencies know better but believe *we* have no idea what it really means?
sixteen tons and whaddaya get
another day older and deeper in debt
st peter don't call me 'cause i can't go
i owe my soul to the company store
yes friends, the theme song to 'Bushworld'
Media Matters for America is doing a bang up job. It reminds me of a daily "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Liar." Somebody had to do a check on the media and they are to be commended.
Is it me or is Bush starting to teeter toward Vincent Price Land?
Draco:
Thanks, that's priceless.
Orcinus has a horrendous new possible hate crime, in case anyone was happy today.
I do, in fact, owe my soul to the company store.
cigarettes don't grow on trees, ya know
all right, made VV laugh, i can go home early. have a nice weekend everybody!
Is it me or is Bush starting to teeter toward Vincent Price Land?
You mean a 'passing' 'mo? Always thought so.
More from 16 Tons:
"One fist of iron,
the other of steel.
If the right one don't get you
then the left one will."
WGG- My grandparents used to hang out with Tennessee Ernie Ford in Wyoming and Nevada . . .
Vestal Vespa -7:26 pm
i know all the verses of 16 tons, but that wasn't me...
jist a'sighin...
.
Who wrote that song?
Vestal
Couldn't they just force sterilization on pitbulls?
I, too, will soon be cat blogging. I finally got the software program figured out, I put new batteries in my trusty old Nikon, so soon.
In the meantime, I have been promised a new kitten (part of a litter that had been left to die behind a small manufacturing plant) as soon as her health will permit introduction into my current menagerie.
Thank whatever force stands behind the universe for people who do animal rescue. They are saints.
Eli,
Great quote and funny ha ha kitty pic.
I just looked it up -- Merle
Travis.
Pagin Mr. Orwell... Mr. Orwell, to the white courtesy phone...
I liked the other MM4A story, to wit:
National Review contributing editor and former Bush speechwriter David Frum dismissed a recent poll showing dissatisfaction with the Republican-controlled Congress by claiming that one question asking respondents if they "approve or disapprove of the job that Congress is doing," which shows that only 33 percent of respondents "approve," was "too general" to be meaningful.
Sorry, WGG- meant to be Steve S.
Dang, I'm too young to have such brain lapses!
I believe Sixteen Tons was written by Merle Travis. But I could be mistaken
simels
The 16 Tons club is named after a song by Merle Travis dedicated to the hard work of miners. It was written in 1946 but became famous only in 1955 when Tennessee Ernie Ford began to sing it.
I, too, will soon be cat blogging... I have been promised a new kitten (part of a litter that had been left to die behind a small manufacturing plant) as soon as her health will permit introduction into my current menagerie.
Yay! Looking forward to it.
Thanks again for offering to take Mary Cat...
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari,
I noticed that your husband was at the Star Wars premier today. How come you weren't invited?
.
Bork.
Rhymes with ...
"Heads up, I'm gonna hork!"
Corksucker!
When I was a teen, we used to say, "Motherflogging corksoaker!"
I have no idea why or even why that seems relevant right this moment ...
Speaking of self-hating Hispanics who pervert the truth...
He's been awfully quiet lately. Plotting Patriot Act II, prol'ly.
http://tinyurl.com/9nllu
Here's the background on 16 Tons. Merle Travis wrote it. He also wrote DARK AS A DUNGEON.
Every guitar player knows Travis for the Travis Pick. (A pattern of finger plucking the strings.) I believe he also wrote DARK AS A DUNGEON. I am also a fan of Bill Edd Wheeler - another singer who sings of coal miners.
I noticed that your husband was at the Star Wars premier today. How come you weren't invited?
Ibrahim gets all the good invites. short answer: there was no "plus 1" for the invite, those fuckers don't appreciate the woman behind the man.
there will be beatings a plenty. Ibrahim liked Palpatine, reminded him of Bremer.
Dave,
Holy Crap! I think even Orwell would have been shocked that someone could conceive of this.
Merle Travis also wrote
"I Am a Pilgrim."
it's about as cognitively dissonant as playing "deutschland über alles" in the background of a hebrew national hot dogs commercial.
Or as subversively appropriate as playing Mozart's "Confutatis" in the background of a Microsoft commercial, as the lyrics, translated, speak of being consigned to pits of woe.
Thanks, vicula!
SNL actually did a sketch on this when Janet Jackson was hosting, where she was part of a tour group visiting an Italian winery, and the head vintner was explaining at length the importance of the cork soakers, and whether or not great cork soakers were born or made, and what the cork-soaking aptitudes of the various tour group members might be.
I can only assume it was written by the same person or people who wrote the "Colonel Angus" sketch (which was much funnier, probably because it was Walken)...
Republicans have no place in the public things. Business should stay where it belongs.
Nazi America
Holy Crap! I think even Orwell would have been shocked that someone could conceive of this.
Diane
Orwell is rolling in his grave right now.
"Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the danger is doubled and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine."
Speaking of coal miners, time for a little Harlan County, USA or Matewan? Has anyone ever made a good movie of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's VALLEY OF FEAR?
Orwell is rolling in his grave right now.
I told you so...I told you so... I told you so...
I hope when I die and the ages will roll,
My body will harden and turn into coal,
I'll look down upon them from my heavenly home,
And pity the miners there digging my bones.
Thank whatever force stands behind the universe for people who do animal rescue. They are saints.
Diane
I have a couple of friends who do it and I help out when I can, (maybe that's why I have 6 pets) and it is heartbreaking work. My dog rescue friend has to take a break. It was breaking her heart.
Walken as Colonel Angus split my sides. I needed duct tape. the one and only skit Amy Poehler was able to pull off.
I have a couple of friends who do it and I help out when I can, (maybe that's why I have 6 pets) and it is heartbreaking work. My dog rescue friend has to take a break. It was breaking her heart.
I admire the hell out of 'em, but I know I could never do it. I'd never be able to sleep...
I had a conversation in a dinner club with Mose Allsion.
Has
anyone ever made a good movie of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's VALLEY OF FEAR?
DWD | Email | Homepage | 05.20.05 - 7:45 pm | #
Not a good one.
I think there's a crappy one from
Germany featuring a dubbed Christopher
Lee.
Who wrote that song?
steve simels
Merle Travis
I loved Tennessee Ernie Ford. When I was a kid growing up in Nashville in the early 60s, he had a daytime talkshow that came on about lunchtime (it was probably some kind of syndicated thing). I used to watch it every day in the summer when I was off from school. Along with having a great singing voice, he was actually a pretty funny guy.
Christopher Walken on SNL is always the best...
More cowbell!
Bobo and Shields up now. let's watch Bobo huff and puff:
Bobo:"No trust. Centrists aren't ruthless. Bring it on"
Mark:"uuuuuummmmmmhhhhh."
what asshats they both are.
patrons wanting to use Naperville Public Library System computers without a hassle will have to prove their identity with a fingerprint.
Oh fer cryin' out loud. WTF are they worried about? The local al Qeada cell?
This was instituted by some stick up the butt library board mommy who wants to know what websites her kids are surfing. Bet on it.
It's pretty obvious that this whole "Saddam in his undies" thing is a set-up, isn't it?
You can almost hear Rove at the meeting: "The ragheads still worship Saddam, despite all we've done for them. Get a picture of him washing out his delicates, then we'll act outraged abd defend his honor. They'll forget all about our torture chambers and the rose-tossing will commence at last!"
dave
================================
And the prize goes to Dave for most insightful comment of the evening so far.
And a good evening it is, too.
We're sitting around here sipping some Petron and listening to Spoon. A great band that hails from Austin, TX.
And, er, just between you and me, I'm gonna kill Glenn Beck.
Alraight, freethinkers --
Off to swill some elitist
chardonnay with some satanic
commie liberal friends.
As always, wang chung in my absence.
On Topic for just a moment.
I have this fantasy that the public (even if it's the 51% who think getting the truth is important) finally said to the feds, "Look, you don't like PBS and NPR, FINE. Pull your funding and your authority.
"80% of the funding is raised by the stations anyway, either from corporate sponsors or listeners/viewers. We'll get the other 20% the same way. Give us the bandwiddth/frequency/channel and just go the fuck away."
Then let the current managers know that we intend to elect their Boards of Directors to follow through on the original mandate.
I admire the hell out of 'em, but I know I could never do it. I'd never be able to sleep...
My friend who does dog rescue wouldn't even tell me some of the stuff they uncovered at puppy mills. Said I wouldn't want to know. I totally admire animal rescue work especially because it's a job that's never done. For every rescue there are hundreds more abuses. Oy. Makes your heart hurt.
Cleveland Bob--I dig Spoon, that's some good indie rock you got there.
I had a conversation in a dinner club with Mose Allsion. -magnolia
I stand in awe of your molecular structure.
Bye Steve.
Wang Chung for me. I'm too tired!
Adios atriots!
But I can't leave without some dog-blogging (gotta balance out the feline presence ya know)
.
Ted Rall's the Optimist is the most profound statement in the entire American media in a long time. Why is it in the service industry you get prevented three times from doing something so that some assistant idiot in chief can tell you to do that thing? Do they turn around and note, "subject always has to be told multiple times to do things"?
Agitprop,
You're right there, my brother.
They're coming here two weeks from tonight. Tres excited!
And I'm still not kidding about GB.
Christopher Walken on SNL is always the best...
More cowbell!
Agitprop
The cowbell! Hoo boy that was a classic. Wasn't Will Ferrel (sp?) the cowbell striker. I loved it.
For every rescue there are hundreds more abuses. Oy. Makes your heart hurt.
bigvic
Which is why I know I could never do it. But try to give bookoo bucks to the people who do.
BTW, vic - want the sparkly dress now?
Art work by none other than mmyself.
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Christopher Walken on SNL is always the best...
More cowbell!
Agitprop
The cowbell! Hoo boy that was a classic. Wasn't Will Ferrel (sp?) the cowbell striker. I loved it.
The census sketch. "I really want to win that car."
Also, Stalk Talk, which no-one remembers but me, but was utterly brilliant.
Flory,
Why, yes. I'm in a princess mood about now. If you're sure Holden will not try to grab it all for himself, I'd like to play dress-up. Thaaaank Yewwww.
Yeah JeffCo-My mind was a little on vacation, but i do remember we talked at length about where to get the best yogurt.
re-GE ad - perhaps there's a monkeywrencher at the ad agency.
Blue Dragon | Email | Homepage | 05.20.05 - 8:03 pm
cool shit, bro...
you look the proper doting dad...
are the enormous landscape vistas in the Navajo Country? I thought one of 'em mighta been Shiprock in the distance? or the Chuskas?
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Eli,
I'm impressed with your deep SNL knowledge. You are making my memory cells actually work. Heh. I wish they'd get better writers these days.
Also, Stalk Talk, which no-one remembers but me, but was utterly brilliant.
Eli | Email | Homepage | 05.20.05 - 8:03 pm | #
I remember it well.
it was the eighth episode of the 88-89 season of "Knight Rider".. David had just started to grow his hair too long, you know? And I thought it needed to be cut. So, I snuck onto his set and I hid under his trailer with a pair of scissors.. but he never showed up! He knew that I was there! He needed a haircut, but he left me lying there like a fool! I hate you, David Hasselhoff! I hate you!!
I thought one of 'em mighta been Shiprock in the distance?
Is the road to Shiprock still 666? Or did the fundies get it changed?
I'm impressed with your deep SNL knowledge.
Oh yeah. Drives the ladies crazy, it does. "Tell me again which one Tim Meadows is!!! Ooo, you're so masterful!"
Not Ship Rock Woody. Goosberry Mesa in Az.
Just below St George, Utah
I remember it well.
I still don't know why Stalk Talk was not included in the Best Of Christopher Walken. Deep down, I somehow knew it wouldn't be, but I still had to watch, just in case. And they put in some really lame crap at the end, too.
Anyone got a good headache cure? So far, I've swallowed a handful of codeine, and a handful of ibuprofen.
Hiway 666
Fundies got it changed...called it 'the devil's highway.'
lotsa folks bought it along there, but it was that ol' devil rum was the cause of most of the fatalities...
changed to US 491 about three or four years ago...
Eli - you should damn well know that I would remember Stalk Talk.
Walken: "My ex-girlfriend...let's call her Bitch...."
Is the road to Shiprock still 666? Or did the fundies get it changed?
Phila
IIRC, some new documents have been uncovered that put the sign of Satan at 661. Must have been a biblical typo.
I still don't know why Stalk Talk was not included in the Best Of Christopher Walken.
I used to have a stalker.
She was strict vegan and I used to run into her at McDonalds a lot. I'd run into her as I was going in and she'd try to engage me in conversation so I'd forget to go inside.
I kid you not.
Eli - you should damn well know that I would remember Stalk Talk.
Walken: "My ex-girlfriend...let's call her Bitch...."
"There were... a variety of charges" is one of the great lines of all time.
I have a headache too. I never get them. Didn't sleep much.
Any Caffeine in the house?
Anyone got a good headache cure? So far, I've swallowed a handful of codeine, and a handful of ibuprofen.
Phila
Ouch.
Phila, unless you have problems with migraine, which is a real specific headache problem, the most I would recommend at this point is a lot of water and some hot packs to your forehead (sinus).
That much codeine and no relief is problematical.
Caffeine is good for some headaches, but you'll probably be asleep soon with the codeine.
Traveled that road several times Woody.
I do lovve that part of the world.
clean sheet up stairs
Good evening, freethinkers!
watertiger always has the scariest pictures.
Speaking of coal miners, time for a little Harlan County, USA or Matewan?
And going way back, "Salt of the Earth"
I used to have a stalker.
She was strict vegan and I used to run into her at McDonalds a lot. I'd run into her as I was going in and she'd try to engage me in conversation so I'd forget to go inside.
I kid you not.
Wow. Have never had a stalker (unless they were very, very subtle), which surprises me not in the least.
There *was* a crazy stalker lady at my company a while back, but I was not her stalkee - he was just some random guy in an entirely different department who had no idea who she was.
Orwell is rolling in his grave right now.
Agitprop | Email | Homepage | 05.20.05 - 7:44 pm | #
Agitprop, you have inspired me to conceive of the solution to our energy crisis.
We'll just hook up turbine generators to the spinning corpses of Orwell, the Founding Fathers, and all of the great thinkers from history.
Now, where the hell is my Nobel Prize?
Anyone got a good headache cure? So far, I've swallowed a handful of codeine, and a handful of ibuprofen.
mix one part metamphetamine with one part black tar heroin. sprinkle over three paryts cannabis. smoke, then drink two parts Appleton's Special Estate while listening to Joni Mitchell drone on. change channels to Texas cheerleaders dancing lasciviously.
jump up and down, hyperventilate for 30 seconds. masturbate to pictures from the Sears catalogue.
cures my headaches, every time.
Phila, unless you have problems with migraine, which is a real specific headache problem,
Yeah, I'm prone to them, although I don't think this is one. I have a very high tolerance for painkillers, so the codeine simply may not've been enough.
You're probably right about the sinuses...maybe I'll give it a try. Or use my saline irrigator (yuck). Problem is, I have to go out on the town, and probably don't have time for those drastic measures...
Eh well, enough about me. I'll figure it out! Thanks for the tips.
"cures my headaches, every time.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari"
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I do belive that would cure anything.
lmao
lotsa folks bought it along there, but it was that ol' devil rum was the cause of most of the fatalities...
That's NM for ya. The Gallup area, especially. I always used to tense up when I saw headlights coming towards me...never knew if they were going to veer towards me...
Phila - try this: go lie down in a quiet, darkened room for about 10 minutes. Concentrate on relaxing your facial muscles, starting with the ones around your eyes, then the forehead...and then concentrate on relaxing the muscles surrounding your frontal sinus passages. Even if the sinuses aren't causing it, just the relaxation will help ease the headache.
It's harder than it sounds and takes some practice, but really works for me.
cures my headaches, every time.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Don't know if it'd work for me...but I do know that reading Levinas, playing the third Big Star album, and drinking choclate almond milk doesn't.
Maybe going out to eat Thai food and drinking too much beer'll help.
Phila,
If that is really you, you shouldn't be mixing all that codine with ibuprofhen. Be careful. I had migraines several years ago and my Doc told me not to take ibuprofen (outside a very few) to boost the *help*. I don't remember why, just remember the warning.
It's harder than it sounds and takes some practice, but really works for me.
Jennifer
Thanks, Jennifer! I'll see if I can do it while driving...what could go wrong?
BD:
Great photos. You look ever so dapper in the wedding pic.
And Harley with a beer - now that's a man who knows how to treat his puppies well.
Vic - Holden has his own damn dress - this one is for the rest of us. Have fun, Princess Vicula.
Phila - best headache cure I can think of would be a new administration, but you might have to wait awhile.
Phila - best headache cure I can think of would be a new administration, but you might have to wait awhile.
flory
Too bloody true. Though I think most of my BuchCo-related pains are in my neck and shoulderblades. Along with a bit of esophageal scarring...
Don't know if it'd work for me...but I do know that reading Levinas, playing the third Big Star album, and drinking choclate almond milk doesn't.
try memoirs of the blind and the first Joy Division album and drinking lemonade. maybe the results will be better.
failing that, Quineau. he'll give you an even bigger headache
the first Joy Division album
Let's not spoil a beautiful friendship, Mrs I! We've been through this already. The days when I could stomach JD are poignantly far behind me, never to return.
And bigvic, I didn't take the two together...tried the ibuprofen, and then resorted to the codeine...
Anyway, I'm heading out. Good moon, nightbats!
yeah, me too. off to see some local rock heroes.
fuck Bush
up the revolution
mix one part metamphetamine with one part black tar heroin. sprinkle over three paryts cannabis. smoke, then drink two parts Appleton's Special Estate while listening to Joni Mitchell drone on. change channels to Texas cheerleaders dancing lasciviously.
Hahahaha. Whew. I need a moment to recover. Then there's this:
Vic - Holden has his own damn dress - this one is for the rest of us. Have fun, Princess Vicula.
I'm gonna need adult diapers to continue reading this thread.
There was a truly frightening looking woman on Now just, uh, now. Jan LaRue of Concerned Women of America. Spot on with the talking points: God mentioned in the Constitution, where it says "In the year of our Lord 1787." Rrrrright, lady. And, of course, since Jefferson, a knows Deist, mention Creator in the Declaration of Independence, it means our entire nations was founded on God (the Church of England, Puritan, or Catholic is not determined--so it must be the Fundy Righty Radical Wackos of today).
Help! There must be some way out of here! Where can we go to get our country back?
Now now has Molly Ivens--good stuff.
spork?
"Jan LaRue of Concerned Women of America. "
"Ladies Against Women?"
Dark as a Dungeon is one of the greatest songs ever written.
Re NPR and CPB and the whore media and the whole rotten enablers-of-fascism edifice - when do we stop comforting ourselves here and take the bastards down? Why do they have all the power to destroy all that is human and decent like a steamroller and all we can do is wring our hands and drink?
Can the decent people of this country, with fundie-like, Schiavo-bot energy, not destroy Karl Rovedom?
"Jan LaRue of Concerned Women of America. "
"Ladies Against Women?"
"Straight-Supremist Hate Group 'Concerned Women for America'"
When Tomlinson was on NPR 2 days ago , Diane asked him why only Now was monitored and no other shows. He said" a leader said it was ok" and did not say who.
Channel 13 in NYC is making effective use of Tomlinson in its latest fund-raising drive.
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