I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Our country can't survive much more balance.
how do they get away with quoting four of her supporters and none of her detractors in the article?
Because 4 of her supporters still don't add up to even 1 of us?
Forty-third! Curly ruleZ!
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No wonder Phila has a headache.
We'll just have to take heart that no one reads the newspapers anymore and that Faux News has lost 58% if its viewership.
Dear Avedon and Attaturk,
Atrios is back now. Thank you for your good work. Please move along. You did a great job. Time to go home. Last call was four days ago.
Sincerely,
The problem with fiction is that there is so much more of it than fact.
[snipe]
But I'm not a troll.
Welcome to the New Reality. More jingoism, less taste.
because they're whores, of course.
Anyone watching "Now" on PBS? Molly Ivins is talking about Priscilla Owens.
This is all just a warm up for the supreme court justices we're going to get rammed down our throats shortly. We'd better get used to it.
Reality sucks must be the Republican theme song.
Owen, who received $20K in campaign cash from a law firm that represented Ford, slow-walked the case, leaving Willie hanging.
She waited two years to rule, even though both sides requested a expedited hearing.
The Culture Of Life at its best.
P.S. And she LOVES puppies.
Old Hat - learn to fucking read:
Thanks to the great guest bloggers who helped out while I was traveling through Andalusia. I'm back in Barcelona (Barca! Barca!) for another couple of weeks, then I return home. My borrowed internet connection is not always as consistent as I'd like, so the guest bloggers are welcome to continue to chime in as much or as little as they want for awhile longer...
Dear Avedon and Attaturk.
Marvin K. Mooney, will you please go home now?
Sincerely,
bigvic - I wonder if that two year delay resulted in her lawyer supporters earning back that $20,000 in fees?
P.S. And she LOVES puppies.
With a nice bernaise sauce...
Avedon, Attaturk, I just want to let you know you're doing a great job. Great job guest blogging. Excellent. Love the posts that link to Salon.
Imagine how different America would be if Bush nominated a judge this concerned about civil liberties to the federal bench:
[She] was the only member of that court to denounce racist standards by which some police engage in stop-and-search operations:
"There is an undeniable correlation between law enforcement stop-and-search practices and the racial characteristics of the driver. . . . The practice is so prevalent, it has a name: 'Driving While Black.' "
She quoted a U.S. Supreme Court opinion by William O. Douglas (Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville, 1972): "If we are committed to a rule of law that applies equally to 'minorities as well as majorities, to the poor as well as the rich,' we cannot countenance standards that permit and encourage discriminatory enforcement."
[This judge] added that while racial profiling is "more subtle, more diffuse, and less visible" than racial segregation, "it is only a difference in degree. If harm is still being done to people because they are black, or brown, or poor, the oppression is not lessened by the absence of television cameras." ...
In the case In re Visciotti (1996), [this judge] was in dissent on the death sentence of John Visciotti, who had been convicted of murder, attempted murder, and armed robbery. She said the sentence should be set aside because of the clear incompetence of Visciotti's lawyer. ...
In another case, In re Brown (199
, this purported enemy of civil rights and civil liberties went after the prosecutor in a capital case and reversed the death sentence of John George Brown because the prosecutor withheld evidence that could have been exculpatory.
In People v. Woods (1999), [she] sharply disagreed when her colleagues approved a police search of a suspected drug dealer's home because, as the cops said, his roommate had consented to warrantless searches as a condition of probation. ... "By their decision today, a majority of the court set the history of personal liberties back more than 200 years."
What flaming liberal is this? California Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown!
And let me just note that the only reason I'm not guest blogging anymore is not Old Hat, but some family health trouble.
how do they get away with quoting four of her supporters and none of her detractors in the article?
She wouldn't even get a whole article if she wasn't controversial to begin with, yet the paper gives no examples of why this is so. ical brawl in the Senate.
"She teaches Sunday school"-ugh, what a horrible piece of crap this is, and I'm writing to tell the Times so.
Sincerely,
Old Hat -10:25 pm
believe me, i sincerely wish you to just go eat shit and die...
sincerely...really...
there's a soft bigotry of low expectations for corrupt wingnuts.
I think it would surprise even old hat to know how few people cared what he thinks.
Great job, echidne.
If Priscilla Owen is single, why aren't the rumors of her lesbianism flying around (you know that if Clinton had nominated a woman who was single...)
We are sort of stuck by being decent human being who don't lie, distort & misrepresent -- you'd like to think that the truth would work & it might if the formerly free pres would do its job!
I love fake pie almost as much as fake Old Hat.
Echidne,
Hope everything is ok. The guest bloggers have been great. Old Hat is wrong on this one.
Great job, NTodd.
Good job, konopoellinokotrustfund (aka...)
Old hat...bugger off.
Great job, Hecate. Great guest blogging. Keep up the good work. You rock.
Thanks, Hecate. It will be ok, but I'm needed after hours to help and stuff. Which means less time on the net.
I always forget which is the twit, hat or old hat. So please just insert a wildcard [troll] in my previos comment just in case.
Urk. A Judge who teaches Sunday School.
Well, I'm sure she'll just carry out the law, not let her beliefs influence her judicial decisions.
Hey, WGG, the trool thinks you have a trust fund! Man, they just believe whatever Hannity tells them, don't they!
And let me just note that the only reason I'm not guest blogging anymore is not Old Hat, but some family health trouble.
Echidne of the snakes
MOM!!!
I hope all goes well.
To wit: we're all college kids with trust funds. LOL.
Great job, Old Hat.
wonder if that two year delay resulted in her lawyer supporters earning back that $20,000 in fees?
My head hurts. These folks kill people while claiming "the culture of life" values.
Hecate: please let me know who is the custodian of my trust so I can pay off all my student loans. kthx
I always forget which is the twit, hat or old hat. So please just insert a wildcard [troll] in my previos comment just in case.
underwhelmc
Think past tense of shit -- (s)hat!
Works every time.
These folks kill people while claiming "the culture of life" values.
They never said whose life...
That's definitely not the Old Hat I knew.
TOO LITTLE DATA, SO I MAKE BIG
Best wishes, Echidne. hope all goes well.
TOO LITTLE DATA, SO I MAKE BIG
LOL!
Well what did you really expect??? The "liberal" media to actually quote a liberal??
Watched IP today for first time this week & Judy's bloggers actually mentioned some site called "Atrios"!! Has anyone here heard of that site?? Is it liberal or conservative??
Also watched that Ron Reagan show because can't stand to watch Wolf anymore. MUST TURN HIM OFF!! Ron had some blogger named, I think, Assrocket. Anyone here know anything about him??
Enjoy your evening folks and thank you for all your enlightened conversation.
Well, the adrenaline has run its course and I'm in crash mode, so I bid the namestealers and the all y'all real people a pleasant night.
Often, judges first determine the desired outcome of a case. Then they adapt the facts and the law to make it happen.
Gee, why doesn't this surprise me? Must be SOP for Texan's in Power. Isn't that how we ended up in Iraquagmire?
Honestly, I'm bored of everyone talking about me. Now let me talk about me.
Some people say that fake-pie and fake-Old Hat have a sexual relationship. It involves sitting on its right hand until it goes numb.
THat article makes me want to puke.It's no wonder the dems get derided so much.THey have a legitimate beef with this one and yet their message cant get out for all the fellating going on.How is democracy going to continue when only one side gets a "fair" shake?
I believe either we go down in flames or we rise up above the fray and make a stand.
Either way,there is no peaceful solution to this problem.
Anyway, I was being insensitive to bigvic who often has her name stolen for goofing with her name. But I didn't make up stuff as you, and I confessed almost immediately. I have never carried on a conversation as someone. I was goofing like HaloScan was screwing up by double-posting.
Some people say that fake-pie and fake-Old Hat have a sexual relationship. It involves sitting on its right hand until it goes numb.
pseudonymous in nc
Hecate - does that qualify as a slash comment?
flory,
I think so, at least it's troll slash!
"Night, NTodd. Pat Sam and the Surly Girl for us.
Priscilla Owen is the finest kindest most loveable Leurence Harvey impersonator the corporate press have ever met outside the Manchurian Candidate screenplay.
And if that's not a fact, it soon can be with decicive action.
Hecate sez: the trool thinks you have a trust fund! Man, they just believe whatever Hannity tells them, don't they!
It's a further demonstration that Hannity doesn't have a fucking clue...
trust fund?
i am authentically nouveau poor...my darlin, insecure mother spent the best part of what was at one time a pretty nice inheritance--example: at ther death, she owned 25 identical Brooks Brothers' khaki skirts...they were both pissing away money with both hands the last two yearsof their lives...
sic transit, nicht war?
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Our R & D section is working overtime to develop an effective 'namestealing' chip per your constant request, but it is a slow process.
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Laurence and decisive--I hate when typos ruin my little jokes
Since I have little left to lose, I'm going to go out and start shooting wingnuts tomorrow, in hopes that I foment the Second American Civil War.
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Night NTodd.
Jeffraham Prestonian - What is Arthur supposed to do with his gift certificate? Not the mechanism, we understand the concept, but what does it certify? We're happy to put it into his scrapbook, with his other memories and bits and pieces, but if there's something else?
Let us know, eh?
I think authentic nouveau poverty rocks!
Btw, who wants my cat?
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in texas judges rule in cases involving their supporters? whatever. if that's how they want to do it in texas i don't really give a shit i guess. but no texas judge should even be eligible for consideration for federal positions if they sre going to be that blatantly corrupt.
Troll slash?
Wow - new vistas in popular literature.
Think what you could do with it.
Ted B. seduces Toby. Or vice versa.
On second thought...my stomach isn't that strong.
Come Tuesday I expect I'll be watching CSPAN2 for the big poker game and see who has the cards.
I'm actually itching to place a side bet that Fristi didn't fill the inside straight.
I've been thinking of trying my hand at slash, as a matter of fact, elite liberal racists.
WHAT? Troll slash stories? AAHHHHH must bleach brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just don't see how it's possible to turn things around. Things are in a death spiral now.
GWPDA: Jeffraham Prestonian - What is Arthur supposed to do with his gift certificate? Not the mechanism, we understand the concept, but what does it certify? We're happy to put it into his scrapbook, with his other memories and bits and pieces, but if there's something else?
Well, if you'd put down the bong, and stop being so faded, you'd KNOW -- it's good for any of American Tribute Video Production's services, but of special interest to Phoneix area folx, the P-to-V services.
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Bush to address UN, demand changes.
Who woulda thunk he had the balls to pull this stunt?
NTodd--how's the cake?
Jeffraham--I wants me some Curly...what did he do now?
How would troll slash work? Wouldn't a troll have to have a fan to write troll slash? Can you imagine Adrian Spiddle or Toby or Ted having fans so into them that they'd write slash about them? I just can't imagine there's a market for it.
a nice single lady who loves children and teaches sunday school.
sure, that's all well and good, but can she play the piano? how are her figure skating skills? we need this information to reach an informed opinion.
in texas judges rule in cases involving their supporters
This does not bode well for me.I have two cases pending that are necessarily going to go before a judge.I tingle with apprehension at the thought of going to trial with one of these judges here.I had no idea judges could be bought so easily here.Whats a poor stiff like me going to do against some people that have money?
I fear for my livelyhood now.
pixie - love the sox.
sallyh - I appear to be in cake deficit. You didn't give NTodd my piece did you?
Sallyh: Jeffraham--I wants me some Curly...what did he do now?
Nothing! He'll just need a new home, since I plan to kill wingnuts tomorrow with a sniper rifle.
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I just don't see how it's possible to turn things around. Things are in a death spiral now.
Don't despair. The Republican party is a house of cards. The fuckups are piling up. The house will collapse. In ten years you won't be able to find anyone willing to admit they voted for this chump and his Nazi bretheren.
Be patient.
I wonder if Rove & Co all know it's over and are just screwing everything up so badly because it doesn't matter anyway.
I'm a huge Ted fan. I own him. I can see myself writing something about him being forced to do some unseemly things by his ex-wife.
My real question--which might have to wait years to be answered--is why our law schools graduate so many fundie wingnut lawyers, eventual candidates for the judiciary. Perhaps the schools are too "liberal."
If I were an authoritarian secular preznit, I'd impose some standards on these schools. Like: Do you believe in talking serpents and magical fruit trees?
If so, you're too illogical to be much of a lawyer. So go cheney yourself with no degree.
Echidne--may the goddess protect you and your family, and may I offer some Swiss chocolote noir noir for comfort.
When even "Thumbscrew" Al Gonzales essentially says that Owens is an "activist jurist"...
Well, Owens better be careful, what with all them wingnuts all het up over the evil activist judges and all.
Maybe Rove understands PE and what it's aftermath will be.
Jeffraham--settle down, boy. I'm posting lowfat recipes later tonight, and I'll be happy to send you some that cost nearly nothing.
In the meantime, pet Curly. Remember, he has a purpose in this life.
pe?
Can you imagine Adrian Spiddle or Toby or Ted having fans so into them that they'd write slash about them?
Well, they all have several different avatars. I suppose they could write stories about their other selves.
underwhelm,
What did I miss about Ted and his wife?
PE= PO
The rightists put party above the validity of civil institutions. If they couldn't infiltrate law schools, they'd just open their own. Like they do for thinktanks and "doctors"
cf Liberty.
Flory--a double serving of cake for you. Fresh strawberry shortcake, with lemon poundcake, rum soaked strawberries, and Connemara flavored whipped cream.
po=peak oil?
ha ha I doubt if Rove understands Physical Education.
Hecate--more Grey Goose?
Yeah, Olaf.
I am about to turn in for the night. I did want to take my opportunity to register, yet again, my utter disgust with the Republicans in this country. The Chimp's statement today was simply beyond the pale. He is either incredibly stupid or evil beyond measure. My only hope is that we are not left with a city in flames over his last stupid remark.
I have begun the last lectures to my class about racism. My children -- all but two African American - do not understand what racism is. . . yet. They will learn, in time, and I want them to be prepared. As I explained, if you understand it: then it is easier to see it coming and defend yourself against it. I guess it is the same with the Republicans. In the end, their hate will do them in. For if you only inculcate hate, you will only spew venom. Someday the venom will encompass you.
Texas justice seems to be an oxymoron.
"If Priscilla Owen is single, why aren't the rumors of her lesbianism flying around (you know that if Clinton had nominated a woman who was single...)"
She's not a lesbian. It's just that men don't find her attractive.
Sallyh: Jeffraham--settle down, boy. I'm posting lowfat recipes later tonight, and I'll be happy to send you some that cost nearly nothing.
Oh no you don't! I'm already deeply indebted to you, even when you refuse to recognize it!
In the meantime, pet Curly. Remember, he has a purpose in this life.
I will, and yes, he does. Still, I don't expect us to be together after I smoke the wingnust tomorrow w/my 30.06!
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sallyh - whoa. heaven on earth.
would you like a glass of this charming little chardonnay i've been saving to servie with your cake?
cuz their fucking idiots?
gotta go oil the rifle. see yas.
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Chimp's statement today was simply beyond the pale. He is either incredibly stupid or evil beyond measure.
I liked what Sen. Watt from NC said of their actions: sinister.
why our law schools graduate so many fundie wingnut lawyers, eventual candidates for the judiciary.
Access. There are fundie law schools these days. And because law school is expensive, there's a kind of filter at work, in terms of who attends and what they're inclined to do afterwards.
You can be a fully-qualified lawyer in the UK by your mid-20s, without a mortgage's worth of debt. I think that contributes to a more egalitarian legal profession, which is starting to filter through to the bench.
Hey, isn't Priscilla Owen a fave of the namestealing Sallyh troll?
OT:
AMMAN, Jordan - Laura Bush is showing her independent side and contradicting the White House.
...
Her candid remarks at the outset of a trip to the Middle East showed anew Mrs. Bush's willingness to step out more boldly in her husband's second term. Usually deferential to her husband and rarely controversial, she has veered off the White House message only rarely in the past.
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"In the United States if there's a terrible report, people don't riot and kill other people," she said. "And you can't excuse what they did because of the mistake you know, you can't blame it all on Newsweek."
2 comments:
1) How do you know the remarks were candid? Answer: You don't.
2) Of course we don't riot and kill people in the U.S. Of course we don't.
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Chimp's statement today was simply beyond the pale. He is either incredibly stupid or evil beyond measure.
Oh Christ. What did Fredo say now?
Chimp's statement today was simply beyond the pale. He is either incredibly stupid or evil beyond measure.
"Who is stupid, crass and ignorant, Alex?"
still here. it was a happy happy day when I learned to steal homepages, it makes my life so much more enjoyalbe!
Just got done with an evening with 15 8 and 9 year old girlscouts in my pool.How nice it would be to be that age and not even have to think about the shit that is hitting the fan.
Ignorance is bliss.
Oh to return to ingnorance.
DWD, when one embraces the Dark Side, they will inevitably be destroyed by the Dark Side.
We, who choose to stand in the Light, well, we, too, may be destroyed, but it won't be by our baser desires.
The GOP has embraced the Dark Side, and they will reap what they have sown.
I have gin but no vermouth or tonic. I shall have to improvise.
Hecate: I'll be honest. Most of the stuff I "know" about Ted I've confabulated from the corrente post and his Amazon book reviews. But it tickles me that some trolls get upset when they're called Ted whether they are or not.
Mostly if a troll isn't "Ted" the mocking of Ted's miserable writing and his pathetic divorce will go right over his head. "Ted" Ted can't stand it, though.
"ignorance is bliss"?
smalfish, don't start going Republican on us now.
Res,
Only the usual: Muslims are all barbarians and cannot understand or embrace freedom. I am just dumbfounded. Or I have found the dumb, one or the other.
smalfish, don't start going Republican on us now
Been there, done that. Got the government to prove it.
Well, if you'd put down the bong, and stop being so faded, you'd KNOW -- it's good for any of American Tribute Video Production's services, but of special interest to Phoneix area folx, the P-to-V services.
Would that that were the case, macushla - I'm hunkered down to resist the devil heat here and anything that contributes is a friend. That's why I'm 'faded' which as you know is old slang for 'covering a bet'. I'll check with Arthur and see whether he wants to move his portfolio into DVD format. Right now he quite likes turning pages and pasting down those little black corner thingies.
I am just dumbfounded.
It should be dumbfoundered. As in foundered by dumbness.
It's simple. Stop electing judges.
rbarians and cannot understand or embrace freedom. I am just dumbfounded. Or I have found the dumb, one or the other.
DWD
Naw, the Republicans found the Dumb, and took it all home with 'em to play with.
I think they like it...
What the fuck is Tierney talking about?
The new installment of "Star Wars" has set off the usual dreary red-blue squabble, with liberals using the film to attack Republicans, and some conservatives calling for a boycott.
Huh?
I know I heard that wingers are accusing the film of being some sort of liberal propaganda, but what is this "liberals using the film to attack Republicans?" A lie?
NYMary--I'm not sure, but I think so.
BTW, I just took my robe in to be cleaned. $48! Insane!
Completely - COMPLETELY - OT, but I have a Mystery perhaps you guys can help me with.
As you may know (or not, irrelevant), I sit on my little front porch often, drinking cheap, um, *inexpensive/bargain* insousciant white wine whilst I feed birds and squirrels.
When these critters see a threat, they either fly away cheeping madly or, in the case of the squirrels, hit the tree and bark like crazy. They will do this if a cat (for example) is almost a block awayt, across the street.
There is a gorgeous black cat, probably like a 13 yr old kid, who comes in our yard. I always chase cats away (frightening neighbors and passers-by in the process) by alternately hissing and cat-snarling (cat companions know the sound) and running towards them. I have chased this particular cat away several times.
The last time I caught this cat in the yard, I had looked out my front window and seen him/her lying on the ground underneath my squirrel feeders. I ran out and chased it away.
Then it registered: while this cat lay there, birds were at the feeder (even the paranoid finches), squirrels were at their feeders and on the ground nearby.
They hadn't freaked, why was I??
So...this has happened a couple more times.
What gives w/this cat? Why aren't my critters afraid of it? (Don't know if male or female). What's going on here?????
Oh, and Flory? I'll take that Chardonnay.
GWPDA,
Wish you could see my rhododendron, which is magnificant this year! How hot did it get there today? Did you let Arthur go swimming?
Hecate - sorry to be late here. I like rhododendrons very much. Did you know that TE Lawrence's retirement home, Cloud's Hill, is characterised by a vast bank of rhododendrons, at least a quarter mile's worth? It's stunning - he thought it magnificent too.
It only got up to 105F today, but I caved and turned on the a/c. It really was very hard, very early in the day. Tomorrow things begin to cook however - 110 about, with Sunday aiming for 113F. Arthur, not being silly, decided that the best thing to do was to locate the coolest part of the house and stay there - he's in my room now, under the vent.... I've put out the auxiliary umbrellas over all the various growing things. Me, I've shut down. I'll poke my head out on Sunday, at 9, to go to the grand re-opening of the Heard Museum - but that's it. Too damned early.
What gives w/this cat? Why aren't my critters afraid of it? (Don't know if male or female). What's going on here?????
Its a sign of the end times.
Squirrels and birds and cats (dogs,too) all get along just before the rapture.Genesis 123.987
Just arrived...
and I've missed what????
(Sorry if this double-posted)
I know I heard that wingers are accusing the film of being some sort of liberal propaganda, but what is this "liberals using the film to attack Republicans?" A lie?
Yes.
but what is this "liberals using the film to attack Republicans
One of the dem senators,yesterday,used the movie as a prop to bash the thugs,using the film as a demonstration on how a republic fails.
what is this "liberals using the film to attack Republicans?" A lie?
Actually, it's true: here.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Useless media
Most of them have gone beyond the realm of uselessness, and into the dark realm of complicity.
The fawning, drooling portrait of Owen was not an accident by any means.
"only got to 105"? o boy...that does not happen much lately here in Iowa (thankfully I must add)...we, since last August, have been operating under cool dry & cloudy conditions w/ a lot of wind.
Weather's a lot different than when I was a kid-- & some of it is probably our fault, with our addiction to the fossils, but some of it probably isn't. I guess they're about equally scary.
Oh, and Flory? I'll take that Chardonnay.
Sallyh
Done. Nice and chilled.
Speaking of useless media, have you you read the comment board at Eschaton lately?
Wankers.
nick carraway - it's okay, I'm in Phoenix. This year we've actually reverted to the weather of my youth - heavy, heavy rains this 'winter', good long spring, and the inevitable sudden heat - we always, always went from about 78 or 82 to 105, within a weekend. Drove the visitors and snowbirds mad, they couldn't get out of town fast enough. Summer cleaning, rather.... It is a little hard on the system tho....
Speaking of useless media, have you you read the comment board at Eschaton
lately?
Wankers.
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Hi, Ted!!
Fuck you!!!!!!!!!!
v
steve simels -
You are just so much better than I am.
Why does Bush want a Security Council seat for Japan? Just to humiliate Germany? Like the price for supporting IraqWar.
GWPDA:
As always, I salute you.
we always, always went from about 78 or 82 to 105,
Here in Dallas,last weeek it was 78,today it was at least 95.THe thermometer in my back yard said it was 100.Slightly early to be this hot,yet not quite abnormal.I will say,the winter was as warm and short as I've ever seen here in 21 years.
Why so smiley tonight steve?
Hey New Yorkers:
Isn't this weather weird?
It's like quarter of twelve on
Friday, and it's under 60 degrees.
I'm not complaining, mind you,
but it's odd for May.
PS: This may be the single lamest
thing I've ever posted.
Sorry.
GWPDA--nice to hear the weather's working *somewhere* the way it's supposed to, for a change. Grey and cold and dry is about the suckiest weather pattern to be locked into for growing things. At least the stuff I *expect* to grow.
It's nearly 9pm and it's still 92 here in Phx. This little stunt - the leap from delightful to deplorable - was always a feature of How Summer Came to the Southwest. Those slow easy slides into the warm time - those were for Albuquerque, one of the things that made living there so pleasant. You never risked double pneumonia as a result of heat stress in Abq - it was lovely.
On the other hand, here in Phoenix we also used to have sleeping porches on all our houses. Even an apartment I lived in thirty years ago - not a vintage house, just a plain apartment - had three balconies available, two of which were completely secured from view and were for sleeping at this time of year. No bugs, no mosquitoes, no flies, no vermin - there's a lot of joy sleeping outdoors when all is safe and secure.
Why so smiley tonight steve?
Karin | Email | Homepage | 05.20.05 - 11:54 pm | #
Not sure, except that I've
downloaded a lot of songs for
free I've always wanted.
Fortunately, I have no other life
to distract me.
steve s: don't worry- the lamest thing you (or most all the 'regulars') post is going to be far and away more interesting than some twit namestealer's crabbing--- & how went the elitist drinking party? (at least some of us have social lives)
The really obnoxious thing about the Priscilla Owen story is that it's been available for the media to read and disseminate for years; IIRC, the horrible story about Willie was prominently featured in the book Bushwhacked which was published years ago.
I realize it's asking a lot of these people to actually read a book, but this is dumb.
If anyone has a phone # for Jeffraham, email me, please.
Its a sign of the end times.
Squirrels and birds and cats (dogs,too) all get along just before the rapture.Genesis 123.987
smalfish
I don't know if I like this hypothesis or not.
Part of me wants to "bring it on", part of me does not.
God knows I've not much of a social life, but it is time that I go feed myself, at least.... THe truly awful thing about heat like this is that you do not feel like eating at all, anything, any time, ever. I'm lucky if, by the end of the term - that would be after the monsoon ends in the second week of October - I am as much as I started with.
Goodnight chickens. Ignore the idiot troll-opes.
Fortunately, I have no other life
to distract me.
Sadly, I became gainfully employed recently, and so I hardly have time to drop in here, and when I do I feel like a stranger. It's hard to keep up with the goings on.
Steve--you may be late, but I'm always glad to see you...
Now is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
nick carraway:
right back at you, pal.
Weather is great in LA--in the 90s today, which is really quite nice here.
when I do I feel like a stranger. It's hard to keep up with the goings on.
Karin |
Karin, don;'t know what your transportation situation is, but I ride the bus and print out Haloscan comments to read during my hour-long ride.
It helps!
I remember the day when this place wasn't similar to an AOL teen chatroom.
Oh well.
sallyh, do you think that was really Jeffraham earlier?
Nick--not sure. If he didn't bold the person's name addressed, it probably wasn't him. But if it was, he didn't sound well.
c'mon, "Central Scrutinizer", prove your mettle and *elevate* the discussion! If you were an average Iraqi, what would you think of the 'Saddam in his shorts' brouhaha?
Faux Central Scrutinizer
Start your own teen chat room if you are so bored.
karin,stop in when you can..not much changes unfortunately in this stagflation economy,so we need comiseration with like species 
Now is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Sallyh, La Poissoniere | Email | Homepage | 05.21.05 - 12:05 am | #
Actually, it's the much maligned
kiwi.
"Squirrels and birds and cats (dogs,too) all get along just before the rapture.Genesis 123.987
smalfish"
I thought that was Isiah. The squirrel will lie down with the goldfish, and the cucumber will will lie with the okra, all togther in a peaceable kingdom.
With the asswipe namestealer about, I'm off to bed.
Sweet dreams Moonbats.
I remember the day when this place wasn't similar to an AOL teen chatroom.
You were a dick then too, though, bub.
I remember the day when this place wasn't similar to an AOL teen chatroom.
Yeah, when you weren't here.
I remember the day when this place wasn't similar to an AOL teen chatroom.
In other words, ALL chatrooms on AOL.
"Squirrels and birds and cats (dogs,too) all get along just before the rapture.Genesis 123.987
Squirrels and birds and cats better scurry,
'Cause the world's gonna end in a hurry...
Sarah, that's so funny. The people who read over your shoulder on the bus probably can't make heads or tails out of it!
I'm at a computer, but it's a new job, I haven't dared to start reading blogs at work yet.
I thought that was Isiah. The squirrel will lie down with the goldfish, and the cucumber will will lie with the okra, all togther in a peaceable kingdom.
jdw
hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
hi sall,got carrot cake with cream cheese frosting?mike malloy just read about the torture in afghanistan...Im mortified...But they will scream about saddams skivvies for 4 days to obliterate these grotesque crimes..oh sad, sad murder
Howdy Moonbats ! Looks like we made it through another Friday! Yippee.. cause for celebration.
Goin to bed....
talk to you guys in a couple
of hours.
PS;
Fuck Toby!
I wrote to my Senator, Kay Hutchison, to tell her I hoped I could count on her support defending the Constitution against the kooky fundies. That was before I read that Kay spoke out in favor of Priscilla Owen with "a tear in her eye". Well bless her theocratic li'l heart.
Anyone you meet's liable to be infected with this brain virus down here in Texas, Allah help us all.
Thersites--are you ready for some more samples? I'm thinking an n of 50 might work.
sallyh: yeah those were creepy comments he was making earlier-- it's weird, but I hope he *was* being namestolen... it isn't a particularly funny joke either way.
Eddie's off his meds again, I see... that's what happens when you work as a contractor for Unka Karl: no medical benefits...
Squirrels and birds and cats better scurry,
'Cause the world's gonna end in a hurry...
Thersites
when I take them out in my surrey.....
just read about the torture in afghanistan...Im mortified...But they will scream about saddams skivvies for 4 days to obliterate these grotesque crimes..
You think the rabid right media holds on to that kind of stuff just to publish at the exact right moment?
Are they that evil/dastardly?
BTW, speaking of "useless media," here's the top story on CNN.com:
"Fans eagerly wait for 'Batman Begins'"
This is not a joke...
Nick--the thing is that bothers me, if it was Jeff, he wasn't joking.
"when I take them out in my surrey...."
A squirrely surry?
"That was before I read that Kay spoke out in favor of Priscilla Owen with "a tear in her eye"
Oh, I saw that. It was precious. She has a great future in community theater.
G'night, don't let the trollbugs bite.
You think the rabid right media holds on to that kind of stuff just to publish at the exact right moment?
Absotively posilutely. The "terror alers" long since lost their effectiveness (and notice how the story where Ridge admitted they were all fake just vanished into thin air)... they staged this just like they staged the "spider hole" capture, and maybe at the same time... meanwhile, Saddam has joined Manuel Noreiga for a lifetime of shuffleboard and honored retirement in the Village...
Karin,
maybe you can stay later? Or do this at home, if you have a printer? Yesterday's news (Haloscan comments) still keeps you in the loop, even if delayed.
What I learned today is that Otter is much better, his daughters are gorgeous, Sallyh made s'berry s'cake with double whipped cream (by hand!!!), NTodd is back safely from NJ, etc etc.
It just keeps community going, IMHO.
I truly enjoy keeping up with these fine folks and their lives, even if I'm a day (or two!!) behind.
I just do the best I can - and you will, too. And enjoy!
SD
"just read about the torture in afghanistan...Im mortified.."
Digby's got a great entry about that today. It's sad beyond words what this country has become. God save us.
Are they that evil/dastardly?
smalfish | Email | Homepage | 05.21.05 - 12:20 am | #
YES!
Res:
Fredo threatened to veto any stem cell bill which provided taxpayer money to "...destroy life to save life." He may have said something even more stupid, but that's the one I know about.
Selah.
CAGary
Thersites--you need to work on your research project.
Sally: that scares the living hell out of me. Things must be a lot worse for him than I realized (I don't really go around to the other blogs much-- it's impossible to get all the comments read here).
Sallyh....re: jeffrahamp...please be wrong.
SD
Namestealers: fuck off, you. Poisonous, malevolent, repressed closet-case CUNTS. You should have been aborted before your mothers excreted you out from between their manky pissflaps.
And fuck Kay Hutcheson. Craggy-faced old slapper.
Nick--seriously, he's got less than $20 to his name right now. If anyone can toss anything into the kibble fund, it'd help.
are you ready for some more samples? I'm thinking an n of 50 might work.
Does n = gallons of whiskey?
It should also be remembered that toxicity studies, well, there as much art to that as science. It is the... special intuition, the keen, trained, experienced eye of the seasoned investigator which matters. There are lives at stake! Can we afford to be soulless bean-counters at a crucial time like this?
I think... not.
You think the rabid right media holds on to that kind of stuff just to publish at the exact right moment?
Are they that evil/dastardly?
smalfish | Email | Homepage | 05.21.05 - 12:20 am | #
this type of story definately...booshie proabably took the pics himself.
http://tinyurl.com/abg9z
tee hee some cute booshie pics
Thersites--I thought your original design called for liters, but apparently you keep changing the design as new data is uncovered...
Soulless bean counters? Never us!
sallyh - memorial weekend movie marathon on SciFi.
30 movies worth of SciFi quality cast devourage.
Think you're up to liveblogging that?
I just find it hard to believe that some news papaers can be this deceptive and hold a story for just the right day to release.
Not to mention,this picture story came out exactly the same day as the new torture story.
But then again coincedence is pretty unlikely as well.
Its not tinfoil hattery to believe it,but I really really want to believe in coincedence her,otherwise...
Flory--I wouldn't be anywhere but! And I'll bring plenty of cake, beer and popcorn!
Also guys, Jeffraham loves Curly more than anyone, and the idea that he would offer his cat to anyone disturbs me a lot.
And I'll bring plenty of cake, beer and popcorn!
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
Oh shit. Are we gonna be fat by Monday night!
sallyh - I think (hope?) Jeffraham was joking about Curly.
Flory--they're all empty calories. Have no fear!
'Hussein appears well endowed in that picture'.........George Bush.
Flory--I hope so, too
apparently you keep changing the design as new data is uncovered...
LIVES ARE AT STAKE!
This is no time for paramaters this, maguffin that!
Thersites: how about we set the sample size of each brand at 50 bbls?
Thersites: how about we set the sample size of each brand at 50 bbls?
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
I presume this is virtual alcohol content as well? Otherwise you two are reaaaallllly shitfaced.
Sallyh
I sent you email
I presume this is virtual alcohol content as well? Otherwise you two are reaaaallllly shitfaced.
The scholarly life is rigorous, but strangely rewarding.
I presume this is virtual alcohol content as well? Otherwise you two are reaaaallllly shitfaced.
Naturally, this is going to be a double-blind test.
The scholarly life is rigorous, but strangely rewarding.
Thersites
Huh.
I'd always thought it was strange, but rigorously rewarding.
Maybe that's what I've been doing wrong......
Naturally, this is going to be a double-blind test.
Karin
Well, by the time they're through testing, yeah.....
never wanted a credit card until tonight...jebus but the internets have a strange effect on people.
you academics...now, the agricultural life is 'strangely rigorous and unrewarding'- so there.
I'm still catching up on a week's worth of reading, but I'll leave you with this article from the WaPo (bottom of the page)
He's baaaaaack! A longtime Loop favorite, Sen. Tom Coburn
(R-Okla.), a practicing physician famed for hosting spectacular sex
education slide shows for Hill interns -- featuring pastrami
sandwiches and color images of sexually transmitted diseases such as
genital warts and gonorrhea -- is back in business, hosting the
"Revenge of the STDs" on May 26. The well-attended events ended a
couple of years back when Coburn, sticking to his term-limit pledge,
left the House. But now the good times have returned, and Coburn's
event will be in Room HC-5 in the Capitol. Coburn, "who has treated
virtually every sexually transmitted disease," his office said, will
put on his "safe sex" slide show not just for interns but for members
and staff as well. We're promised "a frank, interactive discussion
about the effects of STDs."
What gives w/this cat? Why aren't my critters afraid of it? (Don't know if male or female). What's going on here?????
Sarah, the birds know if the cat is hunting or not. My maine coon would go out and every critter in a five mile radius would go on alert (he was a killing machine). Nikki, my other cat, who only hunted other cats, could stroll around for hours and the birds and squirrels paid him no mind at all.
Sallyh
Are you still around???
Flory--nah, we're really shitfaced
Scout--I'm here.
Whassup?
Seious question: Does anyone know specifics about Priscilla Owen's resume prior 1994?
If it is online I am not finding it.
Texans, please help me here.
Sallyh
I sent you email. Did you get it?
they whore for their corporate tax breaks
Scout--got your email.
Listen up, peeps. Jeffraham is in a world of hurt. We gotta help him out. Simple as that. He's one of us.
Sallyh
Yeah I agree. I got a bad feeling. Just not sure what to do.
I got me a Curly DVD though
sally, what's the story?
SALL i SENT YOU ONE ALSO REGARDING BUYING A CURLY DVD...DID YOU GET IT?
Sittenpretty--if you go to my webpage, I blogpimped Jeff's site a few days bank. There's a link in the post. Click on, and click on Curly's Kibble Fund on his homepage.
Jeff lives in Nashville, and I have his address...anyone live that way?
4Legs--unless Jeff has a malicious namestealer, and I don't think that's the case here, he's made some posts on this thread which are very upsetting.
Right now I'm worried sick over the guy.
Hey Everyone Here is a link to order a Curly DVD:
http://tinyurl.com/9oomp
.
Kay, She represented mainly oil and gas companies, as an attorney, before she became a judge. She has zero experience in criminal law.
Here's a report
Thersites--did you have to put on your robe for the festivities tonight?
sally,if you email me his address i will order a dvd and send whatever else I can,(end of the month with loads of bills) ill do my best K
Ok, I didn't recognize all the names at first but 4legs, I know is legit. Would ya'll please summarize the immediate problem for the rest of us. I'll help. simple. I can help.
Sallyh
You want to summarize the situation for Kay and everyone?
did you have to put on your robe for the festivities tonight?
I did. And I looked FAB-ulous!
My mom bought me the real threads when I got the degree. So I own an authentic ridiculous medieval outfit in which to strut and sit, and in which I yearly listen to some truly awful speechifying. The kids, though, they love it.
you academics...now, the agricultural life is 'strangely rigorous and unrewarding'- so there.
Maybe I didn't emphasize the "strangely" part enough...
well can someone get in touch with jeff?
'kay sallyh - I just sent away for my Curly Adventure.
And now I'm off to bed - its been a very long week.
Night all.
email me please Im waiting with pen in hand
sittenpretty
I don't think anyone knows how to other than through email
sitten pretty
you can order online if you have paypal
"Maybe I didn't emphasize the "strangely" part enough..."
Back in high school, friend of mine, another farm kid, and I were talking to one of our teachers- who asked what we were going to do with ourselves. Friend said, "We're going to work with dumb animals all day- just like you." Cracked the teacher up.
Peeps--if you scroll through the red, Jeffraham Prestonian, who is one of us, and is ordinarily funny, lively and entertaining, has made some comments that are out of character, and, in my estimation, disturbing. (Scout's been a counselor, so she can assess better than I can). I know he's totally broke and really discouraged. That's the situation.
That he would even joke about giving the cat away is scary. Curly's his best friend in the world.
Sallyh et al,
I emailed jeffraham, I paypalled me a curly cd.
We are left w/good thoughts, his direction.
I don't mean to be all woo-woo here, but, honest, I do believe it helps - and at least doesn;t hurt.
SD
well just reassure him that help is on the way,but it is 1:30 am here...and fuck boosh and his minnions and his bunions too 
Thersites--at my family's behest, I too bought the real duds, at what I considered to be an extortionate price. (I hadn't planned to attend hooding, but the husband and daughter were adamant. The kid was six at the time ,so I'll forgive her.) Mine's not bad--UCLA is dark blue silk with blue velvet and gold braid trim--but it was cut too long and almost touches my feet. (Actually, I was cut too short.) The only thing I truly hate is the stupid tassel on the beret. It looks as if it was stolen off whorehouse draperies.
I did email Jeff with my phone #. I told him, listen, you're scaring me, and we're all here for you.
Sarah--I would be the last to deny any sort of positive energy sent. More than once, it's kept me sane and hopeful.
Sallyh
I emailed too. I'm glad people are getting the DVD. I don't know that we can do much else though. Hopefully he'll write someone or even call.
Jeffraham Prestonian
Hey, are you there? I got a question?
Scout et al--believe it or not, you'll enjoy the DVD. He did a great job with it, and it's a lot of fun. Made me smile after a very, very obnoxious day the other day.
Sarah
ditto what Sallyh said on the positive
Scout--I hope I wasn't overreacting, but the language he was using was very disturbing to me. I have no skills in the mental health professions, but from 27 years of teaching, my instincts tell me all is not right.
kay, I don't know what the hell is going on.
I've been sleeping all night. I gather that Jeffraham has run out of cash and prospects.
good sall..I was in the same position 3 yrs ago,when the market crashed ,it sucks raw...but thats what liberals are for,empathy........
if you email me his address ill send a check 1st thing in the morning..if not Ill figure out paypal mannana.
at any rate,take care buena sera K
Magnolia--he's not here, but he's the subject of conversation at the moment.
Back in high school, friend of mine, another farm kid, and I were talking to one of our teachers- who asked what we were going to do with ourselves. Friend said, "We're going to work with dumb animals all day- just like you." Cracked the teacher up.
I'm living large in the countryside nowadays myself. We live across the road from a farm that's basically a bunch of homeless cows run by one crazy old guy who owns the property and some homeless guys who he lets stay in his half-built house in exchange for working the farm. They have way too many cows for the acreage, three horses, a motley collection of geese who poop in our yard a lot, and roosters who I swear I've seen smoking.
Sallyh
I don't know either. But he is facing a tough time and those comments were not the usual Jeffraham and I don't think a namestealer.
Thersites--what about the ocelots?
Thersites--at my family's behest, I too bought the real duds, at what I considered to be an extortionate price.
Be glad that your family was interested enough to go.
My family said it was too much trouble. They didn't want to fight the traffic. So I didn't walk for my graduation, and I've regretted it ever since.
I was going to go today-some of our graduate students were walking- but it just makes me too glum.
Sallyh, I was just hoping he might see his name and talk. I read the thread and understand.
The only thing I truly hate is the stupid tassel on the beret. It looks as if it was stolen off whorehouse draperies.
I don't have a "beret." Sheesh... I have a very manly tam.
Thersites--what about the ocelots?
Perhaps they've migrated for the summer to higher latitudes?
Mine is actually a beret. And I've decided the hell with the stupid tassel. I'm taking it off. Without it, it's not a half bad hat.
Thersites, you've got the best of both worlds there!
Well, enough of me tonight I guess... hope to hear from a slightly embarassed Jeffraham in the morning, everyone...
My apartment is overrun with mold. Stupid landlord has promised to fix it but so far nada.
I feel like getting all deadwood on their sorry asses.
Now I'm going to have to move, and I'm exhausted and don't feel like it. Feh.
Well I have to work early tomorrow so gotta go to bed. Take care everyone and let me know if anyone hears from Jeffraham. Night Sally. Take care
Sorry to whine- the mold has given me a sinus infection and it's pissing me off.
crap...link still works.
4Legs--my parents didn't attend my undergrad graduation; they said they didn't think it was worth the trouble for a daughter. So I didn't walk.
I didn't walk when I got my master's, but I was pregnant at the time. My daughter was so terribly excited about my graduating, though, that I had to do it. She got off on the fancy robe. I have pics of her in it, and she looks way cuter than I do.
The best thing would be to have Jeffraham come on thread and say, WTF? That was a namestealer.
I keep hoping
4Legs--my parents didn't attend my undergrad graduation; they said they didn't think it was worth the trouble for a daughter. So I didn't walk.
Yeah, what the fuck is up with parents? they made a big fucking deal out of my older brother graduating, even though it took him forever and he went to a second rate school.
I graduated on time, with decent grades, and paid for it myself. Nada.
I'm still pissed at my father, and he's dead. 10 years ago I went to one of my step sisters weddings in California (not far from you, actually) and I overhead him telling one of his buddies about how proud he was of me and my wall street career and how he put me through UT.
I was so furious I almost knocked his teeth out.
Thersites--what about the ocelots?
Fuckin' ocelots running wild all over the place alla time... scourge of upstate New York, the goddamn ocelots.
Okay, enough whining from me tonight.
The torture stories and the mold have made me unfit for even virtual human company.
Fuckin' ocelots running wild all over the place alla time... scourge of upstate New York, the goddamn ocelots.
Could be worse. You could be plagued with the terrifying BEVO.
Goddamnit. I even have mold on my fucking keyboard. THis is ridiculous.
4LG
I figured it out what is wrong with BEVO. He is sensitive about those ears. I am sure people make comments al the time, no wonder his is a rampaging man eater of a bovine.
Goddamnit. I even have mold on my fucking keyboard. THis is ridiculous.
Why we moved from Miami. The warm climates are tempting, but man, the fungus will kill you in the wind-up.
4Legs--when my middle sister got her doctorate, she didn't even TELL our mother she was hooded. My mother found out by accident 2 years after my little sister told her.
How about Judge Owen's really bad haircut? Yikes!
Hello, folks. What the hell is happening this evening?
Nothing, apparently!
In that case, I guess I'll mosey along.
Yeah, what the fuck is up with parents? they made a big fucking deal out of my older brother graduating, even though it took him forever and he went to a second rate school.
My dad couldn't care less about any of us getting anything other than out of his hair. I was the first to get anything graduation-wise, and my mom was the one who went crazy about it. She made me go get hooded, I think because she had really wanted to get an advanced degree herself but bowed to the very powerful pressure back in those dark times and married badly instead. She did go back and get an MSW eventually, which I thought was cool.
I'm still pissed at my father, and he's dead.
4LG,
me, too and I'm waaayyyy old enough to know better!!!
BTW, thanks for your insight re: my black cat who lies w/squirrels and birds. You must be right: he/she is not a hunter.
SD
I've been sleeping all night. I gather that Jeffraham has run out of cash and prospects. _four legs good
well, damn, Phila, give it more than two minutes.....
four legs good
You need to get the hell out of that place.DOnt wait much longer.Mold can make you very sick inder long term exposures.It is caused by water,You have a leak somewhere and the rotten water will get to you.Find a new home stat.
I'm going to go make a cup of tea and come back and lurk some more.
OK. I'm mildly annoyed. I'm a real pissant where the net is concerned.
Why are they stealing me? My most recemt post: Owen sucks.... and I am working on actually proving it.
Scout--I hope I wasn't overreacting, but the language he was using was very disturbing to me. I have no skills in the mental health professions, but from 27 years of teaching, my instincts tell me all is not right.
Sallyh,
Sallyh, sometimes those hairs that rise on the back of our necks are what save us and those we care for.
Good - much, much good on you for picking up on it.
Better safe, as they say, than sorry.
I profoundly hope that we all have in some way helped jp get through the night and beyond, no matter what that night has been like.
SD
The warm climates are tempting, but man, the fungus will kill you in the wind-up.
The warm climate isn't tempting in the least to me.
I actually like snow. A lot.
Smalfish, I know- there's probably a leak in the AC from the roof. And it's already making me sick. And a lot pissed off.
Ekcentric, you may be correct about Bevo. I think they make fun of his big hooves as well. Bastards.
kay-you been namestolen.
or haloscan stolen?
i can't even argue with the other side anymore.
facts are useless. god help us all
My dad couldn't care less about any of us getting anything other than out of his hair.
I suspect that your dad was distantly related to my dad.
I was shocked when I grew up and found out other kids had parents that actually liked them.
Pathetic, eh?
i can't even argue with the other side anymore.
facts are useless. god help us all
Yes, that's about correct. God help us all.
Since he allows blighters like santorum and frist to walk the earth I'm not optimistic that he will.
Feh.
ocelots in ny?
I sure loved my dad. He was kind of a bad parent because he didn't grow up with a dad. He never really had a childhood, but he was kind of a big artistic kid.
4LG
Yeah but they really need to pay attention when BEVO is flexing those hooves.
Where's Phila? that was some spectacular nudibranch blogging today.
Pathetic, eh?
four legs good |
Not in the least. We know what we know, what we grew up with. We aren;t born like Athena from, Zeus's brow. We aren;t even like giraffes, ready to race across the veldt from predators within minutes of our birth.
We really are at the mercy of those adult humans in whose care we arrive. And too many of thjem have no models, no guides or guidelines because they. too, were raised poorly, inadequately.
In the end, our mission is to love ourselves as we have not been, and to try to raise our children to be/do better than we did.
Sez me!!
SD
My dad built a homemade hot water system for our home. Partially solar and partially water heated in pipes inside the woodstove in the kitchen.
Since he allows blighters like santorum and frist to walk the earth I'm not optimistic that he will.
Feh.
four legs good |
4LG,
"He" allows liver flukes!!! As a friend once said, "Compassionate God, my ass....."
SD
I raised my daughter so well she grew up and married a musician (rock and roll).
I am getting better at forgiving myself every day.
ocelots in ny?
Indeed yes. Terrifying creatures, the ocelots.
Thersites, are those the bovinus americanus, the ocelots?
Thersites, are those the bovinus americanus, the ocelots?
Common misunderstanding. That would actually be these.
I'm a pompous jackass who bores half to death all with whom I speak.
Its 2 in the morning and the namestealer decides he cant sleep.Wasamatta for you trolly,juniors plans got you sleepless like the rest of us?
OK-how can It be a misunderstanding if it is called cow blogging? God I'm confused.
It was a trick. You smart people have too much fun, playing with us.
Thersites, rest well, when you do. And, by golly, have sweet dreams.
As well as may all of us.
G'night, all. No bedbugs!!!
Bestest of all regards, and especial blessings on the head of jeffrahamp.
SD
Actually,it's only 11.42 in LA.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
And too many of thjem have no models, no guides or guidelines because they. too, were raised poorly, inadequately.
My father had no such excuse. He was just an asshole.
In his old age he wondered why his kids never wanted to visit him.
Yep. I guess no use just making small
talk.
Bovinical Ocelots. Pure nonsense. We are qivering in fear over them and totally ignoring the squirrel uprising in the streets. Those dents on the hood, that is just the beginning. Bulbs dug up in the yard, a shot across our bows. Wake up people, Didn't you ever see their leader speaking? They have even managed to hook up with the moose. Between those two groups, we stand not a chance. We can send a missle across the sea to hit a target, but how the hell do we find the squirrels?
My father had no such excuse. He was just an asshole.
Sorry about that, child. It happens.
Hug yourself, anyway, you're worth it and so much more.
SD
Quoting Yeats makes me feel smart.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
Very nice.
I think we can also be measured by our enemies. I'm damned proud to be opposed to bush, santorum, delay and all their corrupt ilk.
We are just messing, magnolia. Cheers! (never mind the namestealer.)
I think we can also be measured by our enemies.
hmmmm
Moose and Squirrel!
EEEEK!
We can send a missle across the sea to hit a target, but how the hell do we find the squirrels?
They're in DC, with the rest of the evil doers.
See here. An Exotic Evolution
They look cute, but don't be fooled. They are actually very small orcs in disguise.
Sarah, thanks. That was nice.
We can send a missle across the sea to hit a target, but how the hell do we find the squirrels?
EkCenTriK
Nay!! Strike not the squirrels, who aereate our lawns, who do their best, both night and day, day and night.
Abuse them not, o ye, o ye.
They are but pale reflections of ... themselves. And, yes, deserve to live so much more than we.
SD
Move to upstate NY, 4legs. We'll give you sanctuary from the mold & the ocelots.
EEEEK!
I'll second that.
EEEEEK!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!
Pretending to be Thersites makes me feel intelligent.
I know Thersites. Cheers to you and yours.
And, oh, yeah - On Topic: FUCK FUCK FUCK Priscilla Owen.
I have only known one person in my life that I liked named Priscilla. She saved the name for me from complete ignominy.
Move to upstate NY, 4legs. We'll give you sanctuary from the mold & the ocelots.
I may just do that.
Thinking about moving and packing is depressing the hell out of me.
I'm just so fucking tired.
Sarah, thanks. That was nice.
four legs good
and so, dear, are you.
From 4leg's link:
He used to smear a tree behind his Silver Spring home with a mixture of peanut butter and Valium and then tattoo the squirrels that he found passed out below.
Science rocks.
Speaking of squirrels, we have some strange albino ones on our campus. The legend is that a biology student bred them and released them on the south mall.
There were just a few when I was an undergraduate. Now there are dozens of them.
Current students consider sighting one of them around final exam time to be good luck.
A move is as good as a fire, so the wisdom goes.
Science rocks.
I know. Funny, eh?
I just picture a tree with little drugged squirrels laying aound the base.
The nice thing about squirrels is they always seem to be having a good time.
I'm just so fucking tired.
four legs good
You and me both. I'm beginning to move my shit over to that house. How did I get all this shit? I remember when everything I owned I could fit in a backpack and was gone and I was the happiest in my life.
and then tattoo the squirrels that he found passed out below.
with what??? Devil's heads? A heart w/"Mary" and an arrow through it? Something relating to the Marines (or some other branch of the service)??
What??? kind of tattoo...???
That's what I want to know.
I guess I'll start packing tomorrow.
The squirrels around here hang with crows.
Moving to that attachment will save me half on rent but I've got to downsize so I have to decide what to keep and what to give away.
A big peanut tattoo?
What??? kind of tattoo...???
Probably an identification number.
Though it's fun to think of little "mom" tatoos.
I just picture a tree with little drugged squirrels laying aound the base.
With tattoos!
When you wake up to drug-addled, tattooed squirrels in your yard, man THAT'S a tough neighborhood.
I need to save more to be get into Canada or someplace out of the South.
A big peanut tattoo?
Silly.
An acorn.
When you wake up to drug-addled, tattooed squirrels in your yard, man THAT'S a tough neighborhood.
If he were a republican he'd probably have tried to fuck the squirrels while they were passed out.
Seriously.
actually, squirrels don;t have good times all that much. Even when they seem to be playing, they're practicing their moves.
Watching a squirrel in motion is like watching something move in a strobe light, except there's no strobe light.
I have come to really love them.
As well as the urban survivors: blue jays, crows, possums.
I draw the line at racoons, though. They look cute, but they are killers. Not that, for example, crows are not, but they look "dark" and dangerous.
I look for predator eyes, and 'coons have 'em. I tend to shoot their enormously fat butts w/my Red Ryder BB gun. I'm a good shot. Love living in a n'hood where I can do this.
From little acorns, mighty oaks grow, unless the squirrels eat them all.
Useless trool has proven we've hit a nerve. Let these judges go to the floor. People will shut the entire gov't down before they allow these fucking thieves to put two of these enron judges atop the ladder of justice.
Bring.It.On.
Acorns used to be harvested by people for food in England.
I need to save more to be get into Canada or someplace out of the South.
ΤΏΤ
well, outta the south, fer sure.
Racoons will attacks you if there are enough of them in a pack.
start a new thread already!
Moving sucks.
One of the great joys of my life is that I will probably never again have to move in Miami in the month of August.
Racoons will attacks you if there are enough of them in a pack.
ΤΏΤ |
Get between a racoon and food/sex/their young and you are in BIG trouble.
BFT=BIG fucking trouble.
oh geez
I kind of admire raccoons. They lived in NYC when I was a kid, in the sewers & in various shrubby areas. Very tough animals.
From little acorns, mighty oaks grow, unless the squirrels eat them all.
magnolia
Squirrels are great about burying them to eat later over the winter. They always forget some and that's how many oaks are planted.
You are right about racoons. They killed my cat. I moved to the coast and the cat didn't have a clue about these damn animals.
you know, it';s actually a sweet word, "squirrel".
Sorry to be tiresome, but these little creatures have been most healing for me.
I'll shut up about them, now - though I urge you all to benefit therefrom.
I had a friend give me some pears from here tree and forgot about them in my back seat of my car with the window rolled down at night. I returned later and was opening the car door and one jumped out on me but didn't maul me.
Do you feed them anything?
You are right about racoons. They killed my cat. I moved to the coast and the cat didn't have a clue about these damn animals.
magnolia
magnolia, I lost 6 chickens to racoons, they eviscerated each one. Ate a fraction of what they had killed. I have no respect for them.
Not that I have much respect for my own species, either. Or myself. I also know how much I have wasted, though I try not to any more.
Do you feed them anything?
magnolia
Racoons are omnivores and will eat almost anything.
SD-do you feed the squirrels?
I love my chickens. They are most interesting. Francis, Mimi, and Ginger.
I think I like raccoons because they are survivors. If there is still a raccoon population in NYC, they can survive anywhere. If things keep going the way they are we should learn a lesson from raccoons. The only way to survive is to never, ever, take any shit.
At least a possum will eat the entire chicken and that's how you get rid of them. Because if it gets in your chicken house and kills a chicken, it can only eat about half the chicken but will always return the next night to finish eating it. So all you have to do is wait with your shotgun and blow it away when it shows back up.
I have some intense neighbors across the street. They hate red squirrels because they chased off the gray ones. They don't want anyone to feed the red squirrels, but the lady down the street, lives to feed the birds and squirrels. Getting all tense about this is silly, but to top it all off we have a hawk that keeps all the critters nervous when he's hungry.
SD-do you feed the squirrels?
magnolia |
Oh, yeah!! I h ave two squirrel feeders that I fill w/Premium Sq Food from Backyard Birds, one "squngee (a feeder that holds two ears of dried corn w/a bungee cord component that makes the experience challenging for squirrels and a hoot for the feeder), and I just can't ever go out on my front porch during the daylight hours without a bag of peanuyuts in the shell that I hand toss to my squirrels and jays. The crows have started to act like the mafia: the want to be acknowledged, so I throw a couple of peanuts over the fence to them, as well. Makes them happy.
The only way to survive is to never, ever, take any shit.
That's kind of like my chicken Francis. She chases everything off, but we don't have racoons anymore that I know of. Just my pet dog and all my neighbors cats.
They all stay clear of her. She's the smallest but lays the biggest eggs.
I've never seen her backdown from a critter so far.
A friend of mine found a baby squirrel he raised feeding it only Cheerios. Then one day he offered it a peanut and it bit the fire out of his finger.
Now the crows would fascinate me. I'm a real bird person. So if I feed the squirrels I will get crows.
500 pugs are going on a pub crawl this weekend to raise money for the humane society here in Portland. Just heard it on the radio.
magnolia, you listening to late night talk radio? Kinda lame tonight, huh? Art will be on tomorrow night with Howard Bloom. He's always really interesting.
You klnow, one thing in which I do not interfere with much is Nature, "bloody in tooth and claw."
If the animals in my front yard are in competition w/one another, I do not interfere. (e.g., squirrel vs squirrel, subject: territory)
However, if a hostile cat intervenes, I run 'em off.
My prerogative, eh?
I realize fully what I constrict is false in nature. I don't fucking care.
I realize fully what I constrict is false in nature.
What I "constrict" and, therefore, construct.....
Incog-wow-we love that protein.
Bloom I have never heard, but he has a political left leaning website, wouldn't you say?
A cat isn't nature. It's an invasive species.
You are part of that Nature SD. You can do whatever you damn well please. I hope you don't kill spiders though?
Bloom I have never heard, but he has a political left leaning website, wouldn't you say?
magnolia
He's really hard to describe or pin down politically but mostly left, yeah.
I hope you don't kill spiders though?
magnolia
I don't randomly kill insects until they cross the line like coming in your house.
Rupert Murdoch publishes more naked photos of Saddam.
A cat, a male cat is something very special. The older they get, the more time you spend with them the more they understand your thoughts and movements.
Turns out, I believe my cat is more in tune with me than my dog.
Bell had an interesting sounding physicist scheduled for Sunday, but changed it to a UFO guy. I hope he starts grooming his audience into not being so redneck.
Those pics were more US propaganda. Totally Rovian. I honestly don't think we're ever going to get away from this administration.
Which pictures. Hussein?
I don't randomly kill insects until they cross the line like coming in your house.
ΤΏΤ
So, relocate them (spiders) outside, is my habit.
Re: photos of Saddam in his skivvies. Who in the world took those pix, and what bidness of ours is it?? I don't need to see them, nor does anyone.
At least, that's mt take on it. I mean, really, why take them in the first place or show them in the second? Really.
I feed the birds popcorn and bread. Seeds of unpopped corn for the seedbeaks, the others thrive on all of it.
A mockingbird usually has first dibs, it will sing to me in anticipation, and has even taken a cigar butt for taste from the feeding spot.
I should pour it a shot...
The pendulem swings. It will be ok for some of us anyway. Really worried about Jefraham tonight?
I hope he starts grooming his audience into not being so redneck.
magnolia
He has to be careful. The wing nuts believe they own AM radio and he's being attacked relentlessly by them. Locally, 20 hours of the day is live and rebroadcast hate radio and they wont even allow 4 hours a night when we might put away partisanship. It's beyond bizarre. Just like them trying to make the new Star Wars movie and red-state/blue-state partisan issue. It's really is unhinged.
So, relocate them (spiders) outside, is my habit.
Yeah, you're right. After I posted that I realized that I always scoop them up with a newspaper or something and put them outside.
Those people from the pentagon are sick. For sure. It will get better someday.
Well, haloscan just ate my post. How bizarre.
I was gonna tell you guys about the raccooon wars.
Nevermind. I do like them though, even though they're pests. They got into my neighbor's house and ate her canary. She thought it was my maine coon until we discovered little bloody raccoon paw prints at the scene of the crime.
Really worried about Jefraham tonight?
magnolia
What's wrong?
Careful, you'll be buying them nicotine patches, Mr Murder.
Read his posts on this thread and tell me what you think. Sallyh doesn't think it was a namestealer.
What's bizarre to me is that chimpy still thinks he's a godly man after all the pain and suffering he's inflicted on the world.
I wish a UFO would fucking zap his ass.
magnolia,
I love critters of ALL stripes. I don't kill spiders, or, realy any insect. I knock spittlebugs off my chrysanthemums,but I don't squish them.
Spiders I treat w/reverence, and move, always, rather than kill. That;s just something I avoid as a matter of course.
I LOVE bees, especially bumbles. My husband can pet them!!!
I do take exception to ants when they insist on coming into my house. As well as silverfish and moths. They do not get to eat what I have.
SD
incog, he was talking earlier about going out and shooting wingnuts tomorrow.
Said he was going to have to find Curly a new home.
Apparently he's out of money and hasn't been able to find a job- I think it's getting to him. He sounds really desperate.
Seeds of unpopped corn for the seedbeaks, the others thrive on all of it.
They may have a gizzard for grinding corn like chikens do.
Your maine coon almost got blamed for eating your neighbors canary? Life can be fascinating can't it.
Your maine coon or your main coon?
Mr. Murder,
Oh, my god, a mockingbird!!!!!!
How lucky you are!!!!!
Wow, you have a husband that pets bumble bees. That is wonderful.
Ooh get down and take it to the river.
Live, from deep inside the earth, this is George Norry.
And, by the way, ΤΏΤ , I keep my two Manx cats undoors.
They do not belong outside. This ain't the wilds. This be urburbia (I am 15 min from downtown).
Chimpy is nuts or evil like Hitler. Take your pick. I choose seriously sociopathic.
Wow, you have a husband that pets bumble bees. That is wonderful.
magnolia
magnolia, I know. He is WONDERFUL w/critters, he truy has a gift.
What kind of animal would you like to get to know, that you have never met?
Apparently he's out of money and hasn't been able to find a job- I think it's getting to him. He sounds really desperate.
four legs good
Is there some place we can send some money? The wing nuts are destroying this country for nothing.
Well, I think on the website there must be a way, when buying his CD. Sallyh might know.
I think I caught the tail end of it and Scout Prime was discussing it. Let me check out his site....
Incog, I don't know. Maybe we'll find out tomorrow.
The Chimp called it as it is
Incog, I don't know. Maybe we'll find out tomorrow.
four legs good
I hope he was just being like I've been a few times here and doesn't get hurt. This administration, the fundies and wing nuts have their fangs buried into the people of this country sucking any joy and hope out it had. What pathetic losers they are. I have to believe right now they'll get theirs one day. This is really too depressing, luv ya guys. The cat and me are turning in.
Is blogger down? An hour is a long time to go without even one comment.
To honor Uncle Sam, patriotic Americans buy Chinese
Fri May 20,10:30 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Need a plastic White House? How about an "I love Washington" sweatshirt or a Stars and Stripes for the car? Well, thanks to communist China, you won't break the bank.
As Washington simmers over trade and currency spats with Beijing -- policymakers need not stray far to test America's addiction to the fruits of China's great economic leap forward.
Little more than a flick of a patriotic frisbee from the White House is a cornucopia of tourist kitsch, at knockdown prices courtesy of low-wage workers halfway across the globe.
Tourists can choose a "President of the United States" baseball cap, with a pirated official seal across the front -- good value at 12 dollars.
... "A lot of the stuff in Wal-Mart and Target comes from China," she said, referring to cut price megastores, which hawk everything from baby clothes to baseball bats and books to barbecues.
Judging by crammed store aisles at weekends, half of America is in on this Faustian pact.
Customers have saved billions of dollars and pumped up consumption over the last decade, fuelling growth, creating retail jobs and empowering a commerce lobby, which shepherded trade pacts with Vietnam and China through Congress.
That's little compensation though for a production line worker in Detroit or a textiles laborer in South Carolina whose jobs migrated offshore.
US textile firms, which have already declined to 600,000 employees, could stand to lose another half million jobs following the removal of a worldwide textile quota system this year, union officials say.
US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Tuesday introduced new safeguards on four new categories of Chinese textile exports permitted under World Trade Organisation rules.
But right outside the windows of his
Commerce Department, tourists leafed through piles of Chinese, and Asian-made shirts, on a stall that also features "Made in China"
Saddam Hussein playing cards.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
2005...na_050520143011
What does it say about the state of an empire when all the stuff of it's patriotic rigmarole comes from it's official ideological opponent?
What does it say about an alleged democracy when it sends its jobs to the slave markets?
What does it say for the idiots who buy the slave made junk?
Price buying. Who knew it would signal the end of democracy?
Oasis is a nice discovery.
Surprised at the LA Times article. Last night on Now - discussed Owen's abortion dissent - she turned down an underaged rape victim because not displaying "sufficient maturity" meant she should have prayed and studied scripture as a context for making her abortion decision.
Where was that in the Times article?
Morning Moonbats
Ever notice how many of these right to lifers are people who never married, and never had kids? Now if this woman is a true fundie and never married, that means she never had sex either. And yet she feels capable of telling a rape victim to have the child of her rapist. Priests. Old maids. They all think they can legislate what I do with my body.
QL, You know, I would agree with your statemnet, excep that I am not convinced they believe their rhetoric themselves. They seem to select a position that appears Godly, then dare anyone to confront the "word of God" because that will prove their unworthiness.
The Bible speaks of such people in less than glowing terms: the new Testament is riddled with the hypocrisy of the Pharasees, yet we seemed to have learned nothing since that time.
This is truly a frightening time to be an American. WHen the pResident can make incredibly indelicate and ignorant speeches without someone calling him on it, is scary. The fact that there is a litmus test for morality and the Christian right has gained political as well as "perceived moral" authority frightens me terribly.
I always tell my classes the story of Gregorius the Seventh, Pope. He had an argument with the king of Germany and threatened to excommunicate him. The king waited barefoot in the snow for three days to beg forgiveness. The story is wonderfully didactic: it is not so much that we believe we are correct (which I do not think we are) it is that our "rightness" requires us to punish those who disagree with us. It is not enough to voice our disagreement, we must correct them and do it in the most disrespectful way possible. Hence the waiting in the snow, hence the abuse of the Koran, hence the psychological manipulation.
But there will be a time of reckoning, what will the say then?
DWD
If you are still looking for prose to have your children read consider this very powerful passage from Mark Twain on the death of his daughter, Suzy (starting about an eighth of the way down with "Our first child, Langdon Clemens, was born...").
It is one of the saddest things I've ever read and a stark contrast of what you usually consider when you think of Twain. It may be too emotional for your schoolchildren, but maybe not.
Matt Damon.
Your maine coon almost got blamed for eating your neighbors canary? Life can be fascinating can't it.
Your maine coon or your main coon?
magnolia |
Your Maine coon and your main coon.
In Twain's later years, minus his wife, who edited his stories for coarse language (since he tends towards the riverboat captain vocabulary) passed away, his stories were too poisonly bitter to really find publisher.
It is this reader's belief that fans so devout of his style feared losing money publishing something entirely unlike the vast body of his work.
As for Twain's Innocent Abroad... he was on a flat earth at the time, good enough to afford this travel and wide sighted to appreciate it.
Everywhere Twain went he could see both ends of the spectrum. The good, the bad, the downright ugly, and the humor or funny things that could unite these disparate elements into a cohesive patch.
Final note on funny and disparate. Richard Myers and Rumsfailed talking base closure(a replay). Myers has a wonderful prone posture to his words. Even when he stands up straight his thoughts are bent over and fully grdugefucked.
You wear it well Dick Myers. Close those bases down you asshat. You're a bane to your creed.
On Salon.com, Joe Conason writes that if Patricia Owen were held to the same standard as Abe Fortas (a judge filibustered by Republicans) she would never be approved. He wonders at the free-fall of ethical standards required for judicial appointments and approvals.
http://salon.com/opinion/conason...hics/
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