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GravatarHi. I'm Tom Raum, and I think Georgie is the strongest leader. No way I'm trading his card for a Blair and a Silvio.


Gravatari want a glass of whatever atrios is drinking.


GravatarCup O' Joe Radio Show #100 will be up soon! Woo Hoo!

Cup O' Joe - Blog Of The Working Man!


GravatarIt's Sheriff Tron!


GravatarWow. An old-school Bakshi Mighty Mouse reference. You just blew my mind.


GravatarI think he's put on some weight since then, but not enough to call him Jumbo Tron...


GravatarCourt ordered mainstream religion!

Court ordered mainstream religion!



You know things are getting scarry when the courts start telling you to protect your kids from certain religious beliefs and practices.


GravatarWow, Snakehead Terror is just Severed Body Parts Central...


GravatarBuy Citgo gas,save a democracy.


GravatarAn old-school Bakshi Mighty Mouse reference.

Sure it wasn't simply and Andy Kaufman reference?


GravatarI just finished reading Rich's column in the times. Noting the point of his piece, it also looks like we have moved up one more step on the Viet Nam Ladder. Unless you are absolutely involved in the politics or in the war, it is just news now. Body counts are simply the evening stats.


GravatarCan these Scifi movies get any worser?


Gravatar"Can these Scifi movies get any worser?
smalfish'

Thanks, by asking that, you have doomed us all.


GravatarDowning Street Memo Petition

Sign, if you havn't already, and pass the word.


GravatarSo, I guess I'm about 15th!! Yay!


GravatarThanks, by asking that, you have doomed us all.

I guess , if you want to look at the bright side.Better me than cookoo bannanas.


GravatarIt's Cigarette Smoking Coroner!


GravatarI swear that sherrif looks just like Bill Clinton.


GravatarMighty Mouse was one of my favorites. Along with Sky King and Penny, the Mickey Mouse Club, Lassie, Howdy Doody, and American Bandstand. Those were the days my friend.


GravatarAnyone read Tierney today? It's amazing how many lies he can tell.


GravatarOkay, what're we group-watching again? Something on SciFi?


GravatarOkay, what're we group-watching again? Something on SciFi?

Snakehead Terror! With Bruce Boxleitner and Carol Alt! And Cancer Man from X-Files!


GravatarAlong with Sky King and Penny, the Mickey Mouse Club, Lassie, Howdy Doody, and American Bandstand. Those were the days my friend.


Jeeze,that was last century.Get with it.This is the torture generation.


Gravatarmer

Mine, too. We must be about the same age -- or you watched a lot of TVLand.


Gravatar[i]Sure it wasn't simply and Andy Kaufman reference?[/i]

Dead certain. Bat-Bat (in reality millionaire playboy Bruce Vain) was one of Mighty's buds in the new series, and the Bug Wonder was his sidekick. Their main nemesis was The Cow.

This concludes the animation geeking part of the thread.


GravatarMy girlfriend is a big fan of Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. It's basically Lassie, only with a kangaroo.


GravatarGot it. Changed the channel, even. I felt somehow out of sync -- like when everyone else has a C-Span hearing on, and my kids are insisting on watching Clerks for the 99th time.


Gravatar[i]Sure it wasn't simply and Andy Kaufman reference?[/i]

Dead certain. Bat-Bat (in reality millionaire playboy Bruce Vain) was one of Mighty's buds in the new series, and the Bug Wonder was his sidekick. Their main nemesis was The Cow.


Ah. I thought it was some kind of moonbat/Tom DeLay thing, but it didn't really make any sense...


GravatarWatching Capitol Gang
(no, I don't really know why)

Novak is such a piece of work.
His smarm so thick it droops.
Can't one of the genius types out here in blog-land take this guy down?

A clean take on Novak would make Rathergate look silly.


GravatarGot it. Changed the channel, even. I felt somehow out of sync -- like when everyone else has a C-Span hearing on, and my kids are insisting on watching Clerks for the 99th time.

In case you're wondering: The deadly snakeheads ate Sheriff Tron's daughter's girlfriend. And a hunter and his dog.


GravatarIt's basically Lassie, only with a kangaroo.

Dammit, I was sure there'd be a "Timmy fell down the wallaby" joke in here somewhere but, nuthin' ::shakes the bag, nothing falls out:: Is it possible to need caffeine at 7:20 pm?


GravatarUm, her boyfriend, rather.



I blame Dick Van Dyke.


GravatarEli

I was in high school when Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was on -- but I'd watch it sometimes.


GravatarAP Story On Peak Oil

I've fashioned myself a Reynolds-wrap fez in honor of Atta J. Turk and have this to say:

What if the US is sitting on Iraqi oil - that is purposefully not pumping, so as to have it as a buffer when the rest of the suppliers start to run dry?

OK, we now return control of the horizontal and vertical to you...


GravatarDammit, I was sure there'd be a "Timmy fell down the wallaby" joke in here somewhere but, nuthin' ::shakes the bag, nothing falls out:: Is it possible to need caffeine at 7:20 pm?

Sorry that dingo so well.


GravatarI blame Dick Van Dyke.

Such a clever segue between threads! You, you... ::pinches Eli's cheeks::


GravatarThe latest comes from Broward County, Florida, where a publicly subsidized art show included more hate speech directed at President Bush:

The piece in question is a painting depicting President Bush being sodomized. Artist Alfred Phillips said images of an oil barrel and a man wearing a Muslim headdress in the work are part of a political statement about the United States being abused by oil companies.

Michael Friedman, the artist who complained to the county, said the painting is offensive and tasteless.

"Something snapped inside," he said. Friedman entered a piece depicting Pope Benedict XVI with several swastikas in the background.

"Sodomy in a public forum is not, from my perspective, considered art," he said. "I think somebody has to draw the line somewhere. I like political satire. However, that type of image ... I don't think is artistic."


Well, you know a painting is offensive when the guy who painted the Pope with swastikas thinks it's over the line. I'm a little puzzled, though, by what the show's organizers considered to be a "relevant political message," i.e., how the oil companies "abuse" the United States. That would be, I suppose, by providing petroleum products that allow us to go places, heat our homes, have offices and factories in which to work, and operate equipment so that, instead of living like the ancient Egyptians, hauling blocks of stone around with ropes, we can sit at desks and do things like operate computers. Is that how the oil companies "abuse" Americans? I suppose the idea is that without the oil companies, oil and gasoline would spring magically out of the ground (pollution-free, of course), and into our gas tanks and furnaces. For free.

Leftists are so childish that I cannot understand how anyone can take them seriously.


GravatarWhoops,plot thinkens.

Sherrif meet hot scientist babe.

Both fall madly for each other by end of movie.

Everybody dies as well except these two.

I think we just saw this movie,did'nt we?


GravatarDid you know that Mighty Mouse is a heldentenor? You can tell because he has a solo in the theme song.

He's #1 on Lucianne Goldberg's hit list.

Been thinking about "original intent" while weeding today. Does anyone with a working brain stem think that Madison, Jefferson, Adams, etc. intended George W. Bush? He's not exactly Cincinnatus material is he.

I know for a fact that Franklin and especially Paine would forment a new revoloution if they knew that the flaws in the constitution would lead to a George W. Bush.


GravatarSuch a clever segue between threads! You, you... ::pinches Eli's cheeks::

Which ones?


GravatarI think we just saw this movie,did'nt we?

Dude, this is *totally* different.


Gravatar"...or you watched a lot of TVLand."
--Toonscribe

Oh, I don't think I've watched more than ten hours of TV since November. So yes, I'm in my mid-fifties.

I remember when there was only about five or six hours of programming a day. My mom loved Jack Parr (sp?).


GravatarBeen thinking about "original intent" while weeding today. Does anyone with a working brain stem think that Madison, Jefferson, Adams, etc. intended George W. Bush? He's not exactly Cincinnatus material is he.

You really shouldn't think such depressing thoughts on your weeding day.


Gravataroil and gasoline would spring magically out of the ground (pollution-free, of course), and into our gas tanks and furnaces. For free.

It's a well known fact taht oil is self regenerating.It is in pleny in the ground.It gets created (somehow) in the mantle of the earth.

/freeper


GravatarJack Paar

My folks used to watch it too.

It and my adult consciousness passed in the night once,...


GravatarFlambaut can cut and paste from Assrocket, lets all give him a hand.


GravatarOkay, what're we group-watching again? Something on SciFi?

I'm either gonna hafta get with the TV thing, or it's George Gobel time for Doozer.


Gravatarsmalfish,

damn shame there's no caloric value to freeper gas. Talk about an infinite supply.


GravatarBeen thinking about "original intent" while weeding today. Does anyone with a working brain stem think that Madison, Jefferson, Adams, etc. intended George W. Bush? He's not exactly Cincinnatus material is he.

But GWB does love the job so much. How could we want him to not have it.

O'Reilly: You love the job?

BUSH: I do, I really enjoy it a lot.

O'Reilly: Because when you were first running, you weren't -- didn't know -- whether you were going to love it.

BUSH: Well you didn't know, you don't know till you've had it, and I do love the job,...


Gravatardamn shame there's no caloric value to freeper gas. Talk about an infinite supply.

Is it at least lighter than air? Can we fill freeppelins or derangibles with it?


Gravatarmer

We're about the same age -- 54 in July.


GravatarEli, if I didn't think while weeding I wouldn't have a thought between June and frost.

I was also thinking about the kantele music someone gave me. Stunning effects they can get with only ten strings strung over a little box.


GravatarYou guys watch wayyyyyy too much tv! It's a nice day. Go outside and play with your friends. Mow the grass. Take a walk. Ignore the idiot trolls.


Gravatarmer - my mom loved Jack Paar, too.

She used to let me stay up and watch with her sometimes. She also watched That was the Week that Was. and I watched that with her sometimes, too.


GravatarI am watching Capital Gang and cheering for O'Beirne and Novak, two great Americans who are fighting the good fight against liberal media bias.


GravatarWhich ones?

Okay, now I'm too flustered to come up with a reply that doesn't sound dirty-old-woman-ish.


GravatarO'Reilly: Because when you were first running, you weren't -- didn't know -- whether you were going to love it.

BUSH: Well you didn't know, you don't know till you've had it, and I do love the job,...


Well, he didn't know for sure if the media fix would be in. Now that it is, it makes the job much easier.


GravatarIs it at least lighter than air? Can we fill freeppelins or derangibles with it? - Eli

Sadly, it's like hydrogen sulfide, heavier than air & smelly.


GravatarTeenagers are sooo ambitious.


GravatarI don't think anyone has enjoyed being president more than Bill Clinton. For his many flaws Clinton's press conferences were the only ones I've enjoyed since Kennedy.

I so miss having a president who can think.


Gravatarhi tena, et al
long time no see
your page is doing well; cool

Is there a 'net source of Jack Paar shows that anyone knows of?


GravatarDoes anyone have a quick-n-easy cure for my existential angst?


Gravatardirty-old-woman-ish.

Two outta three ain't bad...


GravatarTena

I loved TW3 -- political satire at its finest.


GravatarAmerica Supporter = a truss giving a seriously injured country an excuse to not get repaired.


Gravataroops, H2S is a liquid, make that chlorine gas, heavier than air & deadly


GravatarEPT, I agree. Clinton enjoyed the *job*.

Bush enjoys the *power*.


GravatarDoes anyone have a quick-n-easy cure for my existential angst?

Dank.

Lots and lots of dank.


Gravatarmer, toonscribe
Judging by your recollection of "ancient tv" shows, I assume we are in the same age group. Either of you remember a show called Rootie Kazootie? Haven't found anyone yet who can.


GravatarI so miss having a president who can think. - EPT

and talk.


GravatarCan we fill freeppelins or derangibles with it?

STOP being adorable! I command it!

Come to think of it, this was weird. One of those Dick Van Dyke episodes had them playing a word game with dice (not Scrabble) and Rob went for the word "freep" (which he explained is "a baby frope") and my jaw dropped a millimeter or two.


GravatarIt's a nice day.


Ummmm,no its really not a noce day.Rain and rain and rain.

I have'nt seen this much rain here in a very long time.

Its a good day to stay inside and ridicule some really bad movies.


Gravatarcataplexy, I have Rootie Kazootie comic books.


Gravatarand, oh, yeah - Little Lulu was a feminist.


GravatarDamn Toonscribe, 56 in Sept. But it's okay. I general don't think about how old I am, unless I feel bad.

I guess I need to clarify that--unless I feel bad physically. Mentally, I feel bad all the time now. I wish GWB was not the President of the United States.


GravatarCome to think of it, this was weird. One of those Dick Van Dyke episodes had them playing a word game with dice (not Scrabble) and Rob went for the word "freep" (which he explained is "a baby frope") and my jaw dropped a millimeter or two.

Yowza!

We're still waiting for them to grow up, I guess.


Gravatarmy brother used to try and look down the dancing female mice's tops (blouses?) on cartoons. (!!!)


I recall visiting my mother once and seeing some original Lassie shows on a 'nostalgia' channel.
Couldn't believe how the camera followed a chicken around the farmyard as it pecked at seeds. The sense of time almost medieval. Or italian.


Gravatar"a baby frope" A troll is an adolescent trull.


Gravatarlater gators. off to be wined and dined.


GravatarFine watertiger, go be wined and dined. We'll just sit here in the dark.


GravatarIt might be my imagination, but...did a Troll just pop up out of it's prairie-dog hole and let loose a longwinded screed against Leftists, and then wonder out loud why anyone would care about Leftists? Like, enough to compase and deliver a long-winded screed on a Leftie blog?
Nah, that would be too stupid to live.


Gravatarlater gators. off to be wined and dined.

*be generally envious of wine and dinner*


GravatarI so miss having a president who can think. - EPT

and talk.


and who seemed to have some aversion to sending lots of people to far away countries to kill lots of other people.


GravatarRootie Kazootie - I remember the name, but think it was after my time. I'm from the Crusader Rabbit/Winky Dink era.

Also,

George LaMont was the coolest local cartoon show host, ever.


GravatarCOMRADES! YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE!

Re: the rhetorical usefulness of Hitler/Nazi comparisons -

Consider, if you will, comparing Bush to lesser known fascists like Mussolini or Franco. Try to work in a reference at least once this weekend.

The obvious pun is just waiting to be made, thanks to Comrade Jon Stewart's tireless efforts to make "douchebag" a respectable epithet- Bush's new nickname, playing off the Mussolini comparison, can be "Il Douche".

That is all. Carry on.


Gravatarcataplexy

Rootie Kazootie? The name sounds vaguely familiar, but other than that, I got nothing. Was it a national show or a local somewhere? I was in the Nashville area growing up.


Gravatarlater gators. off to be wined and dined.

Dont do anything that might get you in trouble with the FCC.

But have a nice time dear.


GravatarOkay, so far they've severed one arm, two legs, and one head. They're almost ready to build a human of their own!


GravatarWe're still waiting for them to grow up, I guess.

Wild-guessing at the age of that episode, but you'd think they'd have managed SOMETHING since 1962.


GravatarIslamic hatred of non-Muslims is not a modern response to America's pro-Israel policies, but goes back for centuries:
Teaching Muslim school children anti-infidel jihad hatred is a lengthy, continuous, and ignoble tradition even within the modern era. As the great linguist and scholar E. W. Lane reported after several years of residence in both Cairo and Luxor (initially in 1825-1828, then in 1833-1835), [1]

I am credibly informed that children in Egypt are often taught at school, a regular set of curses to denounce upon the persons and property of Christians, Jews, and all other unbelievers in the religion of Mohammad.

Lane's nephew subsequently discovered and translated the prayer below from a contemporary 19th century Arabic text, containing a typical curse on non-Muslims, which was recited daily by Muslim schoolchildren in Egypt: [2]

O Lord of the beings of the whole world. O God, destroy the infidels and polytheists, thine enemies, the enemies of the religion. O God, make their children orphans, and defile their abodes, and cause their feet to slip, and give them and their families, and their households and their women and their children and their relations by marriage and their brothers and their friends and their possessions and their race and their wealth and their lands as booty to the Muslims: O Lord of the beings of the whole world.

[1] E.W. Lane. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, New York, 1973, p. 276.
[2] Lane, Modern Egyptians, p. 575.


Fascinating. A culture based on murder and theft. No wonder the only significant wealth that the Arab world has created in modern times is based on expropriation of oil fields originally developed by Westerners.


Gravatarand who seemed to have some aversion to sending lots of people to far away countries to kill lots of other people.

And who believed in science.


GravatarMighty Mouse was one of my favorites.

When I was youngster in the late '60's/ early '70's, a local station used to run those old Mighty Mouse cartoons along with Popeye. I also used to watch stuff like Astroboy, Space Ghost and the Banana Splits, amongst others. However, my favorite shows at the time were the Gerry Anderson "supermarionation" shows imported from England - the Thunderbirds, Supercar and Captain Scarlet.


GravatarCentral Headquaters = troll,I'm guessing.


GravatarCentral - don't go stealin' my riffs from a year ago, now. I even had a pal from here helping me photoshop Bush's face onto Mussolini's body in an old photo.

That aside, I think it would be a grand idea for Boosh to become known far and wide as "Il Douche".


GravatarIf you don't support America and our troops you are gay.


GravatarAnd who believed in science.

*hiss and make warding-off gesture*


GravatarLittle Lulu as a feminist.

I'm old enough to remember when the "tough broad" Lois Lane turned into Lucy on barbies. That was a shocker. Lord knows what effect it had on my psychosexual development.
I'd love to be able to ask Jimmy Olsen (whose real name eludes me just now) about it. He wrote the libretto for Virgil Thomson's opera, "Lord Byron". So, maybe we scribblers of these obit equivalents have some hope yet.


GravatarDoozer - It was a cut and paste from Assrocket at Powerline, the king of the strawman. Of course, assrocket would be unable to write without a strawman.

BTW, good post up at Kos, Krugman asking the public editor to give examples. Okrent and the public editor are suppose to respond. Krugman will then get to "slice and dice" Okrent's sorry ass.


Gravatar"...remember a show called Rootie Kazootie? Haven't found anyone yet who can."
--cataplexy

Rootie Kazootie???? Musta been local. What was it about?

My drug induced state didn't start until the late sixties, but this might have been something I would have liked to watch.


GravatarThat aside, I think it would be a grand idea for Boosh to become known far and wide as "Il Douche".

Or Busholini...


GravatarOkay. There's this "Restasis" commercial, these eyedrops that are supposed to make your eyes create more tears if you have chronic dry-eye, right?

And one of the side effects is "burning"?

I could fix my own dry-eye by dropping something in 'em that would make 'em burn and water, correct?


GravatarOkay, so far they've severed one arm, two legs, and one head. They're almost ready to build a human of their own!

Nah, it's just Buffalo Bass making a man-suit, so he can get a mandate with Little Bitch George. Boy, is LBG going to be suprised when BB bites down.


GravatarI am credibly informed that children in America are often taught at religious schools, a regular set of curses to denounce upon the persons and property of gays ,liberals and all other unbelievers in the religion of jesus fucking christ.


GravatarThose damn muslims, look at how hateful they are:

When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you- 2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. [a] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. 5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles [b] and burn their idols in the fire.


Whoops, that's not their religion, that's our religion!


Gravatar"a baby frope" A troll is an adolescent trull.


EPT - nah, but close. A troll is an adult trollope....

Gotta go back to giardiniera making. Pickle, pickle, pickle, pickle, all day, all night.


GravatarOkay. There's this "Restasis" commercial, these eyedrops that are supposed to make your eyes create more tears if you have chronic dry-eye, right?

I'm just amazed that anyone has trouble producing tears these days...


GravatarGeorge LaMont was the coolest local cartoon show host, ever.
bo


You only say that because you never saw Bob Lobertini on the CBS affiliate in Nashville -- or Capt Bob as we kids called him while watching the Popeye cartoons every weekday at 5 pm.


GravatarDoes anyone have a quick-n-easy cure for my existential angst?

Somebody needs a Dandelion Break!


GravatarTooscribe - I only remember one TWTWTW well. They did a whole segment on the absurdity of calling Vietnam a "police action." I do remember when it was still not officially a "war".


GravatarSilleigh - yeah, I like the commercial about the toenail fungus (gross perhaps, but not exactly a threat to human life) medicine, especially the part where they give one of the side effects as "liver failure."

Given a choice between a gross toe and death, I know which way I would lean.


GravatarNot too sure about what areas it was broadcast but it was about the time of Howdy Doody. Wow! Rootie Kazootie comic books? Bet they could be worth something since it was such an obscure show. I remember the sponser was Pay-Day candy bars. Can't seem to find them anymore.


GravatarFlambaut | Email | Homepage | 05.28.05 - 7:54 pm |

How true, shitwit. There were these little episodes called the Crusades. Civilized people do tend to get pissed off by, ill-kempt, uncouth, raping and pillaging, ignorant ruffians.

Go read a history book.


GravatarIf you don't support America and our troops you are gay.
America Supporter


So, Jock Strap, Arthur and I are off to Dance, gayly! Come lad, bring me Orange Ball- away!


GravatarPay Days were those bumpy nut covered candy bars right?


GravatarTwo arms! Hangman!


GravatarMy girlfriend is a big fan of Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. It's basically Lassie, only with a kangaroo.

There were rumors that they went through one "Skippy" per show.

Skippy had a lot of the same limitations as Flipper did. Lassie was a lot more versatile.


GravatarAnd who believed in science.

He doesn't need science. Note how he considers himself an economist, an educator and a combination diplomat/general.

And I pray for wisdom, I pray for strength, I pray for others who are in harm's way. I pray for the soldiers, I pray for their families. And I make decisions -- I make decisions about earthly matters, I make decisions about how to get out of recession, or how to improve education, or how to spread the peace-- and that's what I believe we're doing is spreading the peace.


Gravataryeah, I like the commercial about the toenail fungus (gross perhaps, but not exactly a threat to human life) medicine, especially the part where they give one of the side effects as "liver failure."

That commercial TOTALLY ticks me off, and I'll provide TMI and tell you why: I had that once, and you CAN cure it from the outside and by yourself: by putting a few drops of VINEGAR on it, twice a day. But the Lamisil people would prefer no one knew about that.

::rummaging for that "The Drugs I Need" video::


GravatarJennifer gross toes are not a sign of the master race however. no?

what's a little liver failure in the quest for beauty?


GravatarThe best cures for existential angst:
Stop thinking about yourself.
Stop thinking about ultimate reality. Smarter people have been looking for 2400 years and we're no closer than they were.

Volunteer at a food kitchen. Probably should be first.

Try to figure out the 23 ways standard English spells the sound of long e. When you get those do the other vowels.


Gravatarand that's what I believe we're doing is spreading the peace


Spreading peace thru chos.WHat a great Man-date.


GravatarJennifer gross toes are not a sign of the master race however. no?

what's a little liver failure in the quest for beauty?


Doesn't liver failure kinda mess up your skin color, though?


All right, we're up to *two* severed heads now...


Gravatarcataplexy - I remember the sponser was Pay-Day candy bars. Can't seem to find them anymore.

you're kidding - they're common here. Paydays, I mean, not Rootie Kazootie.


GravatarAnd I will put in a good word for WTAE Pittsburgh and Paul Shannon's Adventure Time. You might have seen him pop in on Mr. Roger's from time to time.


GravatarI don't know about the correlation between gross toes and the master race, but I can vouch for the following:

most of the truly superlative human beings I have known possessed the "demon" toe.


GravatarWhen are they going to learn, underage drinking and giant mutated snakehead hunting don't mix?


GravatarToonscribe,

Do ya think kinescope recordsing still live? I would be interesting to compare the two. There was a bunch of stuff going on in LaMont's program that made kids laugh but was really aimed at adults.


GravatarGot to go take some benadryl and will be unfit to type. So, I wish all of you a good evening.

Benadryl, is also good for existential angst but it can lead to Nausea so it's only a temporary soloution.


Gravatarsmalfish - "spreading peace through war" reminds me a lot of "better living through chemicals."


GravatarI have never seen a Pay Day candy bar in Canada. Remember them well from the states though.

salty. Salty like my tears the night Kathy asked Ken to dance during 'Ladies Choice' when I thought she was my date.


Gravatar- More dismal ratings for Air America in Boston and San Francisco (scroll to end of post).


Gravatarmost of the truly superlative human beings I have known possessed the "demon" toe.

Well, I used to *listen* to the good doctor, but I never actually "possessed" him...


GravatarWhen are they going to learn, underage drinking and giant mutated snakehead hunting don't mix?


Ya,but its a great seasickness fix.


GravatarI had a friend who took lamasil and here's something even worse than liver failure - you have to stop drinking while you take it. When she finally got off it, she had a barhopping party just to celebrate.


GravatarJennifer what is the 'demon toe?'


GravatarLaters, EPT.

Just so long as it doesn't lead to liver failure...


GravatarI can't wait for the day when, our country having endured senseless deaths and being billions poorer for it, the troops come home and the trolls can start blaming anti-war types for the Miserable Failure's miserable failure.


GravatarI don't eat candy bars anymore, but Pay-Days were my favorite candy bars when I was a kid. Loved those salty peanuts and tear-your-teeth-out carmel.


GravatarAhh, here we are: The Drugs I Need courtesy of The Consumers Union and the Austin Lounge Lizards.


GravatarOh good.

Eight o'clock.

Cops.

Almost as good as Reno 911


GravatarJOURNALIST AND NEWSPAPER GUILD MEMBER HIAWATHA BRAY is challenging Linda Foley to back up her Eason-Jordan-like statements, or to apologize:

Since then, you have failed to provide supporting evidence for your remarks, but neither have you retracted them. I spoke with you at 11:10 AM today by telephone; union secretary-treasurer Bernard Lunzer was also on the call.

When I told you that I would publish your response to me on the Internet, you declined further comment--except for the following: "I am not going to discuss this with you on the eve of Memorial Day weekend."

This remark strikes me as extremely odd. I can't think of a better time to redeem the honor of the US military by beginning a serious investigation of outrageous conduct on its part. If our soldiers are deliberately killing journalists, it's our duty to publicize it, so that such a terrible stain on our nation's integrity may be quickly cleansed.

If, as I believe, your charge is false, I can think of no better time to retract this slander.



Heh.


GravatarProof once again that Air America scares the crap out of them.


GravatarSeems to me that most of the pharmaceuticals advertised on tv, all seem to have side-effects that are more dangerous to the patient than the problem it supposedly cures. The ads that really irk me are the ones that mention the product name and suggest you ask your doctor if " it might be right for you" while never actually stating what it's use is.


GravatarProof once again that Air America scares the crap out of them.

I don't think *anything* can get the crap out of them.


GravatarWhoops, that's not their religion, that's our religion!

A good site to see the extent of the depravity to be found in the book of blood is
http://www.evilbible.com/

When the fundamentalists talk about getting rid of "activist judges" so they can implement "Biblical law", here's the kind of stuff they have in mind...

Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests:
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)

Kill Homosexuals:
If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives. (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)

Death for Adultery:
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)

Death for Fornication:
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)

Death to Followers of Other Religions:
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)

Kill Nonbelievers:
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)


Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God:
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)

Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night:
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)

Kill Followers of Other Religions:
If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)

Death for Blasphemy:
One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father got into a fight with one of the Israelite men. During the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the LORD's name. So the man was brought to Moses for judgment. His mother's name was Shelomith. She was the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. They put the man in custody until the LORD's will in the matter should become clear. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and tell all those who heard him to lay their hands on his head. Then let the entire community stone him to death. Say to the people of Israel: Those who blaspheme God will suffer the consequences of their guilt and be punished. Anyone who blasphemes the LORD's name must be stoned to death by the whole community of Israel. Any Israelite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the LORD's name will surely die. (Leviticus 24:10-16 NLT)


GravatarQuestion: Do motorboats usually have sonar?


GravatarI loooove Pay Days.

And vinegar and alcohol DO mix, at least when you're using the former topically to fix a weird toe. What a shame, 'cuz you've gotta take Lamisil for a LONG time, I believe. You have to use the vinegar a long time as well, but at least you can still drink while you're doing it.


Gravatareli; yes, for depth sounding


Gravatarearl - I was hoping someone would ask that...

The "demon toe" can be any of the lesser toes that is longer than the toe next to it which should, by all rights, be the superior-sized toe. If your second toe is longer than the Big Toe, you have a demon toe. If the third toe is longer than the second toe, you have the demon toe.

It may be possible for the fourth toe to be longer than the third, or the fifth to be longer than the fourth, though I've never seen this.

If the fifth toe is longer than the Big Toe, that goes way beyond having a simple case of "demon" toe...you might, in fact, be dealing with the antiChrist.


Gravatareli; yes, for depth sounding

Is it able to resolve individual giant mutant fish?


Gravatarand being billions poorer for it,


Has anyone figured out an average yearly expenditure for this infernal war?

Somewhere in the vicinity of 80 billion per year?

Multiplied by at a minimum 5 years would be 400 billion.

Wonder how many lives could enrichjed with that kind of money.Surely more than the 25 million in Iraq.

Or better yet..

400 (plus) billion divided by 25 million 16 million dollars per person.Could we just have given each of them 1 million to overthrow saddam,and call it a victory?


Gravatar"And who believed in science."

O my god, anyone remember Mr. Wizard?

What a slap in the face that neuron was just now.


GravatarAh, I do wish I had the Sci-Fi network. I'm making do with Stephen King's Cat's Eye on Scream (horror/thriller satellite channel).

All the best cures for existential angst involve fuzzy animals or small children, IMO.


GravatarThe Books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy spice up any dull social gathering.

'Which one of us should be killed for what reason?"


Gravatareli; short answer; yes


GravatarThe ads that really irk me are the ones that mention the product name and suggest you ask your doctor if " it might be right for you" while never actually stating what it's use is.

I believe that ads phrased in that fashion -- when the drug's use is not mentioned -- are not required to bear that nauseating litany of side effects.

All those ads suck. And guess who's actually paying for them.


GravatarOh good.

Eight o'clock.

Cops.


Not just Cops. Cops in New Orleans during Mardi Gras.


GravatarTena

I remember the TW3 episode the week Ian Fleming died. They did a skit where they played it as a political assassination because he had exposed the secrets of British intelligence and the killer radioed in that "the mockingbird will sing no more." That doesn't seem as funny now as it did then.

And, yes, I remember the Vietnam Police Action.


Gravatareli; short answer; yes

Okay, good to know. I generally assume that anything I see in a Sci-Fi Original Picture is roughly as credible as anything I hear in a Bush speech.


GravatarConyers’ "future of the media..." thing from tuesday is on CSPAN now.


GravatarMust go bye-bye. Company coming and I still have junk to do to get presentable.

Y'all have a lovely moonbat evening!


GravatarPaydays really are as common as Snickers here.

It's funny how regional some things still are are.


GravatarBakshi did Mighty Mouse?


GravatarI *did* try to warn them about the snakehead hunting and the underage drinking, but did they listen to me? Noooo.

Kids these days.



Later, Sill!


Gravatarmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

brown food group


Gravatarjennifer thanks for that 'demon toe' info.

I'm tempted to take my socks off and check.


GravatarDamn, the snakehead bit Sheriff Tron's daughter - that means she's going to turn into a snakehead too!


GravatarYou know there is nothing more wonderful or more exasperating than taking your 6 year old grandson fishing for the first time.


GravatarMy toes obey the natural order of toe size, Allah be praised.


GravatarStar Wars Galaxies actually looks pretty cool, but I only have room for *one* addictively immersive virtual community in my life...


GravatarBakshi did Mighty Mouse?

Bakshi's studio did the late '80's TV revival of the character.


GravatarCentral Headquaters = troll,I'm guessing.

And you would be wrong. I ask you - would a troll watch the Daily Show often enough to be aware of Stewart's frequent use of "douchebag"?


GravatarStar Wars Galaxies actually looks pretty cool,

I was thinking the same thing.I wonder if its as addictive as evercrack?


GravatarMy toes are pure and non-demonic.


GravatarI generally assume that anything I see in a Sci-Fi Original Picture is roughly as credible as anything I hear in a Bush speech.

Bush speech == Mansquito

Yeah, that's a fair trade.


GravatarMy toes are pure and non-demonic.

The Chosen One!!!


Gravatarwould a troll watch the Daily Show often enough to be aware of Stewart's frequent use of "douchebag"?

I have no idea.I dont even watch the show.JS is limited by what Viacom will allow.So I dont get off on watching even more gibberish comming at me thru my television,except thru Scifi of course.


GravatarI think the main reason I can't find a Pay-Day bar around here is that I can't even find what used to be described as a candy store. Not only that, but what the hell happened to all the good old fashioned "hardware stores"? Ace and Home Depot just don't fit the bill.


GravatarI guess I'm semidemonic. My second toe is longer than my big toe. Funny that there isn't a term like "thumb" for the big toe.


GravatarMy toes are very happy - they were just pedicured Thursday. Their inner demons are asleep.


GravatarSnakehead Terror is *easily* the grisliest Sci-Fi original movie I have ever seen...


GravatarSnakehead Terror is *easily* the grisliest Sci-Fi original movie I have ever seen...


I thought that guys testicles were goners for sure.


GravatarJennifer - could Demon Toe get someone burned at the stake back not so long ago when they were heavily into that?


GravatarIs Snakehead Terror an inevitable result of ignoring the warnings of the Dickhead Menace?

Just curious.


GravatarI thought that guys testicles were goners for sure.

The thought did cross my mind. They've bitten off everything else.


Gravatarcataplexy--
Just the use of the term "side effects" is misleading--they're not side effects, they're effects.


GravatarLooks like Galloway is a liar.


That sucks.


GravatarTena - I dunno, but probably just about any physical peculiarity would have been enough. FWIW, "demon toe" is a description and diagnosis of my own invention, more or less just my shorthand term for any toe that doesn't observe the natural order of toe size. But still, I like it.


GravatarI wonder if that's the same "mandy" who complained about watertiger "spamming" the comments a while back...


GravatarAll this talk of toes is dangerous to our spiritual well being. You start thinking about their shape and how they wriggle and the next thing you know you're turning tricks on Front Street for talcum powder.


GravatarFWIW, "demon toe" is a description and diagnosis of my own invention, more or less just my shorthand term for any toe that doesn't observe the natural order of toe size.

So it's *not* in Leviticus?


GravatarIs Snakehead Terror an inevitable result of ignoring the warnings of the Dickhead Menace?

Actually,there is an infestation of snakehead fish in the Chesapeake bay area.Snakehead is an asian fish which does in fact kill of other species of fish.

At this time they are having a hard time aliminating the problem.Snakehead threaten teh entire ecosystem of the Chesapeake.


GravatarIf none have already linked it, here's an older bible study site (now with Skeptic's Annotated Koran and -- yes, say it with us -- Book of Mormon!)



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kei, action-packed mentalist, and yuri, monolithic fishmonger X


GravatarAll this talk of toes is dangerous to our spiritual well being. You start thinking about their shape and how they wriggle and the next thing you know you're turning tricks on Front Street for talcum powder.

Pimps up, toes down...


GravatarHaw haw. Mandy reads the American Spectator and writes about it without a hint of shame.


Gravatark&y, you might appreciate this...


GravatarI once knew a young woman who could do amazing things with what she described as her "monkey toes." I shall say no more.


GravatarSee, according to the General, toes can be demonic, or at least have demonic effect.

I should, in fairness, disclose that I have a demon toe.


Gravatarjust took my socks off and checked. nothing remarkable. If I wanted to ''shake'' hands with my toes I'd have to contort my left hand into position to shake with my left foot.

that might be considered 'demonic.'


GravatarDemon toes are evil, but I have a pimple that I suspect is one of the four horseman of the apocalypse.


GravatarIf you put your foot up someone's ass, would that give you G.I. Toe?


GravatarIf you put your foot up someone's ass, would that give you G.I. Toe?


Only if you are infected with the fung-fu grip first.


GravatarJennifer - Ah! yeah, I know - woe to the woman who was born with an extra toe or some other genetic oddity.

I can't recall if you've ever said that you read much sci-fi, but there's a really good book called God's Fires. It's by Patricia Anthony, and I think she's a really good writer. Her work is character driven and often funny. Anyway, in this book she has aliens land in a village in Portugal during the Inquisition. The aliens are small, slight beings who do nothing. They spend the whole book locked up. It's about the Inquisition's response to the event.

If you're ever looking for something to read and stumble on it, I highly recommend it.


GravatarHey, Mandy! According to Playboy, women will use sexual harassment legislation and spurious pregnancy lawsuits to enslave all men (its doubtlessly overworked editors are divided over whether this is a good or bad thing)! But will the bitches of the world have time, since, according to Commentary, Saddam is going to vaporize the United States faster than it takes to get a pizza?


GravatarI wonder if the troll knows there are 6 million Muslims living in the US. And that they are one of the fastest growing religious groups in the country.


GravatarIf you put your foot up someone's ass, would that give you G.I. Toe?

Yes. In fact, it would.


Gravatar fung-fu grip


I am a master at consistance.

I consistantly have typos.


GravatarOnly if you are infected with the fung-fu grip first.

More like bung fu grip...


GravatarELI THANK YOU SO MUCH. That was awesome.


GravatarWow that Mcgags commercial was pretty impressive.


GravatarVery welcome, k&y!


GravatarThe snakeheads are eating John McCain!


GravatarThe son came home this weekend with his final report card.
Since then he keeps referring to his grades as his 'owls'.
He then went on to talk about how he will be getting his 'newts' next year.

Mrs MYOB refuses to identify what this crap means, and my son, because he got all A's this year, is entitled to one free 'piss off dad' pass.

Anyone got a clue?

MYOB'
.


GravatarBakshi produced the 80s Mighty Mouse, but it was John K. of Ren and Stimpy fame who directed them.

And it was James Dobson got the Mouse yanked off the air.


GravatarMYOB - how old is your son? It sounds like it could be Harry Potter-related.


GravatarMYOB

That's a Hogwarts finals grading system from Harry Potter.


GravatarAnyone got a clue?
MYOB'

Harry Potter


GravatarWasn't it Wildmon who accused Mighty Mouse of using cocaine?


GravatarAll this talk of toes is dangerous to our spiritual well being. You start thinking about their shape and how they wriggle and the next thing you know you're turning tricks on Front Street for talcum powder

And doing jazz toes.


GravatarOT: What the fuck does THIS mean?
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GravatarAhh yes glass will keep out them pesky snakeheads.


GravatarOT: What the fuck does THIS mean?

I'm stumped. I can't even tell if it's pro or anti.


Gravatar my son, because he got all A's this year

Hey, that's a smart kid! Congrats, dad!


GravatarWasn't it Wildmon who accused Mighty Mouse of using cocaine?
patriotboy


Yeah, because Our Hero sniffed the pollen from flowers his girlfriend gave him and it gave him strength. Y'know. Just like cocaine. Or something.
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GravatarAnyone watching CSPAN? Showing a hearing on media Conyers ran on Tuesday. Randi Rhodes just kicked ass.


GravatarWow, it's like Night Of The Living Snakehead...


GravatarHaider Ajina has a fascinating perspective on the hypocrisy surrounding the current demonstrations, etc., protesting the mishandling of the Koran by American soldiers. Haider discusses the conference in Baghdad that reportedly was attended by terrorists, including al Qaeda's number two leader:

During this same conference you refer to in your piece (Saddam and His Terrorist Friends), Saddam boasted and showed off a Koran that he wrote in blood and was given praise and admiration (by that same congress) for doing so. He also handed out large amounts of money to the attendees at this congress (oil for food money I suppose). Most of whom were terrorist or terror enticing or terror sponsoring Islamofascists, highjackers of Islam.

Here is the hypocrisy. In Islam exposed blood is considered dirty or defiled. For Saddam to write the Koran in blood is the ultimate insult, sacrilege and heresy. He has defiled the word of God by writing it in blood.

All who attended this congress know this but they did not call for demonstrations, riots. They took their money, kissed Saddam's feet and went on with their crimson sermons enticing Muslims to hate other Muslims who do not agree with them, hate Jews and Christians and any one who does not subscribe to their version of Islam.

It was an Arab Muslim (Saddam) who defiled the Koran and was praised and admired for it. When Newsweek runs a bogus story and retracts it, the same people who praised Saddam for defiling the Koran called for demonstrations, revenge, caused the killing of over a dozen Muslims. When will we Muslims realize that our own worst enemy are most of our leaders, not Christians, not Jews, not democracy not freedom.


GravatarI'm stumped. I can't even tell if it's pro or anti.
Eli


I think it might be "pro", but I'm not sure either... for some reason it pleases me that it's only at $2.25...
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GravatarI should probably go settle in for Dinocroc.

Oh wait, I already am! Awesome!


GravatarI'm with Eli on the tee shirt. My first impression was it was anti-Bush, but after a few seconds I thought it could be one of those swaggering "rub-it-in" type of pro-Bush things.


GravatarAnyone watching CSPAN? Showing a hearing on media Conyers ran on Tuesday. Randi Rhodes just kicked ass.
wtfwjd?

Thank you for that. How long has this been on?


GravatarYeah, I lean towards pro as well, but I couldn't swear to it...


GravatarSnakeheads are too fishy tasting for me. I always just throw them back or knock them over the head so I don't catch them again.


Gravatarmandy, who wants to read four paragraphs of italic type? Not me. Go to design school.


GravatarI know this comment will get lost in the ether, but I was thinking of Mighty Mouse, Bat Bat and the Bug Wonder just this morning. No joke.

And that pimple on the Man Mobile... ewwww..


GravatarJesus fucking christ,will these fucking wackos never stop ranting about unbelieveable irrelevant shit?

Give it up wackos.The Koran desecration story is fucking legit,theres nothing you can do to convince the "terrorists" that what "we" are doing is nothing less that dispicable.

Give it up,start with a new rant,cause that one is fucking dead.

Talk about border patrol or something,You know you want to.

Brownshirt motherfuckers.


GravatarHappy holiday weekend, moonbats. You should be barbecuing and drinking, not necessarily in that order.

Then again, so should I.

Guess who comes up #2 out of 107,000 if you Google the phrase fuck john bolton.

What's good about the media, and what's not.

When the Republican Party finally implodes, you can say you were there to watch the whole thing go down. Fun stuff.


Gravatarportia -
started at 8


Gravatar"mandy"-troll -

Well you came and you gave without taking
but I sent you away, oh Mandy





Now blow it out your ass.
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GravatarIrrelevant is the new black!


Gravatarsmalfish - Don't waste your time. These are all cut and paste from powerline. Seem to show up daily now.


GravatarMandy, Al Qaeda must have at least 4 dozen number 3 men according to White House pronouncements. How many number two men does it have?


Gravatarportia -
started at 8
Sean


Thanks, Sean.


GravatarNow that I've already done it, does anyone know if evil and wickedness will follow on my feeding Arthur unsalted peanuts? He likes them very much, and I only give him about five or six of them, but is there some precept of which I'm unaware involving doggies and groundnuts?


GravatarI just want to warn those of you watching SCI-FI, that in the real world...

THE SPIDER-CRABS ARE TAKING OVER...AND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/ 0505...nc3qcm2n_photo0


GravatarBrownshirt motherfuckers.
smalfish


Holy shit, I salute your smackdown power! My hair is blown straight back!
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Gravatarbut is there some precept of which I'm unaware involving doggies and groundnuts


I'm not going to go there,but if I did,I certainly wouldnt want to be the one to have to clean the back yard.


Gravataryou liebrals should be thanking our trops who are defending this country insted of worrying about descaration of books of jumbo mumbo.


GravatarOk, more toes...true story here...

There was a toe-sucker running wild in central Arkansas about 10 years ago, and I kept coincidentally meeting women who had been the target of sucking or attempted sucking.

The sucker struck at a hospital while a friend was in that hospital. While she was not the target, there was a lot of talk about the sucker all over the hospital.

About a year later, I'm having dinner with a group of friends and some folks who are friends of friends...turns out that one of the women was the "suckee" at the hospital. She said the guy came into her office, pretending to be there on business, then complimented her shoes, explaining that he had once sold shoes, and asks if he can touch them. Puts her foot in his lap, removes the shoe (she said she was feeling very strange vibes about the time he picked up her foot) and then started sucking on her toes. Her husband, at this point of her story, goes into apoplexy. "He sucked your TOES?" he says. I thinking, dude, you're married to her and this is the first time you've heard that there was foot-mouth contact? Anyway, she goes on with her story about how she had to testify against this guy in court when he was caught a few months later. So I say, well, I can understand that you didn't really want this guy's mouth on your foot, but in the great scheme of things, how big of a deal is this to have a trial and everything? She says that he had approached a woman at the airport and told her he wanted to "cut her feet off and take them home with him." Ok, I say, that's an entirely different story. She goes on to say that she can't figure it out, he was a nice-looking guy, he's married to a real pretty wife and has kids...so why was he seeking out oral-foot contact with other women?

I waited a beat...then opined that maybe "he just wanted to get some strange toe."

A few years later I'm talking with some friends and the toe-sucker comes up again - one of my friends had been approached by him in the parking lot of a gas station, she said he was squatting down next to the open car door while she sat in her car, and he kept remarking on how beautiful her shoes and feet were, finally asking if he could touch them - at which point, she said goodbye. She admitted that it was her fault for "enticing" him by wearing open-toed shoes and having freshly-painted nails.

Toes can be some serious shit, y'all.


GravatarI saw a tshirt during Carter's speed limit legislation days...........

in the southern u.s........

a guy had a big 65 with a line drawn through it and the words

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE written below it.

I thought to myself, 'possibly not what Ghandi had in mind...'


GravatarAn editorial in the New York Times denounces President Bush's somewhat restrictive views on federal funding of stem-cell research:

Mr. Bush threatened this week to veto a modest research-expansion bill that was approved by the House and is likely to be passed by the Senate. The reason, he said, is that the measure would "take us across a critical ethical line" by encouraging the destruction of embryos from which the stem cells are extracted. Never mind that this particular ethical line looms large only for a narrow segment of the population. It is not deemed all that critical by most Americans or by most religious perspectives. Rather, the president's intransigence provided powerful proof of the dangers of letting one group's religious views dictate national policy.

But another American newspaper disagrees with the Times' majoritarian view. It praises the compromise on judicial filibusters, which frustrated "the overbearing Republican majority":

The pact they forged will preserve the minority's right to filibuster--block a bill or nomination unless a supermajority of 60 senators votes to proceed. . . . There is absolutely nothing unfair about allowing a minority that actually represents more American people to veto lifetime appointments of judges who are far outside the mainstream of American thinking.

That antimajoritarian paper, of course, is . . . the New York Times!


GravatarNo encounters with toe-suckers, but one of my friends' high school chem teacher was suspected of being "The Enema Bandit"...


GravatarCiao moonbats. Have a lovely evening and sweet dreams.


Gravatarmandy, good girl. Italics gone. Now, one more lesson. No one wants to read your "cut and paste" here. So why don't you start your own blog?


GravatarToes can be some serious shit, y'all.

I'll admit, just among you, me and the internet, that how a person's toes/feet look is somewhat important to me. How that gets from vague attraction to sexual fetish, though, I'll never quite grok.

Hello.


GravatarI waited a beat...then opined that maybe "he just wanted to get some strange toe."


Jennifer are you secretly in league with The Society of 'ALL THINGS TOE and TOE RELATED?"


GravatarAll who attended this congress know this but they did not call for demonstrations, riots.

Besides the obvious point that these attendees probably would have been killed by Saddam if they had made such calls, the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Muslims who are upset about American treatment of the Koran were no less upset about Saddam. To suggest that this small group of people who "praised" Saddam on fear of death was somehow representative of all of Islam is the height of bigoted idiocy.


GravatarI'll admit, just among you, me and the internet, that how a person's toes/feet look is somewhat important to me. How that gets from vague attraction to sexual fetish, though, I'll never quite grok.

Toe hotness is pretty damn low on my list of priorities, and lack thereof would certainly not be a dealbreaker, unless she was, like, a yeti from the ankles down.


GravatarJennifer,

We had a shoe thief at our office who kept stealing the pumps that women kept under their desks since they walk to work in flats. Took them forever to catch him. Turned out to be a guy w/ a shoe fetish. Very weird.


GravatarThe trolls are apparently very threatened by talk of toes and snakeheads...


GravatarAnd now folks it’s time for don pardo to deliver our special illinois enema bandit-type announcement take it away, don

This is a true story
About a famous criminal
From right around chicago
This is the story of michael kenyon
A man who’s serving time at this very moment
For the crime of armed robbery

It so happened, that at the time of the robbery
Michael, decided to give his female victims
A little enema
Apparently, there was no law against that
But his name lives on
Michael kenyon
The illinois enema bandit!

The illinois enema bandit
I heard he’s on the loose
I heard he’s on the loose
Lord, the pitiful screams
Of all them college-educated women...
Boy, he’d just be tyin’ ’em up
(they’d be all bound down!)
Just be pumpin’ every one of ’em up with all the bag fulla
The illinois enema bandit juice
He just be pumpin’ every one of ’em up with all the bag
Fulla the illinois enema bandit juice

He just be pumpin’ every one of ’em up with all the bag
Fulla the illinois enema bandit juice
He just be pumpin’ every one of ’em up with all the bag
Fulla the illinois enema bandit juice

The illinois enema bandit
I heard it on the news
I heard it on the news
Bloomington illinois...he has caused some alarm
Just sneakin’ around there
From farm to farm
Got a rubberized bag
And a hose on his arm
Lookin’ for some rustic co-ed rump
That he just might wanna pump
Lookin’ for some rustic co-ed rump
That he just might wanna pump
Lookin’ for some rustic co-ed rump
That he just might wanna pump

The illinois enema bandit
One day he’ll have to pay
One day he’ll have to pay
The police will say, you’re under arrest!
And the judge would have him for a special guest
The d.a. will order a secret test
And stuff his pudgy little thumbs in the side of his vest
Then they’ll put out a call for the jury folks
And the judge would say, no poo-poo jokes!
Then they’ll drag in the bandit for all to see,
Sayin’ don’t nobody have no sympathy...
Hot soap water in the first degree!
And then the bandit might say, why is everybody looking’ at me?

Well did you cause this misery?
Well did you cause this kinda misery?
Well did you cause this misery?
Now, one girl shout: let the bandit be!

Bandit are you guilty?
Bandit are you guilty? tell me now, what’s
Your plea?
Another girl shout: let the fiend go free!
Are you guilty? bandit, did you do these deeds?
The bandit say, it must be just what they all needs...
It must be just what they all needs...
It must be just what they all needs...
It must be just what they all needs...
It must be just what they all needs...
It must be just what they all needs...
Etc. repeat

Wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna enema
Enema
Repeat...


GravatarTurned out to be a guy w/ a shoe fetish. Very weird.

Probably a republican closet cross dresser.


Gravatarearl - I dunno, mebee. As I've said here many times, Al Bundy is my spirit guide.


GravatarI'm in favour of funding for toe cell research.


GravatarShhh,Dinocroc is starting.


Gravatarearl - I dunno, mebee. As I've said here many times, Al Bundy is my spirit guide.

No-one knows more about RGNE than... Dr. RGNE!


GravatarSo is Bruce Weitz the designated once-semi-well-known actor for Dinocroc, or is there someone else?

Hmm, maybe Joanna Pacula...


Gravatarenema bandit...this was a news story way too many yrs ago that made my normally somber dad laugh. He referred to it often. Made him shake his head about the weirdness of people in general. It was sometime around the first serial killer I had ever heard of - thne one who killed the nurses (too old can't remember the name).


GravatarRichard Speck.


GravatarToe hotness is pretty damn low on my list of priorities

I have a whole pseudo-scientific theory, inexpressable outside my own head, about how a person's foot can be used to estimate their personality. Not unlike phrenology, but maybe slightly more accurate.


GravatarRichard Speck was the nurse-killer.


GravatarSnakeheads are too fishy tasting for me. I always just throw them back or knock them over the head so I don't catch them again.

Hey incog, have you ever caught a sheephead?


those motherfuckers have teeth that look like sheep's teeth- they've chew right through your stringer.

We used to catch them in florida when I was a kid. They gave me the willies.


GravatarSomewhere today I read that Herr Sensenbrunner has a bill in congress that requires a family member to report them to the police if he sees them use drugs. More terror tactics. Somebody needs to work on this guy and make his reelection very difficult.


GravatarThats one dead,and we're just past the credits.


GravatarRootie Kazootie - I remember the name, but think it was after my time. I'm from the Crusader Rabbit/Winky Dink era.

bo


Jeez, I din' think anyone remembered "Winky Dink and You"!
Your folks lay out the cash for the screen kit, or you hafta deface the TV with crayons & Mom's lipstick, like me?


GravatarThats one dead,and we're just past the credits.

And after she flashed all that leg at Bruce Weitz, too!


GravatarTo suggest that this small group of people who "praised" Saddam on fear of death was somehow representative of all of Islam is the height of bigoted idiocy.
Richard |

Not unlike those who praise Bush now.


GravatarWow, mandy. The NYT printed stories by two different writers with opposing viewpoints.

That must be strange and frightening for you.


GravatarWe had a shoe thief at our office who kept stealing the pumps that women kept under their desks since they walk to work in flats. Took them forever to catch him. Turned out to be a guy w/ a shoe fetish. Very weird.

Here's a true story- a friend of mine who was moving across country sold a bunch of her stuff on ebay, including clothing. While looking on the ebay listings she noticed several for "well-worn pumps" that had gone for pretty high prices.

So she tried it, and sure enough, guys got into bidding wars over her old high heels.



About these movies- now we know where all the TV actors go after their series get cancelled.


GravatarI think "Lucky" is Dinocroc food...


GravatarA friend of mine once said that feet look like retarded hands. He said that to me when we were stoned to the gills and I coudn't get it out of my head for a while...

Personally, I like feet. They're good for getting around.
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GravatarKaty Keene comics.

PlasticMan.

Buttermilk with real butter in it.

Peter Pain (Ben Gay).

Any takers? It's right out there w/nickel cokes and actual candy stores.


GravatarStill sounds better than the guy in the John Waters movie who stomped womens' feet.


Gravatar---
I'm unaware involving doggies and groundnuts?
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
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I have heard that dogs do not digest peanuts. They will just pass right through them.


GravatarSomebody needs to work on this guy and make his reelection very difficult.


Someone needs to beat him about the head and shoulders until he gets a fucking clue.


I'll bet he's a superfreak in private. With a crack habit.


GravatarTou perverted liberals are disgusting! Toe sucking and emenas that's why you lost the election in a mudslide. You are all drug adicts and perverts and they just arrested one of your hollywood directors, not that fat michael moore, too bad.


GravatarI think this movie is going to be too bad for even me.


GravatarFor the trolls........Read and weep

Letter to Pres Bush Concerning "Downing Street Memo"
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The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005

Dear Mr. President:

We the undersigned write to you because of our concern regarding recent disclosures of a “Downing Street Memo” in the London Times, comprising the minutes of a meeting of Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers. These minutes indicate that the United States and Great Britain agreed to by the summer of 2002 to attack Iraq, well before the invasion and before you even sought Congressional authority to engage in military action, and that U.S. officials were deliberately manipulating intelligence to justify the war.

Among other things, the British government document quotes a high-ranking British official as stating that by July, 2002, “Bush had made up his mind to take military action.” Yet, a month later, the you stated you were still willing to “look at all options” and that there was “no timetable” for war. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, flatly stated that “[t]he president has made no such determination that we should go to war with Iraq.”

In addition, the origins of the false contention that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction remains a serious and lingering question about the lead up to the war. There is an ongoing debate about whether this was the result of a “massive intelligence failure,” in other words a mistake, or the result of intentional and deliberate manipulation of intelligence to justify the case for war. The memo appears to resolve that debate as well, quoting the head of British intelligence as indicating that in the United States “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

As a result of these concerns, we would ask that you respond to the following questions:
1) Do you or anyone in your administration dispute the accuracy of the leaked document?
2) Were arrangements being made, including the recruitment of allies, before you sought Congressional authorization to go to war? Did you or anyone in your Administration obtain Britain’’s commitment to invade prior to this time?
3) Was there an effort to create an ultimatum about weapons inspectors in order to help with the justification for the war as the minutes indicate?
4) At what point in time did you and Prime Minister Blair first agree it was necessary to invade Iraq?
5) Was there a coordinated effort with the U.S. intelligence community and/or British officials to “fix” the intelligence and facts around the policy as the leaked document states?

These are the same questions 89 Members of Congress, led by Rep. John Conyers, Jr., submitted to you on May 5, 2005. As citizens and taxpayers, we believe it is imperative that our people be able to trust our government and our commander in chief when you make representations and statements regarding our nation engaging in war. As a result, we would ask that you publicly respond to these questions as promptly as possible.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Sincerely,


GravatarOurselves, though, we can't get past the fact that your feet can easily be far filthier than your bottom (in the hypochondriac sense, not the fun way).


GravatarOoo, that was AWESOME!!!


GravatarOkay, that mean guy was gonna feed lucky to the croc- he deserved to get eaten.


GravatarYou folks should see The Battle of Algiers. I imagine there are a few historical lessons to be learned about insurgencies against occupying forces.

Interestingly, though, even though the Algerian insurgent leaders were rooted out and killed...mostly with the help of information obtained from torture by the French occupiers...the French still "lost" and in the long run; they gave up and left.

You'd think Vietnam would have already taught us about trying to fight a people rather than an army.

But this time, fortunately, we have a much better understanding of Doublespeak, and our leaders can say with a straight face that our military is "defending" the U.S. Apparently defending doesn't mean what it used to. Preemptive invasions seem more like "attacking" to me, but I guess I'm not nuanced enough...


Gravatarlost the election in a mudslide

Wow,EXACTLY!

Rove and co,threw so much mud you got blinded and couldnt tell what you were seeing.You voted for mud ,you got mud in a mudslide.


Gravatar They will just pass right through them.

Well, they pretty much just pass right thru all of us. Roughage, you know.

Emenas?


GravatarHa! we control everything you perverts are out of power and you democommies lost. go suck your toes and sniff your panties and emenas


Gravatarthat downing street memo might be the thing that turns things round.

maybe if some senators and congressmen please heed the call...*



* bob


GravatarSomewhere today I read that Herr Sensenbrunner has a bill in congress that requires a family member to report them to the police if he sees them use drugs. More terror tactics. Somebody needs to work on this guy and make his reelection very difficult.
okra


I'm with you on that, Okra. For some of the language in the bill, go


Gravatar4 legs good

To star in a SciFi channel movie means either one of two things: your career has not yet taken off, or your career is almost over.


GravatarOoo, that was AWESOME!!!


Yeah, I kind of liked that.


But how'd he know about Dino-croc?



Sheesh- these plots are so stupid. I know I could write a really scary creature-feature that wasn't stupid as shit.


GravatarTo star in a SciFi channel movie means either one of two things: your career has not yet taken off, or your career is almost over.

Or you're Australian.


GravatarTo star in a SciFi channel movie means either one of two things: your career has not yet taken off, or your career is almost over.


I think that's true.


Some of the acting isn't half bad.

The scripts are pure garbage though.


GravatarI know I could write a really scary creature-feature that wasn't stupid as shit.

That... is why you fail.


GravatarHa! we control everything you perverts are out of power and you democommies lost. go suck your toes and sniff your panties and emenas


Joe what exactly do you control? just answer personally please. What do you control? This is an honest question. You personally. control. what?


GravatarHa! we control everything

You got a mouse in your pocket?


GravatarI'm writing a script right now about the true stories of Spider-Crabs taking over the earth.

Again, extra scary, 'cause it's true.
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/ 0505...nc3qcm2n_photo0


GravatarOops, I think haloscan doesn't like it when I blogwhore.

Okra, go here for my take on it and that of an expert on the drug war.


GravatarYou know, this is why I don't watch TV...
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GravatarJoe dirt, if you really want to get someone's attention, you need to come up with a catchy headline. Back to the corner until you do.


GravatarI think I'll write a screenplay about genetically altered albino squirrels on the University of Texas campus who suddenly go bad and start eating co-eds.

Eventually the survivors retreat to the tower and have to start shooting the squirrels (who wandered into the physics building and got zapped by radiation and then grew to monstous size) from the observation deck.

Makes as much sense as anything I've seen on tv today.


GravatarI haven't had time to read Eschaton much today, so it's likely someone has already linked to Walter Pincus in the WaPo:

Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said.

The civilian analysts, former military men considered experts on foreign and U.S. weaponry, work at the Army's National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), one of three U.S. agencies singled out for particular criticism by President Bush's commission that investigated U.S. intelligence.


Pincus story


GravatarNightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I'm separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and community, even my sense of cosmos.

I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.

I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode.

My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.


GravatarAttaturk,

Toe fetishes are one thing, but crab orgies? What will we tell the children?


GravatarLike many others who came of age politically in the 1960s, I became adept at not taking the measure of the left's mounting incoherence. To face it directly posed the danger that I would have to describe it accurately, first to myself and then to others. That could only give aid and comfort to Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and all the other Usual Suspects the left so regularly employs to keep from seeing its own reflection in the mirror.

Now, I find myself in a swirling metamorphosis. Think Kafka, without the bug. Think Kuhnian paradigm shift, without the buzz. Every anomaly that didn't fit my perceptual set is suddenly back, all the more glaring for so long ignored. The insistent inner voice I learned to suppress now has my rapt attention. "Something strange -- something approaching pathological -- something entirely of its own making -- has the left in its grip," the voice whispers. "How did this happen?" The Iraqi election is my tipping point. The time has come to walk in a different direction -- just as I did many years before.

I grew up in a northwest Ohio town where conservative was a polite term for reactionary. When Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of Mississippi "sweltering in the heat of oppression," he could have been describing my community, where blacks knew to keep their heads down, and animosity toward Catholics and Jews was unapologetic. Liberal and conservative, like left and right, wouldn't be part of my lexicon for a while, but when King proclaimed, "I have a dream," I instinctively cast my lot with those I later found out were liberals (then synonymous with "the left" and "progressive thought").


GravatarI think I'll write a screenplay about genetically altered albino squirrels on the University of Texas campus who suddenly go bad and start eating co-eds.

Have them give the co-eds enemas first, then we can talk.


GravatarWait a minute- there are crab orgies involved? Why don't I know this? I've got crab in the icebox even now, waiting for me to do something with it.


GravatarThe people on the other side were dedicated to preserving my hometown's backward-looking status quo. This was all that my 10-year-old psyche needed to know. The knowledge carried me for a long time. Mythologies are helpful that way.

I began my activist career championing the 1968 presidential candidacies of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, because both promised to end America's misadventure in Vietnam. I marched for peace and farm worker justice, lobbied for women's right to choose and environmental protections, signed up with George McGovern in 1972 and got elected as the youngest delegate ever to a Democratic convention.

Eventually I joined the staff of U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio. In short, I became a card-carrying liberal, although I never actually got a card. (Bookkeeping has never been the left's strong suit.) All my commitments centered on belief in equal opportunity, due process, respect for the dignity of the individual and solidarity with people in trouble. To my mind, Americans who had joined the resistance to Franco's fascist dystopia captured the progressive spirit at its finest.

A turning point came at a dinner party on the day Ronald Reagan famously described the Soviet Union as the pre-eminent source of evil in the modern world. The general tenor of the evening was that Reagan's use of the word "evil" had moved the world closer to annihilation. There was a palpable sense that we might not make it to dessert.


GravatarThat... is why you fail.


No. The force is strong with me.


Ntodd says so.



(of course he could just be kissing my ass cause I won't let him go into Tashi Station to hang out with his no good friends)


GravatarOh!Your not really going to pull that propoganda out on us again are you Joe?

Find something new to c&P .Please,I implore you.


GravatarJoe dirt, bye bye


GravatarWhen I casually offered that the surviving relatives of the more than 20 million people murdered on orders of Joseph Stalin might not find "evil'" too strong a word, the room took on a collective bemused smile of the sort you might expect if someone had casually mentioned taking up child molestation for sport.

My progressive companions had a point. It was rude to bring a word like "gulag" to the dinner table.

I look back on that experience as the beginning of my departure from a left already well on its way to losing its bearings. Two decades later, I watched with astonishment as leading left intellectuals launched a telethon- like body count of civilian deaths caused by American soldiers in Afghanistan. Their premise was straightforward, almost giddily so: When the number of civilian Afghani deaths surpassed the carnage of Sept. 11, the war would be unjust, irrespective of other considerations.

Stated simply: The force wielded by democracies in self-defense was declared morally equivalent to the nihilistic aggression perpetuated by Muslim fanatics.

Susan Sontag cleared her throat for the "courage" of the al Qaeda pilots. Norman Mailer pronounced the dead of Sept. 11 comparable to "automobile statistics." The events of that day were likely premeditated by the White House, Gore Vidal insinuated. Noam Chomsky insisted that al Qaeda at its most atrocious generated no terror greater than American foreign policy on a mediocre day.

All of this came back to me as I watched the left's anemic, smirking response to Iraq's election in January. Didn't many of these same people stand up in the sixties for self-rule for oppressed people and against fascism in any guise? Yes, and to their lasting credit. But many had since made clear that they had also changed their minds about the virtues of King's call for equal of opportunity.

These days the postmodern left demands that government and private institutions guarantee equality of outcomes. Any racial or gender "disparities" are to be considered evidence of culpable bias, regardless of factors such as personal motivation, training, and skill. This goal is neither liberal nor progressive; but it is what the left has chosen. In a very real sense it may be the last card held by a movement increasingly ensnared in resentful questing for group-specific rights and the subordination of citizenship to group identity. There's a word for this: pathetic.


Gravatardo crabs get whores?


Gravatarspeaking of albino squirrels or more precisely white squirrels; Exeter, Ontario is 'known' for their white (not albino) squirrel population.


GravatarFind something new to c&P .Please,I implore you.

Or better yet... express actual thoughts of your own.


GravatarI smile when friends tell me I've "moved right." I laugh out loud at what now passes for progressive on the main lines of the cultural left.

In the name of "diversity," the University of Arizona has forbidden discrimination based on "individual style." The University of Connecticut has banned "inappropriately directed laughter." Brown University, sensing unacceptable gray areas, warns that harassment "may be intentional or unintentional and still constitute harassment." (Yes, we're talking "subconscious harassment" here. We're watching your thoughts ...).

Wait, it gets better. When actor Bill Cosby called on black parents to explain to their kids why they are not likely to get into medical school speaking English like "Why you ain't" and "Where you is," Jesse Jackson countered that the time was not yet right to "level the playing field." Why not? Because "drunk people can't do that ... illiterate people can't do that."

When self-styled pragmatic feminist Camille Paglia mocked young coeds who believe "I should be able to get drunk at a fraternity party and go upstairs to a guy's room without anything happening," Susan Estrich spoke up for gender- focused feminists who "would argue that so long as women are powerless relative to men, viewing 'yes' as a sign of true consent is misguided."

I'll admit my politics have shifted in recent years, as have America's political landscape and cultural horizon. Who would have guessed that the U.S. senator with today's best voting record on human rights would be not Ted Kennedy or Barbara Boxer but Kansas Republican Sam Brownback?

He is also by most measures one of the most conservative senators. Brownback speaks openly about how his horror at the genocide in the Sudan is shaped by his Christian faith, as King did when he insisted on justice for "all of God's children."


GravatarMy larger point is rather simple. Just as a body needs different medicines at different times for different reasons, this also holds for the body politic.

In the sixties, America correctly focused on bringing down walls that prevented equal access and due process. It was time to walk the Founders' talk -- and we did. With barriers to opportunity no longer written into law, today the body politic is crying for different remedies.

America must now focus on creating healthy, self-actualizing individuals committed to taking responsibility for their lives, developing their talents, honing their skills and intellects, fostering emotional and moral intelligence, all in all contributing to the advancement of the human condition.

At the heart of authentic liberalism lies the recognition, in the words of John Gardner, "that the ever renewing society will be a free society (whose] capacity for renewal depends on the individuals who make it up." A continuously renewing society, Gardner believed, is one that seeks to "foster innovative, versatile, and self-renewing men and women and give them room to breathe."

One aspect of my politics hasn't changed a bit. I became a liberal in the first place to break from the repressive group orthodoxies of my reactionary hometown.

This past January, my liberalism was in full throttle when I bid the cultural left goodbye to escape a new version of that oppressiveness. I departed with new clarity about the brilliance of liberal democracy and the value system it entails; the quest for freedom as an intrinsically human affair; and the dangers of demands for conformity and adherence to any point of view through silence, fear, or coercion.

True, it took a while to see what was right before my eyes. A certain misplaced loyalty kept me from grasping that a view of individuals as morally capable of and responsible for making the principle decisions that shape their lives is decisively at odds with the contemporary left's entrance-level view of people as passive and helpless victims of powerful external forces, hence political wards who require the continuous shepherding of caretaker elites.

Leftists who no longer speak of the duties of citizens, but only of the rights of clients, cannot be expected to grasp the importance (not least to our survival) of fostering in the Middle East the crucial developmental advances that gave rise to our own capacity for pluralism, self-reflection, and equality. A left averse to making common cause with competent, self- determining individuals -- people who guide their lives on the basis of received values, everyday moral understandings, traditional wisdom, and plain common sense -- is a faction that deserves the marginalization it has pursued with such tenacity for so many years.

All of which is why I have come to believe, and gladly join with others who have discovered for themselves, that the single most important thing a genuinely liberal person can do now is walk away from the house the left has built. The renewal of any tradition that deserves the name "progressive" becomes more likely with each step in a better direction.

Keith Thompson is a Petaluma writer and the author of "Angels and Aliens" and "To Be a Man." His work is at www.thompsonatlarge.com. Contact us at insight@sfchronicle.com.


God bless america support our troops


GravatarThose two should not be smiling as they run to their DOOM!!!!


Gravatargot crab in the icebox even now, waiting for me to do something with it.

You might want to rephrase that.


Gravatarall librerels got crabs at the peace demonstration


Gravatar"joe dirt"-troll

You've already sang this song here multiple times... wassa matter, can't think for yourself?

By the way, the "mandy"-troll isn't busy right now either... what say youse two hook up?
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GravatarWhat a stupid movie.



Another screenplay could be about a giant mutant catfish that lives in Lake Travis and starts killing yuppie boaters who are destroying the environment.


GravatarHell, Joe dirt doesn't even control his own bowel movements.


GravatarI think the Dinocroc is going to get Joe Dirt.


GravatarSpeaking of crabs- anyone see that series on Discovery Channel called "the most dangerous catch" about crab fishing in Alaska?


It's strangely addictive.


GravatarI think I'll write a screenplay about genetically altered albino squirrels on the University of Texas campus who suddenly go bad and start eating co-eds.


"Squirrel Rampage!" - tagline : "Watch out! It's YOUR nuts they're after!"

I'm surprised the Sci-Fi channel hasn't remade "Night of the Lepus", the 1975 movie about killer bunnies. Imagine hearing this announcement at your local drive-in:
"Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!"


GravatarI think the Dinocroc is going to get Joe Dirt.

I think even Dinocroc has better taste than that.


Gravatar"Squirrel Rampage!" - tagline : "Watch out! It's YOUR nuts they're after!"


I'm telling you, it's a winner!!


Gravatargot crab in the icebox even now, waiting for me to do something with it.

You might want to rephrase that.


Hecate - Ooooh, you're right.

got Krab(tm) in the icebox even now, waiting for me to do something with it.


GravatarGWPDA and crab orgies?
This I want to see.


GravatarI already toed you, I'm making blue corn crepes stuffed with crab, with a nice chipotle cream sauce. That's what the crab's for. Jeeze.


GravatarAll u librals do is hate. I hate u. hey Mandy, what u look like?


GravatarThe Honorable George W. Bush

WRONG.


GravatarAnother screenplay could be about a giant mutant catfish that lives in Lake Travis and starts killing yuppie boaters who are destroying the environment.
four legs good | Email | Homepage | 05.28.05 - 9:38 pm | #


Hey, that's a great idea!


GravatarJesus fucking christ,will these fucking wackos never stop ranting about unbelieveable irrelevant shit?

Whaddayou, nuts? They live for that shit. If it were relevant, they'd have to, sooner or later, get into the substance of it all, and they flat suck at substance. Probably why one of Limbaugh's favorite words is "substantive"; they have to pretend as hard as they can that they're for real, or it all turns back into a pumpkin, and it aint even freakin' Midnight yet. Form over Substance is the name of the game. Rathergate? farking meaningless, substantively, since the content of the memos is not in doubt, only their provenance.
Newsweek? More of the same messenger-shooting bullshit. The Koran was, if not actually flushed, abused in every other way they could think of, the gov't knows it, so do the Freeps and Motherfuckers (forgive me, Frank), but if Newsweek can be ticketed on a Form violation, the Substance gets a pass. Not to mention that the article was almost certainly just a convenient excuse for anti-American violence that was about to pop anyway. You want bad Form? Newsweek putting it's dick on the block and handing Boosh the cleaver. Now, that's bad form. I guess just because you run a multimillion dollar news magazine don't mean you have any brains, do it? MSM=MegaStupidMagazine. Or Meatheads, take yer pick.
Sorry to go so OT, there. We now return you to Snakeheadsquito, or whatever...


GravatarYou librals are so stupid. You can't fluch a book down a toilet, it would clog it up and the poor terrorists would have to crap themselves till a plummer came


GravatarIsn't it odd how Joe Dirt's spelling and grammar switch dramatically from horrible to passable from horrible to passable?


GravatarI have to say, I r ealy like the idea of giant, mutant white squirrels giving enemas to UT coeds. Wish they had done that when Jenna was still there.


GravatarWhat Doozer said


GravatarAll u librals do is hate. I hate u. hey Mandy, what u look like?

heh.

All we need is for someone to start putting little hearts or asterisks over every "i".

Christ.


GravatarOnce when I ran out of TP I had to used a playboy, just the words part, that clogged it up too. Don't be silly


Gravatarhey sarah, you related to john? I like tractors.


GravatarJoe dirt's hero is the smugest and self satisfied looking person I have ever seen.


GravatarPrior, agreed.


GravatarAll we need is for someone to start putting little hearts or asterisks over every "i".

Christ.
Sarah Deere | Email | Homepage | 05.28.05 - 10:02 pm | #


♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

That can probably be arranged


Gravatarowl (love the acronymn for your name)

geez.............


GravatarTo star in a SciFi channel movie means either one of two things: your career has not yet taken off, or your career is almost over.


I think that's true.


Some of the acting isn't half bad.

The scripts are pure garbage though.
four legs good

-Sci-fi movies: they're better than the "Supergirl" movie.


GravatarSo like how *would* you submit a screenplay for one of these flicks? Someone actually sat down and wrote this glop and got *paid* for it. Heaven knows any of us could do better than that with one hand tied behind our back to keep away the curse of the mutant june bugs or something. But how would we get my deathless prose -- I mean, our screenplay-like glop -- to the right people so we can get paid for it? And who are these so-called right people? And how can they sleep at night? Huh? I ask you!


Gravatarstrawhat, dunno. Bound to be a way.....


GravatarEwwwww!

Channel-hopping around 8:30.

Some blonde idiot on C-Span gushing over how her "favorite" is George Allen.

History Channel - show on Arlington National Cemetery. Historian talking about how they plan to develop the south end of the place and have 50 more acres for graves.

First words out of my mouth were "Yeah, and you're gonna NEED them since the Emperor Jerkoff aims to fill 'em ALL up!"

I'm glad I have enough DVDs and videos to watch today and tomorrow, so I can get away from the war rants and the idiocy on TV.

That includes John McCain's ego trip on A&E.


GravatarPlease send any information to me on Captian Bob Lobertini.

Thank you!


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