I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Buck Fush!
Seems a little... early to have another open thread, especially with the movie almost over.
Damn you, Eli! My fingers got excited and tangled up on the keyboard. I should have been first!
Where mhy bitches at?
Ooh1 Pardon me. 'Scuse me, coming in...
This thread should be for the people not watching the zombie lesbians dancing with ants movie.
Has anyone else noticed the term cocooning becoming more common in the political dialogue? I think it's something everyone, right and left, should watch out for.
LOL! So how is that impeachment process going?
=D
thread, thread my kingdom for some bread
Hammerhead vs. Mansquito. Get Cameron on the phone! Let's get Ted McGinley to star! With a Bill Paxson cameo! "That's it man, game over man, game over!"
Only heard the term cocooning in terms of real estate. The idea that you make your house the escape place with a moat and drawbridge to close out the world.
I will watch for politicians using the term though. Might involve zombies.
Is Toby Pretzold gonna have to choke a bitch?
plame who?
Hey Moonbats! Well I'm back from a Delicious Chinese Dinner and I just had to share what my wife and I's fortune cookies had to say.
Mine: A great day lies ahead in the not too distant future.
Wife's: Look to the next month for some pleasant surprises.
Of course the first thing that popped in my mind was BUSH IMPEACHED.
Hmmmmm... Foreshadowing? Didn't say anything about the cabbage option though, Dangit!
Wasn't it Faith Popcorn who first coined the term "cocooning?" I thought it was a reference to the Martha Stewart geist. Does it have a new meaning?
Okay, I'll go click on the link and come back.
Evening, all.
Miss anything cool?
PS:
Hey Toby "Mohammedan Menace" Petzold?
Is that really you?
If so we're still wondering why
you're in bed with the official
party of racism, homophobia and
theocracy.
The idea that you make your house the escape place with a moat and drawbridge to close out the world.
I'm very in favour of this. It's why I won't get a cell phone. Phones are not welcome in the cocoon. I don't even like the land line, but once in a while you gotta dial out.
There's an Alexander Graham Bell museum near here. I really ought to firebomb it...
Atrios is trying to open up more threads than there are comments. I support that.
Is that really you?
No, no homepage link.
once again, In case you missed it
click here if you haven't given turkee yet, or if you've got more to give.
Where my money at, Bitch?
*smokes some rock*
Is Toby Pretzold gonna have to choke a bitch?
ok... but wash the chito stains off yer little chicken when yer done.
I hear you Steve(NS) but phones are handy for emergencies etc.
Please no firebombing Bell's museum. He had no idea what we would do with his invention.
Slight ot, but what do obscene phone callers do nowadays for their jollies? Damn that Caller ID and Call Back feature!
By the way, I really love
saying
Toby "Mohammedan Menace" Petzold.
And plan to say it as often as he shows
here.
Read the links about cocooning. They require that you believe the election was legitimate, and that it was the selective media focus of the Dems that lead us to believe that Kerry would win.
fuck the fraudulent fucked up election. The godawful Bush approval ratings support the fact that he never won in the first place.
And, yeah, fuck the media, but not for that.
Slight ot, but what do obscene phone callers do nowadays for their jollies? Damn that Caller ID and Call Back feature!
I think you have to punch in *67 first or something, or go to a hotel lobby or some such place...not that I would know
A-Man got the Thread-Bot 3000 on automatic?
ellroon:
uh uh oh uh uh oh
An open letter to the FUCKWIT sitting behind us at theee-ayter tonight:
1. The play was, and is, a "drawing room comedy," my friend. Written in the '20s. That's the NINETEEN 20's. Yes, you make think the dialogue stilted, but I think your hairpiece was much more offensive.
2. Do us all a favor and DON'T go see "Spamalot," since your interest in it is less than tepid. Given that you seem to be a humorless git, judging from your monologue, I would suggest spending the money on, say, a membership at Hair Club for Men. Or a big roll of duct tape to keep your trap shut.
3. While we're on the subject of Monty Python and your rather alarming incapacity to enjoy a laugh, may I just say that your assessment of Terry Gilliam's worth to the troupe was less than accurate. Terry Gilliam's animations were not "pretentious crap" to people who find humor in the absurd. You obviously are a fan of Bob Saget's "World's Funniest Home Videos". Here, have a Gallagher DVD. Smashing watermelons -- now THAT'S funny!
4. Your kids must be a blast to hang out with, if your attitude toward them is "Screw the kids. We'll go see [the revival of] 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' in the Park without them."
5. Finally, was it absolutely vital to the one-sided conversation you were having with your mouse of a wife and her friend that you recite the "poker scene" from "The Odd Couple" IN ITS ENTIRETY?!
Thankfully, my companion knows me fairly well and is not the kind of gentleman to throw punches in a crowded theater. He was, however, prepared to back me up, if it came to that. I would've thought that the constant glares I shot back at you would have done the trick, but you were well into your act and were not to be deterred. The only thing that could've made you more offensive to me was if your cellphone went off during the performance.
Thank you, and have a good night.
Slight ot, but what do obscene phone callers do nowadays for their jollies? Damn that Caller ID and Call Back feature!
George Bush got better grades than Kerry!
The New York Times said Krugman's a liar!
You're all faggots and cunts!
That answer your question?
Slight ot, but what do obscene phone callers do nowadays for their jollies? Damn that Caller ID and Call Back feature!
ellroon | Email | Homepage | 06.11.05 - 11:19 pm | #
They use my phone? I'm not the caller... really!!! I don't know how you got my number, ok??
And, yeah, fuck the media, but not for that.
stinky feet
Yeah, fuck the media, but not for what??? why did you say that stinky feet. Not for what?
That answer your question?
What about that girl in Aruba?
Gimme that screamin'electric strings.
What about that girl in Aruba?
I think you're confusing trolls and media. An understandable mistake.
Lol O.Ima! (searches for something to slam down or hang up or make a high pitched whistle into...) Kinda hard to deal with obscene callers on these here internets.
I've got my threads all confused, so sorry if I'm re-posting. This is about the new Times articles in England:
There are 2 posts in the London Sunday Times. One is an article under "The Sunday Times - Britain", called "Ministers were told of need for Gulf war 'excuse' by Michael Smith. The other is "The Sunday Times - World" which has the actual document (only partially).
Sorry, Eli. Just got in. Too many open threads to read.
And tigre, you should have asked the wanker to step outside. With or without you. Either way.
watertiger:
Huh??????????
The only thing that could've made you more offensive to me was if your cellphone went off during the performance.
Hel-LOOO, didn't I just get finished saying that I refuse to carry a cell phone??
Boy, you theatre folks are uptight.
And the hairpiece crack? Uncalled for.
Thank you, and have a good night."
the theature. not what it once was.
no wind rushing down the plain..
wow, watertiger! What a twit!
ever since I recorded atrios doing his thing on cspan the other day, my tivo has gone crazy recording boring assed shit on news channels...got like ten hours of it I have to delete
mahavishnu baby
watertiger:
Huh??????????
An explanation is needed?
Aleister Crowley gets me so damn hot.
matthew,
That happened to us, only it was cartoons. Our DVR (same as Tivo) had a setting "record every episode" or some such thing. That's your problem.
Actually, now that the subject of hairpieces has come up, I got possibly the single most heinous haircut of my life this evening. I'm giving consideration to making a temporary toup with some beige yarn and masking tape.
Aw, watertiger. Sorry you didn't get to punch him out.
A family member dealt with a very irritating movie theater twit sitting behind him with a supersized drink of coke... very satisfying results.
And tigre, you should have asked the wanker to step outside.
"Don't be dissin' my boy Gilliam, muthafucka, or I'm gonna git all up in yer joint."
I had a rotten time tonight. I went to the theater and some broad kept turning arond to glare at me. God, how annoying.
Hang on, cell phone ringing...
("Mighty Mouse" theme blares...)
watertiger:
Nah.
It's just that you're beautiful
when you're angry.
Watertiger, I hate it when stupid people go to the theater. Stage or movies. Those folks just need to wait for the dvd so they can babble to their hearts content in private.
I am happy when Iraqis die. It makes me feel justified. Fuck all living human beings. My ideology is more important.
"The Big Sleep" on TCM right
now.
Lauren Bacall is singing.
Really badly.
Why the rumor she was dubbed
by Andy Williams had to be refuted
by Peter Bogdanovich tonite is
beyond me.
I chopped off the great bulk of my hair this week. It doesn't look too bad, though. Went from middle of the back to chin length in one fell swoop.
It's just that you're beautiful
when you're angry.
Heh.
Sorry to hear about your haircut, Steve(NS). If you do use yarn, don't go out in the rain. It's a real frizz problem.
True Eschatonian: .
I chopped off the great bulk of my hair this week. It doesn't look too bad, though. Went from middle of the back to chin length in one fell swoop.
Eeep! You did it yourself? I don't know anybody that brave.
It's just that you're beautiful
when you're angry.
She ain't bad when she's happy, either.
Watertiger, I hate it when stupid people go to the theater. Stage or movies. Those folks just need to wait for the dvd so they can babble to their hearts content in private.
It's the same syndrome as with cellphones. Everyone thinks wherever they are is their own fucking livingroom.
Hiya SS,
Keep hammerin, mayhaps I will refer to you as Hank.
I actually saw Day of the Dead in the movie theatre shortly after screening a library copie of a super 8 print of Night of the living dead.
The former-genius, the latter sufficiently creepy.
And of course some twenty minutes later I realize I never hit the OK button.
evening, other assorted and sundry, thread polishing, moonbats.
Aleister Crowley gets me so damn hot.
Schlong? | Email | Homepage
Weird.
But original, I guess.
Went from middle of the back to chin length in one fell swoop.
NYMary
Interestingly, mine's taken 35 years to go to the middle of my back.
Oh wait, you were referring to hair LENGTH.
Forget it.
The History channel has 'UFO's in the Bible'.
I had a rotten time tonight. I went to the theater and some broad kept turning arond to glare at me. God, how annoying.
Dude kept saying during intermission, "if I fall asleep, don't wake me."
I think he had a pocket protector.
watertiger, I would have turned around and made personal observations to that jerk, no doubt about it.
watertiger,
It's a straight line, so I braved it. and I cheated long, so I could get a grownup to fix it if I screwed it up.
It's the same syndrome as with cellphones. Everyone thinks wherever they are is their own fucking livingroom.>/i>
When I'm king, nextel is at the top of my list to strike down. I can't stand those radio things. And apparenetly, they only work at 237 decibels
The Sunday Times has another leaked document from July 2002 that says Blair agreed to back invading Iraq when he was at Bush's Crawford ranch in the spring. The paper acknowledges that even assisting such an effort w/o actually participating in an invasion would be illegal unless the UN was used to create a pretext for the war.
http://tinyurl.com/bk5ze
Anybody here any scuttlebutt
(sp?)
about the new George Romero
zombie flick?
BTW:
I loved the Dawn of the Dead
remake.
But then I have a huge,and horrribly
inappropriate crush on Sarah Polley.
"An explanation is needed?"
watertiger
Got it the first time! 
Guy was a prick. What was Simels saying about the hairpiece comment being uncalled for though? Why is that? Heh
You're sweet, Eli.
It was that fucking stentorian tone he took. EVERYBODY had to know how he felt about the play thus far.
"Sorry to hear about your haircut, Steve(NS). If you do use yarn, don't go out in the rain. It's a real frizz problem."
And it'll shrink and give ya a headache.
If you do use yarn, don't go out in the rain. It's a real frizz problem.
ellroon
Thanks ellroon -- I considered that, which is why I added the varathane coating.
C'mon baby don;t you want to go
And of course (ironically)
that should have been
anybody HEAR.
We regeret the error.
matthew
They come in handy. But I agree, phone courtesy should be mandatory.
A PSA I would like to see : Get off the frickin phone while driving you MORONS!
WTF do we have another thread for?
Another fucking Open Thread?!
watertiger,
You really are a New Yorker. You've lived a scene from a Woody Allen movie.
steve,
But then I have a huge,and horrribly
inappropriate crush on Sarah Polley.
We'll just call you Humbert Humbert.
Oh, my bad, that was Steve(NS) not Simels. Ooops.
I loved the Dawn of the Dead
remake.
But then I have a huge,and horrribly
inappropriate crush on Sarah Polley.
steve simels
I didn't LOVE it, but I enjoyed it fine.
And it would be inappropriate to NOT have a crush on Sarah Polley.
"Thanks ellroon -- I considered that, which is why I added the varathane coating.
Steve(NS) "
Wow, what a marketing opportunity for Tim Allen
Tool Time Toupes
Here, have a Gallagher DVD. Smashing watermelons -- now THAT'S funny!
Far Canal! Gallagher's Sledge-O-Matic was absurdity you could taste! And wear home with you...
watertiger, I would have turned around and made personal observations to that jerk, no doubt about it.
I was in writer mode, taking everything down. And given that my tickets were free, I thought I would appear the ingrate if I caused a ruckus.
WTF do we have another thread for?
I think we have enough for a thread matrix now.
Zombie Atrios ain't keepin' it real.
sometimes, there is enough thread.
Ek,
We have such a law here in NY. It's great, though people break it all the time.
NYMary:
You know what's really depressing?
Humbert Humbert in the book is
if I recall 34.
I'm thousands of years older than
the most famous dirty old man ever.
Ooops.
DeepThought_42
Easy enough mistake to make.
There does seem to be quite a preponderence of "Steve"s on Eschaton, though, now that I think of it.
Choose your hair color while you choose your wall color. Simple and easy to do. Why spend thousands on hair clubs and interior decorators when you can do it yourself. And check out Gorilla glue for the hair piece wearer in windy climes.
WTF do we have another thread for?
It's OK by me. I prefer a high thread count.
"The Big Sleep" on TCM right
now.
Lauren Bacall is singing.
Really badly.
Yeah, but Bogie is bitchslapping MFs left and right.
This is the pre-release version that they're showing right now. The theatrical version got a lot more Bacall edited in.
ou really are a New Yorker. You've lived a scene from a Woody Allen movie."
rudeness is everywhere. we gave up our cleveland orachestra seats because it got impossible to get thru a concert without some asshole talking, baby crying, phones...all that fucking shit.
"Hallmark: If you're going to buy a card for a dog, you might as well just slit your wrists right now."
(MadTV)
never enuf thread
the bushbots never sleep
WTF do we have another thread for?
I don't know, but there's a break in the pattern. 4:30, 6:30, 8:30, 10:30. And then, out of the blue 10:50? WTF, indeed.
If you have difficulty distinguishing among the Steves, I'm the hot one.
NTodd, we're discussing Steve(NS)'s haircut and whether his yarn and masking tape toupee will repell rain if it has a varathane coating.
Obscene phone callers and watertiger's frustration also being discussed.
The other thread was for those who were live blogging the horror movie...or maybe that zombie discussion was about republicans?
"Actually, now that the subject of hairpieces has come up, I got possibly the single most heinous haircut of my life this evening. I'm giving consideration to making a temporary toup with some beige yarn and masking tape."
Steve(NS)
Now I get it. Damn how do you all keep up in here, do you even bother reading? LOL
watertiger,
It's a straight line, so I braved it. and I cheated long, so I could get a grownup to fix it if I screwed it up.
oh, okay. so long as you didn't put a soup bowl on your head and trace around it with a scissors, like that kid in my high school did.
He's probably the CEO at some tech firm now...
WTF do we have another thread for?
We're weaving.
And Humbert is 42, I think.
Damn!
I would have been 1st, but I was making Wiskey Sours.
.
There does seem to be quite a preponderence of "Steve"s on Eschaton, though, now that I think of it.
She's a good sheila, Steve, and not at all stuck up.
The History channel has 'UFO's in the Bible'.
red state bald guy
I shit you not. My Jewish husband came back from a bidnez meeting and had the Bible opened to all this crazy (I'm spelling it phonetically cause I am not hep to the Bible) about Ezeecial and references to passages to space travel. I had to slap him and throw hot coffee on him to "PUT THAT STINKING BIBLE DOWN!"
Yes, shouting was required.
NyMary
I am in Texas, I am pretty sure we can get a shoot on site rider to whatever bill bans cell usage in automobiles. Hell Rush Hour will be fun again.
...fire ants can be real bastards.
i have broken the arrow of peace with the ants. i tried to broker a reasonable peace accord based upon mutual respect. however, as you probably know with them it's all about the the ants and what is the best they can do for the ants ...well fuck 'em now it's war
I prefer a high thread count.
Oooooh, lookit Mr. Moneybucks, with his 600-count sheets and silk toilet paper and laptops that he throws away after one use. I'm sorry I never got to enjoy all the finer things in life that you did, and that makes me unworthy, but I learned a thing or two on the tough streets of suburban Ohio, and I ain't intimidated by your putting on airs.
You really are a New Yorker. You've lived a scene from a Woody Allen movie.
If only I could've pulled Terry Gilliam from behind a poster and had him explain his animation techniques to this twat...
How do you live blog a movie about the living dead. Something very twisted in the logic there.
If you have difficulty distinguishing among the Steves, I'm the hot one.
Steve(NS) | Email | Homepage | 06.11.05 - 11:39 pm | #
Wait a minute, pal.....
"There does seem to be quite a preponderence of "Steve"s on Eschaton, though, now that I think of it."
Steve(NS)
You all look alike to me. Just sayin. I mean this being a textual environment and all.
12"
NTodd, weren't those the tough streets of Warren Center, PA?
open thread fest huh? fine here...
rudeness is everywhere. we gave up our cleveland orchestra seats because it got impossible to get thru a concert without some asshole talking, baby crying, phones...all that fucking shit.
That's a shame. I gave up going to the movies for the same reason, but I find classical concert goers to be quite civilized in these parts.
She's a good sheila, Steve, and not at all stuck up.
Howls of derisive laughter, Eli!
Live blogging because dead blogging really doesn't go anywhere, EkCenTriK.
You all look alike to me. Just sayin. I mean this being a textual environment and all.
Some of us are more textually precocious than others.
I think we have enough for a thread matrix now.
Eli
MacroMay?
.
I had a rough day yesterday.
Did I hallucinate something about
Madonna
opening a Kabalah hotel?
That stuff I said earlier about ants and chalk? It does work, but I got no patience making chalk lines. today i sprayed carpenter ant trails with the nastiest shit i could find. Enjoyed watching the fuckers convulse.
War it is, and I'm with the badass 101st.
Yes, shouting was required.
bigvic 
From the previous thread:
"The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal."
Wait a minute, pal.....
steve simels
Sorry, ss -- I was referring to my body's freakishly high core temperature.
My cellular metabolism runs on nuclear fusion -- screw that respiration shit.
BTW;
Bogart's wearing a rug in
The Big Sleep.
bedbugs they bite
NTodd, weren't those the tough streets of Warren Center, PA?
More like the Mean Sheets...
Did I hallucinate something about
Madonna
opening a Kabalah hotel?
Nope. That was real. Esther's Hospitality Suites and Davening Center.
NTodd, weren't those the tough streets of Warren Center, PA?
I've repressed those memories. We lived on the wrong side of Russell Street, and that hill was mighty tiring to walk up after a long half-day of kindergarten.
We escaped to the warm, flat clime of Toledo, OH, only to discover that being there on a Saturday night was like being nowhere at all. And then things got worse.
Gary F,
Check our several dozen open threads. We're on it. The WaPo, too.
Evening Moonbats: Damn, that Kevin Spacey biopic of Bobby Darin is a LONG ass movie. But really decent.
Somewhere beyond the sea
Somewhere waiting for me
My lover stands on golden sands
And watches the ships that go sailing . . .
Oh, and Bush is in Deep shit when he loses the UMC, you know? Well fuck em anyway.
Steve (NS):
Don't worry about it.
After all, you're me.
If memory serves......
More like the Mean Sheets...
zactly. And I had to wear Cruel Shoes to school.
Bogart's wearing a rug in The Big Sleep.
steve simels
Now you've got me looking.
Zombie day on SciFi, huh? I was checking out Return Of The Living Dead 3 earlier.
A PSA I would like to see : Get off the frickin phone while driving you MORONS!
EkCenTriK
I'm for for a moving violation for talking on the phone with another car within 100 ft, and mandatory license suspension if there's an accident, even a minor one. Seriously. These idiots don't even have the excuse of being drunk. I wonder if there are any statistics (that we could trust) about accidents caused by these Cretins.
Carpenter Ants? Get a pest control guy to use Termidor. Amazing stuff. This house we bought had an ant problem big time. Seems they thought they were the tenants. We have proven them wrong.
On the other hand, I have to admit Carpenter ants are pretty interesting. They satellite their nests and are actually pretty predictable.
'nuff of that.
from pulp fiction
Ezekiel 25:17
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee
no UFOs here, but brad and his big brains just bit the dust
Greetings, The Talented Mr. Ripley!
These idiots don't even have the excuse of being drunk
Studies have shown that driving while talking on the phone is more hazardous than driving drunk.
ACK! Let's try this again...
"The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal."
This sounds vaguely familiar...
"This turn of events is unfortunate. We must accelerate our plans. Begin landing your troops."
"My lord, is that...legal?"
"I will make it legal!"
So, will the kill-for-pay boys be designated "enemy combatants" and be shipped off to Gitmo, quick like a bunny?
Kinda weird... free market warriors and they're detained by US Marines... bet Bush is stroking out right about now...
watertiger:
So when does Madonna animate
a golem?
Other than her limey husband.
I mean, isn't that the really
cool thing about the Kabalah?
Doozer,
In states that ask the question, 30% of accidents involve one or both drivers on the phone.
no UFOs here, but brad and his big brains just bit the dust
That IS a tasty burger!!
On the other hand, I have to admit Carpenter ants are pretty interesting. They satellite their nests and are actually pretty predictable.
And if you wait long enough, they'll just starve themselves to death...
but I find classical concert goers to be quite civilized in these parts."
Glad to hear it. Ya know what it was with these fuckwits? Broadly, you could lump them into two groups:
1) yuppy scum that didn't know dick about music, but thought it a sign of good taste and yuppy 'sophistication' to support the arts, and
2) old fucks that go to rattle their jewelry. Sure, they know all the 'classics', but anything modern or not one of the standard '100 greatest hits' of the orchestra and they'd talk thru it.
Did I hallucinate something about
Madonna
opening a Kabalah hotel?
Well, in a perfect world, one would wish! Who TF really cares what that egomanic has to say? Don't get it.
And I had to wear Cruel Shoes to school.
Well sure, wearing sneakers would have ruined the effect of that Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.
Did I hallucinate something about
Madonna opening a Kabalah hotel?
OMG, what next. I assumed it would be in Israel, but no, it's going to be in London.
So when does Madonna animate
a golem? Other than her limey husband.
Well, she did very little to animate his career.
EkCenTrik:
Easy, like this.
"It's a hell of a sight! Look at them plodding along their rotten limbs decayed and falling, yet on they plod, BRAINS, BRAINS....they croak with raspy voices, It's a goddam Repblican convention!....SailorMoon
"There you go again you Librul dope dumbocraps croaking about Republicans who are your betters, this parade of carrion looks like the democraps after the 2004 elections.....WE WON......Freeper bill
"Both you partisans are wrong!" this is the class of 1916 reunion at Secaucus High School! Look, there Milly! She pulled a train for the football team in the back of her old man's Model T!....Dirty carcass.
How's that for impromptu N.o.t.L.D. live blogging?
MacGregor Mathers makes me so horny.
Former Bush henchman and current Florida Republican Senator Mel Martinez has called for closing Gitmo.
Will Bill O'Reilly give him the same video splicing treatment he gave Joe Biden?
BTW:
I wish I had Mel Brooks address.
I feel like I should send him
a condolence card.
Seriously....
from pulp fiction
Ezekiel 25:17
You know, that's one of my fave movies, but here's what 15-17 actually says:
A Prophecy Against Philistia
15 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah, 16 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites and destroy those remaining along the coast. 17 I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I take vengeance on them.' "
I ain't intimidated by your putting on airs.
NTodd
Shaddap, zombie-lover.
Oooooh, lookit Mr. Moneybucks, with his 600-count sheets
Would a 600-count fabric even bend?
A Prophecy Against Philistia
Them's smiting words.
We escaped to the warm, flat clime of Toledo, OH, only to discover that being there on a Saturday night was like being nowhere at all. And then things got worse."
My little Polish Toledo Flower is gonna kick yer ass. hetero.
NTodd,
I like the real version better, but I need to hear SL Jackson say it to be sure.
So when does Madonna animate
a golem?
You looked at Bu$hco lately? The monster is at the door!
Studies have shown that driving while talking on the phone is more hazardous than driving drunk.
And driving while drunk and talking on the phone and smoking a cigarette and getting a hummer is wicked dangerous.
boilerman10
Oh I thought you were talking election Night 2004. Took me a moment to remember my live blogging remark.
You know, that's one of my fave movies, but here's what 15-17 actually says:
Yeah, but what about 25:17? Don't have a bible handy.
Are those white southern blues bands, redneck republicans. Tell me it's not true.
Watched Shaun of the Dead a few weeks ago. Now those were Instant Pudding Zombies. I thought zombies would rez themselves a bit slower than that...
"And driving while drunk and talking on the phone and smoking a cigarette and getting a hummer is wicked dangerous."
Well of course it is when you toss a cell phone into the mix.
In states that ask the question, 30% of accidents involve one or both drivers on the phone.
A month or so ago I saw a story on the news about a woman in Mississippi(?) that drove off a bridge into a river...
"I was talking to my sister on the phone and the next thing I knew I was going over the railing!"
Stupid bunt.
Would a 600-count fabric even bend?
well, you wouldn't have to worry about ironing.
BTW:
Anybody ever see "Body of Evidence?"
Madonna's finest hour.
She plays a woman who fucks her
elderly
husband to death for the insurance.
She also drives poor Frank
Langella gay and fucks Willem
DaFoe on broken glass.
(Not making this up).
Oh, and how about this dialogue:
"They taken something beautiful
between two people and made it
ugly."
The next time Dave Marsh talks
about how Madonna is an artist,
send him a DVD.
And driving while drunk and talking on the phone and smoking a cigarette and getting a hummer is wicked dangerous.
What have you heard and where did you hear it?
"Former Bush henchman and current Florida Republican Senator Mel Martinez has called for closing Gitmo."
yeah, yeah. they all will say close gitmo. what they won't say is moving it to some worse hell hole.
fucks Willem
DaFoe on broken glass.
Wasn't there a candle wax scene, too?
"And if you wait long enough, they'll just starve themselves to death..."
If you knew the troubles I have seen with our six legged friends during my life you will understand the motivation I have for wanting to wring your neck.
It's Eli's fault again, he has inspired me to violence.
Shaddap, zombie-lover.
I don't love zombies, I just think they have every right to mindlessly roam the Earth as we living people.
Would a 600-count fabric even bend?
Seeing as how we were lucky to have a single thread to cover ourselves with in winter, I wouldn't know, Richy Rich.
My little Polish Toledo Flower is gonna kick yer ass. hetero.
Shut up, breeder.
I like the real version better, but I need to hear SL Jackson say it to be sure.
Yeah, I love SLJ's delivery. I wish it were the real thing, but hey, the misquotation in a way makes his character even more real.
It's Eli's fault again, he has inspired me to violence.
ELI MUST BE STOPPED!
[/The Kenosha Kid]
Would a 600-count fabric even bend?
And how do you know you're REALLY getting 600-count? Is anyone actually checking?
Maybe everyone who's been buying these sheets, thinking they're getting 600-thread count, is only getting like 594-thread count.
We have only the fabric industry's word to go by. Hopefully there's some enterprising investigative TV news crew out there who's filmed a Cott-On Tape segment busting them.
BTW:
Bogart wore a rug in just about
everything he did in the 40s
and 50s.
Including Maltese Falcon.
Easy to spot.
And who was it that said "The
problem with Bogart is that
after a couple of drinks he
thinks he's Humphrey Bogart"?
You know, that's one of my fave movies, but here's what 15-17 actually says:
Yeah, but what about 25:17? Don't have a bible handy.
I quoted 25:15-17. Sorry.
"Former Bush henchman and current Florida Republican Senator Mel Martinez has called for closing Gitmo."
I'm sure they'll just expand Bagram or one of their secret prisons in one of the other 'stan countries
Steve!
NYMary informed me we can'talk about the movie Howard the Duck without you around.
I was wondering how Lea Thompson's "surrender" to the duck impacted upon her career?
Put a whole new twist on "go f--- a duck" don't you think?
Marlowe just got hit again. But he's got Bacall to light his cig for him.
Anybody ever see "Body of Evidence?"
Madonna's finest hour.
Anything human in her dissipates when there's a movie camera on her. I say that with love.
I quoted 25:15-17. Sorry.
Like I'd be able to spot the difference. Puh-leeze.
Wasn't there a candle wax scene, too?
watertiger | Email | Homepage | 06.11.05 - 11:57 pm | #
Ooh, I think I forgot that....good
catch.
Theatre's expensive! 
Maybe you should have asked him to give you and your bud your admission money, so you could see it in peace some other time.
That's the REAL reason the movie biz invented Dolby Digital and DTS. If the theatre keeps it cranked, you just don't hear the jack-off behind you.
fucks Willem
DaFoe on broken glass
---
I would too if I was on top.
Have the vid Reservoir Dogs right here.
Seen it but, well...
love the movie, but think I'm gonna FF thru the part where Mike is brutalizing the cop, Much as I hate cops, that turned my tummyy.
.
And driving while drunk and talking on the phone and smoking a cigarette and getting a hummer is wicked dangerous.
NTodd
Git The Gubmit off my THANG! I mean, can't a good ol' boy have a bit of fun?
Jeepers H. Christmas! But let's cut off the smarty-pants that have 2-3 beers in four hours! OK, I'm obsessed. Shoot me.
Steve(NS),
I bring a magnifying glass when I shop to copunt threads. It annoys the hell out of the staff at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
oh, that's Old Europe
Europe's oldest civilisation unearthed:
LONDON (AFP) - Europe's oldest civilisation has reportedly been discovered by archaelogists across the continent. More than 150 large temples, constructed between 4800 BC and 4600 BC, have been unearthed in fields and cities in Germany, Austria and Slovakia, predating the pyramids in Egypt by some 2,000 years, The Independent newspaper revealed.
The network of temples, made of earth and wood, were constructed by a religious people whose economy appears to have been based on livestock farming, The Independent reported.
Maybe everyone who's been buying these sheets, thinking they're getting 600-thread count, is only getting like 594-thread count.
I switched to metric sheets years ago - saves me a small fortune on laundry.
It's been a number of years since I've watched "Howard the Duck".
One of these days I should probably take another gander.
You all look alike to me. Just sayin. I mean this being a textual environment and all.
DeepThought_42
Sorta like a Massively Online Multi Blogger Oriented RPG, eh? Think Filker would do up the rules?
And would we follow any of 'em?
"Former Bush henchman and current Florida Republican Senator Mel Martinez has called for closing Gitmo."
That's strange. He's a Florida Cuban, so there's got to be some kind of a Castro angle.
Anything human in her dissipates when there's a movie camera on her.
Five minutes of "Swept Away" proves that there's no there there.
Duck, goose -- what's the difference.
you know what's sad. i've spent all nite in this blog.
sadder yet, drank six beers, not even buzzed.
but the really sad part, that was the last beer. i do have some killer weed but try'n to stay away from that for awhile.
god, i wish those memos would have some impact. that'd be the buzz of a lifetime. hope in america again.
why the fuck are americans so dumb?
Mike Tyson lost again tonight - if anyone cares.
I bring a magnifying glass when I shop to copunt threads
Dirty co-punter... if you hate America so much, just get out!
And here's Steve (me)'s video
pick of the evening:
Go immediately to Amazon.com
and buy "Eccentricities of
a Nightingale."
Brilliant, far
superior early version of Tennessee
Williams's "Summer and Smoke"
starring the young Blythe Danner
and Frank Langella.
If you watch it without falling
head over heels with both of them,
you're probably asexual.
Queen of the tags, as always! Sorry, mates.
Looks like Cheney's Halliburton pissed somebody off in Kazakhstan.
Joe Walsh and James Taylor got bit by the blues bug.
We need GWPDA, she's really the expert on linens and thread count.
What's juice for the goose is sauce for the gander...uh..no What's sauce for the goose is good for the gander...um..
It's all poultry, dammit.
Mike Tyson lost again tonight - if anyone cares.
I do. So McBride wasn't "gut like a fish" as Tyson promised?
ELI MUST BE STOPPED!
[/The Kenosha Kid]
watertiger
I thought he had been Checked?!
.
Mike Tyson lost again tonight - if anyone cares.
Wtlodge40
Nope, but thanks for sharing!
Steve,
I think the Bogart quip is attributed to his close friend, Peter Lorre.
Though I have heard the quip from a number of people who directed him, I think especially the director of Treasure of the Sierra madre", I can't remember his name. This from a special long ago about the then pop icon, shortly after his death.
"Mike Tyson lost again tonight - if anyone cares"
Did he get an ear?
We need GWPDA, she's really the expert on linens and thread count.
And ironing.
I thought he had been Checked?!
I've no idea. I've been out on the town tonight.
NYMary -- just promise to stay away from my yarn toupee with your magnifying glass.
No, Tyson lost by a nose.
Especially if it's a sunny day.
"Some of us are more textually precocious than others."
Eli
This is true Eli. :-P See, told you I couldn't keep up.
thread count, boxing, cellphones. saturday night at eschaton.
John Huston, boilerman!
Steve(NS),
I'll stay away from the ants with it, too.
G'night you traitorous goatfuckers. I need to hit the 3-count sheets and dream of the day when I finally move into that hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin. Speaking of which, if you're really drunk, bored and anything else, check out my latest podcast. It's the best thing you'll ever listen to and your life might just very well depend on it.
Let's just do it, OK? Let's all just do it right now.
I need to hit the 3-count sheets and dream of the day when I finally move into that hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin.
How wonderfully morbid.
boilerman10:
Peter Lorre?
Interesting......
Sounds more like John Huston,
though.
BTW:
Did you know Bogart was in the
original
Rat Pack?
Seriously....I forget who else
were the charter members, but
it way predates Sinatra et al.....
Let them eat thread.
G'night, NTodd!
"G'night you traitorous goatfuckers"
fuck off, soupmonger.
I still want to see Jack Nicholson play Christ.
Night NTodd! Sleep well and dream of 600 thread count boards!
If someone told Satan he was going bald, do you think there'd be Hell toupee?
In states that ask the question, 30% of accidents involve one or both drivers on the phone.
NYMary
You can probably hear my teeth grinding all the way from NYC.
I was on the phone with my sis today, and suddenly she's gotta get off the tracks. Off the tracks? WTF? Turns out she was tooling through downtown Houston in the evening rush, blabbing on the phone. I'm going to see her tomorrow, and blister her ears a bit. If she got a ticket, she'd get no sympathy from me.
Tho thoury.
Didn't meen to let my fanths down.
Karin,
thank you!....:o)
I do. So McBride wasn't "gut like a fish" as Tyson promised?
Woo-hoo! Score one for the big dopey ridiculous Irishman!
I try out next week for the Knicks.
tyson should fight butterbean.
Mike Tyson lost again tonight - if anyone cares.
Wtlodge40
He should retire. He's made $400 million in his career.
Trouble is, he's spent $420 million.
Yet, he's done so much for the image and prestige of professional boxing.
sadder yet, drank six beers, not even buzzed.
but the really sad part, that was the last beer. i do have some killer weed but try'n to stay away from that for awhile.
Sweetie, I just got thrown out of a bar that I entered stone, cold sober and had all of 3 Miller Lites in 4 hours while playin a Trivia game. We have a cold, bizarre world out there. Oh, and we had a designated driver who had only iced tea.
Go fucking figure!
Welcome to the NeedlePoint Special Section of Homeland Security. We work night and day countering the thread of international terrorism.
there was a pre ratpack ratpack? i never heard of that before--interesting.
Bed for me too. 600 count sheets: woohoo!
that hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin
LUXURY!
"And driving while drunk and talking on the phone and smoking a cigarette and getting a hummer is wicked dangerous."
NTodd
I still want to see Jack Nicholson play Christ.
Proud to be a Nazi murkan
Christ's retirement years?!
christ.
More Downing Street, this time a memo:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
art...1648758,00.html
Dated July 21 2002, it states:
1. The US Government's military planning for action against Iraq is proceeding apace. But, as yet, it lacks a political framework. In particular, little thought has been given to creating the political conditions for military action, or the aftermath and how to shape it.
2. When the Prime Minister discussed Iraq with President Bush at Crawford in April he said that the UK would support military action to bring about regime change, provided that certain conditions were met: efforts had been made to construct a coalition/shape public opinion, the Israel-Palestine Crisis was quiescent, and the options for action to eliminate Iraq's WMD through the UN weapons inspectors had been exhausted.
3. We need now to reinforce this message and to encourage the US Government to place its military planning within a political framework, partly to forestall the risk that military action is precipitated in an unplanned way by, for example, an incident in the No Fly Zones. This is particularly important for the UK because it is necessary to create the conditions in which we could legally support military action. Otherwise we face the real danger that the US will commit themselves to a course of action which we would find very difficult to support.
There's more where that came from. Yech.
BREAKING NEWS: Go to RawStory.com right now! More leaked documents from the London Times!!!! Dynamite stuff. Two articles.
It's all poultry, dammit.
Ya,but choken chickens is hard ,hard work.
EVERYBODY had to know how he felt about the play thus far.
Remember the scene in "Annie Hall" where some academic is prattling on and on, and Woody turns around and sez "Oh yeah? I've got Marshall McLuhan right here!" "You know nothing of my work..."
Wish I could pull that every time I got to see a movie in Cambridge..
Anything human in her dissipates when there's a movie camera on her.
Madonna refused to be the godmother of Britney's baby, or so I hear.
As they said on The Soup, it worries me when I agree with Madonna.
I lurve The Soup. Perhaps this shatters your image of me. I can only try to improve. One frown from you and my life is a mess.
LINK?
We have only the fabric industry's word to go by. Hopefully there's some enterprising investigative TV news crew out there who's filmed a Cott-On Tape segment busting them.
Steve(NS)
What're Nadir's Raidrs up to these days?
"Sorta like a Massively Online Multi Blogger Oriented RPG, eh? Think Filker would do up the rules?
And would we follow any of 'em?"
Doozer
Yes
No
http://www.washingtonpost.com
Just go: and thank Walter Pinkus, he is one of the only ones who is doing his job.
Just go, it will be worth it.
I bring a magnifying glass
now i know nobody is talking ants but on the thread below we were. you want to have wicked fun just put a sunbeam with a magnifying glass on an ant. me and GWB, moral fuckwits.
i hate movies, but i saw two this last week. strangely both involved extremely handsome actors with dissociative personalities, and a good deal of violence. fight club was too violent for me, and tho i liked the sentiment i thought not as good as the hype (which is why i hate movies) but the secret window with johnny depp, killer, just killer.
Just go: and thank Walter Pinkus, he is one of the only ones who is doing his job.
DWD
Looks like Pincus has been promoted to the front page instead of A18.
How long before Shrubco turns on Britain?
He should retire. He's made $400 million in his career.
Trouble is, he's spent $420 million.
The Left Hook giveth, and the Fine Print taketh away...
I heard Mitsy Gaynor was one of them, as was Betty Grable I think, but I am not too sure of Betty. The main players in the Sinatra/Martin pack had a gang of friends and hanger-ons including David Niven, and some other hard drinking pals of Frank's, mainly from his early movie work.
Can of hair spray and a bic lighter. Home made blow torch or flame thrower. fried ants. very tasty with bosco chocolate syrup.
There was an article in the Guardian just over a month ago reporting that families were taking complaints to the International Criminial Court.
Implicated a pre-Crusade setup by the British and didn't look too good for Blair.
That giant shitting noise you hear? That's coming from BushCo's pants.
That's mitzi bub
Criminial? Yeesh, good wine here... hehehe
Thanks for that Times link, Fluffy Halifax. It's dynamite stuff.
Look at this part:
It is just possible that an ultimatum could be cast in terms which Saddam would reject (because he is unwilling to accept unfettered access) and which would not be regarded as unreasonable by the international community. However, failing that (or an Iraqi attack) we would be most unlikely to achieve a legal base for military action by January 2003.
And this:
Even with a legal base and a viable military plan, we would still need to ensure that the benefits of action outweigh the risks. In particular, we need to be sure that the outcome of the military action would match our objective as set out in paragraph 5 above. A post-war occupation of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise. As already made clear, the US military plans are virtually silent on this point.
Shitting in his pants? I don't know, that depends.
Just go: and thank Walter Pinkus, he is one of the only ones who is doing his job.
We will get a first glimpse of the reactionary right tommorrow.What will the talking heads talk about?Howard Dean of course.Will this get any play and will the apologists come out in force?
I can't stand it. How can anyone stand it.
Gotta wonder if they released that report just to fuck with the MSM Sunday Morning dingdongs....
But SHarkbabe, it is changing: this is page of ONE of the Post. That is a significant improvement. Let's see how long the Times can ignore it.
I can't believe the stuff in this memo. So will we finally get to see the worm turn?
A post-war occupation of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise. As already made clear, the US military plans are virtually silent on this point.
Is the NY Times carrying the story as well?
How could Mike Tyson lose to Liam Neeson?
Night, all!!!
Can of hair spray and a bic lighter
have a freind who loves doing that. but it's really dangerous. significant possibility of blowback. which as Karins post points out could be disastrous.
but who gives a fuck "we'll all be dead"
Times is silent so far. Give them a chance.
Oh wait! Hang on, everyone! Don't forget that we need to reform Social Security and Bush has a totally gnarly plan to make everyone richer than Michael Jac...errr.. Michael Milliken !!
So, no matter what they talk about on the Sunday news, remember your priv..ummm.. personal accounts and how great you'll feel during Bush's third term!
Can of hair spray and a bic lighter. Home made blow torch or flame thrower. fried ants. very tasty with bosco chocolate syrup.
aardvark
BTDT. (well, not the Bosco bit) And you talk about a stink...
Why does 2002 hate America?
How could Mike Tyson lose to Liam Neeson?
how could George Lucas direct Liam Neeson?
"I can't believe the stuff in this memo. So will we finally get to see the worm turn?"
Karin
Repeat of our fortune cookies tonight,
Mine: A great day lies ahead in the not too distant future.
Wife's: Look to the next month for some pleasant surprises.
Of course the first thing that popped in my mind was BUSH IMPEACHED.
how could George Lucas direct Liam Neeson?
"Then, walk over to this mark, look at the camera and give me some of that actory-type stuff...
Huh, I just made $45,000 in 12 seconds... Burger King fuckin rocks!"
Ants taste good impeaches
A post-war occupation of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise. As already made clear, the US military plans are virtually silent on this point.
Karin
What were they doing in the pre-war planning conferences? Ordering pizza and watching reruns of Dallas?
And when they were spouting the whole BS line about "mushroom clouds over New York City" on the pre-war talk shows, why didn't somebody say "So you're saying that you feel you're gonna fuck up and drop the ball *AGAIN*?"
butterbean!?
I think my son Ryan (real name) could kick his ass.
300 lbs of heighth and muscle, and yeah some fat.
But the dude has been working out since he was 14, 25 now.
He will take you down before you even KNOW what's happening.
I know, i've tried fucking with him.
Gentle and kind.
a leader.
What a good kid.
.
I've eaten ants before. They flock to me for some reason. My wife call's me the "Ant God" in a Adamsian vein. :-|
BTDT. (well, not the Bosco bit) And you talk about a stink...
Doozer
Aardvarks love chocolate and stinky stuff.
Kerry had a D average at Yale.
I dont think impeachment is enough.Its got to be total and complete distruction or this will come back to haunt us in the future.The entire radical right has to be discredited or the victories will be hollow.
The London Times, smalfish, Fluffy's link at 12:15.
300 lbs of heighth and muscle
And 6 feet of weigth and sinew.
"Go fucking figure!
bigvic"
I'm tellin ya bigvic. You got tossed because you were drinking too little, not too much. move ya out for paying customers..
I dont think impeachment is enough.Its got to be total and complete distruction or this will come back to haunt us in the future.The entire radical right has to be discredited or the victories will be hollow.
You would think Watergate would have done that - we're gonna need wooden stakes.
That giant shitting noise you hear? That's coming from BushCo's pants.
What makes you think they are wearing pants? Isn't the great yearly BoHo convention approaching? You know that part of the Russian River is a tres gay enclave, like fire island ants. It's also russian. Hmmmm?
Remember, kids: the Ho Chi Minh Trail winds through Syria.
Toga party!
Karin
Thanks,I was thinking I had miossed something.Somehow I seem to have gone very soft in the head since that last movie ended.
I just checked the front pages of the NY Times, LA Times, & the Chicago Tribune.
Nada about the memo.
It looks like a Walter Pincus exclusive.
"You would think Watergate would have done that - we're gonna need wooden stakes."
Eli
Stake! It's what's for dinner!
It looks like a Walter Pincus exclusive.
Karin
How long *was* this memo?
Stake! It's what's for dinner!
Maybe with some garlic and a glass of holy water, just to be on the safe side.
I am all in favor of ethnic cleansing of this style of conservative from the landscape. dust of and nuke them from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.
Speaking of Russia...
They should charge much more than $4/bottle for this wine.
Sorry... back to Russia.... you were saying?
300 lbs of heighth and muscle
And 6 feet of weigth and sinew.
Zach Wheat
You meant What?
.
Maybe there's a British neo-Throat.
Sir Arthur Fluffington-Holmes.
Bug Hunt! Good wine comes from that area of the Russian River
new memo 8 pgs.
So far, no mention of this at free republic.
:::crickets:::
Bug Hunt! Good wine comes from that area of the Russian River
My mother lives near there...
woofuckinghoo -- pincus is on page A1, too. his story on the downing street memo was buried on A18.
And 6 feet of weigth and sinew.
Zach Whea
Phucqe eue!
.
"I am all in favor of ethnic cleansing of this style of conservative from the landscape. dust of and nuke them from orbit. it's the only way to be sure."
aardvark
Well, I don't think I'd go that far. We should be able to make do with changing some laws so that these kinda wackjobs can never get near the levers of power again. Plus I think we ought to imprison as many of them as possible for life, and a few of the major war criminals should get the death penalty. But do they still hang war criminals in EU? I thought they were kind of against that sort of thing.
Gee wouldn't it be special if Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith et al. were housed in the same cell block as Milosovic and Saddam?
I'm actually starting to dare to be hopeful here, could this be the tipping point maybe? I mean these Memo's keep on coming don't they?
I'm tellin ya bigvic. You got tossed because you were drinking too little, not too much. move ya out for paying customers..
jdw
i think jdw has called it. but like you say, it's a cruel cold world.
my problem, i won't drive drunk and six beers puts you over the legal limit, yet i'm not drunk. of course that's what all the drunks in the tank say the next morning.
and yes, the right wing must be completely eradicated, burned to ashes. everone get their aerosol and bic lighters, let's go.
and keith, shut the fuck up, he and george had c averages. jesus, where do these assholes come from?
On the other hand, if they make us physically fight to win our country back.
Well then there ya go!
So far, no mention of this at free republic.
I believe WP told them to stop linking. They've got the yahoo version, and they're down rating it.
Phucqe eue!
.
agave
?
"I'm actually starting to dare to be hopeful here, could this be the tipping point maybe? I mean these Memo's keep on coming don't they?"
I have NO hope for this doing anything to hurt the stupid chimp and our fucked up press.
i think these leaks are mainly designed to make blair look like shit. He was seriously weakened in the last election, the people who stand to benefit from him gone have access to these memos. He had a bit of a win today with african debt relief, but this will greatly push that aside.
the blair death watch is on, and good riddance. fucking poodle.
the blair death watch is on, and good riddance. fucking poodle.
The Blair Death Watch Project?
Yet, people are talking about it at Yahoo.
"Rove is working OT tonite" hehehe
"the blair death watch is on, and good riddance. fucking poodle."
jdw
Good point, but if Blair goes, the Press can't help but cover it and I think Bush will go shortly after. After all, the reason Blair would go is because he lied his country into an illegal war, that's what all the memo's are saying.
Sound familiar?
Dare to Blair, Eli!
/Richard Simmons
After all the two have been joined at the hip through this whole thing. One goes so does the other. Unless Bush declares martial law or something and then things are really gonna get ugly; Like aanteater said.
If someone can put up a recipe for a bread pudding with whiskey sauce to be served at the coming summer Bush Impeachment Socials I would greatly appreciate it.
I still think they'll weasel out of this somehow, because they always do, and the press always lets them.
But if this sticks, the backlash and outrage will be incredible, to the point where the medis is forced to jump on the bandwagon.
The only damage control available will be for the congressional Republicans to deny all knowledge of what the WH was cooking up, and they most certainly will. After they try to blame it all on a low-level staffer, of course.
Just drink the whiskey out of the bottle, jimmiraybob, after first eating some bread to coat your stomach.
jimmi, and maybe a nice, cold Impeachment Brew.
Summer in the park at twilight... a cold IB in one hand, your favorite gal/guy's hand in the other. The scent of lilacs and freedom wafting across the green, children laughing and playing, an old dog sleeping on a blanket, George Bush behind bars....
That's Americana, my friend.
The Blair Death Watch Project?
Eli, you should be punished.
that film was made by a few kids at the college right up the street from me. i actually was supposed to do some photo shoots with the stylist from the film. he made the crazy stick figures, which is all i really know about the film.
The Blair Death Watch Project?
Oh no...honey...I've lost me marbles!
Zach Wheat
Sorry
bit touchy
Thought you were coming down on me.
.
The Blair Death Watch Project?
Comming to a theater near you!
I still think they'll weasel out of this somehow, because they always do, and the press always lets them."
Yeah, I have no hope. Blair was going anywhay, it was just a matter of time and they knew it the night of the election. So him going won't necessarilly be linked to this.
That fucking poodle. There were a lot of people who were hesitant to trust the idiot chimp, but figured if Blair was involved problems could be kept to a minimum. But this fuckface not only abetted this bullshit, but knew how badly the thing was planned from the start. Bastard.
I'm having a good time.
Karen Hughes fingerprints are all over this strategic disinformation campaign to push for war.
The same Karen Hughes who's now in charge of our public policy outreach to the Muslim world.
And those morons wonder why no one outside this country believes a word they say.
Am I the only one who caught Evil Dead on IFC tonight?
Tried to make a public service announcement to all at the beginning of the movie, but couldn't get comments to post.
that film was made by a few kids at the college right up the street from me. i actually was supposed to do some photo shoots with the stylist from the film. he made the crazy stick figures, which is all i really know about the film.
I actually kinda liked it, although I know that puts me in the minority. I was able to suspend disbelief and just buy into everything, and it's pretty damn spooky if you can do that.
Will we see Tony the poodle "retire" early to spend time with his family?
Could be.He may be one of those that has to fall on his sword.
Thought you were coming down on me.
.
agave
No way, man.
From Pincus's article:
That memo and other internal British government documents were originally obtained by Michael Smith, who writes for the London Sunday Times. Excerpts were made available to The Washington Post, and the material was confirmed as authentic by British sources who sought anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the matter.
So, the WaPo got at least two sources to confirm authenticity . . . Guess they learned from the NewSqueek affair. Good on them.
Am I the only one who caught Evil Dead on IFC tonight?
No, but I own both versions. And I'm pretty sure I have Army Of Darkness on tape somewhere...
(needless to say, I'm a big fan...)
nothing will come of the memos. on the other hand people do seem to be seeing what an asshole bush is.
what's needed is someone high up in this admin. to out these bastards. reagans crimes were worse than nixons, but goddamit i still have to drive down ronald reagan boulevard.
Karin, there's a bill before Congress to "improve our image" with the Muslim world for security reasons. Sponsored by Lugar.
Gee, what a concept....
Will we see Tony the poodle "retire" early to spend time with his family?
Could be.He may be one of those that has to fall on his sword.
Will that be before or after he receives the Congressional Medal Of Freedom?
When are the impeachment hearings goona start?
Sorry, haven't ben payony ..............
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Eli,
When the war had gotten started in earnest and slightly after "Mission Accomplished" My rant at the time was (despite all the other things, like PNAC, Illegal War, everything) they didn't listen to Shinseki and hadn't even planned on what to do after they got there!
They were so convinced it would be a cakewalk they didn't even bother to have a contingency plan. As a Vet I can't believe the gall of these assholes!
It's one thing to start an illegal war based on lies. It's FAR WORSE to prosecute it so ineptly. And this latest Memo, PROVES what incompetent wankers these guys are. You're right the backlash will be HUGE! People died because these Greedy Fuckers were more concerned with raping Iraq and America that they didn't think failure was possible.
Sounds like a few motherfucking CEO's I've known, me: Don't you think you should have a contingency plan in case things don't work out that way? them: "Oh no, failure's just not possible!". Maybe not for them and their golden parachutes, but for the working people, fuck them. Talk about the CEO pResident.
A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo predicted would be a "protracted and costly" postwar occupation of that country.
The eight-page memo, written in advance of a July 23, 2002, Downing Street meeting on Iraq, provides new insights into how senior British officials saw a Bush administration decision to go to war as inevitable, and realized more clearly than their American counterparts the potential for the post-invasion instability that continues to plague Iraq.
In its introduction, the memo "Iraq: Conditions for Military Action" notes that U.S. "military planning for action against Iraq is proceeding apace," but adds that "little thought" has been given to, among other things, "the aftermath and how to shape it."
The July 21 memo was produced by Blair's staff in preparation for a meeting with his national security team two days later that has become controversial on both sides of the Atlantic since last month's disclosure of official notes summarizing the session.
In those meeting minutes -- which have come to be known as the Downing Street Memo -- British officials who had just returned from Washington said Bush and his aides believed war was inevitable and were determined to use intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and his relations with terrorists to justify invasion of Iraq.
The "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," said the memo -- an assertion attributed to the then-chief of British intelligence, and denied by U.S. officials and by Blair at a news conference with Bush last week in Washington. Democrats in Congress led by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (Mich.), however, have scheduled an unofficial hearing on the matter for Thursday.
Now, disclosure of the memo written in advance of that meeting -- and other British documents recently made public -- show that Blair's aides were not just concerned about Washington's justifications for invasion but also believed the Bush team lacked understanding of what could happen in the aftermath.
In a section titled "Benefits/Risks," the July 21 memo states, "Even with a legal base and a viable military plan, we would still need to ensure that the benefits of action outweigh the risks."
Saying that "we need to be sure that the outcome of the military action would match our objective," the memo's authors point out, "A post-war occupation of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise." The authors add, "As already made clear, the U.S. military plans are virtually silent on this point. Washington could look to us to share a disproportionate share of the burden."
That memo and other internal British government documents were originally obtained by Michael Smith, who writes for the London Sunday Times. Excerpts were made available to The Washington Post, and the material was confirmed as authentic by British sources who sought anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the matter.
The Bush administration's failure to plan adequately for the postwar period has been well documented. The Pentagon, for example, ignored extensive State Department studies of how to achieve stability after an invasion, administer a postwar government and rebuild the country. And administration officials have acknowledged the mistake of dismantling the Iraqi army and canceling pensions to its veteran officers -- which many say hindered security, enhanced anti-U.S. feeling and aided what would later become a violent insurgency.
Testimony by then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz, one of the chief architects of Iraq policy, before a House subcommittee on Feb. 28, 2003, just weeks before the invasion, illustrated the optimistic view the administration had of postwar Iraq. He said containment of Hussein the previous 12 years had cost "slightly over $30 billion," adding, "I can't imagine anyone here wanting to spend another $30 billion to be there for another 12 years." As of May, the Congressional Research Service estimated that Congress has approved $208 billion for the war in Iraq since 2003.
The British, however, had begun focusing on doubts about a postwar Iraq in early 2002, according to internal memos.
A March 14 memo to Blair from David Manning, then the prime minister's foreign policy adviser and now British ambassador in Washington, reported on talks with then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. Among the "big questions" coming out of his sessions, Manning reported, was that the president "has yet to find the answers . . . [and] what happens on the morning after."
About 10 days later, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote a memo to prepare Blair for a meeting in Crawford, Tex., on April 8. Straw said "the big question" about military action against Hussein was, "how there can be any certainty that the replacement regime will be any better," as "Iraq has no history of democracy."
Straw said the U.S. assessments "assumed regime change as a means of eliminating Iraq's WMD [weapons of mass destruction] threat. But none has satisfactorily answered how that regime change is to be secured. . . ."
Later in the summer, the postwar doubts would be raised again, at the July 23 meeting memorialized in the Downing Street Memo. Richard Dearlove, then head of MI6, the British intelligence service, reported on his meetings with senior Bush officials. At one point, Dearlove said, "There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."
Republican Party Chairman Ken Mehlman, appearing June 5 on "Meet the Press," disagreed with Dearlove's remark. "I think that there was clearly planning that occurred."
The Blair government, unlike its U.S. counterparts, always doubted that coalition troops would be uniformly welcomed, and sought U.N. participation in the invasion in part to set the stage for an international occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, said British officials interviewed recently. London was aware that the State Department had studied how to deal with an invasion's aftermath. But the British government was "shocked," in the words of one official, "when we discovered that in the postwar period the Defense Department would still be running the show."
The Downing Street Memo has been the subject of debate since the London Sunday Times first published it May 1. Opponents of the war say it proved the Bush administration was determined to invade months before the president said he made that decision.
Neither Bush nor Blair has publicly challenged the authenticity of the July 23 memo, nor has Dearlove spoken publicly about it. One British diplomat said there are different interpretations.
Last week, it was the subject of questions posed to Blair and Bush during the former's visit to Washington.
Asked about Dearlove being quoted as saying that in the United States, intelligence was being "fixed around the policy" of removing Hussein by military action, Blair said, "No, the facts were not being fixed in any shape or form at all." He then went on to discuss the British plan, outlined in the memo, to go to the United Nations to get weapons inspectors back into Iraq.
Bush said he had read "characterizations of the memo," pointing out that it was released in the middle of Blair's reelection campaign, and that the United States and Britain went to the United Nations to exhaust diplomatic options before the invasion.
I just had to make a cig run and heard Malloy on the radio.He was playing the excerpts from the lastest gaggle from chimp and poodle.Man they souund so disingenous is makes me sick.Especially in light of the new information just comming out.
But let me tell you,"I did not have sex with that woman" is MUCH much worse.(Right)
I read an article that said people were getting sick in theaters due to the camera work in Blair Witch Project.
Will we see Tony the poodle "retire" early to spend time with his family?
He'll be more like Mr. Mom. His wife is too much of a high-powered lawyer to be hanging around the house with him.
Shit, now I'm way behind again after my diatribe!
Holy Americana Ripley - I'm game! Although I advocate a fair trial before Bushco$$ hang (can the dog sleeping on the blanket be a beagle?).
And Karin, I'll do Maker's Mark and some local bread - Italian from the Hill - but there's a bread pudding and whiskey sauce out there that I'm still looking for.
The key to Life - keep searching.....
Bush said he had read "characterizations of the memo," pointing out that it was released in the middle of Blair's reelection campaign, and that the United States and Britain went to the United Nations to exhaust diplomatic options before the invasion.
dsp
Shrub conveniently omits that he vilified Han Blix for having the temerity to not find shit that wasn't there, then finally just ordering the inspectors to get the fuck out.
What a blight this pusball has been on our nation.
He'll be more like Mr. Mom. His wife is too much of a high-powered lawyer to be hanging around the house with him.
Well... until Dobson settles a few things across the pond.
"Mmmm, that's a nice, strong belt... good leather, too... go ahead, smell it. Now get that apron on and get to work, missy!"
Karin, there's a bill before Congress to "improve our image" with the Muslim world for security reasons. Sponsored by Lugar.
They can legislate that? Is that really binding on the Muslim world?
I read an article that said people were getting sick in theaters due to the camera work in Blair Witch Project.
My girlfriend was one of them.
DT42, I'm wondering whether History will remember Bush as a criminal or merely an arrogant, incompetent failure. Hopefully the scale is starting to tilt towards the former.
I really don't want to have to wait for History, though.
OK, so Bush goes - the line of succession is as follows:
Dick Cheney
Dennis Hastert
Ted Stevens
Condaleeza Rice
John Snow
Donald Rumseld
Alberto Gonzalez
Gale Norton
etc etc
One hardly can see Bush resigning over this and Cheney moving up (well, maybe I can believe anything). He could nominate a VP, but that take 2/3s confirmation (that's in the Constitution, can't be changed to simple majority).
But Hastert or Stevens? The latter has the ego to do it if Hastert were to decline.
Just realized that they could play hanky-panky. Little known rule - the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member. So if Hastert didn't want to be President, he could step down as Speaker, and the House GOP could name anyone they wanted for that position. And then Cheney resigns, and we have -- who knows whom as President?
Will that be before or after he receives the Congressional Medal Of Freedom?
If he has to do it,it wont be much longer.It all depends on what kind of traction this new info gets.If the shit hits the fan,I predict tony goes out "on his own terms".It is a winning strateregy for junior.He gets a fall guy,that isnt.AND he gets the ball, that is the presses infatuation,to move away from the prize.
What a blight this pusball has been on our nation.
Can I get an Amen??? And the choir went wild....
"I have Army Of Darkness on tape somewhere..."
Eli
Me too! I love that movie!
"This is my BOOMSTICK!"
"Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the Gun..."
"It's one thing to start an illegal war based on lies. It's FAR WORSE to prosecute it so ineptly. And this latest Memo, PROVES what incompetent wankers these guys are. You're right the backlash will be HUGE! People died because these Greedy Fuckers were more concerned with raping Iraq and America that they didn't think failure was possible."
The biggest sin is that none of these motherfuckers gives a shit. These animals are pathological.
OK, so Bush goes - the line of succession is as follows:
Dick Cheney
Dennis Hastert
Who would even finish in a 100-yd dash between those two?
The biggest sin is that none of these motherfuckers gives a shit. These animals are pathological.
They're that corrupt small-town sheriff who plants evidence on someone 'cause they just *know* they're guilty. Or they just don't like hippies.
jimmiraybob, I would bet that if anyone has a recipe for that it would be SallyH. If she doesn't have it she could get it.
Ask her when she gets back from Vacation.
Karin, there's a bill before Congress to "improve our image" with the Muslim world for security reasons. Sponsored by Lugar.
They can legislate that? Is that really binding on the Muslim world?
Dude, spend the $19.95 and upgrade your version of America! We are the world is not just a song, sissypants. Now we can do Anything we feel like. Pfft, you probably don't even own any Petroleum or Pharma stocks. Looooooser!
Thank George Christ I voted for the right team this time.
/new American
since I cut my hair I don't much like hippies either. they smell bad.
one of the worst movies made from a Chandler novel on tcm.
I wish I was as optimistic as ya'll are about the latest disclosures about the War Against Brown People. alas.
I wonder what GFY is polling these days.
Is that really binding on the Muslim world?
Tom Lantos thinks his shit in binding on Lebanon: He ordered Hezbollah disarmed or the US will suspend all aid to that country.
I wish I was as optimistic as ya'll are about the latest disclosures about the War Against Brown People. alas.
I think it's dynamite with a soggy fuse.
Howdy, y'all! What's up with the gajillion open threads?
Personally, I can't wait for Geena Davis to be President. Maybe she'll have Julie Brown over for a revival of Earth Girls are Easy. Jeff Goldblum is a must, Geena!
Howdy, chillun. What's up?
Tom Lantos thinks his shit in binding on Lebanon: He ordered Hezbollah disarmed or the US will suspend all aid to that country.
Maybe we can just start *saying* that the Muslim world loves us. That seems to work pretty well for everything else.
I read an article that said people were getting sick in theaters due to the camera work in Blair Witch Project.
I got sick laughing in the theater during Attack of the Clones due to the script work.
'cause they just *know* they're guilty. Or they just don't like hippies
................................
like when they killed jack in easy rider. bastards.
allright i'm outa here.
it would be better if it was proved that the sons of bitches stole the election, in my gut i'm sure that is true. some how i just can't believe the majority of americans are so stupid. then again i make sure not to associate with bushites.
Damn the A team showed up at the same time.WHat happened did the show let out?
"DT42, I'm wondering whether History will remember Bush as a criminal or merely an arrogant, incompetent failure. Hopefully the scale is starting to tilt towards the former.
I really don't want to have to wait for History, though."
Eli
Me neither Eli, and actually both would be fine. The latter would help restore our image (partially), but I would prefer the former, and the sooner the fucking better. Of course with everything we know, it's only a matter of time after the cookie crumbles for him to be proven a criminal.
Bush
Saddam didn't let the inspectrs in, (while ,sitting nxt to Koffi
Annan.)
So we had no choise.
Said it 2 times.
Beside T Blair, said saddam was within 6 mounths of getting a nuclear weapon.
Blatant LIES
No way around it!
SOS
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Evil Dead 2 was better than 1.
just saying
I got sick laughing in the theater during Attack of the Clones due to the script work.
Thers, NOOOOooooooooooooo
script work
explosions and fancy light saber work, eh...script, not so much
ditto for the third one
Maybe we can just start *saying* that the Muslim world loves us.
Why, they all do! But, there's about five or six troublemakers among them, though, and we're working hard to round them up. Then democracy can continue marching.
it would be better if it was proved that the sons of bitches stole the election, in my gut i'm sure that is true. some how i just can't believe the majority of americans are so stupid. then again i make sure not to associate with bushites.
That would be seriously explosive. And overseas, it would sort-of-paradoxically make America look worse, while making Americans look better.
But, there's about five or six troublemakers among them,
And dont forget,we just managed to get the number three (or was it two) guy in AQ.That makes the brown skins happy.
Then democracy can continue marching.
Or goosestepping. Whichever.
Then democracy can continue marching.]
Yeah, freedom is on the march. 'Cept it has a bad case of jungle rot.
But John Kerry got a D and Howard Dean said... something! Look over there!
"who knows whom as President?"
hopeless pedant
Well after Sensenbrenner's disgraceful performance yesterday I could see there being a domino effect and a purge (of the rightwing fucktards - march in lockstep die in lockstep) so that someone on our side ended up in office.
But who knows. Whatever happens would stop them dead in their tracks. They wouldn't be able to recover in time for the 08 election.
Tom Lantos thinks his shit in binding on Lebanon: He ordered Hezbollah disarmed or the US will suspend all aid to that country.
As if Hezbollah gives a shit want he wants. Lebanon only gets a pittance in foreign aid anyway.
charley people just don't want to believe it. This is more evil than I have seen in my lifetime. I reca;; the JKF assassination. It was a "first" for the USA.
Many assassinations followed. We got "used" to it.
Now people are in denial about the venality of their gov't.They will finally come to see it.
Just takes time for the scales of innocence to burn off of What Is.
It is extremely painful, you see.
And dont forget,we just managed to get the number three (or was it two) guy in AQ.That makes the brown skins happy.
Three.
Little-known fact about al Qaeda's organizational structure: After the twop two guys, they're *all* Number Three.
some how i just can't believe the majority of americans are so stupid
American Idol
Er, *top* two guys...
stolen elections are as American as apple pie, mom'sand chevrolet's. war (and 2 thousand dead soldiers, a military coming apart at the seams, $200 billion+) is a whole nother thing.
doesn't the Constitution say something something about war?
actually, I don't believe United Statesians are as stupid as they are portrayed and/or represented by/in the media. I think they're a whole helluva lot smarter, which is why Bush et al fucking STEAL elections.
there's a bill before Congress to "improve our image" with the Muslim world for security reasons.
doesn't the Constitution say something something about war?
You mean, beneath the crayon marks that mysteriously appeared on it three years ago?
"NOOOOooooooooooooo"
Ripley
Ok, I'm gonna have to ask a dumb question. I know that's a reference to some other movie, but I can't place it. What movie is it from? Trying to get the joke here.
YES to Frank Rich in today's NYT, although it's a sad, sad day when the real news is relegated to Arts and Leisure.
Can't someone take away the White House press corp's knee pads? If they're going to service the executive branch so, and in the guise of providing a public service, they shouldn't really be comfortable doing it.
Me, I'd die happy if I could see the gliteratti of MSM squeeling "sooooeeee" to Dicky Cheney's giddy-up, the good for nothing two-bit whores.
Speaking of Tex Senseber...Senbresens..Sensa-not gonna work here anymore anyway and his "taking my gavel and leaving" stunt....
Milwaukee is Harley Town. So if you know anyone that rides a Harley, let 'em know their Harley Town Repub Rep. cut off the labor-lovin, blue collar representin' Dems while they tried to protect our privacy.
Spread the love and ride safely...
If junior does manage to get impeached,just what does that say about the strength of our republic?
That would make what,three out of the last six presidents that have been taken down as a result of misconduct (granted ,clinton's was minor and bullshit).Thats pretty weak for a country that is looked toward as a beacon of shiney freedom.
doesn't the Constitution say something something about war?
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Yes, it mandates in Article I that they should be chosen solely on the basis of ease of exhilarating cinematography.
Christ, damn tags
there's a bill before Congress to "improve our image" with the Muslim world for security reasons.
This might work, with the right advertising campaign, the right theme, and some colorful glitzy ads.
Then again, it might also help if we stop killing Muslims.
Speaking of Tex Senseber...Senbresens..Sensa-not gonna work here anymore anyway and his "taking my gavel and leaving" stunt....
It's "Steinbrenner".
Er, *top* two guys...
Gannon and Cheney?
Hey, I think that Frank Rich is back on the op-ed page.
Frist is froast!
(maybe)
ajc.com nation/world
Frist's finances questioned
Experts see violation of campaign rules
By BOB KEMPER bkemper@ajc.com and TOM BAXTER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/12/05
Washington — Election Day 2000 was five months off, but Bill Frist was already in an enviable position. With a fat campaign war chest and only token opposition in what he had decided was his last race for the U.S. Senate, Frist could turn his attention to grander plans.
Frist began focusing on raising record amounts of cash for other Republicans. But while he was picking up political IOUs that could aid him greatly in a run for president in 2008, his own campaign finances took a sharp, and in some ways baffling, turn for the worse.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars Frist's supporters had given him to run for the Senate were dwindling at a rapid rate. Much of that money was lost in a stock market investment that experts say was out of line with the way candidates traditionally invest campaign funds. Frist's campaign also took on more than $1 million in debt so that it could repay Frist for interest-free loans he made to his campaign six years earlier.
And then, in a decision experts say violated federal campaign regulations, Frist filed reports with the Federal Elections Commission that made it difficult for his contributors and political foes to determine just how bad off his campaign finances were.
http://tinyurl.com/7srt9
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Follow the money . . .
Just takes time for the scales of innocence to burn off of What Is.
It is extremely painful, you see.
Sarah Deere
i do see, and as i said before i do think people are starting to realize what an asshole bush is.
but then thers. comes along and mentions american idol, my wife, much smarter than i, watches that pablum. we are a very shallow people.
and goddamit, i still have to drive down ronald reagan boulevard, that really pisses me off.
ok, really out now. Peace.
The July 2002 "Downing Street memo," the minutes of a meeting in which Tony Blair and his advisers learned of a White House effort to fix "the intelligence and facts" to justify the war in Iraq, was published by The London Sunday Times on May 1. Yet in the 19 daily Scott McClellan briefings that followed, the memo was the subject of only 2 out of the approximately 940 questions asked by the White House press corps, according to Eric Boehlert of Salon.
dick powell is so not marlowe. and the liberties thay take with Chandler's novel.
feh!
.
Such is the equivalently supine state of much of the news media today that Mr. Colson was repeatedly trotted out, without irony, to pass moral judgment on Mr. Felt - and not just on Fox News, the cable channel that is actually run by the former Nixon media maven, Roger Ailes. "I want kids to look up to heroes," Mr. Colson said, oh so sorrowfully, on NBC's "Today" show, condemning Mr. Felt for dishonoring "the confidence of the president of the United States." Never mind that Mr. Colson dishonored the law, proposed bombing the Brookings Institution and went to prison for his role in the break-in to steal the psychiatric records of The Times's Deep Throat on Vietnam, Daniel Ellsberg. The "Today" host, Matt Lauer, didn't mention any of this - or even that his guest had done jail time. None of the other TV anchors who interviewed Mr. Colson - and he was ubiquitous - ever specified his criminal actions in the Nixon years. Some identified him onscreen only as a "former White House counsel."
there's a bill before Congress to "improve our image" with the Muslim world for security reasons.
They're gonna beam that Britney Spears reality show into every home in Islamdom.
And why not. It's as sensible as anything this administration has ever proposed, and cheaper.
Hey, I think that Frank Rich is back on the op-ed page.
Damn, you're right. Maybe because MoDo is on vacation?
jimmiraybob, I would bet that if anyone has a recipe for that it would be SallyH. If she doesn't have it she could get it.
To tell the truth I assumed that she'd hold the key. I didn't know she was vacationing - she's done THE 2005 Bush Summer Impeachment recipes as far as I know and I was shamelessly dropping a hint.
At other times the new Colsons top the old one. Though Nixon aspired to punish public broadcasting by cutting its funding, he never imagined that his apparatchiks could seize the top executive positions at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Nor did he come up with the brilliant ideas of putting journalists covertly on the administration payroll and of hiring an outside P.R. firm (Ketchum) to codify an enemies list by ranking news organizations and individual reporters on the basis of how favorably they cover a specific administration policy (No Child Left Behind). President Bush has even succeeded in emasculating the post-Watergate reform that was supposed to help curb Nixonian secrecy, the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
I sense that charley has not yet fully come to terms with Ronald Reagan Boulevard.
"Yes, it mandates in Article I that they should be chosen solely on the basis of ease of exhilarating cinematography."
Zach
Well, Apocolypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and Blackhawk Down certainly qualify.
Christ in a pup tent. Playing squash. Taking a sauna. Wearing a condom. Smoking a Cuban cigar. Drinking a Coca-Cola. Tickling a fancy. Sleeping the night away.
This might work, with the right advertising campaign, the right theme, and some colorful glitzy ads.
"Hi, I'm Paris Hilton, and I think America's hot!"
Announcer:
"Yes, THAT Paris Hilton. Now will you stop bombing us?"
THE journalists who do note the resonances of now with then rarely get to connect those dots on the news media's center stage of television. You are more likely to hear instead of how Watergate inspired too much "gotcha" journalism. That's a rather absurd premise given that no "gotcha" journalist got the goods on the biggest story of our time: the false intimations of incipient mushroom clouds peddled by American officials to sell a war that now threatens to match the unpopularity and marathon length of Vietnam.
Hey, I think that Frank Rich is back on the op-ed page.
Damn, you're right. Maybe because MoDo is on vacation?
No, it pre-dates, and it's permanent. I think they finally recognized that he'd been writing a political column, not an Arts one.
Experts see violation of campaign rules
I do believe we have and will continue to see this story come up in a wide number of republicans.Delay comes to mind as the first (recently),but I'm probably wrong on this.
Christ in a pup tent. Playing squash. Taking a sauna. Wearing a condom. Smoking a Cuban cigar. Drinking a Coca-Cola. Tickling a fancy. Sleeping the night away.
You're wearing a condom?
Where?
How?
Matt Lauer takes it up the ass for Dick Cheney.
And... Why?
I sense that charley has not yet fully come to terms with Ronald Reagan Boulevard.
Eli
Then don't tell him about National Airport.
Maybe because MoDo is on vacation?
So, has anyone ever seen MoDo and SallyH in the same room together?
all good Muslims love love love Britney. her belly button alone is able to defeat brigades of insurgents. her breasts make everyone think nothing but holy thoughts. her golden locks, the very symbol of purity and cleanliness. Karen Hughes would be very smart to use Britney to help bolster the image of all that is good and fine about America. her iconicity is, without a doubt, an unimaginable boon to the PR campaign we must wage to keep the US billion dollar annual welfare check for colonists on the West Bank a viable proposition.
they will love us for our Britney.
go Britney!
"Hi, I'm Paris Hilton, and I think America's hot!"
Announcer:
"Yes, THAT Paris Hilton. Now will you stop bombing us?"
If you stop bombing us, we will never put her on the air ever again.
I sense that charley has not yet fully come to terms with Ronald Reagan Boulevard.
Eli
and I would join him in that disconnection.....
Meanwhile (meantime, inbetween time...ain't we got fun..???)
At some - sweet - point, people will finally understand that advertising and image massaging is just not relevant to most of the world. It may be to the so-called "civilised" world (hahahaha), but most of the planet's people don't view life through the lens of marketing.....
Delay is connected to various 'Texans for Filthy Lucre' organizations now under investigation and Bugman is certainly at risk.
MoDo now runs Weds & Sat rather than the previous Thurs & Sun
Glad Tidings! The REAL Bush Agenda Will Soon Be Made Manifest!
Dear Ranger and Pioneer Patriots,
As a sign of gratitude for your support of the righteous Republican cause, it is with great pleasure that I forward to you an exclusive overview of the agenda that the George W. Bush administration is now making manifest. The fact that nabobs are chattering that the current Bush term is in trouble due to lack of success on social security shows that our strategy is working to perfection. While everyone's attention has been diverted to social security issues, we'll soon be launching a multi-front legislative assault that will shock and awe our enemies into abject submission. Liberals will be helpless, for example, to stop our True Democracy Voting Reform Act which will finally give corporations their Constitutional right to run for public elective office. Thanks to your generosity, we already own the votes needed to enact this legislation, which is vitally needed to solve a looming crisis. This and much more to celebrate are described in the inspiring essay below, which is the sole work of President Bush himself. I am sure you will all agree that his brilliant exposition conclusively refutes the vicious rumors purveyed through the Liberal media that he lacks a grasp of the issues and that his every move and statement is somehow choreographed on behalf of corporate interests. Rather, he proves here that he is among the great Conservative intellectuals of our times, a true visionary and original thinker, together, we fashion a Second American Revolution (SAR) that will serve as a beckoning beacon of opportunity for the rest of the world. After reading his golden words, I am sure you will agree that your contributions to our Grande Olde Party are wise investments indeed that will generate manifold returns. PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE POLITICALLY SENSITIVE NATURE OF THIS CONFIDENTIAL TRANSMISSION, IT IS FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. IF YOU ALLOW FURTHER DISTRIBUTION YOU WILL FORFEIT ANY AND ALL RIGHTS TO AUTHOR LEGISLATION AND REGULATIONS, TO RULE A GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT, OR TO SERVE AS AN AMBASSADOR.
Sincerely,
Ken Mehlman, Chairman
Republican National Committee
A SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO ACHIEVE A GILDED MILLENIUM
By George W. Bush
President, United States of America
Introduction
As important key members of our team that's almost entirely succeeded in eliminating the Liberal menace, I believe you deserve to be the first to have the inside info on the real agenda of my 2nd administration. First let me point out there are folks who aim low because they don't think perfection is possible. But I refuse to accept that and I always aim high. These past few years I've studied deep about solving all the main problems of our country so we can reach perfection in the eyes of Our Lord. Keep reading to see the truths I discovered and the solutions I developed. Taken together it adds up to have what is equal to a revolution, what I call the Second American Revolution (SAR) because it will free us from the tyranny of a government that opposes our God-given right to conduct our businesses as we see fit without regulation. This will lead to what I like to call a terrific gilded age, because gilded means something like covered in gold, and as we all know the gold standard is the highest standard, and unlike Liberals only the highest standards are good enough for me.
Perfecting the Election System
The most highest priority area we need to perfect is the elections of America. The problem is that there are undemocratic elitists (Liberals) who exploit the US election system year after year for their own selfish ends. Liberals don't care about average Americans but only special interests, like homosexuals, criminals, drug addicts, atheists, welfare queens, loser species, etc. etc. My inspiration on how to fix the broken electing system so it can't be manipulated by Liberals any more was one of those funny beer commercials where the two beers are running for President of beers. So I thought, “Why not?” You see, the fact is corporations are “persons” in the eyes of the law and have all the rights and protections of our US Constitution just like any other citizen, ever since thats how a very wise Supreme Court ruled sometime in the 1800s. I learned that when I was deep in study for my MBA. Now all that knowledge came together in a flash of God-given inspiration that corporations too must be able to run for public office. With that Supreme Court decision we don't even need to amend the Constitution, so patriotic corporations can finally get elected like they deserve and put Liberals in the dustbin of history where they belong.
Perfecting Tax-free Government
You'll be happy to know we're going to eliminate entirely the evil of taxes! In a nutcase, we won't need taxes because all government functions will be privatized and the “user pays” because that's the fair free market way. As just one example, money for our highways and byways will be collected by computers that automatically charge drivers only for the road or bridge or tunnel they actually use.
Of course, the federal government does have a few important functions, like fighting wars and paying the national debt and paying farm corporations not to grow crops, so we must all contribute. To avoid the evil of taxes, everyone will have the opportunity to contribute a tithe of 15% of their wages (don't worry my Ranger and Patriot friends, investment income isn't included so you'll still be able to pay almost nothing just like always). Tithing is the God-given way and it's traditional and simple - no deductions, no complex tax code to worry about. Tithing will be completely voluntary. However, we will strengthen our laws against unpatriotism, and those proving themselves to be unpatriots by not tithing will be given the opportunity to contribute to the perfection of our criminal justice system (see below).
The federal and local tax cuts we all have fought so viciously for mean less public services which is great because giving to people only makes them dependent and lazy, as everyone knows. All kinds of benefits are already being felt. For example, public universities in almost every state have to raise tuition while our rising federal deficit means we have no choice but cut student loans. This means fewer young adults will go to college, which is great to prevent infection by what they call the Liberal arts because most professors are Liberals who just brainwash students with idiotic Socialism ideas about social justice and negative history and atheism and politically correct. Because they hate freedom and liberty I guess. It's better for people to just go from high school to a job and learn what's really important from their employer. If they still insist in believing in the myth that college education is good, we'll have a better way. Its called home schooling, which is a method already proved to be better than public schools in K-12 because it helps people grow up smart enough to always vote Republican because we know better than any scientist or PhD. Under my new system, just go to the Department of Ed website and certify you got enough hours of training from a qualified relative at home and you got your Masters or PhD or MBA or MD.
Here's a summary of the essential essence of what I'm talking about:
The evil Liberal-Communist way: Tax tax tax everyone and discriminate against the great capitalists like you who make America great by taxing them more, then give the money to faceless bureaucrats who waste most of it and give the rest of it away to lazy parasites. This is how the Welfare State works.
The good new SAR-Republican way: Ensure the few really deserving good folks chosen by God own most of the capital and get rid of the Welfare State by getting rid of taxes so the American people will have more to spend on things and services so therefore more profits for our corporations and we'll get richer, and then we'll have more to give away as charity on things we have the God-given wisdom to choose a lot better than any bureaucrat. We'll call this the Charity State. No longer will there be rights to this and rights to that made up by activistic Liberal judges - now we wise patriots will decide who deserves help and how much.
Perfecting the Free Market
Remember: America became great through the free market so we need to make the free market really free. This means freedom from infinite weight of government regulations. Our new rational way to regulate will be to privatize: private companies will bid to do regulation, and their contracts will be paid by the folks being regulated. By privatizing we won't need the evil of taxing American citizens and we'll all benefit from the synergy of the profit motive. Of course, Liberals will whine about losing their Gestapo agencies (like the IRS, FDA, OSHA, etc etc) and about what happens to the millions of government regulators who've been sucking on the public tax teat so many years. Where will they go and what will they do? Out of our compassion, we'll encourage ex-regulators to seek the opportunity to finally learn skills that actually contribute to American society, like landscaping, computer data entry, or eyeglass repair.
By the way, you may be interested to know that we have a new confidential internal policy: any industry or sector of the economy that fails to do its fair share in giving lots and lots of resources to fight the Liberal menace, we will impose a true free market on that industry or sector of the economy. I think you know what that means. A true free market means no subsidies or tax breaks, it means consumers will be given lots and lots of accurate information like how much of what they pay for goes for research or for marketing, and companies will actually have to pay all the costs they never pa
I sense that charley has not yet fully come to terms with Ronald Reagan Boulevard.
Ya think?
Here in far north dallas (where whitey lives) we have a road called wait for it...President George Bush Turnpike
A toll road for the free marketers.Whats worse is,they are spending Millions on landscaping the entire road.About 20 or 30 miles of road.Both sides of the road,and the center.
You're wearing a condom?
Where?
How?
Eli
hee hee....paint me pink and call me silly.
SD
This may have been said already, seeings how I'm a drive-by most of the time these days, but Mr. and Mrs. Smith is pretty damned funny in places. All you have to do is buy a few small premises and hey, presto, the witty banter and repartee is actually festive!
And some pretty steamy lovin' considering how clothed everybody stayed...
By the way, in Arizona, every movie is "Play Misty for Me." Ba-dum-dum!
Here's a good meme you can start spreading, if you're so inclined.
What is Tom DeLay's connection to Medicor, International Integrated Industries and Inamed? Faulty breast implants, lawsuits, loan scandals, FDA investigations, FTC complaints, Donald McGhan...
I'm just sayin...
By the way, in Arizona, every movie is "Play Misty for Me." Ba-dum-dum!
Just so long as it's every movie and not every date.
okay new thread......
Paris Hilton and her mother are serving as co-grand marshals of tomorrow's Gay Pride Parade just down the hill from me here in West Hollywood, Ca.
There is quite the controversy over that - there have been plenty of straight marshals in the past, but this seems a bit beyond the pale.
The funny thing is just a few blocks away, Paris was busted after angrily taking a copy of her porn video from a newstand without paying for it (that counts as shoplifting).
A toll road for the free marketers.Whats worse is,they are spending Millions on landscaping the entire road.About 20 or 30 miles of road.Both sides of the road,and the center.
smal, I assume you've heard the talk of privatizing the highways, yes?
Illinois's already sold out a two mile toll slot. Who's next?
They could vary the misting with "The Fog" or something...
Going upstairs....
freeper "america fuck yeah" rally fails today...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focu...s/1421237/
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smal, I assume you've heard the talk of privatizing the highways, yes?
Well,I havent heard specificaly ,but this wouldnt suprise me.This is a point of contention between junior and the congress.If they could just get that part off the government coffers,then everything could go smoothly thru the congress.
Way ot, but...
Isn't it nice to have the ability to post an opinion on the basis of it's merits, and not on the basis of some unvarifiable "ratings system".
No dis to Kos (et al), just a maudlin shout out to the true spirit of democracy.
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I really like your blog- have to check on it more often.
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