I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Haw!
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Fuck Bush and Rove!
Happy 4th Weekend, baby!
Oh, I almost forgot -- BOHICA!
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Tercero?
I've never agreed with Green Day, ever. Before I was a Scientologist I never agreed with Green Day. And when I started studying the history of Green Day, I understood more and more why I didn't believe in Green Day.
Greenday is covering Snap? Snap was better.
Can someone tell me why now is not the time for armed insurrection? Please?
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Why have they started in Toronto already, but not in Philly? How embarrassing.
I wasn't a big fan of Green Day until Billy Joe wrote this:
Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.
WaPo's Sunday magazine has a long and surprisingly positive piece on Howard Dean.
There is some douche-bag below suggesting that the girl on the bike provoked the driver and that there is "another side to the sotry [sic]."
If you are up here, douche bag, I ask you ... why, if that is true, did he flee the scene of the accident and then return to apologize?
YEEE-ARRRRGH!
Can't wait to have a "Karl Rove Scream Contest"!
Bopping around watching the various Live 8 concerts at AOL Musc Live.
http://music.aol.com/live_8_conc...oncert/
live_now
Anyone know when Pink Floyd is expected to perform in London?
Can someone tell me why now is not the time for armed insurrection? Please?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Heh, JP: there certainly is some historical precedent for such an act.
BTW, I really do intend to post various sections of the Declaration of Independence this weekend every time some sniveling troll threatens to disturb my peace and tranquillity.
Humor an old lady, ok?
some douche-bag below
That's "flaming Nazi gasbag" to me. But I celebrate diversity in all its forms.
To the swastika-covered bag at issue: The question, sir. Address the question.
She provoked the driver in a display of liberal pique, and got what she deserved, like all you bomb-throwers. A reasonable court would agree and acquit.
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Rove is going to be the Mumia of the right.
Patterson, you are on the wrong thread.
the scary thing about patterson, the average repug is so stupid he might not be a parody...
There is some douche-bag below suggesting that the girl on the bike provoked the driver and that there is "another side to the sotry [sic]."
That would be the troll Patterson spewing his crap, again.
Someone suggested sometime back about posting about a troll, but foregoing any direct response. This tactic appears to make their heads explode. Great theater.
Just sayin'.
George Lakoff: Rove Rides Again--With the Help of the Democrats.
Oh, you pathetic liberal haters. You will feel so ashamed when our C in C rallies our troops AND real Americans tonight. Crawl under your communist rock and fester, we are ignoring you know. You cannot win in the marketplace: of business or ideas, so you make cheap shots. I pity you.
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David Patterson | Homepage | 06.28.05 - 8:05 pm | #
How's that ignoring going, David?
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Has patterson been down to the recruiting office yet?
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Is anyone else with a Mac having trouble getting a stream? I see the streams are sponsored by Windows and it would be just like them to sabotage Mac users
Can someone tell me why now is not the time for armed insurrection? Please?
The same reason it was fucking insane to kill 100,000 plus people because BushCo didn't like Saddam.
I can't bring up the streaming video on AOL. I suspect it's a Mac thing...the first and only time ever that I wish I had a PC!
I've been listening to BBC2 radio, though. U2 sounded wonderful, as ever. And I really hope MTV has most if not all of Green Day's set during their coverage, I've heard they were fantastic!
Toby dissapears, patterson shows up? Mere coincidence?
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Has patterson been down to the recruiting office yet?
He's conflicted. See, he read a couple of newspaper articles about what the terrorists believe, and now he doesn't know which side he's on.
I know which side he's on, though.
Can someone tell me why now is not the time for armed insurrection? Please?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Remember Thomas Jefferson believed a revolution every 20 years or so would be good for the Republic...even if people died.
He was thinking somewhere between the French "Reign of Terror" and Shay's Rebellion.
when our C in C rallies our troops AND real Americans tonight.
C&C Music Factory is cool. "Everybody Get Down!" is not just a great song, it's great advice for the troops who have to fight an insurgency that Bush encouraged to "Bring it On!"
like all you bomb-throwers. A reasonable court would agree and acquit.
If a man pushed a small woman down, even if she cut him off, called him every profane name known at this point, gave him the finger, and mooned his ass, he is GUILTY of assault and battery. Got that, honey?
Bomb-throwers? Where did that come from, sweetie? is that your feeble attempt at humor?
ignore the troll. the only one worth his salt is merkin, the rest are pitifully lame and unable to produce rantings of sense or great humor. scroll down is the way.
Can someone tell me why now is not the time for armed insurrection? Please?
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Email | Homepage | 07.02.05 - 11:25 am | #
well, the main reason is because it would get all of us shot. the previous thread is proof that today's thugs aren't even as gracious as bull o'connor, and would skip the dogs and hoses and go straight to the firing lines. that and the fact that your fellow murkins would, for the most part, change the channel faster than they would see and then join in a movement.
there are better ways. we're still a tiny minority, we highly informed and historically educated (and fucking scared) folks, and if we're not to be crushed like the White Rose society in germany, we have to accept that this is the planning stage. form coalitions instead.
There is some douche-bag below suggesting that the girl on the bike provoked the driver and that there is "another side to the sotry [sic]."
If you are up here, douche bag, I ask you ... why, if that is true, did he flee the scene of the accident and then return to apologize?
res ipsa loquitur
Oh, please - that guy is an idiot.
He's talking about "class warfare."
I love when trolls accuse us of class warfare.
As if they are posting their GOP apologia from billion dollar mansions.
They really believe that (a) Bush and Co. are grateful for their "support" and (b) Bush and Company really give a fuck what they think!
Delusional and stupid, that's the trolls!
Saturday Lemur Blogging
blogwhore? don't mind if i do!
Give Schelenski a break...its been a hard week for the reicht-wing.
Bush's speak went over like a lead balloon, the "new Iranian prez is a former terrorist" meme ain't fooling anyone, and now it looks like the press is about to turn-dime on his boss.
He needs a vacation. (I hear the lemon chicken is great in Cuba)
She provoked the driver in a display of liberal pique
Hey Atrios, can we nominate a poster to be blocked? I don't easily ask this, because it seems to be censorship. But it's like having a rotten child at the adult table, and they keep throwing their food and eating off of other people's plates with their filthy hands.
If I'm out of line, I can take it.
Iraq elected a terrorist. There has never been a more compelling reason or better time to invade. We must do it now before the liberals try to smear our president and his advisors with some more trumped up hooey.
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Patterson is Merkin Patriot without the wit.
Or the political insight.
Set phasers to "Ignore."
Case in point, right above.
liberal pique 
I've arrived to late to this cleary fascinating (cough) debate, but one thing is clear: conservatives hit girls.
Liberals say they are for free speech. As long as it is liberal. They can't stand having their opinions challenged, and indeed, DESTROYED by facts and unbiased viewpoints.
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eLad, let it go. it isn't worth your attention, except as a worthy object of derision.
Iraq elected a terrorist. There has never been a more compelling reason or better time to invade. We must do it now before the liberals try to smear our president and his advisors with some more trumped up hooey.
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David Patterson |
umm....been there, done that.
Patterson - then lead the way. Skip on down the local recruiter's office and sign up for a stint in Iran.
Mr. Patterson sweetie,
We already invaded Iraq.
facts and unbiased viewpoints.
Jeebus, more fuel.
I misspoke. Iran. At least I can admit I am wrong, unlike liberals, who always see themselves as perfect and never make mistakes.
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Patterson, I think you mean Iran, dummy.
Just trying to see if he'll push us off our bike.
You're right, Cappy. Letting go, my bad.
Hey what happens when "Patterson" and all his alias nics receive draft notices. Do you think he'll get charged with a dozen or so counts of evading the draft?
"But Judge, honestly... Toby is just a made up name."
Let's talk about Patterson's ASSertion that liberals are all welfare pimps, and that conservatives are the only ones who really work.
Bush got his money from...the taxpayers, via a scheme to make taxpayers foot the bill for a baseball stadium. But I'm sure it was hard, hard work helping himself to the public till.
Then there's Cheney, whose wealth comes from Halliburton, which wouldn't exist without government largesse. Every dollar in Cheney's accounts came from the taxpayers.
Tell us again about how worthy these "self-made" men are.
...mistakes like invading the wrong country?
hmmmm...I might have been right after all...maybe even stupid enough to be a parody.
I only recently began to like Greenday.
Their American Idiot album was pretty good.
btw juat got back from seeing Star Wars 3 which was not bad, Yoda is very cool.
Iraq elected a terrorist.
B-bu-but I though the Iraq elections meant "freedom is on the march"!
Since this is pretty much an open thread:
The latest piece of crap for not allowing the morning after pill be sold over the counter is that rapists and molesters will slip Plan B pills to young women to "hide" their crimes.
This just gets stupider and stupider.
but still utterly un-entertaining. Now, MERKIN, that's some good faux-trollin'!
Moonbootica, is that Cat Yoga in the gravatar?
Live 8 on AOL with a Mac.
Workin' fine for me with Safari.
"There is some douche-bag below suggesting that the girl on the bike provoked the driver and that there is "another side to the sotry [sic].""
Yeah, that's David Patterson. He likes to shit on the sidewalk and then giggle while he watches people try to deal with his messes. He is one troll that should be ignored. He cannot be talked to or reasoned with.
Iraq elected a terrorist.
Colour me stunned messers Patterson
Bias in the liberal media and academia will be eliminated, because Americans will demand the truth. They are only getting it from the conservative blogs and talk radio now. Soon the rest will follow.
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If a man pushed a small woman down, even if she cut him off, called him every profane name known at this point, gave him the finger, and mooned his ass, he is GUILTY of assault and battery.
Not if he's a member in good standing of The Party. Then all the good-citizen Party members (there's even one among us--one who won't enlist because he doesn't know which side he's on) can say stupid, irrational shit like "It's okay: she provoked him."
That last bit is interesting, by the way. Watch for it to be cited later as established historical fact: "she provoked him." Even though all we know now is that they argued. I guess when a mere woman argues with a Good Oligarchy Party member, that's on its face provocation sufficient to justify violence.
"Bias in the liberal media and academia will be eliminated, because Americans will demand the truth. They are only getting it from the conservative blogs and talk radio now. Soon the rest will follow.
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David Patterson | Homepage | 07.02.05 - 11:54 am | # "
Where are you posting form soldier?
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Patterson's right! I demand that we all form Patterson Brigades to invade Iran! Training will consist of knocking down cyclists and ballerinas.
Iraq elected a terrorist....from Patterson.
HE IS MERKIN PATRIOT without the capital letters!
eLad ~ you could say that, they love to snuggle up.
Let's tell the Young Republicans that the war on terror involved hitting ballerinas!
French surrender monkey dancers!
Also, there's no reason for me to go to the recruiters office. They know where I live, so they will call me if they need me. So far they haven't called, so I'm obviously not needed. Our boys who we have over there now are getting the job done just fine, despite all the liberal propaganda to the contrary.
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"I misspoke. Iran. At least I can admit I am wrong, unlike liberals, who always see themselves as perfect and never make mistakes.
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David Patterson | Homepage | 07.02.05 - 11:51 am | # "
When are you shipping out, soldier?
I can admit I am wrong
Let it out, man! Let the floodgates open!
Maybe then you'll be able to decide which side you're on.
Iraq elected a terrorist. There has never been a more compelling reason or better time to invade. We must do it now before the liberals try to smear our president and his advisors with some more trumped up hooey.
David Patterson
Mr. Patterson sweetie,
We already invaded Iraq.
Capt. Quint
Rove must be getting rattled. He is mixing up the talking points before distributing them to the trolls.
Bias in the liberal media and academia will be eliminated...
'Bias' is anything that makes a conservative have to think.
They hate that.
That's why they hide in the rightblogsphere and other paid, corporate puke funnels. Safer for them that way.
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Awright, gang, got to run. Have a good day, all.
David, please come up with some ideas, OK shweetie?
"Also, there's no reason for me to go to the recruiters office. They know where I live, so they will call me if they need me. So far they haven't called, so I'm obviously not needed. Our boys who we have over there now are getting the job done just fine, despite all the liberal propaganda to the contrary.
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David Patterson | Homepage | 07.02.05 - 11:56 am | # "
So you are insane, on top of everything else?
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watching Live 8 on BBC 2, tho is a tough call cause the Wimbledon Ladies Final is on BBC 1.
____league: Rove must be getting rattled. He is mixing up the talking points before distributing them to the trolls.
No; more likely, Rove has lowered the IQ requirements for trolls, similar to how the DoD lowered the recruiting goals. See? Everything's just fine!
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Iraq elected a terrorist.
That's funny, so did Lebanon.
So much for Bush, the democracy fairy.
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IMHO, Patterson is a "classic" troll...he really doesn't give a shit about what he's saying, he (she?) just wants attention.
Our boys who we have over there now are getting the job done just fine, despite all the liberal propaganda to the contrary
Funniest thing I've read all day...if it weren't so sad.
Am looking forward to Peter Gabriel's WOMAD Live 8 concert, looks a corker.
"Bias in the liberal media and academia will be eliminated, because Americans will demand the truth. They are only getting it from the conservative blogs and talk radio now. Soon the rest will follow. The jews, the cripples, the gypsys, the homosexuals, the liberals, the crybabies, the artists, the professors, the negroes, the lesbians, the peaceniks, allan ginsberg, ben&jerry, joan baez, Vanilla Fudge, The Fugs, Ringo Starr, Fonzie, organic gardeners, sissies on skateboards, rabbit-breeders in rio, the scriptwriters for The Blair Witch Project.
They will follow me. Me with my orange creamsicle. Me with my new sunglasses. Me with my dayglo unused condom. Me with my gulag rape fantasies I deny. Me crying foul. Me unhappy with dinner. Me pissed at mom.
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David Patterson
Our boys who we have over there now are getting the job done just fine, despite all the liberal propaganda to the contrary
The last time I checked there were women there, too, fuckwad.
But then again, women don't count with Neanderthals like you.
When are you going to join those troops, slappy? You sure like to talk big!
Iraq elected a terrorist
So did the United States!
I see Bryan Adams is on in Toronto. They should have sent him to Philly as revenge. Or Tokyo just to get rid of him.
Yeah, that's David Patterson. He likes to shit on the sidewalk and then giggle while he watches people try to deal with his messes. He is one troll that should be ignored. He cannot be talked to or reasoned with.
Wtlodge40
Yup, a true time-waster.
David is like the deranged, angry disturbed person on the bus, the one who screams obsenities and
unintelligible diatribes to a person only he will ever see.
Don't make eye-contact, and hope the guy gets off at the next stop.
Agent Orange:
President Brainfart was elected????
Centre Court Davenport leads Williams 6-4 6-7(4) 4-2
So far they haven't called, so I'm obviously not needed.
Oh dear. Apparently this hasn't been explained to you properly. This is how you know that no one wants to DATE you. It works in the reverse when it comes to 'recruiters'. You have to introduce yourself to them, first.
I'm not too upset I didn't get to go see Live 8 live, am going to see REM on the 10th July, so its ok!
Also, there's no reason for me to go to the recruiters office. They know where I live, so they will call me if they need me. So far they haven't called, so I'm obviously not needed. Our boys who we have over there now are getting the job done just fine, despite all the liberal propaganda to the contrary.
David Patterson | Homepage | 07.02.05 - 11:56 am |
If you were a recruiter would you want the fact that you signed up DP on your record. Even now, there are still some standards. The veterans here might want to comment about how they would feel if DP was in the next foxhole.
Iraq elected a terrorist
So did the United States!
Agent Orange
No, we just elected a volatile, unstable jackass.
BTW, does anyone think he's drugged when he speaks? I don't know what his buddies in the pharmaceutical lobby have him hopped up on, but the guy is slurring every other word like he's got a mouth full of shit.
the fucking ballerina got in my way. did you see that lousy bike she was riding. what a piece of shit from some second hand store. who the fuck needs ballerinas clogging up the freeways. ive got a job to do.
now why the hell arent the iranians free to express themselves with art like us?
David Patterson clearly malfuncitoned, his wingnut programmers must be worrying.
Bias in the liberal media and academia will be eliminated,
I guess there's no way in type to do the rising high-pitched scream at the end of the phrase, accompanied by the clenched fists held in front of the face, the almost purple flush, the bulging eyes. Accompanied by the shouts of "Victory!" from all the Party faithful.
You know why it's liberals and academia, not terrorism and theofascism, he's really obsessed with, don't you? It's because he doesn't know what side he's on.
...there's no reason for me to go to the recruiters office. They know where I live, so they will call me if they need me. So far they haven't called, so I'm obviously not needed.
So how fucking obvious does this guy have to get before everyone realizes it's a joke!?!?!?!
I see Bryan Adams is on in Toronto. They should have sent him to Philly as revenge. Or Tokyo just to get rid of him.
Draco
H. G. Bergeron: Accompanied by the shouts of "Victory!" from all the Party faithful.
Smells like... victory.
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dave™®©, was that a confession or a cry for help? 
Agent Orange:
President Brainfart was elected????
Terry C
Fixed or fraudulent, the Prick is in the White House and his handlers are calling the shots!.
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live 8 - U2 and McCartney on vh1 right now...
I'm not too upset I didn't get to go see Live 8 live, am going to see REM on the 10th July, so its ok!
Moonbootica
I'm going to go see U2 on October 17.
I'm watching the Monty Python marathon on BBC-America.
Action in the North Atlantic on TCM.
Smells like... victory.
Oh my. Very fitting.
So how fucking obvious does this guy have to get before everyone realizes it's a joke!?!?!?!
dave™®©
I don't think DP is a joke. But, on the other hand, it is very difficult to tell the parody trolls from the real trolls. There are some very strange people out there.
Charles Johnson finally posts on Rove.
Lawrence O'Donnell is a moonbat so it can't be true.
Alternative Lizard theory: Valerie Plame married to moonbat so who cares if she was outed.
Will Smith is currently performing at Hyde Park.
live 8 - U2 and McCartney on vh1 right now...
Bitsy
Just switched over.
Okay, I'm in the last throes of signing up for a gravatar.
Hmmm...
I heart Lawrence O'Donnell. Nora O'Donnell, not so much. She even sneers for Bush.
Just switched back to Monty Python.
Will Smith does nothing for me!
everyone realizes it's a joke!?!?!?!
dave™®©
I don't think DP is a joke.
You're both right. It's a joke to us, but not to itself.
H. G. Bergeron: Oh my. Very fitting.
Yeah... I decided to go ahead and top-blog it, as well. I thought that picture really was worth at least 1000 words...
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Oh Jeebus, and I was responding to this troll?
Somebody, please knock me off my bike with a 2X4.
...was that a confession or a cry for help?
I could never stay in character that long... I yield to the masters!
Unfortunately, I don't think DP is a joke.
I'm think he's a pathetic robot who believes all the GOP's propaganda.
He probably doesn't read, gets all his news from FOX and takes everything that Rush Limpdick spews as gospel.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. - To quote Johnny Depp in "Ed Wood."
At Wimbledon, Davenport just took a break. Something with her shoulders.
4-4 in the third.
If anyone sees Barndog or filkertom around these here hills today, please ask them to e-mail me about Bliss.
I'm waiting for my gravatar e-mail, and I really should be out and about, allowing my child to drive my car (student driver ~ if you don't see me around again for a while, you know something bad happened).
Just changed to the Eden Project, with some great African artists. The BBC has the option of choosig what concert you want to watch.
Eden Project
trying to get you people to talk about something other than the troll, try this:
Simmons' conclusion from all this is unmistakably pessimistic: "The 'twilight' of Saudi Arabian oil envisioned in this book is not a remote fantasy. Ninety percent of all the oil that Saudi Arabia has ever produced has come from seven giant fields. All have now matured and grown old, but they still continue to provide around 90 percent of current Saudi oil output ... High-volume production at these key fields ... has been maintained for decades by injecting massive amounts of water that serves to keep pressures high in the huge underground reservoirs ... When these water projection programs end in each field, steep production declines are almost inevitable."
This being the case, it would be the height of folly to assume that the Saudis are capable of doubling their petroleum output in the years ahead, as projected by the DoE. Indeed, it will be a minor miracle if they raise their output by a million or two barrels per day and sustain that level for more than a year or so. Eventually, in the not-too-distant future, Saudi production will begin a sharp decline from which there is no escape. And when that happens, the world will face an energy crisis of unprecedented scale.
The moment that Saudi production goes into permanent decline, the Petroleum Age as we know it will draw to a close. Oil will still be available on international markets, but not in the abundance to which we have become accustomed and not at a price that many of us will be able to afford. Transportation, and everything it effects - which is to say, virtually the entire world economy - will be much, much more costly. The cost of food will also rise, as modern agriculture relies to an extraordinary extent on petroleum products for tilling, harvesting, pest protection, processing and delivery. Many other products made with petroleum - paints, plastics, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and so forth will also prove far more costly. Under these circumstances, a global economic contraction - with all the individual pain and hardship that would surely produce - appears nearly inevitable.
this guy is a banker for oilmen (the book author) and you can read the hampshire prof's whole article here.
Alternative Lizard theory: Valerie Plame married to moonbat so who cares if she was outed.
Laws are not enforced against Party members. Laws are not enforced for non-Party members. It's the world of Patterson, ladies and gentlemen. For real-world analogue, see Europe 1939 - 1945. Or Afganistan 1996 - 2002, 2004 - ?.
David is like the deranged, angry disturbed person on the bus, the one who screams obsenities and
unintelligible diatribes to a person only he will ever see.
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I thought liberals love the Homeless and worship them as saints.
Tis the season...
Dissent and Patriotism
David Parody -- No one suggested you were homeless.
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Probably already been said, but if that sorry excuse for a human being had been dealing with a male bicyclist, even one of my own fairly dimunitive size, he would probably never have gotten out of the car.
Please note, this is not to disparage the ability of any female cyclists to hold their own or defend themselves, but rather a commentary on the cowardice of any "man" who would assault a 105-lb. woman.
Hey Vicki, be sure to teach your child to pay attention to all people on the road and sidewalks. Oh, and anger management while driving isn't a bad thing, either.
GWPDA sez:
Action in the North Atlantic on TCM.
I knew the guy that did the music for that movie. Adolph Deutsch. In fact, I'm looking at a framed song he wrote for me as I type.
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I was suprised by the lack of black artists when Live 8 was first announched.
considering its about Africa.
well bygones.
Patterson has not learned "The Importance of Not Being Seen."
Oh you kids and your loud Green Day music and your Howard Deans!
TURN THAT RACKET DOWN!!!
I waqs having a nice np and then Atrios wakes me up with this... noise! It's not music, that's for sure... grumble...
No, I'm not getting old, why do you ask?
Centre Court: Davenport leads Williams 6-4 6-7(4) 5-4
Google bomb traitor and Rove.
Repeat after me. Don't stop.
"Rove is a traitor. He blew the cover of a CIA agent specializing in WMD. "
If only we bomb-throwers had better aim.....
Thersites: I waqs having a nice np and then Atrios wakes me up with this... noise! It's not music, that's for sure... grumble...
Oh, you think that's bad? Well... a local furniture store commercial has really pissed me off in a musical sense this week.
When did it become cool to de-tune the bass line from the melody by a quarter-tone?!? Dammit, Jim! That's just fucking ANNOYING!!!!!
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Molotov Cocktails - a low tech solution!
Patterson has not learned "The Importance of Not Being Seen."
HA! The first Python sketch I ever saw. I described it second-by-second to everyone I saw for two weeks afterward.
Other things it has not learned:
* The importance of reading a newspaper, having a clue, and so on.
* The importance of not dressing up in your dreamy fuhrer outfit and smashing the republic.
* The importance of knowing which side you're on.
* Etc.
Cartoon of the day.
(Not for the squeamish!)
Dammit, Jim!
:-D
Last weekend I was thinking about the fact that we need some serious progressive and anti-war - themed music today. I remember early on in the war people like Mike Mills were trying to get some music out there, but it has never seemed to take off.
This occurred to me while watching a band called "The Visitations" in Athens, GA. Apparently they had some kind of alien/outer space approach when they first got together, but now they are playing a lot of seriously politically-themed punk. They had an expertly-edited loop of Dubya's speeches that made him sound like an Orwellian dictator, played between songs.
LIVE 8
Anyone know when Pink Floyd performs in London? Wanna relive my high school daze.
Youssou N'Dour et le Super Etoile de Dakar just finished performing at the Eden Project.
No need to introduce this legend of West African popular music - his style an electrifying fusion of mbalax, reggae, jazz and calypso. One of the most globally influential African artists of all time, N'Dour's songs blend irresistable Afro-pop dance grooves with searingly honest social commentary.
Youssou N’Dour together with le Super Etoile de Dakar are now acknowledged as Africa’s most popular band on a worldwide scale, and their live performances are simply breathtaking.
dave: O. M. G..
:-O
A sad passing noted at CNN:
Four Tops' Benson dies at 69
Ziggy, Rita and black eyed peas - vh1 now
Now officially the LONGEST women's championship in Wimbledon history.
2:30 and counting, 3rd set tiebreaker.
Nevermind - they cut away to the idiot host and ten thousand commercials. This coverage really sucks.
I like this headline better: Howard Singer -- Lead Day of Green Dean
I'm trying to alternate between goofy and pissed, today. How'm I doin'?
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ot, but this helps explain why the big dig was $10 billion over budget:
Big Dig copies at $500,000 hit them as overdone
July 2, 2005
The Boston Globe
Sure, the cost of the Big Dig came in about $10 billion over what was first expected. Then there are the highly paid consultants that primary contractor Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff keeps around.
But this line item is really eye-popping. The contractor told the state this week it needs $500,000 to copy documents. At a copy center at a Dorchester Staples yesterday, several people expressed incredulity.
''They have to be using gold paper," said Tehran Johnson, 24, of Roxbury. ''That's money they could put toward more school centers and programs for kids and more community pools. That's outrageous."
Copy clerk Youseline Jean-Louis said the biggest order she ever had cost $2,000. A half-million dollars would make 16.7 million pages of black-and-white copies at Staples, she said. ''That's just crazy," she said.
What's worse, the copies are being made because the contractor needs to furnish them to law enforcement agencies investigating the project.
Andrew Paven, Bechtel's spokesman, said the figure includes labor costs for locating, filing, and delivering the copies, as well as other tasks. ''It's not like you're standing there feeding dimes into a commercial Xerox machine," he said.
After speaking to the Globe yesterday afternoon, Paven called back at about 6 p.m. to say the the cost would actually be closer to $216,000. As the reporter pressed for details, Paven's cellphone cut out. Several subsequent phone calls made to his cellphone were not returned.
Centre Court: Davenport leads Williams 6-4 6-7(4) 7-6
gotta love the BBC no adverts, thats worth paying for a TV Licence alone!
Damn, I'm rooting for Venus, but I gotta say, Linsday is tougher than a nickel steak.
audioslave
"in the name of"
rocked out
forget about it
looking forward to neil young who was not on the lists i saw but i see will now appear in toronto
Captain Goto: :-D
But seriously...! Every time I hear that quarter-tone flat bass line in a pop song, I just want to beat someone senseless! Don't they know that even the crappiest shareware looping software can fix that shiznit? Of course they do! They do it... just to annoy me!
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Instead of taxpayer nmoney going to a national healthcare system, decent or at least adequate education, efforts to improve the lives of the poor and sick, efforts to save the planet, etc., our tax money goes into improving the lives of the corporations and execs who don't even pay taxes for the most part.
The merkin people ought to wise up.
Geoffrey Oryema’s is currently on Stage at the Eden Project.
In view of the harrowing story of Geoffrey Oryema’s escape from his native Uganda in the boot of a car pursued by Idi Amin’s heavies after the assassination of his politician father, it was perhaps unsurprising that his first record, ‘Exile’, produced by Brian Eno and released on Real World in 1990, was bathed in a soulful mist of simple melancholy
NOW, the longest final set for women at Wimbledon in the OPEN ERA.
Damn. Just hellacious.
Centre Court: Davenport vs. Williams 6-4 6-7(4) 7-7
You guys think Chimpy will wanto give one back to Traitor Rove and Dirty Cheney and appoint a moderate as a supremo?
Dammit, Jeffraham, how am I going to pretend to be a music snob when you keep bringing up stuff I'm clueless about?
Oh, man, I'm sad. I'm a "Top Head", and had the pleasure of meeting them backstage in Easton, Pa.
Nothing like "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)".
Or "Bernadette".
beaut: You guys think Chimpy will wanto give one back to Traitor Rove and Dirty Cheney and appoint a moderate as a supremo?
With all that political capital he has banked, I'd be surprised if he didn't ramrod Fred Phelps through the Senate...
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Venus serving for the title.
Why do the vets hate America?
Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be much on the minds of their countrymen this Independence Day weekend. Marching in town parades. Lauded in speeches.
But the pride and the bunting are also a reminder that the price - and cost - of war go on many years after the fighting stops, that "to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan," as Abraham Lincoln put it, is as much an issue of national security today as are armored Humvees and trustworthy translators of Arabic.
The Senate got into a bipartisan snit over funding for veterans this week, Republicans and Democrats both raising alarms over a $1 billion shortfall for the Department of Veterans Affairs this fiscal year. On Wednesday, the Senate approved $1.5 billion in emergency funding for the VA. But the funding issue raises questions about the VA's ability to handle an increased workload as a result of the war.
With nearly 240,000 employees, the VA is larger than all other federal departments except the
Pentagon. But even before the "war on terrorism" began, it had to scramble in dealing with the needs of 7.5 million enrolled vets, including a large number of homeless - 33 percent of homeless men in the US are veterans.
Now, thousands of Iraq war vets are being added to the rolls, including many who have been wounded and will require lifelong care.
Fucking disloyal whiners... where's Patton when you need him!?!?
Centre Court: Williams leads Davenport 4-6 7-6(4) 8-7
Captain Goto: Dammit, Jeffraham, how am I going to pretend to be a music snob when you keep bringing up stuff I'm clueless about?
I'm saying that the annoying thing is when a tune purposely is out-of-tune. I wish I could think of a popular example, but I've only heard it in urban dance/techno, and I know nothing about those genres (and the fact that they "play" -- or "replay samples," as the case may be -- purposely out-of-tune sometimes sure doesn't make me any more curious!) in order to point out a good example to you.
Say the melody is in E. The bass is tuned just a little bit flat of E, and the band (or loops, et al) plays on...
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Fucking disloyal whiners... where's Patton when you need him!?!?
dave™®©
Wait until you see why there was such a shortfall:
Nicholson told lawmakers Tuesday that the administration had vastly underestimated the number of service personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who would seek VA medical treatment. The estimates had been based on outdated assumptions from 2002, he said.[emphasis added]
Iraq elected a terrorist. There has never been a more compelling reason or better time to invade.
This HAS to be put in the "Troll Hall of Fame." LMAO!
Venus wins.
Centre Court: Williams d. Davenport 4-6 7-6(4) 9-7
Jeffraham, if it's exactly a quarter-tone off, methinks they're trying to be annoying, for whatever reason.
Hey, they got you to talk about it, right?
*sigh* my dad has switched over to the cricket.
Its very close apparently
Captain Goto: Hey, they got you to talk about it, right?
It's a horrid marketing strategery, though, since I cannot name the offenders.
If you're somewhere watching a furniture store ad this weekend, where a woman sits in a chair, and then the chair keeps changing to the funky beat... well, THAT's the one that pisses me off!
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The VA should be outsourced to KBR which can then outsource it Bob Jones University Medical Skool.
"Iraq elected a terrorist. There has never been a more compelling reason or better time to invade."
This HAS to be put in the "Troll Hall of Fame."
Hey, Iraq, Iran... I speak very, very fluent Spanish!
gotta love the BBC no adverts, thats worth paying for a TV Licence alone!
Moonbootica
Missus,
Will ya
Make me tea?
Make love to me?
Put on the teley?
To the BBC!
To the BBC,
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
BBC 1!
BBC 2!
BBC 3!
BBC 4!
BBC 5!
BBC 6!
BBC 7!
BBC heaven!
BBC, peace!
I thought liberals love the Homeless and worship them as saints.
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Then you thought wrong, but good job tearing down that straw man!
Venus is bouncing around with the trophy like an 8-yr-old.
Cool.
Wow, man, Bon Jovi's guitarist is using that voice box thang... far out!!!
So, Patterson wants the US to invade Iran because of the false accusation
that their prez was a hostage taker, eh? Good thing he's not running things, although maybe he's getting talking points from Rove "The Traitor"?
What I'd like to know is how the US could invade Iran with the problems the military are having? We'd get killed....
Williams triumphs in epic final
Wimbledon final result:
L DAVENPORT (US) v V WILLIAMS (US)
6-4 6-7 7-9
Wow!!
Jon Bon Jovi is yummy.
A sad passing noted at CNN:
Four Tops' Benson dies at 69
eLad
Aw, shit, I was hoping the network itself had died.
my reading has been abysmal of late. however a granting agency invited me to read a number of manuscripts submitted to them for funding. i am learning a lot of new stuff; interesting viewpoints, facts, writing techniques, etc...
this material is non fiction, fiction, children's, poetry, etc... all over the map stylistically. and the writers have to be published previously.
i enjoy the viewpoints here and really consider responding to certain antagonistic brownshit posters a waste of time. tempting to blow steam off however.
dave™®©: Wow, man, Bon Jovi's guitarist is using that voice box thang... far out!!!
You know how those things work, dontcha? They take a midrange driver horn (it's like a speaker), connect the electrical end to a high-wattage amp, and the business end is sawed off, and surgical-grade tubing affixed. That end goes into the performer's mouth. Enough SPL to rattle the fillings loose.
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*sigh* my dad has switched over to the cricket.
Its very close apparently
Moonbootica
One of the advantages of living in the land of the giant SUVs is that most people have multiple TVs.
One of the advantages of living in the land of the giant SUVs is that most people have multiple TVs.
My husband, the Tour de France addict, has all teevees tuned to OLN.
Enough SPL to rattle the fillings loose
My fave use of that thing was in "Haitian Divorce".
We're a 1 TV and 1 car house, always have been.
My mother doesn't drive.
And I don't drive either lol
One TV is used for the PS2 while the other I just use to watch my DVDs. The main one has Sky and the better sound and screen.
"Iraq elected a terrorist. There has never been a more compelling reason or better time to invade."
This HAS to be put in the "Troll Hall of Fame."
Hey, Iraq, Iran... I speak very, very fluent Spanish!
dave™®©
Agree! Hall of Fame material: "Iraq elected a terrorist. There has never been a more compelling reason or better time to invade."
considers opinion expressed.
shakes head.
shakes head.
mumbles.
shakes head.
Well, let's hope Howard Dean stays away from the eye shadow...
pie ~ my dad is a fan of the Tour de France, I joke he should take 3 weeks off from work to watch it.
Back when we used to go camping in France, the Tour de France meant primary school was nearing a end and that we would be going on holiday.
The Tour de France should be renamed
Tour de Freedom.
that'll teach em'!!!
My husband, the Tour de France addict, has all teevees tuned to OLN.
pie
Now that is. not. fair.
You ought to see what it does to you when you use it for an enema.
-Liddy Dole
Lance ALREADY kicking ass.
Stands second at the last split.
bebe rebozo: You ought to see what it does to you when you use it for an enema.
-Liddy Dole
Quarter-tone-flattened bass lines? Yeas, I know -- the "brown sound," redefined!
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Dammit, he's CATCHING ULLRICH.
Unf**kingbelievable.
I just finished watching the women's Wimbeldon final. Venus won in 3 sets. Damn. Davenport was SOOOO good. Boo Hoo Hoo.
Re TVs and SUVs--my sister and brother-in-law have one of those SUVs with a built-in TV/DVD player in the back. "Great for families with children," they were told. The behemoth seats seven, and you can turn the headlights in circles. I'm not sure why you'd do that--to hypnotize oncoming drivers maybe?
For outstanding anti-war, pro-freedom music, consider Sweet Honey in the Rock. First class musicians, you can hear and understand the lyrics. First introduced to them Wednesday nite 29th on the PBS Special.
I joke he should take 3 weeks off from work to watch it.
Sounds about right. Hubbie is home for a week to work on throwing stuff away before we move. I don't have a lot of hope that much is going to get down during the day. He doesn't get OLN in AR.
Now that is. not. fair.
Well, I could commandeer a teevee if I really wanted. He's fairly liberal. 
sweet honey in the rock is gret. grmithal is right. sort of a capella gospel style.
Yay, Venus! That was a great match.
Now I get to watch the Mets and the Fish. A good day for idle sports diversions.
They take a midrange driver horn (it's like a speaker), connect the electrical end to a high-wattage amp, and the business end is sawed off, and surgical-grade tubing affixed. That end goes into the performer's mouth.
Man, you are definitely showing your age... this version is just hooked in between the mike and guitar - no vacuum hose needed! (BTW, I saw Frampton and Joe Walsh use the old version way, way, way back when...)
gret.
doh!
watching Jeffrey Sachs tell Live8 viewers on MTV that he wants to do for Africa what he did for Russia is truly nauseating.
why do thieves never exhibit shame?
(the aol stream is cool, switching between Destiny's Child and Brian Wilson is a trip)
Power to the People!
someone just offered me a pair of springsteen tickets for july. i'm inquiring about seating. location. price.
dave™®©: Man, you are definitely showing your age... this version is just hooked in between the mike and guitar - no vacuum hose needed! (BTW, I saw Frampton and Joe Walsh use the old version way, way, way back when...)
Oh, well that'd be a Vocoder, not a Heil Talk Box. And it's actually quite the opposite of a vacuum... SPL, baby!
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With 3km to go, Lance has the best time by 3 sec.
---comes in 2nd by 2 seconds.
Why doesn't anyone play "1776" over the July 4th weekend. Starz used to play it ad nauseum, then they pulled it, and it hasn't been seen since. I think they ought to play 24/7 over the weekend.
It is now confirmed that Rove was the Plame leaker. Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC says as much on Laughlin Group, and now Newsweek is working on its own story for this week's issue. Go to my site to find out more.
dave™®©: Man, you are definitely showing your age... this version is just hooked in between the mike and guitar - no vacuum hose needed! (BTW, I saw Frampton and Joe Walsh use the old version way, way, way back when...)
Oh, well that'd be a Vocoder, not a Heil Talk Box. And it's actually quite the opposite of a vacuum... SPL, baby!
you guys get my 'greatest hits' pkg. yet?
Go here for live aid photo gallery
http://www.corriere.it/gallery/S...uglio/live8/2&
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Tha description of how a vocoder worked sounded like a good way to get electrocuted. Do vocoder players have a high work-related mortality rate?
Larry O'Donnell doubles down.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/th...s-
cov_3556.html
Rove Blew CIA Agent's Cover
I revealed in yesterday's taping of the McLaughlin Group that Time magazine's emails will reveal that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source. I have known this for months but didn't want to say it at a time that would risk me getting dragged into the grand jury.
McLaughlin is seen in some markets on Friday night, so some websites have picked it up, including Drudge, but I don't expect it to have much impact because McLaughlin is not considered a news show and it will be pre-empted in the big markets on Sunday because of tennis.
Since I revealed the big scoop, I have had it reconfirmed by yet another highly authoritative source. Too many people know this. It should break wide open this week. I know Newsweek is working on an 'It's Rove!' story and will probably break it tomorrow.
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Delightful, delicious, de-lovely!
Uh oh. I think Dontrelle Willis is pitching for Florida.
D'oh!
Isn't the son of someone who posts here Willis's agent?
Just caught Richard Ashcroft of the Verve doing "Bittersweet Symphony" with Coldplay as his backup band. Nice.
I wish the freaking MTV DJ's would STFU, tho. Let the music play.
speaking of the 4th of july here's a memory of being a boy in mo.;
on the fairgrounds
an american flag
made of fireworks
red white and blue
glowing at night
very impressive to an eight yr. old
monica_nyc: Isn't the son of someone who posts here Willis's agent?
Whachutalkinbout, "Willis?"
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Re TVs and SUVs--my sister and brother-in-law have one of those SUVs with a built-in TV/DVD player in the back
My home theater system came with an SUV. it's very handy. No more of that laborious walk from the living room to the kitchen for a snack. Now we can drive!
I have known this for months but didn't want to say it at a time that would risk me getting dragged into the grand jury.
Another profile in courage.
It is now confirmed that Rove was the Plame leaker. Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC says as much on Laughlin Group, and now Newsweek is working on its own story for this week's issue.
Can you say 'sweet revenge'
Rove, the leaker.
The sociopathic little fuck should be put in the stocks at Ground Zero, and have rotten fruit thrown at him.
A woman tried to smuggle an automatic pistol into a high-security prison in Bogota by concealing it in her rectum. Unfortunately, she was unable to remove the weapon from its snug hiding place. In great distress and needing medical attention, Tirsa told wardens at La Picota prison that she was pregnant, and was rushed to a nearby hospital.... After three days of hospitalization, she confessed the real reason for her pain to hospital staff, and surgeons removed the 7.65mm pistol on Wednesday
Beats the hell out of a gerbil!
-Liddy Dole
Can you say 'sweet revenge'
This is sweet on so many levels that it's like being given the keys to the candy store.
Have a delicious day, kiddies.
Draco: Tha description of how a vocoder worked sounded like a good way to get electrocuted. Do vocoder players have a high work-related mortality rate?
Wha-huh? Singing/talking into a microphone that is signal-processed and pitch-to-voltage converted into synthesized sound is an electrocution danger?
Maybe you're thinking the Heil Talk Box would be the shock danger, which could be, depending on how the grounding is worked out on the guitar amp vs. the P.A. Considering that the mic-to-mouth circuit is more likely to be completed in that scheme, due to the necessary proximity, and the extra saliva produced by having a tube in one's piehole...
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Jeff Fucking Torborg is a baseball announcer for FOX? Yeesh.
That's a moderation of my previous position, BTW. My previous fantasies regarding Rove have centered around using him for T-ball practice.
See how I've matured?
Re TVs and SUVs--my sister and brother-in-law have one of those SUVs with a built-in TV/DVD player in the back.
I was watching Pimp My Ride last night - they put a jacuzzi in the back of an Econoline van. 2 flatscreens, banquette seating and some kind of recording studio equipment too.
Poor Bruce Berry never had it so good.
Whachutalkinbout, "Willis?"
Indeedy.
Let me get this straight: everybody knew it was Rove, but no one was going to say anything until Time decided to release Cooper's notes.
What the #$@% else do these people know that they aren't telling us?!?!
Nice obscure reference there, Bitsy.
One of the great albums of all time, that one.
Pimp My Ride is such a great show. those guys at west coast are funny. I saw the first 10 minutes of the Pacer episode before we went out.
it's cool that they focus on working class kids, usually in school or just out.
Pimp My Ride is MTV Europe's #1 show. go figure.
I guess I meant the Hell-Talker as the electrocution danger. I was worried about sneezing too.
abyssgazer: Indeed...
...don't worry, I'm sure they'll tell us Little People when they think "it's appropriate."
What the #$@% else do these people know that they aren't telling us?!?!
Let's ask Judith Fucking Miller.
What the #$@% else do these people know that they aren't telling us?!?!
forced sodomy at Abu Ghraib of adolescents.
Halliburton theft of millions and millions.
untold instances of corporate and governmental thuggery perpetrated against their readers.
but everybody in Nantucket already knows this stuff, so it's old news, really.
Sheesh, I'm going to Nantucket in a few weeks...
If Howie Kurtz is there, would that make it The Heart of Darkness?
The latest piece of crap for not allowing the morning after pill be sold over the counter is that rapists and molesters will slip Plan B pills to young women to "hide" their crimes.
So they will also deny 'scripts of Viagra because rapists and molesters might use it to commit their crimes.
Right? Am I right or am I wrong?
Speaking of talk boxes, Jeff Beck used one from Kustom called the Bag with Beck, Bogert, and Appice in the early 70's and continued to use it on some of his jazz stuff.
Pimp My Ride is cool - I like all the crazy crap they put in the cars. It seems like their stereos and tv's would get ripped off though, especially after the show airs and everybody in their neighborhood knows what they've got.
I can't think about an Econoline van without thinking about Neil Young. It's such an awesome song. He's the best.
Um, what's with Brad Pitt's hair? He's too old to play a punk.
Since I revealed the big scoop, I have had it reconfirmed by yet another highly authoritative source. Too many people know this. It should break wide open this week. I know Newsweek is working on an 'It's Rove!' story and will probably break it tomorrow.
Un fucking believable! WTF is wrong with the media? Why wasn't it leaked until now? i don't get it.
Something else I don't get is the fact that musicians for this Super 8 concert are being paid but not one thin dime is being raised for these poverty stricken countries by their fans. Inexcusable! No 800 number...nothing!
it seems that snoop has decided George Clinton is his new role model. me likee.
Um, what's with Brad Pitt's hair? He's too old to play a punk.
He could put a dead skunk on his head and he'd still be gorgeous.
Butsy--Do you also think of Young when you see dune buggies? Especially large groups of them going downhill?
but everybody in Nantucket already knows this stuff, so it's old news, really.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari
That seems to be SOP these days. I hate our farking press corp.
Cool- watching Bruce Cockburn in Toronto doing If I Had a Rocket Launcher
The bands are getting paid for this? WTF??
it seems that snoop has decided George Clinton is his new role model. me likee.
Really, cool. I hope Snoop gets that ol' Atomic Dawg thang going with Dr. Funkenstein.
billy b,
yeah, snoop ended with his version of atomic dawg. anyone know who this is on the Paris feed?
I love how Music Television cuts the songs so they can have their VJ's waste time and show more ads.
What a waste.bleh
Powerful video driving home "here's why/what we did this for twenty years ago, and why we're doing it now". Bob Geldorf in fine form.
London, is the place to be today for LIVE 8.
Green Day was fucking great! American Idiot, Holiday, Minority & We Are the Champions (Queen)
As was Audioslave -- they played RATM's 'Killing in the Name of' & I went insane. Ran away before Chris de Burgh started, now there's just oldies all night.
More free concerts! Nanne, from a warm Berlin.
Um, what's with Brad Pitt's hair? He's too old to play a punk.
He could put a dead skunk on his head and he'd still be gorgeous.
Bitsy |
I'll take Johnny Depp anyway.
that voice box thang...
I'm a vocoder guy, personally.
well maybe i'm the faggot america
i'm not part of a redneck agenda
now everybody do the propaganda
and sing along to the age of paranoia
I wasn't a fan of Green Day until I heard American Idiot, but it is definitely an awesome cd. Stop mispelling Billie's name, it isn't with a y. its with an ie.
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