I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Well, a little more room is nice
Frist?
lance - first
Wow - I come back to nice clean shiny fresh sheets.
How considerate that Mr. Atrios fella is.
He certainly is, Mena.
What's ever'body talking about this evening?
they just played a clip of BUSH™'s radio address from today...BUSH™ sounds *really depressed*!
(by "they" i meant aar)
they just played a clip of BUSH™'s radio address from today...BUSH™ sounds *really depressed*!
But... I thought the last throes were just around the corner or something.
Go make a drink and look what happens.
n69,
He's had a hard week.
Well as the Eagles sang...
There is not enough thread in the world!
woo-hoo! Finished the comprehensive index to this freelance project that won't go away, so I'm going to snuggle up with the kitty in air-conditioned comfort and read Letter of Marque, the twelfth (thirteenth?) volume in the Aubrey-Maturin saga. Yay! Now if I can just get the gentleman to pour me a glass . . .
What's ever'body talking about this evening?
Not mulch.
What's ever'body talking about this evening?
flory, Contributing Editor | Email | 07.23.05 - 10:07 pm
How open threads make your penis bigger.
Seriously.
And what tickles me is the Roberts nomination did not kill the stories on Rove and the leaks.
One of those Hallmark moments.
He's had a hard week.
He's been workin' hard.
He's had a hard week.
He's been workin' hard.
BUSH™ had that tone of voice that guys get when they want you to *ASK* "whats wrong?", but they dont want to volunteer the info.
And what tickles me is the Roberts nomination did not kill the stories on Rove and the leaks.
One of those Hallmark moments.
I think the Roberts nomination is proof that Bush knows he's in trouble. If he had political capital remaining, he would nominate the judicial equivalent of John Bolton who would generate lots of distracting sparks, and be fairly confident he could push him through.
But instead, he settled for a safe, easily confirmable pick who wouldn't take the heat off Rove.
Frog march music:
Adagio For Strings or O Fortuna?
But when you get the threads just right, the soup is outstanding!
And what tickles me is the Roberts nomination did not kill the stories on Rove and the leaks.
Oh, me too. The frat boy slaps together a rushed Supreme court nominee in order to push Rove off the front page and it backfires. The drip, drip, drip is going to kill them.
Please don't start on mulch here too.
Frog march music:
Adagio For Strings or O Fortuna?
Gotta go with Orff.
they just played a clip of BUSH™'s radio address from today...BUSH™ sounds *really depressed*!
n69n
==
Aw, let's buy him a present!
Frog march music:
Adagio For Strings or O Fortuna?
If I had to pick, I'd go with Adagio For Strings.
Aw, let's buy him a present!
I'll send him a cake with a rubber file in it.
The Democratic response to Bush's weekly address was by Larry Johnson, ex-CIA officer and was all about the outing of Valerie Plame. Hee, hee, hee.
Little Boots, is that sweat I see dripping off you like rain?
Frog march music:
Adagio For Strings or O Fortuna?
My vote's for the whoopie cushion orchestra.
Well, Roberts isn't exactly a 'moderate' pick by any means. The dude's a member of the Federalists, and at least one opinion I read (a dissent on a California case) makes that clear.
Gotta go with Orff.
Fuck Orff.
How come American wine mostly sucks?
I picked the Merryvale "Dutton Ranch" 2000 Chardonnay (a sample... not purchased with actual money) for my "Wine of Wretched Excess" this evening, and it fucking tastes like a tropical fruit smoothie topped with sawdust.
On the bright side, I'm not exposing anyone else to this atrocity. The Pinkus "Ur Pils" I had on the way home were vastly superior.
Can't wait to go drink real wine with adults tomorrow.
I finished Harry Potter tonight. Do you think she can write five more book? Several places where she seemed to be taking pot shots at Bush. I'm surprised that the same wingnuts who were upset about the Star Wars movie aren't upset about Harry.
they just played a clip of BUSH™'s radio address from today...BUSH™ sounds *really depressed*!
If I hadn't been otherwise occupied, I would've done my weekly podcast on his address. I love it when he sounds depressed and invokes Clinton.
Well, Roberts isn't exactly a 'moderate' pick by any means. The dude's a member of the Federalists, and at least one opinion I read (a dissent on a California case) makes that clear.
No, but he's a safe pick who will be confirmed easily, what with the Gang Of 14 being on board with him.
they just played a clip of BUSH™'s radio address from today...BUSH™ sounds *really depressed*!
I've noticed that he looks really old and haggard lately. Being Preznit must be hard work. Keeping all the lies and deceptions straight prolly wears a guy out.
Well worth reading and digesting.
And Then They Came After Us
We’re at war. How about acting like it?
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
http://www.victorhanson.com/
arti...nson072205.html
Aw, let's buy him a present!
I'll send him a cake with a rubber file in it.
Eli | Email | Homepage | 07.23.05 - 10:15 pm
I'll send him some yellowcake with file' in it.
Frog march music:
I thought that the only music that played when Rove marched was The Imeprial March (Darth Vader's theme). . .
So, gee, I wonder why Bush has not gone ahead and put Bolton in as UN representative now that Congress is recessed?
Is it because Bolton cannot whip the UN into shape with his hands cuffed behind his back?
Just curious.
WHO TOLD MILLER ABOUT PLAME?
Gotta go with Orff.
Fuck Orff.
Eli | Email | Homepage | 07.23.05 - 10:15 pm
You say Carmina, and I say Burana,
You say Fortuna, and I say cantata,
Carmina, Burana, Fortuna, cantata,
Let's Carl the whole thing Orff....
I'm surprised that the same wingnuts who were upset about the Star Wars movie aren't upset about Harry.
Hecate
It takes them longer to read, Hecate. Much longer. And then their lip muscles tire.
Adagio For Strings or O Fortuna?
==
"Always Look on the Bright Side"?
I finished Harry Potter tonight.
And on that note I must start it finally. I've had the thing since my wife deigned to let me have it Monday and I still haven't cracked the damn thing open. So g'night, batties. I have business at Hogwarts tonight.
I'm surprised that the same wingnuts who were upset about the Star Wars movie aren't upset about Harry.
Hecate
It takes them longer to read, Hecate. Much longer. And then their lip muscles tire.
Plus they're afraid all that witchcraft might be contagious.
We’re at war. How about acting like it?
Absolutely, boy! Get your ass down to the recruiting office. That's what patriots do when they're country's at war.
Each time I hear Adagio I think of poor Frank Costanza burning holes the size of veal cutlets in the colons of his men.
'Night, NTodd.
Being Preznit must be hard work. Keeping all the lies and deceptions straight prolly wears a guy out.
==
Kate - it's those damn regular hours - such a grind!
Serenity Now:
London Police: Subway Shooting Not Connected to Attacks
"There was blind panic, with people shouting and screaming and just running away," said Chris Martin, who was on the platform when the shooting took place.
Later in the day, police clad in body armor and wielding automatic weapons triggered another wave of panic when they sealed off part of the Kilburn section of west London and raided a house...
Yassim Egal, 22, said he saw two women apprehended on nearby Harrow Road. "I was shocked by the way they arrested them," he said. "One of them had a shopping bag and a baby. They were very rough with them, shouting, 'Get against the wall.' They were telling everyone else to clear the area. It was really terrible."
The women were later released and police officials gave no explanation for the raid. Witnesses said one of the women was later carried away on a stretcher and taken to an ambulance.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...5072300438.html
Well worth reading and digesting.
And Then They Came After Us
We’re at war. How about acting like it?
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Well worth ignoring or inducing vomiting.
And now I'm really leaving.
filkertom:
That, my glorious sodomite, is the most clever post I've seen today. Well done, medium rare, however you like it.
I bow before Zod
.
Each time I hear Adagio I think of poor Frank Costanza burning holes the size of veal cutlets in the colons of his men.
FFRRRAAAAANNNNKKKKKK!!!!
*hurrrllll*
WalterNeff -- [bows humbly]
Well worth reading and digesting.
And Then They Came After Us
We’re at war. How about acting like it?
I'm not at war. And in all honesty, I don't appreciate a man who's supposed to be acting as the fucking President of the United States, no matter how he got the lease on the White House, telling me that *I'm* at war.
I appreciate even less some chickenhawk fuck like you or your stroke buddies at NRO telling me how to act and think, simply because you get a boner when the cannons go off.
Call me unAmerican? Go fuck yourself, you traitor worshipping war pig! Your rhinestone cowboy started this shit, he'd better get America out of it.
And fuck Halliburton and Exxon, while I'm at it. Fucking traitors and rapists....
And on that note I must start it finally. I've had the thing since my wife deigned to let me have it Monday and I still haven't cracked the damn thing open. So g'night, batties. I have business at Hogwarts tonight.
"Children, Creepy Middle-Aged Weirdos Swept up in Harry Potter Craze"
I was going to try to go to sleep early, but with the Thetans, the tiny hollow Jews inside Eli, and now reading about a nanny having fantasies about Tucker Carlson, I think I'll have to wait until dawn to close my eyes.
I heard Hartmann say that the Army's about to raise the age limit for enlistment, sounds like a grand opportunity for the very patriotic fighting 101st keyboarders to me. Operation Wrinkled Yellow Chickenhawk!
Well, all the discussion of cats & dogs & hollow Jews & the Fantastic Four has been great, but I am really tired & need to go to bed (& maybe get some more reading done on Harry Potter before somebody here spoils things)
BTW strawhat -- I assume you have already read "Letter of Marque" -- I would point out that it is one of the great ones, but they all are!
I think as a stand alone, "Mauritius Campaign" might be my favorite, but it was the first I read & that might prejudice me
I think Devil Volcano movie may have just possibly jumped the shark at this point...
(A *circle* is the sign of the Devil???)
Now, now, Ripley. You know that truth and genuine emotion only make the sad little wannabe troll cry.
Crank it.
they're = their
Later, Prior.
By the way, for the comic and movie nuts out there, the trailer for V For Vendetta is up. Looks great, but we'll have to see what the Wachowski Bros. did to it.
We’re at war. How about acting like it?
The Tuscon Grannies tried but were too old.
It's your turn soldier!
1.800.GO.ARMY
Hup, two, three, four.
Hey Moonbats
Ripley: I believe it!
My god, I just saw this thread and there must be 60 comments on it already.
By the way, for the comic and movie nuts out there, the trailer for V For Vendetta is up. Looks great, but we'll have to see what the Wachowski Bros. did to it.
Agreed. My girlfriend's a huge fan of the comic, but not of Natalie Portman - but she's pretty psyched about it now.
What little I heard of Hugo Weaving's voice as V didn't really work for me, unfortunately. But otherwise it was Teh Awesome.
Well worth reading and digesting.
And Then They Came After Us
We’re at war. How about acting like it
Obviously, it starts with rolling back the tax cuts for the obscenely rich, right?
What's ever'body talking about this evening?
flory, Contributing Editor | Email | 07.23.05 - 10:07 pm
How open threads make your penis bigger.
Seriously.
filkertom
Really? I hadn't noticed.
Hey, DWD! Tena!
Really? I hadn't noticed.
Well, they have different effects on women.
Check your boobs.
"Children, Creepy Middle-Aged Weirdos Swept up in Harry Potter Craze"
I'm not swept up in the Harry Potter craze. This creepy middle-aged man swoons for Hermione.
Okay, I'm really leaving.
I think as a stand alone, "Mauritius Campaign" might be my favorite, but it was the first I read & that might prejudice me
Why on earth didn't you start with Master and Commander? I just restarted the series a coupla weeks ago, got sidetracked by a scii-fi book (Chindi), and now won't get to Post Captain until I finish Half-blood Prince.
Have you seen there's an untitled 21st book out? PO had completed the first 3 chapters before he died (hard to finish them after), and his publisher compiled his notes and put together a nice little tome. Normal print pages side-by-side with PO's handwritten stuff (with his edits and all). I bought it in Silver Spring a couple weeks ago but since I was ailing I never got around to reading it. Now I think I'll wait until I complete the cycle.
Okay, now I'm really leaving.
We’re at war. How about acting like it?
Sorry. I'm not part of Victor David Butthead's "We".
My girlfriend's a huge fan of the comic, but not of Natalie Portman
Cool coincidence!
I'm a huge fan of the comic, and my girlfriend is Natalie Portman!
Check your boobs.
Eli | Email | Homepage | 07.23.05 - 10:28 pm
Who wants plaid boobs?
I don't think the tent frame is coming off the top of the car tonight.
By the way, for the comic and movie nuts out there, the trailer for V For Vendetta is up. Looks great, but we'll have to see what the Wachowski Bros. did to it.
I so can't wait.
And damn it, I'm really leaving.
I'm a huge fan of the comic, and my girlfriend is Natalie Portman!
Be sure to bring her along to EschaCon so I can steal her away from you.
Obviously, it starts with rolling back the tax cuts for the obscenely rich, right?
Yup. And then the preznit takes an entire month's vacation every year that the war's going on.
his creepy middle-aged man swoons for Hermione.
You're not quite middle-aged.
66th
Let Me Know when I'm 666'th
.
Who wants plaid boobs?
I am sooo not picky.
I'm a huge fan of the comic, and my girlfriend is Natalie Portman!
Whom you've seen...naked?
And Eli, is your girlfriend's codename V?
And damn it, I'm really leaving.
NTodd the Inane
No you're not!
.
How come American wine mostly sucks?
Given the variety of whites - in California alone - let alone Oregon, Washington etc - kinda painting with a broad brush there, aintcha?
Ripley - I could just listen to you all night dude.
And Eli, is your girlfriend's codename V?
Why yes. Yes, it is. V, for short.
Hecate,
Noticed the Bush jabs. Loved her for it.
Oh, and check out p. 485 - as an editor, I caught what is either a little joke or a mistake.
What Slughorn calls Ron.
You're not quite middle-aged.
I'm pretty sure I'll die by 72.
And I guess I'm not leaving. I'll start Potter tomorrow...
hey all.
yawn, to tired for puns. up all night last night reading harry potter. i was a middle aged wierdo before the first one came out. but never creepy.
watched 12 monkeys twice today, and the senate democratic commitee hearing on the damage done by the plame leak once.
now on to some dr. who videos, it's all the same story.
karl rove, now HE is creepy.
goodnight again.
Well, Roberts isn't exactly a 'moderate' pick by any means. The dude's a member of the Federalists, and at least one opinion I read (a dissent on a California case) makes that clear.
I saved this today just in case it came up:
Correction: Federalist-Society Story AP - Thu Jul 21, 5:04 PM ET
WASHINGTON - In a July 18 story about the Federalist Society and a July 19 story on the legal background of Judge John Roberts, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Roberts was a member of the Federalist Society. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said that Roberts has given presentations before the conservative legal group but is not a member. Federalist Society membership records are private, according to its president, Eugene Meyer.
So, what's up with that?
My god, I just saw this thread and there must be 60 comments on it already.
Tena
Well, there's a crap night on TeeVee for you...
Yup. And then the preznit takes an entire month's vacation every year that the war's going on.
Bush is a pampered, lazy, stooge.
A month long vacation. Gawd that makes me crazy.
Why yes. Yes, it is. V, for short.
Gee, how'd I break the code on that?
Ah, yes. I've just been watching the sky here. Pretty nice.
Be sure to bring her along to EschaCon so I can steal her away from you.
Sorry, we are unable to attend. I'm too proud to have her pay for the trip, and besides, she's shy.
Plus, she told me she's too good for you, and I'm afraid I have to agree.
What are people listening to or watching tonight? As a Left Coaster, I was thinking about Dante's Peak - which, if you live where I live you would consider a true story. But my daughter reports that it's not letterboxed. So, that's gotta be a "no" for WalterSnob. Instead, I'm going to sign off on the hour, crack a volume of Cervantes and listen to the soundtrack to Jean De Florette.
Or maybe I'll just have wild monkey sex.
Goodnight, all.
And I guess I'm not leaving. I'll start Potter tomorrow...
NTodd the Inane
I told ya'
I'm just coming in. Did anyone read the new Frank Rich column in the Times? It is GOOD.
So, what's up with that?
pie
Whoa! Apparently I was mistaken, for which I apologize. But after reading his dissent on the endangered species act case (the cite escapes me), you could have fooled me.
Federalist Society membership records are private, according to its president, Eugene Meyer.
So, what's up with that?
pie | Email | Homepage | 07.23.05 - 10:32 pm | #
What's up is that it's a creepy secret society and he won't admit that he's a member.
But my daughter reports that it's not letterboxed. So, that's gotta be a "no" for WalterSnob.
Yeah, because you have to be able to appreciate the art of the original cinematic composition...
I'm not at war. I'm not going to start pretending i am, either.
Really? I hadn't noticed.
flory, Contributing Editor
Well what the hell do I have to do!
Look it's bigger!
(face turns red)
never mind.
Is it cold in here?
.
the tiny hollow Jews inside Eli
OK - now I missed some good dirt. Who are they? How'd they get in Eli? And how did we discover them?
And how did we discover them?
I said, "I'm full of tinier Jews!"
Agent Orange - I think you created a self-fulfilling prophecy. Bastard.
And I'm still not leaving...
Now I just need to entice Natalie Portman to say something... similar.
Late night stuff going on -- must fly. Catch you later, moonbats!
Prior Aelred - that's my husband's favorite, too, and you're right, it stands alone.
It is far from my favorite, but O'Brien has something for everyone and it's something wonderful.
NOW I remember that Star Trek epi: For The Jew Is Hollow And I Have Kissed Eli.
Federalist Society: what the He-Man Wimmin Haters Club became when it grew beards.
his creepy middle-aged man swoons for Hermione.
You're not quite middle-aged.
watertiger
What does constitute middle-aged? wonders the man who will be 41 a week from Wednesday.
What's up is that it's a creepy secret society and he won't admit that he's a member.
I was surprised at the *correction* that was posted.
Methinks someone is protesting too much.
Well, they have different effects on women.
Check your boobs.
Eli
Nothing happening there. What do they do to butts? Cos this could be a problem.
NTodd--and we plan to keep you here as long as possible. I mean, come on, there's blueberry pie in the oven!
GWPDA, you should see the sky in Michigan this night. The wind is keening off the lake making a delicious bouquet in the night air. The thunder is bellowing and the lightning dances in answer.
With moist air filled with fury and mystery: tis a good night to experience the world.
The brits have gone fucking nuts:
Mayor Ken Livingstone said the killing was a "human tragedy" that was a consequence of the attacks.
"The police acted to do what they believed necessary to protect the lives of the public," he said. "This tragedy has added another victim to the toll of deaths for which the terrorists bear responsibility."
...
"It's incredibly important that society remains united at such a tense time, it's very important that young Asian men don't feel that there is some kind of trigger-happy culture out there," Chakrabarti [director of the civil rights group Liberty] said.
...
Security alerts kept Londoners on edge, and fears of a new terrorist attack led Italian soccer powerhouse Inter Milan to cancel its English tour because of safety concerns, a decision criticized by England's Norwich City soccer team.
"For Inter Milan to refuse to travel because of the threat of terrorism is simply giving in to the terrorists," said the team's chief executive, Neil Doncaster.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/brita...zkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
7/7 changed everything.
The cops had a Brazilian guy on the ground. Then shot him 5 times. Insanity! The the civil rights group guy says think about the Asians! Asians, what about whitey with a nice tan? How about a tall dark and handsome Italian soccer player? You don't want be next to him in the tube. Insanity!
So much for the stuff upper lip.
I am disturbed by David Brooks' article on how much he hates children on airplanes. From this article, I can deduce:
1) David Brooks thinks he is Dave Barry.
2) David Brooks has no idea how that whole abortion-becoming-illegal scenario would actually turn his entire waking life into one big airplane trip. Except there are NO children reading the economist and a lot more unhappy families.
Pain, Agony, Despair: Flying with Children
http://tinyurl.com/8sell
I heard an important character in the Potter book dies at the end. Really terrible and has kids everywhere upset.
It was a bombshell, Flory.
I know you won't believe me, so ask Prior A.
kinda painting with a broad brush there, aintcha?
Yup. That's what the "mostly" was there for. Many French, Spanish and Italian wines suck, too... especially the commercial crap. Don't even want to talk about Australia. Feh.
For discussion purposes, I will alter my statement to : "California" wines mostly suck, since I do love many Oregon Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir.
Nothing happening there.
Well, shoot. Maybe you're not applying them properly. I'll need to observe your technique before I can make any recommendations.
I'm pretty sure I'll die by 72.
you hush.
And I'm still not leaving...
NTodd the Inane
I control the horizontal
I control the vertical
I can go from a sharp focus to a soft blur.....
.
"This tragedy has added another victim to the toll of deaths for which the terrorists bear responsibility."
"Look what you terrorists made us do!"
NOW I remember that Star Trek epi: For The Jew Is Hollow And I Have Kissed Eli.
NTodd the Inane | Email | Homepage | 07.23.05 - 10:36 pm | #
just flashed on rove, standing before the grand jury shouting:
I AM KUH-RAHL! I AM KUH-RAL!
different episode, bit still....
there's blueberry pie in the oven!
I just had the best blueberry pie. With fresh picked blueberries.
Tasty...
What does constitute middle-aged? wonders the man who will be 41 a week from Wednesday.
56.
I heard an important character in the Potter book dies at the end.
Well, they'll be okay. It's fiction.
The cops had a Brazilian guy on the ground. Then shot him 5 times. Insanity! The the civil rights group guy says think about the Asians! Asians, what about whitey with a nice tan? How about a tall dark and handsome Italian soccer player? You don't want be next to him in the tube. Insanity!
So much for the stuff upper lip.
hadenough
How many of those Italian soccer players are Brazilian themselves?
{Though the Brazilians tend to prefer to play in Spain or Hong Kong 
.}
Okay, even with blueberry pie in the oven, I really totally am leaving. Sam and Cairo are both very annoyed with me, I'm wicked sleepy and I want to at least read a few pages of Potter tonight. This is, I totally swear, my last post of the evening. If Agent Orange offers to bet you that I'll come back, take him up on the wager. You'll be thousands of quatloos richer for it.
Goodnight. Sleep tight. And remember that no matter how evil the trolls are, how much Bush depresses us, and how bad the sci-fi movies may appear, the principle of induction tells us that the sun will rise tomorrow. Unless is doesn't.
I think the volcano-denying monk is dodgy. Dodgy, I say!
I'm surprised that the same wingnuts who were upset about the Star Wars movie aren't upset about Harry.
In some places in Bobo's World, the Far Right Loons do periodically try to get the Potter books banned from school libraries for the very reasons Eli stated. So far, more rational heads have prevailed after a barage of LTEs from parents and teachers who extoll the virtures of kids reading real books instead of watching TV and playing video games.
Hey, NTodd...
Federalist Society: what the He-Man Wimmin Haters Club became when it grew beards.
==
What is their thing with the secret rites already? Does it get much creepier than flabby old white guys running around naked in the woods doing shit with plucked chickens?
What does constitute middle-aged? wonders the man who will be 41 a week from Wednesday.
56.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
Excellent answer. I like you. I don't care what the others say when you aren't around. Oops, I've said too much.
This is, I totally swear, my last post of the evening. If Agent Orange offers to bet you that I'll come back, take him up on the wager. You'll be thousands of quatloos richer for it.
I win! I knew you'd come back to check. We all do. Ha Ha Ha ha ha.
Well, they'll be okay. It's fiction.
normal kids will, but not fundies. they've been taught the literal truth of fairy tales, makes it hard to explain the concept of "fiction"
Well, they'll be okay. It's fiction.
pie
I agree. Children can't be sheltered from all the brutal realities of life. But it's probably the first for them and parents should start a conversation with them, maybe.
GWPDA, you should see the sky in Michigan this night. The wind is keening off the lake making a delicious bouquet in the night air. The thunder is bellowing and the lightning dances in answer.
With moist air filled with fury and mystery: tis a good night to experience the world.
DWD
Maxfield
Parrish
GWPDA, you should see the sky in Michigan this night. The wind is keening off the lake making a delicious bouquet in the night air. The thunder is bellowing and the lightning dances in answer.
With moist air filled with fury and mystery: tis a good night to experience the world.
Take me, you magnificent bastard! Take me now and show me the heights of glorious...
errrr... ahem...
For The Jew Is Hollow And I Have Kissed Eli.
NTodd the Inane
Oh!! THAT's what you were talking about?
*yawn*
*yawn*
Well, gee, thanks...
So much for the stuff upper lip.
hadenough | 07.23.05 - 10:37 pm | #
The second attack seems to have unnverved the British exactly the way the anthrax unnverved me.
I was a few blocks away from the WTC on 9/11 and I came though that without panicking.
But when the anthrax attacks hit, I gave way to pure, white knucked fear.
I think that one attack sends you into a sort of shock. The second attack breaks you out of the numbness.
the principle of induction tells us that the sun will rise tomorrow. Unless is doesn't.
My fears are assuaged. Go forth, and sleep in peace.
I made the mistake of reading Bobo's column. WTF? Clearly, this is a person who's never been to a supermarket, a discount department store, or a restaurant that has prices on the menu. If he'd ever been in the immediate vicinity of children, he'd possibly have a different perspective on them.
But no, men should not be exposed to children. Women's work only. Right?
There's blueberry pie?
What does constitute middle-aged?
23
I'm not at war. And in all honesty, I don't appreciate a man who's supposed to be acting as the fucking President of the United States, no matter how he got the lease on the White House, telling me that *I'm* at war.
I appreciate even less some chickenhawk fuck like you or your stroke buddies at NRO telling me how to act and think, simply because you get a boner when the cannons go off.
Call me unAmerican? Go fuck yourself, you traitor worshipping war pig! Your rhinestone cowboy started this shit, he'd better get America out of it.
And fuck Halliburton and Exxon, while I'm at it. Fucking traitors and rapists....
Ripley - 10:22 pm
So good it's worth reading twice. 
A four-year War Boner is a painful persistent erection in anybody's book. Past time for sufferers to swallow their collective pride and get help.
the principle of induction tells us that the sun will rise tomorrow. Unless is doesn't.
haven't you heard> the sun stands still. we revolve around it. except in alabama.
We are so waiting for V. Will it include the acid trip? How will they handle the media control -- will they be savvy enough to replace straightforward ("Orwellian") top-down overt control with "consensual" ("Huxleyan") passivity on the part of the press? What will happen to Africa? Will the British Nationalists get a cooler logo than the fucking letter "N"?
Ćon Flux we expect to be a disaster, a "Matrix" if you will. The saving grace of the cartoon was a penchant for complication and metaphor that no one can have and also remain employed in Hollywood.
BMvsSM ...yawn.
Wonder Woman better not star anyone like Sandra Bulock or J-Lo, as was rumored to be possible.
errrr... ahem...
Ripley
Indeed. Perfectly ordinary 19th Century exegesis. Ahem.
How do you feel about mulch?
I started the new Harry Potter a few days ago and it's just starting to get good.
God, if a character dying in Harry Potter upsets kids, what do you suppose happened when Bambi's mother died? Or they shot Ol' Yeller?
Get real. Kids get upset, adults get upset - everything ain't that pretty at all.
T'was ever thus.
Well, shoot. Maybe you're not applying them properly. I'll need to observe your technique before I can make any recommendations.
Eli
I think we need to take care of this before EschaCon.
. But it's probably the first for them and parents should start a conversation with them, maybe.
bambi.
any kid old enough to read this book ought to be able to handle it.
With moist air filled with fury and mystery: tis a good night to experience the world.
DWD
Maxfield
Parrish
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
Professing ignorance again. (Well, I do not have a PhD - ran out of patience before degrees) Who or what is Maxfield Parrish?
(The only stupid question (usually) is the one that is not asked.)
We are so waiting for V. Will it include the acid trip? How will they handle the media control -- will they be savvy enough to replace straightforward ("Orwellian") top-down overt control with "consensual" ("Huxleyan") passivity on the part of the press? What will happen to Africa? Will the British Nationalists get a cooler logo than the fucking letter "N"?
Don't get your hopes for maximum subversiveness up *too* much. From the trailer, it looks like the beginning (i.e., our introduction to Evie) is, shall we say, sanitized.
BTW the Brazilian newspapers on the Internet are obviously ledeing with the fellow who got shot to death or was said to "have lost his life"! Jesus... carkeys you lose...getting shot five times is not exactly losing something.
And I don't read Portugese so I don't know what the papers are saying.
It was a bombshell, Flory.
I know you won't believe me, so ask Prior A.
mena
Prior A's gone to bed. Its all up to you.
I think we need to take care of this before EschaCon.
As many times as necessary.
One of the funniest Family Guy clips was with Stewie being difficult on an airplane, ranting: "Oh! I'm discomforted! Am I tired? Am I hungry? Do I need a changing? Who knows, I'm a baby!"
How do you feel about mulch?
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
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NO, RIPLEY!! DON'T BITE! IT'S A TRAP!!
What does constitute middle-aged?
23
so that means, um, 2 times 23 = ....
oh, shit. i'm done.
Eli,
"Shaun of the Dead" is bloody brilliant!
"You've got red on you."
What does constitute middle-aged? wonders the man who will be 41 a week from Wednesday.
Well, if you're gonna die at 72 - that'd be right around 36.
Which makes me well past middle age - so we won't go there.
Maxfield Parrish sky - girl not included.
Phoenix sky, and Albuquerque sky, suffer from sheer triteness. It's like looking at the Grand Canyon or the Watermelon Mountains and saying 'Damn! Osco didn't oversaturate those prints after all!'
We live with it.
"Shaun of the Dead" is bloody brilliant!
Had you not seen it before?
You haven't even *gotten* to the good parts.
Considering what a chatty Kathy old Colin "High Ranked Former Administration Official" Powell has been of late is it wrong to hope our Nixonian Dear Leader reappoints him to some position so as to guarantee pithy first person descriptions of the Pretzeldent's booze-soaked and tear-stained final years of disgraced maladministration?
Since i'll be 50 this year, this makes me...older than some of you.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
I grow roses
organically
Shaun of the Dead" is bloody brilliant!
Who made you king of the fucking zombies?
Damn, it was a pleasure pouring the rest of that shit chardonnay down the sink.
On the downside, I'm into the grappa again.
*yawn*
Well, gee, thanks...
Eli
Don't be upset, darlin' Eli. Was merely commenting on the lack of shock factor involved in NTodd kissing anybody.....
I have been asked to log off. A very beautiful woman is about to put a DVD in on the wide teevee. I am told it is Il Postino. This is a good thing.
Ta Ta For Now, smartest people in the universe.
This TTFN is in memory of Paul Winchell, ventriloquist, inventor of the artificial heart, and now and forever: Tigger.
.
bambi.
any kid old enough to read this book ought to be able to handle it.
Yes, but it's the POLITICS, dammit! Can we allow children, so pure and sweet, to be exposed to the deplorable Communist ravings of the translator of Bambi? My God, how can such a thing be permitted?
Since i'll be 50 this year, this makes me...older than some of you.
Sallyh | Email | Homepage | 07.23.05 - 10:50 pm | #
perhaps. i'm 46, but i hear tell you are as young as you feel.
which makes me waaaaay older.
"For The Jew Is Hollow And I Have Kissed Eli."
NTodd the Inane
I think seeing Eli and NTodd kissing might be kinda fun, but I'm strange that way.
No, I somehow missed it in the theatres. It's fucking hysterical!
I love his mother.
Tena--I read Mademoiselle The Medea when she was 5. She was fascinated. And felt that Jason deserved what he got.
I always liked the story of the woman who added 10 years to her age when asked. Then, people would say, "Oh, you look at least 10 years younger."
Since i'll be 50 this year...
Pup.
Relative to Americans, brits are sane.
Hard to imagine what its gonna be like in the US after the next attack.
Well, GW, I'd be happy to spread mulch with you, any day.
That sounds so ribald and lecherous. We're talking about gardening and landscaping, right?
I'm usually more of a gentleman. A dirty middle-aged gentleman, but a gentleman, nonetheless.
I grow roses
organically
Doug
Mulch much?
Mena--will be, in about 45 minutes.
Relative to Americans, brits are sane.
Hard to imagine what its gonna be like in the US after the next attack. hadenough|
I'll probobly become more of a recluse then I now am
We're at war??!!?
Holy shit! I completely missed seeing the declaration issued by congress!! What the hell, was I sleeping?
Prior A's gone to bed. Its all up to you.
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Well, okay. Apparently, Eli is filled with tiny little hollow jewish people. I can't tell you what exactly that means, but it's somehow related to the fact that the earth is hollow and apparently, also filled with tiny little jewish people. Like I said, this changes everything. Patriotboy is the one who first divulged, and he'll have to fill you in on the details. Whew.
Since i'll be 50 this year...
Time goes even faster after 50... sorry.
GWPDA, Les Cheanaux Sky
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ok, the scotch is wearing off, think i can make it upstairs. where a little bourbon awaits, and then to sleep with any luck.
goodnight, comrades. wake me when it's over.
We live with it.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
And bear up remarkably well under the pressure.
Plus, I'm a very slow typist, and you may have already gone to bed.
I think seeing Eli and NTodd kissing might be kinda fun, but I'm strange that way.
I'll need volunteers to help me practice.
I love his mother.
Ditto. She has one bit that really killed me (so to speak) - not sure if you would have gotten to it yet.
And did you get the "We're coming to get you, Barbara!" reference?
Since i'll be 50 this year, this makes me...older than some of you.
Sallyh
Not me, Sallyh. I'll be 54 tomorrow. Geez, I can remember when I thought people who were 27 were old. Funny thing is that I don't feel much different from the way I felt in high school -- just a little creakier in the joints.
On the good side, I got an e-mail from a story editor today on a script I wrote congratulating me on my feel for the mind of pre-schoolers. Maybe I'm just an almost 54 year old pre-schooler.
I'm not at war. And in all honesty, I don't appreciate a man who's supposed to be acting as the fucking President of the United States, no matter how he got the lease on the White House, telling me that *I'm* at war.
Oh, I'm at war.
I'm at war with the crime syndicate in the White House.
It's a non-violent strictly "let's put them behind bars" kind of war, but war nonetheless.
plastic mulch
Tried sawdust, bark, moss, but they make the soil too acid.
I've already got the chemistry exactly right
I do try to compost, but except for years like this one where it's so hot, it takes forever, You don't get the one month completion, more like a couple of years.
wake me when it's over.
shbinga
It's over, shbinga...
...you there? you there?
Hard to imagine what its gonna be like in the US after the next attack.
What next attack? Our Strong Father is keeping us safe.
And bear up remarkably well under the pressure.
flory, Contributing Editor
'enkew.
Summer's okay. Then - snowbird season. Not easy.
We're at war??!!?
Holy shit! I completely missed seeing the declaration issued by congress!! What the hell, was I sleeping?
elkal
So when did we raise taxes to pay for it?
What's your draft number young man?
Do I have to paint my windows black or can I just keep my lights off?
what i'm *****PISSED**** about is renee "ms mediocre rosacea face" buying the rights to GREY GARDENS & casting HERSELF as Little Edie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"they just played a clip of BUSH™'s radio address from today...BUSH™ sounds *really depressed*!"
n69n
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"Aw, let's buy him a present!"
mena
-An impeachment would be nice. 
Time goes even faster after 50... sorry.
ah, well, just groggy enough for this explanation: it is as einstein said all relative.
your first year takes your whole life.
by the time you are ten, waiting for your next b'day party is tolerable you only have to wait a tenth of your life.
by the time you are fifty, each year zips by, only 2% of the time youve had so far.
at 95, its going by pretty damn fast, but your reflexes aren't so good, so watch out for that bridge abutment.
and on that cheery note, i really am leaving.
Gravatar plastic mulch
Tried sawdust, bark, moss, but they make the soil too acid.
I've already got the chemistry exactly right
I do try to compost, but except for years like this one where it's so hot, it takes forever, You don't get the one month completion, more like a couple of years.
At last! A gardener who knows what to do!
Maybe I'm just an almost 54 year old pre-schooler.
Toonscribe
...and maybe there's something better to be, but damned if I can imagine what it is!
Congratulations.
...from a fifty-three year old middle-schooler.
Time goes even faster after 50... sorry.
Agent Orange
Well, shit.
At last! A gardener who knows what to do!
I cheat, I watch the "master gardner" program on UCTV
Also, I read a few books when I find ones not written by Buffy types.
Eli is filled with tiny little hollow jewish people. I can't tell you what exactly that means, but it's somehow related to the fact that the earth is hollow and apparently, also filled with tiny little jewish people.
Is that where Jewish people come from?
flory, Contributing Editor
Oh babydoll, didn't you know? All the swankiest people are more than 50 years old now. Sleekiest.
I cheat, I watch the "master gardner" program on UCTV
Also, I read a few books when I find ones not written by Buffy types.
Doug
Betcha want to sign up to be a Master Gardener yourself.
Watertiger -- rent "Shaun" to watch the plot holes part of the extras; I thought they were silly and brilliant, but I was sleepy and drunky at the time so there's no telling what you'll think.
Eli -- I loved where they kept practicing the scenarios for killing the step-father.
Lost in Madison, tonight...
.
here's a useful tip - if a big ugly horsefly lands on your screen, just chase it off with the arrow cursor.
just tried it and it works. fun, too.
must be late.
Time to give up on most things. To-morrow is also a day.
Nighty-night.
Hard to imagine what its gonna be like in the US after the next attack.
only if you've been hiding under a rocl the last five years or so...
it's simple, really:
1) Suspend the right of Habeus Corpus. Fascists fuckin' HATE that, mebbe even more than the so-called 'death tax,' even more than corporate gains...
2) Impose martial law. That's what they've wanted all along...
3) Revoke the Constitution. Too much freedom is the cause of your problems...
4) Make the Guard and reserves and Army of the Interior. We're so far the only true fascist regime which has not goten one. It's a necessity, if you're gonna keep a lid on things, keep the terrists at bay, and stifle internal dissent...
5) Re-impose the draft. Can't fight 'em where they are unles you got the troops...
the "average" Murkin will eat that shit up with a spoon, it he or she thinks it will keep 'em safe and maybe lower the price of gas...
sheeit, pardner...pay attention...
At last! A gardener who knows what to do!
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
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Hey now. Just because a person might be distracted by the conversational brilliance on continuous display here (am I right, people?), does NOT mean they might not have plenty to say about mulch. At the proper time. You see, I know mulch.
if a big ugly horsefly lands on your screen,
May I suggest closing the windows too.
.
You say Carmina, and I say Burana,
You say Fortuna, and I say cantata,
Carmina, Burana, Fortuna, cantata,
Let's Carl the whole thing Orff....
filkertom | Email | Homepage | 07.23.05 - 10:18 pm
Damn, that was funny.
if a big ugly horsefly lands on your screen,
May I suggest closing the windows too.
.
if you have a screen, you can leave the window open.
rosacea face
n69n
Not funny
.
It's over, shbinga...
...you there? you there?
SteveLG | Email | 07.23.05 - 10:57 pm | #
rove's been executed for treason? bush is in jail? in gitmo?
or is this a cruel dream.....
back to sleeeeeepppppp..zzzzzzzz
the "average" Murkin will eat that shit up with a spoon, it he or she thinks it will keep 'em safe and maybe lower the price of gas...
sheeit, pardner...pay attention...
WoodyGuthriesGuitar
6) stay turned to FOXNews updates
"Homicide Bombers in the Homeland"
cue bass drums with important music
Be scared, be really scared of these fascists.
Dinnertime at Casa de Toon.
Later, Moonbatriots.
thanks for that, shbinga.
gee
You left out the repeal of the 22nd Amendment, WGG.
And the "lil' soldier" factories, where all the patriotic womenfolk serve their 15 years.
Oh babydoll, didn't you know? All the swankiest people are more than 50 years old now. Sleekiest.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
Well, dammit. Slow down a little. I'm almost there.
Or they shot Ol' Yeller?
Funny, that. We read it when I taught. The girls would cry a bit. The boys would squirm. Those that had pets of their own.
The ones that didn't...
didn't understand.
heh.
sheets
Toons--great news! I hope you get some good paying work from it. And Happy Birthday!
take master gardener classes?
Why? I've got lots of local resources right here. Sustainable ag people (wchi.org), lots of organic farmers here. All you have to do is talk to them as be polite.
Well, dammit. Slow down a little. I'm almost there.
flory, Contributing Editor
S'okay, dearie. We'll wait on you. Take my hand.....
S'okay, dearie. We'll wait on you. Take my hand.....
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
T'anks. The knees aren't as agile as they were.......
I'm almost there myself, but I'm not getting older, I'm getting better. You younger folks can quote me on that.
Sallyh - Are you here? I sent you an email..(waving)
WoodyGuthriesGuitar(aka...,
"sheeit, pardner...pay attention..."
Oy! and WeeWee!
Practicing my French just in case.
Italian sausages on hoagie rolls with Aste.
Life doesn't suck, so much right now.
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