HULK SMASHED
Again?
Shall I try for a double?
Well the 20 seconds might screw me up for a triple.
Stopped at home!
Rounding home and this is getting silly. I promise not to do it again.
Thank you Moe. I was getting cheeky.
I's be happy if Brooks just joined the human race - the peace corp is beyond his scope
You think that's silly, ql, I just got lost on archives, thinking it was here, and just hit three home runs on a thread that's been dead for three years. Man, I feel stupid.
But, I'll ask again, does anyone know how to find old comments. Halscan seems to delete them after a few weeks...
Would David Brooks please JUST GO!
this site gets too many comments. haloscan deemed I'd destroy them if they put all of my comments online...
Being a part of something larger dedicated to improving the society you live in, or the community you are a part of, gives true meaning to life. Sitting back, or sitting on the sidelines and criticizing those actively engaged is the sign of a pathetic drone.
BoBo - pathetic drone.
Do ya think Brooks trys to live up to his last name as in streaming his bile? His crap is about the only thing more foul than what is stinking up NO.
Thanks, A. I have some time on my hands... I thought I might go back and collect all of Merkin's comments in one place. Not sure what the point would be, but they're funny enough often enough...
Bobo thinks thinks Katrina is a good way to shake the poor out of their apathy and put them on the road Bootstraps Greatness.
If we just put up new buildings and allow the same people to move back into their old neighborhoods, then urban New Orleans will become just as rundown and dysfunctional as before.
That's why the second rule of rebuilding should be: Culturally Integrate. Culturally Integrate. Culturally Integrate. The only chance we have to break the cycle of poverty is to integrate people who lack middle-class skills into neighborhoods with people who possess these skills and who insist on certain standards of behavior.
certain standards of behaviour? isn't thsat the very problem with Bobo's World and it's denizens, that their standards of behaviour are venality, greed, and selfishness?
this site gets too many comments. haloscan deemed I'd destroy them if they put all of my comments online...
yikes.
i think they are just pissed 'cause we call it helloscan. altho i actually like it.
isn't thsat the very problem with Bobo's World and it's denizens, that their standards of behaviour are venality, greed, and selfishness?
Venality, greed, and selfishness are what made us the nation we are today!
Reposting from thread below. God, Duncan is moving faster than the speed of light today.
Got the NYT today. The editorial on wage remuneration for Federal clean up efforts in NO set my blood boiling.
Bacon-Davis law stipulates that Federal contracts be based on prevailing wage structures in the given locality. Bush suspended this provision for the NO cleanup, thus enabling Federal contractors to pay bargain basement wages. Furthermore,, the economy of NO becomes depressed even more deeply as cleanup proceeds, with thousands of unemployed locals offering themselves low wages to make ends meet.
Atrios - but you are destroying valuable data! Somewhere, right now, there is a student who will one day do a dissertation on the role of trollery in the rightwing media echo chamber. Later there will be a student interested in the manifestation and propagation of personality disorders via political comment boards.
Imagine tracking the deteriorating ramblings of a Cog or a Toby over years, particularly when the inevitable implosion of their political leaders forces them onto the defensive. Think of the future, man!
If any of these asshats had ANYTHING they felt passionate about in their own lives, they wouldn't need war or disaster to validate them.
Seriously. It's time somebody sat people like Brooks and Friedman down and said, "You want to satisfy your aesthetic need? Go feed some fucking homeless people, you narcissistic bitches."
A.
Did anybody watch Tavis Smiley last night? He was interviewing Royce Osborne who survived the disaster in the hotel he works in. After four days, the hotel ran out of food and water and told the staff and guests that they had arranged for buses to pick them up. So they went out into the flood and of course no buses. He and his wife and some hotel guests were wadding through the nasty water and carrying three cats in carriers and managed to finally get help because a friend saw them and got a bus going to the Superdome to take people to Houston to pick them up.
He said it was total chaos, nobody was in charge and at one point a National Guardsman pointed his gun at him. He wondered why holding a videocamera and a cat carrier made him look like a threat.
People who think they are "great," usually are not. My concept of greatness includes humility.
He wondered why holding a videocamera and a cat carrier made him look like a threat.
Does he in any small way resemble Bill Frist?
If so ...
A.
Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little girl and some construction workers that makes you believe that we can make a difference when we give a child the gift of our time.
A young family moved into a house, next door to a vacant lot. One day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot.
The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next-door and spent much of each day observing the workers. Eventually the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.
At the end of the first week they even presented her with a pay envelope containing a couple of dollars. The little girl took this home to her mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration and suggested that they take the two-dollar "pay" she had received to the bank the next day to start a savings account.
When they got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had come by her very own paycheck at such a young age. The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with the crew building the house next door to us."
"My goodness gracious" said the teller, "and will you be working on the house again this week, too?"
The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever deliver the fucking sheet rock..."
""Today, America is confronting another disaster that has caused destruction and loss of life," the president said in his prerecorded broadcast. "This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but from the fury of water and wind."
Speaking of failing to achieve greatness...
Can anyone point me in the direction of info on a centralized database project for survivors, or for that matter, victims? Any centralized database projects, in addition to the Red Cross, or efforts to centralize the myriad data ?
My concept of greatness includes humility. mer
Only the true messiah denies his divinity.
Firms with Bush ties snag Katrina deals
Reuters
Saturday, September 10, 2005; 11:03 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President George W. Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.
One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.....
Halliburton alone has earned more than $9 billion. Pentagon audits released by Democrats in June showed $1.03 billion in "questioned" costs and $422 million in "unsupported" costs for Halliburton's work in Iraq.
"This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but because I don't care about black people." --GWB
Firms with Bush ties snag Katrina deals
"Nobody could've anticipated the breach of the levees."
"This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but from the fury of water and wind." -- watertiger
That Georgie, always the "day-late-dollar-short" president.
Halliburton alone has earned more than $9 billion.
That they were paid $9 bil, I'll believe. That they earned $9 bil is laughable.
Some are born to fail to achieve greatness,
some achieve failing to achieve greatness,
and some have failure to achieve greatness thrust upon them.
Our president is three for three, and that ain't half bad.
"You want to satisfy your aesthetic need? Go feed some fucking homeless people, you narcissistic bitches."
good point, but clearly not a panacea. as tweety head amply illustrates.
"It's imagining that if only your football team wins, you'll feel good."
That kind of thinking leads to rooting for rich people, because they always win. Many people who have never and will never be affected by things like the Estate Tax want it eliminated.
It also explains why Bush recinded Bacon-Davis. Kick 'em while they're down and make sure they stay down.
It is class warfare, and the poor are getting their asses beat.
[snark] Go Rich People! Woo-Hoo! Yay Team! [/snark]
Royce Osborne is black and he said that there was no way he going to leave Babette the supercat behind.
thank you Max Planck, I needed a laugh.
That they were paid $9 bil, I'll believe. That they earned $9 bil is laughable.
Max Planck
Does charging 400% overhead count as earned income?
.
Coming to terms with the fact that you are not great, but just ordinary is a pretty hard thing to get through. In our own lives, and to our families and loved ones, we are pretty damned important. But in the greater scheme of things, not so much. About the most I can hope for is a greatchild seeing one of my quilts and thinking, "Yeah, she was cool." And that's it.
For awhile I spent far too much time thinking about greatness. Mozart, Shakespeare. Dylan. Dylan claims that some of his finest work was written in a matter of minutes when he was younger. Then he lost that ability. Hooboy! In a way I'm glad I never had to go through that.
Our president is three for three, and that ain't half bad.
Lucky him, he got the trifecta!
todavia - Yeah, I can imagine the conversation in the WH when the warnings came in. Dick probably did that snarl thing he does instead of a smile, and said: "Let NO go - then give Halliburton the contract to rebuild. Problem solved."
God I hate that monster.
Can anyone point me in the direction of info on a centralized database project for survivors, or for that matter, victims? Any centralized database projects, in addition to the Red Cross, or efforts to centralize the myriad data ?
I found my Pass Christian friend in the GulfCoastNews database.
"This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but from the fury of water and wind."
Ummmm, I would call cutting funding to SELA to fund Iraq the malice of evil men which directly resulted in the flooding of NoLa... so bush lies again.
" Our president is three for three, and that ain't half bad.
Lucky him, he got the trifecta!" --
Eli
Maybe he'll actually hit 33.3% approval rating....
And Tom DeLay is STILL a dick.
And I gotta do laundry.
greatchild=great grandchild
Coming to terms with the fact that you are not great, but just ordinary is a pretty hard thing to get through.
I pretty much just start from the assumption of ordinariness, and if I get pleasantly surprised, so much the better.
QLinNY:
I've always wondered about
Springsteen and "Born to Run."
I'll bet there was some point
while he was recording it when
he must have listened to a playback
and thought "Holy shit, I just did
something authentically great."
Brooks needs to be sent to Mars
Coming to terms with the fact that you are not great, but just ordinary is a pretty hard thing to get through.
Interesting how the converse of that maxim is easy as shit for many to embrace.
todavia - Yeah, I can imagine the conversation in the WH when the warnings came in. Dick probably did that snarl thing he does instead of a smile, and said: "Let NO go - then give Halliburton the contract to rebuild. Problem solved."
They either didn't care, or they thought Maximum Casualties = Rally 'Round The Preznit.
And I gotta do laundry
heehee, did mine yesterday. Not working is great, until you have to go back. Ack, go away Monday morning.
Hey, to be fair, we knew Chimpy wasn't a details kinda guy when we let him steal the election.
At the trial, he will swear he was told that the only real problem in NOLA was that a bunch of people were running around after Katrina looking for their Levi's breeches.
Did Delay rub the lil chilluns heads for luck?
It's imagining that if only your football team wins, you'll feel good. You will, probably, for a day or two but that's about it. You'd get a lot more satisfcation out of joining the local flag football league and winning your own championship.
Nail. Head. Abso-fucking-lutely.
You'd get a lot more satisfaction out of joining the local flag football league and winning your own championship.
The same forces that steal elections and let cities die have been training us 'mericans for years to be passive, overweight, TV-watching, team-supportin', missing white woman obsessin' drones who don't ask any questions or even think to question authority.
Drones just do as they are told, think as thay are told, and consume what they are sold.
It's getting late in 2005. Elections in 2006. Hear any talk about assuring fair elections in 14 months or so?
Naaaa.
Stopped at home!
What, are you fucking blind, Ump? The catcher didn't have control of the ball and she clearly touched home before being tagged. Get some glasses!!!
Stopped at home!
What, are you fucking blind, Ump? The catcher didn't have control of the ball and she clearly touched home before being tagged. Get some glasses!!!
Saw Duncan's post on NPR's timeline of Katrina relief efforts below.
Feel strongly that we need to actively support NPR. Most people who criticize & have stopped donating to NPR have not reflected why NPR has become more cautious in its reporting.
Folks, there's an ideological war going for the future of NPR. The right have it in their target sights. Think of this as a 20 year struggle.
NPR is serious underfunded, largely a product of conservative legislators' cut backs. It can't function properly at its proper level. This makes NPR receptive to right wing suggestions about balanced reporting as NPR folks are worried about survival.
The Right realizes this is a long-term power struggle over the future of NPR; the Left doesn't. What I suggest to the good folks here is that you keep up your NPR donations, but band together in a local group of contributors.
Tell them that you are regular contributors & would like to meet with the local NPR programmer. At the meeting, tell them that people like you are largely responsible for NPR donations & are disturbed at the direction NPR is taking. You object to ...... (fill in the blank). Tell them to explain why this program, reporter (fill in the blank) is on the air.
GETTING OFF MY SOAP BOX NOW.
"Holy shit, I just did
something authentically great."
steve simels
Yes, but then imagine having achieved one great thing, and then never living up to it again. {{{shudder}}}. Talk about frustration.
Maybe he'll actually hit 33.3% approval rating....
Marcia Brady,SaneByComparison
Heh, heh, I'm a baseball man in addition to bei' an ol' West Texas oil man.
In basebal, heh heh, hittin' .333 will git ya a lotta chips come salary arbitration time.
Heh heh.
From Washington Monthly:
CLUELESS, PART 2....Last week I rounded up some clueless quotes about Katrina from our friends on the right side of aisle. Here's a new collection from the past few days:
*
Mark Williams, explaining why things would have gone better if New Orleans had more white people: "They didn't have the necessary brains and common sense to get out of the way of a Cat 5 Hurricane....The only role race plays in this is that the American black population has been the prototype for an entire race of people being, being turned into a group of dependents of the government — trapped there, I'm using that word very loosely are screaming we want help, we want help."
*
Tom DeLay, chatting with a couple of young evacuees who are now living in a tent in Houston: "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?"
*
Steve Sailer, displaying his trademark scientific approach to issues of race and poverty: "In contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan — because, when you get down to it, Japanese aren't blacks."
*
Rep. Richard Baker (R-Baton Rouge), musing with his lobbyist pals about a silver lining of Katrina: "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."
*
Rick Santorum (R-Law & Order-SVU), displaying his trademark sensitivity to the plight of the poor caught in Katrina's path: "There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving."
*
Hugh Hewitt, explaining that, as usual, the odious MSM is responsible for everything, including all the dead people in New Orleans: "[Reporters] did not do their homework, because they did not understand the levees were the threat, they ended up killing hundreds of Americans. I'm not going to say thousands, because I don't know the number. But I know hundreds are dead, that they did not communicate the severity of this storm."
*
Barbara Bush, wittily showing off the Bush family's famous compassion toward the poor after a visit to the Astrodome: "So many of the people here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."
*
Robert Tracinski, in a widely emailed missive, picking up where Mark Williams and Steve Sailer left off: "But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them."
Yes, but then imagine having achieved one great thing, and then never living up to it again. {{{shudder}}}. Talk about frustration.
Hello, Frank Herbert...
steve simels-
Pick up "The Mansion On The Hill" by Fred Goodman. A large part of it deals with Springsteen.
It's imagining that if only your football team wins, you'll feel good. You will, probably, for a day or two but that's about it. You'd get a lot more satisfcation out of joining the local flag football league and winning your own championship.
It's also imagining that if only you had that shiny new car you could be truly happy. Yes, but the happiness is transitional. And it will drive you back to the mall, looking for that kick over and over again.
That they were paid $9 bil, I'll believe. That they earned $9 bil is laughable.
halliburton's annual earnings amount to around 2 BN .
Re: Haloscan's scanty archives--no worries. Dept Of Homeland Security surely has kept all our posts for future use. Perhaps you can retrieve them with a FOIA request??!
this little blogger pissing contest >> really nice synergy!!
Yes, but then imagine having achieved one great thing, and then never living up to it again. {{{shudder}}}. Talk about frustration.
ql in ny
The curse of Meat Loaf
(not that he did anything that great, just couldn't seem to do it again)
.
[Reporters] did not do their homework, because they did not understand the levees were the threat, they ended up killing hundreds of Americans.
My head just exploded again.
It's getting late in 2005. Elections in 2006. Hear any talk about assuring fair elections in 14 months or so?
Woody asked that question at EschaCon and the panel agreed that it was super important that elections be run honestly and that every vote was counted. And that there was a real possibility that there was hanky panky on 11/3/04. However, the best answer they could come up with was "We are getting a handle on it." Not.Good.Enough.
"My head just exploded again." --
Eli
Look, if you're going to keep doing that, at least wear a bandanna.
RealTexan:
Thanks for the tip -- I'll check
it out!
Yes, but then imagine having achieved one great thing, and then never living up to it again. {{{shudder}}}. Talk about frustration.
Hello, Frank Herbert...
Eli
Never mind Frank Herbert - look at Marcel Proust.
And I'd certainly settle for one great thing if it was as great as A La Recherche du Temps Perdu.
More than enough for one person in one lifetime.
this little blogger pissing contest >> really nice synergy!!
The great thing about living in VT is that you have so many opportunities to write your name in the snow with your pee...
Post order swapping? Is this the latest kink for the in-crowd? 
.
Woody asked that question at EschaCon and the panel agreed that it was super important that elections be run honestly and that every vote was counted. And that there was a real possibility that there was hanky panky on 11/3/04. However, the best answer they could come up with was "We are getting a handle on it." Not.Good.Enough.
This is The Most Important Issue there is for the Democrats because everything else is irrelevant without it, and the Republicans have no defense against it. The Democrats are fools for not pushing this HARD.
"Re: Haloscan's scanty archives--no worries. Dept Of Homeland Security surely has kept all our posts for future use. Perhaps you can retrieve them with a FOIA request??!" --
noblejoanie
An old friend of mine, Saul Landau, finally got his FBI file. Most of it was blacked out anyway.
Yes, but then imagine having achieved one great thing, and then never living up to it again.
The Cliff's Notes synopsis of George Walker Bush's life.
N.B. the "having achieved one great thing" was added by the editors at Regnery Publishing.
Look, if you're going to keep doing that, at least wear a bandanna.
But I like to share my thoughts!
Damn that's a lot of ponies.
Damn that's a lot of ponies.
Yes, Duncan keeps ponying up the ponies.
Look, if you're going to keep doing that, at least wear a bandanna.
But I like to share my thoughts!
Eli
his is The Most Important Issue there is for the Democrats because everything
else is irrelevant without it, and the Republicans have no defense against it. The
Democrats are fools for not pushing this HARD.
Eli | Email | Homepage | 09.10.05 - 2:13 pm | #
Yes indeedy. The Democrats have
to make this the big issue.
Unless they do, everything else is
so much chin music.
Max Planck: The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever deliver the fucking sheet rock..."
Be honest -- you cribbed that from Reader's Digest, didn't ya? 
.
And clueless dumbass Ann Coulter decided to do the attack-MoveOn-stratagery again by demanding that they help victims of Katrina. Only problem is that they have been helping and have been doing so for the last week. And it is interesting that Coulter doesn't seem to be doing jack about Katrina. She seems to spend all her time on the tv proving that the Bell Curve theory is total b.s.. She is living proof that being upper class doesn't mean that you have a high i.q. Miss Connecticut Over-Priveleged would lose a thinking match with a bag of rusty hammers.
David Brooks = poor excuse for a human.
Be honest -- you cribbed that from Reader's Digest, didn't ya?
.
Jeffraham Prestonian
Oh, fencing stolen goods? Yes.
Reader's Digest? Counter-suit.
I'm feeling tired and cranky.
This 2:00-in-the-daytime thing is completely overrated.
Here's the AP official timeline of the hurricane:
Click here
Notice anything missing? How about the Louisiana governor declaring a state of emergency and requesting help? Wasn't that notable?
David Brooks = poor excuse for a human.
Sallyh | Email | Homepage | 09.10.05 - 2:16 pm | #
I can't tell you how embarassed I
am that the bastard's Jewish.
Max Planck--glad to hear you're only fencing stolen goods and not cribbing RD. I like people to earn their money honestly.
steve simels - I know that in Dallas County, the PAC I belong to was formed specifically to try to clean up the voting system. We drafted legislation for the Texas Lege that would have provided a verifiable paper trail. It was a good bill and the Repugs killed it dead.
There are efforts being made all over the country to clean up voting, and unfortunately, the Repugs don't want that.
Gee, I wonder why.
Steve S--is there any way he can be de-Jewified?
And clueless dumbass Ann Coulter
I just love people like her, never married, never had kids, and by all accounts a bit of a slut, telling the rest of us how to live. I mean, could imagine her getting up ten times a night because her kid is running a high fever and has such bad diarrhea that she/he messess the bed. Fuck her.
There are efforts being made all over the country to clean up voting, and unfortunately, the Repugs don't want that.
The Democrats' mistake is that they're trying to do all of this quietly, behind the scenes and under the radar. Why on earth would you let the Republicans strangle democracy without shining a light and raising a stink?
Sallyh:
Hmmm.....de-Jewified. I like the
sound of that.
I'll do some checking and get back
to you...
hey, bruce campbell movie on scifi tonight...
by all accounts a bit of a slut
EEEeeew.
I hope that Blanco made a copy of her emergency declaration because these psychos will try to spin it that she never made the declaration or she wrote it after the disaster to cover her ass and make dear leader look bad. Dealing with these thugs makes you realize you have better make multiple copies of things and then lock them up in a safety deposit box and then hide the key inside your daughter's My Little Pony.
hey, bruce campbell movie on scifi tonight...
Dude, we've been counting the minutes.
Er, um, I mean, some of us have.
Um, not *me*, of course...
Actually, Sci-Fi is having a Bruce Campbell *marathon* today. I'm all over it as soon as I give up on the Yankee game.
I hope that Blanco made a copy of her emergency declaration because these psychos will try to spin it that she never made the declaration or she wrote it after the disaster to cover her ass and make dear leader look bad.
One word:
Kerning.
Tena:
It's unbelievably frustrating.
But unless they fix the machines
I think the Repugs are gonna pick
up seats in 06 even if
Bush is widely perceived as having fucked
everything up.
Don't you mean Holden's my little pony? He's got the market cornered...
But unless they fix the machines
I think the Repugs are gonna pick
up seats in 06 even if
Bush is widely perceived as having fucked
everything up.
Exactly. Yet the Dems don't seem to think this is A Really Big Deal.
Eli--then how come at any given time I ask, you know exactly how long it is till the BC filmfest?
QL: it was super important that elections be run honestly and that every vote was counted... However, the best answer they could come up with was "We are getting a handle on it."
There are some obvious answers: 1) lobby state reps & demand referenda to have recorded tabulations of the vote in your state 2)Become a poll worker for election day (You actually get paid) & know state laws/regs when you show up.
Yes, but then imagine having achieved one great thing, and then never living up to it again. {{{shudder}}}. Talk about frustration.
Never mind Frank Herbert - look at Marcel Proust.
rimbaud.
but chris rock drives that point home. "face it whatever you are doing at age 38, that's what you are doing for the rest of your fuck'n life."
Atrios--does this mean we get a Bruce Campbell thread?
think it's time to ask these companies why they want to donate their merchandise to a guy who thinks the people who will receive the money their products generate, are "scumbags". Or is the money going somewhere else?
The Glenn Beck Disaster Relief Auction
Kobold Watch Company
The Philadelphia Flyers
The Philadelphia 76ers
Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
AnySunglasses.com
Callaway Golf
Christian Nobel Furs, Ltd.
Composite Technologies
Villa La Querencia (villalq.com)
Nordic Hot Tubs
Schlitterbahn Waterpark Resort
Rick Healy/Cafe29
Cobalt Cable
Quality Time/Eric Grafton
Double D Ranch
James Gandolfini
The Horn Shoppe
Zyflex Performance Sportswear
Mouse Pads Orlando Vacation Rentals
My Computer Store
Thompson Jewelers
Levermore Family
Musselman Hotels
westernwindstours.com
Unique Concepts
St. Florian Fiber Farm
Bills Khakis
Mountain Bear Cabins
You have to ask yourself why these stupid fucks would donate their products and services to Glenn Beck, to donate, rather than just do it themselves? Could it be that they just thought all that free publicity would repay their "donation"? Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, that is, unless the douchebag you align yourself with is, well, a douchebag like Beck.
PLEASE help spread this around. Please take a moment to write a few of these people and tell them what a bad idea this was.
Thank you.
Holden's got so many ponies, he could hide the key in one of them and then play three pony monte to confuse the Bush thugs.
Eli - Jeez, honey, it isn't as if we haven't tried to raise a stink - we have.
And if you talk to people, no matter which party they favor, they are pretty generally upset with the voting system and don't trust it.
I wish I had the answer.
The only one I can see is to get rid of the goddamned Repugs - but how?
I can't tell you how embarassed I
am that the bastard's Jewish.
steve simels
Hey, I tossed my lutefisk pot out the wundow when I heard Karl Rove is of Norwegian descent. We are supposed to be INoffensive, dammit!
Isn't Matt Yglesias 25 years old?
What has he done, aside from go to Harvard?
Every time I read something about this guy it's the whole "another-wunderkind-outta-Harvard" thing.
Eli--then how come at any given time I ask, you know exactly how long it is till the BC filmfest?
I, um, ask a friend.
Yeah.
The Democrats' mistake is that they're trying to do all of this quietly, behind the scenes and under the radar. Why on earth would you let the Republicans strangle democracy without shining a light and raising a stink?
Eli
Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheny!
Go fuck yourself!
Tena--Monsieur suggested public executions on the Capitol steps.
I have thought for a long time Kerry/Edwards' major mistake was to not emphasize 2000, Diebold, et cetera... Righteous anger about that could have carried them a ways, and it would have come in handy if they had to challenge '04.
I understand why they didn't, but it was wrong...
Tena: The only one I can see is to get rid of the goddamned Repugs - but how?
Call me crazy, but "at gunpoint" seems to be the answer. I fear we've waited too long, already.
.
Hey, I tossed my lutefisk pot out the wundow when I heard Karl Rove is of Norwegian descent. We are supposed to be INoffensive, dammit!
I have some cousins who are half-Norwegian. I always call them the "Sensible Scandanavians."
Eli - Jeez, honey, it isn't as if we haven't tried to raise a stink - we have.
How do you define "we"? I haven't seen anyone in Congress making a big deal about this. Have I missed it? Or is the media just not covering it (which I could easily believe)?
I want to see Howard Dean standing on the table asking why the Republicans are afraid of democracy.
Especially Ruth's Chris Steak House. The original restaurant was started in New Orleans.
res ipsa:
Truly a gorgeous day in NYC!
Why are we inside?
Hmmm.....de-Jewified
I think this involves some discarded foreskins and a tube of cyanoacrylate adhesive.
pssst clean sheets atriots
charley - Uh uh, ain't buying Chris Rock's pronouncement.
Harriet Doerr was a diplomat's wife. She didn't start publishing novels until she was in her 50's.
Tena: Can Texas have a referendum or citizens' ballot initiative? This would be the way to go - an end run against the Texas legislature.
The shit's getting so surreal anymore, that I'm looking forward to albertchampion to tell me what's next.
Bruce Campbell = Brisco County jr. Excellent, funny weird & smart western that was on Fox about 12 episodes worth back in the early '90s.
You think that's silly, ql, I just got lost on archives, thinking it was here, and just hit three home runs on a thread that's been dead for three years. Man, I feel stupid.
Truly a gorgeous day in NYC!
Why are we inside?
simels...
I was out early this A.M. and then just again now for about an hour.
To tell you the truth, I wish we'd get some rain. It's beginning to feel like San Diego here.
It's become clear that Jubiliation T Barbour isn't the Katrina hero aferall so today Cheney talked about what a great guy Gov Perry is and the fabulous texas evacuation plan...
right on point Dickhead
The clueless dumbass Mann Clotter, Ayn Coulter, whateva. First , her womb is shut due to lack of body mass. Starvation/ speed will end your cycle , so Ayn ain't making babies till she gets off the rock and stem,and eats a few peanut butter sandwhiches ( without puking later) then she has to find some young College Repub, get him to sign documents and guzzle a 40 of White Lightning , and slap on Triumph of the Will and get to it . Even then her chances of implantation are less than .0002 % , since all the Repug fellas Sperm are dead like Dillenger from the meth and pizza. So , we don't have to worry about any little Coulter-Youth any time soon.
As to her role as Spokes-Spoke ( as in thin as a ...)I can't imagine what I could get started with Her and gary Bauer on the same stage. Oh , the luminous discharge of That Much Cognitive Dis. would burn bricks.
There was a time when Ayn was amusing to some , never to me , but she's long since pissed off and offended all but the 30% hardcore Bushites out there . Them and that freaky Cloud at Time Mag. Eeeeeachyuck!
Carter - that's a good point.
We thought we had a chance because the Dallas county elections administrator was working with us - a good guy we are going to lose, unfortunately.
The woman who started the PAC has been active in Democratic politics for over 35 years and knows everyone. I'll talk to Harriet when I get back and see where we plan to go from here.
I find Brooks asthetically unsettling.
This site purports to bring together a number of survivor databases. Wouldn't you think someone like, I don't know, FEMA would be handling information like this?
Tena--Monsieur suggested public executions on the Capitol steps.
Sallyh
Funny that - I told my Monsieur this morning that I wanted to see them all ceaucescued. He just laughed.
I don't care that this is a dead thread. Haloscan has busted me twice and I'm not having any of it.
What I meant to point out that still pending in the Senate is the "Count Every Vote 2005" bill. Assuming that our Senators can walk and chew gum at the same time, NOW would be the time to start pushing it, especially in light of the Bush poll numbers.
There.
Do your damnedest, Haloscan
Truly a gorgeous day in NYC!
It looks absolutely gorgeous outside here, but it's cold. I woke up to a strong wind blowing out of the south; it has blown all the clouds away, but it's cold.