Is this a trick question?
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 2:11 am | #
So I just watched the second showing of BSG with the podcast commentary.
Someon on the previous thread opined that Galactica was the Dems and the Pegasus was the Republican'ts. He or she was closer to the truth than we thought as it turns out!
In the podcast Ronald Moore actually mentions John Bolton of all people as a partial inspiration for certain characteristics of Admiral Caine's character.
Obviously in that situation he wasn't trying to make an overt political point, but from the context it was clear that he did not consider Bolton as a positive role model.
Too fracking funny.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.24.05 - 2:12 am | #
Is there a bigger prick than Sean Hannity?
Hannitized for your protection.
Max Planck |
09.24.05 - 2:13 am | #
Is there a bigger prick than Sean Hannity?
Most people are complete assholes. Tune in.
Anonymous |
09.24.05 - 2:15 am | #
Iraq is like our Revolutionary War, except now we’re the British:
SQUEEZE |
09.24.05 - 2:16 am | #
Fred Phelps is a registered Democrat
Gary Ruppert |
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09.24.05 - 2:16 am | #
Does anyone have a link to the Katrina timeline flowchart?
Thanks,
JFP
JFrankParnell |
09.24.05 - 2:16 am | #
i feel like balboa.
pretzelattack
The guy who "Discovered" the Pacific Ocean, like they wern't going to find it anyway.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 2:16 am | #
Democracy Dies in America, But Few Seem to Really Care: "Dubya was a pansexual Pandora's Box of treachery and freakishness, born deep in the bowels of Nowhereville, Texas. Nobody really liked him and very few people in Washington wanted to be seen in the same picture frame unless it was tossed into a lit fireplace or raging bonfire. There was something disturbing about him, the quiet voices said - a sense of a deadly organic being that was morphing upon itself, like a corpse bloating in the New Orleans sun. It was inconceivable that a petty thief and unhinged frat boy could be leader of the free world and speeding around the bayou at night, squealing like a demented pig about alternative rock and the kings of the East joining the forces of the North and turning against world civilization, burning it to the ground."
syntallic |
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09.24.05 - 2:17 am | #
oh look another general blasts the bushies. yeah, bush is uniting people--that's his gift. if bush cant distract people from iraq with the latest national disaster, and he can't distract people from disasters with iraq, what's left?--sterno.
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 2:19 am | #
Is he a leftwing liberal, as Sean proclaimed? Did Sean give his audience the slightest hint who was protesting this soldier's funeral, other than to suggest it was a group of antiwar libs, even though he knew exactly who it was? No, he didn't. Because he is a Republican ball licker.
Hannity Sucks |
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09.24.05 - 2:21 am | #
Think of them as highly functional and highly selfish psychopaths.
Their rigid belief structure provides an externally imposed order; an order that they lack internally. This is similar to patterns seen in autistics.
Why sould we entrust the common good to the selfish?
shawk |
09.24.05 - 2:22 am | #
And on that note:
My pillow beckons
It calls, seductively: sleep!
Come to me, my friend
Goodnight moonbats.
David (Austin Tx) |
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09.24.05 - 2:24 am | #
the canned heat commando,
crawled into crawford,
clearing brush.
ok its not haiku.
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 2:26 am | #
"Try NPR."
Thanks, but that's not it. What I saw is a graphic flowchart mixing what should have happened with an adult as President, and what Shrub did.
Thanks,
JFP
JFrankParnell |
09.24.05 - 2:26 am | #
"Try NPR."
Thanks, but that's not it. What I saw is a graphic flowchart mixing what should have happened with an adult as President, and what Shrub did.
Thanks,
JFP
JFrankParnell |
09.24.05 - 2:26 am | #
Fred Phelps is a registered Democrat
So is Zell Miller.
SQUEEZE |
09.24.05 - 2:26 am | #
Drum and Marshall both have links to all the various timelines, I think.
SQUEEZE |
09.24.05 - 2:28 am | #
Sorry to the fine Texans who post here, but here's chapter kazillion why Texans might be unpopular.
I've mentioned beore that I live in Atlanta and listen to WREK, a great free-form college radio station from GA Tech.
Well, I just called in about a song I'd heard, not quickly posted on their "Just played" website. When the DJ couldn't answer the simple question, I said OK, but you have a nice accent I can't place. It doesn't sound like anything I've heard from Georgia.
It's not from Georgia, says he, it's from Lubbock TX, and I get laid all the time with it. Girls just love the way I talk.... etc.
I don't doubt him, but I cut the conversation short. The Lubbock baritone drawl is indeed charming, ladies, and well-suited for any radio format, but the man behind it might be self-infatuated.
Draco |
09.24.05 - 2:28 am | #
Gary's a registered fucksnot.
That is all.
cheeba, 24601 |
09.24.05 - 2:28 am | #
Fred Phelps is a registered Democrat
So bloody motherfucking what?
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 2:28 am | #
fred phelps is a registered democrat. like that means shit. somebody told me michael novak is a registered democrat. and quisling was a registered norwegian.
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 2:29 am | #
Anyone can register whatever affiliation they want. If I registered as a Republican it wouldn't make me representative of the GOP.
Phelps was kicked out of his local Dem party because he is a far-right religous nutcase, and EVERYONE knows which party is the natural home for far-right religous nut cases.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.24.05 - 2:29 am | #
Sorry to the fine Texans who post here, but here's chapter kazillion why Texans might be unpopular.
Um, Texans are unpopular because of a jackass from Lubbock who lives in Georgia?
Somehow, I doubt it.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 2:31 am | #
That's precisely why there must be a litmus test before we just shoot a person for being a registered Republican.
SQUEEZE |
09.24.05 - 2:32 am | #
Phelps was a registered Republican but switched his registration to embarass the Democratic party because of their overarching, tepid support for gay rights.
You'll notice he doesn't protest the war, he claims that God kills our troops because America hasn't killed all the gay people.
Evidently, the 'radical Islamo-fascists' are A-OK in Fred Phelps' book. Funny how that slipped past Hannity.
You have to wonder how long his exponentially inbred family will survive. Must be some special Xmas memories there.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 2:36 am | #
rorschach--I'm not sure what you're aiming at, but I don't want to aggravate Texans, except when one or two of them lives up to stereotypes.
I'm from NY, even though I've spent most of my life in FL; I'm still a NYer. When I see NYers from my native Long Island, be they Bill O'Reilly or Billy Joel, acting badly, I tend to think they tar the rest of us, from a distance in FL or Atlanta.
So I'm not out to smear Texans, but sometimes they act according to bad form. The Lubbock guy is on the radio right now, complete with bedroom baritone drawl. Yuck
Draco |
09.24.05 - 2:40 am | #
bkny - thanks, that's it!
"Sorry to the fine Texans who post here, but here's chapter kazillion why Texans might be unpopular."
We're unpopular because some Connecticut scion spend a few years with some Texas boys learning their accent and half their manners (the bad half).
And we ski in Colorado but don't take any lip from the locals there.
Thanks,
JFP
JFrankParnell |
09.24.05 - 2:44 am | #
bkny - thanks, that's it!
"Sorry to the fine Texans who post here, but here's chapter kazillion why Texans might be unpopular."
We're unpopular because some Connecticut scion spend a few years with some Texas boys learning their accent and half their manners (the bad half).
And we ski in Colorado but don't take any lip from the locals there.
Thanks,
JFP
JFrankParnell |
09.24.05 - 2:44 am | #
Draco--
No biggie. The whole thing is trivial, but I was just poking fun at the idea that some random guy was a reason that Texans are unpopular.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 2:47 am | #
Prove that Phelps was a Republican
Gary Ruppert |
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09.24.05 - 2:51 am | #
Poor Texas, so close to the United States. So far from God.
Porfirio Diaz |
09.24.05 - 2:51 am | #
Prove that Phelps was a Republican
You and Fred have the same mother. Your sister.
Porfirio Diaz |
09.24.05 - 2:52 am | #
In 1968 Humphrey won TX. If it wasn't for Wallace HHH would have been President. Well, Wallace and the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. HHH Lost the rest of the old Confederate states.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 2:53 am | #
If I can get through this life without having to set foot in Texas, I'll call that a win.
I do not wish to mess with Texas, but I don't want Texas to mess with me, either (two failed presidents are enough - but thanks for playing).
At the same time, I'm hoping for no loss of life and as minimal damage as possible during Rita.
S in Mich |
09.24.05 - 2:54 am | #
Prove that Phelps was a Republican
You're taking Fred Phelps' word over mine? That really hurts.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 2:54 am | #
If I can get through this life without having to set foot in Texas, I'll call that a win.
No, you'll lose, because you will have missed Austin, a fucking great city.
Prove that Phelps was a Republican
Who the fuck cares? He goes around saying that gays should die. He's just an asshole.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 2:56 am | #
"There's no shame in coming from Texas, just in returning"
Kinky Friedman
JFrankParnell |
09.24.05 - 2:57 am | #
When the Soviet Union broke up, I said: "One down. One to go. The United States is next."
Josef Stalin's Long Underwear |
09.24.05 - 2:58 am | #
Give Texas back to Mexico. Put up a wall around Austin. Start the airlift now!
Josef Stalin's Long Underwear |
09.24.05 - 2:59 am | #
"There's no shame in coming from Texas, just in returning"
Kinky Friedman
bet that will hurt him in his campaign.
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 2:59 am | #
"There's no shame in coming from Texas, just in returning"
Kinky Friedman
JFrankParnell
One of the songs we played at our wedding was "That's Right You're Not from Texas" by Lyle Lovett.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 3:00 am | #
OK, we are starting to get major wind here 30 maybe 40 mph, and the lites are flickering.
No, you'll lose, because you will have missed Austin, a fucking great city.
I'll take your word on that, but I'm guessing it's quite like Ann Arbor or Madison, only Austin's in Texas.
S in Mich |
09.24.05 - 3:01 am | #
the big bend country is nice. and the pine forests of east texas. but it aint no colorado or new mexico.
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 3:03 am | #
I'll take your word on that, but I'm guessing it's quite like Ann Arbor or Madison, only Austin's in Texas.
S in Mich
Funny you say that, because I moved here to be with my (now) wife, who is from Ann Arbor.
I just asked her about your guess, and she said, "Yeah, actually. Considerably warmer."
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 3:05 am | #
May I nominate the Kings "This Beat Goes On - Switching to Glide" as the worst song ever.
Look I have proof.
This Beat Goes On*
Hey Judy, get Trudy
You said to call you up if I was feeling moody
Hey little Donna, still wanna
You said to ring you up if I was in Toronto
I have lots of friends that I can ding at any time
Can mobilize some laughs with just one call
Like a bunch of lunatics we'll act till way past dawn
Sure we'll be rockin' till our strength is gone
Yeah This Beat Goes On
Hey ladies you crazies
Me and Zero request you in the Mercedes
And then we'll ride so zoomy inside
The sky's the limit this time I'm Switchin' to Glide
I don't give a hoot about what people have to say
I'm laughin' as I'm analyzed
Lunatics Anonymous that's where I belong
Sure cause I am one till my strength is gone
Yeah This Beat Goes On
I have lots of friends that I can ding at any time
Can mobilize some laughs with just one call
Like a bunch of lunatics we'll act till way past dawn
Sure we'll be rockin' till our strength is gone
Yeah This Beat Goes On
Switchin' To Glide*
Nothing matters but the weekend
From a Tuesday point of view
Like a kettle in the kitchen
I feel the steam begin to brew
Switchin' to Glide
Energy can be directed
I'm turning it up I'm turning it down
Even love can be affected
Harmony's the sweetest sound
Switching to Glide..Balancing in my head..inside of me...
taking the glide path instead.
Everybody gets the no-no
Hear it ringing in they ears
Lots of ways that you can go GO!
Look around NO disappears
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:07 am | #
the big bend country is nice. and the pine forests of east texas. but it aint no colorado or new mexico.
pretzelattack
I had friends come to my wedding in Austin from Derbyshire, England, and they went camping in Big Bend, and wound up finding the backpack of a hiker who'd gone missing last year...
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 3:08 am | #
Anderson Cooper taking a beating from Rita on CNN right now. Why are they outside?
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:09 am | #
Let me clarify, since it's late. I identify regionally with Long Island, even though I haven't lived there since a teen.
When I hear Long Island white-flight suburbanites talk about race and property values and highway pork to further pave over the formerly beautiful farmland, it makes me sick.
I know what the potato and melon farms were like before they were the test-case for national sprawl. The deer and racoons would make your lawn their homes, peacefully, not stealing pet food. No more--they're nuisances.
Draco |
09.24.05 - 3:10 am | #
One of the songs we played at our wedding was "That's Right You're Not from Texas" by Lyle Lovett.
I put that on my blog while Bush was on vacation, Rory. Let me know if you need an mp3.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 3:10 am | #
I had friends come to my wedding in Austin from Derbyshire, England, and they went camping in Big Bend, and wound up finding the backpack of a hiker who'd gone missing last year...
(twilight zone music)
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 3:10 am | #
the big bend country is nice. and the pine forests of east texas. but it aint no colorado or new mexico.
pretzelattack
I miss and fear for Jean Lafitte National Park, where I have come within a foot of an alligator, on the path. And that was just the least of it.
But I fear for its present state.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 3:11 am | #
I had friends come to my wedding in Austin from Derbyshire, England, and they went camping in Big Bend, and wound up finding the backpack of a hiker who'd gone missing last year...
They almost met Leatherface, huh?
Josef Stalin's Long Underwear |
09.24.05 - 3:11 am | #
May I nominate the Kings "This Beat Goes On - Switching to Glide" as the worst song ever.
Look I have proof.
I must completely disagree with you, UF. That is one of the Greatest songs of the 80's. Lyrics be damned!
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 3:11 am | #
Oh hell, that was good.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 3:17 am | #
texas is a southern fantasy about the west.
Olaf glad and big |
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09.24.05 - 3:18 am | #
I had friends come to my wedding in Austin from Derbyshire, England, and they went camping in Big Bend, and wound up finding the backpack of a hiker who'd gone missing last year...
They almost met Leatherface, huh?
Josef Stalin's Long Underwear
So it'd seem.
It was rather funny when they related it to us upon return. They went back to the ranger station at the day's end and told them where they'd been and so forth, and the rangers were bored and dismissive.
Then they mentioned the backpack, and the rangers perked right on up. And my friends had to take them out to the spot the next day.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 3:19 am | #
Ripley, The song brings back college memories of drunk sorority girls. I don't begrudge the song for that I just always thought that the song was so lame and with wo many other good songs to rock out to why that one? Why?
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:19 am | #
It was just on streaming WXRT out of Chicago and it brought back the college party memories.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:20 am | #
It was just on streaming WXRT out of Chicago and it brought back the college party memories.
That bad of memories?
doug |
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09.24.05 - 3:21 am | #
Remember The Hooters and The Outfield?
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:22 am | #
I don't know, UF, some songs just catch you that way. Unbridled enthusiasm and what have you.
The switch to the second movement is brilliant, I think.
Nothing matters but the weekend
From a Tuesday point of view
As an American living here in Norway, all I've got (usually it is enough) for news on the storm is CNN international, and the net.
CNN is sticking to the usual "got two guys in orange rainsuits that know nothing more than what is happening directly in their vicinity reporting while wind blows into their mics", a weatherman with a clicker and pointer, and some talking heads.
Oh..just now, weather-woman #3 showed up to tell us it is raining where she is too...
WHAT is it with these morons? She wants to show me "what the wind has done here" and she, like her predecesser in another town somewhere, is showing us FLAGS for gods sake "you see old glory here, it is not in tatters"...swear to god, this is the 2nd flag pointing from some idiot.
Maybe they are leading up to how "the wind hates America, see how it attacks our wonderful flag"
Expect a proposal to law in congress anytime now with outlawing the wind from attacking our flag, with a rider for people also.
God dammit..I want to know what the hell is going on with all those folks on the highways. Not ONE mention of them. Is there still traffic jams all the way?
Are they sitting ducks, or is something being done to get them to lee?
Tom Joad |
09.24.05 - 3:29 am | #
Remember The Hooters and The Outfield?
Yep - my buddies and I were in Ft Lauderdale in 86 and just missed seeing the Outfield because we were too far back in the line to get into the club.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 3:29 am | #
Me too, UF. I'm in Glenview. (I swear we've had this conversation before)
Tom J, what part of Norway? I'm adopted Norsk with distant family around Oslo.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 3:31 am | #
The Hooters played at Live Aid. Weird.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:33 am | #
Glenview, IL ?
(I grew up in Deerfield, IL)
I'm in the Oslo area actually. Know where in Oslo they are?
Tom Joad |
09.24.05 - 3:33 am | #
I'm in Arl. Hts. Are you in one of the new houses they built after the feds sold the Naval Air Station?
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:35 am | #
I think Anderson Cooper is in a lot of trouble right now. He is getting hit pretty hard right now.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:37 am | #
hi tom. i'm swedish-american. i still have relatives in sweden but they are indians. they were adopted i think. my swedish relatives are all indians. i think one of them is named lars.
Olaf glad and big |
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09.24.05 - 3:38 am | #
Court rules no right to tell TSA screeners they live in a bubble
You can wear a jacket with "Fuck The Draft" on the back into a court of law, but, according to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, don't even think about swearing loudly at any TSA officials who make you miss your plane.
Today, the Court ruled that TSA can arrest and fine you for swearing loudly and belligerently while you're being searched at the airport security check because it "interferes" with the TSA's job. The court rejected any First Amendment right to free speech, claiming that while asking a "good-faith question" with profanity in it or even "grumbling" with profanity would not be enough for a fine, the conduct here somehow constituted more.
Specifically, the court ruled:
Petitioner’s conduct in this case, however, cannot be characterized as simply asking a good-faith question while using profanities or as grumbling about not being allowed to walk back through the metal detector or the delay in being hand-wanded.
Rather, Petitioner interfered with the screener in the performance of his duties by actively engaging the screener with loud and belligerent conduct, and, after being asked not to use profanities, by exclaiming that the screener should be in a different line of work, that he should live in a bubble, and that it was a free country in which he could say what he pleased.
Due to the escalating loud and belligerent nature of Petitioner’s conduct directed at the screener, the screener needed to shut down his line and call over his supervisor. Thus, Petitioner’s conduct interfered with the screener’s duty to both thoroughly screen passengers and to do so in an efficient manner.
I'm not sure exactly where they're living, Tom. My sisters would have a better idea.
My folks are pureblood Norsk/American, with some family back in the Oslo area. We hosted a Norwegian exchange student and had some Norwegian visitors over the years. The King of Norway was in my hometown when I was a wee lad, not to see us, but... y'know... I grew up in a very Scandihoovian area.
Lutefisk every Xmas. Gravle, lefse, rommegrot, Sons of Norway...
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 3:39 am | #
I'm in Arl. Hts. Are you in one of the new houses they built after the feds sold the Naval Air Station?
No, I'm in the unincorporated part of town. By Milwaukee and Central... You're right around the corner, so to speak...
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 3:41 am | #
But do you like lutefisk?
doug |
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09.24.05 - 3:41 am | #
I think Anderson Cooper is in a lot of trouble right now.
I'm watching too. They are going to stay outside where they are and that's looking like a bad plan.
It's getting creepy frankly.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 3:41 am | #
my swedish relatives are all indians.
Greatest sentence ever. And if it were true, my wife would put it in her dissertation!
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 3:41 am | #
But do you like lutefisk?
Are you fucking insane, man???
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 3:42 am | #
my swedish relatives are all indians.
Greatest sentence ever. And if it were true, my wife would put it in her dissertation!
rorschach | Email | Homepage | 09.24.05 - 3:41 am | #
I can't imagine myself using a toenail clipper on an airplane. But if I did, the cabin could loose pressure when the clippings flew through the sides of the plane.
doug |
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09.24.05 - 3:46 am | #
hmm. lars mahatma enevoldson. works for me.
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 3:46 am | #
But do you like lutefisk?
Are you fucking insane, man???
Ripley | Email | Homepage | 09.24.05 - 3:42 am | #
my father has always claimed that if lutfisk is prepared properly, you can actually eat it without vomiting. i have never had properly prefared lutfisk, i guess.
Olaf glad and big |
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09.24.05 - 3:46 am | #
Anderson keeping the stiff upper lip but he looks a little frazzeled.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:46 am | #
God dammit..I want to know what the hell is going on with all those folks on the highways. Not ONE mention of them. Is there still traffic jams all the way?
Are they sitting ducks, or is something being done to get them to lee?
Tom Joad
Weather.com had some footage of one of the Interstates out of Houston. Was quite clear though a lot of cars stranded by the side of the road. Some even with those bright orange abandoned tickets slapped on them. {Run out of gas during a botched mandatory evacuation and you may end up paying for a ticket.}
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 3:47 am | #
It's dying down, I hope.
First time I tried to type this the power went out and came back on.
Damn, I hear birds.
We lived thru it.
Don't tell Melisa, she's sound asleep.
(bitch!)
I think I'll turn off the power so I can play rescue man!
so no one really likes the stuff, but it's served to encourage public drunkeness.
doug |
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09.24.05 - 3:48 am | #
Anderson keeping the stiff upper lip but he looks a little frazzeled.
Unrepentant Fenian
Where do they have him stationed this week? During Katrina he was in Baton Rouge, so out of the serious harms way for the most part.
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 3:48 am | #
I hated lutefisk as a kid cause of the smell but as I got older I tried it and liked it.
We only have it once a year-Thanksgiving.
Homemade lefse is great and helps...plus lots of butter and mashed potatoes.
The hurricane just officially made landfall.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 3:49 am | #
They are going to stay outside where they are and that's looking like a bad plan.
scout,
It's beyond crazy. He's using a small SUV with the hatch up as his "fallback" shelter for 100 mph winds. Too weird.
Max Planck |
09.24.05 - 3:49 am | #
Last year I was flying to Conneticut and the TSA at Ohare went through my stuff and confiscated my money clip becasue it had a small knife on it. Never got it back.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:51 am | #
{Run out of gas during a botched mandatory evacuation and you may end up paying for a ticket.}
They're probably using it for tracking purposes. But I wouldn't be surprised, really.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 3:51 am | #
dying for ratings.
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 3:51 am | #
Cooper is in Beaumont.
Some CNN reporters said they saw people were stranded in cars on highways in LA.
They didn't know what would happen to them as no emergency vehicles were going out anymore
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 3:52 am | #
dying for ratings.
pretzelattack
Taking one for the team for the elusive 3:48 AM demographic.
Max Planck |
09.24.05 - 3:53 am | #
actually, it is true. but they are not american indians. they are from india.
Olaf glad and big
Ah, that's not nearly as interesting!
In fact, my bro-in-law, a German, married an Indian-from-India, and they have made the cutest baby ever.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 3:53 am | #
Max Planck ...that's what I thought. I saw video of Katrina blowing cars around.
I know I wouldn't want to be standing behins a car with just the hatch up to protect me.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 3:53 am | #
Hye, just testing to see if new gravatar shows up yet.
(Way too early to be up, way too late to be up)
DWD |
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09.24.05 - 3:53 am | #
Miles O'Brien in Lumberton TX in the middle of the street, broke his wind gauge. He's an idiot. He's going to get killed.
My friend called me earlier in the night to let me know he was watching Fox and saw old Sheppard Smith get blown over and slide about 20 feet.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:54 am | #
Taking one for the team for the elusive 3:48 AM demographic.
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And they got poor Sanjay Gupta in perhaps the worst place. He always end up in the worst place.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 3:58 am | #
This is no time to be following the movements of dolphins, man!
But Peggy Noonan said.. umm.. Elian !!!
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 3:58 am | #
Miles O'Brien in Lumberton TX in the middle of the street, broke his wind gauge. He's an idiot. He's going to get killed.
My friend called me earlier in the night to let me know he was watching Fox and saw old Sheppard Smith get blown over and slide about 20 feet.
Unrepentant Fenian
Things for Crooks and Liars? Or is making fun of these morans being made fools of by Mother Nature off limits?
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 3:59 am | #
Gloria Vanderbilt must be freaking out.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 3:59 am | #
flashback to raymond burr reporting live from the top of a skyscraper in tokyo--GODZILLA HAS LEVELED THE ENTIRE CITY EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE BUILDING!!! OMG!! HE'S HEADING THIS WAY1! AAAHHHHHHH!!!!
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 3:59 am | #
Anderson is no longer a reporter he's a vitim of the hurricane. He's screwed. How is he going to get back to the shelter now? As for O'Brien he too stupid to know he's in danger.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 3:59 am | #
Or is making fun of these morans being made fools of by Mother Nature off limits?
Tom - Daai Tou Laam
I guess it depends if they get killed which by the looks of it isn't too far out.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:01 am | #
Miles is wandering around now.
Max Planck |
09.24.05 - 4:01 am | #
As for O'Brien he too stupid to know he's in danger.
You just have to wonder what's going thru the camera man's mind right now.
"Fucking idiot motherfu AAAaaaahggghghghghghgh!!!! No regreeeeettttsss!!!"
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 4:01 am | #
Geez Miles who cares if the ditch is flooding.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:02 am | #
rorschach, that really is a cute baby. doesn't look anything like winston churchill.
Olaf glad and big |
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09.24.05 - 4:02 am | #
Hurricaine season doesn't end until November.
There has to be a name for people who deny the truth while it isn't just staring them in the face but slapping them with a sledge hammer. Other than just Republicans, that is.
When scientists make predictions and they start coming true, that's what is called convincing evidence.
I'm sorry to have to point it out but it wasn't just Iraq, it was liberals, especially liberal enviornmentalists, who got this one right too. Conservatives are put out of touch with reality by their egocentricity.
Why do we say we are sorry to point out what we are not sorry for pointing out?
EPT |
09.24.05 - 4:02 am | #
Miles is fucking insane.
Max Planck |
09.24.05 - 4:02 am | #
I hope I'm not too late to say:
Fuck you, Ruppert.
And a big Howdie-ho to everyone else!
But, Ruppert, you can get fucked.
Big time.
Phelps a Democrat? Yeah, just like Bush is a "christian republican", And Hannity is a "journalist". And you are "impressive".
Did I mention the "fuck" thing?
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TelltaleHeart |
09.24.05 - 4:03 am | #
Geez Miles who cares if the ditch is flooding.
scout prime
Is he going in to see if any stray gators have become opportunistic with the weather?
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 4:03 am | #
the new sport--X-Treme weather reporting.
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 4:03 am | #
rorschach, that really is a cute baby. doesn't look anything like winston churchill.
Olaf glad and big
You just crack me right the fuck up.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 4:04 am | #
The sound thru the trees, like a hissing and roaring. It knocks me back. The power!
Is he going in to see if any stray gators have become opportunistic with the weather?
Maybe he'll jump in and wrastle a gator next
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:04 am | #
have there been any recent reports from john king ...
bkny |
09.24.05 - 4:05 am | #
OK Houston's on fire now.
Max Planck |
09.24.05 - 4:05 am | #
So, it's a Fuck Ruppert slumber party, TTH? Whoohoo!!
Don't put any makeup on me while I'm sleeping, though. And no underwear in the freezer. And if you touch my stuff, I'll kill ya.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 4:05 am | #
agave...are you ok?
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:05 am | #
the new sport--X-Treme weather reporting.
pretzelattack
I saw this comment on a photo of South mississippi and katrina:
"You know it's a bad day when you find Jim Cantore in your back yard."
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 4:06 am | #
where are you agave?
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 4:06 am | #
Doug, Those pictures are Night Gallery disturbing.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:07 am | #
bkny...he got out of the Sabine(?) Pass and made it to Port Arthur. But that doesn't seem a whole lot better.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:07 am | #
The sound thru the trees, like a hissing and roaring. It knocks me back. The power!
Agave, be careful. And for god's sake, put your hurricane helmet on! Or duct tape a pillow to your head or something.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 4:07 am | #
agave
got any kind of working sound recording device?
Record some sound clips.
doug |
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09.24.05 - 4:07 am | #
Maybe he'll jump in and wrastle a gator next
scout prime
Now that's a ratings grabber if I've seen one. That'd show those Faux Propaganda agents who's a manly man.
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 4:08 am | #
OK Houston's on fire now.
Max Planck
Please, Please ,Please be Ken Lay's home only.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:09 am | #
Link, bitte?
rorschach
CNN's showing what looks like an apartment building fire in Houston.
Max Planck |
09.24.05 - 4:10 am | #
Maybe he'll jump in and wrastle a gator next
Condi would do it.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 4:10 am | #
Damn that fire in Houston is at an apartment complex
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:10 am | #
Doug, Those pictures are Night Gallery disturbing.
Unrepentant Fenian | 09.24.05 - 4:07 am | #
They were an artist's, Jason Robert Bell's female bigfoot paintings.
I found them funny.
doug |
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09.24.05 - 4:10 am | #
Damn that fire in Houston is at an apartment complex
It's one way to brew up a fire storm. fire + big winds
doug |
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09.24.05 - 4:11 am | #
It's so strange to watch fires breaking out during a storm.
Max Planck |
09.24.05 - 4:12 am | #
Miles went off to talk to the Police Chief who's probably telling Miles "Get your crazy motherfucking ass indoors now damn it"
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:12 am | #
Maybe he'll jump in and wrastle a gator next
Condi would do it.
Ripley
No way. No one in this assministration has the intestinal fortitude to be next to something like a non-handpicked crowd, let alone a gator.
And what is with the fires? First the evacuation bus and then Galveston and now Houston. Avoid the worst of the actual storm, but...
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 4:13 am | #
The CNN weather man is doing his casts for Cooper and Miles only now. I've never seen anything like it. Maybe CNN is onto something, Narrowcasting. Personal Weather reports for the masses.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:13 am | #
Miles is MIA.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:15 am | #
The studio dude ought to dare Miles to stand out there now.
Max Planck |
09.24.05 - 4:15 am | #
Jesus, they're forecasting 18-20 ft storm surges in LA.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 4:15 am | #
Miles went off to talk to the Police Chief who's probably telling Miles "Get your crazy motherfucking ass indoors now damn it"
scout prime
You think Miles has a fan?
Sorry getting a bit of cabin fever as we're under a Typhoon Level 3 warning {something like a tropical storm warning}
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09.24.05 - 4:16 am | #
Miles is MIA.
Went mad, stripped his clothes off and dived into the ditch to wrastle the gator...or the Police Chief arrested him
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:16 am | #
OK Houston's on fire now.
Max Planck
Please, Please ,Please be Ken Lay's home only.
Unrepentant Fenian
What about "Let Them Eat Cake" Babs?
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 4:18 am | #
CNN had a blogger in TX until a few hours ago. Creepy reports.
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Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 4:18 am | #
Please, Please ,Please be Ken Lay's home only.
Unrepentant Fenian
Tom DeLay has already put into FEMA for a new Sugarland porch.
Max Planck |
09.24.05 - 4:19 am | #
Went mad, stripped his clothes off and dived into the ditch to wrastle the gator...or the Police Chief arrested him
scout prime
If they got it on film, they could get it in cash...
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 4:19 am | #
Looks like were out of the woods with this thing. All the major cities have been spared. Everyone can breath a sigh of relief. All public officials can go to bed now.
cal |
09.24.05 - 4:19 am | #
Well, got things as secure as I could out under the garage. It's a 4 car open garage so I expect some blowing rain washing accross it. Some of my things were out there from the move. Brought alot in and covered the rest with a tarp and secured it. The wind is non-stop and heavily laden with moisture but no rain yet.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 4:20 am | #
Tom DeLay has already put into FEMA for a new Sugarland porch.
Max Planck
I'd like to the The Hammer in a Gov. Issue Doublewide.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:20 am | #
Stopped by Wal-Mart on my way home from work and picked up some snacks and cat food for String.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 4:21 am | #
Looks like were out of the woods with this thing. All the major cities have been spared. Everyone can breath a sigh of relief. All public officials can go to bed now.
cal
Bush was way ahead of you, He was in bed by 9 P.M.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:21 am | #
Who needs cable? Tom, Scout etc. , you should do this on radio it's so much better than seeing it on TV.
EPT |
09.24.05 - 4:21 am | #
Yeah, thankfully, we dodged a bullet with this one.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 4:22 am | #
imcog ...they are saying you'll be getting a hell of alot of rain for 3 or 4 days.
Can you handle that?
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:22 am | #
New Orleans is flooding again.
frank |
09.24.05 - 4:23 am | #
Bush was way ahead of you, He was in bed by 9 P.M.
Passed out?
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:23 am | #
Well thank you EPT
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:24 am | #
Yeah, thankfully, we dodged a bullet with this one.
You know if anything goes wrong now, Chertoff will quote you as the reason FEMA stood down...
animus |
09.24.05 - 4:24 am | #
I think Sanjay Gupta is in Lake Charles. That cop is saying it's being torn apart.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:26 am | #
Passed out?
scout prime
You bet. Just like the good old days.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:27 am | #
I just checked my compass and the wind coming out of the east which are the most damaging will be blocked almost entirely by the workshop that buttresses the open garage. It's solid 1 1/2 steel I-beam construction.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 4:27 am | #
Who needs cable? Tom, Scout etc. , you should do this on radio it's so much better than seeing it on TV.
EPT
What? You can't see an MysteryCNNTheatre1984 cable channel in the works? Should I change the handle to Tom Servo?
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09.24.05 - 4:28 am | #
sorry rorschach ... unless i am mistaken i am only doing it on open threads ... which I believe is etiquette
syntallic |
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09.24.05 - 4:30 am | #
looks like lake charles is the worst.
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 4:30 am | #
I put my name in for the Red Cross in Lake Charles. They were looking for 40,000 volunteers in LA, pre-Rita.
I just keep wondering how much America can take. 9/11's got nothing on 2005.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 4:31 am | #
The only thing I miss about cable were the wacky commercials that they don't show on broadcast. And I DO NOT mean "Girls gone wild" or "Enzyte".
Just today I was wondering if anyone, anywhere bought one of those scent player things last Christmas.
Tom, please change nothing.
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09.24.05 - 4:31 am | #
scout, it's impossible to describe how solid this place is way up in a high area. We still sandbagged some just in case the rainfall is extremely heavy. I've got sandbags on the threshold of my front door. They put sandbags at their other house and around the basement windows that are ground level over there. I'll be able to comment all through it.
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09.24.05 - 4:32 am | #
I don't really understand why the networks don't understand this.
Instead of a bunch of news hack who're totally burnt out on reporting, they could hire locals on a contingency, with the understanding that they got paid some amount per minute of broadcast used.
This would be good for all. The locals that decided to stay in any local event would have something to do during the event, but fret. The viewers or listeners would get some authentic reports.
doug |
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09.24.05 - 4:33 am | #
incog...good. Keep commenting so we know you're ok
And Miles is back with a whole bunch of cops so guess they didn't arrest him.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:35 am | #
Tom, please change nothing.
EPT
But Crow Daai Tou Laam Robot flows so easily off the tongue? I bet even Miles and Anderson could say it in the middle of the hurricane.
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09.24.05 - 4:35 am | #
Miles put them on TV so they wouldn't arrest him.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:36 am | #
incog, good luck.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:37 am | #
I put all my plants on the ground off the picnic table. I'm sure it's going to get really bad later today and tonight.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 4:38 am | #
These cops just wanted to get on TV.
Not that there's anything wrong with that
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:38 am | #
These cops just wanted to get on TV.
Why do the cops in small towns all look like extras from Mississippi Burning.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:40 am | #
Well at least Anderson Cooper is indoors now.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:41 am | #
Why do the cops in small towns all look like extras from Mississippi Burning.
doughnuts + grits
bad combination.
doug |
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09.24.05 - 4:42 am | #
CNN is reporting that leaves and small tree branches are flying around. But not as many as you might expect.
lko |
09.24.05 - 4:42 am | #
Here's Chad with his CNN Anderson Cooper report.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:42 am | #
It's like watching Chad talking Anderson down from a bad acid trip.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:43 am | #
Why do the cops in small towns all look like extras from Mississippi Burning.
Because the appearance of ignorance and racism is remarkably homogeneous.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 4:44 am | #
It's like watching Chad talking Anderson down from a bad acid trip.
scout prime
This ain't shit. This hurricane ain't shit. Another alarmist lie from the liberal media.
galloway |
09.24.05 - 4:45 am | #
All that remains is the Texas Flag at the Comfort Inn in Baytown. I fear a conspiracy.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:46 am | #
Gary Tuchman is still outside....ah the old pro
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:46 am | #
I hope that Texas flag pole snaps off
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:47 am | #
Gary Tuchman is reporting the Waffle House is still open in Beaumont, Texas.
jon |
09.24.05 - 4:48 am | #
Morning moonbats. Can't turn on the teevee cause my batshit crazy neighbor will have a fit.
Thanks for the updates.
ql in ny |
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09.24.05 - 4:49 am | #
Gary Tuchman is reporting the Waffle House is still open in Beaumont, Texas.
Egaads!
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:49 am | #
Google Earth is a cool tool.
Miles is getting it now. He's going down.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:49 am | #
Morning ql in ny....I have this weekend off. The first in months
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:49 am | #
"SPINNING THE PROTESTS" REDUX
Glenn Reynolds proposed that readers Google the names mentioned in this WaPo article on the upcoming anti-war rallies in D.C., entitled "Antiwar Rally Will Be First for Many: Focused Message Draws Protestors of All Stripes." That sounded like fun, so I obliged by starting with the first name in the article, "Patrice Cuddy."
To hear the WaPo tell it, Patrice is a mild-mannered, middle-aged former schoolteacher from Olathe, Kansas, and will be a "novice protestor" in the upcoming rallies. The Post article seems to suggest that Cuddy represents a growing contingent of small town, mainstream, Red State Americans who're beginning to join in anti-war protests:
[T]hey will be joined by novice protesters such as Patrice Cuddy, 56. Interviewed by phone yesterday, the former public school teacher in Olathe, Kan., said she had to pull off her gardening gloves each time a neighbor interrupted her yardwork to ask about joining the bus she had chartered to go to the nation's capital. [Look! Even mild-mannered retirees from flyover country -- and their neighbors -- will be joining the protest!]
"It's small and it's quiet here in Johnson County, but more and more people are becoming part of the group that doesn't agree with this war," said Cuddy, who was planning to load about 45 people onto the bus in a Home Depot parking lot this morning for the 20-hour ride to Washington.
Organizers say that similar busloads of teachers, nurses, housewives and others with little experience in mass protest are coming from Wisconsin, New Mexico, Illinois, Iowa, Georgia, Ohio and many other states. [Look! More protestors from flyover country!]
"This demonstration will reflect, by far, the most diverse group of antiwar protesters since before the war began," said Brian Becker, national coordinator for the ANSWER Coalition, one of the event's sponsors. "We have people coming from all political persuasions, including a very large number of people who have never before been part of the antiwar movement or protest activity." [See, protests aren't just for International ANSWER and coastal urbanites anymore!]
But it turns out that Patrice Cuddy is also known as "J. Patrice Cuddy-Lamoree (see here and here), and has been helping organize antiwar protests from the beginning. Here's the Internet Archive of a website that Patrice edits, Wyeyed ("Wide-Eyed"), containing many photos from the February 15, 2003 anti-war rally of United for Peace and Justice, in New York City. No word on whether Patrice herself took those photos, but she says openly, on her blog at Greater Kansas City Democracy for America: "I have been in the streets since the beginning of this war . . . " And she advises her readers at Kansas City IndyMedia (where she has been posting since at least February of '03) : "If you ever get an opportunity to go to one of these big rallies, DO IT! A Total rave thing without the drugs and alcohol." She once tried to march in a
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09.24.05 - 4:50 am | #
Some anchor person is going to get killed from this stupidity.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 4:50 am | #
Gary Tuchman is reporting the Waffle House is still open in Beaumont, Texas.
i hope it doesn't get pancaked.
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 4:50 am | #
Gary Tuchman is reporting the Waffle House is still open in Beaumont, Texas.
jon
With patrons most likely complaining about cold coffee.
"C'mon hun, shake a leg, the coffee isn't going to pour itself"
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:52 am | #
Cindy Sheehan (aka Mama Moonbat) brought her traveling roadshow to Washington DC today...and will be joining anti-war protests this weeken. As per the usual, the MSM does what it can to "pump her up". In this case, they've cropped their photos of her "rally' (30 whole people showed up) in such a way that you can't tell they don't have a big crowd. Par for the course.
Professional Idiots Abound |
09.24.05 - 4:52 am | #
Is Miles wearing Camos or wadders?
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 4:52 am | #
Gary Tuchman is reporting the Waffle House is still open in Beaumont, Texas.
i hope it doesn't get pancaked.
They'd batter find some cover before they get blintzed !
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09.24.05 - 4:53 am | #
Is Miles wearing Camos or wadders?
That's what I was wondering.
Don't think they are CNN issue hurricane wear.
Maybe his Lucky waders and that's why he's taking chances....they're invulnerable.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:54 am | #
they'ry just waffling around! doughnut they realize the danger?
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 4:54 am | #
They'd batter find some cover before they get blintzed !
Ripley
But they just keep on waffling.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 4:54 am | #
I'm going to start a private disaster relief company and then start franchising it overnight. My main selling point will be that we offer an established and familiar brand name. Even though we haven't yet started the business.
frank |
09.24.05 - 4:55 am | #
There's a large oak tree beside my attachment but it's been heavily trimmed to reduce the weight and also reduce the chance it would be blown over. I would hate to be in a mobile home right now around here with the huge trees. Outside, it's really ominous and windy.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 4:55 am | #
Oh no...the dodge the bullet remark,
Can't they retire that
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:56 am | #
Basra warrant for two UK soldiers
A judge in the southern Iraqi city of Basra has issued an arrest warrant for two British soldiers.
They are wanted over the death of an Iraqi civilian and the injury of an Iraqi police officer in a confrontation on Monday, the judge said.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said a warrant would have no legal basis.
On Monday, UK troops freed the soldiers - widely believed to be undercover SAS officers - from Iraqi custody after storming a Basra police station.
Soldiers' 'immunity'
The MoD said it was aware of reports about the arrest warrant but that it could not confirm it had actually been issued.
British forces spokesman Major Steve Melbourne said the two men had immunity from prosecution under an arrangement between the Iraqi government and coalition forces.
"They have no legal basis for the issue of these warrants," he told BBC News.
Professional Cut and Paste Idiots Abound all right...
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 4:56 am | #
A judge in the southern Iraqi city of Basra has issued an arrest warrant for two British soldiers. hA Ha he ha...AHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAA..........
sdf |
09.24.05 - 4:58 am | #
Professional Cut and Paste Idiots Abound all right...
Yeah he's breakin up our wall to wall Hurricane Coverage, Coverage
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:59 am | #
Oh no...the dodge the bullet remark,
Can't they retire that
scout prime
Thank you. (See my 4:30 comment.)
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 4:59 am | #
I'm going to start a private disaster relief company and then start franchising it overnight. My main selling point will be that we offer an established and familiar brand name. Even though we haven't yet started the business.
frank
Just be sure to get the website up. The website is key to getting those FEMA subcontracts {and you have no chance at a nobid contract unless you've provided a little sumting sumting to Guitar George}
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 4:59 am | #
Couldn't they scrape together some more moonbats from Duncan's No Nuts Braintrust?
Last Show No Sell-out on the Magical Misery Tour »
September 21, 2005
The Million Yawn March
The AP, Washington Post, and other news sources gleefully mentioned Cindy Sheehan's march on the White House this afternoon. With the exception of Reuters, however, they were all more than willing to forego this little tidbit of information:
Mrs Sheehan was joined by about 30 supporters in her march down Pennsylvania Avenue to deliver a letter to Bush urging him to pull the troops out of Iraq.
Source: Reuters via Yahoo!
That's all, folks. I count 29 people. This is her entire protest party. Including Cindy.
After a carefully stage-managed vigil by liberal PR firm Fenton Communications, and a pair of 3-week long national bus tours to drum up support for her cause, "Mother Sheehan" managed to bring with her just this tiny gaggle with her to the gates of the White House.
The organizers backing her show hope to draw "ten of thousands" of fellow protestors this weekend, but if this sad crowd and last night's turnout of just 150 in New York are any indication, the fledging anti-war movement of Cindy Sheehan is all but dead.
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09.24.05 - 4:59 am | #
George Bush (aka DipShit McStumbleFuck) took his sorry ass to Texas, no wait - Colorado to watch the hurricane on the widescreen. As per the usual, he asked for a celebrity to give him a guitar lesson and a Senator to bring him some cake. Par for the course.
Karl Rove, the political genius who was put in charge of post-hurricane reconstruction, will be at a fundraiser in North Dakota on Saturday. But he'll be thinking about the folks in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Hmm? Err.. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama... and what have you...
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 4:59 am | #
Oh NO, Anderson Cooper is back outdoors..."You talkin to me?"
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 4:59 am | #
"They have no legal basis for the issue of these warrants," he told BBC News.
Getting a legal warrent in the Iraq War is like giving out Speeding tickets at the Indy 500.
Maddness.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:00 am | #
Cooper must have heard that Miles was outside so he jumped out of the SUV to do a report.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:00 am | #
Cooper must have heard that Miles was outside so he jumped out of the SUV to do a report.
Unrepentant Fenian
Contest to see who can get killed first
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:01 am | #
I hope nothing happens to Anderson. Anderson, hang onto that tree behind you or one of those big strong anchor-men.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 5:01 am | #
Chad is a little late for his Cooper report isn't he?
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:02 am | #
I was flipping between CNN and MSNBC last night between 8 & 9. They seemed determined to avoid mentioned stranded motorists trying to evacuate. Any word on if they managed to rescue them?
ql in ny |
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09.24.05 - 5:03 am | #
Chad is a little late for his Cooper report isn't he?
You know Cooper is sounding more and more like he IS tripping...oh the light...trails, traillllls
Cue Chad
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:03 am | #
Haa Miles took Anderson's question!
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:04 am | #
CNN picked up the acid comment from this website, asking miles and anderson if the storm was 'disorienting' them.
sdf |
09.24.05 - 5:04 am | #
September 24, 2005
3 in 82nd Airborne Say Beating Iraqi Prisoners Was Routine
By ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 - Three former members of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division say soldiers in their battalion in Iraq routinely beat and abused prisoners in 2003 and 2004 to help gather intelligence on the insurgency and to amuse themselves.
Yup, when the going gets tough, w gets going.
ql in ny |
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09.24.05 - 5:05 am | #
Miles doing his Marcel Marso shtick.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:05 am | #
I was flipping between CNN and MSNBC last night between 8 & 9. They seemed determined to avoid mentioned stranded motorists trying to evacuate. Any word on if they managed to rescue them?
They were rescued to a farm... where they can run and jump and chase balls and bunnies... they'll be much happier there, sweetheart...
Now, let's all say the Pledge, shall we?
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 5:06 am | #
ql in ny....Earlier tonight some CNN reporters said they saw people stranded on LA highways and didn't know what would happen to them as no emergency vehicles were going out anymore.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:06 am | #
Miles really looks like a dope looking for the morning bus to work.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:07 am | #
The rains should be hitting us here pretty soon.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 5:08 am | #
Now, let's all say the Pledge, shall we?
Ripley
Fine, but you cna't make me say the Under God Part. Court said so.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:08 am | #
This is turning into a snuff film.
sdf |
09.24.05 - 5:09 am | #
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Good luck Incog. keep your head down and away from windows.
doug |
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09.24.05 - 5:09 am | #
RIGHT NOW. IT'S HITTING RIGHT NOW. WINDS UP TO 200 MILES AN HOUR. TRUCKS AND COWS BEING HURLED THROUGH THE AIR. BIRDS FLYING BACKWARDS. PIECES OF HAY like nails IN LUMBER.
andy |
09.24.05 - 5:10 am | #
You just can't imagine hurricane winds until you experience them.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 5:10 am | #
Oh no Anderson can't hear Chad. He's lost his lifeline.
Actually this is creepy
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:11 am | #
Good he's going indoors.
Phew
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:11 am | #
Can someone please tell Anderson he's in a fucking Hurricane. Anderson leaving for shelter. So I guess Miles wins the battle of the CNN Xtreme anchors.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:12 am | #
You just can't imagine hurricane winds until you experience them.
I'll stick with my imagination. Duct tape a pillow to your head and stay away from the windows, brother.
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 5:12 am | #
You just can't imagine hurricane winds until you experience them.
I don't think I could take it.
We get tornados but they last minutes.
I can't imagine hours and hours of the howling and stuff hitting the house.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:13 am | #
My stomach has been tied in a knot through that entire deal.
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09.24.05 - 5:13 am | #
Thanks Ripley and Scout.
Do you think if I drink some more coffee I can write a coherent sentence.
stay safe Incog. Is String flipping?
ql in ny |
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09.24.05 - 5:13 am | #
Whatever those Houston firefighters are being paid it's not enough. Fighting a fire during a hurricane that's some serious shit.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:14 am | #
Unrepentant Fenian...absolutely. Those flying embers were something
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:15 am | #
We get occasional hurricanes in NY. Usually pretty mild ones, though.
ql in ny |
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09.24.05 - 5:16 am | #
I bet they'll be more evacuations inland as that 25" of rain hits them over the next few days.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:16 am | #
Can someone please tell Anderson he's in a fucking Hurricane. Anderson leaving for shelter. So I guess Miles wins the battle of the CNN Xtreme anchors.
Unrepentant Fenian
Nah.. Anderson is just going back for a better earpiece and a pillow to duct tape to his head. Next segment... *wink*
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09.24.05 - 5:16 am | #
I can't imagine hours and hours of the howling and stuff hitting the house.
scout prime
When I was tending bar in New Orleans and a hurricane came near (and missed, unlike Katrina), all the other workers but one wound up trapped elsewhere.
So I and the other guy did 12 hour solo shifts and slept in the office for three days...
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 5:16 am | #
Cue that crazy Mile O'Brien. He's to dumb to head for shelter.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:16 am | #
Miles is still standing out there!
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:17 am | #
Miles is still standing out there!
scout prime
So where is Miles? Other side of the eye from Anderson?
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 5:17 am | #
I think Miles is a bit North of Anderson but not sure
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:18 am | #
Miles is wearing dockers. Can someone please tell Miles that he is in a hurricane too. This is getting ridiculous.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:18 am | #
Where is Chad with the Miles O'Brien report?
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:19 am | #
Oh he's going to hold onto jis mic chord.
That'll work
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:19 am | #
I bet they'll be more evacuations inland as that 25" of rain hits them over the next few days.
I read that Houston is basically built to flood, due to the streets and lack of drainage infrastructure.
Galveston may be a goner...???
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 5:20 am | #
He's is wearing waders. Nice.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:20 am | #
Where is Chad with the Miles O'Brien report?
Obviously Miles is made of tougher stuff and doesn't need Chad's soothing.
(I keed Anderson. He's cool)
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:21 am | #
Miles is wearing dockers
Nice pants. Btw, there's a fucking HURRICANE blowing your pockets off!
Sorry, you were saying, Miles?
Ripley |
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09.24.05 - 5:21 am | #
Cnn anchor just caught himself when he trew it to the weather center, he said we want to give Anderson and Miles,... oh and everybody watching an update.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:22 am | #
Miles is wearing dockers
Confirmed: Miles is not NTodd.
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 5:24 am | #
ql, it's like you know and see something big's coming. I just walked outside and there are huge 200 year old leafy pecan trees that are over 150 feet tall swaying all over like something big is up in there moving them around and the noise of the wind blowing through the leaves... The sky is totally overcast with some paler clouds in the darker sky going ever which way. The rain is on its way. And possible spun-off tornados.
Where is agave?
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:25 am | #
There is no thunder or lightening (so far) like a regular storm. But you know it's coming.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 5:25 am | #
I can't believe those letters are staying on that Homecoming Parade sign.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:26 am | #
"...and the fires' red glare,
the cows flying through air,
gave proof through the night,
miles o'brien was still there..."
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 5:27 am | #
Galveston may be a goner...???
Ripley
No. To the left of the eye, so the winds are blowing off shore. The worst storm surge is to the right of the eye.
(Think counterclockwise spin and what is blowing in to the land and which side is blowing away from the land.)
The area from the Texas border to New Orleans on the other hand...
We'll see if Guitar George is ready to roll out of Houston and to Bayou Country. Or just play the blame game again via the cut and paste 101st fightin' keyboardists.
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 5:27 am | #
I just walked outside and there are huge 200 year old leafy pecan trees that are over 150 feet tall
Chad Meyers wit hthe personal narrowcasts. Hey, call in and get aweather report.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:27 am | #
They said this thing will move up through Texas and just stop and rain for days....25".
It'll affect a big portion of Texas and LA.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:28 am | #
Too bad I don't have my camcorder charged or I'd be filming the bamboo grove across the way. 3 stories tall and bending... just not breaking yet...
but the horse racing is still going at Shatin.
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 5:31 am | #
And the rockets red galre,
Miles O'Brien flying through air.
Gave hope through the night that CNN was still there.
O' say does that crazy anchorman still wave.
For the land of the free and home of the brave.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:32 am | #
Oh Lord order Miles in
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:33 am | #
Miles,
How low can you go?
How low can you go?
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:34 am | #
Soon Miles will be laying on the pavement doing a slip and slide sort of thingee
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:35 am | #
Miles,
How low can you go?
How low can you go?
Unrepentant Fenian
He's doing some mid-season Formula 1 wind tunnel testing?
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 5:35 am | #
Auditory Hallucinations from Miles. Someone tell him his Mom called and wants him to come inside now. Enough is enough.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:35 am | #
just a little bit of trivia, did you know anderson cooper's mom is gloria vanderbilt?
jello |
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09.24.05 - 5:35 am | #
jello...somewhere Gloria is having fits
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:36 am | #
Soon Miles will be laying on the pavement doing a slip and slide sort of thingee
scout prime
I thought someone else suggested Sheppard Smith had that one patented already?
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 5:37 am | #
I'm 6' and there are about 10 of me stacked on top but they are huge. Thanks for the correction, though, like it matters.
That's why you're so annoying.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 5:37 am | #
I thought someone else suggested Sheppard Smith had that one patented already?
Ooops...
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:38 am | #
I predict that as soon as Miles goes inside Cooper emerges from the SUV like Lazareth from the grave.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:38 am | #
I guess everybody needs a corrector about nothing like it matters.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 5:39 am | #
I predict that as soon as Miles goes inside Cooper emerges from the SUV like Lazareth from the grave.
Unrepentant Fenian
Bet he has Gloria Vanderbilt pillowcases covering that pillow duct taped to his head?
Tom - Daai Tou Laam |
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09.24.05 - 5:41 am | #
Mr. Gene Green. Get ready for your personal Weather report from Chad Meyers. That's just how Chad rolls.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:41 am | #
thought that was pretty cool. cooper is proof you can be born to wealth and not turn out a scumbag like you know who.
didn't think of that, scout, she must be.
jello |
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09.24.05 - 5:41 am | #
I wouldn't be surprised if inland flooding causes more problems than the actual hurricane landfall
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:42 am | #
thought that was pretty cool. cooper is proof you can be born to wealth and not turn out a scumbag like you know who.
so true
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:43 am | #
That's interesting about Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper. So he is not in it for the money? Randy Rhodes says she sees him walking his dog on occasion.
ql in ny |
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09.24.05 - 5:44 am | #
Analysts perdict $5.00 a gallon.
You know the reliable analysts from MobilExxon, Shell, Marathon, Citgo, and BP.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:44 am | #
Well Tony Harris asks a good question.
We need to look at evacuation plans.
I think it is stupid to move 2 million people in 48 hrs primarily by cars.
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:46 am | #
OK, just got back from outside and the rain is now beginning. It's funny that it's just being slung down lightly for now. The wind from the east will blow the old oak away from both houses.
Ô¿Ô |
09.24.05 - 5:48 am | #
Preparedness drills. Just crazy enough that it might work.
Unrepentant Fenian |
09.24.05 - 5:48 am | #
Preparedness drills.
They'll need to requisition a bunch of nuns to whack people on the head if they don't stay in line and remain silent
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 5:50 am | #
Not that expect it to crack and blow down but just in case...
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09.24.05 - 5:51 am | #
The Saudi government yesterday warned that Iraq is hurtling towards disintegration and that an election planned for December is unlikely to make any difference. The government said it was delivering this bleak assessment to both the US and British administrations as a matter of urgency.
That one huge oak is the only one that might be a problem. The huge pecan trees, that are only between 60 and 80 feet tall would fall short of both structures.
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09.24.05 - 5:55 am | #
there are huge 200 year old leafy pecan trees that are over 150 feet tall
and
The huge pecan trees, that are only between 60 and 80 feet tall would fall short of both structures.
That's why I said "Um, no."
rorschach |
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09.24.05 - 5:59 am | #
Morning, Moonbats. Any of you see my portrait in fine hippy wear last evening?
How fast is the storm predicted to move through?
ql in ny |
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09.24.05 - 6:03 am | #
Unrepentant Fenian ....thanks for riding out the storm with me and Miles lunacy
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 6:03 am | #
BARN -
That's a great looking stage.
Steve J. |
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09.24.05 - 6:04 am | #
It's gonna squat on East Texas.
roo roo |
09.24.05 - 6:05 am | #
You know BD - You have just about convinced me to make a trek out and visit Wheatland. It looks like a really good time.
ql in ny |
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09.24.05 - 6:05 am | #
ql in ny....Very Slow.
It will move up threw Texas and then stop. Then it will rain for 3-5 days on Texas and LA...24.5 inches of rain.
There will be cities inland that will flood and probably have to evacuate. One mayor of a town up North was talking about their evac plans
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 6:06 am | #
barndog you hippie! Cool stage
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 6:07 am | #
A huge number of old hippies (like myself), lots of musicians (like myself) great food everywhere, and lots of community love abounding.
Thats what keeps me coming back.
Ba®ndog |
09.24.05 - 6:08 am | #
And another thing. I decided, over two years ago, that from now on I would only donate money to alternative media. Bartcop gets turkee from me every year. I know there are problems with his page, and some here don't think he is a deep enough thinker, but I hear things there that I never hear anywhere else.
ql in ny |
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09.24.05 - 6:08 am | #
Chad said a high pressure will stop the hurricane over Texas and then even possibly it will turning back over Houston and N.O. to exit out to Gulf.
Weird
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 6:11 am | #
sheets
scout prime |
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09.24.05 - 6:13 am | #
And another thing. I decided, over two years ago, that from now on I would only donate money to alternative media. Bartcop gets turkee from me every year. I know there are problems with his page, and some here don't think he is a deep enough thinker, but I hear things there that I never hear anywhere else.
ql in ny | Email | Homepage | 09.24.05 - 6:08 am
plus he was one of the first to post nude photos of dr laura
pretzelattack |
09.24.05 - 6:13 am | #
Comments on the hippie wear:
What the stylish hippie for 2005 wears. The tie skirt was made for me by the woman who runs Middleground (the group for Teens at Wheatland). It is composed of 50's and 60's recycled neckties, which were split and sewn together, backed at the hemline, and drawn together at the top by a pullstring. I have the way-cool potleaf suspenders to assist. (they were a gift by one of the future board members at Wheatland).
T-shirt by Tim & Ryh at Tee's Dyes, bandana from my wife, button from the British Columbia Marijuana Party, Rainbow tie from StillNursing.
Ba®ndog |
09.24.05 - 6:15 am | #
The storm is just beginning to begin here. I'm going to go outside with some beers and see what happens.
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09.24.05 - 6:24 am | #