I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Yoink!
buckfush!
While flying in I flew over a massive McMansion development in its larval stage, notable especially for its lack of front porches.
I can't read the word "porch" anymore without shedding a silent tear for Trent Lott.
Front porches rock.
They cool the house and are decorative as well.
Screw porches, real parties happen in the kitchen.
Fucking McMansions.
Screw porches, real parties happen in the kitchen.
This is why a good porch should extend around the house to the kitchen door.
I want one-a those cute bungalows!
Do any of you read Clusterfuck Nation? Kunstler is a little to apocolyptic for my taste most of the time but I think his take on the destruction of the American neighborhood and the horror of McMansions and subdivisions is spot on.
I shall now think of this website as my computer's front porch.
Harry Reid is playing Bush like a fiddle.
I wonder how much longer McMansions will last? Maybe as subdivided apts., but that's about it.
Fucking McMansions.
"This order is ALL WRONG! I ordered FOUR bathrooms, and a THREE-car garage!
AND, these fries are cold!"
Front porches rock.
All you need is a rocking chair and a smell hound to complete the look.
I looooove porches. Front porches and back porches. I have a screen porch in back where I basically live from about April through October. Speaking of McMansions, the one that's being built up the street from me now has a "For Sale" sign. Guess the family that was building it had a change of mind or fortune.
This is why a good porch should extend around the house to the kitchen door.
ai-yup. and rocking chairs aplenty. and a porch swing. and a hammock. and hanging baskets of flowers. and wide steps.
but I've said too much already.
Harry Reid is playing Bush like a fiddle.
To repeat and explicitize my oblique point from the previous thread:
The danger here is that giving Miers a free pass essentially inoculates Bush from any future charges of cronyism, because now the Democrats have rubber-stamped one of his cronies to a lifetime position.
I wonder how much longer McMansions will last? Maybe as subdivided apts., but that's about it.
They should make for good kindling.
res,
I love my little bungalow. I hope you get one.
All you need is a rocking chair and a smell hound to complete the look.
Is a "smell hound" a real thing? Like a bloodhound-type dog?
Or is that a handy abbreviation for a small hellhound?
I can see the benefit of having either one.
Born In Greensboro, pre-sitdown strike. Most potent olfactory memory: Clash of gardenias with the fumes from the Vicks(menthol-eucalytptus) cough-drop factory.
They should make for good kindling.
They are made of too much plastic.
G-Boro! My old neck of the woods.
Stop at Dockside Dolls for me. Kidding.
Speaking of McMansions, the one that's being built up the street from me now has a "For Sale" sign.
Here in LA, which is one giant architectural and planning disaster, over the past few years there's been a move for assholes to buy a lot with an old bungalow on it, tear it down and then max out the lot with a 4000 sq ft. McMansion, so there's no yard and the front wall extends all the way out to the sidewalk. Ugliest fucking things I have ever seen. A total shame because the bungalows are really cool looking and being torn down for piece of shit cookie cutter houses with zero soul.
I love my front porch. And my great big maple in the front yard. I get about three feet of leaves if we don't rake em up.
Larval is right.
One of the better things that happened around these parts is when people - yuppies, mostly - decided the old houses were worth re-furbishing, and turned whole dying areas of town back into neighborhoods.
You're right about the porches, Atrios. And the yards are different. Of course the McMansions have no yards - they run lot line to lot line. I just hate them and there are a half dozen more going up in my neighborhood right now. Goddamn it.
Add a Frisbee porch to a Bucky house.
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~dj...ucky/
house.html
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I wonder how much longer McMansions will last? Maybe as subdivided apts., but that's about it.
The sad thing is that many of them are not well-built; lots of "showy" stuff but not much of that invisible construction that makes a building last.
smell hound
basset hound,
beagle,
mutt hound,
blood hound,
and the cream of the cream of hounds a coon hound.
massive McMansion development in its larval stage
A wonderful image. There is a street nearby where they are building a couple of these. The houses are too large for the lots, too decorated and too clearly forgeries of the Victorians all around the sites. Too many gingerbread scrolls and towers and still it all looks like a cartoon representation of a house. And they have put up the cheapest windows in the market.
Is a "smell hound" a real thing? Like a bloodhound-type dog?
Yeah, usually a bloodhound or any kind of hunting dog with a good sniffer. That's a smell hound.
Ask my relatives in Missour-ah.
Southern porches are incomplete without a swing or glider- either offers a place to take refuge during dog-days afternoon thunderstorms. Shades of the
B-52's "Deadbeat Club."
Oh boy, you mean I've stumbled on a trend?! I just put a front porch on the house last month - it's extremely comfy and has two cozy wicker chairs, chairs, a brick floor and is shaded by a redbud tree. Arthur, being unable to jump over the wall (this is a front porch in the Mexican tradition, an enclosed patio with a gate) has his own window at the base of the gate. It's really nice! Boy. A trend. Who knew....
Speaking of McMansions, the one that's being built up the street from me now has a "For Sale" sign. Guess the family that was building it had a change of mind or fortune.
Hecate
It would be much more accurate to call them Future Rooming Houses of America.
They're still puttting them up here and they're all going to have to be foreclosed at once. Lots of banks will be going under. Rents will be cheaper, though.
A question for the better informed.....
While watching the Daily Show the other night I find out that Scooter is writing .... love notes? coded CIA messages? Threats? to his close friend Judy "Integrity" Miller.
About Aspens and such, and this line:
"Come back to work, and life."
Which sounds like a threat to me.
I know this may have already been discussed, but.... I missed it....
What gives??????????
More evidence of "assets" working for the NY Times?
A broken love affair?
Two jerks in a pod?
Any info would be most appreciated.....
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smell hound
basset hound,
beagle,
mutt hound,
blood hound,
and the cream of the cream of hounds a coon hound.
My Henrietta is a hound or partly one. The veterinarian pointed out how hounds are dogs with a brain and that does describe Henrietta. She runs my household.
I love my little bungalow. I hope you get one.
Thanks. There is this sooooo cute one near Not-Mister. Right in the middle of Queens! I have no idea how it got there, but it is so. darned. cute. It has a little flight of steps up to it, brick columns, a front porch. It is the perfect size for 1 or 2 people.
McMansions are the SUVs of housing. Bloated, ugly and economically infeasible in the long run. They'll go the way of the dinosaur eventually.
I don't know about porches, but right
now my kitchen ceiling is coming
down.
Water damage, apparently....
Not to mention Scooter's seldom if ever read novel from - '96?
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About Aspens and such, and this line:
"Come back to work, and life."
I see it as a veiled remember-we're-all-in-this-together admonishing.
Or it's code for the Aspens of Colorado, where there had been meetings.
Or, as Stewart would say, they're fucking.
Echidne,
We've got a couple of McMansions nearby that were billed as being built "in the arts and crafts tradition." They're the ugliest things you ever saw. Not really arts and crafts at all, just big and ugly. And all crammed in together with no yards or space for privacy.
They're still puttting them up here and they're all going to have to be foreclosed at once. Lots of banks will be going under. Rents will be cheaper, though.
Just read an article in the NYT about architects being asked to design smaller houses by clients. That said, these are mostly wealthy folks who can afford architects. But maybe it's the start of a trend (crossed fingers).
Fortunately, the weather has become so calm and tranquil everywhere that massive, poorly-built homes are an idea whose time has come!
While flying in I flew over a massive McMansion development in its larval stage, notable especially for its lack of front porches.
I can't read the word "porch" anymore without shedding a silent tear for Trent Lott.
SteveNS
Ah, but I live in a house with the massive successor to the front porch, the massive back deck.
Gives you all the outdoorsieness of a front porch without having to associate with other people.
It's good for the backyard astronomer, but I'm not sure what else it really accomplished.
They've torn down perfectly lovely houses here to build those damn things. And they shoehorn them onto tiny lots where they look like a fat person sitting on a child's chair. They positively loom over the surrounding houses.
The horror. The horror.
Front porches are the Devil's Playground.
Tiffany Brown of blackfeminism.org was at the gig; that's a bit of alright.
The danger here is that giving Miers a free pass essentially inoculates Bush from any future charges of cronyism, because now the Democrats have rubber-stamped one of his cronies to a lifetime position.
Eli
Worse, when Roe is overturned, the Dems can't say "Don't blame us." I am perplexed by all this. Why are the Dems caving on this obviously unqualified, glorified secretary?
I saw the Moscow Radio Symphony in G'Boro.
And a truly spectacular monster truck show.
I saw the Moscow Radio Symphony in G'Boro.
And a truly spectacular monster truck show.
I especially liked how the string section rode in on the fire-breathing, truck-eating robot dinosaur.
All those Intel folks in these parts who built McMansions will now get the unlovely chance to heat all those wasted square feet this winter. McMansions are kind of Anti-Cozy.
My gawd the GOLDEN GOPHERS may actually beat Michigan at the Big House!
I'm currently humming the Minnesota Fight Song (my alma mater)
Why are the Dems caving on this obviously unqualified, glorified secretary?
Don't obviously unqualified, glorified secretaries deserve representation on the Supreme Court too?
Echidne,
We've got a couple of McMansions nearby that were billed as being built "in the arts and crafts tradition." They're the ugliest things you ever saw. Not really arts and crafts at all, just big and ugly. And all crammed in together with no yards or space for privacy.
Yes, we have something similar, advertised as arts&crafts. The front has seven columns and it boasts both bricks, stones and wood. It's so ugly it's actually almost ok if you know what I mean. But it seems to be continuously on the market.
The people I know who have bought these houses (though I don't know very many) are not very communal. When I welcomed one to our street she said that she had wanted to afford something better but couldn't...
McMansions are kind of Anti-Cozy.
Hey, if people want to pay $1000 a month to heat or air condition a piano box with a toilet, more power to them.
I especially liked how the string section rode in on the fire-breathing, truck-eating robot dinosaur.
Get ready for Truck-stakovich!
SUNDAYsundaysunday....
I'm currently humming the Minnesota Fight Song (my alma mater)
Is it a very polite, very nice fight song?
If you're in Greensboro, you NEEEEEED to go to Stameys for BBQ. There's one out on High Point Road (2206 High Point, right near where Patterson St. crosses High Point -- G**gl* has a nice map of the area) and one a bit farther away on Battleground.
If at all possible, do not leave Greensboro without going to Stameys. It's about as close to a religious pilgrimage as you can get in that town.
Not to mention Scooter's seldom if ever read novel from - '96?
Scottie wrote a book? I did not know that. I shall have to not read it.
For me, the bloom came off the rose when Patricia
Cornwell made Kay Scarpetta a grasping McMansionite constantly droning on about her 'great room'.
My gawd the GOLDEN GOPHERS may actually beat Michigan at the Big House!
The Buckeyes fan in me cheers. And the man whose wife is from Minneapolis cheers as well. But the only fight song going through my head is "Go U Northwestern" because my highschool adopted its theme for our own, and I played that damned thing in marching band every fucking friday night in the fall for four years...
It's good for the backyard astronomer, but I'm not sure what else it really accomplished.
Nude sunbathing.
Just sayin.
In re Atrios's post, I love front porches! In fact, after having our house raised to prevent a repeat of the flooding experience, my father and I built a front porch onto the house in 2 1/2 days. It is fantastic.
We need more spaces like porches, bridging the gap between public and private, and thereby creating community.
I think it was tv that basically did in front porches.
I hope you got to enjoy some real Carolina barbeque. It looks like things are rocking in Greesboro tonight as well, otherwise I would urge you to come east to Raleigh and hang out with us'ns tonight.
Hey, if people want to pay $1000 a month to heat or air condition a piano box with a toilet, more power to them.
I really appreciate that we have heated, indoor plumbing these days.
Worse, when Roe is overturned, the Dems can't say "Don't blame us." I am
perplexed by all this. Why are the Dems caving on this obviously unqualified,
glorified secretary?
ql in ny | Email | Homepage | 10.08.05 - 4:37 pm | #
Only thing I can figure is that
the Dems don't believe the Repugs
will overturn Roe, or that they
believe the American people are
suckers, or both.
If you're in Greensboro, you NEEEEEED to go to Stameys for BBQ.
Yes. Oh, yes.
And if you're bored, go to Prissy Polly's in Kernersville.
What a wonderful 3 day weekend this looks to be!
Doors is open, no a/c on, and it's almost too cool. Sunny beautiful day.
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Hey, if people want to pay $1000 a month to heat or air condition a piano box with a toilet, more power to them.
That's the thing: I will probably be paying this for heating a little camel's hump shaped seventy-year old house. Unless I do the tent thing around the bed and let the dogs sleep with me.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPHERS!
I think Patricia Clarkson should play Judy^3 in the Todd Haynes movie about JFM and Her New York Times.
Why are the Dems caving on this obviously unqualified, glorified secretary?
ql in ny
glad to see the snobbery isn't confined to just the wingnuts.
Why are the Dems caving on this obviously unqualified, glorified secretary?
ql in ny
glad to see the snobbery isn't confined to just the wingnuts.
Well, old farts like me don't want a yard or yard work. That being said,we looked at some the McMansions going up outside Portland and were appalled. Between the family room and the living room, I still wouldn't have enough space for my books.
I've just about decided on a bungalow in an older neighborhood. Anyone know any good landscapers in Portland?
Don't assume the Dems are caving on Miers. Perhaps they're doing their homework, research on her, before the hearings. It's good to be prepared. Ask Fitzgerald 
Watching the repukes tear each other apart over her is just a bonus!
For me, the bloom came off the rose when Patricia
Cornwell made Kay Scarpetta a grasping McMansionite constantly droning on about her 'great room'.
The small house I owned was a one-room schoolhouse built in 1790; it was subsequently added to over the years so that it had 2 bedrooms, a sunroom, dining room and kitchen. That one room had more character than any of these houses could ever hope to.
And it was built like a brick shithouse. Solid.
The chipmunks that were always digging around the foundation, however, gave me pause.
Perhaps the aspen stuff might possibly have something to do with "asp" such as Cleopatra was alleged to have used. The references to them turning yellow all at once becuase their roots were linked is fairly obvious, we go down, you go down. The come back to work and life line could have invited her to continue her profession of lying on behalf of the junta, the only way they were going to let her go on.
Once you're a property of this junta there isn't any going back.
Hey, if people want to pay $1000 a month to heat or air condition a piano box with a toilet, more power to them.
No, no dear; that's a piano box with six toilets and a bidet, thank you.
he tent thing around the bed
There's a reason they had curtains around beds in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Plus, it can be kind of romantic.
The D's have virtually no chance of stopping Miers in a frontal assault. They lack the firepower. The outcome of a filibuster/nuclear option showdown is likely a negative for the D's. Were they to undertake it in the hope of stopping someone, it should be for someone more dangerous, such as Roberts.
But they can skillfully use the chance to divide the R's, making them possibly stop Miers (with D help), weakening them for a 'next' nominee fight, and making them fight amongst themselves running into 06 and 08.
My take: don't shoot your wad.
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I think it was tv that basically did in front porches.
Hecate
Also suburbanization, which fragmented people's social lives, often divorcing the social from one's neighbors in favor of work acquaintances and such...
It's good for the backyard astronomer, but I'm not sure what else it really accomplished.
Nude sunbathing.
Just sayin.
watertiger
As usual, I concede the point to your discerning intellect.
Perhaps the aspen stuff might have something to do with "asp" such as Cleopatra was alleged to have used rather than face the music. The references to them turning yellow all at once becuase their roots were linked is fairly obvious, we go down, you go down. The come back to work and life line could have invited her to continue her profession of lying on behalf of the junta, the only way they were going to let her go on.
Once you're a property of this junta there isn't any going back.
This is why a good porch should extend around the house to the kitchen door.
Or have a porch off the kitchen, too.
I love our front porch. Great place to have coffee, read, and talk.
Minnesota beat Michigan?
This could be the worst season they've had in ? No wonder the roof just blew off my fanatic neighbors' house.
And it was built like a brick shithouse.
I think brick shithouses are an urban legend.
My house was originally one bedroom and one bath. It was a kit, after the war. Made of Phoenix Brick Yard brick (est. 1905) various people have added and added to it - that's what was intended. There is no real definition of its style - but it is now wearing the livery of the National Park Service and seems quite happy. People keep stopping by trying to get me to sell it to them. I think they want to subdivide my nearly half acre lot into about five pieces. This isn't going to happen.
We've got a couple of McMansions nearby that were billed as being built "in the arts and crafts tradition." They're the ugliest things you ever saw.
two quotes from l.cohen:
'the maestro says it's Mozart
but it sounds like bubblegum...'
'and all the lousy little poets come around
trying to sound like charlie manson...
My house is extremely small, easy to heat, with very low taxes and is paid for.
The references to them turning yellow all at once becuase their roots were linked is fairly obvious, we go down, you go down.
Why did Libby have to write such a letter?
There wasn't some other way to contact her without making it look like a Peter Sellers' movie?
glad to see the snobbery isn't confined to just the wingnuts.
bkny
Sweetie, up til recently I was a paralegal which is kind of like a legal secretary. Didn't qualify me for the SCOTUS.
The chipmunks that were always digging around the foundation, however, gave me pause.
watertiger
They were looking for the nuts their relatives buried in 1815. Dammit, they keep records of these things!
Little big porches for you an' me.
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My house is extremely small, easy to heat, with very low taxes and is paid for.
We've been considering downsizing from our already modest home. It would've been paid for, 'cept we bought the Fortress of Solitude from my folks as part of some estate planning. But we definitely don't need all the shit we own, particularly the crap in my office, and don't need all the space. Plus, moving closer to town will cut down on the costs of commuting.
And it was built like a brick shithouse.
I think you lucked out!
just a drive-by, folks, but i wanted to pass this along. one of my sisters works in building in DC that has several tv studios in it, and thus lots of bigwigs shuttling in and out. this morning she found herself sharing an elevator with robert bork, whom she overheard telling his companions, "you can only defend this administration if you're paid to."
file under "rats, fleeing."
why is everybody always dumping on ed mcmansion?
he did a great job on The Tonight Show.
QL, I would have nominated you . . .
With the Liberals and their Kelo decision, those people should stay on their toes
As usual, I concede the point to your discerning intellect.
eh, I'm just a hedonist. [/Louis Prima]
My house is around 1,500 sq. ft. Three bedrooms, bath & a half. We were able to raise three children quite comfortably. I can't believe anyone would need a 4,500 sq. ft. house.
Oh, joy, the little moron is
back.
earl in Leonard Cohen?
I like his Summer Haiku
Silence
And Deeper Silence
When the crickets hesitate.
Or something like that. If things were quieter more people would like sitting outside. Who wants to go out and listen to man-made noise?
One thing that really upsets me about the people who build these things is that they put them in the middle of what was once a productive farm field or woods and then they never go outside except to get into their cars or to cut the goddamned lawn. They would have been happier in an appartment in town where they wouldn't have had as long a drive to the take out place.
he outcome of a filibuster/nuclear option showdown is likely a negative for the D's. Were they to undertake it in the hope of stopping someone, it should be for someone more dangerous, such as Roberts.
But they can skillfully use the chance to divide the R's, making them possibly stop Miers (with D help), weakening them for a 'next' nominee fight, and making them fight amongst themselves running into 06 and 08.
They should drag it out as long as possible. Say up front they're going to let it come to a vote (and not vote for her then) but draw it out long past when the Republicans want it to vote on it.
A non-filibuster filibuster in other words. Once they've done maximum damage among the Republican base, let them vote for her.
All the Libs should be rounded up and put into brick shithouses so my overlords can poop on them.
Oh, joy, the little moron is
back.
steve simels
Spouting nonsense as usual!
QL, I would have nominated you . . .
DWD
Thanks, btw, did my starring part in your book make the cut?
As usual, I concede the point to your discerning intellect.
eh, I'm just a hedonist. [/Louis Prima]
watertiger
Would you like to visit my large deck?*
*Alert the metaphor police.
I think life starts with a whiff of godd perfume on a woman who sits on a front porch built in front of a 50's bungalo that's paid for while listening to big band music. That's how mine started.
All the Libs should be rounded up and put into brick shithouses
Bring it on, bitch!
I can't believe anyone would need a 4,500 sq. ft. house.
I can't believe anyone would want to clean it.
Lots of people can't afford cleaning services.
Gary's tape isn't holding.
I have the distinct feeling that English isn't his first language. No one who can type is that stupid in their native tongue.
Greensboro is my old sweet home too. Very beautiful and it looks like you are right down the street from my sister's house! Aycock neighborhood is right around UNCG and you should check out Tate Street and Stamey's is a must. Just head down Tate Street. Take a Right on Lee Street, which turns in to HIgh Point Rd and Right across from the Coliseum is Stamey's.
Real Southern BBQ.
QL, I think so. I have to check that portion to make sure. I will do right now.
Well, I suppose I should go put myself together - heading up to Lincoln Center to see Antonioni's "The Passenger," with Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.
If I come back later droning on about "mise en scene" and the director's "metier," just shoot me.
Trolls, always known for their snappy reparte.
All the Libs should be rounded up and put into brick shithouses so my overlords can poop on them.
Gary Ruppert
I am beyond words
I can't read the word "porch" anymore without shedding a silent tear for Trent Lott.
SteveNS
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I can't believe anyone would need a 4,500 sq. ft. house.
mer
Especially with heating bills being as high as they are........
earl in - Aren't you in Toronto? My wife has been there this week for a wedding, nothing but praise about how much she loves the city.
I found a 1907 detailed map of my street that showed a full width porch on my house (ca. 1790). The porch dated from the 1860s. An old timer who visited me and was born in my house in 1929 said the porch had to be taken down in the 1930s when the street was paved and sidewalks went in.
Old house are fun.
.
My fingers smell like ten little brick shithouses.
I think brick shithouses are an urban legend.
SteveNS
I blame George Clinton.
As for Barbeque In North Carolina, if you allow yourself pork; there is probably no dish more entrancing than NC pulled pork sandwiches with good cole slaw. Almost enough to call me back.
They should drag it out as long as possible. Say up front they're going to let it come to a vote (and not vote for her then) but draw it out long past when the Republicans want it to vote on it.
I think it's a given that the Dems should make a *huge* stink about her being an unqualified crony, and that not a single one should vote for her, but whether or not to filibuster should depend on just how ideologically vile she is.
Of course, the reality will be that one Dem might murmur something about cronyism, and then >30 of them will vote to confirm.
QL,
But even more importantly, he read through his favorite web logs or blogs to see what the perspective from the bloggers was. When he had first accessed these personal journalism sites, he had been highly dubious of their content. Now, having been immersed in the community for years, he understood that if intelligence and perspective were the goal of reading the daily news, then the blogs were simply better. It helped him to start the day on a positive note. If the news media had faults, which they certainly do, Janus thought, the main one was their lack of perspective of the citizens of this country. They predicated their news and views on a sort of “Cool kids” mentality that assumed everyone who was not a part of the “DC Experience” was also a boob waiting to be led. The phenomenon, started in the late seventies had driven people from watching or even reading the news without a jaundiced eye away. The problem was reaching its apex now. When one television network practiced right wing editorializing as a badge of honor, the world was heading toward disaster. Already there were mistakes being made at the executive level of government that were not reconcilable with the facts as Janus understood them. These mistakes had led to the disastrous war, failures to protect the citizens, and a general curtailing of American Freedoms. It made Janus sick.
After sixty, one finds that the only facts of consequence are self-generated but it did not remove his quest for perspective. In the end, it is not so much the facts that generate opinions, it is the understanding of these facts within the hierarchy of one’s experiences. Here in rural Michigan, his perspective was much different than those of his cyber-friends. Whether it was the husband and wife team of English professors - who also sought and promoted somewhat obscure pop music, or the lady lawyer who lived in Texas and managed to spend the summers in rural Colorado with the splendor of nature contrasting with the dearth of natural beauty left in the concrete monstrosities we call cities. No, Janus knew and understood that there were many people whose opinions and perspective were different than his own and that their positions had merits. He loved talking with the teachers from California and the writers from NYC and the rest of his friends who guarded their private lives voraciously, but whose intellectual acuity belied their silly names they chose for themselves – names often predicated on the lines of poems or classical mythology or just plain whimsey. Quilt Lady in New York was one of his personal favorites: amazing mind with a talent for stating her perspective clearly
Well, I suppose I should go put myself together - heading up to Lincoln Center to see Antonioni's "The Passenger," with Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.
Watertiger
A cultured Hedonist.
Have fun WT.
I can't believe anyone would need a 4,500 sq. ft. house.
What if you have a lot of gold ingots, and a large harem that requires many baths?
I think life starts with a whiff of godd perfume on a woman who sits on a front porch built in front of a 50's bungalo that's paid for while listening to big band music. That's how mine started.
Now, that's romantic.
I know some great gardeners in Portland. And a heckuva lotta great plantspeople too.
All the Libs should be rounded up and put into brick shithouses so my overlords can poop on them.
Gary Ruppert
Or he could be that guy from Maine who was arrested this summer for, not once but twice, being arrested for voyeurism while hiding in the dry wells of women's out houses.
heading up to Lincoln Center to see Antonioni's "The Passenger," with Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.
You know Jack and Maria?
I live in what might be considered a MacMansion neighborhood. Not quit, tho. 1/2 acre lots and the houses seem well built. No sidewalks or street lites. Our lot is still like an untamed jungle. Most are cleared and grassed with all the big trees still there.
It's a nice community.
Lots of neighbor waving and people going for walks in the evening.
Everything we need from Hospital/Vet to, well everything, within 10 miles.
Yet a sense of being away from it all.
A little deck and covered porch in the back.
I like it.
(this isn't gonna turn into more berg bashing, is it?)
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I think it was tv that basically did in front porches.
Hecate
And air conditioning.
I blame George Clinton.
rorschach
The "blame Clinton" meme is evolving...
A non-filibuster filibuster in other words. Once they've done maximum damage among the Republican base, let them vote for her.
The Old Man From Scene 24
think you can get them off the trans-fat diet long enough to figure out something that clever?
Trolls, always known for their snappy reparte.
Attaturk
Which parts snap?
afternoon
have a loksee at our mid-east image booster-in-chief
http://www.theweekmagazine.com/a...le.aspx?
id=1149
The difference between authentic Ruppert and fake Rupperts: I don't swear and they do
As for Barbeque In North Carolina, if you allow yourself pork; there is probably no dish more entrancing than NC pulled pork sandwiches with good cole slaw. Almost enough to call me back.
Even if you hate coleslaw, it's perfect on the sandwich. It all makes sense. I'm tempted to drive back right now.
Would you like to visit my large deck?*
*Alert the metaphor police.
Sure, why not?! I'm footloose and fancy-free!* Granted, it's a little chilly now, but that's nothing a little "robust physical activity" can't handle.
I like how it's the "Liberals' Kelo decision" considering something like 7 of the 9 Supreme Court justices were nominated by Republicans.
Sometimes, it's kind of nice having Gary Ruppert here. He's sort of our straight man. He's voting with his feet regarding which blog is best, right? And when he gets out of hand, he's nullified when half-a-dozen Gary Rupperts suddenly show up, one stupider than the rest (the original, of course).
The difference between authentic Ruppert and fake Rupperts: I don't swear and they do
Gary Ruppert
Notice to Fake Ruppert: Keep swearing because that's the only difference.
Thanks Hecate. Us old people remember nice evenings in late summer and fall. The October of my life. I enjoy it.
afternoon
have a loksee at our mid-east image booster-in-chief
http://www.theweekmagazine.com/a...com/
a...le.aspx? id=1149
matthew
HEADLINE: "Karen Hughes leaves Muslims cold "
You see, if nothing else her mission accomplished a common understanding between Ourselves and Islam.
I think all wrong-thinking people are right.
You know Jack and Maria?
We're buds. He lets me borrow his sunglasses from time to time.
Why did Libby have to write such a letter?
There wasn't some other way to contact her without making it look like a Peter Sellers' movie?
pie
The direction her cell was facing, she couldn't see the Bat-shit-crazy-Signal.
Holy aspen turning!
You know Jack and Maria?
We're buds. He lets me borrow his sunglasses from time to time.
watertiger
If he lets you borrow his nine-iron you'll know he really likes you.
earl in - Aren't you in Toronto? My wife has been there this week for a wedding, nothing but praise about how much she loves the city.
chris/tx
chris yes.
I'm glad she's enjoying the city.
it's a great place
I think it was tv that basically did in front porches.
Hecate
And air conditioning.
Tena
Many larger houses built in the early 20th had a 2 storey porch built usually on the south side of the house. They called them sleeping porches. Lots of windows for a breeze and privacy. A standard item on "colonial revival" houses of the early 20th Century.
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ach, I forgot the asterisk.
*Kevin Bacon will not be appearing in this film.
I like how it's the "Liberals' Kelo decision" considering something like 7 of the 9 Supreme Court justices were nominated by Republicans.
Stevens, Souter, and Kennedy are all Liberals. Along with Breyer and Ginsburg
I think all wrong-thinking people are right.
NTodd
"Four left turns Make a right" A former winner of the Ig Noble Award
"If a fool should persist in their folly they should grow wise" William Blake
Gary, keep it up but start taking those turns now.
a miscellaneous hound
http://static.flickr.com/7/
90768...8985ab1bb_o.jpg
plantsman,
Any landscapers you'd recommend in northern VA?
Why did Libby have to write such a letter?
I assume someone has tried every-third-word code on it.
I think all wrong-thinking people are right.
NTodd
Wrong!
I think it was tv that basically did in front porches.
Hecate
And air conditioning.
Tena
Nah, a/c finished -sleeping- porches. I loved sleeping porches - but the only place I ever had that had them was a rather old fashion apartment here in Phx - there were two sleeping porches and one patio, and we'd fight to dibs one of the sleeping porches thru the summer. Delightful!
*Kevin Bacon will not be appearing in this film.
Thers just snorted in disgust and wandered off.
Why did Libby have to write such a letter?
I've been wondering about it. No way his lawyer let him send it w/o reviewing it first, and the first thing most lawyers I know would have done would have been to 86 all that mushy language and suggestions of stories she could write.
I think life starts with a whiff of godd perfume on a woman who sits on a front porch built in front of a 50's bungalo that's paid for while listening to big band music. That's how mine started.
that is cinematic
Here's how you know I'm the real Gary Ruppert: I leave the period off the end of my posts.
And I have scabby knees
Hecate. The best landscaper in northern VA is mother nature. I know this because I lived there in the early 70's. No lawn. No landscaping except dogwoods and wild flowers. Loved it.
ach, I forgot the asterisk.
*Kevin Bacon will not be appearing in this film.
watertiger
Alright, feel free to visit the deck to sunbathe, I encourage it even...but NO KENNY LOGGINS!
Back later, folxes!
♥
I really do need a Gravatar.
What would be a good choice?
A picture of Reagan or a Picture of Bush
"a miscellaneous hound"
--doug, curiously strange
Damn doug, that looks so much like one of my dogs I can't believe it. Mal weighs 107 lbs. and is the most devoted dog I've ever had as a pal. Drools like a baby, but I forgive him.
I like how it's the "Liberals' Kelo decision" considering something like 7 of the 9 Supreme Court justices were nominated by Republicans.
Stevens, Souter, and Kennedy are all Liberals.
Nominated by whom, Gary?
David Frost has signed on to work for English language version of Al Jazeera. Will still be on BBC, but will be contributing there, too.
I really do need a Gravatar.
What would be a good choice?
A picture of Reagan or a Picture of Bush
Gary Ruppert
How about a pile of dogshit?
"Four left turns Make a right" A former winner of the Ig Noble Award
This year's winner of the Ig Nobel Prize for literature:
LITERATURE: The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others -- each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them.
Alright, feel free to visit the deck to sunbathe, I encourage it even...but NO KENNY LOGGINS!
Deal.
How do you feel about Poco?
DWD - aw shucks.
mer
I swear, when I first got "speeder" I'd never seen a hound that looked like him. Since then I've seen many. Is this a trend?
But they both look the same from a crotch-level perspective
A picture of Reagan or a Picture of Bush
I can spit on either one.
earl in Have never made a movie, I was a combat photographer in Viet Nam. No porches to speak of over there.
okay, the Pucci print rainboots are on, the brolly is in hand (keep it clean, people!) and I am OUTTA here!
Later, muchachas and chos.
(this isn't gonna turn into more berg bashing, is it?)
Hope not.
I love my neighborhood. I've wanted to live here since I first moved to Dallas a long time ago. It kills me that they are doing this to it. I gather I'm not the only one who feels this way, either. But I don't see a thing that can be done.
I really do need a Gravatar.
What would be a good choice?
A picture of Reagan or a Picture of Bush
A picture of a steaming pile of donkey shit.
Stevens, Souter, and Kennedy are all Liberals.
Nominated by whom, Gary?
Liberals nominated by Ford, Bush, and Reagan.
It's unfortunate that Robert Bork wasn't confirmed, but that the GOP caved in to the liberal lies.
Clarence Thomas is the only overt Conservative pick after Bork.
All the rest were too stealth.
When the Democrats pick obvious liberals like Ginsburg and Breyer, we should pick Luttig and Owen and Brown
have a loksee at our mid-east image booster-in-chief
What I wouldn't give to see a story like that on ABCBSMSNBCNN....
Sleeping porches, nice.
I take my sleeping bag, a flash lite, some cigs and water/drink (and Zoey) and go out to a little open stop in the trees in back some nites.
I sleep like a rock.
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Jessica Stern on c-span.
Mmrruff.
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I was a combat photographer in Viet Nam.
Wow. Thank you.
Liberals nominated by Ford, Bush, and Reagan.
Hey, Ford, Bush and Reagan won the election. GET OVER IT!
If anybody is interested in fending off winter for just a little longer, Southwest thru the 10th is offering:
Phoenix, AZ
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I don't swear and they do
Gary Ruppert
Well, whoopty shit!
I think Ruppert is my next door neighbor. Sounds just like him. Hey Ruppert. Are you my Nazi neighbor?
No landscaping except dogwoods and wild flowers. Loved it.
Ralphie
That's da plan!
(if I ever get off my lazy ass)
.
The more I read the more I think that Fitz is going after the presnit, at least as an unindicted co-conspirator. I think somebody is singing like a canary, somebody who was on the plane on the Africa trip.
I think the "Shrub" was in on it from the beginning.
I am sure Fitz knows "If you strike at the king, you had better kill him"
Hey, Ford, Bush and Reagan won the election. GET OVER IT!
NTodd
Ford won an election???????
Did I hear this morning that AOL bought Blogspot?
$99 one-way, to/from Philadelphia, PA
Can I wear my "Fuck Bush" T-shirt?
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Yeah, usually a bloodhound or any kind of hunting dog with a good sniffer. That's a smell hound.
Ask my relatives in Missour-ah.
Heh
not to be confused with those smelly cats.
$99 one-way, to/from Philadelphia, PA
Can I wear my "Fuck Bush" T-shirt?
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Agent Orange
No, that gets you standby on the government fare to Egypt.
But they won't torture you, no sireebob.
HARRIET AND HARRY SITTING IN A TREE...
It's unfortunate that Robert Bork wasn't confirmed, but that the GOP caved in to the liberal lies.
Read "Slouching Toward Gomorrah", he confirmed that he is a psychotic fascist in his own words.
With homes being built to satisfy a more aesthetic appeal rather than functional, comfy/fealy appeal the porch is going the way of the dodo.
MYOB'
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My breath smells like cat pee
Did I hear this morning that AOL bought Blogspot?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Ford won an election???????
Well, sorta. Damnit, you know what I mean!
Uncle Sam wants you to rat on your neighbors...
I think Ruppert is my next door neighbor. Sounds just like him. Hey Ruppert. Are you my Nazi neighbor?
Ralphie
Would his name be Faubus by any chance?
Well that's it. I vote we all should fly out and visit gwpda, drink the champaigne she has on ice, and sleep on her porch.
jus yr livin in citee downt make y' bettern' anyone man! Oh wait your from an *east coat* urban area -- oh, WAIT! you are exempted from ALL demonic flaws of the ol US of A -- my bad -- what was I THINKING! You are an east coast city dweller -- whell hawt damn!)
Did I hear this morning that AOL bought Blogspot?
Verisign/AOL bought Weblogs.com, but I haven't heard anything about Blogspot.
I now spend more time organizing my reading material than actually reading it.
Time to cut back, perhaps?
I blame the time spent reading this and other blogs.
Damn you, internets!
,i>The more I read the more I think that Fitz is going after the presnit, at least as an unindicted co-conspirator. I think somebody is singing like a canary, somebody who was on the plane on the Africa trip.
I think the "Shrub" was in on it from the beginning.
What I wouldn't give for that to be true.
earl in Have never made a movie, I was a combat photographer in Viet Nam. No porches to speak of over there.
Ralphie
WELL, a photographers eye
then!
Uncle Sam wants you to rat on your neighbors...
I'd rat on Gary Ruppert.
Ford won an election?
Ford: President I would like very much to replace Spiro Agnew.
Nixon: Pardon?
Thank you NTodd. I did it because I had to. It seems to my ignorant brain that nobody has to do anything today. Maybe that's good. In the twilight of my life I still have to do things that are required of me by either peer presure or requirements of living on this planet in any modicum of comfort.
Nominated by whom, Gary?
NTodd
There ya go trying that logic stuff on him again.
You know it doesn't work.
I think somebody is singing like a canary, somebody who was on the plane on the Africa trip.
Ten bucks (Cdn.) says it's Colin Powell.
Well that's it. I vote we all should fly out and visit gwpda, drink the champaigne she has on ice, and sleep on her porch.
ql in ny
O-Kay!
(What did I do with the convertible? Nevermind.)
was colin powell ever before fitzgeralds grand jury?
Absence of porches is a post-war phenomenon reflecting the preference of people to be more individualist, wanting their home to be more of a private refuge and to have less contact with the outside community.
Geez. Here we go again. Right now, as often happens, the neighborhood kids are playing across my front lawn and the one next door. Me and the neighbors often meet and chat in the middle of the street, or in front of each others houses. Or, horrors, INSIDE each others homes. None of us has any meaningful front porch, and we all have the dreaded huge garages!!!
This is not atypical. Please stop with the "suburbs are teh suxxorz" nonsense. They're not for everyone but some of us are doing just fine there, and we aren't driving H2s 50 miles to work every day either.
Speaking of reading, does anyone know anything about Readerville.com? Someone sent me the link, saying it's a good books- and reading-related place, run by a former Salon person.
I'd rat on Gary Ruppert.
NTodd
One doesn't rat on the toilet monitor. He'd be duty bound to rat on himself.
Ten bucks (Cdn.) says it's Colin Powell.
SteveNS |
Nice.
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Re porches vs McMansions.
They are not exclusive.
On my parents street, two families have torn down the old ranch style homes and built beautiful replica's of famous old LA style homes. Raised off the ground, big porches, and one even has a widows peak. Surround it with the ornate iron fencing, gingerbread detail. Get all the modern conveniences and energy efficiency in a home that looks a hundred years old.
Did I hear this morning that AOL bought Blogspot?
Okay, that would suck. It would suck very much.
With homes being built to satisfy a more aesthetic appeal rather than functional, comfy/fealy appeal the porch is going the way of the dodo.
Oh. Is that what the kids are calling "aesthetic" these days?
Crap. Have fun heating your "aesthetics."
HECATE:
plantsman,
Any landscapers you'd recommend in northern VA?
With Eva Cassidy dead and gone, that's a tough one-
but observe the 'cared for' properties in your area that appeal to you and your sense of style. Ask the owners if you see them. In spring, stop and talk to landscapers whose work you admire. Check with your county Ag Extension Agent. Check With Master Gardener's programs in your area and see if there is a 'hardy plant" group in your area- check at good nurseries. All are great starting points.
Absence of porches is a post-war phenomenon reflecting the preference of people to be more individualist, wanting their home to be more of a private refuge and to have less contact with the outside community.
A gun turret on the roof is another indication.
This is not atypical. Please stop with the "suburbs are teh suxxorz" nonsense. They're not for everyone but some of us are doing just fine there, and we aren't driving H2s 50 miles to work every day either.
loser
Exactly.
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earl in Don't talk about my eye. You know I shot it out with a daisy red rider. It richoched off a 4x5 speed graphic.
With homes being built to satisfy a more aesthetic appeal rather than functional, comfy/fealy appeal the porch is going the way of the dodo.
MYOB'
What's un-asthetic about a nice deep porch?
Read "Slouching Toward Gomorrah", he confirmed that he is a psychotic fascist
in his own words.
EPT | 10.08.05 - 5:17 pm | #
Absolutely true, but consider
this -- in 2000, he publically
said that Bush is stupider than
Dan Quayle.
and to have less contact with the outside community.
Stinky
and resulted in the birth of the deck in the backyard.
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Well that's it. I vote we all should fly out and visit gwpda, drink the champaigne she has on ice, and sleep on her porch.
ql in ny
Take Arthur for rides in the convertible, and eat all her pickles.
Ahem.
Suburbs are teh suxxorz.
And Macs.
(scurries away)
in 2000, he publically
said that Bush is stupider than
Dan Quayle.
steve simels
A truth even he had to recognise.
was colin powell ever before fitzgeralds grand jury?
Yes.
By Michael Isikoff and Eve Conant
Newsweek
Aug. 9 issue - Secretary of State Colin Powell recently testified before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of CIA covert officer Valerie Plame, NEWSWEEK has learned. Powell's appearance on July 16 is the latest sign the probe being conducted by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is highly active and broader than has been publicly known. ... [snip]
Take Arthur for rides in the convertible, and eat all her pickles.
I know where the keys are.
Growing up in the Boston area, we had triple deckers with "piazzas."
I remember sitting on the "piazza" with my Nonno and Nonna on Sunday evenings after a huge dinner of pasta, roast chicken, veggies, and on holidays, cannoli. I remember Nonno's cigar smoke, too.
Gone.
All gone.
West Side Story on AMC.
I'll listen to a little, then be forced to put on the Kenton version, with the beautimous Conte Candoli solos.
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Speaking of reading, does anyone know anything about Readerville.com?
Not before now, but I just bookmarked it!
Thanks!
we love our porch. eats brunch on it, maxine and the cats love the break from the sun, and plenty of room for an old oaken church pew.
still haven't re-screened it, gotta get on that, but chatting with the neighbors, watching the pine trees grow, yes, porches for everyone!
On my parents street, two families have torn down the old ranch style homes and built beautiful replica's of famous old LA style homes. Raised off the ground, big porches, and one even has a widows peak. Surround it with the ornate iron fencing, gingerbread detail. Get all the modern conveniences and energy efficiency in a home that looks a hundred years old.
chris/tx
Why don't you piss off?
Development is fucking everything up and you are part of the problem.
(What did I do with the convertible? Nevermind.)
Arthur J. GWPDA
Y'know, when the two-legged person wrote me that the weather was cool enough for car rides, I was gonna remind her to hide the convertible keys.
But I forgot. Tell her I'm sorry.
Yes, I remember reading that Powell did indeed appear before the GJ.
Oh "brendan", "brendan". Jealousy doesn't become you dearie. Work hard at your $8/hr job and some day you can take care of the properties owned by your betters. You'll like that!
Development is fucking everything up and you are part of the problem.
brendan
Uh oooh
.
Why don't you piss off?
Development is fucking everything up and you are part of the problem.
brendan | 10.08.05 - 5:28 pm | #
Hey Ted, still pissed off I outed you a couple days ago? How's the wife? Oh, that's right, she left you.
West Side Story on AMC.
"Far From Heaven" in the DVD player.
Please stop with the "suburbs are teh suxxorz"
Why don't you piss off?
Well, waddayaknow, this is going to turn into the same old shit, after all.
still have to do things that are required of me by either peer presure or requirements of living on this planet in any modicum of comfort.
Was it Alice Walker who said that activism was the rent she paid for living on planet Earth?
I don't think Powell appeared. He may have submitted an avadavit.
QL, if I insert 100,000 blognames in the book: then it will be a major hit, right?
(sigh)
Wow, I've never heard "piazza" for the front porch. Very cool.
Course, the triple deckas I grew up with were in the Irish and Armenian section of Worcester. So it was just the "front pawch."
It'd be amusing to me if a lot of the Plame news we've gotten to this point has been due to the emissions of a leaky Colin.
Here's a question: since SCOTUS is so interested in tackling these state laws that they find morally questionable -- Oregon's right to die, California's medical marijuana -- how long before they notice that prostitution is legal in Nevada? Think they'll be trying to put the kabosh on that soon?
Suburbs are teh suxxorz.
If only I knew what that meant.
No wait, don't tell me; let me languish in my ingnorance. It actualy feels good.
With homes being built to satisfy a more aesthetic appeal rather than functional, comfy/fealy appeal the porch is going the way of the dodo.
Decks and patios have replaced front porches.
Hecate. You are correct.
Was it Alice Walker who said that activism was the rent she paid for living on planet Earth?
I like that.
flory/Kent - pickles went out today! Tuesday, probably. They're sealed up pretty good so shouldn't leak or anything. If they do tho, you'll still have pickles - just not pickle juice. Throw in some half and half white and cider vinaigre and you'll be set.
(I knew Arthur had a set of keys - he keeps them under his mattress. For 'emergencies'.)
...how long before they notice that prostitution is legal in Nevada? Think they'll be trying to put the kabosh on that soon?
Not if I have anything to say about it!
Ten bucks (Cdn.) says it's Colin Powell.
SteveNS
Ari Fleischer more likely. He already stated he didn't want to go to jail when he resigned. Everybody on the plane including Powell and Rice and Bartlett may be co-conspirators.
how long before they notice that prostitution is legal in Nevada?
Where is "Big Time" Dick anyway?
One of the nice things about America, at least for a bit longer, is that we don't all have to do the same thing. People who like living in cities can live in cities. People who want to build McMansions can build them. People who like to live in the burbs can live in the burbs. People can even live in the cities when they're young, move to the burbs, and then move back to the cities. Imagine.
The house I grew up in here in Chicago's Little Italy, we had what's known as a "stoop" instead of a proper front porch. In decent weather, everybody'd be out on the stoop, with a transistor radio playing Bob Elston announcing the White Sox night game from Comiskey. My first real memory is sitting out there and my dad and uncle coming home (after the street lights had gone on) and they had a big sack of smelt fish from Lake Michigan for my Mom to cook up. I watched the moon landing on a little portable TV sitting on that stoop, and I got my first french kiss whilst sitting on my girlfriend's front stoop.
Where is "Big Time" Dick anyway?
Probably recovering from his "knee surgery".
Would watertiger mind if, instead of hanging baskets of flowers on my front porch I did the more traditional red chile ristra thingy? Maybe hang some machaca?
This is the housing of the future after Bush.
http://www.icosavillage.net/
huma...ian_relief.html
Waterproofed and insulated they might not be too bad, actually.
A leaky Colin.
Eeeww, unattractive mental image.
It'd be amusing to me if a lot of the Plame news we've gotten to this point has been due to the emissions of a leaky Colin.
SteveNS
I'd actually find that disgusting.
He does nothing to stop the crimes while he's in office -- but as soon as he's safely gone he tries to resurrect his reputation by leaking?
Too fucking late Colin.
Why would Fleischer want to piss off any Bushistas by talking. He's got an incredibly lucrative speaking gig that probably makes him millions.
Take the heat be loyal and Chimpy will pardon you.
???
Decks and patios have replaced front porches.
pie
Gee, no kidding.
Decks and patios have replaced front porches.
pie
Gee, no kidding.
Hey Ted, still pissed off I outed you a couple days ago? How's the wife? Oh, that's right, she left you.
Did you know that 91% of divorce is initiated by women. They're so evil.
To-morrow would have been John Lennon's
.65th
Birthday.
Damn. Imagine.
The house I grew up in here in Chicago's Little Italy, we had what's known as a "stoop" instead of a proper front porch.
I hada stoop, too: in Brooklyn.* Was little, but still remember slurping Italian ice out there.
*at least until the 'rents moved me out to the suburbs. My mom regretted that one immediately. Aunt told me that night before she died, my mom begged my dad to sell the house and move us back to Brooklyn.
flory/Kent - pickles went out today! Tuesday, probably
Pickles!!!
Tearing down houses and building McMansions that are out of scale with the existing neighborhood is called "infilling".
In our county there's a push to amend the zoning laws so that houses can be only so high on infills -- I forget the exact feet -- but the developers are complaining, rightly so, that you can't even have a two-story house unless it's with a flat roof. They reformers haven't allowed for the extra height of the roofs.
But, yeah, it's a real problem in developed neighborhoods closer in to the cities as people are tiring of the commute to the outer suburbs to escape whatever -- blacks, crime, poor schools.
My breath smells like cat pee
Gary Ruppert
Someone did send me a tin of what I thought was Almond Roca. It turned out to be Kitty Roca from the litter box, however. Not bad though.
WSS on TMC, not AMC (thus no commercials)
Thanks for the heads up, it's something nice to listen to. As kids, we played that record at least ten times a day, til dad almost had a nervous breakdown.
Did I have sympathy my kids and Phantom, a little, but only a little.
Probably recovering from his "knee surgery".
Wee knee surgery?
The Papal Bull
Isn't Chicago just loaded with those triple decker "back porches"?
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Too fucking late Colin.
Total agreement here.
What amuses me is the term "leaking Colin".
Sorry. I'm something of a lowbrow.
Hecate. I was born in a small town in northern Wisconsin and went to Washington D.C. as a 19 year old soldier. Since then I have lived in cities, rural, suburbs New England, Midwest, South, North, East, but not West. If you go East enough, you're in the West.
I think Colin Powell actually could resurrect his reputation. If he were to come out and admit his great mistakes, admit to being used by the Bush Admin, lay out the truth regarding the build-up to the Iraq War, and register as a Democrat, I'd be willing to forgive and forget. Well, forgive at least.
How did I miss a Ted sighting? What's his name these days?
November, Ted. Going to go to the Nutmeg state and look up some old friends. Maybe take a few pictures.
Did you know that 91% of divorce is initiated by women. They're so evil.
NTodd
Not evil, just well informed.
Which is worse?
Did you know that 91% of divorce is initiated by women. They're so evil.
NTodd
Depends upon WHY they were initiated!
Gee, no kidding.
Well, okay then. We've been talkng about the demise of front porches, and it's true, but at least people are still getting together in back yards.
Chill.
smelt fish!
Hmmm
I might be off the the fish market.
They have a connected Restruant.
You can eat from the menu or go the market and pick out something there.
(that can get pricey, tho)
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I wish on was on one of those front porches right now!
The cute little house next to my apt. bldg. was torn down this week. Now I have the bulldozer crew on break with hip hop music blasting away! I wonder whether L.A. anti-noise regs cover this?
I knew the demolition and construction noise was going to be bad, but I had no idea they'd play loud music, too.
Not my kind of music. Haven't they hear of ear plugs?
Not evil, just well informed.
Which is worse?
I prefer my women ignorant and compliant to my every whim. No, wait...
Well, waddayaknow, this is going to turn into the same old shit, after all.
monica_nyc
Sigh. Hope not.
Did you know that 91% of divorce is initiated by women. They're so evil.
Serves you hetero pukes right.
Prostitution will only remain legal in DC.
Hmmm ... and he was just in Nashville last weekend playing a small club ...
Boy George on US cocaine charge
Did you know that 91% of divorce is initiated by women. They're so evil.
NTodd
I had a sex change just so I could get divorced from myself.
Jeepers, why is everybody so testy today. First bkny (whom I've always enjoyed) and now this Brendon person.
Pay no attention to the replicant. I alone am the true Gary Ruppert. I alone can speak the truth here. Do not read the replicant.
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What amuses me is the term "leaking Colin".
I was studiously avoiding noticing the pun.
Too many people are easily encouraged 'round here.
Well, forgive at least.
The Papal Bull
He could also claim he stayed on to try to moderate the lunatics whispering in Bush's ear. I think most people wouldn't buy it though.
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Did you know that 91% of divorce is initiated by women.
Only cuz y'all are impossible to live with. So technically, divorce is initiated by men....
You need to move beyond Transmetropolitan. There are some outstanding comics out there. I love Transmetropolitan, but it's not the only one.
Tena
Oh, I know. Watchmen, V for Vendetta, etc. I'm simply unused to actually purchasing comics. Call it a throwback to my former elitism, but when it comes time to exchange money for product, I can't quite pull the trigger.
Baby steps. Baby steps.
Prostitution will only remain legal in DC.
It's not legal in DC.
Want to get bummed out for your Saturday night? Read this commentary from over at antiwar.com, about a police state being closer than we think.
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?...?
articleid=7556
Roberts loves him that ol' executive power, sorta in the divine right of kings mold.
We know nothing about Harriet, except that she was right there while all the groundwork was being laid for this pre-Magna Carta crap.
Ah, woe is us! (Or, woe is we? Hhnn. Either way, we're fucked.)
Need way big majorities in both houses of Congress, Dem prez, and then we pack the court to return our rights and Constitution.
I was contemplating on adding a front porch next spring. Nothing major - just an 8x14' sitting area. I'll roof it in a few years possibly.
My 'porch' is the 2 tiered deck off from the kitchen into the back yard, under the Eastern Catalpa tree. Once I eliminate that nasty ass English Walnut that has destroyed the roof over my kitchen, I'm putting in a hot tub and a covered patio, to go with the stone BBQ that will be started here directly.
I'll let y'all know, because they're be a Carolina style BBQ and such here around that time.
Deal?
First bkny
I didn't see the comment, but it was prolly a stupid little punk, namestealing.
Did you know that 91% of divorce is initiated by women. They're so evil.
That figure jumps to 100% if you were unfortunate enough to be married to condescending arrogant Tedious Ted.
I prefer my women ignorant and compliant to my every whim. No, wait...
NTodd
Sending both Janeane and Caroline a copy of that post....
Did you know that 91% of divorce is initiated by women. They're so evil.
In lesbian divorces, that rate skyrockets to a staggering - STAGGERING - 100%.
Joining us now is Ralph Reed -- Mr. Reed, how can these she-devils be tamed?
Testy... Testy... Testy...
Is this thing on?
Got the feeling that Ted's idea of a trophy wife is mounted on the wall and performs sordid acts when you press a button.
His ideal woman.
Remember, in Prison you may not get a chance to be just a TOP
How come if you go East enough, you end up in the West, but if you go South enough, you don't end up in the North?
Huh? (wipes nose)
Serves you hetero pukes right.
rorschach
Damn. Imagine.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Wow. It makes me sad to do so... So much was lost...
We had a back porch on our little cottage which overlooked the lake and covered the entire back; unfortunately, the house was so small we enclosed the porch and built a master bathroom (only had one small one, the house was built in '3
, a breakfast room, and an office.
Did you know that 91% of divorce is initiated by women.
"Can't live with them and it's against the law to kill them."
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Prostitution will only remain legal in DC.
It's not legal in DC.
Hecate
It is if you work for the liberal media.
Not legal. But tolerated.
I spend some time eeach year in Southern Delaware (yes, there's a difference between So. Delaware and No. Delaware) and every house, even the McMansions are built with porches.But most the porches are on the side, or back of the house. On the other hand no one builds upstairs sleeping porches anymore. Quel Domage. I loved sleeping on those things.
Not all new construction are McMansions.
I know a local architect, who builds well designed, attractive, well engineered houses. He takes pride in the fact that he can do this, make money, and that the owners have always made money if they needed to sell his houses due to having some reason to move on.
Prostitution will only remain legal in DC.
It's not legal in DC.
It depends on which thingie you put in the other person's whatzit.
Prostitution will only remain legal in DC.
It's not legal in DC.
Hecate
It is for anyone with a press pass.
Prostitution will only remain legal in DC.
It's not legal in DC.
Hecate
Someone bust the Washington Press Club before they go out the back.
The hysteria from the left about police states is amusing, since Bush is doing nothing of the sort
Well what if Bush is either indicted or named as an unindicted co-conspirator, if he tried to pardon anybody including himself, I think the stink would ruin the Repukes for 20-30 years.
I think Bush will be named in the indictments someway. I assume Fitz has listned to all the phone calls and conversations on AirForce One on the trip to Africa. They must all be recorded.
How come if you go East enough, you end up in the West, but if you go South enough, you don't end up in the North?
Well when you reach the South Pole EVERY direction is north.
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Headline juxtaposition over at antiwar.com :
*US Wants More Robust Rules of Engagement in Afghanistan
*US Troops Kill Four Afghan Police With 'Friendly Fire'
Well, that's one way to be more "robust."
I'm simply unused to actually purchasing comics.
I have much to teach you....
It is if you work for the liberal media.
Gary Ruppert
Good news, boys. The raid is still on.
No statehood for D.C.!
I watched the moon landing on a little portable TV sitting on that stoop, and I got my first french kiss whilst sitting on my girlfriend's front stoop.
The Papal Bull
It was pretty much the same on the West Side of Manhattan in the twenties when I was a little QL. One advantage for families was that there was always some buttinsky hanging out the window keeping an eye on the street. One step out in the gutter and your parents knew. Getting more that just kissing action, and the whole goddamn neighborhood knew you were a slut.
Oh, I know. Watchmen, V for Vendetta, etc.
And Sandman!!! A must-read.
Pine Lake Larry,
Love your gravatar -- trees are so beautiful. They tore down a huge three-story avocado tree that shaded the whole back yard of the little cottage next door to my building this week. (sigh.)
Then I saw them pulling down a beautiful little small green tree with a chain attached to one of the dozers -- a sorry sight!
It'll be over soon enough.
GWPDA, how does your redbud shade your porch? They're no bigger than dogwoods in the south.
Toby,
Had fun pouring lighter fluid on any dogs lately?
Good op-ed piece:
">The Valley of Decision
Hey Ted, still pissed off I outed you a couple days ago? How's the wife? Oh, that's
right, she left you.
Hey, is that Ted as in Ted Smith?
Not that asshole again....
The hysteria from the left about police states is amusing, since Bush is doing nothing of the sort
Gary Ruppert
And I should like to add that the word hysteria comes from the ancient Greeks who thought all leftists were women and tried to disembowel them.
I'll let y'all know, because they're be a Carolina style BBQ and such here around that time.
Road trip!
Well what if Bush is either indicted or named as an unindicted co-conspirator, if he tried to pardon anybody including himself, I think the stink would ruin the Repukes for 20-30 years.
I think the voters would understand if Bush pardoned people to help heal the nation and if they were being persecuted
Go back to Bavaria, Toby.
Longitude is to Latitude as is Dem To Rep. Lot's of degrees of separation.
Uncle Sam wants you to rat on your neighbors...
My neighbors all hate Bush, too!
Oh joy, the little sociopath has
arrived.
It depends on which thingie you put in the other person's whatzit.
chica toxica
You and your high-falutin' scientific jargon!
My neighbors all hate me.
Agent Orange,
Yep, lots of triple-deck back porches in Chicago. We've had problems in some neighborhoods where these old porches couldn't hold and people died. In my place, we enclosed our first floor back porch, and reinforced the roof so it can be a deck, accessible from the 2nd floor. I grow hydroponic tomatoes up there. It faces South, so when the Sox hit a home run, I can just see the fireworks go off.
Boy George on US cocaine charge
If the news accounts are true, he called the cops to report a burglary. Then, when NYPD arrived, they saw coke next to his computer. Plain view seizure, baby.
Can he be that stupid? Or that high?
did someone say persecution?
I didn't know RoveDeLayLibbyBuchCo had stigmata!
Somebody alert the pope!
My milkshake brings all the trolls to the yard
and they're like, it's better than yours
damn right, it's better than yours
I could teach you,
but I'd have to charge.
Toby's still a cretin.
The hysteria from the left about police states is amusing, since Bush is doing nothing of the sort
Gary Ruppert
Oh, yeah,
Riiiiight!
Road trip!
monica_nyc
Maybe we have a new locale for EschaCon II?
Didn't Powell testify in Aug. 04? When he was still IN the Bush administration? Something tells me Colin wasn't in the little meeting where treason was being planned. He wasn't really part of the Kool kid klub.
Call me an optimist, but I think he did what he could to help the investigation. Trying to make up for the UN performance disaster.
Hey Toby:
Still claiming that calling
Kristen Breitwser a prostitute
is not the same as calling her
a whore?
I do think it's commendable that Gary Ruppert isn't using the Red Cross hompage as his own. They've got their hands full trying to recover from the disasters brought on by the leadership of Dole, Healey and other Republican hacks.
I'll let y'all know, because they're be a Carolina style BBQ and such here around that time.
Road trip!
monica_nyc
I'm with ya on that!
And I should like to add that the word hysteria comes from the ancient Greeks who thought all leftists were women and tried to disembowel them.
You just get dumber by the minute, don't you?
Further evidence that the Bush regime is imploding:
Christian Coalition Teeters On Insolvency
And I should like to add that the word hysteria comes from the ancient Greeks who thought all leftists were women and tried to disembowel them.
The word hysteria came from Freud, thinking that the uterus was driving his women patients mad.
It's not a police state if they only arrest leftist terrorist sympathizers.
Why are the Dems caving on this obviously unqualified, glorified secretary?
ql in ny
Because they don't give a damn about the Constitution either.
see Federalist 76
It is if you work for the liberal media.
Gary Ruppert
There IS no such thing.
It faces South, so when the Sox hit a home run, I can just see the fireworks go off.
The Papal Bull
The other thing I recall about the Chicago porches is that they all seem to be painted the exact same shade of battleship grey. I remember as a kid someone telling me it was due to all the left over unused paint from the Navy in WW II. I was skeptical.
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It's not a police state if they only arrest leftist terrorist sympathizers.
Gary Ruppert
That's nice, dear.
Now run along. Grownups are trying to talk here!
The word hysteria came from Freud, thinking that the uterus was driving his women patients mad.
Seebach
I always wanted a womb with a view.
The fact is that the media, as a whole, is extremely liberal, much more liberal than America itself
hd,
If Bush is named in the indictments, I'll dance the Cuban Slide naked on Jackson Blvd from pure joy. I'll be sad the next day that I live in a country where such a man could steal power, but for one blessed moment, I will dance for the downfall of one of the great creeps of history.
Just curious, but do any of you guys believe that Rove lied to Bush about outing Plame?
Bush may be a lot of things, but tolerating someone that told him a bald face lie would be unforgivable, and Rove would know this.
Litz,
I'd love it if the xian coalition would go belly up.
totally OT here, but just wanted to ask why Atrios hasnt made a thread yet on the insanity that happened yesterday in the House with the GAS Act Vote being held open 50 minutes.
maybe its been discussed here i havent been paying attn. but really shouldnt that be a thread? with stuff on the floor like from Waxman: Is this the House of a Banana Republic?" and the Dems shouting in unison "SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!". Very powerful stuff (Watch this.) that we def need some answers abt.
They held the vote open for 45+ minutes while the indicted Majority Leader broke the arms of two moderate GOPers to force an outcome. Does anybody know if theres a rule against this? I know theyve done this before... seems so shady. At least the New Source Review changes were tossed. Still...
ror - Sandman... written by which person?
One is written by a friend of mine from town here where I live.
The word hysteria came from Freud, thinking that the uterus was driving his women patients mad.
Seebach
Obviously this was a classic example of projecting. Freud was the one driven mad by women's reproductive organs.
Agent Orange; don' ever be sceptical. It hurts when you're stabbed.
I don't think Rove lied to Bush about Plame. He told Bush the truth.
Just curious, but do any of you guys believe that Rove lied to Bush about outing Plame?
No. I'm sorry, but when you have one brain, the left hand knows what the right is doing.
And is the Christian Coalition really teetering on insolvency?
I'm better than the real Gary. I'm the New, Improved, Family Size, Industrial Strength, Troll in a Can.
Totally my bad folks, but in my post about Uncle Sam wanting you to rat on your neighbors, I totally forgot to link to that back of that brochure ....
It seems most of the domestic groups they are wanting info about are of the right wing variety ....
The word hysteria came from Freud, thinking that the uterus was driving his women patients mad.
Seebach
At the sex museum in Provincetown, they have some old-timey vibrators, prescribed at the turn of the century to help treat attacks of "nerves."
Seems like that'd do it...
I think it was tv that basically did in front porches.
Hecate
Air Conditioning
twenties = streets as in 26th Street, not the 1920s. I'm younger than that.
chris/tx,
Well, there's "not telling" and then there's "not telling, wink, wink, nudge, nudge." I'm sure they arranged for Lil Boots to have plausible deniability.
"The fact is that the media, as a whole, is extremely liberal, much more liberal than America itself"
--Gary Ruppert
I just spit beer on my monitor reading that. Funny, funny, funny.
I don't think Rove lied to Bush about Plame. He told Bush the truth.
Gary Ruppert
a) I'm touched by your optimism that we care what you think.
b) If Rove told aWol the truth then why didn't aWol fire KKKarl's ass then and there?
The fact is that the media, as a whole, is extremely liberal, much more liberal than America itself
Gary Ruppert
And YOU need to stop sniffing glue, dumbass.
Bush will never fire Karl Rove, no matter how many indictments an out of control prosecutor brings.
It seems most of the domestic groups they are wanting info about are of the right wing variety ....
Litz | Email | 10.08.05
Rewards?
Can we take a poll? How many people have been so dispirited and demoralized by Gary Ruppert's Republican bromides that they just can't continue to be politically active and fight the Republican-fascists?
Thought not.
I've got a rope. Someone tie it around his ankles. No mistress. Obviously.
RUBE-pert is a bizarro!
hot air,
Do us all a big favor; don't send Atrios an email about that. OK?
Hecate - Yeah, that makes sense. I was looking at it too much in a black or white sense.
Not that asshole again....
steve simels
yup, he's back. He was hanging around early mornings for awhile.
One is written by a friend of mine from town here where I live.
Barndog
Cool!
Who dat? (If you don't mind my asking.)
Just curious, but do any of you guys believe that Rove lied to Bush about outing Plame?
No. Bush knew exactly what was going on. They had many a good laugh over it, I'm sure.
Not laughing now.
And is the Christian Coalition really teetering on insolvency?
I'm sorry... that was one comment behind my last one, and it had a link.
God, I need a drink.
It seems most of the domestic groups they are wanting info about are of the right wing variety ....
Litz | Email | 10.08.05
Rewards?
Gary Ruppert
Getting rid of the wingers would be reward enough!
Ten bucks (Cdn.) says it's Colin Powell.
SteveNS
Ari Fleischer more likely.
I understand that it was John Hannah who found that almost everything and everybody in his life held a decidedly lower priority than keeping his weak ass out of prison.
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b) If Rove told aWol the truth then why didn't aWol fire KKKarl's ass then and there?
because Karl Rove didn't do anything wrong
Air Conditioning
roachpoacher
Air conditioning ruined Southern culture and ruined small town America. Now everyone sits behind closed doors in the summer and isolates themselves from their neighbords.
I think air conditioning single handedly destroyed America.
Just curious, but do any of you guys believe that Rove lied to Bush about outing Plame?
Rove does nothing BUT lie!
I'm sending a Mussolini pinata to the next Eschacon. Unless a Bush one would be more appropriate. We could have a picture to base it on by then.
Not laughing now.
pie
They will die laughing, as mad men are wont to do.
I see we're ass deep in troll shit.
b) If Rove told aWol the truth then why didn't aWol fire KKKarl's ass then and there?
because Karl Rove didn't do anything wrong
Gary Ruppert
Get off the drugs, dumbass!
The fact is that the media, as a whole, is extremely liberal, much more liberal than America itself
The word "media" is plural.
ror - Sandman... written by which person?
Neil Gaiman. Genius.
Air conditioning killed porches. Pre-conditioning everybody had their windows open and lived in a world interdigitated with other people's noises, smells and lives. Post-conditioning we each inhabit a 'civilized' bubble hermetically sealed from the lives of the people around us.
Not saying that air conditioning is bad, only that things change other things.
Bush will never fire Karl Rove, no matter how many indictments an out of control prosecutor brings.
President Bush said Monday that if anyone on his staff committed a crime in the CIA-leak case, that person will "no longer work in my administration." At the same time, Bush yet again sidestepped a question on the role of his top political adviser, Karl Rove, in the matter. "We have a serious ongoing investigation here and it's being played out in the press," Bush said at an East Room news conference.
Seebach: Have one of mine. Ruppert is many people at once. None of them very good. Funny, I think he's my wing-nut neighbor. I would never out him. HAHAHAHA
EPT: Can we take a poll? How many people have been so dispirited and demoralized by Gary Ruppert's Republican bromides that they just can't continue to be politically active and fight the Republican-fascists?
Only makes me more determined.
Air conditioning ruined Southern culture and ruined small town America. Now everyone sits behind closed doors in the summer and isolates themselves from their neighbords.
I think air conditioning single handedly destroyed America.
Litz
Would you still feel that way if I was your neighbord?
Sallyh:
Evening, kiddo!
I heard from a passerby that of the 10 mutations the 1912 flu went through to become transmissible to humans, the bird flu has gone through five. And now there's a story about Romania and Turkey reporting new bird flu outbreaks.
Just because heathen unbelievers think lying is acceptable doesn't mean good Christians like Karl Rove and George Bush will lie too.
They are honest men, which is why you hate them.
President Bush said Monday that if anyone on his staff committed a crime in the CIA-leak case, that person will "no longer work in my administration"
The fact is that in America, it's Innocent until proven guilty. If Rove or anybody can be proven guilty, then they will be fired. But they can resign before then.
It faces South, so when the Sox hit a home run, I can just see the fireworks go off.
You live by my sister!
The above two posts by Ruppert:
They held the vote open for 45+ minutes while the indicted Majority Leader broke the arms of two moderate GOPers to force an outcome. Does anybody know if theres a rule against this? I know theyve done this before... seems so shady. At least the New Source Review changes were tossed. Still...
hot air
With luck, their payback will come in '06, with a Democratic majority. All these clever little tricks they've played over the last years will be precdent for a Dem majority.
Karma's a bitch kids.
Ruppert: If you were my neighbor I would call the thougt police to haul you away. You are accused of not having an origanal thought in 22 years.
Seebach,
Not only is the Xtian Coaltion about to go belly up, but founder Ralph Reed who is running for GA’s Lt. Gov fought ban on online betting despite having told the word that he believes gambling is a cancer on America. Just goes to show you, Reed and Robertson and the rest of that crowd have no convictions that haven’t been bought and paid for by someone ... and I ain’t talking the blood of Jesus here.
They will have a lot to answer for come Judgment Day.
So by reporting the truth, reality, what actually transpires in America and the international community, the Media is liberal? Huh.
I knew it all along, conservatives hate the truth.
Most recent McMansion in my Arlington neighborhood is 12,000 sq feet.
The fact is that in America, it's Innocent until proven guilty. If Rove or anybody can be proven guilty, then they will be fired. But they can resign before then.
Gary Ruppert
I should add that if they resign it's out of the desire to do what's best for the country and the administration and should in no way be considered an admission of guilt.
And is the Christian Coalition really teetering on insolvency?
Seebach
They've been sued by a number of groups -- their lawyers included, IIFR -- for nonpayment.
Ruppert, your moral sensibilities are utterly twisted, as are those of Bush et al.
"Eventually, I met with Rove. I arrived at his office a few minutes early, just in time to witness the Rove Treatment, which, like LBJ’s famous browbeating style, is becoming legend but is seldom reported. Rove’s assistant, Susan Ralston, said he’d be just a minute. She’s very nice, witty and polite. Over her shoulder was a small back room where a few young men were toiling away. I squeezed into a chair near the open door to Rove’s modest chamber, my back against his doorframe.
Inside, Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him. I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado flinging parked cars. "We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!" As a reporter, you get around—curse words, anger, passionate intensity are not notable events—but the ferocity, the bellicosity, the violent imputations were, well, shocking. This went on without a break for a minute or two. Then the aide slipped out looking a bit ashen, and Rove, his face ruddy from the exertions of the past few moments, looked at me and smiled a gentle, Clarence-the-Angel smile. "Come on in." And I did."
http://www.ronsuskind.com/newsit...ves/
000032.html
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The fact is that in America, it's Innocent until proven guilty.
*rolls eyes*
Hey, molly, I think we're neighbors!
How many of me are in here? I think three.
Just curious, but do any of you guys believe that Rove lied to Bush about outing Plame?
Funniest thing written all day.
twenties = streets as in 26th Street, not the 1920s. I'm younger than that.
ql in ny
Hee.
When I read that, I thought -- Wow. She's damn well preserved. And she clearly married a much younger man.
Go girl!!
Post-conditioning we each inhabit a 'civilized' bubble hermetically sealed from the lives of the people around us.
I really miss sitting on my stoop in New Orleans, at Bourbon and Esplanade, just drinking beer and watching the world go by...
Ah well, life goes on.
(P.S. Another niece pic!)
if I was your neighbord?
Gary Ruppert | Homepage | 10.08.05 - 6:04 pm | #
I'd burn your house down and sell your children into slavery.
ror - newp Matthew F. Winn
http://www.mattwinnbooks.com/
Check him out. BTW - it's a novel, and Matt is a Navy Vet.
I should add that if they resign it's...
because they're guilty are are going to be convicted.
And is the Christian Coalition really teetering on insolvency?
Seebach
They've been sued by a number of groups -- their lawyers included, IIFR -- for nonpayment.
flory, Business Manager
I'd burn your house down and sell your children into slavery.
SWR
You're too late! I already did that!
I should add that if they resign it's out of the desire to do what's best for the country and the administration and should in no way be considered an admission of guilt.
Gary Ruppert
Oh, of course! I would never cast aspersions on the character of such a good, decent Christian as Karl Rove, with his long history of respect for the political process and his steadfast adherence to the principles of fairness and democracy in the campaigns with which he has been associated. I'm glad you clarified that.
Ruppert--if you were my neighbor, I'd mind my own business and not let my kid and pets near you.
What is a "neighbord?"
Most recent McMansion in my Arlington neighborhood is 12,000 sq feet.
molly
The funniest one near me was someone built two McMansions together, one a mirror copy of the other, to make one house. The halves are at about a 30 degree angle to each other.
Locally we call it the "boomerang house". It looks like shit.
.
I would like to throw a burning bag of shit on Lott's porch
Okay kids...off for my traditional
Saturday night quaffing of elitist
chardonnay with my satanic commie
buds.
See you all later!
I'm simply unused to actually purchasing comics.
Do it the way I do then - by the compilations. They're pricey, but they're more book-like.
I love them because I get frustrated trying to get ahold of all the monthly issues for something that ran for a long time some years back.
Got another hockey game tonite. GO PREDS!!!! We kicked San Jose's ass last week, I'm eager for another win tonight.
Later, all!
When does the bankruptcy bill and credit card rate hike take effect?
I am going to laugh my ass off if they indict Ari. Seriously.
Anybody else notice Ruppert's propensity to say "The fact is..."? It's like a nervous tic, betraying his fundamental uncertainty about everything he asserts...
optimus--a cross between a neighbor and a smorgasbord.
Palomi, pacified.
I hope the world's a better place when she's an adult.
I don't comment much. But I have to say this about indictments. 
I see we're ass deep in troll shit.
Sallyh
They must not have much else to do these days.
Their little world is imploding around them, and they choose to hang out here.
Odd that.
I am going to laugh my ass off if they indict Ari. Seriously.
I never could understand why he quit when he did.
heh heh.
Seebach--monday, October 17th.
Bankruptcy attorneys expected to do record business this coming week.
When does the bankruptcy bill and credit card rate hike take effect?
Seebach
October 17, 2005.
Aside to Gary: don't worry, moral bankruptcy is still as easy to declare as it ever was.
Tena,
You like comics?
Here's a fun site for you.
http://www.superdickery.com/
I will try to find the link to one of the funnier front pages...
Do it the way I do then - by the compilations. They're pricey, but they're more book-like.
Yep. Trade paperbacks are the way to go.
No statehood for D.C.!
Tippencanoe and Tyler too!
When does the bankruptcy bill...
October 17.
This should be interesting.
Flory--maybe they're hoping to catch some crumbs from the leftover snacks.
Bankruptcy Bill Oct. 17
Sallyh - that sounds kind of gross.
Litz - I second that, GO Preds!
NTodd--feeling more industrious yet?
I'm not, so don't feel guilty if you're not, either.
How many of me are in here? I think three.
That's three too many.
Ror:
Palomi is a doll baby.
And I LOVE the romance cover!!
But why no grammikins lately?
Air conditioning killed porches. Pre-conditioning everybody had their windows open and lived in a world interdigitated with other people's noises,
not to rain on the 'community' parade but....(and I do like porches as much as anybody)
but here's a thought:
I think cell phones playing music must be the new porches where we can all hear each other's noises. at least on buses.
or those earpieces that must have speakers from the Queen Mary...
I've heard far too much of other people's noise thank you very much
optimus--a cross between a neighbor and a smorgasbord.
Sallyh
A horse drunk on Chambord?
Bankruptcy attorneys expected to do record business this coming week.
Wow... the rare good mood I had lasted two weeks. Ah well, it was a record, anyway.
Here's me and the Man of Steel
http://www.superdickery.com/sedu...duction/
13.html
Litz--everything about them is gross.
Hecate, I've wondered for awhile. Sounds like the same neighborhood to me.
The hysteria from the left about police states is amusing, since Bush is doing nothing of the sort
Gary Ruppert
And I should like to add that the word hysteria comes from the ancient Greeks who thought all leftists were women and tried to disembowel them.
Surely, he's just here to amuse us - he's got to be a parody, saying this shit.
I think cell phones playing music must be the new porches where we can all hear each other's noises. at least on buses.
Setting. NJ Transit. Guy with cell phone. Custom ring tones in the form of John Phillips Sousa music ring out.
The conversation goes as follows.
I'm on the train. Right here. on the train. No. I'm on the train. The train. Somewhere between Newark and Elizabeth on the train. No. The train. I'm on the train. Leaving New York on the train. I'm on the train.
How many of me are in here? I think three.
That's three too many.
NTodd |
We're just cloning around.
earl--as a university teacher, I walk among the young and the cell phoned.
Really, I didn't need to hear that a young female student blew 14 guys as a sorority initiation.
Check him out. BTW - it's a novel, and Matt is a Navy Vet.
Barndog
Looks very interesting. I'll try to lay my hands on it.
I am going to laugh my ass off if they indict Ari. Seriously.
Hecate
I'm going to get out that bottle of Piper Heidseick I've been saving for a special occaision.
Wonder what Holden's plans are?
I am going to laugh my ass off if they indict Ari. Seriously.
I never could understand why he quit when he did.
heh heh.
pie
Poor little Ari. Heh...snork...bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
ahahahahahahahahahahaha...
I'd burn your house down and sell your children into slavery.
SWR
but really SWR, how do you *really* feel?
Really, I didn't need to hear that a young female student blew 14 guys as a sorority initiation.
Sallyh
Did she happen to holler out her phone number?
Flory--maybe they're hoping to catch some crumbs from the leftover snacks.
Sallyh
Right. Like the kitties and puppies don't have first dibs on the leftovers.
Really, I didn't need to hear that a young female student blew 14 guys as a sorority initiation.
Boy, if her parents knew what their tuition money was going towards...
flory - well preserved, indeed. I would be in my eighties. Can you imagine hoofing it to the bar in Philly is so. Damn, I'll light a candle.
Ari is a smug bastard. I'd love to see him brought down a peg. Ditto for Scottie.
But why no grammikins lately?
flory, Business Manager
Your wish is my command, if I can find a good pic...
NTodd--feeling more industrious yet?
Nope. It's getting dark, so I just feel really sleepy. The boy's in: time to retreat to the nest.
Jay C--this one was way too young for you. And too stupid.
Iraq's Sistani distances himself from elections
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/...k/
GEO859465.htm
NAJAF, Iraq, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has told his closest followers not to run in December elections or support any candidates, aides said, suggesting no party stands to win his backing.
etc.
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Doom doomdoom dooommmm.
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GWPDA, how does your redbud shade your porch? They're no bigger than dogwoods in the south.
Pine Lake Larry
Western redbuds are a little bigger than Eastern - about 18-20', but still, it's my backup tree for the porch specifically and I've got it positioned so that it'll filter the straight east sun until the cant of the roof takes over as the sun moves west. Or the earth moves west. Whatever. The main tree in the yard is a 100', 60 year old eucalyptus that is quite robust, as a result of the tender care of my local arborist. Fine tree - first line of sun defence.... The redbud is the second in line and is also for pretty against the red brick.
Hecate--it all depends. If their parents went to college, they should have an idea...
We're just cloning around.
Immoral, duplicitous bastards.
earl--as a university teacher, I walk among the young and the cell phoned.
Really, I didn't need to hear that a young female student blew 14 guys as a sorority initiation.
Sallyh
I know what you mean Sally./
btw: do you have her number? I'd like to 'counsel' her on this......
Really, I didn't need to hear that a young female student blew 14 guys as a sorority initiation.
Boy, if her parents knew what their tuition money was going towards...
Hecate | Email | Homepage | 10.08.05 - 6:21 pm | #
With job skills like that they'd probably be pissed they were paying her tuition.
Watching Tears of the Sun.
Tribal wars suck.
All of 'em everywhere.
What is wrong with the men here that they'd want the phone number of a nubile young blonde who gives indiscriminate blow jobs?
well preserved, indeed. I would be in my eighties. Can you imagine hoofing it to the bar in Philly is so. Damn, I'll light a candle.
And then staying out partying half the night!!
Told you I was impressed!
Wow, speaking of back decks, the house across the street just erupted in Neil Diamond's greatest hits. And it smells of barbecue...
Must investigate.
I had the worst desire to turn to the young lady and ask, 'Got chapstick?'
What is wrong with the men here that they'd want the phone number of a nubile young blonde who gives indiscriminate blow jobs?
My gut feeling tells me I wouldn't, that she'd be unattractive and insecure (probably disturbed) and her "friends" were offering her the chance to "fit in" and playing her for a fool.
Sorry Sallyh, just lowbrow on our part.
Actually, I assumed it was the male students saying those kinds of things.
Bluetooth keyboards: Logitech or Microsoft? can't decide
I'm on the train. Right here. on the train. No. I'm on the train. The train. Somewhere between Newark and Elizabeth on the train. No. The train. I'm on the train. Leaving New York on the train. I'm on the train.
SWR
Sounds like "Waiting for Godot."
Watching Tears of the Sun.
Tribal wars suck.
All of 'em everywhere.
The Other Sarah
I'm watching West Side Story. Tragic, but great rhythmic spark.
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What is wrong with the men here that they'd want the phone number of a nubile young blonde who gives indiscriminate blow jobs?
Sallyh
I blame it on the Y chromosome.
sweet caroline?
If their parents went to college, they should have an idea...
never underestimate a parent's ability to live in deep denial.
"Solitary Man"
Hecate--it all depends. If their parents went to college, they should have an idea...
College kids must be dumb. That's worrisome.
It's rather fascinating to listen to the differences in the cell conversations of young men and women. Young women will go on endlessly, in excruciating detail, about just about anything, including nothing. All of their conversations are Too Much Information.
The guys, I'm not sure, because they all seem to mumble. The most common lines I hear are, "Whaddya wanna do?" "I dunno, whaddya wanna do?" Repeat ad nauseam.
Is it true that Ruppert sets his dog down in the middle of his driveway and sucks the dog's balls?
Actually, I assumed it was the male students saying those kinds of things.
Yeah, I thought it sounded like locker room talk.
I also believe Ruppert's Viagra prescription has run out.
What is wrong with the men here that they'd want the phone number of a nubile young blonde who gives indiscriminate blow jobs?
Sallyh
Yeah. Ick.
Tena--deep denial for parents is very important. It keeps us from strangling our kids and burying them out back.
popular song at the cloning factory:
'Momma, I just spilled a man
didn't mean to do it
sometimes I wish I'd never been born
at all..."
, "Whaddya wanna do?" "I dunno, whaddya wanna do?"
Cue Marty
Is it true that Ruppert sets his dog down in the middle of his driveway and sucks the dog's balls?
hontlia
Yes but it was an initiation requirement to get into his fraternity.
.
As far as locker room talk, the girls are far more explicit than the guys, at least on their cells.
'Got chapstick?'
Damn, that's mean. Funny as hell, but mean.
Is anyone in here in Austin? I always forget who's where.
Watching Tears of the Sun.
Tribal wars suck.
All of 'em everywhere.
The Other Sarah
That movie really sucked.
Sounds like "Waiting for Godot."
It does indeed.
TOW--I restrained myself. But was almost sorry I did.
The guys, I'm not sure, because they all seem to mumble. The most common lines I hear are, "Whaddya wanna do?" "I dunno, whaddya wanna do?" Repeat ad nauseam.
And it's worth every penny they pay for it. James Bond doesn't have enough interesting stuff happening to him to talk on a celphone 8 hours a day. So who the fuck does?
I have a student (female) in one of my classes whose first name is Destiny. I've really had to hold back from repeating the "Young Frankenstein" routine.
What is wrong with the men here that they'd want the phone number of a nubile young blonde who gives indiscriminate blow jobs?
Sallyh
just joking around sallyh........er, did you say 'nubile?'
Is anyone in here in Austin? I always forget who's where.
Seebach
I'm an Austinite.
never underestimate a parent's ability to live in deep denial.
Tena
It's called survival.
Clean sheets, and i'm off. Thanks for a mostly pleasant day. I wonder if there will be some late breaking news this evening.
Seebach--a double X chromosome for many 18 year olds will insure that they can talk for hours about absolutely nothing.
I have a student (female) in one of my classes whose first name is Destiny.
If she gets pregnent will she give birth to Beyonce Knowles?
rorschach... the drinking liberally is Austin, is it still there, and do people go to it?
I'm pretty sure I can put 14 people in the house, and two on the front porch, three or four on the back porch, two on the side porch and then line you up in pup tents on the back yard. You'd have to all share the guest bathroom however. Also, I'm tempted to say that you'll just have to forage the property for food - there should be a good crop of beans, tomatoes, onions, some celery and pomegranates, along with some thyme and lettuce. Some chiles too and some bell peppers. Will that do?
As far as locker room talk, the girls are far more explicit than the guys, at least on their cells.
Most of them, male and female, are big talkers. Sex is their highway to...
What is wrong with the men here that they'd want the phone number of a nubile young blonde who gives indiscriminate blow jobs?
[stares at the ground, shuffles feet]
speaking of inappropriate blowjob jokes...I wish somebody could explain to me how I have ended up with 8(!) unmatched black socks
What is wrong with the men here that they'd want the phone number of a nubile young blonde who gives indiscriminate blow jobs?
[stares at the ground, shuffles feet]
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 10.08.05 - 6:35 pm | #
Hetero Puke.
people go to it?
Seebach
I haven't heard anything about it in atleast a couple of months...
Hetero Puke.
Homosexual hellion.
stuck on bus the other day with a guy doing his banking, loudly across the aisle,,,,,,,jeezus I was sorry for interfering with his OFFICE DUTIES
I haven't heard anything about it in atleast a couple of months...
Heh, uh oh. We can take this conversation upstairs if you wish. Cuz Majikthise is coming to Austin and we should have a drink together with her.
Homosexual hellion.
pie
Bilious bisexual!
Tempestuous transexual!
Ah well, if I have to alone get drunk with Majikthise and Amanda Marcotte, can't be too big a shame.
Cuz Majikthise is coming to Austin and we should have a drink together with her.
Seebach
Sounds like a plan. Beer at the Dog and Duck? Or dinner at Malaga or Saba?
We can work out the details later. When's she coming?
[stares at the ground, shuffles feet]
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 10.08.05 - 6:35 pm | #
Hetero Puke.
SWR
HEY COME ON THATS FUNNY!
We can work out the details later. When's she coming?
She's coming down the 20th for the weekend of Tom DeLay's perp walk.
Some people say that Ruppret's hemorrhoids dangle like grapes from his ass because he can't stop fingering himself.
guess i'll go with the microsft then
Tempestuous transexual!
Um, transsexual, silly.
There are also people who say that Ruppert felates goats so he can stay in practice for his nights at the rest stop.
All this talk of barbecue is distressing to me. There are few things I miss as a vegetarian, but barbecue is right up there -- as is split pea soup, Chica. Damn, I wish they'd make fake ham. Tofu burgers and sausage are quite acceptable, but I'd love ham flavor.
is it also true that Ruppert performed cunnilingus on a basset hound in heat?
Pine Lake Larry, you're in luck. The accidental vegetarian ham solution: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido...988813?
v=glance
Goya ham seasoning. Completely and entirely artificial No hams were involved, nor duckies or cows or lambies either. Maybe somebody with a little gelatin, but don't think about it. It's the ham flavor you've needed.
Stevens, Souter, and Kennedy are all Liberals
Nominated by those arch communist liberals Gerald Ford, George HW Bush, and Ronald Reagan
Stevens, Souter, and Kennedy are all Liberals
Souter and Stevens are moderates. Kennedy's a moderate conservative.
When I think "liberal" I think William O. Douglas, William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Brandeis.
That's how far we've redefined our expectations.
How come if you go East enough, you end up in the West, but if you go South enough, you don't end up in the North?
You never been to Boca Raton?
Air conditioning killed porches. Pre-conditioning everybody had their windows open and lived in a world interdigitated with other people's noises, smells and lives. Post-conditioning we each inhabit a 'civilized' bubble hermetically sealed from the lives of the people around us.
Exacerbated by school bussing.
Now our kids are sent miles across town to some other neighborhood, and we don't know our neighbors, or their kids when they are right across the street. There's a school a block and a half away, but our kids go 27 miles on the other side of town.
Maybe the rising price of petrol will jerk America back to sanity?
No, I doubt it.
Pine Lake Larry,
If you're ever in Pittsburgh, PA, you should check out "The Dairy Planet." Best Kosher restaurant I ever visited...had a great meat-free lasagna and everything.
What's all this hubbub about front Porsches?
I have a student (female) in one of my classes whose first name is Destiny. I've really had to hold back from repeating the "Young Frankenstein" routine.
Sallyh
I remember the row houses on South Ave. Three stories, each story a separate apartment, and each with a "porch" and each with a glider.
Listening to Bob Prince and Rosie Rosewell on the radio calling Pirates games. "Back back back back, Gone! Another Home Run for Ralph Kiner" or "Open the window, Aunt Minnie, here comes another one," Then the sound of breaking glass.
In October 1960 you could walk down South Ave. and everbody - I mean EVERYBODY - had the radio on.
Hotter than hell out there in the summers, all those close-spaced brick houses... no a/c sitting on the porches till late at night. I remember one summer 126 degrees at 9PM outside on that porch.
They say Florida is hot.
Nope.
Pittsburgh was hotter than it ever gets down here. And you have to go through the south to get here.
Porches are now archaic. In fact, much like the Geneva conventions, they are quaint.
Hey, all the McMansions in my neighborhood to have front porches; ticky-tacky ones, to be sure, but aren't they all when they're built?
I lived in Greensboro most of my life, it's not as great as it looks. In fact it lacks a lot of organized development, and trying to get anywhere in that city is murder.
too bad they didn't have blogs back when hoover was president. how many chumps really believed that "prosperity was just around the corner"? i'm sure that their delusion would be reminiscent of our resident trolls.
Greensboro? Te place to be in NC tonight was Durham. where Mick and Keith and Ron and Charlie rocked the house tonight.
I know. Its only rock and roll, but I like it.
My house is extremely small, easy to heat, with very low taxes and is paid for.
snip | 10.08.05 - 4:50 pm |
Yay Snip!
I'll call you that, and raise trees and both front and back porches on my Phila. rowhouse.
It was great to have you in Blogsboro and great to meet you on David's porch.
Hi,
you're invited to visit my Partners, Links and my Escort site.
cncg
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