Damn you spinoza, but YES, too.
mer |
10.14.05 - 9:05 pm | #
I'm glad to see Hackett's sticking around.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 9:05 pm | #
I'm glad Hackett stayed in the race. We need tough-talking guys to call Bush what he is, a chickenhawk. I want to see someone who's willing to take it to that ugly, combative level. That's exactly what we need.
somebody |
10.14.05 - 9:05 pm | #
In this case we have an establishment candidate, Brown, who has one set of advantages, and we have Hackett who has another set. Let them take it to the primary voters in Ohio. It can only serve to enhance awareness of the race and increase the name reocognition of both candidates.
I also suspect that Hackett will do a fine job of bashing Bush even in the primaries, so there would be some good even if he lost.
But I reeeeeaaaaally hope he doesn't lose.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:05 pm | #
Uh, it looks like Hackett was saying he wasn't in.
Heh |
10.14.05 - 9:06 pm | #
im not familiar with Brown, but i love the way Hackett goes after Bush.
pretzelattack |
10.14.05 - 9:06 pm | #
Real candidates deserve accurate ballot totals.
Anyone doing anything about vote hacking on the Democratic side?
shawk |
10.14.05 - 9:07 pm | #
Yeah, primaries are good things. There's really no other way for, like, the will of the actual people to be known.
Sounds obvious, but there you go. If people in Ohio want one of these guys over the other, that's their call. And I'll donate to the winner.
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 9:07 pm | #
"Just when I thought that I was out, they pull me back in. ", Michael Corleone, "the Godfather Part III"...
The high-profile character-attacks on Bush are crucial. Cindy Sheehan reamed him because she's a soldiers mother, Paul Hackett can dress him down because he's an Iraq War veteran. Paul Hackett is in a better position to inflict more harm to the repugs than Brown.
somebody |
10.14.05 - 9:08 pm | #
im not familiar with Brown, but i love the way Hackett goes after Bush.
Exactly. As I said at the tail end of this post, Democrats need candidates who aren't afraid to take or throw a punch.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:08 pm | #
Sorry to go OT so soon but I just was exposed to Washington Week in Review for the first time in years.
The low point was a three way tongue bath of Harriet Myers by Michel Martin, Barbara Bardly Haggerty and Michael Duffy. It was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen on TV.
If those three whores weren't under direct orders to go out there and spout the Bush administration line on Miers it's only because they know what their standing orders are and perform them automatically.
EPT |
10.14.05 - 9:08 pm | #
Would it be okay if Brown swiftboats Hackett?
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:09 pm | #
Ride to the sound of the guns!
Or, at least follow your bliss.
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QuentinCompson |
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10.14.05 - 9:09 pm | #
Read the post again, he's not running. He's encouraging other people to run.
Heh |
10.14.05 - 9:09 pm | #
Bush is down, but he needs to get kicked viciously and repeatedly while he's down. Never forget all the people whose lives hes ended. Bush must be tried for treason. Let him be the first president to finish his term in Levenworth.
somebody |
10.14.05 - 9:10 pm | #
Paul Hackett is in a better position to inflict more harm to the repugs than Brown.
And is willing, able, and *eager* to do so.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:10 pm | #
Hackett sent me a "Thank you" postcard for the turkee I sent during his house race. It was a nice touch and he will be getting more turkee from me in the future.
Have I mentioned today that Bush sucks utterly?
Why is Brian WIlliams turning on him? I just watched that video at C&L about his ridiculous photo op with the troops in Iraq.
res ipsa loquitur |
10.14.05 - 9:10 pm | #
It’s been pretty quiet in the last few weeks. The trolls have had no talking points from Karl, because he has had other business to attend to.
How many trolls can honestly defend that abortion of a question and answer session their manly Harvard educated, President did yesterday?
sally |
10.14.05 - 9:11 pm | #
I hope the Dems are paying attention.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.14.05 - 9:13 pm | #
I think Brown should write a book claiming that Hackett was fighting for "the other side." He could probably get Glenn Reynolds to ghost write it.
Atrios |
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10.14.05 - 9:13 pm | #
Read the post again, he's not running. He's encouraging other people to run.
I'm in the race. My message to Sherrod Brown is: "the water's nice, come on in."
by Paul Hackett on Fri Oct 14, 2005 at 03:14:04 PM PDT
Sean |
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10.14.05 - 9:13 pm | #
'Sup.
*airy casual wave*
I love it when you play hard to get.
iTunes isn't letting me load some of the music you . . . er . . . gave me onto my iPod. Just sayin'.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 9:13 pm | #
NTodd--yeah, but your Charlie troll sucks frog penises.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:14 pm | #
Hackett is a breath of fresh air. Plain speaking, not afraid of Republicans.
Brown is actually a pretty good candidate, with a good voting record.
Look, I like Hackett. And I honestly don't know who would be the better Dem candidate.
But I do know that challenges like Hackett's are a good thing for the party as a whole. It's about time different voices were heard.
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 9:15 pm | #
I think Brown should write a book claiming that Hackett was fighting for "the other side." He could probably get Glenn Reynolds to ghost write it.
I know for a fact that Hackett was never near Cambodia at Christmas...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:15 pm | #
What’s with the troll infestation today?
It’s been pretty quiet in the last few weeks. The trolls have had no talking points from Karl, because he has had other business to attend to.
How many trolls can honestly defend that abortion of a question and answer session their manly Harvard educated, President did yesterday?
sally
So NICE without the trolls.
They gotta come along and fuck up everything.
Just like their preznit.
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat |
10.14.05 - 9:15 pm | #
He's running and encouraging others to run, in a good government sense generally, but I'm sure he'd rather Brown had stuck by his word and Schumer had kept his mitts busy with other matters.
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QuentinCompson |
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10.14.05 - 9:16 pm | #
NTodd--yeah, but your Charlie troll sucks frog penises.
Boy, you suck one frog's penis...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:16 pm | #
..Charlie troll sucks frog penises.
Why did it leave Drum's blog?
Central Scrutinizer |
10.14.05 - 9:16 pm | #
I think Brown should write a book claiming that Hackett was fighting for "the other side." He could probably get Glenn Reynolds to ghost write it.
Eli--Scifi Saturday Night Original Movie: what's on tap this weekend?
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:17 pm | #
Central--perhaps he was 'asked to resign.'
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:18 pm | #
The high-profile character-attacks on Bush are crucial.
Bush doesn't have any character!
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat |
10.14.05 - 9:18 pm | #
I'll tell ya why it's bad in this case, Atrios. Normally, I'd agree that the primary helps to choose the most viable candidate.
But in this state, where resources for dems are at a premium, Brown wil pick up the only real muscle available: the support of labor and the establishment Dems. He'll get this support because over the years he's built up chits from these folks. All well and good.
But the Ohio party and labor have a long, imfamous, horrible record of picking candidates for statewide seats. What they look for in a candidate is what dooms them in statewide races. Hence the long list of embrassments...the pedigree of liberal dems that held all of the 'right-litmused' views on issues and have been absolutely slaughtered in general elections.
I'm gonna work my ass off for Hackett,knowing that he's at a huge disadvantage. I'll do that because I feel it's long past the time that Ohio's dems stop the practice of cronism and 'this guy will run because it's his turn'-type thinking that has doomed this state. It's time we got behind new voices and a different way.
Even if Brown wins, I'm convinced that it will be because we've again voted for the wrong person in our usual ways. I'll predict right here, and place cash on it, if Brown takes the primary he'll lose by at least 8 points.
Some folks in other venues have accused me of being almost gleefully predicting Brown's loss in the general. Far from it...it's just that I've seen this happen enough times to know exactly how it will turn out, and maybe laughing at the ineptitude of the state party is all I can do to keep from crying.
jdw |
10.14.05 - 9:18 pm | #
I was asked to not engage trolls anymore and am trying to restrain the urge to.
I did mean to end that sentence with a preposition, way the by.
EPT |
10.14.05 - 9:19 pm | #
Okay.
Now, how's about we give a nod to the Democratic contender for the Senatorial seat of the invidious Kyl - Jim Pedersen!
A Casa Grande native, and the man who brought us Governor Janet Napolitano, this is a contender. It's pretty clear that the horrible Kyl has to be defeated utterly. Personally, Arthur and I (and I think we can bring Renato in on this) are considering salting the Kyl office and destroying both their kith and their kine.
I've noticed that one of the more prominent pests, Gary Ruppert, seems to have switched over to Americablog to do his trolling. He's been very active there recently.
Richard |
10.14.05 - 9:20 pm | #
Sallyh,
Back in the CalPundit days, I used to marvel at its stupidity. Charlie used to drink the bush jizz by the gallon.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.14.05 - 9:21 pm | #
GWP:
I'm very vulnerable right now. I'm about ready to anybody who claims to be a Denocrat. I've had it up to here with these fucking criminals.
jurassicpork |
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10.14.05 - 9:21 pm | #
..Charlie troll sucks frog penises.
Why did it leave Drum's blog?
Banned. Followed a link to my site. The rest is history.
Gary Ruppert, seems to have switched over to Americablog to do his trolling.
Ruppert is so gay.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:22 pm | #
..Charlie troll sucks frog penises.
Why did it leave Drum's blog?
Banned. Followed a link to my site. The rest is history.
Gary Ruppert, seems to have switched over to Americablog to do his trolling.
Ruppert is so gay.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:22 pm | #
Richard--while John A has my sympathies, it's not as if he gets enough of it to take Gruppert off his hands.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:22 pm | #
Meant to write "about ready to vote for anybody..."
jurassicpork |
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10.14.05 - 9:22 pm | #
I love it when you play hard to get.
It's ever so effective - no-one got me for a long, long time.
iTunes isn't letting me load some of the music you . . . er . . . gave me onto my iPod. Just sayin'.
Eh? Details? I didn't have any problems with 'em.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:23 pm | #
I've noticed that one of the more prominent pests, Gary Ruppert, seems to have switched over to Americablog to do his trolling.
Just went to Americablog, clicked on the comments for the top post, and guess who has the first comment?
Plus, scanning down, he has derailed the whole thread.
Maybe Atrios paid John to take him, kinda like "what about Bob".
chris/tx |
10.14.05 - 9:23 pm | #
As an Ohioan, I'm happy to have not just one, but two decent candidates. Though part of me wishes Brown would wait and go after Voinovich.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
10.14.05 - 9:23 pm | #
John A - can handle him believe me
silly |
10.14.05 - 9:24 pm | #
Central--and to think, Charlie the frog penis sucker would have been a better man had he only switched to microbrewed beer.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:24 pm | #
Eli--Scifi Saturday Night Original Movie: what's on tap this weekend?
Return Of The Living Dead doubleheader, starting at 7.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:24 pm | #
Chris/tx--i have no idea if they had an arrangement, but if Gruppert thought he was getting picked on here...
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:24 pm | #
The Democrats need new candidates that won't take any rethug shit. Hackett would be my choice.
ganesha |
10.14.05 - 9:25 pm | #
Blogwhorin' away...
Conservative split is a warning to the left
As anyone who is attuned to American politics knows, the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has caused a major split in American Conservatives.
...The language and tactics used by both sides of the ideological fence can, at times, be repugnant. I am not so blind as to believe that the leftist bloggers I read and enjoy are innocent of such activities. Take the recent photograph of George Bush writing a note about a bathroom break, or the "fanmail" that Harriet Miers and George Bush sent each other since they first met. To me these are irrelevant to the debate, but many leftists will use them as cheap shots against Bush. Not me - I don't care about them. They're not important. There are far more important things that I have against George W.
Eli--that's not a quality flick, is it?
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:25 pm | #
Sherrod Brown's a good guy, and a good candidate for a statewide race here in lovely Ohio. Paul Hackett's a good guy, but he doesn't have the statewide name recognition.
nolo |
10.14.05 - 9:25 pm | #
Shouldn't Boortz be getting fired?
Taxman
Taxman, you left the word upon off of the end of this sentence. Was it because of the ban on ending with a preposition. Go ahead. It's a phony rule.
EPT |
10.14.05 - 9:26 pm | #
Eli,
I get this message:
Some of the songs in the iTunes music library were not copied to theiPod . . . because your iPod software is too old. Go to www.apple.com/ipod to get the latest iPod software update.
So I go there, download the software, try to install it and my computer tells me there's nothing to install.
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials who released a letter purporting to be from an al Qaeda leader to Iraq insurgency leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi this week said on Friday they could not account for a passage that has raised doubts about the document's authenticity.
The July 9 dated letter, which U.S. officials say was written by al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, appears near its close to urge the Iraq insurgent leader to send greetings to himself if visiting the Iraqi city of Falluja.
etc.
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"I like you's."
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QuentinCompson |
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10.14.05 - 9:28 pm | #
"Sherrod Brown's a good guy, and a good candidate for a statewide race here in lovely Ohio. Paul Hackett's a good guy, but he doesn't have the statewide name recognition."
Haven't seen any data on that yet that convinces me one way or the other. Brown is a very good Dem, with a long voting record he can be proud of. It's also what will drag him down like an anchor.
jdw |
10.14.05 - 9:28 pm | #
Hackett: I know that people here are going to step up and run, when they do be sure to help out your brothers and sisters. Give them the resources and the confidence to tell their story.
those are good words.
lavalamp |
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10.14.05 - 9:29 pm | #
Hackett is good -- maybe he won his last rce (Diebold is powerful stuff)
I've heard (probably here) that six Iraqi vets are running for various elective offices -- true? Are all Democrats? (all I've heard about are)
Can we have some more, please?
The wingnuts are unasailable, but the mugwumps have to be influenced by this!
Prior Aelred |
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10.14.05 - 9:29 pm | #
Ruppert is so gay.
NTodd
Na-uh. He's one of your'n. I won't share a sexual orientation with him.
Shit. I thot we could pawn him off on the queers and nobody would notice. On to Plan B...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:29 pm | #
why do i only read this at xymphora?
Friday, October 14, 2005
Civilwarland in Bad Decline
From Iraqi Resistance Report (scroll down a bit):
"A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday.
Residents of western Baghdad's al-Ghazaliyah district told Quds Press that the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their Caprice car near a residential neighborhood in al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday afternoon (11 October 2005). Local people found they looked suspicious so they detained the men before they could get away. That was when they discovered that they were Americans and called the Iraqi puppet police.
Five minutes after the arrival of the Iraqi puppet police on the scene a large force of US troops showed up and surrounded the area. They put the two Americans in one of their Humvees and drove away at high speed to the astonishment of the residents of the area.
Quds Press spoke by telephone with a member of the al-Ghazaliyah puppet police who confirmed the incident, saying that the two men were non-Arab foreigners but declined to be more precise about their nationality.
Quds Press pointed out that about a month ago, the Iraqi puppet police in the southern Iraqi city of al-Basrah arrested two Britons whom they accused of attempting to cause an explosion in the city. The Britons were taken into custody by the Iraqi puppet police only to be broken out of prison by an assault of British occupation troops. That incident has created a tense relationship between the British and the local puppet authorities in al-Basrah, Quds Press noted."
The sloppiness in getting caught like this is probably a reflection of the upcoming vote on the constitution, and the need to stir up as much trouble as possible in the days before the vote. While it would be nice to catch the neocons for what they did two or three years ago, it would be even nicer if somebody were to stop what they are doing now, which is attempting to create a civil war in Iraq. For a bunch of guys who may be going to jail, they are acting as they always have, boldly, and without the slightest opposition. It would be interesting to know what 'non-Arab foreigners' means.
albertchampion |
10.14.05 - 9:29 pm | #
The July 9 dated letter, which U.S. officials say was written by al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, appears near its close to urge the Iraq insurgent leader to send greetings to himself if visiting the Iraqi city of Falluja.
well thats just shocking. i guess they havent upgraded from whomever forged the niger documents.
pretzelattack |
10.14.05 - 9:29 pm | #
Eli--that's not a quality flick, is it?
Sci-Fi originals, so probably not...
(scratches head) Quoi?
That doesn't even make sense - MP3s are MP3s. And it's not seeing iPod software update?
Unfortunately, I don't really know how these things work on Macs...
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:30 pm | #
NTodd--re: Ruppert. Smitty gave me a nice recipe for braised troll...might work.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:30 pm | #
I see I forgot to answer. Taxman, the answer is yes, either way.
EPT |
10.14.05 - 9:30 pm | #
why do i only read this at xymphora?
Because it's the best damn place in the whole fucking world to read that. And it should be kept there.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:30 pm | #
hackett, i don't think i'd entirely agree with his politics, and i don't know browns platform.
but hackett is an object lesson for the mealy mouthed amongst the democrats.
plus he called bush bad names, i always go with the guy who calls a spade a spade.
charley |
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10.14.05 - 9:30 pm | #
Shouldn't Boortz be getting fired? Taxman
Taxman, you left the word upon off of the end of this sentence. Was it because of the ban on ending with a preposition. Go ahead. It's a phony rule. EPT
I think the correct construcion is, "Shouldn't Boortz be getting fried"?
NTodd--don't you wish Ruppert's mother had used Plan B?
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:31 pm | #
Unfortunately, I don't really know how these things work on Macs...
Oh well, thanks anyway. (blows him a kiss) I'll have to ask the cute Apple Genius bar geeks down in SoHo.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 9:31 pm | #
I think the correct construcion is, "Shouldn't Boortz be getting fried"?
Not if you want to kill him, it isn't.
EPT |
10.14.05 - 9:31 pm | #
What happens at xymphora, stays at xymphora.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:32 pm | #
NTodd--don't you wish Ruppert's mother had used Plan B?
Sallyh
(or is this old news)
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agave |
10.14.05 - 9:32 pm | #
Oh well, thanks anyway. (blows him a kiss) I'll have to ask the cute Apple Genius bar geeks down in SoHo.
There ya go, then.
If they ask where you got the, ah, goods from, use my codename, "DJ Pepper".
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:32 pm | #
NTodd--don't you wish Ruppert's mother had used Plan B?
Oh, but see, that would be immoral because we all know as soon as a promiscuous bitch cum breeding vat gets fucked and a spermy sperm meets the egg, it's a full-blown human bean and all that.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:32 pm | #
I just checked.
He's saying the same, stupid pointless shit that he used to post here.
He's gonna die an idiot.
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat |
10.14.05 - 9:33 pm | #
If they ask where you got the, ah, goods from, use my codename, "DJ Pepper".
You burned a couple of CDs for me, sweetcheeks.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 9:33 pm | #
watertiger-
that is a great pic of bush on your blog looking like he really doesn't know how to use a hammer
silly |
10.14.05 - 9:34 pm | #
The July 9 dated letter, which U.S. officials say was written by al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, appears near its close to urge the Iraq insurgent leader to send greetings to himself if visiting the Iraqi city of Falluja.
That is so utterly pathetic.
Richard |
10.14.05 - 9:34 pm | #
You burned a couple of CDs for me, sweetcheeks.
I did?
There is that DVD on the way, though...
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:34 pm | #
(or is this old news)
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agave
I think it's been around a day or so, but saw no ref in the previous several threads here, so I hit it.
Has a nice overtone to the Plame matters swirling about today.
Na-uh. He's one of your'n. I won't share a sexual orientation with him.
Shit. I thot we could pawn him off on the queers and nobody would notice. On to Plan B...
Day-um, ya'll - I'da thawt ya'lls frum day-own Say-owth frum da way ya'll's tawkin'. All'un that yor'n and shit an' stuff. Ah's proud uv ye.
Billy B |
10.14.05 - 9:36 pm | #
that is a great pic of bush on your blog looking like he really doesn't know how to use a hammer
yeah, even David Letterman reamed him on that. Choking up on the grip and everything.
Like he's ever used a hammer in his life.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 9:36 pm | #
"Fatty Drives the Bus"! YAY!
You're *already* the coolest person in NYC, but every little bit helps.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:37 pm | #
Off Topic:
Question: What's the best way to ruin a movie?
Answer: Going on a Friday night when all the f*cking teenie boppers are out in force at the movie theater.
Went and saw The Fog tonite.
Mrs MYOB and I, not to mention my parents who are sci-fi/horror flick buffs, loved the first John Carpenter version.
Tonite though the remake sucked so bad I felt like vomiting republicans.
What a waste of $25.
But for Clinton's sake don't go see it when the teenie boppers are out. I would say that 90% of the theater was kids ages 12-16 and the little lousy motherf*ckers get getting up and walking around the theater. Going up the steps, down the steps, giggling like they were hopped up on something.
The rest of us adults couldn't concentrate what with the talking/giggling/calling to one another across the aisles that it started getting sickening.
On no less than three occasions a security guard and what appeared to be a manager type came in and stood at the foot of the theater, causing further distraction. They all shut up and stopped walking, but the moment the two of them left the teenie boppers started getting up and moving around again and again. I doubt a single kid in that screen saw more than half the movie cause I couldn't figure out why they were constantly up and leaving the room then coming back.
People get 'Shhhhhhhhhh'ing' them again and again.
If not for the fact the wife thought it was funny cause she said it reminded her of when she was a kid that age I told her if I'd known she was like the kids currently f*cking up my movie experience I'd of bitch slapped her. This really is funny since she knows karate(self defense classes) and knows exactly where to hurt men.
But what bothered me was how they butchered the movie.
They should simply have renamed the movie 'Scream 4' or "I Know What You Did Last Summer 5' or something. The actors/tresses were lousy. Selma Blare can't act worth shit. The screen play was horrible. And I think they spent 90% of the movie's budget on breaking glass and stunt men who know how to be thrown across the room.
that is a great pic of bush on your blog looking like he really doesn't know how to use a hammer
yeah, even David Letterman reamed him on that. Choking up on the grip and everything.
Like he's ever used a hammer in his life.
watertiger
Yeah, some "rancher", huh?
Terry C, Feminazi Moonbat |
10.14.05 - 9:38 pm | #
He's saying the same, stupid pointless shit that he used to post here.
If it's Ruppert he's typing a foreign language. No one types their own that stupidly.
He had mastered the vocative mood but only the vocative, declarative. Very strange effect it has. You expect him to break into "Resistance if futile" any time.
Glad we were saved the poetry.
I'm going to see the orchids if they're up.
EPT |
10.14.05 - 9:38 pm | #
He's saying the same, stupid pointless shit that he used to post here.
If it's Ruppert he's typing a foreign language. No one types their own that stupidly.
He had mastered the vocative mood but only the vocative, declarative. Very strange effect it has. You expect him to break into "Resistance if futile" any time.
Glad we were saved the poetry.
I'm going to see the orchids if they're up.
EPT |
10.14.05 - 9:38 pm | #
Like he's ever used a hammer in his life.
watertiger
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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10.14.05 - 9:38 pm | #
QuentinCompson
Cole has a different take on it.
I do not believe that an Egyptian like al-Zawahiri would use this phraseology at all. But he certainly would not use it to open a letter to a Salafi. Sunni hardliners deeply object to what they see as Shiite idolatry of the imams or descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, for whom they made shrines such as Ali's at Najaf and Husayn's at Karbala. In fact, hard line Wahhabis from Saudi Arabia attacked and sacked Karbala in 1803.
Adding to the salutation "the peace and blessings of God be upon him [Muhammad]" the phrase "and his family" would be an insult to Zarqawi and to the hardline Sunnis in Iraq.
Think CNN wil ever wake up to its own cluelessness, ever?
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Do you agree with the choice of Daniel Craig as the new James Bond?
Yes 10% 18040 votes
No. 34% 59818 votes
Don't care 55% 96787 votes
Total: 174645 votes
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Nah
bo |
10.14.05 - 9:40 pm | #
And he certainly doesn't know how to use binoculars.
Where the hell has spork_incident been? Anybody seen him around?
I'm worried.
I dunno, but he posted to his blog this afternoon, so I'm pretty sure he's okay.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:41 pm | #
Where the hell has spork_incident been? Anybody seen him around?
I heard that PA Rep Mark Cohen called out a hit on him...
(Check his blog: he's still posting there.)
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:42 pm | #
Incidentally, I shall finally be attending Good Night and Good Luck at 11.15am Sunday. Theatre should be completely empty! Wooo-oooooo!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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10.14.05 - 9:42 pm | #
If Bush had been doin the hammerin, Jesus would have lived until 70.
Or maybe he would have died twice as painfully.
SWR |
10.14.05 - 9:42 pm | #
Hackett may not have name recognition statewide in Ohio, but it's early. If he runs an effective campaign, I think he can overcome that.
The additional benefit of his running is that maybe, just maybe, Sherrod Brown will get the message that it's ok to be tough on the current regime and their massive fuck-ups and fuck-overs.
I think it's a win-win situation for Ohio and for the whole country.
Diane |
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10.14.05 - 9:42 pm | #
And he certainly doesn't know how to use binoculars.
He may have just been checking out the inside of the lens caps.
You don't know.
Max Planck |
10.14.05 - 9:43 pm | #
I shall finally be attending Good Night and Good Luck at 11.15am Sunday. Theatre should be completely empty! Wooo-oooooo!
Where, at the AMC theater across from the Biltmore?
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:43 pm | #
(Check his blog: he's still posting there.)
Well, duh! I post at his blog. I'm curious why he hasn't been here in a while.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 9:43 pm | #
Like he's ever used a hammer in his life.
watertiger
Well, not for driving nails...
I understand the boy was proficient at pounding on the Bush family pets, though. And threatening Neal and Jebbie.
Billy B |
10.14.05 - 9:43 pm | #
Well, duh! I post at his blog. I'm curious why he hasn't been here in a while.
He probably hates you. Yes, I'm sure that's it.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:44 pm | #
If Bush had been doin the hammerin, Jesus would have lived until 70.
Or maybe he would have died twice as painfully.
Plenty of myrrh to go around...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:44 pm | #
Alan Berg was a liberal Jewish talk radio host in Denver, Colorado who broadcast his program on KOA 850 AM. The station's powerful signal allowed listeners in over thirty of the United States to hear Berg's opinions on gun control, homosexuality, religion and other controversial topics. Berg had a dedicated audience, and was known for his often abrasive, confrontational debates with those who telephoned his program.
On June 18, 1984, Berg was gunned down in the driveway of his home by three members of The Order, a white supremacist group. Ten men were convicted of involvement in the murder.
When asked about the assassination, David Lane, a member of The Order who had called Berg's KOA show, responded: "the only thing I have to say about Alan Berg is, regardless of who did it, he has not mouthed his hate whitey propaganda from his 50,000-watt Zionist pulpit for quite a few years."
Lane, the getaway driver, was not convicted of murder, but for violations of Alan Berg's civil rights and racketeering. Lane's sentence was 40 years for the racketeering charges and 150 years for the civil right violations.
The events were later dramatized in multiple ways. Eric Bogosian adapted the story of Berg's death into a play, Talk Radio, later filmed by Oliver Stone. Berg's assassination and the consequent trial form the core of Steven Dietz's 1988 play God's Country.
Kneel Boortz |
10.14.05 - 9:44 pm | #
I thought spork was batting around here with the the last day or so.
spinoza |
10.14.05 - 9:44 pm | #
Well, duh! I post at his blog. I'm curious why he hasn't been here in a while.
He passed me a note at gym class. Something about "I hate watertiger", but it was hard to read amid the tear stains...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:45 pm | #
Do you agree with the choice of Daniel Craig as the new James Bond?
What is the heartland position on the Daniel Craig as James Bond position.
Tomorrow on Weekend Edition Scott Simon has the first of an indepth series, looking at this vital question and exploring other Bonds and the history and social meaning of the series. Only on NPR.
EPT |
10.14.05 - 9:45 pm | #
I thought spork was batting around here with the the last day or so.
I guess we can't shoot him. We could sure get him "Bennetted".
Kneel Boortz |
10.14.05 - 9:46 pm | #
He passed me a note at gym class. Something about "I hate watertiger", but it was hard to read amid the tear stains...
So getting a note from Spork makes you cry? And did you have your pants on?
spinoza |
10.14.05 - 9:46 pm | #
I'm looking forward to seeing Capote.
There's little chance the teenie boppers will be there.
Doom is coming up and I know it won't be full of shitheads cause it's rated R which I hope thins the herds a bit.
Then there's the Harry Potter movie which the wife and son already expressed an interest in.
But I'll be damned if I ever bother to see a movie with all those WB network Dawson's Creek/Smallville/20-something's actors/actresses in it.
What is the heartland position on the Daniel Craig as James Bond position.
All my cousins in Peoria say they'll never watch a Bond movie again, unless Ursula Andress is in it.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:47 pm | #
I have it on good authority that a sweeping roundhouse kick to the head from watertiger is a sign of affection.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:47 pm | #
"Do you agree with the choice of Daniel Craig as the new James Bond? "
Hell no.
The 007 movies just put the last foot in the grave.
He's *the perfect actor* to play Karl Rove in the coming movie.
"Caged Republican Heat. Karl Rove has a Pretty Mouth".
SWR |
10.14.05 - 9:48 pm | #
Doom is coming up and I know it won't be full of shitheads cause it's rated R which I hope thins the herds a bit.
Don't bet on it.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:48 pm | #
Wow (again). Watching C&L video of Olberman's "Countdown" countdown of terra alerts coinciding w/bad news for BushCo.
Olberman is just great.
res ipsa loquitur |
10.14.05 - 9:49 pm | #
*blank level stare*
[blink, blink, blink]
So getting a note from Spork makes you cry? And did you have your pants on?
Wouldn't getting a note from spork make you cry manly tears? And wouldn't you take your pants of to wipe away the aforementioned manly tears?
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:49 pm | #
Wonder why Norm Coleman hasn't opened his trap about the "Oil-for-Food Scandal" lately?
i guess that one was too ludicrous so now they have to go back to Saddam was a bad guy and were spreading democracy. OT, but i saw on buzzflash that even Maggie Thatcher now questions wmds in Iraq (but she still supports the war cause, drumroll, Saddam was a bad guy).
pretzelattack |
10.14.05 - 9:49 pm | #
Where the hell has spork_incident been? Anybody seen him around?
How long can you survive a spork incident, anyway?
Doom is coming up and I know it won't be full of shitheads cause it's rated R which I hope thins the herds a bit.
I want to see the Joe McCarthy movie in a black neighborhood.
When Joe's about to go up before Joseph Welch, people in the theater start yelling "no. No. Stupid. Don't go in there."
SWR |
10.14.05 - 9:50 pm | #
Where, at the AMC theater across from the Biltmore?
NTodd
Town and Country? No, cheri, you are wrong, wrong, wrong. Unless you're thinking of le grand Cine Capri (70mm screen), gone to glory some years back, in which case you're STILL wrong!
No, Harkins is doing it exclusively at Camelview 5, Goldwater & Camelback. I should be able to sweep up Camelback like the Queen of all Phoenix....
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10.14.05 - 9:50 pm | #
Doom is coming up and I know it won't be full of shitheads cause it's rated R which I hope thins the herds a bit.
I'm sure Doom will be as good as all the other video game adaptations that have come out...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:50 pm | #
And bleeding profusely on the ground is the only way to express your love back...
I am *very* affectionate.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 9:51 pm | #
Harkins is doing it exclusively at Camelview 5, Goldwater & Camelback. I should be able to sweep up Camelback like the Queen of all Phoenix....
You aren't related to Judy Miller, are you?
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:52 pm | #
Don't bet on it.
Eli | Email | Homepage | 10.14.05 - 9:48 pm | #
I will be able to handle it better since I'll be seeing it with my geek friends with whome the 4 of us spent playing multiplayer Doom and Doom2 all night long on weekends. Since the wife won't be there I don't have to be the mature guy and hold my tongue. I can yell out for them to shut the f*ck up as many times as I want and not get disciplined by the misses.
My daughter's evil bf was Adrienne Barboob's son in the film.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:55 pm | #
I'm sure Doom will be as good as all the other video game adaptations that have come out...
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 10.14.05 - 9:50 pm | #
I hope so.
I and my buddies spent many a night drunk off our asses playing that game all night long and writing mods to alter the game play.
But the gist of your remark is understood. The fact it's starring the Rock made me squirm a bit. But the way they're filming it suggests it's going to be more like a first person shooter movie than anything else so it might be interesting to see how they carry it out.
And bleeding profusely on the ground is the only way to express your love back...
She values a good clotter, like any girl.
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 9:56 pm | #
George Clooney is awesome. He's good looking, he's talented, and he pisses Bill O'Reilly the fuck off.
Seebach |
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10.14.05 - 9:56 pm | #
And wouldn't you take your pants of to wipe away the aforementioned manly tears?
NTodd
Whoa. Notes from spork make NTodd take his pants off.
Maybe you two should just get a room?
flory |
10.14.05 - 9:56 pm | #
Thers has demanded to watch The Final Sacrifice.
You may be seeing right here. Scroll up a bit. Someone hard the timerity to rile watertiger.
bo |
10.14.05 - 9:56 pm | #
The state of Ohio is suffering from corruption overload. This state needs a straight-talking candidate to fire up the electorate and Paul Hackett is it. I think that unless you're here in Ohio, you have no idea how upset and disillusioned the typical Ohio voter has become. The whole state is going down the toilet with the gop screwing up everything they control (which is everything).
S.L. |
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10.14.05 - 9:57 pm | #
Uh, Mary, dearest, you need to change your nick if you're going to use Thers' laptop.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:57 pm | #
Came a time he said just what your Grandmama said.
.
agave
Well, in my case, it was advice given when I expressed my intention of marrying a very dear and sweet electrical engineer. Grandmama, knowing of my fear of electricity, pointed out that marrying for the sake of having somebody at hand to deal with the stuff was a little over the top. Thus - sometimes, you just hire out these things....
Grandmama was no fool. Except for redheaded boys with moustaches. That was rather our secret tho.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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10.14.05 - 9:57 pm | #
Well, crap. Those last two were me.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 9:57 pm | #
Seebach--you forgot to mention that George Clooney is very, very handsome.
Second only to our very own WalterNeff!
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:57 pm | #
George Clooney is awesome. He's good looking, he's talented, and he pisses Bill O'Reilly the fuck off.
What's not to like?
And it was *my* laptop that he horked while I was at work, NTodd.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 9:58 pm | #
The fact it's starring the Rock made me squirm a bit.
Actually, the Rock has been great in everything. Really. 'specially Scorpion King.
Whoa. Notes from spork make NTodd take his pants off.
Everything makes me take my pants off. Duh.
Maybe you two should just get a room?
Got one. Comes with a cat and everything!
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 9:59 pm | #
Sallyh, I feel a bit like Jon Stewart.
Like, fuck him to hell for being all good-gened. Maybe he has a bad heart or something. Kidney problems. Make me feel a lot better if he did.
Seebach |
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10.14.05 - 9:59 pm | #
Auntie--my da was an EE. He always said, electricity's not dangerous...as long as you don't complete the circuit...
For some reason, I found his advice not especially helpful.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 9:59 pm | #
Wonder why Norm Coleman hasn't opened his trap about the "Oil-for-Food Scandal" lately?
Because he's getting a lot of shit here in MN for saying that he was against ANWR, and now may be for it.
His (few) supporters threw in the "Well, Wellstone said he wouldn't run for a third term" tripe.
And, can I say for the record (again), how much I love Gram Parsons??
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10.14.05 - 9:59 pm | #
I want to see the Joe McCarthy movie in a black neighborhood.
When Joe's about to go up before Joseph Welch, people in the theater start yelling "no. No. Stupid. Don't go in there."
SWR
that is called racist stereo-typing
nobody |
10.14.05 - 9:59 pm | #
And it was *my* laptop that he horked while I was at work, NTodd.
You never can fucking trust a drunken Mick lout, 'specially ones from Queens.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 10:00 pm | #
Seebach--we know Jon's fertile--Stewart Junior #2 is on the way.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 10:00 pm | #
Hey, Zap! You're on my teevee!
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:00 pm | #
that is called racist stereo-typing
nobody
No, it isn't. It's called being witty.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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10.14.05 - 10:01 pm | #
Come on over to my house and have something good to eat:
Is Thers still pantless and letting his inner 15 yr old play?
Well, he's wearing comfy shorts and drinking beer. Does that count?
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:03 pm | #
Evening folks....
Left Lane |
10.14.05 - 10:03 pm | #
NTodd--but, do you have the doggie, or is she with Mommy, horses, woods, and wild animal shit?
Cairo's with Mommy. I was planning on heading up to the Fortress straight from Marlboro--so Stef took the dog on that assumption--but in the end I opted to come home instead. Good choice since Sam was locked inside and bored, and I had a new gift of Forbidden Planet waiting for me!
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 10:03 pm | #
Hey, Zap! You're on my teevee!
Have you gotten to my favorite line yet..
"Yeah, rite." (Canadian accented)
Isn't that a classic Rowsdowerism?
Zap Rowsdower |
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10.14.05 - 10:03 pm | #
Can I live blog it? I know the whole movie be heart.
Sure. We're in the thrilling scene where Troy digs around in the attic.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:04 pm | #
Is Thers still pantless and letting his inner 15 yr old play?
Well, he's wearing comfy shorts and drinking beer. Does that count?
It only counts if you can see his penis. No, wait...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 10:04 pm | #
NTodd--then Cairo should literally be a very happy camper this weekend. Running in the woods is probably more fun that following Daddy to the mailbox.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 10:04 pm | #
Hackett may not have "...state wide name recognition", but he's getting some of my California $$. I love that guy. Did anyone see him on Bill Maher a few months ago? I've never seen a guest upstage Maher that way.
slsla |
10.14.05 - 10:04 pm | #
Well, he's wearing comfy shorts and drinking beer. Does that count?
NYMary
You let the 15 yr olds drink beer?
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:05 pm | #
Clooney's starting to show his age.
We should all show it so well, dear.
EPT |
10.14.05 - 10:05 pm | #
Hiya Sallyh, finally cooling off. Blazed thru the Times Sudoku, icy-cold martini at hand. Life is good Hope your day is better than earlier this week.
Left Lane |
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Evening, LL. Read any good short stories lately?
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 10:05 pm | #
Hey Left Lane, how many puzzles today?
I did 3, might do one later.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 10:05 pm | #
For some reason, I found his advice not especially helpful.
Sallyh
Thus, my inclination. A very nice chap, but Grandmama was absolutely right. Besides, 'twas he who offered me the three red roses. And now, 25 years later, I STILL DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE HELL THREE RED ROSES ARE SUPPOSED TO SIGNIFY.
I'd rather think about scallops and linguini. Do you suppose we could get Shaw to deliver?
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NTodd--then Cairo should literally be a very happy camper this weekend. Running in the woods is probably more fun that following Daddy to the mailbox.
It's raining. Bet she would have more fun nesting with Daddy as he re-reads LOTR. Sam sure will. He's asleep on my feet right now, as the soft rain falls outside our bedroom window...
NTodd |
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I don't go to see movies in theaters. No one knows how to behave properly anymore.
Karin |
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You let the 15 yr olds drink beer?
Nah. But we do let her have wine with dinner.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:06 pm | #
Left Lane--it has been better. I think I may have fixed my computer.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 10:06 pm | #
Even if Paul Hackett isn't known Ohio-wide, it sure won't take long before he's well known. He's such a good candidate that his being an "outsider" won't hurt him a bit, unless Brown does the damage. I'm sure Brown's been waiting a long time for this chance, but he needs to take one for the team and wait for Voinovich's seat.
The Papal Bull |
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10.14.05 - 10:06 pm | #
Red wine. I've witnessed it. And I'd call social services, 'cept I lost the number, and I've been drinking so I can't dial anywayz...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 10:06 pm | #
Eli, I have one to get to I need to install Word on this, my new puter....
Left Lane |
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I don't go to see movies in theaters. No one knows how to behave properly anymore.
Everyone thinks they're in their own living room All. The Time.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 10:07 pm | #
I've been showing anything but my age since I was 16 when I first started showing grey hair. By the time I was 18 I didn't need a fake ID to buy beer.
You can bet that I was invited/hired for all the parties.
Sure. We're in the thrilling scene where Troy digs around in the attic.
I've got to find the warranty on this sweater.
Oh..here is...sex, male. See? I knew it.
Oh, he's a Pipper. Wouldn't you like to be a...
Zap Rowsdower |
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I'd rather think about scallops and linguini. Do you suppose we could get Shaw to deliver?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Great food beats men anyday.
And it can't hurt to ask.
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:07 pm | #
Ladies and germs,
May I present our Secretary of State displaying her diplomatic skills.
watertiger | Email
she learned it from John Bolton
pretzelattack |
10.14.05 - 10:08 pm | #
Karin--for me, I just can't get behind putting on shoes to watch a movie.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 10:08 pm | #
Zap is making his thrilling entrance into the film, trying to start his crappy truck.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:08 pm | #
May I have the scallops with balsamic and linguini please?
Did you realise that there's now a clear, white balsamic? Very nice.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Yes, I've tried white balsamic, and you're right, it's very nice.
I made the pictured dishes just this evening as a way of ignoring the filthy damp weather we here in Boston have been suffering.
And may I also add, Buck Fush.
A very pleasant good evening to all.
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10.14.05 - 10:08 pm | #
I don't go to see movies in theaters. No one knows how to behave properly anymore.
Damn straight. I was watching ROTK back in January '04 in Irving, TX, and there was a gaggle of teenaged girls all being noisy. Wasn't until the middle of the third act that somebody finally turned around and told them to shut the fuck up. Then noisily left the theater, loudly proclaiming their apologies. Oy.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 10:08 pm | #
I'd like to point out that I am incredibly sexy, as is clear to all by the Potency of My Seed.
Troy's aunt should be on the US Supreme Court.
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 10:08 pm | #
Clooney's starting to show his age.
We should all show it so well, dear.
EPT
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Billy B |
10.14.05 - 10:08 pm | #
Nah. But we do let her have wine with dinner.
NYMary
I guess it's nice that dogs don't care if you have toe jam.
Incog |
10.14.05 - 10:09 pm | #
Karin--for me, I just can't get behind putting on shoes to watch a movie.
Sallyh
Hecate sent me Jordan almonds. That's why I'm going to the movies. And my big bag of Trader Joe's white, reduced salt cheddar cheese popcorn, which I intend to smuggle in as well.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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10.14.05 - 10:09 pm | #
Shaw,
Rainy weather calls for either stew or pasta, I find.
NYMary |
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Auntie, Shaw--white balsamic is lovely. I use it in place of white vinegar for Auntie's wonderful cole slaw dressing.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 10:10 pm | #
Hey, Incog! How you and Stringey and the girls?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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10.14.05 - 10:10 pm | #
Everyone thinks they're in their own living room All. The Time.
I'm not in my living room? This is not my beautiful living room?
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 10:10 pm | #
I guess it's nice that dogs don't care if you have toe jam.
They also lick their own asses. Convenient.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 10:10 pm | #
May I present our Secretary of State displaying her diplomatic skills.
watertiger
Can that woman speak without looking po'ed?
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:10 pm | #
I'm not in my living room? This is not my beautiful living room?
What, the study got too cluttered for you to enter?
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 10:12 pm | #
Can that woman speak without looking po'ed?
Sure! Sometimes, she looks like she's going to cry, too.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:12 pm | #
Rainy weather calls for either stew or pasta, I find
And chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 10:12 pm | #
I've been showing anything but my age since I was 16 when I first started showing grey hair.
I got carded for booze until I was well into my 30's.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.14.05 - 10:12 pm | #
We should all show it so well, dear.
EPT
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Billy B
I was going to say that I wished he'd show it to me but thought better of it.
Good night and good luck.
EPT |
10.14.05 - 10:12 pm | #
"Everyone thinks they're in their own living room All. The Time."
When my kids act like the teenieboppers did tonite in my living room they get a shoe thrown at them.
But this is usually followed by me pretending/playacting like a gorilla chasing them around the room. For some reason little kids love it when adults pretend they're monkeys around them.
I'm finding that, in my new activities, rice vinegar is very nice in making mustard. Balsamic is a bit heavy. Champagne works well too!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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10.14.05 - 10:12 pm | #
Watertiger--with all her money, you'd think she could buy Pants That Fit.
And that taupe is just so not right.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 10:13 pm | #
Zap is making his thrilling entrance into the film, trying to start his crappy truck.
"I'm Sherry"
"Oh, no. Now we've got to listen to 'As It Happens'"
Zap Rowsdower |
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10.14.05 - 10:13 pm | #
I made lamb cous-cous last night with potatoes, squash, carrots, tomatoes, onions in a chicken broth flavored with cardomon seed, tumaric, cumin, paprika, cinnamon, lemon zest, salt and pepper. It was grand.
I was listening to Ed Schultz on Air America this evening and someone who cooks game talked to Schultz about a recipe containing paprika. Schultz had never heard of paprika. Didn't know what it was. Really.
I was stunned. How could someone live as long as he has and never hear about paprika?
Am I being elitist?
Cooking helps me to not commit suicide during the Bush junta.
Central--At 35, I discovered that no one carded me anymore. It was my realization that I'd entered middle age.
Sallyh |
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10.14.05 - 10:14 pm | #
I'd still like to meet the person that told her that color looked good on her.
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:15 pm | #
Oh Canada's a land I must es-chew....
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 10:15 pm | #
talk about not lookin' good.
Would it kill her to wear something that doesn't wrinkle so easily? ESPECIALLY around the crotch?
watertiger | Email | Homepage | 10.14.05 - 10:11 pm | #
sometimes you have to go with the Stepford wife you have...
pretzelattack |
10.14.05 - 10:15 pm | #
But this is usually followed by me pretending/playacting like a gorilla chasing them around the room. For some reason little kids love it when adults pretend they're monkeys around them.
Thus the secret to Chimpy's success.
Diplomats tend to be less indulgent.
NYMary |
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Funny, since it's at least half polyester.
I'm thinking poly/rayon blend.
She should try silk, since she has such a fondness for the pajama sets.
Heh, just looked at my camera. It still has Thersites II ghost stickers all over it.
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Cuz frankly, it's really really boring.
I'll bring my dildo! It'll be fun!
Eli |
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My class is the Clooney-Pitt-Depp school.
Seebach
Good class. Can I matriculate?
flory |
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GWPDA, we're great. Been busy settling in the last couple of weeks. A friend brought me a ton of cedar planks he tore out of a job-site. He's a carpenter. I've been de-nailing it but it's not too hard with cedar. Going to use it on the outside of the chicken coop I'm building. Their stoopid dog got sprayed by a skunk again. You would think that once it got sprayed the first time, it would avoid another encounter but nope, so it was back to the tomato juice. You could still smell the aroma. The dog acted like it was nothing just kept running around.
Incog |
10.14.05 - 10:16 pm | #
I'm sorry, but why is nobody discussing the topic of my Potent Seed?
When you get Mary knocked up for the 16th time, then we'll talk. Until then, tosh...you haven't got any Irish street cred...
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10.14.05 - 10:17 pm | #
I'll bring my dildo! It'll be fun!
Okay, so it's momentarily titillating. But really...
watertiger |
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My Potent Seed is getting lonely. I can't imagine why nobody is fascinated with this topic.
Thers |
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I was stunned. How could someone live as long as he has and never hear about paprika?
In the cuisine of my people, it's routinely added to things like potato salad, "for color."
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:17 pm | #
Everyone thinks they're in their own living room All. The Time
people with serious boundary issues. Newsflash! No one really wants to know about every sordid detail of your life.
Wish someone would explain to my daughter that really, it's not cruel of her mother to not want to know the intimate details of her life with the bf.
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Less than two months before invading Iraq, George W. Bush fretted that his war plans could be disrupted if United Nations weapons inspectors succeeded in gaining Saddam Hussein’s full cooperation, possibly leaving Bush “looking weak,” according to notes written by a secretary to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The notes, taken by Blair’s personal secretary Matthew Rycroft, were included in a new edition of Lawless World, a book by University College professor Philippe Sands. The notes on the Jan. 30, 2003, phone call between Bush and Blair were reviewed by the New York Times, which said they were marked secret and personal.
At the time, Blair wanted Bush to seek a second resolution from the U.N. Security Council that would have judged Iraq to be in violation of U.N. disarmament demands and would have authorized military action. According to the notes, Bush agreed that “it made sense to try for a second resolution, which he would love to have.”
But Bush’s deeper worry was that chief U.N. arms inspector Hans Blix would conclude that Hussein’s government was cooperating in the search for weapons of mass destruction, thus delaying or blocking U.S.-led military action. Bush’s “biggest concern was looking weak,” the British document said.
etc.
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So now he looks like a weak, stupid murderer and strategic bungler. Fits his lifetime MO to a "T".
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I have zero tolerance for talkers in theaters. I'm the one who turns around and glares at them. And if repeated glaring doesn't work, I turn around and ask "Do you mind? I'm trying to watch a movie" or some other pointed comment. Sometimes the situation escalates, so I just gave up movie going.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 10:18 pm | #
In the cuisine of my people, it's routinely added to things like potato salad, "for color."
Deviled eggs! Right next to the Lime jello.
spinoza |
10.14.05 - 10:18 pm | #
In the cuisine of my people, it's routinely added to things like potato salad, "for color."
Deviled eggs! Right next to the Lime jello.
spinoza |
10.14.05 - 10:18 pm | #
I'm sorry, but why is nobody discussing the topic of my Potent Seed?
Thers | Email | Homepage | 10.14.05 - 10:14 pm | #
well, the Bad Seed was ok as a thriller/horror flick.
pretzelattack |
10.14.05 - 10:18 pm | #
Flory--are we sharing George Clooney, or do we have to jello wrestle for him?
Sallyh |
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Oh, String is fine. She helped me cook some turnip greens last night. She's settled in like a little flea now.
Incog |
10.14.05 - 10:18 pm | #
May I present our Secretary of State displaying her diplomatic skills.
you can't take her anywhere! damn, I hope she's NOT a lesbian. we certainly don't want her....
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Good class. Can I matriculate?
Perhaps. Although I haven't been admitted.
Seebach |
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My Potent Seed is getting lonely. I can't imagine why nobody is fascinated with this topic.
Maybe your Potent Seed needs to take Friendly Seed lessons.
I was stunned. How could someone live as long as he has and never hear about paprika?
In the cuisine of my people, it's routinely added to things like potato salad, "for color."
It's an integral part of my much-beloved deviled egg recipe.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 10:19 pm | #
When you get Mary knocked up for the 16th time, then we'll talk.
I'm showin' her the pix of Ratzo in the suspendies & fuck-me pumps! What more can I do?!?
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10.14.05 - 10:19 pm | #
I'm sorry, but why is nobody discussing the topic of my Potent Seed?
Thers
Guess you've got all the boyz feeling inadequate.
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:19 pm | #
I like to keep my nose clean.
'The rest of my body suffers.'
No...I don't go map-finding-behinding.
Damn...I may have to join Thers & Mary on my own teevee...
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10.14.05 - 10:19 pm | #
Thersites--you and Tom Cruise...
Sallyh |
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Flory--are we sharing George Clooney, or do we have to jello wrestle for him?
Sallyh
I think you should make he and Brad Pitt jello wrestle for you. You could sell tickets.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:20 pm | #
You would think that once it got sprayed the first time, it would avoid another encounter but nope, so it was back to the tomato juice. You could still smell the aroma. The dog acted like it was nothing just kept running around.
Arthur tells me that a varied collection of scents makes for a more dogly dog.... 'Course, he tells me this when we're cruising the back allies and he really intends to roll around in stuff of which I am sceptical....
You bringing in any kind of chicken in particular into that coop? Or just whatever you can find?
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Central--At 35, I discovered that no one carded me anymore. It was my realization that I'd entered middle age.
Sallyh | Email | Homepage | 10.14.05 - 10:14 pm | #
I'm 34. I get carded sometimes. Sometimes I don't.
I don't look young. But if you buy liquor near a university campus, you'll get carded if you look like Bob Hope.
When I was 20, I used to walk into Korean delis in the city and buy sixpacks and nobody asked questions.
So if you want to feel young, go to a conservative state, someplace near a university campus, or some store that's been under surveillence by the cops for selling liquor to underaged kids.
SWR |
10.14.05 - 10:21 pm | #
Well, my name is Bill Stinkwater!
Thers |
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damn, I hope she's NOT a lesbian. we certainly don't want her....
I expect that's true of every sexuality.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:21 pm | #
Schultz had never heard of paprika. Didn't know what it was. Really.
I would imagine Schultz seasoning repetoire is limited to salt and pepper with basil and oregano for the spaghetti, and an occaisional use of garlic powder.
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:22 pm | #
Auntie--ever bought TJ's champagne mustard? Very nice.
Nah, this is my new hobby. I've got a mustard pot and everything.
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10.14.05 - 10:22 pm | #
. You could sell tickets.
(takes out wallet and pulls out all the cash) Is this enough?
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 10:22 pm | #
Well, my name is Bill Stinkwater!
So, Rowsdower...Is that a stupid name??
Zap Rowsdower |
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10.14.05 - 10:23 pm | #
GWPDA, not sure which breed or just mixed breed yet. There are so many to choose from. Rode Island Reds are pretty good.
Incog |
10.14.05 - 10:23 pm | #
an occaisional use of garlic powder.
My money's on garlic salt, instead.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:23 pm | #
Well, Moonbats, I found out that I like Ethopian food very much.
GWPDA, Got the paper; thank you very much!
I don't know the other guy, but I was pretty impressed by Hackett. Atrios is right; they shouldn't nuke each other.
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10.14.05 - 10:24 pm | #
Central--At 35, I discovered that no one carded me anymore. It was my realization that I'd entered middle age.
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Sally,
I remember your photo over on the atriots site.
You look pretty damned good for a 35 year old.
garlic salt
mmmmmmmmmmm, garlic salt!
Left Lane |
10.14.05 - 10:24 pm | #
Shaw Kenawe, the couscous sounds wonderful. I usually do mine with chicken, 2 kinds of squashes(a summer and a winter), carrots, onions, chickpeas, tomato, raisins,string beans, and all the spices you mentioned, plus coriander.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 10:24 pm | #
I like to keep my nose clean.
Thers |
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Flory--are we sharing George Clooney, or do we have to jello wrestle for him?
Sallyh
You can have him while I'm in Dallas. Ok?
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:25 pm | #
You should see my pic, MYOB.
Incog |
10.14.05 - 10:25 pm | #
flory - What are you doing in Dallas?
chris/tx |
10.14.05 - 10:26 pm | #
Cooking helps me to not commit suicide during the Bush junta.
I'm still alive.
Shaw Kenawe | Email | Homepage | 10.14.05 - 10:14 pm | #
I'm still trying to find a way of making crab linguini like they do at Red Lobster but it keeps coming out funny.
Any suggestions?
I wouldn't mind seeing Keith Olbermann or Jon Stewart jello wrestling, either.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:26 pm | #
Well, Moonbats, I found out that I like Ethopian food very much
Oooh, yummy! I especially like the bread.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 10:26 pm | #
I wouldn't mind seeing Keith Olbermann or Jon Stewart jello wrestling, either.
(takes out wallet and pulls out all the cash) Is this enough?
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 10:27 pm | #
Incidentally, buying a can of Schilling 'paprika' on the day before you set up housekeeping and then using it for the rest of your life is not actually 'seasoning' anything. Using it for 'colour' is roughly equivalent to shaving little bits of red chalk onto your fine cuisine.....
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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10.14.05 - 10:27 pm | #
Rowsdower's heart finally blew out.
(sorry to those who've never seen the Final Sacrafice)
Zap Rowsdower |
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10.14.05 - 10:27 pm | #
Evening, Liberals.
I really like Hackett. He is blunt, honest and takes no bullshit. I really hope Dean makes sure the Dems run a respectable campaign. I think they will.
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I don't want a divisive primary; I think we need to save our powder and shot for the main battle. Much rather have Hackett take the Senate seat and Brown keep his House seat. I'll go ahead and vote for Brown in the general election, if there is a primary contest and he wins it, but I really want Hackett to go for it while he's hot.
Ahianne |
10.14.05 - 10:28 pm | #
I went to an Ethiopian place in DC once. I've never seen so many jalapeno peppers in one dish in my life.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 10:28 pm | #
Incidentally, buying a can of Schilling 'paprika' on the day before you set up housekeeping and then using it for the rest of your life is not actually 'seasoning' anything. Using it for 'colour' is roughly equivalent to shaving little bits of red chalk onto your fine cuisine.....
Irish coking tends to go light on seasoning you can actually taste. Plus, it lasts longer that way!
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:28 pm | #
I started a new project last week. This morning, we had a staff meeting. One person brought in locally-harvested crab, boiled & shelled. Another borught in avocacos with pepper and salt. We had crackers and cocktail sauce. I'm thinking to my self, I like this place I didn't bring anything, I'm such a slug. Now I gotta come up with something *pow!* for our next meeting.
Left Lane |
10.14.05 - 10:28 pm | #
i'd like to see karl rove and neal boortz wrestle in a limepit.
pretzelattack |
10.14.05 - 10:28 pm | #
i'd like to see karl rove and neal boortz wrestle in a limepit.
(takes out wallet and pulls out all the cash) Is this enough?
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 10:29 pm | #
(takes out wallet and pulls out all the cash) Is this enough?
watertiger
I've got a few *bills* to add to the pot.
bigvic |
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10.14.05 - 10:29 pm | #
Damn, Left Lane! What do you do?
NYMary |
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There are so many to choose from. Rode Island Reds are pretty good.
They are a nice sturdy chicken. Ask around and see if you can find any Ames Crossbreeds. I had one of those as my pet hen Helen and she was just GREAT! Brown egg, sometimes twice a day, and smart! Smart as Stringey, I'll bet....
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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10.14.05 - 10:29 pm | #
'Course, he tells me this when we're cruising the back allies
And you and Arthur are cruising the back alleys because......?
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:29 pm | #
I like to keep my nose clean.
It's pretty poor style if you can't keep your nose clean whilst, uh...wait, you're not talking about what I think you're talking about, are you?
Shaw Kenawe, the couscous sounds wonderful. I usually do mine with chicken, 2 kinds of squashes(a summer and a winter), carrots, onions, chickpeas, tomato, raisins,string beans, and all the spices you mentioned, plus coriander.
Karin
I forgot to add that I put in chickpeas and lentils. The great thing about cous-cous is that you can add different veggies to make it seasonal. Yours sound quite tasty.
I've been doing research into North African dishes. I've made Moroccan fish Tagine and the soup that's made after Ramadan, Hirira(sp.?) Absolutely no fat in it. To die for.
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10.14.05 - 10:30 pm | #
Irish coking tends to go light on seasoning you can actually taste. Plus, it lasts longer that way!
Sorry, didn't mean to make out my shopping list on this thread...
Incog |
10.14.05 - 10:33 pm | #
So you've not forgotten me, Rousdauer!
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10.14.05 - 10:33 pm | #
I'm still trying to find a way of making crab linguini like they do at Red Lobster but it keeps coming out funny.
Any suggestions?
MYOB'
I'm a believer in keeping it simple. I'd take some crab meat, canned or from the fish monger and gently saute it with shallots, some seasoning of your choice, and some minced fresh herbs (basil, parsley, mint, thyme) and add some fish stock and a pat of butter and then serve it over angel hair pasta. Gentle. Gentle. Gentle.
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10.14.05 - 10:34 pm | #
Mmmm, Ethiopian. I occasionally get it up in Columbus. Did you eat it with pieces of injera instead of the usual tableware?
Ahianne |
10.14.05 - 10:34 pm | #
Well, Moonbats, I found out that I like Ethopian food very much.
GWPDA, Got the paper; thank you very much!
Good! Read out Bob Boze Bell and make everyone understand...
We have a couple of exceptional Ethiopian restaurants here in town. Their bread is their plate - like 4ft across. Extremely zesty.
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10.14.05 - 10:34 pm | #
flory - I did the same some years back. Really liked going out after work with coworkers to the bars/clubs in the west end and deep ulm(?). And plenty of good food downtown only a trolley ride away. Imagine it's even better now.
chris/tx |
10.14.05 - 10:34 pm | #
We must make it illegal for merceniaries to be deployed in the US or we are lost. This is increasingly being done by the wealthy to guard their gated communities to keep the rabble out. More and more we are turning into a country that resembles pre and early 20th century where the rich enslave and eat the rest of us alive. Now the Homeland Security folks are hiring them to guard New Orleans????
The best Middle East cookbook I know of is "From The Lands of Figs and Olives". It's got loads of great soup recipes, made with lentils, chickpeas, and all types of beans.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 10:35 pm | #
Can you believe that the iPod Mini has already been discontinued? WTF am I going to do with mine? Can I turn mine in for an upgrade to a Nano? Or am I stuck with this thing?
Looking for armchairs to refurbish?
NYMary
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10.14.05 - 10:36 pm | #
Jeez. It may be because I go mostly to art house movies. But that's not true. I also go to dollar movies (really $1.50). I haven't suffered that kind of disruption for a long time. Are people more polite here? Are the two poles of moving-going (elite art house and budget-watching dollar moview goers) more polite than the spoiled middle?
I love going to movies -- I do watch some things at home, but I tend to wander away when I do that. At the theater I am there for the movie.
(The best is the drive-in, though, where your car is your own living room in a festival of living rooms.)
I'll go ahead and vote for Brown in the general election, if there is a primary contest and he wins it, but I really want Hackett to go for it while he's hot.
Ahianne
I hear you. I'm just glad we have people running for office who will will actually serve our interests, for a change, that I'm conflicted.
I feel pretty sure the Dems will take a lot of seats in '06.
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10.14.05 - 10:36 pm | #
Ahianne,
Yes, we did. On the advice of folks here, we ordered a combination of dishes, all vegetarian, and ate it with the bread. Really liked some cabbage cooked with tumeric and several of the lentil dishes. The honey wine was very nice, too. I don't know how I got to be this old without having tried it before.
Hecate |
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10.14.05 - 10:38 pm | #
I feel pretty sure the Dems will take a lot of seats in '06.
Let's hope they burned the playbooks from '02 and '04...
Eli |
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You should see my pic, MYOB.
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My wife is a modeling agent. She is constantly showing me the portfolios of the girls that her company recruits hoping to get my feedack(and to ensure which girls never to invite over to talk about contracts) so I've seen enough 'beautiful' women to make me gag on what constitutes 'pretty' to today's modern 18-25 year old.
If I smell saline again I'm gonna puke.
So if I say you or anyone looks nice you should know it comes from an expert.
I feel pretty sure the Dems will take a lot of seats in '06.
Let's hope they burned the playbooks from '02 and '04...
Not to toss wet blankets around, but as long as Diebold's counting the votes I don't expect much.
Or less.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.14.05 - 10:41 pm | #
Even Reagan's soul sister, Margaret Thatcher is critical of Iraq war.
Said Maggs, "The fact was that there were no facts, there was no evidence, and there was no proof. As a politician the most serious decision you can take is to commit your armed services to war from which they may not return."
NYMary, I'm a project manager.
Left Lane |
10.14.05 - 10:41 pm | #
I thought that was falafel.
j/k
I could never order coffee in N. Africa, because I can't make the "q" sound. And substituting "k" makes it into testicles. Fortunately, I dislike coffee and it dislikes me, so I didn't miss much.
Pentimenti |
10.14.05 - 10:41 pm | #
I just like saying "couscous".
Be careful. Depending on how you pronounce it, it becomes an obscene word in Arabic.
I'm all about the obcenity.
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10.14.05 - 10:41 pm | #
I love going to movies -- I do watch some things at home, but I tend to wander away when I do that. At the theater I am there for the movie.
(The best is the drive-in, though, where your car is your own living room in a festival of living rooms.)
Great minds think alike. Drive-in movies are rare any more, but we drive to Indiana (less than an hour) sometime to catch 3 movies for peanuts. And we get to eat good food we've packed from home, and not fake *buttered* popcorn.
bigvic |
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10.14.05 - 10:42 pm | #
Let's hope they burned the playbooks from '02 and '04...
Paul Hackett is a terribly attractive man and candidate.
Go for it Paul! Go for it!
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10.14.05 - 10:42 pm | #
Viking food.
Seriously.
karma miranda |
10.14.05 - 10:42 pm | #
Hecate,
I'm glad your dinner experience went well.
An Afghan restaurant just opened up down the street... it has been some time since I have had it, but I look forward to it.
the last time I had was when i was living in your neck of the woods... an afghan establishment in Woodley Park, on Calvert just a half block from Connecticut.
smarty jones |
10.14.05 - 10:43 pm | #
And plenty of good food downtown only a trolley ride away
The most astonishing thing to me about Dallas has been the quality of the restaurants. Its not known as a foodie town, but I've had some of the best meals in my life there.
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:43 pm | #
Uh oh, Bill Mahr is on soon. Time to order pizza delivery and build another Bombay Sapphire martini. I love Fridays!
Left Lane |
10.14.05 - 10:43 pm | #
Boys in the hoods!
These are the Deep Woods...
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 10:44 pm | #
The most astonishing thing to me about Dallas has been the quality of the restaurants. Its not known as a foodie town, but I've had some of the best meals in my life there.
Are you in Dallas proper, or Irving, las Colinas, or what? Some of the best sushi, I shit you not, is down in them there parts...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 10:45 pm | #
In Arabic, "couscous" means "Zap Rousdauer."
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 10:45 pm | #
Question for the musicognoscenti: Daniel Lanois and Tortoise playing here tonight. Worth my $20 or not?
JeffCO |
10.14.05 - 10:45 pm | #
Let's hope they burned the playbooks from '02 and '04...
Eli
Along with the consultants.
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:45 pm | #
The woman soldier in yesterday's photo op with the troops was a Military Spokeswoman...at AmericaBlog.
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10.14.05 - 10:46 pm | #
(The best is the drive-in, though, where your car is your own living room in a festival of living rooms.)
That's good for movies where you don't care about the sound quality.
Cus (rhymes with puss) is a vulgarism for the female organ.
"Cus imek" is a common curse, meaning "your mother's cunt"
So its better to say Cous (rhymes with moose)
Karin |
10.14.05 - 10:47 pm | #
Along with the consultants.
Shrum & Co. either need to be put out on an ice floe, or used as anti-advisors (just do the opposite of everything they say).
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10.14.05 - 10:47 pm | #
Thers,
Are they chasing me up the mountian yet..or have they yet reached Mike Pipper's residence?
dooo's...I hates that rabbit
Who wants a moose lip omelet?
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10.14.05 - 10:47 pm | #
I agree that a well-fought primary has the chief benefit of putting both candidates right in the public eye. This would work well for the Democratic Party in Ohio, particularly given the evident dissatisfaction that voters have with the current Republican regime. (Judging by the polls, that is.)
Personally, I think Hackett might be a more appealing candidate to those independants and moderates who are leaning away from their party. He won't have the "left wing baggage" that someone who is more entrenched in the Democratic party might be perceived as having.
My brother, who lives in Cleveland, frequently tells me about the five distinct areas of Ohio, and how each region has distinctly different demographics. We both think that Hackett would be a breath of fresh air, and his message would resound better over the entire state. In any case, two strong contenders in the primaries could make for great publicity.
I'll keep donating to Hackett's campaign, because anyone who called Bush a chickenhawk in public has got, as they say, a pair of brass ones. Just like Dean, or Feingold, I like a politician who calls them as he sees them.
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10.14.05 - 10:47 pm | #
It's usually a bit messy for those of us that don't eat that way regularly, but it's spicy delicious stuff. I think the restuarant my sister and I have been to may actually be Eritrean rather than Ethiopean, but if I recall right the menu gives names in both languages, as well as helpful English descriptions.
Ahianne |
10.14.05 - 10:47 pm | #
Cus (rhymes with puss) is a vulgarism for the female organ.
"Cus imek" is a common curse, meaning "your mother's cunt"
I could never order coffee in N. Africa, because I can't make the "q" sound. And substituting "k" makes it into testicles. Fortunately, I dislike coffee and it dislikes me, so I didn't miss much.
Pentimenti
My cousin married a non-Italian who was very proud to be part of our large Italian family. One holiday, my cousin's husband prevailed over a large holiday table filled with food and wine. He stood up, pleased to be hosting his Italian relatives, raised his glass of wine as we prepared to begin our meal, and said with great feeling "Okay everyone, minghia!"
My grandmother almost fainted.
Instead of saying Mangia! (which means eat!) He emplored us all to think of a woman's sexual organ.
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10.14.05 - 10:49 pm | #
or used as anti-advisors (just do the opposite of everything they say).
Eli
Advisor: That's good. I like it. But call Shrum first just to make sure he hates it.
scout prime |
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10.14.05 - 10:49 pm | #
Are you in Dallas proper, or Irving, las Colinas, or what?
Dallas. West Village, Highland Park. Like that.
They have a Nobu in Dallas now. Talk about great sushi.
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:49 pm | #
Well, 'enkew for that, Karin. When we go to Basha's we'll keep that in mind....
G'night all. Arthur's on duty in a little while and then I'm on from 2.am. Sweet dreams.
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10.14.05 - 10:49 pm | #
I never realized you were in Dallas, flory.
agreed re the food--I was trying to remember the last time I had Ethiopian food and I think it was when I was last in Dallas, before going to see Gillian Welch/Dave Rawlings.
lavalamp |
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10.14.05 - 10:49 pm | #
Oh, how I would love a pizza.
Seebach |
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10.14.05 - 10:49 pm | #
Viking food.
Dude. Fish soaked in lye is not even remotely palatable.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 10:50 pm | #
Great minds think alike. Drive-in movies are rare any more, but we drive to Indiana (less than an hour) sometime to catch 3 movies for peanuts. And we get to eat good food we've packed from home, and not fake *buttered* popcorn.
bigvic
Albuquerque used to have a 6 screen Drive In. When My son would come, that was a main entertainment, barring the unpredictable summer rains.
Gone now.
That was way fun.
As if you didn't think yesterday's staged photo op between Bush and the troops could get any worse, it does: One of the "soldiers" was actually an army PR flack, a woman whose job it is to make shit smell like roses and growing civil war look like democracy on the march. And yet, she was not identified as such, instead Bush "interviewed" her as if she were a soldier on the front lines.
I lost something at a drive-in movie once, but I don't remember what it was.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:52 pm | #
Ice floe! Ice floe!
Make sure the ice floe is set adrift in shark-infested waters off the Coast of Australia. Preferably Perth/Indian Ocean.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 10:52 pm | #
"Cus imek" is a common curse, meaning "your mother's cunt"
"Fuck Imus" means "your morning show is annoying."
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 10:52 pm | #
Ice floe! Ice floe!
And we could liveblog their demise...
I'm not so sure we should dismiss Option 2 - their expertise on how not to run a campaign is just too prodigious to go to waste.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 10:52 pm | #
"Cus imek" is a common curse, meaning "your mother's cunt"
Looks like an anagram for Don Imus.
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10.14.05 - 10:52 pm | #
I lost something at a drive-in movie once, but I don't remember what it was.
NYMary
Nobody know about Lanois and Tortoise? NYMary- I figured you'd be good for an opinion. I like Lanois as a producer, but I know nothing of his work as a musician, and even less about Tortoise except that they're from Chicago.
JeffCO |
10.14.05 - 10:53 pm | #
NYMary, if you've ever been around any Israelis, it's their favorite expression. For some reason they love to curse in Arabic.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 10:53 pm | #
I lost something at a drive-in movie once, but I don't remember what it was.
I bet the guy remembers...
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 10:53 pm | #
Apparently, I've been trying to get a dead thread to wake up and talk to me. At first I was mortified, but now I'm just embarrassed.
mena |
10.14.05 - 10:53 pm | #
I love going to movies -- I do watch some things at home, but I tend to wander away when I do that. At the theater I am there for the movie.
What has ruined the movie going experience for me in recent years isn't noisy patrons. It's "dim projector bulb syndrome". It seems every theater I encounter nowadays uses the equivalent of a jar of fireflies to project their movies. It is incredibly infuriating. As a result, I've gone from visiting the theater on an almost weekly basis to maybe going out to see a film once every three months. For the most part, what I do know now is just wait for the films I'm interested in to come out on DVD.
Richard |
10.14.05 - 10:54 pm | #
Grrrrr....Nobu....
watertiger
Is that a good grrr?
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:54 pm | #
They have a Nobu in Dallas now. Talk about great sushi.
Jinbeh, down on East Las Colinas in Irving. My favorite place ever. Mostly because of the incredibly cute Asian waitresses (who laughed at me when I teared up after trying to breathe whilst eating the Russian roll), but also the great, very friendly sushi chefs.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 10:54 pm | #
Mr. Pipper is in full cry right now...
What the hell??
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10.14.05 - 10:54 pm | #
I lost something at a drive-in movie once, but I don't remember what it was. NYMary
Was it your copy of Pauline Kael's autobiography?
JeffCO |
10.14.05 - 10:54 pm | #
Instead of saying Mangia! (which means eat!) He emplored us all to think of a woman's sexual organ.
I don't understand the problem.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.14.05 - 10:55 pm | #
I saw on some network interviewd with a few of the photo op soldiers saying it wasn't fake. One was the *woman* soldier ....Jeebus
scout prime |
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10.14.05 - 10:55 pm | #
If anyone is in Austin, Lindsay Beyerstein and Amanda Marcotte are meetable, next Friday night. I'll be there, too, as the awkward one. Crown and Anchor... sometime...
Seebach |
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10.14.05 - 10:55 pm | #
Is that a good grrr?
Let's just say that NYC Nobu's service leaves much to be desired.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 10:55 pm | #
Next lesson: Greek curse words.
I learned them working the night shift at various New Jersey diners.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 10:56 pm | #
HHhmmm dee diddle dee
doo de doo..........
mena |
10.14.05 - 10:56 pm | #
And you and Arthur are cruising the back alleys because......?
flory
We like them.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Alleys are the best. Had an awesome summer for, dumpster div...uh...gleaning. Two period Mission chairs for the dining room, two Umbra store floor model chairs for the deck, a set of 5 60's vintage Arne Jacobsen 3-legged "Ant" chairs and a Victorian doorknob, both of which went on the eBay (kinda made up some for having to have our transmission replaced and a leaky toilet drain fixed).
joycamp |
10.14.05 - 10:56 pm | #
This appears on the same day that an investigation of the Armstrong Williams affair is recommended.
I mean really, are they that stupid or do they just truly don't care?
Litz |
10.14.05 - 10:56 pm | #
Thers and Dartanyon are sharing a brain.
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:56 pm | #
Not to toss wet blankets around, but as long as Diebold's counting the votes I don't expect much.
I understand. But an overwhelming vote against the GOP kind of exposes voter fraud, you know? I find the Diebold thing deeply disturbing, but they've only gotten away with it when the margin was slim. They cannot do that against a huge public backlash and get away with it. How farkin' sad we are talking about this in the USA. Makes you wanna weep.
And we are supposedly going to spread Democracy based on Bu$h policy???
bigvic |
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10.14.05 - 10:56 pm | #
You gotta be kidding me! Oh we have SO got to make a stink about this! Of course the flak will say it's not staged!
Aggh. I really can't take any more. The media is SO NOT DOING ITS JOB!
Litz |
10.14.05 - 10:57 pm | #
I live in Ohio, and just read this.
3 days ago I e-mailed Hackett's people and volunteered. I hope this race gets national attention.
Raoul Paste |
10.14.05 - 10:57 pm | #
CNN is doing the Blogs are running crazy with the OK student bomder story....really trashing them.
Hear that Malkin????
guess she went to the well of the dead one time too many
scout prime |
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10.14.05 - 10:57 pm | #
They cannot do that against a huge public backlash and get away with it.
bigvic
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I worry that they may already have.
mena |
10.14.05 - 10:58 pm | #
unfuckingbelievable.
watertiger
You think so? I find it completely believable. I'll bet all ten of them were staff pukes of one kind or another.
flory |
10.14.05 - 10:58 pm | #
I find the Diebold thing deeply disturbing, but they've only gotten away with it when the margin was slim. They cannot do that against a huge public backlash and get away with it.
Do we *know* that?
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 10:58 pm | #
I lost something at a drive-in movie once, but I don't remember what it was.
My best drive-in moment:
Four of us went to a drive-in in High School, got a little drunk/stoned, and my buddy had to go to the bathroom.
A few minutes later, we see him about fifty feet over, getting into the backseat of another car that looked just like the one we where in. His hands are full, so he gets in without looking.
About three seconds later he comes flying out. He had got into a car where a guy was putting the moves on his sweety and they were all hot and heavy and mostly undressed. They where all scared like he was the Texas chainsaw massacre guy.
chris/tx |
10.14.05 - 10:58 pm | #
I lost something at a drive-in movie once, but I don't remember what it was.
My best drive-in moment:
Four of us went to a drive-in in High School, got a little drunk/stoned, and my buddy had to go to the bathroom.
A few minutes later, we see him about fifty feet over, getting into the backseat of another car that looked just like the one we where in. His hands are full, so he gets in without looking.
About three seconds later he comes flying out. He had got into a car where a guy was putting the moves on his sweety and they were all hot and heavy and mostly undressed. They where all scared like he was the Texas chainsaw massacre guy.
chris/tx |
10.14.05 - 10:58 pm | #
Dude. Fish soaked in lye is not even remotely palatable.
Nor even remotely non-poisonous, one would think...
Doozer
They cannot do that against a huge public backlash and get away with it.
What huge public backlash? Has there been any huge public backlash in the past five years?
Seebach |
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10.14.05 - 11:00 pm | #
What has ruined the movie going experience for me in recent years isn't noisy patrons. It's "dim projector bulb syndrome". Richard
Roger Ebert rails about this with great regularity. There's a nice article on the topic here. I've actually emailed it to a theater manager. She insisted they do not take the dim-bulb approach, though she did acknowledge that the projector in question was due for a bulb replacement and sent me free passes.
JeffCO |
10.14.05 - 11:00 pm | #
You mean he remembers what movie was showing, right?
But an overwhelming vote against the GOP kind of exposes voter fraud, you know?
So who's going to call them on it? Nobody, that's who.
I'm sick thinking about it.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.14.05 - 11:00 pm | #
Next lesson: Greek curse words.
Akmisu malaka (sp!?)
No fargin' idea what it means, but a Greek descended friend of my brother taught it to him, and he said it every chance he got. Which was a lot...
Doozer |
10.14.05 - 11:01 pm | #
I find the Diebold thing deeply disturbing, but they've only gotten away with it when the margin was slim. They cannot do that against a huge public backlash and get away with it.
Do we *know* that?
That's what scares me. I think there is a limit to how big a discrepancy Diebold can cover over, but I'm not sure what it is, and I'm not sure the Republicans know for sure either.
What happens if they overreach and get busted, say, 2-3 weeks, or even months after the election?
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 11:01 pm | #
My favorite place ever. Mostly because of the incredibly cute Asian waitresses
This is a recommendation I'll be sure to note....
WT:
The service in Dallas was exquisite. We basically just ordered everything the waitron said to order. It was all perfect. And my client didn't even like raw fish -- til that night.
flory |
10.14.05 - 11:01 pm | #
Instead of saying Mangia! (which means eat!) He emplored us all to think of a woman's sexual organ.
For 10% of the adult population, that would kill our appetite.
Dartanyon |
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10.14.05 - 11:02 pm | #
The group that built the Blackbird got together for a Viking cookout once. We combed the sagas for food references and the archaeology texts for info on cooking utensils and available ingredients, then tried to come up with plausible recipes based on that info and our cooking experience. We cooked over a fire and in a little beehive oven. I wilted turnip greens in butter, then creamed them with buttermilk and seasoned with torn up dried dulse. One of the guys spit-roasted a chicken over the fire; another caught the fat dripping from the chicken and cooked thin-sliced turnips in the chicken fat. Lots of good eatin'.
Ahianne |
10.14.05 - 11:02 pm | #
re gop shenanigans,
perhaps the most important race for democrats is next year's Ohio Governor's race next year.
if we can win that, we can stop the buckeye gop corruption machine.
smarty jones |
10.14.05 - 11:02 pm | #
You think so? I find it completely believable. I'll bet all ten of them were staff pukes of one kind or another.
Wait till it comes out that the soldiers were all FEMA employees in a madeover conference room in an Embassy Suite in Maryland. The Iraqi soldier was played by Jeff Gannon.
spinoza |
10.14.05 - 11:03 pm | #
What happens if they overreach and get busted, say, 2-3 weeks, or even months after the election?
well its clear now that gore wouldve won if all the votes in florida had been counted, and basically, if you say that, you're a conspiracy nut. maybe they couldn't get away with it now that bush's approval ratings are so low.
pretzelattack |
10.14.05 - 11:03 pm | #
Pauline Kael sucked.
Deeply.
When it was fashionable to hate
Hollywood and only like obscure
European films, that's what
she did.
When it was fashionable to love
Hollywood (and adore, say, Howard
Hawks) and completely dis obscure
Europea films, that's what she did.
She totally sucked.
Can I prove it?
Yes. She raved....RAVED...about
the mid-70s remake of King Kong.
steve simels |
10.14.05 - 11:03 pm | #
NYMary, if you've ever been around any Israelis, it's their favorite expression. For some reason they love to curse in Arabic.
What happens if they overreach and get busted, say, 2-3 weeks, or even months after the election?
Nada.
Nothing will happen.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.14.05 - 11:03 pm | #
Israelis curse in Arabic because one of the problems with using a language that has mostly been kept alive through liturgy is that is sort of lacks really good curse words. Eupemisms, sure, but not real visceral curses.
Pentimenti |
10.14.05 - 11:04 pm | #
Cousin,
Everybody loves to curse in Arabic. It's that fine kind of language. Or German. Russian's not bad,
I am so childish, I ask my son's best friend, who is a first generation Russian/American (been here only 2 years), to teach me cuss words in his language. Heh.
bigvic |
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10.14.05 - 11:04 pm | #
Va faire baiser par les turcs.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 11:04 pm | #
Real candidates deserve accurate ballot totals.
Anyone doing anything about vote hacking on the Democratic side?
shawk | Email | 10.14.05 - 9:07 pm | #
Thought about it..,
decided I'd rather see the people votes atually count.
Something needs to be done about diebold (whose software is laughably corruptable) & any others anywhere near half as bad as that.
I hate to say it but at this point though the best bet may be to simply let the repugs wreck things so incredibly badly that the margins will will overwhelm the crookedness.
Then we'll have a chance to restore our democracy.
My view is that if we on the left lower ourselves to sheer theivery as they have we're no more valid than THEM. personally I couldn't be a part of that...
zephyr |
10.14.05 - 11:04 pm | #
NYMary, if you've ever been around any Israelis, it's their favorite expression. For some reason they love to curse in Arabic.
Indeed.
NTodd
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I know NTodd. This has been going on for a long time, and it's infuriating.
BTW - 'booshtisi" said to any Arabic speaker, will raise some eyebrow. I think it's along the lines of 'kiss my ass', only filthier.
mena |
10.14.05 - 11:06 pm | #
well its clear now that gore wouldve won if all the votes in florida had been counted, and basically, if you say that, you're a conspiracy nut. maybe they couldn't get away with it now that bush's approval ratings are so low.
Not the same. Florida 2000 wasn't even fraud, really.
What happens if a Republican election-hacker comes forward, or an e-mail or voicemail turns up? Or there are consistent, inexplicable 10-point discrepancies between votes and polls?
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 11:06 pm | #
What happens if they overreach and get busted, say, 2-3 weeks, or even months after the election?
Eli
That scenario scares the shit out of me too. Either we have a constitutional crisis or the Dem's go all noble and let the 'thugs blatantly steal the election...then we have the constitutional crisis.
flory |
10.14.05 - 11:06 pm | #
She raved....RAVED...about
the mid-70s remake of King Kong.
I think it was a pretty good flick, and that's not just because I'm viewing it through the filters of my 8-year old self.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 11:06 pm | #
Yes. She raved....RAVED...about
the mid-70s remake of King Kong. steve simels
And what have you got against young Ms. Lange in her first role?
JeffCO |
10.14.05 - 11:07 pm | #
I ask my son's best friend, who is a first generation Russian/American (been here only 2 years), to teach me cuss words in his language. Heh.
bigvic
I went to grad school with a lot of Cubans, who tend to say "cunio" when something mildly annoying happens, like the point of a pencil breaking.
I tried it in Spain once. Shocked the young Spanish women.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 11:07 pm | #
Yes. She raved....RAVED...about
the mid-70s remake of King Kong.
steve simels
Fucking, bloody hell, Steve. That's just wrong. And discredits her profession.
bigvic |
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10.14.05 - 11:08 pm | #
Instead of saying Mangia! (which means eat!) He emplored us all to think of a woman's sexual organ.
For 10% of the adult population, that would kill our appetite.
There is a large number of straight men who cannot bring themselves to love the vagina. Weird, but true.
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 11:08 pm | #
I ask my son's best friend, who is a first generation Russian/American (been here only 2 years), to teach me cuss words in his language.
Cursing in Russian is about the only damned thing I remember from my years studying the language. That, and asking where's the beer or the metro?
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 11:08 pm | #
Yiddish is no slouch for curses though.
Pentimenti |
10.14.05 - 11:08 pm | #
What happens if a Republican election-hacker comes forward, or an e-mail or voicemail turns up?
G.I.'s and Syrians in Tense Clashes on Iraqi Border
By JAMES RISEN and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: October 15, 2005
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 - A series of clashes in the last year between American and Syrian troops, including a prolonged firefight this summer that killed several Syrians, has raised the prospect that cross-border military operations may become a dangerous new front in the Iraq war, according to current and former military and government officials.
The firefight, between Army Rangers and Syrian troops along the border with Iraq, was the most serious of the conflicts with President Bashar al-Assad's forces, according to American and Syrian officials...
smarty jones |
10.14.05 - 11:09 pm | #
Phew, boy howdy!!
I'm off to check on what the Vikings did tonight.
For all that have something to do on the weekend...have fun.
The interesting thing about Arabs is they can get in each others face inches apart, cursing up a storm with the spit flying, and they would not ever even think of striking the other.
chris/tx |
10.14.05 - 11:09 pm | #
Akmisu malaka
Not sure what the first part is, but malaka(or malaga) means bastard, or son of a bitch.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 11:09 pm | #
There is a large number of straight men who cannot bring themselves to love the vagina. Weird, but true.
And they all seem to hang out here, try as we might to get rid of them...
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 11:09 pm | #
Not the same. Florida 2000 wasn't even fraud, really.
that voter list was fraudulent. and the staged riot. and there was some guy that said a republican had asked him how to program a computer to switch votes.
pretzelattack |
10.14.05 - 11:09 pm | #
Aside from the normal American cursing I learned from my parents, the first foreign stuff I learned from TV: owa tagu siam, later amended to owa tana siam.
JeffCO |
10.14.05 - 11:10 pm | #
or the Dem's go all noble and let the 'thugs blatantly steal the election
Where would you ever get this idea?
Seebach |
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10.14.05 - 11:10 pm | #
G.I.'s and Syrians in Tense Clashes on Iraqi Border
Syria shaping up to be the Cambodia of this war.
scout prime |
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10.14.05 - 11:11 pm | #
NYMary, that's "coño." It is extremely vulgar, but trips off the Cuban tongue much more than it would in Spain.
Otter |
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10.14.05 - 11:11 pm | #
There is a large number of straight men who cannot bring themselves to love the vagina. Weird, but true.
And they are the cause of all that is wrong in our nation today.
Some of them are probably part of Dartanyon's 10%. I'll bet John Roberts, for example, never, er, played the trombone.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 11:11 pm | #
"Get your hands off of me,
you male chauvinist ape."
I still think there are conditions where the thievery would be so blatant that the evidence couldn't be waved off. And they get riper in proportion to the size of the margin to be concealed.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 11:11 pm | #
the first foreign stuff I learned from TV: owa tagu siam...
Thersites II knows that one...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 11:12 pm | #
I can only say "my father is a chemist" in Russia, which would only be slightly more useful if it were true.
Pentimenti |
10.14.05 - 11:12 pm | #
Otter,
Right. I have no n-tilde here.
But in Miami, perfectly nice, middle-class Cuban girls used it all the time. I knew what it meant, but I really didn't think it would be that shocking.
NYMary |
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10.14.05 - 11:13 pm | #
Ahianne , that sounds awesome. Now I've got to go find out what the hell dulse is.
joycamp |
10.14.05 - 11:13 pm | #
Akmisu malaka
The Lion King song, right?
Thers |
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10.14.05 - 11:13 pm | #
Hackett has no chance. Brown has a chance. Hackett may someday have a chance, assuming he runs for other offices, finds something to run on besides calling the president names (somethat will not endear him to most Ohioans), and actually win a race.
Fine. He's in the primary.
I doubt that he'll stay in it because if he does he will lose big time. Then, he and his Hackett-heads will all be TWO TIME LOSERS.
Sounds like we'll have a silly primary where Hackett will huff and puff and Sherrod will cruise to victory.
It will help Sherrod sharpen his claws for DeWine.
Louie Da Lipp |
10.14.05 - 11:13 pm | #
Thersites II knows that one... NTodd
Must be a big Tony Randall fan.
JeffCO |
10.14.05 - 11:13 pm | #
HALOSCAN REALLY SAID THIS TO ME:
Please wait at least 20 seconds between posts (another 21 second(s)).
We do so much e-mailing to Cuban friends from here (Mrs. O was a US diplomat in Cuba) that we have a little table for the Alt-XXXX sequence for all the accented vowels and tildes. It is especially important when wishing someone a "Bueno año nuevo" to avoid wishing them a "Good new asshole."
Otter |
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10.14.05 - 11:15 pm | #
We did not do lutefisk. In fact, we didn't do any fish that time; several people in the group, while not having allergies to it that I know of, object to it strenuously. Ragnar and I were discussing the possibility of having a jar of herring next time we have a get-together while we took the boat up the Scioto from the Santa Maria Saturday.
Ahianne |
10.14.05 - 11:15 pm | #
Either we have a constitutional crisis or the Dem's go all noble and let the 'thugs blatantly steal the election...
Hackett may someday have a chance, assuming he runs for other offices, finds something to run on besides calling the president names (somethat will not endear him to most Ohioans)
The interesting thing about Arabs is they can get in each others face inches apart, cursing up a storm with the spit flying, and they would not ever even think of striking the other.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Italians or some other group? I've found Arabs to be very careful in how they speak to each other, so as to avoid offending.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 11:16 pm | #
I still think there are conditions where the thievery would be so blatant that the evidence couldn't be waved off.
Check my link at 11:08.
The programmer claims that he designed and built a "vote rigging" software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now U.S. Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney of Florida's 24th Congressional District.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.14.05 - 11:16 pm | #
There is a large number of straight men who cannot bring themselves to love the
vagina. Weird, but true.
I don't even know where to start.
steve simels |
10.14.05 - 11:16 pm | #
Ragnar and I were discussing the possibility of having a jar of herring next time we have a get-together
You must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with . . . a jar of herring!
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 11:16 pm | #
I tried teaching a drunk frosh girl how to say 'fuck your mother' in Russian ('yob tvoyu mat') to my Russian roomie, but she was so lit that she kept saying 'yope swami mop'. In the end that became the mantra in our senior quad, amongst other rather rude, completely made up Russian curses.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 11:17 pm | #
"Please wait at least 20 seconds between posts (another 21 second(s))."
And at least two hours before posting after eating a meal.
(Damn I have a cramp in my side)
EkCenTriK |
10.14.05 - 11:18 pm | #
I, too, am going to don my sleep attire and snuggle down under the blankets (it's kinda chilly in here).
Bon nuit, and to Neil Boortz I say: skata ne fas, malaka! (eat shit, you sonofabitch!)
(grew up in a Greek neighborhood)
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 11:19 pm | #
The programmer claims that he designed and built a "vote rigging" software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now U.S. Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney of Florida's 24th Congressional District.
Sigh. I fear we will need smoking-gun e-mails or other hard documentation.
Eli |
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10.14.05 - 11:19 pm | #
absolute tripe. Dino DeLaurentis should've been set adrift on an ice floe for that
movie.
watertiger | Email | Homepage | 10.14.05 - 11:14 pm | #
However...
have you seen the trailer for
the Peter Jackson re-make?
Seems like he did everything
right........
steve simels |
10.14.05 - 11:19 pm | #
Hackett may someday have a chance, assuming he runs for other offices, finds something to run on besides calling the president names (somethat will not endear him to most Ohioans), and actually win a race.
Hey, look: a graveyard! Better start whistling as we walk by it...
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 11:19 pm | #
I concur with Watertiger--good night, all.
Otter |
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10.14.05 - 11:20 pm | #
Lion kitty, that little shit, ran away tonight.
He escaped when the pizza guy came and he's no where in sight.
I've looked everywhere. The little ingrate.
fourlegsgood |
10.14.05 - 11:20 pm | #
I don't even know where to start. steve simels
What's wrong with a kiss, boy? Hmm? Why not start her off with a nice kiss? You don't have to go leaping straight for the clitoris like a bull at a gate. Give her a kiss, boy.
JeffCO |
10.14.05 - 11:20 pm | #
have you seen the trailer for
the Peter Jackson re-make?
Haven't yet, but I'm sure returning to the 30s will be great. I just wish he'd stop fucking around and get to The Hobbit.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 11:21 pm | #
Good night, moonbats. And may all our indictments be Rovian.
Shaw Kenawe |
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10.14.05 - 11:21 pm | #
fourlegsgood
Will he come back? Is he an indoor/outdoor cat?
EkCenTriK |
10.14.05 - 11:21 pm | #
have you seen the trailer for
the Peter Jackson re-make?
Seems like he did everything
right........
Haven't seen the trailer yet. Jackson's sensibilities are much better-suited to it than DeLaurentiis' flunkie, whatever the hell his name was.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 11:21 pm | #
I am majorly pissed at this cat. I am too goddamned tired to be walking around searching for his plushy ass.
fourlegsgood |
10.14.05 - 11:22 pm | #
Karin - Maybe your experience is different. I saw Arabs in each others face a number of times in the ME, getting after it. Usually at the market type places.
I talked to some of my Arab friends about it, why they never came to blows. They all said the same thing, Arabs can get in each others face because they know nothing will come of it.
chris/tx |
10.14.05 - 11:22 pm | #
My first "car date" was w/a young fellow to go to the drive-in. We saw "Psycho" (which confirms my advanced age).
He had red hair and glasses, I recall, and we were both so spellbound by the movie that he made no moves I would have had to reject.
Maxx will return. Even Sam returns. The siren call of kibble, petting and a warm place to groom is too strong to resist for more than a couple days.
What's wrong with a kiss, boy? Hmm? Why not start her off with a nice kiss? You don't have to go leaping straight for the clitoris like a bull at a gate. Give her a kiss, boy.
That scene totally changed my life.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 11:22 pm | #
Will he come back? Is he an indoor/outdoor cat?
He would like to be an indoor/outdoor cat, but he runs out into the parking lot... and, ahem.... fucking runs away.
If he comes back he's never leaving the house again.
fourlegsgood |
10.14.05 - 11:23 pm | #
Is it raining where you are, 4lg?
Has Maxx ever taken off before?
Karin |
10.14.05 - 11:23 pm | #
4LG,
Open a can of cat food. He's probably nearby, skulking around the bushes.
watertiger |
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10.14.05 - 11:23 pm | #
4LG,
Good luck. Don't be too hard on him; it's just in his nature.
Maxx will return. Even Sam returns. The siren call of kibble, petting and a warm place to groom is too strong to resist for more than a couple days.
Sam is out in the country, and you raised him from a kitten.
Who knows what Maxx is thinking? Or if he's smart enough to find his way home.
fourlegsgood |
10.14.05 - 11:24 pm | #
I find the Diebold thing deeply disturbing, but they've only gotten away with it when the margin was slim. They cannot do that against a huge public backlash and get away with it.
Do we *know* that?
That's what scares me. I think there is a limit to how big a discrepancy Diebold can cover over, but I'm not sure what it is, and I'm not sure the Republicans know for sure either.
No one is sure, Eli. But I think they have sunk so stinking low that no one will sit back and and accept their explanations about how they *won* elections when exit polls say way otherwise. That presents a problem of corrupt voting, and we will NOT stand for that.
They have not factored in a pissed majority. They are that clueless.
bigvic |
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10.14.05 - 11:24 pm | #
Sigh. I fear we will need smoking-gun e-mails or other hard documentation.
Eli
I keep telling myself that the reason the stories about fraud in '04 went nowhere is that there was nothing resembling proof. Only people's stories.
If there was hard proof of extensive vote rigging? Enough to tip the nationwide vote?
That could get ugly.
Or not. It would require Dem spine after all.
flory |
10.14.05 - 11:24 pm | #
Not raining. He's just being bad.
fourlegsgood |
10.14.05 - 11:24 pm | #
There is a large number of straight men who cannot bring themselves to love the
vagina. Weird, but true.
I don't even know where to start.
steve simels | Email | 10.14.05 - 11:16 pm | #
You have no idea what I'd like
to say right now.
steve simels |
10.14.05 - 11:25 pm | #
bigvic,
I wish I shared your optimism.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.14.05 - 11:25 pm | #
maybe it varies according to the country, chris/tx.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 11:25 pm | #
Ahh, well, as we all know all about foreplay, no doubt you can tell me what the purpose of foreplay is,... Biggs.
Uhm-- Don't know. Sorry, sir. Carter.
Ah. Uhh, was it taking your clothes off, sir? Well, and-- and after that?
Ooh. Putting them on the lower peg, sir?
JeffCO |
10.14.05 - 11:26 pm | #
4legs:
He'll be back when he gets hungry.
flory |
10.14.05 - 11:26 pm | #
have you seen the trailer for
the Peter Jackson re-make?
Seems like he did everything
right.......
I've seen it and I'm afraid I do not concur. Jack Black does not strike me as a good choice for the Carl Denham role and I was rather underwhelmed by the quality of the CGI in the trailer.
Richard |
10.14.05 - 11:26 pm | #
4LG
are there any sounds Maxx comes for?
I was able to find one of my cats once by walking around shaking a bag of cat food.
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10.14.05 - 11:26 pm | #
have you seen the trailer for
the Peter Jackson re-make?
Anne is practicing screaming for the camera. There is an answering roar from somewhere on the island. There is a stunned silence. Then the director starts moving in the direction of the roar. "Bring the camera."
It looks great. It's set in the same era as the original. And judging by LOTR, Jackson has the heart of a genuine fan.
Taylor |
10.14.05 - 11:27 pm | #
Sam is out in the country, and you raised him from a kitten.
He was feral, don't forget!
Who knows what Maxx is thinking? Or if he's smart enough to find his way home.
He's got a cat's nose, and he's smart enough. Don't despair yet: I totally freaked when Sam made his first overnight, and we have bobcats and coyotes in our neighborhood. They're not as dumb as they act sometimes.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 11:27 pm | #
Hope you find Maxx, four legs.
Incog |
10.14.05 - 11:28 pm | #
4legs:
My family's first cat was a stray we adopted, like Maxx.
He had no trouble finding his way home when he'd escape.
Strays appreciate good food and a warm bed more than pampered yuppie kitties like Sam.
flory |
10.14.05 - 11:29 pm | #
Okay, I gotta hit the sack, despite the Maxx drama, debates about King Kong and discussion of cunning foreplay. Beware pussies that run away, scary vaginas, and very large ape creatures that steal your women.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 11:30 pm | #
My folks' cats used to come running at the sound of the electric can opener.
Karin |
10.14.05 - 11:30 pm | #
Alright, so dulse is my word of the day. When I saw the photo, I was like, oh, that seaweed stuff on the rocks. Didn't know it had a specific common name. Freakin' landlubber I am.
joycamp |
10.14.05 - 11:30 pm | #
Dulse is a variety of seaweed, harvested on the coasts of the North Atlantic. It's kind of reddish purple, salty, a bit iodiny. Has a flavor I like. I got mine in a plastic bag from Kroger's in Athens, Ohio.
Ahianne |
10.14.05 - 11:31 pm | #
If there was hard proof of extensive vote rigging? Enough to tip the nationwide vote?
That could get ugly.
Or not. It would require Dem spine after all.
flory
Conyers can't do it all, y'know...???
Sarah Deere |
10.14.05 - 11:31 pm | #
By gar! I get on, kill a thread, finally get on right thread, get a phone call, fall behind, and everybody slinks off!
And 4LG - it was bound to happen. Maxx wants you to give him more credit.
mena |
10.14.05 - 11:31 pm | #
I've seen it and I'm afraid I do not concur. Jack Black does not strike me as a
good choice for the Carl Denham role and I was rather underwhelmed by the
quality of the CGI in the trailer.
Richard | Email | 10.14.05 - 11:26 pm | #
Well, we'll see.
I live in hope.
steve simels |
10.14.05 - 11:32 pm | #
Strays appreciate good food and a warm bed more than pampered yuppie kitties like Sam.
And now I'm really leaving.
NTodd |
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10.14.05 - 11:32 pm | #
First foreign words I ever learned were Klatoo verada nicktoe.
I don't think they were cusswords though...
Doozer |
10.14.05 - 11:33 pm | #
"First foreign words I ever learned were Klatoo verada nicktoe.
I don't think they were cusswords though..."
Yes, but you still have to order one item from column C as well.
EkCenTriK |
10.14.05 - 11:34 pm | #
I've seen it and I'm afraid I do not concur. Jack Black does not strike me as a
good choice for the Carl Denham role and I was rather underwhelmed by the
quality of the CGI in the trailer.
Richard | Email | 10.14.05 - 11:26 pm | #
It's gotta be better than
the 70s version.
Even if it sucks.
steve simels |
10.14.05 - 11:34 pm | #
And they all seem to hang out here, try as we might to get rid of them...
Eli | Email | Homepage | 10.14.05 - 11:09 pm | #
if I could get some vagina worth the effort, I wouldn't be babblin here. this fine evening anyway..
with all due respect
zephyr |
10.14.05 - 11:34 pm | #
You think so? I find it completely believable. I'll bet all ten of them were staff pukes of one kind or another.
And the Iraqi was the O-Club busboy...
Doozer |
10.14.05 - 11:36 pm | #
Quote:
"The programmer claims that he designed and built a "vote rigging" software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now U.S. Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney of Florida's 24th Congressional District."
Knowing that there are some really really talented programmers out there, if this is true, it's scary!
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