Actually, I have new glasses - polycarbonate, light as a feather, and I am in love w/them, and my eyes are happy.
Sarah Deere |
10.22.05 - 11:49 pm | #
Heee another Aaron Brown bit on SNL...
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
10.22.05 - 11:49 pm | #
All right, who told?
FeralLiberal |
10.22.05 - 11:49 pm | #
Threadbots.
Feh.
Someone get me my BFG.
Richard Cranium |
Homepage |
10.22.05 - 11:49 pm | #
Come to my blog . I can ban you any time, if you start that liberal crap in my locale. We have a completge ban on liberalism there, as we soon will have nationwide. Try me!
Gary Ruppert |
Homepage |
10.22.05 - 11:50 pm | #
The imposter posts with a fake email. Even brain dead libs can tell the difference, unless they are preoccupied with slamming Bush even though he is right.
Gary Ruppert |
Homepage |
10.22.05 - 11:51 pm | #
Guess it's time for a sandwich. Who's with me?
Ripley, Disciple of the Absurd |
Homepage |
10.22.05 - 11:52 pm | #
Listening to DC news radio, there's a clip about al-Zarqawi, and how he has recruits from 40 countries, and is now considered the top al Qaeda general -- who moves about every 4 hours to keep from getting caught.
The piece sounds totally contrived.
Here's the print story behind it.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. intelligence officials say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has expanded his terrorism campaign in Iraq to extremists in two dozen terror groups scattered across almost 40 countries, creating a network that rivals Osama bin Laden's.
In interviews, U.S. government officials said the threat to U.S. interests from al-Zarqawi compared with that from bin Laden, whom al-Zarqawi pledged his loyalty to one year ago.
Is it recipe time? I'm looking for a raisin spice cookie one.
Els |
10.22.05 - 11:52 pm | #
What's up tonight... in FAGVILLE!
Thers |
Homepage |
10.22.05 - 11:52 pm | #
The imposter posts with a fake email.
Yeah, like anyone here actually clicks on your email.
FeralLiberal |
10.22.05 - 11:52 pm | #
Have you guys heard Bush playing up problems in Syria? Do you think he's preparing to wag the dog?
pol |
10.22.05 - 11:52 pm | #
Shut up loser. I am the real Gary Ruppert. You can tell by the email ad my proper diction, unlike the liberal attempts to insult me.
Gary Ruppert |
Homepage |
10.22.05 - 11:53 pm | #
Okay, old Kingston Trio song, and I probably don't have the lyrics right, but close enough (this is from 50 - count 'em - 50 yrs ago):
They're rioting in Africa
There's strife in Iran
What Nature doesn't do to us
Will be done by our fellow man.
plus ca change.......
Sarah Deere |
10.22.05 - 11:53 pm | #
So, Gary. Just how DO you wipe your ass after taking a dump?
Chris Tucker |
Homepage |
10.22.05 - 11:53 pm | #
Have you guys heard Bush playing up problems in Syria? Do you think he's preparing to wag the dog?
That'd be Santorum's job, Wun't it?
Central Scrutinizer |
10.22.05 - 11:54 pm | #
Guess it's time for a sandwich. Who's with me?
Sorry Ripley, too full from supper, but I will join you in a drink. You had to have been putting up with the same wet dreary weather as I was today.
FeralLiberal |
10.22.05 - 11:55 pm | #
The word "bint" is sorely underused.
Thers |
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10.22.05 - 11:55 pm | #
And there is the rub, Ruppert wants to generate traffic. That is all he is doing here, trying to tick off enough people that they hit his site.
Tell ya what Gary, put your blogging rig in the middle of a very busy highway. Then you will have traffic.
EkCenTriK |
10.22.05 - 11:55 pm | #
Looks like we're going for two Sox in a row in the World Series.
Another Bruce |
10.22.05 - 11:55 pm | #
Hi bats, love you all.
No gigs this weekend! In bed at midnight as oppposed to 4:30 am!
Life is fucking beautiful. Especially with Patrick Fitzgerald in the world.
Sharkbabe |
10.22.05 - 11:55 pm | #
Harumph. Sputter. Awwwwh. My knuckles are sore. Awwwh...
Gary Ruppert |
10.22.05 - 11:55 pm | #
Hey Gary Ruppert, isn't there a right wing blog you can find to blogwhore at?
phinky |
Homepage |
10.22.05 - 11:55 pm | #
More Bad News for Bush
by
Larry C. Johnson
The CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, has finally got approval to publish his book, which will hit the streets on December 27, 2005. The CIA has sat on the book for more than a year and tried to stop its publication. Although the book is not intended as a criticism of President Bush, it will land another body blow to the beleaguered Bush Presidency. Bernsten's key point in the book is his testimony that he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Al Qaeda and Taliban members. According to NEWSWEEK, "Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora--intelligence operatives had tracked him--and could have been caught. He was there." http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/
Mr.Murder |
10.22.05 - 11:56 pm | #
Have you guys heard Bush playing up problems in Syria? Do you think he's preparing to wag the dog?
pol
no, he is preparing to wank the dog.
He's done with milking horses since Laura pointed out the truth to him.
chica toxica |
10.22.05 - 11:56 pm | #
Guess it's time for a sandwich. Who's with me?
Ripley, Disciple of the Absurd
What kind of sandwich?
Sarah Deere |
10.22.05 - 11:56 pm | #
Guess it's time for a sandwich. Who's with me?
I believe the correct pronunciation is "sammitch."
Thers |
Homepage |
10.22.05 - 11:56 pm | #
The word "bint" is sorely underused.
So is the word "foppish".
Another Bruce |
10.22.05 - 11:56 pm | #
THERE were no weapons of mass destruction. There was no collaboration between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda on 9/11. There was scant Pentagon planning for securing the peace should bad stuff happen after America invaded. Why, exactly, did we go to war in Iraq?
"It still isn't possible to be sure - and this remains the most remarkable thing about the Iraq war," writes the New Yorker journalist George Packer, a disenchanted liberal supporter of the invasion, in his essential new book, "The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq." Even a former Bush administration State Department official who was present at the war's creation, Richard Haass, tells Mr. Packer that he expects to go to his grave "not knowing the answer."
Maybe. But the leak investigation now reaching its climax in Washington continues to offer big clues. We don't yet know whether Lewis (Scooter) Libby or Karl Rove has committed a crime, but the more we learn about their desperate efforts to take down a bit player like Joseph Wilson, the more we learn about the real secret they wanted to protect: the "why" of the war.
To piece that story together, you have to follow each man's history before the invasion of Iraq - before anyone had ever heard of Valerie Plame Wilson, let alone leaked her identity as a C.I.A. officer. It is not an accident that Mr. Libby's and Mr. Rove's very different trajectories - one of a Washington policy intellectual, the other of a Texas political operative - would collide before Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury. They are very different men who play very different White House roles, but they are bound together now by the sordid shared past that the Wilson affair has exposed.
In Mr. Rove's case, let's go back to January 2002. By then the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan had succeeded in its mission to overthrow the Taliban and had done so with minimal American casualties. In a triumphalist speech to the Republican National Committee, Mr. Rove for the first time openly advanced the idea that the war on terror was the path to victory for that November's midterm elections. Candidates "can go to the country on this issue," he said, because voters "trust the Republican Party to do a better job of protecting and strengthening America's military might and thereby protecting America." It was an early taste of the rhetoric that would be used habitually to smear any war critics as unpatriotic.
But there were unspoken impediments to Mr. Rove's plan that he certainly knew about: Afghanistan was slipping off the radar screen of American voters, and the president's most grandiose objective, to capture Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," had not been achieved. How do you run on a war if the war looks as if it's shifting into neutral and the No. 1 evildoer has escaped?
P O'Neill |
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10.22.05 - 11:57 pm | #
So does anyone care if either gary puppet is real? I'd rather know if Thersites's current infatuation with succulent ham means that he has forsaken bacon.
Ahianne |
10.22.05 - 11:59 pm | #
I believe the correct pronunciation is "sammitch."
Get away, Rachael Ray!
pseudonymous in nc |
10.22.05 - 11:59 pm | #
Guess it's time for a sandwich. Who's with me?
I had a Ham Sandwich once, but it's doing 5 to 10. Ken Starr indicted it.
Barry from Alaska |
10.22.05 - 11:59 pm | #
Someone's pretending to be me and an imitation of me? LOL you can't stop talking about me even when I'm gone, guess I have got under your skin.
Gary Ruppert |
Homepage |
10.22.05 - 11:59 pm | #
Life is fucking beautiful. Especially with Patrick Fitzgerald in the world.
Digby calls Fitz a "super predator".
I fucking love it.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.23.05 - 12:00 am | #
We also would have accepted "sangwidge."
That is a terrific regional pronunciation.
I also enjoy the inexplicable pluralization "underwears."
Thers |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:00 am | #
Anyone who thinks these impostors are the real me, come to my blog and I will show you who is the real Gary Ruppert.
Why are liverals addicted to lying?
Gary Ruppert |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:01 am | #
Off to bed.
Wonder what my Fitzy savior of America is doing right now. Sending him all my most felicitous vibes.
Sharkbabe |
10.23.05 - 12:02 am | #
Ripley--I'll make you a sammitch, if you'd like.
Sallyh, Madame Poissoniere |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:02 am | #
I'd rather know if Thersites's current infatuation with succulent ham means that he has forsaken bacon.
It's a Kids in the Hall quote: "this is great fucking ham."
Thers |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:02 am | #
I have heard of turkey sammitches where neither bread nor roasted fowl were involved. Wild Turkey was. Hangovers ensued.
Ahianne |
10.23.05 - 12:03 am | #
This is great, fucking ham.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.23.05 - 12:04 am | #
Wear your Fitzy love like heaven - sleep well, bats
Sharkbabe |
10.23.05 - 12:04 am | #
Where does that R come from warsh, as in I'm gonna warsh the clothes.
Another Bruce |
10.23.05 - 12:04 am | #
The word "bint" is sorely underused.
Thers
Prollie not as easily underrstood as "slitch". Which, um, also doesn't see much use...
Doozer |
10.23.05 - 12:04 am | #
I've been corresponding with Mr. Wilson over the last several days, just to keep tabs on things. I mentioned in my last email that a lot of people are pulling for him and Valerie, especially at DU. He wrote back:
"All the outpouring of support has been of great comfort to us these past two years of nonstop attacks. The stakes are enormous. This is all about whether our government can take us to war on lies without any fear of being held to account, and whether our democracy can survive the coalition of fascist forces that have seized control of the levers of power.
We are bracing for another round of attacks from the RNC. I understand that their talking points have been updated. Rapid response from you, The Democratic Underground and others will be needed and I know they and you are up to the task and I thank everybody in advance for all of your good work now and over the last years. Remember, to paraphrase Dick Cheney (no, not the "Fuck off" statement to Senator Leahy), they are in the "last throes" of desperation.
A most excellent drink - Wild Turkey and hard cider, a seasonal treat.
FeralLiberal |
10.23.05 - 12:06 am | #
Note: I would not recommend Haloscan for mission-critical applications.
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QuentinCompson |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:06 am | #
Doozer, Feral Liberal--thanks for the lovely kitties!
Sallyh, Madame Poissoniere |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:07 am | #
most of the things I do best I do while lying.
Gotta link for that?
chris/tx |
10.23.05 - 12:07 am | #
Thers - I have no idea who Kids in the Hall are, but I should have known better than to suspect that you would have forsaken bacon.
Ahianne |
10.23.05 - 12:07 am | #
This is great fucking, ham.
Jay C.
This is great! Fucking ham!
Great! This is Fuckingham!
Doozer |
10.23.05 - 12:08 am | #
Young Democrats Sharpen Tactics Against Old Rivals
New Breed on Hill Works Aggressively To Snap GOP Grip
By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 23, 2005; A04
With the Capitol all but deserted last Monday night, the Democratic "30-Something Working Group" seized the House floor and took aim at their Republican adversaries.
As C-SPAN cameras beamed their performance around the country, Rep. Timothy J. Ryan, 32, of Ohio and Rep. Kendrick Meek, 39, of Florida recited a litany of GOP misdeeds -- mismanaging Hurricane Katrina and neglecting education and health care, for example -- and offered the Democrats' alternatives.
Their conversation even veered to religion, a subject many Democrats are afraid to touch. Ryan described the problems of the poor as a moral obligation and asked of Meek: "Where is the Christian Coalition when you are cutting poverty programs? They are fighting over Supreme Court justices."
The two newcomers -- who have served a combined six years in the House -- are part of a new generation of Democrats who are working to try to topple the GOP. Their fresh ideas, modern media skills and aggressive political tactics have inspired a party that has drifted for much of the past decade -- wedded to old notions and seemingly incapable of capitalizing on White House and congressional Republican miscues.
As part of the new approach, House and Senate Democrats are devising an alternative agenda of key policies. Ryan is pushing proposals aimed at drastically reducing the number of abortions over the coming decade by offering support and services to pregnant women. Others are crafting a plan for reducing U.S. dependence on imported oil by using more domestic agricultural products, an approach that would have significant appeal to Midwestern voters.
"We can't be Dr. No to everything Republicans do," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). "We have to provide our own positive ideas."
By Alan Sipress
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, October 22, 2005; Page A15
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 21 -- Bush administration envoy Karen Hughes visited Indonesia on Friday as part of her campaign to repair U.S. standing with the world's Muslims and defended the invasion of Iraq by telling skeptical students that deposed president Saddam Hussein had gassed hundreds of thousands of his own people.
Her remark was an impassioned answer to familiar criticisms of U.S. policy raised by her audience at one of Indonesia's leading Islamic universities. But it was also wrong.
Fat Karl's conscience |
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10.23.05 - 12:11 am | #
From C&L:
Joke of the Day
Judy Miller: "I know how important it is for the paper to protect its reputation, but I have my reputation to protect also."
chris/tx |
10.23.05 - 12:12 am | #
Tonight, a friend told me stories of a raccoon with no tail.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.23.05 - 12:12 am | #
I know the blog worth calculator is rubbish, but tbogg is getting screwed. As for Gilliard's site, I'd give him a $1.50 for it.
Syd Barrett |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:13 am | #
Madame, you are most welcome!
FeralLiberal
Doozer |
10.23.05 - 12:14 am | #
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are so pleased with reports that Leakgate prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is about to indict senior White House officials that they want him to lead an impeachment investigation into whether President Bush lied to Congress about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
chris/tx |
10.23.05 - 12:16 am | #
"Your blog, bouphonia.blogspot.com, is worth $0.00."
At least I'm in good company.
Phila |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:16 am | #
Madame, you are most welcome!
FeralLiberal
Yes. What he said.
I would say I've forgotten my manners, except I never had any to lose.
Or, I never had any, Toulouse...
Doozer |
10.23.05 - 12:17 am | #
5...4...3...2...
Start the
Patrick J. Fitzgerald
smear campaign
Al Toid |
10.23.05 - 12:17 am | #
Although according to Blogshares, I'm worth a cool $23,477.73.
Phila |
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10.23.05 - 12:17 am | #
Earlier today, World Net Daily reported what it called a big development in the Miers story. That development involved a guy named Larry Littwin, a fellow who's been under a gag order and prevented from talking about his role in a scandal that took place on Harriet Miers' watch at the Texas State Lottery Commission.
Littwin wanted to investigate GTECH. And for that Miers allegedly fired him. For more detail on what this scandal was all about see this piece by James Ridgeway in the Village Voice.
According to WND, the Senate Judiciary Committee successfully pressured GTECH, the Rhode Island company which ran the state lottery.
The sourcing on the original story seem a little opaque to me. So I spoke to sources up on the Hill who confirmed that this is in fact true, that GTECH has agreed to allow Littwin to testify.
etc.
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The Nixon to China gambit?
Every time they tip their hand, I like Miers more.
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QuentinCompson |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:19 am | #
Where is this blog worth calculator.
I came across one. It said my blog is worth $36,695.10
That can't be right, 'cause no one is paying me anything.
David (Austin Tx) |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:20 am | #
bkny,
I would agree, wholeheartedly, that the young (34, 39) are taking up the banner in a new way, and are media-smart.
Re: abortion. NO ONE wants to have to choose abortion. Answer would be decent sex education and effective birth control methods (that are not humiliating or dangerous).
When the birth controlk methods fail, there should be widely available the "morning after pill" so the person at risk of an unwanted pregnancy is able to preclude the possibility rapidly. No cluster of cells, no life to be killed. Just its potential.
Swat the religio-freaks back to their dark corners.
Sarah Deere |
10.23.05 - 12:21 am | #
Homepage for blog calculator.
Syd Barrett |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:22 am | #
Good raisin spice cookies: get the Bear Cub Scout book recipe for oatmeal cookies. To each batch add 1/2 cup regular, 1/2 cup golden raisins, a generous pinch of ginger and 1/4 teaspoon each allspice, nutmeg, cardamom and cinnamon. Add an extra half teaspoon of vanilla.
If making these for kids that's all; to make for grownups add 1/2 cup dried cranberries and a half pinch of cayenne.
Yummy either way. Grownup version really good with morning coffee in place of majorly overpriced and undernutritious 'meal bars'. For really good nutrition omit cayenne, add a third of a cup of oat bran cereal and three tablespoons of chopped nuts or toasted sunflower seeds.
The Other Sarah |
10.23.05 - 12:22 am | #
Every time they tip their hand, I like Miers more.
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QuentinCompson |
Sorry, too stupid to understand what you just said.
"whether our democracy can survive the coalition of fascist forces that have seized control of the levers of power"
Breathe deeply or pray that Fitzgerald withstands the force five pressure they must be putting on him now.
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QuentinCompson |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:23 am | #
Well, I wonder where they get their information, because that is the one I used.
David (Austin Tx) |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:25 am | #
You all watching SNL? HAH! The blind comedian!!! ROTFLMFFFAO!!!!!!!!
Ashlyn Gear |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:26 am | #
The Other Sarah
cookies sound fantastic, but I'd leave in the pinch of cayenne! It has health-enhancing properties of its own.
Sarah Deere |
10.23.05 - 12:26 am | #
I used that blog value calculator, and I was told metacomments has the same value as the song of a mockingbird, the rush of an autumn brook, the whisper of Adirondack pines in a summer breeze, the softly intent pressure of a loving handjob.
Which is cool.
Thers |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:26 am | #
Gilliard's ego must be taking a blow with his blog's value. $0 - that hurts. It must be all that cutting and pasting that hurt him with the appraisers ;-P
Syd Barrett |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:27 am | #
Sarah Deere: first thing in the morning, with coffee, that cayenne is absolutely shattering...
The Other Sarah |
10.23.05 - 12:27 am | #
Up at freeperville via newsmax:
I followed some damn link to Newsmax today, and I was mesmerized by the ads on the site. You have got to be kidding me. Secret prison fighting system? The "Ghetto Block"? Gold coins with Jesus on 'em? What kind of troglodyte...never mind, I just answered my own question.
Doozer |
10.23.05 - 12:28 am | #
Heads up on rawstory.com -- lots of good back and forth from public editor and judy, judy, judy's response. Thinkprogress has a superb link to the investigation going into the run up for the war and there is another article about the leak being expanded in 2004 to include obstruction of justice, so Fitzgeral knew, he just wanted to make sure everyone else did, too. Man-o-man!
Alma Evans |
10.23.05 - 12:28 am | #
e softly intent pressure of a loving handjob
Nothing personal Thers, but I'd value the handjob over your blog anytime.
FeralLiberal |
10.23.05 - 12:29 am | #
For those that missed it, someone posted the entire Frank Rich article in one of the threads below. I think two threads down.
Can't miss it, each section is in bold.
DeepThought_42 |
10.23.05 - 12:29 am | #
first thing in the morning, with coffee, that cayenne is absolutely shattering...
The Other Sarah
...but in a good way, right??
Sarah Deere |
10.23.05 - 12:30 am | #
I am feeling a tad bit of sympathy for Miers. To have the most exciting thing in worth life happen, and then get snatched away by people who should probably thought were on her side, and then to have to go on working in DC with these very same people who think she is a hopeless incompetent. Poor creature.
Syd Barrett |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:31 am | #
Where does that R come from warsh, as in I'm gonna warsh the clothes.
Another Bruce
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people in baltimore warsh things all the time. normally they warsh them in the zink.
Olaf glad and big |
10.23.05 - 12:31 am | #
I understand that their talking points have been updated. Rapid response from you, The Democratic Underground and others will be needed and I know they and you are up to the task and I thank everybody in advance for all of your good work now and over the last years.
look, i love DU. i love will pitt. i love democracy and kitties and ferrets and ponies. but i just don't buy that joe wilson, a guy with Actual Connections, needs the help of a bunch of overzealous kids and their home connections to fight the rethuglican noise machine.
they do good work there. but as atrios pointed out, more people read harry potter fan-zine sex novels than serious political blogs. this sounds like some kind silliness to me. joe, and any other serious player taking on the BFEE, aren't using internet data mining and group blog response boxes to take down the Cabal. especially those married to NOCs.
chicago dyke |
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10.23.05 - 12:32 am | #
that cayenne is absolutely shattering...
And Cayenne chiles are extremely easy to grow and very prolific.
FeralLiberal |
10.23.05 - 12:32 am | #
Doozer - NewsMax has no credibility. I just dropped it in as the freepers where discussing it and thought it was funny, Bush getting impeached.
chris/tx |
10.23.05 - 12:32 am | #
Gilliard's ego must be taking a blow with his blog's value. $0 - that hurts. It must be all that cutting and pasting that hurt him with the appraisers ;-P
Syd Barrett
WHy do you say this?
I sorta like Gilliard and read him frequently.
I'm not asking snarkily, but with honest interest.
Sarah Deere |
10.23.05 - 12:32 am | #
Goodnight, moonbats. I should already be in bed; got to get up for 9 o'clock Mass, and spent a good bit of this evening shoving racks of chairs and music stands into storage after the community orchestra concert.
Ahianne |
10.23.05 - 12:33 am | #
I don't feel sorry for the old hag.
Incog |
10.23.05 - 12:35 am | #
Gilliard's ego must be taking a blow with his blog's value. $0 - that hurts. It must be all that cutting and pasting that hurt him with the appraisers ;-P
Syd Barrett
WHy do you say this?
I sorta like Gilliard and read him frequently.
I'm not asking snarkily, but with honest interest.
Sarah Deere | Email | 10.23.05 - 12:32 am | #
I just like screwing around with Steve. He has admitted often that he has a big ego - he blames it on being a writer, ergo all writers have big egos, or some such logic.
Anyway, I am happy to read that he has signed up for TimesSelect so I don't have to.
Syd Barrett |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:35 am | #
Nothing personal Thers, but I'd value the handjob over your blog anytime.
Well, uh, I'm flattered, and maybe even a little bit curious. But I'd really prefer you as a blog reader than anything else right now. No hard feelings?
Thers |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:36 am | #
Meanwhile, at the intersection of Handbasket Highway and Good Intentions Boulevard...
Darryl Pearce |
Homepage |
10.23.05 - 12:38 am | #
Thers - Steve G. posted your wife's post on the Nazi chicks, if she has not seen it.
chris/tx |
10.23.05 - 12:39 am | #
Well, uh, I'm flattered, and maybe even a little bit curious
A slight misunderstanding, I didn't mean from You. I do drop into the blog from time to time though.
FeralLiberal |
10.23.05 - 12:39 am | #
I just watched one of the most contrived scenes in motion picture history.
On a sweaty, 1954 New York sunset evening, James Stewart is sweetly and softly awakened from his afternoon slumber by one of the most lovely visages ever beheld by any man, Grace Kelly at 27.
And he immediately starts giving her shit.
I think Hitch casted Ms. Kelly in Rear Window because he wanted to be near her.
Max Planck |
10.23.05 - 12:42 am | #
Well, uh, I'm flattered, and maybe even a little bit curious.
i'm laughing evil worm juice out of my nose right now. "a little bit curious..." in a perfect world, that'd be the comedown line all good children were taught.
and OT- you think our trolls are bad? try this iraqi blog sometime. i had a lot of fun reading over there a while back.
chicago dyke |
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10.23.05 - 12:42 am | #
A slight misunderstanding, I didn't mean from You.
Reminds me of the story from a friend that went to New Orleans.
He was getting a BJ in the alley behind the bar, when he reached down to find out she was a he.
I asked him what he did. His response:
"I had already paid my fifty bucks."
chris/tx |
10.23.05 - 12:45 am | #
'Splain??
Sarah Deere
The right, especially the far right, is laboring mightily to prevent Miers' from getting on the court. I reject any notion that they could be faking it so wide-spreadly in such numbers. Their motive is to replace her with someone more to their liking, which I define as less to my liking and, very likely, yours, Sarah.
I posit that the next member of the court will be someone who is named by the worst president ever, and approved by the Republican-controlled Senate. Sorry, but that's the cold reality bath I find myself in.
Our side cannot name or approve anyone. We lack the fire-power, so we must use tactics that reflect that reality. While we cannot name, we may be able to effect; for example, we may be in a position now, surprisingly (maybe not surprisingly considering the worst president ever who is also a dumb fuck with a twisted personality), to either allow or prevent Miers' ascension (without going into filibuster and possible nuclear option complications). While we cannot by ourselves approve, we may be able to influence; for example, we could take advantage of R divisions and disarray to get a R and D 'middle' bunch, like before, to stipulate to who or what kind of nominee would be allowed through (could, ok?).
It boils down to: if not Miers, who? I think Harry Reid has so far played our weak hand perfectly, to the point now that the far right apparently is threatening to smear Shrub and Miers with the TANG atrocities. I think we are lucky to have divided them so deeply, and into such interesting corners.
Of course, ymmv.
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QuentinCompson |
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10.23.05 - 12:45 am | #
Good Night, I'm going to sleep after Franz Ferdinand on SNL.
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10.23.05 - 12:47 am | #
I was told metacomments has the same value as the song of a mockingbird, the rush of an autumn brook, the whisper of Adirondack pines in a summer breeze, the softly intent pressure of a loving handjob.
Which is cool.
worth a repost
SSquirell |
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10.23.05 - 12:48 am | #
after Franz Ferdinand on SNL>/i>
Just caught the last song, what's with the shoes?
FeralLiberal |
10.23.05 - 12:51 am | #
QuentinCompson |
Okay, I get ya.
Things are just so completely farking INSANE these days, that I have much difficulty trying to figure out which (un) reality would work out the better.
Sarah Deere |
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chicago dyke | Email | Homepage | 10.23.05 - 12:32 am
I hear ya, mostly, but you may need to turn up the frequency to reach Dan Rather, wherever he is these days.
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QuentinCompson |
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10.23.05 - 12:53 am | #
when he reached down to find out she was a he.
I asked him what he did. His response:
"I had already paid my fifty bucks."
chris/tx | 10.23.05 - 12:45 am | #
here's the whole ball of wax: women, they can get along. you men don't think so, but really- we can. we'll agree to disagree and not blow shit up. preferring to get busy with feeding the kids or growing some food. but men?
the essential difference is that there are truly, two types of men in the world. chris' friend: who'd shrug off the fifty bucks and feel more mature for his experience, even if he didn't brag about it. then there's his opposite. the guy who has to rape women, or kill strangers, or build totalitarian empires, all to escape the fact that once he got a blo job from a tranny and liked it. the burden of memory, and all that.
sorry, i'm waxing theory after a day of High Stress.
chicago dyke |
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10.23.05 - 12:53 am | #
Is it possible to kill a dead thread?
If so, I'm willing to give it my best.
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10.23.05 - 12:53 am | #
You may remember a picture that showed up on a lot of wingnut sites a while ago, of a US soldier cradling an Iraqi child. It was used to explain how the war is noble.
Here's what happened to the soldier in Act 2.
From Newsday: "Army Spc. Joseph Dwyer angled a mirror out the back window of his apartment in El Paso, Texas, trying to make out the Iraqis in the evening gloom. He couldn't see them, but he felt that they were out there somewhere, ready to attack.
Holding his 9-mm handgun tight, the 29-year-old medic from Mount Sinai phoned in an air strike using military code. He directed the fighter jets to his own street address.
Then he heard a noise from the roof -- maybe an Iraqi trying to get in? -- and that's when Dwyer began firing.
Nobody was hurt in the three-hour standoff Oct. 6 in which Dwyer, deep in a post-traumatic stress-induced delusion, barricaded himself into his apartment, fighting off an imaginary Iraqi attack.
So much has changed for Joseph Dwyer. Only two and a half years earlier, in March 2003, a startling battlefield photograph of him cradling an injured Iraqi child showed America a hopeful image of the new war."
Thers |
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10.23.05 - 12:53 am | #
What's all this I hear about some kind of baseball game tonite? I thought baseball season was over months ago.
Ripley, Disciple of the Absurd |
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10.23.05 - 12:54 am | #
Generally, its a good idea not to play with fireworks when you've been drinking.
Worse is to be Gary Ruppert and try and launch them from your ass.
(part 2 of 2)
Barry from Alaska |
10.23.05 - 12:56 am | #
Jeebus Xmas, Barry!
Ripley, Disciple of the Absurd |
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10.23.05 - 12:57 am | #
He couldn't see them, but he felt that they were out there somewhere, ready to attack.
I don't even know what to say.
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10.23.05 - 12:58 am | #
ripley: i heart you. i'm even associated with a town in the game, and i don't know squat. wanna go upstairs with me and get some more ice cubes for the tequila? surely more enticing than men in tights covered in sand and grass marks...
chicago dyke |
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10.23.05 - 12:58 am | #
CS, you want this thread dead?
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10.23.05 - 12:59 am | #
CS, you want this thread dead?
No, but it seems like I have that effect sometimes.
You want to see a dead thread, you should have seen Strom's penis. Bob's penis was fairly dead, but with a viagra suppository it was able to salute the flag and bombard my Fort McHenry.
-Liddy Dole
bebe rebozo |
10.23.05 - 1:02 am | #
You want a dead thread!
You can't handle a dead thread!
Thank you, thank you. I will be here all week. Tip the waitstaff.
David (Austin Tx) |
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10.23.05 - 1:03 am | #
Well, uh, I'm flattered, and maybe even a little bit curious.
i'm laughing evil worm juice out of my nose right now. "a little bit curious..." in a perfect world, that'd be the comedown line all good children were taught.
I am of course quoting Homer Simpson.
Thers |
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10.23.05 - 1:04 am | #
However, there is a live one on the line.
David (Austin Tx) |
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10.23.05 - 1:04 am | #
There's a lot of dead threads in the Naked City.
Max Planck |
10.23.05 - 1:04 am | #
I have tales to tell of raccoons without tails, I tell you.
Central Scrutinizer |
10.23.05 - 1:05 am | #
I want this thread DEAD! I want its house burned to the GROUND!
Thers |
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10.23.05 - 1:05 am | #
Thers, that article is hilarious. Tillman a lefty and now this. I hear lurking wingnut heads exploding right now.
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10.23.05 - 1:05 am | #
Live Wire Overhead
David (Austin Tx) |
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10.23.05 - 1:07 am | #
Sarah, thanks for Merry Minuet, upthread an hour ago. I liked the two-part harmony KS did on "hurricanes in Florida" (fee, fee-fee, fee-fee, fee-fer)
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10.23.05 - 1:07 am | #
CS
Re: men and women.
Both genders have their good amd their bad representatives.
It;s basically human beings, children, IMHO.
Some of us are decent and fair and loving, some of us are lying pieces of shit.
Yes, men and women are different, and that's a good thing.
Not all men are bad; not all women are bad. Some people are bad and act this badness out in a gender-directed way.
We get way too personal and narrowly focused in the M/F dialogue.
Uh, that's my opinion, humble though it may be.
Sarah Deere |
10.23.05 - 1:07 am | #
Fuck all a youze, cause you made a bad request wit da colon separator. Wait yo 20 secondz, yo. Sheeeit.
Thers |
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10.23.05 - 1:07 am | #
Central--no raccoons here, but we have possums. Ugly suckers.
Sallyh, Madame Poissoniere |
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10.23.05 - 1:07 am | #
I am of course quoting Homer Simpson
I am intreaged by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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10.23.05 - 1:08 am | #
Central--no raccoons here, but we have possums. Ugly suckers.
Sallyh, Madame Poissoniere
And yes, we have no o'possums.
Max Planck |
10.23.05 - 1:08 am | #
that article is hilarious.
I can see that, but most of all it's just so goddamn sad. This kid is fucked up for life. And for what? A pack of lies.
They took this kid, used him, and broke him. It's a fucking crime.
Thers |
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10.23.05 - 1:11 am | #
I'm in Chicagoland, too, ChiDy. I just don't have any interest in baseball. Now, tequila, on the other hand... hmmm...
Ripley, Disciple of the Absurd |
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10.23.05 - 1:11 am | #
We get way too personal and narrowly focused in the M/F dialogue.
Uh, that's my opinion, humble though it may be.
Sarah Deere | Email | 10.23.05 - 1:07 am | #
humble wonder, i'm not picking on you, i'm honestly asking: why do you say this?
there are differences. they are significant. they can be organized, complexified. my mind remains open, but i'm not going to say that one can never make a statement that applies only to wo/men. are we all human? yes. are we all...sentient and progressive? no. that may or may not have a gendered component.
chicago dyke |
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10.23.05 - 1:13 am | #
I just don't have any interest in baseball
I'm with you Ripley, along with most pro sports, but I must admit I do have a weakness for the Packers.
FeralLiberal |
10.23.05 - 1:14 am | #
God, the Dwyer story is heartwrenching. How many more?
cs |
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10.23.05 - 1:15 am | #
Sallyh,
No raccoons? They're beautiful, with or without tails.
Possums are interesting critters. I used to live in the sticks and for years had one that came to my porch every night to eat the cat food. Me and the cats had an understanding with him.
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10.23.05 - 1:15 am | #
there are differences. they are significant. they can be organized
ChiDy,
Do you ever wonder how humans could cobble together a more magnificently inefficient machine than organized religion?
The Christians have had 2,000 years time to get their golden tag line together, and yet they are still struggling against negative market reception.
If it wasn't for the easy hundreds of millions of dollars, I would say being a Christian leader would be a Biblically difficult calling.
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10.23.05 - 1:24 am | #
Central--we don't have raccoons in my area. We've got coyotes, possums, and the occasional mountain lion.
Sallyh, Madame Poissoniere |
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10.23.05 - 1:43 am | #
ChiDy,
Hell, I don't know.
The question is, I suppose, are we basically human, or or we first and ofremost male/female.
I believe we are the former, I suppose.
Sarah Deere |
10.23.05 - 2:01 am | #
And I know something is happening, but I don't know what it is...
do you, Mr. Black?
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