Can we combine that with a panel on blogger ethics? I think we really need one.
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:26 pm | #
What's Herr Doktor HealthcarePrezident Frist think about this?
Jay C. |
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11.12.05 - 8:26 pm | #
Is he still around? Another corrupt republican.
TALL16 |
11.12.05 - 8:26 pm | #
I don't care if it is a 'New' Gingrich. Nobody named Newt can ever be anything but an asshole...or an amphibious lizard.
ellroon |
11.12.05 - 8:28 pm | #
I haven't read the link yet, but Newtie always resembled a piggie face to me.
Okay, do my duty. Go read.
mer |
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11.12.05 - 8:30 pm | #
Ahhhhnold was overheard today, talking about his recent failure at the voting box and his future as governor:
Congress should insist on hospital ownership rules that allow doctors to invest in specialty hospitals in which they do not practice but that forbid doctors from having ownership in a hospital in which they do practice.
Alternatively Congress should consider establishing a law requiring that specialty hospitals take all the cases in their area of specialization, the difficult and complex (and expensive) as well as the simple and profitable
Aaarrrgghhh.
The man knows just enough to be dangerous.
You don't need to practice in the specialty hospital you own to seriously distort referral patterns. What if you're a general practitioner who owns equity in an orthopedic hospital and refer all your insured orthopedic patients to the specialty hospital and all your uninsured to the local public hospital?
As for the second point...Most specialty hospitals are interventional in nature -- orthopedics, cardiology/cardiac surgery.
The way you keep out the undesirables in those specialties is to not have an ER -- which no specialty hospital does anyway.
So his prescriptions accomplish exactly nothing.
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:32 pm | #
Hecate ...
Could offer some insight into these witches in "The Wizard of Oz?" I think Glinda is a big drag. But the Wicked Witch of the West is a fucking bitch. Can't we have some happy medium?
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 8:32 pm | #
Who's the Newt cheating on this wife with?
rondea, ghost |
11.12.05 - 8:33 pm | #
flory,
You must do this health care stuff for a living because you're very wise about it.
noblejoanie |
11.12.05 - 8:34 pm | #
Nobody named Newt can ever be anything but an asshole...or an amphibious lizard.
Mouth breathers, all of them.
Pitchforks and Torches |
11.12.05 - 8:34 pm | #
That friggin' gingerbread man was really distracting. Go technology. Fuck that.
mer |
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11.12.05 - 8:35 pm | #
Newt's not my favorite, but jeebus, he seems downright normal compared to today's cong. leaders...as long as he's not talking about a strongly politicized issue, that is.
matthew |
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11.12.05 - 8:35 pm | #
When can we call him "shrill?"
Jay C. |
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11.12.05 - 8:36 pm | #
res,
What I think I know about the Wizard of Oz is that Baum was really writing about the politics of the time and the move from a gold and silver standard. He really didn't know from witches. That said, the WWW (wicked witch of the west) has plagued a generation of modern witches. Some of us try and reclaim her, some try and discredit her as the ultimate patriarchial example of the uglification of witches. Some of us just want to be able to sky write on our brooms the way she could.
Hecate Malificent |
11.12.05 - 8:36 pm | #
But I will say I give Newt points for recognizing how dangerous specialty hospitals are to our current system of healthcare. Allowed to expand unchecked they will bankrupt our community healthcare systems.
Which is why there's been a moratorium on them.
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:36 pm | #
Could offer some insight into these witches in "The Wizard of Oz?" I think Glinda is a big drag. But the Wicked Witch of the West is a fucking bitch. Can't we have some happy medium?
res ipsa loquitur
No, because this is America the fuckup country of the world, bent on extreme behavior. It's all or nothing. No moderates. And it you try to be moderate, you get painted "extreme" by the right.
Pitchforks and Torches |
11.12.05 - 8:36 pm | #
just goes to show you, when such guys (D, R, whatever) get out of the politics loop to any extent at all they start to regain some scrap of sanity. Gingrich is after all an intelligent guy, whatever else you can or can't say about him. Tom Delay, on the other hand, will always be a fucking asshole.
mason |
11.12.05 - 8:37 pm | #
Yes, but he's interfering with physicians' god-given right to own exactly what they want and treat exactly whom they choose and no one else!
Some of us just want to be able to sky write on our brooms the way she could.
I want to be able to sky write on a broom. I would do some very cool Jenny Holzer-type shit, but I would also do some totally infantile -- but utterly necessary -- sky writing along the lines of "YOU SUCK BIG TIME, MR. PRESIDENT" over 1600 PA Ave.
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 8:39 pm | #
Wesley Clark and Bill Richardson
Clark/Richardson in '08 would destroy the Republican party.
Destroying the Republican party is a Good Thing.
Richardson is on c-span2/BookTV with Chuck Todd, on "After Words". Fascinating.
Clark castrating the WH and Faux at the same time:
Dad had moderately high blood pressure, was put on warfarin, which damaged his kidneys. went on dialysist three times a week. Ins. co. was billed 15,000 mo.. He went on vacation for a week & skipped the kidney treatments, feels much better, looks healthier, not sickly at all. After getting off the warfarin kidney fucntion was 28%, dr.'s never rerevaluated, just kept sending him in for blood filtering. There are hundreds of clinics in small towns all over the country that are doing the same friggin thing to thousands of people and collecting tens of thousands of dollars each patient a month from insurance companies and medicare.
1watt.Secret Squirrel |
11.12.05 - 8:39 pm | #
Newt's not my favorite, but jeebus, he seems downright normal compared to today's cong. leaders...as long as he's not talking about a strongly politicized issue, that is.
matthew
Don't believe it. Gingrich spawned the Cheney/Rove junta. He's just weaseling his way back into the mainstream. I say it's a crock of shit, all what he says.
Pitchforks and Torches |
11.12.05 - 8:39 pm | #
Thanks noblejoanie.
((blush))
I work on the financial side of the healthcare biz.
And have more than one client scared shitless that Congress is going to lift the moratorium on specialty hospitals and their medical staffs are going to open a competing facility down the street.
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:39 pm | #
I'll tell you one thing, WWW looks way cooler than Glinda. Her green face is great with the black hat.
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 8:40 pm | #
Clark should put them all in Gitmo.
Pitchforks and Torches |
11.12.05 - 8:40 pm | #
Well, I'm a priss. I like Glinda the Good Witch.
One time, dressed as her for Halloween, and I ended up flopping in the sack with an Indiana Jones.
Vicki |
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11.12.05 - 8:41 pm | #
Newt's not my favorite, but jeebus, he seems downright normal compared to today's cong. leaders...as long as he's not talking about a strongly politicized issue, that is.
matthew | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 8:35 pm | #
jeebus, matt: i totally agree with you. which makes me want to go blind, puke or die, i'm not sure which. what the fuck is going on in the world to make me think newt could sound reasonable?
personal OT: um, it's been pointed out to me that i'm occasionally too...strident with my writing/speaking. i don't mean to drive people away from the conversation. i ask the "eschaton all stars" and others to tell me when i get too wordy, forward, argumentative, etc.
i have strong opinons about stuff. i don't mean to discourage anyone, ever, from contributing here. i'm sorry if that's happened, and i apologize to everyone. this is an open, uncensored blog, and i like it that way. if i get too chatty, someone please tell me to go over to my own blog and pontificate. i know and support the idea that all perspectives are valid and have value. even when i disagree.
(re: the drug discussion downstairs)
chicago dyke |
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11.12.05 - 8:41 pm | #
SAVE JUDY MILLER
William H. Rehnquist |
11.12.05 - 8:41 pm | #
Yeah, the Newtster will surprise ya every oncet inna while.
Like every 5 or 6 years...
Doozer |
11.12.05 - 8:41 pm | #
res,
Yeah. And the striped stockings. And, she had flying monkeys. How cool was that?
I'm going to see Wicked next month when it comes to the Kennedy Center, which should be interesting.
Hecate Malificent |
11.12.05 - 8:41 pm | #
flory, what do you think of this?
Physicians for a National Health Program is a not-for-profit organization of physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals that support a national health insurance (NHI) program. http://www.pnhp.org/
Congress recognized years ago that there are certain hazards in situations where there is an economic relationship between a hospital and a doctor. Hospitals that provide economic rewards and incentives to doctors could distort medical decisions. As a result, Congress passed what is known as the Stark anti-kickback legislation to protect the integrity of medical decision making by preventing hospitals from influencing the distribution of patients through economic inducements.
hahahahahahaha
good one, Newt
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
11.12.05 - 8:42 pm | #
Go together with this: I ended up flopping in the sack with an Indiana Jones.
More librul logic?
Fuzzy numbers?
Or just fuzzy Indiana Jones?
William H. Rehnquist |
11.12.05 - 8:43 pm | #
remember, Newt's last great idea (mid 1990's) was to put a laptop into the hands of every American student, K-12.
went nowhere, but too bad that Contract On America plank was never enacted.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
11.12.05 - 8:44 pm | #
Richardson is on c-span2/BookTV with Chuck Todd, on "After Words". Fascinating.
I'm sorry,but I've dealt with Richardson and he's a world class ass. And a wimp.
Hecate Malificent |
11.12.05 - 8:44 pm | #
Y'know Res -- FIERY WRECK or MISERABLE FAILURE in skywriting would be wicked cool...
I kinda like "SURRENDER KARL", myself.
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 8:44 pm | #
My daughter has a couple of barbie dolls of Glinda and dorothy. They both talk a couple of phrases.
My fav is Tap Your Heels Together Three times.
Guess you had to be there.
smalfish, poverty pimp! |
11.12.05 - 8:44 pm | #
I'm going to see Wicked next month when it comes to the Kennedy Center, which should be interesting.
Hecate Malificent
Great show. Some friends took me for my birfday a few years ago.
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:44 pm | #
I, ¡El Gato Negro! have no been long een jour grrreat country, but eef I know one theeng about los Republiculos, eet ees thees:
When they seem reasonble, eet means they are tryeeng to get away weeth sometheeng, no?
so.
Point taken. Maybe Newt owns stock in a generalist hospital?
One time, dressed as her for Halloween, and I ended up flopping in the sack with an Indiana Jones.
And this is why I love Vicki.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 8:45 pm | #
In the past 6 months or so, Newt has suddenly reappeared on the radar screen. Whether making speeches or writing op-ed pieces, he's come across as reasonable and calm.
Is he coming back? Like in '08?
Diane |
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11.12.05 - 8:45 pm | #
. What if you're a general practitioner who owns equity in an orthopedic hospital and refer all your insured orthopedic patients to the specialty hospital and all your uninsured to the local public hospital?
If you're a GP, you'll probably send your uninsureds home with a bag of samples...
Doozer |
11.12.05 - 8:45 pm | #
Doesn't Newt see the parallels to the private school system and public schools?
Echidne of the snakes |
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11.12.05 - 8:46 pm | #
BTW:
If you've never read any of the
other Oz books, you're missing
some of the great legal psychedelic
experiences available.
Especially the second one, which
is like a hashish dream about
bizarre sexual politics and gender
fuck.
I suspect the's getting press because there are fewer and fewer Republicans one can actually have out in public these days.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 8:46 pm | #
Anyone else's Haloscan cookies getting corrupted? My email has shown up strange a couple times tonight.
Doozer |
11.12.05 - 8:47 pm | #
The American College of Surgeons requires its fellows to swear not to split fees, a practice embraced by lawyers. Seems to me that a primary care provider who's invested in a profit-making specialty hospital to which he/she refers is placing the specialists in a fee-splitting position. The AMA wasn't as upset about fee-splitting. The story's well told in "Medicine, Money and Morals: Physicians' Conflicts of Interest" by Marc Rodwin, a professor at Suffolk U. Law School and a good head. It's an old story, and one which the profession's never quite come to terms with. It gets worse as waves of money overwhelm the levees and the capacity of the sump pumps. The selection of cases, by whatever criteria, is at root of much of the administrative expense and injustice of our dog's breakfast of a health care system, and could be eliminated as both a source of expense and injustice at a stroke by adopting what most of the rest of the world has, a single-payer national insurance scheme.
ProfWombat |
11.12.05 - 8:47 pm | #
shycat:
PNHP has been around for awhile. I think I actually went to one of their early conferences, way back in the day.
When the AMA and General Electric, with maybe AARP tossed in, come out in favor of single-payer healthcare, it'll become a reality.
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:47 pm | #
They could be a force for good, providing better health care at lower cost for consumers. Or they could end up distorting the health care system in ways that impose heavier costs on taxpayers.
WTF?!
Is this asshole gonna run for preznit?
pie |
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11.12.05 - 8:47 pm | #
"It is long past time to convene a panel on doctor ethics." - Atrios.
I have a jones for Indiana.
Zoot Sims |
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11.12.05 - 8:48 pm | #
I'm a big Frank Baum fan. That guy had my kind of politics. For example, here's what he had to say about Injuns:
"The nobility of the Redskin is extinguished; whites are now masters of the American continent. To avoid any more trouble, what is needed is the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Their glory has fled, their spirits broken, their manhood effaced; better that they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are."
OK. If you wanna get prescriptive, instead of descriptive.
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:49 pm | #
Yeah, but Steve, I have walked the Yellow Brick Road many times. It is in Holland, MI. An old resort area where L Frank Baum did most of his writing. THe area is called Castle Park
DWD - Ego Driven |
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11.12.05 - 8:49 pm | #
I saw the eralier discussion re: antidepressants. I will just add my own experience. I suffered from a bout of depression about 10 years ago. With antidepressants and good talk therapy, I got through it. I learned the signs of an onset of it, and how to deal with it. No more need for pills or therapy since.
Left Lane |
11.12.05 - 8:49 pm | #
Don't look now but Newt has been directing the last five years behind the scenes. He is Rumsfield's best friend.
Luke |
11.12.05 - 8:49 pm | #
steve,
The whole Oz series was an addiction for me as a kid. I haven't read them in years, though.
The movie with Fairuza Balk is surprisingly good.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 8:49 pm | #
I suppose the right needs some sorta plan for health-care, to try and counter what will be a big issues for the dems.
and i like it that way. if i get too chatty, someone please tell me to go over to my own blog and pontificate.
I like it that way, too. Say what you want to say, CD. Don't sweat it.
Billy B |
11.12.05 - 8:49 pm | #
I'm amazed whenever I see a rightwinger say something that even approximates truth, whether it be Newt writing something moderately sane or Cog acknowledging what he is in his screenname.
Jennifer |
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11.12.05 - 8:49 pm | #
ProfWombat, I always enjoy reading your posts. Thanks.
mer |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 8:50 pm | #
If you're a GP, you'll probably send your uninsureds home with a bag of samples...
Doozer
Assuming you accept them in your practice in the first place.
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:50 pm | #
Here comes George W. Bush's theme song, "If I Only Had a Brain."
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 8:50 pm | #
TKK,
Is that Liz Taylor? If you think I look like her, you should have seen my mom. Creeeeeeepy.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 8:50 pm | #
I suspect the's getting press because there are fewer and fewer Republicans one can actually have out in public these days.
After watching that woman on NewsHour the other night and the disappearing act of anyone *notable* almost anywhere else for quite some time now, actually, you got it, dudette.
Did you pick out your new toy?
pie |
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11.12.05 - 8:50 pm | #
(NY Mary, did I miss some excitement here today? 'Cuz for awhile up there you were "Hetero Puke" and now you're not.)
Silleigh |
11.12.05 - 8:51 pm | #
OK. If you wanna get prescriptive, instead of descriptive
Anyone find Atrios commenting on ethics hilarious? Lol.
what are the state of ethics up there in Canada, cog? how do you find the Canadian single-payer healthcare system, ethical or not?
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
11.12.05 - 8:51 pm | #
Hey, tried some of these guy's merlot tonight. It's a decent vine. price was great 5.24. Cause was good.
Doesn't Newt see the parallels to the private school system and public schools?
Echidne of the snakes
Very, very, very, very, very good point.
And I'm sure he doesn't. He supports vouchers doesn't he?
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:51 pm | #
It is Liz Taylor. I saw that picture in a book today, and it reminded me of you. Glad I could find it online.
The Kenosha Kid |
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11.12.05 - 8:51 pm | #
OT: NYMary picture.
OMG, that's eerie! In a good way!
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 8:52 pm | #
regarding anti-depressants:
I find that when I get seriously depressed, like when a loved ones dies, etc, I take large quantities of B vitamins, which are known to help with depression.
mmmmmm |
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11.12.05 - 8:52 pm | #
Sill,
I was just picking on NTodd. Standard Eschaton in-joke that looked weird out of context, that's all. (I think he was posting as "Homoe Bitch".)
And simels, I hope it's okay that I posted some of our conversation from the other night to get people talking about That Thing You Do. Apparently, I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't like that movie. Go figure.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 8:53 pm | #
Anyone else find Atrios commenting on ethics hilarious?
And there's the Homoe Bitch now....
NYMary |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 8:54 pm | #
NYMary. your conference go well the other day. Sorry I was pontificating so vociferously. Sometimes in the morning I feel positively grandiloquent.
DWD - Ego Driven |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 8:54 pm | #
Wow. I'd forgotten about those talking apple trees.
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 8:54 pm | #
KK -- that really does look like Mary doesn't it?
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:54 pm | #
NYMary:
No problem.
I'm gonna go check it out...
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 8:54 pm | #
steve,
The Land of Oz is the one where you follow around a boy named Tip and then find out he's actually the Princess Ozma, right?
NYMary |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 8:54 pm | #
Where is WalterNeff? I had a dream in which he appeared last night.
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 8:54 pm | #
That Thing You Do. Apparently, I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't like that movie. Go figure.
NYM - It didn't do a lot for me either.
Billy B |
11.12.05 - 8:55 pm | #
Ya'll ever notice that when the big time trolls are elsewhere, cog shows up?
Bet when they are around, he ends up carrying their luggage and arranging playdates for them.
When do the big guys show up and yell at him to get out of their chair and his feet off their desk.
EkCenTriK |
11.12.05 - 8:55 pm | #
One time, dressed as her for Halloween, and I ended up flopping in the sack with an Indiana Jones.
Damn, Trick or Treat has certainly changed...
Doozer |
11.12.05 - 8:56 pm | #
cog
what's the status on the Quebecois? is cultural seperation still on the table?
any other exciting developments in Canada we United States citizensd should be aware of?
heh. Way to lower the boom.
Billy B |
11.12.05 - 8:56 pm | #
The movie with Fairuza Balk is surprisingly good.
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 11.12.0
who grew up to be the hottest hottie on screen in a really long time. mmmm.
she needs to do a lesbian prison movie or something, soon.
chicago dyke |
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11.12.05 - 8:56 pm | #
KK -- that really does look like Mary doesn't it?
She is the only one who doesn't think so!
The Kenosha Kid |
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11.12.05 - 8:56 pm | #
DWD,
It went okay. There was some uncomfortable shifting in seats as the defender of the war spoke. I listened to what he had to say, but since his line was basically "I did NOT fight for nothing!" it was a bit weird.
And he actually did recreate that hateful scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian, which was just kind of surreal.
NYMary |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 8:57 pm | #
"We do not torture" : Bush :: "I am not a crook" : Nixon
Left Lane |
11.12.05 - 8:57 pm | #
And here's Dickhead Cheney's theme song, "If I Only Had a Heart."
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 8:57 pm | #
she needs to do a lesbian prison movie or something, soon.
Isn't there some girl kissing in The Craft?
NYMary |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 8:57 pm | #
1watt
i first bought Papio wine because i saw on the label that it gives a portion of their profits to critters. it was a pleasant surprise. it's not too bad and the price is right.
shycat |
11.12.05 - 8:58 pm | #
Billy B,
Oh good. Come over to my blog and stick up for me.
NYMary |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 8:58 pm | #
And there's the Homoe Bitch now....
What'd I do now?
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 8:58 pm | #
And there's the Homoe Bitch now....
What'd I do now?
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 8:58 pm | #
She is the only one who doesn't think so!
The Kenosha Kid
But she's pregnant. So we accept her little whims.
flory |
11.12.05 - 8:58 pm | #
who grew up to be the hottest hottie on screen in a really long time. mmmm.
Agreed. I especially enjoyed her in Sandler's Water Boy.
(yeah, god damnit, I love Sandler's movies, especially Little Nicky)
Billy B |
11.12.05 - 8:59 pm | #
heh. Way to lower the boom.
You're right. I should have ignored the little turd completely.
pie |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 8:59 pm | #
What'd I do now?
Nothing, honey. Silleigh wanted to know why I was posting as a Hetero Puke and now I'm not, that's all.
When are you in NYC next month?
NYMary |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:00 pm | #
NYMary, it's okay if'n you don't like That Thing You Don't Like.
(My kids made me watch "Saw" last night, and that's an hour or so I wish I had back.)
Silleigh |
11.12.05 - 9:00 pm | #
scissor sisters:
is this the return to oz?
the grass is dead,
the gold is brown and
the sky has claws.
there's a wind up man walking man walking round and round,
where there once was emerald cities,
are now a crystal town...
chicago dyke |
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11.12.05 - 9:00 pm | #
Oh, I'll acknowledge a vague resemblance. But I'm nowhere near as glorious as Liz was in say 1952. Then again, no one is.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 9:01 pm | #
(yeah, god damnit, I love Sandler's movies, especially Little Nicky)
Billy B
You don't like That Thing You Do...and you DO like anything with Adam Sandler?
I can tell we're never going to the movies together....
flory |
11.12.05 - 9:01 pm | #
steve,
The Land of Oz is the one where you follow around a boy named Tip and then
find out he's actually the Princess Ozma, right?
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 8:54 pm | #
Well, I didn't want to give it
away, but yeah.
Also features the all-girl army
that revolts and takes over Oz.
Strange and wonderful book.
BTW -- how come I can't access
the comments at PowerPop?
Is it a my pathetic bandwith thing?
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 9:01 pm | #
Hecate ...
Could offer some insight into these witches in "The Wizard of Oz?" I think Glinda is a big drag. But the Wicked Witch of the West is a fucking bitch. Can't we have some happy medium?
res ipsa loquitur
Glinda looks like the tooth fairy, not a witch.
Then again, this is someone who liked Maleficent when she saw "Sleeping Beauty" as a kid.
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 9:02 pm | #
I should actually learn to ignore psychopaths who damn with faint praise.
pie |
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11.12.05 - 9:02 pm | #
You know, the more I think about it, the analogy between a community institution facing a predatory specialty hospital and a downtown's worth of mom-and-pop stores facing a Wal-Mart and an Ikea going up across the interstate isn't all that farfetched. Adam Smith on the false free market might indeed be worth a read...
ProfWombat |
11.12.05 - 9:03 pm | #
OMG, is every numbnut positioning for 08?
that's a rhetorical question.
newt's right of course, but from what i've imbibed these last 4 years he's buck'n the trend.
charley |
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11.12.05 - 9:03 pm | #
steve,
No idea why you can't access comments. They're there.
(And NTodd just told me I look like Liv Tyler, that old syrup-dripper.)
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 9:03 pm | #
The movie with Fairuza Balk is surprisingly good.
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 11.12.0
who grew up to be the hottest hottie on screen in a really long time. mmmm.
she needs to do a lesbian prison movie or something, soon.
chicago dyke
I love The Craft. And Fairuza. And the opening scene in American History X was, um, well-acted.
Marcia Brady ∞ |
11.12.05 - 9:03 pm | #
Isn't there some girl kissing in The Craft?
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 8:57 pm | #
tee hee, don't let everyone in on the good "three battery" movies, now will you?
chicago dyke |
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11.12.05 - 9:03 pm | #
hard to believe, with two-thirds pro single payer, dems won't touch it.
gary in fl |
11.12.05 - 9:04 pm | #
But I'm nowhere near as glorious as Liz was in say 1952. Then again, no one is.
NYMary
But do you have two rows of eyelashes?
flory |
11.12.05 - 9:04 pm | #
(yeah, god damnit, I love Sandler's movies, especially Little Nicky)
Billy B | Email | 11.12.05 - 8:59 pm | #
Dude....check your meds!
Little Nicky?
Okay, I'll admit to enjoying THE
WEDDING SINGER, but the rest of
them?
tee hee, don't let everyone in on the good "three battery" movies, now will you?
chicago dyke
Heh heh.
You change batteries at intermission? Or just run a cord to the powerpack in your purse...?
Doozer |
11.12.05 - 9:08 pm | #
OT but just stumbled upon the list of talk radio shows *one* could call in to... on the rnc site... and it ran to *36* shows. moonbats, dear ones: instead of writing the papers or going to a protest, go to that list, put in your zip code, call and FIGHT with Rush or Laura or o'lielly--talk radio is where the rightwing gets its acolytes, its energy and its money from.
the babysitter nyc |
11.12.05 - 9:08 pm | #
Gee, I just realized that ALL these characters are Bush. Here's the Cowardly Lion. Bush all the way.
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 9:08 pm | #
BTW:
In the original WIZARD OF OZ book,
the Tin Woodsman got to be the way
he was because he kept having his
limbs hacked off and replaced with
metallic parts.
A lot grimmer than in the movie.
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 9:08 pm | #
Negative pressure?
Doesn't that mean "no" pressure.
FUCK. DOESN'T ANYONE SPEAK ENGLISH ANY MORE?
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:09 pm | #
They look like giant flying roaches.
Don't wanna know what you're watching, DON'T wanna know what you're watching...
Silleigh |
11.12.05 - 9:09 pm | #
Hers were natural. That's why her eyes were so amazing.
Weeeeeellll, yes and no. There's a beautiful beautiful pic of her from the mid-60's, taken by Roddy McDowell, I think, with her face scrubbed and her hair in a towel. They're impressive, but not "Father of the Bride" impressive.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 9:09 pm | #
Is this thing worths blogging or should I curl up with a book?
Too soon to tell. Maybe they're gonna have some kind of big roach-locust throwdown.
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:09 pm | #
I don't know what they are, but they're creeping me out.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:10 pm | #
I think the locusts are winning vs, the, um, insects.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 9:10 pm | #
Oh that's better , that was a locust.
EkCenTriK |
11.12.05 - 9:10 pm | #
May I ask why the fuck Dorothy wanted to LEAVE a place like OZ...
to go BACK to Kansas????
They taught evolution in Oz.
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:10 pm | #
Locusts!! the 8th Plague!!!!
I'm counting on some good liveblogging.
flory |
11.12.05 - 9:10 pm | #
Looking for bugs in all the wrong places, looking for bugs...
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:11 pm | #
'Negative' pressure is sucking; 'no' pressure is neutral. Two different things.
ProfWombat |
11.12.05 - 9:11 pm | #
Uh oh.
Some of them are in hiding.
idiots. They don't eat corn. They eat people.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:11 pm | #
Night, Batties. Here's Adrienne Rich:
I know you are reading this poem
late, before leaving your office
of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window
in the lassitude of a building faded to quiet
long after rush-hour. I know you are reading this poem
standing up in a bookstore far from the ocean
on a grey day of early spring, faint flakes driven
across the plains' enormous spaces around you.
I know you are reading this poem
in a room where too much has happened for you to bear
where the bedclothes lie in stagnant coils on the bed
and the open valise speaks of flight
but you cannot leave yet. I know you are reading this poem
as the underground train loses momentum and before running
up the stairs
toward a new kind of love
your life has never allowed.
I know you are reading this poem by the light
of the television screen where soundless images jerk and slide
while you wait for the newscast from the intifada.
I know you are reading this poem in a waiting-room
of eyes met and unmeeting, of identity with strangers.
I know you are reading this poem by fluorescent light
in the boredom and fatigue of the young who are counted out,
count themselves out, at too early an age. I know
you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick
lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on
because even the alphabet is precious.
I know you are reading this poem as you pace beside the stove
warming milk, a crying child on your shoulder, a book in your
hand
because life is short and you too are thirsty.
I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language
guessing at some words while others keep you reading
and I want to know which words they are.
I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn
between bitterness and hope
turning back once again to the task you cannot refuse.
I know you are reading this poem because there is nothing else
left to read
there where you have landed, stripped as you are.
Hecate Malificent |
11.12.05 - 9:11 pm | #
Fundraising for the DNC proper has fallen like a stone during Chairman Dean's tenure as DNC chairman. Folks are making excuses, saying that Dean needs to get used to the job and crap like that. Yet if McAullife was putting in this dismal of a performance, the same people that are making excuses for Dean would would be calling for his head. Sure, the Kossacks and the fringe left got one of "their own" as Chairman, but so frickin' what? It's not doing the DNC any good! Just goes to show that Joe Trippi was the real brains of that fundraising operation.
If Dean can burn through $50mil while winning exactly one state, one can only wonder what type of damage is he going to do to the DNC coffers. Well, not really wonder. Since we know they're burned through a nice chunk so far and only has less than $7million left.
The DNC will be broke by April
Fred Eper |
11.12.05 - 9:11 pm | #
Thanks ProfWombat.
I'm a writer, not a scientist.
It still sounded stupid.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:12 pm | #
So... They've developed bug-eating locusts that don't eat plants.
Carnivorous locusts - I don't see how *that* could go wrong...
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:13 pm | #
Newt's not my favorite, but jeebus, he seems downright normal compared to today's cong. leaders...as long as he's not talking about a strongly politicized issue, that is.
matthew
I haven't forgiven that cocksucker for 1994, the Contract On America and all that other shit!
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 9:13 pm | #
Y'know, it's a shame David Keith is as old as he is, because he'd be a dead ringer for Archie, in the event they made a live-action movie of the comics.
All he's missing is the cross-hatching in his hair.
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 9:13 pm | #
dems: those smelly 45 million don't really 'deserve' health care.
gary in fl |
11.12.05 - 9:13 pm | #
fundraising's up substantially from the comparable period in 2003..
Atrios |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:14 pm | #
Ah, the poppies. The poppies.
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 9:14 pm | #
ohhhhh, locust cuts through man like 2x4 in tornado.
They were, like, shotgun locusts.
And there's Dan Cortese, and presumably The Designated Babe.
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:14 pm | #
Y'know, it's a shame David Keith is as old as he is, because he'd be a dead ringer for Archie, in the event they made a live-action movie of the comics.
So true.
The guy in the orange hat is about the get it.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:14 pm | #
So have we pretty much determiend that Gary Ruppert Pupkin = Fred Eper?
res ipsa loquitur
I don't think he's ever bothered to deny it.
Marcia Brady ∞ |
11.12.05 - 9:15 pm | #
Ah, the poppies. The poppies.
Bush loves that scene.
dems: those smelly 45 million don't really 'deserve' health care.
And the hero is an "organic" dude.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:15 pm | #
"We do not torture" : Bush :: "I am not a crook" : Nixon
Left Lane
and one might ask which would you rather live with. i'll take nixon, please.
sad state of a nation.
charley |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:15 pm | #
Ruppert - Where are those Plame indictments? You are a lying sack of shit, promising me and many other you would leave. Take your ignorance elsewhere.
chris/tx |
11.12.05 - 9:15 pm | #
Oh, that is darla.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:16 pm | #
Now I'm out of business!! Cool!!
I'm guessing that the venture capitalists were... underwhelmed by his business model.
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:17 pm | #
How did I know that Bill Clinton would have a big and welcome role in the Rabin memorial?
"I love him, because he's wonderful
Because, he's just my Bill."
A big nod to P.G. Wodehouse.
Sweet Sue |
11.12.05 - 9:17 pm | #
I guess the whole "barely having any cash on hand" thing is acceptable to you Dems.
Dean is spending money like an insane person. And he just barely retained two Governor's offices.
Fred Eper |
11.12.05 - 9:17 pm | #
She's a tank-top wearing, dinner burning, science babe.
The only way this film will ve a winner is the last line is the Organic guy saying "See I told you alfalfa sprouts were good for you".
EkCenTriK |
11.12.05 - 9:17 pm | #
Aw, you guys make me wish the SciFi Network was in Canada...
But I'm jazzed about Masters of Horror - tonight it's Tobe Hooper helming Dance of the Dead, based on a short story by Richard Matheson. I can't wait!
Charlotte Smith (nee Beavers) |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:17 pm | #
I put on the teevee. BBC America.
Confuse A Cat!
I do that to mine all the time. They give me some funny looks...
Doozer |
11.12.05 - 9:17 pm | #
Let's not tell anyone about the meat eating locusts.
Bad for business ya know.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:17 pm | #
dems: those smelly 45 million don't really 'deserve' health care.
Yeah, the 45 million who don't deserve it are dems.
It's the republicans who keep the health care from them.
pie |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:18 pm | #
She's a tank-top wearing, dinner burning, science babe.
AND she's blonde.
I'm in love. Again.
This happens every week...
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:18 pm | #
Ruppert:
Give it the hell up.
You are backing a loser.
Bush is going down in flames.
Deal with that. Come out of that fairytale world of yours.
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 9:18 pm | #
OK, these office people have some horrible co-worker manners.
Beating on computer operators, and severed foot on desk? come on.
Seriously, there is nothing wrong with the ethics of the medical profession. There is, yes, sometimes problems with the enforcement of those ethics. The vast majority of physicians are among the most ethical people you'll meet.
There should, however, be a panel convened on the ethics of the hospital owners and administrators. For-profit hospitals like Frist's family business are responsible for much human misery and on the whole have never met an ethical principle that they could live with. IMHO.
She's a tank-top wearing, dinner burning, science babe.
AND she's blonde.
[Ntodd dies a little inside]
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 9:19 pm | #
Beating on computer operators, and severed foot on desk? come on.
I only did that severed foot thing *one* time.
No idea what Fahey was saying, but he sure was angry.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 9:19 pm | #
Newt is just smart enough to know which side of his bread is buttered. The big question as usual? Whats in it for him? Are we in store for a Gingrich/Guiliani ticket? The horror.
bill |
11.12.05 - 9:20 pm | #
dems: those smelly 45 million don't really 'deserve' health care.
gary in fl
The people who continue to support Bush are too stupid to live.
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 9:20 pm | #
I had no idea how slippery a tile floor can become by having a two year old pour a whole bottle of amazing bubbles on it. Its like bottled teflon.
check mopping off the list
matthew |
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11.12.05 - 9:20 pm | #
Beating on computer operators, and severed foot on desk? come on.
Cut him some slack.
Not everyone can have lion kitty maxx on their desk.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:20 pm | #
PlushyPorn™ as a screensaver?
Maxx's teevee career is just beginning!!!
flory |
11.12.05 - 9:20 pm | #
The DNC will be broke by April
Fred Eper
You are a stone fool.
Billy B |
11.12.05 - 9:20 pm | #
Oh crap, the locusts have gotten into the cattle again...
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:20 pm | #
Newt's been under the Defense Policy Board rock, from which he strong-armed the CIA over the Iraq war. He's a crazy, like Dick Armey and Phil Gramm, a failed academic.
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QuentinCompson |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:20 pm | #
No, Agatha! Don't!
Run away! Run away!!!
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:21 pm | #
I can understand in a poor country that the only way to build a helth system may be to run it at least initially, on a business-model/user-pays system.
But it is madness for a nation which has a choice to choose to make health care a for-profit enterprise.
Hasta Mañana.
HoneyBearKelly |
11.12.05 - 9:22 pm | #
Gee, I just realized that ALL these characters are Bush. Here's the Cowardly Lion. Bush all the way.
res ipsa loquitur
no way, bush is totally a fly'n monkey. and thru out his presidency that is just how i've imagined him. dick of course is the wicke...
charley |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:22 pm | #
Bwa ha ha ha ha hahh ahah ahaha!! that's they worse looking CGI ever.
No. Not even close.
It is pretty bad, though.
Who's up for Aeon Flux?
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 9:22 pm | #
Those are some big-ass locusts.
I really do dig that drilling-right-through-people thing.
Eli
I prefer "wrath of khan" style
matthew |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:23 pm | #
"You really should wrap your cattle in plastic, like we do up here."
I thought tupperware would have been better. And don't forget to burp the lid.
EkCenTriK |
11.12.05 - 9:23 pm | #
I prefer "wrath of khan" style
Nah, too subtle.
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:23 pm | #
Maxx's teevee career is just beginning!!!
You have no idea.
I get emails from people I've never heard of telling me how much they love Mr. Plushy.
He is beloved all over the world. Apparently.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:23 pm | #
I really do dig that drilling-right-through-people thing.
Yeah, locust don't fuck around. I saw it all the time while working in the corn fields.
idiots. They don't eat corn. They eat people.
fourlegsgood
OK, I can't see the movie, so I take my clues from the thread here...The corn was hiding from the locusts? Corns?
Doozer |
11.12.05 - 9:24 pm | #
Lurk...
Speaking of Masters Of Horror, either later tonight or tomorrow I'm going to check out their version of "Dreams In The Witch-House". Stuart Gordon's HPL adaptations tend to leave me cold tho.
BlakNo1 |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:24 pm | #
Feh. Another loud movie.
You say that like it's a *bad* thing.
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:24 pm | #
Who's up for Aeon Flux?
She's hot, but I think we just saw the whole plot during the commercial.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:24 pm | #
No fuckin' way was Dorothy a fundie.
You think you'd catch a fundie skipping down the Yellow Brick Road with a bunch of fruits and zoning out on poppies?
Jennifer |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:24 pm | #
No fuckin' way was Dorothy a fundie.
You think you'd catch a fundie skipping down the Yellow Brick Road with a bunch of fruits and zoning out on poppies?
Jennifer |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:24 pm | #
She's hot, but I think we just saw the whole plot during the commercial.
I don't mind.
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:24 pm | #
The DNC will be broke by April
Fred Eper
Your party has been morally bankrupt for years.
And your ass is stuck SO far up your ass, it's a miracle you can breathe.
But, hey, his brains are in his ass anyway...........
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 9:27 pm | #
Why didn't they premier that locust
movie at Passover?
Just asking....
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 9:27 pm | #
I thought tupperware would have been better. And don't forget to burp the lid.
Burping cows is messy. And if there's one thing I've ever learned from David Lynch--besides that dwarves always speak backwards--is that everybody is better wrapped in plastic.
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:27 pm | #
Unfortunately they prefer humans. And cows.
Mmm... cows...
I thought those were ocelots.
NYMary |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:27 pm | #
back on topic, decent healthcare for all is wildly popular. why the silence?
gary in fl |
11.12.05 - 9:27 pm | #
Sci Fi marathon tomorrow.
Of their bad movies. Uh oh.
Heh heh heh...
Unfortunately, I have to watch the Giants for a while.
It's like a contractual thing.
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:27 pm | #
Every mention of Newt Gingrich in the future should include his full title, "Serial Adulterer".
So this post should read:
A completely reasonable and important editorial by Serial Adulterer Newt Gingrich.
Don't worry about revising the post. I have a feeling that we will have many opportunities to use the full title in the future.
Jason |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:27 pm | #
do it for the children. and for the fact that i think my mom commented on my blog today...scary, but cool.
chicago dyke |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:30 pm | #
Batman Begins is way better than the Burton movies.
BlakNo1 | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 9:26 pm | #
Jock itch is better than ones with
Val Kilmer and George Clooney.
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 9:30 pm | #
The NYT magazine is profiling my boyfriend, George Clooney, tomorrow: Bush-Era Engagé.
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 9:31 pm | #
this movie is sorta a mix between mad cow disease, cow mutilations and the God.
Do locusts eat kites?
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:32 pm | #
"There was a FISH in the the PERCOLATER."
My hovercraft is...ah, fuck it.
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:32 pm | #
When they clank up that big green
corridor going to see the Wizard...
still kills me after all these years.
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 9:32 pm | #
cd,
Mother Thersites visits my blog. And metacomments, of course. It's a little weird. She was so proud of her boy when it turned out that he was the top hit when you google "nipplefuck."
NYMary |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:32 pm | #
And the dad just sits there...
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:34 pm | #
Klye quit fucking around, sit down and eat yer dinner!
dieselcreek |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:34 pm | #
The DNC isn't being run with nearly the malfeasance that characterizes the federal budget.
And fair numbers of those 45 million people are working, or had health insurance and then lost it. They're you, or your neighbor. And they'll cost you money whether you do it the right way, or the wrong way.
ProfWombat |
11.12.05 - 9:34 pm | #
Paging Frank Rich, paging Frank Rich!
spinoza |
11.12.05 - 9:34 pm | #
Once again.. the fact if that Howard Dean has run the Democrat party into the ground, and they're on the verge of bankruptcy.
And Howard Dean can claim the following state successes under his tenure
STATE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF ALABAMA - $3905 cash on hand
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF ARKANSAS - $657 cash on hand
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF OKLAHOMA - $133 cash on hand
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA - $949 cash on hand
Yeah.. that 50 state strategy is awesome
Fred Eper |
11.12.05 - 9:34 pm | #
She was so proud of her boy when it turned out that he was the top hit when you google "nipplefuck."
NYMary
Jesus, Walter, are you sure that OUGHTA wait until Monday? I'm no doc, but that really doesn't sound like a good thing.
Silleigh |
11.12.05 - 9:36 pm | #
My quickie contribution.
I'd prefer to see him with a house dropped on him.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:36 pm | #
Chicago Dyke: Don't change a thing-- you're beautiful.
Little Brøther |
11.12.05 - 9:36 pm | #
Personally, I think the best Batman adaptation was the Fox animated series. It
was surprisingly good.
BlakNo1 | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 9:33 pm | #
Yes!!!!!
The movies don't even come close....
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 9:37 pm | #
WalterNeff, please take care of yourself.
No leaking. Leave that for the professionals in the WH.
watertiger |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:37 pm | #
Heh. I hate AOL, but I do like that TMI commercial...
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:37 pm | #
So it looks like half of you are watching The Wizard of Oz. and the other half some locust movie.
Karin |
11.12.05 - 9:37 pm | #
I have stopped bleeding.
WalterNeff |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:37 pm | #
My quickie contribution.
watertiger
How about 'Miserable Failure' right over the White House?
Jesus, Walter, are you sure that OUGHTA wait until Monday? I'm no doc, but that really doesn't sound like a good thing.
I think I'm agreeing with that.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:37 pm | #
I have stopped bleeding.
Well, that's good to know.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:38 pm | #
Yeah.. that 50 state strategy is awesome
Fred Eper
PROOF, fuckknuckle.
As usual, you are pulling your "facts" out of your ass!
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 9:38 pm | #
Walter Neff, it's just probably ordinary leakage. My mom had that after her cancer surgery, but it might be a good idea to drive by an emergency room just to get reassured about it.
Echidne of the snakes |
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11.12.05 - 9:38 pm | #
So it looks like half of you are watching The Wizard of Oz. and the other half some locust movie.
I'm splitting the difference and watching The Wizard of Locusts.
at least put a call in to the doc....
shycat |
11.12.05 - 9:39 pm | #
Oh, and Fred Asshole:
You're naming FOUR states in Jebusland out of FIFTY STATES in the entire US.
Grasping for straws much, slappy?
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 9:39 pm | #
For those asking for a happy medium between Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West-I have one for you. She's Princess Ozma, the real ruler of Oz, and she has long green hair.
You had to read at least a few of the books to meet her, but she was wonderful. I bet NYMary remembers her.
Sweet Sue |
11.12.05 - 9:39 pm | #
Once again.. the fact if that Howard Dean has run the Democrat party into the
ground, and they're on the verge of bankruptcy.
Yeah.. that 50 state strategy is awesome
Fred Eper | 11.12.05 - 9:34 pm | #
Yep, that whole Dem bankruptcy
thing explains why the Repub party
is in terminal meltdown and running
away as fast as possible from a
president whose ratings are toxic.
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 9:39 pm | #
Wow, this America Brown movie looks very crap.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 9:39 pm | #
Once again.. the fact if that Howard Dean has run the Democrat party into the ground, and they're on the verge of bankruptcy.
Dude, once again you've failed to provide proof that the DNC is bankrupt, and you also ignored the fact that state GOP orgs are massively in debt.
Fuck off and die. No, really. You're shit doesn't sell here, or anywhere in the US, where REAL AMERICANS have rejected Bush and his party. My suggestion: buy cases of Cheetos at Costco, start your own blog, surf for porn, then take a few cyanide capsules.
Another good Batman is the short Dead End. It's a fan made short film with a very good Joker, and a few surprises as well.
BlakNo1 |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:40 pm | #
Republican party started and backed to this day a war that was completely bogus.
Hmmm I can handle morally bankrupt. They can be "Born Again"
The people that the Republicans killed in their fervor cannot.
EkCenTriK |
11.12.05 - 9:40 pm | #
do it for the children. and for the fact that i think my mom commented on my blog today...scary, but cool.
The first time my mom read my blog I was petrified with fear. She sent me a ten-page e-mail about how to write better and how to avoid swearwords. Dear mom.
Echidne of the snakes |
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11.12.05 - 9:40 pm | #
This guy looks familiar.
I think they use the same actors in all these movies.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:40 pm | #
So, who's a better actor, Jeff Fahey, or Dan Cortese?
Eli |
Homepage |
11.12.05 - 9:41 pm | #
I've always wondered why they don't combine movies.
Like Dorthy could be skipping through Oz, and then these locust could swarm her and...
Or something like that.
chris/tx |
11.12.05 - 9:41 pm | #
My suggestion: buy cases of Cheetos at Costco, start your own blog, surf for porn, then take a few cyanide capsules.
Louisiana had elections today. I'm sure that Howard Dean's awesomeness helped a Democrat get elected to be the Deputy Dogcatcher in that state.
Fred Eper |
11.12.05 - 9:41 pm | #
Okay, this is my favorite part of the Wizard of Oz.
"I'd turn back if I were you."
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:42 pm | #
She's Princess Ozma, the real ruler of Oz, and she has long green hair.
Wasn't she also mentioned in Heinlein's "Number of the Beast"?
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 9:42 pm | #
Well, it's been six weeks, I can't imagine it's serious (I think wounds heal from the inside out); however, I am wondering if this spot right in the middle of the scar is infected. It's difficult to tell, MsNeff thinks it just looks like a really bad kids cut that has had the scab pulled off (like by a shirt button, or something). Anyway, we've covered it and now I'm drinking Pinot and we're gonna watch Batman Returns on the heavy and expensive tv.
A friend just gave me Batman: Dark Knight Returns, by Frank Miller...
I don't usually read graphic novels, but it's suppose to be really good.
Oh, it is, it is.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 9:44 pm | #
I bet NYMary remembers her.
I do indeed.
I also really liked the Raggedy Man and the King of the Gnomes and the Patchwork Girl, and....
Well, you get the idea.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 9:44 pm | #
MsNeff thinks it just looks like a really bad kids cut that has had the scab pulled off (like by a shirt button, or something).
Can I sit on it?
michelle Malkin |
11.12.05 - 9:44 pm | #
I think Fred Eper is Ken Mehlman.
Who else would be throwing around
bogus fund-raising numbers?
The fundraising numbers are real. But just as he tried last time, he's cherrypicking, and ignoring the HUGE DEBT that the GOP orgs have racked up. Par for the course for these assholes.
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 9:44 pm | #
Dark Knight is one of the best graphic novels ever. Watchmen, of course, being the best.
Yes, and yes.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 9:45 pm | #
Frank Rich,
If you are out there, will you please post up your new column?
xxx...Res
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 9:45 pm | #
Seems to me, if the DNC knows its funding base, that, especially in election season, it's better off using the money than banking it. Results were pretty good last week. And, again, the DNC deficit is non-existent; the Republicans' federal budget is simply malfeasant.
ProfWombat |
11.12.05 - 9:45 pm | #
A friend just gave me Batman: Dark Knight Returns, by Frank Miller...
I don't usually read graphic novels, but it's suppose to be really good.
Good lord, it's good. Very, very good. You should also read Arkham Asylum, V for Vendetta, The Watchmen, and Moonshadow (which I think is underrated).
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 9:46 pm | #
he's cherrypicking, and ignoring the HUGE DEBT that the GOP orgs have racked up. Par for the course for these assholes.
NTodd, Homoe Bitch
Then there's the financial trouble the Christian Coalition is in.
Maybe Ralphie can sell himself to a Saudi sheik to satisfy their creditors.
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 9:46 pm | #
WalterNeff ...
You appeared in my dream last night.
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 9:46 pm | #
I think Fred Eper is Ken Mehlman. Who else would be throwing around
bogus fund-raising numbers?
Check the links, those are real numbers for four state parties that are on the verge of bankruptcy.
So you're just ignoring VA, NJ, ME, and CA, eh? Denial, motherfucker.
The Republicans made gains in both states. The combination of Russ Potts and Jerry Kilgore won more votes than Mark Earley. Doug Forrester had a higher percentage than the Republican who ran in 2001.
Maine isn't a concern to me, because their entire delegation is made up of liberals.
As for California, it's not a stunner that Democrat Special Interest money defeated four great ideas.
Fred Eper |
11.12.05 - 9:46 pm | #
I also highly recommend The Killing Joke & Arkham Asylum as well, two more great Batman stories.
BlakNo1 |
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11.12.05 - 9:46 pm | #
COOL! Good to see such a positive response about the book.
the fact if that Howard Dean has run the Democrat party into the ground, and they're on the verge of bankruptcy.
a) I DON'T CARE.
b) THE ONLY REASON I COULD POSSIBLY CARE that Howard Dean might be spending the party into the ground is that YOU SEEM TO BE UPSET ABOUT IT.
In which case I say, GO HOWARD.
c) MOREOVER, I DON'T BELIEVE YOU. NOBODY BELIEVES YOU. YOU'RE UGLY, and the fat-assed, smelly, diseased bus stop blowjob princess you call your mother DRESSES YOU FUNNY. NOBODY LIKES YOU, AND NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
d) If I KNEW any facts, I SURE AS SHIT wouldn't waste them on you, you syphilitic, parasite-infested, bastard child of a crack whore welfare queen.
e) nobody is interested in having an intelligent discussion with you, because WE DON'T LIKE YOU. You're a stupid son of a bitch with no original ideas and nothing to offer, and we'd much rather spend our time having trivial discussions about WINE and CATS than have anything to do with you, because you are a RUDE FUCKHEAD who has NOTHING to SAY.
NOW FUCK OFF.
Anal Roberts |
11.12.05 - 9:52 pm | #
It is bizarre to dream about people here (especially, of course, when you have never met them). To date, I have dreamed about, let's see, leaving my 17-year-old in Thers' and NYMary's care, and seeing WalterNeff in his yard, flashing very bright, white teeth. I refuse to speculate on either.
Bad dreams about Creepy Jesus don't count.
Silleigh |
11.12.05 - 9:52 pm | #
Howard Dean has REFUSED to have an interview on Meet the Press next to Ken
Mehlman
Fred Eper | 11.12.05 - 9:48 pm | #
Good.
No Dems should ever go on Fox.
Shut the bastards down......
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 9:52 pm | #
Hey Walter:
Me, I'd get it looked at tomorrow, but at 6 wks it probably (not definitely) isn't too scary...and I'd call your doc tonight. That's why they pay him the big bucks.
ProfWombat |
11.12.05 - 9:53 pm | #
Newt STILL has funky hair!
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 9:53 pm | #
And this is a surreal helicopter powwow as well...
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 9:53 pm | #
Darren Aronofsky should direct a movie version of Arkham Asylum.
BlakNo1 |
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11.12.05 - 9:54 pm | #
I suppose there is some fascinating way that the GOP losing a seat in the NJ assembly represents a "gain."
It must have something to do with genetically modified locusts.
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 9:54 pm | #
It is bizarre to dream about people here (especially, of course, when you have
never met them). To date, I have dreamed about, let's see, leaving my
17-year-old in Thers' and NYMary's care, and seeing WalterNeff in his yard,
flashing very bright, white teeth. I refuse to speculate on either.
Bad dreams about Creepy Jesus don't count.
Silleigh | Email | 11.12.05 - 9:52 pm | #
What am I, chopped liver?
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 9:54 pm | #
Walter, I think my FIL had problems with an infected scar after heart surgery. I would at least call the doctor.
Karin |
11.12.05 - 9:54 pm | #
No Dems should ever go on Fox.
Uh...MTP is on NBC, simels. And aren't you supposed to be ignoring the trolls so you can get The Kiss?
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 9:55 pm | #
I also really liked the Raggedy Man and the King of the Gnomes and the Patchwork Girl, and....
You're a Baumhead.
Oh, yes, and I do hope that your library had beautifully preserved copies from 1905, as did mine.
Sweet Sue |
11.12.05 - 9:55 pm | #
I suppose there is some fascinating way that the GOP losing a seat in the NJ assembly represents a "gain."
Why does Karen Hughes look like Abe Vigoda?
spinoza |
11.12.05 - 9:55 pm | #
res: hard to do by remote control, unless you trained with Bill Frist, who claims that ability.
I wasn't actually serious. I was going to put the name "Bill Frist" in the NAME field, but I pressed "publish" too quickly.
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 9:56 pm | #
flory,
here ya go.
Not to quibble, but the letters should be in smoke.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:56 pm | #
WASHINGTON -- Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed claimed in a 2001 e-mail to a lobbyist that he choreographed John Cornyn's efforts as Texas attorney general to shut down an East Texas Indian tribe's casino.
The lobbyist was Jack Abramoff, who is under federal investigation, along with his partner Michael Scanlon, on allegations of defrauding six Indian tribes of about $80 million from 2001 to 2004. The e-mail, along with about a dozen others, was released last week as part of the investigation.
In 2001, Abramoff was working as a lobbyist for the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to prevent rival gaming casinos from siphoning off its Texas customers. He paid Reed as a consultant, and Reed lobbied to get the Alabama-Coushatta and Tigua casinos closed in Texas.
In the Nov. 30, 2001, e-mail, Reed told Abramoff that 50 pastors led by Ed Young, of Second Baptist Church in Houston, would meet with Cornyn to urge him to shut down the Alabama-Coushatta tribe's casino near Livingston. He said Young would back up the request in writing.
"We have also choreographed Cornyn's response. The AG will state that the law is clear, talk about how much he wants to avoid repetition of El Paso (where the Tigua casino was) and pledge to take swift action to enforce the law," Reed wrote. "He will also personally hand Ed Young a letter that commits him to take action in Livingston."
Richard |
11.12.05 - 9:56 pm | #
Ahh, but Steve, I DAYdream about you, darlin'.
Silleigh |
11.12.05 - 9:56 pm | #
MTP is on NBC
The Timmeh The GOP Bitch Show
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 9:56 pm | #
And Ken Mehlman has REFUSED to admit he's a gay Republican!
res ipsa loquitur | 11.12.05 - 9:51 pm | #
we'd much rather spend our time having trivial discussions about WINE and CATS than have anything to do with you, because you are a RUDE FUCKHEAD who has NOTHING to SAY.
NOW FUCK OFF.
don't forget Batman.
gary in fl |
11.12.05 - 9:57 pm | #
"Why does Karen Hughes look like Abe Vigoda?"
I always thot she looked more like John Lithgow in drag doing one of his prissy faces.
EkCenTriK |
11.12.05 - 9:57 pm | #
Sill,
We'd hardly notice another kid, really.
Sweet Sue,
I suspect they were reproductions, but they were in hardcover and had those fabulous art nouveau illustrations.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 9:58 pm | #
Uh...MTP is on NBC, simels. And aren't you supposed to be ignoring the trolls so
you can get The Kiss?
NTodd, Homoe Bitch | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 9:55 pm | #
Ooops.
That was the elitist chardonnay
talking.
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 9:58 pm | #
In e-mails, consultant claims link to Cornyn
Christian Coalition leader says he influenced effort to shut casinos.
Yeppers.
that's the story I was too lazy to link to a little while ago.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 9:58 pm | #
I always thot she looked more like John Lithgow in drag doing one of his prissy faces.
Third rock from the dim-son?
spinoza |
11.12.05 - 9:58 pm | #
"lordy, don't leave me, all by myself"
name that song and i'll buy you a coke. hint: it's post 2002.
I have stopped bleeding.
WalterNeff | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 9:37 pm | #
well, that's normal. i'd worry if it'd been more than 7 days. do you douche? or use pads? i assume you take iron. and b-vits. and eat steak (raw/rare). that helps. also: motrin.
"never trust anything that bleeds for seven days and doesn't die." somehow, i take comfort in this maxim. and hope you don't trust me, ever.
chicago dyke |
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11.12.05 - 9:58 pm | #
Not to quibble, but the letters should be in smoke.
dude. i'm just figuring out photoshop, 'kay? cut me a little slack.
and these days, the brooms are much more advanced, with cleaning emitting fumes.
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 9:58 pm | #
Why does Karen Hughes look like Abe Vigoda?
spinoza
Abe Vigoda was in makeup. He really looks much better otherwise
bill |
11.12.05 - 9:58 pm | #
What a world!
What a world!
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 10:00 pm | #
dude. i'm just figuring out photoshop, 'kay? cut me a little slack.
and these days, the brooms are much more advanced, with cleaning emitting fumes.
Okay. I think there is a smoke effect though.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:00 pm | #
You're right, gary. Engaging with trolls on either side of the spectrum is so much more productive than pleasant conversation with fellow liberals.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 10:00 pm | #
and these days, the brooms are much more advanced, with cleaning emitting fumes.
But the carbon-scrubbers really cut down on the milage.
I see him and the similarly
sepulchural Mrs. Vigoda on the
street all the time.
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 10:01 pm | #
I think I needs some popcorn.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:01 pm | #
Newt’s New Little Ditty, making sure the little guy is covered, really
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• Booz Allen Hamilton
Before he joined Booz Allen, Dr. Shrader (chair & ceo) was the National Director of Advanced Systems Planning for Western Union. Earlier, he served as a senior member of the technical staff with RCA's Government Communications System Division.
• IDX Systems Corporation
William L. Asmundson
Consultant, Board Member, has served as a Director of the Company since June 2002, was employed by Rockefeller & Co., the investment office for the Rockefeller family, from 1984 until his retirement on December 31, 2001. From September 2001 to December 2001, assisted in the transfer of his responsibilities to others at Rockefeller & Co., served as Vice Chairman of Rockefeller & Co., from January 2001 to September 2001, & served as President & Chief Executive Officer of Rockefeller & Co. from November 1998 to December 2000. From 1984 to 1998, served in other positions at Rockefeller & Co. Prior to 1984, served in various positions at New Court Securities Corp. (now Rothschild Inc.), including as Managing Director & Executive Vice President of Rothschild Asset Management. presently serves on the Board of Datascope Corp, a publicly-traded medical device company.
• MedImpact
the nation's largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company that does not sell drugs is part of the National Business Group on Health, who’s board of directors includes people from:
dell, rarytheon, pepsico, jpmorgan chase, Verizon, general mills, bank of america, wal-mart, american express, sprint, pitney bowes, cicso, exxon mobil, lucent, Honeywell, xerox, fidelity, ibm, time warner
• NACDS Foundation
is the education, research, & charitable affiliate of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, whose board members include people from:
glaxosmithkline, procter & gamble, pfizer, revlon, cardinal health, coke, albertsons
• Siemens
Isn’t that a small little mom-&-pop shop run out of a garage or something ??
• Sutter Health
Board member includes:
Michael A. Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt, a partner with the San Francisco law firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe.
A native of Los Angeles, he earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College & a law degree from Columbia University Law School.
Mr. Roosevelt is active in several professional associations & currently serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Estate Planning Council & the Board of Trustees of Tougaloo College. He has also been active in the Association for the Preservation of the Presidential Yacht, Potomac.
• Novo Nordisk
board members include: Kurt Briner works as an independent consultant in the pharmaceutical & biotech industry & is a board member of CBax SA, OM Pharma, Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc, GALENICA SA, & a member of the Supervisory Board of Altana Pharma GmbH. From 1988 to 1998 he was president & CEO of Sanofi Pharma.
tofubo |
11.12.05 - 10:01 pm | #
Sssshhh, he's meditating.
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
we'd much rather spend our time having trivial discussions about WINE and CATS than have anything to do with you, because you are a RUDE FUCKHEAD who has NOTHING to SAY.
Dude, it's A FUCKING BLOG. And all you do is BITCH and SPECULATE about what the Dems MAY OR MAY NOT DO OR SAY OR FEEL. How 'bout you get a blow job, have a drink, or whatever relaxes you. Start your own blog. Then stick a needle in both your eyes. Oh, but don't forget to chop the fingers off your typing hand first. Stupid mother fucker.
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 10:02 pm | #
A better world
A better world
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 10:02 pm | #
and
• SHPS
Strategic partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson, & Stowe is one of the largest, oldest, & most successful private equity firms in the world.
Biographies of general partners:
Before joining WCAS, he worked at Lehman Brothers in the Media & Telecommunications Investment Banking Group. Earlier, he worked at the venture capital firm of Westbury Capital Partners. Mr. Almeida graduated from Yale University.
Prior to co-founding WCAS, Mr. &erson spent nine years at Automatic Data Processing (ADP). At the time of his departure, he was Executive Vice President, President of ADP International & a member of the Board of Directors. Before joining ADP, Mr. &erson spent four years in consulting.
Prior to co-founding WCAS, Mr. Carson served as Chair & CEO of Citicorp Venture Capital.
He was a General Partner at Saunders, Karp & Megrue, a private equity firm, where he worked for seven years. Previously, Mr. Clark worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Alex. Brown & Sons & in the Merchant Banking Department at Morgan Stanley & Co.
He worked for four years in the private equity group at William Blair & Company, financing middle market buyouts. Previously, Mr. de Nicola worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department. He graduated from DePauw University in 1986 & received an MBA from Harvard Business School..
He worked for six years at MorganStanleyDeanWitter.
He was a General Partner at J.H. Whitney & Co., a private equity firm where he worked for six years. Previously, Mr. Matthews worked as an associate at Gleacher & Co. & as a financial analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Salomon Brothers Inc. He graduated with a BS degree from Boston College in 1989 & received an MBA from Harvard Business School.
He co-founded & served as President & CEO of Dama Telecommunications Corp., a communications services company. Earlier he was Group Vice President Financial Services at ADP & Senior Vice President-Operations at the American Stock Exchange.
He was Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of First Data Corporation (FDC). Before joining FDC, he served as Senior Vice President & Treasurer of the American Express Company. He also spent 12 years at Lehman Brothers where he was a Managing Director. Mr. Minicucci graduated from Amherst College in 1975 & received an MBA from Harvard Business School.
He was a General Partner at The Sprout Group, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette's private equity group.
He spent 14 years with the Goelet Investment Office, serving as the Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Goelet, Mr. Rather spent three years with Arthur Andersen & Co.
He was a Director with Fox Paine & Company, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, also spent four years in the Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructuring Department, & two years in the Debt Capital Markets Department of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. He earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton.
tofubo |
11.12.05 - 10:02 pm | #
Did anyone else notice what a terrorist sympathizer Bill O'Reilly is?
Virginia |
11.12.05 - 10:03 pm | #
Did anyone else notice what a terrorist sympathizer Bill O'Reilly is?
Virginia |
11.12.05 - 10:03 pm | #
In e-mails, consultant claims link to Cornyn
Christian Coalition leader says he influenced effort to shut casinos.
Yeppers.
that's the story I was too lazy to link to a little while ago.
It's amazing just how many of levels of corruption there is to that Abramoff scandal. In the end, I think it might do more damage to the Republican party than all the other stuff put together.
Richard |
11.12.05 - 10:03 pm | #
here ya go.
watertiger
Wheeeee!!!!
Thanks, WT!
that calls for another glass of wine!
flory |
11.12.05 - 10:03 pm | #
Drive by:
Left a voice mail with doc. Thanks, Prof.
now back to Batman Returns - he just kicked some ninja ass.
Yeah, now that I look at the pic, Swayze definitely.
EkCenTriK |
11.12.05 - 10:04 pm | #
I always thot she looked more like John Lithgow in drag doing one of his prissy faces.
"World According to Garp."
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 10:04 pm | #
Imagine the millions of dollars in legal fees that R's and their organizations are now and will be paying to try to keep their skanky white asses out of jail. Abramoff and his wake alone will provide vacations abroad and braces for trial lawyers' kids for years to come. Ohio and Illinois criminal acandals will drain R legal expense dough at small country GDP rates. Mostly in vain, I hope.
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QuentinCompson |
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11.12.05 - 10:05 pm | #
special hospitals for dumping soon to be ex-spouses? i'm sure ol' newter is in favor of such.
Howard the Coward doesn't surprise me with his unwillingness to face Ken Mehlman. Dean has been smearing Mehlman for months
Fred Eper |
11.12.05 - 10:05 pm | #
We almost rented a place down the street from Man hands house in Austin a couple years ago. I could have pretended to be a winger and given you guys updates.
chris/tx |
11.12.05 - 10:05 pm | #
Well at least we know who carries cog's luggage now.
EkCenTriK |
11.12.05 - 10:06 pm | #
It's amazing just how many of levels of corruption there is to that Abramoff scandal. In the end, I think it might do more damage to the Republican party than all the other stuff put together.
Richard
The gift that keeps on giving.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 10:06 pm | #
Fuck off Eper, you are boring.
The GOP is imploding. Its over. Get used to it.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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11.12.05 - 10:06 pm | #
Why does Karen Hughes look like Abe Vigoda?
spinoza
Abe Vigoda was in makeup. He really looks much better otherwise
bill
Abe's make-up looked better, I'll bet.
None of these Repug wimmen know how to use make-up correctly (or sparingly).
And they can't dress to save their lives!
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 10:06 pm | #
We almost rented a place down the street from Man hands house in Austin a couple years ago. I could have pretended to be a winger and given you guys updates.
You'd probably be dead from the constant projectile vomiting.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:06 pm | #
"And remember, my sentimental friend,
a heart is not judged by how much
you love, but by how much your are
loved."
Apparently, the Beatles saw that
movie.....
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 10:06 pm | #
Left a voice mail with doc.
Well, I feel better now. See, good medical advice has a ripple effect or something.
Silleigh |
11.12.05 - 10:07 pm | #
The gift that keeps on giving.
I have a friend in the media who is hot on the story.
They say the abramoff deal is gonna get Tom Delay for sure.
'course, it's probably not smoky enuf fer some people...
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 10:09 pm | #
They say the abramoff deal is gonna get Tom Delay for sure.
Yep. He's the bagman. Always get the bagman first.
chris/tx |
11.12.05 - 10:10 pm | #
but they were in hardcover and had those fabulous art nouveau illustrations.
And, do you remember how the first letter of each chapter was so big and ornate, like those prayerbooks of old?
So beautiful. You'll have fun introducing Rosie to the Oz series-they made me a feminist.
Good night.
Don't know what's with the time on this comment-it's five past ten.
Sweet Sue |
11.12.05 - 10:10 pm | #
'course, it's probably not smoky enuf fer some people...
Great impression of Simels. Now, do Wiggum.
Toby Petzold |
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11.12.05 - 10:14 pm | #
This locust movie isn't very good.
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 10:14 pm | #
The gift that keeps on giving.
The beauty of it is that the Abramoff investigations are only just now kicking into high gear. This may actually be the comparative "calm before the storm" for the rethugs.
Richard |
11.12.05 - 10:14 pm | #
Okay. That made no sense.
They had science guy and girl down, why didn't the eat them?
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:14 pm | #
You have to blow him, just like the rest of us.
*That's* what I've been doing wrong.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 10:15 pm | #
You know it's too warm here in Texas for this time of year when you still got them damned sugar ants in the house.
Toby Petzold |
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11.12.05 - 10:15 pm | #
"I'll be damned, I just saw the copy/paste tool at work in the CGI."
The present's version of the mike dipping into the picture.
EkCenTriK |
11.12.05 - 10:15 pm | #
This locust movie isn't very good.
I'll say.
Even the eatage is second rate.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:15 pm | #
after all the republican riff raff are caught in his web and put in the pokey, President Mark Warner will issue patriot Abramoff a pardon.
smarty jones |
11.12.05 - 10:16 pm | #
And remember, my sentimental friend,
a heart is not judged by how much
you love, but by how much your are
loved."
Apparently, the Beatles saw that
movie.....
And in the end
the love you take
is equal to
the love you make
- The Beatles, The End, 1969
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 10:16 pm | #
This locust movie isn't very good
You go with the locust movie you have, etc., etc.
Karin |
11.12.05 - 10:16 pm | #
They had science guy and girl down, why didn't the eat them?
Genetically modified carnivorous locusts don't eat people with advanced degrees.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. patent office has reportedly granted a patent for an anti-gravity device -- breaking its rule to reject inventions that defy the laws of physics.
etc.
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Bush pioneer no doubt.
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QuentinCompson |
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11.12.05 - 10:17 pm | #
The greatest dangers arise when doctors have a direct financial interest in a specialty hospital.
Read: Bill Frist, who could've been used as a cautionary tale in this article were Gingrich not a Republican.
jurassicpork |
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11.12.05 - 10:17 pm | #
I should have read a book instead. But I'm here now.
You're hooked! You have to see how it turns out!
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:18 pm | #
As of a month only in Alaska, Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming do more people approve of Bush than disapprove...
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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11.12.05 - 10:18 pm | #
The Georgia/Auburn game is reasonably entertaining. I'm switching back & forth.
The locusts have a swarming defense but I think they're vulnerable to a little play action.
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 10:18 pm | #
As of a month only in Alaska, Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming do more people approve of Bush than disapprove...
The Axis Of Stupid.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:19 pm | #
It wasn't a dream! It was a place! And you, and you, and you, and you were there!
res ipsa loquitur |
11.12.05 - 10:19 pm | #
Was I too hard on Mulkin?
elmo |
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11.12.05 - 10:19 pm | #
I predict that the best-looking man and the best-looking woman conquer the locusts and go off to have sweaty, dirty, post-locust infestation sex.
But then I'm not really watching the movie.
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 10:20 pm | #
I love that the Abramoff web has got Cornyn stuck in it.
Like TBogg, I'm against torture, unless we can use it on Cornyn, Rove, and Scooter to find out what they know.
Being a fine patriot, I will volunteer, free of charge, to hook up the battery cables to their testicles. I think 220 volts would do it.
chris/tx |
11.12.05 - 10:20 pm | #
As of a month only in Alaska, Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming do more people approve of Bush than disapprove...
The Axis Of Stupid.
People who believe Bush didn't lie the country into war are dangerously unhinged and out of the American mainstream.
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 10:21 pm | #
It wasn't a dream! It was a place! And you, and you, and you, and you were
there!
res ipsa loquitur | 11.12.05 - 10:19 pm | #
Did you ever see that great commercial
for the second season of TWIN PEAKS
where they did a parody of that?
It was priceless....
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 10:21 pm | #
Oh, an actual football game.
Instead of the rout I watched this afternoon.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:21 pm | #
Thers - Who do you think will win if it comes down to TX/USC?
Texas.
I think Vince Young is unstoppable.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:24 pm | #
"Give me another option!"
"Have you tried singing them anything from "Phantom of the Opera"?
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 10:24 pm | #
Well, they're already a couple, so there's really not a whole lot of will-they-hook-up suspense.
Maybe some Nick and Nora Charles banter?
NYMary |
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11.12.05 - 10:24 pm | #
You have to blow him, just like the rest of us.
*That's* what I've been doing wrong.
You know, I blogrolled you a long time ago...
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 10:24 pm | #
whoooo got a big storm coming at me. Live in one of those reynolds wrap chataue's. luckily it's the only one around and not enough to be a tornado magnet. http://www.crh.noaa.gov/radar/lo...r/
si.ksgf.shtml
1watt.Secret Squirrel |
11.12.05 - 10:24 pm | #
Why don't they use the pheromone trap?
I was wondering that too, but I was too busy eating popcorn, and then I got distracted by the whole burning "Why aren't the locusts eating the people in their lair?" question.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:24 pm | #
The military didn't use this super pesticide on the Afghanistan opium fields because it's dangerous?
Not because you usually don't pesticides that kill bugs to kill plants?
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 10:24 pm | #
I'm reading the latest George R.R. Martin: "A Feast For Crows." It is DEFINATELY up to snuff so far!
Crap. I haven't even ordered mine yet.
OOOOOH, a clown. I hope the locusts eat him.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:24 pm | #
I'm probably going to have locust nightmares tonight, thanks to you characters.
I must say, however, that you folks are getting really good at this live blogging stuff.
Diane |
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11.12.05 - 10:25 pm | #
I love this photo caption:
Nearly three out of four Canadians have an unfavorable view of US President George W. Bush, seen here on November 11, and 38 percent consider him more dangerous than Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, according to a new poll.
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 10:25 pm | #
I think Vince Young is unstoppable.
Most of the time, but he had a hard time against Notre Dame (wasn't it ND?).
chris/tx |
11.12.05 - 10:25 pm | #
Ooo! That was awesome!
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:26 pm | #
I'm hot for NTODD!
There, I said it...
Left Lane |
11.12.05 - 10:26 pm | #
I love this photo caption:
Nearly three out of four Canadians have an unfavorable view of US President George W. Bush, seen here on November 11, and 38 percent consider him more dangerous than Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, according to a new poll.
watertiger
God, I love the Canadians
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 10:27 pm | #
One of t'crossbeam's gone out of skew on the treadle!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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11.12.05 - 10:28 pm | #
The collateral damage will be devastating!!!
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 10:28 pm | #
Shorter version of tonight's THE
BELTWAY BOYS with Fred Barnes
and Morton Kondracke:
Bush didn't lie!
The Democrats are lying about Bush
and the war!
Barbra Streisand is nuts!
The French have confirmed Bush
didn't lie!
The French riots are being run by
Al-Qaeda! It's a clash of cultures!!
Criticize the war, and you're some
kind of crazy traitor!!!!
Have I left anything out?
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 10:28 pm | #
Ohhhh, there's eating their eyeballs.
Thers is *what*?
Bad! Bad Thers!
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:28 pm | #
Remember "Land of the Lost"--the Saturday morning show? I always thought the Sleestaks looked like locust.
piegrrrl |
11.12.05 - 10:29 pm | #
I'm surprised the sci-fi channel hasn't remade "Night of the Lepus"...
Cole Hillman's Arizona ranch is plagued with 'mongrel' rabbits, and he wants to employ an ecologically sound control method. As a favor to college benefactor Hillman, college president Elgin Clark calls in zoologist Roy Bennett to help. Bennett immediately begins injecting rabbits with hormones and genetically mutated blood in an effort to develop a method of disrupting rabbit reproduction. One of the test subjects escapes, resulting in a race of bloodthirsty, wolf-sized, man-, horse-, and cow-eating bunnies. Eventually the National Guard is called in for a final showdown with the terrorizing rabbits.
Memorable quote...
Officer Lopez (over the loudspeakers at a Drive-In): Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!
Richard |
11.12.05 - 10:29 pm | #
Officer Lopez (over the loudspeakers at a Drive-In): Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!
I loved the pathetic attempts to make rabbits look scary. It. Cannot. Be. Done.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:30 pm | #
One of t'crossbeam's gone out of skew on the treadle!
Pesticide makes them stronger?
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:31 pm | #
It's like Hitchcock's "The Birds," only without the suspense, brilliant directing, or cool special effects.
Or Tippi Hedren and her mod outfits.
I'll bet you're now as emotionally scarred as Tippi was, though...
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 10:31 pm | #
Bush didn't lie!
The Democrats are lying about Bush
and the war!
Barbra Streisand is nuts!
The French have confirmed Bush
didn't lie!
The French riots are being run by
Al-Qaeda! It's a clash of cultures!!
Criticize the war, and you're some
kind of crazy traitor!!!!
Apparently, that's where our trolls get their talking points.
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 10:31 pm | #
If it's an American movie, guns always work.
NYMary
The .38 Special didn't do much for that cop against the tyrannosaurus rex thingie in The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. I still have nightmares about that cop getting eaten.
otay, I was trying to edumacate myself on the history channel. Now I gotta watch the bugs movie.
1watt.Secret Squirrel |
11.12.05 - 10:32 pm | #
Why do liberals hate the free market so much?
Toodles!
Mitzi Faufum
Even the parody trolls are tiresome these days.
Terry C |
11.12.05 - 10:32 pm | #
And the truth? Facts? Why do you hate? What profit it you to bring on the bias? Perahps victory for our enemies? Thought so. Liberals have such contempt for our nation and its values.
Mitzi Faufum |
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11.12.05 - 10:32 pm | #
Okay, locusts are eating the pilot's head.
That was gross.
And these idiots STILL aren't wearing headgear of any kind. Strange.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:32 pm | #
I think they should have laced the cows with herbicide.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:33 pm | #
I'll bet you're now as emotionally scarred as Tippi was, though...
I'm sitting here, staring at the teebee, slackjawed and twitching.
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 10:33 pm | #
And these idiots STILL aren't wearing headgear of any kind. Strange.
Headgear makes them *stronger*!
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:33 pm | #
Will radiation kill the locusts? Or make them stronger? Flamethrowers?
piegrrrl |
11.12.05 - 10:33 pm | #
Ummm, couldn't the same arguments be made employing Gringrich's logic for establishing national universal health insurance, period? He's bascially saying that cherry-picking risk results in private profits for some and socialized costs for others. Universal health insurance blasts all of that away. He's made the best argument for a nationanl health insurance program that anyone's advanced in years. I bet he doesn't even know it.
PrahaPartizan |
11.12.05 - 10:33 pm | #
What profit it you to bring on the bias? Perahps victory for our enemies?
Huh?
I think their stupidity has entered its final stage.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:33 pm | #
Liberals such as Barbra Streisland, ARE nuts. We all notice. Liberals keep defending her like a Goddess or Saint. Look, WE ARE AT WAR WITH ISLAM.
Remember "Land of the Lost"--the Saturday morning show? I always thought the Sleestaks looked like locust.
Don't forget that Enik was good!
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 10:35 pm | #
Or would that make the locusts stronger, too?
EVERYTHING makes them stronger!!!
AAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!
I think the only solution is to feed them steroids.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:36 pm | #
the Sleestaks looked like locust.
piegrrrl
They were lizards, tasted like alligator.
1watt.Secret Squirrel |
11.12.05 - 10:36 pm | #
But on you it looks good.
It's only because I teased up my hair into a bouffant.
which, given this crowd, probably sounds dirty.
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 10:36 pm | #
Why do evangelical Christians hate
agnostics, atheists, deists, Jews,
Catholics, Unitarians, muslims, and
...uh....oh yeah,....WOMEN!!!
Just wondering.
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 10:36 pm | #
flg - Arg. Googled. It was Ohio in the second game I'm thinking off.
Right, but he didn't lose his cool.
And he's gotten better since then.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:37 pm | #
Vince Young struggled against Ohio State. Fast linebackers like OSU's can contain a mobile QB, & USC has those.
It's hard to tell, though, because there aren't very many good defenses in either the Big XII or the Pac 10. But USC still seems to me to have the better D and that's what you go with in a one game final.
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 10:37 pm | #
And these bugs are flame retardant!
Ahem. I think you mean flame-mentally-challenged. Or at least flame-special.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:37 pm | #
I still have nightmares about that cop getting eaten.
Mmmmmmm...cops!
My nominees for the scariest scenes from 50's sci-fi movies are the spider vs. man death struggle from "the Incredible Shrinking Man" and the "help me!" scene from "the Fly".
Richard |
11.12.05 - 10:37 pm | #
Come on, liberals! Give me some FACTS! Then we can debate, without all the childish mudslinging that you liberals call reasoned discourse. Otherwise, I don't want to talk to you and you have my undying contempt.
It's only because I teased up my hair into a bouffant.
Actually, I'm kinda picturing you calling your hair a big poopyhead.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:37 pm | #
Can't watch bug movies. Even the really ridiculous Spider movie with Joan Collins. don't want to watch a locust movie because the sound the cicadas make in Houston every August makes you believe they could take over the city--it's deafening
piegrrrl |
11.12.05 - 10:37 pm | #
Oooh -- Thers, just remembered your field trip today to the bookstore, and went hunting for the results. Good work and a big thank-you (and I'll chip in for a case of Emetrol if you need it).
Silleigh |
11.12.05 - 10:38 pm | #
I believe in the Middle East when the locusts attack, they just bury them in trenches.
Karin |
11.12.05 - 10:38 pm | #
Vince Young could be the one to do it (and I hope he is).
Or it could go down like Mike Vick's VaTech team back in his soph year- plenty of individual highlights, but eventually the bad guys pull away.
Jay C. |
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11.12.05 - 10:38 pm | #
Look, WE ARE AT WAR WITH ISLAM.
Barbra is a Muslim?
Does James Brolin know?
flory |
11.12.05 - 10:39 pm | #
What? He didn't request tactical nukes?
Pussy.
Hey, if pesticides make them stronger, just *think* what nukes would do. I wouldn't chance it.
I say feed them the goofy preacher.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:39 pm | #
It's only because I teased up my hair into a bouffant.
which, given this crowd, probably sounds dirty.
watertiger | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 10:36 pm | #
I can't tell you how much I wish
you had gone to high school with me.
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 10:39 pm | #
Come on, liberals! Give me some FACTS! Then we can debate, without all the childish mudslinging that you liberals call reasoned discourse. Otherwise, I don't want to talk to you and you have my undying contempt.
Fact: no WMD in Iraq.
Fact: the vast majority of Americans think Bush lied.
Fact: Bush is the unpopular leader of a corrupt party.
I'm not watching the locust movie(watching Dave Chappelle reruns), but I'm sensing that it's a metaphor for the War on Terror.
Karin |
11.12.05 - 10:42 pm | #
PATCHOULI OIL WILL SAVE THE WORLD!
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 10:43 pm | #
Fact: no WMD in Iraq.
Fact: the vast majority of Americans think Bush lied.
Fact: Bush is the unpopular leader of a corrupt party.
--
Typical liberal assertions without support. Sources please, and not biased ones.
NTodd, it kept saying "Toodles," so I thought it was leaving. Does it not know what "toodles" means? Or... are Toodles a new kind of Cheetos, and its posts are sponsored by the latest winger snackfood?
Silleigh |
11.12.05 - 10:44 pm | #
I see how it is. They give coded survival secrets on SciFi, leaving those of us watching the Georgia/Auburn game to die on our tractors.
Jay C. |
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11.12.05 - 10:45 pm | #
The Eagle has landed! I repeat, the Eagle has landed!
watertiger |
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11.12.05 - 10:45 pm | #
Hooray! The world is saved by organic hippie pesticides!
Colt is a hero!!!
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:45 pm | #
I'm going to get to see Dave Chappelle tomorrow night. Can't wait.
Toby Petzold |
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11.12.05 - 10:45 pm | #
Silly people. They think've beaten the locusts, but don't they know there's 20 minutes left in the movie?
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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11.12.05 - 10:46 pm | #
You always have to have a backup swarm.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:46 pm | #
You know what really pisses me
off about wingnuts, including Fucker
Carlson, going off about Streisand?
They have no problem with rightwing
Hollywood types.
Let's see....they elected George
Murphy, Gopher from the LOVE BOAT,
Ronald (the moron) Reagan, Fred
Thompson, Ahnuld, and Sonny Bono
(who am I forgetting?
But Streisand's opinions are
by definition crackpot.
As a strategy, that seems pretty
lame......
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 10:46 pm | #
Oh, cool.
The 42 foot mummy is on tomorrow.
fourlegsgood |
11.12.05 - 10:47 pm | #
(General Locuster taught me that)
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:47 pm | #
I think cats will save the day. They like bugs right?
All good Americans agree with me. If you don't, you aren't. Bring on some facts or send me a fax.
Mitzi Faufum |
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11.12.05 - 10:48 pm | #
Can anyone tell me what possible purpose there would be to breed bug-eating locusts that *love* pesticides?
Sounds like as plan that a neoconservative would hatch.
Richard |
11.12.05 - 10:48 pm | #
Oh joy, the Little Sociopath(TM) is
here, pretending that he doesn't
have a problem with African-Americans.
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 10:48 pm | #
Still waiting for facts, moonbats.
Mitzi Faufum |
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11.12.05 - 10:48 pm | #
Since Democrats use shifts in city councils as proof of people disliking Bush..
In the special election for Justice of the Peace, District 4, in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, the Republican candidate Clyde Dennis defeated the Democrat candidate Juanita Coleman by a vote of 225 to 216. The seat of Justice of the Peace, District 4, was held by Democrats for decades.
That's just as important as a city council election in Ohio
Fred Eper |
11.12.05 - 10:49 pm | #
re Newt: a broken watch is still right twice a day.
moe99 |
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11.12.05 - 10:49 pm | #
Can anyone tell me what possible purpose there would be to breed bug-eating locusts that *love* pesticides?
Fact #3: Bush = unpopular. Too many stories of indictments to cite, but I'm sure you've heard about Libby, Abramoff, DeLay, Noe, et al.
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 10:52 pm | #
Oh there's going to be a movie on Sci Fi about Toby, Sunday at 3.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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11.12.05 - 10:52 pm | #
let me know how the movie ends. storm's here & dishnet is out.
1watt.Secret Squirrel |
11.12.05 - 10:52 pm | #
This movie is totally putting me to sleep.
It's making *me* stronger.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:52 pm | #
When the Jesuits went up by 10 I left. BC should have had that Ryan kid in all season
Don't tell me about taking too long to find the right QB. Remember, I'm a Nittany Lions fan.
mike in pr |
11.12.05 - 10:52 pm | #
Since Democrats use shifts in city councils as proof of people disliking Bush..
37 percent approval rating.
What more do you need to know?
And have I mentioned go fuck yourself?
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 10:53 pm | #
Wow, the Auburn/Georgia game IS pretty good. Auburn just scored on a fumble recovery; up by one in the 4th. I don't really care about either team, but it's a good game.
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 10:53 pm | #
Steve, of course what do I know: I am listening to Bobby Vee and Johnny Tillotson this evening. In small doses, they are okay. The music of my first pop experiences though. Still remember dancing with a girl named Colleen at a party at her house. Damn! Never yet duplicated that extreme sexuality of the first close dance with a girl.
DWD - Ego Driven |
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11.12.05 - 10:53 pm | #
Do any of the locust have little burn scares on their many forearms?
bill |
11.12.05 - 10:53 pm | #
Wow, the Auburn/Georgia game IS pretty good.
Aren't they competing for the Rusty Doublewide?
Max Planck |
11.12.05 - 10:54 pm | #
I'm not a doctor, but I play one in Newt's diseased mind. Free Breast exams.
dr. president omar bongo |
11.12.05 - 10:54 pm | #
Evening, bats!
Steve S,
Why do evangelical Christians hate
agnostics, atheists, deists, Jews,
Catholics, Unitarians, muslims, and
...uh....oh yeah,....WOMEN!!!
There ain't a Christ-like thing about these phony Christians that matches up with the historical picture we have of the New Testement Jesus. They are nothing but haters. If Jesus walked the earth today they'd kill him all over again for his "hippie ways" and caring for the poor, the imprisoned, defenceless. They are nothing but Pharisees. Think about the Salem witch hunts, for example. Same crap. It's always about controlling women and sex.
bigvic |
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11.12.05 - 10:54 pm | #
Still waiting for your fax number, Mitzi.
Karin |
11.12.05 - 10:54 pm | #
PATCHOULI OIL WILL SAVE THE WORLD!
I hate patchouli oil.
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 10:54 pm | #
Don't tell me about taking too long to find the right QB. Remember, I'm a Nittany Lions fan.
Oh, right!
Penn State must have scored more this season than the last three seasons combined.
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 10:54 pm | #
Wow, the Auburn/Georgia game IS pretty good. Auburn just scored on a fumble recovery; up by one in the 4th. I don't really care about either team, but it's a good game.
That's the thing about a game played by 21-year olds- all those great momentum shifts. Witness my chain-smokin deacons this afternoon.
Jay C., Demonized Deacon |
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11.12.05 - 10:55 pm | #
It's always about controlling women and sex.
Hell, my only problem with women and sex is that there isn't enough of either.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:55 pm | #
let me know how the movie ends. storm's here & dishnet is out.
I can see into the future.... apparently just when things look really bad & everyone's going to die they figure out a way to kill all the locusts and they all die in 5 seconds flat. The End.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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11.12.05 - 10:55 pm | #
Do any of the locust have little burn scares on their many forearms?
bill
surely they used stunt locusts
matthew |
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11.12.05 - 10:55 pm | #
David Keith was in this movie for, what, ten minutes total?
I completed, by my own estimate, app. 60% of my Christmas shopping today, while having my XM satellite radio installed.
sallyh,Grandmere Poissonniere |
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11.12.05 - 10:55 pm | #
Ah, and of course the bad guy *always* has to get killed by his own evil creation.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:55 pm | #
Facts and education and science are tools of liberals. We conservatives have faith and obedience.
Have you ever been to Jonestown, Guyana? All the free cyanide laced kool-aid you can drink. And Free Breast exams.
dr. president omar bongo |
11.12.05 - 10:56 pm | #
Aren't they competing for the Rusty Doublewide?
That was a totally unfair and uncalled for joke that made me laugh.
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 10:56 pm | #
Steve,
Listened to them this day: Cara Mia, Only in America, Come a little bit closer
I would lightly categorize this as greaser music: but well done.
DWD - Ego Driven | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 10:51 pm | #
You betcha.
And I think a HUGE influence on
Bruce Springsteen.
Along with Major Lance ("Monkey
Time") and the mid-sixties Four
Seasons.
"Dawn"? Pure Springsteen. Ditto
"Ronnie" "Rag
Doll" and some of the others.
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 10:56 pm | #
Excuse us, Kids, Steve, just a recollection of penny loafers and white jeans . . .
DWD - Ego Driven |
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11.12.05 - 10:57 pm | #
And my feet hurt.
sallyh,Grandmere Poissonniere |
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11.12.05 - 10:57 pm | #
In the special election for Justice of the Peace, District 4, in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, the Republican candidate Clyde Dennis defeated the Democrat candidate Juanita Coleman by a vote of 225 to 216. The seat of Justice of the Peace, District 4, was held by Democrats for decades.
Sounds like a side effect of Drownie's handiwork. Now we know what Bush meant when he said "you're doing a heck of a job!".
Richard |
11.12.05 - 10:57 pm | #
Oh, I get it, Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same guy. Well, that explains a few things.
.
WalterNeff |
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11.12.05 - 10:57 pm | #
Also, that sound thing with the cows seemed to work pretty well too.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 10:58 pm | #
Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!
Marcia. Duh.
Probably also think there's such a thing as "marshall law"...
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 10:58 pm | #
FOX NEWS SUNDAY Sens. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.); New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R).
THIS WEEK Queen Rania of Jordan, Sens. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) and Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.); Reps. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) and Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.); Jack Klugman , actor.
FACE THE NATION Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D).
MEET THE PRESS Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean ; and King Abdullah II of Jordan.
LATE EDITION Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf; Sens. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) and Roberts ; Huckabee ; Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (D); Stephen J. Hadley , national security adviser; Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi ; Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former State Department chief of staff.
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At least a few guns.
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QuentinCompson |
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11.12.05 - 10:58 pm | #
So called facts, which are just received propoganda from USA haters, is what passes for science in the liberal camps. What about what God has taught us through His word? You poo-poo that, libs? Well, you will soon reap the whirlwind for your ignorance and bias.
I completed, by my own estimate, app. 60% of my Christmas shopping today, while having my XM satellite radio installed.
Bite me! Hahahaha. I'll prolly start my Xmas shopping in mid December. Mental breakdown on or before Dec. 20.
bigvic |
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11.12.05 - 11:01 pm | #
I completed, by my own estimate, app. 60% of my Christmas shopping today, while having my XM satellite radio installed.
And probably baked dessert, to boot!
You're Wonder Grandmere.
Karin |
11.12.05 - 11:01 pm | #
Penn State must have scored more this season than the last three seasons combined.
My late grandfather was a Penn State grad ('41).
Oh, I get it, Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same guy. Well, that explains a few things.
God damn it, you've spoiled everything! Next thing you'll tell me my parents were actually Santa Claus, and that chick down at the Steeple Market isn't 18...
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 11:02 pm | #
Mitzi, honey: show me some facts and lend me some sugar, 'kay? I'm in the mood for faith-based love.
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 11:03 pm | #
No I'm not, are you?
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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11.12.05 - 11:03 pm | #
Yay!
Time for the celebration/consolation organic hippie sex!
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 11:03 pm | #
I'm going to get to see Dave Chappelle tomorrow night. Can't wait.
Can't do that, can you, Tobes? After all, Chappelle's a Muslim, which means, by your own argument, he's a threat to your Cheeto stash.
What a stupid cunt you are.
pseudonymous in nc |
11.12.05 - 11:03 pm | #
A starved troll is a thing of beauty. I mean dead-starved of course.
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QuentinCompson |
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11.12.05 - 11:04 pm | #
I completed, by my own estimate, app. 60% of my Christmas shopping today, while having my XM satellite radio installed.
sallyh,Grandmere Poissonniere
Could you do mine tomorrow?
Please?
I'll make you mimosas....
flory |
11.12.05 - 11:04 pm | #
(Tries hard to be sincere in expression of sympathy; suppresses smirk manfully)
Very diplomatic!
The interesting thing about Wake ball the last few years, though, is that the offense alternates between the wishbone and a spread-trickery craziness. Lotsa 20-yard losses for the ol' highlight reel.
Jay C., Demonized Deacon |
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11.12.05 - 11:04 pm | #
Organic hippie sex only makes me stronger, you know.
Eli |
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11.12.05 - 11:04 pm | #
whew, thank god that's over...
Uh oh- silogen still has more locusts!
part II !!! oh joy...
dieselcreek |
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11.12.05 - 11:04 pm | #
If George W. Bush is still president in 2010, I will shave my head.
I mean it. I will.
Ted Koppel |
11.12.05 - 11:05 pm | #
Organic hippie sex only makes me stronger, you know.
You know you can't get that smell out. Be careful with those hippies.
if Gingrinch says something the left disagrees with he is an idiot and an asshole;
but,
if Gingrinch says something the left can agree with, its "important"?
sorry, doesn't work like that.
the left can agree Gingrinch all they want, and that is generally good, but it certainly doesn't make what Gingrinch says important. he's the same egocentric, nasty piece of human excrement whether the left agrees with him or not - doesn't change a thing.
Atrios, if you wish to make your statement correct, you should have phrased it something like: 'A completely reasonable editorial by Gingrinch on an important topic.'
precision in communication counts.
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gak |
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11.12.05 - 11:05 pm | #
Toodles!
Talk about Tourettes!
Karin |
11.12.05 - 11:05 pm | #
Steve, and presenting the twangy guitar of Dwayne Eddie doing TEEN BEAT.
DWD - Ego Driven |
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11.12.05 - 11:05 pm | #
"Penn State must have scored more this season than the last three seasons combined"
Joe Paterno is living proof that Alzheimer's is a curable disease. At my age, I'm even happier than the average Nittany Lions fan.
mike in pr |
11.12.05 - 11:05 pm | #
Hey, wait! How can you all do Christmas shopping when O'Fuckhead said that we've all ruined Christmas?
I thought that I had an out for that misery this year. Oh well....
Boadicea |
11.12.05 - 11:06 pm | #
Toby aka Mitzy cannot admit s/he is a transsexual. S/he can only move from one name to another.
Dr. Freud |
11.12.05 - 11:07 pm | #
Toby aka Mitzy cannot admit s/he is a transsexual. S/he can only move from one name to another.
Dr. Freud |
11.12.05 - 11:07 pm | #
mutated cock-a-coach giving head to bus driver on SCI FI.
Okay...I am so figuring out what
to send you.....
steve simels |
11.12.05 - 11:08 pm | #
Steve,
And it keeps right on a hurtin
Since you're gone
It keeps right on a hurtin
Every minute of the day
Every hour you're away
I feel so lonely
and I can't help it
I don't think I can go on
And it keeps right on a hurtin
Since you're gone.
DWD - Ego Driven |
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11.12.05 - 11:08 pm | #
Jim Jones was a good Christian man, and a good lounge singer to boot! Maybe that was Jack Jones? Anyway, David Koresh was a good Christian man. Flambed, barbecued or sauteed in cyanide and sunlight. Yum!
dr. president omar bongo |
11.12.05 - 11:08 pm | #
which was better -- mansquito or the locust movie?
shycat |
11.12.05 - 11:08 pm | #
Organic hippie sex only makes me stronger, you know.
It does? And here I've been all put out by the arm and leg hair...
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 11:09 pm | #
Toodles is his burning poodle with tourettes syndrome.
dr. president omar bongo |
11.12.05 - 11:09 pm | #
And sallyh -- you missed the cow devouring locusts tonite!!
flory |
11.12.05 - 11:10 pm | #
chuka boots
I had a pair of those...
FeralLiberal |
11.12.05 - 11:10 pm | #
locust movie was pretty sad. Seemed like a half-ass pilot.
And Dan doesn't even bite it in the end. What a let down.
which was better -- mansquito or the locust movie?
Mansquito by far.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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11.12.05 - 11:10 pm | #
the aggregate of that which humanity does not understand is infinite even as the quantity of humanity's understanding is ever increasing.
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life's conumdrum |
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11.12.05 - 11:10 pm | #
And here I've been all put out by the arm and leg hair...
Organic hippie sex only makes me stronger, you know.
El
The memories of those hairy legs and pits wake me in cold sweats. Since I'm not dead I must be stronger, but thoughts of those big crystals that are supposed to work like deoderant can make me scream like a girl in a horror movie.
bill |
11.12.05 - 11:11 pm | #
Of course terms like "better" just don't seem right when applied to Sci Fi's Saturday night movies.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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11.12.05 - 11:11 pm | #
which was better -- mansquito or the locust movie?
If Congressional elections were held today, would you vote for a Democratic or Republican candidate?
* 50421 responses
Democrat 81%
Republican 15%
Not sure 4%
Or not. That obscure NCAA rule book.
pseudonymous in nc |
11.12.05 - 11:19 pm | #
Holy cats! The end of this Auburn/Georgia game is wild.
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 11:20 pm | #
Argh. They just took UGA's TD back.
David (Austin Tx) |
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11.12.05 - 11:20 pm | #
Argh. They just took UGA's TD back.
David (Austin Tx)
Er, Auburn's
David (Austin Tx) |
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11.12.05 - 11:21 pm | #
Hell, my only problem with women and sex is that there isn't enough of either.
Really, Eli. There is plenty of both. You just have to know where to look.
bigvic
Eli just doesn't have a big enough wallet... but then, that would only attract the Republican women anyway...
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11.12.05 - 11:21 pm | #
wow, I'm sure you guys are way past the original topic, but that was, in fact, an eminently reasonable editorial by Gingrich. I'm amazed.
Sarah Deere |
11.12.05 - 11:22 pm | #
Anytime you think you're bad enough to make me leave, bring it on!
Terry C
Word. Funny how the destructive rat fuckers always want to eliminate the good guys. They want to control the world with their petty, hostile and incompetent view of *how things should be.* Pfffttt. Morons don't last long in a sane society. They are out. Even the most stupid in this country get it that these folks can't handle a school board election. I say we 86 the lot of them.
bigvic |
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11.12.05 - 11:22 pm | #
Auburn kicker is nervix.
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11.12.05 - 11:23 pm | #
Never trust college kickers. Never.
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11.12.05 - 11:23 pm | #
I completed, by my own estimate, app. 60% of my Christmas shopping today, while having my XM satellite radio installed.
sallyh,Grandmere Poissonniere | Email | Homepage | 11.12.05 - 10:55 pm | #
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everyone on my xmas list is getting green chilies and a dildo this year. that way, if they don't like the green chilies, they can go fuck themselves.
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11.12.05 - 11:23 pm | #
The interesting thing about Wake ball the last few years, though, is that the offense alternates between the wishbone and a spread-trickery craziness. Lotsa 20-yard losses for the ol' highlight reel.
WF has shown some real signs of life in the last few years. The BC game was a spectacle.
Thers |
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11.12.05 - 11:24 pm | #
Eli just doesn't have a big enough wallet...
My wallet is 8" (cut).
NTodd, Homoe Bitch |
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11.12.05 - 11:24 pm | #
mike, there's a chance of Miami/Penn State in the Orange Bowl this year, ya know.
Thers
Looks like the Washington & Lee Generals will get passed over once again.
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11.12.05 - 11:34 pm | #
thers
yes, my team got stomped today...I was off building some furniture for my dining room after the third quarter
matthew |
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11.12.05 - 11:34 pm | #
Yeah, I think I'm gonna too, got a TV in the room with the computer. I've gotta admit, I've gotten some laughts from "My Name Is Earl". I can only hope that Karma kicks George in the ass...
FeralLiberal |
11.12.05 - 11:36 pm | #
Wow, I leave to watch Willie Wonka, and I come back to the same thread.
Marcia Brady ∞ |
11.12.05 - 11:38 pm | #
pseudonymous in nc,
I won't look because Frank Rich makes my Sunday morning Times/ coffee/ newspaper reading the event of the day. But I'll take you at your word it's good!
bigvic |
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11.12.05 - 11:38 pm | #
Well Zell has finally moved to comic icon. What a way to wrap up a career.
EkCenTriK |
11.12.05 - 11:39 pm | #
Walterpalooza by WalterNeff
Earlier today, while I was trying to clear my name of some charges, a thought occured to me. Even though I can no longer recall what it was, that got me to thinking: if my club foot had not prevented me from taking the gold in Athens would I now be enjoying the benefits of Wheaties box fame? Though MsNeff and MsNeff the Significantly Lesser and More Painful certainly bestow and festoon me with daily hosannas, I desire even greater and more remunerative public recognition. So, with that thought in mind, and not the earlier forgotten thought, I urge all of my readers to celebrate WalterNeff Days today and everyday until the end of the year, or until I become bored and forget about the whole thing. Here's some ways you can show your appreciation to all that is Walter, that is, me:
1. Send me 100 crisp, sanitized fifty dollar bills via bonded messenger. I prefer that they be bonded to blondes - saves me having to pick up my own. If you don't have any fifty dollar bills, I'm sure you have some valuable items in your home that you can pawn. Start with the heavy stuff that plugs in.
2. Sculpt or paint likenesses of me and sell them to bigtime museums like my chain of museums, Walt's Artporium found in most strip malls. In this way, average and below average citizens can learn and memorize my more wonderous physical features. After all, there will be a test.
3. Put a ribbon magnet on your car that says, "Walt: Forever and a Day". Your friends and neighbors will admire your taste and sense of style.
4. Name your children, even the illegitimate ones, after me. The surest way to an Ivy League or Bush league school is to be named WalterNeff Huffheinz.
5. Urge your public schools to hold a Why Walter Wows Me essay contest. All winning students are eligible to send their prize to me. In addition, they will receive a facsimile of my signature by, well, fax.
I imagine that many of you, especially those without serious head wounds, can come up with other ways to honor me that also increase my already substantial wealth and prestige. Work on it, will ya?
Lastly, dream of me and use me in your sexual fantasies. Write fan fiction about fake encounters with me. Compose folk songs and sing them around the campfire. Have a WalterNeff festival, preferably nude, at a local park. Invite a radio station; everyone looks good nude to radio listeners. Happily, I look great nude in person, but don't expect to live up to my standard - radio nudeness will do.
So, there you have it. I think you'll find that your lives will be enhanced and enriched by these simple suggestions. And I will become more famous than I already am. Thank you for your attention. I expect to see the first wave of fifties by Thursday.
bigvic - Not a real good start so far, better to hang out here.
FeralLiberal |
11.12.05 - 11:47 pm | #
can't seem to find my money sanitizer
You can use mine, once all these Monopoly $50s have run through it.
Silleigh |
11.12.05 - 11:49 pm | #
It's like that boat in Wonka...
NTodd, Homoe Bitch
Pink and shaped like a seahorse?
Marcia Brady ∞ |
11.12.05 - 11:52 pm | #
I'd much rather have PSU play your 'Canes instead of ND. At least I'd know who to root for,
mike in pr |
11.12.05 - 11:55 pm | #
Jay and the Americans? Loved the guy's voice. That man had pipes and technique that wouldn't quit. Diaphragm of steel. You just don't hear range and clarity like that in pop music anymore. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that he was a classically trained singer having tons of fun with what he'd learned.
Okay, I'm exaggerating, but not by much.
That clarity of tone is hard to do. Most untrained singers sound breathy or husky, which works only with amplification, for one, and is vocally exhausting, for the other. Classically trained singers get that beaten out of them so they can fill a 3,000 seat theater without amplification for a five-hour opera eight times a week, and do interviews and dinners with donors in between.
Yes, I'm a choir singer whose director has been trying for fifteen years to beat us into classically trained singers. I can get that clear tone sometimes, not for long, and then there's all the other stuff to remember . . .
strawhat |
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11.12.05 - 11:55 pm | #
Ocean's 12 is better than SNL.
Ah, I remember the good old days of SNL.
Damn, I'm an old fart!
Boadicea |
11.12.05 - 11:58 pm | #
The funny thing about being an old fart is that I find I actually fart a lot more now.
nameless bob |
11.13.05 - 12:05 am | #
Walter Neff
Walter Neff
I just can’t help myself
Gotta have my Walter
Wanna get him to the altar
Walter Neff
Walter Neff
Walter Neff
Walter Neff
Is he absolutely deaf?
He won’t even hear me
He won’t even cheer me
Walter Neff
Walter Neff
Walter Neff
Walter Neff
In search of an honest ref
Gotta have him love me
Place no one above me
wow, I come home and I see 1000 comments for the first time. Looks like a lot of trolling. Expect it for some time now as the collapse picks up speed. Cognitive dissonance will cause trolls to act out.
Rob W |
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11.13.05 - 2:44 am | #
Hey Newt, whatever happened to "market forces" or any of the hundred excuses you Republicans give to gut tort law and social security? Didn't you want less regulation so that "market forces" could magically work everything out?
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