I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Frost!
(shit)Hey, help me get to 700 hits tonight.
Night all...
where are you ignorant bastards?
Please see my fabulous post at the end of the last thread. It contains important information that will add value and meaning to your lives.
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OPEN EPISTLE TO KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD
November 8th, 2005
I write with joy and thanks in my heart for your bold decision to teach Kansas schoolchildren of The Intelligent Design GOD IDio. Finally, The Church of The Intelligent Designer needs no longer cower behind a façade of science.
Now that your establishment of IDio has rendered the Constitution's first amendment inoperative, we can proudly proclaim in every Kansas classroom, "There is but one Intelligent Designer and His Name is IDio!" Thanks be to the taxpayers of Kansas for donating their money to proselytize for His church. May IDio mutate you all intelligently.
Finally, we see an end to the dark decades of awkward debates, of tedious aping of scientific method, of endless self-publication to mesmerize the faithful. No more need we pay our devout 'scientists' to appear in court, only to be insulted by the IDioless forces of logic. Never again must we shrug uneasily and mumble, "Umdon'tknowbutit'snotagod," when Darwinists ask the identity of the Intelligent Designer.
Spread the word: http://www.godinabox.com
COCKPUNCH!
good job jurassicporc!
WHY ARE WE USING WMD'S IN IRAQ!!!!
I got nuthin'.
Jason Lee is hosting SNL for those consumers of popular culture.
I am not a conspiracy theorist.
But the three bombings in Amman, Jordan did not make
sense to me. The more I read (non-US mass media) I get
the feeling this was a set up orchestrated through the
Mossad. There are a few links below.
- Initially we heard that bombs had been placed in
false cealings, then it changed to "suicide bombers"
- The fact that the Head of Palestine Intelligence and
others was killed in the attack, is totally left out
by our media.
- Jordanians in the streets looked a total put up job,
but our media has been going crazy over it, calling it
the turning point etc.
- Is "Al Qaeda in Iraq" a reality or just another
myth?
What is their website, or mode of communication?
Ref:-
http://argentina.indymedia.org/n...5/11/
347886.php
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m1774...-2005_14:
58_ECT
http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml....shtml?
x=431276
WHY ARE WE USING WMD'S IN IRAQ!!!!
Because that's the only way there'll be WMD in Iraq.
OK, you've seen jurassicpork's blog, now go visit my blog.
walter,
I'll send fifty's when I find my money sanitizer.
Does an Open Thread mean it is GPL-ed?
FUCK BOOSH!
It really needed to be said.
Peace.
Bush Presidency: FIERY WRECK!
I'll be over here in the corner if anybody needs anything...
carry on.
I'll be over here in the corner if anybody needs anything...
carry on.
Initially we heard that bombs had been placed in
false cealings, then it changed to "suicide bombers"
Initial reports are often wrong. The bombs in the ceilings thing was just speculation from journalists based on seeing that the ceiling tile had been blown up by the bombs.
Blair faces new inquiry into Iraq war
Impeachment campaigners claim former ministers will join 200 supporters to force Commons probe
http://www.sundayherald.com/print52851
MPs organising the campaign to impeach Tony Blair believe they have enough support to force a highly damaging Commons investigation into the Prime Minister’s pre-war conduct.
A renewed attempt to impeach Blair over claims he misled parlia ment in making his case for war against Iraq, will be made in the Commons within the next two weeks.
The impeachment process effectively stalled last year when just 23 MPs signed a Commons motion. But the scale of the government’s defeat on its anti-terror legislation last week – where 49 Labour MPs rebelled – has galvanised the momentum for proceedings to be invoked.
Organisers say they are expecting 200 cross-party signatures, including those of former government ministers, to force the Commons to set up a Privy Council investigation that would examine in detail the case for impeachment against Blair.
The size of the Labour revolt, allied to unified opposition benches, is said to have changed the climate inside the Commons.
SNP leader, Alex Salmond, one of the key figures in the impeachment campaign, said he now believed that the cross-party attempt to bring the government to account over the Iraq war “would become more urgent than predicted problems associated with social legislation in England and Wales”.
Following the Commons defeat, it was predicted that future flashpoints for Blair would include a new education reform bill, likely to be presented next spring and new legislation to broaden reform inside the NHS with greater competition from the private sector.
Potential backbench revolts are also predicted if Blair makes any move to update the Trident nuclear programme or tries to introduce a new era of nuclear-generated energy.
Next month, a Green Paper on welfare reform, expected to include moves to cut incapacity benefit, was expected to be the first attack point for Labour dissidents.
However, any parliamentary success on the matter of impeachment is likely to over-shadow other issues.
If the promised signatures materialise, and a vote on the impeachment process is taken, the opportunity to deliver a substantial knock-down blow to Blair is not likely to be passed up by Labour rebels and opposition alike.
One MP last night: “This would be a golden opportunity. It would be pay-back time for Blair over the way he manipulated parliament before the Iraq war in 2003.
“Last week’s defeat changed the atmosphere in the Commons. The hunt is on, as they say.”
Although the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, has remained publicly loyal to Blair since the defeat, last night, one of Brown’s closest parliamentary allies disobeyed his call to back the Prime Minister unquestioningly.
The former Treasury minister, Geoffrey Robinson, insisted the Prime Minister had to allow his successor sufficient time to
Kenosha kid,
I'll take up your offer to visit your blog any time.
We are using SODs in Iraqi? First, we harnessed the power of the atom. Then, we harness the power of a stiff, silicone cock.
8 Mile's been on VH1 a lot recently.
Will suffice until the musical guest rolls up.
We need to teach of the sipapu in schools. that is the hole in the ground through which humankind came to this earth. I believe it is Hopi in origin.
Now if only there were a upapis through which Kansas school boards could depart this earth all would be balanced and well.
Are you telling me that you don't know what this is?
What the hell is that thing doing? It's a gingerbreadman humping a test tube, right? Or is there some allusion or reference I'm not picking up on?
...drunk and stunned... on a Saturday night.
...sure wish I could give Cheney and Bush some "honest" advice.
They could blame it all on a "bicycle accident" and I wouldn't talk to the press at all.
I'll be over here in the corner if anybody needs anything...
I'm thinking hard liquor, at this point. Got some?
My thread hurts.
That gingerbread man is stewing in his own boiling manchowder!
I'm thinking hard liquor, at this point. Got some?
How about a little Brandy and Cider?
OK, you've seen jurassicpork's blog, now go visit my blog.
Okay, you've had your fun. My turn now.
Oh, and if tigre's still out there wondering about the Giants time, it's at 1. I may actually get to watch this one!
But what does a gingerbreadman doing that have to do with mortgages? It's mesmerizingly stupid.
ELI HAS UGLY FEET.
Glad I'm drunk, stoned, and watching Austin City Limits when I read Frank Rich's new column:
Not that it matters now. The facts the American people are listening to at this point come not from an administration that they no longer find credible, but from the far more reality-based theater of war. The Qaeda suicide bombings of three hotels in Amman on 11/9, like the terrorist attacks in Madrid and London before them, speak louder than anything else of the price we are paying for the lies that diverted us from the war against the suicide bombers of 9/11 to the war in Iraq.
And bigvic - What's mine, is yours.
I'm watching Batman Returns with one eye, another eye on the blog and the other eye on MsNeff, who keeps smacking me and telling me to put away my laptop if I ever expect to see anything else on my laptop.
Doesn't she know who I am?
Apparently, I'm Mr. MsNeff and I live in the doghouse.
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ELI HAS UGLY FEET.
*hangs head in shame*
And that's the least ugly picture, too.
ELI HAS UGLY FEET.
The Kenosha Kid
Now, that's not very nice. And quit shouting, NTodd's thread hurts.
'll be over here in the corner if anybody needs anything...
carry on.
chris/tx
crap, big storm went to the south. I was needing a 4-5 inch rain.
OK, you've seen jurassicpork's blog, now go visit my blog.
You have a fine blog.
Rule #6 Never blog when your SO wants your attention elsewhere.
And that's the least ugly picture, too.
Eli
Your feet are fine. Nice hair/skin contrast.
I really don't know how to complement feet. They're not my particular fetish.
toenail trimmers are cool
COCKPUNCH!
I love it! Does anyone remember how that gained popularity so fast? I gotta go to bed. You folks are so entertaining and shit, but I'm beat.
Nite, all!
Damn, am I always the last person to figure out that there's a new thread?
ELI HAS UGLY FEET.
We know. We've seen 'em. They be ugly. Unlike mine--least my right foot.
Or is there some allusion or reference I'm not picking up on?
It's a Republican wet dream.
More foot horrors here.
The stink-foot puts the hurt on my nose.
I came in, looked at that 900+ thread, and said to myself "Not even gonna look inside - never gonna catch up." Looked at a couple older things, refreshed, et voila! fresh thready goodness! I should be in bed but after 10 hours work I need to unwind.
Nite bigvic!
COCKPUNCH? No. MANCHOWDER!
1watt - If you missed it, thanks for the link earlier on Abramoff.
I'm watching Batman Returns with one eye, another eye on the blog and the other eye on MsNeff, who keeps smacking me and telling me to put away my laptop if I ever expect to see anything else on my laptop.
She is Catwoman. Hear her roar.
I really don't know how to complement feet. They're not my particular fetish.
I've got two feet.
One, two.
They let me walk down the street.
One, two.
I've got two feet!
They help me walk down the street.
--Ernie
I don't get all the foot interest. So many more photogenic body parts.
How about shoulder-blades? or biceps? or the small of the back?
How about a little Brandy and Cider?
FeralLiberal
melted some red hots in cider, added a couple oz/s Laird's Apple Jack to it for All Saints Day.
you know bert and ernie are gay lovers, right?
Any more of this foot fetish stuff and I am going to be forced to hang out at a winger site just to put the universe back in balance.
Some serious blogwhoring going on here.
Doug:
I linked to you. One good turn deserves another. It in an update of my newest blog entry.
And thanks all you Atriots for helping me surpass the 700 hit mark tonight. It's a shame to see it all end at midnight. But that's not to say that you can't keep coming back in droves every day. After all, I usually post every day.
You guys rock.
ELI HAS UGLY FEET.
Bromadrosis...
I don't get all the foot interest. So many more photogenic body parts.
How about shoulder-blades? or biceps? or the small of the back?
Blame Attaturk. I'm just trying to get a mention on Rising Hegemon - After Dark.
you know bert and ernie are gay lovers, right?
So are Batman and Robin.
How about shoulder-blades? or biceps? or the small of the back?
I'd be happy to see those, too. Please e-mail me.
Any more of this foot fetish stuff and I am going to be forced to hang out at a winger site just to put the universe back in balance.
EkCenTriK
Now that seems a little extreme...
Bert and Ernie are "men who have sex with men". That's not gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
NTodd's foot looks like the space baby at the end of 2001.
And bigvic - What's mine, is yours.
chris/tx
I guess you get it by now that I think you're pretty cool.
Kenosha:
I visited your blog and left a comment.
you know bert and ernie are gay lovers, right?
Interracial, too. Ernies's orange and Bert's yellow.
I'd be happy to see those, too. Please e-mail me.
NTodd, Homoe Bitch
No camera. Besides, my bicep has a birthmark.
Has anyone in the media connected the dots and realise that all three buildings that were blowed up in Jordan were all American corpirate hotels?
melted some red hots in cider, added a couple oz/s Laird's Apple Jack to it for All Saints Day
Everything goes good with hard cider. On the same note, try cinnamon schnapps and/or apple brandy.
Give me some love, too, Dino-pork.
Nite, Feral Liberal.
I heart you.
Peace out, folks.
NTodd's foot stays silky soft from all the time it spends in my jizhold . . .er, my ass.
Woohoo! I have a comment!
Vootie!
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Has anyone in the media connected the dots and realise that all three buildings that were blowed up in Jordan were all American corpirate hotels?
Not sure what the picture is after the dots are connected.
Well it was fresh thready goodness till Eli and NTodd stuck their feet in. And did someone step in some toby?
bigvic - Thanks, and it's reciprocal.
bigvic - Thanks, and it's reciprocal.
NTodd's foot looks like the space baby at the end of 2001.
It is the Starfoot. Now is the time on Childhood's End when we dance...
melted some red hots in cider, added a couple oz/s Laird's Apple Jack to it for All Saints Day.
1watt.Secret Squirrel
I once got a bag of those trick Red Hots -- made with cayenne or something. I liked them and ate the whole little bag. Then my lips swelled up.
I heart you.
Back at ya bigvic!
"Now that seems a little extreme...
Marcia Brady"
I have been patient with the pantsless craze, but this shoeless bit, well that is just offensive. It is against god or if there were a god just to cover all bases, it would be. I am positive that our cretors built us with an instep and conforming shoe sizes for the purpose of covering out feet. While the tenis shoe feet may be an attempt at morality it is not enough, I still am seeing naked feet. With that in mind, I think (as a Texan) that law should be in place barring bared feet (emphasis on the fet of Eli and Ntodd) from being in the vacinity of public schools and malls.
No camera. Besides, my bicep has a birthmark.
I'll buy you a camera. And I love birthmarks. I've got one myself...
In case you guys miss me -- and I know you will -- I'm on the last thread reading the locust liveblog as I watch the movie.
Kiss my homepage...
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Damn I can't type tonitte
Interesting how the Republicans have to keep fabricating bigger and angrier distortions and distractions to cover the medium size lies they told last time.
They'll have to push this racket of lies at an ever faster pace to keep the hounds of truth at bay. Before Bush achieves the ninth level of hell.
They'll have to push this racket of lies at an ever faster pace to keep the hounds of truth at bay. Before Bush achieves the ninth level of hell.
Sweet frosty Satan!
Kiss my homepage...
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MisterX
Why, are there grits there.
I will only kiss ones grits.
I think (as a Texan) that law should be in place barring bared feet
With an exception for Watertiger of course...
I don't get all the foot interest. So many more photogenic body parts.
How about shoulder-blades? or biceps? or the small of the back?
And of course the pylorus.
They'll have to push this racket of lies at an ever faster pace to keep the hounds of truth at bay. Before Bush achieves the ninth level of hell.
This may be the only way faster-than-light travel will ever be achieved.
Maybe someday, man will be able to travel to the stars at the speed of lies.
I have to get this friend of mine who has six toes in each foot to send NTodd a picture. They are perfectly normal looking toes but there are twelve of them. All the men in his family have those things.
And of course the pylorus.
I am the pylorus.
Goo goo gachoob.
Smalfish - Was corpirate deliberate or a serendipitous typo? And is your real name sardine?
And of course the pylorus.
Watch your tongue, er...language!
you know bert and ernie are gay lovers, right?
So are Batman and Robin.
Here's the evidence...
http://www.superdickery.com/sedu...eduction/
1.html
"With an exception for Watertiger of course...
FeralLiberal"
Wait, there are women with bared feet?!!!
Bring the kindling, there is a cleansing to be done.
How about shoulder-blades? or biceps? or the small of the back?
And the Naughty Bits...
Maybe someday, man will be able to travel to the stars at the speed of lies.
I just got back from another planet... it was orbiting Alpaha Centuri, yeah that's the ticket. I went with my wife... Morgan Fairchild, yeah, and I saw her naked.
you know bert and ernie are gay lovers, right?
Next thing I know you are going to tell me Siegfried and Roy are gay lovers.
Sheesh.
watertiger doesn't have bear feet.....
Bring the kindling, there is a cleansing to be done.
Only if she weighs less than a duck...
I have to get this friend of mine who has six toes in each foot to send NTodd a picture.
Polydactyly?
See former Dodger Antonio Alfonseca, the Six-Fingered Setup Man
I have to get this friend of mine who has six toes in each foot to send NTodd a picture. They are perfectly normal looking toes but there are twelve of them. All the men in his family have those things.
Mebbe it's the long passage of time, or the copious amounts of red wine, but I seem to recall my bio teacher in HS mentioning that the 6 toes thing is actually a very common recessive trait, but of course doesn't manifest itself very often because it takes two recessives. Or something like that. Shit, that doesn't make much sense now that I think about it, but that's what I remember.
I had a cat who had extra toes. Big fucking paws. Back when I was teaching an "advanced IP" clss to an audience in Louisville, KY, waaaay back before the web was all that widespread, I showed my website with his picture. Told the students about Ferg's extra toes. A student in the back of the auditorium raised his hand. I called on him, and he asked in a thick Southern drawl, "is he from Western Kentucky?"
I then did the banjo theme from Deliverance, and told them to take a break.
Penn and Teller were in the closet one minute and in the next minute - pooftah!
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Next thing I know you are going to tell me Siegfried and Roy are gay lovers.
Sheesh.
chris/tx
Bert and Ernie I could accept. They are muppets after all.
But Siegried and Roy?
That's like saying Boy George is Gay.
Preposterous.
Keith David rocks. David Keith, not so much.
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Tina Fey's first joke had a very limited audience. I laughed a little.
Tina Fey's first joke had a very limited audience. I laughed a little.
pseudonymous in nc
Directed at British ex-pats in NC with pseudonyms?
I have to get this friend of mine who has six toes in each foot to send NTodd a picture.
Echidne of the snakes
I saw a man on the train who had two thumbs on one hand. It was fascinating to watch him reading the paper -- his thumbs both moved independently, but they both came out of the same knuckle.
That's like saying Boy George is Gay.
Preposterous.
Or Elton Joh...oh, wait, nevermind.
Karl Rove and Jeff Gannon are gay lovers.
Polydactyly?
See former Dodger Antonio Alfonseca, the Six-Fingered Setup Man
Probably, but my friend has hands with the usual five fingers. It's the feet that are weird. He used to charge about a quarter's worth to show them at school.
See former Dodger Antonio Alfonseca, the Six-Fingered Setup Man
My father was slaughtered by a six-fingered setup man.
I saw a man on the train who had two thumbs on one hand.
He was supposed to be your contact for the drop. Did you get The Package?
This is rather amusing...
http://www.superdickery.com/sedu...eduction/
3.html
Tina Fey is about as funny as Jimmy Fallon. I.e., not at all. Dennis Miller did the best Weekend Update. Even though he turned into a fucking asshole, later.
Every made coffee with old coffee grounds? That image just popped into my head thinking about the relationship between Daily Show writers and Weekend Update writers.
My father was slaughtered by a six-fingered setup man.
My grandma was pushed down a flight of stairs by ambidextrous starter Bruce Hurst.
He used to charge about a quarter's worth to show them at school.
What did he show you for a dollar?
" And of course the pylorus."
Thers
Do not mock the Valve, lest Fortuna spins you low!
Where has my copy of Boethius gotten to?
EkCenTriK: So, are you putting your foot down against this overarching barefooted attempt at hea(e)ling? Ya gotta toe the line here, ya know? Don't be so soleless, you might get in a jam....
Directed at British ex-pats in NC with pseudonyms?
Well, directed at those SNL viewers who know the make-up of the French soccer team. Which is a very slightly larger subset.
My father was slaughtered by a six-fingered setup man.
Lefty?
He was supposed to be your contact for the drop. Did you get The Package?
NTodd, Homoe Bitch
Umm, yeah. That's how I'm financing my education.
Where has my copy of Boethius gotten to?
Chris Tucker
This latest motion picture is an abortion!
An affront to decency!
Every made coffee with old coffee grounds? That image just popped into my head thinking about the relationship between Daily Show writers and Weekend Update writers.
Don't you get it? Clinton had sex with an intern. That's why it's funny.
Would anyone like some peanut butter truffles from Harry + David?
That is so adorable, matthew.
I have always thought that humans would benefit from a long and flexible tail. It could be used to carry extra stuff and it could also be used to garrot enemies.
Dare you wags mock the pylorus?
I gotta go sleep. Sleepy. nightnight...blab smz...whatever. Tell Marcia I love her feet, and I'll show her my birthmark if she shows me hers.
I had a cat who had extra toes. Big fucking paws.
That's a polydactyl. Our cat Nicki is one.
Some claim they all come from a batch originally owned by Hemingway, or some such shit... you can read about it here.
What did he show you for a dollar?
My lips are sealed.
That is so adorable, matthew.
I have always thought that humans would benefit from a long and flexible tail. It could be used to carry extra stuff and it could also be used to garrot enemies.
It is a tail holding a package, full of stuff and groceries, signifying convenience.
My father was slaughtered by a six-fingered setup man.
My name is Tony Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!
My lips are sealed.
Well, doesn't matter what they say.
Too much Bud perhaps?...
NASCAR Star Cited for Reckless Driving
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20051...car_busch_cited
PHOENIX - Kurt Busch was detained on suspicion of drunken driving and cited for reckless driving after a confrontation with police near the track where the NASCAR champion is to race Sunday.
Would anyone like some peanut butter truffles from Harry + David?
That would be delightful sallyh, thank you!
That Minkoff minx left me in New Orleans to drown with the other peasants.
Well, directed at those SNL viewers who know the make-up of the French soccer team.
Heh. Like we didn't know French guys use makeup. Heheheheheheh. Heh.
Yeah.
My lips are sealed.
Well, doesn't matter what they say.
Mostly mmmmphmmph
SD:
I expect to see that on iTunes by weeks end.
WN
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....Peanut butter truffles.....(raises brows, shows intense interest....
That Minkoff minx left me in New Orleans to drown with the other peasants.
Surely you have a bottle of Muscatel baking in the oven to which you must be attending...
Well, doesn't matter what they say.>/i?
They have no shield,
No Secrets to reveal.
Chevy was good on WU.
Richard: Busch sounds kind of Petty.....
I mean, he sounds like a Republican....
Well, directed at those SNL viewers who know the make-up of the French soccer team.
I'm trying to pun off Yourri Djorkaeff's name, but I can't.
MsNeff the First has six toes on one of her feet; I don't recall which foot. It wasn't the toe that caused the divorce, it was all about who may have been licking it.
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Would anyone like some peanut butter truffles from Harry + David?
May I offer you some home made cider to accompany that?
SD:
I expect to see that on iTunes by weeks end.
WN
Doubt it, dear, but I did put forth the effort - gotta count for something!
Would anyone like some peanut butter truffles from Harry + David?
Think I'll hold out for those yummy cheesecake petit fours, thanks...
Well, doesn't matter what they say.>/i?
They have no shield,
No Secrets to reveal.
Is this a musical reference? I get no musical references whatsoever. I have van Gogh's ear for music.
>/i?
Have not seen that tag before.
It wasn't the toe that caused the divorce, it was all about who may have been licking it.
hey, there, I hear that.....and relate.
Is this a musical reference? I get no musical references whatsoever. I have van Gogh's ear for music.
Yup - "We Got the Beat" by The Go-Gos. Takes me back to high school. Big crush on Belinda Carlisle.
You want a toe? I can get you a toe, Dude. I have a friend at the morgue, he can get you a toe in fifteen minutes.
Some years ago, myself and the fellow who gave me a first LSU edition of Dunces (Thanks Keith!) were discussing the sequel that O'Toole might have written had he not offed himself.
We decided that Ignatius would have gotten a job at the U.N. as a realtime translator in the General Assembly.
Dumass Libural
You used all the puns up. This is the day ... the puns ... died.
Oh my, I Miss my blogging fun Pun, drove my sobreity to my levity but my levity was dry. And good old puns were thinking they were witty and sly, but this is the day that they died, this is the day that they died.
We decided that Ignatius would have gotten a job at the U.N. as a realtime translator in the General Assembly.
Dear Ambassador Wilson, Mongoloid:
NASCAR loves its squeaky clean image, but its full of Republicans.
I like the story (apparently its even true) about Ayrton Senna getting pulled over for speeding in the UK. The policeman leaned into the window and said "who do you think you are? Nigel Mansel?"
Big crush on Belinda Carlisle.
Marwood
How about the little drummer, Jane something. She was too cute.
Yup - "We Got the Beat" by The Go-Gos.
BZZZZZT! Oh, no, sorry. That's "Our Lips Are Sealed," which was actually co-written by a member of which English band (who did a "cover" at least as good)?
Frank Rich Part 1
'We Do Not Torture' and Other Funny Stories
By FRANK RICH
IF it weren't tragic it would be a New Yorker cartoon. The president of the United States, in the final stop of his forlorn Latin America tour last week, told the world, "We do not torture." Even as he spoke, the administration's flagrant embrace of torture was as hard to escape as publicity for Anderson Cooper.
The vice president, not satisfied that the C.I.A. had already been implicated in four detainee deaths, was busy lobbying Congress to give the agency a green light to commit torture in the future. Dana Priest of The Washington Post, having first uncovered secret C.I.A. prisons two years ago, was uncovering new "black sites" in Eastern Europe, where ghost detainees are subjected to unknown interrogation methods redolent of the region's Stalinist past. Before heading south, Mr. Bush had been doing his own bit for torture by threatening to cast the first veto of his presidency if Congress didn't scrap a spending bill amendment, written by John McCain and passed 90 to 9 by the Senate, banning the "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of prisoners.
So when you watch the president stand there with a straight face and say, "We do not torture" - a full year and a half after the first photos from Abu Ghraib - you have to wonder how we arrived at this ludicrous moment. The answer is not complicated. When people in power get away with telling bigger and bigger lies, they naturally think they can keep getting away with it. And for a long time, Mr. Bush and his cronies did. Not anymore.
The fallout from the Scooter Libby indictment reveals that the administration's credibility, having passed the tipping point with Katrina, is flat-lining. For two weeks, the White House's talking-point monkeys in the press and Congress had been dismissing Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation as much ado about nothing except politics and as an exoneration of everyone except Mr. Libby. Now the American people have rendered their verdict: they're not buying it. Last week two major polls came up with the identical finding, that roughly 8 in 10 Americans regard the leak case as a serious matter. One of the polls (The Wall Street Journal/NBC News) also found that 57 percent of Americans believe that Mr. Bush deliberately misled the country into war in Iraq and that only 33 percent now find him "honest and straightforward," down from 50 percent in January.
The Bush loyalists' push to discredit the Libby indictment failed because Americans don't see it as a stand-alone scandal but as the petri dish for a wider culture of lying that becomes more visible every day. The last-ditch argument rolled out by Mr. Bush on Veterans Day in his latest stay-the-course speech - that Democrats, too, endorsed dead-wrong W.M.D. intelligence - is more of the same.
Toole.
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Is this a musical reference? I get no musical references whatsoever. I have van Gogh's ear for music.
The Go-Gos, "Our Lips Are Sealed."
Which, as the videotape showed, they weren't.
Feral, yes, cider, please.
Perhaps it will dilute the non-elite chardonnay (actually sauvignon blanc I have been imbibing since getting home from work at 7:30pm PST tonight.....)
I want a prehensile tail, an extra set of arms, and eyes that can swivel independently. It would help if they were not presbyopic.
Oh, and Thers has a puny punk pylorus. Nyaah, nyaah, I mock Thers's pylorus! (I prefer to stay on good terms with my own.)
I want a prehensile tail, an extra set of arms, and eyes that can swivel independently. It would help if they were not presbyopic.
Oh, and Thers has a puny punk pylorus. Nyaah, nyaah, I mock Thers's pylorus! (I prefer to stay on good terms with my own.)
Homosexuality as a social movement is not a movement of love but a movement of hatred and indifference.
BZZZZZT! Oh, no, sorry. That's "Our Lips Are Sealed," which was actually co-written by a member of which English band (who did a "cover" at least as good)?
Fun Boy Three. Yawn.
Frank Rich Part 2
Sure, many Democrats (and others) did believe that Saddam had an arsenal before the war, but only the White House hyped selective evidence for nuclear weapons, the most ominous of all of Iraq's supposed W.M.D.'s, to whip up public fears of an imminent doomsday.
There was also an entire other set of lies in the administration's prewar propaganda blitzkrieg that had nothing to do with W.M.D.'s, African uranium or the Wilsons. To get the country to redirect its finite resources to wage war against Saddam Hussein rather than keep its focus on the war against radical Islamic terrorists, the White House had to cook up not only the fiction that Iraq was about to attack us, but also the fiction that Iraq had already attacked us, on 9/11. Thanks to the Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, who last weekend released a previously classified intelligence document, we now have conclusive evidence that the administration's disinformation campaign implying a link connecting Saddam to Al Qaeda and 9/11 was even more duplicitous and manipulative than its relentless flogging of nuclear Armageddon.
Senator Levin's smoking gun is a widely circulated Defense Intelligence Agency document from February 2002 that was probably seen by the National Security Council. It warned that a captured Qaeda terrorist in American custody was in all likelihood "intentionally misleading" interrogators when he claimed that Iraq had trained Qaeda members to use illicit weapons. The report also made the point that an Iraq-Qaeda collaboration was absurd on its face: "Saddam's regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements." But just like any other evidence that disputed the administration's fictional story lines, this intelligence was promptly disregarded.
So much so that eight months later - in October 2002, as the White House was officially rolling out its new war and Congress was on the eve of authorizing it - Mr. Bush gave a major address in Cincinnati intermingling the usual mushroom clouds with information from that discredited, "intentionally misleading" Qaeda informant. "We've learned that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases," he said. It was the most important, if hardly the only, example of repeated semantic sleights of hand that the administration used to conflate 9/11 with Iraq. Dick Cheney was fond of brandishing a nonexistent April 2001 "meeting" between Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague long after Czech and American intelligence analysts had dismissed it.
The power of these lies was considerable.
Wow this SNL show is bad.
How about the little drummer, Jane something. She was too cute.
Jane Wiedlin. She was cute. And Gina Schock (sp?) and Charlotte Caffey. All cute.
Frank Rich Part 3
In a CBS News/New York Times poll released on Sept. 25, 2001, 60 percent of Americans thought Osama bin Laden had been the culprit in the attacks of two weeks earlier, either alone or in league with unnamed "others" or with the Taliban; only 6 percent thought bin Laden had collaborated with Saddam; and only 2 percent thought Saddam had been the sole instigator. By the time we invaded Iraq in 2003, however, CBS News found that 53 percent believed Saddam had been "personally involved" in 9/11; other polls showed that a similar percentage of Americans had even convinced themselves that the hijackers were Iraqis.
There is still much more to learn about our government's duplicity in the run-up to the war, just as there is much more to learn about what has gone on since, whether with torture or billions of Iraq reconstruction dollars. That is why the White House and its allies, having failed to discredit the Fitzgerald investigation, are now so desperate to slow or block every other inquiry. Exhibit A is the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose Republican chairman, Pat Roberts, is proving a major farceur with his efforts to sidestep any serious investigation of White House prewar subterfuge. Last Sunday, the same day that newspapers reported Carl Levin's revelation about the "intentionally misleading" Qaeda informant, Senator Roberts could be found on "Face the Nation" saying he had found no evidence of "political manipulation or pressure" in the use of prewar intelligence.
His brazenness is not anomalous. After more than two years of looking into the forged documents used by the White House to help support its bogus claims of Saddam's Niger uranium, the F.B.I. ended its investigation without resolving the identity of the forgers. Last week, Jane Mayer of The New Yorker reported that an investigation into the November 2003 death of an Abu Ghraib detainee, labeled a homicide by the U.S. government, has been, in the words of a lawyer familiar with the case, "lying kind of fallow." The Wall Street Journal similarly reported that 17 months after Condoleezza Rice promised a full investigation into Ahmad Chalabi's alleged leaking of American intelligence to Iran, F.B.I. investigators had yet to interview Mr. Chalabi - who was being welcomed in Washington last week as an honored guest by none other than Ms. Rice.
The Times, meanwhile, discovered that Mr. Libby had set up a legal defense fund to be underwritten by donors who don't have to be publicly disclosed but who may well have a vested interest in the direction of his defense. It's all too eerily reminiscent of the secret fund set up by Richard Nixon's personal lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, to pay the legal fees of Watergate defendants.
Have not seen that tag before.
It's anew Microsoft "standard".
Which, as the videotape showed, they weren't.
Thers
To be fair, I doubt any of them had skidmarks on their hearts, either.
Fried matzoh balls, anyone?
Frank Rich Part IV
THERE'S so much to stonewall at the White House that last week Scott McClellan was reduced to beating up on the octogenarian Helen Thomas. "You don't want the American people to hear what the facts are, Helen," he said, "and I'm going to tell them the facts." Coming from the press secretary who vowed that neither Mr. Libby nor Karl Rove had any involvement in the C.I.A. leak, this scene was almost as funny as his boss's "We do not torture" charade.
Not that it matters now. The facts the American people are listening to at this point come not from an administration that they no longer find credible, but from the far more reality-based theater of war. The Qaeda suicide bombings of three hotels in Amman on 11/9, like the terrorist attacks in Madrid and London before them, speak louder than anything else of the price we are paying for the lies that diverted us from the war against the suicide bombers of 9/11 to the war in Iraq.
Frank Rich rocks.
Would anyone like some peanut butter truffles from Harry + David?
I would!
which was actually co-written by a member of which English band
Terry Hall.
I want a prehensile tail, an extra set of arms, and eyes that can swivel independently. It would help if they were not presbyopic.
Ahianne
Ooh,ooh, and expressive ears, like cats have.
"Wow this SNL show is bad"
No kidding. Shows liek this make me think they simply jot a few ideas down the night before and wing it. No sense of timing, no real topics and they either stretch long past its time or cut short.
Filker tom could probably expand on this, but I believe I read somewhere that famous filker Leslie Fish had a thing for polydactylic cats. She somehow got involved in trying to breed cats for extra intelligence and they also had extra toes.
The Go-Gos, "Our Lips Are Sealed."
Which, as the videotape showed, they weren't.
I sit corrected. It's too late for me.
Fun Boy Three - they backed up Bananarama on the Deep Sea Skiving ("Shy Boy" and "He Was Really Saying Something"). Bananarama - another cute band.
Jane Wiedlin. Who, according to Mr Hall, gave the best blowjobs ever.
I want a prehensile tail, an extra set of arms, and eyes that can swivel independently. It would help if they were not presbyopic.
Listen, having extra body parts is not all that it's cracked up to be.
though a tail might be cool.
Perhaps it will dilute the non-elite chardonnay
Depends on what you're adding to it. Just about anything is good in hard cider, I'm particularly fond of bourbon.
Jane Wiedlin. Who, according to Mr Hall, gave the best blowjobs ever.
Which Mr. Hall was that?
Frank, you're never so anti-gay when I've got arm up to the elbow in your sweet ath.
Ooh,ooh, and expressive ears, like cats have.
It might be fun to have plushy fur too.
Think of the money one would save on wardrobe.
I got it - Terry Hall.
How about the little drummer, Jane something. She was too cute.
Gina Schock is the drummer. Jane Wiedlin plays guitar.
You're lucky if there's one single skit on 90 of SNL that isn't an impression, a spoof, or something playing off of current events. Where is the Sarcastic Clapping Family for the 21st century?
Homosexuality as a social movement is not a movement of love but a movement of hatred and indifference.
Conservatism is nothing but a movemnet of the bowels. Determined to hemmorage blood all across the globe.
90 minutes
Gina Schock is the drummer. Jane Wiedlin plays guitar.
Richard
THAT's right. Fun music.
You're lucky if there's one single skit on 90 of SNL that isn't an impression, a spoof, or something playing off of current events.
The show just sucks now.
Think of the money one would save on wardrobe.
fourlegsgood
and retractable claws.
SNL needs to be given the Ol Yeller treatment.
Jimmy Fallon is Chief Suckmeister. The dude simply isn't funny.
Happy Walter Neff Day! And sleep sweet, moonbats.
The show just sucks now.
fourlegsgood
I do love the Amy Poehler/Horatio Sanz "Rick, Rick, Rick" sketch, though.
I give the best blowjobs ever - although I have never given a blowjob, it is clear by my skills in all other areas that I would give a blowjob of outstanding and unmatched quality. But the world will never get to experience the religious wonderment of a WalterNeff blowjob. So sad, really.
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Who is Walter Neff?
In other news, Arrested Development gets its run cut, and will probably not be reviewed.
There a more genuine jokes in a minute of AD than in 90 minutes of SNL. Unless Ashlee Simpson is on.
But the world will never get to experience the religious wonderment of a WalterNeff blowjob. So sad, really
It's technically impossible to give the world a Coke, also, alas.
Jimmy Fallon is Chief Suckmeister. The dude simply isn't funny.
He was brilliant in the Barry Gibb Talk Show sketch, as a deranged, belligerent Barry Gibb who seemed to think he could do kung fu.
Other than that... not so much.
Who is Walter Neff?
The world's greatest not giver of blow jobs of course...
THERE'S so much to stonewall at the White House that last week Scott McClellan was reduced to beating up on the octogenarian Helen Thomas. "You don't want the American people to hear what the facts are, Helen," he said, "and I'm going to tell them the facts."
For whatever reason, that passage just chaps my ass.
How anybody could just sit there and let little Scotty say that to Helen is beyond me.
I'll take one Helen over a hundred Scotty's any day of the week.
She represents my America, and Scotty can go fuck himself.
Did I miss something? Is this WalterNeff Day?
It's technically impossible to give the world a Coke, also, alas.
But, it's the real thing!
Charlotte Caffey of course is married to trash rock legend Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross.
Is this WalterNeff Day?
Every day is Walter Neff day.
He was brilliant in the Barry Gibb Talk Show sketch, as a deranged, belligerent Barry Gibb who seemed to think he could do kung fu.
Other than that... not so much.
Eli
That WAS good. It actually made me like Justin Timberlake.
And when Justin Timberlake was Jessica Simpson to Jimmy Fallon's Nick what'-his-name.
Confused I remain.
I remember way back when when Saturday Night first came on the air. As a stone NatLamp fan, I was eager to see O'Donoghue perform, and had high hopes for the show which, after a shaky start, pretty much met expectations. There was only one problem. While everyone else in the country was sitting around getting high as a kite watching their counter-culture peers take over American television, who did I have to sit on the couch watching it with? My parents, who had been watching and enjoying cutting edge comedy literally since before I was born. Their stash of old record albums included Lenny Bruce (on red vinyl), Tom Lehrer (on the original 10 inchers he sold by mail order), Jonathan Winters, the 2000 Year Old Man, etc etc etc. They used to wake me up when I was 6 years old when Jim Henson and the Muppets performed on the Tonight Show, whom they had followed religiously in DC when Henson and his wife had a show called "Sam and Friends." They made sure I watched "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and knew about the genius that was Carl Reiner. They were still lamenting the loss of "That Was the Week That Was." In 1974, they came home one Sunday afternoon and told me I must - MUST - get off my ass and go see a new movie by a guy they knew all about named Mel Brooks called "Blazing Saddles."
30 years later, I realize I'm now about the same age they were back when "SNL" first came on...
Who is WalterNeff?
He is my brother, and I hear he gives shitty blow jobs near the dumpster at the Parking-In-Rear all-night mini mart. But he doesn't charge much, so there's that.
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EkCenTriK: Did I really kill the puns? Ah, shit. I will truly miss Eli's and NTodd's most excellent puns. I promise I will abstain, so hopefully others can excel. Really. Sorry.
Charlotte Caffey of course is married to trash rock legend Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross.
I didn't realize that. Redd Kross did a song I really like - "Lady in the Front Row." Very catchy tune.
sallyh
All I know is they are putting up a statue of walter at the local court house and saying he saved the world. Meanwhile the hunt is on to find out who issued the contract for the statue and why. San Antonio is abuzz with the simple question "Who is Walter Neff? and is this like when we walked around asking who the hell Bruce Springsteen is?"
Sallyh:
See my post at the very end of the last thread for details of Walterpalooza.
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speaking of plushy:
Ira
Fun Boy Three. Yawn.
Hey - I loved Fun Boy Three. I still go around the house singing "Barnyard Connection"...
IIRC, Thomas asked Scottie a yes or no question. Of course, he refused to answer yes or no plainly, and countered this direct and legitimate question with a barrage of increasingly self-righteous blather.
Vile-- like a rabid squid letting loose a cloud of foul poison ink.
That WAS good. It actually made me like Justin Timberlake.
And when Justin Timberlake was Jessica Simpson to Jimmy Fallon's Nick what'-his-name.
I used to hate Justin Timberlake, but it was impossible to continue after that episode.
Speaking of Jane Wiedlin, check out the photo on her webpage...
http://www.janewiedlin.com/
Okay - that was the worst CGI helicopter in the short history of CGI helicopters.
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Marcia Brady - cats retract their claws by folding back the last joint of their digits. I'm not sure that's practical with long skinny fingers like ours. Might work with our toes, but then we'd have to wear sandals yearround to have them bare for use.
Oh, and I continue to mock the pylorus of Thersites.
If I had a tail, I would like it to be capable of delivering crushing blows to my enemies.
Thers, you could use yours to ward off ocelots.
Speaking of Jane Wiedlin, check out the photo on her webpage...
Whoa. Wait a second - there's a guy who specializes in those pictures; in fact, I think she's re-enacting one of them.
WhyTF do I know this???
I'm pretty sure it's my girlfriend's fault...
EvilWalterNeff--ahem. I thought you killed yourself when the gravatars vanished.
I used to hate Justin Timberlake, but it was impossible to continue after that episode.
Eli
To me, the other big surprise was Ian McKellen.
I used to hate Justin Timberlake, but it was impossible to continue after that episode.
I kind of agree.
I like a guy who can laugh at himself.
Speaking of Jane Wiedlin, check out the photo on her webpage...
http://www.janewiedlin.com/
She doesn't mind scanty clothing. And there was a fifth Go-Go I'd forgotten about - Kathy Valentine.
Looks like Jane's coming to SF next week:
Upcoming shows listed by date. Come once, come often.
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WalterNeff--I'm having a little trouble with the crisp $50 bills--I sort of blew a bunch of them on Christmas gifts today.
... there's a guy who specializes in those pictures; in fact, I think she's re-enacting one of them.
Yeah, I've seen those too... can't quite remember where. Musta been one of those "retro hip artwork" mags like Juxtapoz...
sally, you've christmas shopped already?
I doubt I'll do any before december 15th.
Hey kids... let's get this one going:
Bill O'Reilly is a Terrorist Sympathizer
...there was a fifth Go-Go I'd forgotten about - Kathy Valentine.
Actually, I think her real name was "Leppo."
Fun Boy Three. Yawn.
Hey - I loved Fun Boy Three. I still go around the house singing "Barnyard Connection"...
I was being haughty about the ease of the question for one of my Skills, not the merit of the band.
(My wife is murder on Go-Gos/Fun Boy Three trivia.)
I hate it when squids get rabid. And it's so hard to find a vet to vaccinate a squid.
Rock Your Body did it for me. Pure pop.
4Legs--I ship a lot of stuff to various relatives across the US, and I prefer to enjoy my holidays. So I shop early.
(My wife is murder on Go-Gos/Fun Boy Three trivia.)
Actually, when she starts talking about music it's time for me to shut up.
Since I'm woefully ignorant and can hardly remember my own name, let alone names of bands and band members.
Oh, and I continue to mock the pylorus of Thersites.
Sticks and stones can break my pylorus, but words can never give me dementia praecox.
To me, the other big surprise was Ian McKellen.
OMG. His one-man show on the life of Charles Dickens. Genius.
Well if JurrasicPork and the Kenosha Kid can blogwhore, then so can I
Tragedy and Farce:
How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy
By John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
New Press, 211 pp, 23.95 dollars
Unless media magnate Rupert Murdoch subscribes to the old adage about knowing one's enemies, you are unlikely to find this book in his home library. Nor is it likely to turn up anywhere in the White House. This is unfortunate because, while they might not find its progressive political spin to their taste, Tragedy and Farce would provide the occupants of either abode with the harsh dose of reality and constructive criticism they so desperately need.
Make no mistake, coauthors John Nichols (Dick: the Man Who Is President), Washington correspondent for liberal newsmagazine The Nation, and Robert W. McChesney (Rich Media, Poor Democracy), a communications professor at the University of Illinois, wear their progressive credentials on their sleeves and are unapologetic opponents of the current U.S. administration. Their political affiliations, however, in no way weaken their argument that the mass media in the United States are in severe decline and are dragging democracy down in the process.
the rest is on the blog.....
Rock Your Body did it for me. Pure pop.
I admit I like that song.
I thought Stuart Sutcliffe was the fifth Go-Go.
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Since the topic of girl bands seems to keep popping up, anyone here a fan of The Bangles?
Cobraguy--enjoy both the Go-Gos and the Bangles--Valley girls, all of them 
I'm fading - good night all.
Um, I recall Susanna Hoffs being one of the first individuals I recognized as "hot."
"The Bangles?"
They sang?
His one-man show on the life of Charles Dickens. Genius.
Eli
Kylie Minogue was the musical guest that night, and I remember the shot of Sir Ian in his shiny shirt just dancing away off-stage.
Kylie Minogue was the musical guest that night, and I remember the shot of Sir Ian in his shiny shirt just dancing away off-stage.
Heh heh heh. He is Teh Cool.
I also liked when he stole a kiss from Jimmy Fallon while impersonating (IIRC) Maggie Smith.
Since the topic of girl bands seems to keep popping up, anyone here a fan of The Bangles?
cobraguy
I had an old boyfriend who had the worst thing for Susanna Hoffs. I bought him her poster one Christmas.
Sticks and stones can break my pylorus, but words can never give me dementia praecox
Speaking of which, I read in the paper today (while eating pancakes), that there's a researcher that thinks it's caused by a virus (or was it a bacteria?) carried by cats. And cat turds.
a half hour of this after noon digested into 3.5 seconds.
http://static.flickr.com/30/
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I also liked when he stole a kiss from Jimmy Fallon while impersonating (IIRC) Maggie Smith.
Eli
Yes!
And pretty much any SNL with Alec Baldwin is good.
Kylie Minogue was the musical guest that night, and I remember the shot of Sir Ian in his shiny shirt just dancing away off-stage.
That's cool. I liked that he brought his hot, young boyfriend to both the BAFTAs and the oscars.
Kind of like, "yeah, I'm gay, what of it?"
Actually, when she starts talking about music it's time for me to shut up.
We have a strict division of labor. She's in charge of remembering things. I'm in charge of forgetting things.
I was being haughty about the ease of the question for one of my Skills, not the merit of the band.
Objection withdrawn.
Also good on that album: "The More I See, The Less I Believe" (quite a timely title!).
And the other song I mentioned is "Farmyard Connection," not "Barnyard Connection."
I regret the etc...
We have a strict division of labor. She's in charge of remembering things. I'm in charge of forgetting things.
I need a spouse like that. Lion kitty is just no fucking good at remembering things.
in charge of forgetting things.
and drunken pogo stick duck hunting.
a half hour of this after noon digested into 3.5 seconds.
It sure is pretty where you are.
Here? not so much.
ever notice who in families is the one to remember birthdays, when they are and cards for them?
four legs what part of the world do you live in?
ever notice who in families is the one to remember birthdays, when they are and cards for them?
Uh, no.
It ain't me, that's for sure.
four legs what part of the world do you live in?
The foul, stupid part.
Texas. (austin, so it could be worse) It hasn't rained here much in months, so everything is dried up and ugly.
We also have a plethora of fundies and giant, flying cockroaches.
One of the great things about music references here -
You guys just reminded me of the go-go's and the bangles.
Just went and downloaded 5-6 songs I like from them. Itunes ranks the artists most downloaded songs, which happen to be the ones I usually want the most.
Buck a song, instant gratification, priceless.
It hasn't rained here much in months, so everything is dried up and ugly.
You're living inside Ann Coulter? You poor, sad bastard.
Austin? There's got to be some great people shots to get there.
"Texas. (austin, so it could be worse) It hasn't rained here much in months, so everything is dried up and ugly."
Feast or famine. I will put off watering the yard due to forecasts and then nada.
We also have a plethora of fundies and giant, flying cockroaches.
You're living inside Ann Coulter? You poor, sad bastard.
Austin? There's got to be some great people shots to get there.
Yep. Lots and lots of weirdos.
and drunken pogo stick duck hunting.
You're supposed to hunt ducks with shotguns?
We also have a plethora of fundies and giant, flying cockroaches.
Both of which can be found near discarded Wal-Mart bags.
This is odd, but what is it?
http://static.flickr.com/31/
5995..._09ece87f1d.jpg
You're living inside Ann Coulter? You poor, sad bastard.
Excuse me while I go slit my wrists.
You're supposed to hunt ducks with shotguns?
It's easier than with rifles, unless your shooting with shotgun slugs, then it's not easy.
It's strange, but every evening around this time I smell cigarette smoke. Either I have a smoking ghost, or someone is on my fire escape.
This is odd, but what is it?
Giant lawn furniture?
Cowtapult?
Yep. Lots and lots of weirdos.
Could you leave my brother out of this.
doug
Loom?
This is odd, but what is it?
Is it a cow tosser?
Or a giant cheese slicer?
It's strange, but every evening around this time I smell cigarette smoke. Either I have a smoking ghost, or someone is on my fire escape.
It's probably a ghost.
This is odd, but what is it?
You know - it's that thing that guy built for that stuff at that place.
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Cowtapult?
Sick minds think alike.
Now I'm about 90 percent done with Christmas shopping.
Now I'm about 90 percent done with Christmas shopping.
Did you get anyone a cowtapult?
Now I'm about 90 percent done with Christmas shopping.
STOP THAT!!!
ever notice who in families is the one to remember birthdays, when they are and cards for them?
doug,
As the eldest child and eldest daughter, that seems to fall on me.
Goodnight moonbats. I seem to have unwound.
Good evening folks!
This is odd, but what is it?
Easy - it's a beef shredder
STOP THAT!!!
I agree. I haven't even thought about it.
Now I'm about 90 percent done with
Christmas shopping.
My wife is typically done except for last minute items around labor day.
4Legs--is that all the rage this year?
I better see if I can return the catapult I got Monsieur...
In order to raise money for 2006 congressional candidates I'm going to sell some of my Handsome™ on eBay. It's a good cause and I will still have enough left to be GoodLookin'™.
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Marcia Brady--shit! I forgot I shouldn't smoke while photographing you with Keithy!
maybe it's a giant juicer.
Now I'm about 90 percent done with Christmas shopping.
sallyh,Grandmere Poissonniere
Christmas?
World largest egg slicer to go with the world's largest egg which naturally goes with the world's largest chicken.
Eli--you're a dude. No one expects you to even think about shopping till the morning of December 24th.
Or Paul Bunyan's finger piano.
Marcia, where is the cigarette smoke coming from? It's all of us lurking outside your windows.
marcia, no. It's a ghost.
They often manifest through smells.
Here are some photos I took at a Go-Gos concert...
http://members.cox.net/akis/go-g...gos/
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Eli--you're a dude. No one expects you to even think about shopping till the morning of December 24th.
Fortunately, I have honed my technique to the point where all I need is about an hour in Barnes & Noble...
and we have cameras. You've been disapointing me. I've not yet got a shot of the ectoplasm.
Okay. Night all.
And then I looked at the whatsit......
Cow slicer. Like an egg slicer but much more so.
WalterNeff--the more Handsome you share, the more Handsome you obtain.
That all just came out odd. I have no idea where Marcia even lives. Does she live here on this blog?
and we have cameras. You've been disapointing me. I've not yet got a shot of the ectoplasm.
I would actually like to shoot in a graveyard at night.
doug--we all kind of live on the blog the way Beavis and Butthead live on the sofa.
Well, well, well....
Get a load of this.
In a paper posted online Tuesday and accepted for peer-reviewed publication next year, Jones adds his voice to those of previous skeptics
Previous investigations, including those of FEMA, the 9/11 Commission and NIST (the National Institutes of Standards and Technology), ignore the physics and chemistry of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, to the Twin Towers and the 47-story building known as WTC 7, he says. The official explanation — that fires caused structural damage that caused the buildings to collapse — can't be backed up by either testing or history, he says.
Finally! Lets have some science. Since the government refuses to look into the reality of that day. Science can sure tell us more about the events of that day. It's time we got some real answers.
Maybe handsome grows back.
Like toenails.
If there's any kind of moon, really long bulb shot should be able to take pictures of the grave stones.
ever notice who in families is the one to remember birthdays, when they are and cards for them?
Uh, no.
It ain't me, that's for sure.
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i can't even remember my own birthday most of the time. the other day someone asked me how old i was and i had to think about it.
Sally, why are you "grandmere" all of a sudden?
Oh man, with this I'm off to bed.
Just click, cat fight, Maureen and JFM.
Little Michele will be glad that the worst picture in the world is now owned by JFM.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...13/
ixworld.html
They often manifest through smells.
fourlegsgood
Or maybe it's that pesky brain aneurism acting up...
marcia, no. It's a ghost.
They often manifest through smells.
Toby's a ghost?
and we have cameras. You've been disapointing me. I've not yet got a shot of the ectoplasm.
doug,
But you did get the glowing blue eyes, right?
If there's any kind of moon, really long bulb shot should be able to take pictures of the grave stones.
Right. What I was talking about was trying to catch some light anomolies. I saw some freaky psychic on discovery who often shoots in graveyards and gets pretty freaky stuff.
I'm sure there are technical explanations for the photographs but they're still way cool.
I have no idea where Marcia even lives. Does she live here on this blog?
doug,
Well, it's not like I'm an actual person or anything.
Toby's a ghost?
No.
He just stinks.
As well as being ugly and stupid and disliked the world over.
i'm 41, but i said i was 40. then i thought about it and realized i was actually 41.
just out of curiosity, does anyone else have this going on? whenever i refer to any event that happened between about 1985 and last weekend, i say it happened about 10 years ago.
I'm sure there are technical explanations for the photographs
Light leaks in a cheap plastic throwaway camera, dirty developing chemicals, or just dark room tomfoolery.
Little Michele will be glad that the worst picture in the world is now owned by JFM.
Yikes! Judy^3 is literally the picture of Dorian Gray.
I'm sure there are technical explanations for the photographs but they're still way cool.
fourlegsgood
Did you see the movie White Noise?
In the extra features on the dvd, they have an extensive bit on real people who go around recording in "haunted" buildings, then processing the recordings through the computer.
Fun to watch all alone in the dark late at night.
Well, it's not like I'm an actual person or anything.
If you're a bot, you pass the turing test.
If you're a bot, you pass the turing test.
doug,
I'm not a bot. I'm an illuuuuuuusion.
Light leaks in a cheap plastic throwaway camera, dirty developing chemicals, or just dark room tomfoolery.
They didn't look like the common stuff. And he uses a pretty good camera.
Don't know.
"That's madness. The collateral damage would be devastating"
no, not Rumsfeld.
Dan Corteze.
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But you did get the glowing blue eyes, right?
Just pink nipples.
No one expects you to even think about shopping till the morning of December 24th.
True story: May Dad & I went Christmas shopping and were kicked out of a mall on Dec 24th because it was closing.
doug, i rebuilt my left carb, but i did it wrong, so i have to tear it off again tomorrow.
Did you see the movie White Noise?
I haven't. I'll have to rent it.
Fortunately, I have honed my technique to the point where all I need is about an hour in Barnes & Noble...
Eli
So what are you getting me? I'll act surprised.
i can't even remember my own birthday most of the time. the other day someone asked me how old i was and i had to think about it.
Whenever anyone asks me that, I say: "How old am I? I am no mortal age. I cannot die, unless I step outside these whitethorn hedges." Then I pat them warmly on the arm. "Patrick Kavanagh," I confide. Then I walk away.
Why do I do this?
Because I can never remember how old I am.
i rebuilt my left carb, but i did it wrong, so i have to tear it off again tomorrow.
What do you think went wrong?
whenever i refer to any event that happened between about 1985 and last weekend, i say it happened about 10 years ago.
I posted a simliar comment at AmericaBlog about ten years ago.
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Fortunately, I have honed my technique to the point where all I need is about an hour in Barnes & Noble...
Eli
So what are you getting me?
A zamboni.
WalterNeff- I suggest you spare yourself and change the channel.
Really, it's not worth it.
So what are you getting me?
cattle grates
I posted a simliar comment at AmericaBlog about ten years ago.
When you were dead!
Just pink nipples.
doug,
That was the cat.
4Legs--because Mlle is expecting in June.
I forgot my own birthday this year and everyone at the office was scandalized.
Okay, the locust hitting the chopper was pretty well done.
As in overcooked.
.
4Legs--because Mlle is expecting in June.
Oh, dear.
That's what I was afraid of.
So what are you getting me? I'll act surprised.
Um, not sure yet.
Do you like books?
I forgot my own birthday this year and everyone at the office was scandalized.
fourlegsgood
My ex and I both forgot our last anniversary until about a month after it had passed.
I wonder if that meant something...
What do you think went wrong?
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there is a needle in it with a clip at the top. there is a disc that goes under the clip. i'm pretty sure that when i reassembled it i put the clip over the disc.
Thers:
I'm told that's where that goofiness started.
.
Do you like books?
Eli
Yes. Non-fiction.
Ghosts.
Bah. Humbug.
.
Yes. Non-fiction.
Noted.
there is a needle in it with a clip at the top. there is a disc that goes under the clip. i'm pretty sure that when i reassembled it i put the clip over the disc.
Olaf glad and big (elitist for | Email | Homepage | 11.13.05 - 1:33 am | #
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or maybe it's the other way around. i think that is whare my mistake was though. i can't be sure though, since i did it about 10 years ago.
another "what is it?".
http://static.flickr.com/31/
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Hey, anyone here play the Hollywood Stock Exchange?
www.hsx.com
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The hatch on Lost?
.
another "what is it?".
Looks like a top view of a vertical exhaust pipe lid or something.
I'm told that's where that goofiness started.
That's what I heard.
"To be dead is to stop believing in the masterpieces we will write tomorrow."
Am I posting too fast or often? or am I talking to myself again.
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A Torpedo tube from a WWI submarine.
another "what is it?".
http://static.flickr.com/31/ 3847..._21660e61ae.jpg
doug,
Why are there eyes looking out of the window?
The Locust movie is so cheap that the flame throwers are CGI.
.
I just discovered a problem with bio-diesel electrical generation.
The friends computer that had all the weird problems is the one doing that. Turns out just about everything inside was zapped by a power surge from his generator.
Both hard drives show unrepairable errors, when the drive factory disk utilities are ran on them.
another "what is it?".
http://static.flickr.com/31/ 3847..._21660e61ae.jpg
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it is the seal on a time capsule from about, i don't know. . . about 10 years ago i guess.
Did we ever learn what the *first* whatsit was?
WalterNeff--since I spent the day spending all kinds of money on other people, I have had no time to bake, but I did get truffles from Harry + David, which you are welcome to.
Did we ever learn what the *first* whatsit was?
Eli
Maybe it's unknowable.
the rusty item with the wired window isn't any of your guesses.
Did we ever learn what the *first* whatsit was?
It's a hay racking, farm implement that from times before they had tractors and hay bailers.
sallyh--
Want a scone?
.
Want a scone?
There's no pastry like scone.
(((ROSS!!!)))
I would love a scone!
How are the girls?
i think that thing is some sort of homemade pottery firing device.
Olaf, its tedious, but I find the first time I disassemble something that's complicated, detailed pictures either taken with a digital camera or drawn saves time.
Want a scone?
battle scones?
"I want a prehensile tail, an extra set of arms, and eyes that can swivel independently. It would help if they were not presbyopic."
‹Zoidberg›"And an inksack to help you escape from your enemies!‹/Zoidberg›
i think that thing is some sort of homemade pottery firing device.
Olaf is the closest,
it has something to do with mass art but nothing to do with pottery.
Olaf, its tedious, but I find the first time I disassemble something that's complicated, detailed pictures either taken with a digital camera or drawn saves time.
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it's not that bad. once i get the carbs out it will take like 5 seconds to fix if it is what i think it is. these carbs have like 3 moving parts. the pain in the ass is taking them off and putting them back on again.
it has something to do with mass art but nothing to do with pottery.
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ok. think, think, think. . .
it appears to have a hinge and a latch, but it also has a window. that tells me that you might want to know what is happening inside, but you don't want to open it to check.
but you don't want to open it to check.
not while it is running.
What's another common name for mass art?
it is the door for a device for heat treating metal.
What's another common name for mass art?
doug, | Email | 11.13.05 - 1:57 am | #
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i've never heard of mass art
mass art, "media"
Now I've given it away.
mass art, "media"
Now I've given it away.
It's an old-style TV?
It's an old-style TV?
there were no electronics in it.
mass art, "media"
Now I've given it away.
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it's an extremely primitive vacuum tube, of the sort that they used to use about 10 years ago.
one word
"light"
it's a smoke machine.
it's a strobelight!
Not a smoke machine or strobe light though light has something to do with this.
another word,
"limelight"
I'm baaaaackkkk!!!
After having wasted two hours -- less commercials -- on the pesticide loving bug movie, I can say with all honesty.....
When's Mansquito on again?
But ya'lls excellent liveblog did move the action right along.
T'anks.
sodium lamp?
sodium lamp?
those are commonly used for illumination
This has to do with showing something.
This has to do with showing something.
It's a projector?
Or a spotlight?
hardrock, no candy mountain, made by kid, sally helped fix 'em, long time ago scones.
It's a projector?
part of, but this is still not the answer.
it's one of those searchlights that they used in london during the blitz.
It may look odd because I think this may have been part of the odd gear from the estate of Dr Jellison (LtCol,USArmy), the epidemiologist that was the medical officer for the WWII Burma campaign. (There was only one case of Malaria in that campaign)
So this is a miltary version.
NO NIGGERS ALLOWED. NO NIGGERS ALLOWED. NO NIGGERS ALLOWED. NO NIGGERS ALLOWED.
It may look odd because I think this may have been part of the odd gear from the estate of Dr Jellison (LtCol,USArmy), the epidemiologist that was the medical officer for the WWII Burma campaign. (There was only one case of Malaria in that campaign)
So this is a miltary version.
doug, | Email | 11.13.05 - 2:19 am | #
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i don't know what it is. i'm going upstairs.
It's a projector take up reel.
The window allows the projectionist to see when the reel is almost full, and that he needs to ready the next projector to make the transition smooth.
But they're so hard to find in my cosmic mind I think I'll take a look out of the window...
(from YES - Going for the One)
Also Yes-like...
World 5.0 - because the current o/s is so damn broken.
peace out
OMG!!!!!!!
FRIST!!!!
HA HA hA hAH AHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!
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