I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Which article is it? The one about yet another number three in AQ? It's too late at night...
i'm still hopefull when i see this stuff but how many #3's have we killed now?
Wow! I won the frist! May I thank all my snakes and Hank and Henrietta and all my dear readers and all the wonderful and sharp and sarcastic brains on Eschaton and Mr. Atrios Himself and the trolls who show us what we are fighting against and remind us all that the fall down is enormously long. Sniff.
We're even safer now!!!
(i'm assuming that you're talking about yet another AQ clod...)
Look, how about number 1, you know, just for a change?
"Paging Al Queda #3 please. Would Al Queda's #3 please report for your monthly check-up!"
3rd? Buu.
bizarre gardening accent?
And who the eff is Al Qaeda's #3?
Does anyone have their deck of cards handy?
I am the new number 3.
Who is number 1?
Am am not a number, I'm a free man!
Uh, so was it the AlQueda guy or the guy in the picture?
I think I just did a number 3 on myself.
HBO BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT
May 06, 2005
BILL MAHER: So I guess you read in the paper yesterday, as we all did, that apparently we have captured the number-three man in Al Qaeda. Does it seem to you that this is about the fifth time we've captured the “number-three man”? In Al Queda? I mean, how many number-three men do they have over there in Al Qaeda?
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: It's very hard to tell. And the problem is that we haven't captured the number-one man, though we have thousands of troops there looking for him.
The more things change...
Great look, good drummer.
I wanna be number 4. It's my favorite number.
Thanks for decoding. Sometimes these posts are a little "inside baseball."
May I thank all my snakes and Hank and Henrietta and all my dear readers and all the wonderful and sharp and sarcastic brains on Eschaton and Mr. Atrios Himself and the trolls who show us what we are fighting against and remind us all that the fall down is enormously long.
*sniff*
...and she forgets the children completely...
*sniff*
Wiley?
Gizmo?
The feral neighbors?
Wow. They got number 3 on the day that the news about all those marines getting killed comes out.
That is a coincidence but good news nonetheless.
It should be easier to capture these Al Qaeda guys, if they're running around in jerseys with big giant numbers on their backs.
He choked on vomit - someone else's.
3 is an unlucky number among terrorists.
And seeing that it's 11:35 here in the Central Time Zone, and msnbc was last updated at 10:35 Eastern, what the hell is going on? It ain't breaking news no mo.
Does anyone have their deck of cards handy?
Zap Rowsdower
I don't think they have an Al Qaeda deck because those terrorists are all mysterious and shadowy.
AP-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan expressed concerns Friday that America's failure to deal with its exploding budget deficit and worldwide efforts to erect trade barriers could disrupt the global economy.
Shouldn't we file this under "now he tells us!"
They don't pretend to come up with names anymore.
ANOTHER FUCKING "NUMBER 3"??? GODDAMN! Who do you have to blow to move up to number 2 in Al Q??
my bad. 11:35 eastern.
It's now 11:38 central.
What, ah, what DID happen to kitties on Friday?
Worst. Link. Evar.
Not exactly #3, but one of the "Top 5"
It ain't breaking news no mo.
Zap Rowsdower
Since Rita Cosby hasn't found Natalee yet, it's the best they got.
Now it's top 5.
Assholes can't even keep it straight.
Why even rank 'em?
Remember, as we remove #3, they all move up in rank...
"...the authorities said, 'Best leave this one ... unsolved.'"
Heh. Now it's a "Top al-Qaida leader". Glad we could help you avoid an embarrassing gaffe there, MSNBC.
"He choked on vomit - someone else's."
you can't fingerprint vomit...
The headline just changed. It now says 'Top al-Qaida leader killed in Pakistan, officials say'.
Much as I am disappointed by the lack of an mp3 of "Life Begins At The Hop," "Helicopter," or "Making Plans For Nigel" in my mailbox this past week, I must give thanks to Sallyh and Eli for suggesting that I reacquaint myself with Eric Johnson's Tones LP.
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Mick Shrimpton
"WHO'S #2 WORKING FOR???"
hey little girl it's a great big world but there's only one of me...
Rabia has been sought by both U.S. and Pakistani officials for more than two years. Pakistan has a $1 million reward for his capture. He is believed to have participated in the planning for two assassination attempts against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Dec. 14
The fucker tried to pull an asassination on my birthday?
Have they no shame?
this is such nonsense.
these people (i.e., the maladministration) couldn't pour piss out of a boot successfully.
Al Qaeda has more #3s than members.
do I have to come right flat out and tell you everything? Give me some money!
"these people (i.e., the maladministration) couldn't pour piss out of a boot successfully.'
that's nitpicking...
The article says this was done by a missile attack on a safehouse in Pakistan. So we're launching missiles on Pakistan now. Seems like a bit of burying the lede to me...
Got neighbors with cheer. I'll see you all tomorrow. Have sweet batty dreams.
I thought our troops were not allowed to attack in Pakistan, because it would rile up the natives too much.
I must give thanks to Sallyh and Eli for suggesting that I reacquaint myself with Eric Johnson's Tones LP.
Oh, dear Lord, yes. I loves me some Eric Johnson. One of my fondest memories is of driving back from Austin and playing his "Ah Musica!" or something like that with its band of angels at daybreak somewhere in Arkansas where it was all flat, and there was nothing but sky. It was glorious.
I see. Now that I've read the article it goes like this. If #3 in the deck is captured or killed then #4 becomes #3. Sort of like when #2 Texas loses to #6Texas AM then #3 Penn State becomes no #2.
Yeah ok.... so after the former #29 rises up by attrition to #3 the headlines again claim 3rd guy captured or killed. The problem is that the 3rd guy was Osama's valet and not the terrorizing henchman we are invading Iraq about.
It's so confusing keeping up with DOD's card game. They should switch to the Monopoly type game McDonald's uses. It's all about the oil anyway.
The Al Quaeda deck of cards is all 3s.
jdw, I am an accomplished nitpicker.
Rabia was believed to be the chief deputy to Abu Faraj al-Libbi, al-Qaida's operational chief and the No. 3 man in the organization.
I guess 'Personal Assistant to #3 Al Qaiada Leader Killed' just doesn't have the same ring to it.
"The Al Quaeda deck of cards is all 3s."
This is what happens when we hand the war effort over to Penn and Teller.
hamletta: Oh, dear Lord, yes. I loves me some Eric Johnson. One of my fondest memories is of driving back from Austin and playing his "Ah Musica!" or something like that with its band of angels at daybreak somewhere in Arkansas where it was all flat, and there was nothing but sky. It was glorious.
Ah Via Musicom, perhaps...?
Wow, cool to meet another Nashvillian EJ fan. 
The dude is obsessive about his recordings, though -- 10x worse than Holdsworth, apparently. He supposedly knows when the wrong battery is in his fuzz box... by ear. That scares me.
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"He looks like number two to me, if you get my drift."...Peter Falk in Murder by Death
I think I've got this figured out. AQ is like those minimum-wage jobs where, once you've been there 3 months, they make you Assistant Manager...
They're ALL #3!
They'll catch Chemical Ali again next week. But we wouldn't be free if our young people weren't losing their lives in Iraq, so I guess it is worth it.
What is this liberal conspiracy to put an "X" over Stumpy Pepys?
Jeffraham....
I'm sorry about not having Drums and Wires on CD. One of these days, I am going to have to get some new needles, then sit down and rip some of my old vinyl......
Did anyone take a screencap of the '#3' headline?
The Al Quaeda deck of cards is all 3s.
ronjazz
Wow. That explains a lot.
Our freedom grows higher with every American death in Iraq. Bush is a freedom piler!
I see. Now that I've read the article it goes like this. If #3 in the deck is captured or killed then #4 becomes #3. Sort of like when #2 Texas loses to #6Texas AM then #3 Penn State becomes no #2.
Yeah, but it would help if there was an AP poll to let us know who the current #3 is...
I see. Now that I've read the article it goes like this. If #3 in the deck is captured or killed then #4 becomes #3. Sort of like when #2 Texas loses to #6Texas AM then #3 Penn State becomes no #2.
Someone let me know when al-Haig's turn comes up, okay?
He's the man behind the man behind the man. Fox News will ride this pony all weekend. So I guess Number 4 moves up to number 3 now. In other words, nothing has changed.
Yawn.
Officially, neither the U.S. government nor the Pakistani government would confirm a successful attack. U.S. officials confirmed a missile attack took place, but would not confirm that Rabia was killed.
Trying to asses who to blame if it was done illegally?
Tlazolteotl: I'm sorry about not having Drums and Wires on CD. One of these days, I am going to have to get some new needles, then sit down and rip some of my old vinyl......
Aw, don't apologize -- I can prob'ly pick it up for $5 at Phonoluxe, if I just leave early enough to stop by there before work next week.
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Isn't that a photo of Ed Begley Junior? He used to be on St. Elsewhere
Enlighten me...who is Stumpy?
It's all a load of tripe for the wingers to sell the wingnuttery. They take this kind of shit as the "turning the corner" crap that falls on it's face every time. Face it, folks. With Bu$h, Dummy and Cheney involved, it's all going to hell.
...and she forgets the children completely...
Sniff. I'm crushed.
As for Eric Johnson, don't be frightened Jeffraham, the man has perfect pitch.
I saw him at the Beacon Theatre in NYC about 10 years ago- he was fucking amazing.
Live he sounds like his studio albums, but better. It was glorious.
BTW, Holden hates him.... yet another reason we should bop him over the head and steal all his ponies.
He's the man behind the man behind the man. Fox News will ride this pony all weekend. So I guess Number 4 moves up to number 3 now. In other words, nothing has changed.
Fox will flog this until the New Year.
Better check his body for freezer brun. 10 Marines are killed and low and behold they kill AQ # 3 in Pakistan.
Enlighten me...who is Stumpy?
Ack, who cares?
More importantly, I got ya some fresh Plushy.
Iago says: " think I've got this figured out. AQ is like those minimum-wage jobs where, once you've been there 3 months, they make you Assistant Manager..."
Yeah, and then you get to wear that polyester vest with a Red name tag too.
Jeffraham....you've got mail!
Let me know if you are at all intrigued, I would be happy to share a few of my own geeky likes with you. (Wow, that's going to sound strange to those of you who aren't in on the whole exchange!) 
Ah Via Musicom, perhaps...?
Yeah! That's it! I only have it on cassette, so I haven't listened to it in years.
Wow, cool to meet another Nashvillian EJ fan.
Oh, we are legion. I went to see him at the Exit/In several years ago, and it was like the Notorious Nashville Audience x 10: Every guitar geek in town standing around with his arms crossed.
But the receptionist at the Scene was a fan, too. We bonded. Didn't hurt that he was cute!
Anyhoo, I'm still mad that I didn't get to see zombies.
Fucking time warner.
I guess 'Personal Assistant to #3 Al Qaiada Leader Killed' just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Historicus
Okay, I admit, this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but Historicus, I am becoming obsessed with this question: did you pick that name for some obscure personal reason or are you in fact that last Dan Sickles fan on the face of the Earth?
Trying to asses who to blame
BV, that's worthy of MURKIN.
Stumpy was one of many ill-fated drummers for legendary rock band Spinal Tap.
Enlighten me...who is Stumpy?
sallyh,Grandmere Poissonniere
Stumpy was a drummer for the ficticious group Spinal Tap in the Christopher Guest Movie This is Spinal Tap The running joke during the film is the weird deaths of their drummers.
Oooh, plushy kitty! And so regal!
Every guitar geek in town standing around with his arms crossed.
That's the way it was in NYC. Every famous guitar guy you've ever heard of who was in town was in the audience.
Surreal.
4Legs--you need to retire so you need never leave that cuteness at home again. What's Mr. Plushy up to?
Fucking time warner.
four legs good
Yeah!
4Legs--you need to retire so you need never leave that cuteness at home again. What's Mr. Plushy up to?
I wish I could retire. Unfortunately I'll be working until the day I die. 
His royal plushiness is outside prowling around the pool.
Anyhoo, I'm still mad that I didn't get to see zombies.
Don't worry, fourleggers. I know you heart your Zombies but I'm guessing this will be all over the internets and in rentals in time for Fitzmas.
hamletta: Oh, we are legion. I went to see him at the Exit/In several years ago, and it was like the Notorious Nashville Audience x 10: Every guitar geek in town standing around with his arms crossed.
Damn, I wish I'd have known -- I'd have definitely been there.
I miss all the shows at Exit/In, apparently. At least I saw Robben Ford for free at the Riverfront.
But the receptionist at the Scene was a fan, too. We bonded. Didn't hurt that he was cute!
There ya go.
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Well, here's some more plushiness:
http://img.photobucket.com/album...fparis/
paws.jpg
Jeez, it's so windy here it feels like my windows are going to blow in. I guess I'll have active dreams tonight if it doesn't let up.
Everyone thinks lion kitty is so regal, and really he's a big old goof.
He bounces around like a giant kitten.
His royal plushiness is outside prowling around the pool.
Oh! I saw his plushiness earlier today (the really BIG pic) and he is one regal looking dude!
So how were the zombies?
I watched Shaun of the Dead last weekend, but one can never have too many zombies.
That's the way it was in NYC. Every famous guitar guy you've ever heard of who was in town was in the audience.
Doesn't surprise me, since he's some kinda freaky virtuoso. But Nashville used to be notorious for having a large ratio of musicians:normal people, so bands used to deliberately avoid playing here, because no one danced, just stood around and watched.
It's all the fault of the Lovin' Spoonful, really.
four legs good: He bounces around like a giant kitten.
Curly is the same way. He doesn't know he's not a kid, anymore. I guess he and I are a lot alike, after all.
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Jeffraham--I've got the soul of a 10 year old--good to know there are others like me. And no more than at Christmas. I'm a hopeless kid at this time of year
hamletta: Doesn't surprise me, since he's some kinda freaky virtuoso. But Nashville used to be notorious for having a large ratio of musicians:normal people, so bands used to deliberately avoid playing here, because no one danced, just stood around and watched.
It's not expected for anyone to dance at an Eric Johnson show, unless they're severely buzzed. Actually, the same could be said of just about any show I might attend...
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Doesn't surprise me, since he's some kinda freaky virtuoso.
He's not freaky, he's just classicly trained. I understand he practices hours and hours every day.
In NYC he played for 3 hours, and his playing was just as precise and clear on the last song as the first.
When he plays spanish guitar it's enough to make you weep.
mena - I thought it was astonishing. It was like we'd written it.
I suspect that Joe Dante lurks over here and at DailyKos. I mean, the only thing missing was a zombie beating Karl Rove to death with a plastic turkey.
Updated: 6:02 p.m. ET Dec. 2, 2005
MOSCOW - Russia has agreed to sell more than $1 billion worth of missiles and other defense systems to Iran, Russian news media reported Friday, a move expected to draw a heated reaction from the United States.
What the Fuck is this shit?
I mean, the only thing missing was a zombie beating Karl Rove to death with a plastic turkey.
I was all psyched for it. Bummer.
four legs good: When he plays spanish guitar it's enough to make you weep.
Aye.
But seriously -- he's a freak. No one gets that good on a guitar (and gains the ability to know what battery is in the fuzz box) without a high, high level of freakishness, I assure you.
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MOSCOW - Russia has agreed to sell more than $1 billion worth of missiles and other defense systems to Iran, Russian news media reported Friday, a move expected to draw a heated reaction from the United States.
What the Fuck is this shit?
That's what we get from Caligula looking into Pootie-Poot's black, withered soul.
flory and fourlegs, the best take on thanking children was in the foreword of one economics book where the writer said that despite everything the children had tried he had still finished the book.
So thanks, kids.
Dave (TM)tm, if you really want to piss Bu$h off, you can buy button that say "I Only Drink With Liberals" here:
Http://drinkingliberally.org
Kills 2 birds with one stone.
Xan: It's a Benjamin Franklin reference for me, but I know others have used the name in the centuries since. I hadn't known about the Dan Sickles use of the name before, but am grateful to you for letting me know about it.
- H
Fucked up the TM didn't I?
flory and fourlegs, the best take on thanking children was in the foreword of one economics book where the writer said that despite everything the children had tried he had still finished the book.
Well, okay!! You're welcome mom.
Plushiness. Lion kitty makes me smile.
Someday I want to learn to play spanish guitar.
It's one of the things on my list.
One may be the loneliest number, but it sure beats the hell out of three.
That's what we get from Caligula looking into Pootie-Poot's black, withered soul.
Seraphiel
Fucking word! More Bu$h "gut instinct" gone to hell and back. Maran.
Here's your screen capture of the #3 CNN headline.
Plushiness. Lion kitty makes me smile.
Me too. I love waking up in the morning and finding him at the foot of my bed, all blinky and sleepy and purrrrry.
sallyh: Jeffraham--I've got the soul of a 10 year old--good to know there are others like me. And no more than at Christmas. I'm a hopeless kid at this time of year
That's awesome.
I honestly don't think I've changed since my early 20s, but I'm probably wrong.
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Fucking time warner.
Everybody who missed the zombie movie but has digital cable: It'll show up on your "OnDemand" thingie. At least it did on mine and flory's.
I called my cable people, and they said that since they'd relocated Showtime to the upper channels in their last re-shuffling, it would only be available to people with digital service, so they took a pass in order to not stiff the subscribers who don't have boxes.
I didn't think to ask her about the specifics, but she did say "the people here," and I got the impression that it was made on a local level. She said it used to be Ch. 16, and they'd just unscramble it for the weekend.
But there were several Atriots who have cable but not digital, and it was only available if you had the box, and they were pissed off about that.
Anyway, whatever your particular cable company did, I seriously doubt it had anything to do with politics--of the zombie movie, anyway. More like how many people would be pissed off.
I like christmas time too.
Though I liked it better when there's snow around.
That's what we get from Caligula looking into Pootie-Poot's black, withered soul.
Seraphiel
With three more years of Bush up in charge we're all going to be really fucked.
4LG, what a gorgeous kitty.
Anyway, whatever your particular cable company did, I seriously doubt it had anything to do with politics--of the zombie movie, anyway. More like how many people would be pissed off.
Oh, I didn't think it was political. And I have digital. And I was too tired and sleepy to call them and ask.
My God. It says "Seasons Greetings" and "Happy Hollidays" all over my town. Nowhere is the mention of "Christmas". The symbolism runs to mistletoe and Santa.
It's hard to believe that the tentacles of George Soros have reached into my obscure little New Jersey suburb but the evidence is incontrovertible. The war on Christmas and on the Christian way of life is real.
4LG, what a gorgeous kitty.
Thanks Sarah. He's as sweet as he is pretty.
hamletta: Everybody who missed the zombie movie but has digital cable: It'll show up on your "OnDemand" thingie. At least it did on mine and flory's.
Whoo-hoo! When should I show up?
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Jeffraham--Eric Johnson is an outstanding musician. In addition to the classical training, I think he's got a lot of innate talent.
Has anyone noticed that the rest of the world realises Bush is a fuckin' idiot?
That can't be good.
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Eliminating any of al-Qaeda's operatives is a good thing, but can the real no. 3 please stand up? Please stand up?
Seriously, every few months or so, it's a "top lieutenant," "number 2 guy" or "number three operative."
I want to say something funny that includes the dirty joke about doing a "number two" but I am drawing a blank. Feel free to jump on it.
Personally I don't get it.
Bin Laden = Number 1
Zawahiri = Number 2
Wouldn't Zarqawi be Number 3?
I mean, if you take the propaganda seriously.
It doesn't bother me the rest of the world thinks Bush is an idiot.
Just so the rest of the world realizes a hell of a lot of us never voted for the SOB in the first place.
sallyh: Jeffraham--Eric Johnson is an outstanding musician. In addition to the classical training, I think he's got a lot of innate talent.
Absolutely. I think I learned about him first on the Innernets, back in the late 1980s, and then saw him shortly thereafter on Austin City Limits, where I was completely blown away. I bought Tones the very next day, I recall.
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Just so the rest of the world realizes a hell of a lot of us never voted for the SOB in the first place.
We lost that out in 2004.
That can't be good.
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TelltaleHeart
I'm just wondering what is taking the rest of the world so long to exploit Bush. Lookout for more shit from Iran, Russia, North Korea and China.
Our freedom grows higher with every American death in Iraq. Bush is a freedom piler!
lipreader
Hell, that bitch has piled up about a hundred and fifteen *freedom* bodies in the last month and change alone.
With three more years of Bush up in charge we're all going to be really fucked.
Unrepentant Fenian
Dear, we already are, majorly.
The roving death squads are making great progress in Iraq.
We can't pull out until they're given a chance to work.
Historicus, thanks, now I will be able to sleep tonight. I know others have used it as a pen name for politically charged missives throughout history, but had forgotten the Franklin connection meself.
Sickles is really a fascinating character; there's a new bio out in the last year or two called "American Scoundrel" which should give you an indication of how he's viewed by most historians.
The numerous lawyer types hereabouts might have run across him as the first US'er to successfully use "temporary insanity" as a defense on a murder rap, after shooting the son of Francis Scott Key in broad daylight on a public street in Washington DC.
And who the eff is Al Qaeda's #3?
They are the ones who beam down in Red Shirts.
We can't rest on our laurels. Peter James Bond is still at large.
Damn, I ain't gonna make it two more hours to see Now in the repeat... was it worth it, anyone...?
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Whoo-hoo! When should I show up?
When I get my Bangladesh bathroom remodeled. I'll have my people call your people.
I want to say something funny that includes the dirty joke about doing a "number two" but I am drawing a blank. Feel free to jump on it.
Matt O
I got nuthin, but the "real#3 please stand up, please stand up" was good. Just chillin' wid my M&m's.
There was a character on a 70's TV show called GoodTimes
called Rerun.
hamletta: When I get my Bangladesh bathroom remodeled. I'll have my people call your people.
Now, see, I'll have to use this the next time these Yankees tell me about how neighborly we are here in the south...
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"WHO'S #2 WORKING FOR???"
P: Who is #1?
2: You are #6.
There was a character on a 70's TV show called GoodTimes
called Rerun.
sam
What's Happenin'.
Happy Holidays!
dave™
Ruh-oh - it sounds like Dave just declared war on Christmas.
... after shooting the son of Francis Scott Key in broad daylight on a public street in Washington DC.
Get out! I don't remember that one! My mom gave me this great book of The Ghosts of Washington one Christmas.
I'll have to check it and see if he haunts the Capitol City. Booooohhhh!!!
Spike Lee addressed the sociological importance of phone sex in Girl Six.
The girls were forced off welfare by reactionary politicians and into the phone sex business.
Jeff, I just sent you an email.
SD
Echidne, are you still here and do you really have snake companions?
I have worked in zoos (good ones), and I do love me some herps.
"Stumpy, you Eeediot!"
OT,
It's good to see sane people here.
Jeffraham--is Curly awake or asleep?
War on Christmas?
oh great. Now there will be endless reports of "Number 3 Elf Killed In Skirmish Near North Pole"
Now, see, I'll have to use this the next time these Yankees tell me about how neighborly we are here in the south...
Oh, I'm real neighborly. I'll bring you all the coverd dishes you want...as long as it's at your house.
My home just ain't fittin'. It just ain't fittin'.
There was a character on a 50's TV show called Johnny Jupiter called Reject the Robot.
http://home.earthlink.net/~joesa...cifi/
johnny.htm
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I like christmas time too.
Though I liked it better when there's snow around.
I heart Christmas, too. We've been so lucky to have had snow on Xmas most years since the 80's. Last year's near blizzard was a bit of a bitch, though. But it was beautiful and I had unexpected Xmas guests. It was really cool.
I'll have to check it and see if he haunts the Capitol City. Booooohhhh!!!
hamletta
It's late and I can't remember/too lazy to look up all the details, but as best I recall either the house the Sickles' lived in, or the house where Key rented a room for his assignations with Mrs. S. is still in existence.
Oh yeah, I did mention that that was the reason for the shooting, right?
Still kinda buzzed from the zombie movie, not to mention there was wine involved.
central--ah. another Ren + Stimpy fan
or the house where Key rented a room for his assignations with Mrs. S. is still in existence.
Ooh! It's sounding more familiar. Like it's skeddy! [/Count Floyd]
Okay, no zombies on my in demand channels.
But I do have a strange cat in my house.
I looked up and this black and white cow spotted kitty just invited herself in.
Whoops. That didn't last long. Lion kitty came in and chased her out.
ah. another Ren + Stimpy fan
Indeed.
Also a huge fan of sane people.
Sarah Deere: Jeff, I just sent you an email.
Likewise. Brevity is due to SNPA overdose.
sallyh: Jeffraham--is Curly awake or asleep?
He vanished about 30 mins. ago, so I am assuming he is on the dirty clothes pile, schnoozing away.
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Johnny Jupiter, in '53
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The show features only two live actors, with hand puppets portraying the Jupiterians whose only knowledge of earth is derived from watching our TV shows.
The leading character in the show is one Ernest P. Duckweather, a janitor in a TV studio, who has ambitions to be a TV engineer. Tinkering with the dials and gadgets, he brings in two emissaries from Jupiter on the TV screen. They are Johnny, who faintly suggests Kukla, and B-12, a guy with a British accent who resembles the traditional Colonel Blimp.
Duckweather is played by Vaughn Taylor, who did such a good job in last summer's Robert Montgomery repertory company. The show consists mainly of exchanges between Duckweather and Johnny and B-12.
SAMPLE: Last Saturday the Jupiterians wanted to know about Earth's television. Duckweather explained that the heart of the business was western movies, and he proceeded to show them a sequence or two. The Jupiterians wanted to know why all the gun fighting and Indians. Duckweather had a hard time explaining to the pacifistic Jupiterians why earthlings found it so fascinating to kill off one another.
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hamletta: My home just ain't fittin'. It just ain't fittin'.
Well, you cain't pay no never-mind to me -- I just wanna see the zombees!
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I like christmas time too.
Though I liked it better when there's snow around.
My grandmother lived in very small town in Illinois. She had 13 children. We would go to her house for Xmas when we could (my family traveled a lot, out of the country).
Aunts, uncles and cousins would knock at the front door and would come swarming in, a swirl of snow accompanying them. It was warm in the house, thick with the smells of cookies, good food, cocktails cigarettes (this was long, long ago), hot chocolate. We listened to radio. The kids gathered upstairs and peered and listened to then adults through the heat vents.
My grandmother had been given a brand new electric stove by her several remaining kids (anyone who has 13 children loses more than one to unfortunate attrition), but she held on to her woodstove and made the most wonderful hoimemade donuts, cookies, bread, soups - well, anything one would use an oven for.
She kept the electric stove well polished and very, very clean, but just didn;t use it. She thought it was lovely that her children had been so thoughtful, but it really wasn't anything she wanted or needed.
She had a huge garden, a fair-sized orchard. She canned and cooked and..well, was the quintessential grandmother.
She'd sit all of us cousins down at card tables and have us stringing popcorn and cranberries to put outside for the birds.
She bake up a batch of cookies that she'd let us cut out with cutters (santas, bells, angels, etc) then set us down atthe same card tables with custard cups of BUTTER (yes!!!) icing that we were allowed to color as we saw fit, and all the other things the names of which I can't immediately remember, chocolate shot, colored sugars, "silver" balls, etc etc. to decoate said wonderfully delicious cookies with.
AT night, we sit, all of us, adults and children, to listen to the radio.
The Lone Ranger, Sgt Preston of the Yukon, and so on.
I realize I'm on the cusp of becoming a tiresome old woman, but, honestly, children, it was...delicious.
SD
Investigators: KKK Behind 1951 Blast
By TRAVIS REED
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbi.../
120201752.html
MIMS, Fla. (AP) - New information points to four Ku Klux Klan members as almost certainly responsible for the unsolved murders of two civil rights activists who died when their home exploded in 1951, Florida officials say.
Attorney General Charlie Crist announced Friday that investigators had begun excavating the site of Harry and Harriette Moore's home, which was blown up on Christmas night in 1951.
Detectives were searching for detonators and other evidence that could prove what type of explosive was used.
The four suspects, all members of the Florida Klan at one time, had experience with dynamite, said Frank Beisler, an investigator with Crist's office.
Beisler said the major break in the recently reopened investigation came about a month ago when he interviewed a man to whom one of the bombers had confessed.
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The couple's daughter, Evangeline Moore, said she hoped to finally close the painful chapter of her parents' deaths.
"I was coming home the two days after Christmas. When I got off the train, this is what hit me in the face: Your father's dead, your mother's in the hospital," she said. "What kind of Christmases do you think I had? What kind of Christmas do you think I still have?"
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Vaughan Taylor, huh? Figures-- he was ubiquitous in early TV. He dun it on the first Perry Mason.
Jeffraham--I asked Monsieur if he'd rather be Kirk or Picard. He said, Kirk, of course--he got to screw all the women.
Men!
sallyh: Jeffraham--I asked Monsieur if he'd rather be Kirk or Picard. He said, Kirk, of course--he got to screw all the women.
Men!
There's a word for us: Pragmatists.
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He vanished about 30 mins. ago, so I am assuming he is on the dirty clothes pile, schnoozing away.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
I have to point out what a compliment - and what a testimony of love - it is that our kitties LOVE to slumber on our dirty clothes....
Jeff, I'm going outside to shoot up, back shortly.
but she held on to her woodstove and made the most wonderful hoimemade donuts, cookies, bread, soups - well, anything one would use an oven for
*Sigh* SarahDeere, I write historical cookbooks from a time when wood stoves were new and high-tech. Wonderful as my own grandmother was (just deceased 2 years ago last month, aged 102) I would kill to have such memories to hand for the technical details on how one managed the fire control on such a machine.
Old is not bad. Beats hell out of the alternative.
E&P
Fitz To Plame Leak Court: Keep Some Grand Jury Records Sealed
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/
n...t_id=1001613844
By Mark Fitzgerald and The Associated Press
Published: December 02, 2005 9:00 PM ET
CHICAGO The prosecutor in the CIA leak case on Friday opposed public release of some details about the criminal investigation, while supporting the disclosure of information regarding I. Lewis Libby, the indicted former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
In court papers, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said continued secrecy is not necessary with respect to portions of a federal appeals court ruling from 10 months ago that "directly relate to Mr. Libby." Libby was indicted on Oct. 28 on five counts of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI.
Secrecy is necessary for other material in the court ruling to protect witnesses or subjects of the investigation from public embarrassment or ridicule "as well as to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation," Fitzgerald argued.
etc.
New doc today at Fitzgerald's site:
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/
os...roceedings.html
I've been saving my champagne for Rove's indictment.
Sarah Deere: I have to point out what a compliment - and what a testimony of love - it is that our kitties LOVE to slumber on our dirty clothes....
It's really just that they like being near our scents, as un-cool as it sounds. It makes them feel safe and happy.
Jeff, I'm going outside to shoot up, back shortly.
I have a shootin'-up blind set up in my tree stand...
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I realize I'm on the cusp of becoming a tiresome old woman, but, honestly, children, it was...delicious.
Oh, please.
You're one of the sane people I was talking about.
I have memories of crawling into the crawlspace under my grandmother's house to get homegrown potatoes for Christmas dinner.
Good times.
Nite 'Bats. Cashing in the chips. See ya on another thread.
Peace.
al Qaeda organizational chart:
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G'night bigvic, sweet dreams.
Lateness... anyone still here?
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"The Al Quaeda deck of cards is all 3s."
ronjazz's comment wins. You can all go home now.
Sleep well, dear friends.
I hear that Congress is going to investigate the BCS system for college football. While they're at it, maybe they can come up with a better system to rate AQ members. Polls, computers, hey, how about a terrorist playoff?
Jeff, I'm going outside to shoot up, back sh. shortly.
Sarah Dee
Heh. I'm hoping that's a funny haha. I''m just kidding my dear. Off to bed. I'm hoping my recent trip to NY hasn't brought the bedbugs back home. They are rampant in the city and really hard to get rid of. Little bastards.
Jeffraham--the cold's getting to me, have to crash. Pet Curly good night for me.
Here but not here... if that makes sense... screwing around elsewhere on the internets & occasionally refreshing the Helloscan... nice, quiet, cold Saturday AM...coupla more inches of snow...
I'm out too.
Didn't have anything to say anyway.
Night all.
So, did we turn their #3 into a little green globule, or did he choke on someone else's vomit?
SoCal, cold? Whodathunkit?
Ah well, if Sarah Deere doesn't make it back after the horse, I may bail, as well.
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Perhaps it was more of a stain than a globule.
No, no, Jeff, I'm here. Sort of.....
G'night bigvic, sweet dreams.
Central Scrutinizer /i>
Nite, dear one. For real this time.
Echidne, are you still here and do you really have snake companions?
I have worked in zoos (good ones), and I do love me some herps.
Sarah, I don't have live snakes now but I used to. My current snakes are in the faith-based reality.
Sarah Deere: No, no, Jeff, I'm here. Sort of.....
Heroin always makes me nod a little, too...
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HOW IN THE HELL DID IT GET TO BE TW THIRTY SEVEN IN THE AM???? DARK MOON BITCHES!!!!!
Okay, my lovelies, I'm going to check for Jeff;s email, then prolly to bed, to bed, to bed.
bigvic, FUCK (well, figuratively) some bedbigs...
and CS - yes. Old times were good, we would be better off if we couod recover some of them. Not all, of course, because we are so much better off without polio, for example, which bit one of my aunts hard.
But, gee whiz....Wal-Mart Xmas "gifts" can't quite compare, can they?
Anyway, sleep tight - I am wishing all bedbugs lockjaw so they can't bite any of you.
XXOO/SD
PS: Jeff, I am checking email now.
uhhh...Hi, Hecate- howzit goin?
Hecate Malificent: HOW IN THE HELL DID IT GET TO BE TW THIRTY SEVEN IN THE AM???? DARK MOON BITCHES!!!!!
I bow to my neighbors in the east who live in the future...
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Morning, Jeff and Nick.
Hmmm. The ritual and the, um, herbs appear to have caused me to lose an hour or two. Two, um, sisters left here after the ritual, have retired to the guest room to do, um, reiki. Lovely chicken mole left over. Would you like some?
Howdy, Hecate, nick, Sarah...
Tell me: Who's the crazy tabla player who does all the cool subcontinental scat singing? I can't come up with his name tonight.
P.S. It's NOT Omar Hakim... it's... uh...
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Hecate, I thought you said this was the night of the new (born crescent) moon? Something about waving one's purse at it to increase the fortune therein? (Which, of course, I read after moonset was long passed.)
Dark of the moon is of course cool as well.
John Pepys was a 17th century Briton. Atrios is making funny.
Hi, Xan.
It's GWPDA who advocates the purse shaking.
New moon and dark moon are almost the same thing, new moon coming directly after dark moon. In my coven the rule is if you're w/in three days, you're ok. So we celebrated the dark moon tonight, even though I think the real dark moon was Thursday.
Sloppy paganism
QuentinCompson | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 2:20 am | #
Interesting ... anyone tried to figure out what we're going to get to see, and what it means in relation to what Fitz still wants to protect?
Too tired to try to figure it out myself (if it is figure-out-able at all), alas ...
1) I find myself more intrigued by the story about pets not being matched up with their owners in New Orleans. What country do we invade to stop that?
2) "Are You Receiving Me" off of go2 by XTC is one of the most kick-ass driving songs ever.
3) XTC lost me with the import of English Settlement, but we made up over Oranges and Lemons.
"Sloppy paganism"
nah, sounds user-friendly. Big difference.
Who's the crazy tabla player who does all the cool subcontinental scat singing?
oh, Jeff, I haven;t a clue.....(left you email, btw, a few minutes ago)
Sloppy paganism
Heh, I believe O'Falafel says that sloppy paganism has ruined what America is all about.
Course, in reality he's all bitter about all the holidays that them crafty, shady monotheists trans-appropriated from "the heathens" many moons ago so good Europeans wouldn't bitch too much about being forced to convert ...
Thanks Hecate (sorry for confusing you with GWPDA, as I hold you both in extremely high regard I assure no offense was intended). Was an astronomy geek (new moon=all dark) long before taking up wicca. And am not a very good wiccan either due to lack of opportunity to find co-religionists in west Tennessee.
It is however most reassuring to find that sloppiness is allowed.
It's now a choice between burning some propane and crawling under the covers for warmth, so I must head out. Night all.
If O'Reiley is so fucking christian, why doesn't he open every show with a prayer?
Fucking pagan jagoff!
I know No. 1 and No. 2, but what is No. 3? Strom used to cram gerbils up my ass until I yodeled Dixie. Is that No. 3?
-Liddy Dole
O'Reilly is more a narcissist than a pagan... in fact, I think most all pagans would call that an insult...
Where the hell do Liddy and Strom get all the gerbils?
It's like white slavery only with small mammals... so sad.
xan,
Check witchvox.com for pagans in your state. We're, as O'Reilley fears, everywhere.
Bwhahahahhah!
Not Omar Hakim! Not Omar Hakim!
Dammit, Jim! I can't wrap my brane around the dude's name!
Hassan? Nope. Habib? Nope, that's not it, either. Dammit.
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sdf,
Oh, yeah, they stole all their holidays from us. Stole sacred sites. Came up w/ saints named for our Goddesses (Bride/Brigit). Stole a lotta stuff from us. We stole it from earlier pagans. They stole it from somebody else. Xians imagine they are worhsipping Jesus, not Mithras. We just, mostly, laugh.
O'Reilly should not even be identified as a "Christian", because he clearly is most certainly NOT.
He's a money-grubbing, self-aggrandizing asshole.
Sarah Deere,
I agree with you. I don't claim to speak for him, but I have to think that Jesus would not be too amused w/ O'Reilley.
Trilok Gurtu!!!!!!
That's it!
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Pagan my brother
you are
older than me
do you still feel the pain
of scars that won't heal
you eyes have died
but you see more than I
Pagan you're a star
in the face of the sky.
Well, Dammit, Jim! (again!)
I can't find the CD I used to have by Trilok Gurtu. I didn't recognize any of the 24 titles available at amazon.com as the one I had, and want desperately to replace.
Seems it was maybe an Axiom release...
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(all this was perhaps triggered by the earlier drummer fiasco)
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Trilok Gurtu? sounds like a yak-based adhesive...
Jesus was an okay guy, it's those rabid 'followers' that give him a bad rep.
Night, Moonbats!
Who's the crazy tabla player who does all the cool subcontinental scat singing?
Jeffraham Prestonian | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 2:50 am | #
Shaft!
nick carraway: Trilok Gurtu? sounds like a yak-based adhesive...
Exactly! But he's a motherfucker of a percussionist. I think I caught him on a John McLaughlin disc, first. Wish I could recall the name of that CD.
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Now, now.
Night, batties!
♥
Hecate,
both W and O'Liely described Jesus as a "philosopher".
PHILOSOPHER????? The alleged son of god and redemmer of all mankind a fucking*philosopher*...?????
AH, these people make me ill.
Itb is my belief that it's all myth -m all religion is mythologically based.
It ain't "true" fact.
Believe it, do good with it? Fine.
Use it like a deadly weapon to harm others? Not fine. As a matter of fact, a Crime Against Humanity.
Honest to Pete...at my age, I can hardly stand my own venality and hypiocrisy, let alone anyone else's.....
Well damm. This ain't no fun.
HELLO CLEVELAND!
Well damm. This ain't no fun.
Barndog |
nope, dear, everyone's apparently to bed or elsewhere. Me, too, now.
Sleep well.
Sheeeesh. A guy can't find anyone to wake and bake with anymore. I must be hanging out with the wrong crowd.
Morning Barndog and other Moonbats. It's taking quite a long time to load this page this morning.
Highya, QL. How things this morning?
So, Osama O'Reilly weaseled out of debating George Clooney on the Charlie Rose Show with the excuse that Murdoch wouldn't let him. Weety Bity O'Weiwy, aww! Him can't cuz daddy won let him.
This does load slowly. A little faster in IE than Mozilla, though.
Good morning.
We've made the repukes very happy by not having a coordinated message on the war.
So happy to oblige.
Wow, can't even get into Bartcop's site.
The internets seem to be slow this morning. Must be someone forgot to feed the squirrels last night.
Apparently #3 is Bill Murray from "Ground Hog's Day" - no matter how many times we kill him, he wakes up the next morning as if nothing had happened -- probably thinks to himself, "oh great, so what is going to be today? Cruise missile? Predator drone? Bannana peel?" That or he's a Zombie and the Pentagon just doesn't get it.
Shit sandwich.
THIS IS SPINAL TAP concludes with Joe "Mama" Besser as their drummer. Fred Asparagus, the actor who portrayed him, died in 1998. So the curse continues...
how predictable.
http://www.google.com/search?
hl=...G=Google+Search
16,000 links about rabia predating this event, and atrios still imagines he's some trivial figure.
shorter atrios: terrorists I dont know about can't hurt me.
fundies are all about black and white: wanted dead or alive is one of their mantras...but they ignore truth and reality that may hurt such as already having reported killing the #3 in al qaeda a few times before...they simply have an innate ability to ignore and forget non-trivial details as they rah-rah for their side!
...or items like pentagon propaganda on eye-rack teevee and secret cia torture prisons and gitmo and abu ghraib and assume we are the 'good guys' who do no wrong.
16,000 links about rabia predating this event, and atrios still imagines he's some trivial figure.
Actually, there are only 40 different references for "abu hamza rabia".
You should learn to use google more accurately.
Ed Begley is dead?
Man...I loved Victor Erlic.
And I had no idea that Ed Begley was involved in Al Qaida.
Hollywood Libruls.
Was he the Jack of Clubs?
Pepys may be dead but we can still read his diary.
I'm so excited I'm going to do number 2.
It's "You can't DUST for vomit".
The kids these days, can't even quote a movie properly...
It's "You can't DUST for vomit".
The kids these days, can't even quote a movie properly...
"Scotland Yard can't dust for vomit!"
I thought it was Ed Begley
I think the picture they used is from a long time ago,it looks familiar. It is likely he blew himself up and the US claimed responsibility.
I don't trust news like that, they lie.
[nostalgia mode on]
3....It's a magic number.
Wow...now that they've located and dismembered Number 2 roughly 80 times, FINALLY, finally...Number 3. I can rest easy tonight. Wow...drone on baby, drone on.
Soon they will get to the most evil evildoer of all: Mad Jack-samas "Old Number 7." That stubborn, nefarious mule with the ability and will to brave dangerous cliff and cave country without complaint. Oh...he's out there. Number 4, watch your hairy ass. We have drones. Drones.
Choked on vomit?
Even worse, it was Paul Krugman's vomit?
over my head at this moment atrios,
the dangerous subversive method of frenchist satire and empricism english history is just too much
the dissonance deficit spirals onward...
THIS JUST IN FROM FOX NEWS....
Al-Queda #3 was killed while doing a #2 while listening to "1 is the lonelinest number" on his IPOD. Alan Colmes has been dispatched to Karachi to clean up the mess.
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