I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Good morning to all.
It also took me a long time to connect this morning, some sites still won't load for me, and they're not all blogspot. Thought it might be a plot to shut down the liberal internets. But that's because I'm so paranoid these days.
Too bad spinoza isn't awake. I've never had first and second on any thread.
I remember getting up one morning and seeing Sonic Hubris had nine posts in a row. Most I've ever seen.
mer, how are doing?
Well... that ends that eh, mer?
What, morning already?
Hello, can three play?
Last night I went to bed depressed. I discovered a file I'd worked for six or seven hours on had turned corrupt on me. I thought I was going to have to spend all day today recreating it--for free. But when I woke up this morning, I remembered that I had a backup of all but the last fifteen minutes or so of changes on it. Happy, happy, joy, joy. Backups are your friend.
Yeah, it's morning. I had a cat using my chest as a trampoline at 0330.
Funny, barndog, that's how I woke up. I didn't put on the heat last night as it's really warm for now, and she played makeup cat warmer on me.
I am totally resting on my rep now.
One of the few times I have seen Mr. QL lose his temper was when an underling didn't back up a file. Whoo boy.
I'm a bit depressed today. It seems no matter how much we jump up and down, and protest and write letters, the press always paints us as being crazy lefty whackos. Tweety being a prime example. With all the info out there about the trumped up intel, we're still thought of as being conspiracy theorists. Nobody seems willing to admit that we were right. They lied. Same thing for corruption. Haliburton is robbing us blind. This kind of corruption, during wartime used to be a hanging offense. Why is nobody hung. And if a dem even raises the question, they are unpatriotic. We are so fucked.
Take the far right view that government can do no right. Doesn't it make sense to snatch control,act with total incompetence and then claim that "It's not because we did it wrong, it's because government can't do it right".
Along that line :if you wanted to cause people to distrust government doesn't acting high-handedly, lying,(and lying about lying) overt corruption and Texas Swagger all acheive your goal about discouraging trust in government?
It's currently 21 with a wind chill of 12f.
Looks like it won't get above freezing until next weekend.
Welcome Lurker, Hubris Sonic.
See how he is kids?
Good morning, moonbats.
The wind is howling outside.
Bush: done, ruined and fucked.
Glad for you, mer.
ql: What about the increasing public swing in the favor of what we have been saying all along? Eventually, the wingnuts are losing credibility and despite all their dire predictions, the public is coming around to reason. It's not so much admitting we were right, but adopting their own reasonable stance. IMHO
ql in ny, It does seem unbelievable to me too. All these people going around pretending that everything is honkey dory. I shake my head in amazement.
mornin blogkins.
bleah, i have a cold.
ql our problem is that we are working against myths that are created and then, though debunked, are still believed.
I agree with Ruth. It takes a long, long time for public opinion to change. We have to keep pressing our way.
ql - I get depressed this time of year because the days are getting shorter. We don't start noticing the lengthening days until February or so. Be of good cheer. The darkness will be over soon.
in the lovely blue state of maa
Anyone else unable to connect to dailykos? I can't connect to dkos OR streetprophets.com (assumingly because they're on teh same server setup I guess).
About 3 weeks of shorter days, then they get longer again. However that's a long time coming for those 16 hour daylight days.
Y'all are right. It's cold and dark. I paid a visit to Bartcop, which I don't do all that often any more, and it seems the only person the left hates more than w is Hillary. We had a bit of a kerfuffle here yesterday about that.
I don't care who the dems run, a dem, even a moderate dem, is better than a repuke.
The internets are sloooooooooooooooow today. I played an entire game of spider solitaire while waiting for this page to load.
I can't connect to dkos either. I doubt this has anything to do with it, but someone told me yesterday that BellSouth's servers were down. Bet that pissed off a bunch of folks.
I'm reading the zombie thread from last night. Looks like everyone had fun.
ql - as to the Hillary, it amuses me how the right wing is puzzled by the left wing Hillary bashing. They look for a fight with the left blogosphere, and there's none to be had.
gwb:drf
hi people
Morning, Moonbatriots.
Fell asleep in my home office and woke up. Can't decide whether to actually go to bed or just stay up for a while -- like the rest of the night.
earlier, netcraft's site said they could not connect to atrios
That's a flaw I have, I take up for people, so of course it seems to me like tearing down anyone who's got something together is too comfortable a role for the rest of the world.
In the case of hillary, okay, she's slipped up on some things, but on things like trying to find a way to institute health care for us all. That's a good way to go, and if she didn't succeed, well, I don't blame her all that much.
As to the war, I'm basically against all violence and injustice, including torture and detention without judicial review - so can't go along with keeping it going, but do acknowledge that there's a blood bath to follow, and don't know how to handle that. If I were in her position, I'd have to have advisors on it, meaning I'd have to trust some one with credentials. It's a problem I give her the benefit of the doubt on.
Is she electable? Gore was, and wouldn't we have loved him to be there now. No war, a booming economy... oh, dreamer.
I blame w. Really. There is no money to maintain infrastructure. I'm sure the right would love to do away with the internet. Think how much tighter they could control the message.
Ah Ruth, I'm pretty much on the same page. One other thing. Hillary has never even said she is running. Everybody is talking like it is a fait accompli. I'm sure Biden doesn't think so. Nor Edwards, nor Kerry for that matter. I pretty much think my favorite right now is Gore. There would be justice if he won.
At any rate, those are battles for another day. We have to work on getting one house in 2006, just to put a stop to this juggernaut.
In a private meeting with the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito sought to reassure lawmakers that he would respect legal precedent on abortion rights and put his personal views aside...>>(How much more bullshit can we take?Look here:.WASHINGTON (AP) -- A key senator and the country's top military commander said Friday that a Pentagon propaganda program was part of an effort to "get the truth out" in Iraq.
I don't think Hillary's going to run for President either. She'll continue to play to her strengths in the Senate.
bush = drf x fw
The house in 2006. In Texas, it's tempting to say No Such Luck. But with the total blackening of the rethugs' public image, and resounding failure of the attempt to set themselves up as morally acceptable, even redistricted voters might just show some reasoning ability. I'm going to work on it.
How come global warming isn't making it up there? We sure have it here. Severe drought for about 6 months now.
internets.... slow... waves to barndog...
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Barndog thinks Hubris' brain is slow, waves back.
/off Mirc
early freakin' risers.
I hate it when my internal alarm clock goes off on a Saturday... 5:10 this morning.
And yes, it's a slow net for me too.
It also took me a long time to connect this morning, some sites still won't load for me, and they're not all blogspot.
'sblogads playing up, no?
Set 'em up, Atrios. I've got me an Irish tenner.
What's the assigned topic for this thread?
gwb = drf
There's a topic?
I wish I could come up with something.
Slow in AZ, too.
The cat wanted out again.
It rained last night.
Bob Sheiffer looked like a gargoyle giving the body count last night. Why is he doing CBS News? He's only tres ugly. What's wrong with the other John Roberts?
Any Which Way But Loose is on, so thats taking up the abundance of my attention.
How about this thought-
The Market does not exist for your benefit.
Any truth to the rumor they captured Tom Delay's #3 man?
How can anybody be worried or out of sorts today?
We've killed al Qaeda's number three, I just read!
Man, that job has GOT to be the toughest to recruit for in HISTORY! The description practically specifies getting killed in a highly gruesome and public manner.
Rained here in southern California, too. It's been cold all week -- well, cold for here. But then it's all relative.
Morning all,
I watched Farenherit 911 on free Showtime last night. Really weird seeing it again in the bold new dawn of 30+% approval rating.
Such a compelling piece when Gore has to tell the House Dems to shut up when they declare their dipleasure with the 2000 decision.
What a horrible waste these 8 years will have been.
Good morning. It's still snowing here. Hoooooooray!
Good morning. It's still snowing here. Hoooooooray!
We sure could use some snow here, if only because my dentist would then cancel my 9:00 a.m. appointment. Won't happen.
Linked below to a Washington Post story that says the repukes are thrilled that the dems are split on ending the war. The new meme is that we are disorganized, crazy, whacko. Of course it doesn't mention that there are repukes like Hagel calling for the war to end as well.
How bad does it have to be when Hagel, a real conservatoid, looks good to me.
Now I feel a chill. Sen. Warner says since there's a war on the US has to propogandize to 'get the truth' out. Definition of propaganda, however, defeats his 'logic'. But if shrubbie says it's irresponsible to give the lie to the war, well, what won't they use to 'get the truth' out about the war to the US public. Not that anyone here has believed the admin line since forever, but there's your basic underpinnings to lie without basis for shame. It's in our best interests, so says the shrubbery.
How about this thought-
The Market does not exist for your benefit.
Liv Pooleside | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 7:11 am | #
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yes but you can benefit from it
ql--saw that link, glanced at the story.
GOP propaganda. Nothing more.
I'd prefer a better Dem response, of course, but for the GOP to say the Dems are in "chaos" is absolutely laughable. The other shoes have yet to drop in Plame; who knows who Abramoff will "flip" on; DeLay is not likely to win the day on his technical argument, and will go to trial sometime next year; no one can touch John Murtha.
"Chaos" is the word, but it doesn't apply (for the moment, anyway) to Democrats.
The new meme is that we are disorganized, crazy, whacko.
Yup, Rush was saying that yesterday in the context of the Vietnam intel story. But you know, this split is natural, according to a RAND study I read. The bottom-line, though, is that we've passed the tipping point. There's no way Bush, even with a million speeches, will restore the support the war might have had previously.
We're disorganized, eh? Pretty weak for a meme. "Look at the split in the Democrat party! They can't agree about Hillary Clinton."
It's called discussion and debate, dudes.
Meme: bush - done, ruined and fucked.
Yup, and I've read that the moderates who have turned on him have developed a hatred to rival my own. Getting people to trust him again will be a herculean task. And with kkKarl's legal problems he may not be up to the task. That dog and pony show they put on Wednesday went over like a lead balloon. It just bothers me that the press is so complicit in this attempted coup.
To the Right, anyone who doesn't goose step in unison is in chaos.
There's no way Bush, even with a million speeches, will restore the support the war might have had previously.
NTodd
There's no way Bush restores ANY support he might have had previously, on foreign or domestic issues.
The GOP has to worry about holding on to districts on the Gulf Coast at this point. Recovery there is at an absolute standstill. It may not be on the headliness for CNN, but the people in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi are still struggling with it, and still fighting FEMA over housing "evacuees."
Morning, Morning Moonbats
War Criminal said long ago his plan is to draw the (at the time non-existent) fire from insurgents in Iraq, so we wouldn't have to fight them here. His plan is working. Over 600 atacks per month now. It's working! Like offering victims to King Kong. Like the Aztec heart-ripping sacrifices of old. "I do not delight in sacrifice," sayeth the Lord. The troops aren't dying in vain, they are dying for Bush, the Cabal, and the Good 'ol Boy network.
This blog really is good for helping me get properly clear. Thanks, folks.
War Criminal said long ago his plan is to draw the (at the time non-existent) fire from insurgents in Iraq, so we wouldn't have to fight them here. His plan is working. Over 600 atacks per month now. It's working! Like offering victims to King Kong. Like the Aztec heart-ripping sacrifices of old. "I do not delight in sacrifice," sayeth the Lord. The troops aren't dying in vain, they are dying for Bush, the Cabal, and the Good 'ol Boy network.
This blog really is good for helping me get properly clear. Thanks, folks.
I can't connect to Dailykos or Crooks and Liars and this page loaded slowly. Other sites are fine. Things that make you go hmmm.
The problem for the Republicans is the Bush is entirely committed to the war. Bush is a dangerous religous fanactic who is motivated by the delusion that God has chosen him to win in the war in the middle east. I don't think he cares about the 2006 election.
I still say that Bush is not going to last the rest of his term.
The new meme is that we are disorganized, crazy, whacko.
One of the finest examples of projection that I have ever seen.
bush - dangerous religious fanatic.
Jakarta: Avian Flu Virus 'All Over City'
by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Dec 2, 2005
Fear is spreading. So is the bird flu.
In Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, officials admit that "it's very serious. Based on our research, the virus has spread all over the city."
In Tien Giang province, a man was taken to the hospital when saying he had a high fever, the AP reports. He was then taken to isolation. However, he said he needed to get some personal belongings back at his home.
He left the hospital and never returned. Before leaving hospital care, he informed the staff that he had become ill after he had slaughtered his bird flu sick poultry.
More than millions of birds have been killed in Indonesia due to the infection.
'Morning all -- Richard Silverstein at Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place has a terrific post this a.m. about AIPAC's power over Congress & the administration, part of the reason we hear so little over here about the major shift taking place in Israeli politics.
I swear I only clicked it once!
Today:
JV basketball.
Highest drama in the land.
Then off to McD's.
JV basketball.
Highest drama in the land.
Then off to McD's.
jcrit | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 7:41 am | #
it certainly can be. i've seen parents in a rage dragged out of gyms by cops.
I'm a lowly timer. If I lose attention, I hear it- loud and clear! But there's pizza and pop for lunch.
I'm a lowly timer. If I lose attention, I hear it- loud and clear! But there's pizza and pop for lunch.
jcrit | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 7:46 am | #
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yeah they don't like it when you add extra seconds 
. homer!
"The clock! The clock!"
jcrit, been there, done that. My high drama was hockey and I was timer, guardian of the penalty box, and sometimes announcer.
Collective memories: we seem to have lost ours, you know?
The market does not exist for your benefits.
Oh, that reminds me:
The market does not exist for your benefits.
Tim Finnegan | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 7:53 am | #
the market is a living breathing organism
Still the cartoon of the week:
Still the cartoon of the week:
the market is a living breathing organism
moi
Can you introduce me?
he market does not exist for your benefits.
Tim Finnegan | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 7:53 am | #
the market is a living breathing organism
moi
The market won't be open until 7 - I need bacon.
Nonsense, moi. An organ has stops.
the market is a living breathing organism
moi
Can you introduce me?
Rmj, Wandering Aengus | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 7:57 am | #
man your standards are low
the market is like a slime mold. discuss.
Another oxymoron: free markets
While we are at it, let's see . . . .
Oxymorons are US!
Government intelligence
Free Press
Just war
Iraqi terrrorists
Republican integrity
Parimecium or parimutuel?
Oxymorons are US!
I'll be looking for a store near me. Most things are made in the USA, I hear.
The market exists to make the bosses rich.
ok then i'll tell you how the market is like a slime mold. it consists of individual cells that come together collectively in a slimey blob. this collective blob oozes off in a specific direction to engulf resources. slime molds are fascinating. and so is the market!
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
pro...slimemolds.html
We've killed al Qaeda's number three, I just read!
This guy must be a zombie as well. Only thing that could explaine the number of times we've whacked this guy.
Man, that job has GOT to be the toughest to recruit for in HISTORY! The description practically specifies getting killed in a highly gruesome and public manner.
The only job that used to be tougher to fill was keyboard player for the Grateful Dead. Or drummer for Spinal Tap.
Check out the CNN website right now. It has the story about marines as the pictured headline, but the very first subheadline is "Pakistan: Senior al Qaeda leader killed." Huh . . . I wonder how log they've been sitting on that intelligence. Came in handy, didn't it. Prediction: further research reveals that the article is refers to information that is either something we knew already or something that happend too long ago to matter
I'm with Arabella. If things continue as they have for the past month, w will take his football and go home.
The market exists to make the bosses rich.
Arabella | Email | 12.03.05 - 8:07 am | #
mostly market makers get rich. that is another class of organism i would like to learn about but there is scant data out there. they are a secretive lot.
Looks like someone's crying wewewewe all the way home. Under Clear Skies, through Healthy Forests, past the Wise Use Movement billboards, beyond the express-ways.
I think they have a bunch of dead Al Quaedas in cold storage so that they can defrost one when they need a headline.
Wow. another #2.
The market exists to make the bosses rich.
Even more insidious is the fact that companies are run specifically to get Wall Street to recommend the stock.
Every move the pieces of shit that run the company for which I work is designed to curry favor with Wall Street. All of the "flavor of the week" "improvement" programs that have been hoisted on the manufacturing division over the past 7 years are done to impress Wall Street and not to add to the bottom line.
We are a relatively small company (~ $1.5 B sales). The CEO made $42 million last year.
Fresh outrage of the day (personal one)
In the midst of soldiers being killed and then remaining unreported for at least a day - must not report on a non-Friday, you know - and continued malfeasance, this asshole running for governor in Michigan came out yesterday saying that we need to cut taxes and make our business climate in the state better.
Do people every consider what that means? So far they have cut the schools to the bone: we have neither supplies nor enough personnel to deliver the services. Every publically funded entity: prisons, roads, public services has been cut till they bleed. Then they want to cut some more?
The truth is that our government - both democrats and Republicans - has declared war on working people. Instead of sane policies for economic stability we constantly shift jobs to China or Mexico or Indonesia for the sole purpose of enhanching someone's bottom line at the expense of people who just want to work.
If we want a climate for American growth, don't you think it is time we started saving American jobs and subsidizing corporations who move off shore to avoid their social responsibilities?
The CEO made $42 million last year.
May I be your next CEO please?
Dailykos problems...
I too cannot connect to that site, or to Americablog (this one starts to load, but is taking a loooooong time).
Greetings, y'all. Hope your morning is starting out all right.
John, I got AmericaBlog right away, but I'm having the same trouble with dKos you are.
DWD--yeah, I'd have thought the "Grover Norquist" school of governing philosophy would have drowned in the waters of Katrina and Rita, but it's proving as hardy as kudzu.
It's a peculiarly indecent strain in the American psyche, a product of the American culture fed on dime novels and bad John Wayne Westerns. The "West," of course, was not won by "hardy pioneers:" all settlement in the West (short of the '49 Gold Rush, I suppose) was heavily subsidized, to get people to leave the settled area east of the Allegheny's and travel across the open plains and the mid-western desert to the Pacific shore.
But people like their myths, and think, once again, the education is bunk, along with history, and will think so until another Sputnik comes along to scare them into silliness of another kind.
So it goes.
Hey, Filk, man is it a still morning here. Clear and cold but not much moving.
Dailykos problems... I too cannot connect to that site, or to Americablog (this one starts to load, but is taking a loooooong time).
Something is jangling in the conspiracy theory center of my reptilian cortex. I'm thinking of that crazy hacker in the 007 movie Die Another Day.
FY,
You finshed you morning masturbation and now have nothing to keep yourself amused?
Poor marine to aq attrition ratio, at any rate.
DWD -- same here. 18° -- actually down from a half-hour ago. I'm just delighted with the idea of helping a friend clean the garage today.
FY,
You finshed you morning masturbation and now have nothing to keep yourself amused?
DWD - Listener in the Snow | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 8:30 am
It was that, or crying at his continued lack of success.
Somebody tell fy that blank spaces are not speech.
Asshole.
Very funny. Had me going there for a moment. All the way home.
Very funny. Had me going there for a moment. All the way home.
Morning, rational people.
Oh joy. Still, he is less harmful than others. He's just an idiot.
What gets me is, those are all valid talking points (although I think voting Green is useless on a national level unless and until they truly get a base), and we could have a spirited debate about them -- but fy's method of presentation makes me want to smack him in the belly with a wet fish.
Some people have something to say, some people just have to say something
Hey, ql!
I can see that the fy dipshit is here.
Free speech, eh? That's laughable.
Yo filk, whassup? Long time no read.
Hey, Diane! How's by you?
Good morning....BRRrrrrrrrrrrr....
Some people have to keep upping the ante and upping the ante to get attention. At some point nobody pays attention any longer.
Some people have to keep upping the ante and upping the ante to get attention. At some point nobody pays attention any longer.
The Eschaton main page is still trying to load...
I am relieved that it's not just my ancient machine, however.
Billy B -- dude! Finally, finally finished the new album, put it up for pre-order and download on my web site, and can take a breath. Lots of smaller projects over the next few weeks before jumping into the next big thing, but *hahhhhhhh* got the sucker done, and I think it sounds great.
How 'bout you?
Sean -- word. I'm gonna have to move to at least Tennessee, if not Florida -- this winter thing is getting me down, and it's just frickin' early December.
Hey, Diane! How's by you?
filkertom
Doing pretty well this morning, thanks.
So, what's the next big project?
Lots of Orwellian headlines today from the mouthpieces. No examples to offer.
I think FY has used up his allocation of free speech.
filk - Congrats on the album. I've been keeping up with your progress thru your messages here.
I'm OK. Cold. This ain't my favorite time of the year, but we'll get thru it.
Good to hear from you, home-skillet.
fuck the fundie-fux...with their deflection about the gulf of tonkin...OLD NEWS ASSHOLES...just because we went to a war on lies once (and we lost that war and thousands of young lives were lost) doesn't mean we have to repeat that history...this is why lernin' is important - it should not have to be said
Vote Orange!
Because it doesn't rhyme with Fuschia!
Fucking cold...
Filk, you got snow there too didn't ya?
Yeah, although I was mostly an AATA guy, when I did drive the one thing I do not miss is waking up 10 minutes early to scrape the ice off the car.
Tennessee, good. You can run for Frist's Senate seat : )
afternoon moonbats
I'm just delighted with the idea of helping a friend clean the garage today.
There'd better be plenty of hot coffee or chocolate offered....
guten morgen.
Need some help this morning. Jean Schmidt is having a q&a coffee this morning in Lebanon Ohio at an elementary school. Somehow I got an invitation and my 127 year is going. I need some help with pithy pertinent innocent-sounding questions for her to ask. I can't believe Jean has come out of hiding. Seems like a good opportunity to get her to step in it again.
Filk, I have a question this morning. One of the regular poster at this site is reading my soon-to-be-released novel. (She likes it . . . so far.) But when someone reads something of mine I am really interested in the fact that they like it: but I may be more interested in learning if they did not like it.
I am not really sure of why: cause I prolly won't change, but I think it is interesting.
(I have a friend, for example, who is a musician and his music often has lots of syncopation - for some reason unknown to me, I HATE syncopation. It just unsettles me. Has nothing to do with the musician, just a personal dislike)
Do you share this interest in why people DON'T like things?
...this is why lernin' is important - it should not have to be said
mogwai
Ah...but lernin' is hard work, hard work, I tell you.
Can't expect Mr. Mostly On Vacation to work that hard.
Diane -- good to hear it!. The next big project is actually about a dozen small projects: I've got to finish two commissioned songs, and a bunch of template songs for the web site -- the personalized songs that you can fill out like a Mad-Lib and then I record 'em for you. That's tougher than I thought, but a lot of fun. After that -- possibly February, more likely March -- I start working hard on the next album, adapting the comic book/web comic Girl Genius.
Billy B -- thanks, man. It's taken all damn fall, but I'm really happy with it. And that makes three original studio albums, and five total, since "losing" The Job Which Shall Not Be Named.
I need some help with pithy pertinent innocent-sounding questions for her to ask.
angelina
Not a question, but how about:
"Congresswoman Schmidt, I just want to tell you how much of an inspiration you are to all of us . . . "
pause while she demurely smiles
" . . . with agressive personality disorder. Your ability to keep your eye on the ball despite being medicated is amazing!"
Q: Bush and his apologists say that we are fighting ter'ists in eye-rack so they don't come here - why didn't we just do that in afghanistan - that was where the fuckers who attacked the wtc were?
...ohh I forget - the propaganda about 45-minutes and a mushroom cloud and roving bio-labs to spread germy-germy...all from a country who couldn't even feed their own children - and I was gonna believe that they were building nukes - BHAHAAHAAA - I laughed back when the propaganda was going on and I still laugh now!
According to Juan Cole, American production of made in USA corpses is up to 18 for a 72 hour period. 18 families that will not be having much of a holiday season this year, thanks to Crawford's village idiot. Peance and freeance are, by all indications, in their last throes. Is it 2009 yet?
Whew -- for a minute there, I thought that Ed Begley, Jr. had died.
my 127 year is going
Wow! A late starter? 
Here, for you, Angelina: Ms. Schmidt.
Tina Brown dissing blogs? Interesting that she's joined the pile on (or up?) They are afraid of blogs. Look at Coulter and O'Reilly in fear for their lives. Liberal bloggers are out to attack them physically. They have to have body guards, that's how bad it is.
fools
Filk -
Your website mentions that the disc of your new opus will be available later in the month. That still hold?
- I laughed back when the propaganda was going on and I still laugh now!
mogwai
Well, it worked so well back then here that the regime is now using it on the Iraqis. The Outsourced Ministry of Propaganda and Lies must be working overtime
heh that drunken popinjay Hitchens has written an article in the Guardian.
Fleet Street's finest
From Evelyn Waugh to Michael Frayn, novelists have portrayed journalists as bibulous, cynical and slothful. But for Christopher Hitchens, the tales of 'unredeemed squalor' and fiddled expenses evoke nostalgia for a vanished age
Sean -- a little, but I don't think any of it's new this morning. We're supposed to get up to three inches today, but they've been saying that all week, and we only got about a half-inch, already mostly melted.
watertiger -- morning! Actually, I'm in charge of picking up the hot chocolate. But she's paying for the pizza for lunch.
'Sup, Blak!
DWD -- Oh, absolutely. Constructive critique is almost as important as validation, and if I think something's good, I want to know why someone disagrees. And sometimes it's a completely out-of-left-field reason. There's one singer I know, great songs, lovely voice, that a friend of mine cannot stand... because her voice happens to hit a frequency that causes him physical discomfort. Ticks him off no end.
Morning moonbats!
Some sample questions:
1. "Ms. Schmidt, did you ever shit yourself while you were running a marathon?"
2. "What's it like to live with rabies?"
3. "If you let your hair down, does your face drop to your knees?"
Hey filk!
Actually, I'm in charge of picking up the hot chocolate. But she's paying for the pizza for lunch
It had better have every freakin' topping you want!
Morning folks.
Is anyone having problems with the main page loading. Looks like an add or something is stalling on my browser. Page doesn't pop up until I hit stop.
Billy B -- well, it should be going to the duplicator by the end of the month. Between finishing up the packaging and the duplicator's schedule, I have to be vague on that sort of thing (not to mention the fact that part of the idea of the pre-order is to raise money for the pressing). That's why I absolutely refused to have a pre-order of any type until I got the MP3s up there, so that no one thinks they threw money at me to no good purpose. I'm hoping to have the physical CDs by mid-January.
US 'backed East Timor invasion'
The United States knew and approved of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975, which led to a 24-year occupation of the former Portuguese colony, according to newly declassified documents.
Released this week by the independent Washington-based National Security Archive, the documents showed that US officials were aware of the invasion plans nearly a year in advance.
They adopted a "policy of silence" and even sought to suppress news and discussions on East Timor, including credible reports of Indonesia's massacres of Timorese civilians, according to documents.
Boy whoever gets first on the next thread deserves it.
DWD - As much as I like to display my work, other people's opinions don't really matter that much to me. I know if the work came out the way I planned, if the colors meshed, if the seams meet. Praise, for a work I am not happy with, has no affect on my feeling.
congrats on the completion Filkerton
I'm hoping to have the physical CDs by mid-January.
Cool, brother. I'll keep checking back.
wt -
I only wish they'd ask Schmidt those questions. Especially the one about her soiling herself in a marathon.
The question I'd ask the Gentlewoman from Ohio is why she made that speech implying Murtha was a coward.
My follow-up would ask why, if she felt so strongly, did she ask her speech be stricken from the record.
Filk, that is the same way the publisher does my books. Have to have enough sales to subsidize the printing costs. (Wish you had to deal with BMG and I had to deal with Random House: But we do what we have to do.
watertiger -- pepperoni, pineapple, minced garlic. Mmmm-mmmm.
4. "How does it feel to be such a weak, spineless, useless toerag that you can be fronted to pointlessly, needlessly attack a 37-year veteran, and then lie about your attack, knowing that we've got you on videotape?"
5. "What's it smell like, up Karl Rove's ass? No, wait -- we used to know, and don't wish to recall."
Moonbootica - thanks for the link to the Hitchens article.
The Outsourced Ministry of Propaganda and Lies must be working overtime
I think propganda is a good nail to drive into the GOP's coffin...there are many others, but some senator needs to grab the propaganda meme and run with it...I could envision all kinds of teevee ads that show snippets of the GOPer propaganda and then move onto the reality...that will hit home!
Wow
huh huh huh
i got 14 people to talk about me!
This is the biggest thing in my life!
uhh...
Arabella no problem.
Filkertom....sheesh...sorry need coffee
I'm having probs with DKos, too. There was a mention of improvements to scoop coming soon that were mentioned recently, but don't know if updating is the reason the site seems unavailable.
Hillary - I don't have a problem if Hillary gets the nomination. I have a problem if Biden, Bayh, or Warner get the nomination. I'm not convinced there any difference at all on the issues between Biden, Bayh, Warner, and McCain.
Re: free markets
So this 82 year old lady gets a prescription from her doc. It's written in characters unknown to philologists, but she's OK; she gave her a paper written in block letters to take home. She then is told that Bush et al. have so arranged things so that she has to pay for her first $250 in meds, then 25% of her next $2000 in meds, then all of her next $3000 or so, then 5% of whatever's left. Her recourse is to sign up with one of twenty competing plans, all of whose terms are even more incomprehensible and some of which won't take her because she had breast cancer 12 years ago. On her way to the office, she gets hit by a car, and goes to the ER, where after looking up complication rates, calling the Better Business Bureau, talking to the local AARP and reviewing Consumer Reports and seventeen websites while she's on the gurney writhing in pain, she accepts care from the orthopedist on call to pin her hip.
Sounds like a free market to me...
I think I found somethings we can give to our favorite trolls for Xmas
Baby Bush Toys
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Poll: Arab distrust of US growing
People in Arab nations believe the Iraq war has brought less peace, more terrorism and contrary to Washington's claims, will result in less democracy, a new poll indicates.
The survey of six Arab countries, also found a plurality of respondents got their news from Aljazeera, currently at the centre of a storm over an alleged US idea to bomb its headquarters.
When asked which country was the biggest threat to them, most respondents chose Israel or the United States, while France was nominated as the country most respondents would like to be a superpower.
What's it smell like, up Karl Rove's ass?
Ouch.
Good one.
Mornin', EkCenTriK!
Thanks, sj!
DWD -- it'd be nice on one level; on the other hand, I'd have to deal with both editors and deadlines. I make less, but it's no less predictable as to when I get it, and I have complete freedom of both content and deadline.
Which doesn't mean I wouldn't like to be picked up by a major publisher -- but I really don't see it ever happening. I'm indie folk-rock mostly-comedy, and that means I'm not in the big-box stores, and I'm good with that.
sj -- not a problem, happens all the time.
I ditch the Q/A format and just talk about how embarrassed you are as a voter from the 2nd district with your representative's, the most junior person in the Congress, shameless attack on Murtha and her outright lie about her intent after the fact.
hammer the scumbag. don't let them stop you until you get what you want to say off your chest. You have that right.
I got nothin'
Just sayin'
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Hey, Prof... Moonbotica....
scout prime -- hilarious! I may need to get that Twisty Thing, That Is Red.
I take it back. The xylophone. That's amazing.
ProfWombat, you left out an important detail. The plan chosen by the 82-year-old is free to change its formulary every Monday.
Moonbootica,
French President Jacques Chirac, emerged as the most popular leader.
You think this pisses Bush off to know Arabs are crazy for Chirac, but hate him? Hehehehehe!
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filkertom....yeah I may get the Twisty Red Thing That is Red for Fred Erper. Might be too difficult for him though
Jesus, I tried to read that Hitchens' article and it made no sense at all. I used to like to read Hitchens the way Victorians liked to visit lunatic asylums. But Hitchens has graduated from the antic phase of madness into the gibbering phase.
hey filkertom congrats on your album!
Moonbootica
Conversed with your dad last night. Seems as if we are both fans of Ginger Baker, the drummer.
Nice guy, your dad.
Tell him Billy B. says hello and to visit more often.
Thanks, Moonbotica. It's been a long few months, but man is it satisfying.
scout prime -- word. I still haven't figured out if he's a parody troll or what -- he's like Patterson, but willing to stick around after he pees in the punch bowl, y'know? Kinda like a proto-Gordo.
Billy B will do
Filk, when I clear up some room on the Credit card (already have a plan to pay it off and cut it up) I will order a new copy of your album: it is only right.
Plus a good half of Hitchens' article is entire paragraphs of other writers stuff. Does The Guardian treat him like and old pensioner? Every time Hitchens' needs to pay a few bills and stock up on the booze, somebody gives the town drunk a job. It's the equivalent of sending Hitchens' out to collect cans and bottles. Probably Hitchens wouldn't mind scouring gutters for bottles. There might be booze left in some of them.
Bush: done, ruined and fucked.
You think this pisses Bush off to know Arabs are crazy for Chirac, but hate him?
Actually Dart, I doubt Bootsie even remembers whom Chirac is.
QL, I agree, btw. If I am happy with what I have done, it really is not that important to receive validation or criticim. The only time this support is really needed is when you start following a bit of dandelion fluff into the recesses of your mind and report what you have seen. Unconventional presentations require either validation or criticism. You know?
QL, I agree, btw. If I am happy with what I have done, it really is not that important to receive validation or criticim. The only time this support is really needed is when you start following a bit of dandelion fluff into the recesses of your mind and report what you have seen. Unconventional presentations require either validation or criticism. You know?
Set Jean Schmidt up with something along these lines: " Congresswoman Schmidt, first off I'd just like to thank you for your sincere apology to John Murtha, and I'd like to ask you......
I think this might evoke a mistake on her part. I don't believe she ever directly apologized to Murtha.
I haven't been able to connect to DailyKos for 7 hours now.
DWD -- many thanks. And after I take care of December bills, I'll pick up a copy of your book. Us small-press types have to stick together.
Clean sheets!
ahhhhh hot coffee and cinnamon muffins on a cold morning...
well cold for the south east anyways
Its wunderful...
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