I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Finally.
Bye, Joe.
Go sit on a rock somewhere,
Haven't been first, except way too early in morning, for a long time.
Feels good. I think I will puff out my chest and gloat awhile.
And maybe get a life.
hey gloating at being first IS having a life.
I don't know who Ned Lamont is, but that certainly is good news.
Buh-bye, Joe!
Hecate ...
This blog was filled with sex talk last night.
Was there an astrological explanation for such preoccupations?
One MEEEEEEEEEEELLION dollars?!
Good riddance!
Doug, from downstairs, re yellowcake:
I'm just searching for the NSA's "red flag" words and seeing what happens.
I'm going to write to MoveOn and tell them to support this.
O comments
Who you gonna believe haloscan or your lyin' eyes?
It's a good day.
Good day!
Off to dinner and movie.
res,
I don't know of an astrological explanation, but this blog is always good for sex talk on a Friday night. I blame the attrikitties!
This is good two ways: it'll force Joe to start acting like a Dem again to keep the base, and he might actually lose.
What movie, tigre?
i hate that, 1500 thread,now 40 post threads...... what is up with that
I'm going to write to MoveOn and tell them to support this.
Good call, Hecate, me too.
t'll force Joe to start acting like a Dem again to keep the base,
Somehow, I doubt it. Holy Joe's too far off in his own little world where up is down and war is peace. Hey, hey, Joe, Joe! It's time for you to go!
Hello again.
Why not just pay Joe ONE MILLION DOLLARS to change his party affiliation to 'Republican'? Simple, honest, fast, and the Democrats no longer have him bloviating Republican talk points from within.
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I just took a very long walk in the cold. It felt very good.
I wish I had a fireplace right now, though.
He should challenge Joe to sign a pledge that he won't jump parties. And that if he does that he will resign the seat.
I wish him success and a career as a real Democrat in the Senate.
I'm just searching for the NSA's "red flag" words and seeing what happens.
Watch for the grey coloured Crown Victoria autos, (Big ugly fords) sitting in front of your house. If they did this at my house, my big dog would scratch the paint, since he wouldn't know them, and would not think that having manners was important.
http://static.flickr.com/7/
90768..._a8985ab1bb.jpg
(130 lbs of bouncing fun.)
Joe should just admit he is really a republican and apologise for pretending to be a Democrat.
Sounds like an invitation to the pasture.
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I'm in the mood to open up a can of whoop ass.
four legs good, you there?
Just kidding..
Why not just pay Joe ONE MILLION DOLLARS to change his party affiliation to 'Republican'? Simple, honest, fast, and the Democrats no longer have him bloviating Republican talk points from within.
It would be better to have a real Dem in that seat -- committee control and all. And it would be a fanfuckingtastic lesson for other Dems who are still thinking Republican lite will save their own asses.
Atrios, when are you going to talk about the Anti-Christian imports which coming here from a country which allows muslim rape of WHITE WOMEN????
i wonder if joe has been getting any of that abramoff money? i havent seen anything saying this, but it might help explain some of his actions.
hey joe where ya' goin with that ____________ in your hand?
quigleytr, damn, if you are going to troll and blogwhore, at least put up links that work.
Hecate,
Wake up and smell the coffee, Moveon could care less.
..."go to go?"
That doesn't make any sense!
...tee-hee.
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
You have to say it like Dr. Evil...
Atrios, when are you going to talk about the Anti-Christian imports which coming here from a country which allows muslim rape of WHITE WOMEN????
You know, I've found that holding my breath can cause Atrios to post on my pet issue. How about you hold yours until Atrios posts on this issue, OK? Oh, and it also helps if you contribute $100/hour to Green Peace, as well. While you hold your breath.
other Dems who are still thinking Republican lite will save their own asses.
Hecate Malificent
Anyone who expects the "moderate" Republicans are anything but Republicans are watching too much TV.
After the last six years anyone who had a shred, and by that I mean any decency has already left the Republican party. Anyone who is left is signed on for the full Reich.
Wake up and smell the coffee, Moveon could care less.
Actually, didn't Moveon say a few weeks ago that it would back a primary challenger to LIeberman?
I'm telling y'all this has been one hell of a day!
This is GREAT NEWS!
Hecate, one of the other reasons to bribe Lieb to change parties is that then a Democrat could be run for the seat, in chaqllenge to Old Joe......
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Watch for the grey coloured Crown Victoria autos, (Big ugly fords) sitting in front of your house. If they did this at my house, my big dog would scratch the paint, since he wouldn't know them, and would not think that having manners was important.
wait- are will smith and gene hackman involved in this?
i hate that, 1500 thread,now 40 post threads...... what is up with that
pigboy | 01.07.06 - 5:49 pm | #
what's really bad is being first on an open thread and finding that it only has 18 comments five hours later.
We need to make it clear:
its not the ideology, so much as it is the protection of republicans, and the willingness to criticize democrats before republicans.
I don't like Joe's voting, but if he would keep his mouth shut and quit serving the republicans, we wouldn't need to get rid of him.
But we do.
Oh, I'm begin name stollen. Ted, is that you? Why aren't you out at the tavern boring people?
Anyone who expects the "moderate" Republicans are anything but Republicans are watching too much TV.
That's why I hope the rumor about Olympia Snowe going down with the Dukestir's wire is true. and a few seats' pickup might knock that weenie Chaffee off the fence. (He's popular in RI, I gather, and if he has to be a senaweenie I'd prefer he be our senaweenie.)
You know, I've found that holding my breath can cause Atrios to post on my pet issue. How about you hold yours until Atrios posts on this issue, OK? Oh, and it also helps if you contribute $100/hour to Green Peace, as well. While you hold your breath.
Hecate Malificent
God you rock
Hey, guys - I'm posting from the public library!
That is all...
Here's the MoveOn page where you can vote to support the challenger against Joementum:
MoveOn
You have to scroll down a little.
Hecate, my daughters went to Rasita last night for the older one's birthday. They raved about it today.
Hey, guys - I'm posting from the public library!
a fine use of tax dollars
Sorry, Rasika.
This news has made me happier
than I've been about anything
in months.
Fuck bush and fuck this pukebag too: quigleytr
dumb superstitious fucktard - easter bunny looking out for you? tooth fairy?
Atrios, when are you going to talk about the Anti-Christian imports which coming here from a country which allows muslim rape of WHITE WOMEN????
this rant jogs a memory (OT from Joe L.)
didn't saudi arabia and kuwait just get a pass on some international law banning human trafficing?
some memory of some online site article...
So, is that site a parody, or what? And is it not linked to other parodies (draftmelgibson.com)?
too funny.
Who is Ned Lamont and how do we know we can trust this guy? So he tosses in a million of his own money? So what? All that means is that he's another rich guy trying to run for higher office and except for the filthy rich guys who run cause they know they have all the money they will ever need, the guys who aren't filthy rich still have a need to obtain more.
MYOB'
.
We need to make it clear:
its not the ideology, so much as it is the protection of republicans, and the willingness to criticize democrats before republicans.
exactly. I'll hold my nose around Nebraska Nelson and even forgive Mary Landrieu, but Lieberman's just a grandstanding backstabbing fuckwad
One MEEEEEEEEEEELLION dollars?!
Wait, didn't we determine in an earlier thread that this only buys you 7 Euros?
Rasita l
pie,
I'm going to have to try that; where in DC is it?
Tena,
You, too, sister!
DemByDefault, I wouldn't hold my breath on Olympia going down. Even if she was caught red handed the Maine press, with a knee firmly bolted before her, would lie for her.
I'm told there will actually be a Democratic challenger but they haven't declared yet.
Joe should just admit he is really a republican and apologise for pretending to be a Democrat.
Hey, what if Gore admitted Joe is really a republican and apologized for picking him as veep? THAT would make headlines.
Hey, guys - I'm posting from the public library!
That is all...
dave™
btw dave
i enjoyed your chuck norris/network- wolf blitzer post yesterday and ASSUME it was satire-/-humour-/-fiction
I don't have one MEEEELLLION dollars to contribute, but I'll help out too.
Holy joe should just totter off to the holy land and bother people there or something.
quigleytr, damn, if you are going to troll and blogwhore, at least put up links that work.
Doug, my link does work. And I am not trolling. This is a non-partisan issue.
white women
when are you going to talk about the Anti-Christian imports which coming here from a country which allows muslim rape of WHITE WOMEN????
Ha! I'm still waiting for a discussion of "Issue X"!
What about it, "Duncan"??? Why so silent????????
Good call, ron jazz!
Well, if somebody wants to take the anti-Lieberman ball and run with it, I'll get out the checkbook and volunteer some musical entertainment for the troops.
T2, I think that Gore's refusal to endorse Clueless Joe was the equivalent of an apology.
Joe will forget that when Nader has forgotten being excluded from the debate. They've got a lot in common.
im reluctant to click on a link about raping pillaging muslims. somehow i suspect a troll.
That is excellent news. Loserman's support for all things Chimpy makes him unfit to represent his constituents in Congress.
DemByDefault, I wouldn't hold my breath on Olympia going down. Even if she was caught red handed the Maine press, with a knee firmly bolted before her, would lie for her.
That's the sense I get from watchign from afar. She's like the human incarnation of Lacey Davenport from Doonesbury, just a little younger. But why don't she and fucking Collins stand up for something!! Christ on a cracker if they found their spines they'd OWN the fucking senate between the two of them.
This news has made me happier
than I've been about anything
in months.
Even happier than plushyporn?
Well, that is happy indeed!
...i enjoyed your chuck norris/network- wolf blitzer post yesterday and ASSUME it was satire-/-humour-/-fiction
Since I have no idea what are you talking about, and I'm positive I wasn't posting drunk yesterday, I think we can also assume it was another "dave"...
But if you can link to it, I'll take a look!
did ned lamont legally change his name from flanders?
or is that just a rumour?
Please - somebody rent out the Hyatt if Greenwich CT. Throw a party for Joe, featuring a podium and mike. Have somebody present Joe with some kind of award. Any kind of award engraved silver bowl, cheap-o plaque whatever. Announce Joe's retirement and maybe he'll fall for it because he wants the shiny trophy. And he wants the microphone too.
please.
OK, gotta go check out these weird "book" things... they got type in them, but they're not on a screen!
Rasika
633 D Street NW
Very cool website.
Well, if somebody wants to take the anti-Lieberman ball and run with it, I'll get out the checkbook and volunteer some musical entertainment for the troops.
And then..... FIESTA!!!!!!
Holy joe should just totter off to the holy land and bother people there or something.
Looks like there's a leadership position in Kadima opening up...
I see Ms. Hecate has a pretty pink blog! Congrats.
Why the f*ck should we want to see Mel 'batf*cking crazy' Gibson's website?
MYOB'
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i just touched myself
Since I have no idea what are you talking about, and I'm positive I wasn't posting drunk yesterday, I think we can also assume it was another "dave"...
But if you can link to it, I'll take a look!
dave™
A-OK
I thought it was you but I guess not-
searching would take the rest of my life-------!!!!!
Loserman's support for all things Chimpy makes him unfit to represent his constituents in Congress.
Hopefully, his constituents have come to the same conclusion. Otherwise...
This news has made me happier
than I've been about anything
in months.
steve simels
Happier than Delay resigning? Abramoff being indicted? Cunningham wearing a wire. Heehee. Tough choices.
After so many years of being on the losing end, I've forgotten how good it feels to win. I could just kiss someone.
four legs good:
Did I miss some plushyporn?
just when you keep hoping, hope comes all along in one go.
four legs good,
You want to open up my can of whoop ass again tonight?
Hey Holy Joementum, I hear there is some really cheap real estate in the Mid. East.
Edward "Ned" Lamont:
Democratic donor
Cable TV mogul
Investment board something or other
Ha! I'm still waiting for a discussion of "Issue X"!
Here's the spokesperson for that particular issue...
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendi...ix/
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Happier than Delay resigning? Abramoff being indicted? Cunningham wearing a wire. Heehee. Tough choices.
In order I would choose
1) Duke's wire
2) JoMo's challenger
3) Abramoff indicted
4) Delay resigning (I would have liked him to stay on and fuck the R's up in the house a little longer)
Happier than Delay resigning? Abramoff being indicted? Cunningham wearing a wire. Heehee. Tough choices.
In order I would choose
1) Duke's wire
2) JoMo's challenger
3) Abramoff indicted
4) Delay resigning (I would have liked him to stay on and fuck the R's up in the house a little longer)
Rasika
633 D Street NW
Very cool website.
pie
pie,
there is a restaurant in Montreal
where
if you DO NOT finish your dessert
they take a polaroid photo of you
post it on the wall
and you are never allowed there again.
I kid you not.
OT
THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
On Monday, we in the UK, will be able to watch, 'Darwin’s Rottweiler' Professor Richard Dawkins lay into religion.
He will claim that all religion is at the root cause of most human suffering. He argues that God is the least sympathetic fictional character ever created, and as scientific evidence indicates that it is impossible for a supreme being to exist, religion should be rejected.
Dawkins goes head to head with religious leaders in both Jerusalem and the American ‘Bible Belt’
I can’ wait to watch this one.
four legs good,
You want to open up my can of whoop ass again tonight?
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 01.07.06 - 6:05 pm | #
Oh lovely, the namestealing stalker is here, not realizing that fourlegs and I went through our "process" offline.
BTW, I do have evidence that he was possessed by aliens. I totally swear.
Why the f*ck should we want to see Mel 'batf*cking crazy' Gibson's website?
Just take a look and you will understand. Seriously.
I kid you not.
That doesn't seem very nice.
I never order dessert, so I'm safe, I think.
DemByDefault, both of the Queens of Maine know that they are free to persue their own interests so long as they throw a used bone or two to the deluded Democrats and Independents who believe that since they are women that they can't be as bad as those awful people in the Republican leadership. It's seldom pointed out that they invariably support those awful people.
Olympia, and this is also of interest to people in Iowa and other states, is a cousin of the infamous enslaver of Mexicans in his disgusting factory farms, Jack DeCosta. I've been told that during the governorship of her soi disant "husband" "Jock" McKernan some rather incriminating letters which she had sent to the Dept. of Enviornmental Protection in Augusta mysteriously disappeared. It was a former employee of the DEP who told me this. He said that it was an open secret in the State Government and was known to the press who have covered it up for her.
Duke's wire isn't exciting me so much. It could be only that he's nailing the businessmen he took the bribes from, not other pols. But if he's nailing other pols, then yeehaw.
All this will really end up doing is make Lieberman switch parties should he lose the primary.
MYOB'
.
I fail to understand why move-on and DFA would think twice about supporting Lamont. Anyone know what Loserman's approval numbers are?
sally did you read Madeleine Bunting's comment piece in the Guardian?
No wonder atheists are angry: they seem ready to believe anything
Richard Dawkins's latest attack on religion is an intellectually lazy polemic not worthy of a great scientist
All this will really end up doing is make Lieberman switch parties should he lose the primary.
That would be HUGE. He couldn't go all Zell on us claiming he's still a Dem.
pie,
Amazing web site. I'm going to have to eat there soon.
Doug, my link does work. And I am not trolling. This is a non-partisan issue.
Mel, I'll leave the troll comment in abeyance for the moment, because I've not had time to really read your blog in detail.
The first time I hit your link it gave me a "404" error.
How often was I namestollen last month when I wasn't here? I wonder.
But not too much.
NTodd, hi.
The bad part is Moveon.org threatening to get into it. That could be like poison for Lamont, allowing Lieberman to easily paint him as part of the "idiot wing" of the democratic party, and out of the mainstream.
I never order dessert, so I'm safe, I think.
pie
you should be. i haven't heard of any roving patrols.
That's me the ATM machine.
Like I just said on Kos, it's fun to speculate how much money the GOP will pony up to keep Joementum in the Senate.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he goes crawling to Jim Dean, Howard Dean's brother, hat in hand, looking for a handout and a pat on the head.
AAAAAAAh ha ha ha ha ha!
Merkel better watch out her phonelines are not tapped
Merkel criticises Guantanamo Bay
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay "should not exist", in an interview days before she meets George W Bush.
In the interview to be published on Monday, Mrs Merkel criticises the US camp in Cuba, saying "different ways" should be found to deal with prisoners.
Her visit to Washington is her first since she took office in November.
So long as four legs knows his place, I won't have to get forceful with him again.
MoveOn would help. Lots of troops, and in the primaries most people like MoveOn. God, are we to the point of running to the center in our own primaries?
OT: (And not really very important)I am still trying to prove I am a better writer than graphic designer. If you have a moment, do you have an opinion on this?
http://img.photobucket.com/
album...hallengenew.jpg
I live in TX-22, and have Lucifer as my (so-called) Representative. Nick Lampson will be getting all the support I can give him. All who can, please help!!! Bugman must go out of office.
pie, there's a bus leaving in ten minutes.
Be under it.
Moonbootica
No I did not read that article, and judging by the title I won't bother.
God is the least sympathetic fictional character ever created,
What was it Asimov said? Most gods have the manners and the morals of a spoiled child?
"Duke's Wire'
sounds like something you'd buy in a pet store
jane - I love your blog. In the mornings I read your blog first before I read anything else.
a fan
The bad part is Moveon.org threatening to get into it. That could be like poison
for Lamont, allowing Lieberman to easily paint him as part of the "idiot wing" of
the democratic party, and out of the mainstream.
Admirality | 01.07.06 - 6:10 pm | #
With all due respect,
horseshit.
Ned Lamont sounds like a name of an old radio detective.
God is the least sympathetic fictional character ever created,
I keep tellin' you guys, that's the Demiurge. Think of him as a namestealing troll. God's a good guy but he doesn't post as often.
He will claim that all religion is at the root cause of most human suffering. He argues that God is the least sympathetic fictional character ever created, and as scientific evidence indicates that it is impossible for a supreme being to exist, religion should be rejected.
I have to agree with him. No one in their right mind would find the Old Testament god to be a god of justice and mercy.
OT
Submitted by Sussel on Sat, 2006-01-07 17:31. Activism
http://www.afterdowningstreet.or...rg/?q=node/
6512
FIT THE BATTLE...
Dick Bell, Karen Bradley
Democracy Cell Project
A cold morning in Lafayette Park, the White House glistening in the bright morning sun. Four mounted park police stand in formation opposite the White House fence, while another policewoman plays a rough game wrestling with a K-9 dog over a foot-long orange plastic attack-dog toy.
I’m here to watch a small group of United Methodist pastors who’ve come together to conduct a “Ritual of Social Exorcism” service to rid the White House of the demons that George Bush and his cronies have unleashed: deception, white male ego, greed, arrogance, fear, hubris, hegemony, and ignorance. (That’s a good list, although I’m sure every one of us could add a couple more; casting out these devils would be a great start.)
etc.
----
"Casting out" could catch on.
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pie, there's a bus leaving in ten minutes.
Be under it.
she can't afford the ticket.
I fail to understand why move-on and DFA would think twice about supporting Lamont. Anyone know what Loserman's approval numbers are?
bigvic
I seem to remember hearing recently something like over 60%. It'll be hard to knock him off his perch. CT has lots of rich people.
The bad part is Moveon.org threatening to get into it. That could be like poison for Lamont, allowing Lieberman to easily paint him as part of the "idiot wing" of the democratic party, and out of the mainstream.
Oh! A concern troll! They're so cute, aren't they?
Hello, I'll Be Your Namestealer For Today
Chomsky was riffing on intelligent design and said it would be more logically consistent to have a doctrine called sadistic design, in which all the misfortune in life is attributed to a paranoid divine universal underlying cruelty.
Ned Lamont sounds like a name of an old radio detective.
"Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man-about-town, is secretly... The Shadow."
Really. That was the intro. I want to grow up to be a wealthy young man-about-town, but it may be too late.
Admiralty - We haven't gotten anywhere by appealing to the so-called middle. It's not time to "keep our powder dry" and all that other shit.
Give me liberty or give me death.
eschatonian | 01.07.06 - 6:12 pm | #
Come up with your own material, tiny-penised one.
The bad part is Moveon.org threatening to get into it. That could be like poison
for Lamont, allowing Lieberman to easily paint him as part of the "idiot wing" of
the democratic party, and out of the mainstream.
Admirality | 01.07.06 - 6:10 pm | #
With all due respect,
horseshit.
steve simels
---------------
With all due respect, this is supposed to be the reality based community so lets set wishful thinking aside and look at reality. Moveon.org is a vital and important organization but it HAS been successfully typecast as a nutjob faction and it CAN be used to beat a candidate over the head with. Thats reality. You can either accept it and use it to your advantage, or ignore it and have it used against you.
'Most gods have the manners and the morals of a spoiled child?'
Hecate Malificent
Guess that is why Chimpy thinks he is a God.
Ned Lamont sounds like a name of an old radio detective.
Shaw Kenawe | Email | Homepage | 01.07.06 - 6:12 pm | #
Like Lamont Cranston.
The Shadow!!!!!!!
Who knows what evil lurks in
the hearts of men....
Concern trolls are like a nark disguised as a highschool student who was beginning to show signs of middle age.
"This news has made me happier
than I've been about anything
in months"
What news? The JoeMo might lose or that Sharon might live?
DWD, lose the funky texture on the tower, or do the texturing another way. It looks too much like a stock photoshop filter. (regardless if it really is or not)
I live in TX-22, and have Lucifer as my (so-called) Representative. Nick Lampson will be getting all the support I can give him. All who can, please help!!! Bugman must go out of office.
PinHouston
I supported Morrison, I'm on Lampson's mailing list and he's near the top of my list of people to give money to. Thanks for mentioning him. I intend to push him every chance I get.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay "should not exist", in an interview days before she meets George W Bush.
What is it with the Germans and their decidedly less than ferrous will to subordinate the individual to the state?
Moveon.org is a vital and important organization but it HAS been successfully typecast as a nutjob faction and it CAN be used to beat a candidate over the head with. Thats reality. You can either accept it and use it to your advantage, or ignore it and have it used against you.
uh, if you accept the way your enemies define you, youve already lost the battle.
DeLay's Decision Won't End GOP Troubles
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans worried about their party's future have succeeded in pushing embattled former Majority Leader Tom DeLay off the stage. Even so, the Republicans' election-year troubles are far from over.
Need a reminder?
President Bush, the titular head of the GOP, is waging an unpopular war in Iraq and presiding over a nation with lingering economic anxieties. He suffers from approval ratings around 40 percent - near record lows for his presidency. Questionable stock transactions by the top Republican in the Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, are under investigation. A special prosecutor's probe continues into whether Bush administration officials outed a CIA operative in retribution for her husband's Iraq war criticism. A secret anti-terror program that Bush approved to eavesdrop on people inside the United States without warrants is raising concerns about overly broad presidential powers.
DWD, I like this one better. But get rid of the (how paranoid are you) bit.
Hey, it's Vicki with the red turtleneck.
I'm back in, out of the gloom and drizzle.
Should be a lovely evening, fershnizzle.
OT: (And not really very important)I am still trying to prove I am a better writer than graphic designer. If you have a moment, do you have an opinion on this?
The word 'challenge' right above that photo emphsize the 'CH'
as in 'Ch..........alice' possibly.
The black with red and blue lettering and small rectangular photo appear as packaging for a video game.
So if you put those two elements together it is striking.
However I sometimes have problems with lettering as 'script' or 'longhand writing' because it's a bit too
'personal' or 'friendly.'
just my initial impressions.
oveon.org is a vital and
important organization but it HAS been successfully typecast as a nutjob faction
and it CAN be used to beat a candidate over the head with. Thats reality. You
can either accept it and use it to your advantage, or ignore it and have it used
against you.
Admirality | 01.07.06 - 6:15 pm | #
Again, horseshit.
So what if Limbaugh et al claim
Moveon is fringe. Who gives a flying
fuck? Nobody who actually votes,
that's for sure....
Excellent blog, Jane. Your stuff on the courtroom action is the best. I'm hooked on firedoglake.
Questionable stock transactions by the top Republican in the Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, are under investigation.
My gosh. With all the good news, I almost forgot about cat-killer's troubles.
hee hee.
Ned Lamont sounds like a name of an old radio detective.
Shaw Kenawe | Email | Homepage | 01.07.06 - 6:12 pm | #
and his arch nemesis Vitamin Flintheart.
Again: until we stop being afraid to act like Democrats in our own primaries, the neocons will keep winning. Keep MoveOn out of the primary contest? STFU. That's the yellow-bellied fearfulness that makes voters think we're weak.
So long as four legs knows his place, I won't have to get forceful with him again.
I forget: what is fourlegs' place?
she can't afford the ticket.
Damn, I was gonna ask her to float me 20 bucks.
Oh! A concern troll! They're so cute, aren't they?
I would adopt this one, but I already have a new pet.
So what if Limbaugh et al claim
Moveon is fringe.
you'll lose the robotussin and oxicotin voters.
I'm going out tonight. Just so the namestealer knows. Ted, why don't you go try to pick someone up. That should give these people a break for at least the rest of the evening.
Good night.
Yeah, I want to focus on Frist next. He's been getting a pass lately...
OT,
Just saw DeLie claim that he's always obeyed the law and the rules of Congress. Hahahahahahaha. How'd he rack up all those ethics violations then?
DeLay's Decision Won't End GOP Troubles
Heehee! It's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
it CAN be used to beat a candidate over the head with. T
Gee, and if they don't use MoveOn they'll never just make shit up or attack your strenghts. So you should turn down MoveOn's money and boots and then they'll Swift Boat you anyway, and the Vichy Dems and KKKKarl with have a party.
You fuckwit.
Go get some better talking points. Those quit flying around here several years ago.
but I already have a new pet.
And a very handsome one at that. Love the name.
ql - My husband bought me a serger today. My sewing room is all finished and I'm happy that I'll be able to sew again.
pull the plug on Joe: cut off the mike.
you'll lose the robotussin and oxicotin voters.
BS. I'll still vote.
pretzelattack:
yeah
I hear you
right on
It's a huge mistake to let your opponent define you.
yes!
you'll lose the robotussin and oxicotin voters.
BS. I'll still vote.
T2
BS, I doubt you use that crap.
So what if Limbaugh et al claim
Moveon is fringe. Who gives a flying
fuck?
"I care."
My husband bought me a serger today.
My wife asked me to buy her a Sergio, but I'm too old fashioned. I'm going to try Viagra and see if that satisfies her instead.
OT
Rich: White House outrage over wiretap story is 'smokescreen'
RAW STORY
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/
Ri...retap_0107.html
The White House outrage over the New York Times breaking the NSA wiretapping story is a "smokescreen," Frank Rich writes in his Sunday Times column, RAW STORY has learned.
For one, an episode of a cable television mini-series featured a terrorist worrying about NSA taps almost two weeks before the original Times story was published on December 16, Rich argues. The columnist almost wonders if the Bush Administration tapped journalists and political opponents.
Rich claims the motive for attacking the press is to "deflect attention from embarrassing revelations about its incompetence and failures," and that other leaks may soon reveal "what the White House is really so defensive about."
etc.
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Hmmm - Bush's inadequacy?
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OT,
Just saw DeLie claim that he's always obeyed the law and the rules of Congress. Hahahahahahaha. How'd he rack up all those ethics violations then?
bigvic
well, as someone noted at another blog (not mine!), DeLay claimed he's always behaved in an ethical manner.
Which is not quite the same thing as claiming his actions were always ethical!
Well, the Robitussin. Generic. But I have a cough. Still, with a couple glasses of wine I do feel it...
Limbaugh's legal troubles aren't over either.
off to a party i have only a mild interest in attending.
and fortunately the 'green' pants are clean.
bye for now.
Embrace move on, and Dean, and all the other fake bogeymen the Right tries to make you run from.
Say their name loud, and proud, and send shivers down your opponents spine.
And a very handsome one at that. Love the name.
We considered picking something else, but apparently he's been called Mexico for his entire time in the shelters (which amounts to half his life), so we'll keep it. Stef ran into the same thing when she adopted Cairo back in '96.
Again, horseshit.
So what if Limbaugh et al claim
Moveon is fringe. Who gives a flying
fuck? Nobody who actually votes,
that's for sure....
steve simels
word.
I get tired of that crap - you can't pay any attention to what the other side thinks - you just do what's right and what you need to do. They're always going to accuse us of shit. Fuck 'em. We're doing something right - since a majority of Americans agrees with us.
and that other leaks may soon reveal "what the White House is really so defensive about."
Oh, goody.
well, as someone noted at another blog (not mine!), DeLay claimed he's always behaved in an ethical manner.
Which is not quite the same thing as claiming his actions were always ethical!
Rmj, Wandering Aengus | 01.07.06 - 6:22 pm
RMJ, do keep posting. We need a ethical hair spliter, to keep things straight.
By the way, the lawyers among us will recall that "ethics" is a branch of law entirely different than "morals." Ethics are defined by a set of rules and decisions interpreting those rules. Personally, I'd kind of like lawmakers who abide by both ethics AND morals. But maybe I'm stretching.
ql - My husband bought me a serger today. My sewing room is all finished and I'm happy that I'll be able to sew again.
Shit, I gotta move back to a house. I'm in the foyer, with fabric in the bedrooms and livingroom.
BTW, got any gray cotton lying around?
Can he win?
Forgot to report, batsies, I was listening to CNN while cleaning out a closet this afternoon, and actually heard Bill Schneider refer to Bush as "an unpopular president."
First times I've heard that on a cable new station.
God is the least sympathetic fictional character ever created,
If a human in a position of power followed the old testament God's example to the letter, he or she would be in the running for the worst monster in history along with Hitler and Stalin...
Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children. (Isaiah 13:15-18 NLT)
When the people heard the sound of the horns, they shouted as loud as they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites charged straight into the city from every side and captured it. They completely destroyed everything in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, donkeys – everything. (Joshua 6:20-21 NLT)
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves. (Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)
"Forgot to report, batsies, I was listening to CNN while cleaning out a closet this afternoon, and actually heard Bill Schneider refer to Bush as "an unpopular president."
First times I've heard that on a cable new station."
Shaw Kenawe
Shit it has only taken 5 years!!!!
I seem to remember hearing recently something like over 60%. It'll be hard to knock him off his perch. CT has lots of rich people.
ql in ny
60%? I don't get it. Hopefully, his pimping for the very unpopular Boosh will do him in. I can dream!
false moral
http://static.flickr.com/17/
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ql - Lo siento. One time I was in the middle of finishing some Christmas presents and I ran out of white thread. It was 2:00 AM, so I shut it down.
I am pleased that we are getting tough and standing for something instead of appeasing a monster that can never be appeased. There is no doubt that the blogs are carrying the day in this regard.
Hmmm - Bush's inadequacy?
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QuentinCompson
If Angelina fucking Jolie showed up in w's bedroom, wearing one of get ups Lara Croft, smiling sexily, and told w she would do anything, butt anything he wanted, w would still be inadequate.
What's Joe's favorability among Dems?
Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves. (Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)
Richard
But..but...it's the word of GOD!!!!
It's late enough in the day, and enough of a new crowd, that I'm gonna run this by everyone again. Sorry to be a bore, but I care:
Atrios and other economists in the crowd: I'm not exactly blogwhoring, but trying to figure something out. The Fed is discontinuing reporting of M3. I think that could tie in both to the Debt Bomb scenario and to some people's desire to start the government investing public dollars in the stock market. But I'm no economist, and I don't like conspiracy theories in general. Goes hand in hand with the Debt Bomb scenario, I think.
Would anyone interested please check my thinking on this and let me know if it's on- or off-base?
Thanks.
"I wouldn't hold my breath on Olympia going down."
Shouldn't that be between her and husband?
Richard,
I rest my case. That's some loving god, eh?
in re the move.on stuff above
In a red or purple state, Admiralty might have a point, but I think in CT its a moot point, isn't it?
Lieberman may be popular, but what about the war itself? Hang it around his neck like a burning tire. It's as important and clear a moral issue, IMHO, as the civil rights movement was in teh sixties. Which just makes Lieberman's craven bush-sucking all the more bewildering to me (and spare me the Israel comments: I know it's a factor but it's not the only one),.
And Ned Lamont sounds like the guy Ralph Bellamy plays who gets dumped by Kathareine Hepburn or Carole Lombard for Cary Grant or Clark Gable.
Dammit, I keep tellin' you, that's the namestealin' demiurge!
(Breathes deeply.)
Piloting Bush
http://www.m90.org/index.php?id=10524
Nyuk nyuk nyuk
(and, nice targeting?)
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This has been a good day!
Not only all the political good news, but that I was able to score a much needed Western Electric speakerphone via eBay for 51 cents more than the opening bid!
(These old speakerphones are great for my bad hearing. Nice big speaker in a decent cabinet, lots of volume and tuned to reproduce the human voice in the 3 kilohertz bandwidth of the average telephone line.)
Plus, I've a nice piece of steak thawing for dinner, along with some red skin potatoes, sweet corn and some local sourdough bread.
I might even have a glass of wine or two, and toast Joementum's imminent departure from the Senate.
Shaw - Are you sure you were listening to CNN? That is some amazing news that CNN said "unpopular president." Finally, they realize that less that 50% is less than half.
off the subjesct but tin foil hat Alec Rawels is taking a beating over AT T-BOGG RIGHT NOW.
What's Joe's favorability among Dems?
T2
What's Joe's favorability among virgins?
That's some loving god, eh?
He just loves us to death.
What's Joe's favorability among virgins?
Very, very low, but if the choice is between him and between being run through with a sword...
Okay, dinner just arrived. I'm off.
RMJ, do keep posting. We need a ethical hair spliter, to keep things straight.
addicts
well, if I "behave" in an "ethical manner," then I ape the mannerisms of an ethical man.
Which is almost, but not quite, what Aristotle had in mind (he who introduced this concept of "ethics" to the Western world).
Which is what Socrates understood. Our understanding of what we are doing, and why, is often quite out of sync with the reality of what we are doing, and why.
So it's easy to claim you behave in an ethical manner.
Quite a different thing to say you try to be an ethical person.
The former is all about appearance. As Muhammed Ali said: "It's not just what you do when the lights are turned on, it's what you do when no one is watching."
While campaigning for Kerry I met a R woman who cited that passage in the bible about killing everyone, and said "if the Jews had done what God told them to do back then, we wouldn't have to be doing it now."
That's how she saw the War On Terra. As a belated and Godly genocide of the Arabs.
Shaw - Are you sure you were listening to CNN? That is some amazing news that CNN said "unpopular president." Finally, they realize that less that 50% is less than half.
arabella
Who does Bill Schneider work for? CNN or MSNBC? I didn't pay attention to which cable network was on, but I did hear the talking hair-do use Bill Schneider's name. And he did say "an unpopular president."
I'm sure of that because I fell over and hit my head on the ironing board.
Hey!
"Shaw - Are you sure you were listening to CNN? That is some amazing news that CNN said "unpopular president." Finally, they realize that less that 50% is less than half.
arabella "
Hmm maybe the handlers are being neutered one at a time and they have less to fear.
Now is that a cynical remark or what?
You moonbats are Abramoff-corrupted too!
I've said it before, but the Old Testament is a record of one genocide after another all across the middle east, perpetrated by God, by the Israelites or the two of them together.
It just is.
The entire first born population of Egypt? All those innocents - and in the NT, that's what slaughtered infants are called.
Delay and Ethics don't even belong in the same sentence
Shaw:
Schneider's CNN.
RMJ: Nice. I also remember reading about George Washington that he didn't distinguish between appearance and reputation, on the one hand, and reality, on the other. To him, how he acted and perceived WAS who he was. Which enabled him to stand up and do the right thing so often, as when he told the guys who wanted to make him King to go to hell. That's behavior becoming true morality.
Plus, I've a nice piece of steak thawing for dinner, along with some red skin potatoes, sweet corn and some local sourdough bread.
Set another place. I'll be right over!
Shaw - That's pretty funny. I can't listen to that stuff. I admire people who do, so that I don't have to.
Shaw - Are you sure you were listening to CNN? That is some amazing news that CNN said "unpopular president." Finally, they realize that less that 50% is less than half.
arabella
Who does Bill Schneider work for? CNN or MSNBC? I didn't pay attention to which cable network was on, but I did hear the talking hair-do use Bill Schneider's name. And he did say "an unpopular president."
Would that be American Enterprise Institute Fellow BIll Schneider? Tho' you'd never hear that from CNN.
This is big, if those numbers have finally sunk in. Christ Rebups have been running away from him while CNN calls him "our very popular commander in chief"; I'm sure Norah will continue to blow him on Hardball.
I hate to be ethnically tribal, but that girl is like fifty times to dumb to really be Irish.
Shaw,
Schneider is with CNN.
And if he said it, I'm shocked, but not so much, really. It's finally sinking in with the media-pollster types that this president is neither popular for his policies nor with the people, in general.
BushCo has made the lumpiest bed.
Da Captain has got it wrong, again. Does the big bouncy guy _ever_ read anything he links to?
>Alito's Former Pupil Defends Him In The NYT
No, it's Alito's classmate that's defending him.
Alito's former law clerks are on a tour touting him, as well. But of course, one can be a nice guy and a fascist. And their resumes get a HUGE boost if he becomes a Supreme.
Piloting Bush
brilliant!
Um - just passing thru here - I've got big shrimpies in butter and garlic sauce over angel hair pasta. With some fresh tomatoes I picked this morning, on the side. I'm prepared to share, but whoever turns up has to help me put together the elliptical bicycle thingey.
Alito's former law clerks are on a tour touting him, as well. But of course, one can be a nice guy and a fascist. And their resumes get a HUGE boost if he becomes a Supreme.
T2
Yes, lots of patronage opportunities there.
Moveon.org is a vital and important organization but it HAS been successfully typecast as a nutjob faction and it CAN be used to beat a candidate over the head with.
"Don't take money from Moveon. They're nutjobs."
"Don't take money from Hollywood. They're out of touch with the 'heartland.'"
"Don't take money from Dean. He's unstable."
"Don't take money from anyone. It's unethical. Only Republicans can take money."
Plus, I've a nice piece of steak thawing for dinner, along with some red skin potatoes, sweet corn and some local sourdough bread.
I might even have a glass of wine or two
Throw in some Stoli and you could be dining w/ the three-headed goddess of the crossroads. Just saying.
Geez, I need to leave work and go home and eat.
Y'all got to see this painting of the Bush administration's Oval Office meetings.
the Mad Tea Party
Good one, res. Don't forget this one:
"Winning elections is not important."
It's time to stop being brainwashed.
their resumes get a HUGE boost if he becomes a Supreme.
Ya think? Plus, he had a ideological test for clerk, so he only hired wingnut clerks.
GWPDA,
Save some for me!! I'm starved!
First Guinness draught of 2006!
Please continue the insightfulness to the accompanyment of the best use of hops and grain on Earth.
And would somebody tell T2 that, if ceasing to report the M3 (whatever that is) makes it easier for Bushco to stripmine America's assets and economy, then yeah, that's why they're doing it?
Thanks, and pray, continue.
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The entire first born population of Egypt? All those innocents - and in the NT, that's what slaughtered infants are called.
Tena
Not just all the Egyptian men, women and the entire first born population, Tena, he took out all the fucking cows, too!
Cows? Why? Why?
Hecate Malificent ~
Thanks for the poem. I liken my rock to my mirror. Which, lately, has been my journal.
Save some for me!! I'm starved!
Hecate Malificent
Some French bread, could you bring?
I picked up the February Vanity Fair. It has Woolcott's latest and an article about the Fitz. My husband wants to have a romantic dinner. (He's cooking something and it smells delish.) And I want to hang out here.
I can't do all three at once.
and what was the point of turning the water into blood?
arabella,
Read the Fitz article and tell us what it says.
Note to self: Stop at store on way home and buy VF
But I'm no economist, and I don't like conspiracy theories in general. Goes hand in hand with the Debt Bomb scenario, I think.
I'm economics ignorant, but that Debt Bomb thing scares me silly. I just read in the Financial Times today that China looks to cut back on investment in the U.S. Gulp. They think their money can be better invested in other parts of the world.
arabella:
Go for the romantic dinner.
Buncha wingnuts on local teevee just a few moments ago ...
"Attacks on Samuel Alito are attacks on all Italian-Americans."
Oy.
Bovicide?
And would somebody tell T2 that, if ceasing to report the M3 (whatever that is) makes it easier for Bushco to stripmine America's assets and economy, then yeah, that's why they're doing it?
Consider me told. I'm just not as certain as I want to be that it makes it easier for them to do that, 'cause I don't fully understand it either.
I've said it before, but the Old Testament is a record of one genocide after another all across the middle east, perpetrated by God, by the Israelites or the two of them together.
It just is.
The entire first born population of Egypt? All those innocents - and in the NT, that's what slaughtered infants are called.
Well, to be pedantic, there is that whole slaughter of people in Jerusalem by Babylon part.
Not to mention the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome, which Josephus describes as leaving blood running in the streets up to the knees of the soldiers.
The Roman soldiers killed everyone found in the city: men, women, children.
The latter two are history. The slaughter of the first born in Egypt and by Herod (Matthew doesn't call them "innocents," by the way) are fictional.
"A pint of Stout is your best man."
--Brendan Behan (1923-1964)
Of whom the Irish Times wrote at his death--"He was too young to die, but too drunk to live."
Hecate--
IT'S SATURDAY! GO HOME!!!!
Sorry for shouting....
Save some for me!! I'm starved!
Hecate Malificent
Some French bread, could you bring?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
So you get the witch over for dinner and the bicyle thingey puts itself together.
Clever girl, you.
Of whom the Irish Times wrote at his death--"He was too young to die, but too drunk to live."
I have found my epitaht: Fortunately my family and friends are mostly too a-literate to know it was stolen
and what was the point of turning the water into blood?
Moonie,
Do you have the Fab Gay Guys Who Dress Dumb Straight Guys over in GB? If so, you'll understand what drama queens these gay gods are. Always making dramatic gestures. This goatherd god is so gay. Not that this is a bad thing.
I just read in the Financial Times today that China looks to cut back on investment in the U.S. Gulp
I read that, too, bigvic, and I immediately fantasized to myself that I might benefit from quitting my job, pulling all of my cash out of my 401K, and leaving for Europe.
And then I realized I need to stay and fight the good fight, right here.
Quigleytr
Just to be fair, I checked the link. I can now safely say you are a dipshitted asshat and Mel is batshit insane. A swedish designer is making jeans with an anti-Christian logo. About fucking time is all I can say.
If you scroll on down, you get this hilarious prediction Mad Mel:
Mark my words, friends, when DeLay is exonerated, before the end of this month, there is going to be a great backlash against the judeo-secularism that has taken this country hostage. And you are going to see some big changes in the upcoming elections as a result.
BWA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAA!
Back on topic: I'd love to be able to move to CT just so I could vote against Holy Joe in the primary.
"he has gone where savage indignation can no longer lacerate his breast"
Massive penis size contest between polytheism and monotheism, as made up by bitter propagandists.
Some French bread, could you bring?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
If you'd mentioned this 6 hours ago, I could have had some made by now.
And would gladly give it to Hecate, if it would make her leave work.
Hecate yep we have a British version of it.
on Living TV.
plus they show the American version as well.
Bigvic, Hecate, would that it could be so! I would gladly have you both as dinner guests.
Shit it has only taken 5 years!!!!
sally | 01.07.06 - 6:25 pm | #
I heard "with the army bogged down in Iraq" the other day on ABC...you could have knocked me over with a feather.
BigVic: That's part of my point. Then the Fed/M3 thing, I think, makes it possible for some people to profit from it without the rest of us knowing. I think. Economists!! Hey!!
Debt Bomb
M3
OK, I'll shut up for awhile now. If anyone has any wisdom on this please post on my site, 'cause I'm going to go start thinking about dinner. My brain hurts.
Thanks!!
Note to self: Stop at store on way home and buy VF
I just got mine today. THere is a person named "Lindsay Lohan" on the front cover. I have no idea who this person is (other than the cover ID of her as a "teen movie queen") or what she's famous for. She is not even particularly attractive.
I like VF, but I wish they'd give up putting these types on the cover. I realize they have to sell mags, but there are plenty of other beautiful and important and interesting movie stars, e.g., GEORGE CLOONEY.
the Mad Tea Party
Bluto W. Bush
Eeek!
Gaza poverty is for real
GAZA CITY: "Ariel Sharon ended the occupation of Gaza but built gates and locked them. If he dies, I won't be sad," said Mohammed Al Zanta, doubtful that the demise of the Israeli premier can lift his misery.
In the impoverished and increasingly volatile territory, few Palestinians pity the Israeli prime minister, wired up to a life support machine and fighting for his life after a massive stroke.
A one-time arch hawk, Sharon may have rewritten his reputation by pulling Israel out of the Gaza Strip just four months ago after a 38-year occupation but nothing has alleviated the security chaos and poverty in the territory.
Schneider is with CNN.
And AEI.
So you get the witch over for dinner and the bicyle thingey puts itself together.
Clever girl, you.
flory
UCLA didn't grant PhDs to no fools. Well sure, now, but then, not....
that little Paris Simpson girl on the cover of VF is the reason I didn't buy it. Is the Wolcott thing on line
I think the overlords are getting ready to dump Bush.
And when this happens, it will not be Democrats who are seen as the saviours. Did not someone on here say the other day that they heard some talking head say….. "the Dems are not the answer?"
That will be the meme till a compliant rethug can be re- branded as a saviour.
"Would that be American Enterprise Institute Fellow BIll Schneider? Tho' you'd never hear that from CNN."
I think they're two seperate people.
I just got mine today. THere is a person named "Lindsay Lohan" on the front cover. I have no idea who this person is (other than the cover ID of her as a "teen movie queen") or what she's famous for. She is not even particularly attractive.
Clearly you don't have a pre-teen girl in your life....
Bluto Bush has a "Mad Tea Party" Bu$h cartoon that is hilarious!
THere is a person named "Lindsay Lohan" on the front cover. I have no idea who this person is (other than the cover ID of her as a "teen movie queen") or what she's famous for.
She's famous for her anorexia.
I can't do all three at once.
arabella
Hang out here til its time to eat. Go have your romantic dinner.
Then when he falls asleep in his chair...read the Wolcott.
Russia and Iran in nuclear talks
The Iranians say a first day of talks between their officials and Russian diplomats and experts on Iran's nuclear programme has ended satisfactorily.
These centre on a proposal to transfer all of Iran's uranium enrichment programme to Russian territory.
It is backed by the European Union and the United States, which suspect Iran is trying to develop an atomic bomb. The Iranians strenuously deny this.
Massive penis size contest between polytheism and monotheism
Or, to put it differently: is it better to have one large penis or a whole bunch of small ones?
"he has gone where savage indignation can no longer lacerate his breast"
DemByDefault
So you're saying he's left Cleveland?
Vicki,
Glad you liked the poem! It's been one of my favorite, if the most simple, for about thirty years. T. Thorne Coyle, whos link I hope to post soon, has some lovely mirror exercises.
GWPDA,
There's a place near me that makes the *best* baguettes in the world. If you ever come out here to stay, we'll eat there. It looks like a hole in the wall, but their bread is amazing. An act of grace.
Oooo. This Vanity Fair article is a must not miss. I'm still reading it. Will report later. Extremely funny feature on the bottom of page 176. It's a series of photos showing Prince Charles morphing into George Bush.
Yummy stuff.
If you'd mentioned this 6 hours ago, I could have had some made by now.
And would gladly give it to Hecate, if it would make her leave work.
I'm sorry. Six hours ago I was donating most of my wardrobe to the Assistance League and buying the elliptical bicycle thingey. Should have thought. Sorry!
Lohan was the kid in the remake of "The Parent Trap", and the older kid in the remake of "The Love Bug." She's pretty cute, but only 19 and suffering all the usual crap that child stars suffer when their folks are jerks and their managers make them get boob jobs.
Lindsay Lohan was good in 'Freaky Friday.' She also has big boobs. And she's shaping up to be a classic showbiz trainwreck. What's not to like?
That will be the meme till a compliant rethug can be re- branded as a saviour.
Unless a Democrat takes it into his head to not act like one.
Anybody see the Spielberg
"War of the Worlds?"
It's on in-demand cable --
is it worth four bucks?
That will be the meme till a compliant rethug can be re- branded as a saviour.
Mayhap a newly converted JoMo?
Dollar Coin Guy: I think CNN's Schneider and AEI's are one and the same, though I'm not sure. Norm Ornstein is there too, and he hates bush's ass. Which is not german to the convo, but I've gotta go get my hair cut before the Hair Barn closes.
And when this happens, it will not be Democrats who are seen as the saviours. Did not someone on here say the other day that they heard some talking head say….. "the Dems are not the answer?"
That's deluded. It also is in direct opposition to the polls. Sounds like faith based wishful thinking to me.
Ah, Josephus is our only source for a lot of things, but he's not the most reliable of witnesses. And archaelogy & Assyrian accounts suggest that only Israelite elites were taken into 'Babylonian captivity' - the bulk of the population stayed there to continue paying the taxes. But i digress.
anyway, what do you say i get........ANOTHER GUINNESS?
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And the part of the Exodus that always confused me is that the departing Hebrews took a bunch of Egyptian cattle and sheep. You know, the cattle and sheep that just died from the 10 plagues.
Of whom the Irish Times wrote at his death--"He was too young to die, but too drunk to live."
Shaw Kenawe
There was an Irish actor, who's name I forget, did a one man show on Behan 20 years ago called the Borstal Boy.
Great show.
WOMEN AND POWER IN CENTRAL ASIA: THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
An old Kyrgyz proverb claims that "a frog-headed [stupid] man is better than a golden-headed [intelligent] woman." It is tempting to suggest that the proverb reflects the overall attitude toward women in Central and South Asia. Gender stereotypes and discriminatory legislation continue to hinder women’s ability to pursue careers in politics, business, and many other fields. Nonetheless, hope remains. For example, an unprecedented number of women have taken up seats in Afghanistan’s new parliament. In the first of a four-part series on Women and Power in Central Asia, RFE/RL looks at the status of women in the region.
In the 1920s, when Bolshevik governments were set up throughout the region, Central Asian women experienced unprecedented changes.
res,
As much as I understand your *concern* for George Clooney, I hate to tell ya, but...it isn't *just* about him!
(Although I'm starting to feel that way about Heath Ledger, and I'm old enough to be his mother...)
BTW, The Grand Rapids Press' movie critic, Andrew Jefchak, gave Brokeback Mountain a great review...
is it better to have one large penis or a whole bunch of small ones?
I like having an entire screwdriver set as opposed to just one.
Lindsay Lohan is no Tara Reid.
IMHO.
the bulk of the population stayed there to continue paying the taxes.
And intermarried with other tribes, and became the detested Samaritans of Jesus' day.
Lawyers,
Aren't these folsk in NOLA's lower 9th ward entitled to some sort of Article 78 proceeding (e.g. Mandamus to Review) to determine if the city can tear down their houses?
Lindsay is a drug addict.
I like having an entire screwdriver set as opposed to just one.
I really was asking the ladies their preference!
I really was asking the ladies their preference!
Yeah, like that's ever stopped me from commenting.
Lindsey Lohan is the Annette Funicello of her generation -- a modestly talented singer/actress made semi-famous by the Disney machine.
a modestly talented singer/actress made semi-famous by the Disney machine.
And the boobs. Can't forget the boobs.
the Romans punished Judea rebellion by taking away its special priveleges like self government
it became just another province in the Roman Empire.
which was the larger part of the Romans consilidating their eastern terratorities.
Heh. My sister and Nim just called to see what was up.
Those two are goofy, silly in love.
It cracks me up.
He wanted me to drive out there to party with them, but I'm not into a 45 minute drive in the dark.
As much as I understand your *concern* for George Clooney, I hate to tell ya, but...it isn't *just* about him!
/snorts contemptuously
It is all about George Clooney, Vicki.
Specifically, it is all about George Clooney and me.
/tosses hair
I think Lindsay Lohan is very pretty. I like the photo on the cover. Woolcott suggests that we count the freckles to make the time pass more quickly. But of course, he makes his point more eleopuently.
And the boobs. Can't forget the boobs.
There's a sin I will never be guilty of committing...
the Romans punished Judea rebellion
Which, in turn, marginalized everyone who had ever actually known Jesus and studied what he taught, and allowed Paul, a guy who never met him in real life, to become his chief proponent in the rest of the empire.
well worth reading The Middle East Under Rome by Maurice Sartre (translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings).
Ah, Josephus is our only source for a lot of things, but he's not the most reliable of witnesses. And archaelogy & Assyrian accounts suggest that only Israelite elites were taken into 'Babylonian captivity' - the bulk of the population stayed there to continue paying the taxes. But i digress.
Oh, had I world enough and time (and were this a scholarly discussion), I would aver on Josephus's reliability (clearly, he exaggerated about the blood), but the Roman soldiers would be considered the most brutal of monsters by modern standards.
and no, Jerusalem was not abandoned and left empty (what inhabited place ever is?).
But to take the stories of the plagues of Egypt as literal, and yet consider the burning bush a mad fairy tale (for example), is just, how you say, conveniently inconsistent.
So once in a while, instead of pointing out the inconsistency of the literalness of fundamentalists, I point it out about others.
I'm a pest, that way.
Specifically, it is all about George Clooney and me.
driftglass sad now.
Lindsay Lohan was good in 'Freaky Friday.' She also has big boobs. And she's shaping up to be a classic showbiz trainwreck. What's not to like?
The Kenosha Kid
Doesn't she also have some serious daddy issues? Or am I thinking of another no-talent, anorexic teen queen?
It is all about George Clooney, Vicki.
Specifically, it is all about George Clooney and me.
/tosses hair
res ipsa loquitur
Well, good luck with that!
And if you meet his friend, Al Gore, could you put in a good word for me?
Yes, serious dad issues. He's a noshow jerk.
There was an Irish actor, who's name I forget, did a one man show on Behan 20 years ago called the Borstal Boy.
Great show.
flory
Jaysus, was that 20 years ago? I saw it when it came to Cambridge, Mass. Can't remember the guy's name, but it was an amazing performance.
The one I saw, the actor actually blanked out at the very end. He just stopped speaking. He improvised a minute, then it all returned to him. He went on to finish the program.
This is not an unusual occurrence. It happened to me one time when I played Anne Frank. I knew the part cold, but I blanked out on stage and panicked for about a minute, then all the words came back to me.
It's not a pleasant phenomenon.
Whoops - sorry. Got called to dinner in the midst of the post by a very determined man:
Eloquent freckles
later, I hope
Lindsay Lohan is no Tara Reid.
IMHO.
steve simels
Erm...Lindsay's girls are real, aren't they?
As a tool wielder, I can say that rigid ones are better to use then the funky ones with sockets and multiple tips.
Specifically, it is all about George Clooney and me.
driftglass sad now.
Specifically, it is all about George Clooney and me when driftglass is 2,000 miles away.
And the boobs. Can't forget the boobs.
Didn't somebody else make Lindsey's boobs -- not part of the Disney machine. Annette's boobs were her own.
the Romans also had a hard time intergrating the Jewish population into its Roman machine.
And when this happens, it will not be Democrats who are seen as the saviours. Did not someone on here say the other day that they heard some talking head say….. "the Dems are not the answer?"
sally
That was rep Jim Moran on Cspan a few days ago at the town hall meeting with Murtha, and what he said was something like "The dems can't fix all the problems, but the american people can".
If you haven't seen it, you can here..
http://www.c-span.org/
Doesn't she also have some serious daddy issues?
Who among us doesn't have daddy issues?
http://philpolnotes.blogspot.com...-dirty-
too.html
Doesn't she also have some serious daddy issues? Or am I thinking of another no-talent, anorexic teen queen?
No, that's her.
It's also the one you're mistaking her for.
There's a bunch of 'em!
It's amazing how thick the cognitive dissonance is over at The Corner
Their proclaiming the Abramoff thing and DeLay will end up hurting the Democrats.
It's almost Assrocket level imbecility.
I heard "with the army bogged down in Iraq" the other day on ABC...you could have knocked me over with a feather.
SHG
It's been so long since we've heard the media state the obvious that it comes as a shock. How pathetic is that?
Thanks, Chris!
Lindsay Lohan's dad is a minor criminal from LONG ISLAND. That's her only daddy issue I know about.
DemByDefault
You might be right. I'm just going from memory. I'm pretty sure this topic came up a while back.
Lindsay's girls are real, aren't they?
There's vigorous debate. I hope for real but sadly suspect the fake.
I think Lindsay Lohan is gorgeous. But she's like Drew Barrymoore and many other teen entertainers ~ she grew up way too fast. She's troubled.
I hope she gets her shit together, and seizes the opportunity to make the most of her talent, money, and extraordinary privileges.
The fuckers never stop.
Feds give control of Florida waters to Louisiana
Weeks before the Bush administration releases a new offshore drilling plan for the Gulf of Mexico, a federal agency has given Louisiana authority over waters as close as 100 miles from Florida's coastline.
While the full impact isn't yet clear, the new boundaries position Louisiana as the primary stakeholder over millions of acres of waters Florida has historically controlled in the eastern Gulf, including an area south of the Panhandle, that is not currently protected from drilling
http://www.hrealdtibune.com/apps...l/article?
AID=…
That was rep Jim Moran on Cspan a few days ago at the town hall meeting with Murtha, and what he said was something like "The dems can't fix all the problems, but the american people can".
And he was abso-fucking-lutely right.
Romans were brutal, no question. these were the crucifying guys, after all.
But Josephus participated in the rebellion agains Rome, had it go badly, then became a quisling apologist/propagandist for Rome. i think you have to take some of that into account when you read him.
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It is fucking FREEZING in my apartment.
Goofy ass kids in love. Makes you sick doesn't it?
Sure glad I'm married, so I don't have to deal with all that courtship garbage.
Their proclaiming the Abramoff thing and DeLay will end up hurting the Democrats.
It's almost Assrocket level imbecility.
attaturk
Hahahahahahaha. *Snort* Hahahahahahaha
WTF are they drinking?
I hope for real but sadly suspect the fake.
"They're real...and they're SPECTACULAR!"
Doesn't she also have some serious daddy issues? Or am I thinking of another no-talent, anorexic teen queen?
flory
Dad's been in jail for white-collar crimes, IIRC.
Or goes in and out. Or something.
And as soon as she could, she moved to California from New York, and lost a lot of weight (which she initially denied), and died her hair, and so on and so on....
Typical. Sadly.
Jaysus, was that 20 years ago? I saw it when it came to Cambridge, Mass. Can't remember the guy's name, but it was an amazing performance.
Musta been, I was still living in Washington.
Specifically, it is all about George Clooney and me when driftglass is 2,000 miles away.
driftglass has gone to has safe place now.
"He wanted me to drive out there to party with them, but I'm not into a 45 minute drive in the dark.
Vicki "
Bah! Such a small price to pay for fine food, drink and company.
On your deathbed, you'll wish you had made more 45 minute drives like this!
yes the Romans were very violent and geared for war.
you only need to study Ceasar's campaigns in Gaul or Sulla's proscriptions.
the bouts of civil war which charactriesed the 1st Century BC.
And he was abso-fucking-lutely right.
NTodd
I agree. It was a very inclusive message, something we won't hear from republicans.
steve simels - I didn't expect to like War of the Worlds, but it was good.
Yeah - it's worth it, IMO.
I'm not sure my taste is as exquisitely honed as yours is - so take my opinion as you will.
As teen-ish actresses go,
I don't mind Mandy Moore.
Quite attractive, actually.
And she can actually sing, and
has interesting taste in music --
she likes XTC, which is pretty
cool for someone her age.
The Enquirer this week had a picture of a mostly exposed Lohan boob, their conclusion, boob job. And something about rehab for drugs and eating disorder.
I will give the largest contribution that I have ever given to MoveOn if they decide to support Lamont. Lieberman has to be defeated.
It is fucking FREEZING in my apartment.
res ipsa loquitur
It's cold here, too, r.i.l., 40 miles out on a spit of land in the Atlantic Ocean...
Erm...Lindsay's girls are real, aren't they?
flory
No.
Anybody see the Spielberg
"War of the Worlds?"
Tim Robbins yells "Occupations always fail," but to get to that you come to want desperately to take the piot seat of a tripod and tentacle the Spielbergishly annoying brats who just won't die. Also, nothing is really new here. Only other nice thing is a little morality play centering around the mini-van (we'll explain it if you don't want to buy it). It was worth four bucks in the theatre when the sound system could slam the seat around. On the small screen all you'll see are the inconsistencies, like the still-functioning news crew perfectly willing to drive out to a recently hit place and delay escape to explain what they know to anybody.
Everyone here is a writer. That's amazing to me.
The father of LSD is 100 years old next Wednesday.
yes the Romans were very violent and geared for war.
you only need to study Ceasar's campaigns in Gaul or Sulla's proscriptions.
Or consider how freely and easily they used crucifixion as a public form of execution.
A very slow and painful death, and a brutal way to remind people who was in control.
Tena --
You're exquisitely honed on
every level.
a famous figure in the 66 rebellion was Titus, son of the Roman Emperor of the time Vespasian.
mainly its to do with his siege of Jerusalem.
Wait until this summer, Nim. We'll see how you fare at Bliss, Hiawatha and Wheatland.
Wife and I are shooting for 7 festivals this year.
Who among us doesn't have daddy issues?
NTodd
But you're only nine!!
Have NTodd's Pa and NTodd's Pa's Wife met Mexico yet?
It is fucking FREEZING in my apartment.
res ipsa loquitur
Not that I want to rub it in or anything....but I had to open the windows today it was so warm here.....
I'm a bad, bad man, but here's what I googled. I don't know if I'm convinced yet, though: that's a pretty generic scar, and not in a usual place.
boob job?
did someone mention tara reid, too?
Bad Dobby. My confirmation hearings are going to be trainwrecks unless someone sabotages Google's cache.
Anybody see the Spielberg
"War of the Worlds?"
It sucked.
A chase movie that ended precisely where you thought it would, and in precisely the way you thought it would.
Tom Cruise was ever in danger? Please!
The father of LSD is 100 years old next Wednesday.
res ipsa loquitur
Kind of puts LSD in a new light, as it were.
driftglass has gone to has safe place now.
driftglass should come to NYC. It is very safe in NYC. Safest big city in 'Murka, in fact. If driftglass doesn't come to NYC, then res will have to come to Chicago for EschaCon II: This Time it's Personal this summer.
res ipsa:
My windows are open and I'm
schvitzing it's so hot.
Just saying.....
Who among us doesn't have daddy issues?
I don't, because I was never born. The only sure-fire way of not having parental issues. It's sad how many people I know who are shooting themselves in the head because it would annoy mummy or daddy.
Goofy ass kids in love. Makes you sick doesn't it?
Sure glad I'm married, so I don't have to deal with all that courtship garbage.
Barndog, watches the watchers
Well, Barndog, she's 31 and he's 34 (I think?). It's pretty cool to think that they met at EschaCon, dare I say, because I brought her with me...
I love that magic romance thing. I'm so happy for them.
At my edge, when I met guys, I think romance is tempered by the other person's baggage. It's interesting, and it's something I'm writing about in my journal at the moment.
I like courtship, but I know it's never going to be like the first time, again.
As you get older, you become just a little more leathered with each person you meet. It's like you earn your wrinkles and cracks. I've earned every damned one of them. People, as they age, I think, are more skeptical of living with someone else again. At least that's been my experience when I've dated men who have had a fair amount of experience with women.
Just kind of typing out loud...
The dems can't fix all the problems, but the american people can".
Together they can fix most problems. I'm telling you, Boosh had wreck this country and its reputation in 5 short years. Torture, broken treaties, broken promises, illegal wirtapping, trillion in debt. I honestly don't think he could have done more damage if he tried.
Well, guys, I don't know who this Lindsey Lohan is...what films has she made? Or is she a rock star?
For my money, there hasn't been a screen goddess since Ava Gardner stopped making pictures.
All the rest are just filler.
Ava was real. In all aspects.
Tyson’s is now apparently selling prayers along with processed chicken parts.
Hecate, if they read these chicken soaked packets while eating, they may need the prayers, when their insides explode with bacteria.
Crassus crucified the captured slaves who had followed Spartacus all along the Appian Way.
all 6,000
Crassus resented Pompey stealing the glory for ending the slave rebellion.
while Pompey got a Triumph, Crassus had to make do with a Ovation.
Their proclaiming the Abramoff thing and DeLay will end up hurting the Democrats.
It's almost Assrocket level imbecility.
attaturk
That'll be right after Joe Wilson is convicted of outing Valerie.
This football game is getting interesting.
Crap.
Now I'm arguing with Tena about "War of the Worlds."
Still prefer Orson Welles' version, myself.
I do want to see "Munich," though.
I'm not sure my taste is as exquisitely honed
Tena,
Everything about you is exquisitely honed, from your cheekbones to your prose.
Just sayin'
Well, Barndog, she's 31 and he's 34 (I think?). It's pretty cool to think that they met at EschaCon, dare I say, because I brought her with me...
I love that magic romance thing. I'm so happy for them.
Nim and your hippy sister deserve each other. I mean that in the best way.
Please - It was record high temps here today and will continue for the foreseeable future.
It's like I've moved to Australia.
Erm...Lindsay's girls are real, aren't they?
flory
No.
Tena
You've disillusioned a lotta y-chromosomes here today....
Well, I totally misread the thing about tyson's chicken prayers. I read it that they were including some with the raw chicken. never mind.
T2,
new view on sweater problem.
Tell her it makes no sense to keep a sweater that itches and you cant wear and offer to take her and it to the store and replace it with something just as nice, that she wants and can wear.
from my witches.
the girls are now 19 and 22
The father of LSD is 100 years old next Wednesday.
res ipsa loquitur
saw that this morn. what a trip albert hoffman, a 100 years old.
all from a rye fungus. St. Anthonys Fire.
From Lieberman to Lindsay Lohan. Interesting thread.
last movie i have watched was Serenity.
That was rep Jim Moran on Cspan a few days ago at the town hall meeting with Murtha, and what he said was something like "The dems can't fix all the problems, but the american people can".
Oh, is THAT what he actually said? That makes a lot more sense than what someone posted the other night.
a famous figure in the 66 rebellion was Titus, son of the Roman Emperor of the time Vespasian.
mainly its to do with his siege of Jerusalem.
There's that about Fundies too; they have no conception that the NT is embedded in a much larger historical narrative.
Most of 'em don't even know that there are two guys named Jesus in the NT instead of one. Usually freak's 'em out a little
a famous figure in the 66 rebellion was Titus, son of the Roman Emperor of the time Vespasian.
mainly its to do with his siege of Jerusalem.
There's that about Fundies too; they have no conception that the NT is embedded in a much larger historical narrative.
Most of 'em don't even know that there are two guys named Jesus in the NT instead of one. Usually freak's 'em out a little
you become just a little more leathered with each person you meet. It's like you earn your wrinkles and cracks.
This is why I completely don't understand women like Katherine Harris.
Damn, I earned every single one of these laugh lines. I want a man who's earned his as well, and who loves me for earning mine.
If he wants plastic boobs and collagen lips, well, he won't get them here. But I understand they're pretty available.
I wish I'd had the nerve to try LSD. Alas, I was always too chicken. Too late now. C'est la vie.
Hecate, steve - thank you very much.
Oh stop, Robert.
It's not a great movie, I hate Tom and I resisted seeing it. Mr. Tena wanted to see it, and I was surprised and not bored. And I love Tim Robbins - I'll sit through almost anything to get to see him. He's one of my favorite actors because he's completely unpredictable.
Have NTodd's Pa and NTodd's Pa's Wife met Mexico yet?
Not yet. Prolly not for a coupla weeks. But grandma's excited!
My windows are open and I'm
schvitzing it's so hot.
It's 7.2F here. Outside. A pleasant 68F inside.
AssRocket can only wish he was filled with this much shit:
DELAY [Rich Lowry]
He did the right thing, and this does leave an opening for a comeback. He was a fantastic majority leader, arguably--as Rich Galen said yesterday I believe--the best ever. He had an uncanny knack for reading the votes and persuading members. This was not a matter of him being "The Hammer," as the media would have it. As a colleague put it the other day, he was more like "The Concierge," doing favors, soothing hurts, taking care of his members so they would be there when they were really needed on a key vote. But the scandals had rendered him ineffective, and made him a liability--at least for now.
THE DELAY STATEMENT [John Podhoretz]
Very elegantly done. And if anybody thinks the statement means DeLay is through permanently, that person doesn't understand politics. If DeLay comes through the lousy Ronnie Earle business in Texas clean, which he probably will, and if he isn't excessively bloodied by the Abramoff scandal, which we can't know yet, he will be in a position in a few years to replace Hastert as Speaker of the House (should Republicans remain in charge). We've just spent the past several days reflecting on the political career of Ariel Sharon. Sharon staged a comeback from the total disgrace in which he fell in the mid-1980s. DeLay has wisely decided to retreat for now to fight again another day. (Unless, of course, he knows there's a big shoe to drop against him and he's just trying to clear the decks.)
Gee, John, ya think? Maybe something to do with that guy wearing the wire?
Wotta buncha maroons!
I'd love to be able to make the next Eschacon, and I will if I can find a human form in time.
I'd love to be able to make the next Eschacon, and I will if I can find a human form in time.
Yay! Come as you are, dear.
Peterboy: Thank you for still keeping that in mind! I was on the phone with my bride at the same time, she who is now shopping with said 11 y.o., and she reports that daughter bought an oversized Snoopy sweatshirt and is willing to return the itchy sweater. And you're right, it was the face time with mom that made the new item OK.
You guys are all awesome. Seriously. I love youse.
I'm a bad, bad man, but here's what I googled. I don't know if I'm convinced yet, though: that's a pretty generic scar, and not in a usual place.
boob job?
That was a hoot(ers)
Hey SIMELS -- you coming out to quaff elitist chardonnay tonight with your real-world fans or what?
Okay, kids, off for the traditional
Saturday evening quaffing of
elitist chardonnay blah blah blah.
Have fun while I'm gone....
Most of 'em don't even know that there are two guys named Jesus in the NT instead of one. Usually freak's 'em out a little
Driftglass, I don't know this. What is the story on the 2 Jesuses?
I know, Vicki. Leroy is experiencing the same thing currently. Just sometimes being around it gets rather, er... ummmmm -
Disgusting. Man... I sound like I should be going to Holy Jeebus H. Sunday tommorrow.
I'd love to be able to make the next Eschacon, and I will if I can find a human form in time.
Echidne of the snakes
Why should you be any different from the rest of us?
It looks like we do in fact negotiate with terrorists.
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. officials have been talking with local Iraqi insurgent leaders to exploit a rift between homegrown insurgents and radical groups such as Al Qaeda, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
Citing a Western diplomat, an Iraqi political leader and an Iraqi insurgent leader, the Times said that the talks were also aimed at drawing the local leaders into the political process."
I'd love to be able to make the next Eschacon, and I will if I can find a human form in time.
Yay! Come as you are, dear.
As long as you keep the venomous snake bites to the Repubs.
Most of 'em don't even know that there are two guys named Jesus in the NT instead of one. Usually freak's 'em out a little
"Jesus" is just a Greek transliteration of "Joshua."
Moon, darling, for Central Asia, you need to read HB Paksoy. He who first called me Auntie, and the Hoover Institute mixed up mail. Too long a story for here. Go read Paksoy. It'll do you good. Some articles on gwpda.org
kerrible ---
How the heck are you, babe!
If he wants plastic boobs and collagen lips, well, he won't get them here. But I understand they're pretty available.
Hecate Malificent
Plastic boobs, collagen lips, paralyzed muscles....just buy a fucking inflatable doll and be done with it already.
If I had an extra million dollars (many more than ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS), and if I wanted JoeBoy out of the Senate (which I do), I say go for it.
(Try to read the thread to find out who Ned Lamont is. Much too long.)
Hard to be worst for the Democratic Party than Joe.
What is the story on the 2 Jesuses?
Um... a namestealing demiurge Jayzus, and the real one?
Anyone read Stephen Mitchell's "The Gospel According to Jesus"? He does a great comparison of the two, actually.
"Jesus" is just a Greek transliteration of "Joshua.".
Chuy! Who knew?
Yellow Ball now.
.
GWPDA i shall do
Missing you, babe -- coming out at 8pm!
Heidi has slipped underneath my duvet and is nipping my feet.
As long as you keep the venomous snake bites to the Repubs.
I have discerning snakes, not to worry.
I wish I'd had the nerve to try LSD. Alas, I was always too chicken. Too late now. C'est la vie.
Are you sure its too late? I've never tried any drugs but Stoli, but I am thinking of smoking pot or doing shrooms for my 50th birthday on the Ides of March. Just because.
my feet are not safe !
driftglass should come to NYC.
Big cities scare me.
I run through the streets of Chicago all day long, pirouetting and screaming in terror like a chickenhawk at the sight of an Amry recruiter.
It's no kinda way to live, but it's "gotten good to me".
Echidne,
I'll find a hotel room that has snake cages, if you'd feel more comfortable. We can even get you a mouse to snack on if you're hungry. Whatever you want ~ we want you there.
Tena, if you're still here, I'm going to play with the EschaCon blog set-up tonight.
Be on the lookout for e-mails in the next 48 hours!
What is the story on the 2 Jesuses?
Um... a namestealing demiurge Jayzus, and the real one?
Jesus, the trolls are everywhere!
See you then!!!!
With a treat for you....
"Jesus" is just a Greek transliteration of "Joshua."
Or Y'Shua: God Saves. Good name.
Try to read the thread to find out who Ned Lamont is.
Search for "cable".
Brave new world.
Pace is must've gotten wind of the Times story. He got the AP to transcribe for him :http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-
1448832.php
(Unless, of course, he knows there's a big shoe to drop against him and he's just trying to clear the decks.)
Gee, John, ya think? Maybe something to do with that guy wearing the wire?
Wotta buncha maroons!
dave™
Kinda assumes he's a lock for re-election as well. Which isn't necessarily a given anymore either.
I wish I'd had the nerve to try LSD. Alas, I was always too chicken. Too late now. C'est la vie.
I dropped a coupla times in college. I preferred shrooms.
Jesus" is just a Greek transliteration of "Joshua.".
So, explain to me where the flying spaghetti monster comes in then...
Still prefer Orson Welles' version, myself.
Ever notice how the George Pal version follows the Welles' adaptation in a sort of in-joke way? Especially when the Martians first emerge from their cylinders and attack - there's a radio guy describing the scene, and he gets cut off at almost the same point as the radio guy did in the radio version.
And of course later, you've got Paul Frees as another radio guy doing his best Welles' impression just before they drop the bomb ("these tapes I'm making are for future history... if any!")...
Man, the namestealing trolls got aholt of Jesus within 30 years of him dying. Been ruining that thread ever since.
See you then!!!!
With a treat for you....
steve simels
TENA!!!!! steve's cheatin' on us!!!!
I'd love to be able to make the next Eschacon, and I will if I can find a human form in time.
Echidne of the snakes
Mom!!!
You hafta be there!!
Or consider how freely and easily they used crucifixion as a public form of execution
I thought Romans reserved crucifixion for major crimes like rebellion -- hence the crucifixion of the 6000 or so slaves captured at the end of the Spartacus rebellion. It lends credence to the idea that the Romans saw Jesus as a threat to public order. Although, it would cast doubt on the veracity of the story of him being crucified between two thieves. Ordinary thieves would not be crucified.
but I am thinking of smoking pot or doing shrooms for my 50th birthday on the Ides of March. Just because.
Baby....
have skunk, I don't know why but that Pace link seem broken.
Re: topic
Where the hell can I donate? I will switch from name-brand beer to budget for this...
Send Lieberman home.
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Re: topic
Where the hell can I donate? I will switch from name-brand beer to budget for this...
Send Lieberman home.
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I'd love to be able to make the next Eschacon...
So was the time and place for that ever settled? If so, where can I view the details?
Doubt I'll be there, but you never know!
dave™ - Tom DeLay's stepping aside is clearly a devastating blow to the Democrats. A masterstroke, a genius move that will totally put them on their heels and guarantee that the GOP will rule for a thousand years. Truly, he is not only the greatest Majority Leader EVER, but the greatest politician. Nay, the greatest MAN to ever grace this Earth.
Jesus" is just a Greek transliteration of "Joshua.".
So, explain to me where the flying spaghetti monster comes in then...
Last Supper?
Crucifixion
Romans adopted the custom from Carthage and used it for slaves, rebels, pirates and especially despised enemies and criminals. Therefore crucifixion was considered a most ignominious way to die. Condemned Roman citizens were usually exempt from crucifixion (like feudal nobles from hanging) except for major crimes against the state, such as high treason. The Romans used it during the Spartacus rebellion, during the Roman Civil War, and the destruction of Jerusalem.
Are you sure its too late? I've never tried any drugs but Stoli, but I am thinking of smoking pot or doing shrooms for my 50th birthday on the Ides of March. Just because.
Hecate Malificent
I know I'm probably not the one who should say this, because I am one of the greater heathens on the blog and may offend some people on occasion, but you have to try mushrooms, at least once. Do them in tea. I kid you not ~ you will laugh yourself silly, until your jaw aches for 2 or 3 days. And pot is really pretty freakin' awesome. It doesn't get you drunk....it just shifts your paradigm a bit.
It makes me more productive, I think. Some people think it puts them to sleep.
Pot's better than alcohol, in my opinion.
Truly, he is not only the greatest Majority Leader EVER, but the greatest politician. Nay, the greatest MAN to ever grace this Earth.
Yes. Yes. And I, Yes. Heard that he. Yes. Does. Yes. Yes. Unearthly things. Yes. With His.....erm. Thing.
Yes.
Are you sure its too late? I've never tried any drugs but Stoli, but I am thinking of smoking pot or doing shrooms for my 50th birthday on the Ides of March. Just because.
Yeah, I think it's too late for that for me. It's too unpredictable. I am scared because you don't know how long it's going to last, etc. Plus, I have a tendency to ruminate and I suspect that plus LSD might not be a good combo.
You should smoke some pot on your 50th. Pot is very mild. And very pleasant. 'shrooms I have never tried.
Truly, he is not only the greatest Majority Leader EVER, but the greatest politician. Nay, the greatest MAN to ever grace this Earth.
I want my mommy!!!
In my 5:58 pm post, I linked to the MoveOn page where you can urge them to support Ned against Joe. Scroll down a bit. You may have to register, though, to get it to keep.
I thought Romans reserved crucifixion for major crimes like rebellion -- hence the crucifixion of the 6000 or so slaves captured at the end of the Spartacus rebellion. It lends credence to the idea that the Romans saw Jesus as a threat to public order. Although, it would cast doubt on the veracity of the story of him being crucified between two thieves. Ordinary thieves would not be crucified.
Toonscribe
They did, but considering Jesus of Nazareth did not command the allegiance of 6000 slaves (or of anybody, when they arrested him, apparently), obviously "rebellion" had a meaning that only George W. Bush would fully appreciate.
They were a bit hair-trigger on it, in other words.
Anyone who has read here long enough can recognized the namestealers. Anyone who has not, can recognize them too. Common sense.
Jesus" is just a Greek transliteration of "Joshua.".
So, explain to me where the flying spaghetti monster comes in then...
Last Supper?
NTodd
That was after the church got to Rome....
I wish I'd had the nerve to try LSD. Alas, I was always too chicken. Too late now. C'est la vie.
res ipsa loquitur
i don't think it's what it used to be. or rather, who can be sure. maybe i just got too old.
but that's why god made mushrooms.
i like hard rock'n neil the best, but this new album which is more country hippie neil is incredible. Prarie Wind.
The co-occupants of the jail during the period before the crucifixion were Jesus and Barabas. Barabas' full name was originally given as "Jesus Barabas".
And since the common folk didn't have first and last names -- usually just stuff like birthplace or title or father's name -- it leaves one to speculate what Barabas means.
Some have speculated that its a shortening of "bar abbas(sp?)+, which would make him "Jesus, son of the Master"...or Jesus' son. A rebel leader and first-born who Jesus negotiated to get out of jail by trading places with him.
Which recontextualizes the whole Last Supper in most intereting ways.
Anyway, its a cool alternative narrative if nothing else.
...you have to try mushrooms, at least once. Do them in tea. I kid you not ~ you will laugh yourself silly, until your jaw aches for 2 or 3 days. And pot is really pretty freakin' awesome. It doesn't get you drunk....it just shifts your paradigm a bit.
I loves me a mescaline stew on 4th of July...
Just sayin'!
. (Unless, of course, he knows there's a big shoe to drop against him and he's just trying to clear the decks.)
Gee, John, ya think? Maybe something to do with that guy wearing the wire?
Wotta buncha maroons!
Jeebus. Let them stay deluded, they'll never see it coming when the public lowers the boom on them.
Vicki, no worries. The snakes would stay home at the Snakepit Inc.. I have kin in Chicago (Ares is there), so if the timing is good I could combine a visit with my pals with one for the EschaCon.
But I worry about letting my readers down. For example, I am a blonde and I have been told that I should be a brunette. Should I dye my hair first?
Did I say "mescaline"? I meant "peyote".
See kids - that's why you don't do drugs!!!
res ipsa - why is it too late now for you to try it?
You're alive.
Doubt I'll be there, but you never know!
dave™
Dave,
I'm lobbying for E-Con III to be in S.F.
I loves me a mescaline stew on 4th of July...
I like mescaline greens for salad...
Louie Louie: me gotta go. Goodnight, at least for awhile, nice bats!
Anyone who has read here long enough can recognized the namestealers. Anyone who has not, can recognize them too. Common sense.
mer
Mer, there are a few who are pretty good at picking up cadence, writing styles, etc.
Yeah, I think it's too late for that for me. It's too unpredictable. I am scared because you don't know how long it's going to last, etc. Plus, I have a tendency to ruminate and I suspect that plus LSD might not be a good combo.
If you're the kind to go into yourself and analyze, plus starting out worried about the length of the trip, you'll get yourself all paranoid if you try acid.
Trust me on this one. Haven't done any since I was 16, but I remember the effects well.
Crucifixion was a punishment for crimes that constituted rebellion agains the Roman state, i.e. treason in various forms.
Which makes "The Jews killt Jezuz!" such nonsense. The crime that would cause a Roman governor to crucify Yeshua-bar-Yusuf would be, oh, claiming to be King of the Jews (resistance/rebellion nucleus). Teh council of Sanhedrin asking wouldn't do it.
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The painting of the Last Communion. Does anyone know what the original (pre-restoration) picture looked like? I've googled it but all I get are too fuzzy pictures.
Mer, there are a few who are pretty good at picking up cadence, writing styles, etc.
This clearly is a fake Vicki.
I haven't had it for years, but I used to get 4th of July pot, that when you lite it up would put up a small fireworks display right in front of your nose. It's fun but sometimes disconcerting when the firey red hot seeds would hit parts of you or your clothing.
Pot's better than alcohol, in my opinion.
Vicki, Who Adores Al Gore
Oh yeah. There's just no comparison.
There's that little legality thingy, but who doesn't ignore that?
If you're the kind to go into yourself and analyze, plus starting out worried about the length of the trip, you'll get yourself all paranoid if you try acid. --flory
Yep, flory. That's exactly what I'm worried about. I don't think it's a good idea. It's funny, but I might do it if it were supervised by Hoffman. He seems like he'd know what to do with someone like me.
CNN doing a story on Wal-Mart. After the federal government, it employs the most people in the US?!!!!
Yuk.
Together they can fix most problems. I'm telling you, Boosh had wreck this country and its reputation in 5 short years. Torture, broken treaties, broken promises, illegal wirtapping, trillion in debt. I honestly don't think he could have done more damage if he tried.
bigvic
Sadly, I think breaking the system was always their goal.
Mer, there are a few who are pretty good at picking up cadence, writing styles, etc.
This clearly is a fake Vicki.
NTodd
He he he. You are so silly.
But I worry about letting my readers down. For example, I am a blonde and I have been told that I should be a brunette. Should I dye my hair first?
Echidne of the snakes
Show up a redhead -- then everyone will know we're related
Vicki, stuffed with ginger shrimp right now. Hanging in heaven as I type.
Also there's a theory that "Jesus" was Aramaic for "penis bong" but the evidence is suspect...unless one of the Dead Sea Scrolls really was written on the back of a box of Count Chocula.
But I worry about letting my readers down. For example, I am a blonde and I have been told that I should be a brunette. Should I dye my hair first?
Echidne of the snakes, I'm more interested in the clothes you wear. Can I suggest a 30's movie Cleopatra outfit?
goodnight moonbats
I'm lobbying for E-Con III to be in S.F.
res ipsa loquitur
Yay!!!!
"L Thread" topics thus far:
1. Lieberman, Joe
2. Lohan, Lindsay
3. LSD
What is the story on the 2 Jesuses?
Um... a namestealing demiurge Jayzus, and the real one?
anyone here read Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal?
Barabas' full name was originally given as "Jesus Barabas".
And since the common folk didn't have first and last names -- usually just stuff like birthplace or title or father's name -- it leaves one to speculate what Barabas means.
The problem with crossing cultural boundaries.
"Peter" was not a proper name in Jesus' time. It's the Greek word for "stone" or "rock." So it's more like "Rocky" than a name you would give your new-born.
Same with "Thomas," who appears as a disciple. The word means "twin;" which might have been a nickname (as we call it, a word with English roots, and I won't bore you...), but was never a "proper" name.
Dom Crossan points out that "Iscariot" was not a name at all (it's a place designation, IIRC; been too long since I read Crossan), and "Judas" is more of a generic label for the inhabitants of Judea, as the Latin speaking Romans called it.
From which, after the fall of Jerusalem, we get the word "Jews."
But I digress....
I'm telling you, Boosh had wreck this country and its reputation in 5 short years. Torture, broken treaties, broken promises, illegal wirtapping, trillion in debt. I honestly don't think he could have done more damage if he tried.
bigvic
Almost makes you think he's some kind of "Manchurian Candidate"... but who's the puppeteer?
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Also there's a theory that "Jesus" was Aramaic for "penis bong" but the evidence is suspect...unless one of the Dead Sea Scrolls really was written on the back of a box of Count Chocula.
driftglass
Shhh! That's a secret!
Can I suggest a 30's movie Cleopatra outfit?
That would be cool. I collect vintage clothes so I might have exactly what you mean. The problem with that stuff is that it has a tendency to disintegrate while you are wearing it...
are we talking about jesus or ls crazy?
shrooms are a much safer alternative. tho i must say i've seen the dragon, and i've been scared by all three.
pick your poison carefully.
Wow you folk are the more sophisticated than me. i'm just on the 2nd - er, 3rd - Guinness and i'm already useless. Acid, mushrooms, etc? You could already get all sorts of embarrassing truth from me without seeing new colors. And typing has become embarrassingly full of errors besides.
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Almost makes you think he's some kind of "Manchurian Candidate"... but who's the puppeteer?
If I had to guess, I'd say the Faisel family from Saudia Arabia.
Hmmmmmm, all this talk of 'shrooms, pot, etc. If I don't hear from you guys in the coming days, I'll assume you got your asses rendered to some ferrin country. NSA is taking notes and shit.
Almost makes you think he's some kind of "Manchurian Candidate"... but who's the puppeteer?
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MisterX
Sauron?
flory, I love redheads.
The problem with that stuff is that it has a tendency to disintegrate while you are wearing it...
Echidne of the snakes
Well, especially if you are a goddess...
I just had a vision of Dr. Evil saying "ONE MILLION DOLLARS."
Vicki, stuffed with ginger shrimp right now. Hanging in heaven as I type.
mer
Yay!
Was Mr. Simels not right? It does, indeed, throw a party for your mouth!
The ginger is what does it.
Anyone interested, here is the fabulous Ginger Shrimp Recipe.
Wow you folk are the more sophisticated than me. i'm just on the 2nd - er, 3rd - Guinness and i'm already useless.
I'm not drinking, so I'll be the designated driver.
Dom Crossan points out that "Iscariot" was not a name at all (it's a place designation, IIRC; been too long since I read Crossan),
I had also heard it could have been some variant of the "Siccari", which is why he was JC's chief negotiator and enforcer.
The problem with that stuff is that it has a tendency to disintegrate while you are wearing it...
I'm sure that's all right.
I used to have a wonderfull tux that had been worn by a dead judge (was sold as part of his estate.) somehow it fit me almost perfectly, but one night I was wearing it, at a retro dance and I began to hear chuckles around me. The jacket had split down the back and across one of the shoulders.
Echidne--being a redhead is always the way to go! Of course, there may be some bias on my part.
The problem with that stuff is that it has a tendency to disintegrate while you are wearing it...
You don't really think that would be a problem around here, do you?
Hmmmmmm, all this talk of 'shrooms, pot, etc. If I don't hear from you guys in the coming days, I'll assume you got your asses rendered to some ferrin country. NSA is taking notes and shit.
bigvic
Hah! I said I hadn't done any acid since I was 16. Statute of limitations is looooong since over....
{sticks tongue out at NSA minders}
Echidne of the snakes
As a colleague put it the other day, he was more like "The Concierge," doing favors, soothing hurts, taking care of his members so they would be there when they were really needed on a key vote.
Lowry's a fuckhead. He should ask Nick Smith what he thinks of DeLay. I regret I never saved the letter that Smith posted on his website after DeLay's strongarm tactics during the Medicare vote. He took it down soon after, but he ripped Delay a new one.
flory, I love redheads.
Echidne of the snakes
You may have to adopt sallyh too.
I'll assume you got your asses rendered to some ferrin country. NSA is taking notes and shit.
They'll lie and deny this right to your face, but NSA spooks are some of the biggest druggies there are. (probobly has something to do with being the kind of geeks they are).
i remember seeing an etymological argument that "Iscariot" was a derivation of "sicarii" , or "the Daggermen" in Latin, a small group of radical, violent Jewish resisters to the occupation engaged in assassinations & 'terror' actions.
IIrc, the idea was that a Sicarii might join a 'King of the Jews" expecting a violent, revolutionary Meshiah, and when he turned out to be an Essene religious reformer, to betray him to the Romans to stop him from watering down the revolution.
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evening, rational people.
Wow...Lieberman to teen bulemics with fake boobs to LSD. Great thread.
For the record: I think mushrooms are far more satisfying emotionally than LSD.
Gives big middle finger to NSA agents! I'm a lot meaner than flory.
Flory--Monsieur is ill, and I just fed him 2 extra strength Tylenol severe sinus. Let's hope it kicks in by the time "Caved In" starts
Hey, I'd go for EschaCon III in San Francisco! My favorite US City.
And I happen to have a close friend who is a party planner in SF! And, my ex, who is a catering manager for the most prestigious and best caterer in the city...
I fucking love San Francisco. FUCKING. LOVE. IT.
Bigvic--no, no, that's not the way to deal with the interns.
NSA interns: how about some nice fresh baked chocolate chip cookies?
NSA interns: how about some nice fresh baked chocolate chip cookies?
OK!
Doug - Oh man, I think you'd be so right about that.
The really intense relationship between the Bushes and the Saudis has always seemed to me to be kind of an ominous leit motif running through everything. I find it creepy and even kind of terrifying.
Yes. Yes. And I, Yes. Heard that he. Yes. Does. Yes. Yes. Unearthly things. Yes. With His.....erm. Thing.
Yes.
Stoli on the monitor.
Wow...Lieberman to teen bulemics with fake boobs to LSD. Great thread.
Jesus has entered the thread, too.
For the record: I think mushrooms are far more satisfying emotionally than LSD.
Diane
I agree. Although I have had some fascinatingly wicked trips on acid...
The last time, I was with a most gorgeous guy (we had been friends for years). Ended up skinny dipping in the Thornapple River after he and his best friend walked the 2 x 4 steel planks of the bridge over a train tressel.
Scared me shitless. But then it led to wild kissing and such, and I quickly forgot my fear.
Jesus has entered the thread, too.
res ipsa loquitur
Should we look busy?
Wow...Lieberman to teen bulemics with fake boobs to LSD. Great thread.
Jesus has entered the thread, too.
res ipsa loquitur
Also Brendan Behan, and black thong panties.
Jesus has entered the thread, too.
If his spirit walks in the world then there's no reason why he can't walk here.
Tena--there was an excellent book written a couple years back that I read on the relationship between the Bushes and the royal family of Saudi Arabia. I can't recall the title at the moment, but you're right--it was downright creepy.
They were a bit hair-trigger on it, in other words.
Well, it was at the time of Passover, when Jerusalem would be packed with Jews from all over Israel. If the Romans were afraid they'd have a major riot on their hands in Jerusalem because of, among other things, Jesus' moneychanger "riot" then they would crucify him pour encourage' les autres.
sallyh -- Poor Monsieur. I hope he doesn't have what's going around up here -- I've got friends couldn't get out of bed for two weeks.
Vicki -- we'd have such fun with a hotel fulla moonbats in San Francisco....
Ah Vicki - I meant to call you, and the weekend got away from me -
What I really need help with is setting up a web site for EschaCon II.
And I need help! from any and everyone else who will lend it to me. A committee worked on putting the first one together, but so far it's me, with lots of help from Vicki.
Originally, there were some other people talking about being part of the organization, but I don't remember who. - I really don't want to be in charge. I know nothing about Chicago.
NSA interns: how about some nice fresh baked chocolate chip cookies?
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
Hahahahahahahaha. I WAY meaner than you!
It's funny, but I might do it if it were supervised by Hoffman.
i'd of just like to have been there when he took that first bicycle trip home from sandoval labs goin' "goony, goony, goo, goo" what the hell is this.
a good book on this subject, if interested, is aldous huxley's doors of perception. 'course then you are likely to try it. i can't remeber i think he just went with the shrooms.
shrooms are like "yea, cool" lsd is like "yo mutherfucker, you're com'n with me."
i'm not even going to talk about jesus. leave that to RMJ, he seems to have navigated it much more successfully.
The ginger is what does it.
Vicki,
That recipe posted at your site sounds amazing. I'm going to make it tomorrow for the son and d i l along with some cheese grits and citrus salad and take it over to them.
Jesus has entered the thread, too.
Elvis has just left the building.
Jesus has entered the thread, too.
res ipsa loquitur
Should we look busy?
Rmj, Wandering Aengus
IIrc, the idea was that a Sicarii might join a 'King of the Jews" expecting a violent, revolutionary Meshiah, and when he turned out to be an Essene religious reformer, to betray him to the Romans to stop him from watering down the revolution.
I find the intriguing theory that there never wa a betrayal much more interesting.
That the Last Supper was a strategy session, after the Jesus uprising had failed, to plan how the the movement might survive.
Instead of "prophecy", JC was giving final orders. For their own safety, he ordered his top guys to deny him.
And to seal the deal, he needed his most reliable friend to handle the matter of turning hium over to the cops in a prisoner exchange and "betray" him.
It broke their hearts, but they did as he asked.
Bigvic--seeing as I don't do mean that well (I leave it to the professionals), I try different tactics
What do you know: google awful plastic surgery and get a delightfully arch blog devoted it it.
The problem with that stuff is that it has a tendency to disintegrate while you are wearing it...
Echidne of the snakes
Ah, like my Great Aunt Wiggie's black paillette jacket. Nevertheless, it's done three generations of GWPDAs proud now - she bought it in 1927 to wear on her European adventure.
If I don't hear from you guys in the coming days, I'll assume you got your asses rendered to some ferrin country. NSA is taking notes and shit.
FUCK DA PO-LICE!
SallyH - I think I have that book: House of Bush, House of Saud, Kevin ________ - (help me here).
I haven't read it
Maybe after I finish creeping myself out again with The Scar I'll be in the mood.
Hecate--I've been using your lovely garden herbs every night since I've arrived home, and I can't tell you how much better everything tastes.
So, the plan is to get Joe Lieberman high on LSD, then have him caught by the NSA with Linsay Lohan, who is wearing only blanck panties? Then Brendan Behan will laugh, and Jesus will cry?
i love it when a plan comes together!
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anyone want something from the store?
Tena,
I'm setting up a blogsite for it tonight. (Psst. That's why I asked you about the colors the other day ~ I want it to be comfortable and cool for you.)
We'll talk very soon, but don't worry.
I get paid to plan over 30 tradeshows and 12 big parties a year.
It'll be fine, and I know that you will be a pleasure to work with.
And I know Chicago ~ 2-3/4 huors away.
NSA is taking notes and shit.
Right now, they're stuffing their faces.
anyone want something from the store?
French bread?
Well, it was at the time of Passover, when Jerusalem would be packed with Jews from all over Israel. If the Romans were afraid they'd have a major riot on their hands in Jerusalem because of, among other things, Jesus' moneychanger "riot" then they would crucify him pour encourage' les autres.
Toonscribe
True. As I say, they weren't afraid to use it.
Although I understand Pilate was finally withdrawn from Palestine for being too brutal.
So that whole picture of him in the Gospels trying to negotiate with a blood-thirsty mob is just so much PR from writers who didn't want to suffer the same fate as Jesus.
shrooms are like "yea, cool" lsd is like "yo mutherfucker, you're com'n with me."
Yeah, that about sums it up. I found shrooms to be a more, well...organic hallucination, whereas acid was a bit, um...metallic and sharper an experience.
anyone want something from the store?
doug,
A pint of ice cream would be nice. I'll pay you back later.
Ned Lamont. I've never heard of the guy, but if I were a Connecticut Democrat, I would vote for Ned FLANDERS over Joementum.
Get him out of there, Connecticut! We're doing what we can here in Pennsylvania to oust Santorum - even if we are going to get a warmed-over, quasi-Democrat like Bob Casey Jr. as Senator.
Hell, I'd vote for SEAN Casey over Santorum if I had to.
Flory--Monsieur's been afflicted for several weeks now. He wasn't too bad till we got home; now he's lying around in his jammies.
Tena -- if you need help, yell. Know a little about Chicago as I've got friends there.
Ah, like my Great Aunt Wiggie's black paillette jacket.
Or Grandma's swing jacket. Replaced the lining twice and turned the collar and cuffs once. Time to do it all again, I think.
So, the plan is to get Joe Lieberman high on LSD, then have him caught by the NSA with Linsay Lohan, who is wearing only blanck panties? Then Brendan Behan will laugh, and Jesus will cry?
If Joe isn't available, I'd gladly fill in...
Well, I'm going to be off for the next three hours to watch my Patriots trounce Jacksonville.
My future apologies to everyone who lives in Florida, especially after Washington just clipped the Bucs 17-10.
But for those who aren't football fans, please visit my blog if you haven't already. I have a nice obituary of Hugh Thompson, Jr. that I think would've made him happy to read, plus I have a Maureen Dowd article up below that.
anyone want something from the store?
doug
Lube.
Maybe Joe can take Sharon's place in Israel.
So to sticch this all together...
This is what I get for doing acid with the Jesuits.
Scared the hell outta me when their clothes melted.
Until I realized it was just their vintage threads that were disintegrating as they passionately argued through the night.
About Lindsay Lohan's cans.
And to seal the deal, he needed his most reliable friend to handle the matter of turning hium over to the cops in a prisoner exchange and "betray" him.
and Peter was a fucking idiot who earned the name "Rock" because of his conversational fencing and, taking to bureaucracy as only soulless imbiciles will, founded the longest-running and most evil on Earth!
Incidentally, the height of drama in samurai flicks is this story about a disguised lord crossing an enemy checkpoint, struck on the head by his most faithful servant to prove he's just a commoner. A variation is in the 47 where the chief retainer must pretend to have fun in a cathouse full of little girls to hide the revenge conspiracy. Neddless to say, it is a theme ripe for snark and a favorite (as an ultimate loyalty paradox) of fascists.
anyone want something from the store?
doug
Not from the store, but could you swing by Starbucks and grab me a Cinnamon Dolce Latte? Mmm. Thanks.
driftglass--now if we could just work in somethin' about Mama, and trains, we'd have a song!
Yeah, that about sums it up. I found shrooms to be a more, well...organic hallucination, whereas acid was a bit, um...metallic and sharper an experience.
NTodd
*That*, my young friend, is a perfect description.
charley ...
I just put the Huxley on my "to read" list. THanks.
My friend the retired surgeon was in med school in the late 50s, early 60s. LSD was still being tested as a psychiatric drug and the military was testing it too.
He volunteered for a test. He and a bunch of other med students were shut in a basement, each one had a minder. From his description of his experience, they gave them one fucking immense amount of LSD. He said one guy never came back. He totally broke down and left school the next day. My friend was ok with it, but they gave them enough that they completely broke from reality altogether.
Maybe Joe can take Sharon's place in Israel.
Ahem:
Looks like there's a leadership position in Kadima opening up...
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So that whole picture of him in the Gospels trying to negotiate with a blood-thirsty mob is just so much PR from writers who didn't want to suffer the same fate as Jesus.
Rmj,
Verrrrry interesting stuff. The historical Jesus is far more interesting than the standard pap they taught us a Catholic school.
Man, where's Syd Barrett when we need him?
Hugh Thompson Jr. was a true hero. I wish there were more like him today.
"I'm lobbying for E-Con III to be in S.F."
Yay!!!!
Double yay!!!!!!!
But where's E-II slated for?
driftglass--now if we could just work in somethin' about Mama, and trains, we'd have a song!
Hmmm.
I got off the night train to NYC and saw Res Ipsa in her 30s vintage wear.
Oh, Mama!
He volunteered for a test. He and a bunch of other med students were shut in a basement, each one had a minder. From his description of his experience, they gave them one fucking immense amount of LSD. He said one guy never came back. He totally broke down and left school the next day. My friend was ok with it, but they gave them enough that they completely broke from reality altogether.
Tena
My mother did that more than a few times, on painkiller post-op.
Allergic reactions, the doctors said. She did it in front of me, once, when I was 16. Lots of fun, watching your mom crack up in front of you like that.
Last time she had surgery, she did post-op without pain meds, just to avoid the problem.
Lost any curiosity about such things long ago. No judgment, just never been really interested.
'Shrooms are fun, no doubt. I don't care to try acid at all. I stick with the true-blue, time-tested marijuana. Though, it does make me eat WAY too many Cheez-Its.
Vicki - I cut and pasted that recipe off your blog into an email and sent it to myself - It sounds so good.
It's making me hungry.
What strange luck! That awful plastic surgery site we linked to, which has sort of tips for decrying falsehood amid photo-analysis, finds time to wonder about Tom Delay's nose!
Lindsey Lohan's boobs look MIA to me...
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/gran...ohan,%
20Lindsay
I got off the night train to NYC and saw Res Ipsa in her 30s vintage wear.
'30s vintage?
That was the depression. What was in style?
Verrrrry interesting stuff. The historical Jesus is far more interesting than the standard pap they taught us a Catholic school.
bigvic
Seminary is fun that way. They teach you all this stuff nobody in your church ever wants to hear.
Cognitive dissonance, indeed.
Evening all.
I've napped, I've eaten something and it's no good - today was meant to be a write-off. Not that I'm complaining.
Gotta go, batsies. My friends have arrived, and we're all gonna get nekkid and lay in a pile.
Later.
My friend was ok with it, but they gave them enough that they completely broke from reality altogether.
Tena
That's why I can't do it anymore. I was never able to convince myself, whilst under the influence, that I *would* come back.
Still have trouble listening to Are You Experienced after the last time 'round.
Not from the store, but could you swing by Starbucks and grab me a Cinnamon Dolce Latte? Mmm. Thanks.
No starbucks here, but there's a local beanery that does a fine job of onsite roasting. What kind of coffee do you want? (I'm still trying to find the pair of shoes I want to wear. It's not cold here, but instead mushy and muddy, since the winter permafrost is still below ground and we've been having intermittant rains.)
"Looks like there's a leadership position in Kadima opening up..."
NTodd
Kadima would be too progrssive for Joe.
'30s vintage?
Make it '20s.
Flappers...and bathtub acid.
Yeah, that about sums it up. I found shrooms to be a more, well...organic hallucination, whereas acid was a bit, um...metallic and sharper an experience.
NTodd
*That*, my young friend, is a perfect description.
Diane
yeah it is.
Lots of fun, watching your mom crack up in front of you like that.
LSD was developed specifically (after an accidental discovery for other purposes) to generate and or mimic insanity and enjoyed a long tenure in a CIA brainwashing experiment program. This is not a friendly drug. No drug with a biography like that needs to be so respected, unless you're talking about radical psychologists taking it seriously in responsible treatments (and in responsible doses, not as much as you can swallow; there are a lot of stories about grossly underestimating its potency).
[marijuana] does make me eat WAY too many Cheez-Its.
Better than Cheetos.
Doug--a medium roast with spicy overtones, and if they can dash it with a bit of cinnamon and brown sugar, that'd be awesome. Foam, please.
But where's E-II slated for?
dave™
Chicago.
Shaw?
Can I come to your next party?
But where's E-II slated for?
dave™
The Windy City. Chicago!
get Joe Lieberman high on LSD, then have him caught by the NSA with Linsay Lohan, who is wearing only blanck panties? Then Brendan Behan will laugh, and Jesus will cry?
Hahahaha. Can we get W in there too?
Ha ha ha. Joe Conason's headline for his latest on Salon.com.
LET US PREY.
Jack Abramoff and his deeply religious right-wing cronies express their "biblical worldview" by swindling Indian tribes and bribing legislators.
Verily, mysterious are the ways of the Lord.
By Joe Conason
Love ya, Joe!
Still have trouble listening to Are You Experienced after the last time 'round.
Hearing Led Zep's "Kashmir" always brings up... strange memories, shall we say...
RMJ
Yeah, the whole Pilate scene rings false, like the writer was sucking up to the Romans ("we don't really blame you") while at the same time laying out a defense of Christians ("your guy Pilate said he could find no guilt"). So who's left to blame? The evil Jews -- who conveniently have also rejected Jesus as the Messiah and aren't part of the gentile audience that Paul wants to play to. Of course, the Jewish religious authorities in Jerusalem would not be sorry to see Jesus crucified. They had reached a modus vivendi with the Roman political authorities and were doing very well, thank you.
I stick with the true-blue, time-tested marijuana. Though, it does make me eat WAY too many Cheez-Its.
Orwell's Illegitimate Son,
i agree, except for the second part. be careful you might turn into a troll.
funny thing, there are a lot of different cannabanoids, some make you hungry, some not so much.
Bigvic--Chimp is high on something, if only his own power (and I suspect he uses chemical enhancements)
OK, now we know E-II's in Chi Town.
Now what's the date - or is there one?
Jenny!!!
Long time no see. How are you?
Yeah, first thing I wanted to do after an acid trip was burn my clothes. It must be a pretty common experience.
Flappers...and bathtub acid.
Oh, I see. You want to open my doors of perception ...
I still feel a little bit guilty, after Zack was in rehab for alcoholism for six months, doing shrooms on my birthday that year. I didn't think it was fair to him, although he wasn't in Grand Rapids at the time. He was in San Francisco, where he remains, to this moment.
Nonetheless, I was a total and complete supporter of his recovery efforts, and did not drink when I was going with him. I did do shrooms on my birthday, though, and he called me when I was completely giggly.
Hi Jenny!
best acid music--the court of the crimson king.
Hey Flory!!!
I'm good. Missed you. Getting ready for a trip to see my parents in a couple of days. They're getting up there in age and are so cute.
Hey, Jenny! How's Venice?
I stick with the true-blue, time-tested marijuana. Though, it does make me eat WAY too many Cheez-Its.
Orwell's Illegitimate Son
i agree, except for the second part. be careful you might turn into a troll.
charley
Better than Cheetos.
NTodd
I'd like to think of Cheez-Its - especially the Reduced Fat variety - as the progressive's answer to Cheetos.
Kadima would be too progrssive for Joe.
True dat.
LSD was developed specifically (after an accidental discovery for other purposes) to generate and or mimic insanity
I like to call my experiments with hallucinogenic drugs 'chemically-induced schizophrenia'. Not entirely accurate, but close enough for government work.
Kadima would be too progrssive for Joe.
mike in pr
Word. We gotta dump Chimpy's special little friend.
as usual, I'm late and the topic has worn off.
NO JOE, happiness! But rethugs would probably back him and slime Lamont.
I just put the Huxley on my "to read" list. THanks.
res ipsa loquitur
ok, but i'm tell'n you it's going to be all cezzane and exquisite apples. you'll be tempted.
he had minders and wrote notes, it's actually a fascinating book.
dave -- no date yet.
Hecate
I'd go with the 'shrooms too. Sweet high. God that takes me back. And all the talk about Jesus. I took a couple of classes with Crossan in college. Great guy. Hard grader. Quite a shock to American students. I have a couple of books of his that I will reread if I ever get caught up iwth my work. Speaking of which, the threads bind me to un-productivity.
Nite all.
Hey Jenny!
Damn, I just turned on the 'puter and there you are.
Missed you girl!
Mena!!! GWPDA!!!
I won't be going to Chicago this time around but I'll be salivating for pictures. Can't wait to see you all having the Eschacon II experience.
Are you experienced?!!!
Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to?
You give me something I can hold on to.
I know you think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number
8-6-7-5-3-0-9, 8-6-7-5-3-0-9
Jenny, Jenny, you're the girl for me.
You don't know me but you make me so happy.
I tried to call you before but I lost my nerve.
I tried my imagination, but I was disturbed.
Jenny, I got your number,
I need to make you mine.
Jenny, don't change your number,
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
I got it, I got it!
I got your number on the wall!
I got it, I got it!
For a good time, for a good time call....
Jenny, don't change your number.
I need to make you mine.
Jenny. I'll call your number,
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to? (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
For the price of a dime I can always turn to you.
(8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
5-3-0-9
5-3-0-9
5-3-0-9
5-3-0-9 (//fade out//)
Hey Charley! hiya Central.
Geez, I'm getting weepy.
Hey, go to clean up the kitchen, come back, and discover comments are way off topic here.
Drugs, ah yes, I remember them well. Wish I would have been a little braver in my youth, I would have done more.
Jenny -- missed you too. where are the parents located?
I'd like to think of Cheez-Its - especially the Reduced Fat variety - as the progressive's answer to Cheetos.
Orwell's Illegitimate Son
Robert's American Gourmet makes a Cheeto-like product that is very tasty indeed. It's called "Pirate's Booty."
I heart Richard.
Echidne of the snakes, I found the outfit, I remembered for Theda Bara in 1917 Cleopatra film.
I'm sure you being the goddess of the snakes, will look much better.
http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/p...Plans-
32322.jpg
My goodness, is Chicago all set then? Has a time been decided?
...typical troll- instead of the rape of women, a crime, it becomes a priority when it is WHITE WOMENS!
Thew trolls are sztarting a campaign to save the sanctity of rape by making it something that happens only to people with yellow, brown, or red skin.
Marijuana save my life. It enabled me to stop smoking unfunny cigarettes for good, and to drink less and enjoy it more.
So what I gather is pot on the fiftieth bday.
Sen. Susie Creamcheese Collins cannot grow a spine, since these are found attached to the southern tip of the brain, of which organ she is sadly bereft
Washington insiders consider her living proof you can in fact fuck your brains out...
I heart Richard.
I hate him with a passion that you just don't know. Now I'll never get that fucking song out of my head!
That was the depression. What was in style?
Crepe de chine, bias cut. About mid-calf, no construction, all about the seaming. Deep necklines, with soft folds. Batwing sleeves.