I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Latest in my Why We Fight series...
Bush presidency: FIERY WRECK!
Oh, and FRIST! Heehee!
Hi.
Back from the mall.
Did I miss anything?
and after i listed the cities i want to live in!
Did I miss anything?
I just tried to make a phone call with my tv remote.
I'm serious.
where are the white women?
and after i listed the cities i want to live in!
I noticed Pittsburgh was not on the list.
All our statues are made of bacon, you know.
"I just tried to make a phone call with my tv remote."
damn, that was you calling, and i was in the bathroom...
I just tried to make a phone call with my tv remote.
I did that once with me...but I've said too much.
Just in time for me to go cook dinner.
I'll be back in time for bad sci-fi blogging.
In the meantime, have some plush.
This HICA! has been pre-empted to bring you the following special presentation...
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Who among us does not love Toto's Dune soundtrack?
Come to DC it's a lovely livable city
BSG rant, reposted from below
Normally, I enjoy BSG a lot. This weeks ep was rather sloppy. I don't have as much of a problem with the so-called "peace activists" being depicted as whiny douches as much as I do with Baltar's motivation. I'm supposed to believe he'd do something that dire because he was pissed off about Roslyn's letter?
All our statues are made of bacon, you know.
And why wasn't I told?
It figures..the immigrants know ALL the good stuff.
Hi, moonbats!
I cut my pinky on a glass when I was washing dishes.
It won't quit bleeding.
just tried to make a phone call with my tv remote.
Did it work?
Remember the Zenith teevees that you could do that with?
Posting at Eschaton is so easy, a caveman could do it......
Well, I took 435 pictures this afternoon, so I suppose I should maybe do some work on those...
Frank Rich for y'all, part 1
Truthiness 101: From Frey to Alito
By FRANK RICH
IF James Frey hadn't made up his own life, Tom Wolfe would have had to invent it for him. The fraudulent memoirist is to the early 21st century what Mr. Wolfe's radical-chic revelers were to the late 1960's and his Wall Street "masters of the universe" were to the go-go 1980's: a perfect embodiment of the most fashionable American excess of an era.
As Oprah Winfrey, the ultimate arbiter of our culture, has made clear, no one except pesky nitpickers much cares whether Mr. Frey's autobiography is true or not, or whether it sits on a fiction or nonfiction shelf at Barnes & Noble. Such distinctions have long since washed away in much of our public life. What matters most now is whether a story can be sold as truth, preferably on television. The mock Comedy Central pundit Stephen Colbert's slinging of the word "truthiness" caught on instantaneously last year precisely because we live in the age of truthiness.
At its silliest level, this is manifest in show-biz phenomena like Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, juvenile pop stars who merchandised the joy of their new marriage as a lucrative MTV reality series before heading to divorce court to divvy up the booty. But if suckers want to buy fictional nonfiction like "Newlyweds" or "A Million Little Pieces" as if they were real, that's just harmless diversion.
It's when truthiness moves beyond the realm of entertainment that it's a potential peril. As Seth Mnookin, a rehab alumnus, has written in Slate, the macho portrayal of drug abuse in "Pieces" could deter readers battling actual addictions from seeking help. Ms. Winfrey's blithe re-endorsement of the book is less laughable once you start to imagine some Holocaust denier using her imprimatur to discount Elie Wiesel's incarceration at Auschwitz in her next book club selection, "Night."
This isn't just a slippery slope. It's a toboggan into chaos, or at least war. As everyone knows now - except for the 22 percent, according to a recent Harris poll, who still believe that Saddam helped plan 9/11 - it's the truthiness of all those imminent mushroom clouds that sold the invasion of Iraq. What's remarkable is how much fictionalization plays a role in almost every national debate. Even after a big humbug is exposed as blatantly as Professor Marvel in "The Wizard of Oz" - FEMA's heck of a job in New Orleans, for instance - we remain ready and eager to be duped by the next tall tale. It's as if the country is living in a permanent state of suspension of disbelief.
Democrats who go berserk at their every political defeat still don't understand this. They fault the public for not listening to their facts and arguments, as though facts and arguments would make a difference, even if the Democrats were coherent. It's the power of the story that always counts first, and the selling of it that comes second. Accuracy is optional.
Cities I want to live in:
Paris
Philly
NYC
DC
Vancouver
And why wasn't I told?
It figures..the immigrants know ALL the good stuff.
Thers has a lifetime ban from the city, you know.
It won't quit bleeding.
How long have you put pressure on it?
What's BSG?
I cut my pinky on a glass when I was washing dishes.
It won't quit bleeding.
Uh, that's bad. I sliced off my fingertip with an exacto knife when I was young and almost went into shock. Be well.
Bless you, P. O'Neill.
More Frank
The Frey-like genius of the right is its ability to dissemble with a straight face while simultaneously mustering the slick media machinery and expertise to push the goods. It not only has the White House propaganda operation at its disposal, but also an intricate network of P.R. outfits and fake-news outlets that are far more effective than their often hapless liberal counterparts.
The selling of Samuel Alito is a perfect illustration of how our world works. From the moment Judge Alito emerged from Harriet Miers's penumbra, his supporters' story line was clear: he'd be presented as a humble exemplar of American values too mainstream to be labeled "out of the mainstream" by his opponents. In his first courtesy calls on Capitol Hill in November, we learned, Judge Alito often cited his father as a proud immigrant who instilled in him empathy for minorities and the poor - an empathy not remotely apparent in the judge's legal record. A particularly poignant anecdote had it that his father had once defended a black basketball player from discrimination in college.
Yet David Kirkpatrick of The Times reported then that "some colleagues and friends of the elder Mr. Alito, who died in 1987, said they had never heard some of the stories his son has recounted, including the episode about his support for the black student and the fact that his father immigrated from Italy as a child." No matter. If such questions couldn't stop an Oprah Book Club selection, they certainly wouldn't stop a nominee to the Supreme Court.
Once Judge Alito came before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Democrats decided to counter the Republicans' story by coming up with a fictional story of their own, or that's what they did once they stopped bloviating. Their fictional biography cast Judge Alito as an out-and-out bigot. The major evidence cited to support this characterization was his listing his membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), a conservative group founded in reaction to the upheavals of the Vietnam era, on a job application for the Reagan Justice Department.
Judge Alito testified that he had joined CAP because it supported the R.O.T.C. on campus, adding that he did not remember having "done anything substantial in relation to this group, including renewing my membership." The Democrats plunged on, betting the house (or the Supreme Court) on Teddy Kennedy's insistence that Judge Alito could be linked to what the senator described as CAP's "repulsive anti-woman, anti-black, anti-disability, anti-gay pronouncements." In one of only two dramatic moments in the whole soporific confirmation process - a "Sunshine Boys"-style spat with the committee chairman, Arlen Specter - Mr. Kennedy threatened to subpoena CAP "documents in the possession of the Library of Congress" to hunt down Judge Alito's bigotry.
Hi, moonbats!
I cut my pinky on a glass when I was washing dishes.
It won't quit bleeding.
The tragedy namestealers are getting *really* lame...
About 45 minutes. I had it gauzed up, but it bled through the gauze to the point where I'm wrapping it in paper towel.
I'm outta bandaids.
Yet more frank
There was only one problem with the Democrats' fictional story line: it had been exposed as fake on the front page of The Times weeks before Mr. Kennedy presented it to the nation. Mr. Kirkpatrick reported that he had examined the same papers Mr. Kennedy was threatening to subpoena - as well as some others at Princeton's own library - and found no trace of Judge Alito's involvement with CAP as either an active participant or a major donor. When the Senate committee did Mr. Kennedy's bidding and looked at those documents yet again, it found exactly what The Times had in November, calling the senator's bluff and ending any remote chance the Democrats had for keeping Judge Alito off the court. It says everything about the Democrats' ineptitude that when they spin fiction, they are incapable of meeting even the low threshold of truthiness needed to make it fly in this lax cultural environment.
THE Republicans would never have been so sloppy. Indeed, hardly had Mr. Kennedy's melodramatic stunt blown up in his face than they came up with a new story line prompted by the other dramatic incident in the hearings: the departure of Martha-Ann Alito from the committee room in tears. She fled while a Republican senator, Lindsey Graham, was mocking the Democrats, not when the eminently mockable Democrats were mounting their lame assault. Whatever. As Time magazine later reported, a P.R. outfit called Creative Response Concepts immediately pumped up the media volume of her supposed martyrdom, breathlessly producing a former Alito clerk to provide eyewitness testimony of her suffering at the hands of those Democratic brutes.
Creative Response Concepts did similar work for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 campaign. Its roster of clients also includes the right-wing Media Research Center, itself the parent organization of something called the Cybercast News Service. For the new year, Cybercast News has an exciting fictional project of its own: just before John Murtha, the tough Congressional critic of the Iraq war, appeared on "60 Minutes" last Sunday, it started Swift Boating him by rewriting his Vietnam history to besmirch the legitimacy of his two Purple Hearts.
If Karl Rove's White House propaganda factory is the NBC Universal or Time Warner of G.O.P. fictionalization, then the Miramax and Focus Features of the right are such nominally "independent" satellites as Cybercast News, the Lincoln Group (which places fake news stories in Iraqi newspapers), the Rendon Group (which helped manufacture the heroic image of Ahmad Chalabi) and the now-dormant Talon News (the fake Republican-staffed news site whose fake White House correspondent, Jeff Gannon, was unmasked last year).
"What's BSG?"
Galactica, the new version.
Final Frank -- note the bad news at the end.
Fittingly enough against this backdrop, last week brought the re-emergence of Clifford Irving, the author of the fake 1972 autobiography of Howard Hughes that bamboozled the world long before fraudulent autobiographies and biographies were cool. He announced that he was removing his name from "The Hoax," a coming Hollywood movie recounting his exploits, because of what he judged its lack of fidelity to "the truth of what happened." That Mr. Irving can return like Rip van Winkle after all these years to take the moral high ground in defense of truthfulness is a sign of just how low into truthiness we have sunk.
To my readers: Starting next week, I will be on a book leave, writing nonfiction about our post-9/11 fictions. See you in the spring.
Well, I took 435 pictures this afternoon, so I suppose I should maybe do some work on those...
Jeebus!
Anything for sale? One of my resolutions this year was to, you know, actually get Winding Roads humming along.
No, Eli, it's really me.
Pathetic, and lame, though, I'll agree. I put too much pressure on the glass under hot water, I discern, belatedly.
Democrats who go berserk at their every political defeat still don't understand this. They fault the public for not listening to their facts and arguments, as though facts and arguments would make a difference, even if the Democrats were coherent. It's the power of the story that always counts first, and the selling of it that comes second. Accuracy is optional.
That's brilliant. And absolutely right.
I noticed Pittsburgh was not on the list.
All our statues are made of bacon, you know.
pittsburgh used to be on the list, and then the steelers beat the colts.
just kidding. actually, i keep trying to convince my wife pittsburgh is nice, but she is worried about access to excellent libraries.
What's BSG?
It's like MSG, but with more Starbuck and less sodium.
I hate the telephone.
Especially when it won't change the channel.
Well, I took 435 pictures this afternoon, so I suppose I should maybe do some work on those...
I thought about taking pictures today.
Does that count?
Hospital, Vicki. ASAP.
vicki - that's too long! seek help!
there may still be glass in the wound.
I did that once with me...but I've said too much.
Now THAT's well-hung!
And here I just posted a recipie in the last thread. My timing sucks.
"access to excellent libraries"?!
Have you hear of Andy Carnegie, perchance???
Remember the Zenith teevees that you could do that with?
HoneyBearKelly
I had one of those...why I don't know?
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Birthright Citizenship and Suspension of Court Access for Habeas Corpus Petitions for American Citizens
The SCOTUS decisions reach back over a 100 years and you can be sure the radical right will be flouting these decisions by November. {Like the racists would stop with rehabilitating Korematsu}
No, Eli, it's really me.
Pathetic, and lame, though, I'll agree. I put too much pressure on the glass under hot water, I discern, belatedly.
I know. I was kidding. But since it sounds like it might be more dire than I thought, please do take care of yourself.
just kidding. actually, i keep trying to convince my wife pittsburgh is nice, but she is worried about access to excellent libraries.
One name, Carnagie.
Pathetic, and lame, though, I'll agree. I put too much pressure on the glass under hot water, I discern, belatedly.
Vicki
go to the emergency room at the hospital. NOW
I hate the telephone.
Especially when it won't change the channel.
It won't fetch eclairs either.
I thought about taking pictures today.
Does that count?
Yup! You just gotta think about it sometimes--don't force the Muse. I like being all Tao about it.
Evening, fun seekers.
Sorry.....that's all I've got.
Paris
Philly
NYC
DC
Vancouver
all excellent cities. parisians are very very nice (seriously!) never been to philly, i've driven through NYC, i like DC, and i hear good things about Vancouver.
Vicki,
hold your hand over your head and apply pressure to the wound.
you want to decrease the flow of blood.
About 45 minutes. I had it gauzed up, but it bled through the gauze to the point where I'm wrapping it in paper towel.
I'm outta bandaids.
Ummm, sounds like it might need a stitch or two.
I did that once with me...but I've said too much.
Now THAT's well-hung!
I just like to reach out and touch someone.
i'd go with you, but it would be a long wait.
if you feel at all light headed, have someone drive you. or a cab. or an ambulance.
Fort Apache on now on TCM.
Sweet Genevieve.
You do realise that this film has about a 75% accuracy rate?
evening simels,
long time no talk.
Vicki, I did the EXACT same thing around Thanksgiving. Didn't go to the emerg room 'til next day, when it wouldn't stop hurting.
Away with you, forthwith!
Hospital, Vicki. ASAP.
Dr. Uncle Cap'n Mr. Goto-san | Email | 01.21.06 - 8:48 pm | #
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vicki - that's too long! seek help!
there may still be glass in the wound.
dirk gently,concerned
Okay, guys, I'll take your advice. I'll see if my sister, the nurse, won't take a look, and then head on over to the hospital, if necessary.
Damn ~ way to kill my Brokeback Mountain buzz. And playing Eschaton reindeer games...
Later.
Jeebus!
Anything for sale? One of my resolutions this year was to, you know, actually get Winding Roads humming along.
Tell me about it...
I don't know yet. My gut feeling is that there's a fair amount of good stuff, but no great stuff (and as always, a ton of crap that no-one but me will ever see), but I still have to get through the shots from my Cleveland trip first...
Oh no, Vicki's hurt? Go get help, we'll be here.
Sorry.....that's all I've got.
What, no chardonnay?
I hate the telephone.
Especially when it won't change the channel.
I think there *are* cellphones that can be programmed to do that...
I might be thinking of PDAs, tho.
jaysus,
just read the comments. did vicki go to the hospital?
Vicki,
hold your hand over your head and apply pressure to the wound.
you want to decrease the flow of blood.
and eat some meat protein.
at least, that's what i did when i was younger and put my arm through a window as i was breaking into my own house and i slit my wrist, missing my artery by || this much.
I'm just behind on everything today arn't I?
Damn ~ way to kill my Brokeback Mountain buzz. And playing Eschaton reindeer games...
It's very bad for your keyboard to type with a Monty Python style gusher. Even harder when you've passed out. I know all too well...
evening simels,
long time no talk.
Shaw Kenawe | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 8:50 pm | #
And how are you?
Cities I want to live in:
Paris
Philly
NYC
DC
Vancouver
four legs good | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 8:44 pm |
I notice Chicago isn't on that list. Or Dayton. Hmhp!
Has Maxx indicated a preference?
Yeah, and the BSG "dissenters controlled by the enemy" storyline came out in the same period as the Osama tape linked by Matthews to Moore. Considering that the government has already admitted to having a major Soviet hand in bad entertainment in the past (anti-drug episodes of television shows) we are finding it harder and harder to not see conspiracy everywhere.
Vicki.Hospital.now.
I gotta go. No din-din yet. Take care, Vicki.
Bye, 'batsies!!
I might be thinking of PDAs, tho.
I had an app for my Palm Pilot that would act as a universal remote. Wicked cool.
now that vicki is safe...
hi Shaw Kenawe!
Vicki! Go to Emergency Room now! Please
I notice Chicago isn't on that list. Or Dayton. Hmhp!
Has Maxx indicated a preference?
ah, Chicago... the most european american city i have ever visited. anywhere you can buy wine at the museum is fine by me.
i'm in boca raton. had to get away from that 50 degree winter up in Boston. what a killer!
had a nice early dinner at a Cuban restaurant. black beans and all.
hope vicki's okay.
how are all the rest of the beautiful eschatonians?
I had an app for my Palm Pilot that would act as a universal remote. Wicked cool.
NTodd, Banned Bad Boy
Now if you had an app for your Palm Pilot that allowed you to change SCOTUS members and CongressCritters, that would be wicked cool!
just kidding. actually, i keep trying to convince my wife pittsburgh is nice, but she is worried about access to excellent libraries.
seaxneat (mel hates his boss) | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 8:47 pm | #
seaxneat, Pittsburgh has both excellent public and academic libraries. It's a city that's always been on my list.
I don't know yet. My gut feeling is that there's a fair amount of good stuff, but no great stuff (and as always, a ton of crap that no-one but me will ever see), but I still have to get through the shots from my Cleveland trip first...
Just send stuff along if you find anything you feel good about. And I should be getting the large-format printer in the next couple weeks--still haven't quite decided what I want, but NTodd's Pa is getting wicked antsy (I'm giving him my HP Photosmart once he buys me the new one).
(anti-drug episodes of television shows)
Ugh, remember the TNG ep?
dirk,
so gentle, so tea-licious.
i'm in boca raton.
if you see osama, tell him 'hey' from me.
[note to nsa: this is a joke]
Vicki--consider a trip to the ER. Get the daughter to take you.
Vicki: You still here, or have you gone to the ER?
Thanks P.O'Neill.
(anti-drug episodes of television shows)
Ugh, remember the TNG ep?
BlakNo1
Used to play this anti-drug cart at 'MBR that featured Nimoy and Shatner as Kirk and Spock. Unintentionally hilarious stuff.
seaxneat, Pittsburgh has both excellent public and academic libraries. It's a city that's always been on my list.
yeah? hmmm... and the feds seem almost reasonable there... (i would prolly have to take a federal job since i only have a year of experience which won't get me reciprocity in the PA bar, and i loathe the idea of taking another bar exam. *shudder*)
I'm guessing at this point Vicki has taken the advice to heart.
how are all the rest of the beautiful eschatonians?
*primping*
not as bad as i used to be, actually!
. . . just when you think it's the darkest, the RNC has taken the bait ... they've committed to an approach that they're going to have to shortly change/adjust . . .
Congressman Conyers is looking for comments and suggestions:
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Here's the suggestion: Keep in mind your other option, what the states can do to put pressure.
There's a little known House Rule which will disrupt Rove's 2006 Plan
There is reason for hope. Keep up the pressure.
- Recommendation: Focus the "education effort related to NSA violations" on the State legislatures of DNC-controlled states -- they can issue the proclomation calling for the House to take action.
The 1903 precedent has been set: Florida under the US Congress House rules passed a proclomation -- and the House [a] ordered an investigation without consulting the House Judiciary; and [b] impeached the Federal Judge without a consensus from the House Committee.
The RNC is in a no-win situation. You, at the local level in your state, can make this happen. Call your DNC-controlled state/Governor offices and have them put this NSA issue on the State Legislature/assembly agendas -- and get a state-level proclamation passed directing the House order an investigation.
The RNC is powerless to stop all 50 states from taking action.
This issue will spark discussion at the local level and force people to take a position on the NSA issue. The issue can be brought up during the state level primaries. There is no need to wait for the 2006 electoin results.
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The last time I committed bleeding. I have this really swell cabinet with knobs fixed by a couple of sharp-edged metal strips. Sure enough I managed to run one of them into one of the major artery thingies of my hand. As I stood there,watching my blood sort of cascade, suddenly my Girl Scout training re-surfaced, and I applied pressure and peroxide and all that stuff. A strange and marvelous feeling tho. Gee? Lookit the blood pouring out of there. There's something I'm supposed to be doing, isn't there?
Try, just try, to find a tetanus shot provider in Phoenix....
We actually didn't watch TNG. That whole series was like seriously heavily civilized and drugged and concerned with being nice. Since shirtless bare-fisted Kirk was a major reason for watching the earlier series, we couldn't get into the new one.
Now if you had an app for your Palm Pilot that allowed you to change SCOTUS members and CongressCritters, that would be wicked cool!
I had one, but I accidentally deleted it.
(anti-drug episodes of television shows)
Ugh, remember the TNG ep?
Tasha: Dunno, Wesley, maybe people like to fucking feel good, you little snotnosed shit!
osama's in boca?
I once nearly sheared off the top of my left middle finger (now THAT would've been a damned shame) with a monster bread knife.
That hurt like a motherfucker.
seaxneat, Pittsburgh has both excellent public and academic libraries. It's a city that's always been on my list.
the great thing about it is that you can be in the countryside in a few miles. the bridges and roads are maddening.
i loathe the idea of taking another bar exam.
It's not so bad. I took my second one six or seven years after the first one. It was weird since I hadn't been practicing crim pro or TWE or any of those other areas that get tested, but my old BarBri materials were still enough to get me through.
On the bright side, I FINALLY understood Con Law. After a full year as an undergrad poli sci course, a full year in law school, and the first BarBri course. I'm a slow learner.
I'm guessing at this point Vicki has taken the advice to heart.
Hope so. Expect the tragedy troll pretending to be her sister in 3...2...1...
http://www.cuteoverload.com
(courtesy of mrs dirk)
Lookit the blood pouring out of there. There's something I'm supposed to be doing, isn't there?
were you able to look in before you started gushing? when my wrist got cut, i looked in, and moved my fingers, and i swear i saw my tendon before the blood started flowing. it was awesome. shock is a marvelous thing.
osama's in boca?
Makin' bacon.
osama's in boca?
Shaw Kenawe | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 8:58 pm | #
his hmo restricted his diabetes treatments to dr goldstein, who refuses to make any more cave calls.
http://www.cuteoverload.com
(courtesy of mrs dirk)
wow! that is... phenomenomenal!
"If we were up to something, we would've mined your harbors."
heh. Alan Alda does make a good goofy president.
I was drying a wine glass once and put too much pressure on the glass and as a result it cut into the ring finger of my left hand. bled like crazy. i took a band-aid, and after washing thoroughly, tightly wound it around the wound. it healed beautifully.
rub garlic into open wound. it will disinfect everything and keep the vampires away.
Interesting.....
were you able to look in before you started gushing? when my wrist got cut,
Nah, 'cause the metal piece was on the inside of the cupboard. I raked my wrist acrosst it and as I pulled it away I started gouting. Seriously kuhl. But I swear, there was this checklist that threw itself in front of my eye.... First, apply pressure. Second, elevate bleeding portion. ....
ah, Steven Wright as the Canadian Mountie.
"If we were up to something, we would've mined your harbors."
heh. Alan Alda does make a good goofy president.
I'm sorry, but "mining harbors" really, just, uh...I'm sorry.
I was never much of a Kirk fan(Spock was the selling point of TOS for me), so TNG was more my speed.
I thought about taking pictures today.
Does that count?
four legs good | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 8:48 pm | #
Shutterbats,
I'm thinking of taking the plunge and getting a digital camera. I don't want to spend more than $500. I'm thinking between 5-7 mps and some zoom. Some Kodaks and Canons look good.
Any advice? And what to avoid? There are too many choices, it's making my head hurt!
Two threads down was a discussion about "nesting". What gets you out of the house.
I read most of it- doesn't anyone go out to see local bands? Jazz, rock, folk, anything?
"Have some fudge. Just leave me alone."
Now if you had an app for your Palm Pilot that allowed you to change SCOTUS members and CongressCritters, that would be wicked cool!
I had one, but I accidentally deleted it.
NTodd, Banned Bad Boy
Damn. Since you don't need to ask questions during hearings and can get your staff to write all of your opinions, I figured Lion Kitty would be a perfect SCOTUS benchwarmer.
cities I want to live in:
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course that's me.
his hmo restricted his diabetes treatments to dr goldstein, who refuses to make any more cave calls.
dirk gently,sociopathetic
so, osama was dr goldstein's worse nightmare?
no. wait. he was dr. frist's worse nightmare...
vicki,
asprin and a nice hot bath
Mrs MYOB and I just got back from seeing Underworld: Evolutions.
Not a bad flick. Pretty much non-stop action enough to make it clear that a real plot wasn't necessary. A neat storyline and backplot though detailing the origins of the two groups, etc.
Of course the movie is mostly a chick flick cause of the actors and actresses. In the end you find yourself really getting a bit annoyed that you might find yourself rooting for the bad guys cause there's more than enough moral ambiguity to go around, and although the bad guys really are bad you can't really blame them.
The last 10 minutes had me wanting to see the main heroin die just to see something unpredictable.
The special affects are good though the transformation from man to werewold almost appear like the old claymation animation.
There's the usual gratuitous sex scenes the worst of which makes you wonder exactly where people won't have sex. Is a dirty, dusty, dank and wet infested garage storage container a turn on enough to bang your date in?
I didn't think so. Take a step up and f*ck each other in the sewer. I figure it has more ambiance than the place they ended up in.
Overall it wasn't too bad other than that scene and the ending.
A bit too predictable but I expected less since the movie wasn't reviewed. It wasn't as bad as that I don't think and is probably worth watching when the movie, or should it, end up in a cheap dollar cinema.
MYOB'
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P.S. Those vampirettes had some excellent silicon fake boobies. One was so perfectly sperical I expected to calibrate the standard definition of PI 3.14 to it.
MYOB'
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For those of you just tuning in:
Assclowns of the Week is up and a day early. Just do it and click!
Still need encouragement? Let’s see who’s on the spit this week:
The FAA for overpaying by $32,000,000 a bus company evacuating NOLA flood victims without even looking at an itemized bill.
FEMA, for teaching children that terror and disaster can be fun.
Torquemada Gonzales for saying, What’s good for the Bubba is good for the Dubya.
Scotty McClellan for taking potshots at bloggers while having to be being fed old news by the press pool.
The House GOP, for its bold, yet transitional easing into campaign finance and lobbyist reform.
Bill Frist and Tom DeLay for taking proactive steps to promote capitalism.
Deborah Howell, for rewriting the ombudsman job description and its very definition.
Dick Cheney, for telling Osama bin Laden and the peace process, “Go fuck yourself!”
Frank Abramoff, for demonstrating that a father’s love can be blinder than Ray Charles in a dark room.
And the Dept. of Homeland Security, for ensuring that the terrorists will never win if they bomb our liquor stores and donut shops.
All this and much, much more! So hurry up and get it while it's still steaming before, you know, it gets all white and crumbly and all.
vicki,
asprin and a nice hot bath
LOL!
I'm sorry, but "mining harbors" really, just, uh...I'm sorry.
(picks up tv remote, places call)
asprin and a nice hot bath
dr. frist | Email | 01.21.06 - 9:03 pm | #
i've been wanting to see some video of vicki, but that's not what i had in mind.
Mrs MYOB and I just got back from seeing Underworld: Evolutions...Of course the movie is mostly a chick flick cause of the actors and actresses.
I like Kate Beckinsale in pleather.
But I swear, there was this checklist that threw itself in front of my eye.... First, apply pressure. Second, elevate bleeding portion. ....
at least all that training went to good use!
BlakNo1: Ugh, remember the TNG ep?
The one that got Wil Wheaton his first (screen?) kiss (with Ashley Judd, rwwwwwr!)?
.
forthwith, I shall be known as "Hostage Honey."
(picks up tv remote, places call)
Ooh, looked what just popped up!
Two threads down was a discussion about "nesting". What gets you out of the house.
well, once the fire alarms went off while i was microwaving popcorn.
that got me out of the house.
Patrick Stewart was awesome in I, Claudius.
OK, folks, what's on the Sci-Fi agenda this evening? Anything?
ah, Steven Wright as the Canadian Mountie.
watertiger
Waaaaa? You've got a Mountie?
If anyone sees my thread lying about, just try not to step on it.
oddly, i just thought of the song "detachable penis"...
rub garlic into open wound. it will disinfect everything and keep the vampires away.
Shaw Kenawe | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:00 pm | #
Sugar, it helps bind things. And Vicki, if your still reading this, and end up at the ER, have them take some more blood and check your platlets.
That hurt like a motherfucker.
watertiger
I once cut the corner of my finger off with a paper cutter at work.
They took me to the hospital.
The 'nurse' took off the makesift bandadge with a smile but gasped when she saw it.
.
LOL!
NTodd, Banned Bad Boy | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:04 pm | #
didn't know if that one was gonna offend or amuse.
oh man, i'm so late to this thread. 14 mins. and 100 comments later,
what the fuck is going on.
which reminds me, i really hate internet abbreviation WTF is ok, LOL is so gay. i didn't even know what the fuck HICA was until today
and i swear i saw my tendon before the blood started flowing. it was awesome. shock is a marvelous thing.
ohh, maybe i should have read first. real life, tragedy/blood, 'excites' me. fake blood, movie horror, grosses me out, can't watch it.
life is real not this ersatz crap we've developed. who thinks president bush is a fake? c'mon, how could that idiot be for real?
perhaps the cutest bunny ever (from the previous post)
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_o...mages/
bunny.jpg
woo hoo! NOAA is hiring an international lawyer or two! man, things are looking up!
Anyone watching Magma? Is the vlume going up and down drastically/
oddly, i just thought of the song "detachable penis"...
Heh, I used that in Wednesday's podcast...
please go to the hopsital vicki!!!
(hey, anything's possible!)
Hey, Atriots,
Polls are open at
http://themadprophet.blogspot.co...ylvania-
06.html
Regarding just who will kick Rick Santorum's ass in November. Go vote!
don't get the soup
Waaaaa? You've got a Mountie?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
(nice too have, if you're in the mood)
.
Ooh, looked what just popped up!
Just when I hit Skinemax.
MYOB -- Did it explain why vampires were at war with lichen? I couldn't figure that out from the commercials.
.
Hello, dears. What does anyone know about the Nikon D50 SLR?
Thanks.
SD
at least all that training went to good use!
Yes, Marnie Kleindienst was a darn good Cliffie and a darned good Brownie Scout mistress. I'm telling you that a Radcliffe education is worth bunches, down the road!
Ooo, a guy just fell into the magma and flash-evaporated!
Heh, I used that in Wednesday's podcast...
no way. that's too weird. it's like the other day, i was thinking of a song that i haven't heard in ages, and then i turned on the CD player in the car, and it was the song, and it was the last thing my wife had listened to when she was down here and borrowed my car....
Who doesn't like a benign girl?
Yes, Marnie Kleindienst was a darn good Cliffie and a darned good Brownie Scout mistress. I'm telling you that a Radcliffe education is worth bunches, down the road!
What does anyone know about the Nikon D50 SLR?
is that a camera or a missle?
The one that got Wil Wheaton his first (screen?) kiss (with Ashley Judd, rwwwwwr!)?
That wasn't the one I was thinking of, funny enough. There was one in the first season as well.
Oh, and that's Lycan, not lichen.
Ooh, looked what just popped up!
Just when I hit Skinemax.
"I have this, like, fifth sense..."
Eli--science babe!!!
life is real not this ersatz crap we've developed. who thinks president bush is a fake? c'mon, how could that idiot be for real?
charley
charley, my friend, lots of people think he's real. i've been over to a conservative blog run by a woman with a Ph.D. she adores Bush. it's hard to believe there are people out there who have had the benefit of an education and still makes excuses for the asshole who is Bush.
there is no doubt, he is an empty vessel.
Hello, dears. What does anyone know about the Nikon D50 SLR?
A lot like the Nikon D70, which is very good. Do you want lots of options and interchangeable lenses?
and i'll have the soup full of a ingredient. thanks
Jeffraham--maybe they shortened 'lycanthrope' to 'lichen.'
Eli--science babe!!!
Woohoo!
The one that got Wil Wheaton his first (screen?) kiss (with Ashley Judd, rwwwwwr!)?
I fell in love with her in that epi.
Who doesn't like a benign girl?
I'm more into malevolent types.
Via Crooks and Liars, Glenn Greenwald fucking nails it.
"There would have to be conditions."
dirk, camera
It's like Progresso: "It's in there."
She's a very... enthusiastic science babe.
uh-oh! the Office of Government Ethics is stocking up lawyers...
"Bring warm clothes, 'cause it's very cold!"
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
You betcha! Dick, I could take or leave, altho my Mummy was irate about him. But Marnie was and is the sweetest thing there is. And they had pugs! And their kids, Ferd and Wally and Anne? Swell! And I learnt everything about preventing dying as a result of natural/local diaster from Marnie, at Brownie Scouts.
dirk, camera
Sarah Deere | 01.21.06 - 9:15 pm | #
oh. good, because the only thing i knew about it was "aim and shoot"
WE HAVE DISCOVERED
THE SOUL OF ESCHATON
"Bring warm clothes, 'cause it's very cold!"
I don't get it - isn't there all... magma and stuff?
Geochemists don't squeak.
And if the grizzled prof sleeps with the squeaky grad student, I quit.
"even you will like this girl - she's really smart!"
Sallyh: Jeffraham--maybe they shortened 'lycanthrope' to 'lichen.'
Well, if one has to explain his jokes... 
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hello, dears. What does anyone know about the Nikon D50 SLR?
Thanks.
SD
Sarah Deere | 01.21.06 - 9:11 pm | #
Looks nice, gets good reviews, and, alas, out of my price range.
Eli--Hottie McNaughty!
Sounds better than Hockie McLoogie, at any rate.
Geochemists don't squeak.
Not even when you squeeze them?
"All I know about Iceland is that it's all... ice."
Who doesn't like a benign girl?
I prefer a sulky girl, myself...
And if the grizzled prof sleeps with the squeaky grad student, I quit.
Quit now while you're ahead, and leave the driving to us
Well, if one has to explain his jokes...
Ah, had a feeling you were putting us on...
Faster than a speeding bullet! It's a tadpole! It's a slime mold! It's Sperman!
Their fictional biography cast Judge Alito as an out-and-out bigot.
Biden hinted at was probably the true story, but pulled his punch in a long bloviation.
Sammy was quite prepared to invent himself for his GOP masters. He slapped CAP on his resume because it would look good to the bigots in Ed Meese's department. He said he'd taken positions because they were ones of the Reagan administration. Etc.
In short, Sammy is a master of self-invention to advance his career. That was what the Dems should have hammered home. He's James Frey in a gown.
Not even when you squeeze them?
Eli | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:17 pm | #
not if you oil them up real good.
These are some very highly motivated grad students right here.
the spanish guy's gonna buy it.
And I learnt everything about preventing dying as a result of natural/local diaster from Marnie, at Brownie Scouts.
sounds like my boy scouts experience. at the very end, i learned that if i had to, i could always eat ants.
Watertiger--I say within the next 15 minutes.
"All I know about Iceland is that it's all... ice."
Eli | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:17 pm | #
that would be greenland.
very tricky, them vikings.
I prefer a sulky girl, myself...
Unfortunately, nobody likes us cynical girls.
Except Marshall Crenshaw, bless his heart.
the spanish guy's gonna buy it.
They're *all* gonna buy it, except for Squeaky and whoever she is destined to hook up with.
Unfortunately, nobody likes us cynical girls.
A-hem.
Debbie Howell's latest column is ready for your perusal:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6012100907.html
repeat post from earlier:
frist calls alito "democrats' worst nightmare"
NOW can we have a filibuster?
What did he just say? She was dating a cock?
Actually, Squeaky kinda reminds me of one of our vendors' sales rep, only not blonde.
Deborah's new column is up. It's all about her and and how verbally nasty people were to her.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp...6012100907.html
Her piece is so referential; it really gives you a sense of what she is all about. Don't blame Brady for shutting down the comments. The decision was suggested by someone high up at the Post who was hearing how upset Deborah was about those nasty people who were verbally assaulting her.
Unfortunately, nobody likes us cynical girls.
oh. riiiiiiggghhht.
sounds like my boy scouts experience. at the very end, i learned that if i had to, i could always eat ants.
Nothing more desirable could possibly be learnt. You can always eat ants.
You can always stop the bleeding.
There's ALWAYS SOMETHING TO BE DONE!
Nighty night all. I must go eat something today. Be good. Watch TV. Sweet dreams.
G'night, Bats of the Waning Quartermoon.
Please sleep peacefully, dream inspired dreams, and wake blissfuly. We are embodied. Feel the sweetl heavy blankets on your thighs and throats. Feel the soft pillows beneath your necks and temples. Close your eyelids and sense the deep wintery dark.
>B>Settling
by Denise Levertov
I was welcomed here—clear gold
of late summer, of opening autumn,
the dawn eagle sunning himself on the highest tree,
the mountain revealing herself unclouded, her snow
tinted apricot as she looked west,
Tolerant, in her steadfastness, of the restless sun
forever rising and setting.
Now I am given
a taste of the grey foretold by all and sundry,
a grey both heavy and chill. I've boasted I would not care,
I'm London-born. And I won't. I'll dig in,
into my days, having come here to live, not to visit.
Grey is the price
of neighboring with eagles, of knowing
a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.
Debbie Howell's latest column is ready for your perusal:
Perusal? That's a funny word for hurling.
and the antitrust division seems to be gearing up to revise their manual.
man, you can learn a lot by looking at the job listing for the govt...
Quit now while you're ahead, and leave the driving to us
I may.
Who doesn't like a benign girl?
I prefer a sulky girl, myself...
I had you guys down for a Creepy Girl.
adios, hombre espanol!
Nighty night all. I must go eat something today. Be good. Watch TV. Sweet dreams.
g'night!
Gah, she *is* angling for her prof.
"What's the deal with Dr. Shepard?"
Unfortunately, nobody likes us cynical girls.
...
watertiger
I can see that would be a problem:
"I love you."
"Oh, I'm sure you do."
-------
Good evening all!
muy peligroso!
Meanwhile, back at the Castle Of Solitaire...
and the antitrust division seems to be gearing up to revise their manual.
man, you can learn a lot by looking at the job listing for the govt...
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
Did you see Steve Clemons' post on the World Bank and Wolfowitz' true colours shining through?
Oh, I beg to differ, I like me some cynical girls, yes I do. They snark and snarl and bite and laugh and are just the best company you can imagine.
Some interesting sites:
http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2...2004/
051504.asp
http://www.whitehouse.org/
initia...dockmonkeys.asp
Big Daddy
Wow, Darwin in action here. Who's gonna fall in the hole?
buenas tardes, tio smokes.
cuidado - hay magma!
Did you see Steve Clemons' post on the World Bank and Wolfowitz' true colours shining through?
i have to admit that i haven't seen it.
But it is profoundly distressing if political discourse has sunk to a level where abusive name-calling and the crudest of sexual language are the norm, where facts have no place in an argument. This unbounded, unreasoning rage is not going to help this newspaper, this country or democracy.
I don't know. Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Bill O'Reilly have been around for quite some time, Debs.
Oh, I beg to differ, I like me some cynical girls, yes I do. They snark and snarl and bite and laugh and are just the best company you can imagine.
One of the reasons I was single for so long was that I couldn't find enough of them.
I'll take a creepy, cynical girl myself.
WOW!
I'm back just in time to say I hope Vicki went to the emergency room
& Frank Rich is too right (but Durbin is talking about a filibuster)
& will be missed
& why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
i have to admit that i haven't seen it.
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
You ask, I supply URL
Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
nope, i dont. i'm looking for a new job at some cafe with really crappy music.
Deborah's new column is up. It's all about her and and how verbally nasty people were to her.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp...6012100907.html
Her piece is so self-referential; it really gives you a sense of what she is all about. Don't blame Brady for shutting down the comments. The decision was suggested by someone high up at the Post who was hearing how upset Deborah was about those nasty people who were verbally assaulting her
Errr, I was just a kid when Mt. St. Helens blew, but isn't there generally lots and lots of notice when a volcano blows?
& why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
Prior Aelred | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:23 pm | #
mrs dirk is on the other sofa with her laptop, perusing the "bad baby name" site.
I'm thinking of taking the plunge and getting a digital camera. I don't want to spend more than $500. I'm thinking between 5-7 mps and some zoom. Some Kodaks and Canons look good.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5
watertiger: Uncle Smokes, I love you.
Uncle Smokes: Oh, sure you do.
I don't know. Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Bill O'Reilly have been around for quite some time, Debs.
I'd like her to say something which displeases The Other Squeaky, so she can *really* see what abusive language is like.
You ask, I supply URL
thankee! i will go read it and report back.
damn. Not ONE of them died?
Errr, I was just a kid when Mt. St. Helens blew, but isn't there generally lots and lots of notice when a volcano blows?
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:24 pm | #
yes. lots of sirens, and a little red light goes on on the dash.
Deborah Howell: she's the new Judith Miller!
Unfortunately, nobody likes us cynical girls.
Uh...
& why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
Prior Aelred
It's Sunday morning, young man. But don't ask why I'm not in Church.
damn. Not ONE of them died?
All in good time.
& why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
I'm supposed to be working in the kitchen and getting all sorts of shit done before I go on vacay.
the bed is still naked, although the laundry is folded.
I used to like girls that gave me drugs and said "go down on me right NOW" even tho we were driving out of a parking lot.
(she was driving)
But that was another life time.
.
Prior Aelred: & why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
I lost that about the same time I lost my income, my house, and the last dollars of my 401k. But hey -- I regained my virginity!
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& why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
Prior Aelred | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:23 pm | #
mrs dirk is on the other sofa with her laptop, perusing the "bad baby name" site.
We're down to one laptop, and I'll have to hand this one off to Thers soon.
But we did go out and grab dinner, Prior A, if that helps.
Wow, that column by Mrs. Okrent is the most clueless thing I've read by a journalist in a major paper in years - and that's saying a lot! I esp. liked the end:
To all of those who wanted me fired, I'm afraid you're out of luck. I have a contract. For the next two years, I will continue to speak my mind.
No one gives a shit if you "speak your mind," Debbie. It's when you lie, refuse to admit it, and bitch about getting caught that we object to.
Eh, I spent 2/3 of my life taking any excuse I could to get out of the house. Nowadays, only a worthy band gets me out on Saturday night.
speaking of mt st helens, i was working auto parts and service in tucson when it went off.
air filters in the northwest had to be changed so often, we could not get them in tucson.
and i could see the ash stream from there.
Howell admits she was wrong, but since it cannot be imagined that her error was the main one, she insists on weaselling in this slimy business about others being wrong too but not really. She certainly can't just come out and say that she was wrong, and definitely won't imagine that any of the outrage on the part of the complainants might've been reasonable. She also attempts an old trick Eric Alterman disgusted us once with (where you ignore real discussion of Israel and reprint the one e-mail that calls for killing all the Jews, saying this is representative), except that since her "obscene flaming" really wasn't that bad, we are back to the problem of who made this weak pussy an ombudsman?
She has buried an admission of her mendacuious and stupid error -- which caused the whole god damned thing -- in a long wound-licking about how strong and beautiful she is.
We're down to one laptop, and I'll have to hand this one off to Thers soon.
Wait... what happened?
We're down to one laptop, and I'll have to hand this one off to Thers soon.
i better get my flirting out oof the way, then.
To all of those who wanted me fired, I'm afraid you're out of luck. I have a contract. For the next two years, I will continue to speak my mind.
Damn, she's pissy. Why did they hire a snippy teenager to be their ombudscreature?
You know what there's not enough of?
Movies about swarms of deadly bees.
vicki is spending saturday night at the emergency room. 
Wait... what happened?
The usual thing which happens to laptops: the power supply ripped loose from the motherboard. It's not cheaper to replace the whole machine, but fixing it is out of our price range just now, and it is 2 years old.
Say it with 4Legs: Deborah Howell is a WATB!
Howell misses the main argument that was made - that the Indian tribes were free to give their OWN money to whomever they damned well chose. He didn't direct them to do so.
But nooooo...she pulls that same old chestnut out of the fire.
contacts are made to be broken.
"Is that your wife?"
"For now."
vicki is spending saturday night at the emergency room.
Why?
Eli--Science Babe is trying to put the make on Grizzly Science Prof.
Tom - 大肚腩
thanks for the link. that was supremely interesting.
out of the spotlight and into the backrooms....
The usual thing which happens to laptops: the power supply ripped loose from the motherboard. It's not cheaper to replace the whole machine, but fixing it is out of our price range just now, and it is 2 years old.
Well, crap. I'm sorry.
contacts are made to be broken.
dirk gently,sociopathetic
And with the Roberts court in place, how much luck do you think an employee will have sueing a corporation for breach of contract?
the dialogue in this movie is so incredibly REAL.
But nooooo...she pulls that same old chestnut out of the fire.
I'm telling you.... Judy, Judy, Judy. Right down to the pissy, unprofessional insistence on getting her own way.
Eli--Science Babe is trying to put the make on Grizzly Science Prof.
He resists the inevitable.
Ooo, Poughkeepsie! They're near my old high school!
"& why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!"
One word. Marriage.
Social lives are for singles.
Why?
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:31 pm | #
top of thread - she cut her finger on a broken glass, bled for 45 minutes and then at least had enough sense to ask us what she should do.
sigh.
Watertiger--real bad, if that's what you're getting at
charley, my friend, lots of people think he's real. i've been over to a conservative blog run by a woman with a Ph.D. she adores Bush. it's hard to believe there are people out there who have had the benefit of an education and still makes excuses for the asshole who is Bush.
there is no doubt, he is an empty vessel.
Shaw Kenawe |
thanks for making me so sad. i laid carpet in a Psychotherapists house before the election. animal heads everywhere, but that's ok i'm cool with hunting. still, i kept wondering where is this guy coming from? we talked, i really liked him. showed me a portrait of his father by karsh, i'm a photographer, not the best karsh i've ever seen, but close freinds of the family. then i saw it, Sportsman for Bush bumpersticker affixed to the refrigirator.
he was a smart guy, then there was that stupid french bitch after the election. so impressed that i recognised her dutch era painting, so offended when i told her liberals are smart. i've never been so reactive in my life, but i know criminality when i see it. wake the fuck up america.
the dialogue in this movie is so incredibly REAL.
This is exactly how I talk. Especially when hot squeaky science babes are hitting on me.
And with the Roberts court in place, how much luck do you think an employee will have sueing a corporation for breach of contract?
Tom - 大肚腩 | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:32 pm | #
maybe they could reclassify the contract as an international treaty.
then bush would just invalidate it.
top of thread - she cut her finger on a broken glass, bled for 45 minutes and then at least had enough sense to ask us what she should do.
Maybe she'll get stitches from a hot resident.
Okay, I'm giving this off to Thers. Later, all!
I just got my first HATE TROLL entry on my blog comments! WHOO-HOO!!
Don't blame Brady for shutting down the comments. The decision was suggested by someone high up at the Post who was hearing how upset Deborah was about those nasty people who were verbally assaulting her
Howell obviously has good friends on the DC cocktail party circuit: Lou Dobbs et al.
Look, she'd be fine in another job. But not as an ombudsman. She's been promoted to a job that she simply cannot do, and she's lashing out at people who point it out. Peter Principle at work.
thanks for the link. that was supremely interesting.
out of the spotlight and into the backrooms....
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
Check the mainpage and scroll down for a post before that one and you might find the rationale for Reid apologizing. Haven't read through all of the comments again, but Steve got majorly flamed again for trying to play footsie with "the good Busheviks".
again with the directed.
David E, where ya been?
And with the Roberts court in place, how much luck do you think an employee will have sueing a corporation for breach of contract?
it's already pretty damn hard. considering many corporations don't even go the whole contract work route.
Social lives are for singles.
EkCenTriK | 01.21.06 - 9:33 pm | #
we went out for dinner thurs night. too crowded for us old folk on the weekend.
Howell obviously has good friends on the DC cocktail party circuit: Lou Dobbs et al.
It really does sound like Pinch And Judy all over again...
& why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
Prior Aelred
Nope. I'm watching my hero on ESPN Classics right now. Ali Marathon Part 2. 6 hours of Ali, who could ask for anything more.
buenas tardes, tio smokes.
cuidado - hay magma!
dirk gently,sociopathetic
Buenas noches!
La llama es una cuadrupeda que vive en grande rios parecido el Amazonas.
Ello toiene dos orejas un corazón una frente y un pico para comiend miel.
Pero ello es suministrado con aleta pare nadando.
Llamas son mas grande que ranas.
Llamas son peligrosa, asi si usted ve uno donde pueblo es nodando usted grita, "Cuidado Llamas!"
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Sorry, but such is the only Spanish I know, aside from learning as a kid how to say, "beso mi culo."
maybe they could reclassify the contract as an international treaty.
then bush would just invalidate it.
dirk gently,sociopathetic
Except Guitar George needs all of the Lil Debbies and Ho Hos that he can get in the press to keep those zombie lies reappearing.
WOW --
That question generated more response than about anything I've ever said!
About time for me to turn in (I DO have to be in church Sunday morning)
maybe they could reclassify the contract as an international treaty.
then bush would just invalidate it.
or they'd raise holy shit about "how dare the supreme court look at international law??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
Hey, here's a good idea for something to do in a movie: Put major chunks of the exposition in the mouth of someone with an indecipherable fake accent.
MYOB -- Did it explain why vampires were at war with lichen? I couldn't figure that out from the commercials.
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:11 pm | #
Corvinas the first one, immortal, had two sons, one was bitten by bat, another by wolf, both were the first of their kind. From these two brothers came all werewolves and vampires. Markis, who was one of the three vampire elders mentioned in the first movie was one brother. Williem, was the other brother and a werewolf too terrible to control. The movie is about Markis who converted Victor who over a thousand years ago was a lord with a powerful army. To help him capture but not kill his brother Williem converts Victor in exchange for converting his army into vampires to hunt down his brother and stop him as he rampages across the eastern European countryside converting entire villages into monstrous werewolves far more dangerous than the ones encountered in the first movie. When they finally capture Williem, Markis is unable to prevent Victor from imprisoning Williem for all time. The movie starts with the flashback to this time period and is about Markis, having found out that Victor is dead, trying to locate where Victor imprisoned his brother so he could free him.
MYOB'
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The Firestorm Over My Column
By Deborah Howell
Sunday, January 22, 2006; B06
Nothing in my 50-year career prepared me for the thousands of flaming e-mails I got last week over my last column, e-mails so abusive and many so obscene that part of The Post's Web site was shut down.
That column praised The Post for breaking the story on lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings, for which he has pleaded guilty to several felony counts. The column clearly pointed out that Abramoff is a Republican and dealt mainly with Republicans, most prominently former House majority leader Tom DeLay of Texas.
I wrote that he gave campaign money to both parties and their members of Congress. He didn't. I should have said he directed his client Indian tribes to make campaign contributions to members of Congress from both parties.
My mistake set off a firestorm. I heard that I was lying, that Democrats never got a penny of Abramoff-tainted money, that I was trying to say it was a bipartisan scandal, as some Republicans claim. I didn't say that. It's not a bipartisan scandal; it's a Republican scandal, and that's why the Republicans are scurrying around trying to enact lobbying reforms.
But there is no doubt about the campaign contributions that were directed to lawmakers of both parties. Records from the Federal Election Commission and the Center for Public Integrity show that Abramoff's Indian clients contributed money to 195 Republicans and 88 Democrats between 1999 and 2004. The Post also has copies of lists sent to tribes by Abramoff with his personal directions on which members were to receive what amounts.
Michael Crowley of the New Republic said in his blog that "while for all practical purposes this is indisputably a Republican scandal, the narrow liberal-blogger definition of whether any Democrats took money 'from Abramoff' -- which neatly excludes contributions he directed his clients to make -- amounts to foolish semantics.''
These facts have been reported many times in The Post and elsewhere. So why would it cause me to be called a "right-wing whore" and much worse?
Witness three printable examples:
"Yes, the WAPO needs an enema, and Howell should be the first thing that gets medicinally removed."
"You Deborah Howell, stop lying about Democrats getting money from Abramoff. Democrats do not control anything in Washington, so why would he waste money bribing them. Think and do your research, and stop being an idiot."
"This rag must be something that I pulled off a barscreen at a sewage treatment plant. Howell is simply a paid liar. How this creature endures itself is something I don't understand. What a piece of flotsam."
There is no more fervent believer in the First Amendment than I am, and I will fight for those e-mailers' right to call me a liar and Republican shill with salt for brains. But I am none of those.
My career has been a public one in journalism. You can find my biography and much of what I stand for on the Internet. You can ask anyone wh
I can't wait till this anachronism dies.
LAS VEGAS - With a back-to-basics formula and the Strip as a backdrop, the Miss America Pageant was crowning a winner Saturday _ a world away from its longtime home.
In the first Miss America ever held outside Atlantic City, N.J., the field of 52 women was narrowed to 10 semifinalists. The contestants from the District of Columbia, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Virginia, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Alabama and Florida remained in the running.
After experimenting with pop quizzes, backstage interviews and other reality TV-style flourishes in recent years, the show promised a more old-fashioned tenor this time out, with contestants wearing sashes and set to choose a Miss Congeniality, two long-shelved features of Miss America.
For problem-plagued Miss America, the proceedings at the Aladdin Resort & Casino were a high-stakes affair.
Spurned by network television because of declining ratings, the pageant announced plans in August to move out of Atlantic City. Normally held in September, the event was postponed as organizers scrambled for a new TV outlet, ultimately settling on Country Music Television, a cable outlet with some 78 million subscribers.
Women have paraded at the pageant _ wearing swimsuits and smiles _ since a 16-year-old girl from Washington, D.C., won an eight-way bathing beauty revue in 1921.
The hokey seaside publicity stunt blossomed into an American icon, its Cinderella trappings and girl-next-door appeal becoming a television staple.
But its luster has been fading for years, the result of fragmented viewership and its airing on Saturday nights, historically a date-night dead zone for television.
The pageant was jettisoned by ABC after the 2004 crowning of Deidre Downs was watched by 9.8 million _ 500,000 fewer than tuned in the year before. The move literally pulled the runway out from under Miss America and led to a cascade of problems threatening its future.
The loss of revenue from the TV rights contributed to a $1.7 million deficit for the Miss America Organization, a nonprofit charity that runs the pageant.
Gambling that a move from Atlantic City would help revive interest, pageant organizers cast their lot with Las Vegas, no stranger to pretty faces and glitzy stage shows.
Hey, here's a good idea for something to do in a movie: Put major chunks of the exposition in the mouth of someone with an indecipherable fake accent.
Isn't that guy in every sci-fi movie?
Nothing in my 50-year career prepared me for the thousands of flaming e-mails I got last week over my last column, e-mails so abusive and many so obscene that part of The Post's Web site was shut down.
She's been a journalist for 50 years and *still* can't handle criticism???
I will fight for those e-mailers' right to call me a liar and Republican shill with salt for brains. But I am none of those.
Because those "accusations" are the truth.
(and I use the word "journalist" advisedly)
Check the mainpage and scroll down for a post before that one and you might find the rationale for Reid apologizing. Haven't read through all of the comments again, but Steve got majorly flamed again for trying to play footsie with "the good Busheviks".
huh! i should really expand my blog-reading world.
now that i've decided to do the absolute minimum at my job while i look for a new job....
Deborah Howell (continued from above)
My career has been a public one in journalism. You can find my biography and much of what I stand for on the Internet. You can ask anyone who worked with me in Minnesota and at Newhouse News Service what kind of journalist I am. I have spent my life working for rational reporting and passionate and reasonable opinion.
So is it the relative anonymity of the Internet that emboldens e-mailers to conduct a public stoning? Is this the increasing political polarization of our country? I don't know.
What I do know is that I have a tough hide, and a few curse words (which I use frequently) are not going to hurt my feelings.
But it is profoundly distressing if political discourse has sunk to a level where abusive name-calling and the crudest of sexual language are the norm, where facts have no place in an argument. This unbounded, unreasoning rage is not going to help this newspaper, this country or democracy.
I didn't ask washingtonpost.com to shut down an area reserved for comments about me, as it did on Thursday night. And I know the decision is being greeted with great disdain.
Jim Brady, editor of the Web site, said that when the site was set up, "there are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech. Because a significant number of folks who have posted in this blog have refused to follow any of those relatively simple rules, we've decided not to allow comments for the time being. It's a shame that it's come to this."
But I'm not totally pessimistic. I am grateful for an e-mail I got from San Antonio. Mark Kelch's first e-mail said: "I'm sure you are making your conservative handlers happy but journalistically it makes you look like a fool. In the end it shows you have a lack of integrity. Does that mean nothing to you?"
I wrote him back. Kelch answered: "I took some time and read an interview (online) with you, among other things. When I finished, I shuddered a little bit because it made me think I may be exhibiting an attribute that in others I despise. My e-mail to you was a cheap shot at your integrity and for that I am sorry. I sincerely hope part two of your article knocks them dead."
Going forward, here's my plan. I'll watch every word. I'll read every e-mail and answer as many legitimate complaints as I can. The vast majority of my work takes place outside this column. But I will reject abuse and all that it stands for.
To all of those who wanted me fired, I'm afraid you're out of luck. I have a contract. For the next two years, I will continue to speak my mind.
Keep smiling. I will.
or they'd raise holy shit about "how dare the supreme court look at international law??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
With this court, they'll go back to the Ju Toy judgement by Holmes, I blogwhored up above on habeas and the SCOTUS, and talk about precedence to suggest that access to the courts isn't necessary for Due Process to be met.
I don't believe the e-mails were abusive or obscene.
She's a candy ass.
Uncle Smokes | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:36 pm | #
i didn't think ANYONE would remember that!
my spanish class circa 1977 used to regularly collapse into insane laughter and calls of "cuidado, cuidad, cuidado, hay ranas!"
[careful, careful, careful - there are toads]
To all of those who wanted me fired, I'm afraid you're out of luck. I have a contract. For the next two years, I will continue to speak my mind.
'Speaking your mind' is not your fucking job, Debbie. You are not a columnist. You are not a pundit. You are an ombudsman. You speak on the readers' behalf.
Out of your motherfucking depth.
Terry C--we huwt hew poow widdow feewings.
why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
Prior Aelred
I just got back from dinner with my daughter.
And it were good!
I'd like to see some defensive lineman clothesline the Burger King.
Does anyone else think the Burger King is grotesque?
There was a firestorm over my column this afternoon. YES!
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watertiger: Uncle Smokes, I love you.
Uncle Smokes: Oh, sure you do.
watertiger
Oh yeah, just like a cynical woman, to put words in my mouth. Hrumph!
[Arms crossed, taps foot petulantly.]
Um, marry me.
[I can see the ceremony: Instead of exchaning "I dos," we exchange "Yeah rights."]
Terry C--we huwt hew poow widdow feewings.
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
Well, fuck her and the Yellow Elephant she rode in on!
"Nothing in my 50-year career prepared me for the thousands of flaming e-mails I got last week over my last column, e-mails so abusive and many so obscene that part of The Post's Web site was shut down."
Just how old is this person? And can she tell us what it was like first hand when Edison flipped on the first light bulb? ANd just how uncivil the crowd was when they oohed and aahed over the event/
To all of those who wanted me fired, I'm afraid you're out of luck. I have a contract. For the next two years, I will continue to speak my mind.
Keep smiling. I will.
Oh. My. God.
They made a troll their ombudsman. Unfuckingbelievable.
With this court, they'll go back to the Ju Toy judgement by Holmes, I blogwhored up above on habeas and the SCOTUS, and talk about precedence to suggest that access to the courts isn't necessary for Due Process to be met.
man, i was thinking similar things earlier this year. thinking about gitmo and enemy combatants, and thinking about deprivation of liberty.
The worst part of the movie is the fact they only employ actor Bill Nighy, who played Victor, in the flashback at the beginning of the movie. Nighy is an excellent actor and has a commanding screen presence. I think the movie could have done well to be made entirely in the past so that they could use Nighy even more.
MYOB'
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huh! i should really expand my blog-reading world.
now that i've decided to do the absolute minimum at my job while i look for a new job....
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
It was strange yesterday to check the frontpage of one of the local papers and see mention of the Abramoff scandal and read through the lead article to see Josh Marshall's name.
No url for his site though in the article. Have to write a nasty gram to the former blogger they have on staff to remind them to play nice by giving their readers URLs.
(has anyone ever seen Deborah Howell and fy in the same room together?)
Does anyone else think the Burger King is grotesque?
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
C-r-e-e-p-y.
OK, off to watch some 1st season South Park and remember when it was actually funny. Peace!
(has anyone ever seen Deborah Howell and fy in the same room together?)
Eli |
I can't look at the Little Debbie boxes in the supermarket the same way, I can tell ya that.
Does anyone else think the Burger King is grotesque?
he is an odd one. my wife is convinced that BK is tapping into the homosexual undercurrents of american men to market to them.
"Does anyone else think the Burger King is grotesque?
Sallyh"
Creepy in a don't touch my person kind of way.
and calls of "cuidado, cuidad, cuidado, hay ranas!"
[careful, careful, careful - there are toads]
dirk gently,sociopathetic | 01.21.06 - 9:39 pm | #
aren't ranas frogs?
Whatever her qualifications as ombudsman, she sure doesn't know much about blogs, does she?
I guess she only reads those nice friendly ones where everyone agrees about things...
man, i was thinking similar things earlier this year. thinking about gitmo and enemy combatants, and thinking about deprivation of liberty.
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
Do research on US v Ju Toy and Chin Yow v US from 1905 and 1908 on Court Access v. Administrative review and Habeas petitions. To think these decisions came out from the Holmes court is kind of stunning.
My girlfriend and I *love* the Burger King, but we're both completely cracked.
You know what I hate?
Evil government geologists.
Fuckers.
Note how Howell essentially tries the old "even the liberal New Republic" Hail Mary:
Michael Crowley of the New Republic said in his blog that "while for all practical purposes this is indisputably a Republican scandal, the narrow liberal-blogger definition of whether any Democrats took money 'from Abramoff' -- which neatly excludes contributions he directed his clients to make -- amounts to foolish semantics.''
going back to a post from yesterday -
http://snipurl.com/lqub
(not work safe, but no pics and it is saturday night)
Do research on US v Ju Toy and Chin Yow v US from 1905 and 1908 on Court Access v. Administrative review and Habeas petitions. To think these decisions came out from the Holmes court is kind of stunning.
yeah, but twere the 1900s. i'll do that though.
aren't ranas frogs?
moi | Email | 01.21.06 - 9:43 pm | #
frogs aren't as funny as toads.
Does anyone else think the Burger King is grotesque
Grotesque or not my Bears sould have used him last week.
Fucking Blogspot...Why do I have to refresh 2 or 3 times to get this site to cough up the latest post? With a fresh browser (cache clears on exit) no less. Is this thing out of beta yet?
aren't ranas frogs?
creo que si.
Howell
But it is profoundly distressing if political discourse has sunk to a level where abusive name-calling and the crudest of sexual language are the norm,
Has she read Ken Starr's report into the Clenis?
my wife is convinced that BK is tapping into the homosexual undercurrents of american men to market to them.
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
Wow, it's like Oliver Platt's talentless loser brother.
Thers sez NO FLIRTING
hey sailor, you new in town?
Is her job really about "speaking my mind"?
In that case, she's just another op-ed mouthpiece...
"My girlfriend and I *love* the Burger King, but we're both completely cracked.
Eli "
Okay, Eli is now officially creepy.
Felicity!!!
Another person who has really grown as an actor.
But it is profoundly distressing if political discourse has sunk to a level where abusive name-calling and the crudest of sexual language are the norm,
She's never seen any of Gordon's posts.
yeah, but twere the 1900s. i'll do that though.
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
re blogwhore
And don't forget the Wong Kim Ark decision from 1898 as the racists are definitely gunning for it as the decision to uphold birthright citizenship. It's the sole SCOTUS decision to stand between reinterpreting the 14th Amendment meaning what it does and what the white knights would want.
Does anyone else think the Burger King is grotesque?
Sallyh, Madame Poissonniere
Tho I like the burgers,
Lotta Burger is so bright and clean to the point of surrealness.
I kinna like woppers. I'm a mayo fan.
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Okay, Eli is now officially creepy.
I'm... right... outside... your... window...
Holding a breakfast sammich.
I believe that's Mt. Fuji.
anyway, ranas comen moscas and if you touch them you get warts.
or is that rick santorum?
In this movie, the government wants proof before they act.
Ah.
When I saw Howell's face, I knew what William S. Burroughs meant by the phrase, "mean, pinch-faced bitter old church women."
I'm housesitting and watching "Fort Apache" Every time there are horses on the screen, one of these pugs starts barking at them and runs up to the set.
What a hoot.
Whatever her qualifications as ombudsman, she sure doesn't know much about blogs, does she?
Only Free RePUKElic, PowerWhine and Little Gross Fascists.
When I saw Howell's face, I knew what William S. Burroughs meant by the phrase, "mean, pinch-faced bitter old church women."
Uncle Smokes
Well, isn't that special?
I kinna like woppers. I'm a mayo fan.
Vincent: And you know what they call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?
Vincent: No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.
Jules: Then what do they call it?
Vincent: They call it a Royale with cheese.
Jules: A Royale with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?
Vincent: Well, a Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it le Big-Mac.
Jules: Le Big-Mac. Ha ha ha ha. What do they call a Whopper?
Vincent: I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King.
Here is something for all the true followers of jeebus........
http://www.flurl.com/featured/
Je...wned_44439.html
I never knew he could sing so well too.
Oh good. They're sending grad students to save the world. We're safe.
Michael Crowley of the New Republic said in his blog that "while for all practical purposes this is indisputably a Republican scandal, the narrow liberal-blogger definition of whether any Democrats took money 'from Abramoff' -- which neatly excludes contributions he directed his clients to make -- amounts to foolish semantics.''
In this foolish semantic yoga, we can see the vapid, dogged devotion to Republican "balance." The guy just admitted that no Democrat took money from Abramoff, and goes on to say that the truth is a lawyerism, and his delusion (in which colossal distance is the closest directness) is more fair.
What we have yet to see any cowardly filthy media slaves who deserve to be lynched mention is what the unprofessional & incredible circuit knew weeks ago: Jack Abramoff was actively trying to spread the bipartisan idea. Now, the great flaw (and the only MO) of the media is to go to elite martini parties and overhear things. The silver platter on which privilehed information is served up is, to the mindless media, its certification of authenticity. So word from Jack would fit right in with any inane gossip heard at a White House soiree. It would be irresistable to the media morons.
When I saw Howell's face, I knew what William S. Burroughs meant by the phrase, "mean, pinch-faced bitter old church women."
Uncle Smokes
The Phyllis Schafly look
I'm... right... outside... your... window...
Holding a breakfast sammich.
Eli
Now that's catering to my undercurrents!
re blogwhore
And don't forget the Wong Kim Ark decision from 1898 as the racists are definitely gunning for it as the decision to uphold birthright citizenship. It's the sole SCOTUS decision to stand between reinterpreting the 14th Amendment meaning what it does and what the white knights would want.
you're seriously worrying me. good to be on top of it, though.
"I'm... right... outside... your... window...
Holding a breakfast sammich.
Eli "
Being that this is Texas, it might be wiser to deliver at the front door.
Now that's catering to my undercurrents!
hahahahaha!
You know what would really *make* this movie?
If Xander Berkeley had an hour-long crisis of faith.
i will no longer flirt with thers.
a) he doesn't like it
b) it makes the burger king cry
Does annoying dialogue have any effect on volcanic activity?
Fucking Socialist bastids!
(Jees, what's in these Cheetos?)
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Now that's catering to my undercurrents!
Step 1: Collect all the undercurrents...
In this movie, the government wants proof before they act.
Sing it Edith, "Those were the daaaaays"
Oh good. They're sending grad students to save the world. We're safe.
Thers the Hostile | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 9:51 pm | #
you're being sarcastic right?
(And are you sure those are undercurrants? They look like raisins to me...)
i will no longer flirt with thers.
a) he doesn't like it
b) it makes the burger king cry
hahahahahahahah!
hahahahahahahaha!
hahahahahahahahha!
There's new Keyboard Kommandos up. Get there before Atrios kills The Poor Man's server with a link.
Nova did a docu-drama on the activity under Yellowstone moving to a super-volcano and the disaster after. Trying to remember the name of the feature, much better than this and at points it looks like this ripped it off.
I think the angry volcano god is demanding a popcorn sacrifice...
Mount Fuji erupted!
If you were convinced a volcano was going to erupt, would you take your wheelchair and go sit under it? That strikes me as a weird way to make your point.
Nova did a docu-drama on the activity under Yellowstone moving to a super-volcano and the disaster after. Trying to remember the name of the feature, much better than this and at points it looks like this ripped it off.
Was Tom Brokaw involved, or am I thinking of something else?
my martini is dry.
i mean, completely dry. i need a refill.
To all of those who wanted me fired, I'm afraid you're out of luck. I have a contract. For the next two years, I will continue to speak my mind.
As if contracts can't be "dealt" with.
Flirting is permissible for the duration of the stupid volcano movie. It's like Carnival.
it looks like FEMA's hiring attorneys as well. to advise.
you're seriously worrying me. good to be on top of it, though.
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
When the Federalist Society wants to rewind SCOTUS precedence to pre-New Deal, these are the decisions they are looking at.
Ya don't think the fact that the Bushevik program to deny court access for habeas for Guantanamo seem eerily familiar in light of Ju Toy and Chin Yow.
As long as a person is given access to an administrative hearing, court access is unnecessary for habeas petitions, even for US citizens.
speaking of "contracts",
i got dis cousin? and like, he cud, ya' know, make da problem go away.
if youse know what ah'm sayin.
it looks like FEMA's hiring attorneys as well. to advise.
They need people to do a heckuva job.
"Was Tom Brokaw involved, or am I thinking of something else?
Eli |"
No. It could have played in the theater and you would have thought it was just another action disaster flick. Overall, it was not bad considering they were using real science.
Flirting is permissible for the duration of the stupid volcano movie. It's like Carnival.
Opa!!!
Ya don't think the fact that the Bushevik program to deny court access for habeas for Guantanamo seem eerily familiar in light of Ju Toy and Chin Yow.
As long as a person is given access to an administrative hearing, court access is unnecessary for habeas petitions, even for US citizens.
*sigh* but it's just so weird. (only in the way i can't wrap my head around xenophobia {"fear" is too mild a word, but i don't know the greek for "hatred"})
Just clock him in the snot locker and he'll fall like a ton of bricks.
Nice! The grad student slips the prof a roofie!
Flipping around durring a commercial and who do I see on CSPAN right now, Michael Brown the disgraced Fema Director badmouthing everyone. WTF?
They need people to do a heckuva job.
i could do that. i did a heckuva job not telling my boss to fuck himself with an old razor.
She's subtle, this grad student.
William S. Burroughs
Shoot a little smack into your jean jacket pocket every time you shoot up.
Then when you find youself locked up, you can cut your arm and use that cacked stuff to maintain.
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it looks like FEMA's hiring attorneys as well. to advise.
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
but they won't be very GOOD attorneys. they'll be tom delay's halfwit cousins who took a correspondence course.
btw. you DO all know that michael brown's first (only?) consulting contract after leaving fema is w/ fema, right? his previous full years salary to - get this - put together a report on fema's reponse to katrina. $148,000.
and (surprise!) it turns out the problems were with the local govts.
Flipping around durring a commercial and who do I see on CSPAN right now, Michael Brown the disgraced Fema Director badmouthing everyone. WTF?
its the twilight zone!
Nice! The grad student slips the prof a roofie!
No-one ever slips *me* a roofie...
"It's an interesting concept - wedding ring purgatory."
Damn, she's witty. That "foot-in-mouth disease" crack? Priceless!
you are getting sleepy
sleepy
sleepy
When you awake
there will be Democrats in Congress in leadership positions and they will have overthrown the House Leadership and filibustered Alito.
Now on the count of three!!
1
2
what a nosy little fuckwit.
and (surprise!) it turns out the problems were with the local govts.
imagine that!
CSPAN has put a title under Miachael Brown's name:
Wait for it.
Emergency Preparedness Consultant.
Hahahahahahahahaha
Flirting is permissible for the duration of the stupid volcano movie. It's like Carnival.
Thers the Hostile
nope.
i'm sulking.
Emergency Preparedness Consultant.
He was lecturing the other day to meteorologists.
"How to Be Wrong All the Time and Still Get Paid"
"How to Be Wrong All the Time and Still Get Paid"
Including French benefits!
Emergency Preparedness Consultant.
company motto: i do a heck of a job.
But it is profoundly distressing if political discourse has sunk to a level where abusive name-calling and the crudest of sexual language are the norm,
She's never seen any of Gordon's posts.
Terry C, Coldplayer
Doesn't hang with the Freepazoyds or snotballs much, either. Although who could blame her.
And someone should show her a copy of the famous Assrocket email, too...
no wonder the feds keep losing their cases. they pay the AUSAs $41k a year, but they require 2 years of litigation experience....
Actually I was off a bit.
The movie was Supervolcano and was on the Discovery Channel.
"How to Be Wrong All the Time and Still Get Paid"
watertiger
Word.
They found Saddam!
Or Mel Gibson.
dirk
let's gin up something
i have some nice spanish olives, some Ten and, by god, some funnel shaped stemware.
You pass the vermouth over it.
Magma has always scared me.
Emergency Preparedness Consultant.
Hahahahahahahahaha
Unrepentant Fenian
BARTENDER!
.
Man, Ruben Blades is lookin' rough...
Including French benefits!
Eli
We don't get French Benefits?
brown's post fema gig reminds me of when cheney was hired for $50k to find the best running mate for li'l georgie.
and what a coinkidink! it turned out to be cheney himself!
he kept the money, of course.
Mel Gibson's legal threat against himself has FAILED!
http://melgibsonsblog.blogspot.com/
Magma has always scared me.
You sayin' you're a magma's boy?
Alito and Scalito = Jeff and Jeff.
Flipping around durring a commercial and who do I see on CSPAN right now, Michael Brown the disgraced Fema Director badmouthing everyone. WTF?
Unrepentant Fenian | 01.21.06 - 9:59 pm |
You think that's bad? We just saw advertised on C-Span for tomorrow morning, the latest Xian Zionist trash from irate German washerwoman John Hagee. On fucking BookTV. For those of you who don't watch TBN, John Hagee is a very low-budget Texan televangelist with a pretty large following. Every so often he writes the same book about how necessary it is to give the Middle East over to Israel. Now the latest is being feted on BookTV alongside presidential biographies and real history.
You pass the vermouth over it.
CTheGee | 01.21.06 - 10:04 pm | #
i find just thinking about vermouth sufficient.
Sulking is of course merely the Irish form of flirting.
will no longer flirt with thers.
a) he doesn't like it
b) it makes the burger king cry
hahahahahahahah!
hahahahahahahaha!
hahahahahahahahha!
seaxneat (mel hates his boss
always a laugh of the nite. the lil debbie story makes me cry, and at the same time, fuck you bitch.
did mount fuji realy erupt? don't call me pat, but Gaia is kind of fuck'n upset. i assert that even if Mt. Fufi did not erupt.
the moneys, they is crazy.
http://melgibsonsblog.blogspot.com/
Huzzah! All hail the Holy First Amendment!
Sulking is of course merely the Irish form of flirting.
Thers the Hostile | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 10:06 pm | #
ah, but i'm sicilian.
we sulk with knives.
(ok, i'm 3rd generation. i use a butter knife.)
I remember when there was a time in this country where people like Michael Brown who fucked up so badly were not seen or heard from for years. Can we go back to those times please.
the black radio station just read a letter from a listener saying black women were the most beautiful women in the world
A relative of mine, who was an officer in the last days of Empire and saw a great deal of the world, had an opinion on this.
The Bengali.
Sulking is of course merely the Irish form of flirting.
Thers the Hostile
Hey, that's my move.
John Hagee must keep having to push back the precise date of Armageddon every few years or so.
It must be disappointing to never have the world end if you're in the apocalypse warning biz, but I suppose he knows how to keep the gravy train running.
You sayin' you're a magma's boy?
Eli |
That's a bunch of pahoehoe!
.
I remember when there was a time in this country where people like Michael Brown who fucked up so badly were not seen or heard from for years. Can we go back to those times please.
Hey, when does he host SNL?
I remember when there was a time in this country where people like Michael Brown who fucked up so badly were not seen or heard from for years. Can we go back to those times please.
i'm sorry that was America v1.0. we are now on America v2.4. please update your system.
I remember when there was a time in this country where people like Michael Brown who fucked up so badly were not seen or heard from for years. Can we go back to those times please.
Unrepentant Fenian | 01.21.06 - 10:07 pm | #
I think those were during the times of an independant competitive press
Huzzah! All hail the Holy First Amendment!
watertiger | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 10:06 pm | #
i hope that was satire. or the pope will have to sue you over the use of the term "Holy©"
If you are poor and you fuck up well that's it for you. Your fuck up goes on your permanent record and will prevent you from working anywhere.
If you are rich and you fuck up well that's just how you learn things and after all people shouldn't dwell on these things from the past, after all this is America, land of opportunity.
i'm sorry that was America v1.0. we are now on America v2.4. please update your system.
It keeps crashing.
(red screen of death)
Well, That was fun. Are you all being silly or what, because I feel silly. Course, once I get this gin in me, who knows?
That's a bunch of pahoehoe!
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Agent Orange | 01.21.06 - 10:09 pm | #
no obsidian language on this blog. violators will be pummiced.
I'm coming up with a program for fishermen to use for doing their taxes -- Turbot Tax.
It keeps crashing.
Eli | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 10:10 pm | #
(red screen of death)
that's a feature, Mr. Eli.
Somebody ought to ask Michael Brown, "why haven't you killed yourself?" We would not know what to do with the shame; but then, we actually care about things like qualification, and would never be in that position.
and there are underground tunnels leading to a giant pool of magma WHY exactly?
Lava puns?
xander berkley trivia:
his real name is .....
xander berkley.
mena,
i'm not feeling particularly silly.
senile, yes.
silly, not as much.
Somebody needs to go in there and kick this magma's ass.
no obsidian language on this blog. violators will be pummiced.
Sorry about that. Just igneous, everyone.
dinosaur sewers
Lava puns?
mena | Email | 01.21.06 - 10:11 pm | #
yes, i do.
I'm coming up with a program for fishermen to use for doing their taxes -- Turbot Tax.
well, i hope you do it right, because i'm sick of crappy programs.
is it a pun if the word is a homonym?
Lava puns?
mena |
This movie is a real klinker.
.
yup. there goes the black guy.
but the spanish guy lives.
I'm sorry watertiger. Maybe you need some exercise.
Nothing in my 50-year career prepared me for the thousands of flaming e-mails I got last week over my last column, e-mails so abusive and many so obscene that part of The Post's Web site was shut down.
I'm sorry, what do emails you may have received have to do with comments posted (after vetting, and I'm talking about the first go-round) on the Post blog in question?
They're not the same thing, Mrs. Okrent.
When you're trying to escape lava flowing at you, it is more helpful to use the "getting up and running" strategy as opposed to the "lying there and screaming like a weenie" method.
Safety tip...
is it a pun if the word is a homonym?
seaxneat (mel hates his boss) | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 10:13 pm | #
what do gay blogger handles have to do with puns?
mena,
just some gingko biloba.
"and there are underground tunnels leading to a giant pool of magma WHY exactly?
watertiger "
The ring must be returned to the fires to be destroyed.
I'm coming up with a program for fishermen to use for doing their taxes -- Turbot Tax.
well, i hope you do it right, because i'm sick of crappy programs.
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
Oh, you're just saying that for the halibut!
Boosh Empire in syncline.
well, i hope you do it right, because i'm sick of crappy programs.
seaxneat (mel hates his boss) | Email | Homepage | 01.21.06 - 10:12 pm | #
look on the sunny side.
"It all happened just like you said it would. You're soooo masterful!"
I remember when there was a time in this country where people like Michael Brown who fucked up so badly were not seen or heard from for years.
Remember how long it took for Nixon to crawl out from under his rock after Watergate?
Good times, good times...
Oh, you're just saying that for the halibut!
well, i was floundering about for an idea....
Israeli Hints at Preparation to Stop Iran By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 8 minutes ago
JERUSALEM - Israel's defense minister hinted Saturday that the Jewish state is preparing for military action to stop Iran's nuclear program, but said international diplomacy must be the first course of action.
"Israel will not be able to accept an Iranian nuclear capability and it must have the capability to defend itself, with all that that implies, and this we are preparing," Shaul Mofaz said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20060...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Oh, you're just saying that for the halibut!
Terry C, Coldplayer
==
I thought that was what the flat tax was all about.
mena,
i'm not feeling particularly silly.
senile, yes.
silly, not as much.
watertiger
Gonna make a note of that.
Now I know why my Mom made 'lists'.
And Lists of Lists.
.
.
So Pakistan's President or as I like to call him, unelected despot, calls out the US for the Air Strike last week. We're never going to find Bin Laden are we.
e-mails so abusive and many so obscene that part of The Post's Web site was shut down.
They shut it down because they don't want to hear the truth.
seaxneat, how do you pronounce your handle?
what do gay blogger handles have to do with puns?
hahahahaha! well, i'm hoping burger king throws some cash my way...
"Does anyone else think the Burger King is grotesque?
Sallyh"
no
eli,
forgot to tell you - got the airport extreme.
haven't tried to set it up yet.
when are you in NY next? eh heh heh heh...
Oh, you're just saying that for the halibut!
Terry C, Coldplayer
==
fish puns are sooo easy.
i seek a crater pun topic.
Hagee and Cornerstone are a blight here. His Church is placed right at the beginning of our over built luxury zone. He has a powerful sway over the rich folks in the area.
We're never going to find Bin Laden are we.
Unrepentant Fenian
Bush Co. doesn't want to find him.
Boosh Empire in syncline.
have skunk
On 9/11 Bush hid in a salty diapir.
.
Here, he doesn't look like the type to madly scramble through the condo, using its every surface like a giant exercise wheel. But that is exactly what he's doing, right now.
I'd wonder if he got into the meth stash, except I've never had a meth stash!
.
i assume the mantel of geological puns.
isn't that gneiss?
seaxneat, how do you pronounce your handle?
well, that's a good question. i say "seex neet" but it apparently can be spelled as "saxnot" which would suggest that phonetically, my handle would be pronounced "sax not".
as it is, i prefer my old handle, poppieprong.
The Moral Unconformity
i'm sorry that was America v1.0. we are now on America v2.4. please update your system.
Amerika Version 6.0 - Steve Earle
Four score and a hundred and fifty years ago
Our forefathers made us equal as long as we can pay
Yeah, well maybe that wasn't exactly what they was thinkin'
Version six-point-oh of the American way
But hey we can just build a great wall around the country club
To keep the riff-raff out until the slump is through
Yeah, I realize that ain't exactly democratic, but it's either them or us and
And it's the best we can do
Bush Co. doesn't want to find him.
Terry C, Coldplayer | 01.21.06 - 10:17 pm | #
he's in boca.
um, i mean an undisclosed location.
Jim Brady and the Washington Post Are Feeling Heat... And They Should
by Matt Stoller
The Washington Post is in trouble. Jim Brady, the executive editor of WashingtonPost.com, thinks that the problem with transparency on his web site is that some readers are mean. The real issue is credibility. It is the job of the press to report the truth, without fear or favor. What has happened is that the Washington Post has failed to show its commitment to the truth, and when pressed, has turned to raw power to enforce its claim to authority.
How else do you explain Jim Brady's choice to go onto Hugh Hewitt's radio show and discuss his editorial choices? Hewitt is not a legitimate person with whom to discuss issues of honesty or transparency. He is an enemy of the search for truth, because he consistently attempts to pollute the public record that the Washington Post is supposed to protect. For instance, Hewitt made up, out of whole cloth, most of the examples in his book detailing how Democrats systematically try to steal elections.
http://www.mydd.com/
I'd wonder if he got into the meth stash, except I've never had a meth stash!
.
Jeffraham Prestonian
Nothing the local peace officers can't cure.
Somebody ought to ask Michael Brown, "why haven't you killed yourself?"
THEN he WOULD be doing "a heckuva job."
when are you in NY next? eh heh heh heh...
You mean *after* your vacation? I'll be happy to help if that JP Morgan Chase fieldtrip comes off.
Although I have a sneaking suspicion that the router might not be the problem...
wow. the second martini always goes faster.
Rove: An ignoramous intrusion
Bush Co. doesn't want to find him.
Terry C, Coldplayer
Bin Laden has become the new Castro. They need him more than he needs us. Or something like that. You get the drift, right?
*trying not to be too silly*
Or you could just send me a copy of your keys and let me know where you keep your sweaters- routers! Where you keep your routers. Yeah.
Oh, you're just saying that for the halibut!
well, i was floundering about for an idea....
seaxneat (mel hates his boss)
Once again, I am sick of these Crappie puns.
.
As a patriotic American, I have chosen to disclose some of my recent Google search terms to support the AG's patriotic war on smut
- jiz-dribbling cocksucker Gonzales
- Bush peon beaner Gonzales
- cumshot Gonzales
- goatcx distended-rectum kissyface Gonzales
- shitbag race traitor toady Gonzales
- madre buto Gonzales
- holy-virgin fantasy jerkoff Gonzales
- kiddie porn collector Gonzales
sweaters? that was unnecessarily tame, i think.
and there are underground tunnels leading to a giant pool of magma WHY exactly?
watertiger
I think Sigmund told us, didn't he.
as it is, i prefer my old handle, poppieprong.
==
Why not just be Poppieprong then?
So the earth ate a giant burrito--MANKIND. And now it is farting.
SCIENCE.
Somebody ought to ask Michael Brown, "why haven't you killed yourself?"
THEN he WOULD be doing "a heckuva job."
Terry C, Coldplayer | 01.21.06 - 10:20 pm | #
now that's cold. but funny
striatta clock you one!
(if that isn't a rock, it should be!)
Somebody ought to ask Michael Brown, "why haven't you killed yourself?"
He would most likely fuck up the suicide too and he'd end up in the hospital on the federal tab. Jerk.
Once again, I am sick of these Crappie puns.
it's your own fault lines like that are easy to avoid.
Oh yes, let's boil the oceans.
Y'know, I much prefer this movie with Jake Gyllenhall and Dennis Quaid.
Why not just be Poppieprong then?
hahahaha! i once harbored illusions of being a "serious blogger."
Oooh, sci fi babe gets SASSY!
can you fight magma with magma?
oooooo - atlas has shrugged! good one!
So the earth ate a giant burrito--MANKIND. And now it is farting.
SCIENCE.
Yes, and we must turn the oceans into a giant cup of digestive tea.
(if that isn't a rock, it should be!)
poppieprong
Are any of you planning on cummingtonite?
Bush Co. doesn't want to find him.
Terry C, Coldplayer
With or without OBL, I think the Terrorists would be just as big a problem. But killed or captured by the USA, he becomes a martyr, and his name a rallying call and his face a recruitong poster, even moreso than now. It's just possible someone in the Brush abministration is smart enough to know that.
Naaah...
Magma said knock you out.
hahahaha! i once harbored illusions of being a "serious blogger."
==
*snorting*
Is a meth stash what bolton has?
& why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
Prior Aelred
well I'm just being me.
Bush Co. doesn't want to find him.
Terry C, Coldplayer
Bin Laden has become the new Castro. They need him more than he needs us. Or something like that. You get the drift, right?
Unrepentant Fenian
Oh, yeah!
Eli, I honestly should NOT afford the Nickon D50 SLR, but I do want a camera that can take pix of birds and qauirrels, grandkids, and random people.
I have a $500 bonus from work to begin with, can do more - but canb't really bring myself to ante up for the D50.
Suggestions?
One of the things I liked about the Nikon was the fact that it has a large enough phto viewing screen and that I could easily read all the number/symbols etc on the various buttons.
"Once again, I am sick of these Crappie puns.
.
agAve, snickers worshippe"
You just have to work on tuna them out.
(if that isn't a rock, it should be!)
poppieprong
why are we in a rock, anyway?
"Atlas has shrugged" --
The President is an Ayn Rand nut! Now THAT'S a horror movie.
I've missed the earlier comments (was eating a delicous and nutricious dinner!) but I have to say my favorite part was where the graduate student got burned up in magma.
& why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
Prior Aelred
I figure, at my age, I can do whatever I want on a Saturday night.
Or not do anything.
Are any of you planning on cummingtonite?
ahahahahah! now, THAT's a rock!
Think it's time to revive the old "Ask Debby" column the NatLamp used to run...
"Dear Debby,
Your intellectual dishonesty (and support of the Post's twisting of this story) is astonishing.
The "online graphic" that she refers to, when compared to actual FEC filings, ( http://www.capitaleye.org/... )demonstrated precisely the opposite of what Howell claims. The list, which Howell says shows Abramoff "directing contributions" to Democrats, shows that....
1. While Abramoff supposedly "requested" $2000 each for Jean Carnahan and Max Cleland, and $5,000 for Tom Daschle, the tribe in question gave Carnahan and Daschle NOTHING, and Cleland on $500.
2. Every GOP incumbent who was running for re-election that is mentioned on the list got at least $1000 --- the total "contribution" to the GOP names found on this "graphic" exceeded $15,000.
Perhaps more to the point, the Post went out of its way in "photoshopping" the graphic to make it appear that Tom Daschle was a recipient of Coushetta tribe funds "directed" by Abramoff (the FEC filing shows he wasn't), they "whited out" the line directly below Daschle's name -- in which some kind of "contribution" was directed to Tom Delay through the lobbying firm of Williams and Jensen -- a firm where Tom Delay's former chief of staff found a very lucrative job the same year that Abramoff is "directing" $20,000 to that firm.
The other graphic, which makes it appear that there was a substantial increase in donations from Native American tribes to Democrats thanks to Jack Abramoff, disguises one key fact --- these tribes had been giving to Democrats for years-- the "increase" in contributions for Democrats is a reflection of Abramoff getting these tribes as clients, NOT an increase in tribal contributions to democrats per se.
Ms Howell needs to explain why she thinks the "graphic" she linked to is evidence that donations were "directed" to Democrats when the FEC filings prove that this document was virtually ignored when it came to Democratic politicians, but GOP incumbents listed on the "graphic" all received funds that year.....
She also needs to explain why she won't admit that she lied about Jack Abramoff giving money to "both parties", and giving money to Harry Reid and Byron Dorgan.
It didn't happen -- and it is inconceivable that Howell could have "done her homework" on the Abramoff scandal and yet have written what she wrote. How has to acknowledge that she was careless and incompetent -- that her sole purpose in writing the original column was to defend "Steno Sue Schmidt" and here efforts to disassociate Tom Delay from Abramoff, and to suck up to the GOP that wants to make the WHOLLY REPUBLICAN Abramoff scandal into something "bipartisan."
Its bullshit, pure and simple. Howell lied, and she continues to lie."
Debby replies:
It is never acceptable to use profanity. Please don't write me again.
g'nite.
youdont;' HO2 HARDTHTAT WAS TO TYPE.
Eli, I honestly should NOT afford the Nickon D50 SLR, but I do want a camera that can take pix of birds and qauirrels, grandkids, and random people.
I have a $500 bonus from work to begin with, can do more - but canb't really bring myself to ante up for the D50.
Take a look at the Canon digital rebel. I have one at work- it's easy to use and takes great photos.
*snorting*
Is a meth stash what bolton has?
my god! i haven't laughed so much in a long time!
hahahahaha!
bad enough having an economic czar in love with Ayn...
oooooo - atlas has shrugged! good one!
dirk gently,sociopathetic | Email | 01.21.06 - 10:24 pm | #
it seems your attempt at gathering folks for geology puns has schist the bed.
if you can stand it, fat tim, karen tumulty, steno sue schmidt and evan thomas are on fat tim's cnbc show talking about abramoff/k street project. needless to say, they are shocked! shocked! to discover such rank dealings on the hill. however did things come to this...
Are any of you planning on cummingtonite?
arrrrgghhhh!
/the pyrite
Whaddup, folk?
Just got back from a lame eating experience in Uptown Minneapolis; concerning a restaurant that ain't all that...
why are we in a rock, anyway?
what if... we just got the letters mixed up?
""Atlas has shrugged" --
The President is an Ayn Rand nut! Now THAT'S a horror movie.
Thers the Hostile"
Well you will find he had a bulletin early in his first term declaring that volcanic activity was about to create an ice age. But he dawdled, hired Mike Browns vulcanologist brother and did not create a fleet of spacecraft to transport the population to mars to create a new civilization.
'night charley.
Eli--my dopey little brother called me during the flick. Has the prof slept with the grad student yet?
if you can stand it, fat tim, karen tumulty, steno sue schmidt and evan thomas are on fat tim's cnbc show talking about abramoff/k street project. needless to say, they are shocked! shocked! to discover such rank dealings on the hill. however did things come to this...
To be fair, Tumulty has been following this for over a year, I seriously doubt she's at all shocked.
In fact, I know her and I know she's not, though she has been rather astonished at the brazeness of it all.
For Rorschach (If he is around)
Deborah Howell is either a liar or an incompetant boob: either way she has no business in the business.
it seems your attempt at gathering folks for geology puns has schist the bed.
pennywise the clown | Email | 01.21.06 - 10:27 pm | #
fukuchilite.
sax not , got it. Mine is actually Wuhamjon tonis kwee, but no one believes me.
Eli--my dopey little brother called me during the flick. Has the prof slept with the grad student yet?
No, though she does continue to give him dopey advice.
Eli, I honestly should NOT afford the Nickon D50 SLR, but I do want a camera that can take pix of birds and qauirrels, grandkids, and random people.
I have a $500 bonus from work to begin with, can do more - but canb't really bring myself to ante up for the D50.
Suggestions?
One of the things I liked about the Nikon was the fact that it has a large enough phto viewing screen and that I could easily read all the number/symbols etc on the various buttons.
(Finished the popcorn not a moment too soon - this would suck to type out left-handed)
At the risk of sounding like a photo elitist: Where I came to the D70 (the D50s big brother) from was as someone who had used a fully manual film SLR for many years. I like being able to consciously control things like aperture and shutter speed, and I don't trust the camera brain to make the same decisions that I would.
The picture quality is great, but it's probably not the only camera with good picture quality. Someone posted a link to the much-cheaper Panasonic Lumix FZ5, and it sounds pretty good, although it does look pretty damn ugly.
Oh, in the interests of full disclosure, I went to high school with Tumulty.
How's that for crazy?
hahahahaha!
poppieprong
==
Whew!
*adjusting tie*
sax not , got it. Mine is actually Wuhamjon tonis kwee, but no one believes me.
if i could do an emoticon with a mouth opening and closing without knowing what to say, that's what you would see here....
4Leggers--which grad student got burned up in the magma?
& why is everybody here? Don't you people "in the world" have social lives? This is Saturday night!
Prior Aelred
It's not yet dark enough to go out to...eat.
back from Tristan and Isolde. Delicious lighting, I'll say that. And some very hot actors.
The action sequences in this movie involving a scientist making various phone calls is Teh Exciting.
Take a look at the Canon digital rebel. I have one at work- it's easy to use and takes great photos.
four legs good
i don't exactly know, but i think this a good recomendation. still, you can go cheaper and still be fine, if you want less than professional quality.
*adjusting tie*
Yours or mine?
What's it bentonite so far?
.
4LG, thanks. I'll check the rebel out. I'd LOVE to have the Nikin, but...geez. %%%%% arrgghh.
four legs good: Oh, in the interests of full disclosure, I went to high school with Tumulty.
How's that for crazy?
Well, everybody's got to go to school with somebody... unless you're an only child of fundie parentage.
.
which grad student got burned up in the magma?
Man, and I thought MY grad program was tough.
What's it bentonite so far?
albite.
fukuchilite.
dirk gently,sociopathetic | Email | 01.21.06 - 10:30 pm | #
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are you schorl?
What movie are you all talking about?
Should I presume that it's on the Sci-Fi Channel?
Saturday, January 21, 2006
What Year Does George Bush Think It Is?
by Rob in Baltimore - 1/21/2006 10:15:00 PM
Your guess is as good as mine. I'm thinking about 1860... From AP earlier this week:
The Senate may be the place for some former first ladies, but President Bush on Thursday categorically ruled out a run for office by his wife, Laura Bush.
"She's not interested in running for office. She's interested in literacy," Bush said during an appearance at JK Moving & Storage.
The topic came up as the president took questions from his audience after a speech on the economy. A woman asked if Mrs. Bush would ever run for Senate from the first couple's home state of Texas, and Bush responded "never" - twice.
He also declined the woman's plea that he at least ask Mrs. Bush if she might be willing.
"She's a great lady," the president said. "She's not interested in running for office."
Heaven forbid a woman be allowed to speak for herself. And there is no way Laura could be interested in both literacyy and the Senate. It's Bush's world, no one can do more than one thing at a time.
don't exactly know, but i think this a good recomendation. still, you can go cheaper and still be fine, if you want less than professional quality.
It is!
My own digital is the Canon 20D, which is probably way more camera than you'll ever need.
The digital rebel is easy to use and has a lot of flexibility. It's also not terribly heavy, or terribly expensive.
4LG, thanks. I'll check the rebel out. I'd LOVE to have the Nikin, but...geez. %%%%% arrgghh.
Just think about whether you really need an SLR or not. It's a pretty large premium to pay if you're primarily point-and-shoot.
What movie are you all talking about?
Should I presume that it's on the Sci-Fi Channel?
Yes, you should.
What?
Nobody's watching Dennis Miller?
Ooo, Xander Berkeley in a *sexy* wetsuit!
My life is complete!
It's not yet dark enough to go out to...eat.
Echidne of the snakes
"I never drink...wine."
-- Bela Lugosi, Dracula
"It's not yet dark enough to go out to...eat.
Echidne of the snakes"
(Picking up chair, moving way down the table from Echidne).
Rats, that put me closer to Eli and he is pretty creepy tonight.
Wonder if I can sit by the trolls? (I'll hold my nose and try not to look them in the eyes).
which grad student got burned up in the magma?
Man, and I thought MY grad program was tough.
When it happened I thought of all the annoying grad students I've known.
Mostly red states.
What a surprise:
LAS VEGAS - A 22-year-old aspiring teacher from Oklahoma was crowned Miss America on Saturday night, the first time the storied but struggling pageant was held outside Atlantic City, N.J.
Jennifer Berry, a student at the University of Oklahoma, outlasted 51 other women to become Miss America 2006, earning a $30,000 college scholarship and a yearlong speaking tour in the process.
Miss Georgia Monica Pang was first runner-up and Miss Alabama Alexa Jones second runner-up. Miss Virginia Kristi Lauren Glakas and Miss District of Columbia Shannon Schambeau rounded out the top five. Miss Hawaii Malika Dudley won Miss Congeniality.
"It's not yet dark enough to go out to...eat.
Echidne of the snakes"
That;s my Mom!!
I hope they're getting on that ship with the chupacabra.
HoneyBearKelly: Nobody's watching Dennis Miller?
Do they pay $15/hr. for someone to peek through his windows, these days? I mane, you're not tellin' me he's on TV, are ya?
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My own digital is the Canon 20D, which is probably way more camera than you'll ever need.
Did I mention that I am now fully committed to getting the Nikon D200?
ETA still June, but my self-control could easily give out before then.
"I hope you know what you're doing, doctor."
Sheesh.
It's not yet dark enough to go out to...eat.
Oh my.
Apropos of nothing, "when it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
Panasonic Lumix FZ5, and it sounds pretty good, although it does look pretty damn ugly.
Eli
they are all pretty ugly till you get to the am/pros, but they take great pics, and in the early days would cost 800$ plus. not like the old film point and shoots.
"She's not interested in running for office. She's interested in literacy," Bush said during an appearance at JK Moving & Storage.
She should start with YOU, moron!
(What are HER qualifications for office anyway??????)
Miss Georgia Monica Pang was first runner-up and Miss Alabama Alexa Jones second runner-up. Miss Virginia Kristi Lauren Glakas and Miss District of Columbia Shannon Schambeau rounded out the top five. Miss Hawaii Malika Dudley won Miss Congeniality.
Terry C, Coldplayer | 01.21.06 - 10:37 pm | #
Neither of the bush girls entered this year I see.
Rats, that put me closer to Eli and he is pretty creepy tonight.
You look pinched. You should have a nice hearty breakfast sammich.
I hope they're getting on that ship with the chupacabra.
There's a chupacabra in the magma movie?
EkCenTrik, I'd never do anything bad to you.
I am now posting via broadband! Life is sweet after two years on dial-up. What will I do with all that extra time that I used to spend waiting for things to load? I might even clean the Snakepit Inc.! Well, no, but broadband is great.
Wonder if I can sit by the trolls? (I'll hold my nose and try not to look them in the eyes).
you can sit by me, but watch out for my, um, handle.
What?
Nobody's watching Dennis Miller?
HoneyBearKelly
Please - I just had dinner not long ago!
Dennis Miller is not worth 2 cents.
Did I mention that I am now fully committed to getting the Nikon D200?
ETA still June, but my self-control could easily give out before then.
Good for you. I was able to resist buying that really expensive lens. So far, anyhoo.
I think I'll be happy with the 20D for a while. 8.2 megapixels is plenty.
This semester, it's adventures in black and white photography and the darkroom. Woo hoo!!
It's not yet dark enough to go out to...eat.
there is no such thing as too much garlic.
Nobody's watching Dennis Miller?
Someone put him on the teevee AGAIN!
Why can some people suck so badly so repeatedly and still get paid to suck and fail again? Kheeee-rhyst.
they are all pretty ugly till you get to the am/pros, but they take great pics, and in the early days would cost 800$ plus. not like the old film point and shoots.
I'm pretty sure my step-aunt got some kind of slimline Lumix, and it was very stylish.
Has anyone checked out John Kerry's Diary on DailyKos yet? I see it getting lots of attention this year, especially since it's an election year.
Please check out my recent MINREC newsflashes.
Miss Georgia Monica Pang was first runner-up and Miss Alabama Alexa Jones second runner-up. Miss Virginia Kristi Lauren Glakas and Miss District of Columbia Shannon Schambeau rounded out the top five. Miss Hawaii Malika Dudley won Miss Congeniality.
Terry C, Coldplayer
She showed it on the Country Music channel.
Of course it had to be almost all red states.
Do they pay $15/hr. for someone to peek through his windows, these days? I mane, you're not tellin' me he's on TV, are ya?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
It's on HBO.
So I guess it's not teevee.
I've been watching for 5 minutes and he's dissed Dean, both Clintons, Carville and Dr. Atta J. Turk (I think).
THEY showed on the Country Music Television
Did I mention that I am now fully committed to getting the Nikon D200?
ETA still June, but my self-control could easily give out before then.
You bastard. If you get one, then I'll have to get one.
I've been watching for 5 minutes and he's dissed Dean, both Clintons, Carville and Dr. Atta J. Turk (I think).
HoneyBearKelly
Dennis' 15 minutes were up about 10 years ago.
oh and the howl oots at midday.
or something.
Yes, you should.
Eli
Figures. Nerds...the lot of ya!!
I don't have cable. And if I did, I'd only watch Sci-Fi if MST was still on.
Speaking of which, I got a MST magnet from a local artist at Calhoun Square this evening. Teh cool.
There's a chupacabra in the magma movie?
NTodd
No, but there's one outside your window, wearing a creepy plastic Eli mask and holding a goat sammich.
Hey Eli, did you see the body parts photo last night?
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Has anyone checked out John Kerry's Diary on DailyKos yet? I see it getting lots of attention this year, especially since it's an election year.
Yes, Mr. Ruppert made mention of it.
I am now posting via broadband! Life is sweet after two years on dial-up. What will I do with all that extra time that I used to spend waiting for things to load? I might even clean the Snakepit Inc.! Well, no, but broadband is great.
Woohoo!!! I just assumed you already were. It rocks, eh?
Good for you. I was able to resist buying that really expensive lens. So far, anyhoo.
I think I'll be happy with the 20D for a while. 8.2 megapixels is plenty.
This semester, it's adventures in black and white photography and the darkroom. Woo hoo!!
I'm liking the 18-200mm VR zoom, although it started having autofocus problems towards the end of today's shoot.
Darkroom is great - you have so much more control. Well, compared to sending film to the lab, anyway. Compared to Photoshop... not so much.
Oh, this should be fun!
Former seven-term U.S. Rep. Paul "Pete" McCloskey said Saturday that he will challenge U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo for the Republican nomination in his Northern California district.
The 78-year-old McCloskey, a maverick known for his support of environmental causes, told The Associated Press he felt compelled to jump back into politics after more than two decades out of office because of what he sees as a shift in Washington away from traditional Republican values.
He said other reasons for his bid include continuing threats to Northern California's environment and what he described as Pombo's close ties to Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a growing public corruption scandal.
"Winning isn't the issue. The issue is forcing a debate on which way the Republican Party goes," he said. "This guy Pombo, he wants to privatize the remaining public lands in California and he has the power to do it. He's the chairman of the House Resources Committee. He's up to his neck with Abramoff"...
Pombo, who is in his seventh term, has lobbied for major revisions to the 1973 Endangered Species Act that McCloskey co-authored and supported legislation that critics say would open up the coastlines to offshore drilling.
He was also one of several Congressional Republicans who helped draft budget legislation last month to lift a moratorium on mining on public land. That plan has since been dropped...
"I'm going to run against him because nobody else will," said McCloskey, who still practices law in Redwood City and spends weekends on his rural Yolo County farm, where he grows olives, oranges and pecans.
"I like being a farmer — a lot better than being a lawyer or a congressman or a Marine, all of which I've been," he said.
In a telephone interview Saturday, he dismissed critics who call him too liberal, saying traditional Republicans such as Gerald Ford, Bob Dole and John McCain do not support the corrupt lobbying system and spending policies many Republicans have adopted lately.
He said he doesn't believe conservative Republicans support those policies, either.
"They're moving toward the highest deficit we've ever had in history," said McCloskey. "That isn't the Republican party that I know"...
McCloskey said he plans to formally announce his candidacy Monday and wrote to Pombo Friday asking for weekly debates in the district on public policy issues before the June 6 primary.
But Johnson said Pombo does not intend to participate in debates until he is facing a worthier opponent.
McCloskey's a pit bull with the sort of hatred for that little punk Pombo that only a cranky old man can have. Best of all, he's got absolutely nothing to lose in this fight...
owls.
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No, but there's one outside your window, wearing a creepy plastic Eli mask and holding a goat sammich.
Does the sammich have spicy mustard on it? Because I could go for one if it's got some good mustard, even if it comes from Elicabra.
"Hey, who was that? Why are you getting dressed?"
"EkCenTrik, I'd never do anything bad to you."
Oh thank you, that is an immense relief.
However, keep an eye on Eli.
By the way, the troll area, one word Renuzit.
My own digital is the Canon 20D, which is probably way more camera than you'll ever need.
this is the camera to go with before you go totally insane pro, which starts around 5 grand, and will do much of what the 5 grand camera can do.
i've always hated cannon, until digital.
best bang for your buck at pro level is fuji, S2 not so great, S3 amazing. nikon lens 2500$. has issues with performance,but quality is equal or surpasses nikon or cannon. the gurus swear by cannon.
Sheets
There's already another thread. Between Atrios and the phone, I can't keep up with you guys.
've been watching for 5 minutes and he's dissed Dean, both Clintons, Carville and Dr. Atta J. Turk (I think).
Well, General JC Christian linked to atta this morning, so it only goes to follow.
I was just at Amazon.com checking out "Rogue State."
Every one of the unfavorable reviews are from wingnuts.
People who have, as Al Franken, says a view of America that a 4 year old has of their mother.
One moron said anyone who buys the book is anti-American....but he didn't read the book himself, mind you.
Stupid, stupid, stupid people!
things are looking worst than chertnobyl
Has anyone checked out John Kerry's Diary on DailyKos yet? I see it getting lots of attention this year, especially since it's an election year.
Yes, Mr. Ruppert made mention of it.
NTodd, Banned Bad Boy
Oh, yes - according to Troll Boy, DailyKos is an "extremist socialist" site so that makes Big John a traitor.
Extremist socialist?
Ruppert is too dumb to live.
uh, $$$$$$$
SD
I've been watching for 5 minutes and he's dissed Dean, both Clintons, Carville and Dr. Atta J. Turk (I think).
Does Denny the Dicksucker think he's going to be rewarded for his "loyalty"?
Bush is already asleep - he ain't watchin' him!
I am SO sick of that commercial on A&E for "Flight 93."
Tomorrow night, I will be watching that movie on Lifetime where Judy Davis plays murderer Sante Kimes.
Love Judy Davis.
Just think about whether you really need an SLR or not. It's a pretty large premium to pay if you're primarily point-and-shoot.
Eli |
ELi, it's my dream to get good shots of birds, squirrels and g'kids. Also people, which I know you do not do, but which I would like to. For a hobby.
Richard Clarke On Iran
http://www.tompaine.com/
articles...rke_on_iran.php
The rationale for diplomatic de-escalation and not unilateral military action was Clarke's other point. In a nutshell, Iran has the ability already to make America pay for such a move. Iran, in Clarke's view, has thoroughly infiltrated southern Iraq with intelligence and military personnel. Should the U.S. or Israel drop one bomb on the Bushehr nuclear facility, says Clarke, these forces in Iraq have the capability to make the current insurgency look like child's play, implying that Iran can trigger the Iraqi civil war we've been fearing. Not only that, Iran has the capability to virtually shut down the flow of energy (oil and gas) from the Persian Gulf. Finally, Iran could quite quickly turn up the heat in Afghanistan, where it holds considerable influence with warlords Washington needs to maintain stability. Any of these moves would be an extremely effective check on American military action.
Furthermore, characterizing Iran as irrationally seeking to acquire nuclear weapons is impossible to sustain. From Iran's perspective, Clarke reminded us, Bush has labeled it a member of the "axis of evil" and has since invaded and occupied its two largest neighbors, Iraq and Afghanistan. From Iran 's perspective, it is surrounded by an aggressive, unpredictable United States that is willing to lie to its own people to make war in Iran 's front yard.
Clarke is very clear: because of these reasons and the simple fact that the United States has no capacity to invade and occupy Iran, the only alternative is to deal. For Clarke, that means working with the moderates, a situation much more difficult since the moderate, dialogue-seeking former-President Khatami was replaced with the conservative-populist Ahmadinejad. That shift happened, in no small part, due to the way in which the Bush administration confronted Iran on the one issue that would push voters towards more conservative leadership. Instead of the true moderate Khatami, now we are forced to work with the weaker and more conservative Rafsanjani.
There is another card that Iran presumably still holds against the United States, one Clarke alluded to only indirectly, that is, Iran 's ability to destabilize Saudi Arabia.
On June 26, 1996, Khobar Towers, a U.S. military barracks in Saudi Arabia, was attacked by a truck bomb, killing 19 American service members and injuring 500. Clarke served as counterterror czar at the time. At first, the U.S. suspected Al Qaeda. After a deeper investigation, however, the Clinton administration determined that the operation was inspired and led by Iranian intelligence.
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