I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
One
two
Two?
Threadbot, go back to sleep.
Two
Two twos too many.
NTodd,
Love the pics of the kids, but would also like to see the parents!
Kill threadbot.
Only 31 comments on the prior one? And I was first on that one.
I demand a refund.
Hello?
Did we ever have Friday Atrios catblogging yesterday?
I think I'll go check out some of the other Atriots' blogs...
Love the pics of the kids, but would also like to see the parents!
Well, as I said below, NYMary is preggers and doesn't feel photogenic.
Only 31 comments on the prior one? And I was first on that one.
Atrios and threadbot are producing concurrent schedules of reinforcement. Can't be long before some PhD candicate analyzes responses in terms of Herrnstein's matching law.
Two more arrested over £50m robbery
Detectives investigating the multi-million pound Securitas robbery have made two further arrests, Kent police said today.
Two men aged 55 and 33 were held in the Maidstone area by officers from the force's serious and organised crime unit.
The arrests came as the manager of the Tonbridge depot, which was at the centre of Wednesday's raid, spoke for the first time about his family's kidnapping.
In a statement read out by a Securitas official, Colin Dixon said his family's "horrific" ordeal had been the "worst night of my life".
By the time I figure out what to post the threads end....
...places 2 cups of coffee by computer...
yes there were lots of cat pics yesterday
Well, I finally get through my morning work (mostly -- anyone want to write a couple sermons? -- not for tomorrow, thank God!)
So it is time to go to church again! 
I have a lot of mopping to do this afternoon, but wil try to stop by to see youse guys 
Hi!
Chris Dillow: Managerialism and the Police State
More bitch-slaps for the managerialists at Stumbling and Mumbling. Chris Dillow suggests that Nulab's police statism can be explained by said managerialism.
Vicki, any luck with your NAV problem?
Atrios and threadbot are producing concurrent schedules of reinforcement. Can't be long before some PhD candicate analyzes responses in terms of Herrnstein's matching law.
spinoza-non ridere, non lugare | 02.25.06 - 11:25 am | #
You said it, man! Right On!!!
(Err, that's about how we didn't get any kitty pix yesterday, right???)
I need a nap.
Well I had an idea for a diptych that you could use behind you at your sermon.
Left Panel, a church steeple in the background that is made up of warheads with a right wing mega church idiot in front screaming hatred with arms raised.
Right Panel, a man trying to protect his family in Iraq, screaming at the horror from the sky, with arms raised.
I need a nap.
NTodd
The nap is under-utilized.
(Err, that's about how we didn't get any kitty pix yesterday, right???)
Bad Art
I done tried to he'p out!
In 1873 Freud wrote to a friend that "For God's dark ways, no one has yet invented a lantern." This harkens to Nietzsche's madman, wandering the streets with lantern in hand, searching for God - and failing.
Geo Bush anyone?
Get that man a lantern!
Gimme the lectionary readings and I'll write you a sermon, Prior.
Whee are all this pics I keep reading about?
Yesterday's Cat Blogging of my Gorgeous George and Cute Heidi.
Whee are all this pics I keep reading about?
At NTodd's blog. Scroll down. Lots of kids in various stages of development. 
JR, so far, so good.
I need to see what happens throughout the day.
My best friend is coming over soon to do her taxes...we'll see how it goes while she's doing them.
I'm going to give her a tour of Eschaton. She's curious. Hates computers, though. She works on one all day. I love them, just don't understand them.
whee=where
A skeleton walks into a bar. The bartender says, "What'll it be?"
The skeleton says, "I'll have a beer. And a mop."
(Badda boom)
Rita Cosby is a hottie. You liberal losers only wish you could bed a lady like her. In your dreams, commies.
And JR,
Thanks for your suggestions. I appreciate the kindness of (almost) strangers!
NYport authority sues
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS...rity/
index.html
Furthermore I painted another comic
http://geocities.com/ccsmochmett...mettsbest/
page5
Cal Thomas is bitching about the UAE thing, too:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
n...0,2383510.story
You all can help get rid of Radio Payola:
Make a request on your station for a non-commercial artist and see what happens. Report the station to Spitzer if you suspect foul play.
This harkens to Nietzsche's madman, wandering the streets with lantern in hand, searching for God - and failing.
When it comes to trying to understand the neocon GOP, Nietzsche is very apt:
Gaze long into the abyss, and the abyss gazes into you.
A skeleton walks into a bar. The bartender says, "What'll it be?"
The skeleton says, "I'll have a beer. And a mop."
That took me a double take...
Okay, thanks. Great portraits. I wanna hold a baby. Arms are awfully itchy.
El Salvador in US free trade deal
The US has formally agreed a free trade pact with El Salvador but has told five more Central American nations that they must do more to finalise similar deals.
Congress sanctioned a Central American Free Trade Agreement (Cafta) last year but official implementation has been delayed by a series of legal wrangles.
The US complained that Cafta partners were failing to harmonise key laws and regulations, as obliged by the treaty.
But the US-El Salvador agreement will now come into force on 1 March.
Whether you are parents, grandparents, childless or not, this diary at DKos deserves a read:
Why America Hates Children
(quoting David Orr, ecology professor at Oberlin)
No society that loved children would consign nearly one in five to poverty (New York Times, August 12, 2000). No society that loved its children would put them in front of television for 4 hours each day. No society that loved its children would lace their food, air, water, and soil with thousands of chemicals whose total effect cannot be known. No society that loved its children would build so many prisons and so few parks and schools. No society that loved its children would teach them to recognize over 1000 corporate logos but fewer than a dozen plants and animals native to their home places. No society that loved its children would divorce them so completely from contact with soils, forests, streams, and wildlife. No society that loved its children would create places like the typical suburb or shopping mall. No society that loved its children would casually destroy real neighborhoods and communities in order to build even more highways. No society that loved its children would build so many glitzy sports stadiums while its public schools fall apart. No society that loved its children would build more shopping malls than high schools (Suzuki, 23). No society that loved its children would pave over 1,000,000 acres each year for even more shopping malls and parking lots. No society that loved its children would knowingly run even a small risk of future climatic disaster. No society that loved its children would use the practice of discounting in order to ignore its future problems. No society that loved its children would leave behind a legacy of ugliness and biotic impoverishment.
Vicki - We are hardly strangers. Shit I know about some of youse guys than my own sister.
Update 17: Homeland Security Objected to Ports Deal
The Homeland Security Department objected at first to a United Arab Emirates company's taking over significant operations at six U.S. ports. It was the lone protest among members of the government committee that eventually approved the deal without dissent.
The department's early objections were settled later in the government's review of the $6.8 billion deal after Dubai-owned DP World agreed to a series of security restrictions.
The company indefinitely has postponed its takeover to give President Bush time to convince Congress that the deal does not pose any increased risks to the U.S. from terrorism.
Let me know if you get sick of hearing this, but it should be noticed by someone I suppose:
It may be illegal for DPW to become involved with US Army port operations at Beaumont and Corpus Christi, TX. (See http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02...tary-equipment/
and http://www.renewamerica.us/colum...gaffney/060220/
for reference to the deal itself from both sides of the spectrum.)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscod...70---a000-
.html with excerpt below, and compare http://www.softinfusion.com/gpoa...ill_103-
s1337es
§ 2170a. Prohibition on purchase of United States defense contractors by entities controlled by foreign governments
Release date: 2005-03-17
(a) In general
No entity controlled by a foreign government may merge with, acquire, or take over a company engaged in interstate commerce in the United States that—
(1) is performing a Department of Defense contract, or a Department of Energy contract under a national security program, that cannot be performed satisfactorily unless that company is given access to information in a proscribed category of information; or
(2) during the previous fiscal year, was awarded—
(A) Department of Defense prime contracts in an aggregate amount in excess of $500,000,000; or
(B) Department of Energy prime contracts under national security programs in an aggregate amount in excess of $500,000,000.
(b) Inapplicability to certain cases
The limitation in subsection (a) shall not apply if a merger, acquisition, or takeover is not suspended or prohibited pursuant to section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 App. U.S.C. 2170).
(c) Definitions
In this section:
(1) The term “entity controlled by a foreign government” includes—
(A) any domestic or foreign organization or corporation that is effectively owned or controlled by a foreign government; and
(B) any individual acting on behalf of a foreign government,
as determined by the President.
(2) The term “proscribed category of information” means a category of information that—
(A) with respect to Department of Defense contracts—
(i) includes special access information;
(ii) is determined by the Secretary of Defense to include information the disclosure of which to an entity controlled by a foreign government is not in the national security interests of the United States; and
(iii) is defined in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense for the purposes of this section; and
(B) with respect to Department of Energy contracts—
(i) is determined by the Secretary of Energy to include information described in subparagraph (A)(ii); and
(ii) is defined in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Energy for the purposes of this section.
~~~
There's some interesting update stuff at the indirect link, which references laws back to 1994.
I love them, just don't understand them.
Vicki
The thing that gets mw is that people feel that there is some compelling need to understand them.
How many people "understand" their car?
So long as you know the computer equivalent of "change the oil regularly and inflate the tires" the rest is for us mechanics.
Ever see the Onion's Point/Counterpoint?
-"My Computer Hates Me"
-"God, I Hate That Stupid Bitch"
Can I ask what there IS to boycott in South Dakota?
south dakota owls
Non-political, off topic:
Come check out the Green Blog-a-thon. We've been up all night blogging for worthy causes.
http://www.squidoo.com/green_blogathon/
http://sheagunther.org/blog/?p=278
Now back to your regularly scheduled awesome skeleton jokes.
Is it just me but doesn't that hotdog Bode Miller kind of remind you of Georgie all hat and no cattle Bush?
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