I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
roun ding first
Woohoo!
coming into second
yer out!
Hey, didn't you just return a CD player yesterday?
triple
Morning, All.
just a single
hello moonbats 
had enough? vote Democratic. restore checks and balances.
Milosevic is a Saddam trial balloon! UAE vendetta! the emirs approach
Abbas 'rejects' Hamas programme
Mahmud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has rejected Hamas's proposed government programme because it does not meet his demands and those of the international community on relations with Israel, a senior Palestinian official has said.
Abbas "rejected the Hamas government programme which was presented to him by prime minister-designate Ismail Haniya because the principal political points in it have to be clear for the international community", the official said on Saturday, asking not be identified.
They also "have to respect the decisions of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the programme of President Abbas which is based on peace", he added.
btw i still dont get this allen shit. so he went into stores and presented goods he never bought there? so he stole em beforehand?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6031002328.html
Any Dowd links this morning? I need that she-devil fix!
Much ablidged...
so he went into stores and presented goods he never bought there? so he stole em beforehand?
Or do you simply pick them up off the shelf, carry them to the return desk and ask for a refund?
Still looks like a beautiful day for the Mini-Michi-Escha-Abbey-Con in Three Rivers (mid-way between South Bend & Kalamazoo)
BTW -- aren't there any Hoosiers who ost here? We have Buckeyes & Michiganians (formerly Michiganders), but I don't remember ever seeing a self-confessed Hoosier...
Or do you simply pick them up off the shelf, carry them to the return desk and ask for a refund?
Yep. That's how it's done. You could have a receipt you found in the trash, but not absolutely necessary in most places.
Or do you simply pick them up off the shelf, carry them to the return desk and ask for a refund?
but wheres the sense? i mean i still want a toaster u know or a mixer
btw i still dont get this allen shit. so he went into stores and presented goods he never bought there?
No. He bought the goods, paid for them with a credit card, took them to his car, went back into the store, selected the same items, and presented his receipt to "return" tem and get a full credit posted to his card. He ended up with the previously purchased items, and his money back.
Purchased them, then brought back receipt and maybe bar code, got new identical items and went to customer service and reurned them.
poppy bush ... dark overlord ... poppy bush ... dark overlord ... hump or die ... hump or die ...
No. He bought the goods, paid for them with a credit card, took them to his car, went back into the store, selected the same items, and presented his receipt to "return" tem and get a full credit posted to his card. He ended up with the previously purchased items, and his money back.
ah
STAY ON TOPIC!
He must have had a nice salary. Is he just a klepto?
A question:
If I marry a bunch of underage women in succession, can I return them to Target when I'm tired of them for a refund, or will that get me arrested?
Purchased them, then brought back receipt and maybe bar code, got new identical items and went to customer service and reurned them.
aha
have to give credit where credit is due .. thanks Mel Brooks for your continuing interest in History of the World
Or what Max said. Presumably, this will all be a thing of the past when they get those super-dooper bar codes Wal-Mart is playing around with.
He must have had a nice salary. Is he just a klepto?
Falstaff |
IIRC $160,000+
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If I marry a bunch of underage women in succession, can I return them to Target when I'm tired of them for a refund, or will that get me arrested?
Offer not valid in Utah.
Here's how it works:
You buy an item.
Leave the store.
Deposit the item in your car.
Return to the store with the receipt.
Get another identical item off the shelf.
Take to the return desk.
Return it for a refund.
If I marry a bunch of underage women in succession, can I return them to Target when I'm tired of them for a refund, or will that get me arrested?
If you troll around the Issac Mizrahi stuff, it might.
US religious charities win $2.15bn in state grants
· White House increases awards to faith groups
· Concern that public funds used to gain converts
The Bush administration channelled $2.15bn (£1.25bn) to faith-based charities last year, advancing its mission to increase the share of government aid money given to religious organisations.
The figure, contained in a White House report unveiled on Thursday, does not account for all of the grants awarded by an administration determined to increase the involvement of churches and religious organisations in social services provision.
The revelation deepened concerns among aid professionals and civil liberty groups about the quality of services offered by some of the religious groups - especially at a time when funds for social programmes are being cut. There are also charges that the Bush administration is underwriting proselytising campaigns by the Christian right.
STAY ON TOPIC!
Or NTodd will shoot you in the face and take all your valuables and ask for a refund from a department store.
What is the topic here?
Why do you people not stay on topic?
Hmmm?
Carpetbagger has a take down on the red state values crowd, Welfare Queens on tractors..
http://tinyurl.com/mupc
The return-for-credit scam results in stolen goods, but no extra dough. If you want actual money, you have to return the purchased goods yet again, or fence them somewhere.
BTW -- aren't there any Hoosiers who ost here? We have Buckeyes & Michiganians (formerly Michiganders), but I don't remember ever seeing a self-confessed Hoosier...
Prior Aelred | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:05 pm | #
Good morning Prior...it sounds like you need to check the Central Flyway to find a Hoosier. I understand that they are showing their breeding plumage early this season. Fortunately they do have a distinctive call...
Money To Churches! Which don't pay taxes! KEWL!
The two options for this thread are "monads" and "gonads."
Please do not post comments unless they address one or both of these topics.
Thank you.
Presumably, this will all be a thing of the past when they get those super-dooper bar codes Wal-Mart is playing around with.
I imagine that's true. They have the technology now to store vastly more information in a bar code. They woukd probably have to rework the production side to print a unique number on each barcode in addition to the UPC.
Answer my questions!
Do as I say!
Or do you simply pick them up off the shelf, carry them to the return desk and ask for a refund?
Falstaff
That's what he was spotted doing.
I knew some junkies that would shoplift clothes from one store, and then take them to another asking for a refund.
I leave it to you to consider why Allen, who was making (I hear) $160,000 a year, would jeapordize his career with such petty theft.
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Goodbye for now...take care of your good selves.
This one's for all the ladies out there!
Presumably, this will all be a thing of the past when they get those super-dooper bar codes Wal-Mart is playing around with.
Yes. When you show a receipt for refund, the bar codes will explode, ruining the goods sitting out in your car.
Radio Tags will save the day!
Woman arrested over 81st attempt at shoplifting
A woman has been arrested for shoplifting for the 81st time near her home in the town of Klaipeda.
Viktorija Raudonyte, 25, was detained while allegedly stealing cosmetics at a shopping centre.
"Stealing is like a regular job for her," a police spokesman said yesterday.
Ms Raudonyte, an unemployed single mother whose children are in foster care, has managed to evade harsh punishment because she usually steals small items and she knows, say police, that under Lithuanian law, she will be sentenced only to community service for taking goods worth less than 125 litas (£25).
had enough:
2500 US dead, 20,000 maimed
torture
WMD
Nukes for India
Guantanamo
Global warming
Religion as Science
Abramoff
Restore checks and balances
dave™©-- you make any money Cafe Press?
I leave it to you to consider why Allen, who was making (I hear) $160,000 a year, would jeapordize his career with such petty theft.
As baseball legend Pete Rose once said, "ten bucks is ten bucks".
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Floyd R. Turbo
screech! except... if I'm not mistaken (okay i was wrong once) ONCE! the article in question ...the bust article ... says he aslo loaded his cart with additional items for which he didnt pay and was then taken down by the stores elite security ...sounds to me like they had him stage the most recent one to sanitize the fact that he'd been busted and they'd brought it to the administrations attention long before his most recent infraction ... you read carefully and do the math .. I'm interested in others reflex to this story
Why isn't every thread simply an open thread, since you people are chatty trolls and can't stay on topic?
You have filthy rags for souls.
I love you people, you are so innocent and naive.
I'm interested in serious debate.
There are some rackets that are entirely legit if you read fatwallet. One of them is buying an item, mailing in the rebate, and then returning the item. The computers are not linked well enough to track the return and cancel the rebate.
Target has elite security? Are They Democrats?
NATO allies beef up their forces in southern Afghanistan
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, March 11(Online): The American presence in southern Afghanistan is shrinking a bit. But there will soon be more troops in the region, which falls under command of the Combined Joint Task Force-76.
The missing link in the equation comes in the form of three NATO allies who are making heavy contributions into the area that has been largely controlled by U.S. forces since the Taliban was toppled in late 2001.
"They will have many more troops than I ever had for the same battle space," said Col. Kevin Owens, the commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, which recently gave up control of Regional Command-Sout
NATO allies beef up their forces in southern Afghanistan
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, March 11(Online): The American presence in southern Afghanistan is shrinking a bit. But there will soon be more troops in the region, which falls under command of the Combined Joint Task Force-76.
The missing link in the equation comes in the form of three NATO allies who are making heavy contributions into the area that has been largely controlled by U.S. forces since the Taliban was toppled in late 2001.
"They will have many more troops than I ever had for the same battle space," said Col. Kevin Owens, the commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, which recently gave up control of Regional Command-Sout
should have said "through" Cafe Press.
This one's for all the ladies out there!
dave™© | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:12 pm | #
Brilliant!
Restore checks and balances
peterboy
And don't remove stuff from the shelves.
Target has elite security? Are They Democrats?
plantsman
Off duty Fox News cops.
Money To Churches! Which don't pay taxes! KEWL!
plantsman | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:10 pm | #
Plantsman! how's the weather in PDX.. did the snow stick around? Did it snow in Salem?
I leave it to you to consider why Allen, who was making (I hear) $160,000 a year, would jeapordize his career with such petty theft.
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Goodbye for now...take care of your good selves.
Uncle Smokes
Slamma time! All the kool kidz are doing it these daysz.
Who's killing the great butchers of eastern Europe?
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NOBODY IS STAYING ON TOPICS!
But then again, nobody is flirting, so I guess it balances out.
"Before that, Allen worked for the Virginia state attorney general's office and as state health and human resources secretary. In that job, he earned a reputation as a staunch conservative; once he kept Medicaid funds from an impoverished rape victim who wanted an abortion."
Lock him up and throw away the key.
scarboro also resigned in a hot little minute after the sudden (tragically accidental) death of his intern, although he'd been recently elected to a brand new term as congressman. he sold his local paper of which he was an editor and publisher and divored with his wife "to spend more time with his family" was the story at the time.
Money To Churches! Which don't pay taxes! KEWL!
plantsman
Kinda like "welfare queens driving Cadillacs" except you believe in Jesus.
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Abe Lincoln never stole a thing in his life even though he lived in a general store.
Hey, did you know that DPW will continue to hold 49% of the company managing our port security?
Plantsman! how's the weather in PDX.. did the snow stick around? Did it snow in Salem?
Dry, clear and cold. Vast bulk of snow is gone , cept for hollows and north side of trees. I am not certain, but I suspect Salem's in the same "boat."
NOBODY IS STAYING ON TOPICS!
But then again, nobody is flirting, so I guess it balances out.
rorschach, aka Selfish Gene
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Speak for yourself! (waggling eyebrows enthusiastically)
Abe Lincoln never stole a thing in his life even though he lived in a general store.
Lime Rickey
He never paid for that shovel, the little punk!
I generally stay in the tropics.
Abe Lincoln never stole a thing in his life even though he lived in a general store.
Lime Rickey
He was also the local postmaster. He stole everyone's porn, but they were to embarrassed to report it.
NOBODY IS STAYING ON TOPICS!
But then again, nobody is flirting, so I guess it balances out.
Ror, whatcha doin' aftah?
As baseball legend Pete Rose once said, "ten bucks is ten bucks".
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Agent Orange
Ah, reminds me of that weird business with Winona Ryder.
Is this the flip-side of the "ownership society?"
[Now I'm going...honest.]
fucking tweety just called george allen 'reaganesque' and that he gave a 'rousing knute rockne' speech at the rethuglican conference last nite.
How does "divorcing your wife" equate to "spending more time with your family"./qm (keyboard failing)
Speak for yourself! (waggling eyebrows enthusiastically)
mena
In the immortal words of the Bard (by which I mean, of course, NTodd): SPROING!
WHADDA YOU MEAN, THIS IS NOT AN INFORMATION BOOTH?
Iran renews retaliation promise in nuclear row
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's interior minister has renewed threats to strike back at political actions against its nuclear activities ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the country's atomic programme.
"If they turn Iran's nuclear case into a political-security issue, we will definitely use everything (to respond) without ignoring and forgiving a single thing," Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA.
"If the issue of sanctions is brought up, we will face it with all possibilities and potentials. The burden of sanctions will be definitely heavier for the international community than for ours," the interior minister said without elaborating Saturday.
[Now I'm going...honest.]
Hey, could you pick me up something at the store?
fucking tweety just called george allen 'reaganesque'
Might that mean dead?
he shortly there after received a federal appointment in Bush's administration of losers and got his very own right wing Rush Limbaugh stencile kit for his trouble.
fucking tweety just called george allen 'reaganesque'
Yes, his incontinent, post-verbal period.
Ror, whatcha doin' aftah?
NTodd, King of Prickistan
The question isn't "what" it's "whom."
And I guess these flirtations are indirectly on the topic of gonads, so it's all okay.
You all are loosers who don't care about equal opportunity and should be using IM.
so the Bush Junta have been busy shoplifting in the USA?
only on a much larger scale!
*We got flirting
We got good times
We got rorscach, who could ask for anything more...!*
Might that mean dead?
plantsman
judging by the spittal -- no. and in tweety's defense, i've never gotten the vibe that he's into necrophilia....
The question isn't "what" it's "whom."
Oh I used to be your baby
Used to be your pride and joy
You used to take me dancing
Just like any other boy
But now you've found another partner
You left me like a broken toy
Oh it's someone else you're taking
Someone else you're playing to
Honey tho' I'm aching
Know just what I have to do
If I can't have you when I'm waking
I'll go to sleep and dream I'm with you
I'm working on one for you NTodd!
George Allen is Tweety's new Stiffy-fix. And he has that certain "Doofus-nality."
US hostage found dead as Bush admits Iraq dangers
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A US hostage, abducted in November, has been found shot dead in Iraq as US President George W. Bush acknowledged the gravity of mounting unrest and urged Iraqi leaders to quickly form a national unity government.
The body of Tom Fox, a 54-year-old peace activist from Virginia, seized with a British and two Canadian colleagues, was found in a plastic bag on a garbage dump in west Baghdad, a witness and an interior ministry official said.
He had been handcuffed and shot. His tracksuited body had then been wrapped in a blanket and stuffed in a plastic bag.
His back showed signs of beatings and he appeared to have been killed recently, the official said.
You all are loosers who don't care about equal opportunity and should be using IM.
NTodd
We're selfish cheaters.
*We got flirting
We got good times
We got rorscach, who could ask for anything more...!*
mena
You make me blush...
You know, I googled Claude Allen to read about the specifics of his crime, and found that it is just too far down the google list.
This article in the WaPo will help those curious about Allen's crimes understand exactly what this top domestic policy advisor to the president was up to when not hard at work denying abortions to impoverished rape victims or forcing medical professionals to suffer being proselytized on the joys of sexual abstinence.
Google bomb, anyone?
fucking tweety just called george allen 'reaganesque' and that he gave a 'rousing knute rockne' speech at the rethuglican conference last nite.
bkny | 03.11.06 - 12:19 pm | #
What? Allen gave a speech last night??? shameless!!
OK here's my prediction: Claude Allen will cop a plea - do community service - no jail time, of course. Then he will find religion - write a book about his "illness" or go on tour giving inspirational talks to conservative groups - for a nice fee.
Who knows, he might end up with his own conservative talk show, too.
Tweety does a lot of flirting with his conservative guests.
most curiously .. was the fact that the coroner was a man imported from missouri who was fired and brough up on charges in that state for abusing evidence (taking it home in his trunk at night) and manufacturing official police reports to match outcomes in court
I'm a 36 year old fitness professiona. I love Jesus and anal sex.
Does that surprise you?
Hmmmm?
There is nothing in the Bible against posting nudie pics of yourself, or loving anal sex.
Unless you have a filthy rag for a soul.
Harder, baby! Deeper and harder! Oh, yeahhhhhh . . . .
I'm working on one for you NTodd!
Oooh! Tall, athletic, beautiful, smart, and liberal?
Actually, I'm thinking maybe I need to find a partner that's kinda ugly and dumb. I might have been going about it all wrong before.
HICA, ever-body!
I slept, and had dreams of the damned.
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We're selfish cheaters.
Which makes you a rapist.
Abe Lincoln never stole a thing in his life even though he lived in a general store.
Lime Rickey
He was also the local postmaster. He stole everyone's porn, but they were to embarrassed to report it.
Max Planck
Sure they were just line drawings in a Sears catalog...but hot stuff!!!
[Lurk period now expired...]
bkny:
you were talking about sen. allen. right?
Chimpy works on a Saturday
President Briefed by Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Task Force
Actually, I'm thinking maybe I need to find a partner that's kinda ugly and dumb. I might have been going about it all wrong before.
NTodd, King of Prickistan | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:24 pm | #
**cough**cough**
This article in the WaPo will help those curious about Allen's crimes understand exactly what this top domestic policy advisor to the president was up to when not hard at work denying abortions to impoverished rape victims or forcing medical professionals to suffer being proselytized on the joys of sexual abstinence.
Let us not forget that Allen is also delightfully homophobic and bigoted:
In 1984 when Helms was running against North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, Allen was quoted by a North Carolina reporter as using the word. In the interview, Allen said Hunt was vulnerable because his campaign could be "linked with the queers." He went on to say that the Hunt campaign could be connected with homosexuals, labor unions, radical feminists and socialists.
Allen told the Senate Judiciary Committee he meant the word in the sense of "odd, out of the ordinary, unusual" instead of as a slur against gays.
If by reaganesque, he means dumber than a stone fense, well yeah I take his point.
hope no one doodles with my remains ...
hope no one doodles with my remains ...
Huh? Wha? Just getting over the flu, that's all...
fucking tweety just called george allen 'reaganesque' and that he gave a 'rousing knute rockne' speech at the rethuglican conference last nite.
bkny | 03.11.06 - 12:19 pm | #
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See, this is why I can't watch the guy, or understand how anyone else could. My head would explode, and not with delight.
Tweety does a lot of flirting with his conservative guests.
Goddess, you've got that right!
NTodd: Actually, I'm thinking maybe I need to find a partner that's kinda ugly and dumb. I might have been going about it all wrong before.
Laugh if you want, but my brother actually did that, after he divorced his second wife, twice. It didn't work for him, though -- that marriage lasted less than a year.
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Does it strike any of you that our government is creating a "virtual Chador" for the women of this country?
I guess that it was inevitable that someone other than yours truly would compare the Bush administration to the Sopranos. Maureen Dowd thinks so, too, in this scathing and unusually unambiguous (for Dowd) new article about the Dubai ports deal.
Which makes you a rapist.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Well, evolutionarily speaking, maybe.
'rousing knute rockne'
Knute Rockne invented the blitz, which was stolen by the Nazis.
"King Cobra" is the greatest movie ever made.
Pakistani clash 'leaves 25 dead'
At least 25 people have been killed in an operation outside the Pakistani city of Miranshah near the border with Afghanistan, the military reports.
Army spokesman Gen Shaukat Sultan said those killed were militants but there has been no independent confirmation.
Last week the area, in the tribal region of North Waziristan, saw deadly clashes between government forces and suspected pro-Taleban militias.
Reports say as many as 140 people were killed in that fighting.
Well, as long as I'm awake, I better go practice for my gig tonight.
**cough**cough**
LOL!
Who was Slobberdon Milkytits?
Speak for yourself! (waggling eyebrows enthusiastically)
mena
In the immortal words of the Bard (by which I mean, of course, NTodd): SPROING!
rorschach, aka Selfish Gene | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:20 pm | #
and the secret word is....Albatross!
MoDo CAN find the point, can't she?
Sure they were just line drawings in a Sears catalog...but hot stuff!!!
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You HAVE seen some of the devices available in those old catalogs, haven't you?
There's a reason for that "Reaganesque" language...
Ex-Reagan Aide to Challenge Sen. George Allen
Former Reagan administration Navy Secretary James Webb said today he hopes to challenge not only GOP Senator George Allen - but what he calls an "extreme" Republican Party that has strayed far from Reagan's ideal.
Webb said in a news conference in Richmond today that the Republican Party has "moved toward the extreme on social issues" in an attempt to keep a voter base.
When even James Webb is calling the Repugs extreme, we're way past the looking glass.
Actually, I'm thinking maybe I need to find a partner that's kinda ugly and dumb.
My wife did that. I still make her miserable.
Keith was mighty nice to SDO last night.
You HAVE seen some of the devices available in those old catalogs, haven't you?
mena
Oh, the good old days, when you could mail-order a vibrator and a healthy supply of laudanum from Sears...
Michael Shaw is on:
"...a religious fanatic, a virulent political ideologue and a self-marketing machine, Rob turns the grieving local reverend into a prop while converting the charred remnants of the church into a perfectly framed promotional background."
Fagin's Kitchen crew, the smash and grab scooter raiders plaguing London
· Gang targets expensive City and West End stores
· Hauls in past year add up to millions of pounds
Riding pillion on their Aprilla scooters, their faces covered with silver and black crash helmets, the two teenagers screech to a halt outside an electronics shop. It is 1.34am. Within two minutes, they have grabbed a sledgehammer from the back of their bike, smashed their way into the store and made off with £200,000 of electrical equipment.
In the 19th century, their namesake sent out his ragamuffin kids to pick the pockets of London gentlemen. Today a gang of 50 teenagers, known as Fagin's Kitchen crew, are selecting richer pickings, from the jewellery shops of Bond Street to the hi-fi shops along Tottenham Court Road and the designer stores in the square mile of the City of London.
Well, as long as I'm awake, I better go practice for my gig tonight.
Hope you're feeling better!
You HAVE seen some of the devices available in those old catalogs, haven't you?
THEY HAD PUT-TOGETHER HOUSES! "CREAM SEPARATORS!"
fucking tweety just called george allen 'reaganesque' and that he gave a 'rousing knute rockne' speech at the rethuglican conference last nite.
bkny
Sorry for the mix-up - I have Claude Allen on mind this morning.
Tweety will switch to Allen from McCain, I think. McCain is too connected to Bushco - and he's not distancing himself from him at all.
George Allen is a new face on the national scene - voters will be looking for someone new after the bush fiasco.
I still don't think McCain will get the nod in '08 from the Rs.
See, this is why I can't watch the guy, or understand how anyone else could. My head would explode, and not with delight.
mena
Even when someone links to a Crooks and Liars video clip I usually can't make it to the end. I really despise these scumbags and their shameless whoring for the Junta.
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Unfortunately for us all, Allen had already "found" religion. Which I think is probably related to his crime. All that hatred - of the poor, of "queers," of sex and, I suspect, of himself - got to be too much.
At least he got himself off his very public treadmill of hatred.
Well, as long as I'm awake, I better go practice for my gig tonight.
Hope you're feeling better!
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Whiskeyina covers Santana?
Bush says training of Iraqi forces paying off
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the Iraq war nearly 3 years old and showing no sign of letting up, President George W. Bush said on Saturday he hoped to have Iraqi forces control more territory than U.S. troops by year's end.
Laying the groundwork for a new attempt to bolster support for the war, Bush said in his weekly radio address he could understand why many Americans wonder whether the conflict has been worth it.
"The security of our country is directly linked to the liberty of the Iraqi people," he said. "This will require more difficult days of fighting and sacrifice, yet I am confident that our strategy will result in victory."
jurassic - hell, I've been calling them the GOPranos for the past 3 or 4 years.
Pre-fab houses!
These things keep up and Georgie will be raiding Pickle's medicine cabinet.
At least 25 people have been killed in an operation outside the Pakistani city of Miranshah near the border with Afghanistan, the military reports.
Army spokesman Gen Shaukat Sultan said those killed were militants but there has been no independent confirmation.
Last week the area, in the tribal region of North Waziristan, saw deadly clashes between government forces and suspected pro-Taleban militias.
Reports say as many as 140 people were killed in that fighting.
Moonbootica, Praetor
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I wonder what constitutes "independent confirmation."
George Allen is a unattractive face on the national scene - voters will be looking for someone pretty after the bush fiasco.
THEY HAD PUT-TOGETHER HOUSES! "CREAM SEPARATORS!"
plantsman
Those mail-order houses were great, though elaborate gag setups for early film comedians like Keaton. I think the Stooges used that too, once. Build them all rickety with the front door on the 2nd floor and stuff.
The second amendment says "the people" have the right to bear arms not "the army" or "the government."
My house is 100 years old this year. Definitely Pre-Fab. 
Hit #12.284: Boulder, CO!
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If George (the dumb one) Allen gets the Rethug nod, Mark Warner will look better for the Dem. VP choice.
*yawn*
Morning. Can somebody fetch me another cup of coffee please?
Thanks ever so much.
Some Republicans wary of Bush tie as election looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite their revolt over the Dubai ports deal, Republicans say they remain loyal to President George W. Bush. But there are signs many may distance themselves from him as the 2006 congressional election nears.
"I'm sure some members already have and I imagine there will be others," said one Republican senator who asked not to be named.
"Republicans are determined that they aren't going to lose these elections because they're seen as too close to Bush," said a former Republican leadership aide. "In the past six years, Congress has taken its cues from the White House. I think you will see that change."
Who knows, he might end up with his own conservative talk show, too.
portia | 03.11.06 - 12:23 pm
and they'd love 'em some more minority types on faux
I still don't think McCain will get the nod in '08 from the Rs.
portia | 03.11.06
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True. I know a LOT of conservativew who were already predicting McCain would try to drift right around now, and they aren't buying it. McCain is fooling nobody but himself.
proxy and opiates ... sounds like what the bush family built their fortune on
But George Allen really worked wonders with the Rams back in the sixties.
Those mail-order houses were great, and properly assembled, quite durable, I've heard.
Protesters arrested in Bahrain
Bahraini police have arrested 24 people after using tear gas to disperse a protest in the Gulf Arab state, a human rights activist has said.
The protesters were demanding the release of 10 youths arrested after a sit-in at the country's airport in December over the brief detention of a Shia Muslim cleric, Shaikh Mohammed Sanad, as he returned from Iran.
A police official said protesters had stormed a shopping mall and vandalised property.
"The security personnel had to enter the mall to bring out the rioters and bring the situation back to normal. They arrested some of the rioters," the official told the Bahrain News Agency.
THEY HAD PUT-TOGETHER HOUSES! "CREAM SEPARATORS!"
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They also had, besides the not-so-unusual vibrators ror mentioned, these 'therapeutic corset' things with little electrical wire loops(!)dangling off the bottom edge....
So hard for Chimpy to keep the different invasions straight
Our call is for those in the neighborhood to allow Iran -- Iraq to develop a democracy
But George Allen really worked wonders with the Rams back in the sixties.
Should the sins of the son be visited upon the father? Super White House credentials, BTW!
Pre-fab houses!
Moonbootica, Praetor | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:31 pm | #
My best friend has restored a Sears Craftsman house. It is absolutely gorgeous. The exterior is clad in Cypress and all the interior floors are crosscut oak.
The second amendment says "the people" have the right to bear arms not "the army" or "the government."
Actually, this is what Amendment II says:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Your point?
But George Allen really worked wonders with the Rams back in the sixties.
Wasn't he with the 'skins for a while?
have they sent in black water "contractors" yet Moon?
Chimpy has been showing signs of early-onset Alheimer's for some time. It took his mother.
George Allen is a unattractive face on the national scene - voters will be looking for someone pretty after the bush fiasco.
plantsman
Who then? don't say Mitt Romney - I'm sick of his "looks" - being from MA!!!
Spain mourns Madrid bomb victims
Spain is set to begin a sombre remembrance of the 2004 Madrid train bombings on Saturday - the second anniversary of the attacks.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, and main opposition leader Mariano Rajoy are due to take part in acts of remembrance.
Islamic extremists sympathetic to al-Qaida claimed responsibility for planting 10 bombs on four trains.
The blasts killed 191 people and injured about 1900 others.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
A miracle of syntax! WTF???
"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Exactly. Thank You.
since this is an open thread, does anyone know what kind of stuff arianna huffington is doing for her physical wellbeing? saw her on the colbert show. she didn't only look buff, but she looked like she was floating on a cloud of physical wellbeing and contentedness-just kind off lolling her head backwards as if she couldn't stand the joy!
now she is definitely taking some kind of treatment that i don't know about!
has anyone heard any rumors concerning this.
BTW, here's what the Virginia State Constitution says:
" That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power."
Just sayin'.
Wasn't he with the 'skins for a while?
Moe Szyslak
Yup. Nixon called him weekly with advice on how to run the team.
gotta make those quarterly new jobs figures jump up
I modernized my Sears and Roebuck but restored the exterior to original condition. The interior resembles a New Orleans Shotgun Style house.
1. The Republicans know McCain has wide appeal/name recognition and a cetain amount of independence from the Bushies.
2. The Republicans like to win.
3. McCain will be the candidate.
Just sayin' still had not made an actual point. Odd, that.
Cooperatives as Schools of Self-Government
Chimpy has a plan
General Casey has called the year 2006 the year of police training,
The second amendment says "the people" have the right to bear arms not "the army"
The Army is people, unless they're officers.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
A miracle of syntax! WTF???
plantsman | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:39 pm | #
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"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Exactly. Thank You.
just sayin' | 03.11.06 - 12:39 pm | #
Your blatant selectivity is hilarious!
Who then? don't say Mitt Romney - I'm sick of his "looks" - being from MA
Funny, I'm thinking by 2008 the Gop won't look so good - but maybe its just me.
Nobody named Mitt will ever be President.
George Allen is a unattractive face on the national scene - voters will be looking for someone pretty after the bush fiasco.
plantsman
George Allen is a flattening force on the Senate bell curve. He's a genuine dullard, possibly the biggest simpleton in that chamber.
dan hoppe
she's having late supper with younger men
Police battle Sorbonne protesters
French riot police have grappled with protesters at the Sorbonne in Paris in unrest over a new labour law, making it easier to sack young employees.
Police stormed the university early on Saturday to drive out at least 150 people, mainly students, some of whom had been inside for three days.
They used tear gas and batons to clear the main building in under 10 minutes, correspondents report.
At least two people were injured and some arrests were made.
The Army is people, unless they're officers.
Officers are gods.
As Denny Hastert put it, "It's counterintuitive." There is nothing wrong with wanting Americans to be responsible for American security. That's not nativism or jingoism or bigotry. It's self-reliance and prudence.
Compare and contrast to the SF Chronicle article yesterday headlined "Fear killed the port deal" which then goes on to blame Democratic partisanship and opportunism for killing the deal.
Good morning, batses. Anyone for cinnamon blueberry muffins?
It took his mother.
Didn't take her far enough away.
Officers are gods.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Yes. All sergeants agree on that point!
"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States."
Hecate is a Goddess.
BTW, here's what the Virginia State Constitution says:
" That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power."
Just sayin'.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Here's what the United States constitution says:
"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Chile inaugurates female leader
Former torture victim Michelle Bachelet has been inaugurated as Chile's first female president.
Among those attending the ceremony in the city of Valparaiso were the US secretary of state and the presidents of Bolivia and Venezuela.
The 54-year-old claimed a convincing poll win in January, at the helm of the centre-left coalition which has governed Chile for the past 16 years.
Correspondents say she is taking over a country in a healthy state.
The BBC's Daniel Schweimler in Chile says the economy is booming and some long-running disputes with neighbours look as if they may be resolved.
back in a bit.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Good afternoon to all of you fine you liberals. Claude Allen...making it harder for black people to return stuff to Target.
I thought the whole point of the 2nd Amendment was to prevent the federal government from becoming too powerful. Then again, I'm told that my thinking is quaint nowadays.
i personally like ab-fab houses
sili-valley is so right-wing don't know why the mercury news is a pretty good rag...just sayin' as i'm in the valley right now watching the snow on the foothills
Just sayin' missed the point of my quoting the VA Constitution. But of course, just sayin' doesn't have any point, so it's not unexpected.
Wasn't he with the 'skins for a while?
Moe Szyslak
Most of the 70's and into the 80's wehn Joe Gibbs was hired.
The Sonny Jurgenson vs Billy Kilmer era.
Nepal's 'Buddha' boy goes missing
A 16-year-old boy who had been meditating and fasting in a Nepal forest for 10 months has been missing since Saturday morning, police say.
Locals and police searched the area in the southern district of Bara but have not been able to locate him so far.
Police have rejected reports that the young boy, popularly known as "Little Buddha", may have been abducted.
His followers say Ram Bomjan may have moved deep inside the forest looking for a quieter place to meditate.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The punctuations is in the wrong places.
Hecate is a Goddess.
plantsman
Echidne, too.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Thanks to Schoolhouse Rock, I can recite that (rather sing-songily) from memory...
Last night, Tweety had on a female Marine Gunnery Sergeant who's spearheading a "Draft Condi" for Prez movement. She wore black patterned stockings and had ample breasts.
I repeat:
"The second amendment says "the people" have the right to bear arms not "the army" or "the government."
"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."
I repeat:
"The second amendment says "the people" have the right to bear arms not "the army" or "the government."
I repeat: make a fucking point.
We the People
love that school house rock tune!
I thought the whole point of the 2nd Amendment was to prevent the federal government from becoming too powerful. Then again, I'm told that my thinking is quaint nowadays.
Sallyh, Cookie Monstress
The 2nd amendment was included solely to preserve the right of gentlemen to choose pistols in order to solve differences.
US cinema suffers year of slump
Box office takings in the US slid by 6% in 2005, final figures have revealed.
Cinema ticket revenues amounted to $9bn (£5.2bn), while total attendance fell by 9% to 1.4bn people.
Some 240m fewer tickets were sold in 2005 compared with the previous year, according to data from The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
The average cost of making a film in Hollywood dropped by $2.5m (£1.44m), but the budget for marketing new releases rose by 5%.
Though the midwest through to the appalachians could use the rain, the constant downpour seems to indicate that we are going to get a months worth in only a few days!!
Last year at this time we got plenty of rain, enough to ensure that the plants were really green in time for Spring. But come Summer the rain all but stopped guaraneeing a dry summer and eventually autumn.
Now of course the flooding is a problem. Our drainage system is such that the connections were originally accustomed to being underground and drained into a nearby ravine.
Now that ravine has been leveled off a bit and filled with houses recently built. The entire complext we live in will soon be forced to accomodate those home owners by having our gutter runoff connections, all underground, rerouted into the sewer line. Not that this is too much of a problem since we(ourselves) are uphill a bit but the homes downhill are really downhill. Should the sewer system overrun those homes are in deep sh*t!
Worse still is what to come should we have to reroute to the sewer. More problems will follow should we get torrential downpours like the current one that is already turned our backyard into a bog and is scheduled to be only the first wave of god's vengeance against the midwest for not voting overwhelmingly against Kerry by a score of 100% to 0% in the last election rather than by mere 2-10% margins.
Oh god of death please spare our humble little home and neighborhood. If our gay neighbors are forced to leave(they're at the bottom of the hill) they'll be displaced cause the local yokals will surely pass legislation in your name soon making sure these soddomites cannot buy homes thus compelling them to make due in the streets outside our homes! Please give them safety in this time of need so ensure us that they are not forced out into the streets where all can see them perform their sodomy live and in full high definition color thus enraging the faithful moreso than they already are where they pass even more legislation in your name!!!
God of the desert roaming nomads spare us! We will sacrifice 10 Dakota virgins in your name as burnt offerings should you reply in favor!!
MYOB'
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I modernized my Sears and Roebuck but restored the exterior to original condition. The interior resembles a New Orleans Shotgun Style house.
politica - angular | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:39 pm | #
Cool! I recall that there were a lot of Sear's houses in the Burnside area. Are you up there?
Claude Allen...making it harder for black people to return stuff to Target.
Monica_A
Heh.
Anyone else seen that new show Black. White.?
George Allen is a flattening force on the Senate bell curve. He's a genuine dullard, possibly the biggest simpleton in that chamber.
Max Planck
He was named "Stupidest Person in the Senate" many years running by the Washingtonian Magazine. I think maybe Kyl has the honor these days.
Ding dong, the liberal's dead!
Brownshirtfreude.
.
you mean! we dont have to live like refugees? Oh Oh ohoh
*yawn*
Morning. Can somebody fetch me another cup of coffee please?
Thanks ever so much.
flory | 03.11.06 - 12:34 pm
No coffee, but will one of these do:
http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-b...umer.d2w/
report
NTodd and Sallyh,
You and your Constitution! It's so cute that I just want to rub your bellys until your legs kick. The Constitution is something this adminstration wipes its ass with. They only use the Constitution when Wayne La Pierre needs to justify why every fraggin' yahoo in the deep South should carry an AK-47.
Man Hands is also in Chile for the inauguration.
Africa pledges 'not materialised'
Many reforms on trade and conflict promised in Prime Minister Tony Blair's Africa Commission Report last year have yet to materialise, according to Oxfam.
The aid agency said real advances had been made on aid and debt relief, but opportunities were being missed on fairer trade and arms dealing.
However, International Development Secretary Hilary Benn said large portions of debt had been written off.
He said a new humanitarian fund would also help combat famine in Africa.
The interior resembles a New Orleans Shotgun Style house.
politica - angular
Don't invite Cheney over for tea.
You and your Constitution! It's so cute that I just want to rub your bellys until your legs kick.
Sounds fun!
sallyh -- I'll take a muffin, since nobody offered to bring me more coffee, even when I asked very nicely.
Barney Fife reciting the Preamble is one of the funniest things I ever saw on TV
to preserve the right of gentlemen to choose pistols in order to solve
And where does it define 'Arms'?
Where the Hell are OUR MILITIAS?
Flory--(shoves a cuppa and a cinnamon blueberry muffin in Flory's direction)
"No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."
Just sayin'.
Cinema ticket revenues amounted to $9bn (£5.2bn), while total attendance fell by 9% to 1.4bn people.
I can tell you how to solve the problem with three simple words: MAKE BETTER MOVIES!
"The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
Just sayin'.
1. The Republicans know McCain has wide appeal/name recognition and a cetain amount of independence from the Bushies.
2. The Republicans like to win.
3. McCain will be the candidate.
Gen. Info
I hope you're right - he's a liability as a candidate!! reason - more of the same.
BushCo is just beginning to take on water and by the time the '08 election comes around - they'll be going down - bigtime - taking all the hangers-on down with them.
McCain has been an apologist for Bushco on all mistakes, misdeeds, and miscalculations - most notably - the Iraq War. He caved on torture, too.
Americans want strong leadership - that's just not McCain!! But if he runs the dems have a record of his being a lapdog and a follower of the worst president ever!!
CNN talking about blogs and teens right now.
MYOB'
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I can tell you how to solve the problem with three simple words: MAKE BETTER MOVIES!
Oh, now THAT makes me want to rub YOUR belly!
Alaska hit by 'massive' oil spill
An oil spill discovered at Prudhoe Bay field is the largest ever on Alaska's North Slope region, US officials say.
They estimate that up to 267,000 gallons (one million litres) of crude leaked from a corroded transit pipeline at the state's northern tip.
The spill was detected on 2 March and plugged. Local environmentalists have described it as "a catastrophe".
In 1989, the Exxon Valdez shipping disaster spilled 11m gallons (42m litres) of oil onto the Alaskan coast.
Man Hands is also in Chile for the inauguration.
P O'Neill | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:47 pm | #
According to a certain Lebanese leader quoted admiringly by Cheney this week, Condoleezza is "oil-colored."
"Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article."
Just sayin'.
Last night, Tweety had on a female Marine Gunnery Sergeant who's spearheading a "Draft Condi" for Prez movement.
How about the "Just Draft Condi...Period" movement? I liked to see her behind the wheel of some pick up truck with a gun attached to it.
"No Person shall be a Representative"
Just sayin'.
George Allen is a flattening force on the Senate bell curve. He's a genuine dullard, possibly the biggest simpleton in that chamber.
Max Planck
even steven colbert's "o'reilly character" called him as dumb as a post
"direct Taxes"
Just sayin'.
Has Raw Story lost it's edge or is it me?
NO BELLY-RUBBING FLIRTATION!
heh here in Britain we don't even have a written constutition to argue over!
it is in no one place, it is uncodified
the human rights laws have gone someway to providing some protection.
but otherwise we're open to the elements.
"Weather Alert: Heavy Snow Warning in Effect until 5am MST Sunday in NORTHERN MARICOPA COUNTY ABOVE 2 THOUSAND FEET for Today and Tonight."
That's snow in the Valley of the Sun! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Morning! Scotty McClellan is multiplying.
"several"
Just sayin'.
How about the "Just Draft Condi...Period" movement? I"d like to see her behind the wheel of some pick up truck with a gun attached to it.
Somehow, I just knew.............
I repeat:
"direct Taxes"
Buckeye-- that'll do very nicely. Goes well with cinammon muffins.
"No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered"
but we are at war, therefore...
NO BELLY-RUBBING FLIRTATION!
HOMOPHOBE! HATER OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY! SELFISH!
Auntie GWPDA--it won't even reach 50 F here in the Southland today. Got to 34 F last night.
"No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered"
Typo: that should read "drawn and quartered". Weird that they've never fixed that.
our militias are at this time working on construction crews coercing new hires and apprentices to join subversive right wing organizations if they want to be allowed to make money
Queues to sign at private dentist
Hundreds of patients have queued at a dentist surgery in south Wales after it announced that it was going private.
People lined up from 0730 GMT on Saturday after the practice in Dinas Powys sent letters saying it was to stop NHS treatment for adults.
The letters warned that private places were limited and registration would be on a first come, first served basis.
Dentist Timothy Mills said they had been taken aback but hoped to provide as many places as they could.
HOMOPHOBE! HATER OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY! SELFISH!
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Man, if I speak for you, and your voice is therefore mine, I really must not like myself very much.
it won't even reach 50 F here in the Southland today. Got to 34 F last night.
Crisis!
Alaska hit by 'massive' oil spill.
Gale Norton resigns.
Co-inky-dink?
An oil spill discovered at Prudhoe Bay field is the largest ever on Alaska's North Slope region, US officials say.
Ooops. So much for any drilling in ANWR.
Condi can't handle her job as described. What makes these people think she should be promoted to a position which requires more skills than she possesses?
hard to explain upon returning home ... mom I got fired today
NTodd--any time we have some sprinkling of liquid from the sky, we're on 'Storm Watch' here.
Man, if I speak for you, and your voice is therefore mine, I really must not like myself very much.
I'm not so sure there's a transitive property in the "speaking for me" thing. My voice is more like that of some random Tourette's sufferer. Yours is the voice of reason. And selfishness.
Gah!
http://www.newsday.com/news/nati...y-top-
headlines
"WASHINGTON -- A former top CIA official said Thursday that despite the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Iraq is likely to be looking for weapons of mass destruction within the next five to 10 years."
Goin back to bed.
I said I didnt want any kool-aid and they told me to take the rest of the millenium off
Here's some bait -- go ahead, chomp down!
.
BTW, I think it'd be fun to give NTodd belly rubs.
NTodd--any time we have some sprinkling of liquid from the sky, we're on 'Storm Watch' here.
We're the same way if there's a hint of fireballs from God.
hard to explain upon returning home ... mom I got fired today
Clarissa Explains All | 03.11.06 - 12:53 pm | #
go get a new better job right away and she'll be happy for you
or tell her that you are joining the army, then say no you aren't you just got fired...
Brad DeLong catch Victor Davis Hanson being a wanker.
That's snow in the Valley of the Sun! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
I think our weather must be moving your way.
Perma-frost oil? Uck!
BTW, I think it'd be fun to give NTodd belly rubs.
Man, I need to start working out and biking again.
Alaska hit by 'massive' oil spill.
Gale Norton resigns.
Co-inky-dink?
There's no such thing as a coincidence; only people trying to cover their tracks by quitting and releasing information that shows them in a negative light later.
Bond yields and rates keep stocks on edge
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock investors will keep a close eye on Treasury bond yields and economic reports next week as the market considers whether interest-rate hikes will go further -- and last longer -- than originally thought.
Attention will be paid to Thursday's consumer price index for February, which will offer clues about the inflation picture. Economists polled by Reuters see overall CPI up 0.1 percent in February, after January's gain of 0.7 percent. Core CPI, excluding food and energy costs, is expected to rise 0.2 percent, matching January's increase.
Retail sales for February, due on Tuesday, will be noted to see if there's any slowdown in consumer spending. The Reuters forecast calls for February's overall retail sales to drop 0.8 percent, after January's jump of 2.3 percent.
"Eskimo"
Just sayin'.
Brad DeLong catch Victor Davis Hanson being a wanker.
He do?
CAMPAIGN 2004
Filibuster Politics
The judicial issue is a winner for Republicans.
BY C. BOYDEN GRAY
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT
....
John Edwards has spent four years obstructing the respected Terrence Boyle's nomination to the Fourth Circuit, and has done nothing to facilitate the historic nomination of Claude Allen, who is black, also to the Fourth Circuit.
has president irrelevant gotten above 40% approval rating yet?
(been stuck in f-ing training BS for 2 weeks now and been out of touch)
Yeah who'd have thought frost heaves and snow drifts would impact an oil line.....
It's 36F outside right this minute. Last time it snowed here in the middle of town was December 19th, 1987 I think.... We do get hail and such every so often, and the higher edges of town do get snow - but this storm looks like there'll be snow on the roof tonight.... -And- it's stalling - just pouring water right into the canals and the dams and the rivers! Wooooooo-hooooo!
Bond yields and rates keep stocks on edge
Bonds are using steroids.
"Abe Lincoln never stole a thing in his life even though he lived in a general store."
Lime Rickey
He owned the same ax his entire life, (though he had to replace the handle 3 times and the head twice).
Good morning, batses. Anyone for cinnamon blueberry muffins?
Sallyh, Cookie Monstress | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:42 pm
I'll take some, please and thank you. And I'll provide hot chocolate.
I'm not so sure there's a transitive property in the "speaking for me" thing. My voice is more like that of some random Tourette's sufferer. Yours is the voice of reason. And selfishness.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Strangely reasonable...
The 2nd Amendment only makes sense if you understand it in the context of the times-- the people who insisted on the Bill of Rights were against standing armies. You really can't be a strict constructionist on the constitution unless you're also against standing armies.
The second amendment was the people's guarentee against standing armies.
Prediction:
The Democrats will nominate an insider candidate who lacks wide appeal who will fail to distinguish him or herself. The candidate will also fail to describe and define the opposition candidate.That opposition candidate will be McCain and he will win.
Nobody got my Eskimo joke.
has president irrelevant gotten above 40% approval rating yet?
(been stuck in f-ing training BS for 2 weeks now and been out of touch)
mogwai
In a word, fuckno.
GWPDA:
Good for you. You folks are DUE!
Sallyh: Auntie GWPDA--it won't even reach 50 F here in the Southland today. Got to 34 F last night.
BEE-zarre! It's in the mid 70s here in Gnashvegas, and it isn't even noon!
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Uh, oh. All you wine drinkers stock up. They're predicting freezing temps in the wine country this weekend. The vines are starting to bud so this is not good timing.
Ba'al--will fresh coffee and homemade blueberry cinnamon muffins provide a pleasing aroma for Ba'al?
George Allen is a flattening force on the Senate bell curve. He's a genuine dullard, possibly the biggest simpleton in that chamber.
Max Planck
The thing that has me really worried about that is that this makes him a perfect replacement for Chimpy.
Swansea, UK
Current Nearest Observations:
6°C (42°F)
SE (11 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 77,
Pressure (mB): 1021, Rising,
Visibility: Very good
#$%@@%## Pregnant rabbit ate all the leaves on about a dozen minature daffodills all the way down to the ground. I think her mother is the one who chomped down on my herb garden all last summer. I don't mind sharing a bit, but she could have left me a few.
Oh no, Chimpy plans series of NEW "stay the course in Iraq" speeches.
I'll bet.
Nobody got my Eskimo joke.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
I can't say that I did, not knowing to which conversation you were responding with the joke...
Flory--oh Christ, the end of 2 buck Chuck? Scary thought.
The 2nd Amendment only makes sense if you understand it in the context of the times-- the people who insisted on the Bill of Rights were against standing armies. You really can't be a strict constructionist on the constitution unless you're also against standing armies.
The second amendment was the people's guarentee against standing armies.
Indeed, which is why I posted the VA Constitution bit. Its language is clearer.
BTW, this is why I do interpret the 2nd as granting individual citizens the right to bear arms and am not so hot on a lot of gun control. I think that there are reasonable limits on even the rights enumerated (e.g., can't yell "theater" in a crowded fire), so putting restrictions on automatic weapons and such isn't necessarily a violation. But some of the registration and handgun control stuff bothers me.
I don't think a strict constructionist would need to only allow muskets, or be against standing armies, though. The US Constitution didn't have the same caveats as those of the Several States.
kindly restrict your comments to either Guns, Germs or Steel. or combinations thereof.
The thing that has me really worried about that is that this makes him a perfect replacement for Chimpy.
Buzz Bomb
Nah. Too "oil colored."
British Gas chaos leaves thousands without heat
Thousands of British Gas customers have been left without heating or hot water for days - and in some cases weeks - during the coldest part of winter because the company's HomeCare insurance operation is in chaos.
A whistleblower who works for British Gas has revealed that staff were told customers without central heating "no longer constituted a priority", even though they have paid around £200 a year for emergency call-out insurance.
More than 3.4 million people have such policies promising "expert boiler care", but thousands have endured long waits in the cold for engineers who often fail to arrive or don't have the correct parts.
The origins of the constitution?
http://tinyurl.com/rhpv4
I can't say that I did, not knowing to which conversation you were responding with the joke...
Well, it's a multilayerd thing. I was responding to Just sayin' by quoting a line from Heathers.
Fucking hilarious, I must say. Or you must, since you speak for me.
Where is it paying off?
Bush Says Training of Iraqi Forces Paying Off
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/
bush..._administration
kindly restrict your comments to either Guns, Germs or Steel. or combinations thereof.
I just got that book!
And- it's stalling - just pouring water right into the canals and the dams and the rivers! GWPDA
must be that foxglove those republicans have been putting into the tea leaves ...
Where is it paying off?
Bush Says Training of Iraqi Forces Paying Off
What, didn't you get your Iraqi Forces Training dividend check?
Claude Allen promises not to advance a political agenda from the federal bench he has been nominated to, but to be the type of judge who buttresses the foundation of American government — by applying the rule of law however he finds it. President Bush, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, could do much worse than Allen. By the grace of democratic principles overriding a minority in the Senate, let us hope they do not have to.
— Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray is chairman of the Committee for Justice.
Where is it paying off?
See Carlyle Group.
Fucking hilarious, I must say. Or you must, since you speak for me.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Fucking hilarious! (Haven't seen Heathers in far too long to've gotten it.)
Hecate:
Can't you put a spell on the rabbits so they'll only eat the weeds?
Many Southern ReTHUGlicans currently in Memphis together.
/Just sayin'
kindly restrict your comments to either Guns, Germs or Steel. or combinations thereof.
Kindly send lawyers, guns, and money.
Allens sure was a busy little bee
US President George W Bush's former political adviser has been arrested for allegedly stealing more than $5,000 (£2,900) from department stores.
The president said he was "shocked" and "sad" on hearing the news about Claude Allen, who resigned abruptly as his domestic policy adviser in February.
Mr Allen has denied at least 25 thefts from Target and Hecht stores.
The scam allegedly involved Mr Allen claiming refunds for merchandise that he did not buy.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry!
So, gee. It's really terrible to read about war criminals dying in their cells at the Hague. That would be a terrible way for a world leader to end his life, wouldn't it? Hmmm.
how many of Bush's other advisors have itchy fingers?
Prediction:
The Democrats will nominate an insider candidate who lacks wide appeal who will fail to distinguish him or herself. The candidate will also fail to describe and define the opposition candidate.That opposition candidate will be McCain and he will win.
Gen. Info
Oh - you could be right about that. If the democratic party runs a middle of the road type campaign and fails to point out the major weaknesses of a McCain candidacy, then, yeah, that could happen - longshot but it could.
We have to work hard to make sure that it doesn't happen. Right, General?
Allens sure was a busy little bee.
I loved joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator
Fears for hostage after killing
Fears are growing for a British peace activist kidnapped in Iraq after a fellow hostage was found dead.
The body of US citizen Tom Fox has been found in Baghdad, more than three months after he was seized with Briton Norman Kember and two Canadians.
Chris Cole, a friend of Mr Kember, 74, from Pinner, north London, said he was "extremely worried" for him.
Another friend, Bruce Kent, said the vigils would continue, but added: "This is a very bad setback".
He said Mr Fox may have been singled out because he was from the US.
Good morning again.
Sallyh, it's still raining a bit here in the San Gabriel Valley. Any clearing out your way?
yeah must be the foxglove
Diane--drizzly here in the foothills at the moment.
how many of Bush's other advisors have itchy fingers?
Moonbootica
Sticky fingers?
So, gee. It's really terrible to read about war criminals dying in their cells at the Hague. That would be a terrible way for a world leader to end his life, wouldn't it? Hmmm.
There IS an empty cell, that we know.
I'm in shorts and a polo pon... er, shirt. I'm lovin' it.
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rorschach thats a better term.
Jeffraham--okay, rub it in
We have to work hard to make sure that it doesn't happen. Right, General?
Alas, I've lost hope in the Democratic party, they are either weak, stupid, or in bed with the enemy. I'll be looking at all candidates next time.
Am I the only bozo who actually feels obligated to read every post in a thread, even an open thread, before responding? Even if it means reading, refreshing, reading, refreshing, reading?
Oh, and I wanted to say that I find just sayin's "argumnent" extremely compelling. He sure did convince me of ... um, you know, whatever it was he was convincing us of.
Sixty-seven degrees here. Went out and moved mulch and raked leaves. Now blogging from the screen porch. Goddess, I love Spring.
rorschach thats a better term.
Moonbootica
Yeah, it seemed to me that you were mixing "sticky fingers" (prone to theft) with "itchy trigger finger" (quick to shoot).
Hit #12,290: Kettering, OH!
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry!
Moonbootica, Praetor
which alter would you cry or laugh for if he was the end of the search for the Mancherian Candidate
rorschach unless there is someone in the Bush Junta who combines both?
Sallyh: Jeffraham--okay, rub it in
On the four days that I can every ten years? You bet I will!
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How's grandson? Less yellow, I hope!
My latest hit: Harleysville, PA!
Jeffraham--and is Curly enjoying the weather?
he's probably got an old vince mulroni tape stuck in the drive
rorschach unless there is someone in the Bush Junta who combines both?
Moonbootica
I'm sure there are plenty. (See also "Halliburton.")
Itchy and sticky sounds like a nasty STD.
Fears for hostage after killing
Buddha help me! I'm glad we're all paying attention now. You would have thought that governments involved in the "coalition of the coerced" would have taken the well-being of citizens being held hostage a little more seriously after the whole Daniel Perl incident. How about we stop renaming finger food created in Belgium "Freedom" and start making sure those being held get to experience freedom again.
McCain's cancer may recur.
Just sayin'
Raining, raining, raining, ta-dee, de dum, ta da, raining, raining, raining!
Repost from earlier:
South Dakota's EPT security.
end of the search and beginning of the obvious
Isn't falling rain a blessed sound?
haloscan ate my post bastard!
Raining, raining, raining, ta-dee, de dum, ta da, raining, raining, raining!
GWPDA
Even still?
I presume you've gone out for your shower au naturale?
Former Wisconsin GOP Assembly Leader Scott Jensen just found guilty by jury on four counts, including three felonies:
http://www.madison.com/bn/index....s&bn_id=0-
75969
Add another wing to the GOPrison, boys. Has to resign his seat, poor baby.
Many foreigners among Iraq hostages
Whilst thousands of Iraqis have been regularly abducted, mostly for ransom, and their fates sometimes resolved and sometimes not, the coverage of foreign hostages in Iraq has recieved far wider media publicity.
The latest on the many foreigners held or missing comes with news of the fate of Tom Fox, 54, a US peace activist who had been kidnapped along with three colleagues in November.
He was found shot dead on 11 March 2006 in a Baghdad garbage dump, security officials reported.
According to one US diplomat in Baghdad, at least 430 foreigners are known to have been taken hostage in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion.
Sallyh: Jeffraham--and is Curly enjoying the weather?
Indeed, he is. He was also enjoying it at 4 a.m., as a chorus of birds were serenading us on the balcony. Right now, it's somewhat overcast, with brief periods of bright, springy sunshine. He's out on the balcony, as I speak (but just a foot from the open door, of course).
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I readiing 88 on the front deck & 75 on the back one, creek's running bank to bank after a 2" rain a couple of days ago. Elderberries are leafing out & hazlenuts are in full bloom.
Am I the only bozo who actually feels obligated to read every post in a thread, even an open thread, before responding? Even if it means reading, refreshing, reading, refreshing, reading?
umm...no...then I realized I need IV caffeine in order to keep up.
Yeah, he do.
/abashed
Now that I'm all riled up, I think I'll take a nap.
clarissa
she is definitely doing some kind of treatment! i know a few things about these things and i will tell you that she is doing something!
live cell therapy?
hyperbaric oxygen treatment with transfusions of various things while in the chamber?
she looks and acts like she is about 25 yrs old. she is actually 44.
none off this is meant as a critical comment towards her. i like her alright. she is on our side now.
Whilst thousands of Iraqis have been regularly abducted, mostly for ransom, and their fates sometimes resolved and sometimes not, the coverage of foreign hostages in Iraq has recieved far wider media publicity.
Damn foreigners!
Taking all those hostage positions that rightfully belong to the liberated people of Iraq!
The 2nd Amendment only makes sense if you understand it in the context of the times-- the people who insisted on the Bill of Rights were against standing armies. You really can't be a strict constructionist on the constitution unless you're also against standing armies.
The second amendment was the people's guarentee against standing armies.
Moe Szyslak
My point remains:
The second amendment says "the people" have the right to bear arms not "the army" or "the government"
Oh no, Chimpy plans series of NEW "stay the course in Iraq" speeches.
Jeezum Crow. Is anyone even listening anymore?
Must go for a bit. brb
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I have snow for sale - lots of snow. Shipping & handling extra.
French riot police storm historic Sorbonne
Paris — Riot police stormed the marble-halled Sorbonne University early Saturday, pushing out some 200 students occupying the historic institution, some for three days, to protest a government jobs plan.
At least 80 helmeted police officers rushed the landmark institution to dislodge students, some holed up in a classroom barricaded behind desks, chairs and debris.
The evacuation came hours after student occupiers hurled ladders, chairs and other large objects from windows of the building Friday night and protesters outside egged them on.
Police acted on a demand from the rector of the Paris Academy which runs the university, moving in at 3:45 a.m., police said.
Two people were injured in the ordeal, a student who fell and a photographer hit by a projectile, a statement by Paris police headquarters said.
Jeezum Crow. Is anyone even listening anymore?
Not just no, but HELL NO!
My point remains:
The second amendment says "the people" have the right to bear arms not "the army" or "the government"
just sayin'
That's profound.
You are right. The army is not granted the right to bear arms. All American military forces must disarm IMMEDIATELY! It's in the Constitution.
Jeezum Crow. Is anyone even listening anymore?
eh?
The army is not granted the right to bear arms. All American military forces must disarm IMMEDIATELY! It's in the Constitution.
rorschach
Not a bad idea.
I gotta go, figure out that second amendment thingie while I'm away, willya?
I don't have a problem with people bearing arms as long as they're wearing sunscreen.
Bruce Bartlett, author of Impostor is on CNN right now.
I was at the free speech protest yesterday here in San Francisco. It was a blast, I had a great time.
I was at the free speech protest yesterday here in San Francisco. It was a blast, I had a great time.
I love the smell of Bush-bashing in the morning.
I don't have a problem with people bearing arms as long as they're wearing sunscreen.
catnip
I propose a new amendment guaranteeing the right of the people to bare not just arms, but breasts and asses too.
put the lotion in the basket
I presume you've gone out for your shower au naturale?
rorschach
Arthur did!
Ricky, you dumb fuck.
Alas, I've lost hope in the Democratic party, they are either weak, stupid, or in bed with the enemy. I'll be looking at all candidates next time.
Gen. Info
I agree that we need new democrats - in the Senate!! We have some awesome Dems in the Congress - who I'd love to see in the Senate - someday soon!!
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of the Democratic party, actually.
Don't lose hope.
bloody helloscam
I propose a new amendment guaranteeing the right of the people to bare not just arms, but breasts and asses too.
rorschach
How French of you.
BTW, I think it'd be fun to give NTodd belly rubs.
Sallyh,
NO FLIRTING!
I readiing 88 on the front deck & 75 on the back one, creek's running bank to bank after a 2" rain a couple of days ago. Elderberries are leafing out & hazlenuts are in full bloom
let us know how things are from may-sept
My point remains:
The second amendment says "the people" have the right to bear arms not "the army" or "the government"
That's not a point. That's merely a statement.
I have trees in my yard.
Bush says saddened by arrest of former top adviser
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Saturday he was disappointed and saddened by the arrest on felony theft charges of Claude Allen, his former top domestic policy adviser.
"If the allegations are true, something went wrong in Claude Allen's life. And that is really sad," Bush told reporters.
Allen, who stepped down last month, was arrested in Maryland on Thursday on charges he conducted a theft scheme involving fraudulent refunds at area department stores.
A call to Allen's home was not immediately returned. The New York Times quoted his lawyer, Mallon Snyder, as denying the allegations and saying they resulted from a confusion he hoped to clear up soon.
Allen, a 45-year-old lawyer, was considered a Republican rising star. Before working in the White House, he was deputy secretary at the Health and Human Services Department.
I've been to the zoo.
let us know how things are from may-sept
mogwai
Sorry, no can do. The strain of typing can lead to heat stroke during those months.
It's now a bright, sunshiney day.
I'm going to the General Store for food and supplies. My point? I am hungry.
I presume you've gone out for your shower au naturale?
rorschach
Arthur did!
GWPDA
My two canines usually refuse to go out in the rain until they absolutely have to.
Tender sensibilities, them two.
Milosevic feared he was being poisoned: lawyer
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic feared he was being poisoned in his detention cell in The Hague, his lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic said on Saturday hours after the tribunal announced Milosevic's death.
"Today, I have filed an official request to the tribunal to have the autopsy carried out in Moscow, having in mind his claims yesterday that he was being poisoned in the jail," Tomanovic told reporters in The Hague.
Acting on a request from Milosevic, Tomanovic said he had made a request for protection for his client to the Russian embassy in The Netherlands and to the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow.
"I demanded protection for Slobodan Milosevic over his claims that he was being poisoned. I still haven't received any reply and that's all I have to say at this time," the lawyer said.
I've been to the zoo.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
But I've never been to me.
That MY point. Or statement.
Milosevic feared he was being poisoned.
He should be so lucky.
"If the allegations are true, something went wrong in Claude Allen's life. And that is really sad," Bush told reporters.
What went wrong is that he hung around with you, Bush.
In the scheme of Bushreich crimes, Claude Allen will maybe rate a footnote on p. 4025.
And- it's stalling - just pouring water right into the canals and the dams and the rivers! Wooooooo-hooooo!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Hope you have a nice warm quilt.
My two canines usually refuse to go out in the rain until they absolutely have to.
You have to force them. Dental hygiene is very important.
I'm going to the General Store for food and supplies. My point? I am hungry.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
don't pull an Allen.
Fat Tony and Slappy sez libruls misread the Constitution 'cause they don't have the same reverence for the comma as our Founders did.
umm...no...then I realized I need IV caffeine in order to keep up.
Speaking of which, I better go make another pot of coffee. My brain needs to be sharp to keep up with the shrewd arguments but forth by this morning's trollbot.
This Claude Allen thing couldn't have come at a worse time.
He was point man on my Mars project. Claude-y, I called him.
Damn it.
I'm going to the General Store for food and supplies. My point? I am hungry.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Can you pick me up some cheesecake? I have a cream cheese deficiency.
This Claude Allen thing couldn't have come at a worse time.
He shouldn't have tried to return those birdshot shells.
Dead giveaway.
Belgrade's gonna need a butcher!
I'm going to go outside and stand in the rain now.
We'll find out if I have enough sense to come back in.
how many of Bush's other advisors have itchy fingers?
Moonbootica
Sticky fingers?
rorschach
Both: Itchy trigger fingers (Cheney and everybody involved in foreign policy) and sticky fingers define domestic policy. It's the gangsta administration.
"I'm going to the General Store for food and supplies. My point? I am hungry.
NTodd, King of Prickistan"
Beef jerky and ship's biscuit, please.
Hi moonbats!
Is my namestealer gone?
i am going to get some dinner, my tummy is all rumbly
talk soon
What was Claude's nickname? And did he do a heckuva job?
If you're so rain starved, GWPDA, you should visit us in the Bay Area. It's been like that Ray Bradbury story on Venus where they lock the kid in the closet here.
Working in the Bush administration is like trying to get into a street gang. They start you out with easy stuff like shoplifting, to see if you're cut out for the big crimes like stealing billions of taxpayer dollars for your daddy's capital firm, or starting a war so your running mate's company can cash in.
Hi moonbats!
Is my namestealer gone?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 03.11.06 - 1:27 pm | #
So it would seem. You're here just in time to support my effort to amend the 2nd Amendment to include the right to bare arms, breasts, and asses!
I support your effort fully, rorschach! And penises!
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of the Democratic party, actually.
Don't lose hope.
portia
I'm optimistic, too. This Molly Ivins column helps. She rules.
So it would seem. You're here just in time to support my effort to amend the 2nd Amendment to include the right to bare arms, breasts, and asses!
rorschach
Does that have anything to do with nudibranches?
I support your effort fully, rorschach! And penises!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
You support penises?
I'm bark! Er, back.
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Mr Bush on Friday warned that the action of Congress in blocking the Dubai deal could have damaging repercussions.
Daddy's Carlyle Group gets a chance to snap up the port operations at distress-sale prices, holds them until the controversy blows over, and then sells them off to the UAE or Communist China at a hefty profit, which Chimpy eventually inherits. Chimpy just needs to keep his mouth shut and start cashing the checks.
This guy is so stupid that Daddy can't even teach him how to steal!
Officers are gods.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Yes. All sergeants agree on that point!
rorschach
In my experience, the sergeants are more likely to think of them as god-damned pains in the ass.
Speaking as a former pain inthe ass.
They must be worried:
TALLAHASSEE -- A nephew of Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney said Thursday he has been urged by Republican insiders to challenge U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris for the party's nomination for the U.S. Senate.
Tom Rooney, a former Army officer who taught law at the U.S. Military Academy, said he will make a final decision within two weeks. Rooney's potential entry comes at a time there is widespread speculation that the Harris campaign has bogged down to the point Republicans don't think she could defeat Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson in November.
Milosevic feared he was being poisoned: lawyer
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic feared he was being poisoned in his detention cell in The Hague, his lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic said on Saturday hours after the tribunal announced Milosevic's death.
"Today, I have filed an official request to the tribunal to have the autopsy carried out in Moscow, having in mind his claims yesterday that he was being poisoned in the jail," Tomanovic told reporters in The Hague...
Moonbootica, Praetor | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 1:22 pm | #
The odds of Sloba being poisoned are rather slim. The odds of the conspiracy theories having a strong half life are very strong indeed. Sadly so.
I'm optimistic, too. This Molly Ivins column helps. She rules.
Buzz Bomb
Thanks, Buzz, I needed that.
In my experience, the sergeants are more likely to think of them as god-damned pains in the ass.
Sergeants are the priests that really run everything.
In the scheme of Bushreich crimes, Claude Allen will maybe rate a footnote on p. 4025.
R.McGeddon
if John Pondhoretz has his way we'll take his word for it and forget we ever heard of Claude Allen and his remarkable association with George W.Bush's presidential administration and the issues he was instructed and corrupted to fullfill.
I'm optimistic, too. This Molly Ivins column helps. She rules.
Buzz Bomb
Thanks, Buzz, I needed that.
Nice Stepford Hillary picture...
Get this: Bush: Training of Iraqi forces paying off.
The look on his face says it all, doesn't it?
I support your effort fully, rorschach! And penises!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Well, some of the time, yes, but when it comes down to it, penises need to be wearing something latex.
In my experience, the sergeants are more likely to think of them as god-damned pains in the ass.
Yeah, I was being sarcastic. As Top used to say, "Don't call me 'sir,' I work for a living!"
the little players in the watergate indictments no the mostest secrets
The 2nd Amendment only makes sense if you understand it in the context of the times-- the people who insisted on the Bill of Rights were against standing armies. You really can't be a strict constructionist on the constitution unless you're also against standing armies.
The second amendment was the people's guarentee against standing armies.
Moe Szyslak
My point remains:
The second amendment says "the people" have the right to bear arms not "the army" or "the government"
Ok, dillweed, then how does the Third Amendment figure in to all of this?
There's your context.
Moe's point is that the Second Amendment was written in a specific context, in a particular historical period, for a particular reason.
No one thinks about how the Second and Third Amendments are intertwined in a significant way. The Third Amendment is utterly forgotten nowadays. At the time, it had great meaning. I'm sure the Iraqis could relate to its broader meaning right now.
The Democratic party's too much like Eschaton---thought that's too giddy, pricks without purpose.
Well, some of the time, yes, but when it comes down to it, penises need to be wearing something latex.
Nonono! They should never be inside anything!
The look on his face says it all, doesn't it?
jurassicpork
Nonono! They should never be inside anything!
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Are you implying, perhaps, that they should be...
Padlocked?
Hey bats! Boy I'm sorry I missed that polygamy thread. Some concern troll asked NTodd "So, if Bill Gates wants to buy your wife, and she thinks the money looks good, we should be cool with that?"
The correct reply would have been "How much?" and "Where do I sign"
And that Allen dude is a piece of work! Ahh, just another day in Bushville.
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There's a third amendment?
the supreme court could have saved us all alot of heartbreak by honestly considering what job it was that they were asked to consider or refusing to hear it and sending it back to the original determination of the Florida supreme court ... but then I digress
Buzz Bomb,
Thanks for that link. I read it a while ago, but we should take it out and read it over and over again - from now until the elections:
this was the money quote:
Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone. This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo and her gross pandering on flag-burning are just contemptible little dodges.
such wisdom!!
Are you implying, perhaps, that they should be...
Padlocked?
Wouldn't it be "pudlocked"?
The Democratic party's too much like Eschaton---thought that's too giddy, pricks without purpose.
Jagerschnitzel.
I can't believe anyone would support George Allen for president. The man is in a persistent vegetative state.
Nonono! They should never be inside anything!
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Are you implying, perhaps, that they should be...
Padlocked?
Of course not. Penises should just be able to run free, the way God intended.
they decided ..oh my what a case to hear .. heck yes! ... and then deciding without dissent memo that indeed .. no recount would be necessary and (asshole baby) was indeed crowned the victor.
Joe Lieberman's myspace: http://myspace.com/joementum
Sergeants are the priests that really run everything.
Absolutely true.
New recruits, unfamiliar with military life, see officers as distant gods of a sort.
The sergeant in their face is familiar, if overpowering. Officers are far away and, more importantly, deferred to by the tyrant in their face everyday.
Reality is, officers command, they don't run their units.
The sergeants are the TRUE gods.
Okay, I don't know what was in those drugs that they gave me yesterday morning, but I slept all day, and since waking up around 5 PM on Friday, I have posted 21 posts on my blog!
WTF?
This is not a Dick Morris election.
Just visualizing the Toe Sucker makes me throw up in my mouth a little.
There's a third amendment?
catnip
sure is:
"Thow shalt not covet thy neighbor's arms"
Penises should just be able to run free
Someone needs some penicillin.
"The Democratic party's too much like Eschaton---thought that's too giddy, pricks without purpose."
Blanche DuBois
Speaking of a prick without a purpose...
Someone needs some penicillin.
Some of our penises are illin' enough already...
the only "memo" we got from them was that they were going to try to not make a habit out of choosing the president ...so Carlyle group better get busy with that diebold contract to assure the subsequent ones ... little did they know that "Karl" had already locked up Ohio as the next electorial breaking point with voting scams all over the country to ensure the fraudulence and flatuence in the face of america
WTF?
rorschach
Do you have a cat?
Leonard Smith,
It just about says it all, doesn't it?
Very good!!!
How come it hurts when I pee?
I'm sorry I missed the pologymy thread, as well.
If we're talking about consenting adults, I don't give a frap how they want to be married. I don't even agree that the legal complexities should make it a problem. Courts deal with intricate, multiparty contracts all the time. It might be wise in such circumstances to have prenups, as it often is w/ just two partners, but, really, who cares.
Clarissa sure does explain all, doesn't she? How informative.
Wait a minute - what's happening to my special purpose?" - The Jerk
art fart
Well, some of the time, yes, but when it comes down to it, penises need to be wearing something latex.
Nonono! They should never be inside anything!
NTodd, King of Prickistan
What about vaginas?
How come it hurts when I pee?
NTodd, King of Prickistan
It's those sandpaper gloves.
Do you have a cat?
catnip
As you well know, I have three. In fact, Miriam posted pics of them whilst I was sleeping off the drugs and the pain yesterday. It's the post immediately preceding my 21, none of which have to do with the cats!
How come it hurts when I pee?
I got it from the toilet seat. It jumped right up an' grabbed my meat.
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If we're talking about consenting adults, I don't give a frap how they want to be married. I don't even agree that the legal complexities should make it a problem. Courts deal with intricate, multiparty contracts all the time. It might be wise in such circumstances to have prenups, as it often is w/ just two partners, but, really, who cares.
Next you'll be telling us that gay people should be allowed to marry.
What about vaginas?
They should never be inside anything either.
How come it hurts when I pee?
NTodd, King of Prickistan
You're not doing it right.
I try catnip
What about vaginas?
Buzz Bomb | 03.11.06 - 1:50 pm | #
They're scary.
Cats are sneaky buggers, rorschach. Never leave your keyboard unattended.
If we're talking about consenting adults, I don't give a frap how they want to be married. I don't even agree that the legal complexities should make it a problem. Courts deal with intricate, multiparty contracts all the time. It might be wise in such circumstances to have prenups, as it often is w/ just two partners, but, really, who cares.
Word, Hecate.
How come it hurts when I pee?
Told you to stay away from Coulter.
I try catnip
Does it help?
The reason America is in such a fucking mess (Iraq, deficits, Medicare, etc.) is because the rightwing Goopers who have been running things are not only incompetent, they're batshit crazy!
And although this may not correlate (or be in the eye of the beholder), they are ugly as sin.....
Does it help?
Maxx likes it.
What are we talking about?
Cats are sneaky buggers, rorschach. Never leave your keyboard unattended.
catnip
Aha!
Well, at least it's good to know that my cats are good leftists like me!
The reason America is in such a fucking mess (Iraq, deficits, Medicare, etc.) is because the rightwing Goopers who have been running things are not only incompetent, they're batshit crazy!
That falls under the "D'oh!" category.
Well, at least it's good to know that my cats are good leftists like me!
rorschach
They are the ultimate elitists.
What are we talking about?
I don't know any more.
I took about 365 pics of the St. Patrick's Day parade, and it reminded me of one of my most deeply held beliefs.
Parades are fucking boring as hell.
On the plus side, I'm loving the USB 2.0 on the new camera - 5 minutes to drain a 1GB card instead of 20.
I try catnip
Does it help?
Eli
Come hither.
Come hither.
Well... okay.
jah hear the one about the midget that went to the doctor cause his testicles hurt? the doctor told him to look away and went ...snip snip snip ...snip snip snip ...
the midget walked around and related to the doc ... hey thanks great they dont hurt anymore and I didnt feel a thing! How'd you do that? ... the doctor told him ..I trimmed 3 inches off the top of your cowboy boots
They are the ultimate elitists.
catnip
Yours, perhaps. But mine are committed to the Revolution. Catnip and kitty treats for all!
From each cat according to its abilities, to each cat according to its needs!
I took about 365 pics of the St. Patrick's Day parade, and it reminded me of one of my most deeply held beliefs.
You could make a page-a-day calendar.
Well... okay.
Eli
That's what I like to see. A massive outburst of enthusiasm!
I'm loving the USB 2.0 on the new camera
Then you're gonna love wireless USB once it's released.
I'm loving the USB 2.0 on the new camera - 5 minutes to drain a 1GB card instead of 20.
I hate you.
I'm loving the USB 2.0 on the new camera - 5 minutes to drain a 1GB card instead of 20.
I hate you.
Parades are fucking boring as hell.
Not in New Orleans, they're not.
Storm clouds are arranging,
all around my door,
I think to myself,
I can't take it anymore.
I know sweet dims. Life is hard. I've tasted the bitter fruit too. Ain't a person alive who hadent tasted that residue.
That's what I like to see. A massive outburst of enthusiasm!
I'm uh, saving it up. Keeping my, um, "powder" dry, as it were.
"Milosevic feared he was being poisoned."
I wouldn't be surprised. Anyone in that region with a vendetta against him wouldn't want to risk suspicion by murdering him only months or even a few years after his capture. He/she/it/they would wait until everyone's guard was down and then try it so as to make it seem natural.
But then again there is always the chance that Milosevic might have tried it himself so as to incriminate the tribunal process, his foes, and to make it seem as painless as possible should he see himself losing the case(as if that were in doubt.)
There is also the chance that the poisoning, if true, could be due to forces eager to put this trial behind them and simply get rid of the guy. This case has dragged on long enough. There is no reason why this should have lasted this long.
MYOB'
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God good, this is one of the freakiest threads I've ever read...
Now we have more bad poetry here...
Not in New Orleans, they're not.
I can believe that. Although even the Mummer's Day parade in Philly bored me to tears, and that's a bit weirder than the average parade.
On the plus side, I'm loving the USB 2.0 on the new camera - 5 minutes to drain a 1GB card instead of 20.
It was taking you 20 minutes to download pictures?
That's crazy.
I don't know what's on the Canon but it doesn't take that long.
Am I the only bozo who actually feels obligated to read every post in a thread, even an open thread, before responding? Even if it means reading, refreshing, reading, refreshing, reading?
I dunno, but I gave up on the idea of being able to read all of the comments in a thread when they started breaking 500 regurlary. I gave up on reading all the threads after they started to break 100. I stopped serching all of them for "troll" when they topped 300.
Now I just scroll up a few comments to get a feel for what's up and then use find if I can't find quite get the gist of a conversation.
From each cat according to its abilities, to each cat according to its needs!
rorschach
Amen to that, brother. Amen to that.
Holy shit!
I posted a dith-like post in hopes to see if he was around and he posted at the same time!
Hi dipthshit!
Mummer's
Very strange people.
evening moonbats
What about vaginas?
They should never be inside anything either.
Eli
I knew right after I posted that I should have checked my grammar.
I can believe that. Although even the Mummer's Day parade in Philly bored me to tears, and that's a bit weirder than the average parade.
I think parades are pretty boring too.
I usually try to shoot the weird stuff that goes on around them. That's a little more interesting.
I'm uh, saving it up. Keeping my, um, "powder" dry, as it were.
Eli
Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Powder?
Am I the only bozo who actually feels obligated to read every post in a thread, even an open thread, before responding? Even if it means reading, refreshing, reading, refreshing, reading?
If it's a long thread the last 10 or 15 posts usually suffice. However, I sometimes end up posting the same or similar comments as someone above, which makes me look like a bit of a clueless dumbass.
Am I the only bozo who actually feels obligated to read every post in a thread, even an open thread, before responding? Even if it means reading, refreshing, reading, refreshing, reading?
Ummm, yes.
Actually, sometimes I'll go back and read up a ways if it sounds like the conversation is interesting.
Today I'm too tired.
God good, this is one of the freakiest threads I've ever read...
Thank you. Next week we'll be appearing in Philly. Don't miss it.
I aint afraid of you Devil
I seen you before
Slinkin through the shadows
Crawlin cross my floor
I know sweet dims. Life is hard. I've tasted the bitter fruit too. Ain't a person alive who hadent tasted that residue.
dith
dith checks in on his advice on polygamy lol
I know sweet dims. Life is hard. I've tasted the bitter fruit too. Ain't a person alive who hadent tasted that residue.
dith
dith checks in on his advice on polygamy lol
Powder is usually better when dry.
In Boston the RC Church has decided to end 100 years of being in the adoption process.
Since the state won't allow them to discriminate against gay couples, the Bishop and the boys in the Vatican, have decided to abandon abandoned kids.
Still, it's probably not as bad as turning all those pedophiles loose on the kids...
"I'm loving the USB 2.0 on the new camera - 5 minutes to drain a 1GB card instead of 20."
Unless you're transferring the whole 1 Gig then the process will probably take longer when or if you have a larger number of files on the camera than at present.
"I hate you.
NTodd, King of Prickistan | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 1:58 pm | # "
It's not enviable Todd.
MYOB'
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4LG,
I wonder if you'd mind recommending a camera that a complete idiot (moi) could buy that would let me download to my mac in a way that even an idiot (moi) could manage??
I don't know what's on the Canon but it doesn't take that long.
It's probably USB 2.0 or Firewire.
I usually try to shoot the weird stuff that goes on around them. That's a little more interesting.
Yeah, that's pretty much my approach. Or reflections in tubas or polished firetruck wheels. I did get some minotaur pictures for tonight, and even some nice beaver shots...
Keeping my, um, "powder" dry, as it were.
Eli
Eli: Make-up artist, cocaine addict, gun enthusiast. You be the judge!
What is it with all these freakazoid republicans?
I guess the kool-aid really does eat brain cells.
Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Powder?
Well, when it's dry...
some nice beaver shots...
I'll pay top dollar for those.
I was doing some work out in Philly about 10 years ago. The client had allowed some of the Mummers parade participants to use the building I was working in as a "dressing room". They all filed in, got shitfaced on gallons of whisky in about 20 minutes, got dressed and stumbled out.
I did get some minotaur pictures for tonight,
Minotaurs! cool!!
Minotaurs and centaurs are related ya know.
Eli: Make-up artist, cocaine addict, gun enthusiast. You be the judge!
Why would it be multiple choice?
I've been shooting all afternoon, some of it really rapid-fire, and I looked *fabulous* doing it.
Since the state won't allow them to discriminate against gay couples, the Bishop and the boys in the Vatican, have decided to abandon abandoned kids.
It's sad when people's hatred is so much stronger than their better motives.
It's sad when people's hatred is so much stronger than their better motives.
Hecate Malificent | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 2:06 pm | #
Word.
"God good, this is one of the freakiest threads I've ever read..."
They've been worse.
Or better depending on your perspective.
MYOB'
.
Why would it be multiple choice?
There was no "or" in there!
I was just calling on people to judge you.
Harshly.
Where is our master? We need another stupid open thread.
Unless you're transferring the whole 1 Gig then the process will probably take longer when or if you have a larger number of files on the camera than at present.
When I say "drain a 1GB card", I'm talking about a full one. There's a big speed difference.
I wonder if you'd mind recommending a camera that a complete idiot (moi) could buy that would let me download to my mac in a way that even an idiot (moi) could manage??
I really like my little Olympus point and shoot digital. It's easy to take photos on, then when you want to download pictures to your lap top, you just plug it into your mac, turn it on, and your mac will launch iPhoto automatically.
You just click "import" and the computer does the rest. Easy as pie.
I think Canon makes some nice point and shoot digitals as well- what price range do you want? I'll do some research for you later today (after I get back from my photo assignment)
Hmmm...
From last night's trailers in between acts of BSG, it's uncertain if Minotaur is going to have eatage in it.
It looks to have it, but we didn't get any sneak previews of it.
Something on the order of the rancor in Ep VI snacking on a Gamorrean would be in order, I think...
I don't care what any of you say. I love teh Natalie Portman.
We need another stupid open thread.
catnip
STAY ON TOPIC!
WCW revisted
so little depends upon
a dim's delusion
soaked in the howlin' tide
next to the clicking tock
I really like my little Olympus point and shoot digital. It's easy to take photos on, then when you want to download pictures to your lap top, you just plug it into your mac, turn it on, and your mac will launch iPhoto automatically.
How's the battery life? I have a Canon Powershot A410 as my backup/pocket camera, and the battery life is ass.
historical events today
# 1513 - Leo X is elected Pope.
# 1649 - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
# 1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
# 1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Maoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
# 1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
# 1900 - Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.
# 1917 - Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude.
# 1941 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
STAY ON TOPIC!
rorschach
Yikes. I've been told.
When I say "drain a 1GB card", I'm talking about a full one. There's a big speed difference.
I think Canon is USB 2- when I download photos to my laptop at work it's very fast.
At home, not so much, but still it's fairly quick.
(I've downloaded at many as 380 high resolution photos at a time)
It's sad when people's hatred is so much stronger than their better motives.
Hecate Malificent | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 2:06 pm | #
I think hating conservatives is a good thing.
It isn't the hatred that is the problem, it's the reason for the hate.
Just like there is nothing wrong with discrimination. We discriminate every day.
It's why you're discriminating that is the problem.
MYOB'
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I don't care what any of you say. I love teh Natalie Portman.
Buzz Bomb
Oh, yeah. A truly bold stance! Because everyone hates that hag!
You rang?
Having the RC Church or any church dictate sexual mores to consenting adults about when, or how, or with who to do it with - is the height of absurdity..
Anyone who follows the dictates of these pontificating hypocrites are nothing but willing victims....
cont.
# 1977 - 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined negotiations.
# 1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
# 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.
# 1988 - Iran-Iraq War: Cease Fire declared.
# 1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
# 2003 - The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague.
# 2004 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 191 people.
and the battery life is ass.
Eli
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Old farts need to know.
How's the battery life? I have a Canon Powershot A410 as my backup/pocket camera, and the battery life is ass.
It's actually pretty good- it takes double As and I use rechargeable.
I don't use the LCD screen though- that really drains the battery quickly.
Oh, sweet. Sabretooth is on Sci-Fi. Good times.
Another reason why we shouldn't just hand over our port security to anyone with 6.8 billion dollars and a pencil.
# 1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
Damn lucky coincidence that that blizzard happened that year, otherwise the name would have been confusing.
my digital camera is a hand me down from my parents.
an Olympua C-300 Zoom
3.0 Megapixel
Moonbotica- it's Saturday.
No history lessons please.
back to a basic issue ... one that should be remembered ... if there's a crime committed we prosecute. period. If Bush hadnt been the administrator (and in my view by extention the main perp) we'd have taken the thing through process not opened our bank account to the retarded theives which ar eht republicans and more specifically the neo-con renagades
fourlegsgood ok apologises.
FAHRENHEIT 451 on TCM Now!!!
Oh, sweet. Sabretooth is on Sci-Fi. Good times.
Eli
Was watching that, but Fahrenheit 451 is on TCM now...
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Old farts need to know.
"Ass" is bad when used as an adjective. Likewise "pants" (my girlfriend insists that "pants" can be used this way).
*Olympus
I don't care what any of you say. I love teh Natalie Portman.
Who among us does not?
Speaking of her rap, here's a related rant I posted a few days ago.
yes an Olympus C-300 Zoom with 3.0 megapixel and opitcal 2.8X zoom.
Was watching that, but Fahrenheit 451 is on TCM now...
Bad call. I think the sabretooth is just about to carry one Annoying Spoiled Bimbo off by her head.
Okay, I need to make me an egg sammich and get ready to go.
I'll email Hecate later. And, more importantly, I'll be back in time for MINOTAUR!!!!
There had better be some decent eatage in this fucking flick.
Anyone have any size MMC card to trade for a 64MB SmartMedia card?
.
"Ass" is bad when used as an adjective. Likewise "pants" (my girlfriend insists that "pants" can be used this way).
Eli
You have a girlfriend? That's ass or pants or something.
Anyone who does not read the 21 posts I've put up on my blog in the last 20 hours is completely uninformed about the world, by the way.
Dear watertiger and Eli:
Thank you very much for the book. I appreciate your thinking of me.
I'll have the Big Dog read it to me tonight. Most appreciated.
Sincerely yours,
Arthur
.
its very bulky.
i've been promised a top notch camera when I graduate.
MCCAIN IN REPUBLICAN STRAW POLL EMBARRASSMENT
Sat Mar 11 2006 12:50:33 ET
Facing a loss at a 2008 straw poll event this weekend, Senator John McCain of Arizona told his supporters to write in President Bush [?] as a sign of support, leaving many sputtering.
"For the next three years, with our country at war, he's our president and the only one who needs our support," McCain told nearly 2,000 party activists from 26 states gathered in Memphis.
McCain, realizing the national political media had descended on the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, moved to discredited the straw poll by asking delegates to vote for Bush, insiders claim.
Instead of stopping the momentum of Majority Leader Bill Frist - widely anticipated to win the straw poll - the move seemed to exposed the McCain camp's insincerity about their position with the base.
One activist said, "McCain voted against all the Bush tax cuts... maybe he should have voted for the president then, instead of waiting for a political stunt to try and distract."
Developing...
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2mc.htm
iknow it is drudge but what the hell?
we shopped a war and they provided market merchandise
fourlegsgood ok apologises.
Ignore me, I'm tired and cranky.
I'm sure everyone else is interested.
My apologies for being a cranky centaur.
fourlegsgood nah its ok
You have a girlfriend? That's ass or pants or something.
Yes, well. These things happen.
Sometimes.
Thank you very much for the book. I appreciate your thinking of me.
You're very welcome, Arthur!
Oy
Bad call. I think the sabretooth is just about to carry one Annoying Spoiled Bimbo off by her head.
Eli
Well, I did see "King Cobra" earlier today on scifi, so I have seen my share of long-toothed head-biting...
Anyone who does not read the 21 posts I've put up on my blog in the last 20 hours is completely uninformed about the world, by the way.
rorschach | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 2:16 pm | #
Subtle. Sub-tle.
I don't think "hate" is a good emotion to have. Not that you can't despise what some people do or what they stand for, but when the "hate" becomes visceral it can cloud judgement.
Or maybe it's that I recently finished a book on Lincoln who was remarkably free of hate, although he sure had more than his share of vicious enemies to hate.
I kind of liked the way he wanted to treat the vanquished South, "With malice toward none...."
Eli, does your new camera use compact flash or smart media?
I don't care what any of you say. I love teh Natalie Portman.
Who among us does not?
Well, I was kinda expecting the usual, "Well sure, she's pretty, but..."
I don't care what any of you say. I love teh Natalie Portman.
Hit him with the chair, Natalie! Hit him with the chair!
"Ass" is bad when used as an adjective. Likewise "pants" (my girlfriend insists that "pants" can be used this way).
Eli | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 2:14 pm | #
That is so tits!
/Cartman
after you gulp in terror ... after spilling a plate full of spaghetti on your dress or watching .. the zapruder film, go back and to the left ... dont forget to breath out and then catch the fuckers yah dig?
Jordan hangs US diplomat killers
Two militants convicted of killing a US diplomat in the Jordanian capital in 2002 have been hanged, officials say.
Libyan Salem bin Suweid and Jordanian Yasser Freihat were among 10 Islamic militants found guilty in 2004 over the killing of Laurence Foley.
Mr Foley, of the US Agency for International Development, was shot dead in Amman in October 2002.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was accused by the Jordanian government of masterminding the attack.
I wonder if Tweety will start asking his quests if Condi is a "socialist?"
"VALPARAISO, Chile - Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first woman president, was sworn in on Saturday before a who’s who of Latin America’s resurgent leftist leadership, and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, Argentina’s Nestor Kirchner, Uruguay’s Tabare Vazquez, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Bolivia’s Evo Morales were among more than two dozen heads of state at the inauguration in the coastal city of Valparaiso, home to Chile’s Congress.
“In Latin America, you have a laborer becoming president, that’s Lula; an Indian, Evo, has arrived; a socialist woman; and a soldier — that’s me, a revolutionary soldier — building a new South American project that is vital for the salvation of our people,” said Chavez as he arrived at Congress."
Message to Democrats: Run hard against the right winged corporate media!
Use America's love for distrusting and hating the media.
Well, I did see "King Cobra" earlier today on scifi, so I have seen my share of long-toothed head-biting...
This is the one with Hoyt Axton singing the stirring theme song "Seth Is The Devil", and Pat Morita talking smack to the giant rattlecobra?
Oh, and the flamingly gay Erik Estrada cameo.
Anyone see the horrendous Reuters article yesterday on Bush's Q&A with the National Newspaper Association, which served as little more than a forum for Bush to state his warped reality without rebuttal? An extremely lazy and irresponsible piece of journalism that:
- Frames Bush's lame mantra about sticking to his guns, despite the polls, repeating it numerous times throughout the article, thus promulgating the notion that his failure without alteration or accountability is actually a courageous, principled act.
- States his approval rating is "below 40 percent" when the latest poll has it at 34% (mighty generous semantics).
- Cites his polls have suffered from "his support for an Arab company's attempt to take over management of six U.S. seaports," when the issue was that the company was owned by the government of the UAE, not that it was an Arab company (the exact tactic the administration employed in their attempt to misinform the public, press and Congress).
- Glosses over the fact that a school teacher in Colorado was suspended for criticizing Bush's State of the Union address.
- Punctuates the cheerleading of Bush's inane logic and deluded self-image by ending the article with:
"He said polls will not cause him to abandon his core beliefs." (Left unanswered, the implication, then, is that “core beliefs” should be uniformly admired. But what if - hypothetically speaking, of course - one’s core beliefs consist of greed, brutality and willful stupidity?)
Subtle. Sub-tle.
Evacuee | 03.11.06 - 2:17 pm | #
Thank you.
Also hum-ble.
Eli, does your new camera use compact flash or smart media?
CF. I guess I'm more compact than smart.
never know when the american version of the taliban might become president (or his unwilling kids)
Well, I was kinda expecting the usual, "Well sure, she's pretty, but..."
What assholes say that? She's pretty, smart and a wonderful actress. And I'm going to marry her.
Eli, does your new camera use compact flash or smart media?
fourlegsgood
I think the smart media format is dead. I have a camera that uses it, and they've been stuck at 256K for about two years now. Shame. Those things sre the size of a guitar pick and quite durable.
This is the one with Hoyt Axton singing the stirring theme song "Seth Is The Devil", and Pat Morita talking smack to the giant rattlecobra?
Oh, and the flamingly gay Erik Estrada cameo.
You got it, babe.
256 MB, not 256K.
I don't care what any of you say. I love teh Natalie Portman.
Hysterical.
I don't care what any of you say. I love teh Natalie Portman.
Hysterical.
What assholes say that? She's pretty, smart and a wonderful actress. And I'm going to marry her.
NTodd,
Polygamist!
*sob*
I think the smart media format is dead. I have a camera that uses it, and they've been stuck at 256K for about two years now. Shame. Those things sre the size of a guitar pick and quite durable.
Yeah, it's mostly between CF and Secure Digital, with xD and Memory Sticks bringing up the rear.
"He said polls will not cause him to abandon his core beliefs."
Which are, of course, that this entire country exists for his corrupt family to suck the blood from.
That is so tits!
/Cartman
rorschach
I have a friend who used to say "That is tits!" about things he liked, way back in like 1989. When I first heard Cartman say it, I couldn't believe it. I of course wanted to call him up and tell him about it, but he's now a married wingnut father of four and probably doesn't allow South Park in his house.
Polygamist!
*sob*
You'll always be my #1 husband.
What exactly is the objection to polygamy (from the point of view of those who actually oppose it, of course)? It can't be as simple as, "I just don't like it."
I don't have permission to access / on this server.
Just sayin'.
Sorbonne left ransacked after French protests
PARIS (Reuters) - Riot police stood guard at Paris's Sorbonne university after breaking up a three-day sit-in there on Saturday and a clean-up operation began as France tried to quell student protests over job reforms.
Education Minister Gilles de Robien visited ransacked offices and held up torn books at the birthplace of France's May 1968 student protest movement, hours after police in riot gear stormed the building and ejected about 200 students and other protestors who had occupied the building since Wednesday.
"This is what happens when you call for disorder," he said.
The protests fall well short of a rebellion against France's old guard which began in the Sorbonne and spread to streets and factories in 1968, leading to early elections and destabilizing President Charles de Gaulle who resigned a year later.
new thread
You'll always be my #1 husband.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Well, okay. *snif*
Just don't return me to Target.
I don't have permission to access / on this server.
/ is overrated.
I of course wanted to call him up and tell him about it, but he's now a married wingnut father of four and probably doesn't allow South Park in his house.
Buzz Bomb
That's saggy tits.
SHEETS!
I think the smart media format is dead. I have a camera that uses it, and they've been stuck at 256K for about two years now. Shame. Those things sre the size of a guitar pick and quite durable.
Yeah, it's mostly between CF and Secure Digital, with xD and Memory Sticks bringing up the rear.
I have three digital cameras, each using a different medium: SM, SD and CF. Bought the Olympus back in 1998, the Canon in 2000, and the Nikon in 2004. I'd say CF is the way to go these days.
Just don't return me to Target.
I would never think of it! We don't have a Target, so I'd go to BestBuy.
Polygamy is primarily a euphemism for female slavery and male pedophilia.
It also deprives young males of eligible females who wind up as part of the old fart's harem.
Polygamy is primarily a euphemism for female slavery and male pedophilia.
It also deprives young males of eligible females who wind up as part of the old fart's harem.
Rudy | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 2:26 pm | #
What about polyandry?
It also deprives young males of eligible females who wind up as part of the old fart's harem.
I'm trying to decide whether I'm closer to the young male or old fart camp before I make up my mind on the subject.
Hecate --
Glad Wells is home
(m'kay -- not as glad as Mom is)
I think many here would agree with you (at least in theory) about plural marriage, the point implied in the discussion was that the reality of Mormon style multiple wives is patriarchy in its most abhorent form -- wealthy old man with many child brides
Vicki --
Getting ready?
I'm trying to decide whether I'm closer to the young male or old fart camp before I make up my mind on the subject.
Eli
Oh, that's one's easy to figure out. Just check the bank account.
What about polyandry?
Evacuee
Where the hell is that being practiced???
Oh, that's one's easy to figure out. Just check the bank account.
Polygamy is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
Oh, that's one's easy to figure out. Just check the bank account.
Polygamy is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
Eli
Heh. See, there ya go.
What about polyandry? ...
Where the hell is that being practiced???
Rudy | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 2:30 pm | #
We can always hope.
Polygamy is primarily a euphemism for female slavery and male pedophilia.
No it's not. Polygamy is a particular concept and practice. That it has sometimes been accompanied by other issues is not germane.
One might as well argue the same of monogamous marriage. Or going steady.
I was hoping to be number 618
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