I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Frist
Hello?
ptang!
I wouldn't of had to rush if the page would load more quickly. One of the ads must be slowing it down.
Sully is falling back on what he wrote after the "decadent left" quote first attracted critics
I retract nothing, since the point I thought he was trying to make is simply untrue. I have absolutely nothing against the countless patriots in the blue zone, as my tribute to New Yorkers and the rest of the essay shows. I was talking about a few intellectuals and their cohorts who clearly do feel ambivalence about America fighting and winning this war. But these broad categories of "blue" and "red zones" can be misleading and unhelpful. I won't use this shorthand again. Ditto the shorthand of "fifth column." I have no reason to believe that even those sharp critics of this war would actually aid and abet the enemy in any more tangible ways than they have done already. And that dissent is part of what we're fighting for. By fifth column, I meant simply their ambivalence about the outcome of a war on which I believe the future of liberty hangs. Again, I retract nothing. But I am sorry that one sentence was not written more clearly to dispel any and all such doubts about its meaning. Writing 6,000 words under deadline in the heat of war can lead to occasional sentences whose meaning is open to misinterpretation.
If it ain't McCain and it ain't Frist, who is the Republican Kwisatz Haderach? We must identify him now and send out an army of bimbos to seduce him......
Ah, see. I knew I wouldn't be frist, so I didn't say it.
As for the post, well, if anybody doesn't think AWOL has damaging information on McCain or his family somewhere, then I'd like to get some better explanation for this shameful and quite sad display.
Tone-Loc def, beyotch!
Lost "sight" ?
One of my friends pointed this out months ago, that the so-called Bush loyalists weren't really so loyal. That they'd dump him if he became dead weight. I guess that time is upon us.
For about five seconds I thought McCain would be better than W. Then I realized he has the same political ideology, and he knows how to work the bureaucracy. Kind of like Johnson getting all of JFK's Great Society programs passed. McCain would be a disaster. And I feel no pity for the ratfucker at all.
i'd respond to these salacious posts about me but my nose,
lips and tongue seem to be stuck in the president's colon
Does McCain have advanced syphilis or what? His brain has obviously turned into mush.
These Republican hijinks are more and more boring.
I'll buy that. McCain's been fooling himself for a long time now.
He's a 'maverick' who lost sight of substantive integrity years ago.
And now, he thinks he's the anointed one in 2008.
But anyone who thinks he can take a 'stand' against torture, then sit quietly by while Bush eviscerates that measure, has real problems with reality. And accountability.
Given that he, too, was tortured, but doesn't get why the Nazis were so vilified in WWII, and doesn't get why torture is wrong and off-limits for Americans -- well, it's very telling.
Imagine what a McCain Presidency would be like. I'll take a pass. More two-facedness we cannot abide.
more showing of the brainwashed need to steal the american public's trust in their inherent better senses to reject this "party out of control"
A-man --
I SURE hope you are right about McCain's time having passed
The Repuke line-up looks like a bunch of non-entities (we're DOOMED!)
Molly Ivin's take down on the DC Dems (excepting Russ Feingold) was prime -- I wish she would run -- I'd vote for her (even though I here her breast cancer is back -- who's her VP?)
If Sullivan believes the "future of liberty hangs" on what's happening in Iraq, he has clearly lost any hold on reality. It reminds me of the domino theory in the '60's: if S. Vietnam goes Communist, then the West has lost the Cold War. It was crazy then; it's crazy now.
McCain: The record will show that I've always supported the...(hand over the mike), always opposed the...
Johnny M--Don't you know that you can't appease blackmailers? Whatever he has on you, could it be worse than the pix we've all seen of you all but frenching the monkey-king?
Hiya, bats.
McCain needs to take a nice long holiday somewhere
Hiya, Mary! How goes it?
I just ran across a quote from the movie "Destry Rides Again". It makes me think of the folks in the GOP...
He reminds me of a little kid I used to know. He done in both his pa and ma with a crowbar. The judge said to him, he said, "Do you got anything to say for yourself?" and the kid said, "Well I just hope your honor has some regard for the feelings of a poor orphan."
Bush & McCain: Birds of a feather "fluck" together.
Ya know, maybe McCain was affected by his POW experience after all. If this ain't the "Stockholm Syndrome," I don't know what is...
allowing things that other people do to us to effect our unity reminds me of scenes from CRASH ... the recent winner of the Best Motion Picture award
Asking "after McCain, who?" Is sort of pointless at this point: Chimpy came put of nowhere and no one took him seriously for a long time. I heard that some of his early donors actually thought they were giving money to his dad, though for what I don't know.
We need to support Fristmentum.
If it ain't McCain and it ain't Frist, who is the Republican Kwisatz Haderach? We must identify him now and send out an army of bimbos to seduce him......
Call out The Missionaria Protectiva
rorschach,
I'm okay. I was lurking at like 4am: best of luck on the post-doc!
allowing things that other people do to us to effect our unity reminds me of scenes from CRASH ... the recent winner of the Best Motion Picture award
Clarissa Explains All
Did anyone else find it odd that Cronenberg's film from 10 years ago won Best Picture this year?
more showing of the brainwashed need to steal the american public's trust in their inherent better senses to reject this "party out of control"
Clarissa Explains All | 03.11.06 - 3:19 pm |
I don't know who the GOP will nominate, but it won't be McCain.
I think it will be Allen
I wish we could elect someone like Chile's new president
rorschach,
I'm okay. I was lurking at like 4am: best of luck on the post-doc!
NYMary | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 3:23 pm | #
Thank you. Though it is, of course, a long shot, I just have this feeling that it's meant to be.
A dangerous feeling, of course, but there it is.
McCain isn't enough of a hater to get the nomination - he's a politician down to his toenails, and has as many true principles as my cat.
The whole faux-moderate, compassionate-conservative, man-of-the-people politics based on RoveCo, that gave us the first President made entirely of textured vegitable protein, is coming to an end.
The threat of the loony-tunes wing of the party staying home is real --ask Bob Dole. Ask Bush senior.
The swingiest of swing votes is the non-voting vote.
Like all addicts, the Talibornagains are getting to the dangerous point where the amount of drugs that gets them off (or to the polls), and the amount of drug that kills them (and the hopes of a GOP presidency) off, are starting to approach each other.
McCain's not hot enough for them. The GOP is going to have to nominate a true believer this time. A good hater.
Whoever in the party is the closest thing to a white Alan Keyes will get the nomination.
Get to your bookie now, while the odds are still good.
Just for a little dose of the outside world--I still think most Americans think of McCain as the "maverick, independent, voice of integrity" in politics. I hope whoever runs against him in 08 is ready to counter that and doesn't play into it by refusing to point out his bull. I don't want to hear the dem candidate constantly deferring to Johnny's war hero status; the repubs certainly didn't give Kerry any of the respect he was due.
McCain is sucking up to Bush now in order to get his and Rove's support come 08'.
He wants that fundy support and only by kissing up to the fundy's chosen steward of the throne of god on earth keeping the seat warm till jesus returns is going to get it.
If he can get the endorsement he might just have Rove stay on for the campaign as a stealth advisor which is what Rove will probably do since there is no more political career for Bush once he leaves office. It's back to ranch and rubbing bald men's heads.
MYOB'
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I wish we could elect someone like Chile's new president
Hecate Malificent
Yeah:
Woman
Agnostic
Socialist
Unwed mother of three
Why is the US so fucking backwards?
McCain is the aged prize fighter who never quite made it and keeps going back into the ring with hopes of winning the belt.
I think it will be Allen.
Oh, I hope so.
I--diot Wind..............
so many birthday cakes, so little time.
thanks ror ... I thought for a minute I might have had the horse before the cart
Did anyone else find it odd that Cronenberg's film from 10 years ago won Best Picture this year?
rorschach
I thought that was bizarre but hey - that's Hollywood!
Why is the US so fucking backwards?
We're from the other hemisphere?
President Brownback.
I mean, come on. Just think of all the nicknames.
Are Women Taking Over the World?
The world's first female President came to power on July 1, 1974. Maria Estela Martinez de Peron automatically replaced her husband Juan Domingo Peron, who was Argentina's president between 1946-1955 and 1973-1974.
After Maria Estela, the world has had at least 32 female presidents. In subsequent decades but never more has the rise of women leaders been more marked than in the year 2005.
Although women have been working their way to the top over the years, 2005 outshone the previous years in terms of the number and quality of women it sent to the top.
Apart from holding significant positions, the women in question are outstanding by virtue of the circumstances that propelled them to power. Most of 2005's women have risen through a tough past and previously held positions in the governments they now lead. They have an excellent academic record and CVs that make you wonder how they found the time to accomplish so much.
President Brownback.
EEewwwwwww!
I disagree N ... McCain knows only to clearly he's out without a doubt and more like Dole's wife keeps beating a dead drum for people's soul's they've swallowed
McCain isn't enough of a hater to get the nomination - he's a politician down to his toenails, and has as many true principles as my cat.
Hey! My fans resemble that remark.
Not sure what this means, but the 2008 election will be the first since 1952 without either a sitting preznit or sitting veep running. Opportunity? For what?
hell even Britain managed a female PM.
ok so she was hardly 'female' but still......
Why is the US so fucking backwards?
Because our revolution was over 2 centuries ago.
Are Women Taking Over the World?
More importantly, I think is: Are leftists taking over South America?
All signs point to yes.
They have an excellent academic record and CVs that make you wonder how they found the time to accomplish so much.
Why? Would we wonder if they were men?
As for the post, well, if anybody doesn't think AWOL has damaging information on McCain or his family somewhere
So he does have a black baby? I knew it!
As for the post, well, if anybody doesn't think AWOL has damaging information on McCain or his family somewhere
So he does have a black baby? I knew it!
hell even Britain managed a female PM.
Hey, at least we had Gale Norton!
Sad pandering politician near the end of his career and he doesn't even know it.
Yes. A la Norma Desmond "I'm ready for my close-up Mr. DeVille."
lolly has a good point. We look at McCain and see his buckling and sucking up to BushCo, his complete lack of principles, etc. but the fact is the Brand McCain (tm) is seen as being pretty sterling. It's going to take some work, some really cold-blooded work, to undo that.
Hecate --
Everyone here wishes we could elect someone like Chile's new president!
They got here from Pinochet -- why can't good things happen to us?
McCain really is the perfect symbol for this administration - tone deaf, repetitive, manipulative...
Liberia recently elected a female leader - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born October 29, 193
is the current President of Liberia. Her election victory was formally announced by the Liberian elections commission on November 23, 2005 following the 2005 election. She is the first elected female President of an African country. Her Vice President is Joseph Boakai. She is often referred to as the "Iron Lady".
Like all addicts, the Talibornagains are getting to the dangerous point where the amount of drugs that gets them off (or to the polls), and the amount of drug that kills them (and the hopes of a GOP presidency) off, are starting to approach each other.
One of the best posts I've read in a long time.
the fact is the Brand McCain (tm) is seen as being pretty sterling. It's going to take some work, some really cold-blooded work, to undo that.
NYMary
True.
Campaign slogan: Even Kerry didn't get caught!
Horrors!!!
Just saw a Faux news headline:
*Are women anchors taking over the evening news?*
Hahahahaha.
Not sure what this means, but the 2008 election will be the first since 1952 without either a sitting preznit or sitting veep running. Opportunity? For what?
Draco | 03.11.06 - 3:28 pm | #
Assuming, of course, that the birdshot spewing cyborg doesn't relucatantly accept the nomination.
The only reason McCain pulled this done is because he knew he was going to lose and lose big-time. He needed to do something to bring attention to himself and supporting Bush was the best he could do.
In Red Cross training to prevent drowning the first lesson is never grab hold of the person drowning next to you.
Germany of course has Angela Merkel.
it's a rough slide back NYMary that's for sure
South America is really interesting these days. Too bad Incurious George is too obsessed w/ Iraq to even notice South America.
...and has as many true principles as my cat
Hey! My fans resemble that remark.
I have cats, and I love them, but if they didn't need us to open the cans, they'd murder us in our sleep.
Miniature tigers who condescend to live among us.
Horrors!!!
Just saw a Faux news headline:
*Are women anchors taking over the evening news?*
Hahahahaha.
pie
Oh, I have housecleaning to do. Maybe I'll put on Anchorman in the background.
South America is shedding its postion as America's backyard.
Sorry, I had a voice input error in my last message.
The only reason McCain pulled this stupid stunt is because he knew he was going to lose and lose big-time. He needed to do something to bring attention to himself and supporting Bush was the best he could do.
In Red Cross training to prevent drowning the first lesson is never grab hold of the person drowning next to you.
Merkel pleads for diplomacy over Iran
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has urged a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear plans, saying the international community has to avoid the divisions seen in the run up to the 2003 Iraq war.
"I am doing everything I can as chancellor to ensure the international community follows a common path to make clear to Iran what is possible and what is not possible and where the red line is," she told reporters on Saturday after a meeting with Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, in Berlin.
"I find it very hopeful that the IAEA has succeeded in getting a resolution that brings in the UN Security Council," she said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Just for a little dose of the outside world--I still think most Americans think of McCain as the "maverick, independent, voice of integrity" in politics....
lolly | 03.11.06 - 3:25 pm | #
That's why probably the most important work to be done between now and '08 is the further attack on the mendacity of the Sunday morning fluffers.
Assuming, of course, that the birdshot spewing cyborg doesn't relucatantly accept the nomination.
With his approval ratings?!!!
(How are you doing?)
McCain is a whack-job. Must be all that time spent as a POW. It made him nuts. And he had that little black child. What kind of Republican would father a black child? I also hear he is a bit on the queer side.
He is trying to crawl on his knees to the wingnuts ... but they aren't having any of it. Why should they. McCain voted to raise taxes and thinks we should coddle terrorists. He also thinks we should turn our ports over to Arabs.
He's history! Piss on him, I say.
disallowing watergate felons might be a start in turning this government around
but then there's always the mounting Bush junior felons OMG do we have any backbone? do we have any honest public servants? ... please step forward
More importantly, I think is: Are leftists taking over South America?
All signs point to yes.
rorschach
A very salient point, espeically because the US is not exactly in the best position to do anything about it.
The CIA is a mess, and the military is nigh unto broken. The rest of the world is going to balk at any more frivolous sanctions.
Since we get a huge amount of oil and other key resources from Latin America, things are going to be real interesting for the next decade or so.
Holy crap! There's a mockingbird outside my window!
McCain could have done the country a huge favor and helped himself at the same time - by standing up to BushCo on so many issues - including the torture legislation.
The picture of him hugging Bush and Bush just standing there - not hugging back - that image said it all!!
I think that the Rs will pick a moderate - not McCain (McCain isn't really a moderate or a maverick)
even Central Asia is slipping out of USA's grasp.
China, Iran and Russia are filling the void.
India has emerged as an important power.
Later, bats. I'm off to plant some seeds.
Holy crap! There's a mockingbird outside my window!
Don't take it seriously!
pie,
I'm good. Hoping a good session of cleaning house might coax these contractions into productive regularity.
And I don't think Dick much cares about his approval ratings. He can play the Diebold card in a pinch, and the corporate money is all his.
all i want now is Britain to stop sucking up to the Bush Junta!
South America is really interesting these days. Too bad Incurious George is too obsessed w/ Iraq to even notice South America.
Hecate Malificent
I don't think it's a bad thing at all.
Bush's neglect of, say, China, is very very bad. But Bush's neglect of South America is permitting the growth of a leftist international coalition that likely would have been subverted by more competent and attention US regimes.
They got here from Pinochet -- why can't good things happen to us?
All tyrants fall in the end. If Chile can go from Pinochet to a Bachelet, we can go from Bush to the likes of a Granholm (yes, I know she's a furriner, but that's not the point). The Chileans earned their good fortune. We will again someday as well.
Not sure what this means, but the 2008 election will be the first since 1952 without either a sitting preznit or sitting veep running.
Hey, not so fast there! There's still three years and a lot of accidents can happen on hunting trips.
South America is beautiful. I traveled in the mid 90's for five weeks through Colombia and Venezuela, mountains, glaciers, and jungle.
Awesome people and surroundings.
That is all.
fuck it I want an end to NuLab.
Don't take it seriously!
Ba da bing!
OK, I gotta go do laundry. back in a bit.
Holy crap! There's a mockingbird outside my window!
watertiger
If it doesn't sing, I can get you a diamond ring instead....
I think that the Rs will pick a moderate - not McCain (McCain isn't really a moderate or a maverick)
McCain's history, as is anyone who hugged Bush.
A moderate repub like Hagel, who didn't have the balls to stand up tp Bush's policies?
Coward.
watertiger --
There's a big black cat outside my window -- he's trying to tear off the screen & get in!
Assuming, of course, that the birdshot spewing cyborg doesn't relucatantly accept the nomination.
NYMary | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 3:31 pm | #
Going by the polls, his standing with his own party may be worse than W's with the entire country. General election? God, he wouldn't win Utah the way things are going.
db ... I could settle easyon the POW interment as the reference to McCains lack of coherency except for the obvious fact that all the rest of them havent done any "duty" and are so constipated they seem to sprout shit on a rainy day
S America is embracing its Lefist and populist traditions.
There's a word for what McCain is achieving....
JOEMENTUM!
There's a mockingbird outside my window!
Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck
If he can get the endorsement he might just have Rove stay on for the campaign as a stealth advisor which is what Rove will probably do since there is no more political career for Bush once he leaves office. It's back to ranch and rubbing bald men's heads.
This is the really frustrating part for me. Chimpy will be term-limited out. But unless he gets struck by lightning, robbed and stabbed by a male prostitute, or chokes on a ham sandwich, come 2009 we still will not be rid of the pestilence that is Karl Rove.
70% of the voters polled in the lastest AP poll said that they think the country is going in the WRONG direction - and many of that 70% are Republicans and Independents.
As for the post, well, if anybody doesn't think AWOL has damaging information on McCain or his family somewhere, then I'd like to get some better explanation for this shameful and quite sad display.
lolly
I think he's just sucking up to get the "keys" to Diebold. I just don't know who actually controls the "keys".
I have cats, and I love them, but if they didn't need us to open the cans, they'd murder us in our sleep.
I've heard mine fiddling with the can opener in the wee hours. I sleep with one eye open.
there's fungus amongus
Cooperatives as Schools of Self-Government
[T]he fact is the Brand McCain (tm) is seen as being pretty sterling. It's going to take some work, some really cold-blooded work, to undo that.
This is what I was saying in the previous thread. McCain is easy to expose as rotten, there just has to be an effort made to deconstruct his bogus media image. Democrats would be smart starting on this now. They're going to need three years to undo the last decade or so of corporate smooching he's gotten.
Taliban kidnap four Albanians
Taliban insurgents abducted four Albanian nationals on Saturday in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the Islamic movement said.
The four people whose identities were not immediately clear, were kidnapped at gun point in Maiwand district in the southern province of Kandahar, spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said.
"The four Albanians were travelling in two vehicles when our Mujahideen (holy warriors) kidnapped them," Yousuf said by satellite phone from an undisclosed location.
Government officials in Kandahar and in Kabul said they had not heard about the report.
When will we get our Prague Spring?
He can play the Diebold card in a pinch, and the corporate money is all his.
The media would have to get his ratings up BIGTIME, and he would have to lose by a whisper.
He never, ever had good ratings, which is prolly why he never actually ran for president.
Just put the camera on his swollen feet. He couldn't withstand the rigors of a campaign. No way.
There's a word for what McCain is achieving....JOEMENTUM!
Android
Seriously - have you seen him lately? Talk about a "sad pandering politician near the end of his career and he doesn't even know it"!!!
"McCain's absolutely wrong to think that the way to curry favor with the party faithful is to suck up to Bush. The faithful are basically done with Bush, disappointed with what he's failed to provide them with and at least vaguely aware of his detached incompetence. The authoritarian cultists are looking around for a new cult leader and they're a bit tired of the last one. We've reached the end of the days of Republicanism=Bushism, and people are now desperate to redefine it."
Much as I'd like to agree with you Duncan, you're about 4 to 6 years early on that one. It's going to take another Great Depression scenario to bring the pendulum back Dem's way. Unfortunately, that is where we are headed.
India has had a female leader - Indira Gandhi
Pakistan too - Benazir Bhutto
McCain is easy to expose as rotten, there just has to be an effort made to deconstruct his bogus media image. Democrats would be smart starting on this now.
Unfortunately, the Dems are not smart. They are feckless, equivocating cowards.
*Are women anchors taking over the evening news?*
Blonde women!
Just put the camera on his swollen feet. He couldn't withstand the rigors of a campaign. No way.
It might be one way of hurrying-up the inevitable.
Marx said: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
He's a very modern thinker.
In our postmodern world, we've got tragedy and farce, simultaneously, each and every fucking day.
It's not like Arizonans haven't been telling youse guys this.
Blonde women!
Katie better dye her hair. Has she gotten the job at wherever? CBS?
Haven't been paying attention.
Who is Rove backing for '08?
best of luck on the post-doc!
NYMary | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 3:23 pm | #
Thank you. Though it is, of course, a long shot, I just have this feeling that it's meant to be.
Is it that you are considering doing a postdoctoral fellowship yourself? Or are you considering dating a postdoctoral fellow?
Hoo boy, I can tell you from extensive experience that neither of these things is necessarily so great .....
Muslims speak in hushed tone and revere this lady - Umm Kulthum
Umm Kulthum (Arabic: أم كلثوم other English spellings include: Oum Kalsoum, Oum Kalthum, Omm Kolsoum, Umm Kolthoum, Um Kalthoom) (c. 4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptian singer and musician. One of the best known and most beloved of all singers in the Arab world, her albums still outsell many others in the Arabic language.
It might be one way of hurrying-up the inevitable.
No bunker for you, Dick.
JD Hayworth going after Gov. Napolitano won't help.
Canada had a female Prime Minister for about a minute and a half.
Seriously - have you seen him lately? Talk about a "sad pandering politician near the end of his career and he doesn't even know it"!!!
portia
You may think that, but McCain has some tricks hidden up his sleeve.
Or stored in those disturbing cheeks of his.
*shudder*
I agree puppethead .. there needs to be a discerned effort to enable americans to no McCain and all the other cadidates ... and a rediatribe of the people in office and leaving or left because of ...(wanting to spend more time with their familys) we should know the old and the young the past and the present to have a clear picture of the american political system from the per-sixties until the present and maybe then some.
Much as I'd like to agree with you Duncan, you're about 4 to 6 years early on that one.
No, he's right on.
Well, I hope you guys are right about Cheney. But I can definitely picture scenarios where he steps in as a weary elder statesman to right the course of the pitching ship of state.
Ségolène Royal is being seriously considered as a future Madame la Présidente
Ségolène Royal /segolɛn ʁwajal/ (born September 22, 1953 in Dakar, Sénégal) is a French politician, and a prominent member of the Socialist Party.
A graduate of the ENA, she was a judge (conseiller) of an administrative court before holding elected office [1]. She is a député for the Deux-Sèvres département, and served as Minister of Environment under Pierre Bérégovoy from 1992 to 1993. On 28 March 2004, she was elected (with more than 55%) president of the region Poitou-Charentes, notably defeating Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin in his home region.
Or are you considering dating a postdoctoral fellow?
That'd probably piss my wife off just a little.
She's extremely unreasonable, as women generally are.
You may think that, but McCain has some tricks hidden up his sleeve.
Or stored in those disturbing cheeks of his.
*shudder*
I was hoping they were acorns.
It's especially weird that McCain doesn't understand how the narrative has changed, as the Shrill One warned us it would -- the cachet now is being a "maverick." Witness to big wet kiss to Linsday Graham in the NYT today.
On September 22, 2005, Paris Match published an interview in which she declared that she was considering running for the presidency in 2007 [2]. As of February 2006, Royal leads public opinion polls in France, ahead of other leading contender Nicolas Sarkozy but behind Bernard Kouchner
while the bush administration attempts to close records we should make sure they are not (disfound) and destroyed like his pay stubs which would have clearly shown he was at least guilty or defrauding the american military for accepting pay while AWOL
"If it ain't McCain and it ain't Frist, who is the Republican Kwisatz Haderach? We must identify him now and send out an army of bimbos to seduce him......"
Can you say Jeb!?
That'd probably piss my wife off just a little.
Is't her doctorate fairly fresh as well?
Hoo boy, I can tell you from extensive experience that neither of these things is necessarily so great .....
blerb
Hunh. I thought they were fine, myself.
Hayworth is an ass.
But I can definitely picture scenarios where he steps in as a weary elder statesman to right the course of the pitching ship of state.
Not after he's wronged it for so long. No one connected to this administration in that kind of capacity has a future.
This This American Life program about Gitmo is just devastating. I mean, I knew all that "Those people are Terrists, the worst of the worst!" stuff was a bunch of crap, but this is beyond belief. I had no idea how bad it is.
My blood is boiling. Somebody needs to go to jail for a long, long time over this.
Can you say Jeb!?
CAGary
He's a little distracted by his girlfriend's Senate campaign imploding, but he may be over that by next year.
Is't her doctorate fairly fresh as well?
NYMary
Oh yes. Fresh as in "defending in a couple months." As mine is fresh as in "defending in the summer" (the medical problems delayed me, but I'll be ready by fall semester).
She's extremely unreasonable, as women generally are.
Them's fightin' words!
I challenge you to a duel!
(Carrots or celery?)
Ségolène Royal /segolɛn ʁwajal/ (born September 22, 1953 in Dakar, Sénégal) is a French politician, and a prominent member of the Socialist Party.
A graduate of the ENA
Very similar to background to de Villepin then -- born abroad (presumably as diplomat kid), then ENArque. It's not clear that's the kind of profile one wants given France's current anti-establishment mood.
Well, I hope you guys are right about Cheney. But I can definitely picture scenarios where he steps in as a weary elder statesman to right the course of the pitching ship of state.
Better lash himself to the mainmast, or he'll be thrown overboard!
A woman's guide to success in the Kremlin
In the man's world that is Russia, a woman's work is rarely in the corridors of power. But that may change now that the only female candidate in the last presidential election has written a guide on how to get ahead in the testosterone-fuelled world of Moscow's political elite.
Irina Khakamada, a former junior minister who polled 3.8% of the vote in March 2004, launched her memoir, Sex in Big Politics, yesterday. The book advises politically ambitious women on how to get on in politics. She said: "There are unwritten rules. You can't read them in the constitution, so I explain how it happens in real life. It's difficult, sophisticated advice, and very wise.
He never, ever had good ratings, which is prolly why he never actually ran for president.
Just put the camera on his swollen feet. He couldn't withstand the rigors of a campaign. No way.
pie
Big Time is like all the people in the various places I've worked who manage to get the jobs that have all of the power, but none of the responsibility. They usually give the job of "manager" to some lackey they can control (cf. Bush), and the manager gets to do all the unpleasant things like hiring, firing, and scheduling, while the Cheney-types sit in the back room running everything, and everyone fears them.
Not after he's wronged it for so long. No one connected to this administration in that kind of capacity has a future.
Like I said, I hope you're right.
I challenge you to a duel!
(Carrots or celery?)
pie
Maintaining my chauvinist persona, I must insist upon sausages.
Afternoon, all. Have I missed anything
irksome since last evening?
Can you say Jeb!?
I can.
Terri Jeb Schiavo.
Ugh, a smash from downstairs.
Later, bats!
Just keep doing what you've been doing, John McCain.
The whole scenario of him becoming president is not realistic. Isn't he going to be in his early seventies in 2008? Hasn't he had melanoma twice? Let me make this perfectly clear, I don't wish melanoma on *anyone*. My brother-in-law died from it in his early forties. The point is, McCain is *just* *not* that healthy and not that young. Running for president and being president are very stressful.
Hunh. I thought they were fine, myself.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Doing them or dating them? I was only kidding about the dating part. The doing, not so much. I've been at it over 4 years now, and I'm starting to get that "Auntie Em! Auntie Em" feeling, you know, like the lobster in the Far Side cartoon......
Maintaining my chauvinist persona, I must insist upon sausages.
Andouille, chorizo, or smoked?
If only we could infiltrate the sound crews at GOP events, we could be devastating!
Ugh, a smash from downstairs.
I didn't do it.
The CIA is a mess, and the military is nigh unto broken. The rest of the world is going to balk at any more frivolous sanctions.
Since we get a huge amount of oil and other key resources from Latin America, things are going to be real interesting for the next decade or so.
Diane | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 3:34 pm
That's why Rummy will send in the Marines. He doesn't like the CIA.
Are Transsexual Ex-Prostitutes Taking over the World?
cheney ... innocent lamb trying to work out these pesky problems with todays youth and america's babyboomer swollen contingency ...what a man ...we'd of thought he had "better things to do"
Atrios is right that the base is casting about looking for the next cult leader. McCain knows that too, which is why he's trying hard to get the Bush mantel on his shoulders. That energy is volatile and unpredictable, but once you've got it, you're more than halfway to the goal. If McCain gets the nomination, he wins the election. Everyone knows that. In the meantime, strategic ass-kissing and fence-mending will be the rule of the day.
Andouille, chorizo, or smoked?
pie
Jalapeno, baby!
Is't her doctorate fairly fresh as well?
NYMary
Oh yes. Fresh as in "defending in a couple months." As mine is fresh as in "defending in the summer" (the medical problems delayed me, but I'll be ready by fall semester).
All you elitists with your fancy degrees make us lowly BAs feel like complete useless shit.
another one to be checked for wyoming jade absorbtion
If McCain gets the nomination, he wins the election. Everyone knows that.
"Everyone knows that
" my ass!!
That's why Rummy will send in the Marines. He doesn't like the CIA.
Buckeye
Send them in where?
The whole scenario of him becoming president is not realistic. Isn't he going to be in his early seventies in 2008? Hasn't he had melanoma twice?
Cheney has had - what is it by now? - 27 heart attacks? And he's still kicking...or shooting, as it were.
They're going to need three years to undo the last decade or so of corporate smooching he's gotten.
puppethead
The question is how. The media is firmly in the hands of the corporatists. And if you had any doubts, the latest dust up of Tweety taking fees from right wing groups should have disabused you of that notion.
NYMary - I got down on my hands and knees and scrubbed all the floors in my home trying to encourage my younger daugter to come and greet the world. Didn't work for another two weeks.
During the various diplomaic and war events which shaped Europe around the 17th and 18th century these three women certainly had a lot of power and lnfluence over foregin affairs
Marie-Anne de la Trémoille, princesse des Ursins
Madame de Maintenon
Sophia of Hanover
Bring back pillories.
Fearless prediction:
The presidential candidates of
both the Dems and Repugs in 08 will be
people nobody is really talking
about now. They will be maverick
dark horses -- which is to say,
for example, that neither Hillary
or McCain will get the respective
nods.
Mr. McCain praised the president for his failed effort to rewrite the nation's Social Security system, said he supported the decision to go into Iraq...
Thank you, senator, for the 2008 advertisement.
"Just like his best friend, George W. Bush, John McCain wants to take your hard-earned Social Security money away from you!"
That's why Rummy will send in the Marines. He doesn't like the CIA.
Buckeye
Send them in where?
rorschach
The New York Times newsroom.
As for the post, well, if anybody doesn't think AWOL has damaging information on McCain or his family somewhere, then I'd like to get some better explanation for this shameful and quite sad display.
lolly
one speculation is that it involves a bit of historical revision of admiral john mccain jr's reputation, in addition to some juicy details of john III's navy shenanigans.
All you elitists with your fancy degrees make us lowly BAs feel like complete useless shit.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
You're just jealous of my tremendous, hard, throbbing, massive...
Debt.
Jalapeno, baby!
Habanero, dollface!
Doing them or dating them?
Well, um, both.
discredit McCain (and rightfully) before it grows I concur
The whole scenario of him becoming president is not realistic. Isn't he going to be in his early seventies in 2008? Hasn't he had melanoma twice?
Once and again.
Heart Trouble is bad, but cancer is insidious.
Cheney has had - what is it by now? - 27 heart attacks? And he's still kicking...or shooting, as it were.
catnip
Ailments of the heart are as irrelevant to Cheney as ailments of the brain are to Bush.
They just don't use the things that often.
All you elitists with your fancy degrees make us lowly BAs feel like complete useless shit.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Good. The plan is working.
Are Transsexual Ex-Prostitutes Taking over the World?
I hope so!
Brad Pitt is so hot!
(I just had to let that out.)
This is great news. It knocks out the Republican candidate with the best chance of winning a general election.
Frist won the straw poll, and he's every bit as appealing as Lurch. Actually, less so - there was something endearing about Lurch.
Jalapeno, baby!
Habanero, dollface!
pie
Shall we call it a draw?
Heart Trouble is bad, but cancer is insidious.
Running rampant in the heartland?
Well, um, both.
You actually enjoyed doing your postdoc?
.....
I hate you!!!!
That's why Rummy will send in the Marines. He doesn't like the CIA.
Buckeye
Send them in where?
rorschach | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 3:52 pm
South America. I'm sure Rummy will start with Chavez, and head somewhere from there
You're just jealous of my tremendous, hard, throbbing, massive...
Debt.
rorschach
NO FLIRTING!
Shall we call it a draw?
Yeah. I love you. Don't want to see you smokin'.
You're just jealous of my tremendous, hard, throbbing, massive...
Debt.
No, just intimidated by the initials on your resume.
Good. The plan is working.
We, the ignornat underclass, will eventually rise up against our intellectual overlords.
South America. I'm sure Rummy will start with Chavez, and head somewhere from there
Buckeye
Pfft. You're just being silly.
Byron York's hair thinks that the White House has a problem with the shoplifter, not least from Sweatie McClellan's response to the resignation a few weeks ago
Q: Are you going to release Claude's resignation letter to us?
MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, I expect we will.
Q: And does it say effective when?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think he's still working that out with Andy Card and others.
Q: A Wednesday night seems like a rather sudden time to resign. Is there anything you want to add, because --
MR. McCLELLAN: Wednesday night?
Q: Last night. To resign. Is there anything you want to add --
MR. McCLELLAN: Wednesday night?
Q: Last night.
MR. McCLELLAN: This -- first of all, as I indicated, we're all going to miss him here at the White House. Claude served for four years as Deputy Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, and he's been serving here for the last year. He's put in a lot of long hours during that time, and I think you'll see reflected in his letter he has a family; he wants to be able to spend more time with them. And we're all going to miss him here. But we wish him the best, and fully understand the decision that he made. But it's something he's been looking at for -- I don't know -- the last several weeks, I think, or the last few weeks, at least. And he's been talking about when would be a good time to do this. And I think he wanted to make sure we got through the State of the Union and this would be a good time to transition.
during the medieval period in Europe you had such females as
Isabella of France who with her lover deposed her husband.
Eleanor of Aquitaine who was Queen-consort of both France and England
As for the post, well, if anybody doesn't think AWOL has damaging information on
McCain or his family somewhere, then I'd like to get some better explanation for this
shameful and quite sad display.
lolly
What explains Bill Clinton's
disgracefully cozying up to Bush 41?
That's what I'd like to know....
All you elitists with your fancy degrees make us lowly BAs feel like complete useless shit.
Nonsense. BA-type people are very useful. Without them, who would we have to do the dirty jobs and blame for the problems?
Ailments of the heart are as irrelevant to Cheney as ailments of the brain are to Bush.
They just don't use the things that often.
rorschach
Stop making sense. What are you? A librul or something?
You actually enjoyed doing your postdoc?
Heh, I first read 'postdoc' as 'podcast'.
It knocks out the Republican candidate with the best chance of winning a general election.
Then there's that little matter of the SEC investigation.
Just a little thang.
(Jennifer, email me.)
Ancient Egypt of course had Queen Hatshepsut and Queen Cleopatra VII.
Yeah. I love you. Don't want to see you smokin'.
pie
I quit smokin' years ago. And a duel with you would not cause enough stress to drive me back to it!
Hah!
theres a dude that lives near me who's the state's militia chief ... everyone knows he's an ear for the FBI ... the the designation plays on ...aint it funny .. how that goes and how people who should be looking for bombers take their summers doing recruiting for the extremists ... fuck we pay these people to law emforce and their they are pretending to be construction foremen and teaching seascouts to shoot machine guns
We, the ignornat underclass, will eventually rise up against our intellectual overlords.
And then, just like them, we can work 60+ hours a week for a miserable pittance!! (cue Dennis Moore music....)
Women Political Leaders —Historical and Current
Nonsense. BA-type people are very useful. Without them, who would we have to do the dirty jobs and blame for the problems?
Yes, of course. We untermensch live to serve.
I'm the blacksheep in the family, education-wise, so I might as well be here as well.
We, the ignornat underclass,
Well, um, okay. Ignornati?
What explains Bill Clinton's
disgracefully cozying up to Bush 41?
That's what I'd like to know....
Dude. You ever been president of the United States of America?
What are you? A librul or something?
catnip
Oh, God no!
I'm no liberal. I'm a leftist.
all on the governments dime plus
Running rampant in the heartland?
Yes, along with obesity, thanks to the corn-syrup lobby! Dang Farmers!
But the masses will never know or hear that McCain said any of that. He is 'the reformer' until the media says otherwise.
the return is public schools you cant walk into and things like towers one and two
And then, just like them, we can work 60+ hours a week for a miserable pittance!! (cue Dennis Moore music....)
Nonsense. We'll eventually build a nice hovel in the woods and live free, becoming living books and smelling like rotten vegetables.
If the children were made to scream at the sight of a rose, that was on grounds of high economic policy. Not so very long ago (a century or thereabouts), Gammas, Deltas, even Epsilons, had been conditioned to like flowers–flowers in particular and wild nature in general. The idea was to make them want to be going out into the country at every available opportunity, and so compel them to consume transport.
Loyalty to Bush may turn out to be a liability to McCain.
He should not over play the Bush card. Many conservatives are jumping off the Bush Bandwagon. When 2008 comes around, if Bush continues with his failed policies, everyone will want to distance themselves from Bush leaving McCain the only one holding Bush's hand.
The Byzantine Empress Irene had her own son's eyes gouged out.
Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor because Pope Leo III saw the throne as vacant (which meant it lack a male occupant).
this was seen as an insult and only widened the rift between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
bloody Western upsarts!
I'm no liberal. I'm a leftist.
rorschach
Commie!
Snap a towel, be the Prez!
I think they get off on people thinking that they are vital when they pay dues that fund these events
What explains Bill Clinton's
disgracefully cozying up to Bush 41?
That's what I'd like to know....
steve simels
We, the ignornat underclass,
Well, um, okay. Ignornati?
Yes, yes, long live the Ignornati! Down with speling!
South America. I'm sure Rummy will start with Chavez, and head somewhere from there
Buckeye
Pfft. You're just being silly.
rorschach | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 3:57 pm
Okay, Rummy will confuse Chavez, who for some reason thinks the US wants to overthrow him, by sending the Marines north! To Canada! Then they'll head south.
And a duel with you would not cause enough stress to drive me back to it!
Oh, yeah? A habanero sausage?
You'd smoke.
I'd like to adopt a Tibetan monk. Applications now being accepted.
What explains Bill Clinton's
disgracefully cozying up to Bush 41?
That's what I'd like to know....
steve simels
Shameless is right. For the first time, ever, I doubted his love for this country.
Oh, hey, tomorrow's our first anniversary!
Celebrate with us by checking out Miriam's site.
I'm a Mutualist
You actually enjoyed doing your postdoc?
.....
I hate you!!!!
blerb
Um, yes. I was the only one that year who had that particular honor and yes, I did enjoy it. The problem came midway thru when I discovered that as a result of it I'd become unemployable because I was too qualified. Oh well. But the thing itself, yes, I liked it.
Oh, hey, tomorrow's our first anniversary!
Sigh.
Bush & McCain: Birds of a feather "fluck" together
This reminds me of a really stupid joke:
A Chinese guy walks into a shop and asks for a pound of rice. The shopkeeper tells him it will cost $3.00. The Chinese guy objects to the high price to which the shopkeeper replies, 'hey, I can't help it, the prices are in flux."
A week later the Chinese guy comes back for another pound of rice. This time the shopkeeper tells him it will be $4.00. Again, the Chinese guy objects and again, the shopkeeper says, "hey, I can't help it, the prices are in flux."
The next week the Chinese guy comes back again just to be told that the price of rice is $5.00 a pound. Before the shopkeeper can explain the Chinese guy says sadly, "I know, I know, flucked again!"
Thank you ladies and germs, I'll be here all week. Please tip your waitress
Fearless prediction:
The presidential candidates of
both the Dems and Repugs in 08 will be
people nobody is really talking
about now. They will be maverick
dark horses -- which is to say,
for example, that neither Hillary
or McCain will get the respective
nods.
steve simels
I agree, but only about the Repukes. I can just see the Dems falling all over themselves to nominate Hilary, crushing all the other candidates in teh stampede.
(I didn't mean to type "teh" there, it was a genuine typo! So I left it in.)
It's started to rain again! Happy happy joy joy!
I'm going to go start a fire in the fireplace and then make something to eat. Whoopee!!
What explains Bill Clinton's
disgracefully cozying up to Bush 41?
That's what I'd like to know....
i really am beginning to wonder if their connection doesn't reach back to the mena/cia/coke days (recall that bush was cia director while clinton was arkansas governor). there's also the issue of clinton wanting the u.n. post, in which case, and a connection to the plutocrats and autocrats of the carlyle holding company would be mighty useful.
I think Clinton and Bush 41 have some pretty hilarious times dissing Bush 43 - that is until Barbara catches them and takes them out to the woodshed.
Commie!
catnip
Getting warmer!
Okay, Rummy will confuse Chavez, who for some reason thinks the US wants to overthrow him, by sending the Marines north! To Canada! Then they'll head south.
Buckeye
Now that, I can see happening.
You'd smoke.
pie
Hee. Reminds me of a dinner I had out at an Indian restaurant in Derbyshire, England, with some friends. I ordered the hottest thing on the menu, and the owner actually came out to make sure I knew what I was doing. Rural Brits tend not to do that kind of spicy. It was very good.
Cspan2 has a book club discussion group of tom friedman's the lexus and the olive tree.
Prior, I think you should let the big black cat in. Then again, having one, I'm partial to big black cats. 
I really shouldn't be so shamelessly partisan, being Canadian and all, but I do hope the Democratic establishment gets its act together by the midterm elections. I also haven't seen a Republican presidential hopeful who's less scary than, say, being seized in O'Hare airport and delivered into the sweating hands of a bunch of drooling torturers, but you've got a while yet for that to change...
Hillary is yesterday's souffle.
Sigh.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Ah hell.
I'll shut up now.
I actually think McCain is being very savvy here. The only way for McCain to win the GOP primary is to convince the batshit crazy wingnuts who vote in that thing to support him. That means joining their Bushista cult of personality, at least until he is the nominee.
Oh, great. The *let's bash everyone* crowd is here.
Sorry, guys. The Bush administration is the most anti-American people group of assholes ever seen.
Fuck'em.
it's not a poem
it's a proem.
Maria Theresa of Austria the first and only female ruler of the Hapsburg dynasty had to contend with various European powers trying to invade her country, i mean we can't have a female leader now!
the War of the Austrian Succession was fought because of it
Maria Theresa was one of the most powerful ruler of her time, ruiling over much of central Europe
she was considered on of those @enlightened despots"
She was Archduchess of Austria, and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia and ruler of other territories from 1740 until her death
OT:
The Desecration of Tom Fox.
Yes, it's already begun.
.
As for the post, well, if anybody doesn't think AWOL has damaging information on McCain or his family somewhere, then I'd like to get some better explanation for this shameful and quite sad display.
lolly
one speculation is that it involves a bit of historical revision of admiral john mccain jr's reputation, in addition to some juicy details of john III's navy shenanigans.
anon | 03.11.06 - 3:53 pm
Well, that makes sense, sad as it would be.
The only possible scenario that would leave me having any respect for him at all would be if he were protecting a family member--his wife (remember when the Bushies called out her "drug addiction?) or his children, whom the Bushies famously maligned in South Carolina.
ESPN has a two-man volleyball game
featuring a discussion of David
Brooks' I am Self-Hating Jew
WASP Wannabe. Should be a hot
one!
MR. McCLELLAN: This -- first of all, as I indicated, we're all going to miss him here at the White House. Claude served for four years as Deputy Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, and he's been serving here for the last year. He's put in a lot of long hours during that time, and I think you'll see reflected in his letter he has a family; he wants to be able to spend more time with them. And we're all going to miss him here. But we wish him the best, and fully understand the decision that he made. But it's something he's been looking at for -- I don't know -- the last several weeks, I think, or the last few weeks, at least. And he's been talking about when would be a good time to do this. And I think he wanted to make sure we got through the State of the Union and this would be a good time to transition.
I guess a good time to transition was just before Claude was taken away in handcuffs.
And if he's lucky, little Claude will serve more than four years.
Scottie = Fucknozzle
Ah hell.
I'll shut up now.
Just love her well, my husband.
Brad Pitt is so hot!
(I just had to let that out.)
catnip
Sorry catnip, I called dibs years ago.
Clinton allying himself with poppy, even for photo- op purposes if nothing else, is troubling in the extreme.
These are no ordinary times, when you make "nice" as a member of the ex-presidents club. This is the time to make a stand, if you believe in something, and giving the impression of solidarity with the crime family is bad. Very bad.
I'm disappointed in Bill Clinton. If he doesn't want to speechify about the crimes of this administration, so be it. But he doesn't have to give comfort to the enemy with his public displays of affection.
Look! Another Canadian! Yay!
Empress Elizabeth and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great of Russia.
Just love her well, my husband.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Yes, dear.
Sorry catnip, I called dibs years ago.
ql in ny
You can have dibs. I'll take Brad.
there was a note to Bush (the dark overlore from Kerry or all people) that ended with ....yours in 351 ...which by many was interpreted to mean their affiliation with the skull-n-bones fraternity ... but there's another reference for those who care to look .. a reference to a tablet found in antiqity in the Iraqi desert ... it was a pre-amble to geometry before there was such a thing
there was a note to Bush (the dark overlore from Kerry or all people) that ended with ....yours in 351 ...which by many was interpreted to mean their affiliation with the skull-n-bones fraternity ... but there's another reference for those who care to look .. a reference to a tablet found in antiqity in the Iraqi desert ... it was a pre-amble to geometry before there was such a thing
Oh, great. The *let's bash everyone* crowd is here.
Fuck. You. Venal sack of crap.
Later, all. I need to wash the stench off.
James Purefoy for me
I would not say no to Gerard Butler either!
Rural Brits tend not to do that kind of spicy. It was very good.
When our older daughter was looking at Cornell, we ate at a Thai restaurant. She and her dad had a dish with a one-pepper rating, I had a shrimp dish with two peppers, and I could see pieces of Scotch bonnet. It was hot, but I could still appreciate the shrimp flavor.
The pepper rating went to seven.
Yowsa.
I'd like to be under the sea in
an octopus's garden. What can I
tell you -- I love scungilli.
It's started to rain again! Happy happy joy joy!
I'm going to go start a fire in the fireplace and then make something to eat. Whoopee!!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 4:05 pm
What's for dinner?
Heh. While the women squabble over Pitt, I shall make off with the true prize.
Depp.
The discussion group on cspan2 is composed of
everyday people who read interesting books.
I love scungilli.
jack
Mmmmmm. scungilli salad.
i like fairly spicy food.
my limit is a Chicken Jalafrezi.
but I do like Thai food, Vietnmese is yummy too (there is a resturant/take away place near where I live).
Later, all. I need to wash the stench off.
The Jenny I knew was much more cultured than you.
Get help.
I'm the blacksheep in the family, education-wise, so I might as well be here as well.
NTodd,
Not to worry, you're in good company.
The pepper rating went to seven.
Yowsa.
pie
Isn't that what Harry Whittington ordered?
James Purefoy was so sexy as Marc-Athony in Rome!
Does the GOP even want a win? Giving the dems the WH in its current state would be like leaving a flaming bag of poop on the doorstep.
Lurch was cool - the only somewhat sane one in the Addams household.
That's why I thought that Kerry should have played up to it when the Rethugs made the Lurch comparison - cue up some organ music, for example.
Hell, Lurch was the one who actually got things accomplished while Gomez (Bush) was gleefully blowing up trains. "You rang" would have gone over so much better than "Lt. Kerry reporting for duty."
Georgie as Gomez, Laura as Morticia (only without the French), Jenna and NotJenna as Pugsley and Wednesday, Babs as Grandma, Cheney as Uncle Fester - all those wonderful ad campaign opportunities wasted.
heh i still have another year to go before I graudate!
Heh. While the women squabble over Pitt, I shall make off with the true prize.
Depp.
rorschach
good. leaving clooney all to me. bwahahaha.
Did Chimpy say anything like this when Scooter got indicted>
THE PRESIDENT: If the allegations are true, Claude Allen did not tell my Chief of Staff and legal counsel the truth, and that's deeply disappointing. If the allegations are true, something went wrong in Claude Allen's life, and that is really sad. When I heard the story last night I was shocked. And my first reaction was one of disappointment, deep disappointment that -- if it's true -- that we were not fully informed.
The pepper rating went to seven.
Mine goes up to eleven.
/spinal tap
Michael Moore was perhaps never more grossly maligned than when he was dismissed as an anti-gun nut for exposing the insanity (there is no other word for it) of the NRA in a film that did not demonize guns themselves. They haven't gotten better. From LGF Watch:
The National Rifle Association has launched a 50-state campaign to pass "take-your-guns-to-work" laws that would turn companies into criminals if they barred guns on their private property.
TRENCHCOAT MAFIA 4 LIFE!!
Isn't that what Harry Whittington ordered?
That and more. Look what happened to his head.
Gerard Butler and James Purefoy are all mine, MINE!
buridan's ass.
an ass that starved to death because it was equally tempted by two piles of grain.
James Purefoy was so sexy as Marc-Athony in Rome!
Moonbootica
I liked his own personal gladiatrixes.
THE PRESIDENT: If the allegations are true, Claude Allen did not tell my Chief of Staff and legal counsel the truth, and that's deeply disappointing. If the allegations are true, something went wrong in Claude Allen's life, and that is really sad. When I heard the story last night I was shocked. And my first reaction was one of disappointment, deep disappointment that -- if it's true -- that we were not fully informed.
Dear Chimpy,
we are all deeply disappointed with you.
Well, I was going to join in until I noticed that Jenny(among others) have committed the crime of speaking badly of He Who Pisses Rosewater And Shits Ice Cream, and has been scolded by pie , keeper of the DLC orthodoxy.
Guess I'll come back some other time...
Clinton allying himself with poppy, even for photo- op purposes if nothing else, is troubling in the extreme.
These are no ordinary times, when you make "nice" as a member of the ex-presidents club. This is the time to make a stand, if you believe in something, and giving the impression of solidarity with the crime family is bad. Very bad.
I'm disappointed in Bill Clinton. If he doesn't want to speechify about the crimes of this administration, so be it. But he doesn't have to give comfort to the enemy with his public displays of affection.
We don't know all that's going on there. Frankly, I see Clinton's cozying up to Bush I has nothing to do with Bush II, 'cept that it enables Billy to continue to have political relevance which has allowed him to speak out on a variety of issues including Gitmo with some cred. Further, as we've seen with the Bush I folks, they've been trying to talk Junior off the ledge as it were, and Clinton might have made an early calculation that the best way for him to have influence in any of that was to work with Poppy.
I'd focus my disappointment on the Dems in Congress and the real enablers in the GOP and media rather than a flawed ex-president.
Georgie as Gomez, Laura as Morticia (only without the French), Jenna and NotJenna as Pugsley and Wednesday, Babs as Grandma, Cheney as Uncle Fester - all those wonderful ad campaign opportunities wasted.
sister of ye
Comb sucking Wolfie as Cousin It
I think our only hope is to get more people to vote. Republicans vote republican, or maybe won't vote (that would be a plus). I know the polls are against Bush, but if the corporate media shines a light on any republican running for president, republicans will respond with a sign of relief, and vote republican.
I am pleased to report that a google search, in Hungarian, for fruit lickers game, yields VichyDems as the second result. However, it slips to sixth if the search is repeated in English.
I enjoy playing with my site counter.
If you visit VichyDems, btw, please check out my top post on the power-brokers' rigging of the 2008 Presidential primaries.
Does the GOP even want a win? Giving the dems the WH in its current state would be like leaving a flaming bag of poop on the doorstep.
That f@#king dollar coin guy
You fucking American flaming bag of poop hater!
The discussion group on ESPN-2
is composed of giant communist
frogs and the cast of CHARLES IN
CHARGE.
Heh. While the women squabble over Pitt, I shall make off with the true prize.
Depp.
Sorry, he's mine.
He Who Pisses Rosewater And Shits Ice Cream,
and that is...?
I find it interesting how some people's reactions to pie are rather...exaggerated.
Depp.
Sorry, he's mine.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
We're married. We have to learn to share.
Not to worry, you're in good company.
Good, good, let's begin planning our revolt. We might need to find somebody edumacated to help us, though...
When I heard the story last night I was shocked. And my first reaction was one of disappointment, deep disappointment that -- if it's true -- that we were not fully informed.
I wouldn't expect him to be informed about the fact that one of his lackeys was stealing small potatoes.
It's the big things I have a problem with.
Union poll 'irregularities' found
A GMB investigation into the election of one of its ex-leaders uncovered serious irregularities, the union says.
Kevin Curran became general secretary of the GMB union in 2003 after a decisive leadership election win.
However, a union conference in London was told leaflets supporting Mr Curran were sent to workplaces - union rules ban candidates from openly campaigning.
Mr Curran resigned last year, but has denied doing anything wrong. A new leadership election will now be held.
What explains Bill Clinton's
disgracefully cozying up to Bush 41?
That's what I'd like to know....
steve simels
I think the Big Dog has an excuse, after 5 years of junior, Dad looks almost like a saint.
I'm the black sheep of my family in almost every way...
I find it interesting how some people's reactions to pie are rather...exaggerated.
rorschach
Personally, I don't have much use for the number but it's not an emotional thing for me.
We're married. We have to learn to share.
Oh yeah. Damn. I think I want a divorce. I'm tired of sharing.
buridan's ass was bewitched by the law of excluded middle.
hey ...I'm 351 in you baby!
What explains Bill Clinton's
disgracefully cozying up to Bush 41?
That's what I'd like to know....
steve simels
It is disgraceful, I agree. But Clinton's always been an operator first and foremost.
I like to think he's doing it to try to do good, but also that he's doing it just to make Bush Junior feel like shit.
Heh.
I'm the black sheep of my family in almost every way...
rorschach
Being the black sheep is the new, er, being the black, uh, sheep...
why dont we all move to arkansas and worship another bi-star galaxy
buridan's ass couldn't decide which tit to suck.
Here is my favorite painting from the Munch show last night. Isn't it beautiful?
Personally, I don't have much use for the number but it's not an emotional thing for me.
catnip
When it comes to pi, things tend to get irrational!
Oh yeah. Damn. I think I want a divorce. I'm tired of sharing.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
So... I don't...I don't... speak for you??
OT: oh, whee! No Mo' Slobo! Just saw the post down the main page.
Being the black sheep is the new, er, being the black, uh, sheep...
Maybe it's a white goat.
Did you know that Krakatoa is really
west of Java? Boy, I'll never watch
THAT movie again.....
malcom gladwell is an irritating dilettante.
Destroying Civilizations -R- Us
So... I don't...I don't... speak for you??
Oh, no, you still speak for me. This just simplifies the taxes.
"I like to think he's doing it to try to do good, but also that he's doing it just to make Bush Junior feel like shit."
He might also be looking to lead the U.N. in the future.
In the mornings, before I get my first cup of java, I'm far more likely to krakatoa because I tend to walk around barefooted.
cause the book says my third cousin's brother in-law walked acrossed here once and that means we own it. (book of a thousand thieves)
eugene mcCarthy on cspan3.
Oh, no, you still speak for me. This just simplifies the taxes.
NTodd, King of Prickistan
Okay, then. You aren't the first person to leave me for Depp, and you won't be the last.
McCain - The Chimpmunkian Candidate
That black woman in the Pine-Sol commercials
is really large.
Edgar Bergen on the Food Channel.
That black woman in the Pine-Sol commercials
is really large.
jack | 03.11.06 - 4:29 pm |
And she smells better than a David Lynch location.
What explains Bill Clinton's
disgracefully cozying up to Bush 41?
That's what I'd like to know....
steve simels
I don't read too much into it. It is a rather exclusive club they belong to. I also think Bill may be a bit lonely, what with his heart attack and all.
Found this comment posted on Mark Kleiman's piece about Claude Allen over at Huffington Post
The traditional media should widely report that Claude Allen, alleged thief, was Bush's nominee for judge for the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals.
The traditional media should also report that Claude Allen's nomination was blocked not by a left-wing conspiracy as C.Boydon Gray accused, but by Democrats concerned about Claude Allen's lack of experience (another imcompetent Bush appointment at the helm).
Okay catnip, you can have Brad. *sigh*
I'll take Gabriel Byrne instead, when I'm finished with Fitz that is.
There are things you have to do once you get into that position. In the military people are always reciting "respect the rank, not the person."
What's for dinner? There was a momentary impulse there, but it's gone now. Maybe to-morrow.
GWPDA ... The rain came just in time, eh? The NYT made it sound on Thursday like ya'll were about to blow away.
Speaking of food and deep disappointment, here's a deeply disappointing joke about food:
A Chinese guy walks into a Greek Restaurant. After being seated he tells the waiter, "I wourd rike some flied lice prease"
The waiter gets mad and says, "hey, I'm an immigrant just like you." Came over from Greece six years ago. I worked really hard to learn to speak English Get out of here and don't come back until you can place your order in proper English!"
Two weeks later the Chinese guy comes back and says, "I...would...like...some...fried...lice prease"
The waiter goes ballistic and hollers, "I told you before, I learned how to speak English and so can you!" "Get out of here and don't come back until you can order in proper English!"
Three weeks later the Chinese guy comes back. This time he orders v-e-r-y slowly, "I....would....like....some...fried....rice....ple
ase"
"You Gleek plick!"
[rimshot]
Hmm...that jack person seems to be
somewhat schizophrenic.
The traditional media should also report that Bush's feigned "shock" about Allen's predicament is BS. He's known about it for quite some time.
King Henri II of France long time mistress Diane de Poitiers was considered the "brain behind the throne". Diane possessed an extreme intellect and a political astuteness to the point that the King trusted her to write many of his official letters and to even sign them jointly with the one name: HenriDiane. She was also put in charge of the royal children's education.
when Pope Paul II sent a the new Queen Catherine a Golden rose, he did not forget to send the royal mistress with a pearl necklace.
When I heard the story last night I was shocked. And my first reaction was one of disappointment, deep disappointment that -- if it's true -- that we were not fully informed.
I wouldn't expect him to be informed about the fact that one of his lackeys was stealing small potatoes.
It's the big things I have a problem with.
pie |
dont it make yah just wonder or realize why he was chosen by the Bush administration to begin with? convicts are their friends .. thieves are their currency ... liars on record are good ...they can dismiss them any time and say hey ... those people dont represent us
*Pope Paul III i mean
Hmm...that jack person seems to be
somewhat schizophrenic. - steve
simels
Just ignore them.
Hmm...that jack person seems to be
somewhat schizophrenic.
steve simels
At best.
Hmmm. Wonder if we can dig up any petty larceny charges to throw Roberts and Alito off the Supremes?
I think the Roberts stole the kids' clothes from some movie studio's historical costume warehouse.
It's bad GOP AI Day at Eschaton! Whoo-hoo!
.
I'll take Gabriel Byrne instead, when I'm finished with Fitz that is.
ql in ny
Woohoo!
The traditional media should also report that Bush's feigned "shock" about Allen's predicament is BS. He's known about it for quite some time.
catnip
Yeah, they totally left out the part where he told Allen he was doin' one hell of a job over at that uhhh.....ummmmm....Target place
he did not forget to send the royal mistress with a pearl necklace.
Um, hehe.
Ew.
I think the Roberts stole the kids' clothes from some movie studio's historical costume warehouse. - sister of ye
Does he hae a valid receipt for teh kids?
when Pope Paul II sent a the new Queen Catherine a Golden rose, he did not forget to send the royal mistress with a pearl necklace.
Moonbootica, Praetor
funny. i've never seen BIG DICK cheney wearing a pearl necklace...
MSNBC is reporting about how McCain is sooooo loyal to Bush. "He's having trouble right now...he needs us now, and that's my only message."
Looks like McCain put all his money on a lame horse.
*not forget to present the royal mistress with a pearl necklace.
god my grammar is awful!
he did not forget to send the royal mistress with a pearl necklace.
Well, corset-enabled paizuri, there's your heir trouble right there.
suffice to say Diane de Poitiers was a very important French royal mistress.
from the AP:
Republicans Fret at GOP Political Straits
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - After a full-throated defense of President Bush's policies on Iraq, Iran and even port security, Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) shrugged his shoulders and explained why: "It's easy to be loyal when the guy is at 65 percent."
His message echoed throughout a weekend convention of GOP activists and potential 2008 presidential candidates who rallied behind the embattled Bush, mostly for his wartime leadership. But a second theme was less forgiving, and it was aimed at the White House and the entire Republican leadership:
Get your acts together.
What's for dinner?
Creole chicken po'boy?
The traditional media should also report that Bush's feigned "shock" about Allen's predicament is BS. He's known about it for quite some time.
catnip
course he/they did ... thus the sacreenplay acting to be caught with things unpaid for: read the "bust" story
Pope Paul III
Paul III, né Alessandro Farnese (February 29, 1468 – November 10, 1549) was Pope from 1534 to 1549. He also called the Council of Trent in 1545.
Born Alessandro Farnese in Canino, Latium, Italy, the peculiar day of February 29, he was descended through his mother from the Caetani family, which had also produced Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303).
MSNBC is reporting about how McCain is sooooo loyal to Bush. "He's having trouble right now...he needs us now, and that's my only message."
The sad truth is that it probably annoys Bush that anyone is saying that he needs anybody at all.
I think the Roberts stole the kids' clothes from some movie studio's historical costume warehouse.
I think Sammy "The Rotsy" bought some shit off the back of a truck.
If ya folla.
funny. i've never seen BIG DICK cheney wearing a pearl necklace...
Shaw Kenawe
He had one but he took it apart and used it as buckshot on some quail hunting trip.
Whittington almost made it to the pearly gates as a pearly guy.
The king's total adoration for Diane caused a great deal of jealousy on the part of Queen Catherine, particularly when Henri entrusted Diane with the Crown Jewels of France, had the Château d'Anet built for her, and gave her the beautiful Château Chenonceau that Catherine had wanted for herself.
pie - you have mail. Not interesting mail, but mail.
Republicans Fret at GOP Political Straits
Mmm ... ratfight!
Chris Matthews: "Iraq is never mentioned (at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference...it's as if it's a four letter word...they don't mention it in polite society down here."
No kidding, huh?
In 1559, when Henri was critically wounded in a jousting tournament, Catherine de' Medici took control, restricting access to him. Although the king called out repeatedly for Diane, she was never summoned, and on his death, she was also not invited to the funeral. Immediately thereafter, Catherine de' Medici banished Diane from Chenonceau to the Château de Chaumont. She stayed there only a short time and lived out her remaining years in her chateau in Anet, Eure-et-Loir where she died.
There are things you have to do once you get into that position. In the military people are always reciting "respect the rank, not the person."
Oh, you mean like the Rethugs did (and still do) with Clinton? All that overwhelming devotion they show to Carter? If that's why Bill is hanging with Poppy, sorry, I think it's a stupid reason.
List of French royal mistresses
rorschach,
I've been lurking on your site for awhile now. No Capital is a very interesting, and quite a doggedly researched perspective on things. Why don't you advertise, and take the edge off of doing it all for free?
Iraq is never mentioned
Wait. Is it Republican minions or Democratic minions who are convening in Memphis?
i.e. it is my contention that it was important to the whitehouse that he be caught with rtecently and actually retail fraudulently things so he could have it broken dowm to simole larceny from a building or shoplifting and not the republican song of laasair fair' "steal what yah can were in but who knows for how long!"
List of French royal mistresses
How'd they get my name?? That's it. I'm suing.
What's for dinner?
Creole chicken po'boy? - masculine_monica_nyc
Out of Xian baby?
Ray Harryhausen's JASON AND THE
ARGONAUTS on TCM right now.
The giant statue is about to come
to life...it's so cool...
rorschach,
I've been lurking on your site for awhile now. No Capital is a very interesting, and quite a doggedly researched perspective on things. Why don't you advertise, and take the edge off of doing it all for free?
Max Planck
Thank you! Wow. Damn.
I don't really know how to go about it, and have always been VERY bad at self-promotion.
next on Opra" when Texans bite! be there or be square
The NYT made it sound on Thursday like ya'll were about to blow away.
res ipsa loquitur
Yah. Most recent inhabitants are unaware that Arizona has mostly had two monsoon seasons - one in February and one in August. For the last ten years or so we were missing the February season, bringing out annual rainfall down from 7" to around 5". Last year we had a terrific monsoon in February and another great one in August. Then, nothing. So, yes, it's been like 150 days without rain here, but we're only down about an inch against our standard. So, yes, we're crazy happy to get the rain - more so because it's evidently snowing like crazy in the mountains which is the best thing - but only folks who are unfamiliar with the the Sonora are really stunned to learn that we don't get a lot of rainfall...
Out of Xian baby?
Nah. But I won't have the right sauce ready 'til Sunday.
King Louis XV of France most famous mistress was Madame de Pompadour
MSNBC: Bush is going to make another push about the "progress" being made in Iraq. He'll begin a series of speeches this month. Bush will "try to give better depth and context". He met with Rumsfeld and Cheney today.
Bush said, "I believe we'll have a unity government in place...I know we'll succeed if we don't lose our will."
(* * *)
"Unity government" now being used instead of "democracy". And it looks like Bush is laying the ground for the "it was the Dems who failed us -- they didn't believe hard enough" meme.
I don't really know how to go about it, and have always been VERY bad at self-promotion.
But you'd be pimping your site, not yourself.
Get on out there, big pimpin'.
You aren't the first person to leave me for Depp, and you won't be the last.
You aren't the first person I've left for Depp, and you won't be the last.
I don't really know how to go about it, and have always been VERY bad at self-promotion.
rorschach
Well, fucking learn how to get good at it, mister!
But you'd be pimping your site, not yourself.
Get on out there, big pimpin'.
masculine_monica_nyc
True.
Still don't know how, though.
Well, fucking learn how to get good at it, mister!
Max Planck
Got any pointers for me?
McCain presumably thinks "Stay the course in Iraq", and even increasing force levels there are things that will sell in 2008?
Got any pointers for me?
rorschach
Sadly no, from any experience. I'm purely a techie. But I've watched watertiger claw her way to international web presence and it's been a joy to witness. Atrios could probably give you a damn good primer on how to go about it.
Atrios could probably give you a damn good primer on how to go about it.
Max Planck
Oh, that's rich.
He won't even blogroll me! Doubt he'd do all that for me...
Here's another because you've been such a polite audience tonight. Why, you've hardly made a sound!
Zeke and Zeb were two good ol' boys living deep in the back hollers of Kentucky. Neither was too bright nor too hygenic, but they were good ol' boys nonetheless. Committed Bush voters they were and fundamentalist Bible-believin' Christians to boot. They knew because Jerry Falwell told them so, especially after they sent him 60% of their meager income in donations.
It seems that there was a traveling saleslady in the neighborhood and as luck would have it, her car broke down just outside of the boys' farm during a terrible storm. She made her way, tired and bedraggled, to the farmhouse and asked if she could spend the night.
Zeke, being the more talkative of the two, said, "well shore, but y'uns are gonna have to sleep between Zeb an' me, seein' as we share just the one bed."
The saleslady was too wet and tired to care and quickly assented to the sleeping arrangements.
Deep into the night, the saleslady woke up feeling excessively horny. She looked to her left and right and decided to take on Zeb, who was slightly less odiferous than Zeke and who had a couple more teeth.
She tapped Zeb on the shoulder and said, "Hey Zeb, wake up!" "Huh?" said Zeb. "Zeb, you ever had a woman?" said the saleslady. "No'm" said Zeb, "just a goat around back of the barn onest." "Well" said the saleslady, "Get ready for the time of your life, but before you do, put on this condom so I don't get pregnant."
Zeb complied with her request and serviced her with all of the zest that he was saving for the prime family goat. Exhausted, he went right back to sleep.
But the saleslady wasn't yet satisfied so she turned her attention to Zeke. "Hey Zeke, wake up!" she said. "Unh?" said Zeke intelligently. "Zeke, you ever been with a woman?" asked the saleslady. "No'm" said Zeke, just with a sheep by the 4-H shed one time." "Well" said the saleslady, "Get ready for the time of your life, but put on this condom so I don't get pregnant." Zeke went at her with all the vigor that he was saving for the next shearing exhibition at the county fair. Exhausted, he went right back to sleep. Satisfied at last, the saleslady fell asleep as well.
The next day our heros were able to re-start the saleslady's car and sent her on her way. Four months later the boys were hard at work weeding the corn patch out next to the neighbor's Meth lab. Zeke stood up and said, "Hey Zeb"
"Yeah Zeke" said Zeb" Remember that saleslady who came through here a mite ago?" said Zeke. "Yep" said Zeb."Do you care if she gets pregnant?" said Zeke."Nope" said Zeb."Well OK then" said Zeke, "then lets take off these goddam condoms!"
"Sad pandering politician near the end of his career and he doesn't even know it." - Atrios.
Considering Duncan Black's political chops, I think this is a good omen for McCain in 2008.
Hopefully the Dems will have a moderate or centrist answer, but with Pelosi/Dean/Kos/Atrios/Moore at the forefront of the party, that is unlikely.
0-21 is not far away. Thank you Duncan.
One more then I promise to be good:
The farmer stormed angrily out of his house, shotgun in hand, and threw open the door to the cab of the 18-wheeler parked crookedly in his front yard.
Inside was the trucker, his pants to his ankles, who was humping mightly away at the farmer's 16-year-old daughter, Lulabelle.
"I reckon you fancy yourself a pretty good truck driver don't you?" bellowed the farmer.
"One of the best" panted the truck driver, without missing a beat in his exertions within the charming Lulabelle.
"Well then" said the farmer, leveling his shotgun, "Lets see you back out of that hole without spilling your load!"
my name is
jack and i live in the
back of the
greta garbo home for
wayward boys and girls!
Hmmm. Maybe he is simply identifying with President now, and his words to be nice to meester bush are really words to be nice to future Preznit McCain. Poor, power-hungry Johnny.
Co--
Nobody's fucking interested and nobody fucking cares.
Or as wise man once said: Blow it out your ass, Howard.
Conservative Repubs HATE McCain...He'll never make it thru the primaries. I suspect the guy they do support in the primaries won't be very palatable to anyone else.
I'm a New Yorker who thinks Giulani is gonna run in the primaries. (Polls here actually had him beating Spitzer last year - why else not run?). He was an awful mayor and he'd be an awful pres, but I'm sure Repub leaders will think that with Rudy, they could dress him up for a rerun of the compassionate conservative Bush dog and pony show, though I'm completely clueless how Rudy will play to the base...
I don't know if they're trying to be slick - I'm not sure it's not an act - but "grassroot" Repubs seem to be unhappily resigned to a McCain/Clinton matchup.
There is one word to describe McCain's embrace of Bush: CONTRIVED
The "straight talk express" was derailed long ago, but "double talk John" is back!
End of Bushism? Unleash the Chang!
Hero, Hero where/who is the Hero?
Buzzzzzzzzzzzz
The whole of those who now inhabitat the "Beltway" are now circumspect, of no usefulness.
I just love seeing, via Tweety, the repug whores fall all over themselves. Go for it Tweety!!!
OUT NOW !!!! & IMPEACH BUSHCO!!
retail politics is different from straw polling activists. when it comes to shaking the hands one on one with iowan/new hamshire voters, mccain comes off as more...i don't know? dynamic? when have you seen frist be nothing but a stiff with a stick up his ass? frist isn't going to wear well on the stump. though i do find it funny republican activists would pick the more corrupt out of the lot.
i'm waiting for mr. poser for integrity mccain to complete the circle and stoop to the same level of dirty tricks politicking that were pulled on him in order to win the primaries. here come the whisper campaigns, push polling scurrilous charges, etc. mccain didn't suck it up and pay his dues all this time just to watch it all dribble away.
there is also this aspect. mccain will never be the activists' favored son. because mccain is a reminder to activists how wrong they were in choosing bush. and they don't like being reminded how flawed their judgement was.
How he loves to bend over and spread 'em for Bush!
''But one Republican with close ties to the White House said the investigation of Mr. Rove's role in leaking the name of a C.I.A. operative was making it nearly impossible to make any changes until it was resolved.''
What the hell exactly does that mean? Nagourney is so bad...
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