I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Open thread!
top of the world, Ma!
Lucked out. Happened to refresh at the right time.
ok, a little lower perhaps.
I miss Terry C.
Usually when I refresh, a new thread will say "0" but there will already be 15 comments posted.
semprini
Mickey Kaus is a tool.
Fron the Department of Unintended Irony, we have Mickey Kaus in Slate:
A Springsteen/Seeger album seems entirely pitched to a subset of the already-converted--no red-state audience there. And Seeger's a bit of a self-righteous twit, no?
Ahem. You see, Bruce has announced an album and tour featuring long-time political activist Pete Seeger's music. You know, Pete Seeger, the guy who
wrote "If I Had A Hammer"wrote "Where Have All The Flowers Gone"wrote "Turn, Turn, Turn"along with his group The Weavers was blacklisted during McCarthy's HUACfounded The Clearwater Group, which cleaned up pollution in the Hudson Riverserved in the Pacific in WW IIleft the Communist Party long before other socialists did, when they found out about Stalin's crimessaid "I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other."So Seeger, who is and was a genuine folk hero and political warrior, who actually made a difference in the world during his life, is a self-righteous twit?
Jeezus, Mickey, look in a mirror.
I miss Terry C.
Bud Tugly
I'm sure she'll be glad to know someome misses her.
Fux news banner right now sez "Iraq War Year Four -- A Progress Report."
Thank God we have Turd Blossom to write our national policy for us, huh? Whew!
"Iraq War Year Four -- A Progress Report."
P O'Neill |
shortest report-ever
afternoon, rational, sane folks! 
"Rove says a key issue in this year's midterm elections will be campaigning against Democrats who voted against the Patriot Act"
in order to call them terrorist supporters ands fellow travellers
w00t
Bud Tugly
Katherine Harris, is that you?
"Thank God we have Turd Blossom to write our national policy for us, huh? Whew!"
Perpetual campaign. Slime, smear, attack. That's all these guys do effectively.
Usually when I refresh, a new thread will say "0" but there will already be 15 comments posted.
mer
yup
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"Iraq War Year Four -- A Progress Report."
Shorter report - FUBAR.
Pete Seeger a self-righteous twit?
Somebody needs a wedgie really bad......
BTW, exactly how many Democrats voted against the Patriot Act?
Jaws on A&E. I'm scared. Soooo scared.
Speaking of Rove (that unattractive, balding pig)...
Karl Rove's lips barely move when Eleanor Clift writes her columns
It really never ceases to amaze how the most aggressive smear jobs on Democrats who take a stand against the Bush Administration almost always come from the allegedly liberal pundits or anonymous Democratic consultants.
BTW, exactly how many Democrats voted against the Patriot Act?
Ren Hoek
nevr thought of that
good call
Feingold
is the only one that jumps to mind
he may mean the extention?
Poor Bush. Every time we actually get to see real; "Democracy on the march," he's getting run over by it:
Wisconsin Voters Prepare to Weigh In On the War in Iraq
Referendum Stirs Passion on Both Sides
By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 18, 2006; Page A03
WATERTOWN, Wis. -- In an exercise that one side calls democracy and the other considers a disservice, voters in 30 Wisconsin towns will cast ballots next month on whether the Bush administration should withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6031701800.html
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R2K
Don't answer the door, it is NOT a candygram.
from below
13 with Ex-Governor, 4 others Killed in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR (Afghanistan): Suspected Taliban rebels Saturday killed a former governor and his four companions in an attack in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
Taj Mohammad, known as Qari Baba, was ambushed in Ghazni province, one of the hotbeds of Taliban insurgents.
"I confirm that Qari Baba and his four companions were killed this morning," local police official Habibullah Jan said.
Baba was working as an advisor to the governor of Ghazni and was once governor of the province himself.
Jan blamed the killing on remnants of the Taliban and their Islamic allies including those loyal to former Afghan prime minister and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now on the US most wanted list.
"Taliban and Hekmatyar's men are believed to be behind this cowardly attack," Jan said.
Repost:
Senator fires back at U.S. family upset with seal hunt
A Liberal senator has replied to a family in Minnesota upset about Canada's seal hunt with a letter denouncing the United States for executing prisoners at home and killing people in Iraq.
The McLellan family had written to Canadian senators to say they cancelled a vacation in Canada because of the hunt, which they called "horrible" and "inhumane," Montreal's La Presse reports.
In her response, Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette said that what she finds horrible is "the daily massacre of innocent people in Iraq, the execution of prisoners – mainly blacks – in American prisons, the massive sale of handguns to Americans, the destabilization of the entire world by the American government's aggressive foreign policy, etc."
She said Americans are not in a position to criticize others. "They must start to look at their own behaviour, the permanent heightening of the planet's insecurity since the election of Bush," she told La Presse.
BTW, exactly how many Democrats voted against the Patriot Act?
Ren Hoek
One, I think. Of course, that was about 2 weeks after 9/11 and during the Anthrax attacks, so people were tending to err on the side of supporting the Preznit.
Not that it forgives them. They'll just get a slightly cooler room in Hell for that.
Amigos, when I read thees:
From the Department of Unintended Irony, we have Mickey Kaus in Slate:
A Springsteen/Seeger album seems entirely pitched to a subset of the already-converted--no red-state audience there. And Seeger's a bit of a self-righteous twit, no?
eet makes me theenk that thees leetle hackista hangs out here to see what we are saying about eet, no?
so.
Rove says a key issue in this year's midterm elections will be campaigning against Democrats who voted against the Patriot Act
Guess the Democrats will just have to campaign against Republicans who voted against port security.
That would be really awesome if it actually happened...
Jan blamed the killing on remnants of the Taliban and their Islamic allies including those loyal to former Afghan prime minister and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now on the US most wanted list.
And Afghanistan's the one we supposedly DID win, you know.
Raw Story has added comments. Cool.
"Rove says a key issue in this year's midterm elections will be campaigning against Democrats who voted against the Patriot Act"
ˇHoly sheet!
ˇRrrove ees scared of Russ Finegold!
so.
Thanks for the link pie. I liked this sentence:
"The reality is that people like Clift can't believe that anyone acts in accordance with their principles because people like Clift have none, so they assume that that's the case for everyone else."
my brother went on one of the anti war protests in 2003 and when Britain along with the US decided to go to war he got really depressed.
he was angry that so many people had taken time out of their lives to protest for a cause and had been ignored.
that it did not make a blind bit of difference because the Bush Junta were going to war anyways.
Don't answer the door, it is NOT a candygram.
bombogenesis
Land shark!
hey, a new open thread to pimp my dkos diary on! check it out, it's potentially really good news:
"Big Dem donor to fund Knight-Ridder worker buyout?"
Ron Burkle has a fabulously successful worker-friendly investment company, he's friends with Al Gore, and he wants to back an employee buyout of the 12 Knight-Ridder papers that McClatchy doesn't want:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20...3/18/13376/
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Carl Levin voted against the Patiot Act this time -- Senator Byrd did as well & said he regretted not voting agfainst it the first time -- Levin & Stabenow voted for it the first time on the basis that it was going to pass & alternatives being proposed were even worse & the original version had sunset provisions -- dunno what Stabenow's excuse is this time
Afternoon bats!
Sermon is ready for tomorrow -- working on one for a week from today (Annunciation -- it will NOT be about life beginning at conception!)
That would be really awesome if it actually happened...
Eli |
yeah
actually acting like an opposition party and attakcing the incompetent tomfoolery of the repubs is just crazy enough to work
She said Americans are not in a position to criticize others. "They must start to look at their own behaviour, the permanent heightening of the planet's insecurity since the election of Bush," she told La Presse.
Moe Szyslak
Amen, but the seal hunt still sucks.
a blogwhore - Three Years On
Are you a 34 percenter? Come find out...
Karl Rove's lips barely move when Eleanor Clift writes her columns
That was apretty stupid column for Clift to write, but I think accusing her of being a tool of Karl Rove is just plain unfair. She is hardly a mealy-mouthed apologist for George Bush, the war, or Republicans in general. I think se's just got her panties in a bunch about the riskiness of Feringold's maneuver. She would have done better just to shut her mouth about it, but this hardly makes her part of the fifth column.
what has three years of occupation got to show for it?
a country riven with sectarian strife
a very busy isurgency
little or no infrastructure
a lack of access to clean water or electricity.
i could go on
and the people are worried that an unelected senator has damaged canada/US relations
they juxtaposed her with Caroline Parrish on the National
"The reality is that people like Clift can't believe that anyone acts in accordance with their principles because people like Clift have none, so they assume that that's the case for everyone else."
Geez. That sounds eerily similar to what some astute person said about Jennifer Roback Morse's values on an earlier thread.
heh.
Are you a 34 percenter? Come find out...
PoliShifter
?
She would have done better just to shut her mouth about it, but this hardly makes her part of the fifth column.
Well, because she did deign to add her two cents, I guess you could say she's part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Anyway, time will tell.
Later.
and the people are worried that an unelected senator has damaged canada/US relations
It's way past time to damage canada/US relations, imo. I mean, we're talking about a country that tortures, that invades countries willy-nilly, that violates the nuclear proliferation treaty, etc. Just why, exactly, should we be worried about offending Americans? I mean, besides the money?
With its sympathetic portrait of a polygamous family, the new HBO series "Big Love," is helping to heat up the culture war. For conservative stalwarts like Charles Krauthammer and Rick Santorum, "Big Love" is ammunition and seeming validation for their claim that same-sex marriage leads directly to legalized polygamy, incest and bestiality.
As usual, the culture warriors have it completely wrong.
For the full story, see:
"Big Love: Polygamy and the War on Gay Americans."
exactly, should we be worried about offending Americans? I mean, besides the money?
Moe Szyslak
and we have an american apologist for a PM and a former mulroney official as Ambassdor
Cliff is a Beltway insider. Her ideas are based on how people there react to the censure idea, so she can be completely wrong on the whole thing without being a wingnut apologist.
"More fighting and sacrifice will be required to achieve this victory, and for some, the temptation to retreat and abandon our commitments is strong," Bush said.
It's your call, ain't it? What "some" are you talking about?
"One, I think. Of course, that was about 2 weeks after 9/11 and during the Anthrax attacks, so people were tending to err on the side of supporting the Preznit."
Yeah it kinda makes you wonder *when* it was written.
Good afternoon, y'all. I see we are busy beavers here blaming America first today. How about changing topics for once and debating the innocent lives lost due to terrorists emboldened by all the liberal hate-Bush speech going on. Or is that just "collateral damage"?
Thought so...
Times Admits Incorrectly ID'ing Hooded Man
Britain itself is also in no position to critize other countries since we are also locking up people without trial, torturing and part of this ammoral fucked up war.
not to mention Blair and NuLab's great need to take away our civil liberties one by one.
Yeah it kinda makes you wonder *when* it was written.
Oh, it was all written and ready to go before 9/11. This was six-hundred plus pages of shit the batshit Repugs had been wanting to do for years under a Repug Preznit, and between 9/11 and anthrax they knew they could slip it through without anyone squealing too loud.
So how the fuck did Levin sponsor as creepy and tyrannical a piece of WOT legislation as ever there was as The Graham-Levin Amendment?
As this University of Pittsburgh Law School opinion piece makes clear, this legislation generously accommodates maladministration overreach by depriving Gitmo prisoners of habeas corpus challenges to their status. And that's only the beginning.
If nothing else, it besmirches Levin's reputation, IMO.
I suspect this is the first time in history that a deserter's been in charge of a nation's war effort.
The seal hunt -- well, it culls the herd, why it is worse than other ways of slaughtering animals (of which we do a lot) puzzles me -- most of the people involved are on a subsistence/survival standard of living -- some First Nations -- some former fishermen whose livelihood has vanished with the depleted fisheries
The baby seals are cute & blood on the snow is scarey, but I think that the seal hunt is legit
But that's just me
debating the innocent lives lost due to terrorists emboldened by all the liberal hate-Bush speech going on
Oh, yeah, the Iraqi resistance is reading Eschaton and is gettin' all cheered up by it. Dumbass.
Maybe they're just a LEEEETLE more motivated by bombing innocent civilians, torture, invasion on flimsy pretexts and the total lack of security, electricity, water, sewage and anything else you'd expect in an industrialized nation?
terrorists emboldened by all the liberal hate-Bush speech
"I cannot, Ahmed, I am afraid."
"Fool, take the bomb! Did you not read what Atrios wrote?"
"You are right, Ali, I am ashamed. I will kill the innocent because Atrios has criticized Bush"
"And Holden"
"Yes. The ponies show us they way to Allah."
Cliff is a Beltway insider. Her ideas are based on how people there react to the censure idea, so she can be completely wrong on the whole thing without being a wingnut apologist.
We need more columnists who write *about* the Beltway insider perspective without actually embracing it.
Jeezus, Mickey, look in a mirror.
SteveAudio - 3:21 pm
you've exactly hit upon the source of all that is kaus: whenever he looks in a mirror, he detests what he knows he'll see there...
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Terror suspect bids to leave UK
An Algerian man who was held at Belmarsh prison as a suspected terrorist has begun negotiations to return voluntarily to his home country.
The man, 39, who is only known as 'A', said he and five other Algerians were being "mentally tortured" in the UK.
He was jailed without charge for more than three years under internment laws and later released on a control order.
He told the Press Association he was prepared to risk persecution in Algeria because he had no freedom in Britain.
"If I'm not going to have my freedom in this country then I have to go back. Even if there is a risk, I have to take that risk," he said.
Or is that just "collateral damage"?
Thought so...
TexasChiliBean
I blame the american governement
first
america itself
not so bad or to blame
because most normal american';s can see the presdient is a corrupt idiot
Maybe they're just a LEEEETLE more motivated by bombing innocent civilians, torture, invasion on flimsy pretexts and the total lack of security, electricity, water, sewage and anything else you'd expect in an industrialized nation?
Naw. That's just crazy talk.
"blame-america firsters"
who are you Phyllis Schafly?
Oh, yeah, the Iraqi resistance is reading Eschaton and is gettin' all cheered up by it. Dumbass.
That's IT!
We should be posting In Arabic!
Brilliant!
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Don't Impeach; Impale
La! Yes, the "high ride" for the traitor!
(in-joke)
The baby seals are cute & blood on the snow is scarey, but I think that the seal hunt is legit
But that's just me
Prior Aelred
I have no problem with sustenance hunting. Hunting for fur coats, otoh, disgusts me.
Speaking of emboldening terrorists, has anyone read about "No Blood, No Foul" yet?
Imale Bush right in front of the White House.
in fact Impale all of the Bush Junta and have them on public display!
That's IT!
We should be posting In Arabic!
Brilliant!
Atriosu Akbar!
Inshalla
We should be posting In Arabic!
Brilliant!
Why am I guessing there are more of us here who speak a foreign language than there are over at, say, LGF?
'Cause, you know, they might get foreign-speak cooties from that Ay-rab stuff.
That's IT!
We should be posting In Arabic!
Brilliant!
.
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar
I have enough trouble posting in English.
I dunno why Levin is co-sponsoring that -- I dunno why he voted for Roberts -- too many years inside the beltway? It's not like he doesn't have a safe seat. Maybe learning political calculation to get to the top of the greazy pole has a long term effect.
Inshalla
Moonbootica, Praetor
oye como va
Moon, are you drinking again?
TexasChiliBean, what do think of this?
The Death of Outrage Revisited
George W. Bush and the Assault on American Ideals
Published by Allen Butler
http://
www.associatedcontent.com...nt_type_id=3250
Is this guy a shitty writer or what?
'Cause, you know, they might get foreign-speak cooties from that Ay-rab stuff.
If you can catch Gay, you can catch Ay-rab.
Speaking of emboldening terrorists, has anyone read about "No Blood, No Foul" yet?
Eli
I have a rant about that at my place.
my mother has been learning arabic online from a Morrocan friend (me and my mum are planning to visit Morrocco next year).
I myself have no natural talent for langauges.
I did Spanish for 5 years at my comprehensive school and can barely remeber a word of it......
Moe just having a nice glass of wine.
oye como va
olexicon,Sir Humpty
I love Santana.
I have a rant about that at my place.
Bravo. I didn't go much beyond, "Have you read this?"...
hey, you know they picked a guy up from My Space for saying less.
just say'n.
this is becoming a horrible country.
Or is that just "collateral damage"?
Thought so...
TexasChiliBean
speakin' o' which, i was hopin you mighta got caught up in one of those fires, so's y'd get some inkling on how it is to be destroyed through no fault of your own...
sorry to see yr still around...
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Moe just having a nice glass of wine.
Moonbootica
I knew it! You're slurring your words.
just a drive-by but I just read this:
Sunday, March 19
George Casey & John Murtha
I can't wait!!
later!
even better take the Bush Junta to Iraq.
tie them to corpses from one of their bombing raids.
and to escape they have to chew through the dead flesh in order to escape.
but they will be in the middle of the desert with no water.
I have a rant about that at my place.
catnip
you're good
I'm more snarky than eloquent
hence my blog which is nevrt updated cause i'm still looking for my own style
you're good
olexicon,Sir Humpty
Thank you. Send cheesecake.
I'm more snarky than eloquent
Wow, you mean I'm not the only one?
What a relief, kinda sorta.
Now if I could only figure out some way to make money off of snark, I'd be set for life.
i'm still looking for my own style
olexicon,Sir Humpty
I don't have time to find my own style while all of this Bush bullshit is going on. I just spew, basically.
French unions, students mass for big job protests
PARIS (Reuters) - Huge crowds of students, trade unionists and left-wingers took to the streets across France on Saturday to put pressure on the conservative government to cancel a new law they fear will undermine job security for young workers.
In a festive mood under bright blue skies, tens of thousands turned out in Paris, Lyon and Rennes in the biggest of 160 planned demonstrations in a growing movement that has created a serious crisis for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
Trade union crowd marshals and ranks of riot police kept discreet but watchful eyes on the crowds to avoid any repetition of the violence that marred a Paris student rally on Thursday.
olexicon, catnip-- please email me (via homepage) so I can email you back with some info, like tomorrow, I think. Thanks.
MATTHEWS: Take a look at this very unpleasant bit of polling here. In a recent Pew Research Center poll, the one word descriptions of President Bush have turned incredibly negative with 48 percent -- I checked this twice, this, I couldn't believe it, but it's true -- 48 percent of the people responding to this poll used such words as "incompetent," "idiot," and "liar" to describe our president. Kate O'Beirne, what happened to respect?
O'BEIRNE: What? Oh, excuse me, Tweety, I wasn't paying any attention to your Bush-worshipping, sophomoric, drivel. And by the way, you smell funny.
BOOK REVIEW
'Marching as to war'
My Year in Iraq by L Paul Bremer
There were gasps of disbelief in Washington when L Paul Bremer was chosen to head Iraq's Coalition Provisional Authority. His analysis of his 14 months in Baghdad doesn't lend any more credence to the appointment - nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action. - Alexander Casella
luv atimes.com
what makes me laugh is how the wingnuts seem to think France is this wacky left wing country when its government is conservative.
they have such a blinkered view of political ideologies that its hard to comprehend that European politics is different.
Fucking Morons!
Sunday, March 19
George Casey & John Murtha
That Timmy pic is scary.
Sunday, March 19
George Casey & John Murtha
That Timmy pic is scary.
.skcus ypmihC
This is for any Arabic readers who, I'm told, read shit backwards.
I suppose anybody who disagrees with them is 'left'.
CNN quickvote...
Will Iraq succeed in forming a democratic, national government?
Yes 26% 6708 votes
No 74% 18656 votes
O'BEIRNE: What? Oh, excuse me, Tweety, I wasn't paying any attention to your Bush-worshipping, sophomoric, drivel. And by the way, you smell funny.
Somehow, I don't think Kate is the most likely source to hear that from...
i mean what gives them the right to turn the word 'liberal' into an word of abuse?
i mean when did the left become the punching bag for everybody's (especially the fundies and wingnuts) problems?
Kate O'Beirne, what happened to respect?
Ask Fat Tony Scalia, Newt "Divorced My Wife On Her Sickbed" Gingrich, Bob Barr, Rick Santorum, Henry Hyde-the-sausage, and the rest of the fuckwits who impeached Clinton then crowned their own Idiot King.
BTW -- I am not only working on my sermon, I am watching the balloting for Bishop of Tennesee on-line -- pretty amazing.
There were four candidates -- two homophobic bigots & two other straight white middle aged males (San Francisco is another story!)
One of the not crazy people is an associate of ours (although I don't know him -- so far as I know he has never been here)
Anyway, there up to the 8th ballot or so -- originally one of the crzies was in the lead & the other was dead last, but the non-crazy who is not an associate of ours was the other front runner -- now the two front runners are losing support & our associate is picking up votes -- & I can watch it on-line as it happens -- this still amazes me!
what makes me laugh is how the wingnuts seem to think France is this wacky left wing country when its government is conservative.
France is also a pioneer in the use of torture while occupying an Islamic country.
Sunday, March 19
George Casey & John Murtha
I can't wait!!
It would be better if Caswy and Murtha were on at the same time, so Murtha could ask Casey the questions Russert will evade.
thanks. I'll email you both back soon.
I just spew, basically.
catnip
always a viable option
but I'm such a picky proffesional writer that i don't publish my rantings
Richard indeed.
I mean it makes my head hurt....
mean when did the left become the punching bag for everybody's (especially the fundies and wingnuts) problems?
Moonbootica, Praetor
Josepeh McCarthy
I suppose anybody who disagrees with them is 'left'.
Moonbootica, Praetor
yes
actually
No 74% 18656 votes
Richard | 0
On this score I take no pleasure in being right. Just too many horrors perpetrated in my name.
HEY!!!!!
Where's the pony?
Bush at 36%
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/1189.../site/newsweek/
i mean when did the left become the punching bag for everybody's (especially the fundies and wingnuts) problems?
It's been a slow process of demonizing the Left, especially during the Fifties here in UrMerica. Started in the 'teens, kept going in the Twenties & Thirties, accelerated in the Fifties & Sixties and by the time of Reagan the Left was pretty much beyond the pale in this country. And we're butt-ignorant of the rest of the world, which doesn't help either.
catnip: May i quibble:
you write: This extensive article is painful to read as we are again reminded of the realities of war and the results of a culture of aggressiveness many still refuse to admit even exists in the US military. The Bush administration likes to call the enemy "barbarians" who have "no regard for human life" yet, when it comes to the atrocities committed by its own military, the minimal sentences these American torturers receive are evidence of a government that tacitly accepts such behaviour within its own ranks.
here i play right into the clutches of the Capt.America types like the tejano frijole, but it isn't the "military" alone which exhibits this untoward 'aggressiveness.' aggressiveness is, it seems to me, the one universal 'value' in USer-world which i hear most loudly hyped and see most lavishly rewarded. it fuckin permeates the entire USer culture, every aspect, every expression.
aggressiveness WINS dood...
blame Murka first?
i'm just sayin...
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My father always jokes that the Gendarmerie are animals who are caged and then let loose on protestors and the like.....
but I'm such a picky proffesional writer that i don't publish my rantings
olexicon,Sir Humpty
Just go for it. You're anonymoose anyway.
Canary Islands!!
Yes, and because they have framed the argument that anyone who disagrees with them is a liberal, our ranks are swelling. People haven't just stopped supporting him, they are beginning to hate him.
Chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain
Chain, chain, chain, chain of fools
Five long years I thought you were my man
But I found out I'm just a link in your chain
You got me where you want me
I ain't nothing but your fool
You treated me mean oh you treated me cruel
Chain, chain, chain, chain of fools
O'BEIRNE: What? Oh, excuse me, Tweety, I wasn't paying any attention to your Bush-worshipping, sophomoric, drivel. And by the way, you smell funny.
Somehow, I don't think Kate is the most likely source to hear that from...
Eli
True. But the beauty of writing is that you can make your characters say anything you want. Like this:
O'BEIRNE: Eli, has anyone told you that you are above average good looking and that George Bush once stepped in a pile of cow shit and then made it his top advisor?
Easy, innit?
ggressiveness is, it seems to me, the one universal 'value' in USer-world which i hear most loudly hyped and see most lavishly rewarded. it fuckin permeates the entire USer culture, every aspect, every expression
I have to agree with WGG on this. It's why I'm worried we're closer than ever to Fascism, if not there already - we have the nature as a deep current in American culture.
You're anonymoose anyway.
catnip
true
my pickiniess has precluded me
Shaw Kenawe ~
Hey!
Did you receive my e-mail with the address you requested?
Oh, it was all written and ready to go before 9/11. This was six-hundred plus pages of shit the batshit Repugs had been wanting to do for years under a Repug Preznit, and between 9/11 and anthrax they knew they could slip it through without anyone squealing too loud.
Pere Ubu
You know - it's so true. It's an all out "go for broke" situation with the Repugs. They have it all and they are throwing every fucking looney tunes idea they've had in the last 100 years in there all at once. No wonder it's impossible to keep up with all of it. No wonder it seems almost demonic in its intensity. They often seem like a horde of demons to me (especially when I'm high, but anyway...) They've pulled out all the stops.
How much money is involved in the Abramoff affair? Maher sucked last night, but Michele Michel was great when she finally got that big mouthed big assed rep from Florida to shut her goddamned mouth. She said she wrote the story on it and it is 100% Repug, no ifs ands or buts.
And by the way, Shaw:
Kate O'Beirne ~ 
Later, bats. Time to take Aud to work.
Peace.
I have to agree with WGG on this. It's why I'm worried we're closer than ever to Fascism, if not there already - we have the nature as a deep current in American culture.
Pere Ubu
Yep. Days is dark.
Hey, Moe, I borrowed your neat precise summation of Afghanistan for my blog. Credit where credit is due, of course. You can check out the new entry at my homepage.
Can we get rid of Harper now please?!
i'm just sayin...
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WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar
I don't disagree with you at all. I was just pointing the finger at those in charge.
ciao moonbats i am going to finish my glass of wine and watch a DVD.
slip out of reality for a bit before my head really begins to hurt....
Eli--are you doing O'Beirne fanfic now?
And what's on tap for Scifi tonight?
Yep. Days is dark.
No offense, Tena, but I really wish you wouldn't agree with me.
Tell me I'm being stupid and paranoid and crazy.
They're making out like bandits.
Oh, wait, that's right - they are bandits.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/mer/...ages/
sec9_2.pdf
-
Bye Vicki and Moonboots.
CBC just reported on our protest. Said it was "peaceful and spirited". Didn't interview anyone involved, and didn't air any bit of the speeches or Michael Frenti, but interviewed one passerby who objected to what he said was an Iraqi flag (it was actually a Palestinian flag) draped over the statue of Robbie Burns. "That's totally disrespectful," said the passerby.
Bastards.
WGG-
and cuz the Young Republicans have been described by their own party members, albeit older ones, as not unlike Hitler's Youth Corps in thier seriousness and intent on being righteous.
dratty--all your ponies is belong to Holden.
You know - it's so true. It's an all out "go for broke" situation with the Repugs. They have it all and they are throwing every fucking looney tunes idea they've had in the last 100 years in there all at once. -Tena
Yes. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches are aligned, and the GOP is going apeshit. Note the anti-gay, anti-sex, anti-whatever bills that are being feverishly pushed through at the state level.
Pere Ubu--you need to wait for cocktail hour for anyone to disagree with you. and even then, you might not get lucky.
when did the left become the punching bag for everybody's (especially the fundies and wingnuts) problems?
Moonbootica, Praetor
the villainization and villification of the 'left' has been THE constant project of the corpoRat oligarchy since it was first recognized as a threat to them, back in the mid-19th Century...
wht you are experiencing is the current avatar of the propagandist's art--its temporarily ultimate expression-- the use and application of which to the People has been the sole project of the USer (and now world-wide) corpoRat advertizing/public relations industry since about a week after its inception, around 1910...
.
before I go for real -n photos by Lenin of Lenin's Tomb of the Stop the War Demo in London today
am gone......
Interrobang-- thanks! You'll be hearing from me to, soon.
Olexicon--picky about your writings, but not about BK bathrooms
picky about your writings, but not about BK bathrooms
Sallyh, Vicious Fishes
I have no standards
for where one can get busy
like the alley behind the dairy queen
Tena --
Yeah...
I posted my opinion on my blog about getting Canadians out of Afghanistan ASAP and was met with some strong opposition from a few Canadian liberal bloggers. They've drunk the kool-aid.
Thank you vicki, I got it!
reposting from below -
The Dallas area rally and march against the war is tomorrow- Sunday,
starts@ 2pm at St. Paul's Methodist on Routh off Woodal Rogers
http://dallaspeacecenter.org
fuck the rain, wear a hat and show up
one passerby who objected to what he said was an Iraqi flag (it was actually a Palestinian flag) draped over the statue of Robbie Burns.
How to tell you're in Nova Scotia. . .
Pere Ubu--you need to wait for cocktail hour for anyone to disagree with you.
Yes, but I respect Tena.
It's like the other day when I was listening to the Thom Hartmann show, and someone brought up the "processing camps" that Halliburton has been tapped to build. Thom said something about how a few years ago he would have dismissed any talk of "camps" as craziness - only now, he said he wasn't so sure. To have someone like Thom Hartmann saying it sounds possible - that's pretty damn bad.
Much nicer to pretend I'm just being paranoid and depressive and not being at all realistic.
Haggis-loving infidels!
Psst. The trolls are bots, pass it on.
Okay-- I really like the lay-out of First-Draft and similar blogs, with a short bit of a post that can then be read further by clicking through. But I don't want to get PHP or build my own site-- I want to have a host like blogspot. Can blogspot do this? Or is there some other host out there that does?
"processing camps"
Way to minimize internment camps.
Or is there some other host out there that does?
Moe Szyslak
politica sent me a link for some free blog software that might be what you're looking for. We'll talk via e-mail.
It's like the other day when I was listening to the Thom Hartmann show, and someone brought up the "processing camps" that Halliburton has been tapped to build. Thom said something about how a few years ago he would have dismissed any talk of "camps" as craziness - only now, he said he wasn't so sure. To have someone like Thom Hartmann saying it sounds possible - that's pretty damn bad.
Much nicer to pretend I'm just being paranoid and depressive and not being at all realistic.
Agreed. I've been telling people that if I just suddenly disappear, send care packages of chocolate to one of those camps.
I have to agree with WGG on this. It's why I'm worried we're closer than ever to Fascism, if not there already - we have the nature as a deep current in American culture.
Pere Ubu
There has alway been a sort of tug-of-war going on in the country. The scary part now is that the power of the huge multi-nationals is being added. They seem to be dragging a lot of nations to the right whether the people like it or not.
A little late, but...
A Springsteen/Seeger album seems entirely pitched to a subset of the already-converted--no red-state audience there. And Seeger's a bit of a self-righteous twit, no?
Why do I get the feeling that Kaus thinks Springsteen's recording an album with this guy?
"Despite his best efforts to get Democrats elected, Bush is having a hard time getting it done.." parahphrasing a Ft.Worth dimocrat
brb
No offense, Tena, but I really wish you wouldn't agree with me.
Tell me I'm being stupid and paranoid and crazy.
Pere Ubu
I wish I could. I suppose somehow we can still pull out of this nosedive. But you know, I'm just echoing what Al Gore said in his magnificent speech. He said he had grave doubts that we were going to pull back from the abyss this time. I don't consider Gore an alarmist. *sigh*
It's a long way from over, at the very least. I'm sorry to not be optimistic. They broke the system and the rule of law is no longer operative. Once that happened, I lost hope.
The French are rioting because their new labor law for the young looks almost like the labor law for almost all of us.
It's a whole other world out there.
I gotta go buy some booze. Later all.
Hello--Do I even appear here? I've been arguing with Comcast since this morning telling them that their service is not functioning, they telling me it works fine.
So, Am i here or not? i'm not sure
Draco - looks fine from here
don't forget my beer Moe
So, Am i here or not? i'm not sure
Draco
I see you just fine.
Al Gore's not an alarmist and I'm being monitored by the NSA.
Like my rubber room?
yes Draco, but Comcast does sucketh.
Like my rubber room?
Persecuted Goddess/Genius | 03.18.06 - 4:33 pm | #
it's purdy
The French are rioting because their new labor law for the young looks almost like the labor law for almost all of us.
We still have labor laws? I thought they were thrown on the "quaint" heap along with environmental and bankruptcy protection, and large chunks of the Constitution.
Is this Draco I see before me, his handle towards my hand?
Draco - Uh Oh. Sounds like another attack of the phantom of the cable.
I guess when I switched to DSL, he went to your connection. Sorry.
I hate Comcast. If you want to get their attention, threaten to switch service (provided they have competition where you are.)
The French are rioting because their new labor law for the young looks almost like the labor law for almost all of us.
It's a whole other world out there.
Echidne of the snakes - 4:29 pm
my franch is atrocious, but it occurs this really might be an expression of a 'l'civilisation d'vie'???
rasmussen finally in. Has Bush at lowest to date (for rasmussen) at 40%
Like my rubber room?
Persecuted Goddess/Genius
Any self-respecting latex fetishist would see nothing wrong with a rubber room, you know.
And Bob returned from the hill and said:
remove thyself frometh thy grid of evil and produceth thou what thist will useth
and everyone said:
yeah whatever Bob
so sayeth the word of our Bob
They broke the system and the rule of law is no longer operative. Once that happened, I lost hope.
You did not. And the rule of law is still operative.
If I'm not losing it, you'd better not be.
I think the internets are back up. It was a severe distress trying to contact my ex-e-boyfriend, to tell him I wished him and his real guy well. What a load of crap
OH good, my little bitch is here.
That cheers me right up. Now the little bitch will do tricks for me. Speak, little bitch! Come on, start barking.
Afternoon, all.
Maybe this is more of a Kos thing, but Rep. Martin Sabo is retiring.
The dems are losing lots of senority with him, but definitely won't lose the seat...
Oh, and you can check this blogpimpin' out, if you'd like.
How is everyone today?
...hopes i'm the bitch....
Draco --
I don't see you...
This country is so fucked, but Tena, on a good day you have hope -- I count on that -- it is not good when our bad days coincide!
howdy zap
off for a while...contemplate this writing idea
The teevee is a black hole of nothingness today. I may be forced to read a book.
I'm here 24/7. I have no outside references, so I cultivate delusions of grandeur as I am mesmerized by my screen.
It's all the NSA's fault for leading a campaign of terror against me. I've lost all hope.
Who's "the little bitch"?
I'm lost. 
Tena--You're funny and have a good idea of how Comcast operates.
But they have a monopoly around here in Atlanta, and it's bad for mr
We still have labor laws? I thought they were thrown on the "quaint" heap along with environmental and bankruptcy protection, and large chunks of the Constitution.
Max Planck
We won't have any effective labor laws until Taft-Hartley is overturned.
Man's utter Petri Dish Failure !
later, Saskatchewan!
American Taliban ensuring our moral purity (via Drudge):
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A central Missouri high school drama teacher whose spring play was canceled after complaints about tawdry content in one of her previous productions will resign rather than face a possible firing.
"It became too much to not be able to speak my mind or defend my students without fear or retribution," said Fulton High School teacher Wendy DeVore.
DeVore's students were to perform Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," a drama set during the 17th Century Salem witch trials.
But after a handful of Callaway Christian Church members complained about scenes in the fall musical "Grease" that showed teens smoking, drinking and kissing, Superintendent Mark Enderle told DeVore to find a more family-friendly substitute.
DeVore chose Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a classic romantic comedy with its own dicey subject matter, including suicide, rape and losing one's virginity.
DeVore, 31, a six-year veteran teacher, said administrators told her that her annual contract might not be renewed.
"Maybe I need to find a school that's a better match," she said.
Who's "the little bitch"?
It's the 8 foot rabbit in the corner named "Harvey".
Like my rubber room?
Persecuted Goddess/Genius
I told you a hundred times, once use them throw them away and the soaked bush posters too...
Prior - Let me put it this way. I cannot imagine that they'd be crazy enough to attack Iran. So I'm pretty sure they will.
Al Gore's not an alarmist and I'm being monitored by the NSA.
Like my rubber room?
Persecuted Goddess/Genius | 03.18.06 - 4:33 pm | #
This bitch, Little Brřther.
...turns and fires a blast of truth and goodness at the hideous troll
Prior Alread--It's a pain not having Interets for 13 hours.. I'm not so sad, or not angry that you make a bit of fun of me, but it's no fun
"I cannot imagine that they'd be crazy enough to attack Iran. So I'm pretty sure they will."
--Tena
My thoughts exactly. Every move they have made in the last five years has made my mouth drop open with wonderment.
I knew I didn't like Emeril. Now that I'm watching this Food Channel special about NOLA, I like him even less.
...turns and fires a blast of truth and goodness at the hideous troll
How dare you call me a troll! I'm simply a Buddha-like savior resigned to hermitude in my six houses. Only the adept manueverings of my supportive network of fellow patriots keeps me alive and in action against the Bush Evil Empire.
If you think I'm a troll, the NSA terrorists have won.
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
Tena, darlin', IMO you have been expressing yourself with heightened clarity, conviction, and passion since the Alito Debacle knocked you down as Saul was knocked off his horse on the road to Damascus.
You're truly cooking with gas, girl.
Just keep doing what you're doing.
♥ ♥
OH good, my little bitch is here.
That cheers me right up. Now the little bitch will do tricks for me. Speak, little bitch! Come on, start barking.
You're getting a little greedy. You had dibs on anal annie, now this one, and no telling how many more.
Come on now, share, give it up.
my franch is atrocious, but it occurs this really might be an expression of a 'l'civilisation d'vie'???
Your french looks fine. You don't use an apostophe in front of a consonant, though.
But I agree. One of the things I think is most interesting about American politics is actually how correct the right-wing is about things. I think it's weird to be so consistently half-blind.
They see that there is a culture of death, but then they support and encourage the most obvious examples of it. (war, execution). They rail against Hollywood garbage, and then complain when they're fed anything but the worst sort of trash. Very strange.
I cannot imagine that they'd be crazy enough to attack Iran. So I'm pretty sure they will.
Tena
They're crazy, but they aint stupid.
I just don't think that it will happen.
There's no doubt they're getting ready to attack Iraq - which doesn't even have nuclear weapons, unlike N Korea.
Tena--I'd not put any bit of craziness away from the Bushies.
*Iran (not Iraq)
been there, done that
Saturday Sing Along!
50 Ways To Dump The Dubya
Goper's Lament (Hard To Be A Republican)
If I'm not losing it, you'd better not be.
pie
Chin up, people. It *will* get better. We all realize the needless waste in waiting for the rest of the country to finally countenance what the entire rest of the world has known since 2001. But when US voters OD on a Rethug, it gets fairly projectile. The last place I'd want to be in the coming months is anywhere near this administration.
Prior - Let me put it this way. I cannot imagine that they'd be crazy enough to attack Iran. So I'm pretty sure they will.
They're crazy enough, sure, but I don't think the Hessians are for rent anymore, so what are they gonna do, call up the Adolscent Bush Brigade?
Commander Jenna
Captain notJenna
Major Geore P. (B&E)
Corporal Pierce, the drunkiest of the drunkeees
I don't consider Gore an alarmist. *sigh*
How about Sandra Day O'Connor. That's the one that got me. I may not like her, but she is one smart lady, and she is worried.
Moe, pick up some red wine while yer at it. Thanks.
Like my rubber room?
Persecuted Goddess/Genius
America's Memory - my endlessly devoted little bitch.
Oh, that bitch.
Thanks, Pie.
Likely Mr. Doggie is the same kind of person who told us all through the Clinton years that the U.N. blue helmet horde would be taking over and Clinton would be declared King of the Universe ANY DAY NOW!!!11! OMFG!
now that we've got a REAL batshit proto-Stalin, we're just all being silly by being concerned. Father Preznit would NEVER let anything BAD happen, after all.
They'll attack Iran. I'm sure of it.
As sure as I was about Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004.
You can trust me. I know all and see all. And I pwn many bitches.
Want some unsolicited bad advice? How about another boring anecdote that relates to my useless life?
Why am I asking? I'll just blather it to you for no reason.
Well, I was up in Dallas with my cousin Phil, who you know once met a guy who was on the lawn the day JFK was shot. He said blah blah blah me me me...
I just put on "Sin City" by the Flying Burrito Brothers.
This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poorhouse...
This special, narrated by Emeril, btw, has pointed out the looters at least twice. His special wine collection was looted. Poor baby.
What a turn-off.
This is an odd troll.
Thurtysix purssent ekwalls a hooge madioritty of good crisstian americans
America's Memory is here. I can smell his fear.
He's been tailing me around the Internet for 63 years now. He calls me daily and has only eluded capture because the FBI is in cahoots with the NSA.
I think the guys at Dogsnot, LGF, and Powerline are all in on this, too, as is the infamous Ted Smith.
They all want me.
Persecuted Goddess/Genius - you might consider something more literary, like Cassandra.
This special, narrated by Emeril, btw, has pointed out the looters at least twice. His special wine collection was looted. Poor baby.
Oh fuck that idiot! What goddamned diva!
You can trust me. I know all and see all. And I pwn many bitches.
You couldn't pwn if it was National Pwning Day and you had an automatic pwning machine and a copy of "Pwning For Dummies".
and that said, I'm going to let it rest.
Persecuted Goddess/Genius:
Surely, no one can be as sure as you've been about the stuff you've posted. Shirley.
Hilarious.
This is an odd troll.
Isn't that redundant?
My thoughts exactly. Every move they have made in the last five years has made my mouth drop open with wonderment.
mer
You know after the 2000 debacle I congratulated myself on how maturely I was handling the situation. I figured we survived Reagan, how bad could it be. And in one sense 9/11 really did change everything. It gave them the cover they needed to carry out their agenda.
Persecuted Goddess/Genius - you might consider something more literary, like Cassandra.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket
Smart ass.
How you been, me boy?
Commander Whitehead,please be so kind as to hand me a bottle of Schwepps.Its the effervesence,you know.
I knew I didn't like Emeril. Now that I'm watching this Food Channel special about NOLA, I like him even less.
pie
What's he doing?
This is an odd troll.
Yes.
Did somebody have a baby?
Digby's coverage of Operation Swarmer has this
tidbit:
The only thing missing was the president parachuting in to the strains of "Danger Zone" from Top Gun, wearing a tight jumpsuit and carrying a plastic turkey.
Reporting at its best.
How you been, me boy?
Hanging in there, thanks. So what's up with your interview last week?
William Rivers Pitt nails it once again.
I need a cyberhug from all of you, my dearest friends. It's tough being a martyr and pwning so many bitches.
The grand conspiracies launched against me only validate how right I've been all along.
http://www.quailhuntingschool.com/
This is an odd troll.
catnip
how so? seems like the typical frustrated adolescent to me
hello, NTodd. I'm sad to hear of your mot-good romance
Mine was worse. In any case, I fope you have better soon, as you're nice-looking, and attractive
Ah Tena, today you're the rich shut in again. I always get a kick out of how one day we're all welfare queens, then the next rich bitches living off our father's trusts funds. Good times.
Persecuted whatever is at least funny.
Most of them are ridiculous.
But Iran will not be attacked by the U.S., UK, and anybody else who happens to come along.
Why? It can't physically be done.
It's reality so obvious even the Bushies can't ignore it.
This is an odd troll.
Isn't that redundant?
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket
Some are more fun than others.
i just got my quail hunting certificate...you can too!
William Rivers Pitt nails it once again.
catnip
What a rughead!
hope, not fope, grrrr
how so? seems like the typical frustrated adolescent to me
Don't I know it! America's Memory/Gordon/Ted Smith/Assrocket is actually only 13. This is how he is skirting the law - by using the juvenile exemptions.
I know this because I am a crack attorney.
Hey, NTodd, would it be presumptious of me to try to set you up with any chicks?
You know ...
Emeril can go BAM himself.
Did any one else see this very strange editorial in today's WaPo by the father of a soldier?
"I generally accepted the reasons we went to war and worried about terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Like many Americans, I believed that America had a moral duty to protect the oppressed of Iraq. But with my son in that war, my interest became much more parochial. Policy meant less than facts."
and then toward the end:
"My view of the war hasn't changed. I am concerned about mistakes made and whether it will be worth all the bloodshed"
This guy seems to be an average person, not a thinktank warrior or bible thumping kill-'em-all-and-let-god-sort-'em-out type, and I'm glad his son is home safe, but this intellectual mishmash is so discouraging. I actually feel more elitist after reading this.
i just got my quail hunting certificate...you can too!
politica - persecutor
I prefer hunting aging lawyers.
Uh, Persecuted, you could fulfill the trifecta if you were also a psychologist.
What's he doing?
Bitchin' 'bout looters. Interviewed some black chef who works for Brennan's bitchin', too.
Look, I realize that looting is a crime, but under those circumstances? When the city had been abandoned and left to die?
Emeril alluded to the fact that help didn't come right away.
Can't put anything over on him. No siree.
I prefer hunting aging lawyers.
I resent that comment!
hope, not fope, grrrr
Fope is not a flan?
You must admit, it's a very meta troll. I think trolling about trolling counts as slightly odd.
I know this because I am a crack attorney.
Persecuted Goddess/Genius
Persecuted etc is a lawyer on crack...developing...
So what's up with your interview last week?
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket
Dunno yet. It's for an imaging job at a rather large financial firm here in town. I've never done imaging, but I scored pretty high on my typing tests. I'll find out in a week or so.
Meanwhile, one of the jobs I'm temping at is the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It's a Knight Ridder paper, and the parent company of the Star Tribune just bought them and will spin them off. Everyone there is pretty freaked out right now.
this particular trool is emblematic of a certain personality type (although it may stretch credulity to attach a notion of 'personhood' on something so stunted and deformed).
my guess (diagnosis, a la frist) is that this is a failed blogger, someone consumed with envy and bitterness that all those who seem to flock to eschaton should, by all rights, be showering their attentions on her/his pitiable outpourings...
s/he really fancies 'her/him'self a natural leader of such a group as ours, an intellect and personality of substance and proportion. s/he takes it personally that s/he is not the recipient of our attentions...
anyway that'd be my guess...
.
OT, but here's a few pictures from today's local peace rally.
Looked like about 50 people, which is pretty good considering there's two other, much bigger ones going on within 30 miles... this one only had one "official" speaker (an aide to George Miller - he's speaking at the rally a few miles away)...
Some are more fun than others.
catnip
I stand corrected.
Authormatic -- Bestseller generator!
When the Second American Civil War breaks out, I only have room for two, maybe three, refugees, mm-kay?
For anybody that has not seen it, the Cheney quail hunting school:
http://www.quailhuntingschool.co...l.com/
flash.php
(space bar reloads)
I resent that comment!
Persecuted Goddess/Genius
Good. My work here is done.
Never mind, pie - I saw your comment about what he was doing.
Yeah, I have a feeling that the reactions from NOLA are going to vary according to social and economic classes. The Garden District survived, after all.
Uh, Persecuted, you could fulfill the trifecta if you were also a psychologist.
Seeing that I am omniscient as well as omnipotent, I am that and all things potential in the universe.
It only goes to show you how powerful the B.E.E. is in thwarting my revolution.
Pete Seeger is an actual human being, no wonder Kaus can't comprehend him.
You must admit, it's a very meta troll. I think trolling about trolling counts as slightly odd.
It doesn't strike me as all that meta. Just a meathead.
NTodd, may I email you a mac question. So far I love this machine but I can't figure out how to select just one picture in a file to email or post.
oops, I guess I just asked the question. But it is an open thread.
So just what is it with little (and I do mean little) boy moronic brownshirt fucks pretending they're little girl moronic brownshirt fucks?
Just suck a dick, guy - really, we won't care. Suck a fucking dick and get it over with already...
...speaking of which I realized today that a double helix, when represented in 2 Dimensions is actually a perfect fractal....
only neegroes looted; white people foraged for necessary supplies. Norah O'Donnell said so, and Shep Smith confirmed it. Two sources=solid reporting.
Dave(tm) picks up the Simels torch.
We're proud of you.
Did somebody have a baby?
smitty werbenmanjensen - 4:56 pm
yeah...
you're virtually an uncle again (in the brotherhood of man)...
congrats...
didja see any of the demonstrations in London today?
.
Did somebody have a baby?
smitty werbenmanjensen
@ 4:52 p.m. Just in time for Happy Hour.
ql - yeah, go ahead and send me a detailed e-mail with what you're doing and what problems your having with the posting.
Well, I think quail and dove make good eating--with a side order of wild rice. As long as you don't shoot anyone in the face while hunting.
WGG, I'm so ashamed,
After putting the peace march badge on my blog for a month, I did something selfish and went for a bike ride.
It's been a really hard week for me.
Huckabee said to a small group. He added that Christianity is not represented "nearly enough" in Washington.
I suddenly feel very tired. I can't drink with the meds I'm on.
cyber-post-partum-depression kickin in now
at least the cyber-empathy-labor-pains are gone.
Always an uncle, never a father ....
To paraphrase Harlan Ellison, I want to know where the fuck my share of the booty from the Massive Liberal World-Controlling Conspiracy is.
'Cause someone else is double-dipping, and when I find 'em I'm kicking their ass, pacifism or no!
at least the cyber-empathy-labor-pains are gone.
Can I still binge on ice cream and cheezits from cyber-empathy-cravings?
KOS is double dipping
'Cause someone else is double-dipping
Soros? To keep his gig at the Carlyle Group?
how does one get one's gun to work in Quail Hunting School...??
oops, I guess I just asked the question. But it is an open thread.
ql in ny
Now you have to shoot someone in the face.
i just got my quail hunting certificate...you can too!
Did you get the extra stamp that lets you shoot republicans?
clicky da mousy SD
Well, we're having An NCAA fest here tonight. Making spring rolls, chicken wings, and roasted brussel sprouts with pine nuts and balsamic vinegar (I know, but it's a fabulous recipe that even brussel sprout haters will love). I like smörgĺsbords! Sue me!
Keeping my honey happy.
Have a good one, everyone.
Via Authormatic:
"Carol," said Tony, "by the look of the small injuries sustained on the body, especially those to the Head area, I would say that the victim’s death was caused by the blunt instrumens I've just found. Lady Liberty was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. We have had a series of murders in this area - each body has been left wearing just one piece of clothing. The Torch of Freedom left on this latest body completes the set. The killer has been building an outfit - one item of clothing per body. Clothes are very important to this person, I think that the killer might have been connected in some way to the fashion industry. Could be a frustrated designer."
"What about this cat with the name tag? Why did it attack George W. Bush?" asked Carol.
"Because Carol, this Cat was a witness to the crime and recognised the killer!"
"But how can we know that George W. Bush is the killer?"
"Two things Carol. Firstly, George W. Bush is left handed and this is a left handed blunt instrument and secondly, if you look closely at the Blunt instrument it says, 'this belongs to George W. Bush'.
"Brilliant", sighs Carol.
Well, I think quail and dove make good eating--with a side order of wild rice. As long as you don't shoot anyone in the face while hunting.
If you shoot them in the face, decorum dictates that you make them a quail/dove dinner after they apologize.
What's up batses?
ummm nope
but I should do it agian anyway as my printer was out of ink
Christianity is not represented "nearly enough" in Washington.
These guys have a tremendous gift for unintended irony. . .
I knew I didn't like Emeril. Now that I'm watching this Food Channel special about NOLA, I like him even less.
pie
The NOLA disaster is a perfect case study of this administration. The preparation and response were so amateur and even exacerbating as to dash all of our ingrained "cavalry to the rescue" thoughts we ever harbored about the egalitarian power of the Federal Government, upon the rocks. They then proceed to immediately champion big business as Jesus' own agents for the recovery effort and blatantly step over the "rabble" who not only used to live there, but who fucking helped put Shrub in office.
It's the new Rethug political touchstone:
Kill your constituency.
In Afghanistan, Iraq, Louisianna, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama.
They'll fucking *love* you for that.
clicky da mousy SD
politica - persecutor
I did! I clicked madly.
Nothing.
Oh, well.....
at least the cyber-empathy-labor-pains are gone.
We've moved on to having sympathetic post-partum depression.
When the Second American Civil War breaks out, I only have room for two, maybe three, refugees, mm-kay?
smitty werbenmanjensen | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 5:02 pm
What about your neighbors? Will they have room?
Oh wait, you're in London, correct? Never mind.
Now you have to shoot someone in the face.
1watt Hermit
But remember: it has to be a plastic person.
KOS is double dipping
Kos' in for a session with the Stick Of Pain, then! Kumbayaa my ass!
I did! I clicked madly.
oh you have to be on Ambien and a little drunk first..
Dave(tm) picks up the Simels torch.
Well, not really, for two reasons:
1) I don't want them sucking my dick, and
2) There's only one Simels - nobody does it better!
She calls me the man in the fog...
I didn't know that people still did break dancing after Electric Boogaloo.
Obese xians, lost-weight xians, polygamous xians;
they're coming outta the freakin' wood work!
"not nearly enough" my patootie!
Looks like they sent the special olympics troll.
A great album cover.
Meerp! Meeerp!
I didn't know that people still did break dancing after Electric Boogaloo.
But you've had a rough week.
I hope there's a new thread soon because I love being frist.
A great album cover.
watertiger
I absolutely love meercats! Love 'em!
polygamous xians
Did you see nutty Krauthammer say that we're talking about polygamy because of gay marriage? the mormon church, apparently, was founded in Vermont four years ago. and he's supposed to be one of the smart ones.
One thing I'll say about Mike Huckabee is this: He went on a weight-loss binge for Christian reasons. He said he wanted to give God back his body in as good of condition as he got it.
Too bad there's a gazillion fat-ass jeebo-fascists out there.
That said, Huckabee's a lunatic.
Krauthammer's crazy.
I know, because I once took a psychology class.
Always an uncle, never a father ....
Same here, bro.
Christianity is not represented "nearly enough" in Washington.
They put their hand on the Constitution & swore to uphold the Bible.
There's so much to read from all of you today, I can barely keep up
i'd like to tell you of the movies i've recently seen
It's been a really hard week for me.
smitty werbenmanjensen - 5:07 pm
yeah, me, too...
fer inst, on tuesday i had to spend all afternoon dressed in bavarian mufti, whooping and hollering and demonstrating quite madly in the hot sun, while eight of albuquerque's most fulsomely endowed young women shook their ample, shapely, and uniformly lovely bosoms in my direction through water-soaked cotton peasant tops...
it's hard being me, sometimes, i'll confess...
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But you've had a rough week.
plantsman
I've got the empty bottle of Valpolicella to show for it.
Same here, bro.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket
Maybe not!
Too bad there's a gazillion fat-ass jeebo-fascists out there.
Jerry Falwell and William "Anal Sex Fascinates Me Though Not in a Homo Sexual Way Of Course" Donohue each have more chins than.... than.... than someone who is very fat whose name escapes me at the moment. How 'bout William Conrad!
And K-Lo? Girl is three hundred pounds o'fun!!
Huckabee said to a small group. He added that Christianity is not represented "nearly enough" in Washington.
jesus christ agrees.
and says huckabee is 'not the man for the job'
oh you have to be on Ambien and a little drunk first..
politica - persecutor
well, hell, wouldn't paxil and cheap white wine at 2:11 in the afternoon more than meet those standards???
One of My Favorite Album Covers
A great album cover.
watertiger -- 5:10 pm
The MeerCats...
a great name for a band
I do hope the world-wide outbreak of religious fundamentalism falters under its own weight,
a la "War of the Worlds".
They put their hand on the Constitution & swore to uphold the Bible.
nice
i'd like to tell you of the movies i've recently seen
Go for it.
i had to spend all afternoon dressed in bavarian mufti, whooping and hollering and demonstrating quite madly in the hot sun,
Are bragging rights, part of the acting contract?
A great album cover
This was going to be the cover of the album that I never recorded.
It was to be called, "Factions, Fashions, and Fists". Instead, that's what I called my blog.
A great album cover.
Wow, the clues about Paul being dead are all over that...
yeah, me, too...
fer inst, on tuesday i had to spend all afternoon dressed in bavarian mufti, whooping and hollering and demonstrating quite madly in the hot sun, while eight of albuquerque's most fulsomely endowed young women shook their ample, shapely, and uniformly lovely bosoms in my direction through water-soaked cotton peasant tops...
it's hard being me, sometimes, i'll confess...
sounds like Rocktoberfest
Xian flu.
watertiger, I also LOVE meerkats.
They are just the neatest critters.....they have "community" down pat.
it's hard being me, sometimes, i'll confess...
I want to be a machine that destroys fascists.
'Night folks.
This guy seems to be an average person, not a thinktank warrior or bible thumping kill-'em-all-and-let-god-sort-'em-out type, and I'm glad his son is home safe, but this intellectual mishmash is so discouraging. I actually feel more elitist after reading this.
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Is that the same mental giant who was featured on the front of this morning's Seattle Times, or is this a different one? This guy went to "avenge" his son's death, the son he was so proud to send and who he never believed in a million years could actually get hurt. He mentioned how hard he tries not to be racist about "the terrorists" he sees in Iraq, and even allows it might be okay with him if he doesn't get any terrorist blood on him. Salt of the earth.
NTodd--It's rather a bother being an uncle to my semi-bratty nephew, being homo, not a dad.
Hey, I've finished my nap now. Did NYMary ever have that baby of hers?
it's hard being me, sometimes, i'll confess...
Try being me sometime. All these voices in my head!
pie - Have a great time! Sounds delicious.
Try being me sometime. All these copies on my desk!
NTodd--It's rather a bother being an uncle to my semi-bratty nephew, being homo, not a dad.
Draco
Why, Draco? Don't the same rules apply? I mean basically, your role is to be the guy who your nephew can come to when he gets into trouble 'cause Pop won't understand and Mum won't be much use. Right? Sort of a younger Grandparent thingey?
Is that the same mental giant who was featured on the front of this morning's Seattle Times,
No, this was the Washington Post, they didn't say anythign about him other than that his son was in Iraq. But his opinions on the war were so muddled, the notion that "policy meant less than facts" was some kind of revelation for him. It was like the infamous "reality-based community", a little window into their world view.
Try being me sometime! All of these cats drooling all over me.
Try being me sometime. All these voices in my head!
Tis nothing, you could have ants crawling out of your ears and from under your finger nails.
It's hard being a cheeto eater!
Why, Draco? Don't the same rules apply? I mean basically, your role is to be the guy who your nephew can come to when he gets into trouble 'cause Pop won't understand and Mum won't be much use. Right? Sort of a younger Grandparent thingey?
That's precisely the role my favorite uncle played.
I've been thinking about the news reporter and photographer (I can't even remember their names) who got messed up in Iraq a month or so ago. Has there been any reports about how they are doing?
You guys are all so smart. I wish I could live up to it. That's why I mostly lurk.
Hey, I've finished my nap now. Did NYMary ever have that baby of hers?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Yep, & the IRS billed him $30,000.00.
well, hell, wouldn't paxil and cheap white wine at 2:11 in the afternoon more than meet those standards???
Sarah Deere | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 5:16 pm | #
not in the legal sense no
Hey, I've finished my nap now. Did NYMary ever have that baby of hers?
GWPDA, y
We're all gonna have to come up with a new opening. I wonder if NYMary is home yet?
I mean basically, your role is to be the guy who your nephew can come to when he gets into trouble 'cause Pop won't understand and Mum won't be much use. Right? Sort of a younger Grandparent thingey?
Plus, you have to buy them booze when they are underage, and take them on a road trip to Nevada to visit a whore house, the next day.
Oooooh - apparently one of the penalties of paying off all your credit cards is that the companies start getting really frantic to regain control. Here's one who wants to offer me, pre-approved mind you, at 7% fixed a $50,000 line of credit and another which has just increased my credit card line to $20k. I feel so, so, wanted....
You guys are all so smart. I wish I could live up to it. That's why I mostly lurk.
Dincy Naheehs | 03.18.06 - 5:21 pm | #
Yeah you're dumb as a rock, go vote for nixon.
I've been thinking about the news reporter and photographer (I can't even remember their names) who got messed up in Iraq a month or so ago. Has there been any reports about how they are doing?
mer
Bob Woodruff?
Oooooh - apparently one of the penalties of paying off all your credit cards is that the companies start getting really frantic to regain control
The bad news is that, apparently, paying off your credit card debt is terrorist related activity. The unholy union of the Patriot act and the Joe Biden MNBA law.
he got out of the hospital two days ago
"Yeah you're dumb as a rock, go vote for nixon."
That's not a very nice thing to say. Why are you so mean to me?
Right? Sort of a younger Grandparent thingey?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Draco, heed this advice. This is a from a very wise person...
Woodruf was realsed to a rehab. center yesterday, the cameraman has been out for a couple of wks.
I've been thinking about the news reporter and photographer (I can't even remember their names) who got messed up in Iraq a month or so ago. Has there been any reports about how they are doing?
Doug Vogt, the fotographer, is said to be recovering quite well. Woodruff, the anchor, had far more extensive brain trauma, and thus much farther to go. And less chance of 'full recovery."
yeah, try being a surrealist fictional character for awhile, see how easy YOU have it!
Hornstrumpot!
That's not a very nice thing to say. Why are you so mean to me?
We are often mean to each other. This is NOT the cheering section. That's over at LGF.
fer inst, on tuesday i had to spend all afternoon dressed in bavarian mufti, whooping and hollering and demonstrating quite madly in the hot sun, while eight of albuquerque's most fulsomely endowed young women
Hey!
Didn't I send you out to harass Bunny-Bunny then?
My s-i-l has played the part of an aunt to perfection. Almost too well. I actually got jealous once when my kids went to her instead of me.
Best Cover Ever
Oh, jeezus, like I need another timesucking Web site.
bleaugh.
Of course, it isn't like I bookmarked it anyway.
Best Cover Ever
Oh, jeezus, like I need another timesucking Web site.
bleaugh.
Of course, it isn't like I bookmarked it anyway.
GWPDA--I mean to be a food uncle to matthew, but i'm not sure how. He is a bit bratty, and i'm not very good . So it's a problem.
I'd like to be better, but maybe it's not working
The bad news is that, apparently, paying off your credit card debt is terrorist related activity. The unholy union of the Patriot act and the Joe Biden MNBA law.
DemByDefault
Nah, only if you do it all at once. Drib by drab, you just make MBNA and Citicard nervous.
"Doug Vogt, the fotographer, is said to be recovering quite well. Woodruff, the anchor, had far more extensive brain trauma, and thus much farther to go. And less chance of 'full recovery.'"
--plantsman
Thanks to all who responded.
I'd like to be better, but maybe it's not working.
Or maybe it is.
Good,, not food, why can I get nothing typed right?
my nephews think I'm funny. Alas, they're closing in on ten and they'll outgrow me.
GWPDA--I mean to be a food uncle to matthew, but i'm not sure how. He is a bit bratty, and i'm not very good . So it's a problem.
I'd like to be better, but maybe it's not working
Draco
I have an idea, and may be wrong, but it may be your job as well is to tell him he's being a jackass. It's sort of parental correction without the authority. You're a chum but with car keys and your own money.
My baby girl turned 29 last wk, I pissed her off by reminding her she'll be 30 next time, she stopped talking to me.
I also just bought the coolest thing. A probably twenty year old Seth Thomas -mechanical travel clock-: the kind you wind up and that ticks, that you could wrap in a towel and tuck in with a new puppy. With a face you could actually see in a motel room, without a dependency on batteries.... Not even made in China. It's wonderful!
plantsman--I'm not clear that i'm a good uncle. Probably the reverse. Damn. I'get everthing wring
I do hope the world-wide outbreak of religious fundamentalism falters under its own weight,
a la "War of the Worlds".
plantsman - 5:16 pm
it won't unfortunately...
the idiots are breeding like roaches, while the breeding trend among the rational population declines...
even cataclysm would likely leave more of them than of us...
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With a face you could actually see in a motel room, without a dependency on batteries
Radium paint on the hands?
Didn't I send you out to harass Bunny-Bunny then?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 5:27 pm
that was thursday, i b'lieve, m'dear...
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Woody - the idiots are breeding like roaches,
There's no guarantee that all those kids are going to agree with their parents.
We aren't talking about height, weight or hair color. People's attitudes are something else again, even if there is some kind of genetic component.
We don't know what all those kids will end up like.
Draco - even that's okay. I've got a nephew and a niece whom I have never seen, they've never seen me and honestly I doubt that we ever will. Or, the first time I see either of them will involve one or the other proclaiming that they've decided to come live with Auntie GWPDA and go to college at the notoriously inexpensive ASU. Right.
We do what we can with what we've got. If you're fond of your nephew then that's a great deal more than most. Nobody's keeping score kid.
I'm not clear that i'm a good uncle. Probably the reverse. Damn. I'get everthing wrong
Don't fret. I know just how you feel. Try always to be honest and gentle with the kid. Be as generous in time and stuff as feels comfortable. Thankfully, the position carries the potential for far more rewards than demands. Let it be easy.
"I pissed her off by reminding her she'll be 30 next time, she stopped talking to me."
30 didn't bother me, but 40 kinda sucked.
Radium paint, -probably-. Im not opening it to find out, but probably.
Radium paint, -probably-.
No need to get Curied away!
No need to get Curied away!
wow, that's like - like, SO RAD!
:P
plantsman--Thabks for being so nice.. i'm a bit drink now, so it's nice letting you be kind
Hey, Moonbats
Radium paint, -probably-. Im not opening it to find out, but probably
An easy way to test this. Place a un-developed roll of film next to it for a week or two and have it developed. If fogged, either the dial has radium on it or your house has been built on top of a an old cold war nuke waste dump.
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