Hey ProfWombat--I've been on a cookie baking orgy, so please, take some for Dr. Mrs. Wombat, the Wombettes and yourself.
We're about to open a bottle of Beaujolais as well.
I'm debating between chicken cacciatore and chicken with mushrooms. Decisions, decisions.
Sallyh, Vicious Fishes |
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03.18.06 - 9:20 pm | #
In the Sunday Times of London, what the media here fear to admit
‘Impeach Bush’ chorus grows
Sarah Baxter, Washington
THE movement to impeach President George W Bush over the war on terror began with a few tatty bumper stickers on the back of battered old Volvos and slogans such as “Bush lied, people died” on far-left websites. But as Democrat hopes rise of gaining control of Congress this autumn, dreams of impeaching Bush are no longer confined to the political fringe.
A poll last week found that voters, by 50% to 37%, would prefer the Democrats to win control of Congress. If Bush’s opponents find themselves in a position of power, the temptation to humiliate him is likely to be irresistible.
P O'Neill |
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03.18.06 - 9:20 pm | #
Non ma chère...cinqième.
nur al-cubicle |
03.18.06 - 9:21 pm | #
I brought back that wine you asked for last nite: I gallon for $1.98! Damn good deal.
catnip |
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03.18.06 - 9:21 pm | #
Why do the Brits _hate_ V for Vendetta?
nur al-cubicle
Is this true? I remember reading 1984 was none too popular back when either...
swampy mcfeverish |
03.18.06 - 9:21 pm | #
V for Vendetta.
GO SEE ITF!
common dedominator |
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03.18.06 - 9:21 pm | #
catnip lsd cocaine
call it what you will
i luv it just the same
nur al-cubicle |
03.18.06 - 9:22 pm | #
Brits hate V for Vendetta because they think that while it began as something written for Britain, it ended up with up a screenplay, actors, and directors that designed it for the American market rather than the British one. Thus they ask, like the Woody Allen movie, what was the point of making it in Britain?
P O'Neill |
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03.18.06 - 9:22 pm | #
Uh, V for Vendetta.
GO SEE IT!
common dedominator |
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03.18.06 - 9:22 pm | #
the brits across the spectrum gave V for Vendetta 2 stars
nur al-cubicle |
03.18.06 - 9:23 pm | #
nur al-cubicle | 03.18.06 - 9:19 pm |
Do they?
And, in lieu of an answer, compare the issue of Harper's that actually addressed the lukewarm British response to the tube bombings.
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 9:23 pm | #
Hey, has anybody seen a couple of boobs floating around?
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:23 pm | #
I'm debating between chicken cacciatore and chicken with mushrooms
If your drinking Beaujolais, I would go with the chicken w/ mushrooms. But if you have some Chianti, the cacciatore would be divine...
FeralLiberal |
03.18.06 - 9:23 pm | #
So, V for America, Dr. Who for Britain?
nur al-cubicle |
03.18.06 - 9:23 pm | #
I have a fan? Or is that just someone who will get high on anything?
catnip |
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03.18.06 - 9:24 pm | #
Was "Jordan Tower" named after Katire Price in a cynical comment on British media tastes?
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 9:24 pm | #
Hey, has anybody seen a couple of boobs floating around?
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket
Thus they ask, like the Woody Allen movie, what was the point of making it in Britain?
What mask would V. have worn? Not sure my Burger King idea would have been practical.
Eli |
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03.18.06 - 9:25 pm | #
sallyh: throw some lemons into the chicken too. Works great.
Made Irish soda bread from a recipe calling for buttermilk--wicked good, not dry as it often is...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 9:25 pm | #
The Washington Metro doesn't run under the Capitol or the White House. Guess there's a reason.
nur al-cubicle |
03.18.06 - 9:25 pm | #
Feral--no Chianti.
We have no rules here. I'll drink Chardonnay with a cheeseburger.
Sallyh, Vicious Fishes |
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03.18.06 - 9:26 pm | #
Sigh, no boobs for NTodd.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:26 pm | #
gallon for $1.98! Damn good deal.
You don't have to spend alot to get decent wine these days, there's a lot of bargains to be found if you know what to look for.
FeralLiberal |
03.18.06 - 9:26 pm | #
Apologies Aren't Enough (A transcript of Friday's "Cup O' Joe Report" blogcast)
Three years ago, the United States began its illegal invasion of Iraq. Those of us who knew something about history knew exactly what would happen: the Iraqi army, rather than facing a fight they knew they couldn't win, simply melted away into the population, and waited, and planned. Even then, we could have still won the peace in Iraq if we had put an organized effort into making the lives of ordinary Iraqis better. And there were people, including some US soldiers, who tried in small ways to do just that.
But the leaders who brought us into the war, the cowards of the right wing propaganda machine who waved the flag in our faces whenever someone objected, and the assorted misinformed and easily manipulated drones that put them into office in the first place were too busy demanding apologies from the war's critics and screaming "Mission Accomplished" to act on what was going on. Now, since we've apparently run out of other ideas, we've just decided to drop more bombs on them, and try to sucker us into going to war with Iran.
It would be easy to just demand an apology from them, but in the wake of all this death and torture, that's no longer enough. If they had any sense of decency or honor they would, at the very least, resign from their positions and let someone else try to clean up the mess they made. But we all know that's not going to happen. Decency and honor are for wimps, after all. The only question for me is how far they'll go to keep themselves in power and out of prison.
But if you're like the rest of mainstream America--you support our troops, believe in firmly responding to terrorists on our own shores, and/or respect Christianity--then, don't waste your time at this piece of garbage masquerading as a superhero movie. It is anything but.
If most other Hollywood films subtly whisper of an agenda, "V" clocks you over the head with it with a still sizzling, iron frying pan of extreme leftism. It doesn't arrive in theaters until March 17, but already the mainstream (ie. liberal) movie critics and entertainment media are raving about this egregious attack on our war on terror.
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The fact that they are reading this movie, which is based on a twenty year old story, as an attack on Bush says more about them than it does about the movie.
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03.18.06 - 9:28 pm | #
Thus they ask, like the Woody Allen movie, what was the point of making it in Britain?
Because the original graphic novel was?
And why the hell did Peter Jackson have LOTR take place in Middle Earth?
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:28 pm | #
The only people who are allowed to blow up the White House are....aliens. And only those aliens defeatable by drunken crop duster pilots.
nur al-cubicle |
03.18.06 - 9:28 pm | #
I'm off to watch The Jackal. Later gators!
catnip |
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03.18.06 - 9:28 pm | #
Our desire to humiliate Bush isn't the root cause of our desire to impeach him: nobody could humiliate him with the economy of means and expertise with which he does it himself. We want him impeached because he's so demonstrably bloody bad for the country and the planet...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 9:29 pm | #
I'll drink Chardonnay with a cheeseburger
Good for you!!! Just had a nice Chard as an aperitif before steak on the grill and a good Cab. Got to enjoy my day of amnesty before getting back on the wagon for Lent...
FeralLiberal |
03.18.06 - 9:29 pm | #
Fuck! A goddamned movie?
The country is going to fucking hell and you guys are talking about some fucking movie?
angryspittle |
03.18.06 - 9:29 pm | #
Hey sailor!
You really should watch out for sailors, the dirty buggers...
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:29 pm | #
Apparently al Qaeda was tempted by the Guy Fawkes idea, but couldn't see a way to carry it out.
P O'Neill |
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03.18.06 - 9:29 pm | #
The fact that they are reading this movie, which is based on a twenty year old story, as an attack on Bush says more about them than it does about the movie.
Richard
it was an attack on Margaret thatcher
and they clearly are not even edecen t comic geeks
they just needed something to get in a froth over
because "hollyowwod liberlas" make the best strawmen
olexicon,Sir Humpty |
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03.18.06 - 9:30 pm | #
ProfWombat--My hatred for Bush stems from his policies and actions and not the other way around. He has proven himself unworthy of respect.
Sallyh, Vicious Fishes |
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03.18.06 - 9:30 pm | #
catnip | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 9:28 pm |
We sincerely hope you mean at the zoo. The only good thing about that awful, awful movie was seeing Bruce Willis in several different disguises.
Listen: Richard Gere, doing an Irish accent.
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 9:30 pm | #
wine, not gasoline, i presume?
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka |
03.18.06 - 9:30 pm | #
Oh it is bed time.
Peace!
*(Worst president ever)*
Alex |
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03.18.06 - 9:30 pm | #
The country is going to fucking hell and you guys are talking about some fucking movie?
Uh, yeah. And those stupid Iraqis are in the middle of civil war and still go shopping for food. Go figure.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:30 pm | #
would they see "the scarlet pimpernell" as a terrorits too?
olexicon,Sir Humpty |
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03.18.06 - 9:31 pm | #
yes yes sallyh I said yes
And some espresso and a glass of Calvados to the lady and Monsieur...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 9:31 pm | #
Dealing a sharp setback to the Bush administration, a federal appeals court Friday threw out a controversial regulation in the federal government's clean-air program that would have allowed older factories, refineries and power plants to install new equipment without using the most modern anti-pollution devices.
swampy mcfeverish |
03.18.06 - 9:32 pm | #
Apparently al Qaeda was tempted by the Guy Fawkes idea
Doh! The Jetfuel Plot.
nur al-cubicle |
03.18.06 - 9:32 pm | #
If The New Republican disses a Democrat over something, that's the Gold Star Seal of Approval as far as I'm concerned.
Phoenix Woman |
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03.18.06 - 9:32 pm | #
The country is going to fucking hell and you guys are talking about some fucking movie?
Yeah, just to annoy you.
Ô¿Ô |
03.18.06 - 9:32 pm | #
would they see "the scarlet pimpernell" as a terrorits too?
olexicon,Sir Humpty | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 9:31 pm |
We were sure that the snobbery of Pimpernel was directed at Leninists; certainly there was enough radicalism rampant at the time to mean this is not so inaccurate. The author went on to be a wonderfully air-headed advocate of the Great War.
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 9:33 pm | #
The Republicans got us here, let the Republicans get us out, I'm sick of wasting our talents on their fuck ups.
politica - persecutor |
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03.18.06 - 9:33 pm | #
I'll drink Chardonnay with a cheeseburger
me, too...i'll drink w/purt'near anybody...
i just dont know that many cheeseburgers that drink...
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WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka |
03.18.06 - 9:33 pm | #
The country is going to fucking hell and you guys are talking about some fucking movie?
angryspittle
An update on the issue of comparing anti-gay marriage laws with anti-miscegenation laws, after discussing the Lawrence v. Texas ruling with my friend David Eng. In an essay that will be published in a Blackwell Press queer studies anthology, David writes that to compare these two developments creates an overly simplified narrative of liberal progress: a happy story whereby equality is gradually bestowed upon second-class citizens through access to the right/rite of marriage. Now, there's nothing wrong with this per se. The problem arises when "rights" are construed solely as access to the structure of the traditional nuclear family — with the assumption that newcomers will share in its dominant values, consumer patterns, and political leanings. Making access to the nuclear family the primary battleground for human rights risks making it seem as though joining the family made progress a done deal.
David Eng's books "Loss: The Politics of Mourning" and "Racial Castration" are very good, and his lecture on Wong Kar-wai from several years ago was great.
masculine_monica_nyc |
03.18.06 - 9:34 pm | #
Uh, yeah. And those stupid Iraqis are in the middle of civil war and still go shopping for food. Go figure.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 9:30 pm | #
Annie Hall: "I often wonder how I would stand up to torture"
Alvy Singer: "You? They'd take away your Bloomingdale's charge card & you'd tell 'em eveything"
whiskeyina |
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03.18.06 - 9:34 pm | #
The country is going to fucking hell and you guys are talking about some fucking movie?
angryspittle | 03.18.06 - 9:29 pm |
you just wait till "snakes on a plane" comes out...
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 9:34 pm | #
The author went on to be a wonderfully air-headed advocate of the Great War.
kei & yuri
I'm workiung my way through a bertrand russell biography
now that was a man who stood up for what he belived in
olexicon,Sir Humpty |
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03.18.06 - 9:34 pm | #
After a childhood filled with exposure to all the greats, I can't help but think of him as 'The scarlet Pumpernickel'...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 9:35 pm | #
I saw that too, Swampy. Nice one!
Phoenix Woman |
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03.18.06 - 9:35 pm | #
ProfWombat | 03.18.06 - 9:35 pm |
His daintiness makes this reasonable -- but does no one else think Moore was influenced by Erik? IE Opera Ghost? Cultured, disfigured, masked, underground, anarchic, magical tricks, antisocial, loves music?
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 9:36 pm | #
Hey, has anybody seen a couple of boobs floating around?
I seriously doubt Bush and Cheney are anywhere near this swamp.
smalfish, traitor of the state |
03.18.06 - 9:36 pm | #
This was on the previous thread but too rich not to repeat here --
Condi
She will, however, be treated to Lancashire hot pot and other northern delicacies. “I made Jack [straw] eat barbecue and catfish in Alabama, so whatever he wants to give me in Blackburn I’ll eat,” she said.
P O'Neill |
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03.18.06 - 9:36 pm | #
the brits across the spectrum gave V for Vendetta 2 stars
nur al-cubicle
olexicon: if you haven't seen it, Russell's history of western philosophy is a great read, though you may disagree with some of it. Worth reading in the context of the times: 1940s. He's not predisposed to be kind to Nietzsche, for instance...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 9:36 pm | #
Nother knew thread to play on, to twirl and spin. Anyone thought to attach it to a kite and glue shards of sharp glass to it and go fly such kites around wassingtown? We could hope the sharpened thread might find a warmonger's throat like Rove's or rummy's or w. Kites running wild and free, returning us to democracy.Much quieter than flying jets into buildings. Ajgrh, the terror!
broomdude |
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03.18.06 - 9:36 pm | #
Snakes on a plane.......
Is that Jenna and not Jenna off to spring break at Cancun?
angryspittle |
03.18.06 - 9:36 pm | #
Can we devise a vehicle that runs on cheap wine?
No fucking way. I'm not sharing my wine.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:36 pm | #
"V" for Vicious Propaganda
Whoa! These guys always project. viciious propaganda was what led to the stupid murderous war and now a comic book fiction has their panties in a knot? Too mucking fuch!
swampy mcfeverish |
03.18.06 - 9:37 pm | #
Oh, what if a snake bit Jenna on the tit? Or the clit? Aie, caramba. Big.
nur al-cubicle |
03.18.06 - 9:38 pm | #
Is that Jenna and not Jenna off to spring break at Cancun?
angryspittle
wouldn't it be sweet if they were enlisting - or going to provide humanitarian aid for daddy's war?
...nothing but a dreamer.
swampy mcfeverish |
03.18.06 - 9:38 pm | #
He's not predisposed to be kind to Nietzsche, for instance...
ProfWombat
I'll look into it
It was an autobiogrpahy
exxentially letters form the first world war (1914-1944)
olexicon,Sir Humpty |
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03.18.06 - 9:38 pm | #
After a childhood filled with exposure to all the greats, I can't help but think of him as 'The scarlet Pumpernickel'...
Heehee, neither can I! Ever since 7th grade...
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:39 pm | #
No fucking way. I'm not sharing my wine
If it's cheaper than gas you might...
FeralLiberal |
03.18.06 - 9:39 pm | #
Fuck the fucking fuckers
Fuck McFuck
Can't count the number of times I've been reduced to the same sentiments.
swampy mcfeverish |
03.18.06 - 9:39 pm | #
Sunday's Shite from Bobo
All Politics Is Thymotic
By DAVID BROOKS
Let me tell you what men want. Let me tell you why some middle-age men wear the sports jerseys of semiliterate behemoths half their age while others customize their cars with so many speakers they sound like the hip-hop version of the San Francisco earthquake as they roll down the street.
Recognition. Men want others to recognize their significance. They want to feel important and part of something important.
Some people believe men are motivated by greed for money or lust for power. But money and power are means to get recognition. They are markers of success, and success makes men feel important and causes others to pay attention when they walk in the room.
Plato famously divided the soul into three parts: reason, eros (desire) and thymos (the hunger for recognition). Thymos is what motivates the best and worst things men do. It drives them to seek glory and assert themselves aggressively for noble causes. It drives them to rage if others don't recognize their worth. Sometimes it even causes them to kill over a trifle if they feel disrespected.
Plato went on to point out that people are not only sensitive about their own self-worth, they are also sensitive about the dignity of their group, and the dignity of others. If a group is denied the dignity it deserves, we call that injustice. Thymotic people mobilize to assert their group's significance if they feel they are being rendered invisible by society. Thymotic people mobilize on behalf of those made voiceless by the powerful. As Plato indicated, thymos is the psychological origin of political action.
If I had the attention of the world's politicians for one afternoon, I'd lead a discussion on the nature of the thymotic urge. I'd point out that if politicians weren't consumed by a hunger for recognition, none of them would agree to lead the miserable lives they do. I'd point out that in the thymotic urge, selfishness and selflessness are intertwined. Men compete for personal glory. But thymos also induces them to sacrifice for causes larger than themselves.
I'd point out that if you see politics as a competition for recognition, many things become clear. The economic and literary backwardness of the Arab world has set off a thymotic crisis, as Arab men lash out to make the world pay attention to them. The Israeli-Palestinian dispute is not only a squabble over land; it's intractable because each side wants the other to recognize its moral superiority. Democracy still has good long-term prospects in that region because it's the only system that meets rising expectations about individual dignity.
In this country, when workers strike, they're not enraged over a few cents an hour. They're enraged because they feel their company is not acknowledging their worth. When social liberals squabble with social conservatives, each group is trying to assert the dignity of its own lifestyle.
P O'Neill |
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03.18.06 - 9:39 pm | #
nur al-cubicle: Oh, what if a snake bit Jenna on the tit? Or the clit? Aie, caramba. Big.
On a plane?
In the rain?
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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03.18.06 - 9:39 pm | #
I thought V for Vendetta was unapologetic in it's Bush-bashing. That's why I liked it.
The Kenosha Kid |
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03.18.06 - 9:39 pm | #
Can we devise a vehicle that runs on cheap wine?
We were under the impression that present engines will accept a variety of fuels, really anything flammable, but they won't burn as well as gasoline. For example there was a warning about how certain solvents, recommended as additives, would corrode the rubber parts.
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 9:40 pm | #
And how about that fucking little twit Pierce Bush.......
Why the fuck isn't he in Iraq?
angryspittle |
03.18.06 - 9:40 pm | #
Remainder of Bobo's shite
The partisanship in Washington is a thymotic contest on stilts. The Bush administration goes out of its way to show how little it respects the Democratic opposition. The history of the Democratic Party over the last five years is the history of a party trying ever more furiously to assert its dignity. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are extremely thymotic men. President Bush is a thymotic man partially chastened by Christianity. Democratic activists have increasingly spurned measured, reasonable men for aggressive, thymotic ones: Howard Dean, James Carville and the post-2000 Al Gore.
If I had those politicians for an afternoon, I'd point out that even though the thymotic urge drives so much of public life, we really don't talk about thymos anymore. I'd add that when you read the ancient political philosophers on thymos, they treat it as a male trait. But over the past century women have been expressing their thymotic urges more and more, and people over 40 have a complex about female thymos that people under 40 generally don't have.
I'd ask them to read Harvey Mansfield's new book, "Manliness," which is two books in one. First, it's a subtle exploration about the virtues and vices of the thymotic urge. It's also a series of troublemaking generalizations about the differences between men and women.
Over the next few weeks, Mansfield and his feminist critics are going to brawl — thymotically — over his assertions. I'm not as impressed by Mansfield's generalizations as he is, but he'll have one advantage: he understands the nature of thymos, which shapes this fight, and so much of our political life.
P O'Neill |
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03.18.06 - 9:41 pm | #
Can we devise a vehicle that runs on cheap wine?
?
You're gonna waste it on a machine Even cheap wine is $5 a gallon!
nur al-cubicle |
03.18.06 - 9:41 pm | #
brooks talking about Plato?
can;t he talk about his favoruite philosopher Joseph Goerbells
olexicon,Sir Humpty |
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03.18.06 - 9:41 pm | #
Russell is a great writer. And methinks, in retrospect, the notion of banning the bomb had no little merit.
One line from the history of philosophy: The world is one, and those who think otherwise are either parasites or fools.
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 9:41 pm | #
oh, man. whose idea was the papadum chips?
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 9:42 pm | #
We read Bobo write the kind of crap that we stopped writing in English classes out of disgust and our respect for college graduates suffers.
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 9:42 pm | #
Operation Swarmer; Largest Air Assualt since beginning of war ensnares dozens!
swampy mcfeverish |
03.18.06 - 9:43 pm | #
Gonna cram this subway car with TNT and run it under Crawford.
nur al-cubicle |
03.18.06 - 9:43 pm | #
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are extremely thymotic men. President Bush is a thymotic man partially chastened by Christianity.
He gets *paid* for this???
Eli |
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03.18.06 - 9:43 pm | #
Who was in such an insane buying frenzy last night that papadum chips sounded like a good idea?
hey, sweetcheeks, res and i were just there again.
just got back.
it was just as crazy.
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 9:43 pm | #
Russell is a great writer.
Good math and philo kinda guy, too. He was my first philosopher hero when I was a kid, though he got bumped by his buddy, Wittgenstein after I read Tractatus and the biographical fiction The World As I Found It.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:43 pm | #
ProfWombat | 03.18.06 - 9:41 pm |
It's attacked as naive, but this makes us morally inferior to South Afrikaners!
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 9:44 pm | #
Stumped the online disctionaries with 'thymotic'. Anyone help me out here? I have no idea what he's talking about, and, if I'm going to argue with him, I should know how to do it thymotically...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 9:44 pm | #
(looks at empty glass forlornly)
Would you like some gasoline, madame?
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:44 pm | #
I wake up with a boner every morning too, but you don't see me sending young Americans to their deaths, won't find me killing innocent Iraqi's, no sir.
thymotic urge |
03.18.06 - 9:44 pm | #
thymos I can think to say is damn this war and woe to the warmongers.
broomdude |
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03.18.06 - 9:45 pm | #
One basic critique of Operation Shawarma is that the fact they have to fly in troops to a specific large area proves that they don't have enough troops.
P O'Neill |
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03.18.06 - 9:45 pm | #
'terrorism/ist' is one of those end-state terms.
it trumps every other epithet: being a 'terrorist' can get you killed.
citizens in the military pledged to your defense will kill you of they can be persuaded you're a 'terrorist.' Pretty easily persuaded, if you look at it.
the 'unipolar' state will view any and all dissent, heterodoxy, blasphmey, heresy and sacrilege as 'terrorism'...
the unipolar state, that paragon of PNAC real politik...
are you rady for the unipolar state?
better be...
just sayin'
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WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka |
03.18.06 - 9:45 pm | #
there was a warning about how certain solvents, recommended as additives, would corrode the rubber parts
This is true. But if alternitive fuels were more readily available, wouldn't engines be more likely to be designed to accept those fuels? Of course there would have to be an incentive to build such vehicles, which would be dependant on non-Rethugs being in office...
FeralLiberal |
03.18.06 - 9:45 pm | #
I wake up with a boner every morning too, but you don't see me sending young Americans to their deaths, won't find me killing innocent Iraqi's, no sir.
But think of all the millions of sperm you kill.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:45 pm | #
Let me tell you what men want.
No.
masculine_monica_nyc
Go ahead, it might help business at the Gem.
Al Swearengen |
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03.18.06 - 9:45 pm | #
thymotic urge = hottest catchphrase since 'flat earth'
The Kenosha Kid |
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03.18.06 - 9:45 pm | #
thymotic? jeebus! can someone just cut off bobo's typing hands since he uses them to steal good money from the idiots at the nyt's!
swampy mcfeverish |
03.18.06 - 9:46 pm | #
I'm going to blow shit up until people start reading my damn blog!
I tried that, with mixed results, in marketing my podcasts.
yes, please! (proffers glass)
87 octane or 93?
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:47 pm | #
I wake up with a boner every morning too, but you don't see me sending young Americans to their deaths, won't find me killing innocent Iraqi's, no sir.
Waking with wood is responsible for sending troops to their deaths or killing innocent Iraqis how?
Al Swearengen |
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03.18.06 - 9:48 pm | #
I'm going to blow shit up until people start reading my damn blog!
Eli
Make love not war.
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Al Swearengen |
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03.18.06 - 9:49 pm | #
Would you like some gasoline, madame?
I can offer a Washington State Syrah, but only until Midnight (CST)
FeralLiberal |
03.18.06 - 9:49 pm | #
Half that last post vanished --
the good guy gets it once again.
Partisanpoet |
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03.18.06 - 9:49 pm | #
Er, the earth isn't flat. They took pictures of it from the moon, you know. Round, a gently oblate spheroid, but not flat. I went to school, you can't fool me...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 9:49 pm | #
West, East Ukraine still split in heated election
By Sergei Karazy Sat Mar 18, 12:40 PM ET
STRIY, Ukraine (Reuters) - A longstanding divide between nationalist Western Ukraine and its Russian-speaking east -- the fault line in the 2004 "Orange Revolution" -- remains unhealed a week before an election with high stakes.
Liberal President Viktor Yushchenko, propelled to power by the Revolution but now plagued by splits in his camp, faces challenges from two figures in the March 26 parliamentary poll.
In the west, Yulia Tymoshenko, his ally who roused crowds in the revolution but was sacked as prime minister last year, chips away at his support. The east remains the fiefdom of Viktor Yanukovich, the pro-Moscow rival he beat in the 2004 campaign.
olexicon,Sir Humpty |
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03.18.06 - 9:49 pm | #
I'm going to blow shit up until people start reading my damn blog!
Explosive dung. You're soaking in it!
Richard |
03.18.06 - 9:50 pm | #
Bobo's World: All Politics Is Thymotic
By DAVID BROOKS
Let me tell you what men want.yadda yadda yadda for another 800 words.
Shorter BoBo: what men want? pussy...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka |
03.18.06 - 9:50 pm | #
thymotic urge = hottest catchphrase since 'flat earth'
Maybe we should start calling "Thymobo"...
Eli |
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03.18.06 - 9:50 pm | #
Finally, a context for my catchphrase
TKK has found his niche!
87 octane or 93?
I think the 93 will get me drunker faster. The 93, please.
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 9:50 pm | #
Make love not war.
Make blog not war.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:50 pm | #
Shorter BoBo: what men want? pussy...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka
One line from the history of philosophy: The world is one, and those who think otherwise are either parasites or fools.
ProfWombat
I like his line, "What silly people think may be intersting but it can't be important,". I might be paraphrasing.
His History of Western Philosophy is a wonderful book. He doesn't play favorites but points out the limitations of his friends. I read through enough of the Principia to get some idea of what rigorous thought is really like. Maybe I'll attempt again if I am reincarnated.
olvlzl |
03.18.06 - 9:54 pm | #
Homosexual males aren't men?
Of course not! They don't like pussy!
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:54 pm | #
Hidelly-ho Escharinos.
I want to stay in and be a slob tonight. My family want to go out. I've bought some time. What's up?
mena |
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03.18.06 - 9:54 pm | #
The Iron Law of Repuke foreign policy -- it always favours Iran. it's like they owe them something.
WaPo -- At an emotional meeting this month at the State Department, steps from the office of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a group of former American hostages released by Iran a quarter of a century ago, accompanied by lawyers and some relatives, confronted two of Rice's most senior aides.
The families' grievance: Why has the Bush administration, which has labeled Iran one of the world's most dangerous regimes and has called the hostages American heroes, fought their efforts to win damages for their ordeal from the Islamic republic?
P O'Neill |
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03.18.06 - 9:55 pm | #
hello moonbats
I just loved V for Vendetta btw
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 9:55 pm | #
I'm already there, come an join in...
FeralLiberal |
03.18.06 - 9:55 pm | #
thymotic pentameter
The Clan Of Thymox.
Eli |
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03.18.06 - 9:56 pm | #
Of course not! They don't like pussy!
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket
Is that all it take sto be a man? I thought you had to be able to shoot somebody in the face. Don't need pussy for that!
swampy mcfeverish |
03.18.06 - 9:56 pm | #
Hey, has anybody seen a couple of boobs floating around?
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket
Well there are those two running for the senate in Florida.
That f@#king dollar coin guy |
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03.18.06 - 9:56 pm | #
you have beautiful thymots
olexicon,Sir Humpty |
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03.18.06 - 9:56 pm | #
I'm already there, come an join in...
FeralLiberal
==
NTodd: found myself with Karl Popper, the scientist's favorite philosopher of science, rather than his sometimes poker-wielding philosophical foe, and despite his not seeming a very likeable chap...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 9:57 pm | #
I want to stay in and be a slob tonight.
I'm already there, come an join in...
I shaved and showered today, so I'm not sure I'm eligible.
I *am* wearing sweats, tho...
Eli |
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03.18.06 - 9:57 pm | #
Bobo Brooks is just the kind of person Russell was talking about.
What do men want? Talk about your stupid questions?
Why do idiotic columnists ask these questions? Because they can get an easy column by claiming that their defects are universally held by just under half of the population. Of the world.
I think men want more sleep. Argue with that, Brooksie.
olvlzl |
03.18.06 - 9:57 pm | #
read my review on my blog (just click on homepage and scroll down)
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 9:58 pm | #
Christine Gregoire's bracket is looking pretty good.
Zag the Jesuit |
03.18.06 - 9:58 pm | #
I'm more thighmotic, really...
Eli |
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03.18.06 - 9:58 pm | #
I *am* wearing sweats, tho...
==
Works for me.
mena |
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03.18.06 - 9:58 pm | #
Is that all it take sto be a man? I thought you had to be able to shoot somebody in the face. Don't need pussy for that!
Sure you do. That's why Dick had his mistress with him on the double date.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 9:58 pm | #
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former top State Department official suspected of being the first person to discuss the identity of a CIA official with reporters is expected to testify in the perjury trial of ex-vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a court motion says.
The filing by Libby's defense team late on Friday asks Judge Reggie Walton to force prosecutors to turn over material they have about likely witnesses including former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
Others who are expected to testify include White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, former CIA director George Tenet and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the document says.
It suggests Libby's team may try to pin blame on the State Department for the leak of Valerie Plame's identity to the public after her husband criticized the Bush administration's Iraq policy.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:00 pm | #
So did I. You can be a clean slob, it's a state of mind...
Well, in that case, I'm pretty much slobbing around All. The. Time.
Eli |
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03.18.06 - 10:00 pm | #
thymotic pentameter
==
It's okay. I like the smell of the rosemaryotic kind better.
mena |
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03.18.06 - 10:00 pm | #
blogging you
is easy cause you're beautiful
olexicon,Sir Humpty
olvizi: Never could approach R & W's 'Principia', despite a double major in math and physics. Did have the honor of taking a course with Ernest Nagel, who talked about Russell and Godel; realized at that point that there are people who simply think in a different way than I do...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 10:00 pm | #
I shaved and showered today, so I'm not sure I'm eligible
I did neither. Heck, I just shaved off my beard the other day, so gimme a break.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 10:00 pm | #
I shaved and showered today, so I'm not sure I'm eligible
I did neither. Heck, I just shaved off my beard the other day, so gimme a break.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 10:00 pm | #
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you have mail
sittenpretty |
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03.18.06 - 10:01 pm | #
This man wants more sleep, more toys AND more pussy.
I'd like more sleep and toys. The pussy I got.
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 10:01 pm | #
That slow-motion-car-crash analogy is too much with me, you know?
What a disgusting, petty, little country we are.
DWD - Challenged |
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03.18.06 - 10:01 pm | #
so libby's blaming a powell guy?
I thought the white house hated those guys cause they were realists who still went along?
olexicon,Sir Humpty |
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03.18.06 - 10:01 pm | #
I'd like more sleep and toys. The pussy I got.
watertiger
==
And one is plenty!
mena |
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03.18.06 - 10:02 pm | #
Watching the Patriot on tnt.
Doesn't it sicken you to think we are doing that shit to innocent Iraqi families every day?
angryspittle |
03.18.06 - 10:02 pm | #
It is the year 2020. A virus runs wild in the world, most Americans are dead, and Britain is ruled by a fascist dictator who promises security but not freedom.
Pop Quiz: It this the introductory review of:
a) Twelve Monkeys
b) Brazil
c) V
d) 1984
e) All of the above?
Al Swearengen |
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03.18.06 - 10:02 pm | #
The first detailed police account of the aftermath of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian killed after being mistaken for a terror suspect, can be revealed today by The Observer.
The testimony by a top Scotland Yard officer confirms that the police did not know for nearly 24 hours that they had shot a man with no terrorist links. His account backs claims by the head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, that he was unaware until the following morning that de Menezes was innocent.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alan Given, one of the officers in command of the Met's firearms unit, also reveals that the officers were initially 'buoyant' after the shooting, thinking they had 'protected Londoners' from a dangerous assailant.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:02 pm | #
And one is plenty!
For some things, sure.
masculine_monica_nyc |
03.18.06 - 10:03 pm | #
The world is one, and those who think otherwise are either parasites or fools.
Wilde: the world is made by fools, that wise men may live in it.
Thers, Paterfamilias |
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03.18.06 - 10:03 pm | #
This man wants more sleep, more toys AND more pussy.
And why don't you fly in your aeroplane and play tennis in France?
FeralLiberal |
03.18.06 - 10:03 pm | #
Sure you do. That's why Dick had his mistress with him on the double date.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket
If the Clenis had been on a similar double-date the story would have been how he tried to put his shotgun where he shouldn't - and it would have run for 6 months solid on the front page of the wapo and nyt's -
swampy mcfeverish |
03.18.06 - 10:03 pm | #
This man wants more sleep, more toys AND more pussy.
I'd like more sleep and toys. The pussy I got.
If it's a zero-sum thing, I'll be living in an empty apartment, with dark circles under my eyes and a big smile on my face...
Eli |
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03.18.06 - 10:03 pm | #
And one is plenty!
mena
I know a woman with five.
Al Swearengen |
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03.18.06 - 10:04 pm | #
The Labour 'secret loans' crisis deepened last night when it was revealed that the party received nearly £1m from a multi-millionaire businessman who has funded one of Tony Blair's controversial city academies.
Whitehall sources confirmed to The Observer that one of the group of secret backers who provided a total of nearly £14m in loans before the 2005 election was Andrew Rosenfeld, the 43-year-old chairman of the property firm Minerva.
Rosenfeld is a former business partner of Sir David Garrard, another city academy backer whose £2m loan to the party was followed by the Prime Minister nominating him as a working peer, helped ignite the controversy earlier this month.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:05 pm | #
Moonbootica - we aren't ever going to know what happened with Menezes. It was a private deal. That happened in 'our' space. I think the psych factor had to have been at least a part of what it was about.
mena |
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03.18.06 - 10:05 pm | #
Al Swearengen | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 10:02 pm |
Neither of the first two took place in Britain; 1984 didn't use a plague.
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 10:05 pm | #
hello moonbats
I just loved V for Vendetta btw
Moonbootica, Praetor | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 9:55 pm
Would it have been a better movie if it had Kanye West and Gerard Butler in it?
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
03.18.06 - 10:06 pm | #
Perhaps it's time to reconsider 'Brave New World', in which people continue to have a good time...
Philip Roth, in championing eastern European writers before the end of Communist dictatorship there, at one point noted (I paraphrase) that there the written word meant everything, though you could say nothing, and in America it means nothing, though you can say anything...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 10:06 pm | #
It is the year 2020. A virus runs wild in the world, most Americans are dead, and Britain is ruled by a fascist dictator who promises security but not freedom.
Pop Quiz: It this the introductory review of:
The Liberal Democrats' campaign platform.
(I'll be her all week! Try the veal!)
Thers, Paterfamilias |
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03.18.06 - 10:06 pm | #
Pussies?
Fuck, I can show you an administration that is full of 'em.
Start with Bush and Cheney...
angryspittle |
03.18.06 - 10:06 pm | #
Top police 'clear' Met chief over Menezes
Smells like the U.S. Tastes like chicken.
masculine_monica_nyc |
03.18.06 - 10:06 pm | #
I'd like to have a harem, though.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 10:06 pm | #
realized at that point that there are people who simply think in a different way than I do...
ProfWombat - 10:00 pm
i'd always known that ...
When i read wittgenstein, especially the later blue and brown books (Philosophical Investigations), i was heartened that there were others who thought as i thought i did...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka |
03.18.06 - 10:06 pm | #
mena | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 10:05 pm |
De Menezes was a demonstration, like the anthrax.
kei & yuri |
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03.18.06 - 10:07 pm | #
Cheney gives head to his shotgun
M.S. |
03.18.06 - 10:07 pm | #
Buckeye well I would not of complained heh
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:07 pm | #
School rules on the uniforms children wear could be thrown into chaos this week by the final law lords judgment in the case of Shabina Begum, the Muslim girl who was banned from wearing full Islamic dress at school.
Headteachers have told The Observer that if the judgment goes in her favour, making it unlawful to exclude children for refusing on religious grounds to wear proper uniform, it would 'undermine the authority of schools'.
Denbigh High School in Luton, whose case is now supported by the Department for Education, originally sent Begum home because she insisted on wearing a jilbab, or full-length Islamic gown. Begum, now 17, stopped going to school in 2002 and spent two years at home, before enrolling into another one that allowed her to wear the gown.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:10 pm | #
WGG: yup, exactly: that's just how I'd do it, were it within my power. That's what separates music I know is good, but nevertheless doesn't speak to me, from that which, regardless of its quality, utterly grips my hypothalamus...
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 10:10 pm | #
NTodd's theme song is "Tanks for the Mammaries".
Heh, actually whenever I hear the song Memories, I always sing "Mammaries..."
You know, I go through life getting lots of odd looks.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 10:10 pm | #
The central theme of V for Vendetta is the use of fear to excercise control.
This is a direct parallel to everything that has happened after IX/XI.
If the fear doesn't come naturally, it must be synthesized.
The deserting coward scum are not totally stupid. They know EXACTLY what this film is really about. It's about the incompetent bag of shit called the Dear Leader.
Gary Frazier |
03.18.06 - 10:10 pm | #
The 1-Year-Old is realizing that this is another night without mommy. She has climbed into my lap and is clingeing to me fir dear life. However, I had just given her a mini eclair.
Now, I am covered in custard.
Thers, Paterfamilias |
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03.18.06 - 10:11 pm | #
How much do you pay the man who could make you king - or indeed Prime Minister? If you are the leader of the Conservative Party the answer is £276,000 a year.
This amount - which dwarfs the salary David Cameron is paid himself - is the figure the Conservative Party is paying Steve Hilton, the shaven-headed marketing guru who is credited with the meteoric rise of the Tory leader.
Details passed to The Observer of company documents reveal Conservative Central Office is writing a monthly cheque of £23,000 to Hilton's marketing agency, Good Business, for his services.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:11 pm | #
Now, I am covered in custard.
Thers, Paterfamilias |
i actually had a fantasy that ened that way
olexicon,Sir Humpty |
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03.18.06 - 10:12 pm | #
I just shaved off my beard the other day
IMHO, that's a good thing.
Sarah Deere |
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03.18.06 - 10:12 pm | #
I've got a pussy I'm willing to share. More sleep, I could use. Toys? How about musical instruments? But, as I said earlier, what I really want is this chick's sandwich
whiskeyina |
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03.18.06 - 10:12 pm | #
The central theme of V for Vendetta is the use of fear to excercise control.
And a subtext: we are complicit.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 10:12 pm | #
Thers: you know you're a dad when you actually eat the custard...
Congratulations; all the best
ProfWombat |
03.18.06 - 10:12 pm | #
I've been trying to squeeze in -- but now it is so late that all I have to say is "Goodnight!"
DV -- tomorrow PM will see "V" & won't have to risk all these comments spoiling it for me!
When president George W Bush launched a high-profile series of speeches last week aimed at calming nerves about the Iraq war he chose to do so in the heart of Washington DC. At George Washington University, he asked America to stay the course through troubled times. It was a familiar message to an audience that had heard it all before.
What was new was the make-up of the crowd: only five Republican congressmen and one senator attended. As displays of loyalty go it left a lot to be desired. It seems Bush should worry less about the US abandoning Iraq and more about his party abandoning him.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:13 pm | #
Some infant updates at my homepage...
Thers, Paterfamilias |
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03.18.06 - 10:13 pm | #
Wreathed in bacon and robed in Custard!
Ahianne, Half-Mick |
03.18.06 - 10:13 pm | #
Jesus, this interviewer's really good. He's actually read things she's done and is asking intelligent questions.
And giving her time to respond!
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 10:14 pm | #
The frantic story-changing is just proof of what they think of us.
===
They don't think enough of us to go tothat much trouble without a very good reason.
mena |
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03.18.06 - 10:15 pm | #
I've got a pussy I'm willing to share....I could use... toys, musical instruments? - whiskeyina
There's always an opening at the Gem if things don't work out where you are now.
Al Swearengen |
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03.18.06 - 10:15 pm | #
I hear music at Athenae's link... is this right...?
Thers, Paterfamilias |
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03.18.06 - 10:15 pm | #
Thers, I saved your announcement and the reactions to it on Friday. I edited out the actual on-topic comments. I will print it out and get it in the mail this week. (I have your address - but I ain't tellin')
DWD - Challenged |
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03.18.06 - 10:15 pm | #
Cheney gives head to his shotgun
M.S.
I hope he swallows.
lipreader |
03.18.06 - 10:16 pm | #
Thers,
Yeah. It's a music show, so they're intersplicing New Orleans-oriented music with the interview.
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 10:16 pm | #
I hear music whenever she's near...
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 10:16 pm | #
Thers, I saved your announcement and the reactions to it on Friday. I edited out the actual on-topic comments. I will print it out and get it in the mail this week. (I have your address - but I ain't tellin')
Thank you. We are honored.
Thers, Paterfamilias |
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03.18.06 - 10:17 pm | #
3 years later:
"Hell's fire guys had always been fighting for liberty. America fought a war for liberty in 1776. Lots of guys died. And in the end does America have any more liberty than Canada or Australia who didn't fight at all? Maybe so I'm not arguing I'm just asking. Can you look at a guy and say he's an American who fought for his liberty and anybody can see he's a very different guy from a Canadian who didn't? No by god you can't and that's that. So maybe a lot of guys with wives and kids died in 1776 when they didn't need to die at all. They're dead now anyway. Sure but that doesn't do any good. A guy can think of being dead a hundred years from now and he doesn't mind it. But to think of being dead tomorrow morning and to be dead forever to be nothing but dust and stink in the earth is that liberty?
They were always fighting for something the bastards and if anyone dared say the hell with fighting it's all the same each war is like the other and nobody gets any good out of it why they hollered coward. If they weren't fighting for liberty they were fighting for independence or democracy or freedom or decency or honor or their native land or something else that didn't mean anything. The war was to make the world safe for democracy for the little countries for everybody. If the war was over now then the world must be all safe for democracy. Was it? And what kind of democracy? And how much? And whose?
Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly so we know in advance what we're getting killed for and give us also a first mortgage on something as security so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.
And take decency. Everybody said America was fighting a war for the triumph of decency. But whose idea of decency? And decency for who? Speak up and tell us what decency is. Tell us how much better a decent dead man feels that an indecent live one."
Johnny Got His Gun
Enslaved |
03.18.06 - 10:17 pm | #
It was a sensational story. Pictured holding the chilling iconic photograph of an Abu Ghraib prisoner standing on a box, his head covered and wires attached to his outstretched arms was Ali Shalal Qaissi - the New York Times said this was the Iraqi who had suffered so at the hands of US troops.
Qaissi - who has that image emblazoned on his business card - told how his wounds were still raw. But one week later the New York Times has again suffered the embarrassment of getting it spectacularly wrong, and has published an apology after it emerged Qaissi was not the man in the photograph.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:18 pm | #
you know you're a dad when you actually eat the custard...
The boy was 8 lbs. 4 oz., and 20 inches. He's a bit shorter now, at least perpendicularly, because we had him snipped to appease the Collector of Prepuces.
Hoodie Hater!
NOTE: The baby's meconium is, fittingly, dedicated to Rick Santorum.
He'll keep it in a jar by the door.
masculine_monica_nyc |
03.18.06 - 10:18 pm | #
I hear music whenever she's near...
You know, NTodd, on the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true.
Thers, Paterfamilias |
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03.18.06 - 10:18 pm | #
Thers (and Mary)
It might be interesting once and sometime in the future.
And congratulations, it is wonderful to have a new life to welcome.
DWD - Challenged |
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03.18.06 - 10:18 pm | #
I haven't read this whole thread, so forgive me if this has already been covered. Did anyone hear about Bush saying to a bunch of senior citizens that buying drugs on Medicaid was as easy as buying a car? They laughed at his idiocy, even though they were apparently a right-leaning group. I heard the story on NPR and my husband saw it on C-Span, but I would like to find a link to the story online. Any help would be appreciated!
God Ain't Perfect |
03.18.06 - 10:19 pm | #
Just saw "V for Vendetta" and it's terrific-don't miss it. It's a blend of superhero back story, Beauty and the Beast and Phantom of
The Opera with plenty of action. It even suggests that 9/11 was a government plot. You'll love and have plenty to mull over with your SO. The ending reminded me of Eminem's video and the acting is very good.
Sweet Sue |
03.18.06 - 10:19 pm | #
Coca-Cola has been heavily criticised for causing extreme water shortages in developing countries where supplies are scarce.
New evidence from campaign group War on Want appears to show that Coca-Cola has had a serious impact in communities in several Indian states and in Latin America.
War on Want researchers have uncovered areas in Rajasthan where farmers have been unable to irrigate their fields after Coca-Cola established a bottling plant. The War on Want report also revealed similar problems in Uttar Pradesh. Already well-known are incidents in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where a Coke plant was forced to close two years ago after it was alleged to have contaminated local water.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:19 pm | #
WARNING: V for Vendetta SPOILER ahead.
NTodd:
Yes, you're absolutely right on the subtext.
What happened in this fictional England couldn't have happened without the fear, and the willingness to live in fear as opposed to resisting it.
It's a very optimistic film, in the final analysis, because the populace DOES shake off their fear, and they go forward to make the Revolution happen.
I'm not sure if that can happen here. I hope, I pray, it will. But there are so many still enslaved by it. The 33% or so who still approve fo the deserting coward, for starters.
Gary Frazier |
03.18.06 - 10:19 pm | #
Chicken cacciatore, anyone?
We have some lovely asparagus and whole grain baguette to accompany it.
Sallyh, Vicious Fishes |
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03.18.06 - 10:19 pm | #
Oh Sallyh, that sounds so good.
mena |
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03.18.06 - 10:20 pm | #
How are you cooking the asparagus?
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03.18.06 - 10:20 pm | #
You know, NTodd, on the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true.
So they restored sight to the blind guy in the next hospital room.
I'm sorry, Todd dearest, I had to say that.
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 10:21 pm | #
Thers, my oldest son had a merconium stool. I witnessed the most delicate, amazing thing right after the birth. The doctor, a tiny African doctor, took her tiny hands and threaded a tube into young DWD so gently and expertly he never cried. I was amazed.
ProfWombat--I roast it in a minimal amount of olive oil, black pepper, and a dash of lemon juice.
Sallyh, Vicious Fishes |
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03.18.06 - 10:21 pm | #
One could argue that the American Revolution changed the way the Brits viewed their colonies, particularly the "white" colonies. The Boer War reinforced the lesson. Which was, give these people some measure of self rule or lose the whole enchilada.
So the American Revolution was fought not just for the Thirteen Colonies, but for Canada, Australia, and New Zealand as well.
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NEW YORK (AFP) - Tens of thousands of people in Europe and the Americas protested the war in Iraq on the eve of its third anniversary, with demonstrations in Europe drawing far greater crowds than those in the United States.
Events in Washington, New York and Los Angeles drew approximately 1,000 people each, AFP reporters and police said.
At a rally near New York's Times Square, speaker after speaker denounced the Bush administration and US troops in Iraq.
The group Troops Out Now called for immediate, complete, unconditional US military withdrawal.
"Public opinion is now overwhelmingly on our side as it becomes clearer every day that this occupation itself is the source of the violence in Iraq," said organizer Dustin Langley.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:21 pm | #
NTodd and they sprinkled moondust....
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03.18.06 - 10:21 pm | #
Hee hee. Meconium is tres nasty.
Thers, Paterfamilias |
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03.18.06 - 10:22 pm | #
Scout sounds great. So nice to hear her actually get to answer a question.
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 10:22 pm | #
It's a very optimistic film, in the final analysis, because the populace DOES shake off their fear, and they go forward to make the Revolution happen.
Totally.
And I see the likes of Cindy Sheehan, Howard Dean, Al Gore, and Russ Feingold as sort of Vs in their own right. Not as flamboyant and charismatic, of course, but each has shown a few more people what can happen if you fight. A bit more realistic than one masked man getting everybody to rebel overnight.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 10:22 pm | #
The Colombian authorities have seized a shipment of cocaine with a street value of $800m (£455m) on board a ship in the Caribbean port of Cartagena.
They found the cocaine, weighing 2.7 tons (2,700kg), in a disinfectant container during a routine inspection.
The police said the Italian-registered vessel was bound for Mexico.
Since January, three tonnes of cocaine have been seized in Cartagena, 1,100km (685 miles) north of the capital Bogota, police said.
It also comes less than a year after authorities seized cocaine valued at more than $300m, in what was described as the single largest drugs haul ever.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:24 pm | #
And I see the likes of Cindy Sheehan, Howard Dean, Al Gore, and Russ Feingold as sort of Vs in their own right. Not as flamboyant and charismatic, of course, but each has shown a few more people what can happen if you fight.
Agreed. I think it's that spirit of hope that you leave the theater with that scares the fearmongers the most.
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 10:24 pm | #
A little green godess dressing drizzled over asparagus is a good thing.
Ahianne, Half-Mick |
03.18.06 - 10:24 pm | #
so true, watching V for Vendetta really fired me up.
Moonbootica, Praetor |
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03.18.06 - 10:24 pm | #
watertiger, the interviewer just said they'd talked the day before, so clearly this guy did his prep work, or his producer did.
Much more thoughtful than she who shall not be named. Granted, exposure on Air America is terrific, but only if you're allowed to get your point across.
And I like the music, as well!
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 10:25 pm | #
"Caddyshack."
That is a comic masterpiece!
watertiger |
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03.18.06 - 10:26 pm | #
i'm out
peace and humptiness forever
olexicon,Sir Humpty |
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03.18.06 - 10:26 pm | #
I laugh at your futile IP banning, boy.
Muhahahaha!!
Oooh, we've got ourselves another 1337 with super skillz.
NTodd, Marquis de Condorket |
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03.18.06 - 10:27 pm | #
Thanks for telling us how scout's doing. I don't have sound at the moment so I can't listen.
mena |
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03.18.06 - 10:27 pm | #
I just boil mine for a bit; comes out tasting green; yours sounds good...
Drizzle with any oil and vinegar based Italian Dressing and grill on a charcoal grill. Put a dash of dressing on the cooked asperagras just before serving...
FeralLiberal |
03.18.06 - 10:29 pm | #
Scout and this host are giving it to FEMA. She's got facts, she's got laws, she's got all kinds of specific examples of government bullshit and waste, it's fascinating. I've mainlined this shit and I'm learning tons of new stuff right now.
They need a FEMA plan to evacuate the FEMA trailers? The fuck? It's just dumb enough for it to be totally true, too.