I'MMA LET YOU FINISH

GravatarFab. I'm not hip enough to contribute to the thread below.


GravatarHelp!


GravatarQuiet up here.
Too-oooo quiet.

Are Adam Clymer and Adam Nagourney the same person?


Gravatarsemprini?


GravatarWoooooooHooooooo!!!!
.


GravatarFinal 5?


GravatarProgressive Joe kissed GW because he tastes bittersweet like cocaine.


GravatarAfternoon, moonbats.

Remembuh, remembuh, the 5th of Novembuh....


GravatarOT drive by (lunchtime for me):

RNC: "Democrats Ethics Breakdown"

back in a while..


Gravatareddeevy post from the last thread.

http://katrinamemo.blogspot.com/...was- banned.html

what is going on?


Gravatarsssssnakesssssssss


GravatarSatire's on life support, because these people are too friggin weird to be satirised. Fiction has to make sense, after all.


GravatarI do think John might be a bit off saying that there are no Senate Dems to the right of Joementum.

Don't know the voting records, but wouldn't Ben Nelson and Ken Salazar qualify?

Not that I'm sayin' Holy Joe is anything like "moderate"...


GravatarAnd then there's that squirrelly Altmouse...

btw, this is the nicest smile I've seen all day.


GravatarThe Global War on Your Guns: Inside the Un Plan to Destroy the Bill of Rights
by Wayne Lapierre


via jonathan chait


GravatarMaybe he meant moderate as in overall moderate. As in being a moderate who isn't much of a Democrat (understatement), but isn't much of a Republican either.


GravatarSsssspicsssy fried sssssnakesssss on ssssticksssss. With sssssssssssalssssa.


GravatarSsssspicsssy fried sssssnakesssss

Pullsssss into coil and sssshakessss rattler, ready to ssssstrike!


Gravatarwatertiger!!

How are things over at Jane and Redd's?


GravatarNevuh mind, I'll just go see f'myself. Don't put y'self out, I'll be *foyne*.


GravatarI haven't heard much of anything about Nagourney lately. Who woke him up from his nap?


GravatarCNN is having a show right now on the historical reality of the virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene.

Tell me they would be doing that if they didn't perceive themselves as having a problem with right wingers.


Gravatari don't think ben nelson has accused dems of being traitors if they don't support the idiot.


GravatarSince yesterday, when I was informed that 'the blogs' is the greatest trend ever in "e-learning" I am prepared to believe anything about anything concerning them. They're candies! They're breath mints! They're parodies! They're authentic!

Whatever.


GravatarRacist freak show?

What does Eschaton represent again? Cheap distortions, juvenile smears and torture humor.

Big improvement ahole.


GravatarHow are things over at Jane and Redd's?

That little ass fy was making a total fool of himself again, but otherwise, things were good.


GravatarWT - Have you been in tough with NYMary. Haven't seen her around much. Hope everything is okay.


Gravatarnobody wants to question why aravosis is calling mckinney a wackjob? not even a raised eyebrow?


GravatarDr. Uncle Cap'n Mr. Goto-san

Well, except for that fy schmuck, it seems all is well. I'm wondering whether they need another post, but then again, I tend to overdo it.


GravatarCNN is having a show right now on the historical reality of the virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene.

Tell me they would be doing that if they didn't perceive themselves as having a problem with right winger


tpmboy - or are trying to cash in on the whole Da Vinci Code craze.


GravatarCheap distortions, juvenile smears and torture humor.

Cog, you're a hyperbolic, lying twit.


Gravatarql,

she was around yesterday - she and SP have been under house arrest for a couple of days, but she was gardening yesterday with Rosie.


GravatarLegalizing prostitution has been shown to decrease rape and battery rates. There is a stark illustration of the reverse of this in action in Sweden, where the same sudden NuLabour concern for prostitution laws had earlier taken root.
Human concern over prostitution is drawn to making it as safe as possible, a necessary part of which is legality and taking sex workers seriously as citizens -- yet the NuLab yarblings omit a familiar stench of patronizing, exploitative superficial concern amid every lurid story that can be sqeezed into a conspiracy theory.
,,
Society: 24th June 2004
Prostitution has been swept off Sweden's streets - but now it's more dangerous than ever. Meanwhile, police expect a surge in rape attacks and HIV is making a comeback.
"


GravatarBig improvement ahole.
Cog


you mean like Ben Calling Corretta scott king a communist or LGFs "Nuke all arabs" foreign policy provisions


GravatarGWPDA, they're curiously strong.


Gravatartorture humor

like "I heart Gitmo" Tshirts?


GravatarOooo, Liberal Elitists!

The fix-up went well! They like each other.


Gravatarnobody wants to question why aravosis is calling mckinney a wackjob? not even a raised eyebrow?
jello | Homepage | 04.01.06 - 3:37 pm |


[holding up automobiles with eyebrows]
What's all this then?


GravatarThe problem, I think, is not with the Nagster himself. He's an idiot, fine. So why is he still published in the nation's paper of Record? Because whoever signs the check of whoever signs Nags' check wants him there. I give a shit if "85% of the media are registered Democrats!", or whatever the wingie squawking point is. They write what their editors want, or they're looking for a job. We prevail on Nags to change his ways, or maybe he finds a brain at a garage sale somewhere, and he'll be working at the carwash. The Media will have to change from the top down, or it won't change at all. They decide their bread is buttered on the other side, the Right will be getting the short end of the stick--which will not be a good thing, either, if I may be so bold. We want facts, the Right wants propaganda, and the owners of the media want profits, and propaganda pays better.


Gravatarshe and SP have been under house arrest for a couple of days, but she was gardening yesterday with Rosie.

Is he doing better now?


GravatarPaul Mirengoff of the popular blog PowerLine takes issue with my defense of Jill Carroll from right-wing attacks in a post called “‘Think Progress’ rallies to the defense of terrorists”:

By rejecting criticism of Carroll’s comments, and attacking those who place them in their proper perspective, the Think Progress author joins Carroll in casting the terrorists in a far better light than they deserve. Carroll did so after nearly three months of intense emotional distress. What is Think Progress’s excuse?


GravatarProstitution has been swept off Sweden's streets

Don't they have the internet there in Sweden? Alternative weeklies?


GravatarThe fix-up went well! They like each other.

Yenta!!


Gravatar! They like each other.
res ipsa loquitur |


huzzah


Gravataratrios wrote, More than anything it reveals what is probably the fundamental issue with Nagourney - he's not a very bright person.

This is the problem with many journalists. Examples abound: Richard Cohen, Thomas Friedman, ...


GravatarThe fix-up went well! They like each other.

Yenta!!
pie |


Ya know, res, there's always a good market for a successful matchmaker. Sometimes you just kinda fall into a career....


GravatarSpeaking of, um, homage, I'm listening to this week's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, this week including PJ O'Rourke. One segment they do is have a listener try to pick the real story from three absurd items. PJ's regarded a guy who paid other people to plagiarize him. Heh. He did acknowledge he was inspired by real life events, and one of the other panelists managed to point out the blogger was a conservative (which PJ forgot to mention). Good times....


Gravatarhmmmmm. Avarosis sounds perfectly reasonable (as well as more knowledgeable than a lot of others).


Gravatarres, Who'd you fix up?


Gravatarbtw, this is the nicest smile I've seen all day.
watertiger


That is lovely, watertiger.

I'm still so relieved and happy she was released. I was dreading hearing that she had been killed - damn I'm glad she's free.


GravatarHey,

I saw that Chavez has instituted liberal social programs in Venezuala (requiring oil companies be state-owned, kicking out Exxon, siding with Iraq, Castro and China).

I was just thinking that, with all the hatred of the way thos country is being governed, and the growing socialism in Latin America, maybe some of y'all might find Venezuala a bit more your liking.

Just sayin'...


GravatarExamples abound: Richard Cohen, Thomas Friedman, ...
liberal


or are also political hacks
like John Fund or Bill Sammon


GravatarJust sayin'...
TexasChiliBean


and you may enjoy Mussollini's italy or STalinist russia

Just Saying


GravatarIt's thundering, hailing, and raining in Montana on the 1st of April.

This is not normal. That's a summer style storm, and we shouldn't have one of those till at least late in May.


Gravatarhmmmmm. Avarosis sounds perfectly reasonable (as well as more knowledgeable than a lot of others).
kei & yuri


john doesn't point out this isn't the first time mckinney has been harassed by the capital guards.


Gravatarres ipsa loquitur, lawyer and yenta!


GravatarNo matter how hard I try, I cannot picture Cog dancing around his room singing "I'm walking on sunshine, Oooh, Oooh". It's sad, really.


Gravatar(¯`•.¸¸.•´¯`•.¸¸. |

So the snake man is Doug? Who knew?


Gravatarres ipsa loquitur, lawyer and yenta!
Ahianne | 0


or

LENTA!


GravatarSsssspicsssy fried sssssnakesssss on ssssticksssss. With sssssssssssalssssa
and sssssssssssssssambuca!


GravatarAfter this week, I think I'll be giving Americablog a miss.

Too many of John's posts have been off-putting; his post on McKinney last night really sealed the deal.
And when he called John Emerson, aka Zizka, an "asshole" in his comments section, erased his comments and banned him... well, I don't have much faith in John A any more.


Gravatarjohn doesn't point out this isn't the first time mckinney has been harassed by the capital guards.
jello | Homepage | 04.01.06 - 3:45 pm |

No, nor is there mention of McKinney's various "offences" to Power, and he also definitely goes too far in caling her crazy. But we have worked at a checkpoint and have zero tolerance for the people who think rules don't apply to them unless they can use them in a lawsuit.


GravatarYa know, res, there's always a good market for a successful matchmaker. Sometimes you just kinda fall into a career....--GWPDA

It's a tale as old as love itself: the matchmaker who can't match herself.

Vicki ...

Friend from school and a co-worker.


Gravatar(¯`•.¸¸.•´¯`•.¸¸. - you must be getting the storms we were supposed to get all week. All it has done here is get increasingly humid and threatening and no rain.

Or maybe your rain will move south - I wish it would just rain and get it over with. I hate it when it glowers like this for days on end and the humidity is so thick you could cut it with a fork and serve it for dinner.


GravatarLiberals are the real fascists. They do not tolerate dissent, even though they preach at others about their sensitivity and nuanced understanding of the world. No such thing. BRainwashed leftist garbage orthodoxy.


GravatarAfter this week, I think I'll be giving Americablog a miss.

Too many of John's posts have been off-putting; his post on McKinney last night really sealed the deal.
And when he called John Emerson, aka Zizka, an "asshole" in his comments section, erased his comments and banned him... well, I don't have much faith in John A any more.


GravatarTexasChiliBean, we are allowed to criticize the prez, you know.

You obviously don't know what it means to be an American. You wave the flag but act as if this were some other country somewhere else.

The problem with you is that you don't have a good defense of his actions, and so you're frustrated and angry. You mumble and stammer and sputter and stamp those tiny little feet, but you never say anything intelligent.

Poor thing. I feel sorry for you.


GravatarIf I put the chicken in the oven now, and Arthur keeps watching TCM, I could take a nice little nap.


Gravatar(sorry for the duplicate post...)


Gravatar...well, I don't have much faith in John A any more.

No doubt he'll weep copious tears upon hearing this news.


Gravatark&y, rules include congress people are allowed to bypass that checkpoint.


GravatarIt's a tale as old as love itself: the matchmaker who can't match herself.

Vicki ...

Friend from school and a co-worker.
res ipsa loquitur


Oooh!

That is so cool! Congratulations! You're very insightful; I can see where matchmaking would be something you'd be good at.

As pie has said a time or two, "everyone loves lovers."

I agree with that sentiment.

And I wish your friends the best!


GravatarIt's thundering, hailing, and raining in Montana on the 1st of April.

This is not normal. That's a summer style storm, and we shouldn't have one of those till at least late in May.
(¯`•.¸¸.•´¯`•.¸¸.


"Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get"

Lazarus Long


GravatarHey:

Maybe since you hate the USA so much you can move to Cuba? They have state sponsored health care there, and will also put you in jail if you say anything bad. Not like here. We should, but we don't. Just sayin'...


GravatarLiberals are the real fascists. They do not tolerate dissent...

He said, posting on a liberal blog because nearly all of his comrade's neocon blogs have banned him.


GravatarStill hailing and thundering


GravatarCynthia McKinney may have said a few things that were a bit out there, but she doesn't deserve the harassment she's getting. If I recall correctly, she's been bothered by cops and others before.


Gravatar Still hailing and thundering
Doug,


Better than hail and farewell.


GravatarIf I put the chicken in the oven now, and Arthur keeps watching TCM, I could take a nice little nap.

Yes you could. early afternoon nappies are wonderfull things.

So please, tell me about how the sandwich met its end???
.


GravatarI wave the flag because it's patriotic. maybe you should too. Oh, I forgot. Liberals hate the flag, and any display of love for or loyalty to one's country. Maybe they should just leave so those of us who do won't be tempted to beat down you slimeballs who don't respect our president.


GravatarThe ssssssnake isssssss in Montana? I need fear no ssssstrikessssss! It'ssss a long way to go for ssssssupper though.

I was once bitten by a garter snake in a rad zone. Still waiting for my superpowers to kick in. Took the fool thing out of the building it was in and put it outside.

Last snake I actually handled was a pretty little baby rough green snake. Moved it fom my driveway to the honeysuckle vines in my yard.


GravatarNo doubt he'll weep copious tears upon hearing this news.
res ipsa loquitur



Yah, I'm somehow not too terribly worried about John. But it's kind of funny that after all this time there is still a whole lot about "it's so and so's blog" that people don't get. The obvious remedy is to avoid those places on line one doesn't like.


GravatarWe should, but we don't

No, little man. We shouldn't.

This is America. Haven't you heard?


GravatarStill hailing and thundering

Where?


GravatarTexasChiliBean



Hey, moron.

If we "hated" America, we would vote Repugnican.


Just sayin'!


GravatarI'm back...

Jane's got it covered...she just mentioned the Ad Nags article. She also excerpted a part about that twit, Steve Elmendorf, who got his peepee smacked by us nasty moonbats, and implied that maybe he's learned a lesson.


Gravatark&y, rules include congress people are allowed to bypass that checkpoint.
jello | Homepage | 04.01.06 - 3:49 pm |


Did you read the article? Rules include identified congresspeople to bypass it; she wasn't and she'd done it before. And mendacity in the complaint is the nail in the coffin.


GravatarGWPDA, you deserve a nap! Go take one! Rest in peace!


GravatarMaybe they should just leave so those of us who do won't be tempted to beat down you slimeballs who don't respect our president.




They DO talk so big, don't they????

Empty threats!


GravatarI wave the flag because it's patriotic. maybe you should too.

Actually, I was thinking maybe I should shove it straight up your ass.


GravatarUm, Vicki? Just a nap, mkay?


GravatarI think it's sad out little friends can't grasp that part of loving this country is wanting it to realize its potential and live up to its ideals. I wonder how they manage criticism in their personal lives.


GravatarJust sayin.


GravatarOh, weird, the hail is now turning into sleet and snow.


GravatarI saw McHinney on teevee this morning with her lawyer. She did look a bit unhinged, but then I say the same thing about a lot of republican congressmen, too.


GravatarNot a big snake fan. Things with scales generally creep me out a little bit.


Gravatark&y, rules include congress people are allowed to bypass that checkpoint.
jello


Am I the only one struck by this? You only have to look like one of 'em, and have a little pin om your lapel, and you can trot your TNT-wrapped ass right past the guards. This is abfuckingsurd. If they care this little for their own security, I'm supposed to think they can protect the rest of us? I don't know if we got the best government money can buy, but we damn sure got the stupidest...


GravatarStill hailing and thundering

SW. Montana. The Border to Idaho is to the west and south of me.


GravatarAhianne - we've been rescuing smallish and not so smallish snakes from the cat all spring.

I've picked up many a snake in the last few months and tossed it over the fence.

Last night he had the most amazing moth I've ever seen. It was enormous - it had a 6 inch wingspan. No lie. It wasn't colorful - the wings were plain. But I've not seen one that size before. I got it from him and put it out front, but I fear it was too damaged to make it.


GravatarWon't be tempted to "beat down" you "slimeballs?"

Ah, freedom of speech.


GravatarLiberals aZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!


L. Brent Bozell III


GravatarAuntie GWPDA, what is Arthur watching that has him so enthralled? It can't be Lassie Come Home!


GravatarOh, weird, the hail is now turning into sleet and snow.

Jesus, doug, where are you?


GravatarI don't think ben nelson has accused dems of being traitors if they don't support the idiot.

Oh--no question. But I was talking about *voting records*.

Which brings up the other point: for some reason, the MSM twits never notice when Holy Joe shits all over his own party on Fox News--they just look at the voting record--which, as we've seen with the Scalito circle-jerk, can be gamed very artfully.


Gravatardown you slimeballs who don't respect our president.
TexasChiliBean


you do realize he's just a man
and that the divine roight of kings eneded in the 15th centrurY?


GravatarI think it's sad out little friends can't grasp that part of loving this country is wanting it to realize its potential and live up to its ideals. I wonder how they manage criticism in their personal lives.
JeffCO | 04.01.06 - 3:53 pm | #

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You liberals are always criticisng America and our president, and it's not playing well in the heartland anymore. Nobody wants your garbage, even though the liberal media shows Mexicans waving their flag in American streets like they are heroes. Whoa, there, libs. Step back. Not wanted here!


GravatarWon't be tempted to "beat down" you "slimeballs?"

Ah, freedom of speech.
Smithers


Trolls beat OFF.

They can't beat anyone down.


GravatarI wave the flag because it's patriotic. maybe you should too. Oh, I forgot. Liberals hate the flag, and any display of love for or loyalty to one's country. Maybe they should just leave so those of us who do won't be tempted to beat down you slimeballs who don't respect our president.
TexasChiliBean


Real tough guy, aren't you, making anonymous threats on the internets?


Gravatarshe's been bothered by cops and others before.
Vicki, Who


She's black, which means she gets hassled all the time. My daughter seems on the verge of marrying a black man. On the one hand, I am sooooo happy she seems to have found her mate. On the other, I'm not sure she is prepared for how amerukka will react.


GravatarSo please, tell me about how the sandwich met its end???

Peacefully. Shared. This is the difference between me and Arthur. I -always- share.

Naptime!


GravatarI have completely missed the Cynthia McKinney thing.


Gravatarhmmmmm. Avarosis sounds perfectly reasonable (as well as more knowledgeable than a lot of others).

too bad John banned everyone who disagreed with him last night...

including myself (for saying "John would not have written this post if McKinney bought him seats at better parties and provided him with better photo ops" [paraphrase]), and "marky" and "john casper" from over at Firedoglake....


GravatarGWPDA,

Of course you deserve so much more than a nap, but since a nap is what is at hand in the immediate future, we can plan your bigger rewards once you wake up, refreshed, and after you've eaten a lovely chicken dinner!


GravatarThings with scales generally creep me out a little bit. -Vicki

But Vicki, I thought you loved Justice!


GravatarWe should, but we don't. Just sayin'...
TexasChiliBean |



Nope
General Franco's Spain is perfect for this guy


GravatarOh, I like snakes just fine. I don't like being struck by them or maybe even worse, be camping and have one crawl into your sleeping bag for warmth, while you are asleep. (why tents that do not have broken zippers or holes is a really good idea.)


GravatarGood article:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opin...home- commentary


GravatarMan, but the parody sites are coming fast and furious today!


GravatarBut Vicki, I thought you loved Justice!
JeffCO


::giggles::

I do!


GravatarPeacefully. Shared. This is the difference between me and Arthur. I -always- share.

That is too sweet!!

Have a nice nap!


GravatarMay I remind the trolls on this thread that they are part of a rapidly shrinking minority?

That 60% of America doesn't support their preznit?


Gravatarwho don't respect our president.

I didn't vote for the bastard. He's all yours.


GravatarLiberal media left-tilting bias freedom economic woes bias terror Bush popular polls biased inaccurate spin not true lies stupid liberals moron name-calling facts truth justice power USA USA USA


GravatarPatriotism masquerading as nativism
and

Take what TCB and substitute the word Jew for Liberal/leftist


Gravatarfacts truth justice power USA USA USA
L. Brent Bozell III



Facts like the lack of WMDs adn the baseless war

Truth Like Bushs DWIs

Justice like maybe a censure for misuse of power


Gravatar"Maybe they should just leave so those of us who do won't be tempted to beat down you slimeballs who don't respect our Chimpy."


(a) I'm not going anywhere.

(b) If you think you have what it takes to change those plans, please bring it on.

You may wind up with a pound of lead in your ass.


GravatarApparentlY BrenT 4 doesn;t believe in the american people if he thinks polls are biased


GravatarYou may wind up with a pound of lead in your ass.
Terry C, Coldplayer | 04.01.06 - 3:59 pm | #

--

Is that one of your gay homosexual liberal rape fantasies?


GravatarWe went looking at prom dresses, but we didn't find anything.

I have a feeling this will be a long, laborious process, since my daughter is picky.

And the fact that she's 5'10-1/2", big boned, with a swimmer's build (wide, muscular back and shoulders) doesn't exactly go hand in hand with the Size 4 and 6 dresses on the market today.


GravatarWhat fresh hell is this?


GravatarWhich brings up the other point: for some reason, the MSM twits never notice when Holy Joe shits all over his own party on Fox News--they just look at the voting record--which, as we've seen with the Scalito circle-jerk, can be gamed very artfully.
Dr. Uncle Cap'n Mr. Goto-san


There's also the fact that Democrat voting records in a Republican controlled Congress don't mean all that much, and that Joe surely knows this...


Gravatarfacts truth justice power USA USA USA
L. Brent Bozell III





Sayeth one of the 34%.


GravatarLiberals have no idea what they are talking about. Only bias comes out of their mouths.


GravatarIs that one of your gay homosexual liberal rape fantasies?
L. Brent Bozell II



as opposed to a straight homosexual?


Gravatarpound of lead

That many rounds? One or two should be enough.


GravatarLast night he had the most amazing moth I've ever seen. It was enormous - it had a 6 inch wingspan. No lie. It wasn't colorful - the wings were plain. But I've not seen one that size before. I got it from him and put it out front, but I fear it was too damaged to make it.
Tena | Homepage | 04.01.06 - 3:54 pm | #

probably a Luna Moth (not kidding)they are usually a pale transparent green with a single spot on the lower wings.
They are what pupates from tomato bugs. Google it and look at the images, some of them are quite pretty.


Gravatarql - On the other, I'm not sure she is prepared for how amerukka will react.
ql in ny |


I can understand your concern, but things aren't what they used to be. It's bad, but it has become more common to see mixed race couples than it used to be. I don't know that that has eased it much for the couples, but it really doesn't seem to faze people here at all anymore to see a mixed race couple.

Like I said, this is perception from someone who isn't trying to fight a prejudice, so I probably think things are better than they are. But it does seem to be a bit better these days.


GravatarLiberal media left-tilting bias freedom economic woes bias terror Bush popular polls biased inaccurate spin not true lies stupid liberals moron name-calling facts truth justice power USA USA USA

That's a mighty battle that you are currently engaging with the lexicon my friend.

I think that the lexicon has the upper hand.

'Merican would not seem to be your native tounge.
.


GravatarOnly bias comes out of their mouths.
L. Brent Bozell III


what about your obviosu pro-bush bias?


GravatarTena - cats are rough on snakes. And other critters. I do love the insane fuzzballs though.

Reminds me of the time I saw a juvenile bald eagle make several passes at a flock of ducks - hardly knew whether I hoped more that it would or wouldn't catch one.


GravatarTena - cats are rough on snakes. And other critters. I do love the insane fuzzballs though.

Reminds me of the time I saw a juvenile bald eagle make several passes at a flock of ducks - hardly knew whether I hoped more that it would or wouldn't catch one.


GravatarVicki, your daughter sounds beautiful.

Taking nothing from my own kid, all 13yrs, 5'3" and 100lb. of her.


GravatarIs that one of your gay homosexual liberal rape fantasies?
L. Brent Bozell III



Take your mind out of the gutter, scumbag.

I was speaking of my Second Amendment rights.



Rape fantasies???

Oh, my god - righttards are SO stupid!


GravatarbBrent's obvious conservative bias and hatred for liberals has blinded him to reality


GravatarTake what TCB and substitute the word Jew for Liberal/leftist

Or the word Nigger.......
.


Gravatarwhat about your obviosu pro-bush bias?
olexicon,Sir Humpty | Homepage | 04.01.06 - 4:01 pm | #
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Liberals have an ANTI-BUSH bias. My support of Bush balances their sick viewpoints with sanity and patriotism.


GravatarSeriously kids, America the concept has never been "my country right or wrong." You're not even remotely original in your tiny efforts to make it so. Better totalitarians than you have tried, long before you were born, and failed. Your attempts to turn brother against brother will also fail.

The only thing sadder than your efforts are those of you who actually grasp what you're promoting and favor it: you are the ones who truly despise the (still unrealized) American promise of freedom and equality. Sad puppies all.


GravatarRove's been sending the scrubs in a lot lately.

I guess his regular trolls have deserted the sinking ship.

What I've been seeing the last week or so are pathetic.


GravatarThe fact is, the president does not respect the Constitution he swore to uphold.

He doesn't respect the intelligence of the public.

And if he met his most vociferous supporters in person, he would take great delight in mocking them.

So, no, I don't respect the president.


GravatarJeffCo, you have it exactly backwards. YOU are the America Destroyers. We are going to save it, the righteous, the moral, the patriotic.


GravatarSHG - the wings weren't the right shape for a Luna. It didn't have the swallow tail-shaped lower wings. Instead, it had wings shaped more as a dragonfly's wings are, the uppers being huge, the lowers much smaller. It was definitely a moth - it had a fat moth body and thick antennae that looked ferny.


Gravatar. My support of Bush balances their sick viewpoints with sanity and patriotism.
L. Brent Bozell III


see you have a bias

the mind is twisted with hatred for liberals
why do you hate your fellow americans so much?


GravatarDr. Uncle Cap'n,

Thanks. She really is beautiful. I'll post a pic next time I see you on line.

I'm going to meet a friend for dinner, but I may be back later.

Peace, moonbats.


Gravatarwhy do you hate your fellow americans so much?
olexicon,Sir Humpty | Homepage | 04.01.06 - 4:04 pm | #

--

They are not Americans. They are filth.


GravatarLuna moth. I once almost got arrested because someone saw me under a street light jumping around and called the police on me.(I guess they couldn't see the netting I had in my hand) trying to catch one.

I wonder how dismayed they were when they saw the policeman join in my madness after I showed him this monster.


Gravatarrespect Bush?


That's a good one!


GravatarLiberals have an ANTI-BUSH bias



Fuckwad says THAT like it's a BAD thing.


GravatarAttention, trolls:

Bush will be gone in less than three years.

Who are you going to transfer your daddy issues to then? Who's going to change your nappies and scare away the ragheads from under your bed before tucking you in at night?

Fucking pussies. Grow up and face the world like men.


GravatarLiberals have no respect for anything, hence their spreading of moral decay.


GravatarChristian Science Monitor guy on CNN now with statement from Carroll.


GravatarThat's a mighty battle that you are currently engaging with the lexicon my friend.

He's what you'd call a thesaur-ass.


GravatarWe are going to save it, the righteous, the moral, the patriotic.
L. Brent Bozell III
"


how is torturing people moral

how is someone who does not believ in "thous shalt not kill(iraqis)"
call themselves rigfhteous?

how can someoen who oiposes the constitution by supprting amna whi usrups i;'s power call themselves a patriot?


GravatarNot a big snake fan. Things with scales generally creep me out a little bit.
Vicki,


I feel the same way about planes. Good thing there couldn't ever possibly be snakes on a plane. That would be too much. Hey, an hour and a half of the Simpsons. Gotta watch.


Gravatarwhy do you hate your fellow americans so much?
olexicon,Sir Humpty


Because the little loser is in the minority.


GravatarSo...who else has seen "V for Vendetta"?

I f**king loved it. I would call it delightfully subversive, but it's hard to say that about a major studio movie, co-produced by Joel Silver.


GravatarReminds me of the time I saw a juvenile bald eagle make several passes at a flock of ducks - hardly knew whether I hoped more that it would or wouldn't catch one.
Ahianne


We have an Osprey who lives at the lake in Colorado and I have the same dilemma when the mallards start having ducklings. I lay in bed in the mornings and watch that Osprey hunting. I don't want it to catch a duckling, but it is hypnotic watching it hunt.


GravatarMore Kaloogiantasic Fun, via Josh Marshall:

Now a campaign website picture of Howard at Mount Ararat (where Noah docked the boat) in Armenia turns out to be a picture of Howard chillin' in front of Mount Palomar in California.


GravatarLiberals have an ANTI-BUSH bias



Fuckwad says THAT like it's a BAD thing.
Terry C, Coldplayer | 04.01.06 - 4:05 pm | #

--

When it is based on irrational anger, jealousy and programmed knee-jerk leftist cliches, it is. BDS is real.


Gravatarhence their spreading of moral decay.
L. Brent Bozell III


what you mena by preaching equality and tolerance
while you spread homophobia and xenophobia?


GravatarI wonder how dismayed they were when they saw the policeman join in my madness after I showed him this monster.

Wondered if you had some spooky powers, they did!


GravatarIt's ridiculous that Carroll even has to say this


Gravatar. BDS is real.
L. Brent Bozell III


Big Dick sucker?


GravatarI f**king loved it.

Me, too.


Gravatarchavez should get more support from the left. i mean he's fleecing exxon-mobil and helping poor people.


GravatarGee, Harriet Miers seems like such a nice person. I think she'd make a great personal friend.


Gravatar"We are going to save it,"


They're going to give it a mass infusion of Cheetos and KoolAid.


(Points finger to temple, spins it)


GravatarWell, this should blow those Carroll detractors right out of the water. She's expressed her extreme disgust with her captors.

What's that sound I hear? Right-wing heads exploding?


GravatarHe's what you'd call a thesaur-ass.



GravatarThey are not Americans. They are filth.
L. Brent Bozell III


my god man

dehumanize people with different opinions much

making Goerbells proud you are


GravatarWhen it is based on irrational anger, jealousy and programmed knee-jerk leftist cliches


Sayeth one of the 34%


GravatarIt's ridiculous that Carroll even has to say this
scout prime


Amen to that!


GravatarWhat's that sound I hear? Right-wing heads exploding?
catnip


catbip I would hope so but they can never sat they were wrong.

They're probably going to check the kerning next


Gravatarcatnip--they're just going to take credit for showing her the "error of her ways", no doubt.


GravatarWe are going to save it, the righteous, the moral, the patriotic.

You misspelled ruthless, amoral and pathetic.


GravatarWell, bats, gotta go feed the cats. Then myself. Don't let the trolls bite.


Gravatarcalling ones opponents "filfth" or "vermin" while also sying that they only have hate really boggles the mind


GravatarSo, no, I don't respect the president.
Smithers


That asshole isn't MY president.


GravatarNow a campaign website picture of Howard at Mount Ararat (where Noah docked the boat) in Armenia turns out to be a picture of Howard chillin' in front of Mount Palomar in California.

The gift that keeps on giving.........Did he confuse the observatory for the remaiins of the Ark?!?!?
.


GravatarI wonder how dismayed they were when they saw the policeman join in my madness after I showed him this monster.
Doug,


The cop had his own net? Now, that's well equipped...


GravatarAah catNip...sorry about that and thanks for the heads up on CNN


GravatarMount Shalamar?


GravatarWho is stealing my name and making false statements?

That is low.

(You can tell the real TexasChiliBean by my email, by the way)


GravatarWho is stealing my name and making false statements?

That is low.

(You can tell the real TexasChiliBean by my email, by the way)


GravatarThey're probably going to check the kerning next
scout prime


They have to wait and see what RUSH LIMPDICK has to say about the situation first.

They can't take their morning dumps without getting Oxycotin Rush's take on it.


Gravatar(You can tell the real TexasChiliBean by my email, by the way)
TexasChiliBean


Who cares?


GravatarTena

Did that moth look like this?

I've seen one of those up here and they are huge. The one I saw had wings that were as big as my hand... each.

They are strays, though, not native.


GravatarI particularly hope this wingnut's head explodes over this CSM news release about Carroll.

What a vile, vile person.


Gravatarres ipsa - Now a campaign website picture of Howard at Mount Ararat (where Noah docked the boat) in Armenia turns out to be a picture of Howard chillin' in front of Mount Palomar in California.


;lol:;lol:


GravatarNow, that's well equipped...

Naw, he took a jacket out of his patrol car and was jumping up and down himself, trying to scoop up the moth when it zoomed by. This one I never did catch. This doesn't suprise me much it's as much luck as anything else to capture one.

Why'd I have a net? I was a bio major at the time.


Gravatar(You can tell the real TexasChiliBean by my email, by the way)



Oh, you can, can you?

These guys must all have crayons lodged in their brains.
.


GravatarJR - link appears to be broken, damn it. I'd love to identify this thing.


GravatarBLACKBURN, England - Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said Saturday she looks forward to the day when the United States can shut down its prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but she gave no timetable.
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The prison will not remain open "any longer than is needed," Rice said at a news conference with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, her host for a two-day visit meant to be a chummy look at ordinary life outside the capital of Washington's closest ally


GravatarThese guys must all have crayons lodged in their brains

Only the few broken stubs left after a birthday party of kids have been using them.

A sad way to "color" a mind.


Gravatar"Boortz claimed McKinney "looked like a welfare drag queen"; predicted "Media Matters will pick up on that"


Boortz looks like a toad.


GravatarThe prison will not remain open "any longer than is needed," Rice said

What? No more frat boy pranks and lemon chicken?

Oxycontin Boy will be SO disappointed...


GravatarOk, try it raw.

http://kenfuller.exactpages.com/ ...lack_witch1.JPG

The Luna moths are greenish, and have "tails", very distinctive. Big buggers, had one hatch on my arbor one year.

The Black Witch I saw was bigger than nay Luna moth I'd ever seen.


GravatarWhat a vile, vile person.
catnip


She's sick in the head.

No other way to put it!


GravatarTerry,

I mention it because I noticed a couple times there were posts with my nickname but it was not from me.

I think that's really low. It may even be false impersonation.

I just wanted to let people know those weird statements were not from me, so there is no confusion.

See?


GravatarMind you, these trollitas don't really believe what they say - just silly trash-talking because they can't think outside a sort of game mentality. Their team is going down hard, so they nobly cheer louder. Good luck trying to get them to grasp that there's only one team playing.

They're the guys who paint their faces and get into bar fights over whose team rulz based on their geographic heritage. The concept of actually considering the implications of their behavior won't arise for years for most of them. Nothing more than political hooligans.


GravatarLiberals have no respect for anything, hence their spreading of moral decay.
L. Brent Bozell III


You know, it's amazing how much you resent us for actually having real lives beyond our political beliefs. It really does annoy you that people talk about stuff like making cookies in here, rather than doing "something about the problems of the world" 24 hours a day. I asked you before- what are you doing about the problems of the world? How about an answer? Give us something constructive for a change.


GravatarShe's sick in the head.

No other way to put it!
Terry C, Coldplayer


It's flipping scary that there are people out there like that.


GravatarThe prison will not remain open "any longer than is needed," Rice said at a news conference



I'd like to see her, her "husband" and their whole gang of traitors doing time there.


Gravatarblack witch moth?

Here's a picture!

http://mk2.porch.org/user_imager...6/ moth_1024.jpg


GravatarI think that's really low. It may even be false impersonation.

False impersonation of who?

You post here anonymously, you jackass.


Gravatarhence their spreading of moral decay.





Thinking for oneself, after all, spreads moral decay.


(What color is the sky in Bozo's world, I wonder)


GravatarDid that moth look like this?

Did someone say moth?


GravatarWow. That moth is very beautiful.


GravatarIt may even be false impersonation.

Um, yeah.


GravatarHere's Jill Carroll's statement. Off to blog about it. Back in a bit.


GravatarOk, try it raw.

Hey - that link made my antivirus program go nuts. Said something nasty was lurking on the page.


GravatarSee?
TexasChiliBean


I repeat: who the fuck cares?

The namestealer's statements are no more ridiculous than the shit you spout.


GravatarOur prezdit congratulated Vincente Fox for having such a stable economy.


Gravataror did theys say moth?
http://static.flickr.com/21/ 3128..._8c143ccf64.jpg


GravatarI'd like to see her, her "husband" and their whole gang of traitors doing time there.


That was the uncomfortable thing about seeing the torture scenes in "V for Vendetta"--the thought that my own government is pulling shit like this, and that so many of my fellow citizens have no problem with it. Makes you want to hurl.


Gravatar(What color is the sky in Bozo's world, I wonder)
Terry C,


Ogilvy plaid


GravatarDoes anyone know exactly how long there has not been an email field in this place?

/Rhetorical


GravatarTCB is another annie.

So important that everyone wants to namesteal it.

I don't namesteal trolls.

I just want them to shut up and go away.

Can't they get on LGF?


GravatarIt was not a blackwitch, though I found a dead one of those in an intersection one day - I stopped and opened my car door and scooped it up off the street.

I had it for a long time - it was lovely.

I looked out front for the one from last night, but I can't find it now - Mr. Tena is cleaning around the outside of the house and probably got rid of it.


GravatarIs Texas one of those places where "authentic" chili, has no beans?


Gravatarokay

off to work

then the battle of alberta tonite on HNIC


GravatarWhatever HAPPENED to Harriet "the Raccoon" Miers, by the way?


GravatarWhat the hell is "res ipsa lquitur" and is HE confused! I, unlike him, make my state clear (Texas) and there is obvious derision against Texas and Texans by false imposters.

As I said, look to my email address in the future to make certain it's 100%, USDA TexasChiliBean posts before swallowing the rest!

Are we finally clear on this very simple point?

Good!


GravatarDoug - that last one doesn't look like a moth - it looks lie a skipper butterfly and I think it is.

Look at the antennae.


GravatarWhatever HAPPENED to Harriet "the Raccoon" Miers, by the way?

Absolutely nothing, IIRC.


GravatarHey - that link made my antivirus program go nuts. Said something nasty was lurking on the page.
JeffCO


Ah, there seems to be some sort of block for hyperlinking. Your AV should take a quaalude.


Gravatarlook to my email address in the future//Are we finally clear on this very simple point?

Yes, it's very clear that TCB is a dumbass.


GravatarIs Texas one of those places where "authentic" chili, has no beans?
Doug, | 04.01.06 - 4:22 pm | #

according to my Texan husband, yes.


Gravatar(I mean Hopepage, not email).

Sorry, ya'll.


Gravatarfalse impersonation.


Would be a personation?

.


GravatarTCB is another annie.

Not until it threatens us with bikers.


GravatarLook at the antennae.

Darn, tough crowd. Can't slip by any mistakes. It is a buterfly.


Gravatarfalse impersonation.


Would be a personation?


I think it means someone namestealing themselves.


GravatarAre we finally clear on this very simple point?

Yes, it's very clear that TCB is a dumbass.
Doug,



Word!


Gravatarres ipsa loquitor="the thing speaks for itself"


GravatarRandi Rhodes suggested that the rethugs want to make Mexico and the US into a a EU type enterprise.

I don't think $5.00 a week salaries or less for workers without healthcare, pensions, social supports, education for only the wealthy, etc., etc., is going to be quite an EU type enterprise. I guess I would call it a larger Mexico.

Meanwhile they keep importing foreign engineers, etc. for cheaper labor into the US and firing Americans.


GravatarIs Texas one of those places where "authentic" chili, has no beans?


according to my Texan husband, yes.


So if true, then TCB not only is a dumbass, but probobly from Cincinatti, and not Texas.


Gravatarres ipsa loquitor="the thing speaks for itself"

Res picked it because it's so apt.


GravatarOK, let's try again, I found a Black Witch on "What's That Bug?"

here


GravatarHeh. The sculptor that made the Britney birthing statue also made one with Cheney:

http://markfromireland.blogsome.com/


GravatarIs Texas one of those places where "authentic" chili, has no beans?
Doug,

Not Even!

That would be New Mexico.
Texans don't know anymore about CHILI than Ohioans, maybe less.

.


GravatarTCB is another annie.

Not until it threatens us with bikers.
JR


Or tells us our souls are "dirty rags."

Amazing how that moron can claim to be a "Christian" when it's as nasty as can be.


GravatarMonty python is running the skit where the mob tries to sell the Army protection.

One of my faves.
.


GravatarActually the -a ending on ipsa indicate feminine, so herself.


GravatarSeriously kids, America the concept has never been "my country right or wrong."

Nobody ever remembers that that is just the first part of the quote:

"My country right or wrong: when right, to be kept right, when wrong, to be made right."

--Sen. Carl Schurtz, 1872


GravatarHeh. The sculptor that made the Britney birthing statue also made one with Cheney:

chris/tx


THAT guy was creepy!

TWITney Spears is a paragon of motherhood???

Please!


GravatarActually the -a ending on ipsa indicate feminine, so herself.
JeffCO


But "res" is feminine in latin, but not in English, so, "itself" is the correct translation.


GravatarAuthentic Cincinnati chili is actually middle eastern chili. (Lebannon to be exact) Tell that to one of the Cincinnati locals to make their heads explode.


GravatarAnother note on V4V--

Not having slavishly followed the pre-release hype, I didn't know who the actor who played "V" was, but his voice was SO familiar that it was driving me nuts.

It was only when he spoke to Evie in the jail cell in a less formal voice, still with his face in darkness, that I finally hipped to who it was.

And I think he's a good actor, who would also be good in movies with less of a niche appeal.

Oh, and Natalie Portman was great (and hot too, which is weird because going in I thought she looked too much like my kid to have much sex appeal for me).


GravatarAfternoon, batses.

What new outrages are being committed in our name?

No, forget that. I'd rather not know.


GravatarIs Texas one of those places where "authentic" chili, has no beans?
Doug, | 04.01.06 - 4:22 pm | #

according to my Texan husband, yes.
SHG


I think it's a regional thing, because I never heard it in East Texas, growing up.

But then, most Texans don't think you can get good chili in East Texas. Or in Dallas, for that matter.

And then there's the matter of variation of Tex-Mex by region, and by parts of some of the larger towns....


Gravatar"my country right or wrong."




That is SO Viet Nam war era!


GravatarDoug - I got interested in lepidoptera from being a Nabokov fanatic and I spent a number of years identifying butterflies here and in the mountains.


Here's Jill Carroll's statement. Off to blog about it. Back in a bit.
catnip


Well it will be tiresomely interesting to see if the screaming hordes of wingnuts who've accused Ms. Carroll of everything from treason to sexual promiscuity are going to do any backpedaling. I'm thinking not.


GravatarXan- of course, the Bushists never make it past "My country: Right."


GravatarI didn't know who the actor who played "V" was, but his voice was SO familiar that it was driving me nuts.



John Hurt.

I love his voice.


GravatarXan- of course, the Bushists never make it past "My country: Right."

I never get past "My country: Riiiiight."


GravatarBut "res" is feminine in latin, but not in English, so, "itself" is the correct translation. -JR

Are you questioning res' femininity?


GravatarRes picked it because it's so apt.
Eli

Actually the -a ending on ipsa indicate feminine, so herself.
JeffCO

But "res" is feminine in latin, but not in English, so, "itself" is the correct translation.
JR


Ya'll are so cute.


GravatarTexans don't know anymore about CHILI than Ohioans, maybe less.

.
agave, Friday Lover


"Chili" was invented in San Antonio.

In New Mexico, they serve a very different dish, with a homonym name.


GravatarI disagree. Mexico should stay where it is. Illegal immagration is underminging this country's social structure.

My chili has no beans. Wife don't like 'em.


Gravatarthe screaming hordes of wingnuts who've accused Ms. Carroll of everything from treason to sexual promiscuity



Sexual promiscuity....right!

Cuz in their sick little minds, all wummin are godless ho's who need the guidance of the almight male gender.


GravatarI didn't know who the actor who played "V" was, but his voice was SO familiar that it was driving me nuts.

Hugo Weaving.

John Hurt played the Prime Minister.


GravatarSorry, Terry C--John Hurt was the Chancellor.

I don't want to give a way who V was, for those who haven't seen it yet.


GravatarYa'll are so cute.
res ipsa loquitur


Stupra te.


GravatarI disagree. Mexico should stay where it is. Illegal immagration is underminging this country's social structure.

You know, the future belongs to those who can spell.


GravatarIllegal immagration is underminging this country's social structure.


"immagration"??"

"underminging"?


GravatarI didn't know who the actor who played "V" was, but his voice was SO familiar that it was driving me nuts.

I'd heard it was Elrond (sp.? I'm no longer a Tolkein geek) from LOTR and "Agent Smith" from "The Matrix."

Can't remember his name, but not John Hurt. Am I wrong about this?


GravatarI am watching disc #1 in the fifth season of "Six Feet Under" and so far it sort of sucks.


GravatarOops, too late.

Oh, and John Hurt does kick ass, at least figuratively, in this flick and elsewhere.


GravatarI, being originally from California, made chili for him several times early in our marriage....you can see where this is leading....I added bell peppers, tomatos, beans, cocoa powder,masa and a bunch of other things. He ate it and liked it then informed me very nicely that that wasn't chili. I said, ok you do it. He fried some ground sirloin, browned a chopped onion, threw then into the pot a handful of Chili Quick and called it done. Sure was easy to do and fast. So, guess who makes Texas chili now?


GravatarSorry, Terry C--John Hurt was the Chancellor.



Sorry! My bad.

Hurt was Sutler.

The first time I ever saw John Hurt was when he played Caligula in "I Claudius."

Terrific actor.


Gravatar"underminging"?

The evil plots of a small siamese cat.


GravatarAuthentic Cincinnati chili is actually middle eastern chili.

Texas chili is what I think of as midwestern chili. What time zone is TX in, after all. Is mostly not even a western state.

.


GravatarIllegal immagration is underminging this country's social structure.

Mercilessly.


Gravatar"Chili" was invented in San Antonio.

RMJ - I get frozen chili bricks from James Coney Island, one probably by you. Good in a pinch. Chop a little onion to throw in to taste, and add some grated cheese. Or the frito pie (just add frito's).


Gravatar"underminging"?

Does that mean "panties in a bunch"?
.


Gravatar"underminging"?

Does that mean "panties in a bunch"?
.


GravatarI disagree. Mexico should stay where it is. Illegal immagration is underminging this country's social structure.

My chili has no beans. Wife don't like 'em.
TexasChiliBean


This is:

a) spoken by a non-Texan

b) by someone who has never ventured south of Dallas

c) glib.

Mexico is already, culturally, at least, as far north as San Antonio, and covers most of the lower half of Texas. No one complains.

You'll notice neither Cornyn nor Hutchison are clamoring for immigration reform a la Tancredo (Colo.) or Sensenbrenner (WI).


GravatarYou know, the future belongs to those who can spell.
res ipsa loquitur



"Well, the preznit...he ain't no ROAD Scholar....and he done alright!"


GravatarI added bell peppers, tomatos, beans, cocoa powder,masa and a bunch of other things.

NOW yer talkin',

(smacks lips)


GravatarIllegal immagration is underminging this country's social structure.

Mercilessly.
Eli


Illiteracy is a MUCH bigger danger!


Gravatar"Chili" was invented in San Antonio.

In New Mexico, they serve a very different dish, with a homonym name.


Rmj, Wandering Aengus, kind of a Texas-chilicentric viewpoint.


GravatarIllegal immagration is underminging this country's social structure.
Mercilessly. -Eli


Why are these guys so Crabbe?


GravatarRMJ - I get frozen chili bricks from James Coney Island, one probably by you. Good in a pinch. Chop a little onion to throw in to taste, and add some grated cheese. Or the frito pie (just add frito's).
chris/tx


If I can't make my chili from scratch, I don't eat it. (No offense to anyone). The only use I have for Wolf chili is Frito chili pie (which I will eat once a week, given the opportunity.)


GravatarRMJ - I get frozen chili bricks from James Coney Island, one probably by you. Good in a pinch. Chop a little onion to throw in to taste, and add some grated cheese. Or the frito pie (just add frito's).


HA! I was thinking about James Coney Island after we talked about frito pie the other day.

I didn't know you could get frozen bricks of chile. I absolutely LOVE their hot sauce. And I do love their chili dogs, nasty fake cheese and all.


GravatarWhy are these guys so Crabbe?

They're Zarkovs.


GravatarYou know, the people who dislike immigrants so much....

Where did THEIR people come from?

(Oh, yeah.....they emerged from under rocks)


GravatarIf I can't make my chili from scratch, I don't eat it. (No offense to anyone).


And yet you eat okra.


GravatarCan't remember his name, but not John Hurt. Am I wrong about this?


Hugo Weaving.


GravatarRmj, Wandering Aengus, kind of a Texas-chilicentric viewpoint.
Doug,


Just goin' by what the "experts" tell me.

Any cookbook I've ever read, or history of Texas food, says the first record of chili (as Texans call it) is the "chili queens" in the market of San Antonio.


GravatarFile under "Don't know whether to laugh or cry:" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/ washington/02fema.html?hp&ex=1143954000& en=a24e0ee1ce0de796&ei=5094&partner=homepage">FEMA Calls, but Top Job is Tough Sell:

The calls went out across the nation, as Bush administration officials asked the country's most seasoned disaster response experts to consider the job of a lifetime: FEMA director. But again and again, the response over the past several months was the same: "No thanks."

Unconvinced that the administration is serious about fixing the Federal Emergency Management Agency or that there is actually enough time to get it done before President Bush's second term ends, seven of these candidates for director or another top FEMA job said in interviews that they had pulled themselves out of the running.


GravatarThey're Zarkovs.

Oh, boy, out come the Flashers. Hide your eyes!!


GravatarAnd yet you eat okra.
fourlegsgood


Fresh, too, never frozen.

I'm like a Cajun; I'll eat anything.


GravatarAnd yet you eat okra.

Mmm... sweet, sweet okra...


Gonna have to remember to make the shadowy and mysterious Codename V. take me to that all-you-can-eat buffet place with the okra fritters.


GravatarI wish every liberal blog would have a very visible permanent ad/link to Air America.

Perhaps more of us should buy satellite radios for our relatives and friends when it is time for gifts. The election is coming up fast.


GravatarCrap. here is the link to the FEMA story.

We regret the error.


GravatarNot that I'm any kind of chile aficianado.


GravatarYou know, the people who dislike immigrants so much....

Where did THEIR people come from?


It's Clarence Thomas Syndrome --

Once you got yours, shut the door -- or pull up the ladder -- behind you.


GravatarWell it will be tiresomely interesting to see if the screaming hordes of wingnuts who've accused Ms. Carroll of everything from treason to sexual promiscuity are going to do any backpedaling. I'm thinking not.
Tena


That's what I just wrote about.


GravatarI'd be happy to trade the immigrants in for the wingnuts.


GravatarAnd yet you eat okra.

Plus

That frito chili stuff. I'll listen to his theological advice, but I'm not sure we should with food.


GravatarYou know, the future belongs to those who can spell.

Unfortunately, I suspect it belongs to those who can come up with the stupidest little text message spellings.


Gravatardamn tags.


GravatarYou want the real deal, you need to add Cumin seeds, chili powder AND Chili pods, then a few dried oregano leaves. The chile pods give it kick.

No beans. Wife don't like 'em but I do.

So I use the beans in my nickname, cause I like the beans but miss them.

I also take it personal when my name is stolen, so look for the website for the real deal.


GravatarGonna have to remember to make the shadowy and mysterious Codename V. take me to that all-you-can-eat buffet place with the okra fritters.


You are a sick, sick puppy.


I fear for your mental health.


GravatarAnd yet you eat okra.
fourlegsgood | Homepage | 04.01.06 - 4:39 pm | #


4lg is still fighting the great Okra war of '05.

(I remember a great local blues band when I was going to school in OK. Went by the name "Fried Okra Jones", fronted by a guy with the moniker "Watermelon Slim".)


GravatarIt's Clarence Thomas Syndrome --

Once you got yours, shut the door -- or pull up the ladder -- behind you.
Gummo


The Repug mantra:

"I've got mine...fuck you!"


GravatarThat frito chili stuff. I'll listen to his theological advice, but I'm not sure we should with food.


Frito pie is actually quite delicious.

Okra, not so much.


GravatarMy favorite Hugo Weaving film remains Proof (the '91 Aussie import).


GravatarSo, guess who makes Texas chili now?
SHG


Nobody?

FLAG IT!

Is this comment:

(__) Abusive?

(__) Snarky?

(__) Texas chili-centric?

(__) Plain uncalled for?


GravatarYou are a sick, sick puppy.


I fear for your mental health.


Perhaps I shall have a meal entirely of okra fritters, in your honor.

I can put whipped cream on some of 'em and call it dessert.


GravatarI've never had okra. What does it taste like?


Gravatar4lg is still fighting the great Okra war of '05.


If I were god I would smite okra from the face of the planet.


Okay, off to run errands.


Gravatarflg - The bricks are only like four bucks, no beans, and full of meat. So you can add a couple things to make it go further. James Coney Island has been in business since about 1925, so they have refined their recipe until I think it is pretty good.

PS - The BBQ place that I missed your question on was Lyndon's off 290 in west Houston. If you get in their a minute after 11:30 the line is almost out the door. It's amazing, the difference off going their five minutes late is fifty people. Plus they have pulled pork that is as good as anything I found in Georgia.


Gravatarflg - The bricks are only like four bucks, no beans, and full of meat. So you can add a couple things to make it go further. James Coney Island has been in business since about 1925, so they have refined their recipe until I think it is pretty good.

PS - The BBQ place that I missed your question on was Lyndon's off 290 in west Houston. If you get in their a minute after 11:30 the line is almost out the door. It's amazing, the difference off going their five minutes late is fifty people. Plus they have pulled pork that is as good as anything I found in Georgia.


GravatarI'm so going to get drummed out of the order of Texiness for this, but I don't really like chili.

I'd much rather have posole, or anything else in the way of New Mexico Mexican/native food. I have just eaten too much Tex Mex and a lot of that on the very very cheap. I don't really like it much any more.

But I still love New Mexico Mexican/native food. I love green chili and salsa verde.


GravatarI've never had okra. What does it taste like?


Satan's snot.


GravatarFreaking Drudge report isn't TCB's site. It takes a lot of republican chutzpah, (stealing?) to claim as yours, what isn't.


Gravatar My favorite Hugo Weaving film remains Proof (the '91 Aussie import).

What's the name of the "drag" film he did? I was trying to remember that one earlier.


GravatarNo beans. Goat don't like 'em but I do.

So I use the beans in my nickname, cause I like the beans but miss them.

I also take it personal when my name is stolen, so look for the website for the real deal.


GravatarMy favorite Hugo Weaving film remains Proof (the '91 Aussie import).

Didn't that also have Russell Crowe and Kerry Fox (from Shallow Grave)?


GravatarWho is stealing my name and making false statements?

That is low.

(You can tell the real TexasChiliBean by my email, by the way)
TexasChiliBean


Fuck you, dick. If you come on here and threaten people, you deserve whatever you get.


GravatarThat frito chili stuff. I'll listen to his theological advice, but I'm not sure we should with food.
Doug,


I don't serve that stuff to company. Okra, either.

Company gets jambalaya and gumbo. And chili, if I know you real well.



GravatarPS - The BBQ place that I missed your question on was Lyndon's off 290 in west Houston. If you get in their a minute after 11:30 the line is almost out the door. It's amazing, the difference off going their five minutes late is fifty people. Plus they have pulled pork that is as good as anything I found in Georgia.


Yummmm, pulled pork. I forgot you were in Houston.


GravatarSatan's snot.
fourlegsgood


That's helpful. lol


Gravatar"I also take it personal when my name is stolen, so look for the website for the real deal.
TexasChiliBean"



(Troll jumping up and down, waving its arms:

"Look at me, look at me!")


GravatarAirplane's on! One of my fav movies.


GravatarBut I still love New Mexico Mexican/native food. I love green chili and salsa verde.

Does New Mexico have frybread?


GravatarThe chili I learned to make in Ohio is with tomato sauce, hamburger, kidney beans, onions, green pepper, hot spices, oregano and cumin. (and whatever)

Yum, but NMers would laff at it.

.


GravatarHey RIL, are we going to see a movie?


Gravatar"You know, the future belongs to those who can spell."

The last post graduate level education class I took taught that you don't have to teach kids to spell because they have spell checkers.

I suspect that statement is correct and we have no future in this country.


Gravatarb) by someone who has never ventured south of Dallas

Hey hey hey - let's rephrase that to Lubbock, whaddya say?

Dallas is close to being minority majority if it isn't already.


GravatarWhat's the name of the "drag" film he did? I was trying to remember that one earlier.

The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert.


GravatarThat's helpful. lol


You should avoid it if you can.


GravatarMy favorite Hugo Weaving film remains Proof (the '91 Aussie import).

I think it was Encore Mystery channel, was running a bunch of Aussie cop shows with a fairly hot middle-aged actress named, IIRC, Rebecca Gibney.

In guest shots, I saw Hugo Weaving, Hugh Jackman, and the guy who played Django Fett (wtf was his name?).

Pretty interesting if you're a cable junkie.


GravatarWhat's the name of the "drag" film he did? I was trying to remember that one earlier. -George

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert- Another classic!


GravatarCompany gets jambalaya and gumbo. And chili, if I know you real well.

What goes well in jambalaya? I usually use smoked sausage and chicken, but I'm thinking of adding chorizo or possibly shrimp.


GravatarFuck you, dick. If you come on here and threaten people, you deserve whatever you get.
Buzz Bomb



Really. Why is it even HERE?


GravatarI'd much rather have posole, or anything else in the way of New Mexico Mexican/native food. I have just eaten too much Tex Mex and a lot of that on the very very cheap. I don't really like it much any more.

Several years back, I'd have almost agreed with you.

Live outside Texas for about 5 years. You'll find out you're addicted, and only real Tex-Mex will do.

And I don't get addicted to anything. Well, except coffee.


GravatarLater batses.


GravatarMy favorite Hugo Weaving film remains Proof (the '91 Aussie import).

I just watched that last weekend.

Eli, Yes to Russell Crowe. No to Kerry Fox.


GravatarI didn't know who the actor who played "V" was, but his voice was SO familiar that it was driving me nuts.

Hugo Weaving.

John Hurt played the Prime Minister.
res ipsa loquitur


My favorite scene was when Sutler (the Chancellor played by John Hurt), until then only seen ranting and threatening people on a giant screen, was brought before V and was revealed to be a pants-wetting, crying, scared little bitch.

Just like these trolls would be if they actually met one of us in person.


Gravatar the guy who played Django Fett (wtf was his name?).


Temuera Morrison, who was also in Once Were Warriors ?


GravatarAirplane's on! One of my fav movies.
catnip


Shame its creator became a winger.


GravatarYou should avoid it if you can.
fourlegsgood


I'll remember that.


GravatarI've never had okra. What does it taste like?
catnip


Okra tastes yummy, if you like Indian food.

Most people have a problem with the texture, not the tste. If it isn't done right it's .. disturbingly mucilaginous.


GravatarHey RIL, are we going to see a movie?
The Kenosha Kid


Dude, did you get my message yesterday?

What movie do you want to see?


GravatarFresh, too, never frozen.

I'm like a Cajun; I'll eat anything.
Rmj, Wandering Aengus


Yep.

Fried okra is the food of the gods. Frito-Chili pie was a staple growing up.
Used to eat it at the Taystee Freeze.

The rest of you don't know what you're missing.


GravatarTexasChiliQueen, you're probably offending anyone, liberal or not, on this website, who is from Texas.

I suspect we wouldn't see that kind of bravado in person down here, where people learn to walk the walk if they talk the talk.

Just some freindly advice.


GravatarI also take it personal when my name is stolen, so look for the website for the real deal.

TexasChiliBean is your real name? Man, your parents were mean--small wonder you're an asshole.


GravatarAirplane's on! One of my fav movies.
catnip


Shame its creator became a winger.


Didn't know that. Too bad.


GravatarShame its creator became a winger.
Terry C, Coldplayer


Really? Well that sucks.


GravatarDid not get message. I want to see CSA.


GravatarNo to Kerry Fox.

Huh. Wonder why I thought that. Not exactly a name that springs to mind a whole lot.


GravatarYeah, he was a cancellor, not a P.M. My bad. He was great. John Hurt is always great. He always looks like he's dying.

Christ, he was good in "1984."


GravatarChrist, he was good in "1984."

Gotta figure his casting in V was deliberate irony.


Gravatarb) by someone who has never ventured south of Dallas

Hey hey hey - let's rephrase that to Lubbock, whaddya say?

Dallas is close to being minority majority if it isn't already.
Tena


Has Dallas Tex-Mex improved beyond El Phenix and El Chico?

Please tell me it has.


GravatarJohn Hurt is always great. He always looks like he's dying.

One of the stranger compliments I've ever seen.


GravatarDid not get message. I want to see CSA.

Because you did not listen to your messages -- or because your answering machine is cocked up?

Lemme check on times for CFA...

Hold please ...


GravatarJohn Hurt is always great. He always looks like he's dying.



Remember the bit part he had in "History of the World: Part I"?

Mel Brooks would say "Jesus!" and you'd hear John: "Yes?"


GravatarDidn't that also have Russell Crowe and Kerry Fox (from Shallow Grave)? -Eli

Yes on Crowe, no on Fox. The woman is Geneviève Picot (had to look that up), who is also in the wonderful Muriel's Wedding. Crowe was also pretty good playing a young gay guy in the Aussie comedy The Sum of Us.


GravatarTemuera Morrison

Thanks, KK. It was a hoot seeing him play a hard-ass, fuck-the-rules cop, who *almost* gets to bang the heroine.


Gravatar Because you did not listen to your messages -- or because your answering machine is cocked up?


Because I didn't check.


GravatarOne of the stranger compliments I've ever seen.

Wasn't meant to be a compliment, although I guess it came out that way.

Once someone "complimented" me by saying that I would have survived a concentration camp through sheer obstinacy.


GravatarGotta figure his casting in V was deliberate irony.

Oh, it's not because of his turn as Olivander in Harry Potter?


GravatarShame its creator became a winger.

Didn't know that. Too bad.
Little Boots, nonhobnobber


It was that "Only Bush cares about Israel" bullshit.


GravatarWell anyone who puts bell pepper in chili should be laughed at a lot and ridiculed freely.

Bell peppers are not Mexican cuisine. If you want a mild pepper for flavor, use poblanos.

dear god, please use poblanos. Even though I'm not a chili fan, the thought of bell peppers in chili gives me chills and not good ones.


GravatarOnce someone "complimented" me by saying that I would have survived a concentration camp through sheer obstinacy.



What do you say to that?

"Thanks ... I guess..."


GravatarJohn Hurt is always great. He always looks like he's dying.

One of the stranger compliments I've ever seen.


I think I've used it for Martin Landau.

Who is younger than Sean Connery, BTW.


GravatarCrowe was also pretty good playing a young gay guy in the Aussie comedy The Sum of Us.
JeffCO


Russell can be a pain in the ass OFF screen, but the son of a bitch can act!


GravatarHey NTodd, did you get your podcast done?


GravatarLife has a myriad mysteris. We do not know as yet the cause of sin and sickness, why it has imposed on the race. But we do know, though surrounded by breaking hearts and desparing cries, that there is a cure for all earth's sorrows. IT is this that gives joy and makes the very earth seem tremulous with praise. Do you wonder that the soul of Jesus broke forth into music when he realized that He knew the cure for all earth's ills, or that the Psalmist called on even the hills to break forth singing? And now, as then, the cure is the same - to know God. And to know God means more than a name.
--Henry Victor Morgan


GravatarTena - Re TexMex:

I have found you have to keep moving around, too much of any restaurant will make you tired of their food (see Pappasito's).

I think we have about ten TexMex restaurants in our repertoire. They each have their own signature dishes and salsa's.


GravatarOnce someone "complimented" me by saying that I would have survived a concentration camp through sheer obstinacy.

What do you say to that?


"Thanks. And I'm sure you would've made a nice guard..."


GravatarI've never had okra. What does it taste like?
catnip

Zuccini with a cold.


Gravatarhey, ya know; since I click on NTodds site whenever Toby (aka pretzel-logic) visits; whose site should I visit whenever TexasChilibean (aka brown glop) visits?
I'm thinking Rmjs' site.
As far as cog goes, I think visiting pies site is appropriate.

(The reason I visit others sites when the trolls visit is
1) it drives up regulars traffic, and
2)it probably brings out the green-eyed monster in the trolls and
3) it may discourage the trolls from visiting!)


GravatarI liked Russell Crowe before he went all Hollywood and we all found out what a dick he is in real life.


GravatarPlease tell me it has.
Rmj,


You obviously don't know your way around the barrio. You never went down to Harry Hines for Mexican food? To Rosita's on Maple? You never ate at the truly reprehensible Guadalajara's on Ross Avenue, where you went through the kitchen to the bathrooms and really really wished you hadn't done either one?


GravatarRussell can be a pain in the ass OFF screen, but the son of a bitch can act!

Word.


Gravatar"I don't schmooze.


GravatarMartin Landau.



Terrific in "Ed Wood"


GravatarRussell can be a pain in the ass OFF screen, but the son of a bitch can act!

Yeah, almost hate to admit it, because he's such a dick, but yeah, he's a great actor.


Gravatar Hey NTodd, did you get your podcast done?

Uh...last night's? Why, yes! And I've got another one exporting right now--it's a big mother featuring Beethoven's 9th...


GravatarJohn Hurt is always great. He always looks like he's dying.


res, I know exactly what you mean.


GravatarWhat goes well in jambalaya? I usually use smoked sausage and chicken, but I'm thinking of adding chorizo or possibly shrimp.
George (3 is dead) Cullinan


I've seen all kinds of variations, but I keep it simple. Cut up a chicken, fry it in a pan (I have a huge pan that will fry a whole chicken, cut into parts). Then add the holy trinity (onion, bell pepper, celery), garlic and sausage and spices, then rice (3 cups, IIRC; a lot, anyway). Cook that a bit, then add water, and cover to cook the rice.

It's easy and feeds a crowd, and delicious. Like I say, I've seen more complex recipes that are probably delicious, too, but I like to keep it simple.


GravatarZuccini with a cold.
bill


ewwww...


Gravatara pepper question for people here.

Paprica is ground dried sweet peppers of some kind.

Has anyone had any sucess drying a not hot pepper, and grinding them into a fresh paprica?

I've noticed that when I grind up dried hot peppers that this has more taste besides the hottness than paprica.


GravatarBTW, I'm going back to see "V" tonight.

I don't think we'll be able to get to Trader Joe's afterward, tho.


Gravatardith



Oh fuck!


GravatarRussell can be a pain in the ass OFF screen, but the son of a bitch can act!

Yeah, almost hate to admit it, because he's such a dick, but yeah, he's a great actor.


I just don't give a shit about the lives of actors and musicians and such. I'm interested in their work and that's it.


GravatarI actually ventured onto Ted's blog for the first time last night. Crimony, the man's got a lot of time on his hands. I don't think I've ever seen so much concentrated hatred. I don't know why his brain hasn't literally exploded yet...


Gravatardear god, please use poblanos. Even though I'm not a chili fan, the thought of bell peppers in chili gives me chills and not good ones.

I love me some bell and yellow and red peppers in what I call, but discover is not, chili. I like the texture and subtle flavor, but I also like to put some jalapeno or habanera pepper to spice it up a bit.

Now I have made myself all hungrified. and might have to run out and collect the ingredients for that which is not in reality, but remains referred to as chili.

I make it with beans as well.


GravatarRussell can be a pain in the ass OFF screen, but the son of a bitch can act!
Terry C,


Yes, he can. And I am apparently one of the few around here who really get off on his smoldering-ness. Or -ability - whatever. And I don't like blonde men all that much as a rule. Russell is a huge exception to that - I just find him very male, very overtly.


GravatarRussell can be a pain in the ass OFF screen, but the son of a bitch can act!

Yeah, almost hate to admit it, because he's such a dick, but yeah, he's a great actor.
Little Boots, nonhobnobber


My daughter can't stand him, but she says he's a great actor.


Gravatar I actually ventured onto Ted's blog for the first time last night.

Whoa, Ted has a blog? Is it buzzing with flies?


GravatarZuccini with a cold.
bill


Not even close. I love zucchini, but fried zucchini can touch fried okra.


Gravatarthe holy trinity (onion, bell pepper, celery)

Damn, the Episcopalians get more theologically out there every year.

I never used that much rice before. I find that a little goes a long way, and it soaks up the liquid from the crushed tomatoes the longer it's left over.


GravatarUh...last night's? Why, yes! And I've got another one exporting right now--it's a big mother featuring Beethoven's 9th...
NTodd, Slow Hand


Great! I'll check it out later. My roomie just got back from the library, a place he never frequents, because he wanted to borrow Beethoven's 5th with ocean sounds. (??) He's bizarre...


GravatarTexasChiliQueen, you're probably offending anyone, liberal or not, on this website, who is from Texas.


the only thing that offends me is your one sharp tooth.


GravatarRussell is a huge exception to that -I just find him very male, very overtly.
Tena


Oh, I DO think he's hot.

But he needs a crash course on how to behave himself in public.


GravatarRIL:

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West 3rd & 6th Avenue
Adult: $10.75
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wheelchair accessible


GravatarYou obviously don't know your way around the barrio. You never went down to Harry Hines for Mexican food? To Rosita's on Maple? You never ate at the truly reprehensible Guadalajara's on Ross Avenue, where you went through the kitchen to the bathrooms and really really wished you hadn't done either one?
Tena


Dear, I was born in Dallas, moved away when I was six, spent my childhood travelling there from Tyler (family was all there), ate tamales from the street vendors (still the best I've ever had, though I shudder to think what was in them), and only knew Tex-Mex from those two restaurants.

Then I lived in Austin for 15 years, and spent 3 in law school in San Antonio. And I knew what Tex-Mex was supposed to be.

When I was in and around Dallas, if there was a "Barrio," my family wouldn't have visited it. But I go back to the days when my grandparents lived in Oak Cliff and I visited there regularly, if that gives you any idea how much things have changed since I was a regular 'round there.


GravatarThink I'm gonna go--the guy at the next table is quoting the Scaife rag to his companion, and the floor is getting a little sewage-y.

Bye, moonbats. Later.


GravatarI just don't give a shit about the lives of actors and musicians and such. I'm interested in their work and that's it.

Yeah, fair enough. Except for scientologists! (Okay, even then, I don't really care that much, although they deserve constant mockery.)


GravatarI actually ventured onto Ted's blog for the first time last night.

Whoa, Ted has a blog? Is it buzzing with flies?
NTodd, Slow Hand


Don't tell me, let me guess.

It looks like one of those "Men's Rights" websites????


GravatarShoot, I forgot about dith (who thuckth dickth)-
whose site dhould I visit whenever that bacteria visits?


GravatarMy roomie just got back from the library, a place he never frequents, because he wanted to borrow Beethoven's 5th with ocean sounds. (??) He's bizarre...

Oh, he might like the intro to today's cast then...


Gravatartop FEMA job said in interviews that they had pulled themselves out of the running.
res ipsa loquitur


It's not just fema. I read that there are a whole host of government commissions without chairs, both in the sciences and social fields that are going begging. These are jobs that used to be considered gems and people would fight tooth and nail to land them just to enhance their resumes. Now the experts don't want to have anything to do with them, figuring these positions will hurt their careers.


GravatarAfternoon, all. Have I missed anything
egregious since last night?


Gravatarbut fried zucchini can touch fried okra.

can't touch


GravatarShoot, I forgot about dith (who thuckth dickth)-
whose site dhould I visit whenever that bacteria visits?


Hecate's pagan-friendly website would be appropriate to counter the god-talking-but-not-knowing dith.


GravatarIt's not just fema. I read that there are a whole host of government commissions without chairs, both in the sciences and social fields that are going begging. These are jobs that used to be considered gems and people would fight tooth and nail to land them just to enhance their resumes. Now the experts don't want to have anything to do with them, figuring these positions will hurt their careers.

So they're hiring lobbyists and cronies out of *desperation*!


GravatarKenosha:

7:40 @ IFC ... and we go to TJ's after.


GravatarI just don't give a shit about the lives of actors and musicians and such. I'm interested in their work and that's it.

I don't know, I find that studying the lives of great musicians especially helps me understand how they create. A good example is the late John Daverio's Schumann biography. You get a deeper appreciation for his music when you discover how his literary sensibilities informed his composition.


GravatarExcept for scientologists! (Okay, even then, I don't really care that much, although they deserve constant mockery.)

Oh, I love mocking them when they make total fucking fools of themselves where I can see it!


Gravatar"Men's Rights" websites????"

We have rights? When did this happen and why didn't my wife tell me about it?


Gravatarfiguring these positions will hurt their careers

Would you want your name tarred with bush competency?


GravatarI like celebs who keep their private lives private....who aren't in everyone's faces with it.

The mystery intrigues me, I suppose.


GravatarNow the experts don't want to have anything to do with them, figuring these positions will hurt their careers.

As well they should (hurt their careers).


GravatarI gotta tell y'all, for all my posturing, I don't get into the "chili" debates: beans, no beans, bell peppers, chili peppers, I don't care.

Actually ate chili out of a jar the other night (added the meat). Some "nuevo chili," as the Lovely Wife called it. And it was good.

So even my rule about fresh chili is made to be broken. Like I say, I'll eat just about anything.

Once, anyway.


GravatarO.M.G.

The guy at the next table, with his back turned, is one of my oldest and best friends (and NOT a wingnut).

I KNEW his ladyfriend looked familiar...guess I'll have to go schmooze...


Gravatar7:40 @ IFC ... and we go to TJ's after.

LUCKY!

[/Napoleon Dynamite]


GravatarOh, he might like the intro to today's cast then...
NTodd, Slow Hand


He found an online version of Beethoven's 5th with cats meowing to it.


GravatarWhoa, Ted has a blog? Is it buzzing with flies?
NTodd, Slow Hand


http://thedumbdemocrat.blogspot.com/

Don't say I didn't warn you. It's incredibly toxic.


Gravatardith's site probably makes about as much sense as his posts.


GravatarUnfortunately, all those science commission positions will end up being filled with proud-to-be-ignorant thug fundies.

Ah well. We are so doomed.


Gravatar"Since 2001, believe it or not, we've stopped six million people trying to sneak into our country -- an amazing statistic. It's a lot." --GWBush, 3/29/06


Gravatarhttp://thedumbdemocrat.blogspot.com/



Just judging by the title, it's something I'll avoid religiously.


Gravatar 7:40 @ IFC ... and we go to TJ's after.

7:40 is good for the movie, but why do we have to go to Trader Joe's?


GravatarRussell Crowe -- great actor,
indisputably hot guy.

His band sucks, however.


Gravatar"Since 2001, believe it or not, we've stopped six million people trying to sneak into our country -- an amazing statistic. It's a lot." --GWBush, 3/29/06



Too....stupid....to....live!


GravatarHis band sucks, however.
steve simels


Ohhhh yeah!


GravatarI don't know, I find that studying the lives of great musicians especially helps me understand how they create. A good example is the late John Daverio's Schumann biography. You get a deeper appreciation for his music when you discover how his literary sensibilities informed his composition.

Funny, as I was discussing Beethoven today, I'm not one who knows a lot about the artists, history, etc. I just know what I like, and when I occassionally find a tidbit of trivia or other info, I appreciate it and file it. And I do have a variety of books on actors, musicians, politicians and the like. But the overall celebrity thing doesn't interest me.

Really, it's mostly a reaction to people saying they hate a particular artist "because he's an asshole". I don't care, and that attitude bugs me to no end.


Gravatar"Since 2001, believe it or not, we've stopped six million people trying to sneak into our country -- an amazing statistic. It's a lot." --GWBush, 3/29/06

He has to know everyone knows he's full of shit. Why not a made up number? Just say "a bajillion people" and wink.


Gravatarhttp://thedumbdemocrat.blogspot.com/

Don't say I didn't warn you. It's incredibly toxic.
Buzz Bomb


He's still defending the WMD lie. And he calls Democrats "dumb"?? OMG


Gravatar"Since 2001, believe it or not, we've stopped six million people trying to sneak into our country -- an amazing statistic. It's a lot." --GWBush, 3/29/06

And we're fighting the terrorists over there, so we don't have to fight 'em over here!

An amazing assertion!


GravatarRussell Crowe -- great actor,
indisputably hot guy.

His band sucks, however.
steve simels


I have never heard them. Can they be any worse than Dogstar, Keanu Reeves' band?


Gravatar"Since 2001, believe it or not, we've stopped six million people trying to sneak into our country -- an amazing statistic. It's a lot." --GWBush, 3/29/06

Why not just say 16 million? Or 26 million?

"40 million Central and South Americans thought about sneaking into America today but changed their minds.

Your Homeland Security Department at work!"


Gravatar7:40 is good for the movie, but why do we have to go to Trader Joe's?

Well, I was actually (lamely) kidding, but now that you've asked, we DO have to go. Just. Because. I. Say. So. Damnit.


GravatarThe funniest thing about you dims is your pose of world-weary snark. You think ya'll are on the cutting edge of something. But you're not. You're just cogs in a big machine.


GravatarI'm outta here. Glad I could clear up some chili misconceptions.

We'll be watching and making sure the debate stays on focus where it should be.


GravatarWell, I was actually (lamely) kidding, but now that you've asked, we DO have to go. Just. Because. I. Say. So. Damnit.

Best just to do what she says and not make any trouble.


Gravatar"Since 2001, believe it or not, we've stopped six million people trying to sneak into our country -- an amazing statistic. It's a lot." --GWBush, 3/29/06

Same 100,000 folks, stopped sixty times each.


Gravatar You're just cogs in a big machine.
dith


Better that than the slime that runs out of your dear leader's mouth everyday.


GravatarYou're just cogs in a big machine.
dith


Dude....!

That is, like, so heavy.


GravatarBest just to do what she says and not make any trouble.
Eli


There's a reason I love you best.


Gravatarres -

I can see you and TKK as a couple. Hope I'm not out of line for making this observation!


GravatarSo if Bush realizes that six million is "a lot", what does he think of nine trillion?


GravatarTrader Joe's it is!


GravatarEli --

I suppose you're watching the SciFi Nazi Hulk/Predator movie tonight?


GravatarReally, it's mostly a reaction to people saying they hate a particular artist "because he's an asshole". I don't care, and that attitude bugs me to no end.

No argument there.


Gravatar"Men's Rights" websites????"

We have rights? When did this happen and why didn't my wife tell me about it?
EkCenTriK


These are crybabies who can't stand the fact that women can't be kept barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen anymore.

You know, they think that laws against domestic violence undermine a man's right to assert his authority.

In other words, WATBs.


GravatarBoy, Ted is stupid and a shitty writer. And for fuck's sake: The Democratic Commandments? 14? The Good Lord Himself only had 10!


Gravatar"Since 2001, believe it or not,..."


I don't believe it.


GravatarI suppose you're watching the SciFi Nazi Hulk/Predator movie tonight?

Der.


Gravatar"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue".


Gravataroops. What were the chances of that.


GravatarThe Democratic Commandments? 14? The Good Lord Himself only had 10!

Damn micromanagers!


GravatarYou're just cogs in a big machine.
dith



And you're just like that other asshole troll, Cog.

Completely useless.


GravatarJust because RIL is haranguing me, doesn't mean we're a couple.


Gravatar make it with beans as well.

UnitedNegroEmerates


Well we were all set to have some cheese and crackers and salad for dinner, but now I'm really jonesing for some my chilli too. Damn people. (do you guys think I talk Mr. QL in going out to get the ingredients?)


GravatarI have never heard them. Can they be any worse than Dogstar, Keanu Reeves' band?
Buzz Bomb | 04.01.06 - 5:04 pm | #


Yeah, they're more pretentious.
Crowe thinks he's Nick Cave, and he's
not.

Besides, as bad as Dogstar was, they
did a decent cover of Badfinger's
"No Matter What."


GravatarThe Good Lord Himself only had 10!
NTodd, Slow Hand


Well, there WERE 15.

But Butterfingers Moses dropped that third tablet!


Gravatar "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue".

Yeah, that's how I feel.


GravatarI am blushing furiously. Teach me to read the thread first before I mouth off.


Gravatar'My dear leader'?

I don't support Bush, I don't give a rat's A about him. The system changes dims. You can change the masks but what underlies it remains the same. It's like punchin' at a ghost.


GravatarReally, it's mostly a reaction to people saying they hate a particular artist "because he's an asshole". I don't care, and that attitude bugs me to no end.

It's an old question. And I don't really care that much about Russell Crowe's bullshit. But what if you knew somebody was a total fascist or bigot or misogynist? Would that really not make any difference to how you felt about their artistic work? I'm honestly curious, not trying to make a big statement or attack.


GravatarJust because RIL is haranguing me, doesn't mean we're a couple.

Let's see --

- Regular Saturday night out
- She picks the movie
- She picks the after-movie spot

Hm....


GravatarCrowe thinks he's Nick Cave, and he's
not.


Oh dear.


GravatarGood grief.There's ANOTHER Buchanan--Angela?Hanging outwith the Minutemen?


Gravatar Can they be any worse than Dogstar, Keanu Reeves' band?

Siriusly.


GravatarWell, hi and goodbye, bats. Gonna go finish laundry and learn the changes to "Ruby, My Dear".


Gravatar Just because RIL is haranguing me, doesn't mean we're a couple.

Pffft. It's clear you two went to Vegas and secretly got hitched.


GravatarJust because I am haranguing The Kenosha Kid doesn't mean we're a couple, Jenny.


Gravatarhello? is this thing on?

(taps microphone)


GravatarDoesn't the number "six million" prominently whenever Hitler & Company are mentioned?


GravatarOkay. Nap time! Later gators.


GravatarIt's an old question. And I don't really care that much about Russell Crowe's bullshit. But what if you knew somebody was a total fascist or bigot or misogynist? Would that really not make any difference to how you felt about their artistic work? I'm honestly curious, not trying to make a big statement or attack.

My best friend's wife hates James Woods because of something despicable one of his *characters* did. She feels he should have refused to do it.


GravatarYou can change the masks but what underlies it remains the same. It's like punchin' at a ghost.
dith


You are, like, totally weirding me out, man.

Just don't start quoting Dylan, 'kay?

'kay.


GravatarSorry - FIGURE prominently.


GravatarIf we were a couple I'd suggest he drive here, pick me up, and TAKE me to Trader Joe's.


GravatarWhen I was in and around Dallas, if there was a "Barrio," my family wouldn't have visited it. But I go back to the days when my grandparents lived in Oak Cliff and I visited there regularly, if that gives you any idea how much things have changed since I was a regular 'round there

When I was just out of law school, I looked for a place to live in Oak Cliff. The Colorado Blvd. area is the most beautiful area in Dallas, IMO.

Yah, Robert, Dallas has changed more than I can say since those days. There's excellent Tex Mex and other kinds of Mexican food here these days. Dallas sometimes seems to be to be nothing but wall to wall restaurants and shops. There are restaurants everywhere. When I was growing up, there were about 5 good ones.


GravatarThe funniest thing about you dims is your pose of world-weary snark.

? My snark is fresh and sweet, like ripe honeydew!


Gravatarql in ny -

Did you see the book recommendation I gave you the other day? It wasn't Sarah Plain and Tall - it was Sue Bender's "Plain and Simple" about a quilter's time visiting with the Amish.

I really think you would love it. It's a gem.


GravatarWell, there WERE 15.

But Butterfingers Moses dropped that third tablet!


LOL. (Don't know how to do that little smile face thing.)


GravatarYou are, like, totally weirding me out, man.

Just don't start quoting Dylan, 'kay?


I was going to say, "Put down the Morrison poetry and walk away slowly."

Out for real.


Gravatar(do you guys think I talk Mr. QL in going out to get the ingredients?)

I imagine that you could just about talk him into anything.........Hiya Mr QL.

but would you feel guilty about it?

.


Gravatarhello? is this thing on?

(taps microphone)
watertiger


:: screeching feedback ::

Ay-yup.


GravatarIf we were a couple I'd suggest he drive here, pick me up, and TAKE me to Trader Joe's.
res ipsa loquitur


I am not saying nuthin'.


GravatarMy best friend's wife hates James Woods because of something despicable one of his *characters* did.

James WOods is often despicable in movies.


GravatarJames Woods steals every movie he's in.

Plus, the man got a perfect score on his SAT when he was in high school.

I respect that!


GravatarBut what if you
knew somebody was a total fascist or bigot or misogynist? Would that really not make any difference to
how you felt about their artistic work? I'm honestly curious, not trying to make a big statement or
attack.
Little Boots, nonhobnobber | 04.01.06 - 5:09 pm | #


Two words: Mel Gibson.

Since he went public with being an
insane fundie, my enjoyment of his
work has been, shall we say,
impaired.


GravatarJames WOods is often despicable in movies.

And I *like* him for that.


Gravatarwhat if you knew somebody was a total fascist or bigot or misogynist? Would that really not make any difference to how you felt about their artistic work? I'm honestly curious, not trying to make a big statement or attack.

In my experience, those people generally don't make anything that interests me. There are examples, though, like Sean Connery who's reportedly quite the misogynist, and I still love his work because I don't see that manifest in his acting.


GravatarThe funniest thing about you dims is your pose of world-weary snark.



You are SO fucking boring.


GravatarI don't know the answer to this beans-or-no-beans debate, but I like chili when it's made with pieces of steak, as opposed to ground beef. Is there a big fight about that, too?


GravatarBut what if you knew somebody was a total fascist or bigot or misogynist? Would that really not make any difference to how you felt about their artistic work?

A question compellingly explored by Klaus Maria Brandauer in Mephisto.


GravatarYes, six million is a number that often comes up in another context. What is he trying to say?


GravatarWe are going to save it, the righteous, the moral, the patriotic.
--L. Brent Bozell III

And you're doing a heckuva job, Bozie! Three more years should finish it off.


GravatarThere are examples, though, like Sean Connery who's reportedly quite the misogynist, and I still love his work because I don't see that manifest in his acting.
NTodd, Slow Hand


Speaking of a sexy voice!


Gravatarres -

I swear I said that out of the blue and didn't read anything about your TJ plans.

OY.


GravatarWell, Jill Carroll is now repudiating her remarks. Seems that while she was in hostile hands she thought it prudent to say whatever they wanted her to say.

Unbelievable.


GravatarYes, six million is a number that often comes up in another context. What is he trying to say?
animus


Great minds.....

That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw that stupid statement of Chimp Boy's!


GravatarYah, Robert, Dallas has changed more than I can say since those days.



but there will always be............the ..........grassy.............knoll


GravatarMy best friend's wife hates James Woods because of something despicable one of his *characters* did. She feels he should have refused to do it.

Oh jeebus.

Two words: Mel Gibson.

I still like what he does as an actor. 'course, I can't go in for his snuff film. That's not because of his political/religious beliefs per se, but rather that his political/religious drove him to make something I have no interest in.


GravatarWell, Jill Carroll is now repudiating her remarks. Seems that while she was in hostile hands she thought it prudent to say whatever they wanted her to say.

Unbelievable.


Quite believable, actually.

She's an incredibly brave & smart woman.


Gravatar"Seems that while she was in hostile hands she thought it prudent to say whatever they wanted her to say."


Self-preservation.

Ya do what ya gotta do!


Gravatarjenny check out my 'homepage'


just something i knocked off this weekend


GravatarI think Mel Gibson is overrated.

But he's a major Three Stooges fan, so that counts for something.



GravatarJenny, Are you in France?


GravatarTwo words: Mel Gibson.



i will never, i can not ever, forgive mel gib son for not casting danny glover as..................judas


Gravatar'The devil is everything false.'

Bob Dylan


Gravatar:: screeching feedback ::

Ay-yup.


Thanks. Just checking.

TKK, stop yer grousing. res is damned good fun to hang out with, whether it's at the movies or in Trader Joe's.


GravatarI think Mel Gibson is overrated.

But he's a major Three Stooges fan, so that counts for something.


I would'a respected him a lot more if he'd made The Passion of the Moe.


GravatarAnd as far as I know, they're still not releasing information as to how many soldiers went down on the helicopter in Iraq today.


GravatarA question compellingly explored by Klaus Maria Brandauer in Mephisto.

Never saw that. Maybe it's time I did. Thanks.


GravatarUnbelievable.
geegirl


Shame, this is geegirl.

Geegirl, may I present shame?

I don't believe you two are acquainted.


GravatarRe: chili...
It's probably just my regionalism showing (I'm a native New Mexican) but whenever I hear chili spoken as a meal, it just makes me cringe.
To me; CHILE is a spice, CHILI is an obscene Texas import !


GravatarI really think you would love it. It's a gem.
Jenny from the Blog


Yup, wrote it down and everything. Thanks. And you all can click my homepage for my latest. It is an old Amish pattern, using contemporary fabrics. The background fabric I bought while we were in Philly at Eschacon.


GravatarYou're just cogs in a big machine.
dith

Dude....!

That is, like, so heavy.


He's my brother.

the road is law-ooooo-wong...


Gravatar'The devil is everything false.'

Bob Dylan
dith


Get thee behind me, Satan.


GravatarCall me shallow, but when the Vietnam
war ended, I was mostly happy because I
could enjoy early Bob Hope movies again.


GravatarTrader Joe's just does not fascinate me the way it fascinates Manhattanites.


Gravatar'The devil is everything false.'

Bob Dylan
dith


The devil is in the White House.


GravatarI really crack up when I hear you Noo Yawkers going on about Trader Joe's. I don't wanna rub it in or anything, but I was in two different Trader Joe's yesterday, and one was moderately crowded (it was around lunchtime) while the other was darn near empty (about . Zipped in and out both times, and got parking right in front of the store!

Not that I'm rubbing it in or anything...


GravatarCall me shallow, but when the Vietnam
war ended, I was mostly happy because I
could enjoy early Bob Hope movies again.
steve simels



you are very (no snark intended) forgiving


Gravatarfree range sea turtles.


Gravatarbut would you feel guilty about it?

.
UnitedNegroEmerates


Tis true. I suggested it and he didn't bite, so I guess we'll have to wait for tomorrow. *sigh* I need some lessons from res.

BTW - NYers - Why don't we all get together for dinner sometime. If we wait for NTodd it might be too long a wait.


GravatarI really crack up when I hear you Noo Yawkers going on about Trader Joe's.

It's "Noo Yawkas," dave, honey.


Gravatar'The devil is everything false.'

Or true, at least for William Blake.


GravatarBTW - NYers - Why don't we all get together for dinner sometime. If we wait for NTodd it might be too long a wait.

Yeah.

Want me to set it up?


GravatarBut what if you knew somebody was a total fascist or bigot or misogynist? Would that really not make any difference to how you felt about their artistic work?



Ted Nugent

Toby Keith


But, then again, they suck anyway.


Gravatarjust something i knocked off this weekend
earl 'cliche' guevera


earl, that's a really nice painting! You work fast...


GravatarCHILI is an obscene Texas import



Like Bush!


Gravatarres -

No, I'm not in France. But today I wish I was!!!


GravatarBTW, from all I hear, Clint Eastwood is a delightful guy in person. And I've seen him interviewed where he's very engaging, well-spoken, and funny.

But on screen is there anyone more wooden and one-dimensional?


Gravatarjust something i knocked off this weekend
earl 'cliche' guevera

earl, that's a really nice painting! You work fast...
Jenny from the Blog •




it was hell getting permission to haul a ladder into the sistine chapel as you can imagine!


GravatarIt's "Noo Yawkas"...

Oops! I regret the error...


GravatarA question compellingly explored by Klaus Maria Brandauer in Mephisto.
JeffCO


It's a very deep question - the relation of the artist to the work. I've pimped this book several times, but I really do love it. Peter Ackroyd, the British writer who is chiefly a literary biographer, wrote a really lovely little novel on this subject. It's called Chatterton. Chatterton himself had one main claim to fame that was a hoax. But it was so well done that it raised the question of what difference it made that the work wasn't what it purported to be - it was so good on its own. Then there is the question of what difference it makes whether the same artist who purported to paint something actually did. In the case of Rembrandt, experts still cannot agree on whether or not some paintings attributed to him are authentic. It matters for their value in terms of cost. But aesthetically, if the paintings are so close, one has to begin to wonder what difference the identity of the artist makes. Consequently, what difference does the artist's personal life and personality make to the work?


GravatarWell, Jill Carroll is now repudiating her remarks. Seems that while she was in hostile hands she thought it prudent to say whatever they wanted her to say.

Unbelievable.
geegirl


Oh, yeah.

Because it would have been MUCH more honorable for her to have gotten her head cut off.

(Rolls eyes)


GravatarWant me to set it up?
res i


Sure, but not next weekend. We can gossip about all the atiots.


Gravatarfree range sea turtles.
watertiger



probably paste turtles


Gravatarres -

No, I'm not in France. But today I wish I was!!!


Closer than you think, res.


GravatarThe thing I really hate about a Trader Joe's opening in NYC is I can no longer send my cousin and her family their Christmas package featuring Joe's cookies, candies and coffees.

The cost of shipping the box was usually more than the cost of the contents...


GravatarBTW, from all I hear, Clint Eastwood is a delightful guy in person. And I've seen him interviewed where he's very engaging, well-spoken, and funny.

But on screen is there anyone more wooden and one-dimensional?
dave™©


I loved when that asshole John McLaughlin started getting on his case about his being a feminist.

I thought Clint was going to laugh right in his face.


GravatarThe cost of shipping the box was usually more than the cost of the contents...
dave™©



i tell people there are alternatives to the pony express.....


GravatarI took out my storm windows and put my screens in this morning.

So nice to able to air out the homestead!


GravatarThe cost of shipping the box was usually more than the cost of the contents...
dave™©


Well, it's all part of the package. I'm making Todd English's tomato and spinach soup tonight with Trader Joe's FreeRange Chicken broth. Smells yummy so far.


GravatarTerry C...
Even before i knew about Ted Nugents political philosophy, I couldn't stand his music (Cat Stratch Fever?...Oh Puleeze!)
Never heard a sngle song by Toby Keith; tho I guess if the song was meaningful enough to me, I might not hold his politics against the song.
But(am I misremembering?) I thought he reputiated his earlier embrace of Dim Son?


GravatarDid anyone catch the Ric Burns documentary about Eugene O'Neill on PBS this week? Was it any good?


GravatarI wish y'all would tell the managers in your Trader Joe's stores to tell their bosses that Trader Joe's needs to come to Texas. Tell them we're clamoring for one down here.

I am, too, I'm clamoring. Clamor clamor clamor!


GravatarThe thing I really hate about a Trader Joe's opening in NYC is I can no longer send my cousin and her family their Christmas package featuring Joe's cookies, candies and coffees.

You can still do it, dave. It's pretty hard to actually get into TJ's here.


GravatarSo this week is "Tartan Week" in NYC. It's a thoroughly made-up promotional event staged by the Scottish tourist bureau, but it is capped off by a parade of hunky guys in skirts blowing bagpipes. I'll be there.


Gravatarearl, well I thought it looked familiar.... ha!


Gravatarres ipsa - every year there is a Gaelic festival in Dallas right around St. Patrick's Day. I went this year - I have never seen so many kilts and so many tattoos in my life. It was like a biker convention where the HAs were wearing skirts.

Had a blast.


GravatarNagourney looks like the DEVIL.


GravatarNagourney graduated from Purchase College, which is better known for producing actors, artists and musicians than sharp political analysts. Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci are graduates. Nagourney worked for many years at the New York Daily News and, I think, was well plugged in to the aspiring gay journalist network in New York.


GravatarNagourney was also known to be a very hard-working journalist (at least when he was on the way up). He was relentless about tracking down leads on the phone and worked long hours.

For him to become a "political analyst" instead of a straight reporter is another demonstration of the "Peter Principle" at work.


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