I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
aha!
Damn Canada and it's Maple leaf politics!
Secundo?
Shouldn't the next big Howard Dean speech be asking Chimpy why it is that he thinks someone who makes $686 million over 10 years needs a tax cut?
jeb, katherine: why won't you help me? -silvio
ciao Silvio
Caio, Silvio. Don't let la porta hit you in the ass on the way out.
Now that's ironic.
Blame Canada!
Was I eligible to vote in that election?
Prodi moves a step closer to becoming Italian PM
Romano Prodi moved a step closer to becoming Italy's prime minister yesterday when the interior ministry lowered the number of contested ballots in the closely fought election, making it more likely that his narrow victory will stand.
As judges were counting contested ballots and Italians awaited the final word, Mr Prodi reiterated his confidence, while his opponent and incumbent prime minister Silvio Berlusconi refused to concede.
"The match is over," Mr Prodi said from Bologna where he was spending Easter weekend, was quoted as saying by Italian agency Apcom. "Now let's move on."
"First time in history"? Like citizens of the U.S. haven't determined the political fate of Iraq, Vietnam, the Phillipines, Japan, Western Europe, Central America, &tc.
Just not by voting.
Hmmm. Wasn't Iraq's political fate determined by citizens of other countries effecting a regime change? What about the various coups where the CIA has foisted thugs like the Shah on Iran?
Maybe they just meant "peacefully determined".
http://www.boston.com/news/natio...ogation/?
page=1
http://
www.heraldsun.news.com.au...55E1702,00.html
Well, the Salon article on Rummy's direct links to torture, with documentation (existence of which is denied by a spokesman), has made the Boston Globe, which mentions Salon without link at bottom of first page on web appearance, and the (Austrialian) Herald Sun, which has an actual link to the Salon article in the 3rd paragraph(!) in its web edition.
Not bad, Herald Sun--nice to see credit given with easy access.
News is bad--coverage, not bad.
Ah, new thread. Just in time to get me to really, really leave this time.
Abayo!
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It's about time Canada did something useful.
Why thank you Atrios! My relatives live in Montreal.
I guess that wasn't how he was expecting it to work out. heehee
I guess that wasn't how he was expecting it to work out. heehee
In contrast, the US 'Italians' (they're not Italian citizens) voted for Berlusconi by a small margin. Having Scalia in control of the count might have made a difference.
3 degrees: Chief scientist warns bigger rise in world's temperature will put 400 million at risk
The world's temperature is on course to rise by more than three degrees Centigrade despite efforts to combat global warming, Britain's chief scientist has warned.
Sir David King issued a stark wake-up call that climate change could cause devastating consequences such as famine and drought for hundreds of millions of people unless the world's politicians take more urgent action.
Britain and the rest of the European Union have signed up to a goal of limiting the temperature rise to two degrees. In his strongest warning yet on the issue, Sir David suggested the EU limit will be exceeded.
Canada comes through, again, with the decency and common sense.
The votes of 40,000 Canadian citizens who qualify as "Italians abroad"
Mingia, Signor Berlusconi, eh?
Ciao, Silvio!
From the Herald Sun re: Salon article--
Salon cites Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt, an Army investigator, as saying in a sworn statement to the inspector general that "The secretary of defence is personally involved in the interrogation of one person."
Schmidt is quoted under oath as saying he concluded that Mr Rumsfeld did not specifically order the interrogation methods used on Mr Kahtani, but that Mr Rumsfeld's approval of broad policies permitted abuses to take place.
snip
"There were no limits," Mr Schmidt is quoted as telling the inspector general in an August 2005 interview.
I would assume Lt.Gen. Schmidt has a limited future in the military. I do hope he's retired by now....
Now THAT's a spicy meatball!
I stand corrected: they are Italian citizens, but there's also new leeway in granting citizenship to those with Italian forebears.
Berlusconi's last stand dashed by vote error
The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's hopes that a recount of disputed ballot papers would overturn his narrow loss in the recent general election were dashed yesterday when his government was forced to admit there were too few contested votes cast to change the outcome.
The Italian interior ministry's acknowledgement that the number of ballots in question for the lower house of parliament was not near enough to overturn his rival Romano Prodi's 24,000-vote majority discredited Mr Berlusconi's claim that he lost to Mr Prodi through "cheating".
The announcement was made in a statement just hours after La Repubblica newspaper reported that Mr Berlusconi had ordered the interior minister, Giuseppe Pisanu, to annul the election hours after balloting ended but that Mr Pisanu had refused.
So....how was Gogol Bordello?
As judges were counting contested ballots and Italians awaited the final word, Mr Prodi reiterated his confidence, while his opponent and incumbent prime minister Silvio Berlusconi refused to concede.
Witless intransigence is breaking out among conservative partisans all over!!!
I'm getting tired of these people being voted out of office and refusing to leave.
The announcement was made in a statement just hours after La Repubblica newspaper reported that Mr Berlusconi had ordered the interior minister, Giuseppe Pisanu, to annul the election hours after balloting ended but that Mr Pisanu had refused.
How do you say "Balls the size of grapefruits" in Italian?
And the funniest thing? It was Berlusconi who rammed the law through last year, using his parliamentary majority, on the belief that foreign-born and expat Italians would be more likely to vote for him.
Bwahahahahaha.
So, if you're half Italian, do you get half a vote?
Caio, Silvio. Don't let la porta hit you in the culo on the way out.
Brutal torture of Afghan girl sold as bride aged 4
The suffering of Gulsoma's first 12 years is not immediately apparent in the little girl with an open face, who is doted on at Kabul's Women's Affairs Ministry. But in repose her features cloud and she clasps her arms around herself, while the overlapping scars on her body offer a crude account of abuse.
She was married at the age of four into a family where she was treated as a slave, beaten with electric cables, stoned, her limbs broken with an axe handle, starved, burned and doused with boiling water. Once she was used as a human table top. She says her father-in-law tortured her further by literally rubbing salt into her wounds, an experience so painful she says she asked God to let her die.
Gulsoma, now 13, is one of the first young girls to be rescued by Afghanistan's Women's Affairs Ministry, which was established after the fall of the Taliban government as a first step to improving the lot of women in one of the world's most unequal societies.
gogol bordello was great. nothing like watching a guy crowd surf on a bass drum
i would love to see Gogol Bordello live!
Nest the Canadians will be voting to replace Italian cuisine with their own.
So, if you're half Italian, do you get half a vote?
All or nothing: and it's patrilineal.
Canadians have more guns per capita than in the US, but with a small fraction of gun crimes committed.
Ironically, it took the corrupt and dangerous Bush administration to make this anti-gun guy rethink his position on the 2nd amendment. Notice how you don't hear Republicans shouting too loud these days about black helicopters and the need for the citizens to be armed as a check against government power.
But they were right. Bushco, or something like it, is precisely what the framers had in mind. I have no plans to buy a gun — I do not like guns — but I now understand the wisdom of permitting citizens to bear arms.
In any event, strict gun control is a loser for the Left. Perhaps it's time, in this era of unchecked gov't power, to become the constitutionally grounded and highly prinicipled (i.e., anti-NRA) champions of responsible and regulated 2nd Amendment advocacy.
I hope the Canadians bail us out, too.
How do you say "Balls the size of grapefruits" in Italian?
'Silvio, you're taking the Pisanu.'
Bomb attacks in India overshadow New Year
Two bombs ripped through India's largest and most famous mosque yesterday, injuring at least 10 people .
The explosives, hidden in plastic bagsin the main court of the Jama Masjid mosque in Old Delhi, went off just after evening prayers had finished.
Earlier in the day, at least five people were killed in a series of grenade attacks in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-held Kashmir. It was not clear if the two attacks, which came as much of India celebrated Hindu New Year, were linked.
Just a short while before the Jama Masjid bombs exploded, the mosque was crowded with 15,000 Friday worshippers. Most had left by the time the bombs went off; had they detonated sooner, there could have been many casualties.
gogol bordello was great. nothing like watching a guy crowd surf on a bass drum
Atrios
Oh mayne - I would so love to see them.
A lefty endorsing election fraud? Go figure.
I really want to go down to Miami to the Dirty South hip hop SpringFest, but I can't.
Damn it.
gogol bordello was great. nothing like watching a guy crowd surf on a bass drum
oh, schweeeet. Don't tell Tena.
So an Italian really got "wopped", eh?
Balls the size of grapefruits
Italian Translation -
Sfere il formato dei pompelmi
courtsey of Bablefish
A lefty endorsing election fraud? Go figure.
Facts, please?
In any event, strict gun control is a loser for the Left.
I've always thought that, despite my distaste for guns.
There can and should be some limitations on Amendment II, just as there are on Amendment I, but the stuff that has been called Gun Control since I've been politically aware is rather silly in my view.
Whooops, too late! 
gogol bordello was great. nothing like watching a guy crowd surf on a bass drum
Atrios | Homepage | 04.15.06 - 10:57 am | #
I remember seeing some lousy British ska band openeing act, already long out of fashion as a style. The lead singer stage-dove, and the crowd dispersed. Nobody wanted to catch him. Ouch
frankly im suprised Berlusconi hasnt had his rival killed yet.
He claimed he was giving up sex until after the election.Technically until there is a decision as to who one the "election" can't be considered over. So my guess is when he gets horny enough he'll toss in the towel and get laid.
Berlusconi è scopato
Sfere il formato dei pompelmi
it's so much more mellifluous in Italian.
Since Berlusconi owns all the media in Italy, expect the smears to begin pronto. They'll try and hound Prodi out.
A lefty endorsing election fraud? Go figure.
A righty lying? Go figure.
News is bad--coverage, not bad.
jawbone <
The Dallas paper ran Krugman's piece on invading Iran today and a whole bunch of excerpts from Iranian bloggers on the possibility, which, as you might imagine, they are upset about.
And all the letter to the editor this morning were seriously anti-Bush.
Berlusconi è fatto, rovinato e scopato
For the first time in history, a country's political fate appears to have been determined by citizens of other countries, after Mr. Berlusconi introduced a scheme in 2002 that defines eligible Italian voters by blood lines rather than residency.
Well, except for wars and stuff.
shouldn't that be 'eh-talians' ...
(sorry, couldn't resist. )
The Bush Era is over - now we just have to convince the Junta that they're over.
The Shrill One sells in Dallas? Crumbelievable!!
Peres says Ahmadinejad to end up like Saddam
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli veteran statesman Shimon Peres, responding to the latest verbal attack on the Jewish state by Iran's president, said on Saturday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would end up like Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
In a speech to a conference on the Palestinian issue on Friday, Ahmadinejad said: "The Zionist regime is a decaying and crumbling tree that will fall with a storm."
Peres, in a statement quoted by Israel Radio, called Ahmadinejad's comments a direct threat to Israel's existence.
"His statements are reminiscent of those voiced by Saddam Hussein. Ahmadinejad will end up like Saddam Hussein," he said, referring to the Iraqi leader ousted by a U.S. invasion in 2003 and on trial for the killings of 148 Shi'ites two decades ago.
Unions to Ted Kennedy....STFU, you fat drunken, useless, retarded idiot
The Bush Era is over - now we just have to convince the Junta that they're over.
They don't absorb information easily.
I'm outta here, enjoy your Great Chocolate Bunny Sacrifice Festival.
Prodi's former Minister for Reform, Roberto Calderoli (Northern League), recently fired for going on TV wearing a T-shirt with anti-Muslim cartoons, is waving a cocktail napkin claiming Berlusconi has won by 25,000 votes.
Calderoli was author of the revised election law, but has misinterpreted his own legislation, say Italian electora system expert Stefano Ceccanti.
BTW, I think it's funny that the Beeb has a graphic using red and blue provinces (or whatever) for their electoral map.
A lefty endorsing election fraud? Go figure.
"after Mr. Berlusconi introduced a scheme in 2002 that defines eligible Italian voters by blood lines rather than residency."
another example of issues with winger reading comprehension. go figure. 
Dem Crazy Eye-talians!
after Mr. Berlusconi introduced a scheme in 2002 that defines eligible Italian voters by blood lines rather than residency.
I find defining Italianess by "blood lines" rather disturbing.
I am also a new convert to the anti-gun control mindset, thanks entirely to the junta now ruling our nation. If this insanity goes on much longer I'm going to look for web intstructions on how to mount a 50 cal swivel gun on the top of a 93 Legacy wagon.
Palestinian security men protest over salary crunch
GAZA (Reuters) - Dozens of Palestinian security men stormed a government building and blocked roads in the Gaza Strip on Saturday demanding the Hamas-led administration, hit by a U.S. and European Union aid cutoff, pay overdue salaries.
Russia promised emergency funds for the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, breaking on the issue with the United States and the EU, Moscow's partners along with the United Nations in the "Quartet" of Middle East peace mediators.
"Salaries, or go home," the protesters chanted in the central town of Khan Younis, directing their message at Hamas in the biggest such demonstration since the Islamic militant group assumed power last month following its January election victory.
Unions to Ted Kennedy....STFU, you fat drunken, useless, retarded idiot
NTodd to dipshit....STFU, you fat drunken, useless, retarded idiot
Palestinian security men protest over salary crunch
Nice to see that Russian oil-and-gas money doing something for a change.
I find defining Italianess by "blood lines" rather disturbing.
I don't, actually. It gives people like my friend Flameape a chance to retain their Italian heritage in a tangible way whilst living elsewhere.
I find defining Italianess by "blood lines" rather disturbing.
Don't be silly. I cannot imagine anyone being able to use the idea of blood relations for things like kulchur, war, genocide, etc.
Hundreds of generals support Rumsfeld>/a>
after Mr. Berlusconi introduced a scheme in 2002 that defines eligible Italian voters by blood lines rather than residency.
I find defining Italianess by "blood lines" rather disturbing.
Toonscribe
Especially if it's strictly patrilineal. I wonder if anyone tried to explain the inherent bullshittiness of this to ol' Silvio? Prollie not.
Wow, a link to Wankers Net Daily... that's authoritative!
Has anyone else noticed that English does not appear to be dippy's first language? He has trouble, especially with function words.
No plan B - so could the US ever learn to live with Iran in the nuclear club?
The Bush administration has yet to decide on a clear plan B for Iran if diplomacy and sanctions fail to persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear ambitions. But military planning is progressing to fill that policy vacuum and may create a momentum of its own, former administration officials and political observers said yesterday.
After the fall of Baghdad three years ago, US marines completed an analysis for an amphibious assault on a radical, fictitious Middle Eastern theocracy called Karona, a thinly disguised version of Iran, according to William Arkin, a former army intelligence officer who writes on military affairs for Washington Post online.
Hundreds of generals support Rumsfeld
But there are THOUSANDS of generals and admirals.
And now a link to the Washington Times?
You've just given up, haven't you?
That link goes nowhere but it's a WingNutDaily url...
dippy's source material is steamin'.
"So the new Italian senate constituency of "North and Central America" will be represented by a leftist -- specifically, by Guerino Turano, the head of a Chicago-based baking company. "
Crazy!
I live down the street from the Turano bread bakery, which is in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn. Great bread and great smells, and now I have to buy even more!
US marines completed an analysis for an amphibious assault on a radical, fictitious Middle Eastern theocracy called Karona
Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run.
Gun it comin' off the line Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Karona...
Ignori prego il troll.
Hundreds of generals support Rumsfeld>/a>
dipshit
Crowdsurfing?
Hundreds of generals support Rumsfeld
Yeah, so?
Can we please have a moment of silence for the demise of conservatism and the GOP.... Fuck it. Who cares?
dave™© !!!
You're famous!
When do we get to start bashing the WaPo?
The post on the Hundreds of generals was from the Washington Times. oooh, so Dipshit is a Moonie? I guess Rev Moon's "Love Hanky" is just as functional when you do it all by yourself. Saves the extra wahing of the white gym socks.
The Shrill One sells in Dallas? Crumbelievable!!
plantsman
Belo, Corp. which owns the Dallas Morning News and the Seattle paper (and I'm sure others, I just don't know which) have some kind of assocation with the NYT - about half the national stories in the front section are reprinted from the NYT and they've run Krugman fairly regularly. They had cut down over the last year or so but it's pretty obvious to me that they are so sour on the administration that they're ready to run most anything these days if it's critical.
Ooo, look! The master chef of Greater Wingnuttia -- Sandra Lee -- is on the Food Network right now.
Want to be disgusted? Turn on "Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee."
"When do we get to start bashing the WaPo?
res ipsa loquitur"
We had it out late last night, in the wee(rd) hours.
Hoisted by his own petard. Sweet.
Ignori prego il troll.
res ipsa loquitur
Vaffunculo il trollo!
Hay, it's OK, not dirty or anything!
Don't publish that, now!
Even the Portland paper relies a good bit on the NYT news service, popping in MoDo and Krugman among the winger dreck. Thank Heavens!
You're famous!
If I wasn't using my real name, no one would ever know!
Hanging on to Italian heritage is one thing -- I'm all for that -- but being, in essence, given citizenship rights because of your "blood" is a creepy concept. If you can define someone "in" because of their "blood," you can define someone "out" the same way -- and where have we seen that one done in the last 65 years or so?
Go read Moonbootica's link about global warming at 10:51am--check out the side bar article on how to make up for carbon usage on the right side.(Haloscan cannot cope with too many blank lines, so here's first paragraph break)And remember, the degrees are in Centigrade and only a few degrees change from average global temps means we're in glaciation period (aka Ice Age). Per a report from NASA,
http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curr...l/
climchng.html
...present global average temperature of about 15° C (59° F).... note that the temperature drops only about 5° C during a glaciation.(Hope this one will allow me to post!)
Check out other reports on difference a degree makes:
http://www.google.com/search?sou...rence%
2BIce+Age
The article gives the outlook for what happens going from 2 degrees C to 3, which we've heard before.(Nope--still too many blank lines per Haloscan.Per the side bar article on carbon-offsetting:
http://money.independent.co.uk/
p...ticle357759.ece
Last month, the Government agreed to offset emissions produced by official flights taken by ministers or civil servants.
Want to be disgusted? Turn on "Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee."
res ipsa loquitur
Whodat, Sara's evil twin?
Ah, nice to see everyone's ratcheting up the heated rhetoric about Ahmen . . . Ahmeni . . . that guy in Iran.
WaPo:.....http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401648.html/">Lefty bloggers are sreaming freaking idiots
"Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee."
Why doesn't that sound the least bit appetizing?
Hanging on to Italian heritage is one thing -- I'm all for that -- but being, in essence, given citizenship rights because of your "blood" is a creepy concept. If you can define someone "in" because of their "blood," you can define someone "out" the same way -- and where have we seen that one done in the last 65 years or so?
Do we not basically do the same thing? If you were born to American citizens, you are American...by blood.
Molly the NYC deli cat is out from between the walls! In a cage, on way to be checked out.
MSNBC coverage.
Ahmadinejad.
Whodat, Sara's evil twin?
Sara Lee (whoever she was) appears to have been educated at the Cordon Bleu compared to Sandra Lee.
seems dippy is exploding.
i trolls sono stupido, sono sicuri ignorarli 
Enough with that goddamned "deli cat."
Lefty bloggers are sreaming freaking idiots
We covered that already, dipshit. Why don't you go back to the easter egg hunt now...
Want to be disgusted? Turn on "Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee."
Everything tastes better with Miracle Whip.
Why doesn't that sound the least bit appetizing?
Come on, you don't think combining Campbell's cream of mushroom soup with Bisquick and black rasperry jello along with fresh raspberries from your garden (that's the "homemade" part) and letting it set in a mould shaped like a rabbit sounds appetizing. What's wrong with you?
Everything tastes better with Miracle Whip.
It's the "high-fructose corn syrup" Goodness!
Ohio priest faces trial in nun's slaying
TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - A 68-year-old Catholic priest goes on trial on Monday in the stabbing death of a nun whose body was found covered by an altar cloth in a chapel 26 years ago.
The Rev. Gerald Robinson, charged with murder and facing a possible sentence of life in jail if convicted, has been on leave from his priestly duties since his arrest in 2004. He has pleaded not guilty.
The crime occurred in a hospital chapel in downtown Toledo on Saturday of Easter week in 1980. Investigators said the nun, Margaret Ann Pahl, 71, was strangled and then stabbed up to 32 times.
My Italian dictionary says:
troll
s. 1 (mith. scandinava) Troll, demone maligno
2 (fam. amer.) stupidotto
From the globeandmail link:
The "Italians abroad" voting scheme was designed by Mirko Tremaglia, the 80-year-old Minister of Italians in the World. An unapologetic defender of the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, Mr. Tremaglia is said to have modelled the scheme after a Fascist scheme that defined Italians as a race.
Under Mr. Tremaglia's new electoral law, eligible voters are defined as anyone with a continuous line of male descendants going back to a man born in Italy.
Everything tastes better with Miracle Whip.
I love that tangy zip!
Do we not basically do the same thing? If you were born to American citizens, you are American...by blood.
It's not the blood that does it -- it's the legal citizenship of the parents. Children of illegal immigrants born inside the boundaries of the US are US citizens -- one of the things that drives wingnuts wingnuttier -- so blood has nothing to do with it.
Canadians have more guns per capita than in the US, but with a small fraction of gun crimes committed.
Got a cite for that? Also, what relative percentage of Canadians and Americans live in rural, as opposed to urban and suburban, areas? Seems to me that's an important point to consider in drawing inferences.
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Everything tastes better with Miracle Whip.
Even Paris Hilton?
/snark snark
It's not the blood that does it -- it's the legal citizenship of the parents.
No, it's the locality in which the child is born.
I love that tangy zip!
RaiNTodd | Homepage | 04.15.06 - 11:23 am |
You're supposed to refrigerate it.
When, oh when, will people get over thinking that people who've made a lot of money are somehow more competent to lead?
"It's no trick to make a lot of money, if all you want to do is make a lot of money." - Everett Sloane (in Citizen Kane, screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles)
TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - A 68-year-old Catholic priest goes on trial on Monday in the stabbing death of a nun whose body was found covered by an altar cloth in a chapel 26 years ago.
Somebody send that link to His High Holiness of Hypocrisy.
Got a cite for that?
Gee, Have you seen "Bowling for Columbine?" There's a lengthy passage about that in the film.
You're supposed to refrigerate it.
Not till it's opened.
Enough with that goddamned "deli cat."
I don't know how I missed it, but I didn't hear anything about it 'til Thursday.
The first thing I thought was: is that the deli Simels goes to?
Trademark Dave, I am still impressed. I posted on your sudden fame earlier this day. (I also posted on how they use negative images and assumptions to damn those who disagree with the status quo - but that is neither here nor there.)
Congratulations, but I have seen you angrier.
Guns per capita? Probably near the highest in Switzerland.
"Eat this Bisquick Bunny in remembrance of me."
Ah, tradition.
So eat your wabbit or you'll make high-fructose Baby Jesus cry.
Enough with that goddamned "deli cat."
Molly's the mouser at Myers & Keswick. I didn't realize that. It's a couple of blocks away, and where I go when I'm craving Maynard's Wine Gums.
This is OT, but I was skipping around my favorite blogs, and suddenly 2+2 added up to something for me:
Remember this blast from the past:
Sensenbrenner "misidentified" by CNN as a Democrat?
Now, According to Josh Marshall, the RNC is running attack ads trying to blame Democrats for the bill making illegal aliens felons, when it was Repugs all the time.
A little collusion from CNN, Maybe?
Got a cite for that?
Gee, Have you seen "Bowling for Columbine?" There's a lengthy passage about that in the film.
Thanks for reminding me -- I actually haven't, and I've meant to, so I'll rent it.
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Molly Had dem W-i-d-e "Scared Shitless" Kitty eyes this morning.
No, it's the locality in which the child is born.
No -- sorry if my post was confusing. The first part -- about legal citizenship of parents -- was about children born to US citizens while abroad -- like a professor I had whose daughter was born in Britain while his family was there for six months while he did research.
The second part of my post -- about born inside US territory -- was, indeed, about locality -- i.e. if you are born inside the US, no matter who your parents are or what their "blood" is, you are a US citizen.
Somebody send that link to His High Holiness of Hypocrisy.
watertiger
or bill donohue (nutcase extraordinaire) via nypost:
BILL O'Reilly was outraged a few months ago over what he called "The War on Christmas," as some retailers preferred to wish their customers "Happy Holiday." Now, the Catholic League's Bill Donohue is documenting the War on Easter. "Last year, the tolerant folks who run the malls in Palm Beach, Florida, decided to rename the Easter Bunny 'Baxter the Bunny,' " Donhue gripes. "In 1995, the annual Easter Egg Roll at the Bronx Botanical Garden was changed to the Spring Egg Hunt ('hunt' had to be used lest people expect a Chinese appetizer)," Donohue notes. He has many other examples of efforts to secularize bunnies and eggs to avoid offending non-Christians. He writes, "What's driving this? The owner of Apple Holler Farm in Racine, Wis., explained in 2003 that 'Big Bunny Weekend' sounded better than 'Easter Bunny Weekend' because, 'there's nothing inferred there' . . . Look for Irving Berlin's 'Easter Parade' to be renamed the 'Spring Parade,' though we doubt the author of 'I'm Dreaming of a White Holiday' would approve."
Iraqi Shia deal could drop Jaafari
Shia politicians have suggested a formula to replace their nominee for prime minister to break the deadlock over a new unity government, officials said on Saturday.
Two Shia officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions, said the formula called for Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the prime minister, to step aside in favour of another candidate from his Dawa party.
In return, the biggest Shia party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, would not push one of Iraq’s vice presidents, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, for the post, the officials said.
TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - A 68-year-old Catholic priest goes on trial on Monday in the stabbing death of a nun whose body was found covered by an altar cloth in a chapel 26 years ago.
My sister and her husband are close friends of Father Robinson. They are convinced of his innocence, I guess time will tell.
I know they have contributed heavily to his defense fund. (Course they have done nothing with their nephew's cost of education - but that is another story)
I stand corrected: they are Italian citizens, but there's also new leeway in granting citizenship to those with Italian forebears.
I don't know what the current laws are, but as of a couple years ago a person of Italian dissent could get one's citizenship recognized by Italy if your paternal grandfather had Italian citizenship.
Moonbootica @10:57am--Shudder!
That article about the little 13 year old girl--think I'll hold off on reading whole thing until a bit more after eating breakfast.
Horrible, horrible, horrible.
Everybody doesn't like something,
But nobody seems to like Sandra Lee.
Ah, nice to see everyone's ratcheting up the heated rhetoric about Ahmen . . . Ahmeni . . . that guy in Iran.
watertiger
Shadrach, Meeshak, I'm inna Jihad!
Thanks for reminding me -- I actually haven't, and I've meant to, so I'll rent it. http://www.kunarticles.com/
He has many other examples of efforts to secularize bunnies and eggs to avoid offending non-Christians.
Oh, good Flying Spaghetti Monster. That's just one really bizarre sentence.
Hello, Angry Left. Is that mean old dave here, being all angry with his angrytude? He is so mean.
We need to get back to the stereotype of the "Effete Left" immediately. Because that one was working out so well.
These Canadian Italians were outside the Italian media-bubble (which included a Potemkin appearance in the US Congress complete with fake Congressmen).
Kinda like people outside the US media bubble don't fall for the White House's bullshit. It's easy for them, they don't have some bleach-blonde life-support-system-for-a-blow-job excuse for a reporter obediently repeating Rove's talking points and pretending it's "news."
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Guns per capita doesn't matter. Fact is, under the Bush junta, an unarmed citizenry would be pure folly. Watch the rightwing go ballistic when the Left becomes the principled and responsible protectors of Second Amendment rights.
a person of Italian dissent
Worthy of MERKIN.
Hello, Angry Left. Is that mean old dave here, being all angry with his angrytude? He is so mean.
Anger on the left, a buncha pussies on the right ...
... it was ever so.
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It's not the blood that does it -- it's the legal citizenship of the parents. Children of illegal immigrants born inside the boundaries of the US are US citizens -- one of the things that drives wingnuts wingnuttier -- so blood has nothing to do with it.
Birth is merely one handshake away from blood. And the Italian law does not in any way suggest that blood is the sole determinant. It just allows for dual citizenship. Sorry, I just can't get incensed about this.
jawbone it is such a sad story, i couldn't believe it when I first read it
I don't know what the current laws are, but as of a couple years ago a person of Italian dissent could get one's citizenship recognized by Italy if your paternal grandfather had Italian citizenship.
You can get Irish citizenship with one Irish grandparent. Though they toughened the rules for proving it a few years ago.
Holy crap. Talk about a light touch!
(just pic)
so if we effimate latte driking limp wristed liberals how can we be a 'angry left'?
Uh, are Meynard's Wine Gums...wine flavored chewing gum?
Or...?
I am still impressed. I posted on your sudden fame earlier this day.
There was a discussion of it last night on this thread. I went over the circumstances of my "involvement" here.
One thing I didn't notice then is Finkel lumped me in on the same level as the Rude Pundit. As if!
He has many other examples of efforts to secularize bunnies and eggs to avoid offending non-Christians.
makes me think of a some friends of my parents i had brunch with the other day.
the woman was lamenting the disappearance of the maypoles she remembered as a young girl in the midwest. she was stunnedd to find out A) they are pagan in tradition, and B) that "Mayday" has been replaced in this country for Labor Day in the September because communists celebrated their labor day on Mayday.
what next? i guess the next thing i'll be telling her is that the "mayday" cry for help is actually the French "m'aidez." probably flip her bonnet.
It's not the blood that does it -- it's the legal citizenship of the parents. Children of illegal immigrants born inside the boundaries of the US are US citizens -- one of the things that drives wingnuts wingnuttier -- so blood has nothing to do with it.
Oh, and I should add that kids born outside the US to American parents ARE US citizens. That's birth.
so if we're effimate latte driking limp wristed liberals how can we be a 'angry left'?
We're cheesed off.
Hello, Angry Left. Is that mean old dave here, being all angry with his angrytude? He is so mean.
What will Ms. Altmouse say? Or worse, that cheap parody who spells her name with an "h"???
BTW, as my daddy always said, "It's an ill whore that blows no one any good!"
I don't know what the current laws are, but as of a couple years ago a person of Italian dissent could get one's citizenship recognized by Italy if your paternal grandfather had Italian citizenship.
Currently it's any paternal lineage with no generational limit, or maternal lineage for people born since 1948.
finkel's failure to see the rude pundit as performance art says much about him.
It's actually a common thing I've found with many reporters, a failure to comprehend modes of discourse other than their own
Brutal torture of Afghan girl sold as bride aged 4
Horrible but we must remember that child torture, rape, and murder run rampant in the US even if it is illegal and don't forget about all the children forced into prostitution which we hear little about.
That means Italians outta Iraq pronto.
Rename it the Coalition of the Shrinking.
Ben Franklin (1752): "I'm all about electricity -- except for the kite part."
The LGF take on the WaPo article. Please be aware the link is toxic, so click at your own risk.
"It’s amazing how closely this matches my mental image of these lunatics."
And yet many Kossacks still think it wasn't a hit piece =p
Watch the rightwing go ballistic when the Left becomes the principled and responsible protectors of Second Amendment rights.
odd, that, innit?
It was a hit piece, but the subject of the piece seems quite happy with it, so...
finkel's failure to see the rude pundit as performance art says much about him.
Humorless. And none too savvy.
It's actually a common thing I've found with many reporters, a failure to comprehend modes of discourse other than their own
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're saying. Could you explain in a podcast?
so if we're effimate latte driking limp wristed liberals how can we be a 'angry left'?
The same way Hillary Clinton can be simultaneously a lesbian and the sexually voracious lover of Vince Foster.
Duh!
so an angry efftimate latte drinking limp wristed welfare collecting angry liberal lefty pinko commie atheistic baby kiling islamofascist supporting liberals?
Good one, plantsman--if somewhat cheesy.
Rename it the Coalition of the Shrinking.
Harry Shearer dubbed it the "Coalition of the Wilting" at its inception, and that designation has stood the test of time.
so an angry efftimate latte drinking limp wristed welfare collecting angry liberal lefty pinko commie atheistic baby kiling islamofascist supporting liberals?
geez, we sure are complicated on "The Left."
Good one, plantsman--if somewhat cheesy.
Don't you mean it was a gouda one?
Miracle Whip sucks.
OT, but if you want to hear one of Elvis Costello's first US shows - UC Berkeley, February 1978 - click here.
(To save to your computer, left click the link.)
Yer welcome!
geez, we sure are complicated on "The Left."
We're just multifaceted.
Good one, plantsman--if somewhat cheesy.
Don't you mean it was a gouda one?
oh, this is getting meunsterous!
Miracle Whip sucks.
Commonist!
Well, I for one miss the Mayday little baskets of posies we used to hang on neighbors' doors.
I don't know what the current laws are, but as of a couple years ago a person of Italian dissent could get one's citizenship recognized by Italy if your paternal grandfather had Italian citizenship.
The way it has worked, generally, is that you need proof that your paternal grandfather hadn't renounced his kids' right to Italian citizenship. They added a little wiggle-room, because there are often discrepancies in names between US documents and Italian ones -- call it 'the Ellis Island effect'.
That's how my New Yorker friend Mia got her Italian passport, which made life much easier when it came to working in the EU. There's a description here that's very similar to Mia's process.
...the subject of the piece seems quite happy with it, so...
Yeah, that's kinda weird. Some of the kossacks don't seem to thrilled, though...
We're just multifaceted.
hahahaha!
do the wingers ever stop to think that there might be a reason why we're angry?
The "...sideways with a rusty chainsaw" line fell out of favor some time ago, or the WaPo piece could have been that much more colorful.
Whatever the intent of the article, it's not a bad idea for certain people to realize we're pissed beyond measure.
"...we sure are complicated on 'The Left.'"
We're just multifaceted.
Fuck you! Fuck You!! IN HELL!!!
Well, I for one miss the Mayday little baskets of posies we used to hang on neighbors' doors.
that's what she was saying. and personally, it sounds like a lot of fun. i wish we had "welcome spring!" types of traditions still...
do the wingers ever stop to think that there might be a reason why we're angry?
They can't see our anger through their anger.
Gotta go.
My son woke up with a tummy ache and is now throwing up.
Atrios, I honestly did post earlier this day on the negative use of images to create a negative piece out of not particularly damning words.
The article is, at least on the surface, not particularly negative toward the passionate AND rational, but there are some of the secondary tricks being used that are so typical of those who oppose anyone questioning the powers-that-be.
Negative images can supplant positive images easily. Just in a casual reading of the article they have managed to damn the lady blogger with these primary contemptuous images:
A smoker - smokers have become the new racists, KKK, and every other negative image you can imagine. If you want to express contempt for a person, label them a smoker. The bad guys on TV and in the movies are now all smokers. It is the badge of the societal outsider and "bad" person.
Ignoring her children: Although it does not state this specifically, it does tell us that she is too busy watching for responses to her rant to care for her child. Again, if you wish to damn a woman in our society, accuse her of doing something unnecessary and not nuturing her children.
Labeling her a secondary person to her husband who is working. She is not working, she is fooling around on the computer, writing negative rants about Republicans, smoking, and ignoring her children.
Uh, are Meynard's Wine Gums...wine flavored chewing gum?
No, they're big fruity gummies. Proper ones have 'port', 'claret', etc stamped on them, but there's nothing winey about them. Also, Maynards are scum for taking over the old Lion brands and fucking them up.
PoppieProng - the woman was lamenting the disappearance of the maypoles she remembered as a young girl in the midwest.
My mom was born in 1911 and grew up in Colorado Springs. On May Day, what they used to do was pick flowers and make "May baskets" and go around and hang them on people's front doors. I always thought that very cool. You'd get shot now, probably.
do the wingers ever stop to think that there might be a reason why we're angry?
of course not. it's cuz we're clearly unhinged, ergo, our opinions don't matter.
oh well.
You can get Irish citizenship with one Irish grandparent. Though they toughened the rules for proving it a few years ago.
I might have been able to vote in this election. Wierd.
I'm an angry effete
Was'nt Mayday the day that the Russian leader would watch the missles roll down the streets of Lennongrad?
A little collusion from CNN, Maybe?
Doc
This is a good place for that line about not ascribing to Evil what can be explanied by Stupidity.
It's actually a common thing I've found with many reporters, a failure to comprehend modes of discourse other than their own
There's something so, I dunno, middlebrow about the about the common media and obsession with "civility." The idea that language can operate on more than one level just seems totally alien to them.
It's hardly just reporters, though. I remember once a few years ago seeing a comment on some thread somewhere on some "civil" blog, where someone said "they're crazy over at Eschaton! They keep saying they want to kill people by throwing them into a pit filled with ducks! I'm totally serious!"
Just in a casual reading of the article they have managed to damn the lady blogger with these primary contemptuous images:
Yep, she's cast as the Bad Mother. The anti-Michell Duggar. Eugh.
What will Ms. Altmouse say?
Run! Run! The angry leftists are here!
And they have abandoned polite discourse! eeeeeeek!!!!
I guess the point is that while I see it as a hit piece, if the subject of the piece isn't complaining then perhaps she's happy with how she was portrayed, in which case who am I to call it a hit piece.
Have you seen this?
Fetuses Cannot Feel Pain
http://www.newswise.com/articles...519614/?
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Fuck you! Fuck You!! IN HELL!!!
NO FLIRTING.
My son woke up with a tummy ache and is now throwing up.
I woke up with a tremendous ring in my left ear, and very little hearing in it.
I don't think it's going to be a very comfortable day.
do the wingers ever stop to think that there might be a reason why we're angry?
They're True Believers. It would never occur to them.
t's not the blood that does it -- it's the legal citizenship of the parents.
No, it's the locality in which the child is born.
plantsman
Nope, daughter no. 1 was born in Italy. Since we were Americans living abroad, she was registered as an American from day 1. Is even eligible to run for president.
After ten years residency in Italy, she could have opted for Italian citizenship as well, which would not have been recognized by the U.S.
It's actually a common thing I've found with many reporters, a failure to comprehend modes of discourse other than their own
Ex-squeeze me? Have you ever been in a newsroom? Perhaps American papers are more sedate than their British counterparts, but from Lil' Debbie's salty tongue, I get the feeling they're not. Journalists at work are generally a pack of potty-mouths.
They keep saying they want to kill people by throwing them into a pit filled with ducks!
wait... that was a joke? i guess i got to put away the shovel, then..
...fucking leftists... you can never tell when they're bein' silly...
Cheney made almost $9 mil last year. Giving so much of it to charity must've just killed him.
Oh, to be the flaccid wanker before the world - Silvio! Silvio! Oh! Oh!
Was'nt Mayday the day that the Russian leader would watch the missles roll down the streets of Lennongrad?
May Day parades did involve the Soviet leaders hanging out on top of Lenin's Tomb in Red Square, Moscow.
It is true that glenn reynolds is a much more civil fellow than I am. It's also true that I generally don't refer to people as treasonous and write apologies for genocide.
Civility is an odd thing.
Berlusconi needs to get prosecuted until he's spent his last dime on legal defense and paying fines.
Then they should put him in prison for being a freedom hating, bush-collaborating, traitor.
Was'nt Mayday the day that the Russian leader would watch the missles roll down the streets of Lennongrad?
yup.
do the wingers ever stop to think that there might be a reason why we're angry?
If you just end the sentence after "think" it becomes self-answering.
Atrios,
I guess to explain this would take several pages but suffice it to say that when you labor in anonymity, any notice becomes welcome.
I am certain that the stars in the lady's eyes will disappear to be replaced by the cold light of reality: but for now she is basking in her sudden notoriety.
If MSO'C doesn't see it as a hit piece, well, no such thing as bad publicity, I guess.
My mental image of LGF posters is of giant knuckleheads with criminal records cleaning the grease trap at Red Lobster.
It is true that glenn reynolds is a much more civil fellow than I am. It's also true that I generally don't refer to people as treasonous and write apologies for genocide.
Nice guys finish last.
Just sayin'...
Proper ones have 'port', 'claret', etc stamped on them, but there's nothing winey about them. Also, Maynards are scum for taking over the old Lion brands and fucking them up.
AAAARGH! You're telling me that the candies were even BETTER once?
(sobbing)
I guess the point is that while I see it as a hit piece, if the subject of the piece isn't complaining then perhaps she's happy with how she was portrayed, in which case who am I to call it a hit piece.
But you're a minor subject of the hit piece, too: or, at least, these comment threads are. And having the polite man from the Post come to your home can mean that you unconsciously fill in the blanks with what happened during the profile, rather than reading what's on the page.
pseud,
I don't mean obscenity. I mean, a weird kind of turning-off-the-brain literalism which comes from 20 years of dedicating yourself to pretending you don't have an opinion on anything.
They keep saying they want to kill people by throwing them into a pit filled with ducks!
Wow. They really ARE that stupid.
with criminal records
you know you've gotten too wrapped up in your career when your initial reaction is to say "quite denigrating criminals!"
Woman to Ben Franklin, after he emerged from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia: "What kind of government do we have, Mr. Franklin?"
Ben Franklin: "Shut up, ya old bag. It's none of yer fuckin' business."
a weird kind of turning-off-the-brain literalism
That seems to be the modus operandi of the entire Right.
It's also true that I generally don't refer to people as treasonous and write apologies for genocide.
Why, are you a pussy? Fuck that shit.
Was'nt Mayday the day that the Russian leader would watch the missles roll down the streets of Lennongrad?
Here's a picture, straight from "Lennongrad"!
My mom was born in 1911 and grew up in Colorado Springs. On May Day, what they used to do was pick flowers and make "May baskets" and go around and hang them on people's front doors. I always thought that very cool..
As children, we used to make newspaper cone baskets, fill them with daisies and violets and whatever else we could *find*, and deliver them to all the neighbors.
We loved it. I'm sorry to see May Day celebrations all but disappear.
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/t.../
awwinegum.html
Wine gums.
Specifically, Maynards Wine Gums - invented by a great man, Charles Maynard. The history on the packet tells the tale:
“At the turn of the century, confectioner Charles Maynard made sweet history when he first delighted candy lovers with his new and unique creation. Bursting with flavor and a delicate pleasure to chew, Maynards Wine Gums are simply a great candy. The pleasantly firm texture allows the full fruit flavors to linger - similar to the pleasurable experience of savoring a fine wine. Wine Gums seemed most appropriate a label. This classic label has been the hallmark for this product. Share the tradition: The Original Maynard Wine Gums made fresh for you to enjoy!”
There are other brands of wine gums, such as Halibut, and they’re all quite delicious. In my current state of deprivation I would easily settle for another brand, but there’s something about Maynards Wine Gums that has the edge on the competition. Especially the Maynards black wine gum. I often think that Maynards should manufacture “black packs” just filled with black wine gums, what a flavor... But I love them all: orange, yellow, green, red. These wine gums rule.
Gotta get me some of them wine gums!
speaking of little debbie howell, she's at it again. I don't have the strength to deal with it, so i'll leave it to the masters..
Here's a picture, straight from "Lennongrad"!
Are you saying you're a big fan of Marx and Lennon?
Labeling her a secondary person to her husband who is working. She is not working, she is fooling around on the computer, writing negative rants about Republicans, smoking, and ignoring her children.
DING DING DING DING DING! We have a weiner!!!
You're telling me that the candies were even BETTER once?
Tigre, I have suppliers. I shall bring back the unadulterated originals for you. Also, Jelly Babies. Perfect for leaving around lunatic defenders of the zygote. Or biting their heads off in the presence of same.
We loved it. I'm sorry to see May Day celebrations all but disappear.
i think Houston's "welcome spring!" tradition is opening day. pitiful substitute.
OT, but on the other hand who needs another Babelfish message to Silvio cheerfully recommending that he not let il portello hit him in nel culo, etc.?
Anyhoo, after many years of taking it for granted, I noticed more strongly how local TV news stations lavishly feature "Holy Week", and particularly Good Friday through Easter Sunday, as "news".
The stories are always the same, the same formulaic crap about Christians in the Delaware Valley observing the holidays, and of course reverent coverage of the pope doing his thing(s) with massive crowds in attendance.
After all, these are classic "dog bites man" stories. The holidays occur every year, the religious leaders hold the same ceremonies every year, the believers around the world, and especially in the Vatican, participate with predictable expressions of enthusiastic piety.
True, TV news shows also tip the yarmulke to Jewish holidays like Passover, and may even take note of Ramadan or synthetic holidays like Kwanzaa.
But they seem to make much more of a fuss about the pope. "Pope leads procession on Good Friday" hardly seems like "news". Now, "Naked Pope leads procession on Good Friday" would be news!
I suppose the answer to my rhetorical question is that TV news, especially local news, is much more about reinforcing and supporting the social fantasies of their audience than actually offering anything truly "new" and worthy of thoughtful attention.
Speaking of which... there are new threads, aren't there? And I'm writing into a vacuum again, aren't I? 
Are you saying you're a big fan of Marx
I was a Harpo Marxist for awhile.
But I'd rather not talk about it.
They keep saying they want to kill people by throwing them into a pit filled with ducks!
Ducks. I love it.
Although this is taking literalism to new heights.
speaking of little debbie howell, she's at it again.
Another column like that hard-hitting, no-holds-barred piece she did last week about obituaries?
She's nothing if not ballsy!
"you know you've gotten too wrapped up in your career when your initial reaction is to say "quite denigrating criminals!"
Did you ever steal a Snickers Bar from the local grocery?
that's what she was saying. and personally, it sounds like a lot of fun. i wish we had "welcome spring!" types of traditions still...
PoppieProng, fka Seaxneat, fka
Well, if the Xians would give us back Easter, we'd have it, now wouldn't we?
Yummy Easter Lemon Cake Blogging
Blair and Kwasneiwski are next. Don't forget Poland!
It is true that glenn reynolds is a much more civil fellow than I am. It's also true that I generally don't refer to people as treasonous and write apologies for genocide.
One of the things classified as loony and "incivil" before the war was the suggestion that whatever the merits of the WMD case etc., the Bush administration shouldn't be trusted to run the war because they were clearly incompetent.
"Unhinged Bush hatred," don't you know.
People like Glenn and Sully and Althouse and hell, all of them, are obsessed with "civility" because their worldviews are so goddamn loony, they're afraid if they say "motherfucker," it would be like blowing on the whole house of cards.
Well, if the Xians would give us back Easter, we'd have it, now wouldn't we?
true. i think we should blame xians for waging a war on spring.
Jebus is the Grinch That Stole Easter!
And on topic, I have this to add about Berlusconi's loss:
Karl Marx knew how to stick it to The Man like no one else.
gotta go!
Was Karl Marx a grouch(o)?
A little collusion from CNN, Maybe?
Doc
This is a good place for that line about not ascribing to Evil what can be explanied by Stupidity.
Aunt Teeter |
Probably a good policy overall, but it's funny how their "stupidity" seems to work in concert with the RNC's new narrative, isn't it?
Thers,
I liked what you wrote about civility and the politics of politeness in your debate with that book review guy.
I don't mean obscenity. I mean, a weird kind of turning-off-the-brain literalism which comes from 20 years of dedicating yourself to pretending you don't have an opinion on anything.
Oh, that I agree with. I think that a lot of the irreverance of the British newsroom is channelled into print, because the papers are allowed to appear opinionated. American journos seem to put on a tight Victorian girdle before filing copy.
People like Glenn and Sully and Althouse and hell, all of them, are obsessed with "civility" because their worldviews are so goddamn loony, they're afraid if they say "motherfucker," it would be like blowing on the whole house of cards.
And they're going to use the civility card again in the lead up to Iran.
On topic, "Bye Silvio" once again made me think first that Atrios was saying who was gonna get whacked next on the Sopranos.
Maynards should manufacture “black packs” just filled with black wine gums, what a flavor
My sentiments exactly! Those are my favorites!
My mother and I once consumed a 2 lb. bag of wine gums as we drove from Falmouth to the Cotswolds.
granted, we were sick as dogs by the time we checked into the inn...
Halibut Wine Gums sound kinda fishy.
Guess i need to find some relief for this stopped up ear.
Later.
They should be more concerned about humanity and less worried about civility.
People like Glenn and Sully and Althouse and hell, all of them, are obsessed with "civility" because their worldviews are so goddamn loony, they're afraid if they say "motherfucker," it would be like blowing on the whole house of cards.
Where were those tides of truckling, crocodile-tears during 20 years of Rush screaming "feminazi" and 10 years of the GOP dutifully reciting the "Dems are traitors" liturgy from Newt's "Little Red GOPAC" Book?
Rage? Please.
All they've seen are the sprinkles and breezes of the storm that's coming their way.
They should be more concerned about humanity and less worried about civility.
What, you don't like Iraq's civility war?
When a group is advocating an unprovoked nuclear war, I'm not sure there's any merit whatsoever in being "civil" to them.
Aiiight, it's freakin' gorgeous out, and I'm going to celebrate Easter by waiting on line at the Post Office.
That new conservative guy in Canada should get fucked for being a Bush-lover. Let's find a way to fuck him over!
There were more italian votes in Australia than Canada, and they mostly went to the Centre-left coalition.
So Italian-Australian dual citizens played more of a part than canadians.
When a group is advocating an unprovoked nuclear war, I'm not sure there's any merit whatsoever in being "civil" to them.
Not to mention how myopic, as a group, they are.
Ah, to be in a gorgeous Manhattan on Easter Eve!
My two-cents on the "anger" thing ...
I think it's just more "blah blah blah blah blah..." from the right. And the idiots from the WaPo are, well, idiotic enough to fall for it.
Also, the thing about "journalism" expanding to fill the column inches available.
We loved it. I'm sorry to see May Day celebrations all but disappear.
pie
That's really sweet. We never did anything like that at all. We pretty much ignored the whole thing, which is too bad, really.
What, you don't like Iraq's civility war?
heh. The birds chirp so civilly.
Now, back to the more important stuff ...
Only slightly less disgusting that Sandra Lee is Rachel Ray. She just put duck sauce on a pizza crust and topped it with, among other things, asiago. I'm going to vomit.
That new conservative guy in Canada should get fucked for being a Bush-lover. Let's find a way to fuck him over!
Bush will find a way before we can.
When a group is advocating an unprovoked nuclear war, I'm not sure there's any merit whatsoever in being "civil" to them.
Look, my mommy always said if you can't point out that people are absolutely fucking batshit insane in a nice way, then you've already lost.
I think it's just more "blah blah blah blah blah..." from the right. And the idiots from the WaPo are, well, idiotic enough to fall for it.
They ignore the growing anger of the populace at their peril.
Here's the >Toledo Blade article today on the Father Robinson murder trial, if anyone's interested. The rumors,tales, folklore, urban legends have spread from this story across a wide swath of Ohio are amazing.
On Tuesday, Bérubé had this to say on civility.
She just put duck sauce on a pizza crust and topped it with, among other things, asiago. I'm going to vomit.
Perhaps that's what she wants.
[...] On May Day, what they used to do was pick flowers and make "May baskets" and go around and hang them on people's front doors. I always thought that very cool. You'd get shot now, probably.
Tena hippie extraordinaire - 11:44 am
It's too depressing to Google-hunt, but remember that story a while back about two teenaged girls who decided to bake and distribute cookies to residents of their town, purely as a random act of kindess and goodwill?
And got sued (successfully) by some witch who claimed that the girls' unsolicited delivery frightened her and allegedly caused her to suffer an anxiety attack?
Here's the damn story after all.
I woke up with a tremendous ring in my left ear, and very little hearing in it.
I don't think it's going to be a very comfortable day.
smalfish, enemy of the state
You should remove jewelery before going to sleep.
What's Billy Jean King doing on that Blopgad on the left, anyway?
A late breakfast in the fever swamp...what could be better?
Afternoon, moonbats.
Here's the best quote so far in L'il Debbie's latest "It's Not My Fault" bullshit column:
Reader Thomas J. Cassidy of New York wrote: "Do the Post editorial writers read the Post articles before publishing their opinions? . . . It is understood and correct that editorial staff and news staff be kept at a distance. But it is not understood that editorial writers do not read revealing and well-researched articles by their reporters."
In fact, the editorial writer had not read the Gellman/Linzer story. The editorial was written Friday; the story appeared in the Sunday edition. Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt said it is unlikely that the story would have influenced the editorial.
a) Most major metropolitan dailies publish an "early" edition of the Sunday paper on... Friday!
b) Shorter Fred Hiatt: Facts all come with points of view / Facts don’t do what I want them to!
I'm sorry to see May Day celebrations all but disappear.
Oh, Oxford has May Morning, where you stay up all night on the 30th April to greet the dawn (and the singers) at Magdalen Bridge (q.v. Shadowlands). Complete with idiots jumping off bridges, Morris dancers with pigs' bladders, and lovely champagne breakfasts.
the wingnuts have thrown civlity out of the window.
being polite is associated with being 'elitist'
wingnuts only respond to arsholes
She just put duck sauce on a pizza crust and topped it with, among other things, asiago. I'm going to vomit.
I guess it was her take on the Thai chicken pizza at CPK, which is pretty tasty.
Any civility offered by the wingers is suspect. Their weapon of choice for years has been the viriolic, damning personal attack.
Complete with idiots jumping off bridges, Morris dancers with pigs' bladders, and lovely champagne breakfasts.
I choose door #3.
May Day
May Day is a name for various holidays celebrated on May 1 (or in the beginning of May). The most famous of these is International Workers' Day, which is the commemoration of the social and economic achievements of the labor movement. The 1 May date is used because in 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, inspired by Labor's 1872 success in Canada, demanded an eight-hour workday in the United States, to come in effect as of May 1, 1886. This resulted in the general strike and the U.S. Haymarket Riot of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the eight-hour workday.
She just put duck sauce on a pizza crust and topped it with, among other things, asiago. I'm going to vomit.
Perhaps that's what she wants.
plantsman
If the next recipe's a casserole, I'm outta here!
May Day is exactly a half-year from November 1, All Saints' Day. Marking the end of the uncomfortable winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere, it has always been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations, regardless of the political or religious establishment. May Day was also originally the Celtic holiday Beltaine, the "Return of the Sun". It is the third and last of the spring festivals. We can see traces of Beltaine when dancing around the maypole or sending a basket of flowers to your neighbor's door.
I liked what you wrote about civility and the politics of politeness in your debate with that book review guy.
Thank you!
Common politeness is one thing, but the concept of "civility" as it currently holds in our media discourse really means "censorship." If you look back over American history the frequently expressed notion over the past few years that "you should never make fun of or even strongly criticize the president!" looks really, really weird.
wingnuts only respond to arsholes
"You get more with a smile and a gun than you get with just a smile." -- Alphonse Capone
Only slightly less disgusting that Sandra Lee is Rachel Ray.
I guess I haven't seen this Sandra Lee... I'm ambivalent about Rachel Ray, looks-wise, though Simels seems to like her... I don't think I've ever seen a decent presentation of how to make a pizza on TV, though, ever!
Look, my mommy always said if you can't point out that people are absolutely fucking batshit insane in a nice way, then you've already lost.
RaiNTodd
Does anybody remember "Politeness Man"?
"You, sir, are intercoursing bat feces not in control of your wits."
Common politeness is one thing, but the concept of "civility" as it currently holds in our media discourse really means "censorship."
Damn straight.
Back later, batties. I've got to go to the store. We're invited to a party at friends' tomorrow and I have to get some stuff to make something to take over there.
speaking of that, katie couric:
COURIC: You know, I just wondered as I watched this, Hugh, it's--it's fun to be satirical and--and poke fun at people. Did you think this was over the top in any way? Because I wondered about that, with the--the whole President Bush part.
Mr. GRANT: President Bush is satirized, al-Qaeda is satir--satirized. It goes to very dark places to make jokes, and I like that. I think that's what comedy should do, to go to all the most forbidden places, and that's what appealed to me. It--it's really quite twisted and black.
Perhaps wingers are afraid a society of women as equals.
Maybe they're afraid of a society of equals.
Or maybe they're just afraid of women.
This resulted in the general strike and the U.S. Haymarket Riot of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the eight-hour workday.
I did a report on the Haymarket Affair in 8th grade. Mr Barnes, my history teacher, made me do it as a makeup exercise.
We've been invited to friends' house also. I'm making this kickass potato gratin with creme fraiche, garlic, and gruyere.
No calories.
Lemme get this straight: Did Little Debbie write something about the nasty, shrill Librul bloggers? And A-man and trademark Dave were mentioned?
It--it's really quite twisted and black.
You should see a doctah.
Other holidays on May Day were also respected by some early European settlers of the American continent. The day also marks springtime celebrations such as:
* Walpurgis Night in Northern Europe, including the Finnish Vappu celebrations
* Beltane in Ireland and Scotland
* Roodmas
* Calendimaggio in Northern and Central Italy, related to the return of the sun and spring
Or maybe they're just afraid--
Stop there and you've nailed it!
ALBANY — Democratic candidate for governor Eliot Spitzer made more than $1.3 million last year, mostly from his Manhattan real-estate investments, his personal tax filings showed yesterday.
Hmmmm. This is going to have to get a closer look.
Pizza should only be made in a narrow slice of territory that begins in NYC and extends South and East to a point approximately 10 miles below Pennsylvania's Southeastern border.
All pizza made outside this narrow slice is only fit for hog swill.
DWD: I feel for you. It seems that the HQs for all of the most viciously and ignorantly reactionary branches of US Catholicism are based out of places in Ohio. At least, that's what it seems like, to judge from the mailing addresses for the whacked-out literature (Overpopulation is a myth! Ecology is Satanic!) that keeps getting dropped off in certain locations in my fair city (with the reciever's own address cut off, naturally).
I expect the Berlusconi-owned media will be making life sort of challenging for Sr. Prodi, don't you?
I guess I haven't seen this Sandra Lee...
Dave, Just watch for the bottle blonde combining cream of tomato soup with watermelon and Ritz crackers and baking it in filo dough.
We've been invited to friends' house also. I'm making this kickass potato gratin with creme fraiche, garlic, and gruyere.
No calories.
How'd you do THAT?
Woke up to thunder, cool temps, & now rain. It's Spring.
wingnuts are afraid of getting up from bed in the morning
Katie 'Navy SEALs rawk; falcons suck' Couric wouldn't know satire if it bit her on the arse.
Oh, no! Dipshitperry sees a Democrat making money legally and ethically (as opposed to using fake religious charities as slush funds, like DeLay and most of the Republicans Congress)!
GRAB THE SMELLING SALTS!!!!
In fact, it seems the Bush junta did more to make sure Iraqi exiles could vote in Iraqi elections than to help New Orleans evacuees vote in theirs.
ever wish the whole world would just fuckin die?....
.Gay old time over a little fairy bird
By ADRIAN TAME 15apr06
PHILLIP Island's iconic fairy penguins have been renamed "little penguins" in Queensland to avoid offending the gay community. In an act of political correctness gone overboard, Sea World theme park operators on the Gold Coast changed the name of their star attraction to avoid being "offensive".
Rebecca Smith, spokeswoman for Sea World, confirmed: "We didn't want to upset the gay community.
"We didn't have any complaints about the name of the penguins, but someone thought it could be seen as offensive so we decided to change it to little penguin instead..................http://
www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/
0,5478,18823887%255E662,00.html
There is a god.
The mailman is downstairs, delivering the mail.
THANK YOU JESUS!
Wingnuts have nothing but fear itself.
No calories.
How'd you do THAT?
plantsman
It's topped with strychnine.
How'd you do THAT?
It is what I say it is, dammit!
(Pretending is fun. Just keep the bathroom scale at negative 50.)
wingnuts are afraid of getting up from bed in the morning
Well, to be fair, so am I.
Clashes erupt at Egypt funeral
Clashes have erupted in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria after the funeral of a worshipper killed the day before in attacks on Coptic Christian churches, Al Jazeera and agencies report.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from Saturday's violence.
The clashes erupted as the funeral procession left the Quidissin church where the funeral service had taken place and headed to the nearby cemetery, the correspondent said, without being able to confirm who started the clashes.
Muslims and Copts attacked each other with sticks in the Mediterranean port city's downtown area and stones were thrown from nearby buildings.
Kitty Break
Happy Easter 'bats
Silvio,
take off eh, you corrupt hoser...
Phoenix Woman, I have purposely stayed out of this case that is taking my sister's time and energy. There is little I can contribute to their understanding.
They took the priest out for dinner the other night and my sis said that he was devastated and cannot even understand why there are proceedings.
But if the proceedings are predicated on a Satanic Cult of priests, my "feeling" is that this is probably someone's heartfelt delusions.
Simple abuse I might buy, but the idea of priests and nuns conducting Satanic rituals in the Catholic Church in Toledo, OH simply does not meet the smell test.
But I could be wrong.
THANK YOU JESUS!
watertiger
Hmmm... did you get kicked out of The Tribe on account of that pulled pork sammich last night, tigre?
...Muslims and Copts attacked each other with sticks...
Sounds like the Keystone Copts.
I expect the Berlusconi-owned media will be making life sort of challenging for Sr. Prodi, don't you?
Oh, of course. But soon, Berlusconi won't be running the state-run media, or Italy's courts.
And Silvio has much to fear from losing control of the courts.
In fact, don't be surprised if he soon begs his good buddy Bush for political asylum, just as he's indicted on various fraud and other charges.
Oh, and re my previous question: never mind...Gonna head out and see chicks beat each other up, erm, play rugby.
Later, batsies.
Religious violence just seems so, pointless.
Hmmm... did you get kicked out of The Tribe on account of that pulled pork sammich last night, tigre?
It was the leavened bread that did me in.
The mailman is downstairs, delivering the mail.
THANK YOU JESUS!
Your mailman is Jesus?
It would explain why you haven't had mail in three days...
Pope denounces 'greedy liar' Judas
Pope Benedict XVI is trying to combat efforts to rehabilitate Christianity's most hated villain after the presentation this month of a newly discovered "gospel according to Judas".
In his first Easter sermon at St Peter's Basilica, the German pope said the 13th apostle was a greedy liar: "He evaluated Jesus in terms of power and success. For him, only power and success were real. Love didn't count."
In Washington this month, the National Geographic Society unveiled a leather-bound papyrus written in around AD300 that gives Judas's side of the story behind the most notorious deception in religious history. The 26-page manuscript says Judas was singled out by Christ from the other apostles and entrusted with revealing his whereabouts to the Romans. "You will exceed all of them," the papyrus quotes Jesus as saying. "For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me."
The criticism of satire - it reminds me of Jon Stewart after 9/11 saying that his favorite type of humor was no longer allowed.
I'll have to read Berube on the politics of civility.
This push for "civility" is ironic considering the Rush/Savage talk radio nonsense of the past 15 years.
There's something really interesting going on with this politics of "civility."
"She just put duck sauce on a pizza crust and topped it with, among other things, asiago."
Give them some encouragement and they come up with a pizza that has anchovies, jalapinos topped with limberger cheese.
Pope denounces 'greedy liar' Judas
Ratzi's gonna battle a 1,700 year-old papyrus?
It would explain why you haven't had mail in three days...
What are these woodchips doing in my mail?
Hey res,
One day perhaps you will explain this sentence to me -- did you get kicked out of The Tribe on account of that pulled pork sammich last night, tigre? -- in a way that doesn't sound like a naughty misdemeanor.
What are these woodchips doing in my mail?
Letters a bit thorny?
Perhaps that's what she wants.
plantsman
It probably is what she wants. Doesn't mean it's not revolting.
Yet more scandalous behavior!
The wingnuts birthed the politics of personal destruction. Now the little monster is gonna strangle them in their beds.
"She just put duck sauce on a pizza crust and topped it with, among other things, asiago."
Yikes!
Afghans paid by US to buy back stolen computer files
American investigators armed with a "box full" of cash have paid thousands of dollars to buy back stolen computer drives - many of which contain sensitive military data, shopkeepers outside the main US military base in Afghanistan have said.
But dozens of the memory sticks are still on sale five days after news broke of the security breach that has seen US generals' social security numbers leaked reportedly along with a list of military spies.
The surfacing of the stolen computer devices has sparked an urgent inquiry to discover how security was breached at the heavily guarded Bagram base, which coordinates the fight against Taliban and al-Qaida militants and includes one of the military's main detention facilities for suspected terrorists.
res - it sounds revolting. Foodies Gone Too Far.
What are these woodchips doing in my mail?
Biofuel starter kit.
Switchgrass arriving tomorrow.
What are these woodchips doing in my mail?
watertiger
At least there were no nails and blood stains.
Yay, Italian-Canadians! Good riddance, Berlusconi.
res - it sounds revolting. Foodies Gone Too Far.
Foodies - Out Of Control.
Pizza is perfect as is. Don't Mess It Up.
plantsman ... Turn on FN now and you'll see Giada DeLaurentis. Now this girl can cook.
"She just put duck sauce on a pizza crust and topped it with, among other things, asiago."
And I thought BBQ Chicken Pizza was too much.
A nice hot Pizza Margherita would taste great about now.
my familiy is having pizza tonight for dinner
One day perhaps you will explain this sentence to me --driftglass
drifty,
I'm trying to think of something clever (and I'm sure tigre will do so, because she is way more clever than res), so I'll just remind you that last night was Passover and Good Friday and she and I were out munching on pulled pork and, in tigre's case, some good old-fashioned Wonder bread.
so I'll just remind you that last night was Passover and Good Friday and she and I were out munching on pulled pork and, in tigre's case, some good old-fashioned Wonder bread.
And you still live?
Will wonders never cease!
I'm making this kickass potato gratin with creme fraiche, garlic, and gruyere.
That sounds good. I am letting the butter soften for a lemon cake right now.
"She just put duck sauce on a pizza crust and topped it with, among other things, asiago."
Isn't this the recipe for Duck Pit pizza?
RIL, sometimes, for us more rural types, the references to Judaism are kind of tenuous. Where I live, for example, to the best of my knowledge I have known two Jewish people in my lifetime. I know that in NYC this must seem odd, but here in the hinterlands, it is quite normal.
my familiy is having pizza tonight for dinner
Author C.J. Cherryh describes pizza as "that food of lively sociability." I think she's right.
Berlusconi--Wanker of the month. Or is that WATB of the year?
Pulled pork is heavenly. The Goddess could not object.
Oh-ho, those sneaky Italo-Canuckians! In return of course, they received the secret recipe book of their homeland, allowing them to eat well again! (No more jam on noodles - freedom!)
Howell's got an article up at the WP whitwashing Hiatt's piece of shit editorial defending the Bush leaks.
I made a duck pizza once.
Once.
It...well, let's just say these fancy food things like duck and champaigne and the like, they have their place. That place is not pizza.
I just have to say: my nexdoor neighbor, who is currently doing some gardening, is so very, very hot.
RIL, sometimes, for us more rural types, the references to Judaism are kind of tenuous. Where I live, for example, to the best of my knowledge I have known two Jewish people in my lifetime. [...]
DWD - Challenging the world - 12:35 pm
This reminds me of the hilarious scene in "Annie Hall" when Alvy Singer (Woody) goes to the hinterlands to meet Annie's Wonder Bread family, and Grammy Hall sees him as the stereotypical Hasidic Jew, with a broad-brimmed hat, earlocks, and a black suit.
Author C.J. Cherryh describes pizza as "that food of lively sociability." I think she's right.
I love Cherryh's Foreigner series.
That sounds good. I am letting the butter soften for a lemon cake right now.
res ipsa loquitur | 04.15.06 - 12:33 pm | #
Just pulled the lemon pound cake out of the oven. Next I have to get the concertina wire around it so it survives until tomorrow.
I just have to say: my nexdoor neighbor, who is currently doing some gardening, is so very, very hot.
Perhaps your neighbor would like a cool beverage then?
You eat the pizza you have, not the pizza you might wish to have.
and Grammy Hall sees him as the stereotypical Hasidic Jew, with a broad-brimmed hat, earlocks, and a black suit.
And horns.
Me, I'm waiting till Tuesday to buy half-price chocolate Easter eggs to bring back for Herself.
I used Cantonese Tea-Smoked Duck on a Boboli in a pinch once with Mandarin Orange Segments on top of a Fontina/Mozzarella blend. I lived.
gardening, is so very, very hot.
RaiNTodd
If she is single, pull on some pants and strike up a conversation.
RIL, sometimes, for us more rural types, the references to Judaism are kind of tenuous. Where I live, for example, to the best of my knowledge I have known two Jewish people in my lifetime. I know that in NYC this must seem odd, but here in the hinterlands, it is quite normal.
Dude, you need to get out more!
Gambling 'major boost to economy'
Gambling could become one of the most lucrative industries in the British economy, researchers have claimed.
By relaxing regulations surrounding betting and gaming and by abolishing tax on punters, the government has ensured an economic boost, they said.
That could eventually see more money generated by the gambling sector than any other, said the Betting Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University.
It could "only be good news for the economy", said researchers.
Perhaps your neighbor would like a cool beverage then?
Probably. She looked a bit sweaty as I was chatting with her--our dogs are buddies--but I don't think her husband would approve. But damn. Quite the MILF.
Howell's got an article up at the WP whitwashing Hiatt's piece of shit editorial defending the Bush leaks.
Anonymous
I would expect nothing less.
If she is single, pull on some pants and strike up a conversation.
Actually, if she's that hot, you might want to leave the pants in the dresser.
Oh, and I'm waiting for the ratter. Again.
I love Cherryh's Foreigner series.
Me too. I'm jonesing for the next one, felicitous RainTodd.
I am letting the butter soften for a lemon cake right now.
I've never seen a lemon dessert I didn't love. Bon Appetit has a lemon tart with rhubarb sauce in its April issue. Yum.
plantsman that is so...so, gay. I mean that in the best of all possible ways but the gayness of that meal is just mind boggling.
nice job, now I have to wonder if I should try it again.
Oh, and I'm waiting for the ratter. Again.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar | Homepage | 04.15.06 - 12:44 pm | #
Have you considered getting a terrier?
Morning, again, rational people.
OT, but Muriel Spark, author of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," dead at 88.
WaterTiger,
I know. Even the college I went to had one Jewish guy -- Sonny Farber from NYC.
It is like when I tell my African-American children that they truly are minorities, they have a hard time believing me. In their world, quite frankly, they are not. When I explain that there are entire states with minimal to non-existen African-Americans, they don't believe me.
Oh, damn. Muriel Spark died.
delicious Easter Lemon Cake Blogging
've never seen a lemon dessert I didn't love. Bon Appetit has a lemon tart with rhubarb sauce in its April issue. Yum.
pie
I'm eating of of WT's lemon ginger cookies as we speak. Double yum.
plantsman that is so...so, gay. I mean that in the best of all possible ways but the gayness of that meal is just mind boggling.
And therefore creator appropriate. But I stole the idea from Wolfgang Puck.
7th Commandment: Covet not thine neighbor's ass.
hey can i get some info on this blood line thing? all my grandparents came over from italy on the boat as they say and i just might want to get citizenship....hey mombo, mombo italiano...
BTW, looks like they need teachers in Vegas.
$2K signing bonus - put it all on red!
Is there a relationship of lemons to easter?
I've never seen a lemon dessert I didn't love.
pie, this is Barefoot Contessa's lemon cake with lemon glaze. (You can do lemon curd to go with it, too, but I'm going to forego that and maybe do some stewed raspberries on the side).
Here is the recipe.
If I get to come to Eschacon this year, and have access to a kitchen, I'll make a lovely flan for all of y'all.
Next Wednesday, Basha's puts all the Passover goodies on sale, half price or better - half-price schmaltz! Wooooo-hoooo!
I'm eating of of WT's lemon ginger cookies as we speak.
No fair getting all these desserts.
Actually, if she's that hot, you might want to leave the pants in the dresser.
For the record, I was wearing pants. And I was carrying my camera, with the big lens.
Me too. I'm jonesing for the next one, felicitous RainTodd.
As am I. It will be released when the numbers are felicitious.
Covet not thine neighbor's ass.
nor his wife.
All pizza made outside this narrow slice is only fit for hog swill.
You have obviously never been to Montreal.
DWD - You should read the rabbi mystery books. They are chock full of information. On Sunday the Rabbi...On Monday the Rabbi...
You'll learn all you need to know about Judaism and more. In my house matzas have always been a seasonal treat, along with Easter eggs.
Lemon Cake? STOP!!! You're killing me here!!!
Lemon curry?
Believe me I love gay meals I'm just too unsophisticated to come up with them on my own.
Wolfgang Puck? The guy on the soup cans? Your kidding me right?
And I was carrying my camera, with the big lens.
That has to be a "metafer".
In my house matzas have always been a seasonal treat, along with Easter eggs.
and for those with . . . er . . . "movement" issues, matzoh has a miracuously laxative effect.
There's still plenty of time to run out and get delicious Peeps! *Secular/non-secular/something-something *Several animal conformations *Now with insulin!
RainTodd -- Are you the one who mentioned being of Ukrainian descent on a thread here recently?
miracuously
spelling good!
,i>No fair getting all these desserts.
pie
Yeah, but now they're gone. 
WT has to get to work getting her business up and running.
QL, you are correct. But I understood the reference. I am not ignorant, just inexperienced you know?
And I can prolly say in all honesty that Dutch Culture in America is probably a mystery to most people 'cept IBO313 and me.
You learn as you live.
Death to Peeps!
Preferably, by microwave.
Here is the recipe.
I have the cookbook. I used to make a lemon bread that was similar; a lemon juice and sugar mixture was poured over the warm bread after making several holes with a skewer. Haven't made it in a while, but it was heavenly.
Covet not thine neighbor's ass.
nor his wife.
I'm not coveting. Just admiring. A lot.
Chad capital on edge fearing more rebel attacks
N'DJAMENA, April 15 (Reuters) - Supporters of Chad's President Idriss Deby paraded victoriously through the streets of the capital N'Djamena on Saturday but many nervous residents feared rebels fighting to topple him may return.
Insurgents bent on ending Deby's near 16-year rule over one of the world's poorest countries launched their most daring strike yet on Thursday, slipping into the dusty capital at dawn before loyalist forces fought them off.
Chad, which says the fighting killed more than 300 people, has accused Sudan of backing the rebels and cut diplomatic ties with Khartoum on Friday, shutting its borders and threatening to stop sheltering refugees from Sudan's Darfur region.
You have obviously never been to Montreal.
Finny
Hey, Finny - I'm going for a Foreign Affairs Canada research grant for next summer - Yes, next year in Winnipeg!
WT has to get to work getting her business up and running
you wanna do my business plan? I'm better with the creative end of things.
RainTodd -- Are you the one who mentioned being of Ukrainian descent on a thread here recently?
Probably. There are a few other Ukes here, too...
Covet not thine neighbor's ass.
nor his wife.
watertiger
Nor his wife's ass.
Death to Peeps!
My freind, who is Jewish, btw, likes to let his peeps "ripen" for a few weeks, before eating them.
Sigh, chores await. later all.
There are a few other Ukes here, too...
I'm not talking to you.
Probably. There are a few other Ukes here, too...
Have you read "Everything Is Illuminated?"
QL, I posted this the other day but I am not sure if you saw it: Mitchell Garwolinski, the man whose story I told in SILENT SCREAMS . . . is converting from Catholocism to Judaism.
When I talked with my publisher the other day she said that he even spoke to Steven Spielberg on the phone while visiting with his Rabbi.
(I hope Mitch sent the man a book!)
Where I live, for example, to the best of my knowledge I have known two Jewish people in my lifetime.
I don't know where you live, but are you sure?
Puts me in mind of a story about Justice Powell, who, while considering an important case in which he could have (but did not) cast the deciding vote in favor of equal rights for gays, he confided in his clerk that he had never known a gay person in his life.
The clerk -- now a prominent Supreme Court ligtigator -- was gay.
.
Death to Peeps!
Williams-Sonoma actually has a kit to make your own peeps this year.
Now that's devotion.
This is a old family recipie for Lemon Cake
4oz soft margerine
4oz castor sugar
2 large eggs
4oz self raising flour
1os ground almonds
1 table spoon of lemon curd
grated rind lemon (optional)
1 desertspoon of tepid water
1. shift together flour and ground almonds
2. cream margerine and sugar
3. add eggs beting in gradually
4. add lemon rind and lemond curd
5. fold in flower and almonds followed by Tepid water
Bake in greased 8" sandwhich tin at 350oF/Reg 4 for approx 30 minutes
Ice when cold with lemon glace icing using juice of grated lemon and a little clouring if liked.
you wanna do my business plan?
I never understood what a business plan was supposed to accomplish. When I started mine, I bought the stuff I needed and went to work. As our (deliquient) tax recods show, it has been a success.
[knocks on wood]
I'm not coveting. Just admiring. A lot.
An important distinction.
.
Oh, and I'm waiting for the ratter. Again.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Have you considered getting a terrier?
SHG
I have, but Arthur objects. Also the feral cats....
You have obviously never been to Montreal.
Finny
That's true. But a few years ago I was in a small restaurant near Cocoa Beach, FL. On the menu was something called a "Philadelphia Cheesesteak." When I ordered it, the waitress asked if I wanted mayonnaise on it.
The clerk -- now a prominent Supreme Court ligtigator -- was gay.
Weren't a couple of his clerks gay?
.
That Wolfgang Puck had a Pizza Cookbook full of queer but tasty ideas, and this WAS in San Francisco, Where Tea-Smoked Duck is rather widely known, as are lemon-grass ribs.
The Joy of Cooking has a recepit for marshmallows that is absolutely divine.
You can use Knox gelatine and you really should have a stand mixer. They are well worth the effort.
next year in Winnipeg!
In summer, I hope. What's the research on?
DWD - Honestly, if I was going to change religions, it would probably be to Judaism. There is much to admire. Alas, as with all religions, there is much that needs to be ignored as well.
For the men it is great. They are duty bound to study Torah all day and make babies at night. The ultra orthodox really believe earning a living interferes with their religious beliefs.
Padhi NTodd -- And did you grow up in the Toledo area, too? I know someone here did. Reason I'm asking is that I'm interested in Solidarists in northern Ohio.
Sheets, eh?
pie ...
Do you have all her cookbooks? My sib and I have them and we have never made a recipe that comes out badly. I like some stuff more than others, but her recipes are great. I think she has really tested them over and over again. Also they are fairly easy and don't require a lot of wacky ingredients, which is convenient, even here.
Padhi NTodd -- And did you grow up in the Toledo area, too? I know someone here did. Reason I'm asking is that I'm interested in Solidarists in northern Ohio.
Yup, I grew up in P'burg.
I'm not talking to you.
Fine, then I won't tell you about the turtles.
next year in Winnipeg!
In summer, I hope. What's the research on?
Finny
I'm gonna finally take a whack at the HBC's institutional support and involvement in the intelligence operations in North Russia at the end of the Great War. The material available has not yet been catalogued, but it amounts to - visualise this - a 12'x12' room covered with paper to a depth of approximately 5'. Nobody's even touched the stuff, but you know the Bay - they've never been known to throw anything away.
I have, but Arthur objects. Also the feral cats....
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar | Homepage | 04.15.06 - 12:55 pm | #
you could put it to Arthur in terms
he'd appreciate. Arthur likes to have time for blogging and philosophy... a terrier on staff would cut down on the time he spends away dealing with such trivial pursuits as vigilance against rattus rattus.
The feral cat issue is a different problem.
Italian heritage?
Cushman Moter Scooter Picts..
http://www.hobbytech.com/featurebike.htm
...
Do you have all her cookbooks? My sib and I have them and we have never made a recipe that comes out badly.
All but the first one, which is, coincidentally, waiting for me at the library. You're right about her recipes; they always work for me, unlike Martha's.
I think Ina's my favorite right now.
Padhi NTodd -- So, then, is there any Solidarist heritage, membership in Ukrainian anti-Commi clubs or anything, in your family history? Or were you aware there was such a thing in the Toledo area?
Rage? Please.
All they've seen are the sprinkles and breezes of the storm that's coming their way.
You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.
Belusconi's government was a little TOO smart for their own good and it came back to bite them.
Thank G-D our government doesn't TRY to pull these types of shenanigans!
I wonder when Kerry and Gore will realize it's over. Or MoveOn, for that matter.
Covet not thine neighbor's ass.
nor his wife.
watertiger - 12:49 pm
Nor, most importantly of all, his wife's ass.
Or MoveOn, for that matter.
No later than when you stop lying about the Lancet Iraq study, lamer.
Hoisted on his own petard (i.e. racist legislation)! Hilarious!
Annex Canada Now!
Canadian voters could do for US elections what they did for this last Italien election -- provide the margin for the sane side to win. We need more sensible voters in our electorate, and I ain't too picky how we go about acquiring them. Invade Canada today! Statehood for every province tomorrow! Democrats in control the day after tomorrow!
Cuba's next, then the Carribean, then Central America, then Mexico. People who've been American more than a generation or two get stupid, forget that they were slaves once in Egypt, as Leviticus puts it. We need regular infusions of people with more sense to keep the electorate from tipping over to a majority of people who can be fooled all of the time.
It is funny to watch ol' Silvio Dante get hoist on his own petard. I mean, what's not to like about a "serious politician" who pretends to fuck a woman who's leaning over the hood of a car? He's class from the word "go".
Still, I don't get the notion of non-citizens voting in the elections of the mother country just by virtue of ethnicity (one or two generations removed at that). Do I get to vote in the elections of Canada (father) and Ireland (grandmother), among others, as well as here, even if I haven't set foot in either country in well over a decade? It's the ultimate in gerrymandering, I suppose.
I'll just add to the cacophany of people who thought this about the Sopranos.
Canadians have more guns per capita than in the US, but with a small fraction of gun crimes committed.
Groove Holmes | 04.15.06 - 10:58 am | #
Not true.
http://www.guncontrol.ca/
Content...ntrol.html#intl
In 1997, the US had about 3.3 times as many guns per capita as Canada.
.25 Canada
.82 US
I voted in the Italian election (for Prodi).
I take issue with this line in the referenced report:
...after Mr. Berlusconi introduced a scheme in 2002 that defines eligible Italian voters by blood lines rather than residency.
If I recall correctly, eligibility for the election - that is, the right to vote for House and Senate members to represent Italians living abroad - is based on citizenship, not blood lines.
If it were bloodlines, then every goombah who had a great great grandfather from Sicily would have been eligible to vote, and that's not the case.
>>How do you say "Balls the size of grapefruits" in Italian?
You would say "Palle come pompelmi". Thanks to all canadians out there.
Hahahahaha! Hoist with his own petard.
I love it!
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