I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
who, me?
Do I really want to look at it?
STOP THE WAR MONGERING, Mr(!) Bush!
Who are the 3 people he names at the end of the clip, from whence he derived his Freeperville nym? Couldn't quite catch the names.
Amigos...thees ees muy divertido...
someone pretending not to be a pinche racista,
talking to someone pretending to be a liberalista.
so.
si, el gato negro. es la verdad.
Ooooooooooooooooooooh - FREAK OUT!
Le freak - c'est chic!
I am having a very Dodgeball type moment here.
On ESPN2 they are showing the "US Paintball Championships"?
The only thing that would complete this image, is if there was an ESPN8 "The Ocho"
I don't think I can watch that, because I just ate lunch.
Too beautiful outside anyway.
Laters.
a number of perfectly rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion,"
THis guy makes me sick. And I have only heard of him very breifly.
Where does the right dig up these fuckers? Do they go to civil war era graveyards and dig them up?
What a douche!
And a stupid douche at that!
Gotta love the defensiveness in his voice, though.
More clean sheets? A video clip? I still haven't gotten through "The Left, Online and Outraged."
What a douche!
Actually, I think douches are cleaner than people of this sort.
Everytime this guy opens his mouth I keep seeing that Martin Short character who sweats profusely while being interviewed.
This isn't racism
THE FUCK! What else would you call it? Fucking bigot -
"Tell me what the word racist means?" McCain.
"You are the one who made the statement, sir," Colmes.
Oh, and far be eet from ¡El Gato Negro! to judge such theengs,
(many of joo non-furry peeples all look alike to me)
¿But does anyone else theenk that Fux News hired Colmes to be their token liberalista because he was just so chingando goofy looking?
¿eh?
"I'm not an advocate of hate, Alan," says McCain.
I don't think McCain should have a right to his opinion. Duck pit!
¿But does anyone else theenk that Fux News hired Colmes to be their token liberalista because he was just so chingando goofy looking?
pues, por supuesto!
Well, Atrios, now you've got me good and riled up. There's a toilet that needs scrubbing and a bath tub, too...I'll take my anger out there.
Peace, bats.
It all depends on what the meaning of "racist" is.
Feh.
El Gato, I have to agree on both counts. We'll never see a "Hannity and Clooney" show on Faux.
I just did battle with two wasps that got into my house.
I emerged victorious, with my lungs only mildly scared from RAID inhalation.
I remain both smarter and braver than Robert Stacey McCain.
These willfully igrnorant fascists have always been there, they will always be there. The horrible fact is that they have for the foreseeable future assumed power. They want to nuke Iran. And they will, if we don't stop them, destroy The Republic.
...does anyone else theenk that Fux News hired Colmes to be their token liberalista because he was just so chingando goofy looking?
Well, the rumor has always been that Faux had to go through a slew of lefties until they found one Hannity could beat.
The goofiness was just the icing on the cake...
THE FUCK! What else would you call it? Fucking bigot -
Fucking asshole bigot, but I'm big on adjectives.
I don't think McCain should have a right to his opinion. Duck pit!
wait, the duck pits are back on? I just finished filling in the one in my backyard after someone said it wasn't serious.
soy confudado...
Well, Atrios, now you've got me good and riled up. There's a toilet that needs scrubbing and a bath tub, too...I'll take my anger out there.
Another PROUD Member of "The Angry Left"!
GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
That guy is John C Calhoun? Isn't that one of the nastier trolls that showed up here in the past?
¿But does anyone else theenk that Fux News hired Colmes to be their token liberalista because he was just so chingando goofy looking?
¿eh?
¡El Gato Negro!
Since his entire function seems to consist of sitting there looking goofy, I'd say you're right, El Gato.
does McCain ever get tired being an arselicker?
Is it the article the WaPo that has everyone riled? I didn't read it -
[T]he media now force interracial images into the public mind and a number of perfectly rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion," McCain wrote. "The white person who does not mind transacting business with a black bank clerk may yet be averse to accepting the clerk as his sister-in-law, and THIS IS NOT RACISM, no matter what Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Washington tell us."
So...if it's not racism, what is it?
In the good old days, assholes like that were thrown from the Tarpeian rock.
That guy is John C Calhoun? Isn't that one of the nastier trolls that showed up here in the past?
didn't he get his ass kicked on more than one occassion, too?
i just made for me and my dad a dry martini, does anyone else fancy one? 
Aaargh!!!
Quick, WGG, loan me some of your passion for a few days.
I'm about to go under a massive fog of despair.
i just made for me and my dad a dry martini, does anyone else fancy one?
Oh, yes please!
A bit early here Moon but thanks
So...if it's not racism, what is it?
well, duh, it's "courage to say the things--the truth!--that people are too afraid to speak"!
I just did battle with two wasps that got into my house.
Oh, DAMN. I could tell stories (and will) -- like when wasps built a nest in our chimney that entirely occluded it. We knew there was a nest up there, just not the extent of it -- and my wasband thought it'd be a good idea to start a fire to smoke them up and out.
The smoke, the smoke-drunken wasps, all of it backed up into the house. My mother raced upstairs with my two small children and Wasband made like Rambo with the flyswatter while I hightailed it to the store for knockdown. HATE those fuckers. (The wasps, not wasband or mother or children...)
So...if it's not racism, what is it?
It's just good ol boys, being good ol boys!
[T]he media now force interracial images into the public mind and a number of perfectly rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion," McCain wrote. "The white person who does not mind transacting business with a black bank clerk may yet be averse to accepting the clerk as his sister-in-law, and THIS IS NOT RACISM, no matter what Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Washington tell us."
THE FUCK! It's precisely racism.
"courage to say the things--the truth!--that people are too afraid to speak"!
The stupidity to say the things that most people are socialized to know are three kinds of wrong.
So...if it's not racism, what is it?
It's just good ol boys, being good ol boys!
smalfish, enemy of the state
It's fear at the thought of a big black dick in your sister's cooch.
Oh wait...that is racism.
Never mind.
You do note that as usual, when called out, the racist begins to say he is anything but.
who knew that under the Bush Junta, the truth and upholding the law were such 'fringe' revolutinary activties!
my wasband thought it'd be a good idea to start a fire to smoke them up and out.
Don't you love it when they come up with those "brilliant" ideas with no back up plan if it fails?
The stupidity to say the things that most people are socialized to know are three kinds of wrong.
well, that's fo' sho'!
A bit early here Moon but thanks
Remember: If always 4pm somewhere in the world.
Remember: If always 4pm somewhere in the world.
Monica_A: Super Badass Mother
Is the sun over the yardarm?
If not, lower the yardarm.
Lurking briefly, now on to chores. Will lurk again later. Enjoy!
"A bit early here Moon but thanks
Remember: If always 4pm somewhere in the world.
Monica_A: Super Badass Mother "
True, but I have woodwork and Trim to paint and need a steely hand to complete.
They really scurry around, don't they?
it's like watching--or in this case, listening to--the dirt vermin under a rug that gets suddenly exposed to the light. you can almost watch this shitwhistle slither away from his own words...
they'll do/say ANYTHING to change the subject, to avoid answering for the speech of which among their verminous ilk and spawn they are so proud...
that this guyshould be a major participant in the management of a 'major' newspaper in the Nation's Capitol is a fucking disgrace...
let's see if the blogosphere cnt hoist this vile little prick on his own racist petard...
HOAP™
Don't you love it when they come up with those "brilliant" ideas with no back up plan if it fails?
Always a nice touch.
To be fair, I did the same thing: I married him. (But that was long ago and far away in another galaxy.)
To be fair, I did the same thing: I married him.
Same here: I married my husband knowing some of the things he's done in the past, but he's so damned cute.
Don't you love it when they come up with those "brilliant" ideas with no back up plan if it fails?
Most of my "Plan B"s involve kerosene and a match. Be grateful for the lack of back-ups.
It may sound odd, but people have a lot to learn from dogs on this one. Most well-raised dogs are excited meeting other dogs, however different they may be - they recognize each other as dogs, accept it, and start playing. Many people freak out, and that must be some ancient remnant that is no longer helpful.
Most of my "Plan B"s involve kerosene and a match. Be grateful for the lack of back-ups.
Whoa!
I'm off for a bit of shopping. Have a wonderful afternoon.
The National Geographic Channel has a 'Science of The bible' marathon.
Amigos,
frrrom the apestoso hit-piece een the Washeengpost, by wankerrr de la dia, David el Fink:
Put another way, can one person sitting alone in a living room, typing her fingertips numb on a keyboard, make a difference?
ay, wankerrr...
the answer to jour question ees si.
so.
It amazes me that I still hear this stuff occasionally, I mean directly -- being a white Southerner, I guess. These people feel like they can "communicate" their racism pretty freely, and are always surprised when the reaction is hostile. Then they start backpedaling.
I prefer to know who these people are, though.
Had a neighbor like that next door. I was overjoyed one morning to find his apt. door open and a couple of guys loading his stuff into a truck. I asked, they said he'd already left town and they were just the movers. I was so happy, I confided in one of the movers -- who was black -- what a racist shit the guy was.
The mover said to me, "Looks like he lived alone. Nice apartment. Was he a faggot?"
If Watertiger's desk had been handy...
BTW, here's the face of the Angry Left:
Grrrrrrrrrrr!
"Meet Robert Stacy McCain the Assistant National Editor at the Washington Times. Okay, okay, I know that nobody takes the Moonie Times seriously,
Nuff said.
I discriminate against bigots.
Showtime will have a world premier of The Passion of The Christ tonite at 9.
I can't tell you the number of times white people have looked around to make sure there was nobody nearby and then has said some really racist shit. Like "She'll never lose her job, she's pigment protected." Sadly it is only in the last ten years or so that I've spoken up and told whoever is that I don't appreciate racist talk like that. Inevitably the person always acts shocks and says they're not racist just realists.
The only difference now is that people feel empowered to say it out loud.
OK, the general rule of thumb is that if you've ever felt the need to start a sentance with the words, "I'm not racist, but..."
...you actually are,
and we all carry bits and pieces of racism within ourselves. The big difference here is that some of us, when confronted with evidence of our racism, are willing to work on it. Others deny it. To me, that's what "character" is about.
John McCain has none.
Good Lord - what a goof - wrong McCain
John McCain is the modern Barry Goldwater.
Bush urges Congress to make tax cuts permanent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Americans face a deadline for filing taxes, President George W. Bush on Saturday pressed Congress to extend tax cuts, saying they create jobs and economic growth.
A push by House and Senate Republicans for $70 billion in tax cuts was derailed earlier this month before lawmakers went on a two-week spring recess.
The tax cuts would have extended the maximum 15 percent tax rate on capital gains and dividends beyond 2008. Without congressional action, capital gains taxes would jump to 20 percent and dividends would be taxed as regular income.
"Tax relief has done exactly what it was designed to do: It has created jobs and growth for the American people," Bush said in his weekly radio address.
Except that Barry Goldwater, in his later years, redeemed himself to some extent by his work on the pro-choice issue.
I don't see any such possibility for either of the McCains mentioned in this thread, at least not yet.
Funny how these racist rants never are never underscored in papers like the WaPo. Init?
remember the neighbors who had the fight last week, and all her stuff was dumped in the hall. They're in the hall making up now, have been for about a half hour, and I have to go out soon.
I can't tell you the number of times white people have looked around to make sure there was nobody nearby and then has said some really racist shit.
There was a great Family Guy bit with Stewie at a cocktail party getting ready to tell a racist joke. First, he begins looking around, then he's shown running around to different locales to make sure NOBODY black is around for miles. Then he's back at the party and starts a joke about someone who is black... and a black guy pops up from a nearby planter (like, from beneath the roots). Stewie ends the "joke" with something lame and innocuous about how nice the black person was.
You know, and oldtimers may have seen me link it before, but I was quoted in a not dissimilar WaPo frontpage story three years ago -- although it focused on the "energy" not the "anger" of the left; from a guest piece I had written for Buzzflash.
Oddly enough, I didn't even know about the article and my fifteen minutes until I googled myself some six months later and discovered to my surprise that people all over the internets were citing me.
Oh, and I should add, no relation whatsoever to David Finkel and I haven't lived in Austin for 2 1/2 years ...
Blogs didn't exist three years ago.
QL, life would be a dream, if not for neighbor drama.
David el Fink should be wankerrr de la dia.
so.
"Meet Robert Stacy McCain the Assistant National Editor at the Washington Times. Okay, okay, I know that nobody takes the Moonie Times seriously,
Bush 41, Reagan, Rush and every Republican takes it VERY seriously.
Quoted by wingnuts over and over.
It is Moon's tool to manipulate the nation hard right while Moon's other fronts and cash empowered the theocrats.
Please wake up, Moon has more to do with our nation's political situation as anyone. Period. Everyone should take him seriously, he is making fools out of our country.
Read some about how it here:
http://cellwhitman.blogspot.com/...gton-
times.html
This is an email debate/exchange with Stacy McCain of the Washington Times. LOL
http://practicalradical.com/fk/m.../fk/
mccain.html
http://practicalradical.com/fk/m...fk/
mccain2.html
http://practicalradical.com/fk/m...fk/
mccain3.html
The National Geographic Channel has a 'Science of The bible' marathon.
-pi=3
-the earth is flat and doesn't move
-shaking sticks at the parents afects the unborn goat's hair colour.
-bats are birds
-diseases are caused by demons
-astrolgoy is cool!
-the moon produces it's own light
etc, etc.
Blogs didn't exist three years ago.
Not for you, maybe. Check the Archives for this one alone.
Blogs didn't exist three years ago.
A good time to point out that Monday is the fourth anniversary of this blog.
For those who need to use their toes to count, that makes the date April 17, 2002.
OT, but I just got the DNCC fundraising call, and told the caller that while I'll continue to happily contribute to those Democrats who actually have stood in opposition to the Republicans, I'll not be sending anything directly to the national party, since it's so entrenched with the Democrats who have caved on every single thing.
Maybe if they hear this enough times, they might start to believe it. Not that it will make them change course.
i started my humble blog in October 2003.
well, duh, it's "courage to say the things--the truth!--that people are too afraid to speak"!
PoppieProng,
!
People are afraid to speak it because they know it's RACIST.
Eschaton and I almost share a birthday!
being truthful in wingnutverse means you are in league with the 'islamofascists'
People have been writting about politics, etc. on line for quite a while.It didn't matter if they were called "blogs" or not. They're words and ideas.
I just got the DNCC fundraising call...
DNC? Or DCCC? Or DSCC?
With the last two, I always forget which one I'm supposed to be pissed at...
Except that Barry Goldwater, in his later years, redeemed himself to some extent by his work on the pro-choice issue.
Ah, Diane - the first Mrs. Goldwater, Peggy, was a founding member of Planned Parenthood of Arizona and worked for many years with Margaret Sanger. The issue then of course was womens health. Barry was always active and supportive of Peggy in her work. Where he redeemed himself was in marching into the White House, along with Rep. John Rhodes of AZ and telling Nixon it was over - and making Nixon believe it. And of course, his sanity concerning gays in the military - that's what got the neocons' knickers in a twist of course - the very idea!
dave™©, you're almost 4? Wow! You're damned articulate for a four-year-old!
::ducks::
GWPDA! Enjoying your leisure unplugged from the Borg?
Okay, time to finish socializing for next year at least. I mean really, having dinner with friends two nights in a row? I will just have to interrupt the lovebirds.
Barry Goldwater was many things, but he was not a hypocrite. John McCain is a hypocrite. Me, were I the Democrat in charge, would run countless ads centered on the 'Straight Talk Express' visually, while McCain talked out of both sides of his mouth, or embraced the men who trashed his family. I'd bury him in the Straight Talk Express the way they buried Dukakis in the tank.
As for racism, it never went away. It never will go away. And when it rears its ugly head, it needs to be called by its name and fought. Simple, really...
I always liked this one:
"What do you call a black guy in the cockpit of an airplane?"
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
The pilot, you racist fuck.
dave™©, you're almost 4? Wow! You're damned articulate for a four-year-old!
Though it does explain the angry, temper-tantrum inspired blog comments, doesn't it?
dave™©,
both.
The DCCC ees run by Rahm Emmanuel, and eef joo do no do theengs hees way, using hees approved consultants and campaign managers, well pffffft! there goes jour funding.
Schumer at the DSCC ees the same way, he was the one behind the Paul Hackett fiasco.
so.
...you're almost 4? Wow! You're damned articulate for a four-year-old!
Here's a recent picture.
both.
Ah... so!
JR, that just cracked up a room full of -- well, teen- and post-teen- agers.
ciao moonbats Dr Whoi is on
catch you all laters
OK, the general rule of thumb is that if you've ever felt the need to start a sentance with the words, "I'm not racist, but..."
...you actually are,
and we all carry bits and pieces of racism within ourselves...
and the whiter one is, the bigger bits and the deeper they're embedded...
that's the theory behind my organization The American Association for Recovering Asswholes. I posit that asswholery is an affliction which is borne by every member of the dominant 'racial' category. This condition may never be completely conquered but may--like alcoholism, for instance--be resisted...
the first step is to admit that one is, in fact, a racist who is sick of their addiction to privilege, who is embarrassed by it, and who is willing to denounce it in themselves and elswhere where they find it...
now taking applications over behind the drums...
.
El Gato!: eet would be deeferent eef they were actually weening, si? But no...
Here's a recent picture.
dave™©
I always suspected that....
Afternoon, bats.
Though it does explain the angry, temper-tantrum inspired blog comments, doesn't it?
Grrrrrrrrrr!!!
ProfWombat,
si.
so.
I always suspected that....
Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but you're a total bitch.
and the whiter one is, the bigger bits and the deeper they're embedded...
How do you define "white" and "whiter"?
I mean, as someone who is "into" biology it doesn't make any sense to begin with...
This is an email debate/exchange with Stacy McCain of the Washington Times. LOL
Awesome exchange, pudge. You rock.
Though it does explain the angry, temper-tantrum inspired blog comments, doesn't it?
Can we infer from that that Eschaton is entering its terrible-fours?
* * *
Dave: My hero! (Sort of.) I am waiting for a nice etched-glass-looking decal of Stewie's head to affix to my nondescript sand-colored Toyota, which looks like every 3rd car in a given parking lot.
Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but you're a total bitch.
Ah, i was just kiddin' ya.
GWPDA! Enjoying your leisure unplugged from the Borg?
Silleigh, aka Furiousleigh
Very much!
And no, ProfWombat, Barry was never a hypocrite. And as a Westerner, he held most of the virtues and vices common to the type, including an ability to speak his mind and respect those he lived with for their character and ability. He also had no difficulty at all in changing his mind about something when it was shown to be wrong. A peculiarly rare talent in Washington!
Ah, i was just kiddin' ya.
Me, too!
Except that Barry Goldwater, in his later years, redeemed himself to some extent by his work on the pro-choice issue.
I don't see any such possibility for either of the McCains mentioned in this thread, at least not yet.
Diane
Barry Goldwater is also the one who told Richard Nixon to stop calling all Latinos "Mexicans" because they didn't like that.
dave,
Must have missed that episode.
So if I refuse to do business with wingnuts, and if I am naturally repulsed by wingnuts, does that mean I hate america?
Barry Goldwater inspired I F Stone to coin the term "crypto-fascists".
Ooh, SciFi has 'Jeepers Creepers', followed by 'Jeepers Creepers 2' tonight. A good night of brain dead goofiness. It keeps me sane.
How do you define "white" and "whiter"?
Start with white people from Northern Minnesota, just about around January, as your baseline. This will define 'white'. Whiter would then be those same people seen thru a snowstorm.
Of course, if the living deity who is Rev. Moon tells you to marry a stripped zebra and a mass human-beast ceremony then it's OK.
HATE those fuckers. (The wasps, not wasband or mother or children...)
Silleigh
Me too. When my hair was still red, the minute I walked out the door of our old house I was buzzed. They seemed to be attracted to the red. It got so bad I would put on a hat and a raincoat to walk from the front door to the garage.
I made the mistake once of hitting one in mid air with some spray that didn't immediate kill it. Man that thing did a 180 and came right at me. I ran screaming into the house. Those things hurt hard and cause Mr. Tena to swell up like you wouldn't believe. His forearm has been 3 times its normal size from a wasp sting.
Good afternoon, all.
Would you kindly read my post about the convinent editing of textbooks in Iraq?
I've stopped being subtle.
I'm one of those people who's so white I glow in the dark. I don't think that makes me more racist than anyone else.
Barry Goldwater inspired I F Stone to coin the term "crypto-fascists".
Well, even we Democrats in AZ used to admit that Barry may have been a Fascist - but by G_d he was -our- Fascist..... All politics is local. And when I say that McCain is an acceptable Senator it's because he provides acceptable local constituent service. The day he ceases to do that is the day he'll be defeated. It's why Kyl is very likely to lose this election - the sonovabeach spits on his constituents in his effort to be right with the Frists and the rest in DC.
Ooh, SciFi has 'Jeepers Creepers', followed by 'Jeepers Creepers 2' tonight. A good night of brain dead goofiness.
If it's brain-dead goofiness you want, "The Ten Commandments" is on ABC starting at 7...
Well not stripped exactly. Although with moonies, you never know.
So if I refuse to do business with wingnuts, and if I am naturally repulsed by wingnuts, does that mean I hate america?
Would you be quiet with that Angry Left talk? There's probably about a half dozen Time and Newsweek guys reading this thread right now.
I only hope I am time to stop the flirting.
I'm one of those people who's so white I glow in the dark. I don't think that makes me more racist than anyone else.
Me too.
I don't think I'm a racist, but I have a deep and abiding hatred of conservatives, and I descriminate against them at every chance.
There's probably about a half dozen Time and Newsweek guys reading this thread right now.
Oh, they don't read blogs.
Man that thing did a 180 and came right at me.
That's exactly what the li'l bastards do. Every time, and I'm a vet of many wasp battles. They scare the shit outta me. But the ONE time I ever got stung, made me so mad I got the knockdown and hit every nest I could find around the outside of the house. Lucky I didn't get chased, must have been INSANE.
Thought I was being zeroed in on by a big-ass hornet once. I'd worn a bright red shirt out onto the deck -- where we had a hummingbird feeder. It was a gorgeous hummingbird, apparently trying to drink my shirt.
Much as I loved IF Stone--read the Weekly/BiWeekly religiously; I was raised right by a couple of old Lefties--I don't think Barry was a fascist, either. I can't see him countenencing, say, Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo. I can see him performing ridiculous economic mischief, or using American military power in a manner I'd consider unwise, and he'd not have been an ideal person to advance the civil rights agenda in 1964. But to call him a fascist seems in retrospect a bit much.
Would you be quiet with that Angry Left talk? There's probably about a half dozen Time and Newsweek guys reading this thread right now.
Oh goody. I hate them too.
Now, where's some hot gay porn action? and a christian baby barbecue?
Nancy Grace Have This Story?
MILWAUKEE - The families of two boys missing for almost a month said Saturday that their bodies had been recovered from a park lagoon near where they disappeared.
Purvis Virginia Parker, 11, and Quadrevion Henning, 12, were last seen on the afternoon of March 19 when they asked Quadrevion’s grandfather if they could play basketball at the nearby park.
The bodies were found in the park lagoon on Friday.
Can I ask again - what's the deal with the Angry Left?
I missed that -
ProfWombat,
Funny how our definitions have shifted with the political landscape, isn't it?
There's probably about a half dozen Time and Newsweek guys reading this thread right now.
There is?
Ok, you obsequious snail fuckers, listen up.
When the revolution comes, pandering catamites like yourselves will be first against the wall.
You have been warned.
Can I ask again - what's the deal with the Angry Left?
Front page, Washington Post.
Mr. Plushy is camped out on my lap, hoping to stop me from going out to photograph things.
Thought I was being zeroed in on by a big-ass hornet once. I'd worn a bright red shirt out onto the deck -- where we had a hummingbird feeder. It was a gorgeous hummingbird, apparently trying to drink my shirt.
Silleigh
I attract so many hummers to my feeders in Colorado that I've had people feel too uncomfortable sitting out there. It is like being buzzed by wasps or bees and it really bothers some people. I'm used to it, but I've had guests get up and go in the house.
NYMary: I find it amazing how the demons of my youth--Goldwater, Johnson, hell, even Nixon--pale in comparison to the current crew as threats to peace, the republic, and the world...
Can I ask again - what's the deal with the Angry Left?
Well, we've got T-shirts.
And a mascot:
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
MILWAUKEE - The families of two boys missing for almost a month said Saturday that their bodies had been recovered from a park lagoon near where they disappeared.
Zapette sees the cousin of one of those kids.
Funny how little attention that story has gotten (actually, it's not funny).
Oh, they don't read blogs.
Of course they do. They read them once and then are experts.
There's probably about a half dozen Time and Newsweek guys reading this thread right now.
Cool!
Front page, Washington Post.
Thers
Thank you, O Restored One (one wonders - restored to what?, but I'm sure it's all good).
That's what I thought it was - I haven't read it. Should I skip it?
Can I ask again - what's the deal with the Angry Left?
Didn't you get the memo? we are seriously deranged.
And we hate america.
And we're uncivil too.
Though I suspect they'll REALLY learn the meaning of uncivil when I introduce them to my razor sharp pitchfork.
I attract so many hummers to my feeders in Colorado that I've had people feel too uncomfortable sitting out there.
A person with a dirty mind could have a field day with this sentence.
The fact that I even thought of it means I probably need to nap. Later, all!
The fact that I even thought of it means I probably need to nap. Later, all!
NYMary
Lazy breeder.
Well, Atrios, now you've got me good and riled up. There's a toilet that needs scrubbing and a bath tub, too...I'll take my anger out there.
Peace, bats.
Vicki, Hippie Freak - 1:42 pm
Well, if you have any anger left when you're finished at your house, Dew Drop Inn here.
I have a toilet bowl with an ecosystem-- a sort of coral reef. Lately, when things are real quiet, I've noticed that it even bubbles quietly or fizzes from time to time.
I'm sure it would take either a psychotic berserker rage or explosives to restore the bowl to its pristine porcelain whiteness.
I'll be downstairs making tea.
Well Zap, I guess that since everyone knows that the history books are written by the winners, we have yet another damning piece of evidence that we do not yet know who is going to "win" this mess in Iraq. The contesting powers that (may) be agree on removing the Baathist version but are as unable to agree on a common frame of reference for describing the last forty years and so have simply avoided doing so.
Now, where's some hot gay porn action?
That would be at the Talon News Headquarters.
A person with a dirty mind could have a field day with this sentence.
The fact that I even thought of it means I probably need to nap. Later, all!
NYMary
NYMary,
It's the first thing I thought of, too.
Don't feel sullied. Great minds, you know...
Can I ask again - what's the deal with the Angry Left?
I missed that -
Tena hippie extraordinaire | Homepage | 04.15.06 - 2:35 pm
WaPo story today/yesterday/tomorrow(?) about MaryScottO'Connor/My Left Wing...
on and on about the lunacy of the anti-bushevik raging left...reference to Eschatonians' crassness (boy i was disappointed that my own ugliness was ignored or missed!)...
.
If it's brain-dead goofiness you want, "The Ten Commandments" is on ABC starting at 7...
dave™©
Hey now, I do have standards(plus I haven't seen the Jeepers Creepers thing yet). Heston and company may well be the fall back plan if things are looking bad.
Oh no! Woe! Woe!
4Legs and JR are bashing the "mainstream media" with Angry Words!
Forsooth, now we have lost forever the vote of an imaginary person in a swing state what Values Civility!
OCHONE!
(Keens, tears hair in extravagance of Grief)
Tena, that's unfortunate. It is disconcerting if you're not used to it. But, hell, my mother is worse than I am about bugs (well, no, I can't even deal with the corpses) -- and she LOVED the hummingbirds we had in Virginia. Had the feeder set up so you could watch 'em while washing dishes.
My sink stayed emptier then.
A person with a dirty mind could have a field day with this sentence.
NYMary
And I thought it was just me...
There's probably about a half dozen Time and Newsweek guys reading this thread right now.
Dear Time and Newsweek guys,
why do you enable Republicans by publishing GOP talking points without pointing out that they are generally untrue?
Amidst all the tax stories about Bush, Schwarzenegger and Cheney--I read one from AP (unfortunately not online) that said Cheney earned more from Halliburton $221k than from VP $205k in 2005.
Why isnt that more widely publicized????
Amidst all the tax stories about Bush, Schwarzenegger and Cheney--I read one from AP (unfortunately not online) that said Cheney earned more from Halliburton $221k than from VP $205k in 2005.
Why isnt that more widely publicized????
A person with a dirty mind could have a field day with this sentence.
I didn't even think - I"m an idiot.
Enjoy your nap.
Rumpole of the Bailey once pointed out that a dirty mind is a perpetual feast...
I'll be downstairs making tea.
Little Brøther
Very wise choice considering the circumstances.
To paraphrase Louis Nye: hi-ho, trollerino!
Silleigh - Oh I love them. If I didn't I wouldn't put out 4 feeders from July through August.
I know I'm going to get hundreds - that's why I do it. I have more hummingbirds hanging around than anyone else I know because I have big trees off my deck and they nest in them.
Should I skip it?
You probably already know what it basically says...
I am having a very Dodgeball type moment here.
On ESPN2 they are showing the "US Paintball Championships"?
The only thing that would complete this image, is if there was an ESPN8 "The Ocho"
David (Austin Tx) | Homepage | 04.15.06 - 1:36 pm | #
Yesterday I turned on CNBC just in time to catch newly hired Walmart employees in China clapping and singing what I can only guess is the Walmart theme song to the tune of Beethoven's Ninth. For a moment, I thought that maybe three different programs had somehow mereged.
(Keens, tears hair in extravagance of Grief)
Don't worry. The hair will grow back.
But to call him a fascist seems in retrospect a bit much.
ProfWombat
The definition os fascism doesn't include torture, or murder.
It does include corporatism and lack of individual rights, nationlism and authoritarianism. It does not actively require a dictator or torture chambers.
i just made for me and my dad a dry martini, does anyone else fancy one?
Moonbootica, Praetor - 1:47 pm
Honestly, I'm not much of a drinker-- I tend toward rum & cola ("Captain and Coke") when I'm out socializing and desire a convivial buzz.
But I wouldn't dream of insulting you and your estimable dad by failing to keep you company.
So, as we Amerikans say: bring it on! 
Dear Time and Newsweek guys,
why do you enable Republicans by publishing GOP talking points without pointing out that they are generally untrue?
Richard
Nice try, but I'm sure *real* journalists only read the first 5 or 6 posts. They probably imagine that "Frist!" is some sort of expletive.
You probably already know what it basically says...
Since you haven't read it, how about you tell us what you think it says?
OT: listening to Youssou n'Dour 'Gaiende', at ear-splitting volume, crying my eyes out...
Happens.
Well, I must go photograph things, even though I'm exhausted and would rather be doing other stuff.
Later.
The contesting powers that (may) be agree on removing the Baathist version but are as unable to agree on a common frame of reference for describing the last forty years and so have simply avoided doing so.
catalexis
Reference aside, catalexis, history is history. These kids aren't going to forget what's happened in the last three years anytime soon.
To blog about Republicans, you must first park your kids with a grandparent (preferably one who has won a Grandparent Of The Year award), constantly interrupt your work to give your spouse footrubs and sexual compliments, and have no personal vices whatsoever. And you must be CIVIL.
Yet you'd still be unMerkin.
Goldwater would have been the last to concede individual rights. Again, I disagree wih most of his agenda, but he's an implausible fascist.
I'm sure it would take either a psychotic berserker rage or explosives to restore the bowl to its pristine porcelain whiteness.
Kerosene and a match.
They probably imagine that "Frist!" is some sort of expletive.
It's not? All I ever picture is some crazed dork carving up cats.
Kerosene and a match.
That's your answer to everything, isn't it?
Via AP:
FCC Ruling
"Four TV broadcast networks and their affiliates have filed court challenges to a March 15 Federal Communications Commission ruling that found several programs "indecent" because of language.
ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, along with their network affiliate associations and the Hearst-Argyle Television group of stations, filed notices of appeal in various federal courts, including in Washington D.C. and New York. Some were filed late Thursday and the rest Friday morning.
The move represents a protest against the aggressive enforcement of federal indecency rules that broadcasters have complained are vague and inconsistently applied. Millions of dollars in fines have been levied based on those rules.
The appeals challenge the FCC's finding that profane language was used on the CBS program "The Early Show," in 2004, incidents involving Cher and Nicole Richie on the "Billboard Music Awards" shows broadcast by Fox in 2002 and 2003 and various episodes of the ABC show "NYPD Blue" that aired in 2003."
Selective enforcement to keep them in line.
gotta go. spouse is wondering out loud again, if this meeting place is a substitute for real life.
imagine that?
Why isnt that more widely publicized????
peterboy
I don't know, except I guess the media is afraid of him. His Halliburton holdings increased in value over one year from several hundred thousand dollars to several million.
I used to have the source for that but I don't any more.
Speaking of tearjerkers, I'm listening to Palace Music right now...
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - A controversial Texas program to send undercover agents into bars to arrest drunks has been halted after a firestorm of protest from the public.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has "temporarily suspended" what it called "Operation Last Call" even though it still believes it was worthwhile, commission spokeswoman Carolyn Beck said on Thursday.
(snip)
She said most of those arrested in the sting operations had been "dangerously drunk" and might have tried to drive if TABC agents had not busted them.
(snip)
The TABC announced the program in late August but it received little attention at the time.
(snip)
The Houston Chronicle found that 1,740 people across the state had been arrested for public intoxication in Operation Last Call.
it received plenty of attention where i get my news. if any msm journalist can "scoop" his/her peers just by going to a few lefty blogs, or tweety doesn't have at the ready the facts to knock down pathetic talking points it's "playing dumb", right? it's not stupidity or incompetence, it's willful ignorance. well, that's the best way i can describe the maddening product of the msm - "playing dumb". (for what it's worth a favored tactic of those with reactive attachment disorder).
That "Kaboom" brand foaming toilet cleanser works pretty well. Also attracts moisture and hardens into a lump if not tightly closed.
i just made for me and my dad a dry martini, does anyone else fancy one?
Moonbootica, Praetor - 1:47 pm
if you have any cocktail onions, i'd prefer a gibson...thanks...
cheeriyo!
I should get outside and take care of last years weeds in the back yard.
*grabs kerosene and matches*
Back soon!
I must away. Showers to be had, munchkins to late-lunchify, that sort of thing.
Thanks for comprising a Sanityville I can visit when possible, 'bats.
Wow. Stacy McCain is a nutter.
new issues.
Oh, Moonboo, by the bye--
Are you at all familiar with the "Thin Man" films of yore, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy?
Because I am starting to picture Nick and Nora Charles at home whenever I am confronted with another instance of Clan Moonbootica dipsomania.
Not that there's anything wrong with it! So keep 'em comin'!
Operation Last Call also nabbed folks who had been drinking in hotel bars and insisted they were going upstairs to their rooms to sleep.
Don't worry. The hair will grow back.
Oh, I of course didn't mean my hair.
I know I'm going to get hundreds - that's why I do it. I have more hummingbirds hanging around than anyone else I know because I have big trees off my deck and they nest in them.
Tena hippie extraordinaire
Can I put up a little road map for the ones here, send them to your house? I'm getting jolly well tired of being hummingbird divebombed. I think they've been watching the bluejays next door.
plantsman: worth thinking about how you'd train a surgeon. You want him to know what he's doing before he cuts up human beings. The way I learned, I was a second assistant, then a first assistant, then principal operator. Many learn in a lab dissecting animals, sometimes learning useful stuff for people-surgery, sometimes using animals as useful models for people-procedures before they're actually used on primates...
This isn't an easy one to come down on one side or another. What a lot of us (including me) do is to take Frist's dissection of cats as a synecdoche for his attitude towards life ('Good People Beget Good People'). He didn't have to do that. I didn't; most of my colleagues didn't.
..and the lefties say we should follow the European model
Hi ho, trollerino!
Fucking chronically retarded failure-addicted Texan law enforcement idiots. The way to deal with drunks is by having public designated drivers, compensated for their time with a free meal by the bar, working in teams so they can get back and with both genders represented. There's a program like that at Pendleton. Socialism is generally the way and you see how the anti-socialist's answer to too much is to just get a cop and try to throw everyone in jail.
Here's the graf:
The Cheneys' income included the vice president's $205,031 government salary and $211,465 in deferred compensation from Halliburton Co., the Dallas-based energy services firm he headed until Aug. 16, 2000.
and the link:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/
sto...=customwire.htm
Okay, so I went and read the article. And I'm really insulted that they didn't include my wish that GW would spontaneously combust.
BTW, when's the last time the WAPO did a story on the filth and bile that goes up on free republic or LGF?
Since you haven't read it, how about you tell us what you think it says?
dave™©
Irrational hatred of President Bush blah blah blah, they say "fuck" all the time, blah blah blah, rude and dirty blah blah blah, something about undermining the GWOT blah blah blah...
what did I leave out?
Speaking of tearjerkers, I'm listening to Palace Music right now...
Zap Rowsdower
Hey Zap-- listening to The Revolution Starts Now is doing me in, uh, Now
There's a program like that at Pendleton. Socialism is generally the way and you see how the anti-socialist's answer to too much is to just get a cop and try to throw everyone in jail.
kei & yuri
I'll say this: going into hotel bars and arresting people who are staying in the hotel is idiotic beyond belief. If they are trying to cut down on drunk driving, then don't they need to catch them behind the wheel?
By the way, that program has been suspended indefinitely due to many many complaints from bar owners and hotel people.
The face of the angry left is Cowboy Bunny.
really going now...
Looked for the Dumbass Lefty of the Month and I got 'Page Not Found.'
Figures...
I should get outside and take care of last years weeds in the back yard.
*grabs kerosene and matches*
Back soon!
JR
Stop!! That's Plan B, you fool!!!
ProfWombat ,
Your point is well taken. What I find most disturbing about Mr. Frist is a kind of saccharin brittleness that obscures (for me) any sense of warm humanity. For my taste, a surgeon without a good bedside manner is not someone I want cutting me up. The training of surgeons is well beyond my ken.
Hey Zap-- listening to The Revolution Starts Now is doing me in, uh, Now
Paul, no not that one
Great album, BTW.
Hey, do you go to Drinking Liberally at the 331 on Wednesdays? I'm thinking of going, even though I miss that it's a dive and it's on the other side of the river...
If they are trying to cut down on drunk driving, then don't they need to catch them behind the wheel?
Even that is stupid and dangerous. The answer we mentioned is the only real way to go. Get the drunks before they get behind a wheel and get them home safely without any need for arrest or danger of accident.
what did I leave out?
Apparently, being angry ees MaryScott's raison d'etre and helps her to deal weeth her lost father, and keeps her from dreenking too much.
Oh, and she ees a hippie tambien, no?
so.
He didn't have to do that. I didn't; most of my colleagues didn't.
ProfWombat
It certainly wasn't required in my doctoral program.
gotta go. spouse is wondering out loud again, if this meeting place is a substitute for real life.
imagine that?
peterboy | 04.15.06 - 2:50 pm
(hurried patter of feet fleeing screens all over america, canada, and britain...)
... wasband...
Silleigh, aka Furiousleigh
Wasband?
How could I have gone 51 years (as of today) and never heard that expression before? I thought it was a typo for a microsecond, until my cannabis-warped but alert prefrontal lobes sounded it out.
I'm so stealing this, and look forward to dropping it in to future conversations. Thanks so much!
plantsman: yup. Absolutely. Frist is everyone's caricature of an unfeeling, technically adequate but emotionally remote physician. That's why he'll never be president.
This place is an excellent addendum to real life.
BTW, when's the last time the WAPO did a story on the filth and bile that goes up on free republic or LGF?
fourlegsgood
Or even the vile horseshit Rush and O'Reilly spew constantly.
Oooh. A two hour tribute to Buck Owens.
Kick ass!!
what did I leave out?
Me!
Take that, Kossacks!
Aside from that...
(Actually, DWD had a very astute analysis here.)
That's why he'll never be president.
Thank everything for that!
other side of the river...
Zap Rowsdower
Hey! That's St. Paul! (no not that one) not Mpls
I have not-I am curious though.
And as long as you are here--hats off to getting a snotty comment from Strom comma David! Well done
Oh, and she ees a hippie tambien, no?
so.
¡El Gato Negro!
Ah, of course - the hippie "smear."
Some good news.... Molly the cat is rescued!!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nat...apped-
cat_x.htm
Can yew remember whin Dolly Parton Was Porter Waggoner's sidechick?
BTW, when's the last time the WAPO did a story on the filth and bile that goes up on free republic or LGF?
fourlegsgood
The WaPo has gone full-tilt right wing. It's practically the print version of Fox News.
Smear? I thought that's why you're hot?
evening moonbats
And as long as you are here--hats off to getting a snotty comment from Strom comma David! Well done
Paul, no not that one
Yeah...badge of honor, I guess.
I just sit back and laugh about the billboards that the "Taxpayers League" put up while LRT was being built; calling it "Social Engineering".
Yep...we're all zombies now.
The way to stop drunk driving, if alcohol is illegal, no one could drink. It says in the Bible... etc.
/wingnut
eine zwei drei...
Can yew remember whin Dolly Parton Was Porter Waggoner's sidechick?
Yes. I also remember an article in Creem magazine by (IIRC) Chet Flippo about him and a bunch of freaks from Berkeley going to see here in, I think, Oakland, and her surprise at meeting hippie fans...
Evening, Moonbootica! Rest Well, and have a lovely Easter.
Hey bats!
Thers, if you're still here, please tell Mary I'm sorry I missed her IM. Tell her I know how she feels.
I was away from the screen doing bills.
Am I too young to enjoy Buck Owens?
Hey!
Happy Birthday, Little Brother.
Hey, who was in the group that was supposed to see the Bettie Page movie last night?
How was it?
I got an "Unexpected Error" from blogger. What are the expected errors like?
plantsman same to you
Little Brother have a very happy birthday
I remember a drunk sitting early morning with a smallish bottle of vodka on the streets of Berlin.
A stolid teuton woman marched past and sniffed: "Schon Blau."
Already plastered.
"(hurried patter of feet fleeing screens all over america, canada, and britain...)"
--WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka
I did get up and go fold a load of clothes, so I could put the ones that had been in the washer since last night in the dryer.
Can yew remember whin Dolly Parton Was Porter Waggoner's sidechick?
plantsman
Yep, he couldn't stop singing to her tits.
Yep, he couldn't stop singing to her tits.
Looks like it worked.
Yep...we're all zombies now.
Zap Rowsdower, No Phd.
Love ya but disagree- watch Amy kick the empty suit Kennedy's behind and Hatch take out the empty khaki's that is Pawlenty.
The Tax Avoiders League are pretty sad. Best to laugh at rather than scorn. I know I do
Why.....WHY did I ruin a perfectly beautiful day by stepping inside and reading the Althouse take on the WaPo article?
Libya renews demand for US compensation
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya on Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of a U.S. bombing raid that killed an estimated 40 people by renewing a demand that Washington apologize and pay compensation.
A statement by the official news agency JANA also repeated a call that relations between the two countries, now undergoing a gradual rapprochement after years of turmoil, be conducted on an equal footing and without violence.
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered the 1986 overnight air strikes in response to a bombing of a West Berlin discotheque used by U.S. servicemen that killed three people and wounded up to 200. Washington blamed the bombing on Libya.
"BTW, when's the last time the WAPO did a story on the filth and bile that goes up on free republic or LGF?
fourlegsgood"
Such filth and bile doesn't exist! I learned this just now from Althouse's Civility Squad.
"2. While there are scattered righty-type sites that can be labeled occasionally enraged and vuglar, they're also not to the perfected and constant level of Kos or Atrios. And more importantly, those kinds of sites do not define or at least dominate the conservative blog world, as they do the left.
3. When I bring this up with friends, one defense is always: well, that's the fringe, like (and I heard this just the other day) the white supremacists on the right or something. Well if so then I'm even more disturbed at the frantic courting that goes on by Democrats, what with their "diaries" at Kos and what-not.
4. The Kos-style vulgarians are the only emotional and intellectual (or whatever) muscle on the left these days."
Anyone got a desk against which I can bang my head?
"I just want to see these [expletive] swinging from their heels in the public square," reads a recent comment from someone named Dave in a discussion about the Bush administration on a Web site called Eschaton.
Ooooo...
Paul, NNTO:
Sarcasm, BTW.
I really don't know if Hatch has a chance. I really think that Amy does, though.
YES!!! "Tiger By The Tail" just came on!
You can stream it here.
Old Porter had some fruity sequined suits, IIRC.
Conservative trolls are outlandishly Vulgar!
Well - no ratter, three hours worth of waiting and no ratter. It's not right, I say.
I should go out to Target and get a new arbor to replace the one the wind knocked over and broke - the grapevines are okay, but a vine's gotta climb something and when there's no foundation, there's aspiration. I should finish putting the shed to rights after moving the beds out of it. I should finish sweeping up the forty dozen oranges that were blown down. I should finish the ironing.
A nap sounds just right.
Meanwhile, over on Eschaton, Dave is writing, "As a matter of fact -- I do hate Bush!"
They can kiss my civil ass.
Good Morning (well, I just got up) you obnoxious hippy freaks!
I have one of those pleasant hangovers. Feel mellow and tired and kinna goofy.
We're taking a day trip to Jefferson, TX to check out B&Bs. Melissa likes to drive. I think I'll like to nap.
Have a good day.
later.
.
The Iraqi children will definitly remember the last three years, no amount of clever history book writing will change that and I rather suspect any version that gets printed is going to get criticized by interested parties. Even those that don't try to pull anything sneaky, maybe even especially those.
The Bushistas will be critical of any history that doesn't fall all over itself to heap praise and gratitude on the coalition forces for their liberation, and those critical of the adventure (like us) will smell interference and pandering in any textbook that does write as though the sun shines out w's ass. It's likely to be a no-win situation with no text being viewed by all interested parties as objective or fair enough to history.
A nap sounds just right.
Wise One.
Mer reminds me that I have a few chores today, myself, chief among them laundry.
Later, rational people.
(Oh, and humor an old lady and go visit her blog.)
Keep this photo to remind yourself the culture that LGF, and free republic come from, if you ever get tired of fighting them and are thinking, "maybe I should just get along"
http://www.american-buddha.com/
b...lansmen_202.jpg
"I also wrote to my [expletive] congressman to get off his [expletive] [expletive] and do the right [expletive] thing."
Althouse is BIG MEANIE!
She was inexpressibly vulgar and rude and hostile toward me with no reason whatsoever.
And I hate to break it to her, but there is no instance in all of the history of the world of an eighth-rate teacher at a tenth-rate law school ever having her opinion affect anything at all.
Sorry, toots! This is exactly all the life you get - the pond's not going to get one bit bigger.
Oh, is it Little Brother's birthday? Happy birthday Little Brother!
She was inexpressibly vulgar and rude and hostile toward me with no reason whatsoever.
I could send Franny after her, if you want...
I hate to break it to her, but there is no instance in all of the history of the world of an eighth-rate teacher at a tenth-rate law school ever having her opinion affect anything at all.
But... but... she has a shiny new car! She posted a picture of it!! On her blog!!!
Zap-- sorry, missed the sarcasm.
And it will be a tital wave in Minnesota. When the very rich Edina went Kerrey and the state house special election went Democratic in Ramstead's district the tea leaves are not hard to read
"They can kiss my civil ass.
Toonscribe: American, idle"
Well what makes it particularly maddening are two things. First, they use "civility" as a weapon; as an excuse to dismiss and/or ignore the content of what's being said. It's more or less simply tongue-clucking faux prudery.
Second...the definition of "civility" is about as sophisticated as the motion picture rating system. If you use naughty words like "fuck" or "plonker," you're a baaaad baaaaad lunatic fringe element. If you say, "Atrios commenters are grossly misogynistic cretins who attack feminists and try to stifle their voices," that's civil.
Bullshit. It's WORSE. It's an heinous accusation, made all the worse because it's disingenuous and flat-out defamatory. But as long as you're wearing a smoking jacket and not using any four-letter words, you're inherently more worthy of being taken seriously.
Nim, ham hock of liberty | Homepage | 04.15.06 - 3:29 pm
Nice post. Very. nice!
Well said, Nim!
Althouse you can call self-asorbed
Nim, it's full on fucking gorgeous here today.
Pray tell, what are you doing inside in your smoking jacket, talking politely on the Internets?
Me, I'm just doing housework and paying bills, which means I'm broke.
God, I need a new job.
What are the expected errors like?
Anything Bush tries to do
Am I too young to enjoy Buck Owens?
Zap Rowsdower, No Phd. | Homepage | 04.15.06 - 3:11 pm
all ya gotta do is act nacherlly...
.
Is it Little Brother's birthday?
Happy Birthday!
A true vulgarian is someone who allows thousands to die needlessly while complaining of other's incivility.
Happy Birthday, Little Brother, Prince of Snark!
"Pray tell, what are you doing inside in your smoking jacket, talking politely on the Internets?"
We've been out for a couple hours...went down to see Val, then wandered by the lake. Then spent some time outside babysitting the animals.
Being a vampire, all that sun was starting to get unhealthy (contrary to popular mythology, we aren't killed by sunlight; it just gives us gas).
Figured it was time for a crack den fix and keep tabs on the latest outrages
First, they use "civility" as a weapon; as an excuse to dismiss and/or ignore the content of what's being said.
Worse: it's to try to get you to SHUT UP.
Period.
A true vulgarian is someone who allows thousands to die needlessly while complaining of other's incivility.
plantsman
Yes, and also nicely stated.
But as long as you're wearing a smoking jacket and not using any four-letter words, you're inherently more worthy of being taken seriously.
Exactly. "Cretin" is just a supercilious way of saying "fucktard."
Etched in my head is a quote from Atrios when he appeared on Philly public radio some months back (paraphrasin'):
"I have an active comments section."
Althouse is hilarious. Altmouse is also hilarious. I forgot how good Altmouse is because I haven't read the original for a while.
I've been trying to post on the whole article for a while but blogger is being mean and vulgar and doesn't let me post.
And Nim is quite correct in pointing out how civility can be used as a weapon. I'm thinking of a rich person robbing someone poor to the bones and then clicking their tongue at the court and feeling very sad about the ranting and raving skeleton standing there accused of revenge.
Nim, how's Buddy doing? I hope your pets will keep him young...
Is it Little Brother's birthday?
Happy Birthday!
Tena hippie extraordinaire-- 3:32 pm
i join the boisterous salutation!!!
.
Happy Birthday, Little Brother! May you eat all the chocolate eggs you find.
"Nim, how's Buddy doing? I hope your pets will keep him young...
Vicki, Hippie Freak"
His hips are bad....still having trouble getting around. Doesn't seem to be suffering from any other maladies that we can tell, however.
But... but... she has a shiny new car! She posted a picture of it!! On her blog!!!
dave™©
Now dave.... You've already been cited. Be civil.
"I'm thinking of a rich person robbing someone poor to the bones and then clicking their tongue at the court and feeling very sad about the ranting and raving skeleton standing there accused of revenge.
Echidne of the snakes"
What Enron did, for example, is a lot more obscene than 10,000 left-wing blog commenters screaming "FUCK YOU" in unison.
But I guess my morality isn't as sophisticated as the Civility Police.
I'm out...
Later, taters!!!
From NYT story on front page about the effect of the SD abortion ban and the referendum cmapaign to overturn it:
...aside her clipboard to hold the door open for her.
Effects of the ban seem to be emerging all around, with fallen poll numbers for the governor who signed the law and growing ranks of candidates who want to replace the state's lawmakers. Ordinary people, too, said they had found themselves tangling unpleasantly with their closest friends over a question they had never really discussed much outside their homes. Some said they feared that as the fight over the ballot measure intensified, it would bring only more painful division.
Awwwwwwwww, Franny!
In Florida, Nelson Crushes Harris in Latest Poll
http://politicalwire.com/
archive...atest_poll.html
Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) continues to struggle in her bid to unseat Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll.
Nelson currently leads Harris by an astonishing 30 points, 57% to 27%. These numbers have Nelson “counting down the days until May 12,” the Florida filing deadline which would ensure a Nelson-Harris match-up should no other candidates enter the race.
Aw, shucks, guys 'n gals and everybody in between-- your birthday wishes truly warm the cockles of my heart.
And in some cases, the heart of my cockle. But perhaps I've said too much.
There's no "blushing coyly" emoticon, so I'll make do with these:
♥♥♥ ♥♥♥
But I guess my morality isn't as sophisticated as the Civility Police.
Which, it must be added, allows them to completely ignore the substance of the debate.
It is amazing. These are the kind of people that take Hitchens seriously. I guess it depends on the price of the Scotch you're drunk on.
Which, it must be added, allows them to completely ignore the substance of the debate.
Which of course is the whole point.
"The Bushistas will be critical of any history that doesn't fall all over itself to heap praise and gratitude on the coalition forces for their liberation,...."
--catalexis
The only thing I can think of that the Bush administration has liberated the Iraqis from is living.
What Enron did, for example, is a lot more obscene than 10,000 left-wing blog commenters screaming "FUCK YOU" in unison.
I have an uncle, worked for Florida Gas and Electric (I think that's what it's called), who lost most of his retirement pension when Enron went bust.
Some said they feared that as the fight over the ballot measure intensified, it would bring only more painful division.
peterboy -- 3:39 pm
Moonboo, what would "divide and conquer" be in Latin? Diviso et imperio?
that is one of the strategic products toward which the Right leads and aims. isolation and fear of 'other' are among their favorite expedients...
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Atrios opened it up above. Free drinks on me!
Nim, ham hock of liberty
Hear! Hear!
Little Brøther, wanna throw in my wishes for a Happy Birthday to you too!
"I have an active comments section."
Zap Rowsdower, No Phd
a masterpiece of understatement.
Anyone have a link to the WaPo article - I can't get to it -
??? ???
Little Brøther
Oh I can't let that go -
{{{{{{MWAAH!}}}}}} (birthday kiss)
Anyone have a link to the WaPo article
MEan nasty online leftists
I'd have more respect for Republicans if they just billed themselves as racist white supremeists rather than trying to deny it all the time.
The left nowadays is confusing politics as in "policies" with heaping personal abuse on the dissenters (racists! sociopaths! bush is evil! - haven't we heard it a few times already?) and (silly) character assassination attempts with criticism. Just read the comments above on this blog. I wonder how many leftists realize how insulating such a tactic is from the mainstream of the society. Not that I mind it, please do keep up this funny self-sabotage. It's just amusing.
"What Enron did, for example, is a lot more obscene than 10,000 left-wing blog commenters screaming "FUCK YOU" in unison." - actually, the costs that are imposed due to Sarbanes-Oxley now on the financial institutions are much more obscene than both Enron and leftie impotent fuckers, not because I care about financial institutions, but as usual those costs will be shifted to customers. The progressivist regulatory complex abuses us all more than all the Enrons of this world.
KidRanger makes an excellent point: It's awfully hard to recognize racism when you're swimming in it.
I have to confess, when the OJ Simpson verdict came down, for months afterward I fantasized about performing "vigilante justice" on that man. Then I had to ask myself, why was I getting all worked up over one black man who managed to game the system, when at least several dozen white men get away with the same thing every day?
Uh, because the media told me to? And because -- traditionally in this country -- the penalty for a black man exercising the same liberties as a white man, is death?
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