I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
wow
aw, poor ponies, looking so sad
Indict Rove! damnit!
first and ponies!
dammit took too long admiring the pony!
bush presidency = fiery wreck.
well, gotta go and coo and chuckle at cutest newest member of the clan, hope ya'll have a glorious weekend, and that I'll be near the phone when Rove is indicted.
Give my love to those who deserve it, tell olaf and WGG I'm doing fine.
Slan!
Morning Batsies - Atrios, maybe you should start rationing ponies 'cause I don't think Commander CooCoo Bananas is finished his freefall.
U.S. moves in secret to quash suit against AT&T
Privacy group says firm gave records to surveillance program or Privacy group says company turned over customers' records
- Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle Staff Writer May 13, 2006
The Bush administration is filing secret arguments with a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against AT&T over its alleged participation in the government's electronic surveillance program, a privacy-rights group said Friday.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the suit in a San Francisco federal court in January, said Justice Department lawyers had notified it that the motion to dismiss and accompanying sworn statements were being filed under seal. Only an edited version will be made public.
The administration said last month that it would assert the "military and state secrets privilege'' and argue that allowing the case to proceed would jeopardize national security. Filing the arguments under seal is common in such cases and has been permitted by federal courts.
"We will be forced to argue against a secret brief that we will never see in total,'' said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer with the foundation.
only "new lows" get ponies...though I may have to go on another pony hunting expedition
Make ponies, not war!
Human rights law 'may be changed'
The UK government might have to bring in new legislation to prevent the Human Rights Act endangering public safety, the lord chancellor has said.
Lord Falconer said cases such as that of rapist Anthony Rice, who murdered a woman while on parole, raised concerns over how the law was working.
The act was also cited when a court ruled nine Afghan asylum seekers who hijacked a plane could stay in the UK.
Human rights groups said the current concerns were not a fault of the act.
"Amending our human rights act because of gross public service failures is like handing a repeat burglar the key to your house," said Shami Chakrabarti, director of campaign group Liberty.
"Without the act, ordinary people in Britain would have precious little protection from maladministration."
Atrios of the potty-mouth needs to send some nickels to El Gato Negro's Online Swear Jar.
Hooha!
Sorry - this is the tip-off in that SF Chronicle story:
"Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday on AT&T's request to seal documents obtained by a former company technician allegedly describing company equipment in San Francisco capable of scanning huge amounts of data for use by the federal agency."
only "new lows" get ponies...though I may have to go on another pony hunting expedition
Atrios
I suggest as Bush plunges into the 20s that you consider unicorns, or perhaps switch to shetlands.
Timmeh -- only I get to be the nice one on Press the Meat.
A - This should serve as a good archive for any further ponies.
Colombian ruling breaks seal on abortion rights in Latin America
Women's rights campaigners pressing for more liberal abortion laws in Latin America have won a breakthrough victory following a ruling by Colombia's highest court saying women have the right to terminate their pregnancies when their lives are in danger or in cases of rape or incest.
Until now, Colombia has been one of three countries in the region - along with El Salvador and Chile - imposing a blanket ban on abortion under any circumstances. Tight restrictions have led to an epidemic of backstreet abortions, with the United Nations putting the number as high as four million per year across Latin America.
This week's ruling came in the wake of intense pressure from the UN Human Rights Committee and several high-profile non-governmental organisations, who argued that putting the life of a foetus ahead of that of the mother was a fundamental violation of women's rights. By a 5-3 vote, the court ruled that the complete ban was "disproportionate" and "irrational".
only "new lows" get ponies...though I may have to go on another pony hunting expedition
Atrios
If it goes below 30% maybe you should switch to spotted asses.
New high - 2437.
http://icasualties.org/oif/
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Hmmm...that pony has a tattoo of a mooncatbat!
Ponies....ponies from heaven...
Open Source has
35% my ass!
nice job bush - everytime he speaks, the next day his ratings go lower...
hey karl, you may want to shut W up and lock him in your circle of trust...he opens his mouth, people hate him more!
Morning Batsies - Atrios, maybe you should start rationing ponies 'cause I don't think Commander CooCoo Bananas is finished his freefall.
Tena
You SO right!
Damnit. Tags.
Open Source radio has Glenn Greenwald and William Gibson talking about the NSA spying story.
th: that's my line!
Re-post from below:
I will take Hillary Clinton as president over any Republican.
Did you know that Gloria Whoreger (a/k/a "Borger") did an entire report on L'Affaire de Dusty Foggo last night without ever saying the word "Republican?"
I only tolerate Gloria Borger because of the time she nailed Cheney's ass in a lie when she was at CNBC.
35% ? So MSNBC is sampling Republicans only ?
Gibson: "In the short term, I've taken the position that it's very, very illegal and I hope something is done about it."
Hell, yeah. Found via Boing Boing BTW.
I'm pretty sure it say 25% not 35%.
And I will repost my reply:
Yes, res, Gloria was disgusting, and WW is pitiful lately.
Commander CooCoo Bananas isn't finished until he's setting up his presidential library at the federal penitentiary.
I just can't wait for Chimpy's "major policy speech" on Immigration Monday! Get out the teebee trays!
Is that Batman's call-to-action symbol on the pony's ass?
The sun is trying to come out. I have to go investigate.
35% my ass!
Terry C, One of the 71%
Since Newsweek is a magazine, the poll is from five months ago and has next month's date on it.
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35? waaaay too fucking high.
Hmmm...that pony has a tattoo of a mooncatbat!
Uncle Smokes
Yah, that looks like the definitive moonbat pony to me, too.
Commander CooCoo Bananas isn't finished until he's setting up his presidential library at the federal penitentiary.
Anjin | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 10:58 am | #
I just can't wait for Chimpy's "major policy speech" on Immigration Monday! Get out the teebee trays!
plantsman
Ooh y'all are funny this morning!
;lol:
The sun is trying to come out. I have to go investigate.
Karin | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 10:59 am | #
The sun is gay?
Wow.
res,
You have your computer back?
Cavuto over at MMA:
"Collecting our phone records is better than collecting our remains."
That quote is right out of Orwell. These guys are out of their minds at Fox.
his crack down on the border speech is going to bring him back up tp around 45%. that's my guess. half this country is way racist.buckle up.
nice job bush - everytime he speaks, the next day his ratings go lower...
Yup. Keep getting him out there, stumbling, slurring and sputtering. And don't forget the giggle. Let him explain it to us all in "texas" since we don't seem to be getting it. Keep it up. Everytime he goes out there his numbers drop even further. Good job. If this were a deliberate attempt at bringing down the presidency, it couldn't be any better.
Morning, all.
The numbers may vary, but the trend is always the same -- down.
That's a good thing.
35% my ass!
Terry C, One of the 71%
Since Newsweek is a magazine, the poll is from five months ago and has next month's date on it.
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QuentinCompson
Good point.
The sun is gay?
Wow.
rorschach
Well, d'uh - look at that flash. Of course it is!
The sun is gay?
I figure Apollo knew.
""Collecting our phone records is better than collecting our remains."
WATB
There must be humor in the pollen this morning. So that's it. It's not smog, but snark that shrouds Mt. Hood. Folks, we have a lefty volcano in Oregon.
Repost from the wee hours:
Courtesy of The General, if you still have an empty stomach, you are invited to gaze upon the abject horror of a Pamela Shrugged video log.
In this episode, she explains how Fox News is not right-wing enough, and her manly readers with lots of money need to make a REAL right-wing network to get the truth out.
Also she stammers a lot and talks about Moose-lems and Palestinians pooping in holy buildings.
I think more wingnuts should get involved in video-logs. They're far more informative than the wingers realize.
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Seriously, it's worth the watch. The mind of a wingnut in action.
So there's this guy George
He was like soooo popular
But now he's a dork
Yup. Keep getting him out there, stumbling, slurring and sputtering. And don't forget the giggle. Let him explain it to us all in "texas" since we don't seem to be getting it. Keep it up. Everytime he goes out there his numbers drop even further. Good job. If this were a deliberate attempt at bringing down the presidency, it couldn't be any better.
ql in ny
I was fulminating and fussing and carrying on about impeachment last night and it suddenly dawned on me - hell, leave him where he is. He's the most Unpopular President Ever. If we can get Congress, we can contain him. Let him sit there as the symbol of everything that is wrong with the GOP and the conservative movement. Just keep him from doing anything.
I think of how frantic life must be right now for Bush's political handlers, and then I picture Douglas Adams' whale, suddenly apearing in the sky and plummeting fast, trying to work out who it is and what's going on, then seeing the fast-approaching ground: "I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
Splat!
The 29% at Harris felt more satisfying -- and no, I don't hate America. Just certain people.
Did you know that Gloria Whoreger (a/k/a "Borger") did an entire report on L'Affaire de Dusty Foggo last night without ever saying the word "Republican?"
res ipsa loquitu
I bet if you did some kind of forensic work, you could trace Gloria Borger's decline since she started appearing on TeeVee. I used to subscribe to US News in the nineties (couldn't take the fluff at Time and Newsweek), and she and the pre-9/11 Zuckerman were enough to balance out Michael Barone and John Leo (who seems to be turning against Bush too, if only a little).
I've brought the buffet upstairs.
NYMary ...
I have it jury rigged so I can use it until they come to pick it up on Monday. This time, the hinge that connects the screen to the keyboard cracked, i.e., the screen won't stand up. A piece of the housing on the keyboard broke off, too. DO NOT EVER BUY A DELL LAPTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess watertiger told you about my stark raving mad message.
"Cavuto over at MMA:
"Collecting our phone records is better than collecting our remains.""
Someone email Cavuto a primer on false dichotomy...
Afternoon, moonbats.
My throat hurts so bad it's making my eyes water.
his crack down on the border speech is going to bring him back up tp around 45%. that's my guess. half this country is way racist.buckle up.
mestizo
I don't he's ever going to see 40% again.
He's done!
""Collecting our phone records is better than collecting our remains."
No, collecting my phone records is not better than collecting the remains of the entire brothel of media whores. If it was a question of our remains vs. their profits I can assure you that they would be 100% willing and ready to sacrifice us to the last toe.
I just can't wait for Chimpy's "major policy speech" on Immigration Monday! Get out the teebee trays!
guaranteed that his rating go lower AFTER that speech - you heard it here...bush's immigration plan is a shot in the foot for him - thank jeebus that he is too fucking st00pid to understand...
his racist freak base wants them all out of teh country and jailed, while his billionaire boys club base needs them to pick strawberries...what to do, what to do...
of course the dems are too st00pid also to realize that this issue has their name all over...frame the debate, st00pid dems - here is a starter: ADM and ConAgra will not hire folk at a decent wage to pick strawberries, so there is a driving will to hire cheap labor under the table and illegally - it is our megalo-farms that are luring illegals with the hope of any job for any money..
ADM and ConAgra are contributing to the immigration problem by hiring people illegally - they should be fined and brought to court for undermining our nations laws!!!
Res Ipsa - first I've heard about all this - that's a drag, to say the least.
You bought a new computer and it's falling apart?
Seriously, it's worth the watch. The mind of a wingnut in action.
I told you it was Nims fault.
BTW Nim, did you know that there are 3 other videos to view?
I am saving the other two for later.
Kids if you want a good laugh, or to be disgusted and or outraged this is must see stuff. Three words: Slow. Motion.Trainwreck.
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"... his crack down on the border speech is going to bring him back up tp around 45%. that's my guess. half this country is way racist.buckle up."
--mestizo
I don't think this will give him a bump. I don't think people will even listen to the speech.
DO NOT EVER BUY A DELL LAPTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I coulda told ya that. (Dude, you're going to Hell.....)
fternoon, moonbats.
My throat hurts so bad it's making my eyes water.
Cap'n Goto, sick as a dog
My husband had that, if it's the same thing and his started with his throat - last week. If it is the same thing, take heart, it only lasts a few days.
Did you know that Gloria Whoreger (a/k/a "Borger") did an entire report on L'Affaire de Dusty Foggo last night without ever saying the word "Republican?"
res ipsa loquitu
I rest my case.
Gloria Borgia always reminds me of "Chicklet" in "Female Trouble". "I've got a knife in my pocketbook,".
res,
She did. We may show on Thursday.
I don't think this will give him a bump. I don't think people will even listen to the speech.
mer
Yeppers. I agree.
Nobody cares what the little pissant says anymore - they hate him.
I think the best reason to leave the president where he is because if we impeached him, Vice President Sleeping Shoot-A-Face would then get the top spot.
"BTW Nim, did you know that there are 3 other videos to view?
I am saving the other two for later."
Awesome! I haven't eaten yet this morning, so this may be the perfect time...
Hell, leave him where he is. He's the most Unpopular President Ever.-Tena
I agree. Let Bush be Bush, and endure the ridicule and humiliation as worst president ever. He'll be dogged in his post-presidency by the likes of me at all his public appearances - screaming and flipping him off.
On the other hand - he does have the the nuke codes.
NYMary ... Coolness. I'll bring the sippy cup!
Tena ... No. I bought a Dell CRAPtop back in 2003. Since that time, it has been back to Dell (and no, I am not exaggerating) SIX TIMES (this will be the seventh). It has had the motherboard replaced (twice), they keyboard has crapped out four times. This time, it's the above-mentioned issue.
It is a PIECE OF SHIT and next time I am buying a goddamned Macintosh.
WOW this is a must-read. Adjunct professor of English at Boston College quits when Condi is tapped to speak at the commencement:
Condoleezza Rice at Boston College? I quit
“But I am not writing this letter simply because of an objection to the war against Iraq. My concern is more fundamental. Simply put, Rice is a liar.”
If Rove quits Monday, I might watch the speech.
His facial expressions and twitches ought to be priceless.
C'mon people, ALL the enormous agri-food-business giants utilize illegals because Merkins demand cheap food --it's our own fault. How will we hold US responsible? I dunno.
Nobody cares what the little pissant says anymore - they hate him.
Tena
Says the same shit over and over again anyway.
BTW ... I don't even know what a "motherboard" is.
We may show on Thursday.
In my wildest dreams it would be awefully cool if you could show up the following Thursday, otherwise I will have missed you by a couple of days!!
If Rove quits Monday, I might watch the speech.
If I start hoping for a Monday Fitzman, I'm just going to be disappointed, right....
The Winds Of Change
By Charlie Cook
© National Journal - The Cook Election Preview
May 6, 2006
It seem undeniable that a strengthening hurricane will hit the GOP in November. If the storm is a Category 1, 2, or 3, Republicans will almost surely hold the Senate and probably hold the House. If it is a Category 4, the House will probably flip, and the Senate might as well. If the hurricane is a Category 5, the GOP majorities are history.
http://www.cookpolitical.com/
col...06_cookprev.php
In the All Politics are Local Paragraph:
"The 2006 midterm elections are a political analyst's nightmare. The national climate seems to portend big changes, yet race-by-race analyses reveal formidable odds against a Democratic takeover of either the House or the Senate."
People are not happy. I don't think the tired old gop talking points "Guns, Gays, God and we are going to cut your taxes" are gonna do it this time for the thugs.
It is a PIECE OF SHIT and next time I am buying a goddamned Macintosh.
(I'm so glad I didn't have to suggest that)
guaranteed that his rating go lower AFTER that speech - you heard it here...bush's immigration plan is a shot in the foot for him - thank jeebus that he is too fucking st00pid to understand...
They've already pissed away any headway they've made with Latino voters.
Thank you, Tena. When I'm up to dragging my sick ass off the couch, there's supposedly a prescription waiting at the store for me.
If this doesn't mostly clear up overnight, I'm half afraid to go to my folks' for Mothers Day. Dad just finished 2 weeks of radiation treatment, and Mom doesn't need to get sick right now either.
Courtesy of The General, if you still have an empty stomach, you are invited to gaze upon the abject horror of a Pamela Shrugged video log.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Thanks for sharing that video. That woman is seriously crazy
"Collecting our phone records is better than collecting our remains.""
I'd rather be in a good ol' American gulag than kidnapped by Islamofascists!
plantsman ... I was handling a friend's Mac laptop the other night and it much more solidly constructed than my Dell CRAPtop.
"BTW ... I don't even know what a "motherboard" is.
res ipsa loquitur"
It's kind of like a waterboard except...
well, it wouldn't be civil to get into detail.
UNE,
With gas prices the way they are, we have to be a bit careful, but Mother Thersites is hinting loudly that we don't visit often enough. So it's possible.
BTW ... I don't even know what a "motherboard" is.
res ipsa loquitur
Basically, the ciruit board that connects everything in the computer, to everything else.
I have an "E-machine" that has gotten weirder and weirder. It kept shutting down, apparently due to "overheating" (I couldn't figure anything else out, nor could the computer techs).
I left the cover off, it worked fine for a while. Finally, I dismounted the hard drive (which was getting plenty warm, and rests just behind the start switch).
It looks like a disemboweled corpse now, but runs like a charm. Tell me those things don't have fairies operating 'em.
Res Ipsa - I don't know why it is, but I guess everyone feels this way - there is just nothing more frustrating on the planet than a computer malfunction.
BTW ... I don't even know what a "motherboard" is.
Just the computer guts is all.
I'd rather be in a good ol' American gulag than kidnapped by Islamofascists!
At least they speak my language!
"Collecting our phone records is better than collecting our remains.""
I had no idea it was such a distinct either/or.
Would that life were indeed that simple.
Sigh.
Yet another crazy ass old-school Southern Democrat is spouting off...
A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.
Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.
...
Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.
If Rove quits Monday, I might watch the speech.
His facial expressions and twitches ought to be priceless.
NYMary
Will he give a speech, do you think? Or will he slink away, Scooter Libby-style?
BTW ... I don't even know what a "motherboard" is.
res ipsa loquitur
It brings all the little chips together and makes them behave, or else....
Not to worry, I found a great link just full of purty sparkle ponies! I'll send it to you.
rorschach,
And here we thought the Dixiecrats were dead...
I'd rather be in a good ol' American gulag than kidnapped by Islamofascists!
At least they speak my language!
NYMary | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 11:14 am | #
Plus, two kinds of fruit!
Res Ipsa - I don't know why it is, but I guess everyone feels this way - there is just nothing more frustrating on the planet than a computer malfunction.
Tena
Why is that? Nothing gets under my skin worse than a computer glitch. The Lovely Wife has learned not even to ask if there's something wrong with the computer. She just takes one look at me and leaves the room. The Golden Child has learned this, too.
I mean, it's just a stupid box of electronics!
saints preserve us!! rolling her eyes at the burden of having to go to parent/teacher conferences.
Did you hears the inflection when she said "at least with the JEWS in control..."
Do you think this bint knows that two Muslims families have custody of the keys to the Church of the Holy Supulchre?
Fred Barnes, ah!
Who is this creature?
If you haven't watched it, go now.
I need help with something. A group blog? Does the moderator of a group blog have the right to edit posts of its contributors??
rorschach,
And here we thought the Dixiecrats were dead...
NYMary | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 11:16 am | #
I know. It is depressing, especially for me, born and raised in Arkansas. I hate idiotic Southerners!
C'mon people, ALL the enormous agri-food-business giants utilize illegals because Merkins demand cheap food --it's our own fault. How will we hold US responsible?
i disagree - that is buying into what ADM and ConAgra say - i say fuck that, i buy organic food that costs sometimes double what gene-spliced and radiated food costs, i don't believe the hype the PEOPLE are DEMANDING anything - and BTW, it won't affect wheat, dairy, corn, soy, cows...only affects ALREADY EXPENSIVE produce...and guess what when the produce from ADM doubles in price, my local farm can actually compete for my business...
it is these motherfucking megalo-farms that fuck the local farmer since they hire illegals and undermine the cost that a local farmer can produce - it is precisely ADM and conagra who have worked to fuck the local farmer and screw the country by hiring illegals under the table (nevermind gene-splicing and radiating foods!)
I am still typing on the Dell laptop I got almost 2 years ago. So far, no sweat, except that the fans sometimes run so loud that the modem doesn't work.
Not that I have any illusions about whether Dell actually gives a shit...
If this doesn't mostly clear up overnight, I'm half afraid to go to my folks' for Mothers Day. Dad just finished 2 weeks of radiation treatment, and Mom doesn't need to get sick right now either.
Cap'n Goto, sick as a dog
Probably best you don't - I hope your mom is doing ok. I'm sorry to hear she has cancer.
We have a real tragedy in Mr. Tena's family. I haven't said anything, but his favorite cousin is in a coma. He was by himself last week (wife is French and a scholar and she and their daughter were in France) and fell down the stairs in his house and got a bad head injury. We don't know what's going to happen.
res, I of course can't guarantee anything, but I'm betting you'll be a much happier camper once you take the plunge. I know I am.
It brings all the little chips together and makes them behave, or else....
Uncle Smokes
Actually, a "motherboard" is a panel of (Jewish) mothers (including yours truly) who come together to vet the partner you're never going to bring home to meet me and relieve me of the shame I experience every time I sit down at the mah jong table with those miserable yentas from across the way.
They've already pissed away any headway they've made with Latino voters.
Since the Repukes love Leviticus so much, maybe they ought to read ALL of it:
(Lev 19:34) The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Lizzy,
It depends how it's set up, but no, not usually.
Aw Tena: so sorry. Anything I can do...
anybody who doubts the true purpose of the wapo's deceptive polling yesterday, should check out this:
The Right Call on Phone Records
The NSA's Program Safeguards Security -- and Civil Liberties
By Richard A. Falkenrath
Saturday, May 13, 2006; Page A17
On Thursday, USA Today reported that three U.S. telecommunications companies have been voluntarily providing the National Security Agency with anonymized domestic telephone records -- that is, records stripped of individually identifiable data, such as names and place of residence. If true, the architect of this program deserves our thanks and probably a medal.
The writer is a fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was deputy homeland security adviser and deputy assistant to the president until May 2004. He has no official knowledge of the program in question.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6051201656.html
People are not happy. I don't think the tired old gop talking points "Guns, Gays, God and we are going to cut your taxes" are gonna do it this time for the thugs.
hadenough
Bush can rape the economy, start illegal wars, spy on Americans - that's okay.
But when it gets too expensive for them to drive their BMWs and Lexuses, THAT makes them angry.
Sounds selfish, but if it gets rid of this bunch, so be it.
"I have an "E-machine" that has gotten weirder and weirder. It kept shutting down, apparently due to "overheating" (I couldn't figure anything else out, nor could the computer techs).
I left the cover off, it worked fine for a while. Finally, I dismounted the hard drive (which was getting plenty warm, and rests just behind the start switch)."
Overheating is a very common headache for PC owners. The smaller CPUs get, with more circuits packed into tinier areas, the harder it is to keep them cool. If they get too hot, they just shut down. If your PC is not properly ventilated, this is common.
Hard-core geeks will go to great lengths to cool their machines. I particularly like this one, where the motherboard is submerged in an aquarium full of mineral oil
Nobody cares what the little pissant says anymore - they hate him.
Tena | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 11:08 am | #
If they interrupt 24 Atrios will need some new ponies for sure. Some wingers think 24 is based on true scenarios. This season the President is an incompetent traitor so I'm starting to thint that too.
Oh, Tena, that's awful. Is the brain swollen?
Thanks for sharing that video. That woman is seriously crazy
There are three more my friend. Or about 8 more minutes of lunacy.
It is amazing to watch someone go from 0 to batshit insane in under 50 seconds!!
Res Ipsa - I don't know why it is, but I guess everyone feels this way - there is just nothing more frustrating on the planet than a computer malfunction.
Tena
Tena, In my case, it's because my whole life is in this damned machine. And especially this time because I just loaded all the music I own into iTunes and sold off my CDs, but have yet to buy an iPod to load it all into. I live in fear of them telling me the computer is dead and losing all that music.
The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Litz
THe blessing of the harvest begins with the words "A wandering Aramean was my father."
Mosaic law is shot through with regard and respect for the aliens. It's the crux of the story of Ruth, for pity's sake.
These people are absolutely Biblically illiterate.
Since the Repukes love Leviticus so much, maybe they ought to read ALL of it:
(Lev 19:34) The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Litz
Litz, you know as well as I do that those assholes pick and choose what to believe in the bible.
I wonder if most of them can even understand half the words in it!
love Leviticus so much, maybe they ought to read ALL of it:
(Lev 19:34) The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Litz
That, Godless Liberal, is one of the Lord's jokes, like the whole thing with the "rich man and the camel and the eye of the needle". It was open mike night at Joseph of Arimatheah's (Mary did a whole improv riff on the night Holy Spirit knoced her up--Hilarious!). You have to read between the lines.
Mary,
Ethically speaking, if you were invited to post on a group would you accept the fact that you MUST save your post in draft form until a moderator edits and deletes half your work?
So it's possible.
I'll keep my fingers crossed!!!
It looks like a disemboweled corpse now, but runs like a charm. Tell me those things don't have fairies operating 'em.
Rmj, Wandering Aengus
I recall this from Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth:
"I have bought this wonderful machine--a computer. Now I am rather an authority on gods, so I identified the machine--it seems to me to be an Old Testament god with a lot of rules, and no mercy.
"It's a miracle, what happens on that screen. Have you ever looked inside one of those things? You can't believe it. It's a whole hierarchy of angels--all on slats."
These people are absolutely Biblically illiterate.
Why should the Bible be any different than any other book for them?
Tena--my prayers, my sympathies.
I like this graphic from pollkatz-the flushing spiral!
mogwai, I'm well aware that organic is the fastest growing segment of the food market, but there are a lot of people like me who can't afford the prices YOU are willing to pay. If you don't think people want cheap food and goods from China, how do you explain the success of Wal-Mart. Not everyone can afford your high horse.
New high - 2437.
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Number of those killed since Bush won his second term: 1312.
If you voted for Bush in 2004, their blood is on your hands.
These people are absolutely Biblically illiterate.
Why should the Bible be any different than any other book for them?
NYMary | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 11:21 am | #
They've only ever read the comic book version.
Prof Wombat - Thanks. There's still hope - they haven't started mentioning his organs. Yet.
The guy is so neat - he headed a commission on sweat shops because he was in charge of all the campus shops for the university where he and his wife work. He wouldn't allow anything produced by a sweatshop to be sold on campus. My husband's aunt raised 3 extremely involved liberals. In Georgia.
The family is heartbroken.
That, Godless Liberal, is one of the Lord's jokes, like the whole thing with the "rich man and the camel and the eye of the needle". It was open mike night at Joseph of Arimatheah's (Mary did a whole improv riff on the night Holy Spirit knoced her up--Hilarious!). You have to read between the lines.
DemByDefault
Don't get me started on all the evasive interpretations of that camel and the needle's eye I heard in Sunday school.
Middle-class America rewrote that one like crazy!
I left the cover off, it worked fine for a while. Finally, I dismounted the hard drive (which was getting plenty warm, and rests just behind the start switch).
It looks like a disemboweled corpse now,
That just happens to be the way my boxes always looked....never know when a new video card, or memory, or drive would need swapping...
Ethically speaking, if you were invited to post on a group would you accept the fact that you MUST save your post in draft form until a moderator edits and deletes half your work?
Depends on how badly I wanted it. But one might ask: why the lack of trust? If you didn't want to know what I have to say, why invite me on the blog?
Online Blogintegrity, for example, is a great group blog, and nobody edits anything of anyone else's.
To me, impeachment of this dipshit President would be the equivalent of taking down the rotting corpse of a traitor because some people think it's gross. I say let it continue to decompose and let the flies consume it in front of everyone's eyes and nostrils for the next two and a half years so everybody in AMerica remembers never to vote for neo-con Repugs ever again.
Sorry to hear that, Tena.
Actually, Mom doesn't have cancer. But she wound up in the hospital overnight last week with what was apparently a serious anxiety attack (chest and arm pains--yeesh!). The anxiety was apparently due to worrying about Dad.
He had esophageal cancer removed four years ago, and was doing fairly well, but they have lately found cancer in more places. They're both taking it pretty hard (who wouldn't?).
Don't get me started on all the evasive interpretations of that camel and the needle's eye I heard in Sunday school.
Middle-class America rewrote that one like crazy!
You know, I think I'm going to build an enormous needle, and then charge vast amounts of money to let people ride on a camel through its eye.
Frankly, I'm amazed that no one else has already done this.
That just happens to be the way my boxes always looked....never know when a new video card, or memory, or drive would need swapping...
UNE DigiLynchMobBoss™
That's a relief, actually. I figured I had displeased the gods of the machine by opening the box and letting the magic out.
But it works just fine now. So maybe I propitiated the gods by giving them more air and light.
Greenwald on wapo NSA polling via rawstory:
Polling hysteria and the NSA program
Somehow, The Washington Post -- on the very same day most people learned about the new NSA data-collection program -- managed to conduct a poll which purports to show that "63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism."
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.c...sa-
program.html
wapo is deep in the tank. Text from front page link today:
The Right Call on Phone Records
Richard A. Falkenrath
The NSA phone record program safeguards security and civil liberties. Its architect, Michael Hayden, deserves our thanks and confirmation as the next CIA Director.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6051201656.html
Why is wapo doing this? They are in trouble and possible under investigation for some earlier reporting. Is this wapo's way of making nice with the bush admin?
You know, I think I'm going to build an enormous needle, and then charge vast amounts of money to let people ride on a camel through its eye.
Frankly, I'm amazed that no one else has already done this.
rorschach | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 11:25 am | #
It may be a ride at one of those CHristian amusement parks.
It would be superfun to make the size of the eye adjustable, to fuck with people.
Cap'n Goto - I misunderstood your comment. I'm very sorry about your dad.
That's really sad and hard and I hope it goes ok.
And here we thought the Dixiecrats were dead..
So there is a Crackerstan afterall!!!
he just preachin' some old time crackerstani religion.
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OKay, I'm off to clean. **mwah!**
The 2006 midterm elections are a political analyst's nightmare. The national climate seems to portend big changes, yet race-by-race analyses reveal formidable odds against a Democratic takeover of either the House or the Senate.
yes. I left out this piece of the puzzle in comment from the previous link from the Miami-Herald article:
But Republicans predicted little change in the state's congressional delegation of 18 Republicans and seven Democrats, arguing that the only real horse race pits Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw, of Fort Lauderdale, against state Sen. Ron Klein, of Boca Raton.
The White House has helped raise more than $1 million to help Shaw fend off Klein, who was tapped by his party to deliver a response today to the president's weekly radio address. Nationally, Democrats need to pick up 15 House seats in November to win back control of the House.
''I don't see Democrats getting to a majority without winning Shaw's district,'' said Amy Walter, congressional analyst with the Cook Political Report in Washington. ``Its weight is significant.''
I did post this, though:
Most of Florida's voting districts favor Republicans because the majority party redrew the boundaries after the 2000 U.S. Census. But Democrats are banking on voter discontent with the Iraq war and high gas prices to give them an edge.
The polling in these areas will be very interesting to watch over the next few months.
OKay, I'm off to clean. **mwah!**
NYMary | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 11:27 am | #
A kiss from teh hot.
It is a good day.
I sent the pony link, and now it occurs to me I should have attempted to barter it for a spot on the blogroll. Damn. That's what I get for posting before finishing my coffee in the morning.
Video is the perfect medium to capture the insanity of Atlas Juggs. She really needs to take the camera off auto-focus, though.
Molly Ivins makes a good point.
If the Bush administration continues to fall apart at this clip, I think we'll be grateful for incompetence as an excuse.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/i...ins_whorehouse/
"But it works just fine now. So maybe I propitiated the gods by giving them more air and light.
Rmj, Wandering Aengus"
I keep my case open too. Lotta people do. Just need to get some cans of compressed air and keep it cleaned out a little better.
I like this graphic from pollkatz-the flushing spiral!
doug r
Neato. Can't wait for that glog-glog-glog sound.
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Sorry to hear about the troubles Tena.
My thoughts are with you and the Mr.
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Time to brave the outside world and get my drugs.
I hate feeling this shitty...I can't even enjoy knowing I'll be accepting a job offer on Monday. Later, batsies...
Oh sweet jesus. Now they're going after the Smithsonian.
Zach Wamp (R-Incest Holler): "Ah don't thank the Amurkin taxpayers think they ought to be making more money than the Preznint and the Vice-Preznint."
Did the curator of the Smithsonian make fifty million dollars on family and political connections before signing his contract?
I sent an e-mail to Atrios encouraging him to help these women raise money for their campaigns in South Dakota, but thus far, no response.
It's a very cool development:
In the wake of the South Dakota legislature's nearly complete ban on abortion last February, more women than ever before are running for office in the state--frequently on women's rights platforms. Asetoyer, a Comanche, decided to run (after an appearance on RadioNation with Laura Flanders) to combat bills detrimental to women's rights and the rights of families that were passed by the last two legislatures. "I feel we are going into a frightening time. Legislators are going down a dangerous path and it is very scary," she told Indian Country Today recently. ''They are trying to get the public to buy into the idea that contraceptives abort a pregnancy, that's wrong. They are trying to go after our contraceptives.''
Fortunately, thanks to the generosity of people like you, Asetoyer's campaign has gained ground. As she heads into the critical last four weeks of campaigning before the June 6 primary, she's up to speed with her buttons, bumperstickers, lawn signs and creative radio ads that started airing on two stations this week. She's also part of a wave in the state comprising three other Native American women candidates vying for Democratic primary nominations in order to take on some of the most reactionary members of any state Republican Party anywhere. These candidates--Faith Spotted Eagle, Paula Long Fox and Theresa Spry, along with Asetoyer, could actually win. But they really need more help.
The Bolton confirmation hearings have revealed his constant efforts to undermine Powell on Iran and Iraq, Syria and North Korea. They have also exposed a most curious incident that has triggered the administration's stonewall reflex. The foreign relations committee has discovered that Bolton made a highly unusual request and gained access to 10 intercepts by the National Security Agency, which monitors worldwide communications, of conversations involving past and present government officials. Whose conversations did Bolton secretly secure and why?
Staff members on the committee believe that Bolton was probably spying on Powell, his senior advisers and other officials reporting to him on diplomatic initiatives that Bolton opposed. If so, it is also possible that Bolton was sharing this top-secret information with his neoconservative allies within the Pentagon and the vice-president's office, with whom he was in daily contact and who were known to be working in league against Powell.
If the intercepts are released they may disclose whether Bolton was a key figure in a counter-intelligence operation run inside the Bush administration against the secretary of state, who would resemble the hunted character played by Will Smith in Enemy of the State. Both Republican and Democratic senators have demanded that the state department, which holds the NSA intercepts, turn them over to the committee. But Rice so far has refused. What is she hiding by her cover-up?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commen...1471879,00.html
http://
www.democraticunderground...mesg_id=1177127
Hard-core geeks will go to great lengths to cool their machines. I particularly like this one, where the motherboard is submerged in an aquarium full of mineral oil
Brilliant!!
Thanks for sharing.
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Most of Florida's voting districts favor Republicans because the majority party redrew the boundaries after the 2000 U.S. Census. But Democrats are banking on voter discontent with the Iraq war and high gas prices to give them an edge.
Based on old voting patterns.
My daughters history textbook showed the voting for US Reps in Louisiana just before and just after the Civil War (IIRC); it was a sea change. I wonder if that could have been predicted by polls. Maybe. Maybe not.
Most electoral predictions are based on exit polling, not on polls three months earlier, or historical data. Districts can change their vote just by who turns out, and who doesn't. Impossible to say Dems will, or can't, win in November. The disgust with Bush and the GOP may be the sea-change that catches all the pundits and pollsters by surprise.
extremly cute Saturday Niece Blogging
I dismounted the hard drive (which was getting plenty warm, and rests just behind the start switch).
You mean you disconnected the floppy drive? Because if you mean the hard drive, you have the first computer to run without an OS and this is a miracle.
Impossible to say Dems will, or can't, win in November.
The Dems will win in November.
There. I said it.
re: ADM et al: as an old neighbor once said, "people want their food and they want their boats (read: 'all the consumer goods we're told we want)'-- and one of them's gotta be cheap"
Don't get me started on all the evasive interpretations of that camel and the needle's eye I heard in Sunday school.
Obviously I am running a little behind, but if you feel like sharing, I for one would be interested.
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I hate feeling this shitty...I can't even enjoy knowing I'll be accepting a job offer on Monday. Later, batsies...
We'll enjoy it for you, then. Congrats, Cap'n!
Archer Daniels Midland, what a huge 'heartland'-GOP monely laundering operation. How they've gotten away with it for so long confounds me.
You mean you disconnected the floppy drive? Because if you mean the hard drive, you have the first computer to run without an OS and this is a miracle.
Pony boogers
No, no, just took it off its perch. Physically dismounted, as in removed it from the place where it was suspended (a little metal box, it holds the original hard drive and the one I added, since I had it on hand) and let it rest on the bottom of the box. Still connected, just not in the factory original position.
Runs like a charm, now.
extremely cute Saturday Niece Blogging
Extremely cute indeed, she's adorable!
"You mean you disconnected the floppy drive? Because if you mean the hard drive, you have the first computer to run without an OS and this is a miracle."
my psychotic brother claimed his wife stole the harddrive outta his computer...but yet when we booted it, it still somehow worked...he was unconvinced, so apparently this can happen...
No, no, just took it off its perch.
Are you sure it wasn't a bass?
plantsman thanks
had tea, sandwhiches and cakes this afternoon, very pleasant.
weather not too bad either.
Archer Daniels Midland, what a huge 'heartland'-GOP monely laundering operation. How they've gotten away with it for so long confounds me.
And now, they've got an ethanol bonanza on their dirty hands!
Actually, a "motherboard" is a panel of (Jewish) mothers (including yours truly) who come together to vet the partner you're never going to bring home to meet me and relieve me of the shame I experience every time I sit down at the mah jong table with those miserable yentas from across the way.
Smokes' Jewish Mother
I just knew you'd show up, Mamme Dearest!
I was speaking with Ahianne last night about mothers who have passed away, but what have I to worry? The guilt parade never ends!
Now make me some boiled chicken, and don't forget to remove the flavor.
There. I said it.
rorschach
I am going to snootily ignore this silliness in favor of this serious response:
Obviously I am running a little behind, but if you feel like sharing, I for one would be interested.
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UNE DigiLynchMobBoss™
Oh, they just tried to tell us the "eye of the needle" was a very narrow gate into Jerusalem that a heavily laden camel couldn't pass through. The implication being you could get into heaven with riches, just not will all of them. The entire premise of the explanation was fictional. Jesus meant a real needle, although in his day they were made of bone and about six inches long, and used to make tents (Paul's day job was tent-maker), so the eye was pretty big by today's standards. Still not big enough for a camel, of course; laden or unladen, African or European.
Clashes in West Bank over Israeli wall
More than 2,000 Palestinians and 150 Israeli peace activists have clashed with Israeli soldiers in Al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, during a rally against the Israeli separation barrier.
Soldiers on Saturday fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrators after some protesters threw rocks at them, an AFP photographer witnessed.
It was the second straight day of violent clashes over construction of the barrier.
On Friday, 10 people were injured in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah. An Australian activist was hospitalised after being shot in the head with a rubber bullet and an AFP photographer was shot in the hand.
NY Atriots
In addition to our planned feast with NTodd on this coming Thursday, we are going to be graced with Kent's presence the following Thursday. To keep things simple, I propose we go to the same restaurant since it is so convenient to us all. What say you all.
quiltsquito@operamail.com
Are you sure it wasn't a bass?
rorschach
A crappie, actually.
Mother's Day is bittersweet, when she's passed -- and the guilt-based marketing ploys look truly ridiculous. Poor Jenny from the Blog's Flower disaster nearly made me weep.
The usual causes for random shutdowns are:
Overheating triggers auto-shutdown to protect the CPU;
Memory module going bad;
Power supply going bad.
Try cleaning out the case, dust bunnies and all from around the fans and gently from around the heatsinks. If you can, take it outside and use a vacuum as a blower to blow all the dust bunnies away.
I keep my case open too. Lotta people do. Just need to get some cans of compressed air and keep it cleaned out a little better.
I always felt a pang of guilt when I had to break up the dust-bunny paradise that inhabited my computer case.
I believe that RMJ's hard drive is still attached to the board via the ide cable, just out of its slot is all.
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Speaking of food, I had a craving for a piece of fried chicken the other night. So I go to the store and buy a package of whole, bone-in chicken breasts.
WTF are they doing to the goddamned chickens? Those chicken breasts must have weighed a pound each (actually, since they were split, HALF a breast weighed a pound). Ever try to properly pan-fry a one pound chicken breast? It ain't easy. For one thing, you can only fit two of them in the skillet at a time.
Where is KFC buying their chicken breasts? Theirs are more normal-sized, 1/3 - 1/2 pound.
Now I have another food avoidance thing...to add to the "no 'broth enhanced' (read: salt water) chicken", which even the cat won't eat. Where can you buy normal sized chicken breasts these days?
Speaking of food, I had a craving for a piece of fried chicken the other night. So I go to the store and buy a package of whole, bone-in chicken breasts.
WTF are they doing to the goddamned chickens? Those chicken breasts must have weighed a pound each (actually, since they were split, HALF a breast weighed a pound). Ever try to properly pan-fry a one pound chicken breast? It ain't easy. For one thing, you can only fit two of them in the skillet at a time.
Where is KFC buying their chicken breasts? Theirs are more normal-sized, 1/3 - 1/2 pound.
Now I have another food avoidance thing...to add to the "no 'broth enhanced' (read: salt water) chicken", which even the cat won't eat. Where can you buy normal sized chicken breasts these days?
Online Blogintegrity, for example, is a great group blog, and nobody edits anything of anyone else's.
NYMary
this is my new favorite blog, even tho i don't know what any of the crazy moonbats over there are talking about.
well, except for the black cat, and i don't even speak spanish..
but i'm not putting any money in the fuck'n jar.
CNN did a poll lately.
They were more interested in the performance on issues than momentary ups and downs.
The poll clearly states that Clinton outperforms Bush on a host of issues.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLI...poll/
index.html
wsj got bush at 29.
geocities.com/aastingeraa11 (scroll down)
I am going to snootily ignore this silliness in favor of this serious response:
Hrmph.
Where can you buy normal sized chicken breasts these days?
Jennifer | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 11:43 am | #
It's not easy. They're all getting implants these days.
Where can you buy normal sized chicken breasts these days?
I go to a local market to get fresh Amish-raised chicken, because the flavor is far superior to that in the grocery store here. But the breasts are still pretty large. I suppose chickens might be being bred that way because of demand for white meat.
Now I have another food avoidance thing...to add to the "no 'broth enhanced' (read: salt water) chicken", which even the cat won't eat. Where can you buy normal sized chicken breasts these days?
Jennife
Does this applly to the "organic" chicken too? I buy boneless, skinless breast pieces. This is of interest to me, cause I only buy that stuff cause I'm trying to lose weight (cut it into four ounce pieces, serve with steamed broccoli, wonder if a few extra (hypothetical) years is worth this...)
my psychotic brother claimed his wife stole the harddrive outta his computer...but yet when we booted it, it still somehow worked...he was unconvinced, so apparently this can happen...
I'd say that your brother does not know from computers....
I believe that RMJ's hard drive is still attached to the board via the ide cable, just out of its slot is all.
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UNE DigiLynchMobBoss™
Yeah, it's a little metal "box" that holds two hard drives, hangs by a hanger and a screw (to hold it secure) just behind the start switch.
I took the box off the hanger (removed the screw, IOW) and let it rest on the bottom of the computer shell. Looks ghastly, esthetically, but works beautifully. Next, I'll cure a rainy day.
Cameron threatens to scrap Human Rights Act
David Cameron has threatened to rewrite or scrap the Human Rights Act if it stands in the way of deporting suspected foreign terrorists. The Tory leader accused the Government of being "complacent" in letting the Act, which it passed in 1998, undermine Britain's ability to deal with foreign criminals.
Mr Cameron reiterated a pledge contained in last year's Conservative election manifesto to repeal the Act if it could not be successfully reformed.
Human rights legislation has come under sustained attack this week because of two unrelated cases, one involving a murder by a man who had been released after spending 16 years in prison for rape, and the other involving a group of Afghan hijackers who have been allowed to stay in Britain.
Mr Cameron's intervention has won him support from Britain's biggest selling newspaper, The Sun - a prize coveted by every opposition leader - but could come at the price of undermining his own attempts to change the image of the Conservative Party.
It's Hard Out Here for a Chimp
Foster Farms, on the left coast-- and I'm presuming others elsewhere -- have perfected the "gi-normous" Chicken half-breasts factory farming technique. "Natural" and "Free-range" are often more normal sized, and more expensive. I can't fry chicken the way mom did, so I cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil and bake 'em. Works fine, but it might not hit that craving spot.
I am listening to Desi Arnez sing Baballoo on NPR, and George W Bush is a second term president. When do I wake up in a cold sweat to hear my parents telling me I'm going to late for school....
Afghan official: Bin Laden in Pakistan
Osama bin Laden is living in Pakistan close to the Afghan border, but Pakistani authorities are only making half-hearted efforts to catch him, Afghanistan's foreign minister has been quoted as saying.
Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper asked Rangeen Dadfar Spanta in an interview whether recent reports that the al-Qaeda leader was living in Pakistan were true.
"According to everything we know, he really is living in Pakistan, near to the Afghan border," Spanta said.
"Our neighbour could certainly catch him and put him in court. But to our knowledge, their efforts to do this have always been half-hearted," he said, according to the advance text of an article due to appear in the paper on Sunday.
A senior US security official said earlier this month that most of the al-Qaeda and Taliban leadership had found safe haven in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt that borders Afghanistan, and that bin Laden was probably living in Pakistan.
RMJ thanks for sharing.
I have heard of the needle/gate version, and was always a bit dubious.
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"Where can you buy normal sized chicken breasts these days?"
--Jennifer
I buy a whole fryer and cut it up myself. Also, I try to find minimally processed chicken, not so much of that globby yellow fat to remove.
Grr. Damn Rotorooter. Guy shows up to unclog my kitchen drain, tells me the pipes are weird because a PVC pipe is attached to a copper pipe (which means nothing to me), brings in a super-vacuum thing, puts it on the drain, turns it on and pulls the pipe apart. Necessitating pulling the dishwasher out and reattaching the pipes. Charges me $370 for this. I should charge him. Christ. I'm on crutches after ankle surgery so can't do much myself.
This morning there is an op-ed by a NSA spying defender, the former Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the President. The level of ignorance and incompetence this guy demonstrates would be funny except these are the guys running the country. Real scary stuff! Here's my analysis.
extremly cute Saturday Niece Blogging
Moonbootica,
Extremely cute is right. Thanks for sharing, Moonbootica.
I thought his new low was 29%. 27% I thought was imCHIMPeachment territory.
'Twas wishful thinking when I wrote this song two years ago, but wishes do come true sometimes:
phony cowboy dry drunk frat boy never worked a day of his life
thinks he's god's right hand a righteous man with a stepford wife
likes to play toy soldier you know he never had to paid the price
won't speak without a script afraid he might get whipped
by his mean old nanny dick cheney
he doesn't have a care never has a worry
always bailed out by friends of daddy
a spoiled child mentality looks like a chimpanzee
we've had enough of mister tough stuff
tell that tongue-tied tool this ain't a preschool
he can only save the nation with a permanent vacation
oh dear leader oh dear leader bye bye
Is anyone else listening to annoying music? Is that "I want to be a mother" a rewrite of leftover salmon, or is it the other way 'round?
I thought his new low was 29%
It's a new low for Newsweek. The 29% is the Harris poll.
Looks ghastly, esthetically,
I can picture it perfectly, and must admit a fondess for that look myself.
It gives the computer somewhat a rebellious look, and is kind of scary/sexy in a Brando kind of way.
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Jennifer,
try the butcher shop at your Whole Foods, usually something akin to real chicken available.
OT: Gold is now at $725 / oz. that's up over $100 in a month ($200 in a year). Damn Nixon (yet again)! We shoulda stayed on the gold standard
I've been on a Dead Kennedys kick for the past week. A lot of people probably find them annoying. Most of the rest just find them appalling.
( Because PVC and Copper expand with heat at alarmingly different rates, connections between the two are inherently more leak-prone than seamless systems of one material.)
It's extremely odd to find PVC/copper connections in plumbing, since copper is usually used for supply and PVC generally used only for waste lines.
So now you know how it was done.
Computer scientists say a security hole recently found in Diebold Election Systems' touch-screen voting machines is the "worst ever" in a voting system....
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Scientists, who have conferred with Diebold representatives, said Diebold programmers created the security hole intentionally as a means of quickly upgrading voting software on its electronic voting machines.
The hole allows someone with a common computer component and knowledge of Diebold systems to load almost any software without a password or proof of authenticity and potentially without leaving telltale signs of the change.
So now you know (cont.)
"I think it's the most serious thing I've heard to date," said Johns Hopkins University computer science professor Avi Rubin, who published the first security analysis of Diebold voting software in 2003. "Even describing why I think it's serious is dangerous. This is something that's so easy to do that if the public were to hear about it, it would raise the risk of someone doing it. ... This is the worst-case scenario, almost."
Diebold representatives acknowledged the security hole to Pennsylvania elections officials in a May 1 memo but said the "probability for exploiting this vulnerability to install unauthorized software that could affect an election is considered low."
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...several computer scientists said Wednesday that those judgments are founded on the mistaken assumption that taking advantage of the security hole would require access to voting machines for a long time.
"I don't know anyone who considers two minutes lengthy, if it's that," said Michael Shamos, a Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor and veteran voting-systems examiner for the state of Pennsylvania.
"It's the most serious security breach that's ever been discovered in a voting system. On this one, the probability of success is extremely high because there's no residue. ... Any kind of cursory inspection of the machine would not reveal it."
http://www.insidebayarea.com/
por...article=3809493
I've been on a Dead Kennedys kick for the past week
When Jello spoke at UNH about 10-12 years ago, he tried to make a point about advertising by bringing up the movie Putney Swope. He asked who had seen it.
I was the only person to raise their hand.
Are you mad? Sulky the Dyke Goth Pony is surely the best pony yet! Light years beyond that awful falling-apart stuffed doll you had months ago...
'Twas wishful thinking when I wrote this song two years ago, but wishes do come true sometimes:
Great song, Uncle Smokes.
I wished mightily right after the election in '04 for Commander CooCoo Bananas to have the worst 2d term in history.
Someone out there in wish-fulfillment land apparently likes me, or else there were so damn many people wishing the same thing the momentum caught up with Chimpy. Whatever the reason, he is have the worst 2d term in history and it's not over yet.
Thank you, fairy godmother, goddesses and gods and any and every other being who might have had a hand in this.
Special thanks to the Voudon priestesses of NOLA.
(^.^) (_ _) (^.^)
Blak - I keep listening to "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round" over and over again, and thinking about how well Tony Blair fits the Margaret Thatcher character in the song.
The hole allows someone with a common computer component and knowledge of Diebold systems to load almost any software without a password or proof of authenticity and potentially without leaving telltale signs of the change.
Al Swearengen
Now we know indeed. Holy shit.
Or holey shit, as the case may be.
I've been on a Dead Kennedys kick for the past week. A lot of people probably find them annoying. Most of the rest just find them appalling.
Jennifer
I was contemplating doing of cover of "This Could Be Anywhere" from Frankenchrist:
My dad's a vigilante now. He's bringing home these weird-ass friends, like the guy who fires blanks at his TV when Kojak's on, or the guy who shows off his submachine gun to his sixteen-year-old daughter's friends, whose sense of pride and hope is being in the police reserve.
This could be anywhere,
This could be everywhere!
That album and Plastic Surgery Disasters are very useful when I get in a vile the-world-is-turning-to-shit mood.
Tena no problem I like to share!
Moon, seen this? BBC sunk by its own policy of enthroning all-knowing experts in interviews:
(By Jack Malvern)
IT WAS not until midway through the live television interview that the BBC interviewer started to grow suspicious. The man whom she believed to be an expert on internet music downloads seemed to know precious little about his subject. Not only that, but the stocky black man with the strong French accent bore little resemblance to the picture on the expert’s website, which showed a slim white man with blue eyes and blond hair. The corporation’s News 24 channel apologised to its viewers yesterday and admitted that its interviewee was not Guy Kewney, the respected editor of Newswireless.net, but a local taxi driver. The cabbie, who is better qualified to talk about traffic jams in Shepherds Bush, answered questions for several minutes on Apple Computer’s victory at the High Court against Apple Corps, the record label for the Beatles, The Times has learnt. Karen Bowerman, the BBC’s consumer affairs correspondent, asked the driver what the implications were for Apple Computer, which is allowed to continue using its name and symbol for its iTunes music download service. He gave a rambling answer about how people would be able to download songs at internet cafés. Ms Bowerman was nonplussed, but persisted. What about Apple? “I don’t know,” the driver replied. “I’m not at all sure what I’m doing here.”
I'm fuming about this right now:
WASHINGTON - Not a single state will have a highly qualified teacher in every core class this school year as promised by President Bush's education law. Nine states along with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico face penalties.
The nine states include Iowa and MN, but that's because they haven't submitted all the data. The article discusses problems that arise because of low salaries and turnover. No mention of funding cuts, of course, except when referring to cuts faced by non-compliant states.
At the end of the article, it quotes a woman who states that all students deserve the best education possible and claims that educators have been used to "getting their way with the federal government." When I googled this woman (Phyllis McClure), I found that she's affiliated with the Thomas Fordham Institute in Dayton,Ohio.
Guess what this institute seems most interested in championing? Charter schools and voucher programs.
Yes, let's not fund public education or develop ways to attract qualified individuals to the teaching profession and provide adequate materials. It gets a pittance and is expected to perform miracles. Give it even less by funding alternative schools.
NCLB is a fucking joke.
The hole allows someone with a common computer component and knowledge of Diebold systems to load almost any software without a password or proof of authenticity and potentially without leaving telltale signs of the change.
Wunner if their ATM's have the same "hole"?
kei & yuri I see, interesting
I wished mightily right after the election in '04 for Commander CooCoo Bananas to have the worst 2d term in history.
It's not bad enough yet, but it's getting there.
Sieg Howdy! by Jello & The Melvins is pretty good. It has another update of "California Uber Alles" dedicated to Der Gropenfuerher.
NCLB is a fucking joke.
But, it's one of Chimpy's proudest acheebments!
NCLB is a fucking joke.
pie
pie, love, it's Mars, bitches!
That's the only kind of government these people do. They give things cute names. End of policy-implementing.
Special thanks to the Voudon priestesses of NOLA.
My sister and I were talking about this the other day. Typically, Chimpy picked the very worst place and people to screw over.
"When I googled this woman (Phyllis McClure), I found that she's affiliated with the Thomas Fordham Institute in Dayton,Ohio.
Guess what this institute seems most interested in championing? Charter schools and voucher programs."
The "starve the beast" mentality lurks everywhere. Another part of their stealth strategy: Where I live, there's a campaign to teach the Bible as literature. They make it sound very secular and neutral till the last paragraph of their website, where they start talking about the Christian underpinnings of the Constitution.
wished mightily right after the election in '04 for Commander CooCoo Bananas to have the worst 2d term in history.
It's not bad enough yet, but it's getting there.
pie
Agreed. It needs to get worse to be the worst, but it is inexorably moving in that direction. I don't think anything could stop the momentum now, I really don't.
They give things cute names. End of policy-implementing.
I know. I know. God, I hate these people.
Why isn't Grover Norquist under indictment yet?
Running out of ponies? Use some of mine!
NCLB is a fucking joke.
Nothing with the letters N, B, and C in its acronym can be good, apparently.
I've been on a Dead Kennedys kick for the past week. A lot of people probably find them annoying. Most of the rest just find them appalling.
Jennifer | Homepage | 05.13.06 - 11:56 am | #
They are the perfect band to listen to when one is rolling down the stairs too drunk to fuck.
Oddly enough, I was in the midst of recording of cover of Dead Kennedys' "Bleed For Me" when the Abu Gharib story broke:
When cowboy Dubya comes to town
Forks out his tongue at human rights
Sit down, enjoy our ethnic meal
Dine on some Iraqi boy kebobs
Try the flight suit on
Smile in the mirror as the cameras click
And keep Big Business happy
Anytime
Anywhere
Maybe you'll just disappear
pie - It is so nice having you around more often again.
I missed you so much when you were only on the threads once in awhile.
Why in hell did I just lose my info?!!
The Red States get all the goodies. Why can't the Blue Enclaves be protected by a tasteful picket fence?
It's not bad enough yet, but it's getting there.
pie
If it is morally wrong to take pleasure in other's misfortunes, then I am going straight to hell. I keep getting happier every day.
They are the perfect band to listen to when one is rolling down the stairs too drunk to fuck.
rorschach
Just the mood music I need!
Thanks, Tena. It would be impossible to stay away at a time like this!
Special thanks to the Voudon priestesses of NOLA.
My sister and I were talking about this the other day. Typically, Chimpy picked the very worst place and people to screw over.
Lindsay
It's just about made a stone believe out of me, I'll tell you. Ever since he let NOLA drown, shit has rained down on him and it just gets heavier all the time.
Tena -
It's Starting to look an awful lot like Fitzmas?
Yeah baby!
OT: Gold is now at $725 / oz. that's up over $100 in a month ($200 in a year). Damn Nixon (yet again)! We shoulda stayed on the gold standard
zepper
I disagree with BartCop on some things, but he suggested long ago to invest heavily into oil and gold.
5/13/2004 Gold price (oz.): $375
5/13/2006 Gold price (oz.): $725
5/13/2004 Oil price (bbl.): $39
5/13/2006 Oil price (bbl.): $72
Of course, I didn't follow his advice.
I always thought that the "Left Behind" bit was a wink and a nudge to the dominionist/fundy wing.
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They are the perfect band to listen to when one is rolling down the stairs too drunk to fuck.
rorschach
;lol:!!!!!!!!!!
That is so stolen.
pie - haloscan has been doing that to everyone lately. Rebooting solves it for me.
Is this goiing to be Dopey's exit strategy? We need the troops home to guard our Mexican border from Islamofascist terra-ists? (I'd love to hear him try to pronounce "Islamofascist").
It's Starting to look an awful lot like Fitzmas?
Let's decorate and buy *happy* beverages!
Another part of their stealth strategy: Where I live, there's a campaign to teach the Bible as literature.
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DemByDefault
I assume they'll be learning Hebrew and studying Jewish culture...right? Right.
I assume they'll be learning Hebrew and studying Jewish culture...right? Right.
Uncle Smoke
Isn't it amazing how the people there don't look like Jesus anymore, light brown hair, fair skin, blue eyes....
Please, help me out on this: what does these ponies mean?
(Came to US in 2001)
This pollen is really doing a number on my sinuses, wah!
We need the troops home to guard our Mexican border from Islamofascist terra-ists?
The Fatherland needs to be protected at all costs from Mexlamistan!!!
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I just hate to think that Duncan Hunter, Jerry Lewis, Doolittle, Ney, Rove etc will be able to push back their cases past November.
Imagine the congressional bloodbath if all of these bastards are on trial during election season.
Rebooting solves it for me.
Thanks. Just noticed it was missing again.
Hey, Holden, what are you doing here? I mentioned this morning that the White House aide quoted in that story wants this over, so Bush can move forward and start paying attention to policy, since Rove has been such a distraction. Hello? What's Bush's involvement in all of this? What happened to his promise to find and punish the leaker?
What did he know and when did he know it, and who blabbed to Karl about Plame?
Yeah, but it's the final few verses of "Too Drunk to Fuck" that are so pleasingly repellant.
Karhma report from the WaPo:
STYLE
Big Names on Campus
Colleges shell out big bucks for star graduation speakers like Porter Goss, who spoke one day after he resigned.
I swear, all this rain started the day after I fixed my bicycle.
I bet if I punctured my rear tire with a very sharp knife, the sun would come out.
Oh well, back later.
This pollen is really doing a number on my sinuses, wah!
plantsman
It's a price to pay for a gorgeous Spring. Sometimes it gets so bad, you can't even breathe.
Now we know indeed. Holy shit.
Or holey shit, as the case may be.
Tena |
A few voting machines in a couple of key districts in just one swing state and the presidency is a done deal.
Ohio anyone?
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Holden - Thankee.
My, several thousand ponies certainly has a lubricating effect on your generosity!
[and what are you doing here on a Saturday?]
Damn but I'm in a good mood and full of love for all my blogkin and batties.
now go throw up and I'll quit being sweet when you come back.
Another part of their stealth strategy: Where I live, there's a campaign to teach the Bible as literature.
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DemByDefault
Then again, I can't wait to hear lessons on metaphor from The Song of Solomon: "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies."
If Karl Rove is "Bush's Brain" then he's actually responsible for all this mess.
It is possible that a man can be both an inside trader AND a fierce defender of the 4th Amendmment. In fact, the one may help facilitate the other. But it is also possible that the Bush crime family is just out to remove another obstacle in its path:
"A statement issued on behalf of Mr. Nacchio yesterday by his lawyer, Herbert J. Stern, said that after the government's first approach in the fall of 2001, "Mr. Nacchio made inquiry as to whether a warrant or other legal process had been secured in support of that request."
"When he learned that no such authority had been granted, and that there was a disinclination on the part of the authorities to use any legal process," Mr. Nacchio concluded that the requests violated federal privacy requirements "and issued instructions to refuse to comply."
The statement said the requests continued until Mr. Nacchio left in June 2002. His departure came amid accusations of fraud at the company, and he now faces federal charges of insider trading.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/1...all&
oref=slogin
Investing in gold though is like hoping for disaster because that's when it goes up. On America's Voice, the short-lived conservatron channel during the Clinton era, there were incessant advertisements for gold. It was billed as a possible last chance. We didn't pay attention because this was also in the shadow of BreX, the biggest gold mining fraud in history, which was all over Canadian news. And of course we couldn't know that the bastards would seize power and force the gold market to do what they predicted...
Ponies = "MARS, BITCHES!"
My Pretty Pony
Mix with ice:
30 mil Pineapple Juice
30 mil Vodka
Splash of Grenadine till pink
Pour into sugar rimmed cocktail glass and fill to brim with sparkling wine.
Visit your dentist regularly and enjoy.
Will taste just like A My Pretty Pony.
Cheers!
Hey Eduardo--that's one that all of us latecomers ask about. If I was smarter, this would be a live link, but I'm not so it isn't:
http://dohiyimir.typepad.com/atriotisms/
NCLB is a fucking joke.
Nothing with the letters N, B, and C in its acronym can be good, apparently.
DemByDefault
Nothing bush proposes can be good for anything except making the country FUBAR.
If you've never heard the NPR quiz show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," it's worth checking out, as you might find it as funny as I do.
Paula Poundstone had one of the funnier lines this week, commenting on the NSA scandak: "It's all a set-up by the other companies to see who's switching to Qwest."
They also had some choice words on W telling the German magazine that the highest point of his presidency was "Catching a 7.5 pound perch in my own lake." Roy Blount Jr. defended him: "I think he's right."
Blount later suggested a banner reading "Fishin' Accomplished." Poundstone wondered how they'd get an aircraft carrier into a lake in Crawford.
Another panelist (Adam Felder?) said "He tried diplomacy with the perch before he caught it. But how can he take the word of a mad fish?"
Investing in gold though is like hoping for disaster because that's when it goes up.
Yes. It's akin to making a fortune shorting stocks.
Special thanks to the Voudon priestesses of NOLA.
I understand the Hopi and the Navajo and the Apache are all dusting off some of the older, more equalising chants - from Mt. Hesperus to the San Francisco Peaks to Mount Graham, there's quite a lot of action these days....
I just hate to think that Duncan Hunter, Jerry Lewis, Doolittle, Ney, Rove etc will be able to push back their cases past November.
Imagine the congressional bloodbath if all of these bastards are on trial during election season.
I think being under indictment is enough to fuck a candidate up, unless they're in such a solidly wingnut district that a dem couldn't beat Attila The Hun.
The Song of Solomon:
it's a metaphor, it's a metaphor!! There is no sex in the Bible!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(get me with a live link, I'm smarter than i look!)
Eduardo
an
explanation toward the bottom of the page of the pony situation.
It is a kind of inside joke.
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Eduardo -
What do the ponies mean?
They could stand for the sound a butterfly's wings make on a cool spring morning.
The laughter of children at the beach.
The soft, round bottom of a puppy as it bounds after a red rubber ball across a freshly mown lawn surrounded with mighty oaks in which birds sing of peace, love and understanding.
I guess it depends on how much you like ponies.
They could stand for the sound a butterfly's wings make on a cool spring morning.
The laughter of children at the beach.
The soft, round bottom of a puppy as it bounds after a red rubber ball across a freshly mown lawn surrounded with mighty oaks in which birds sing of peace, love and understanding.
What have you been smoking?
The statement said the requests continued until Mr. Nacchio left in June 2002. His departure came amid accusations of fraud at the company, and he now faces federal charges of insider trading.
That's breathtaking - tell me that isn't a governmental reprisal against him.
Wow.
Damn helloscan!
sheets
The soft, round bottom of a puppy
Oh dear.
Rick Santorum's ears just perked up.
I have read that before, but....Scott Baio?
Isn't the Republican African-American guy who was Ohio elections commissioner or some such running for Governor now? Probably has it all Diebolded up.
Just a drive-by, Tena.
Bush may not wait until January 2009 to do the mass pardons. I think he goes for late November this year. If the democrats take over, he threatens to pardon everybody if the dems want to hold hearings.
kei & yuri and I are all alone in a new SHEETS
please join us!
Paula Poundstone had one of the funnier lines this week, commenting on the NSA scandak: "It's all a set-up by the other companies to see who's switching to Qwest."
All right! Glad to see Poundstone is still at it!
Blount's "Fishin' Accomplished" is knee-slappin' fantastic.
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Well, I've gotta engage in other equally enriching wastes of time, so y'all take care of your good selves!
Another part of their stealth strategy: Where I live, there's a campaign to teach the Bible as literature.
...
DemByDefault
Are you in GA, as we have the same thing here. I be all in favor of such, as it would teach a few fundies the Bible isn't literal. But I know damn well that's not how it will be taught.
Just a drive-by, Tena.
You mean ride-by, doncha?
Owls, blogkin. More than 1.
Bush may not wait until January 2009 to do the mass pardons. I think he goes for late November this year. If the democrats take over, he threatens to pardon everybody if the dems want to hold hearings.
trifecta
Can't pardon people of things they haven't be charged with, yet... heh
The soft, round bottom of a puppy as it bounds after a red rubber ball across a freshly mown lawn surrounded with mighty oaks in which birds sing of peace, love and understanding.
That is so fucking GAY!!!!
You, sir, need to come out of the closet.
OT: How many goddamn lawnmowers and miscellaneous motor-powered lawn-and-garden-care devices can there be in Havertown?
Too goddamn many. Yes, it is spring and there's been some rain lately. But it seems as if there has been a non-stop cacophony of mowers and cutters and edgers and trimmers and blowers and chippers and whackers each evening and on weekends.
This one is nearby; I can smell the clippings.
Ironically, until I moved last year I'd lived for twenty years in a ground-floor crackerbox apartment facing the complex's parking lot, across from a SEPTA light rail yard. I assumed that relocating to my parents' former home would mean escape from perpetual grinding mechanical noises.
Meanwhile, the first mower has stopped-- and another one is sputtering to life somewhere among the properties abutting my back yard.
PS: I use a landscaping service, myself. I warned my siblings that I had no predilection for yard work or gardening...
Thanks, everyone. Hilarious!
Holden, I hope you will get many, many more ponies.
Oh, they just tried to tell us the "eye of the needle" was a very narrow gate into Jerusalem that a heavily laden camel couldn't pass through. The implication being you could get into heaven with riches, just not will all of them.
This very same bit of pseudo-theology features in one of Robertson Davies' Deptford books (I think it's "The Manticore"). All this time I thought Davies made it up himself.
"I think the best reason to leave the president where he is because if we impeached him, Vice President Sleeping Shoot-A-Face would then get the top spot." --Anjin
I'm convinced that it'd be impossible to impeach Bush without impeaching Cheney, so it's none or both. If they're impeached before the elections, they'll just get pardoned by Hastert who's 3rd in line for the presidency. If it's delayed several months, and the Democrats can take the House, a Democrat speaker would take over the adminstration. There won't be any pardons, and a Democratic majority could actually investigate something and, you know, question these guys under oath.
Interestingly, if the implosion of the administration and Congressional Republicans continues like it has, the republicans might just proceed with an impeachment before the elections in order to get Hastert in and hold onto the majority. Then pardon those Republicans who've been impeached and indicted, bury the investigations, and continue with the pillaging of government.
Saddest. Pony. Ever.
It's Bush's fault.
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