I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
and highlights someone's black socks.
Good morning, Atrios.
watertiger: you just fell from the sky, I think!
(And, of course, you and your black socks landed on me)
Well, this isn't an "open" thread, so I guess I shouldn't play. I should go back downstairs with all the other sweaty kids.
MoDo, too.
And to think I was gonna go fly solo on the 1918 to see if I could get it over 2000. Yeah, I'll take a stick of gum, if ya got it.
On 9/11, Rudy read a book.
fuck nagourney - tortire bush and cheney! (with the truth)
Bbbbbbblack socks....
Bbbbbbblack socks...
i'm a cool daddio,
and when i put 'em on
i'm a'ready to go...
extra points for the source...
oh, good, a doable thread. Too hot for socks here in N TX.
Fear and banality in Las Vegas?
Ad Nag's post is pretty much what I expected.
Silly, silly man.
And it is nice to be able to get back on this site.
Ad Nags!
At least no one was photographed in their pj's.
Morning, Moonbats!
I wonder how much Dad won that he finally threw up some thread 
extra points for the source...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka... | Homepage | 06.10.06 - 11:19 am | #
No idea, but I'm gonna guess someone from the "Rat Pack" or a sports team!
I wonder how much Dad won that he finally threw up some thread
Sallyh
You'll notice that it's a gold-plated thread with spinning rims.
I'm really puzzled by that picture.
My dad should be home watching FoxNews, not attending Yearly Kos.
Wasted makes for sad typing.
At least no one was photographed in their pj's.
Or better,pantless!
Ok, I read the link. It wasn't witty or funny or ironic or anything. It was just dumb.
Sallyh, how're you feeling? Better, I hope.
I'm thinkin' maybe a new meme has just been born--black socks--not just for Vegas!
Black socks...and brown shoes.
As Zappa once sang, "Brown shoes don't make it."
oooh! actually went to the link - try to avoid reading anyone who has won the wanker of the day award more than once - and it was funny!
The real question however is, are we winning yet?
I'm thinkin' maybe a new meme has just been born--black socks--not just for Vegas!
noblejoanie | 06.10.06 - 11:25 am | #
Sorta like a cross between Flaubert and Johnny Cash?
Everytime I see a picture of Ad Nags I'm surprised. Deep down I'm convinced he's really just some sort of Muppet.
My dad should be home watching FoxNews, not attending Yearly Kos.
Attaturk
That's how my dad would dress to mow the lawn.
good afternoon from England Atrios
hope your not too hungover or lost all your money at the casino......
I should stop wearing black socks?
I wear all black (except when I -- I wear white socks then --is this forbidden?)
Need to go to church now -- later bats!
From last thread:
British police say they have freed without charge two brothers who were arrested in an anti-terrorist raid in east London last week, in which one of them was shot.
Well, that's nice, after Melanie Phillips screamed her 'Londonistan' bullshit for a week.
The spirit of Hunter S. is lurking.
Anyone seen any lizards in the lobby?
AdNags is a bit of a whiner.
Ok, I read the link. It wasn't witty or funny or ironic or anything. It was just dumb.
Hecate, Grammar Fag
word
ooh i love the movie version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas!
British police say they have freed without charge two brothers who were arrested in an anti-terrorist raid in east London last week, in which one of them was shot.
Only one was shot? Oh, no harm, no foul, I guess.
No idea, but I'm gonna guess someone from the "Rat Pack" or a sports team!
whiskeyina - 11:22 am
a filk on Joe Bennett and the Sparkletones Black Slacks, a really old 2-minute, 30 second radio rocker:
When I go places I just don't care
You'd know why when you see what I wear
Black slacks.....pegged 14
Black slacks ....really are keen!
Black slacks pegged cool daddy-o!
When I put em on I'm a rarin' to go
Fat, drunk, and Nagourney is no way to go through life, son.
I think everyone was supposed to be in tie dye and then they knew I was coming so they all put on button down shirts and aged
I'm sorry, but that sounds like something that would spout out of Limbaugh's blow hole.
I'm sorry, but that sounds like something that would spout out of Limbaugh's blow hole.
Stinky
Twas the point, no?
Joe Bennett and the Sparkletones Black Slacks
I was gonna guess Robert Gordon.
The spirit of Hunter S. is lurking.
Anyone seen any lizards in the lobby?
NSA
Morning at YKos...scale of the reptile that bit ya...
Did Jason Leopold ever out his bad sources?
Funerals for Gaza beach victims
Thousands of people have attended the funeral of seven members of a Palestinian family killed in an explosion on a Gaza beach on Friday.
There were emotional scenes as the bodies of a husband, wife, four daughters and a son were carried to the cemetery in the town of Beit Lahiya.
Palestinian militant group Hamas accuses Israel of killing the family.
Hamas said it fired rockets at Israel for the first time since its truce 16 months ago, in response to the deaths.
okay, from girlhood:
ahem...the OFFICIAL black socks song...
black socks, they never get dirty,
the longer you wear them, the blacker they get.
some day i'll probably launder them,
but something keeps telling me, don't do it yet.
not yet, not yet, not yet....
Nice tune, WGG. I'd like to hear you sing it!
We had 2 bags a of grass, 75 pellets of mesculin, 5 sheets of high power blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galexy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers laughers, also a quart of tequila, quart of rum, case of beer, and a pint of raw ether, the only thing that worried me was the ether, there's nothing more helpless and depraved then a man in the depths of an ether binge... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
So we have two NYT writers producing pieces that are dismissive and condescending about YKos.
Quelle surprise.
ooh i love the movie version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas!
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
One of my lovely Criterions.
Which reminds me "Dazed & Confused" came out in Criterion this week.
Must purchase.
When's Rove gonna get indicted? My Boone's Farm is getting past the pull date.
Very nice, Ruth.
guys,
it's a parody site. just an fyi.
HoneyBearKelly I just have an ordinary vanilla disk, from the Netherlands! (ordered it off e-bay).
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
One of my all-time favorite opening lines for a book:
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
okay, from girlhood:
ahem...the OFFICIAL black socks song...
And here I thought the official song was about Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack...who wore a dress (and socks) that was black, black, black.
Shows what I know.
I was gonna guess Robert Gordon.
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 06.10.06 - 11:31 am
he covered it, shore enough...
Bennett's was the original, i bleeve...
Thnks, whiskeyina.
(takes bow) I suspect it's sung to the tune of Oh Susanna or something.
Morning at YKos...scale of the reptile that bit ya...
Uncle Smokes
Yes! Uncle Smokes - we bow to your superior photographic memory!
Live yearlykos coverage!
http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog
it's a parody site. just an fyi.
The comments were funnier.
Gay activists hold Warsaw rally
Thousands of people have taken part in a gay rights march in the Polish capital to protest against ongoing discrimination against homosexuals.
The march was given the go-ahead by Warsaw city officials after being banned for the last two years.
There was a heavy police presence at the rally which passed off peacefully and was also attended by politicians and international supporters.
Activists have accused the government of fuelling hostility towards them.
City officials had also given the green light to a counter-protest by a far-right youth movement called Polish Youth.
So is Kos actually going leave Yearly Kos to be on "Press the Meat" tomorrow?
Or does it end before that?
Yes! Uncle Smokes - we bow to your superior photographic memory!
NSA
Well, thanks...but 'tis evidence of a misspent youth. I've probably read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas more times than any other book. I've bought several copies over the years, because I ultimately give them away to folks I think need it.
Do they still make Boone's Farm Apricot splash?
It makes great underarm deodorant.
Water Tiger, I don't see that Ad Nags real article in today's NY Times was any more (or less) erudite than Atrios' link.
Maybe they're doing a remote res ipsa.
And I'd better go do some errands before futból takes over my life.
Diane - the real press is in other places - check the SF Chronicle actual reporting for example.
OT: Had a wonderful time in my tiny garden yesterday! Turned over and worked in some fantabulous organic amendments and fertilizer; then planted out a bunch of things. They included
3 Dryopteris wallichiana wood ferns, some variegated and gaudy New Guinea Impatiens, some "Rustic Orange" Coleus, an upright fuchsia that is clearly derived from the old "Gartenmeister Bonstedt" variety, a clump of "White Stargazer" Oriental Lily, a luscious deep red calla, some Golden Creeping Jenny, an Abutilon pictum thompsonii, and three little clumps of dark-leaved white clover, Trifolium repens "Dark Dancer." What fun!
plantsman, lowercase
Im jealous. The plumbago is alive, heartily, the bougainvillea is doing very well, but all the crops are over with, the tomatoes are gone - I've even just now harvested the celery seed from the celery, preparatory to saying goodbye. The only other flower I can keep going from now until October (other than portulaca) will be the landscape gerania - somehow they're just tough enough....
And Atrios cuts it pretty damned fine if he thinks he's going to have enough coffee before 9am to be on the ethics panel. He doesn't even have time to shave.
So is Kos actually going leave Yearly Kos to be on "Press the Meat" tomorrow?
Or live-via-remote.
In which case, expect "technical difficulties" right around the time Markos breaks out the punkin' carving tools...
Diane--I'm fine, trying to get some housework done before Monsieur wakes up and complains about my not being on the sofa.
Dean at YKos: 'we need you to run for office.' Talking about running for library trustee: 'we need people who believe in reading books, not burning them.'
And here I thought the official song was about Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack...who wore a dress (and socks) that was black, black, black.
Shows what I know.
driftglass | Homepage | 06.10.06 - 11:36 am | #
I finally got to go on a field trip with my kindergartener's class a couple weeks ago. To a big park. On the grounds was an old meeting house that had been moved there from a nearby town.
Sweet small wood building filled with a bunch of giggling kids. I said I'd love to hear them sing a song and asked the teacher if there was one they all knew. She picked a student to choose. And "Miss Mary Mack" it was. Belted out by 20-some 5 & 6 year olds. Lovely.
[My comments are so long. I really should get my own blog!]
Lizard Lounge is the exposed republican spirit, eh?
One of those guys is Cheney in his reptile, flesh eating, puppy blood drinking form. When he shifts back to human VP form, it is very tiring, as we have all seen recently.
it's a parody site. just an fyi.
watertiger
The original in the NYTimes was less coherent.
Byron York's hair will be on, too, drifty. He'll come through loud and clear, though?
OT but set your TiVo for next week:
The Daily Show: Thomas “6-Months” Friedman on 6/12; Ken “What phone jamming?” Mehlman on 6/13, Tim Russert on 6/14, Louis C.K. on 6/15
The Colbert Report: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on 6/12; author of The Weather Makers Tim Flannery on 6/13; David Sirota on 6/14; science author Michael Pollan on 6/15; ABCNews’ Jacqueline Shire on 6/19; author of Misquoting Jesus Bart Ehrman on 6/20; Bay Buchanan on 6/21; historian Doug Brinkley on 6/22
Letterman: Tim Russert on 6/13, Stephen Colbert on 6/14
Dean is great. Open-collared, unguarded. 'Thank you for coming to my defence every time the Washington politicians tell me we should be doing it the old way.'
I said I'd love to hear them sing a song and asked the teacher if there was one they all knew. She picked a student to choose. And "Miss Mary Mack" it was. Belted out by 20-some 5 & 6 year olds. Lovely.
Just as long as they sang it in English. Otherwise, y'know, the terrorists have won
Latest FaBlog: Adam Nagourney Saved From Drowning
Diane--I'm fine, trying to get some housework done before Monsieur wakes up and complains about my not being on the sofa.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | - 11:40 am
the beast!
insisting you take care of your poorly-feeling self...
well, whaddaya 'spect: he's a man...
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Where are you guys watching Dean?
AAR stream?
it's a parody site. just an fyi.
watertiger
The original in the NYTimes was less coherent.
Tom - ???
All three of these are parody sites...??? Right?
WTF? We're not the martini swilling, tux wearing crowd that populates neo con gatherings? I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you.....
New shark discovered in US waters
A new type of hammerhead shark has been discovered in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, marine scientists say.
The shark resembles a common species called the scalloped hammerhead but has not yet been classified or named.
US researchers say the animal appears to be rare, breeding only in waters off the South Carolina coast.
They believe the shark is at risk of extinction and conservation efforts are needed to protect females when they are raising their pups.
The shark was discovered by a biology professor at the University of South Carolina.
Oh, man... the AdNags was t3h funnay.
HICA! gulls and buoys.
.
'Do they still make Boone's Farm Apricot splash?
It makes great underarm deodorant.
NSA '
pickling eggs in it ought to be easier.
Actually, the real Ad Nags report is pretty good.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/
1...artner=homepage
NYT website even has a pic on the front page now.
They may think of themselves as rebels, separate from mainstream politics and media. But by the end of a day on which the convention halls were shoulder to shoulder with bloggers, Democratic operatives, candidates and Washington reporters, it seemed that bloggers were well on the way to becoming — dare we say it? — part of the American political establishment. Indeed, the convention, the first of what organizers said would become an annual event, seems on the way to becoming as much a part of the Democratic political circuit as the Iowa State Fair.
Is this focus on bloggers as an outgrowth of the democratic party a result of the influence of dKos, as a party-building entity?
As became clear from the rather large and diverse crowd here, the blogosphere has become for the left what talk radio has been for the right: a way of organizing and communicating to supporters. Blogging is nowhere near the force among Republicans as it is among Democrats, and talk radio is a much more effective tool for Republicans.
AdNags finally made the connection.
might have received had he walked into the dowdy ballroom at the Riviera Hotel and Casino.
Oh, Adam, Adam, Adam.... Would you have been happier at the Plaza? You know you would have been.... So dreadful of the management to force you to attend something Out West in Vegas. And it's not even the Bellagio. They didn't know enough to comp you, did they? I'm so sorry.
Hard to find GOPukes at the YKos?
yeah, well fook'n DUH!!!
whaddafarkinyutz, lil adnags is...
.
it's a parody site. just an fyi.
Oh, I'm opposed to those.
What is the source of the black socks infatuation?
"A very painful experience in every way, a proper end to the sixties. Tim Leary a prisoner of Eldridge Cleaver in Algeria, Bob Dylan clipping coupons in Greenwich Village, both Kennedys murdered by mutants, Owsley folding napkins on Terminal Island, and finally Cassius/Ali belted incredibly off his pedestal by a human hamburger, a man on the verge of death. Joe Frazier, like Nixon, had finally prevailed for reasons that people like me refused to understand--at least not out loud.
"But that was some other era, burned out and long gone from the brutish realities of this foul year of Our Lord, 1971. A lot of things had changed in those years.
...
"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
-- Huner S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Looking for brilliant parody?
And now I better get off my butt... Keep me posted!
Woody--he's wonderful, actually, but I'm not good with everyone else doing stuff and I'm loafing.
WTF? We're not the martini swilling, tux wearing crowd that populates neo con gatherings? I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you.....
moe99
Wellllllll.....
Let's just say that I've never been to a neo-con gathering.
What is the source of the black socks infatuation?
masculine_monica_nyc
A Watertiger comment from downthread...
Woody--he's wonderful, actually, but I'm not good with everyone else doing stuff and I'm loafing.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | - 11:52 am
i knew dat...rilly!!!!
What is the source of the black socks infatuation?
masculine_monica_nyc
The photo at the NYTimes AdNags.
Thanks, Uncle Smokes.
What is the source of the black socks infatuation?
masculine_monica_nyc
You know, I think it may be less some kind of gibe at computer users than the traditional 'lookit those people who don't know how to dress at a resort'. Maybe. A malign stereotype of course, but one that's just misapplied.
It strikes me that Adam's coverage owes waaaaay to much to having read clips describing Bill Gates at InterOp and other major computer conventions in Vegas during the 90s. Struggling for analogies and refusing to grasp that the correct one is that of the Grange or other populist conventions....
Last time I was in Vegas I was suprised at how slobby everyone dressed, at least the guys.
It strikes me that Adam's coverage owes waaaaay to much to having read clips describing Bill Gates at InterOp and other major computer conventions in Vegas during the 90s. Struggling for analogies and refusing to grasp that the correct one is that of the Grange or other populist conventions....
GWPDA, BA, CPhil, PhD
Brilliant (as usual) and right on the mark.
How to steal $21 billion:
http://www.counterpunch.org/
lind...ff06072006.html
AdNags probaly got rejected by several showgirls there.
David E. has graciously linked to the black socks.
Diane, that's the beauty of the AdNags site.
Partisanpoet: Last time I was in Vegas I was suprised at how slobby everyone dressed, at least the guys.
That's nature's way of eliminating the absolute need for gaydar.
.
Woody--he's wonderful, actually, but I'm not good with everyone else doing stuff and I'm loafing.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Okay - stop loafing go make me some toast....
Last time I was in Vegas I was suprised at how slobby everyone dressed, at least the guys.
Partisanpoet - 11:56 am
Las Vegas is not a place to which i would look for sartorial splendor, or even much taste...it is both the epitome and the epigone of kitsch, after all...
.
You know what happens when you refuse to learn the lessons of history?
next match up
Trinandad and Tobago vs. Sweden
my dad has a bet on Sweden losing in the final.
*Trinidad and Tobago
'Let's just say that I've never been to a neo-con gathering.
Diane'
they don't gather, they lurk.
now must go garden. later.
Las Vegas is not a place to which i would look for sartorial splendor, or even much taste...it is both the epitome and the epigone of kitsch, after all...
.
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka...
Every time I'm there I'm impressed by the number of people in white knits with gold lame fringe. I'm not sure where you go to buy those ensembles, except possibly the Flamingo dress shops.... However, I mostly put it down to the same problem afflicting folks visiting Phoenix - an outrageously large number of people who imagine that tank tops and shorts are somehow de rigeur for all occasions. GWPDA said, reaching into the closet for the lightweight abba necessary for venturing out into the heat and sun....
Let's just say that I've never been to a neo-con gathering.
Diane'
they don't gather, they lurk.
i'da said "they don't gather, they congeal..."
.
You know what happens when you refuse to learn the lessons of history?
Hecate, Grammar Fag
You're forced to take the class again next semester?
is it time for the blogger ethics panel?
Trinandad and Tobago vs. Sweden
my dad has a bet on Sweden losing in the final.
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
That's no fair... two countries against one?
Las Vegas is the American interpretation of the classless society.
okay, the hounds beckon at the door, demanding their morning constitutional...
later batzes...
.
What's wrong with a US Postal Service letter carrier attending Yearly Kos?
Meanwhile, I'm catching the world cup fever. At random intervals, I blurt out GOAAALLL
You're forced to take the class again next semester?
Unfortunately, that's correct. And I'm afraid Bush is going to be taking this class over and over and over and over and . . . .
Bush has no class.
40/1 Ivory Coast play in the final
What's wrong with a US Postal Service letter carrier attending Yearly Kos?
noblejoanie
Good God! Hopefully nothing.
Looks to me like Cspan isnt broadcasting realtime. In which case I shall now nip out to the PO....
Fuck. Rick Larsen, one of the last good guys and my local rep, one the few reasonable reps left, sold out on HR 5252. Rick my man, WTF???
hahahah! Christy at FDL says Atrios has exceptional taste in shirts!
The hell?
Hibhib - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was accompanied by women who wore skimpy clothes and read magazines on current affairs and militant propaganda, an inspection of the house he was killed in showed on Saturday.
I let my 14 year-old nephew pick first for last night's two World Cup matches. So he picks Germany and Poland (of course) and I expected to be out three quid.
Heh.
England was looking raggedy at the end, although I missed most of the second half watching the end of today's stage in the Dauphine Libere.
Panel is on, folks.
Hibhib - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was accompanied by women who wore skimpy clothes and read magazines on current affairs and militant propaganda, an inspection of the house he was killed in showed on Saturday.
watertiger
Heh. Bet it wasn't him after all.
Ya'll wanna see questionable fashion and black socks?
Check me out at the EschaCon 2005 picnic!
[Courtesy of Trailer Trash at It's morning somewhere, Old White Lady's blog. Anyone seen her around lately?]
With my ample size (and age), I dress for comfort, not style. Indeed, the socks were pulled up because the grass was tall where I traipsed about snapping photos.
Still...quite a sight.
Check me out at the EschaCon 2005 picnic!
Who is the dork in the foreground taking a picture of you?
Hibhib - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was accompanied by women who wore skimpy clothes and read magazines on current affairs and militant propaganda, an inspection of the house he was killed in showed on Saturday.
watertiger
Were the clothes skimpy before or after the bombs hit?
One of my all-time favorite opening lines for a book:
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 06.10.06 - 11:35 am | #
Proud graduate of Barstow High School, here. FALILV is one of our prouder literary references. The next most popular quote is a travel article in Sunset Magazine.
Christofascist caught with bomb and guns planning to attack abortion clinics. Not Islamofascist trying to buy bomb making materials; christofascist with actual bomb. CNN will talk about Canadian terrorist wannabes, why not actual US terrorist?
Yearly Kos made the bigtime and is now on CSPAN CLASSIC!
BTW, when someone mentioned "Miss Mary Mack" upthread, did anyone besides me mistakenly think of this song?
Miss Molly had a steamboat the steamboat had a bell (Ding, Ding), Miss Molly went to Heaven, the steamboat went to Hell-o operator please give me number nine, And if you disconnect me, I'll kick you from Behind the 'fridgerator there was a piece of glass, Miss Molly sat upon it and broke her big fat ass-k me no more questions, tell me no more lies, the boys are in the bathroom room zipping up their Flies are in the city, the bees are in the park, Miss Molly and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K D-A-R-K, DARK, DARK, DARK, Dark is like a movie, a movie's like a show, a show is like a TV show, and that is all I know!
smitty werbenmanjensen i think England were ok during the 1st half but fell to pieces in the second.
my dad has a bet on Ivory Coast to beat Argentina tonight
Check me out at the EschaCon 2005 picnic!
I see that pic and I think "artist"!
Most wing-nuts are potential terrorists.
Let's see one of those exceptional shirts then....
And look at that! Why John Javna must be the DLC's link to the next generation hunh?
Maureen Dowd hits upon something while covering Yearly Kos that I could’ve told her months ago: We’re growing up and turning into the establishment against which we’re rebelling.
It was inevitable, I guess.
I admit I actually enjoy watching the teevee show "Las Vegas" with James Caan. It has that "Love Boat" cheezieness and is neither a sitcom, a soap, nor a crime drama. It's an almagam of goofiness. Just pure glitz and silliness. My cup of tea.
One of my all-time favorite opening lines for a book:
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
Uncle Smokes
Hey! I wrote that!
Let's just say that I've never been to a neo-con gathering.
- Diane
What? You've never attended one of the fetes at the Bohemian Club?
It's too bad. They paint their asses blue and dance around the campfire until John Bolton guides his wife out onto a ritual slab of redwood where she is offered in a sexual rite of fertility.
You don't know what you're missing. The Republican leadership really knows how to throw a party.
Live: Trinidad and Tobago 0-0 Sweden
Maureen Dowd hits upon something while covering Yearly Kos that I could’ve told her months ago: We’re growing up and turning into the establishment against which we’re rebelling.
She's just fucking bitter that she's not the star of the party.
Boy jurassicpork, you're a downer this fine rainy Saturday. I'll have you know I am still considered quite immature for my advanced age, thank you.
John Gibson says YearlyKos attendees are disappointed at the killing of Zarqawi and think that it was staged to upstage their convention.
I think John Gibson got a hold of some strong crack and has lost his mind.
bloody haloscam
I see that pic and I think "artist"!
watertiger
Well, you're a sweetie, my dear. I see a curmudegonly and eccentric confirmed bachelor with questionable habits and even more questionable acquantances. 
Security Clearance Denied.
[Oh well, I'll continue to change the system from the outside...waaaaaaay oustside.]
Gotta fix some lunch. Y'all take care of your good selves, black socks and all!
John Gibson says YearlyKos attendees are disappointed at the killing of Zarqawi and think that it was staged to upstage their convention.
without strawmen and projected psychoses, al-Foxeera would have nothing to broadcast except Golden Girls and post-Radar MASH reruns.
i've only just turned 20 this year, so plenty of time!
If John Gibson actually said that, I'll start carrying around a Josh Gibson # 36 baseball bat in case I ever see him on the street. That is a blood libel.
John Gibson needs a wash!
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i've only just turned 20 this year, so plenty of time!
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
Gee I wish I could say that.
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DARK, DARK, Dark is like a movie, a movie's like a show, a show is like a TV show, and that is all I know!
The Kenosha Kid
Actually, I believe both songs are what we used to call "skipping songs", to be recited while skipping rope.
http://counterpunch.org/
swanson0...on06052006.html
Why there is no good reason to stay in Iraq and why there are good reasons to get out now.
There's an important book at called "Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal" by Anthony Arnove. The book has a Foreword and an Afterword by Howard Zinn, who in 1967 published "Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal." Arnove's book is important because it refutes all the major claims against immediate withdrawal.
Arnove begins with some historical background, and then lays out an overwhelming case for the following points. I'll list them here, but you'll need to read the book (it's only 100 pages) for the arguments:
1. The U.S. military has no right to be in Iraq in the first place. It turns out the Iraq war was not a mistake at all, and so the mistake cannot be continued even for an hour. The Iraq War was and is a crime.
Rest at the link.
Larsen voted against 5252 and FOR the telecoms.
Hibhib - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was found with a portrait of FDR...or so says the Italian press.
Well get out that bat Bad Art because you can read about it here.
The future of net neutrality rests with the senate. So net neutrality is done, ruined, fucked?
I never thought Jerry Lewis was funny.
I never thought Jerry Lewis was funny.
How the hell did that happen? Sorry for the double post.
Say - is Our A. on this panel or on another one?
Hibhib - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was found with a portrait of FDR...or so says the Italian press.
Nûr al-Cubicle
Pressed close to his chest no doubt. They're, the Italian press, are working madly on a Nigerian yellow-cake story too. Saddam plans to reconstitute his nuclear weapons program.
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Moon- tell me that Inglaterra flag on your blog is photoshopped- either way George is not amused!
I never thought Jerry Lewis was funny.
That the French love Jerry Lewis is the one legimate gripe about the French that I have heard.
If it's true, of course.
Haloscan is eating my posts, and just put watertiger's name and posting info on my screen
Miss Sue from Alabama, sitting in her rocker, eating Betty Crocker, watching the clock go, tick-tock, tick-tock-a-rammalamma!
In Billy Wilder's Avanti!, Jack Lemmon skinny-dips with Juliette Mills -- wearing black socks!
Hank Scorpio hah nope the flag is real!
Did anybody see this cartoon from Webb that Miller's campaign is saying is anti-semitic? am I missing something?
Via HuffPo
http://www.timesdispatch.com/ser...=!news!
politics
How the hell did that happen? Sorry for the double post.
I cannot forgive. The pain is still too fresh.
That the French love Jerry Lewis is the one legimate gripe about the French that I have heard.
If it's true, of course.
Well, I'm half French, and think he's halfway funny.
The Logic of Withdrawal" by Anthony Arnove.
Too bad Chimpy's pop didn't read that book.
GWPDA,
Announcement just before this panel started said they would cover YearlyKos until 3:30 PM. Thinking there must be another panel before that time.
Well, I'm half French, and think he's halfway funny.
chris/tx | 06.10.06 - 12:35 pm | #
but, which half thinks he's funny?
Too bad there was no cat blogging yesterday. Here's an image of a cat
treeing a bear in New Jersey!
http://www.repubblica.it/2006/
05...6083236_big.jpg
The sky is falling!
"Record meteorite hit Norway
As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima. At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky. A few minutes later an impact could be heard and geophysics and seismology research foundation NORSAR registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances at 02:13.25 a.m. at their station in Karasjok. Farmer Peter Bruvold was out on his farm in Lyngseidet with a camera because his Mare Virika was about to foal for the first time. Astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard, said "the meteorite was visible to an area of several hundred kilometers despite the brightness of the midnight sunlit summer sky. The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms."
I wonder if I were willing to sit in a sports bar and drink beer all afternoon if I could convince them to turn one TV onto CSPAN?
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Ad Nags is sad. Too cool for everybody, apparently. It's a shame he couldn't have enjoyed himself - but hey, Southwest to Cancun, that's style!
Too bad there was no cat blogging yesterday. Here's an image of a cat
treeing a bear in New Jersey!
That cat must've thought he was THE SHIT!
I wonder if I were willing to sit in a sports bar and drink beer all afternoon if I could convince them to turn one TV onto CSPAN?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Why not? there's no big sports events going on these days....
The 'killing' of Zarqawi was a staged stunt...
the purpose of which was to drive the news and stories of USer troops' atrocities against civilians n Iraq off the front pages...
fuukin DUH!
DemByDefault: Why not? there's no big sports events going on these days....
Heh! Still, relatively "true," given where I live.
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The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms."
Doug,
Al, you were right again.
Perhaps Curly and the rabbit could entertain the Sports Bar patrons?
i remember a story about them refusing to take out Zarquawi before the war, because that would have removed one pretext for invading iraq, even though he was in a sector that the Iraq govt didnt control.
It was inevitable, I guess.
jurassicpork - 12:20 pm
speak for y'rseff, son!
i am getting old, but i am NOT 'growing up'!
the purpose of which was to drive the news and stories of USer troops' atrocities against civilians n Iraq off the front pages...
fuukin DUH!
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka
Exactly!
And to make sure everyone got the importance of this story, they had the grisly photo of al Zarqawi's face matted and framed.
(I am still ashamed of that cold bit of asshattery.)
plantsman: Perhaps Curly and the rabbit could entertain the Sports Bar patrons?
I can't take a minor into a bar!
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i remember a story about them refusing to take out Zarquawi before the war, because that would have removed one pretext for invading iraq, even though he was in a sector that the Iraq govt didnt control.
Yeah, that is truly grotesque, if true (as it probably is). On the other hand, better late than never. If anyone needed killin it was him. Unlike the thousands of innocent Iraqis.
they had the grisly photo of al Zarqawi's face matted and framed - Diane
I thought he looked kind of good for having two 500 lb bombs go off in the house, a little puffy around the lips and eyes maybe, but serene over all.
We should all look so good dead.
I can't take a minor into a bar!
Er, why not?
Damn - a new thread.
Finally!
Al, don't go all Hollywood on us. You're too good a man to waste your life on booze, drugs, and starlet ass.
That cat must've thought he was THE SHIT!
That cat was THE SHIT (and he knew it)!
Damn - a new thread.
Finally!
That other one was ridiculous. I think I just caught it at the end, but it was really funny how huge that got.
And to make sure everyone got the importance of this story, they had the grisly photo of al Zarqawi's face matted and framed.
(I am still ashamed of that cold bit of asshattery.) | Diane - 12:46 pm
Me too.
i am getting old, but i am NOT 'growing up'!
On Nostalgia Tour 2004 when we stopped off at my old hometown, the S2BX said I didn't growup there so much as grow tall. Indeed.
"i remember a story about them refusing to take out Zarquawi before the war, because that would have removed one pretext for invading iraq, even though he was in a sector that the Iraq govt didnt control."
Jim Miklasewski (sp?) on NBC reported this in '04, I believe; it was all over AA yesterday. Did this get any mention on the Tweety show or any of its various counterparts>
That cat was THE SHIT (and he knew it)!
Jack? Yeah, he's a tough mother.
I'm growing older but not up
my metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck
(actually ver unpleasantly so, in my case)
Snow: Er, why not?
We have some laws, here. Actually, I think in most places, kids can be anywhere except the immediate bar area... which is where I'd most likely get a shot at some CSPAN.
(and of course, the whole discussion is ridiculous, 'cause I haven't had coffee yet, let alone breakfast!)
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"i remember a story about them refusing to take out Zarquawi before the war, because that would have removed one pretext for invading iraq, even though he was in a sector that the Iraq govt didnt control."
Geov Parrish has a good treatment of Zarqawi the Myth.
Al, don't go all Hollywood on us. You're too good a man to waste your life on booze, drugs, and starlet ass.
Lime Rickey
Is there a parallel thread here, much like a quantum universe, one that exists alongside this one only I can't see it?
We should all look so good dead.
Al Swearengen
And hey, he hadn't even been stuffed and mounted yet.
And to make sure everyone got the importance of this story, they had the grisly photo of al Zarqawi's face matted and framed.
(I am still ashamed of that cold bit of asshattery.)
Diane
As am I.
But, hey, according to the wingers and all the other war cheerleaders, "those people" are the savages and barbarians.
Did anybody see this cartoon from Webb that Miller's campaign is saying is anti-semitic? am I missing something?
If you are detecting WATBiness then no.
This is Harris Miller (on the right).
This is Harris Miller (on the right).
No it isn't.
And hey, he hadn't even been stuffed and mounted yet.
Al Swearengen
Who, Al?
And hey, he hadn't even been stuffed and mounted yet.
Al Swearengen
They gonna put him next to Trigger?
I wasted about 10 seconds defending MoDo yesterday and her latest column makes that a big regret. Pretty obnoxious.
Wanking turtles...
I thought he looked kind of good for having two 500 lb bombs go off in the house, a little puffy around the lips and eyes maybe, but serene over all.
We should all look so good dead.
Al Swearengen | Homepage | 06.10.06 - 12:50 pm | #
Those companies that sell to the defense dept., they all have promotional videos, as part of their sales pitches, right? I'm just picturing one where the suave voice-over guy says, 'and the striking power of our BigBopper A-class 500 pound bombs guarantees that a direct hit by two of them will wound its target so severely that well-executed on-the-ground followup will finish them off 97% of the time.'
Her take on the Kos Convention was pretty crappy... it was on JurassicPork's site.
Hmmm, linky no worky.
Try again, Harris Miller
But, hey, according to the wingers and all the other war cheerleaders, "those people" are the savages and barbarians.
Terry C, Politikal Girl
Heh, it's probably a good thing the US troops got there when they did, which may explain why they did. Given a little time, it's hard to say whether the Iraqi troops would have left the head on the body.
I suspect it would have become the ball in a pick-up soccer game before long.
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We should all look so good dead.
At least we get thin.
Her take on the Kos Convention was pretty crappy... it was on JurassicPork's site.
Figures. In some things, being MSM trumps everything else.
I'm just picturing one where the suave voice-over guy says, 'and the striking power of our BigBopper A-class 500 pound bombs guarantees that a direct hit by two of them will wound its target so severely that well-executed on-the-ground followup will finish them off 97% of the time.'
Well if the blast, fire and shrapnel don't get the, the concussion sure as hell will.
It appears he got quite lucky on the first three, which can happen from time to time.
It appears he got quite lucky on the first three, which can happen from time to time.
Al Swearengen | Homepage | 06.10.06 - 1:02 pm | #
But...500 pounds, how large of an area is supposed to unsurvivable? He wasn't even in a bunker, was he? Just a house?
But...500 pounds, how large of an area is supposed to unsurvivable? He wasn't even in a bunker, was he? Just a house?
fourmorewars
Let's just say he was intact on the outside, but soft and mushy on the inside.
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From 1Watt Hermit's link @ 11:57am, how to mismanage--or embezzle?--billions and billions of dollars. But, it's OKIYAR.
...one of the laws the president chose to ignore was the one establishing the special inspector general post for Iraq. What the president did was write a so-called "signing statement" on the side (unpublicized of course), saying that the new inspector general would have no authority to investigate any contracts or corruption issues involving the Pentagon.
Well, since most of the missing money has been going to the military in Iraq, that pretty much meant nothing of consequence would be discovered by the inspector general.
You might think that the inspector general himself would have complained about such a restriction on his authority to do the job that Congress had intended, but Bush took care of that. In his role as Chief Executive, he appointed Bowen to the post, a man who has a long history of working as a loyal manservant to the president. Bowen was a deputy general counsel for Governor Bush (meaning he was an assistant to the ever solicitous solicitor Alberto Gonzales). He did yeoman service to Bush as a member of the term that handled the famous vote count atrocity in Florida in the November 2000 election, and then worked under Gonzales again in the White House during Bush's first term, before returning briefly to private practice.
Bowen simply never mentioned to anyone that, courtesy of a secretive and unconstitutional order from the president, he was not doing the job that Congress had intended.
Shouldn't this be grounds for impeachment?
Please?
Uh, Anonymous at 1:26 is me. 'Puter problems.
It ain't snarky and it ain't always flattering to our own kind, but these are my impressions of what's going on with our brothers and sisters in Vegas.
why is kos allowing gina to coordinate the convention for free? he should pay her something. even if it's just a token compensation that doesn't reflect all the work she's done.
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 06.10.06 - 12:14 pm | #
Hey, Uncle Smokes. I've been around, just not a lot. Too many pressing things that needed to be done! Thanks for putting a link to my blog, though. That was cool!
Trying to figure out why I wasted precious moments of my life scrolling through this worthless thread...YEGODS! So, no one was bothered by C-Span finking out on the coverage (I know, technical difficulties) of yesterday's panels...sadly, I'm think no one here actually watched and/or listened to the speakers talking about the importance of reframing and dialoguing about progressive positions. It was well presented, clear, and helpful...should be required watching/listening for those who continue to pontificate from the left.
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