I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Fristamajig!
Haven't we passed the time long ago when we expected graceful behavior from the Whiny One?
macaca!
I dunno,
If he finds himself down 20% in the polls, I think he might just hang it up.
I thought he'd exit by my birthday...now, I'm not so sure.
He really has circumvented protocol, though.
Lieberloser--closer to Cal Thomas than Norman Thomas.
I predict that Lieberman will have a family crisis/health crisis/need to serve the nation by becoming chairman of some committee.
Fuck State Farm in hell!
And, yeah, Lieberman's bad too.
Graceful exit, as in wearing a tutu?
Whatever works.
Lieberman will cut and run as soon as somebody offers him an attractive fallback position. Let him be ambassador to Israel or something...
Well, hell, then he's sullied his family name for years to come for no reason.
That's even worse.
His only graceful way out is to commit seppaku, at this point.
Why doesn't he just come out of the closet?
His "leanings" are rather obvious to anyone that's paying attention.
As long as he is ahead, why would he quit. Or even if tied. But I don't see any possibility of him quiting. No matter how far behind he should fall.
Aside from Blackwater’s connection to the DeVos family, Blackwater also maintains close relations with the Bush administration. A recent article in The Nation reveals that Blackwater has been awarded over $320 million since June of 2004 to provide “diplomatic security” services around the world as part of the State Department’s obscure Worldwide Personal Protective Service (WPPS) program to protect United States officials and “certain foreign government high level officials whenever the need arises.” Despite being little known before the killing of four of its private security contractors in March of 2004, Blackwater had and continues to hold the high-profile job of guarding senior United States officials in Iraq. Following the March 2004 incident, Blackwater hired lobbyists and the Alexander Strategy Group to build its reputation within the administration and reported 600% growth by fall of 2004. Blackwater troops were also hired to work in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and have been paid more than $30 million for work that involved efforts to “guard homes of the rich in New Orleans” according to The Guardian. Both Blackwater’s work in Iraq and New Orleans has been problematic, with the company being sued by the families of some of its contractors killed in Iraq and being accused of overcharging in New Orleans.
Crazy as a loon. I ought to know I'm Canadian!
Lieberman will cut and run as soon as somebody offers him an attractive fallback position
What kind of position would he be offered as soon as the rethugs realize he's no longer a useful tool?
Why doesn't he just come out of the closet?
His "leanings" are rather obvious to anyone that's paying attention.
You mean he's a closet heterosexual?
Did you guys see JeffCO's comment on the thread below about Angie Paccione being within four points of Marilyn Musgrave?
Woo Fucking Hoooooo!
(I have invested a wee bit in that race...)
That was for Vicki. This De Vos bastard, he no good. No good at all. Atrios got to help start throwing a little attention on the Michigan Gubernatorial Race.
If he finds himself down 20% in the polls, I think he might just hang it up.
blerb
Nah, he'll just have a Quinniption fit...
Why doesn't he just come out of the closet?
His "leanings" are rather obvious to anyone that's paying attention.
Steve French
Republican?
Maybe he'll pull a Mrs. Alito and have Hadassah cry on TV.
This little girl in the Lebanese hospital is breaking my heart. Glad the chickenhawks can sleep. I wish them a peaceful rest tonight.
JJR ~
I agree.
Atrios, Granholm is the most endangered, Democratic gubernatorial candidate this year.
We really need you to shed some love our way.
Snow,
We'll get you a gyro in October. With lotsa garlicky yogurt sauce.
A graceful exit? When pigs fly through hell and it's already frozen over.
The dismantling of Lebanon has broken my heart. A comparable event in Amerika would have a four TRILLION dollar price tag. Think of what the motherfucking Israelis have done, acting as little punks for the Administration.
The man has forgotten how to say or do anything except what he thinks it will take to hold his senate seat. All the proof you need is in his response to Christopher Shays' call for a withdrawal timetable:
"It seems to me that Chris saying, maybe we ought to set some goals for when we want to get out and I'd like to see what he has in mind before I comment on it," Lieberman said while campaigning in New Haven, Conn.
Unfortunately, you'll never hear CNN juxtapose his earlier condemnations of Lamont for essentially the same position with this grudging, desperate bleat. Maybe Jon Stewart will come through.
Lieberman will not quit. He's a very annoying, creepy, jowly Captain Ahab out for the Great White Wank.
As long as he is ahead, why would he quit. Or even if tied. But I don't see any possibility of him quiting. No matter how far behind he should fall.
Snow, Smart Alec
That's a very wise and salient point. I think we need to realize that it's entirely possible that Lieberman will actually win. He's an incumbent, he has wealthy backers, and he's appealing to the GOP base because the GOP candidate isn't worth anything.
I suspect he will stay in to the bitter end.
Lieberman will cut and run as soon as somebody offers him an attractive fallback position. Let him be ambassador to Israel or something...
Or SoD...
If Lieberman committed seppaku (and I'm probably not spelling that right, but you get the idea), he could go down as a tragic figure.
Shit, I'd even feel bad for him. I bet a lot of us would. We'd feel bad for his family, talk about the good things he did once, shake our heads and wonder "What the hell?"
They'd probably make a network movie about him. Maybe one of those Lifetime movies that has a colon in the title, like "Fatal Hubris: The Joe Lieberman Story."
I think it really is his best bet for coming out of this with any dignity.
We'll get you a gyro in October. With lotsa garlicky yogurt sauce.
You're making many promises to which I shall hold you.
OK, so it's just three.
Atrios, he might tell himself, well its just a governship, its local politics without much national connotation....but the same was said of George W. Bush a decade and a half ago. Yes, it's that bad.
Anyone on the west coast can still catch the 20/20 piece on State Farm. I haven't seen it yet, obviously, but it sounds like actual *gasp* journalism. From what I read on rorschach's blog it is.
Republican?
Allie (fka Marcia Brady
But of course.
I just wish more people were paying attention.
must hurt.
i'd feel sorry for him.
but invading iraq was the single most fucked up stupid thing this country could have done after 9/11. anyone who won't admit that mistake after all that's occured these last 3 years should have there skull crushed on a curb.
it really doesn't matter. the neocons are in charge, and it's not going to get better. they only know one way to respond.
You're making many promises to which I shall hold you.
Gratuitous promises.
Bush jaw-dropper: "I'm responsible for the Federal governnment."
(actual quote, video)
Er -- Last I checked there were three co-equal branches of the Federal government. But maybe that makes me "unserious."
It would be poetic justice if Bush nominated Joe to take Rummy's place, and the congressional Democrats managed to block it. Particularly if it was a Democratic majority.
A Vote for Lieberman is a Vote for Bush!
'Nuff said...
You're making many promises to which I shall hold you.
OK, so it's just three.
Snow, Smart Alec
Unfortunately, I have a feeling that I won't be able to make it. (res, I'll write you on Tuesday when I learn more.)
So carry on and melt without me.
Damn, you all! I love gyros, and I make the bestest spanakopita evah - from scratch! I even make the phyllo when I have time!
Seriously, an offer from his BFF KIng Junior the Foist would allow him to quit without quitting. He'd just be opting to serve his country in another way, which is what he's all about, right? Right.
Lieberman will not quit. His dignity is long gone; might as well ride that missle all the way down to oblivion, Slim Pickens-style. At least that way, he figures, he can take a few of his enemies out with him.
(AP) Senator Joe Lieberman, desparately fighting to maintain his seat in the upcomng November election, was found dead tonight along Interstate 84. It appeared he lost control of his 1989 Yugo and rammed into a highway overhead abutment. Onlookers, reporters, and one J. Hamish noted that the backseat of the Yugo was awash in empty Vodka bottles and some partially chewed Big Macs.
missle = missile
I've had a few.
Gratuitous promises.
To which I shall hold you. Particularly this last one.
You're making many promises to which I shall hold you.
Gratuitous promises.
res ipsa loquitur
It's not that hard. You just get on the N/W to Astoria, get off on the Broadway exit. It's surprising if you hear English here.
The place that made the wedding cake for My Big Fat Greek Wedding is here.
missle = missile
I've had a few.
Buzz Bomb
Sometimes I wouldn't mind having a few missiles myself.
Unfortunately, I have a feeling that I won't be able to make it.
I shall think happy thoughts and send them . . . in that direction. Whichever it is.
and I make the bestest spanakopita evah - from scratch! I even make the phyllo when I have time!
I'm gonna find some turnips before October...
Bush jaw-dropper: "I'm responsible for the Federal governnment."
I don't think we have to wonder if he's Narecissistic any more. That kind of grandiosity pretty much seals it.
Granpa Munster left me in the last thread.
I confess, I'm watching Trailer Park Boys and laughing my ass off.
Forgive me.
I don't want Lieberman to get hurt, I just want him to have the personal integrity to abandon his self-indulgent, destructive campaign.
I really am not holding my breath, though.
Bush jaw-dropper: "I'm responsible for the Federal governnment."
I don't think we have to wonder if he's Narecissistic any more. That kind of grandiosity pretty much seals it.
Elmer, PHD
He's the Decider.
Fuck with a white-hot poker anyone who voted for this fool even once, never mind twice. Including your nice old Aunt Tilly from Dubuque, who thought Dubya "seems a decent fella."
Gratuitous Friday Cat Observations:
I have two cats who tolerate being brushed, one cat who fights and scratches....
and one who will actually rub herself along the comb and grabs at my hand if I try to stop combing.
pops?
missle = missile
I've had a few.
Buzz Bomb
Sometimes I wouldn't mind having a few missiles myself.
Doc | 08.25.06 - 10:57 pm | #
I used to have some missals, but now I'm an atheist...
US probes Israel cluster bomb use
Several people returning home have been hurt by munitions
The US State Department has launched an inquiry into whether Israel misused US-made cluster bombs in Lebanon during the recent conflict.
Cluster bombs spray large numbers of bomblets over a wide area - which can remain unexploded and endanger civilians long after they are fired.
US-made weapons have been found at many of 300 sites in south Lebanon hit by cluster bombs, according to the UN
To which I shall hold you. Particularly this last one.
You mean the one about the garlicky yogurt sauce?
And the wolf probes the coyotes predations. LOL.
Allie fka Marcia Brady,
Which place do you like best these days?
You mean the one about the garlicky yogurt sauce?
Yes. Southerners can cook the meat with the best of them. But they suck at sauces.
The dismantling of Lebanon has broken my heart. A comparable event in Amerika would have a four TRILLION dollar price tag. Think of what the motherfucking Israelis have done, acting as little punks for the Administration.
James Jesus Rimbaud - 10:49 pm
i think the damage toll from Katrina might be that high...
but really gooooood ethnic cleansing is worth any price...
.
Time to drift on. Much work to do on the morrow. Much money to be made.
Southerners can cook the meat with the best of them. But they suck at sauces.
Snow, Smart Alec
Five words: North Carolina-style barbecue sauce.
Almost zen-like in its delicious simplicity.
You mean the one about the garlicky yogurt sauce? -res ipsa loquitur
Two words: peni cillin.
Woody,
Are you okay, darling?
Yes. Southerners can cook the meat with the best of them. But they suck at sauces.
Snow, Smart Alec | Homepage | 08.25.06 - 11:03 pm | #
Two words: New Orleans.
Which place do you like best these days?
res ipsa loquitur
I'm happy with Aliada, but Omonia has a great bakery (although not the cleanest restaurant kitchen according to my daughter who worked there one night). Both Aliada and Omonia have pretty outside eating. Saca's has gooood brick oven pizza.
Up on Ditmars, I love Igloo. It'd a diner, not particularly Greek, but good eclectic food and an outside area.
holy shit Kos is on Bill Maher tonight!
Are you okay, darling?
res ipsa loquitur - 11:05 pm
just fine, sugar...
i get to carry nitro with me...
making me a potential WMD...
.
Five words: North Carolina-style barbecue sauce.
Strom used to say it made the gerbils go in easier. But mostly, he just liked the way it bubbled out of my twat.
-Liddy Dole
making me a potential WMD...
.
WoodyGuthrie'sGitarron
W = Womens'
M = Most
D = Desired
holy shit Kos is on Bill Maher tonight!
Live-blog, please?
He's the Decider.
Fuck with a white-hot poker anyone who voted for this fool even once, never mind twice. Including your nice old Aunt Tilly from Dubuque, who thought Dubya "seems a decent fella."
Buzz Bomb
THANK you! It had to be said.
Even my cop ex-husband (who is a "natural" conservative) listened to reason and voted Gore and Kerry, respectively. He also watched the first Kerry/Bush debate and said about Bush, "God, he really is a moron, isn't he."
Okay, I'll post one final Curly to close out Friday, and go back to lurking... or jerking... or...
.
Joe Lieberman is a fucking pig. We need to change the laws so that no one can subvert the will of the people like this in the future. This guy is a bottomfeeder of the worst type. What a sanctimonius fucknozzle.
D = Desired
res ipsa loquitur - 11:09 pm
apparently, i need to foresake forever the hope of a chemically-induced four-hour erection, seems to be the only down-side...
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Five words: North Carolina-style barbecue sauce.
Strom used to say it made the gerbils go in easier. But mostly, he just liked the way it bubbled out of my twat.
-Liddy Dole
bebe rebozo
Oh...my...GAWD. 
oh you're too nice!
In addition, the window for a graceful exit is fast closing making it difficult for him to leave with any kind of dignity intact.
I honestly don't think this will affect him at all. Joe lives so coccooned in his little bubble of self denial that he would manage to convince himself that a withdrawal was a victory.
Let's not forget that this is the man who turned dead last into a statistical tie for third in New Hampshire.
flory!
{{{{hugs!}}}}
Specialist on Tuesday... 
But mostly, he just liked the way it bubbled out of my twat.
See, now *that's* using the word properly in a nonoffensive context!
Strom used to say it made the gerbils go in easier. But mostly, he just liked the way it bubbled out of my twat.
-Liddy Dole
bebe rebozo
A canard. They were clearly using Kraft KC Masterpiece (aka ketchup and molasses).
WWG-
I remember reading something about a man who touched his penis after handling a nitro pill, and his wife then passing out while performing oral sex.... There is no reason you cannot have fun and amusing adventures with all this.
If you own an insurance company when a hundred year flood occurs, a decision needs to be made whether to screw the policy holders or keep the company afloat.
The well being of the people might be better served by fucking the policy holder.
apparently, i need to foresake forever the hope of a chemically-induced four-hour erection, seems to be the only down-side...
I have faith that you can rise to such occasions that present themselves under the power of your own engines, sir.
Live-blog, please?
res ipsa loquitur
Worry not. You can be pretty sure somebody will throw up a diary on Kos before the evening is over.
Joe lives so coccooned in his little bubble of self denial that he would manage to convince himself that a withdrawal was a victory.
No one really like campaignus interruptus.
Hiya, Vicki!!
Specialist on Tuesday...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Is this for another consult?
res ipsa loquitur
Are you getting much response on NYC in Oct?
joe, pat, luke.
Is this the nonsequitor program I've been reading about?
WWG-
I remember reading something about a man who touched his penis after handling a nitro pill, and his wife then passing out while performing oral sex.... There is no reason you cannot have fun and amusing adventures with all this.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in
Fellas, never chop jalapeños and then go take a whiz without washing the jalapeño residue off your hands first. Trust me...it burns.
Is this for another consult?
flory
benign fibroids...the proof is in the ultrasound.
We'll see.
i should have known the north carolina barbecue sauce would elicit response.
that's where i learned how to make it. not that's it's anything special.
but barbecued catfish, to fuck'n die for, if you caught the fish. those supermarket, farm raised fish aren't worth eating.
vicki ♥ Al...
dahlin, somewhere i missed you were having a bout of female trouble, til tonite...be of good and brave heart.
the last ex-mrs wgg's sister had a fibroid removed a couple of years ago, and was uneffected--except she was suddenly 14 lbs lighter...
she thought it was a real plus, iirc...
just sayin...
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Are you getting much response on NYC in Oct?
FeralLiberal
Aye, comrade. I am.
I don't even think you're going to win the "Traveled the Greatest Distance" award I was planning to hand out.
Fellas, never chop jalapeños and then go take a whiz without washing the jalapeño residue off your hands first. Trust me...it burns.
That's just the Lord's way of reminding you not to touch yourself too long.
hey wgg, old shitnozzle: hawaya? Had us nervous chez Wombat--clean living in excess'll do that to you...
No one really like campaignus interruptus.
JeffCO
But it leaves the electorate panting, pleading, begging for more.
Shouldn't it be:
"Dead man wanking?"
or was that a Stones song?
I forget. Must be getting old.
There is no reason you cannot have fun and amusing adventures with all this.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in- 11:14 pm
sex with oldsters: not for the faint of heart...
BEIRUT: Hizbullah gave a small boost to the languishing Lebanese economy when it dispensed tens of millions of US dollars to the displaced people of the South and Beirut's southern suburbs, economists and bankers said on Tuesday. "This move by Hizbullah will surely relieve the economy to some extent and will probably have a very small impact on inflation," economist Marwan Iskander told The Daily Star.
Hizbullah workers have been distributing between $10,000 and $12,000 in cash to each family that lost its home during the 34-day Israeli offensive against Lebanon. The money is aimed at helping families buy furniture and rent accomodations for one year while destroyed homes are rebuilt.
The Council for Development and Reconstruction said that more than 30,000 housing units were either destroyed or damaged in the war.
But a question remained: Through what channels did Hizbullah manage to obtain such a large sum of money?
Another interesting aspect, bankers noted, is that Hizbullah had large sums of dollar banknotes at a time when the country was suffering from an acute shortage of dollar bills.
benign fibroids...the proof is in the ultrasound.
Oh, that would be good news indeed.
Vicki.
I had three of those bad boys removed in 2000. One was big (grapefruit sized). The other two were average sized (ping-pong balls). Three days in the hospital and then three more of really moving slow. It's like a C-section, according to doc. All okay now.
"Traveled the Greatest Distance" award I was planning to hand out
Blast! Well, how about "Traveled the Greatest Distance by Car"?
if white people were doing to white people what black people were doing to black people there would be riots all across the united states.
But it leaves the electorate panting, pleading, begging for more.
Allie (fka Marcia Brady)
Only in Joes more fevered dreams....
(when did you become Allie, anyhoo?)
Three thousand man militia. Thirty thousand housing units destroyed.
I thought I told you kids, No Parties while I was gone.
Naughty, naughty kids.
Blast! Well, how about "Traveled the Greatest Distance by Car"?
At this point, you've got the lock on that award.
Fellas, never chop jalapeños and then go take a whiz without washing the jalapeño residue off your hands first. Trust me...it burns.
Strom used to complain that my auxiliary nipple burned his lips. I had to give up having hairless Mexican boys rub their "jalapenos" on it.
-Liddy Dole
the last ex-mrs wgg's sister had a fibroid removed a couple of years ago, and was uneffected--except she was suddenly 14 lbs lighter...
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WoodyGuthrie'sGitarron
Kind of an argument against evolution. What use could a fibroid be that it seems so common?
Naughty, naughty kids.
Nim, ham hock of liberty
We found out where the keys to the liquor cabinet were hid.
At this point, you've got the lock on that award.
Unless Woody decides to come...
WGG,
Thank you.
(when did you become Allie, anyhoo?)
flory
When I got pissed about two weeks ago. But I'm better now.
Nim, did ya get my message?
Fellas, never chop jalapeños and then go take a whiz without washing the jalapeño residue off your hands first. Trust me...it burns.
Installing fiberglass insulation without gloves is another example of this important principle.
But it leaves the electorate panting, pleading, begging for more. -Allie
Yes but every thrust after the primary has the potential to cause trouble.
Is anyone watching Kos on Maher?
Gotta work in the morning 
'Nite all
Installing fiberglass insulation without gloves is another example of this important principle.
It still itches when the gerbils move.
-Liddy Dole
spike lee and elvis costello on maher. no kos.
woody.
He was good in Toy Story 1
I'm not a real time person. I try to watch Bill Maher's show but I always end up being disappointed. He's not funny enough to just watch for the laughs and and he isn't serious enough to keep my attention for long.
I waited to see him interview Spike Lee b/c I thought he would ask him a lot of questions about Katrina/the documentary and we get a couple questions and then some random shit and then something about how much Bill liked she hate me. and that was it. bleh. I should have stayed out longer.
Yes but every thrust after the primary has the potential to cause trouble.
JeffCO
But sometimes the electorate requires a good, long, hard, sweaty debate of the issues from every side and angle.
hitchens said elvis costello sounds irish.
Elvis Costello?!
What does he have to say?
Is anyone watching Kos on Maher?
Why? I thought you all hate him.
hitchens said elvis costello sounds irish
said the soused drunk
allie,
Not to be a downer and all of that but anyone who votes for these son-of-a-bitches at this point is too stupid to live or too evil to live among the civilized. This election is it, children.
If they win, the only choices are unpalletable - shutting up, fighting, or leaving.
BEIRUT: Hizbullah gave a small boost to the languishing Lebanese economy when it dispensed tens of millions of US dollars to the displaced people of the South and Beirut's southern suburbs, economists and bankers said on Tuesday. "This move by Hizbullah will surely relieve the economy to some extent and will probably have a very small impact on inflation," economist Marwan Iskander told The Daily Star.
Hizbullah workers have been distributing between $10,000 and $12,000 in cash to each family that lost its home during the 34-day Israeli offensive against Lebanon. The money is aimed at helping families buy furniture and rent accomodations for one year while destroyed homes are rebuilt.
The Council for Development and Reconstruction said that more than 30,000 housing units were either destroyed or damaged in the war.
But a question remained: Through what channels did Hizbullah manage to obtain such a large sum of money?
Another interesting aspect, bankers noted, is that Hizbullah had large sums of dollar banknotes at a time when the country was suffering from an acute shortage of dollar bills.
maher tried to get spike lee to admit hizbellah was more effective at rebuilding than fema.
then he baited him with reactionary bullshit from juan williams' book.
then he went on about girl on girl scenes in one of his movies.
But sometimes the electorate requires a good, long, hard, sweaty debate of the issues from every side and angle. -Allie
And the electorate will be polled until it begs for mercy, but unless it would also enjoy a short ride in the near future, it will take the necessary precautions to avoid an unwanted outcome.
what do you expect from maher, he's pussy-obsessed.
not that there's anything wrong with that...
hey Vicki!
you seem great, don't worry, i was gonna ask you where exactly are the fibroids, however I think I know but you also need to know that there are two very very different treatments. I have a good MD friend in the know of such things and you can email me with particulars if you like or if you have it covered just take my best wishes.... entienda?
Not to be a downer and all of that but anyone who votes for these son-of-a-bitches at this point is too stupid to live or too evil to live among the civilized. This election is it, children.
If they win, the only choices are unpalletable - shutting up, fighting, or leaving.
DWD -One Eye Good
I wasn't endorsing Lieberman's election. I was just engaging in silly double-entendres.
Sorry for the noise.
When I got pissed about two weeks ago. But I'm better now.
Allie (fka Marcia Brady)
I di'int do it! I swear. It was watertiger....or res......
hitch is making an ass of his drunk self...
Looks like we've got another Ward Churchill.
Seriously, has anybody ever heard of this "popular left-wing writer"?
And how many days has it been without a condemnation of Ann Coulter, or any other right-wing writer, from Accuracy in Media?
Gin soaked popinjay
hitch conflates 9/11 and Saddam
focus,
I am looking for all of the information I can get!
Thank you!
Would you be so kind as to send me your e-mail, or you can e-mail me at my name (which a lot of people know here) at comcast.net, or moonbatmi at comcast.net or yahoo.com.
Thanks for your kind offer.
And yeah, you guessed correctly!
max cleland starts to answer hitchens and maher cuts him off.
slow thread tonight
hitch is making an ass of his drunk self...
r€nato
Can we file that under "yawn"?
did you see the look on Maher's face when Hitchen was peddling his lies?
maybe another reason I don't like real time is every fucking time i turn it on Hitchens is there spouting his insanity, dragging the debate into fantasy land.
ahh...the moveon.org boogieman. right on cue.
hitch says moveon.org was responsible for the tv spot showing bush as hitler.
what an ass
chris hitchens bringing up the hitler video from moveon.org.
Bill Maher is a pussy asshole douchebag loser
I di'int do it! I swear. It was watertiger....or res......
flory
Well, alright. I guess you're off my spanking list.
if white people were doing to white people what black people were doing to black people there would be riots all across the united states.
joe
Since you obviously mean killing, robbing, raping, and selling drugs to each other, here's a news flash, fuckhead - white people ARE doing those things to each other.
hitch says moveon.org was responsible for the tv spot showing bush as hitler.
What fucking teevee spot? That thing never made it off the internets.
Re: Hitchens
"He who makes an ass of himself gets rid of the pain of being a Republican."
(apologies to Dr. Johnson)
Well, alright. I guess you're off my spanking list.
Allie (fka Marcia Brady)
You can substitute NTodd. He won't mind taking my place.
Allie (fka Marcia Brady): Well, alright. I guess you're off my spanking list.
I'm still on, though, right? 
.
You can substitute NTodd
Ntodd, the other white boy....
hitch calls the audience frivolous. not well received....
flory: What fucking teevee spot? That thing never made it off the internets.
Planted by GOP thugs, too.
.
buzzbomb,
that's the quote maher baited spike lee with.
hitch says moveon.org was responsible for the tv spot showing bush as hitler.
Scorsese was responsible for Reagan getting shot too.
PLEASE tell me somebody got the screen capture of Hitchens flipping off Maher's audience.
Condescending fuck!
You can substitute NTodd. He won't mind taking my place.
flory | 08.25.06 - 11:38 pm
I'm still on, though, right?
.
Jeffraham Prestonian
There will be a sign-up sheet in the lobby.
Heh, I almost typed "sighn-in sheet." That probably means something.
hitch calls the audience frivolous. not well received....
r€nato
Oh, please, let this end with him stomping off in high dudgeon.
cats.....
Hitchens has gone all Pierre Salinger and shit. The internets can be confusing.
Condescending fuck! -Attaturk
Duchamp, right?
why am i mentioning this? when we were kids i convinced my younger brother that rubbing your chest on fiberglass insulation felt really good. "go ahead just rub it all over you chest."
on another occassion me and said younger brother took fresh hot peppers and squirted the juice into our even younger brothers eyes while he was sleeping. he ran screaming to the bathroom "i'm blind, i'm blind."
no wonder we don't talk to one another.
There never was a Hitler moustache. It was a poop smear all along. Cheney's? Rumsfeld's? Don Evans? Who can say?
hitch thinks people who make fun of bush being an idiot are stupid people. insults audience again.
Y'all remember last week's story about the country dude who shot a penned bear, right?
Check it.
.
Oh, please, let this end with him stomping off in high dudgeon.
Doc
....whilst scratching his ass.
Oh, please, let this end with him stomping off in high dudgeon.
Doc
....whilst scratching his ass.
flory
Ahhh, the Andrew Sullivan gambit.
hitchens flips off audience again and gets in heated exchange with an audience member.
hitch has deeply drunk the kool-aid. Spiked with gin of course. Insults audience a third time but few understand what he was saying because he's a lush.
THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY TELEVISION.
Thanks for the blow-by-blow, jack.
I've never talked anyone down off a ledge, but I suspect it would be a similar conversation with Joe.
this show is a failure. it worked for one season.
Thanks for the blow-by-blow, jack.
Buzz Bomb
No, no...you mean joe.
i guess chris hitchens believes war can accomplish anything we please.
OT: WOW
mary scott oconnor at MyLeftWing graciously promoted a diary i'd cross-posted from Walled-In Pond a couple of days ago
front page...kewl...
.
Y'all remember last week's story about the country dude who shot a penned bear, right?
"You can bet I'll pick up the phone if uncle sam calls me up"
Wonder why he's not in Iraq? (Other than not passing the minimum IQ requirements)
hitchens says stupid jokes about bush are old and now only made by stupid people.
How many gin & tonics did Hitchens throw back in the green rooms?
All hail the master!
Would you be so kind as to send me your e-mail...
Vicki
will do.
kos is on. hope he takes a shot at hitch.
maher says Kos has gotten 20 million hits.
Kos says he's not even in charge of his own site.
maher says Kos has gotten 20 million hits.
Did he say it acidly?
maher is off tonite.
Maher's getting a little racist.
Wonder why he's not in Iraq? (Other than not passing the minimum IQ requirements)
flory
Maybe he doesn't have a phone. Just one of those cans-on-a-string...
Kos says the word blog is atrocious.
maher asks Kos about the word nutroot.
Bush jokes, like the pleasure of watching a moon rise over a mountain lake, never grow old...
Can't the Democrats offer him a high paying job if he drops out that will give him a chance to save a shred of dignity? Perhaps a job with the title of Senior Bush Fluffer or something like that?
Can't the Democrats offer him a high paying job if he drops out that will give him a chance to save a shred of dignity?
Senate Piss Boy!
hey vicki--howaya?
the pleasure of watching a moon rise over a mountain lake
Enough with the fart jokes!
Kos says people hate him goes he's doing something real.
"You can bet I'll pick up the phone if uncle sam calls me up"
In a high-pitched falsetto: "Sorry, senor no ees here! He has moved to Africa! Do not try to call back!"
hitchens just had a very loud cough-sneeze.
Senior Bush Fluffer
S'alright? s'alright.
flory: Wonder why he's not in Iraq? (Other than not passing the minimum IQ requirements)
Obviously, Uncle Sam hasn't called. So, they went shopping.
.
hitchens just had a very loud cough-sneeze.
That's the vodka talking.
Maybe he doesn't have a phone. Just one of those cans-on-a-string...
Allie (fka Marcia Brady)
Or he never figured out how to work it.
Don't love or worship kos, but he's mostly a good head doing good work. The hatred he attacks is based mostly on jealousy of his success and a lack of comprehension...
hitch tries to compare Dick Morris' triangulation to Karl Rove's slime-and-conquer tactics. Idiotic.
max cleland says the whole thing was engineered by karl rove.
hitchens says dick morris was clinton's karl rove.
WGG,
You Rock, bro!
Nice post (I've already read it, but kudos)!
Damn, storms moving thru Kansas.
maher says the best way to keep the people stupid is to make sure the people who inform them are also stupid.
Maybe he doesn't have a phone. Just one of those cans-on-a-string...
Allie (fka Marcia Brady)
Or he never figured out how to work it.
flory
Pickin' up the receiver is hard, its hard work.
this show was weak. Hope the rest of the season is better. Please Bill... no more Hitch.
hitchens just had a very loud cough-sneeze.
in all fairness, he may not be used to sucking air...
Hitch babbling in the background while Maher does "new rules".
this show was weak. Hope the rest of the season is better. Please Bill... no more Hitch.
r€nato
You don't find drooling alcoholism to be good TV?
hey wgg: good post you cited to--ICORP sums it up well...
Right - I'm digging for fire. Cheery bye!
the pleasure of watching a moon rise over a mountain lake
I have had many pleasures, but by far, the most beautiful visual I ever had was the moon rising over an icy cold cirque in Glacier National Park in early September...
God, the visual gives me chills...
Hell, I think they should book Hitchens to give the "conservative" take on every talk show. Excellent specimen of the species.
maher says this is god's country and as long as bush is president
the science is still out on science.
vicki: and it will as long as your life matters to you. Just like a good Bush joke...
hitchens says stupid jokes about bush are old and now only made by stupid people
_____________________________________
For the many catastrophes he has afflicted on so many people on this planet, bush should be made fun of and spoken ill of before, during and many years after his death.
It's hard to believe Hitchens is one of the petitioners in the Michigan NSA case. Yes, the one from Judge Anna Diggs Taylor that says the program was a violation of FISA and the constitution.
Guess when he joined that he was sober. Probably forgotten all about it by now.
final segment fairly strong.
eh. normally "new rules" saves even a bad show. but that one was pretty weak.
It wasn't such a great show today.
ProfWombat,
Did you see my note much earlier? May I write you?
Pickin' up the receiver is hard, its hard work.
Allie (fka Marcia Brady)
So's remembering to push 'talk'.
flory - yeah, today's show was totally lame.
bill's closing monologue was OK but it couldn't make up for the rest of the show. The Elvis Costello and Spike Lee interviews led off the show and those were pretty good. All downhill from there except for Hitch getting booed by the audience and the priceless look of contempt Maher shot at Hitch when he asserted al-Qaeda and Saddam were buddy-buddy.
Of course, vicki, any time...
this show was weak. Hope the rest of the season is better.
Not fucking lately. Maher is about ten years past his "sell" date.
The results we are witnessing today--civil war, revenge killings, the balkanization of the country, the destruction of infrastructure, the rise of the fanatic imams, the influence of Iran--were entirely predictable (fuck, even I predicted them and I'm no fucking international specialist)
even i predicted them, and i'm just a mook with a computer. good post woody, and i've noticed they are getting better and better.
as for hitler and comparisons, Bush and Saddam Should Both Stand Trial, Says Nuremberg Prosecutor of course it won't happen i really just want him to stop, now. it's not all his fault either, the american people and the congress have let this idiot drag this country down.
Maher was funny during the prop comic bit.
Not fucking lately. Maher is about ten years past his "sell" date.
He ain't even 2%, dave.
Argh.
's hard to believe Hitchens is one of the petitioners in the Michigan NSA case.
I didn't know that but I assume it is b/c he believes HIS calls have been tapped. It's all fun and games to these fuckwits until it's their rights and/or lives that get stomped on.
okay, basketball...
Bill Maher is a pussy asshole douchebag loser
General Zod
Posing as a pothead, chick magnet libertarian.
.......I guess he's all of the above.
max cleland says the whole thing was engineered by karl rove.
hitchens says dick morris was clinton's karl rove.
No mention of the half dozen "I Hate Hillary" books Morris has written.
I thought the last season was pretty goood. Dunno why this show was so lame.
Not fucking lately. Maher is about ten years past his "sell" date.
Around the time he moved from Comedy Central to network teevee.
Vicki: He ain't even 2%, dave.
Argh.
Your word, I will have to take. HBO I have not. I liked his ABC show...
.
hitchens said elvis costello sounds irish
____________________________________
The King of Rock and Roll is indeed of Irish heritage.
I'm gonna go watch tv for a little bit.
I've been here, just watchin' DVDs. What great fun.
Hopefully, I'll be back, goddesswilling.
Hey all -
Quick shot from my Milwaukee garage.
WGG - glad to read the docs (and other Atriots) are watching your ticker. Follow up with the cardio guy ASAP.
Vicki - just repeating my earlier note - whatever treatment you decide upon, best wishes.
the William Shatner roast on CC is on for 10 minutes and so far it's funnier than 1 hour of Maher...
fuck, jack the nonsense troll is still posting here?
fuck, jack the nonsense troll is still posting here?
r€nato: the William Shatner roast on CC is on for 10 minutes and so far it's funnier than 1 hour of Maher...
I hope hunks of it are on YouTube in the near future.
.
He ain't even 2%...
I'll be honest, I've never been a big fan of Maher's. Even when he was on ABC.
Elvis Costello?!
What does he have to say?
res ipsa loquitur
____________________________________
I take it that you haven't listened to many of his lyrics, otherwise you'd realize how enlightened the man is.
william shatner wears a toupee.
I enjoyed Cleland once again. Spike Lee was rather distracted; Costello was cool.
Hitchens was, as always, an ass. Even more than usual, really.
The show wasn't too bad, I'd say.
The Shatner roast is also hilarious.
evening batses...
I seem to like maher a little less each year...this season has been hyped quite a lot with web ads and a rolling stone article (in which, based on the description of his house/lifestyle...would have great cause to become complacent...that rich bastard)
I think that to be interesting over time, you've got to take a strong stand on more than just religion and pot. calling in opinions from atop the fence gets old after a while
william shatner wears a toupee.
ya think?
betty white is one of the roasters.
The show was pretty weak. Hitchens pretty much took over the show with the middle-finger tricks he must have learned from his adored Bush.
Seriously, Hitchens spent half his time shouting insults at audience members and flipping them off (not once but three times that I saw). He was getting off on it too, seriously, what is it about Bush supporters that they behave and act like assholes? Talk about follow the leader.
Why were the Real Time audience extra rowdy tonight?
They were drunk from being down wind from Hitchens.
Saw Elvis with Allen Toussaint two months ago at Summerfest. Brilliant, passionately anti-GWB, and wise in tapping Toussaint and the Crescent City Horns for collaboration.
BIG thumbs up on the Elvis.
betty white used to be married to the host of Password.
glad to read the docs (and other Atriots) are watching your ticker. Follow up with the cardio guy ASAP.
got my scrip for the nitro, pick it up in the morning...
call cardio-doc on Mon am...
man, the stick'em they use in hosptials today is majorly adhesive...
.
'night,all
"william shatner wears a toupee."
Next thing you know they will be telling us he wore a support garmet. People, all they do is gossip.
so we know Hitch is a belligerent drunk. That would explain it. He's been inebriated 24/7 since 2001.
george takei was justed outed as a gay.
william shatner wears a toupee.
joe | 08.26.06 - 12:14 am
sean connery and bruce willis, too
.
Saw Elvis with Allen Toussaint two months ago at Summerfest. Brilliant, passionately anti-GWB, and wise in tapping Toussaint and the Crescent City Horns for collaboration.
I'm envious as all hell!
omg Lisa Lampinelli *and* Andy Dick? LOL
"He's been in more turds than Andy Dick's penis!"
res, res, res,
Elvis Costello rocks.
He truly rocks.
I have more love for him than I do for Amy and Emily.
Just sayin'.
Cool beans, WGG. Not that we need to tell you, but let us know if we can help.
george takei was justed outed as a gay.
joe | 08.26.06 - 12:18 am
came out...some time ago, iirc...
he wasn't 'outed', shitwhistle...
george takei was justed outed as a gay.
joe
he's been out since 2005...now if we could only get tom to come out of the closet
fuck, jack the nonsense troll is still posting here?
yes, and still worse than crabs... and here it is:
william shatner wears a toupee.
joe
george takei was justed outed as a gay.
joe | 08.26.06 - 12:18 am
Get ready to hear about it again every 10 seconds for the remaining 75 minutes.
so joe is Captain Obvious tonight?
Fuck Maher. He invites that shitbag Hitchens on his show, and then when Hitchens lays a big turd of a lie on the desk (al-Zaqari was allied with Hussein), Maher's only response is "no he wasn't!"
Not, "al-Zaqari was in northern Iraq, the area not controlled by Hussein, and the US had at least 3 clear shots at taking him out BEFORE the invasion, and BUSH passed on each of them...because of this fiction about Zaqari being the "link" between Iraq and al-Qaeda. And they needed that "link" as another excuse to invade. And so after the invasion, al-Zaqari was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of our troops."
You can't punk a shitheel like Hitchens with "is not, is not" - you have to fucking slap him in the face with the full accounting of the facts.
Fuck Bill Maher.
joe -
Takei CAME out this year or last. Was Grand Marshall of the Chicago Pride Parade this summer.
jack = joe = stupid.
Enough said..
WGG: man, the stick'em they use in hosptials today is majorly adhesive...
Vegetable oil, m'man. Breaks it down good.
.
I'm watching my DVDs of The Tick. Better than Hitchens, if less cartoonish.
at least Maher doesn't have mAnn Coulter on like he did with his ABC show.
Am I the only one here who could not care less about celebrities or who was outed when, where, how, and/or why?
God, I find that so fucking mundane. Maybe that's part of the reason a certain poster annoys me no end...surely it can't be because of the inability to offer an opinion...
does anybody who lives in an apartment have broadband over powerlines? I have a client considering this.
I'd like to know how it's working for you.
at least Maher doesn't have mAnn Coulter on like he did with his ABC show.
r€nato | 08.26.06 - 12:23 am | #
"mAnn"? Sigh.
Maybe that's part of the reason a certain poster annoys me no end...surely it can't be because of the inability to offer an opinion...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 12:23 am | #
No, couldn't be that...
betty white getting a standing ovation.
shit I didn't even know Betty White was still alive. What's her connection to Shatner?
betty white is a comedy genius. a master of timing and delivery.
at least Maher doesn't have mAnn Coulter on like he did with his ABC show.
r€nato
actually, it has been on his show five or six times over the last few years
Evening all.
I see the Moronic Brownshirt Fucks are here.
Never have seen what folks find funny in Betty White. She just seems completely annoying.
I wouldn't call Betty White a genius, lest she would have been Mary Tyler Moore.
Betty White was a good, supporting comedic actress.
Why the talk about Betty White? Did she pass on to Whiteland?
Am I the only one here who could not care less about celebrities or who was outed when, where, how, and/or why?
WORD!
I mean... yes.
i must have missed those appearances matthew. Thank goodness.
Betty gets off a good one about Takei after a shaky start. I think I'm going to get a little annoyed if they keep riffing on him though.
You don't have to be a genius to know that evil is bad... and good, isn't!
Lamont paying 3 to 1 odds.... you guys seem so confident you should be mortgaging your houses. So i guess I can come back here post election and see which of you guys hit the home run, right?
well, i bleev i'm gonn' stagger off and climb into the pillow heap...
had plenty of excitement today...
thanks to all of you for your kind thoughts and wishes for my ticker glitch...i'm sure i'm gonna be fine...
nytol...
.
she's on the Shatner roast. Don't know why. Kinda weak.
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser
a good read - he nails it, as usual!
g'night wgg
WORD!
I mean... yes.
Steve French
where's the drunk guy? what was his name? Forrest?
Betty White's got a recurring role on Shatner's current show -- she's pretty good.
ok i'm getting a little tired of the George-Takei-is-gay jokes.
I'll take Lamont fer $250 at 3-to-1...
put up 'r shut the fuck up, shitwhistle...
.
so what does the money race currently look like between lamont and lieberscheise?
now tha's all fffffolks
shit I didn't even know Betty White was still alive. What's her connection to Shatner?
r€nato
Lotsa people don't know he's still alive, either...
put up 'r shut the fuck up, shitwhistle...
www.tradesports.com
thats me on the offer. come get
All right, watching reruns of a roast, then are we?
I'll be heading on out then.
All right, watching reruns of a roast, then are we?
I'll be heading on out then.
rory,
I'll talk poetry with you. Do you like Hardy?
Ror, what about Mark Strand?
What is wrong with farrah fawcett?
I'm sorry, you guys, I've been watching The Trailer Park Boys tonight...
weird shit, that. Very funny.
Time to hit the ol' dusty trail. Good night to all the cool cats and kittens still online. What happened to Hitchens? He just disappeared. That's a mystery I'll solve tomorrow.
From waaay up above (and watch a new thread pop as soon as I post this) -
his De Vos bastard, he no good. No good at all. Atrios got to help start throwing a little attention on the Michigan Gubernatorial Race.
Aaa-men. And if only we could get rid of my prick of a congresscritter, Joe Knollenberg.
http://www.ontheissues.org/MI/
Jo...Knollenberg.htm
I even went across party lines to vote for his moderate Repub challenger in the primary. (Everything he said in *his* commercials against her were reasons I voted for her.)
OK, Bedtime for Bonzo - er, Roadmaster.
Catch some of you on the radio tomorrow!
Ror, Diane Wakoski?
You don't have to be a genius to know that evil is bad... and good, isn't!-Thers, Ego-Driven
I notice that you left out the "doer" component from your comment... and how can we recognize true evil if we don't know its color?
Ror,
Ben Jonson?
Rorh?
Still, I'd certainly prefer a "graceful exit" and do hope the powers that be are working to provide him with one.
that meltdown is goint to be so so so funny. Just two months and change. Its like Christmas.
Am I the only one here who could not care less about celebrities or who was outed when, where, how, and/or why?
Nope. You're not alone.
rory,
I'll talk poetry with you. Do you like Hardy?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 12:33 am | #
Bukowski? Larkin?
rory,
I'll talk poetry with you. Do you like Hardy?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 12:33 am | #
Bukowski? Larkin?
saddam hussein was good for iraq.
free healthcare and university education.
electricity and potable water.
security and stability.
Nope. You're not alone.
flory
Well,
I guess you know where I'm coming from...
Bukowski and Larkin work for me.
Your favorite Bukowski?
Am I the only one here who could not care less about celebrities or who was outed when, where, how, and/or why?
Nope. You're not alone.
Damn you all! Don't you know that if you stop paying attention to celebrities, I disappear?
Ror,
"Young in New Orleans..."
i really saved this for rorschach.
but you and i are still here vicki, Nobody can write the absolute truth.
that's really true.
Damn you all! Don't you know that if you stop paying attention to celebrities, I disappear?
Nicole Richie
You ain't so bad, as compared...never mind.
charley,
That was very, very nice.
Made me cry.
Damn you all! Don't you know that if you stop paying attention to celebrities, I disappear?
Nicole Richie
I think you're managing that just fine all on your own with your dieting, honey.
Or is it the meth?
Ror,
"Young in New Orleans..."
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 12:40 am | #
Or perhaps some John Wilmot:
Much wine had passed, with grave discourse
Of who fucks who, and who does worse
(Such as you usually do hear
From those that diet at the Bear),
When I, who still take care to see
Drunkenness relieved by lechery,
Went out into St. James's Park
To cool my head and fire my heart.
But though St. James has th' honor on 't,
'Tis consecrate to prick and cunt.
WASHINGTON -- Many health care providers will have to make do next month without a government paycheck or two. The Bush administration says it will not make any Medicare reimbursements to hospitals, doctors and scores of other providers during the last nine days of the current budget year, from Sept. 22-30. Congress ordered the hold.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6082400195.html
Bastards.
-
Ror,
You searched long and hard (heh) to find the perfect poem for me, di'int ya?
Ha!
Ror,
You searched long and hard (heh) to find the perfect poem for me, di'int ya?
Ha!
WASHINGTON -- Many health care providers will have to make do next month without a government paycheck or two. The Bush administration says it will not make any Medicare reimbursements to hospitals, doctors and scores of other providers during the last nine days of the current budget year, from Sept. 22-30.
I'm sure Halliburton will get their checks on time.
Bastards.
Smaht move.
Right before an election.
Ror,
You searched long and hard (heh) to find the perfect poem for me, di'int ya?
Ha!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 12:45 am | #
Just for you, sweetie!
I am outie. Not poutie, just outie.
♥
ror, I was so excited, I posted twice.
christ is farrah fawcett drunk or stupid? i hope it's drunk.
I think Farrah Fawcett has HBP, and she is only responding to on of her insane moments.
High Blood Pressure fucks with you like nothing has fucked with you before.
It fucks with my eyesight. I've always had clear, green, beautiful bright eyes.
I wonder now.
Bukowski:
starving there, sitting around the bars,
and at night walking the streets for
hours,
the moonlight always seemed fake
to me, maybe it was,
and in the French Quarter I watched
the horses and buggies going by,
everybody sitting high in the open
carriages, the black driver, and in
back the man and the woman,
usually young and always white.
and I was always white.
and hardly charmed by the
world.
New Orleans was a place to
hide.
I could piss away my life,
unmolested.
except for the rats.
the rats in my dark small room
very much resented sharing it
with me.
they were large and fearless
and stared at me with eyes
that spoke
an unblinking
death.
starving there, sitting around the bars, and at night walking the streets for hours,
the moonlight always seemed fake
to me, maybe it was,
and in the French Quarter I watched
the horses and buggies going by,
everybody sitting high in the open
carriages, the black driver, and in
back the man and the woman,
usually young and always white.
and I was always white.
and hardly charmed by the world.
New Orleans was a place tohide.
I could piss away my life, unmolested.
except for the rats.
the rats in my dark small room
very much resented sharing it
with me.
they were large and fearless
and stared at me with eyes
that spoke an unblinking death.
Taken in Amste4rdam early Friday morning.
Which one is the European?
No second guessing.
http://www.alaska.net/~babyrne/I...ne/
IMGP0636.JPG
More signs of progress in Iraq.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com...ives/
009543.php
Iraqis looted a military base vacated by British troops and stripped it of virtually everything removable on Friday, an indication of possible future trouble for U.S.-led coalition forces hoping to hand over security gradually to the Iraqi government.
Men, some with their faces covered, ripped corrugated metal from roofs, carried off metal pipes and backed trucks into building entrances to load them with wooden planks. Many also took away doors and window frames from Camp Abu Naji.
Heckuva job George.
Allo, fellow Haters on the Far Left.
Anything disturbing going on I should
know about?
The Bush administration says it will not make any Medicare reimbursements to hospitals, doctors and scores of other providers during the last nine days of the current budget year
If you think that's lovely, wait until you see what happens when he stiffs the Chinese.
I've always had clear, green, beautiful bright eyes.
I wonder now.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 12:56 am | #
Oh, come now. I don't doubt they're still's lovely as ever.
Which one is the European?
The guy on the right. I base this on the undershirt showing on the guy on the left. An American thing. But of course I may be wrong.
Anything disturbing going on I should
know about?
Against all rational reasoning, I am witnessing the horror that is the Roast of William Shatner.
The guy on the right. I base this on the undershirt showing on the guy on the left. An American thing. But of course I may be wrong.
Echidne of the snakes
Oy.
Allo, fellow Haters on the Far Left.
Anything disturbing going on I should
know about?
steve simels | 08.26.06 - 1:02 am | #
Nothing much.
Just: Fuck the fucking bastards at State Farm!
European still have the cigarette pocket?
-
Echidne of the snakes
You could have said you could tell by the high button shirt.
Made me cry.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
NO CRYING!
and i'm down with the bukowski.
"got to the door i lost my house key, picked up my book, i read bukowski" RHCP
i'm out, tomorrow everthing looks bright and shiny, until we bomb it.
European still have the cigarette pocket?
Nien, nay, Noo, nyet, no.
You could have said you could tell by the high button shirt.
It would have been lying.
I know about the undershirt difference. Europeans don't wear them much.
Well, that was fun, snake lady wins another round.
Congratulations Echinde.
he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer
night, running the blade of the knife
under his fingernails, smiling, thinking
of all the letters he had received
telling him that
the way he lived and wrote about
that--
it had kept them going when
all seemed
truly
hopeless.
putting the blade on the table, he
flicked it with a finger
and it whirled
in a flashing circle
under the light.
who the hell is going to save
me? he
thought.
as the knife stopped spinning
the answer came:
you're going to have to
save yourself.
still smiling,
a: he lit a
cigarette
b: he poured
another
drink
c: gave the blade
another
spin.
Against all rational reasoning, I am witnessing the horror that is the Roast of William Shatner.
David (Austin Tx)
Only Betty White did a stand-up job. Everyone else was unpolished and unprofessional, lacking any old-world virtuosity.
Most of the jokes were about Takei, the easiest target.
he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer
night, running the blade of the knife
under his fingernails, smiling, thinking
of all the letters he had received
telling him that
the way he lived and wrote about
that--
it had kept them going when
all seemed
truly
hopeless.
putting the blade on the table, he
flicked it with a finger
and it whirled
in a flashing circle
under the light.
who the hell is going to save
me? he
thought.
as the knife stopped spinning
the answer came:
you're going to have to
save yourself.
still smiling,
a: he lit a
cigarette
b: he poured
another
drink
c: gave the blade
another
spin.
Lt. Col. Bruce Hopfengardner, 46, of Frederick, Virginia, was the first military office to admit taking part in the scheme to defraud the U.S.-led occupation authority.
He pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and money laundering in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Hopfengardner, who had been a police chief in California, served as an adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/
20060...a_conspiracy_dc
All the authority I can stand.
-
he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer
night, running the blade of the knife
under his fingernails, smiling, thinking
of all the letters he had received
telling him that
the way he lived and wrote about
that--
it had kept them going when
all seemed
truly
hopeless.
putting the blade on the table, he
flicked it with a finger
and it whirled
in a flashing circle
under the light.
ror,
When you are diagnosed with HBP, things seem to move out of focus (at least with my meds). I always wondered why older peoples' eyes look foggy...now I know.
It kills me inside. I still have vibrant, youthful skin, but I'll lose my fucking eyes. And they were my flirtation device.
who the hell is going to save
me? he
thought.
as the knife stopped spinning
the answer came:
you're going to have to
save yourself.
still smiling,
a: he lit a
cigarette
b: he poured
another
drink
c: gave the blade
another
spin.
And they were my flirtation device.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:12 am | #
Word of advice: It's way too early for past tense, babe.
NO ROCHESTER.
ror ~
Wow.
Think I tried to post that, but I was scroll trolled...
Word of advice: It's way too early for past tense, babe.
rorschach
I'm just acting like a melancholy ass because my birthday is next week and I have some silly physical problems that can be fixed with a cut and a tweak.
Against all rational reasoning, I am witnessing the horror that is the Roast of William Shatner.
David (Austin Tx) | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:03 am | #
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I'm not easily offended -- everybody
snicker -- but that was one of the
most sickening two hours I've ever
wasted. Non-stop dick jokes? Yeah,
really funny, kids.
BTW, the whole point of the show-biz
roast originally was that it wasn't
designed for public consumption. And
that the participants actually knew each other.
He smoked his pipe
In a sheltered gripe
In the middle of July
With his head in a mist
And two stones in his fist
And an impotent worm on his thigh
OR LANDO, Fla. _Rep. Katherine Harris said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a "nation of secular laws" and that a failure to elect Christians to political office will allow lawmaking bodies to "legislate sin."
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/ka...ws/
15363945.htm
Making it legal will take away all the fun.
-
He smoked his pipe
In a sheltered gripe
In the middle of July
With his head in a mist
And two stones in his fist
And an impotent worm on his thigh
Thers, Ego-Driven
Yes...that is beautiful. Alliteration. Christ, that curmudgeon is my dad.
Beds east coasties.
Be nice to the batsies on the left side.
I'm just acting like a melancholy ass because my birthday is next week and I have some silly physical problems that can be fixed with a cut and a tweak.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:16 am | #
Ain't nothin' silly about it, sexy.
But you'll be all right; you have way too much spirit in you to be kept down by the mere physical.
Simels,
That's why I don't take any posts about celebrities with anything more than a grain of salt.
I. don't. fucking. care. for starters.
Why Terry C and others think it matters just floors me.
These people use paper towel just like we do, and any other product you may think of. It. doesn't. matter .
It kills me inside. I still have vibrant, youthful skin, but I'll lose my fucking eyes. And they were my flirtation device.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:12 am | #
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Count your blessings, beautiful. I just spent an evening with a dear
sweet woman your age who recently literally lost an eye to cancer.
(Long story, family friend).
You're way ahead of the game.
Count your blessings, beautiful. I just spent an evening with a dear
sweet woman your age who recently literally lost an eye to cancer.
I am so sorry, Steve.
And further, Steve, I'm sorry for being insensitive. It is eating me up.
OK, let's keep that energy level up! Some of you seem to be just going through the motions with the snark!!
And further, Steve, I'm sorry for being insensitive. It is eating me up.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:26 am | #
My bad, actually. I was, in my weird
way, trying to cheer you up.
Vicki, yer not being "insensitive," you're being human. (Cut that out right now young lady!) What's happening to your own, personal, one-and-only irreplaceable body is of course of more interest to you than anybody else's, as mine is to me and everybody elses is to them. This is not anything you need to apologize for.
That said, amble back in to the doc shop in the reasonable future. HBP meds are among the trickiest to get right and it is very rare for a patient to get the exact right one in the exact right dosage and regimen, on the first try. Any competent doc should be prepared to work with you until you get one that fixes the problem without bollixing up anything else, like for instance your eyesight.
And it may take till after the other problem is cleared up too. You know this, you just have to let yourself believe it and relax to the inevitable. A session of breathing and meditation and a nice long "ommmmm" couldn't hurt.
Book TV Alert
C-SPAN2's Book TV: August 26-28
1st Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
LIVE coverage from New Orleans
Sunday 5 PM and 10 PM ET
The Press Club of New Orleans hosts An Afternoon of Authors panel discussion with over a dozen authors and photographers who' have covered Hurricane Katrina including:
Douglas Brinkley, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast; Jed Horne, Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City; Mark Schleifstein, co-author of Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms; and photographers and contributors to Katrina: The Ruin & Recovery of New Orleans (a publication of the Times-Picayune).
Other Hurricane Katrina related programs this weekend:
Ivor van Heerden, The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina -- The Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist (Sunday 1:15 PM ET)
http://
www.democraticunderground...mesg_id=1984824
Simels,
I am a sentimental woman who knows art and poetry.
I am quite eclectic, and little offends me.
Except total, midwestern schmarm. I hate that, but it is a part of where I live.
Xan | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:35 am
Wow, just wow!
Thank you.
Not sure what is right right now...eyes scare me the most, and though I haven't told anyone of it, I see my GP on Tuesday, so that will be part of it. I'm not seeing the "whole Picture," if that makes sense. I'd rather be drunk, frankly.
I'm a musician, and my ears seem to be floating in neverland.
This is driving me nuts.
Hello, all. I'm drunk and ornery. What's the good word?
OMFG. I've been blogrolled by Petzold.
OMFG. I've been blogrolled by Petzold.
Phila
Now that fucking scary.
Hey Phila! The word is "end."
Oops, wait, that was the Secret Word on PeeWee's Playhouse last night.
I don't know what the good word is. Athough imho "ornery" will do until a better one comes along.
sorry.
I guess I scared everyone off? I'm not actually all that ornery...
Hello, all. I'm drunk and ornery. What's the good word?
Phila
I see dead people. Beyond that, wanna have sex?
I see dead people. Beyond that, wanna have sex?
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:44 am | #
Sure! As long as you don't mind my lovely and high-spirited bride joining in.
Uh-oh, Phila's here. I'm a-scairt.
Uh-oh, Phila's here. I'm a-scairt.
Thers, Ego-Driven | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:45 am | #
That fucking Maximos thing has my jaw on the floor. He's really too good to be true.
Hello, all. I'm drunk and ornery. What's the good word?
Phila | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:42 am | #
Yer ternin me on, big boi.
Dr. Ben Marble, who told Cheeeney 'Go fuck yourself' on the Gulf Coast, was ripping and snorting on Hardball today.
http://
www.democraticunderground...mesg_id=1984047
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc....FD&f=00&
fg=copy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q...related&
search=
More cowbell.
-
Yer ternin me on, big boi.
rorschach | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:48 am | #
Likewise, I'm sure. I was reading your man Eagleton on Stanley Fish earlier...very satisfying indeed.
And further, Steve, I'm sorry for being insensitive. It is eating me up.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
************************************
Vicki,
After reading so many of your posts since I began visiting Eschaton, insensitive would be the last description I'd apply to you.
I once wrote to you on FDL, to the effect that you are such a warm, positive presence on the sites you visit and that I both felt and appreciated the gentle and compassionate spirit your words reflect.
But it was very late and it seemed that I was talking to myself (I'm a West coaster and often find myself posting long after everybody's left).
Tai Chi is wonderful. For balance. For joint and general body lubrication. If you're a senior who does Tai Chi, you have a 600% less chance than others of your age of falling. Tai Chi is meditative.
Peace,
general body lubrication.
I can definitely help you with this, Vicki...
Vicki, you sound like somebody who is under just a bit less atmospheric pressure than what they're accustomed to. Like taking somebody from Iowa to Denver.
This is reasoning from analogy obviously but consisder just how systematic BP is. The medicine is intended to alleviate its bad effect on blood vessels, but then everything else in your body which has for years been accustomed to getting input (blood) at one rate is suddenly having to get it at a slower pace.
Little wonder that eyes and ears, and perhaps other body parts, are going "WTF???" about now.
Some of it is just acclimation probably. Did the doc give you any sort of information, even a pamphlet or something of the "This Is Your Bod On BP Pills" or the like? At least a verbal summary of what to expect, and how long it might take to adjust to the effects so you feel like "you" again?
Bobby,
Thank you. Your post means a lot, and you just made me cry in a good way.
Will 'Reader DK' dare show his face over at TPM this weekend?
Or has he been Liebersized?
Josh had to take a vacation it got so hot over there...
Oh, there's more Maximos!
Tomorrow we get to see what he has to say about liberalism. It is extremely spondaic.
Seriously...why in the fucking hell would Petzold blogroll me? I've said things to him that were about as vicious as I'm capable of saying.
Likewise, I'm sure. I was reading your man Eagleton on Stanley Fish earlier...very satisfying indeed.
Phila | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:49 am | #
He is fun, he is.
Tomorrow we get to see what he has to say about liberalism. It is extremely spondaic.
Thers, Ego-Driven | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:53 am | #
He must be unbelievably fat and lonely to write the way he does.
Seriously...why in the fucking hell would Petzold blogroll me? I've said things to him that were about as vicious as I'm capable of saying.
Maybe he has a thing for the abuse?
Maybe he has a thing for the abuse?
David (Austin Tx) | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:56 am | #
Of that, I think, we can rest assured.
why in the fucking hell would Petzold blogroll me?
Look on the bright side. He could have blogrolled me.
He is fun, he is.
rorschach | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:54 am | #
Yeah, very bitchy and amusing. And he meets the real test of a great critic, which is generally agreeing with my preconceived notions.
He did say one thing that I thought was completely out to lunch, about how the Holocaust was "irrational" because they could've killed the Jews in their beds instead of carting 'em to death camps. That was complete gibberish, IMO. But other than that, I'm enjoying his book of criticism a lot. So thanks for the tip!
I just wonder, in the next week's orgy of Katrina Rehash, if any news outlet will have the balls to bring up Hurricane Pam, so they can never ever say "we had no idea it could possibly be this bad."
On which cheery note, I depart. night all.
Anybody remember Colonel Bleep?
Of that, I think, we can rest assured.
rorschach | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:57 am | #
I feel so dirty. Thank God I'm drunk enough to be somewhat numb to the implications.
Xan,
In one word, no.
I have been exercising (whatever that means - I was always a good little walker until a couple of years ago - I quit, gained 30 pounds, and look where I am) for most of my life. I'm 5'8", I've been thin as a rail (for years - I was on an anorexic watch for a while) ~ the whole thing just creeps me out because it means, essentially, I haven't been taking care of myself.
So I'm all about that, now.
And Phila, I would welcome anything you may/can/desire to teach me.
You, all of you, can reach me at vickisteinatcomcastdotnet or moonbat mi at the same, or yahoo dot come.
The other thing is: hell yeah! I'll take good advice!
We'll see how it shakes down, but it is all good, and the people here are awesome.
Yeah, very bitchy and amusing. And he meets the real test of a great critic, which is generally agreeing with my preconceived notions.
He did say one thing that I thought was completely out to lunch, about how the Holocaust was "irrational" because they could've killed the Jews in their beds instead of carting 'em to death camps. That was complete gibberish, IMO. But other than that, I'm enjoying his book of criticism a lot. So thanks for the tip!
Phila | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 1:59 am | #
Heh, indeed.
I don't recall the Holocaust bit--that does sound flaky as all hell.
And: I gave you the tip? Damn! I'm as good as I am forgetful.
And Phila, I would welcome anything you may/can/desire to teach me.
I was just coming on to you, actually, like the inebriate clod I am.
But I'll think about the medical side of the conversation and get back to you...I know people who've had just about everything at one time or another...
Phila,
Oh, I was gonna make a dumb joke, but I'll let it rest.
And: I gave you the tip? Damn! I'm as good as I am forgetful.
rorschach | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:02 am | #
I think it was part of Thers's "hot or not" thing. I hadn't read him; you said I should.
I may try track down his book on Benjamin. Seems to be out of print, but looks like it'd be interesting.
Eagleton's Irish fetish is a bit weird, I must confess. The Heathcliffe essay, for instance. And there's tons of anecdotes about him wandering around cemetaries in Drogheda, wearing tweeds & shit.
But Eagleton is worth about 40 Hitchenses, anyway.
Well, hot tonight is Grand Rapids Michigan.
Only 70, but the humidity.
I blame Ntodd.
But Eagleton is worth about 40 Hitchenses, anyway.
Thers, Ego-Driven | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:05 am | #
Faint praise indeed.
I may try track down his book on Benjamin. Seems to be out of print, but looks like it'd be interesting.
Phila | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:04 am | #
I've read Eagleton; I've read Benjamin. But I don't know that I've ever read E on B.
That would be interesting--a Gramscian Brit Marxist on a German Jewish mystic Marxist...
Last call for my toad blogging
here
How are the moonbats tonight?
And there's tons of anecdotes about him wandering around cemetaries in Drogheda, wearing tweeds & shit.
But Eagleton is worth about 40 Hitchenses, anyway.
Thers, Ego-Driven | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:05 am | #
40?
Please.
Although wearing shit is rather odd, wherever one does it.
I'm listening to White Stripe. A male moonbat sent it to me.
Good rock n roll, actually.
That would be interesting--a Gramscian Brit Marxist on a German Jewish mystic Marxist...
rorschach | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:08 am | #
Yeah, that's more or less what I was thinking. Seems like it was his first book, or an early one...I'll pencil it in at the bottom of the list, I guess, and maybe get to it circa 2016. Unless I go back to having a three-hour commute someday.
Still, I need to go to bed.
Goodnight, tomorrow, perhaps?
Good rock n roll, actually.
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:11 am | #
I don't mind the stuff of theirs I've heard. Especially in the context of what else is on the radio.
But I feel that way about almost anything that isn't Blink 182 or the school of...
I believe I'd better go lie down. Pleasant dreams, everyone. XOXO.
Anybody remember Colonel Bleep?
And Squeak and Scratch!
Good rock n roll, actually.
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:11 am | #
I saw them on some show or other, and dude has some charisma with capital C.
There is absolutely nothing graceful about a repuke want-to-be. Wish loserman would just go the fuck away.
Although wearing shit is rather odd, wherever one does it.
Hee hee. Eagleton does have a bit of a, uh, reputation in Irish studies circles. But I like the guy.
Things don't look good for my old employer...
Stop with the REPUKE shit!!!! What does it accomplish? Nothing.
I am so sick of that word.
I saw them on some show or other, and dude has some charisma with capital C.
rorschach | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:15 am | #
Yeah, they're proper rock musicians, I think.
(I'm back...drinking some bubbly water and having some ginger chocolate so's my head'll stop spinning. Couldn't get into bed the way I was feeling.)
This guy nails Tower's problem (and the problem with most other "chain" stores):
Each Tower Records location used to have its own buyer to stock inventory so that it reflected the preferences of the local population. But when it decided to centralize its buying so that all stores carried more or less the same titles, the company began to feel like the big chain it had become, Don VanCleave, president of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores said.
"They just lost all their mojo, so to speak," he said. "They used to be ultra hip, ultra cool, and then they became generic. The local stores couldn't respond to the street."
BINGO!
I am so sick of that word.
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:18 am | #
I feel that way about Sam Seder's "RAPE-ublican" schtick. Makes him sound like an utter schmuck, IMO. I cringe every time he does it.
(I'm back...drinking some bubbly water and having some ginger chocolate so's my head'll stop spinning. Couldn't get into bed the way I was feeling.)
Well,
Heh heh heh. I'm horny as hell - but there will be a troll regurgitating my masturbatory and golden shower stories (neither of which exist, but trolls seem to relish on what could have been), so I refrain from expressing it, like a guy. If you know what I mean.
Stop with the REPUKE shit!!!! What does it accomplish? Nothing.
I am so sick of that word.
The word "repukes" will henceforth be replaced by the word "recocksuckers".
No, no -- don't thank me.
Always glad to help.
Hee hee. Eagleton does have a bit of a, uh, reputation in Irish studies circles. But I like the guy.
Thers, Ego-Driven | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:17 am | #
Does he indeed? I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised.
And he's nothing if not likeable. It's that Brit affability--in that sense, he's the true heir of Raymond Williams.
I like the repo-men.
"They just lost all their mojo, so to speak," he said. "They used to be ultra hip, ultra cool, and then they became generic. The local stores couldn't respond to the street."
BINGO!
dave™© | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:20 am | #
They're bad businesspeople generally. I talked my way into their warehouse a few years back, when they were liquidating an outlet store...books were about 50 cents each, and I bought 27 boxes' worth...mostly rare art books, signed limited editions, etc. I made about $30,000 on eBay. They could've made a fortune off that stuff.
Some of their stuff, I got for a dollar a foot. It's just insane.
Heh heh heh. I'm horny as hell - but there will be a troll regurgitating my masturbatory and golden shower stories (neither of which exist, but trolls seem to relish on what could have been), so I refrain from expressing it, like a guy. If you know what I mean.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:22 am | #
Ew! Vicki uses relish when she has sex!
/troll
That's what I call republicans, get over it.
It's that Brit affability--in that sense, he's the true heir of Raymond Williams.
rorschach | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:23 am | #
I can see that. Eagleton does seem to have a considerably sharper tongue, though.
I feel that way about Sam Seder's "RAPE-ublican" schtick. Makes him sound like an utter schmuck, IMO. I cringe every time he does it.
Phila
word
hey you lovely moonbats
the males finally let me in here for a bit
Heh heh heh. I'm horny as hell -
I oughta be, by all rights. But I think I'm coming down with a cold or something. I'm feeling out of sorts.
the males finally let me in here for a bit
ErinPDX | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:27 am | #
Good thing, too.
I oughta be, by all rights. But I think I'm coming down with a cold or something. I'm feeling out of sorts.
Phila | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:28 am | #
The libido... it waxes and it wanes.
Hitchens seems like he'll keel over for good pretty soon. chill dude!
G'night!
If Central shows up, send him my charisma or something. He already has the brochure.
They're bad businesspeople generally.
Well, back when I worked there, they were making money hand over fist - literally. They were making so much money, they didn't even bother much with inventory control or cash register procedures.
I remember the store I was at did a little over $100K one day during the Xmas season, which was pretty fucking good back then... and that was just the high mark; we had several weeks where we finished between 90-100K every day.
Oh well... memories...
Hitchens seems like he'll keel over for good pretty soon. chill dude!
ErinPDX | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 2:30 am | #
I don't want him dead; I want him self-aware and repentent. Once that happens, he can live to 100 for all I care.
ril was keeping a betting chart as to when Lieberman will get out. Never. Dude's nuts.
dave, I was under the impression that this Portland label, Burnside, had a big local section at Tower just a few weeks ago. Maybe it was some other store..?
Dude's nuts.
It's got to be a shock to find out the voters don't like you, that it was just the Democratic establishment that was keeping you in office.
They were making so much money, they didn't even bother much with inventory control or cash register procedures.
Yeah, I had a friend who worked there in the early eighties. I'd come up with an armload of import LPs and she'd ring me up for three dollars and tax.
I always liked Tower. They were really the best of those stores, by far. I spent an awful lot of time in the SF and NY stores over the years. I'm sad to see 'em going under.
Now, Lieberman...that cocksucker can drop dead any time, for all I care.
Well, g'night all.
night rory
Good evening, or morning.
I doubt Lieberman will drop out- he's just too fucking delusional and stubborn.
Goodnight, Rorschach.
I guess I'll drag myself off for real this time, so goodnight to everyone else.
I always liked Tower. They were really the best of those stores, by far. I spent an awful lot of time in the SF and NY stores over the years. I'm sad to see 'em going under.
When I lived in New York I spent oddles of bucks and time there.
Those were the days.
4LG, did you see my nudibranch porn?
Also, you might like the snowglobe photos and the bottom of the "Hope" post.
Oh, right. I get here and everyone goes to bed.
Hmmmphhffffff.
(runs out of the room sobbing)
Yeah, I had a friend who worked there in the early eighties. I'd come up with an armload of import LPs and she'd ring me up for three dollars and tax.
Thief!
Anybody remember Colonel Bleep?
And Squeak and Scratch!
hey | 08.26.06 - 2:15 am | #
Thief!
joe | 08.26.06 - 2:40 am | #
Yep. Wouldn't do it nowadays, but back then, it seemed harmless.
Thief!
joe | 08.26.06 - 2:40 am | #
Yep. Wouldn't do it nowadays, but back then, it seemed harmless.
and oh yeah!
up Lamont!
I now think of economists the same way I think of lawyers. They're highly skilled advocates who have, in the best cases, a high degree of mastery of their material. But they work in the interests of their own political principles and those of their employers and grantors.
The range of economic opinion is from the Ayn Rand far right to the center-left (and more center than left). Perhaps a third of Americans are to the left of Krugman and DeLong, and well over half of Europeans. (Of course, few of those who hire economists are left of center.)
Besides the economists' biases, the science of economics itself has a skew. Labor, for example, is a cost. The lower costs are, the better. (There are countervailing factors, of course -- the buying power of labor, for example. But these hardly supersede the need to keep labor cost low).
There are lots of ways of skewing results -- selecting a dataset to study, selecting a kind of statistical analysis, selecting variables to study . The gross skews get caught, but the little tweaks don't. Skewing is not done consciously, I suppose, but results that "don't look right" get a second look, whereas results that look right get passed on.
The best way of getting a good skew, of course, is just not to study a question at all. For decades economists have been condemning the minimum wage on basic economic principles, without bothering to look for empirical backing. When a study was finally done, it was found that the backing wasn't there.
On the other hand, basic economic principles tell us that, **of course**, both outsourcing and high immigration will reduce wages -- supply and demand. But economists, including Krugman and DeLong, don't want this result, so they do an empirical study (!) which proves that -- hold your breath -- either there's no effect on wages, or the effect on wages is very small.
There's always a subtext in this proof, too: only the lowest-paid, lowest-skilled workers are impacted. People we wouldn't care to know.
Economists don't like Stiglitz's book on his experiences with the World Bank / IMF etc. I haven't read it (it's on my list) but my guess it's because it isn't written in economic terms, because the kinds of things Stiglitz wants to say can't be expressed in economic terminology. Economics as such has enormous blindspots, and just be working professionally economists effectively adopt a rightward bias.
Isn't he still leading in the polls? It looks to me like he's got a good shot at winning. Why would he quit? These people never just do the right thing.
Walter Benjamin's Origins of German Tragic Drama was on Bush's reading list.
Walter Benjamin was rejected by Panofsky and the Warburg School.
The Origins of German Tragic drama is a good introduction to existentialism without a trace of marxism.
George Steiner argues benjamin would have never become a marxist had the warburg school not rejected Origins of German Tragic Drama.
My penis has large pimple like sores.
The Warburg Institute of the University of London exists principally to further the study of the classical tradition, that is of those elements of European thought, literature, art and institutions which derive from the ancient world.
The classical tradition is conceived as the theme which unifies the history of Western civilization.
The Institute stems from the personal library of the Hamburg scholar Aby Warburg (1866–1929), whose research centred on the intellectual and social context of Renaissance art.
never thought of Atrios' posts as very "eloquent" before.
yet i think this one has earned that appellation.
nice touch A.
The classical tradition is conceived as the theme which unifies the history of my balls.
Wiley!!!
hey 4 legs & phila - are you still in the house?
Lieberman's going to loose - will be pretty humiliating for him, i would imagine.
I suppose i'm off to bed.
Remember: Licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.
Hi, Joe, if that is your real name, jack.
just trying out my new homepage.
ok. it works. since my own blog is so fucking lame, i switched my homepage to a blog an old friend of mine in baltimore maintains. it's pretty good.
I visited a WalMart today, not to shop, but only to observe the slow decline of Bush's America.
Driving around the parking lot, I saw plenty of SUVs, but not a single hybrid! Entering the store, I had to endure the unwelcome greeting of a shriveled geezer. Mentally, I flipped him off. Bushite fossil.
Wherever I turned, I dodged fat Merkin breeders and their obese bratty kids. I watched them claw fatty HotPockets and sugarpop into their oversized carts.
I asked a clerk where I could find fresh organic aragula, and got a blank hick stare. I asked about amaranth flour, and he said "Whuuuut?"
In the pathetically sparse wine section, I couldn't find one single drinkable pinot noir! Just a bunch of nasty chard, merlot and white zin. Yuck!
WalMart is a frame that represents Bush's Amerikkka. No taste, no nuance, no intellectual nourishment. Just a bunch of fart jokes.
Thank goodness there's a warm community of like-minded, independently free-thinking progressives who will righteously struggle to steer Amerikkka toward a future of peace, justice, and tasteful socially-responsible shopping.
We love the Amerikkka that we control, regulate, restrict, and administrate.
Please join Progressive Action Network. We have some people of color! Honest! Look at our website. There they are!
thanks for sharing that with us, progressive action dickweed.
Olaf - I don't want to get complacent, but it seems the neocons push for Iran is going nowhere fast. Kind of like the whole S.S. reform bushit. No one is buying.
jack, if you need amaranth flour, you can probalby order it online.
Hope so, QL. I would like to think that cooler heads will realize that the military's already overstretched.
Now c'mon Olaf, admit it! I had you going until the last two paragraphs, right?
Just because I was obvious tonight, don't think you haven't been suckered _many_ times before.
It's so easy!
not really, prog. keep trying though. by the way, anyone who is still around should click my homepage for a very good blog by an old and dear friend of mine. he is a hard core pacifist. pacifism has gotten a bad name. people imagine that pacifism means that you are unwilling to fight. in fact, fighting is the whole point of pacifism. lots of people don't understand that.
Hope so, QL. I would like to think that cooler heads will realize that the military's already overstretched.
smittyw, not aging
Cooler heads? Where would those come from?
I think their only consideration at this point is political in nature -- wait until after the mid-terms, or hope the people will fall in line "in a time of war?"
(Morning, rational people, and you know who you aren't.)
Morning, 'bats.
Morning
In case anyone missed it, Greenwald links to a couple of posts from 2003 by rightards claiming victory in the global war to resubjugate the heathens.
Does anyone remember a horrible pop song about "This is the last song I'll ever sing for you?"
Was there anything worse ever written? And how did it get stuck in my head?
The news is just sort of uniformly disgusting this morning. George Allen winking a the white fokes before his "apology," another half dozen soldiers killed, sabre-rattling, insurance malfeasance (if I had State Farm Insurance, I would cancel this day) and on and on.
Virginia, I remember that one: I keep getting Charlene's, I'VE NEVER BEEN TO ME stuck in my head. The melody is entrancing and the words are simply absurd. . . .
DWD -- what is the State Farm story?
We just had to find a new insurer -- our carrier bailed out -- and we had to answer questions like, "Has anyone in the household ever had a DUI or his/her license suspended?" and "Do you have a dog?"
Agent said these are the "killer questions."
Virginia, I am listening to a Gordon Lightfoot set this AM, you think it would help? BALLAD OF YARMOUTH CASTLE is on now - gentle song about a ship sinking . . ..
I keep getting Charlene's, I'VE NEVER BEEN TO ME stuck in my head.
Another truly awful example. And I couldn't have named the "artist" at gunpoint.
Virginia,
I will look for a link but it seems two sisters - independent adjusters for State Farm - have blown the whistle on them big-time.
They were changing the sisters' reports from wind damage to water damage. Wind damage would be covered, water damage is not. Thousands of incidents of their screwing people.
Their defense is that they paid a billion dollars out already. Well, if you owe ten billion, then a billion is not so good: eh?
Was there anything worse ever written? And how did it get stuck in my head?
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we had joy we had fun
we had seasons in the sun
This is the link: these nice young women should be national heroines.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/
theblot..._farm_insi.html
State Farm Insurance supervisors systematically demanded that Hurricane Katrina damage reports be buried or replaced or changed so that the company would not have to pay policyholders' claims in Mississippi, two State Farm insiders tell ABC News.
Kerri and Cori Rigsby, independent adjusters who had worked for State Farm exclusively for eight years, say they have turned over thousands of internal company documents and their own detailed statement to the FBI and Mississippi state investigators.
afternoon moonbats
"Has anyone in the household ever had a DUI or his/her license suspended?" and "Do you have a dog?"
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if any insurance company ever asks you what kind of dog you have, you should always just answer "mixed breed".
we had joy we had fun
we had seasons in the sun
Olaf glad and big
I guess it has some pretty good competition.
Wiiiiilllldfire . . .
hey moon, click on my homepage. my friend's blog gets 96% of his hits from people in the us. give him a limey hit.
Thanks, DWD. Off to read the link and run to the deli. Bagels, anyone?
Back in a bit.
Blair sees migration and terror as key issues
· PM shifts cabinet focus on to 'main public concerns'
· Lib Dems hail defection of 37 Labour activists
Tony Blair will next week attempt to regain the political initiative on his return from holiday by demanding a renewed cabinet drive to meet public concern about terrorism and immigration.
The prime minister was working in Downing Street yesterday after two and a half weeks in the Caribbean, facing dismal poll ratings and evident public scepticism about the government's handling of the terror threat and immigration.
There was growing discontent in his party on several fronts. Thirty-seven party activists in foreign secretary Margaret Beckett's constituency of Derby South yesterday defected to the Liberal Democrats in protest at his Lebanon policy. The defectors, predominantly Muslims of Pakistani origin, included Mohammed Rawail Peeno, a Labour party ward chairman, and Masood Akhta, a former city and county councillor. He was also under pressure to name his departure date, amid reported concern among ministers that the government is "drifting".
Olaf done
we had joy we had fun
we had seasons in the sun
Morning, and:
"Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life--"
Was there anything worse ever written?
"My name is Michael, I've got a nickle"
I woke up to that bleeding song on the clock radio this morning. No wonder I'm in a foul mood, well, other than being at work on a Sat.
You know, a corporation like State Farm deserves a quick death. That is the truth: by what stretch of logic and morality are their actions justifiable. This one cuts across party lines.
Wiiiiilllldfire . . .
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the guy who did that song is named michael martin murphy, or those three names in some order, at any rate.he is a nuevo mexicano and is actually a highly accomplished singer of cowboy music. "wildfire" really is an awful song though.
U.S. may bypass U.N. on Iran: LA Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has indicated it is prepared to form an independent coalition to freeze Iranian assets and restrict trade if the U.N. Security Council fails to penalize Tehran for its nuclear enrichment program, The Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.
A Security Council resolution gives Iran until August 31 to stop uranium enrichment, which could provide fuel to produce electricity or possibly atomic weapons, or face penalties.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said in an interview late this week that the United States planned to introduce a resolution imposing penalties such as a travel ban and asset freeze for key Iranian leaders soon after the August 31 deadline, the Times reported.
The Bush administration has indicated it is prepared to form an independent coalition to freeze Iranian assets and restrict trade if the U.N. Security Council fails to penalize Tehran for its nuclear enrichment program, The Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.
Second verse, same as the first.
Supreme Commander Thor,
Timothy, Timothy where have you gone . . .
And Honey, I miss you. And I'm being good . . . .
Daddy don't you walk so fast, my darling cried, daddy, don't you walk so fast.
Saviour of Iraq's antiquities flees to Syria
· Violence and Sadrists drive away archaeologist
· Looting fear as funds run out to pay protection force
Iraq's most prominent archaeologist has resigned and fled the country, saying the dire security situation, an acute shortage of funds, and the interference of supporters of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had made his position intolerable.
Donny George, who was president of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, achieved international recognition for his efforts to track down and recover the priceless antiquities looted from Iraq's National Museum in the mayhem that followed the fall of Baghdad in 2003.
But this week he revealed that he had resigned and was in hiding with his family in the Syrian capital Damascus. In an interview with the Art Newspaper, Dr George said Baghdad was now so dangerous that the National Museum, which houses a trove of Sumerian and Babylonian artefacts, had been sealed off by concrete walls to protect it from insurgent attacks and further looting.
thanks, moon. i think it's a really good blog. xoites is one of my oldest and dearest friends.
and who could forget these intriguing lyrics:
someone's knockin' at the door
somebody ringin' the bell
someone's knockin' at the door
somebody ringin' the bell
do me a favor
open the door
and let 'em in
Olaf yeah a really well written blog, which i have now blogrolled
Dizzy, my head is spinin'
Like a whirlpool, it never ends--
On a similar note, though I can't remember the words (which is good), during the summer that "Billy Jack" came out, my sister decided that singing, "One Tin Soldier" every five minutes every day for a month was somehow a good idea. Even my parents (to whom my sister was the golden child) threatened violence to her if she didn't knock it off.
Iran launches new nuclear project
The Iranian president has inaugurated a new phase in the Arak heavy-water reactor project, part of Iran's atomic programme which the West fears is aimed at producing bombs.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the project and toured the site at Khondab, which is near Arak, 190km southwest of the capital Tehran.
The plant's plutonium by-product could be used to make atomic warheads.
The move comes days before a UN deadline for Iran to halt uranium enrichment, the part of the programme which is the biggest worry to the West, and is likely to raise further fears in Western capitals.
other excellent lines from songs. . .
long distance callers make long distance calls
-the clash
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there is water
at the bottom of the ocean
-talking heads
morning, all.
Glad to see State Farm had a few adjusters too moral to falsify records and cheat on their policy holders. Having worked for several years in insurance defense, just want to point out that it's not unusual for insurance companies to try wiggling out of paying off. Arbitration clauses are the newest killer, you sign away your right to legal representation when you get your policy.
Science: Pluto officially reclassified as a "dwarf planet
And then there are decent ones, "Nothin' here but grains of sand
Nothin' much worth savin'
Guess we've all got problems of our own to bear, and still we share
Tomorrow could get better than today
To the ones who've loved in vain
Will ya be beholden
Lord abide, let us stem the tide
Of broken dreams
Sometimes ya seem to tell us
It's too late for prayin'"
leavin' on a jet plane
don't know when I'll be back again
hold me like you'd never let me go.
Speaking of dumb lyrics.
Everyone remember: It's the business model of insurers to get you to pay them for coverage and then figure out how not to pay your claim.
Some are better at it than others.
Anybody remember the Chubb Group around about 1988?
this whole pluto thing is starting to piss me off. it's taxonomy, not astronomy, for one thing. on the news in the us they always make it sound like there is some sort of heated debate going on among astronomers about pluto. there isn't.
Even my parents (to whom my sister was the golden child) threatened violence to her if she didn't knock it off.
Supreme Commander Thor
My poor folks had to endure four daughters each going through an infatuation with West Side Story serially. There must have been a ten year period where one of us was obssessively singing along with the record all day every day.
anyone else notice that Katherine Harris has said if we don't elect xtians, we're legislating sin? that cosmetic surgery has affected her mouth.
My poor folks had to endure four daughters each going through an infatuation with West Side Story serially. There must have been a ten year period where one of us was obssessively singing along with the record all day every day.
So at what point does "I Feel Pretty" start to drive one up the wall?
Beckett suffers mass defection of party members to Lib Dems
Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, has been hit by a mass defection of Labour Party members in her constituency that could threaten her chance of political survival beyond the next election. A total of 37 Labour Party members in Derby South, mostly from Pakistani backgrounds, announced that they were switching allegiance to the Liberal Democrats in protest at the Government's failure to push for a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Tony Blair is due to visit the Middle East next month, against a background of widespread unease in the Labour Party over the line that he and the Foreign Secretary pursued during the Lebanon crisis.
When you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way.
a formative philosophy if ever there was one.
Now c'mon Olaf, admit it! I had you going until the last two paragraphs, right?
Just because I was obvious tonight, don't think you haven't been suckered _many_ times before.
It's so easy!
Progressive Action Now!
Look, jack, everybody knows it's you. Just because you change your name doesn't mean we don't know your MO. Just like we know when you go off on one of your namestealing rampages, you namestealing asshole.
Because you are the original namestealing asshole, jack.
anyone else notice that Katherine Harris has said if we don't elect xtians, we're legislating sin? that cosmetic surgery has affected her mouth.
I wonder what the Bible has to say about getting your breasts inflated to D cups? I'm sure there's a passage in there somewhere . . ..
Something's affected her brain, and I believe it's called stupidity.
But then, only stupid people make jokes about Bush being stupid, right?
more K Harris; it's god's will to have the 'faithful' in gov't.
I'm reading the Dallas morning views, sorry I don't have the website accessed here at home, trying to keep down the spam.
i think "west side story" is fucking great. i only sing the songs from it in the shower though. that's when i feel prettiest.
Euan Blair and the Troublesome Tummy
my sister is a big fan of West Side Story but then she is very musical.
she sings and plays the cello.
she got the musical gene in our family heh
she recently went to a friend's wedding and she me up with all her old Uni pals and they were amazed how well travelled she was.
SCThor, there aren't any good jokes about bush being stupid, because it's not joke. It's scary.
I Feel Pretty was originally about annoying - N. Wood's character was living with her sister and being a pain, recall?
by the way, ruth. the people of central new mexico told me to tell you this:
all your rain is belong to us!
How are the hummingbirds, Olaf? any more red mutants?
I've of late been infatuated with opera heh
nearly listened to all my mother's opera recordings.
Give the rain back or we'll move to NMex and behave like TX'ns. You'll be sorry.
Everyone remember: It's the business model of insurers to get you to pay them for coverage and then figure out how not to pay your claim.
Some are better at it than others.
Anybody remember the Chubb Group around about 1988?
smittyw, not aging
yeah, I get that but it is like a slot machine or three card monte - sometimes you have to pay to keep the suckers playing. And if they got caught with their collective pants down and their asses are in the breeze - fuck em.
Their business model should have taken catastrophes into consideration.
Honestly, I would like to seem them out of business tomorrow.
Only time will Tell
If we stand the test of time
Van Halen
Is This Love
That line has always bugged me.
EU to commit biggest force in its history to keep the peace
French-led operation with 7,000 ground troops to begin deploying in days as UN anticipates full-strength mission
The European Union is to mount the biggest military operation in its history after agreeing yesterday to commit more than 7,000 ground troops for a United Nations mission policing the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire.
The EU, at a meeting of its foreign ministers in Brussels, also agreed to send a further 2,000 specialist forces, mainly providing naval and air support.
Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, in Brussels to cajole hesitant countries, expressed his delight and said that more than half of the proposed 15,000-strong peacekeeping force was now in place.
At a press conference, he said: "Europe is providing the backbone of the force." He added the force would be able to deploy "in days, not weeks".
I Feel Pretty was originally about annoying - N. Wood's character was living with her sister and being a pain, recall?
Vaguely. I have a friend who is far more into the theatrical version that I, so she tends to remember these things better.
I really need to stop allowing all the stuff I used to know to keep flittering away.
moon, don't know if you noticed I said yesterday el Jefe was enjoying 68F in London Weds and riding about in a double decker bus really lapping up the nice day for sightseeing.
Van Halen
Is This Love
That line has always bugged me.
Right now
Hey
It's your tomorrow.
How are the hummingbirds, Olaf? any more red mutants?
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i haven't been up to see them. it has been so damn rainy here. seriously. your rain is not late. it fell. it fell in central new mexico. it will not rain in northern texas or oklahoma this year.
SCThor, taking in a lot of info means something has to suffer. I spent most of a day not too long ago trying to remember that green stone I love is malachite.
Potatoes to the people! Comic vows to challenge Chavez
Could a comedian who wears a straw hat and poses as a country bumpkin, complete with his own donkey, dislodge the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez? Benjamin Rausseo, who also goes by the name of the Count of Guachero, seems to believe that he can.
Mr Rausseo, who is better known as a fast-talking comic specialising in irreverent and edgy stand-up, this week cast aside his trademark headwear and entered the political fray - formally registering as a candidate for the country's elections in December.
"This is a solemn event," he told hundreds of his cheering supporters. "I've temporarily separated myself from the Count of Guachero character, but he's going to help me in the campaign."
SCThor, taking in a lot of info means something has to suffer. I spent most of a day not too long ago trying to remember that green stone I love is malachite.
You are right there. Still, it pisses me off when I find myself forgetting so many things and "misunderstanding" others. I suppose age has something to do with that, but I still find the condition aggravating.
Really need to sharpen up more before I start coming off as completely befuddled.
Give the rain back or we'll move to NMex and behave like TX'ns. You'll be sorry.
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here. have some water. i'm sure the rains will come. you just need to trust god. god loves texas. everybody knows that. everybody in texas anyway.
Could a comedian who wears a straw hat and poses as a country bumpkin, complete with his own donkey, dislodge the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez?
Depends on how many people want to have una cerveza
DWD, insurance cos are pretending its all the catastrophes that are making them take harsh measures against policy holders, when it's the bad investments they made that really are hurting them most. They lost a lot of their policy payment ability in the tech bust, and building bust is about to hurt more.
errrr.....
"Depends on how many people want to have una cerveza with him."
I wonder if Mel Gibson is doing anything special for today:
1903: The St. Petersburg newspaper Znamya ("Banner") serializes a set of articles revealing the dual menace of the Freemasons and international Jewry. The series is just the first incarnation of what is later called the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
Exception is a new category of drought that happens to be hanging over my area. Olaf, the rain is possibly a victim of CA cloud seeding, as I have seen expressed elsewhere. For which we are all suffering, but the poor farmers the most. And wildlife.
Honestly, I would like to seem them out of business tomorrow.
DWD -One Eye Good
We are pretty pessimistic about our chances for collecting if we get hit by The Big One. It looks like the insurance companies have established sound methods for making the payment flow go one way only. The wind guys say it was water, the flood guys say it was wind, and we're fucked.
(Did we do Seasons in the Sun, yet?)
Really need to sharpen up more before I start coming off as completely befuddled.
I swore I'd never call my kids by the wrong name, but I find myself doing it all the time.
Just not as much as Thers.
DWD, insurance cos are pretending its all the catastrophes that are making them take harsh measures against policy holders, when it's the bad investments they made that really are hurting them most. They lost a lot of their policy payment ability in the tech bust, and building bust is about to hurt more.
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dealing with catastrophes is the whole fucking point of insurance. if they can't deal with that then the whole industry makes no sense whatsoever.
It looks like the insurance companies have established sound methods for making the payment flow go one way only.
I thought they used to call that "extortion."
It looks like the insurance companies have established sound methods for making the payment flow go one way only.
I thought they used to call that "extortion."
'Exceptional' = exception
Olaf, are you trying to say we're not all welcome there? or just saying it?
I thought they used to call that "extortion."
Molly Ivors
Recently rehabilitated to "the free market system."
Right now
Hey
It's your tomorrow.
Supreme Commander Thor | 08.26.06 - 7:47 am
Hah, I thought of that after Is This Love (or whatever it's called, too tired to google). I like the video though:
http://www.youtube.com/results?s...t&
search=Search
SCThor, you should work for some one who has a really, really bad memory, as I do, then you'd feel like a genius. But then, I have a really good long term memory for the most part. it's everything that came after i turned about 50 that comes less than easily.
Virginia,
In the scheme of things there are two things I really hate in our society: Republicans and Insurance companies and oddly enough, they are the same.
I want to see this company go the route of Arthur Anderson Co when they got caught.
I really do not care one whit for their survival. Not even a wisp of a regret.
(personal bias - I have two sons, 18 and 22. My car insurance bill is $3600 a year. That is just obscene.
(both boys are honor students and of upstanding moral character.)
And can I brag a minute, Young DWD - the kid with the SAT score that indicated he would not be successful in college - completed his coursework for his BA: 3.7 CGPA. 4.0 in his major. Fuck them too.
This sounds like it could be Bobo's World (from the Sacramento Bee):
The godparents of 3-year-old Christopher Thomas staged boxing matches with the boy as "spectator sport" before he died of brain injuries, a prosecutor told a Sacramento Superior Court on Thursday.
The boxing matches and other acts of violence in the Rancho Cordova apartment were for the "amusement" of the godparents, and "the games ceased" July 19, 2004, the day the boy died of bleeding to the brain, Deputy District Attorney Robin Shakely said. In opening statements to the trial of Earl Joseph Christopher and his wife, Renecha Marina Gulley, Shakely said Thomas was with the couple for nine days before he was taken to the hospital with multiple injuries, including old bruising and a burn from a flat iron, Shakely said.
The dead boy's brother and boxing opponent, who was 5 at the time of the death, told police he saw Christopher punch the 3-year-old "hard in the stomach," Samuel said. Christopher's lawyer, Russell Miller Jr., told jurors that his client had a "loving relationship" with his godchild.
With the courtroom lights dimmed, Shakely showed jurors a home videotape the couple made five days before the boy’s death. The tape showed Christopher boxing with his brother, at first jabbing half-heartedly at his opponent, but then increasing with force as his godfather egged him on.
"Put the dog down," Christopher told the boy. "Fight."
"You ain't hitting hard enough. Get him. Get him," the boy was told. After slugging his older brother in the stomach with a blow that caused him to yell in pain and punching him along the side of the head that made him fall to the ground, the boy was declared the victor. "Christopher is the winner. Now do your victory dance," the godfather told the boy.
Olaf, are you trying to say we're not all welcome there? or just saying it?
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i've put your name onto the list of texans who are welcome in new mexico for the current year. you'll be fine. rmj and tena can come here too. we each get three names we can submit each year. woody approved rorschach and grand moff texan and dave/ austin, tx.
completed his coursework for his BA: 3.7 CGPA. 4.0 in his major. Fuck them too.
DWD -One Eye Good
Good for him!
And yes, insurance companies compose a significant part of our new fascist government.
I don't mind mandates insurance for cars: that makes a certain amount of sense. And I'm sure doctors prop up the health insurance industry. But things like homeowner's insurance are less explicable to me, especially in the face of these disasters.
Molly, I call my son by my brother's name occasionally, but never yet his sister's. They're still laughing at me for being absolutely sure a picture of her daughter was one of herself, tho.
SCThor, you should work for some one who has a really, really bad memory, as I do, then you'd feel like a genius. But then, I have a really good long term memory for the most part. it's everything that came after i turned about 50 that comes less than easily.
Being almost 50, I'm finding the same thing, but I'm also finding that I tend to blow off a lot of things, and those go right down the Memory Hole as if they didn't exist. Which bothers me, even though it shouldn't.
I should just accept that I ain't gonna be as sharp as I once was--and even at my dimmest, I can still out-think Bush's ass.
Jesus, SC Thor. That's horrible.
It looks like it was effective Shaken Baby Syndrome.
it's everything that came after i turned about 50 that comes less than easily.
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i'm only 42. and i classify everything that happened between 1980 and last week as "about 10 years ago." i'm going to be hilarious when i'm old.
Hizbollah says Israeli response was a surprise
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The magnitude of the Israeli response to Hizbollah's cross-border operation in July took the Lebanese guerrilla group by surprise, Hizbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem said in an interview published on Saturday.
Qassem told an-Nahar daily that Hizbollah had expected an Israel attack at some stage as part of a joint plan with the United States but it had no indication it would come in July.
"We were expecting the Israelis would respond at the most by bombing for a day or two or some limited attacks or targeting certain places, such that it would not go beyond three days and some limited damage," he said.
After Hizbollah fighters seized two Israeli soldiers on July 12, Israel started bombing Lebanon's civilian infrastructure in a one-month war which displaced more than 900,000 people.
Jesus, SC Thor. That's horrible.
It looks like it was effective Shaken Baby Syndrome.
This guy is scum. I'm hoping he gets in lots of quality time with his new friends up in Pelican Bay. I'm thinking he'll be hearing "Get in there and fight!" a lot in the coming years.
They're still laughing at me for being absolutely sure a picture of her daughter was one of herself, tho.
Hey, be fair. I once floored watertiger by showing her a pic of Thers at six--a dead ringer for our 6YO. Honestly, it was creepy, and only the bad 70's clothes gave it away.
Even better: since I had 2 babies in 2 years, I haven't, err, regained my figure. As such, I resemble pictures of my late sister, who was heavier than I, and I have to do a double take to see if it's a pic of myself or not!
Reminds me of parents calling thier kids names when they miss the soccer ball. This a.m., I'm about to go for my walk before the soccer games start. Later.
I think they customarily remove people who hurt kids from the general prison population for their own safety. This Karr guy, for example. But that could just be sexual assault.
This a.m., I'm about to go for my walk before the soccer games start.
I expect we're rained out here.
This a.m., I'm about to go for my walk before the soccer games start.
I expect we're rained out here.
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now you know what what kind of hardships we new mexicans have to put up with day after day.
the ny post has a good article about the lamont/clinton mtg. it's striking the way they write of the clinton machine -- like they're in awe.:
HILL'S HEAVY HAULING TO AID LEFTY LAMONT
By IAN BISHOP and MAGGIE HABERMAN
August 26, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday jumped off the sidelines to throw the full weight of her monstrous political machine behind anti-war Democratic darling Ned Lamont - a move aimed at appeasing her liberal critics.
To help Lamont thwart an independent general election challenge from Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, Clinton is loaning Lamont her trusted political spinmeister Howard Wolfson and vowing to help the political novice raise gobs of campaign cash.
The relationship is mutually beneficial: While Lamont gets access to Clinton's campaign experts and fund-raisers, she can reap some of the liberal love being heaped on Lamont by party activists and bloggers.
For refusing to call for an immediate U.S. pullout from Iraq, Clinton has been blasted and booed by the Dems' liberal base - a major vulnerability as she mounts a 2008 bid for the White House.
Her deal with Lamont paid immediate dividends, receiving kudos from the supremely influential liberal Daily Kos blog run by Markos Moulitsas. he site was abuzz with news of her actions, drawing more than 300 comments in a matter of hours.
She revealed the stunning scope of her support over coffee during an hour-long meeting with Lamont, his wife Annie and his campaign manager Tom Swan at her Chappaqua home yesterday morning.
http://www.nypost.com/news/
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whats up? gas prices dropping, things quiet in iraq, smirks numbers going up. are we in for a big oct surprise with the capture of bin laiden and a big gain in nov for repubs? nothing amazes anymore.
Former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohammad - "Britain is a 3rd-Rate Power & Blair is a Poodle"
a lot of us here in new mexico have motorcycles that we want to ride. exotic italian ones, even. but it won't stop raining.
This guy is scum. I'm hoping he gets in lots of quality time with his new friends up in Pelican Bay.
Stories like this make me understand the emotion behind supporting the death penalty. I'm still agin' it, but I *get* it.
Former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohammad - "Britain is a 3rd-Rate Power & Blair is a Poodle"
Come on, Dr. M. Tell us how you really feel!
He should get his own website, much like Dr. Z. Could make for interesting web reading.
,i>HILL'S HEAVY HAULING TO AID LEFTY LAMONT
Perfectly rational headline.
hey thor, how do you pronounce your name? i'm just curious.
hard t or soft th?
Here's a qnother quote by
Former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohammad:
“Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.”
You know, Moonbootica, between yor adoration of Hezbollah and your being so amused by a Hitler-named restaurant in India, you're progressing rather nicely as Devize's own little Jew-hater.
now you know what what kind of hardships we new mexicans have to put up with day after day.
It's been an incredibly wet summer, including the very serious flooding at the end of June which we're still reeling from.
As it turns out, soccer is not cancelled, so I have to haul ass. Later!
Like Wojciehowicz used to say, "It's pronounced like it's spelled." So pretty much with a soft th.
its too early for trolls!
I don't mind mandates insurance for cars: that makes a certain amount of sense. And I'm sure doctors prop up the health insurance industry. But things like homeowner's insurance are less explicable to me, especially in the face of these disasters.
Molly Ivors
My problem (well, one of many actually) is that they refuse to equate risk with location. When the inevitable hurricane blows through Sarasota are they going to cry poverty and not pay? The homeowners who choose to live in the paths of hurricanes, on the beaches, on the flood plains of rivers, in earthquake prone areas SHOULD pay more for the priviledge of living there.
I really hate my homeowner's rates going up because the company lost some money in NOLA.
losermon is way too self-centered to drop out - it has nothing to do with democracy, and nothing to do with what's best for the democratic party or the voters of CT, its all about losermon and the insatiable ego. Someone in demo-high command needs paint a clear picture to losermon: he stays in - he's out of the party; if he exits, maybe a cabinet post in '08.
nice try at dodgeball....address the issue
SHOULD pay more for the priviledge of living there.
I really hate my homeowner's rates going up because the company lost some money in NOLA.
DWD -One Eye Good
We are. With faint guarantees that it'll amount to anything. And your homeowner's will go up regardless of whether they pay us for any loss.
And please hurry, 'cause I hear someone tip-tapping upon my bridge.
nice try at dodgeball....address the issue
johnny
The issue that you're a fuckwit, or the issue that no one but you gives a flying fuck what you think?
(Troll? What troll?)
Address my balls!!
I get to go to the post office now, and ship a text I sold (thanks, half!).
talk to y'all later.
That story about the god parents is so frightening. Such casual violence directed at children. The brother is going to live with the knowledge for the rest of his life. What fuckers.
Israeli army kills Palestinian in W. Bank clash
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed one Palestinian and wounded five others in a clash in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Palestinian medics said.
Witnesses said soldiers fired on Palestinians throwing stones at them in the city of Nablus, killing a 16-year-old boy and wounding five others, one seriously.
Over at The Ptarmigan Nest, our foreign correspondent checks in.
http://www.ptarmigannest.net
Over at The Ptarmigan Nest, our foreign correspondent checks in.
http://www.ptarmigannest.net
Like Wojciehowicz used to say, "It's pronounced like it's spelled." So pretty much with a soft th.
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i was just wondering. no scandinavian languages have a soft "th". thor is pronounced "tor" i'm scandinavian as hell, so i know this shit. come by my house next christmas. you will be tripping over all the straw ornaments even before i get you tanked up on glogg. but it's all good.
Molly, it's really embarrassing when one yells at the family pet and calls it by a child's name. I've done that.
"My problem is that they refuse to equate risk with location."
But that's the whole financial foundation of insurance: the payouts in claims to high risk customers when events occur are coverd by having a lot of low risk customers with little in the way of claims, i.e., the total insurance risk is distributed allowing insurance companies to have a reasonable likelihood of making a profit. Without that structure, there wouldn't be affordable insurance for anything.
"There is no salvation for those outside the Church...I believe it. Put it this way. My wife is a saint. She's a much better person than I am. Honestly. She's like, Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, she knows Jesus, she believes in that stuff. And it's just not fair if she doesn't make it, she's better than I am. But that is a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it."
I just quoted Mel Gibson. So can I join the “International Cabal of Jew Haters Club” as well?
Joe won't drop out cause he's got nothing else to lose. And good on Hillary.
Joe won't drop out cause he's got nothing else to lose. And good on Hillary.
Quote of the day (and if this wanker can discern the truth, there is hope)
Hollywood star SANDRA BULLOCK's husband JESSE JAMES has launched a scathing verbal attack on US President GEORGE W BUSH, calling the leader "a d**khead". The motorcycle maker visited American soldiers outside Baghdad, Iraq - and is convinced the majority of the US military agree with him. James says, "Everyone in Iraq knows Bush is a d**khead. He's the boss' kid. "Everybody I know who has a successful business who has a kid - the kid is always a f**khead. Have you ever noticed that?"
http://www.contactmusic.com/news...%
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i was just wondering. no scandinavian languages have a soft "th". thor is pronounced "tor"
Down in my brain I know that's how it's suppose to be said, but when the words come out . . . nada.
Such it is when you live in the Midwest. ^_^
From far, far above: Lieberman will not quit. His dignity is long gone; might as well ride that missle all the way down to oblivion, Slim Pickens-style. At least that way, he figures, he can take a few of his enemies out with him.
Buzz Bomb
This in my opinion is exactly right. If the polls on October 1 were to say: Lamont 99%, Lieberman 0.5%, he would still stay in. That is his personality. He is in utter, fantastic denial. He cannot believe (and even after he loses, he will not believe) that the citizens of Connecticut no longer want him in Congress.
Alarm at Spain's migrant children
Authorities in Spain's Canary Islands have raised concerns over 700 unaccompanied children that have arrived by boat.
The children have arrived among thousands of illegal immigrants.
The Canaries have received 4,500 mainly African migrants this month - nearly as many as for the whole of last year.
The Canary Islands says it does not have the resources to care properly for the children - and wants the rest of Spain and the European Union to help.
zoot,
I disagree totally with that business model then. That is simply wrong. If I *CHOOSE* to live in a high-risk area like Florida's coast, then my homeowner's insurance should reflect the risk. If I choose to live in Michigan where about the most damaging thing that ever happens is a falling tree - my rates should reflect this as well.
I am tired of Northerners subsidizing their Southern cousins so that those fools living in a swamp can pity us who live with the lakes and trees and rivers.
Morning, rational people. I see by the lack of an early morning thread that I wasn't the only one to sleep in this morning.
Blair voters 'turning to Cameron'
Europe minister Geoff Hoon has said voters are starting to see the Conservative leader, David Cameron, as a serious alternative to Tony Blair.
He admitted that, after nine years in government, people were thinking there might be something better than Labour.
Mr Hoon was speaking as the prime minister returned to Downing Street after his holiday in Barbados.
Mr Blair is spending the weekend working on a big speech he will give to the TUC annual conference next month.
I *CHOOSE* to live in a high-risk area like Florida's coast, then my homeowner's insurance should reflect the risk
Likewise, if you choose to live on a known major fault line.
Ex-CBI boss caught up in NHS fiasco
Digby Jones drawn into row over iSoft as company reveals £344m loss
Sir Digby Jones, one of Britain's best-known businessmen, was last night enmeshed in the worsening controversy over the government's £6.2bn effort to overhaul the NHS computer system.
ISoft, the troubled software company at the heart of the massive project, yesterday said it had racked up losses of £344m last year as it counted the cost of what it described as a "turbulent" 12 months. The company is under investigation for accounting irregularities, and key staff have been suspended.
The project, designed to create a central database of patient records, is already two years behind schedule. Confidence in the scheme is likely to be further undermined as it emerged that Accenture, the US consulting firm which had been one of two outfits responsible for hiring iSoft, might be preparing to cut its losses and withdraw from the project.
Such it is when you live in the Midwest. ^_^
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what part of the midwest? lots of people in minnesota are named "tor" with the hard t. even if it's spelled with a "th". wisconsin too. illinois, even.
what part of the midwest? lots of people in minnesota are named "tor" with the hard t. even if it's spelled with a "th". wisconsin too. illinois, even.
Red State Indiana, though close to Chicago. I've heard that accent you speak of when I've traveled to the North, particuarly to Wisconsin.
I *CHOOSE* to live in a high-risk area like Florida's coast, then my homeowner's insurance should reflect the risk
Likewise, if you choose to live on a known major fault line.
FeralLiberal |
First of all, insurance companies do assess the risk factors when computing a premium. People in the hurricane-prone areas and tornado alley, etc., do pay a much higher premium. The problem is that the insurance companies don't really do the reverse and lower premiums for the low risk areas. That's not the Southern owner's fault, it's the insurance companies' fault.
Second, there is no company in California willing to write earthquake insurance policies anymore. The state has had to institute its own insurance plan which homeowners have to purchase to satisfy their mortgage lender.
Good morning, all -- grey and muggy here in Central Ohio but overall for the past week, very hints of autumn in the air 'round these parts.
i'm sorry, thor. you just make it sound like there are no scandihoovians in the midwest, and i happen to know that that just isn't true.
supreme commander, my situation is different from most. my brother is named tor. my father is named tor. my grandfather was named tor. my great grandfather was named tor. and on and on it goes. i have no idea where people got the idea that scandinavians had been assimilated.
WHAT WILL THOSE TOSSERS THINK OF NEXT?
Just out of morbid curiosity, do you suppose those wankers at the FDA ever concidered requiring every male who presented a prescription for ED drugs to a pharmacist to provide a certified copy of his marriage license?
DWD -- Congrats to your son. As someone who always scored big on those tests, I know they don't mean squat.
Oh, and the insurance industry and the stock market are just gambling with government-protected risk reduction as far as I'm concerned.
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Last embassy to leave Jerusalem
El Salvador, the only country that still has its embassy in Jerusalem, is to move it to Tel Aviv.
Franciso Lainez, El Salvador's foreign minister, announced the decision on Friday that would see his country follow the example of neighbouring Costa Rica which said last week it would pull its diplomatic mission out of the disputed city.
Lainez said El Salvador hoped to help ease Middle East tensions by moving the embassy.
The decision is a blow for Israel as it regards East Jerusalem as part of its "undivided and eternal capital".
Early morning owls finally arrived.
Lieberman will not drop out because Lieberman is full of Lieberman. He coulsd still if the Chimp made him his new Secretary of War. But first Bush needs Lieberman as the useful idiot to retain those seats in Congress for the GOP. After the elections Bush may welcome Joe officially to the GOP and name him to his cabinet.
DWD -One Eye Good
you should make the case to your mortgage lender that you don't need insurance because nothing ever happens in MI. Same goes for NOLA or any natural disaster area, after all, the 100 year storm only happens once every 100 years and "I" will surely sell my house to some unfortunate loser before the big one hits.
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Lieberman basically has ten days left to decide if he wants to exit gracefully or badly. Most folks aren 't yet paying attention to the campaign, with summer vacations winding down and return-to-school ramping up. It would appear that the party officials know that the average voter hasn't yet begun to focus on the campaign, which means Lieberman could still leave with some semblance of honor. Once Labor Day arrives and the official endorsements begin to tumble out, he will need to make a decision by the end of the week on whether he gets treated as a colleague or a turn-coat.
Once the gloves come off, he'll pray to receive attacks comparable to what Lamont was laying on him in the primary. Most folks won't even know who or what Joe really is by the end of the campaign.
"Really need to sharpen up more before I start coming off as completely befuddled."
Supreme Commander Thor
-That will never happen.
I like your posts (yeah, like I'm going to argue with a god).
You can put down Mjolnir (hammer) now.
It sounds like Joe has received some sage advice from Kathrine Harris. Kudos to their upcoming victories!
NOT!
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