I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Pancakes!
Hey how 'bout that Chatham House think tank report about Iran's growing influence as a result of the US invasion of Iraq?
Ich bin die Erste!
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Has anyone said,
Fuck Bush!
?
And, good morning.
Morning again, rational people, and yes, Mister X, you were first.
Good morning, Moe!
Oh, and FUCK BUSH.
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ARAK, Iran (Reuters) - Iran's president launched a new phase in the Arak heavy-water reactor project on Saturday, saying Tehran would not give up its right to nuclear technology despite Western fears it is aimed at producing a bomb.
Thanks, Chimpy, for making Iranian water heavy. You can't do nuthin' right.
Morning. Good? We'll wait for the retrospective.
Nice morningwalk, today, but all the neighborhood is out on Saturdays. I should have worn my Melancon for Congress t-shirt. Tomorrow, maybe.
mornin', rational folks...
whassahappenin in de hizzy, holmesez?
what new affronts to our national dignity have the fascist fux inflicted overnight?
anybody gonna take the streets today? i got a real nice pitchfork i'll shake in the direction of the corpoRat scum...
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le's go get some!@!!!
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Iran is retaining its heavy water. Period.
Chimpy seems utterly bound to the law of unintended consequences.
Anyone with pancakes deserves to be first.
Good morning all.
Morning again, rational people, and yes, Mister X, you were first.
Diane
In a way, I hate peaking so early in the day. It's all downhill from here...
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Lebanon's victory electrifies Egyptian dissidents: what of the European left?
Ich bin die wurste.
'anybody gonna take the streets today?'
WGG, I got the street. you take the backyards.
Was that you yesterday saying you were going to go get an EKG?
Show me the money, Hair told ICC
The controversy that has rocked international cricket took a sensational twist last night after it emerged that Darrell Hair, the umpire who accused Pakistan of cheating, had offered to quit in return for a payment of $500,000.
The revelation that the Australian official proposed walking away from the game in return for a secret deposit into his bank account has strengthened Pakistan's view that Hair was biased against them in the decisions that led to their forfeiture of the Fourth Test against England at the Oval.
le's go get some!@!!!
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WoodyGuthrie'sGitarron
Ah...good! WGG is feeling better today.
Chimpy seems utterly bound to the law of unintended consequences.
plantsman
See, you libruls need to get your story straight. On the other hand, you say Our Faithful President is above the law (a statement which all Good Americans support), and on the other hand you say he's bound by the law?
So which is it, Libs?
/Dith
Love that heavy water
Ah, Tehran your're my home!
Anybody notice that there's a lot of bigotry and hysteria going around these days?
Good morning.
I'm more in the mood for a BLT topped with a fried egg and cheese.
I'm more in the mood for a BLT topped with a fried egg and cheese.
mer
Can I get that breaded and deep-fried? With gravy?
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Iran is retaining its heavy water. Period.
nyclept
"I got dem Arak Blues
Down to my shoes" - Iranian blues start Heavy Waters, from the "mushroom cloud sessions."
Chimpy (dropping his pants): "Yo, Condi! Wouldja like to git a handle on this?"
Condi: "I think two fingers would do the trick."
A musical salute to Assrocket & the Powerloiners
Iran is retaining its heavy water. Period.
nyclept - 9:08 am
and the fascist fux wanna administer a nukuler diuretic...
Anybody notice that there's a lot of bigotry and hysteria going around these days?
H. Rumbold, Master Barber
Yeh, must be that nasty Iranian heavy water.
Or, is it Islamofascism on the march?
'Anybody notice that there's a lot of bigotry and hysteria going around these days?
H. Rumbold, Master Barber'
Sorry you missed the scene in D.C. for the original civil rights legislation.
Super-size Britain must curb junk food ads, say campaigners
75% of men and 60% of women could be overweight by 2010
Health campaigners yesterday demanded that ministers ban all junk food advertising before 9pm as a report predicted that three in four men and three in five women would be overweight or obese by 2010.
They warned that the huge rise in weight problems would place a strain on the NHS and expressed particular concern at rocketing rates among children, one in five of whom will be obese within four years, according to Department of Health research.
The report, Forecasting Obesity to 2010, predicts that one in three men will suffer obesity, an increase from 4.3 million three years ago to 6.6 million. More than one in four women will be obese, an increase from 4.7 million to 6 million.
jac, that's too good an impression. To paraphrase
the Sprint guy who can download big files fast:
"It's a different kind of law, dith-man."
"Can I get that breaded and deep-fried? With gravy?"
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--MisterX
Not on mine thank you, but anything for you, being first and all.
Why do dogs bark when I want to sleep?
ARAK, Iran (Reuters) - Iran's president launched a new phase in the Arak heavy-water reactor project on Saturday, saying Tehran would not give up its right to nuclear technology despite Western fears it is aimed at producing a bomb.
Does anyone else have moments when they think nobody's as inept as this White House crew? And if that's true, people keep dying and we're still clueless about what's really going on?
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Anybody notice that there's a lot of bigotry and hysteria going around these days?
Yes, I have. Bigotry & hysteria are the new normal.
Divorce laws 'are destroying marriage'
The cheap and quick divorce laws in England and Wales are undermining the institution of marriage and need to be reformed to help prevent acrimonious break-ups, a senior Court of Appeal judge has warned.
The call for a change in the law comes from Lord Justice Wall, one of Britain's foremost family law judges, and follows a string of bitter and high-profile divorce battles. Under the antiquated divorce laws of England and Wales, couples have to blame each other if they want a quick divorce, which is usually granted within six months.
In an interview with The Independent, Lord Justice Wall called for an end to fault-based divorces and the introduction of a system that puts the needs of children and financial provision at the heart of the process. He said: " I do believe strongly in the institution of marriage as the best way to bring up children and that's one of the reasons why I would like to end the quick and easy divorces based on the fault system. I think that it actually undermines marriage."
jac, that's too good an impression. plantsman
Why do dogs bark when I want to sleep?
NTodd
But NTodd's impression of Dith's poetry is pretty good, too.
Ah...good! WGG is feeling better today.
Diane - 9:10 am
i wasn't feelin' particularly 'bad' yestiddy...just finally took the step of checkin in widdedoc about sumpin i'd been feelin for a coupla months...
you gonna come down here for the Fair?
But NTodd's impression of Dith's poetry is pretty good, too.
I have a confession to make: when I'm sleepy, I'm as dumb as dith.
Mornin', gang. Not here for too long, but I wanted to say hi. How are your various weekends looking?
WoodyGuthrie'sGitarron -- How ya doin'?
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Anyone with pancakes deserves to be first.
only if they share.
I will reciprocate with some of the nice Quebec maple syrup I just took delivery of.
I have a confession to make: when I'm sleepy, I'm as dumb as dith.
NTodd
Bullshit.
Rocks on Demerol aren't as dumb as Dith.
Only Katherine Harris is, and only when she's awake.
I'm going to Prince Edward Island in about two hours. I'm gonna get to the bottom of this Anne of Green Gables thing.
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.
Rocks on Demerol aren't as dumb as Dith.
Only Katherine Harris is, and only when she's awake.
All that weight she carries affects the blood flow to her brain.
Or would if silicon needed oxygen.
WGG,
I still can't tell. The apartment I thought I had rented has fallen through, so I am still trying to find a place to live, and time is growing short, and so is money.
Euan Blair and the Troublesome Tummy
I have a confession to make: when I'm sleepy, I'm as dumb as dith.
NTodd, Queersatz Fagerach
So the dogs bark a lot up where you're at?
Bigotry & hysteria are the new normal.
Karin
the rational have thought, the ignorant have hysteria and bigotry...The New Ignorance should be called this era.
Glad you looked after yourself, WGG.
BTW I just learned yesterday that the Dad of a man I work with saved the French wine industry in the 1880's, when I picked up a wine that was named after his locus, dedicated to him. Seems T.V. Munson developed a vine that is resistant to phylloxera, which was destroying French vineyards back then. Wow, raise a glass to TV.
I'm going to Prince Edward Island in about two hours. I'm gonna get to the bottom of this Anne of Green Gables thing.
Moe Szyslak | Homepage | 08.26.06 - 9:22 am
Get to the bottom of the sound as well -- the mussels are fantastic with a nice garlicky tomato broth.
Post-Zionism and the Sephardi Question
by Meyrav Wurmser
Aaah. Phylloxera... Virginia's gift to the world of wine.
Moe, is it still by ferry?? Don't fall off of any fences [one of the events I remember from the book]
I'm going to Prince Edward Island in about two hours.
Oh, PEI. Lovely.
So the dogs bark a lot up where you're at?
Yes, all the time. Me dumb.
Hizbullah: the new heroes on the streets of Ramallah
On the back wall of Mohammad Sharak's taxi dispatch office, next to the pictures of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and below gilded Qur'anic verses, are two new posters: portraits of Hassan Nasrallah, the Hizbullah leader.
Since war erupted between Israel and the Lebanese militia, Hizbullah has emerged as a new hero on Palestinian streets. Shops and cafes in Ramallah and other towns are sporting Hizbullah posters. Stalls are selling Hizbullah's yellow flag, alongside the Lebanese flag. In the eyes of many Palestinians, Hizbullah struck a rare blow against the Israeli military, despite the huge cost in civilian casualties and damage in Lebanon.
"The beauty of this war was that a force of just 6,000 or so with light weapons superseded an organised army that all the Arab countries are scared of," said Mr Sharak, 35. "I was surprised by Hizbullah's capabilities."
Re: the discussion about insurance from the last thread: this is nothing new. Insurance companies have been pretending for years that their job is simply to collect premiums and deny claims. When we had the big ice storm here in 2000/2001 and they couldn't get out of paying claims, they simply cancelled the insurance of anyone who made a claim for storm damage. Same with medical and auto insurance - they'll fight any claim where they can find an excuse - legit or not - for declining coverage.
Seems to me that the crux of the problem is that you can't borrow for a home or a car without buying insurance. This racket involves lenders too - they're going to force you to insure anything they loan money on, and they know full well that you are quite likely not to be covered if anything happens. Car insurance has been a racket for years - I don't know of anyone who has ever received market value for a car totalled in an accident. They nitpick claims to death, too. My first ever accident when I was 21 was the result of slipping off an icy road - the bitch of an adjuster kept insisting that the driver's side door no longer being operable had nothing to do with the accident and they weren't going to cover it. Then she wrote out the claim check - to the shop which gave the lowest estimate - and included with it the payment for the cash out of pocket I had paid for the tow (under my tow insurance)...meaning I couldn't recover what I had paid for towing without the body shop co-signing the check. Ultimately I ended up refusing the payment, telling said bitch that they would either send out another adjuster to take care of things or I would be calling the state insurance commission. Years later my hometown agent insisted that because I was living in a bigger town that my rate should be higher...ok, fine. Then a few years later, I needed a tow again, this time for a breakdown, and he tried to pull this "well, that's about double what a tow goes for around here, so we're only paying half" shit...and I had to point out that "I'm not paying the "going rate" for insurance around your area - I'm paying for MY area and the going rate for a tow HERE is more and you're going to pay it."
Seriously, I think they are trained to just deny everything. The companies know that a certain percentage of people won't question or fight denial of claims. They're all scumbags.
I have a confession to make: when I'm sleepy, I'm as dumb as dith
NTodd, when you're dead you still won't be as dumb as dith.
Ruth-- taking the bridge over, ferry back. Staying for a couple days, maybe, but want to swing by that knife factory in New Glasgow on the way back, so taking the ferry. Camping on the Atlantic Coast.
I loved the Anne of Green Gables mini-series, but there were too many spin-offs, as I recall. MoDo's
in Kennebunkport, slapping 43 for dissing 41.
Hugo Chavez
Saddam Hussein
Kim Jong Il
Ahmad Amadinijad
Fidel Castro
Jack Chirac
Hafas Al-Assad
Yassir Arafat
Osama bin-Ladin
Howard Dean
John Kerry
Jannean Garafolo
Michael Moore
Cindy Sheehan
The Dixie Chicks
Barbara Strisand
Alec Baldwin
Dan Rather
Ned Lamont
Our Lord and Master, Markos
Our host, Atrios
The uber-bright gals at FDL
and scores more named, and uncounted thousands and even millions, even tens of millions of unnamed people have opposed the actions of this government in the last few years. All these people share one thing. The chattering class that carries water for the Bushies have claimed that all these people are insane. There you have it, Republicans cause mass insanity.
MoDo's
in Kennebunkport, slapping 43 for dissing 41.
Oh, yeah, Child Idiot's there with Daddy. They have to rush Jenna to the ER yet to pump her stomach?
Seems T.V. Munson developed a vine that is resistant to phylloxera, which was destroying French vineyards back then. Wow, raise a glass to TV.
Ruth
Actually, it was the root, not the vine. The vines are the same.
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'Phylloxera... Virginia's gift to the world of wine.
SteveLG, proudly pre 9/11 '
didn't we trade them syphillis? poetic, if so.
Jennifer, right now the buzz is that trying to make a claim on your insurance is almost sure to raise your rates.
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.
Jenna was caught stocking up on Plan B and shopping for a snowflake baby snow globe.
Good morning.
Hooray!
It's Cary Grant day on TCM.
It's also raining and nasty here.
ooops, I made too long a list. I was trying to be a bit dramatic and I got carried away. I'm not a troll, honest!
JR, you're informing me my wine bottle label LIED? I'm telling.
Earlier springs and later autumns: climate change sends nature awry
· Shifting seasons threaten plants, birds and insects
· Scientists urge action to counter global warming
Spring is arriving earlier each year as a result of climate change, the first "conclusive proof" that global warming is altering the timing of the seasons, scientists announced yesterday.
In what is believed to be the world's largest study of seasonal events, such as the flowering of plants, autumnal leaf fall and insect behaviour, scientists found that spring now arrives six to eight days earlier across Europe than in the early 1970s. Warmer temperatures have also delayed autumn, by an average of three days in the past 30 years, the scientists report.
And native American grapes, not known for wine quality, are resistant to phylloxera.
I can't remember-- were there any black people on the Andy Griffith show, or on Maybery, RFD? Kinda hard to believe they would make a show about rural North Carolina without black people, but damned if I can remember any.
Ruth - without doubt. Rates always increase for any claim.
Floyed was black. Secretly. And gay.
Jenna was caught stocking up on Plan B and shopping for a snowflake baby snow globe.
That picture of her in the boat the other day . . . man, talked about looking pissed off and bored.
Then again, look at the company. Though I wouldn't imagine her conversational skills aren't much better that her old man's. "Well, you know, like, um . . . get me a fuckin' drink, okay?"
I can't remember-- were there any black people on the Andy Griffith show, or on Maybery, RFD? Kinda hard to believe they would make a show about rural North Carolina without black people, but damned if I can remember any.
They knew they're place.
Have a nice knife factory visit. My daughter used to go to school with her swiss army knife in her pocket, since she was always usinng it to fix fences and stuff around the farm. I understand now that I'd be in the pokey for letting her. No ambiance.
PEI -- My ex's family roots traveled through there -- Tories who fled NY around the Revolution, I think.
Modular A-levels test pupils too early, says head
The leading private boys' school whose pupils achieved the best A-levels results in the country has criticised the modular system for denying teenagers the chance to grow up before they are tested.
A-levels, in which pupils take a series of exams over two years, do not allow them the opportunity to develop "emotional maturity", complained Ralph Townsend, head of Winchester College.
For humanities subjects such as history, English and foreign languages, this was a significant problem, and the old system in which exams were taken at the end of a two-year course was much better, he said.
Pupils at the public school - where annual fees for day pupils are £23,730 (and for boarders £24,981) - gained the equivalent of more than four A grades each in this year's A-levels. But the school has also ditched traditional A-level English in favour of an "international" version.
Get to the bottom of the sound as well -- the mussels are fantastic with a nice garlicky tomato broth.
filkertom
Mmmmmmm . . . mussels . . . the main thing I remember about anywhere we travel is what I ate (this in large measure accounts for my girlish figure). In Quebec City, it was this place on the Casse-cou stairs that served all you can eat mussels prepared in about 20 ways. I think we pissed them off.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/nyregion/
26lieberman.html">Mrs. Clinton Offers to Raise Money for Lamont
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 25 — In a private meeting at her Chappaqua, N.Y., home on Friday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton offered to help Ned Lamont in his battle to unseat Senator Joseph I. Lieberman by sponsoring a fund-raiser, campaigning by his side and lending him one of her top political strategists.
I don't remember any black characters on Andy Griffith either, but in those days, lives were structured so as not to encounter one another, unless one was, or could afford, a servant.
Speaking of KH.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...?
referrer=email
ORLANDO, Aug. 25 -- Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a "nation of secular laws" and that the separation of church and state is a "lie we have been told" to keep religious people out of politics.
"If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin," Harris told interviewers from the Florida Baptist Witness, the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention. She cited abortion and same-sex marriage as examples of that sin.
I cocked up my tags.
Mrs. Clinton Offers to Raise Money for Lamont Campaign.
steve simels regrets the error.
41 and 43 are "fishing." They won't go so far offshore that they're out of camera range, though.
'And native American grapes, not known for wine quality, are resistant to phylloxera.
plantsman, lowercase'
Don't tell me you haven't developed a taste for muskadine?[sp]
PEI -- My ex's family roots traveled through there -- Tories who fled NY around the Revolution, I think.
cs, art is bread
That's three-quarters of the Maritimes. The other quarter is Acadian. The percentages are probably a little off, but that, and throw in a few exotics, pretty much explains the history around here.
I can't remember-- were there any black people on the Andy Griffith show, or on Maybery, RFD? Kinda hard to believe they would make a show about rural North Carolina without black people, but damned if I can remember any.
Still looking for black people in Andy Griffith, but they did have Jack Nicholson for two episodes. Can we count him as half-black?
I cocked up my tags.
I tagged up my, uh...nevermind.
Speaking of KH.
ORLANDO, Aug. 25 -- The Chief of Staff at this city's largest and most prestigious psychiatric institution said this week that Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) had been officially declared insane after her comments that God did not intend for the United States to be a "nation of secular laws" and that the separation of church and state is a "lie we have been told" to keep religious people out of politics. The Chief of Staff then ordered Rep. Harris involuntarily committed in perpetuity.
Don't tell me you haven't developed a taste for muskadine?
(I haven't.)
41 and 43 are "fishing." They won't go so far offshore that they're out of camera range, though.
41 doesn't want 43 to do a #1 if they go out too far.
plantsman-- I was born in North Carolina, raised in Virginia. By no means were we rich enough to have servants, but I encountered black people all the time growing up.
res, don't tempt me with "Scenes we'd like to see", please.
catch you all laters
Wanking Sheets above
That's an interesting article about the Mizrahi, Moonbootica.
Have you ever been to this website?
Reflections by an Arab Jew
I can't remember-- were there any black people on the Andy Griffith show, or on Maybery, RFD? Kinda hard to believe they would make a show about rural North Carolina without black people, but damned if I can remember any.
Moe Szyslak
[Pedant]
"Mayberry RFD" was the successor to "The Andy Griffith Show," and featured Ken Berry as the main role.
If you're asking about that show, I can't remember.
"The Andy Griffith Show" might have had one or two in its later years. But "Mayberry" is based on Mount Airy, NC, which is at the foot of the Appalachians near the Virginia border, not far from the Blue Ridge Parkway. As a general rule, little mountain towns like Mount Airy weren't home to many black people. They lived in the flat farming areas, or in mine towns.
The subplot in Mayberry was that back in the 19-teens, the good white folks of Mayberry had a "race riot" and ran all the black folks out of town, burned or confiscated their property, etc. Just like they did in Tulsa, Ok and a lot of other places.
Moe, I was born in NC, too -- lived there until I was 8. My encounters were strictly limited, but I might have had anomalous experience.
JR, you're informing me my wine bottle label LIED? I'm telling.
Ruth
Who ya gonna tell?
If that was true (that it was a N American hybrid) then that bottle would still be lying.. because it wouldn't be "burgundy" or "chablis" or... etc.
And native American grapes, not known for wine quality, are resistant to phylloxera.
plantsman
Which is why the solution was to graft yummy European vine stock onto phylloxera resistant North American root stock.
democratic party gay bashing:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/po/
alaba...ectionchallenge
JR, I'll tell my friendly neighborhood Munson.
...God did not intend for the United States to be a "nation of secular laws" and that the separation of church and state is a "lie we have been told"...
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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