I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
FIRST BABY!!!!
Can't possibly be frist.
And you are right
The sun rises in the west.
Ah, Santa Barbara - the sun does actually set in the east there. No fooling.
Now this is getting stoopid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i...h?
v=iRSKJfqSza8
response video to Joe's boring ad
They flipped the negative, see...
For any Lieberman intern assigned to view these threads here's how to get your boss off the ropes on this one.
Another Ben Franklin quote.
http://www.ushistory.org/more/sun.htm
.
Sunrise, sunset...
Elect Joe or the Earth will spin the other direction!
Sure looked like a sunset to me.
I thought ol' Joe was selling either retirement policies or 30 Romantic Ballads of the 70s on 2 Full-Length CDs!
I knew they were going to say that. So I watched the ad carefully and you can see the sun going DOWN. It is lower in end frames, dipping beneath a cloud that it had been above before.
John Wayne proved you can have the sun rise and set any goddamn way you want!
So did Larry Niven.
Is it still lying if you're simply too ignorant to be able to figure out in which direction the sun rises or sets?
Tbogg was all over this as well.
John Wayne proved you can have the sun rise and set any goddamn way you want!
And just like Wayne's Green Berets, Joe's ad was pure fiction.
Putting an ad out with stock footage of a sunset over Santa Barbara and then trying to claim it's a sunrise.
The Joementum is reversible...
/ELO
Day for night?
In "The Green Berets" didn't the sun set in the east?
gwb:drf
It's Joementum alright.. just like oldtimes when he was running for preznit.
In "The Green Berets" didn't the sun set in the east?
gwb:drf
Arabella
That's the one.
This picture aside, the coastline in Santa Barbara runs (curls) east/west, instead of north/south. It does very weird things to your sense of what direction you're heading. Thus the confusion. Like driving from Toluca Lake into Burbank - just unbalancing.
Lieberdammerung.
It reminds me of a "Muder She Wrote" episode where the characters were supposedly on the Coast of Maine watching a sunset. Whover made this ad should go back to making commercials for boner pills.
Lieberdammerung.
Twilight of the Assholerey.
The Franklin quote
"I have often looked at that picture behind the president without being able to tell whether it was a rising or setting sun. Now at length I have the happiness to know that it is indeed a rising, not a setting sun."
btw How the hell did Mae West get on my computer?
.
Dark, isn't it?
Not for night.
No, not for night.
It's dark for day.
Oh, yes, it's dark for day.
The sun is lower in the second image than in the first. Through the linear progression that is common to traditional Western narratives, we can conclude that the sun in this video is, in fact, setting.
Some sharp tacks over there at Leibermanland.
Hey Joe - Breath deep the gathering gloom!
Chimpy's Vanity War Can Make You A Winner
The U.S. Senate race between Republican Tom Kean Jr. and Democrat Robert Menendez is virtually deadlocked, but if voters weren't so concerned about the war in Iraq, Kean could hold a clear lead, according to a poll released Wednesday.
A portion of Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind Poll designed to test the impact of national issues on the race indicated that if the war were not a factor, Kean could be leading Menendez by 47-36 percent. As it stands, however, 43 percent of voters polled said they favor Kean to 39 percent for Menendez, a difference that matches the poll's sampling error margin and makes the race a virtual tie.
[snip]
The poll asked half of the respondents about President Bush and the war before asking them questions on the Senate race. The other half was asked about the Senate race first, then about Bush and the war.
Those asked about Bush and Iraq first gave Menendez a 41-39 percent edge. But respondents not asked to think about the war first gave favored [sic] Kean, 47-36 percent.
Through the linear progression that is common to traditional Western narratives, we can conclude that the sun in this video is, in fact, setting.
Dave J.
So Joe is actually one of those deconstructionists undermining Western culture?
That bastard.
California Dreamin'
Tonight's forecast: dark.
/Carlin
Dark, isn't it?
Not for night.
No, not for night.
It's dark for day.
Oh, yes, it's dark for day.
Beckett or Monty Python?
I generally can'd distinguish.
Reminds me of one of the M*A*S*H episodes (pretty late in the run, iirc: may even have been 'Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen') where Hawkeye's commenting on the sunset and Col. Potter says, 'then why is it in the east?' Turns out to be a wild brush fire headed in their direction.
Beckett or Monty Python?
I generally can'd distinguish.
SteveLG, pre 9/11 to the bone
I thought it was Tom Stoppard?
Joe can be our Senator from The Sun. In fact, let's send him there right away to begin campaigning.
It's the return of the "Green Berets" error...
Errors in geography: The closing scene shows Kirby & Hamchunk walking along the beach with the sun setting in the background. They were walking southeast - you can't see sunsets in Da Nang.
Lieberman must be a John Wayne fan.
No one ever expects Sam Beckett.
Lamont's campaign gleefully seized on the image of the sun setting on Lieberman.
"Is the sunset in Joe's new ad a fitting metaphor for the end of his Senate career?" said a statement issued by Lamont's campaign. "Like the rest of the information coming out of his campaign it is full of distortions and lies."
Each campaign issued dueling fact sheets backing and attacking the claims made in the commercial. In an interview, Gerstein took issue with the idea that the sun is setting. "It's actually a sunrise," Gerstein said. "It's very much a sunrise."
Yanno . . . didn't ANYONE on Lieberman's campaign, at ANY time this disaster was being edited, sit down and think, "mmmm . . . could this bites in the ass?"
Idiots.
Stick him where the sun don't shine.
-
No one ever expects Sam Beckett.
Well, if he wouldn't leap in on you like he does . . ..
Wasn't Reagan's "ranch" in Santa Barbara. So, actually the scenery is quite fitting for HoJo.
Sunrise, sunset...
NTodd
Sure, but . . .
do you love me?
You know, now that I can dance?
Pacific Ocean?
upper left____
lower right____
Choose one.
http://school.elps.k12.mi.us/
lib...analAreaMap.jpg
Domestic Wiretapping Case To Go Forward
A federal judge suggested Tuesday that he would try to keep alive a suit that challenges President Bush’s domestic wiretapping program,
despite claims by government lawyers that doing so would damage national security.
Note that in this case both ends of the calls that were listened to sans warrant were within the continental US.
It stopped raining here and the sun is coming out. I can see patches of blue sky.
PS - I am in CT now.
gwb:drf
Sunset Boulevard:
Joe Liberdammerung as Joe Gillis
George Bush as Norma Desmond
and
Cheney as Max Von Mayerling
oh yeah, Condi as Betty Schaefer.
I thought it was Tom Stoppard?
Gummo
Ah... I'll bet you're right.
From the previous thread:
The new GOP buzzword: Fascism
Naturally, that word doesnt mean what they think it means:
Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm
Democratic Candidate Blasts Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON (AP) - A House Democratic candidate accused Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld of lying about the progress in Iraq, a day after the
Pentagon chief lashed out at critics of the Bush administration.
"After 21 months of trying to find something I can agree with Secretary
Rumsfeld on, it is true: the American people are being lied to and I totally
agree with Secretary Rumsfeld," Eric Massa, a Navy veteran, said Wednesday.
"What I disagree with is the fact that he's the one doing the lying."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
worldl...6047923,00.html
More cowbell.
-
From the salvage yard of the last thread:
Earl P. Holt III
4029 Shaw Blvd.
St. Louis, MO
63110-3621
That's one Earl I'd be happy to leave in the trunk of the car.
The one I sell for scrap to the crusher/shredder.
I don't fucking like spam!
Naturally, that word doesnt mean what they think it means:
Fascism is bad, mm-kay?
evening moonbats
just send a strongly worded e-mail to Swansea Uni's classic department telling them I wish to be kept informed on any new developments with my missing exam paper.
I got a call this morning from a professor from the department (I didn't get his name, was still half asleep) asking me whether I had attended my exam retake on the 18th Aug. I told him of course, I said I had filled in the blue regisration slip and could even give my seat number. he said alright and well thats where the convo ended.
my dad went ballistic when I told him.
So Joe is actually one of those deconstructionists undermining Western culture?
There is something very postmodern about Joe posing as the Derridian third candidate opposite the poles of Lamont and Schlessinger. Were it not for the dualing extremes of their narratives, we might argue whether it would have been possible for Lieberman to exist. Yet his very existance is foretold in the diferance between Lamont and Schlessinger.
Joe can be our Senator from The Sun. In fact, let's send him there right away to begin campaigning.
Penguin
Joe Liberdammerung as Joe Gillis
George Bush as Norma Desmond
"You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big."
"I am . . . I'm, uh, really . . . the pictures, you know, they got . . . tiny."
Sure, but . . .
do you love me?
I'm your wife!
Joe can be our Senator from The Sun. In fact, let's send him there right away to begin campaigning.
Won't it be too hot?
Naw, we'll send him there when it's night.
BAD-DUM-CHING!
he was very angry at Swansea's classic department.
so now waiting for a reply
Wasn't Reagan's "ranch" in Santa Barbara. So, actually the scenery is quite fitting for HoJo.
Kid Charlemagne
It was a real ranch, 700 acres about, good land.
Fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism!!!!
Scary, ain't it?
Democratic Candidate Blasts Rumsfeld
Here's another chair, brother.
There is something very postmodern about Joe posing as the Derridian third candidate opposite the poles of Lamont and Schlessinger. Were it not for the dualing extremes of their narratives, we might argue whether it would have been possible for Lieberman to exist. Yet his very existance is foretold in the diferance between Lamont and Schlessinger.
Dave J.
2 things I am glad of:
- Thers isn't here.
- This kind of stuff started after my career as an English major ended.
No, it's a sunrise, but the angle's odd. Just stand on your head and it takes perfect sense.
Ah, but I once saw the mountains north of Santa Barbara covered in snow for a morning. Stunning!
That Lieberman ad reminded me of those "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" segments that used to appear on Saturday Night Live.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Joe can be our Senator from The Sun. In fact, let's send him there right away to begin campaigning.
Penguin
YES!
And Bush is the Sun King, so it sounds like a two-man mission to me.
I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Naturally, that word doesnt mean what they think it means:
Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of The Bush Administration
http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm
Meander
Fixed your typo.
I don't fucking like spam!
The Old Man From Scene 24
Shush, dear, don't cause a fuss! I'll have your spam. I love it! I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, and spam!
Well, actually the sun doesn't really rise or set. It just looks that way from the Earth.
/snark intended for NTodd.
Let's use the Peggy Noonan translator:
The Bible "Yea, though I walk through the shadow of death I fear no evil"
Peggy Noonan "Project Runway is on tonight and there's ice cream in the fridge."
gwb:drf
Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy:
He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, "Dust to dust," some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, "I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun."
STFU.
I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Holden Caulfield
Damn your fleet fingers!
Rmj owes me a Coke.
Or maybe some spam.
The sun is lower in the second image than in the first. Through the linear progression that is common to traditional Western narratives, we can conclude that the sun in this video is, in fact, setting.
Dave J.
You are correct sir! Gerstein's lying.
.
Damn your fleet fingers!
Rmj, Street Credentialed
That's what she said.
/Michael Scott
Democratic Candidate Blasts Rumsfeld
More cowbell.
-
QuentinCompson
I've got a FEVER!
jac: Fixed your typo.
Indeed -- any one of us could provide concrete examples of every single point on that list.
Yanno . . . didn't ANYONE on Lieberman's campaign, at ANY time this disaster was being edited, sit down and think, "mmmm . . . could this bites in the ass?"
Idiots. - jac
After the primary, their webmaster shifted over to video production. Well, it's a thought.
(music notes)
"Sometimes, I think it's a sin when I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again."
- Gordon Lightfoot, "Sundown"
Sunrise, sunset...
Antisemite!
The new GOP buzzword: Fascism
Masters of projection, aren't they?
Rmj owes me a Coke.
Or maybe some spam.
Holden Caulfield
Ummm . . . SPAM is BAD . . . mmmmkayyy?
After the primary, their webmaster shifted over to video production. Well, it's a thought.
bo
Give that man a cigar!
Going back home
To the Village of the Sun
Out in back of Palmdale
Where the turkey farmers run
I done made up my mind
And I know I'm gonna go
To Sun Village
Good god, I hope the wind don't blow.
Frank Zappa
(From memory - too lazy to google.)
gwb:drf
"Sometimes, I think it's a sin when I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again."
- Gordon Lightfoot, "Sundown"
Brilliant.
I'll bet the Lieberman video editors were thinking "This ad sucks ass."
Jack Handy:
I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.
Kyra: "I gotta take a leak."
Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy:
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
More cowbell.
You asked for it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S...h?
v=SiD7hGYqg1E
"After 21 months of trying to find something I can agree with Secretary
Rumsfeld on, it is true: the American people are being lied to and I totally
agree with Secretary Rumsfeld," Eric Massa, a Navy veteran, said Wednesday.
"What I disagree with is the fact that he's the one doing the lying."
More cowbell. - QuentinCompson
More cowbell, hell. Moonboo, can we borrow Big Ben?
Is Gerstein now going to claim that physics is anti-Semitic for going against the Dear Lieberman?
Dave J. | 08.30.06 - 2:02 pm
LOL
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You know, the narrator on the Yanni for Senate ad? I think I, er uh, a friend I mean, once talked to her on a 900 number.
"Sometimes, I think it's a sin when I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again."
- Gordon Lightfoot, "Sundown"
Brilliant.
Stunt Woman
Thanks! Sometimes, '70s songs ARE worth remembering...
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
Isn't that just dandy?
Anyone hear from Jeffraham Prestonian today? I'm wondering if he still wants to protest Bush this afternoon. He might have changed his mind. Which is cool, I just don't want him thinking I forgot about him.
If anyone sees him, please tell him I was asking about him.--Litz
Obviously, somebody hacked the sun. Better call the FBI.
Fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, Fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism!!!!
(takes breath)
Fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism!!!!
Get used to it, folks.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
Frank Zappa
(From memory - too lazy to google.)
gwb:drf
Arabella
It takes the paint off your car
and wrecks your windshield, too.
I don't know how the people stand it
but I guess they do...
Is Gerstein now going to claim that physics is anti-Semitic for going against the Dear Lieberman?
Dr. Squid
No, the sun.
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
Again???
Litz,
Please give Bush the evil eye for me. Thank you.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the West. If it's Santa Barbara, it's a sunset.
Geez, talk about having a God complex.
Hebrew is read from right to left.
This sunrise/sunset flap is an antisemite slur.
gwb:drf
Please give Bush the evil eye for me. Thank you.
With great pleasure! And I hear Frist will be there too. So double the evil eye, double the fun!
I love talking to myself on dead threads.
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
503rd time is the charm!
Stay the course! Adapt and proceed! Call up the reserves, we have not yet begun to fight!
Old Yogiism:
Micky: "Hey Yogi, can you ntell me what time it is?"
Yogi: "You mean right now?"
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
Isn't that just dandy?
Holden Caulfield
Because if he says JUST the right words in JUST the right order, we'll have a collective Road to Damascus moment and rally behind his noble cause.
Not.
And I hear Frist will be there too. So double the evil eye, double the fun!
Thank you!!!
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
Woah, that reporter actually wrote that the war is "unpopular." Is that a first?
It takes the paint off your car
and wrecks your windshield, too.
I don't know how the people stand it
but I guess they do...
And they're all moving there, even Johnny Franklin, too!
Village of the Sun, Village of the Sun (Sun Village to you) ...
I miss Frank. (sniffle)
Is there anything they won't lie about?
Well, no.
OT: Iran's Khatami granted US visa
The United States has issued a visa to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, despite Washington's row with Tehran over its nuclear programme.
Mr Khatami will be one of the most senior Iranian figures to visit the US since diplomatic ties were cut in 1979, apart from officials on UN business.
Mr Khatami's visit is being described as private.
The US state department said there were no plans for him to meet government officials.
Mr Khatami is to give a speech at Washington's National Cathedral on 7 September on the role that Islam, Judaism and Christianity can play in shaping peace.
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
The turd is circling the toilet bowl.
Every time he makes a "major" speech, his approval ratings go down.
lieberwurst on rye.
You asked for it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S...h? v=SiD7hGYqg1E
Richard
Back later. Gotta explore the space.
I posted a link yesterday about some big time muckety muck in Saudi Arabia demanding an apology from Bush for his use of the term "Islamo-fascists." They take offense at that and point out that the Muslim religion has nothing to do with fascism.
I wonder if the Goopers won't be allowed to use their new favorite word any more once Bandar steps in and threatens to turn off the spigot?
The Sun Never Sweats.
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
And I'm certain he'll have the same rousing success he had with his aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for his unpopular Social Security "reform" plan.
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Whover made this ad should go back to making commercials for boner pills.
d0n camillo | 08.30.06 - 1:49 pm | #
Oooh! Ouch!
Rmj - I have always found Frank Zappa oddly comforting. Village of the Sun is one of my favorites.
geb:drf
Not to mention the fact that the sunset is typically seen as the more relaxing "good times" kind of thing they are trying to conjure in that ad. Nobody says "hey, let's go down to the beach and watch the sunrise" because you'd say "hey, fuck you, I'm not getting up that early."
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
Look at the creepy way he's reaching out at the bald dude.
If it's Santa Barbara, it's a sunset.
Geez, talk about having a God complex.
Litz
So - the sun never rises in Santa Barbara?
Hebrew is read from right to left.
Don't you mean
tfel ot thgir morf daer si werbeH?
No, the sun.
I was more thinking about the light scattering that results in the evening from all the dust that gets kicked up during the day. Since it goes against Dear Lieberman, Raman scattering must be anti-Semitic.
Or something like that.
George Bush as Norma Desmond
Nah, he's that dead chimp at the beginning.
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine - Holden C.
"Hey, bald guy, what the fuck you runnin' away for, I need a lucky touch. Look fucker, if I don't get a lucky touch then the 'slamofastists are gonna win."
Don't you know Down is Up?
btw, a rant @ No Quarter:
http://tinyurl.com/zasjx
tfel ot thgir morf daer si werbeH?
spinoza-non ridere, non lugere | 08.30.06 - 2:08 pm | #
Now THAT is talent.
Rmj - I have always found Frank Zappa oddly comforting. Village of the Sun is one of my favorites.
geb:drf
Arabella
Anybody who can write a paen to 50's monster movies and Palmdale (I had family there once upon a time) is worth remembering.
Look at the creepy way he's reaching out at the bald dude.
Isn't that Katie O'Beirne without her wig?
Get used to it, folks.
Karl R.
Hey Karl, don't you have some farts to smell in the Oval Office?
Seen on a Google search page:
"Sponsored Links
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Find Rickety Rosary!
Buy Rickety Rosary on eBay
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I saw Frank Zappa in concert in Boston, back in the day. Napoleon (?) performed "Village of the Sun."
Later my friends and I bumped into Zappa and the band in a deli. He was very charming.
geb:drf
UN denounces Israel cluster bombs
The UN's humanitarian chief has accused Israel of "completely immoral" use of cluster bombs in Lebanon.
UN clearance experts had so far found 100,000 unexploded cluster bomblets at 359 separate sites, Jan Egeland said.
"Ninety per cent of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution," he said.
Israel has previously said that munitions it uses in conflict comply with international law.
Earlier estimates from UN experts had suggested a total of about 100 cluster bomb sites.
Mr Egeland described the fresh statistics as "shocking new information".
So - the sun never rises in Santa Barbara?
why yes, The sun also rises
I miss Frank. (sniffle)
Look here.
(With apologies to the Tradewinds):
"My woody's outside (covered with snow) (Nowhere to go now) Hartford's a lonely town when you're the only surfer boy....around...
(oooh-ooh-ooh waaah-aaah-aaah)"
It's clever non-partisian imagery.
A sunset that is actually a moderate centrist and often associated with a sunrise.
If you can't accept the dual use, you're not for Lieberman.
Oregon lawsuit also challenges bush illegal spying
http://www.oregonlive.com/printe...9200.xml&
coll=7
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
Havent they figured out yet that letting him talk is the worst thing they can do to raise support?
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke.
This one makes me think of our persistent troll, jack. If he weren't trolling here, this is probably the kind of thing he'd be doing.
Gov. Goodhair tries to auction off TX parkland.
"Despite a growing outcry over the loss of Texas parks, Gov. Rick Perry's office appears to have worked aggressively to facilitate the auction of 400 acres of state park land, according to documents obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The property is at Eagle Mountain Lake near Fort Worth and has become the subject of intense interest by several residential developers.
The governor's proposal would set aside several gas well drilling sites on the land, and the auction would guarantee that only a fourth of it remain green space, according to e-mails and documents obtained through the state's open-records law."
Havent they figured out yet that letting him talk is the worst thing they can do to raise support?
Meander | Homepage | 08.30.06 - 2:13 pm | #
You know, sometimes I have this terrifying thought that Bush is the smart one of the bunch.
Yikes.
Bush is doing another round of speeches because 137th time's the charm.
Nobody says "hey, let's go down to the beach and watch the sunrise" because you'd say "hey, fuck you, I'm not getting up that early."
Dave J.
It works just fine if you haven't gone to bed yet.
"Hey, let's go down to the beach and watch the sunrise while we sober up."
Kind of a shame that lying is just second nature to political campaign operatives. Have a little bit of pride and dignity, for god's sake. Maybe they'd be pleasantly surprised how well people react to truth, instead of ridiculous untruths that are absurd on their face.
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
Zombie Bernard Hughes doesn't look very happy to be there.
So - the sun never rises in Santa Barbara?
Not in the west...
Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California, but girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours
Y'know, Nim, they'd be flabbergasted. True, dat.
Have a little bit of pride and dignity, for god's sake. Maybe they'd be pleasantly surprised how well people react to truth, instead of ridiculous untruths that are absurd on their face.
Nim, ham hock of liberty
Pol: I dunno, the words look like English, but when you put'em together like that, it just doesn't make any sense.
US President George W. Bush pictured here 27 August 2006, in Kennebunkport, Maine, will launch an aggressive campaign of speeches to rally support for the unpopular war in Iraq, the White House said.
I'm sure the speeches will contain all new content and be just as riveting as the last batch.
So - the sun never rises in Santa Barbara?
Not over the water it doesn't. It rises over the mountains.
Unless you are out in the Channel Islands and facing East, in which case it may appear that it is rising over the water.
It is sunrise with time running backward. Which is what would have to happen before anything Lieberman has said over last few years about anything of substance (including the true nature of his precious non-reactionary poltical status) to be true.
I saw Frank Zappa in concert in Boston, back in the day. Napoleon (?) performed "Village of the Sun."
I saw Frank Zappa live in Muskegon Michigan (birthplace of Jim Bakker, Frank had some fun with that).
One of the best live shows I've ever seen. Some killer musicianship was displayed...
OT: Iran frees liberal writer
Iran has freed Ramin Jahanbegloo, the Iranian-Canadian writer, after four months in detention on charges of spying, the Canadian government has said.
A spokesman for the Canadian foreign affairs ministry said that Jahanbegloo had been released from Evin prison in Iran.
The writer and intellectual was arrested in April and Iranian judicial authorities had said he was detained on suspicion of working with the US to overthrow to the Iranian government.
Canada had asked Iran either to release or formally charge him.
"Woodwind"?
(just pic)
This is a reminder that Holy Joe is a cheap prick, among his other many fine qualities.
STAR TREK:TOS Now with CGI!!???
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You know, this blog used to be about the music, man ....
BTW - The flip side of "Wipeout" bu the Surfaris is a vocal called "Surfer Joe."
"2. 'Surfer Joe' - The Surfaris - Dot 144 - 1963. Sure, we all know the A-side, 'Wipeout' (intended to be the filler B-side) - and it's awesome rawk (even today) but the real twisted shit is the flip (a minor, albeit forgotten, hit) which describes the brilliant career of Surfer Joe cut short by a stint in the US Marines. Seems like they cut off his long blond locks... and sent him over to Vietnam. That the composer, vocalist and drummer Ron Wilson quavers with all the untutored honesty of Jad Fair only adds to the postmodern sensibility of this disquieting tune."
http://blogcritics.org/archives/...5/02/
114654.php
Might just be fun to play that wherever he shows up to campaign...
STAR TREK:TOS Now with CGI!!???
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hisstoryman,Hunter of Da Snark
Don't get me started on that one.
OTOH, DeepDiscount DVD now has the season sets for $51 each.
Anti affirmative-action proposan on ballot via fraud.
DETROIT -- A federal judge on Tuesday allowed an anti-affirmative action proposal to go before Michigan voters despite agreeing that it won a place on the November ballot through widespread fraud.
Judge Arthur Tarnow said opponents proved the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative "committed voter fraud in obtaining signatures in support of the petition." But they did not prove the advocacy group violated the federal Voting Rights Act by depriving minorities of equal access to the political process, he said.
Opponents argued that the group sought to defraud black voters in particular. "However, the MCRI appears to have targeted all Michigan voters for deception without regard to race," the judge wrote.
If approved by voters, the proposal would amend the state constitution to ban race and gender preferences in government hiring and public-university admissions in Michigan.
Opponents said the advocacy group misrepresented the referendum's ultimate aims while petitioning to put the issue on the ballot. The group submitted more than 508,000 voter petition signatures, far more than the 317,517 required by state law. The ballot wording approved by the state elections director twice refers to a ban on "affirmative action," a phrase that did not appear on the group's petition.
Witnesses testified that they were tricked into signing or collecting signatures on petitions. The judge sharply rebuked state officials whose "indifference to valid allegations of voter fraud" allowed the proposal to make its way to the ballot.
according to e-mails and documents obtained through the state's open-records law."
Anybody using that open-records law to get hold of Shrub's governoring papers these days?
Interesting Strategic Visions Poll (Republikkkan polsters) out of Florida:
Do you approve or disapprove of President Bush's overall job performance?
Approve 37%
Disapprove 55%
Undecided 8%
Do you approve or disapprove of President Bush's handling of Iraq?
Approve 40%
Disapprove 49%
Undecided 11%
Do you view President Bush as a conservative in the mode of Ronald Reagan? (Republicans only)
Yes 14%
No 64%
Undecided 22%
Would you like to see the United States Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade?
Yes 36%
No 57%
Undecided 7%
Moon: Khatami was elected as a reformist with over 60% of the popular vote. America utterly failed in encouraging him and his wing of the country in its struggle against the mullahs.
Iran is a wildly more complicated country than we're told it is. To reduce it to Ahmanijad (sp?) is lunacy.
Masters of projection, aren't they?
Note to buschists and trolls: that's not a window, it's a mirror.
Welcome to the fucken' Jungle
United American Committee- Rally in Commemoration of 9-11, on Sunday 9-10-2006. There will be a public hanging from gallows of bin Laden effigy
Honestly, how are voters supposed to have any respect or trust for a candidate whose spokespeople lie so reflexively, even about trivia like this?
Yeah, everyone lies at times, but the conventional wisdom that all politicians lie all the time does not have to be true, and we shouldn't just accept it with resigned cynicism. The truth will set you free, Gerstein. Try it sometime.
The WMDs are in that sunset photo! Right there. They are in the photo!
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"OTOH, DeepDiscount DVD now has the season sets for $51 each.
Gummo"
Fascinating. It would be illogical to pay as much for the third season as for the first season.
You know, this blog used to be about the music, man ....
smitty w, 37goingon38
You got trouble, my friend
Touble right here in River City
With a capital T
and that rhymes with B
and that stands for Bush
More from that FLorida poll:
Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Katherine Harris?
Favorable 17%
Unfavorable 61%
Undecided 22%
Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Bill Nelson?
Favorable 49%
Unfavorable 11%
Undecided 40%
If the election were held today for United States Senate, whom would you support, Bill Nelson, the Democrat or Katherine Harris, the Republican?
Bill Nelson 63%
Katherine Harris 20%
Undecided 17%
when your hot your hot
when your not your not
ProfWombat yes what the Bush Junta seem to forget is that Iran is not an arab country, it has a different culture and a different history.
in fact it is the despotic arab kingdoms which the west props up who dislike Iran as well.
i get so annoyed the way Bush, Blair and their worshippers reduce everything to black and white, they oversimplify everything and have a very narrow viewpoint.
Fascinating. It would be illogical to pay as much for the third season as for the first season.
Mr. Spock
Hey, it's worth $50 just to hear "Brain and brain, what is brain!"
OH SHIT! NOT MY FAVORITE CHRISTIAN ARTIST!!?!?!?!!??!!
The FBI is investigating allegations that self-styled "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade and some of his top executives fraudulently induced investors to open galleries and then ruined them financially, former dealers contacted by federal agents said.
Investigators are focusing on issues raised in civil litigation by at least six former Thomas Kinkade Signature Gallery owners, people who have been contacted by the FBI said.
The ex-owners allege in arbitration claims that, among other things, the artist known for his dreamily luminous landscapes and street scenes used his Christian faith to persuade them to invest in the independently owned stores, which sell only Kinkade's work.
Are they going to use CGI to trim Shatner's fat ass?
gwb:drf
"Woodwind"?
What was he up to before he stepped off the plane?
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You got trouble, my friend
Touble right here in River City
With a capital T
and that rhymes with B
Gummo
And that rhymes with "G"
As in, "Gee, we're screwed!"
Chimpy: "Ten years from now the Iraqis will look back and say, 'Who knew that bombing the shit out of us would be so fucking beneficial?'"
Bill Nelson 63%
Katherine Harris 20%
Undecided 17%
I hope Krazy Kate has spent all of Daddy's money.
Are they going to use CGI to trim Shatner's fat ass?
gwb:drf
Arabella
"Captain, I'm not a miracle worker!"
I blogged some of my thoughts on Iran here
So - the sun never rises in Santa Barbara?
why yes, The sun also rises
86 tha punz or I'll be right over wit' my bone saw and yull be sayin a farewell to arms.
"Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Katherine Harris?
Favorable 17%
Unfavorable 61%
Undecided 22% "
What dementia keeps her from dropping out? What could she possibly think she has to gain from continuing forward at this point? Not that I mind, she's a wellspring of snark material, and a guaranteed D seat, but still....is she really so deranged to think she can win? This sort of quixotic delusion would be funny if she weren't a sitting Congresswoman.
I'm off to make a public spectacle of myself. I'll be facing south.
Bill Nelson 63%
Katherine Harris 20%
Undecided 17%
Know who else likes to ride horses?
Lincoln Chafee (true!).
Maybe they can get together...
Wonder how Kinkade would do with a cellblock mural?
there's only so much Schadenfreude my poor little marsupial brain can stand...
"Brain and brain, what is brain!"
The trolls' motto!
I'm digging the "WTF" expression.
Down down came the sun
Fast fast beat my heart
I knew as the sun set from that day
We'd never part
"It was a program of lies and deception, predicated on Christian values that weren't there," said Joseph Ejbeh, the Michigan attorney who tried the arbitration case.
With deference to Stunt Woman, lies and deception are NOT the Xtian values I was taught.
These f-ers are less Xtian than the Dalai Lama.
i get so annoyed the way Bush, Blair and their worshippers reduce everything to black and white, they oversimplify everything and have a very narrow viewpoint.
Moonbootica
Ah yes, like the guy in my office who says that if we don't attack Iran, "we'd better learn Arabic." Why, you got an Arab-speaking country in your pocket, cuz?
Hey, it's worth $50 just to hear "Brain and brain, what is brain!"
Along with "You! What planet is this?" and "Isn't that [planet with the half-black half-white people] in the southern part of the galaxy?"
Welcome to the fucken' Jungle
United American Committee- Rally in Commemoration of 9-11, on Sunday 9-10-2006. There will be a public hanging from gallows of bin Laden effigy
focus, unbeliever
It will have to be in effigy, since, you know, Bush can't find him dead or alive.
Joe Lieberman Procures Sunset to Ride Off Into
Ah yes, like the guy in my office who says that if we don't attack Iran, "we'd better learn Arabic." Why, you got an Arab-speaking country in your pocket, cuz?
Why would we need to learn Arabic if we don't invade Iran, where they speak Farsi?
I am perplexed!
They may work wonders with CGI, but do they know how to make things go?
Hey, maybe someone could release Trek: TOS in cheesy black in white, and bring it back to the 1950s. The long lost episode, 'Attack of the 50 Foot Tribble', will be especially sought after...
I hope Krazy Kate has spent all of Daddy's money.
The Old Man From Scene 24
I hope she stocked up on eye shadow and mascara - once the crying fits start, she'll need to reapply every 15 minutes or so...
Why would we need to learn Arabic if we don't invade Iran, where they speak Farsi?
I am perplexed!
You remember the Our Dumb Century headline where America hands over control of the U.S.A. to our new overlords from North Vietnam? It's like that. I think.
I hope Krazy Kate has spent all of Daddy's money.
The Old Man From Scene 24
Um, it was never hers to spend in the first place.
In an emotional announcement on national TV in March, Harris said she would use every penny her late father had left her.
Minutes later, while still in the New York studio where she made the announcement, Harris received a call from her sister. She and their brother were furious that she had not told them she was going to spend family money on her campaign, according to her former senior consultant Ed Rollins, who was with her that night.
In the days that followed, several former staffers, including Rollins, said Harris learned she would not directly receive any inheritance from her father. Instead, his assets, reported to be as much as $100 million, were left to her mother, Harriet.
86 tha punz or I'll be right over wit' my bone saw and yull be sayin a farewell to arms.
Harry X
The bell tolls for thee.
Ah yes, like the guy in my office who says that if we don't attack Iran, "we'd better learn Arabic."
Ironically, not speaking Arabic is why we were unable to detect the 9/11 suiciders.
Comes the REAL Cultural Revolution, I got dibs on David WHorowitz.
i really wanna fuck that shitwhistle UP...
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"Brain and brain, what is brain!"
The trolls' motto!
Professor Wagstaff
Why would we need to learn Arabic if we don't invade Iran, where they speak Farsi?
I am perplexed!
Thers | Homepage | 08.30.06 - 2:32 pm | #
From my mouth to your ears, apparently.
Well, as the sun sets over the MSM's and the Army's cred, owing to their increasingly deserate blunders, I'll just keep chanting Daimoku that the control freaks among us continue to lose control.
The only form of control we all need from here on out is SELF-CONTROL.
"A Buddha is known in this world by his behavior as a human being."
--Nichiren--
What dementia keeps her from dropping out? What could she possibly think she has to gain from continuing forward at this point? Not that I mind, she's a wellspring of snark material, and a guaranteed D seat, but still....is she really so deranged to think she can win?
She rigged an election for the Bush crime family, so she's hoping that Jeb! will return the favor.
At this point though, a victory for Harris is starting to look increasingly implausible. Still, they might try it...
Why haven't they arrested Armitage?
I think HoJo's next ad should show a grumpy old bear and a cute little bear walking along the beach in Santa Barbara and coming upon two men kissing. Big bear to little bear: "There's nothing wrong with that. Why, just think of the manly kiss our president gave to Senator Lieberman!" Fade to sunset.
Why would we need to learn Arabic if we don't invade Iran, where they speak Farsi?
So we need to learn Farsi, then?
It looks like the sun is setting on this campaign.
I never really understood the target audience of this ad. Who were they targeting - the prized apathetic, sleepy vote?
Ah yes, like the guy in my office who says that if we don't attack Iran, "we'd better learn Arabic." Why, you got an Arab-speaking country in your pocket, cuz?
Because I hope the guy in your office isn't such a dumbshit that he thinks that Iran is going to take over the world and that will necessitate that we learn Arabic (rather than Farsi).
Then again, I guess many Americans are exactly that dumb.
Canadian Sunset! Alright, Erin.
The remarks, which will emphasize Iraq's place in the global war on terrorism, will culminate in a September 19 address to the United Nations General Assembly, said spokeswoman Dana Perino.
"These speeches will be a comprehensive look at the state of the war on terror, the intents and the capabilities of our enemy -- that's al-Qaeda, as well as the other terrorist groups fighting against freedom in the Middle East -- and steps we've taken to make the nation safer," she told reporters.
So now we have "the other terrorist groups" category, so no one can claim that we're in Iraq for no particular reason other than greed and piss-poor judgment.
Ah yes, like the guy in my office who says that if we don't attack Iran, "we'd better learn Arabic."
Watertiger! Desk please!
The bell tolls for thee.
I agree, and apologize. That post was shrill, and unhinged too, and brought dishonor to sensible liberals everywhere. As an explanation, but not an excuse, please just chalk it up to the torrents of spring.
that's al-Qaeda, as well as the other terrorist groups
I thought "the terrorists" were a single monolithic group whose only goal is to kill everyone on the planet who does not agree with them?
clean sheets upstairs
Canadian Sunset! Alright, Erin.
ronjazz
My parents "song", 50th this weekend.
Chickened out on playing it live so we're creating a photo collage DVD using the instrumental version as background.
This picture aside, the coastline in Santa Barbara runs (curls) east/west, instead of north/south. It does very weird things to your sense of what direction you're heading.
That would make the sun appear to set more in the north in Santa Barbara when standing on the beach, which you assume is running north/south, but isn't.
OT: Prom 58
Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue (15 mins)
interval
Dai Fujikura
Crushing Twister (7 mins)
BBC commission: world premiere
Bernstein
Fancy Free (26 mins)
Pauline Malefane soloist
Kevin Cole piano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Charles Hazlewood conductor/presenter
Why haven't they arrested Armitage?
Because we have disfunctional Government.
QED
At this point though, a victory for Harris is starting to look increasingly implausible. Still, they might try it...
Seraphiel - 2:35 pm
there's still two months til the 'election.' in that time anything can happen (as we've seen): war with--or at least, attacks on--Iran/Syria, invasion of Cuba, terror attack in the US.
any of those events would completely knock all predictions and polls into a large, very cocked hat...
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Why haven't they arrested Armitage?
ErinPDX, honorary Dave | 08.30.06 - 2:35 pm | #
MSM has been pretty quiet about this, but from what I've seen so far the current thoughts on this are that Armitage was the office "gossip", didn't know she was covert and was not a partisan (in the Colin Powell sort of way). Fitzgerald has probably been looking at it, but then again, he's been deathly quiet as well.
"Une sorte de maladie de langueur, de fatigue généralisée"
Why haven't they arrested Armitage?
cuz he din't mean it!
i mean, really!
jeez, you people are ferocious...
armitage is a loyal USer, but a bit of braggart...
he was just trying to show how important and knowledeable he is, was all...just showin' off, like that old bud commercial w/the pool-shark.
c'mon, cut the guy some slack...
(/voice of moderation
What dementia keeps her from dropping out? What could she possibly think she has to gain from continuing forward at this point? Not that I mind, she's a wellspring of snark material, and a guaranteed D seat, but still....is she really so deranged to think she can win? This sort of quixotic delusion would be funny if she weren't a sitting Congresswoman.
Nim, ham hock of liberty
Some people are so karmically dull that they absolutely have to go down in the flames of their very own making to wake the fuck up, I guess...
While I have pity for Katie, Joe, George Macaca and others, it's just what the doctor ordered, I'm afraid...
Cuz like the sun doesn't set over the sea on beaches in CONNECTICUT, unless maybe some weird inlet somewhere is bassackwards.
That would make the sun appear to set more in the north in Santa Barbara when standing on the beach, which you assume is running north/south, but isn't.
Toonscribe, 25% more blognuts
Right, Toon. I sailed a 34' Morgan sloop from SF to LA years ago, and the coastline drops away eastward below Point Conception, sheltering SB from the north swells.
You don't understand, Atrios. While you're searching for their stock footage on Getty, they'll act, creating new realities. And then you'll be wrong. Nyah-nyah!
Sunset Boulevard.
Joe's ready for his closeup, Mr deMille....
If the election were held today for United States Senate, whom would you support, Bill Nelson, the Democrat or Katherine Harris, the Republican?
Bill Nelson 63%
Katherine Harris 20%
Undecided 17%
Holden Caulfield
Anybody know much about the Florida sec. of State? Is he/she crazy/loyal enough to try to flip the election in a completely absurd way. I can't think of any other reason for Harris to still be running
OTOH, DeepDiscount DVD now has the season sets for $51 each.
Gummo | 08.30.06
Saw that on AICN, although I think they should pay me to get season 3.
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How symbolic for a career with a sun setting on it...
This is pretty nonsensical. From the CT shore, you see the sun rising over the ocean but setting over land.
Hmmm. Didn't know Dan Gerstein was stealing stock footage from "The Green Berets."
Poor Dan,
he can't tell the difference between sunrise and sunset. No wonder that he believes that Joe is a rising star.
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