YouTube sucks ass.
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.22.06 - 11:06 pm | #
Haven't you done this one before?
No complaints, really, I like it.
Very Beatle-esque.
Steve French |
09.22.06 - 11:07 pm | #
yeah, repeat. too many bands i try to plug don't have anything on youtube.
Atrios |
09.22.06 - 11:07 pm | #
Kayla apparently pooped while the Dogz were on walkabout this evening. She's come home with lot of vim and vigor, and is aggressively attacking Mex. That means she had to have lightened her load.
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.22.06 - 11:08 pm | #
Fuck this Admin up one side and down the other!
bigvic |
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09.22.06 - 11:08 pm | #
Hell, I bought the album. watertiger
And here I try to think of things you'd never have heard.
JeffCO |
09.22.06 - 11:08 pm | #
yeah, repeat. too many bands i try to plug don't have anything on youtube.
You should form a band.
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.22.06 - 11:08 pm | #
It's so awesome that the Connecticut Pedophiles for Ntodd party is going to lose bad in november.
Atrios |
09.22.06 - 11:08 pm | #
Assrocket is doing beauty pageant posts again:
Based on my review of the contestants--it's a tough job, but someone has to do it--I think it's going to be a Caribbean year. Let me say, though, that the quality of the photography varies so widely that it's a little hard to tell. By now, the pageant should have standardized photos of the contestants, but they don't. Consequently, it's hard to tell whether Miss Costa Rica, for example, is a formidable candidate or not.
P O'Neill |
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09.22.06 - 11:08 pm | #
yeah, repeat. too many bands i try to plug don't have anything on youtube.
And here I try to think of things you'd never have heard.
I think Phila already took care of that on the last thread...
Eli |
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09.22.06 - 11:09 pm | #
It's so awesome that the Connecticut Pedophiles for Ntodd party is going to lose bad in november.
Not according to my campaign manager. STOP SPREADING LIES, YOU ANTI-SEMITE!
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.22.06 - 11:10 pm | #
God, Assrocket is nuts tonight, even by his standards
I read somewhere (I'd link if I could find it quickly) that waterboarding was the interrogation technique that broke every high-level detainee but one. (The one exception, according to that report, was an al Qaeda leader who was taken to see Khalid Sheik Mohammed in his cell, and required no further persuasion.) So whether our interrogators can continue to use this highly effective technique is, I think, a very big deal. Waterboarding is denounced by critics as a form of torture. In fact, though, it is harmless, and we reportedly waterboard our own military pilots to acquaint them with the sensation of drowning after they bail out of an airplane.
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09.22.06 - 11:10 pm | #
Oooh. That's a good song, but it's like, a year old.
Kayla apparently pooped while the Dogz were on walkabout this evening. She's come home with lot of vim and vigor, and is aggressively attacking Mex. That means she had to have lightened her load.
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina
:::blink:::
:::blink:::
Feral Liberal, I do believe I'll have that drink afterall.
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09.22.06 - 11:10 pm | #
Waterboarding is denounced by critics as a form of torture. In fact, though, it is harmless, and we reportedly waterboard our own military pilots to acquaint them with the sensation of drowning after they bail out of an airplane.
And now for Getting Hit On The Head Lessons...
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.22.06 - 11:11 pm | #
It will always irritate me, that by the time I was sensible to what was occurring in the world around me, the Andy Griffith Show had gone to color.
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09.22.06 - 11:11 pm | #
She's come home with lot of vim and vigor, and is aggressively attacking Mex.
She doing that funny half growl/half yodel?
watertiger |
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09.22.06 - 11:11 pm | #
Feral Liberal, I do believe I'll have that drink afterall.
Just wait until I have to apply the medicine on her anus.
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.22.06 - 11:11 pm | #
When does NTodd debate Waffles and will it be webcast?
WalterNeff, as Trent Baxter |
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09.22.06 - 11:12 pm | #
I think Phila already took care of that on the last thread...
He sure did!
res ipsa loquitur |
09.22.06 - 11:12 pm | #
Hey, Zap,
I will give the Twins their proper respect. I sincerely hope the Tigers win the division so that they can open against Oakland - I want nothing to do with the damned Twins.
They are the best team playing right now.
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09.22.06 - 11:12 pm | #
that waterboarding was the interrogation technique that broke every high-level detainee but one. ... Waterboarding is denounced by critics as a form of torture. In fact, though, it is harmless...
Does this fool even read what he writes?
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.22.06 - 11:12 pm | #
Yeah, it's a relaxing spa treatment
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
09.22.06 - 11:12 pm | #
I'm not sure what this thread is about but I definitely agree with what Planck implied--the Andy Griffith Show in color was a sad turning point in TV.
homer s |
09.22.06 - 11:13 pm | #
Feral?
Kindly make it a double.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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09.22.06 - 11:13 pm | #
She doing that funny half growl/half yodel?
Yup. Combined with her bossy yapping.
Oh, but wait: she's now sitting calmly on the sofa while Mex gently licks her ear. It's very sweet...
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.22.06 - 11:13 pm | #
Then again, I blog about dead musicians (and the childrens authors who loved them), and one who's heading down the same path.
Zap Rowsdower, Soonly Wed |
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09.22.06 - 11:13 pm | #
Despite the fact that this article made an impression on the Virtually Normal Fifth Columnist, it's worth saving from the soiled sheets: Torture's Long Shadow By Vladimir Bukovsky.
masculine_monica_nyc |
09.22.06 - 11:14 pm | #
i think we should repeatedly waterboard a few republican bloggers, and then force feed them some lemon chicken.
pretzelattack |
09.22.06 - 11:14 pm | #
I'm not sure what this thread is about but I definitely agree with what Planck implied--the Andy Griffith Show in color was a sad turning point in TV.
I stopped watching it after Opie took it up the ass from Andy. It just seemed wrong.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.22.06 - 11:15 pm | #
Despite the fact that this article made an impression on the Virtually Normal Fifth Columnist, it's worth saving from the soiled sheets: Torture's Long Shadow By Vladimir Bukovsky.
Well, the good news is that this compromise would mean that we can only torture when the preznit says it's okay.
Eli |
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09.22.06 - 11:15 pm | #
John "torture" McCain in 08:He can take it and dole it out!
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
09.22.06 - 11:15 pm | #
I hear ya, DWD.
I want the Tigres to get their due, but not this year.
Or, we could go for a repeat of the '87 ALCS...
Atrios,
How them Phillies doing? Wild card?
Zap Rowsdower, Soonly Wed |
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09.22.06 - 11:16 pm | #
Me, I have a good example of a feline down-stay.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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09.22.06 - 11:16 pm | #
John "torture" McCain in 08:He can take it and dole it out!
No-one can call him a chickenhawk when it comes to terror!
Eli |
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09.22.06 - 11:16 pm | #
Er, torture, rather.
Sorry, not much brain left after work this week...
Eli |
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09.22.06 - 11:16 pm | #
i think we should repeatedly waterboard a few republican bloggers, and then force feed them some lemon chicken.
It's only to train them in case they're ever captured by the Islamofascists, given the bloggers are on the frontlines of this global war and shit. Plus it's fun!
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.22.06 - 11:16 pm | #
Isn't waterboarding in the Olympics? Hang on, let me Google.
(google, google).
Why, yes - it says here that the USA team grabbed the gold - they actually pulled it outta the guy's molar before they plunged him into the ice waters of Olympischer Wasserbrett Stadium.
We're Number One in making detainees do Number Two!
WalterNeff, as Trent Baxter |
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09.22.06 - 11:16 pm | #
Well, the good news is that this compromise would mean that we can only torture when the preznit says it's okay.
Yeah, and he's sure to say that "cruel and unusual punishment" and "equal protection before the law" still apply, both abroad and within the U.S. penal system — he being a reborn candyass "el diablo" king, and all.
masculine_monica_nyc |
09.22.06 - 11:17 pm | #
i think we should repeatedly waterboard a few republican bloggers, and then force feed them some lemon chicken.
urineboarding, it's the new non-organ failure causing cool technique. now approved by the Republican Party! consult your doctor.
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
09.22.06 - 11:18 pm | #
I want the Tigres to get their due, but not this year.
Or, we could go for a repeat of the '87 ALCS...
Atrios,
How them Phillies doing? Wild card?
A Subway Series would be nice...
I personally don't think either team has the kind of front-loaded pitching to get to the Series. Maybe the Yanks if Mussina and Johnson are in good form, but it's a big if.
Eli |
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09.22.06 - 11:18 pm | #
it was that 3 way with aunt bea, gomer and floyd the barber that disillusioned me.
pretzelattack |
09.22.06 - 11:18 pm | #
Any time's a good time for the great taste of Torture™!
Betcha can't have just one!
Eli |
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09.22.06 - 11:19 pm | #
Isn't waterboarding in the Olympics?
How can they drown you to the precise point where you think you're drowned, but that you're not really drowned and will divulge the real story behinf the Hitler Diaries?
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09.22.06 - 11:20 pm | #
Barry,
Hidey is da gorgeous.
Even with the little Hitler moustache.
watertiger |
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09.22.06 - 11:20 pm | #
I think it's outrageous that Bush wants to watertiger the detainees.
The Kenosha Kid |
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09.22.06 - 11:20 pm | #
Did you ever notice that there were no married people in all of Mayberry? Everyone was single. Andy. Barney. Bea. Floyd. Gomer. Gooper. Clara (a widow). Helen. There wasn't a single married couple in that whole town except the drunk Otis (which may be why he was a drunk).
homer s |
09.22.06 - 11:21 pm | #
Hidey is beyond plush.
The Kenosha Kid |
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09.22.06 - 11:21 pm | #
I think it's outrageous that Bush wants to watertiger the detainees.
watertiger |
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09.22.06 - 11:21 pm | #
How's the book?
DWD
i'm sorry! i haven't started it yet! i wanted to this week, but it's day 9 of my nasty cold and i'm doped up on medication. I haven't watch any hockey yet and i'm not happy with the Canadiens pre-season games so far...where will your kid play this season?
Plum P |
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09.22.06 - 11:22 pm | #
Weren't you just telling us what a shy retiring person you were?
Call me 'Brick'.
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.22.06 - 11:22 pm | #
Even with the little Hitler moustache.
watertiger
That's her nose, my little bonehead!
Barry from AK in Miami |
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09.22.06 - 11:23 pm | #
Call me 'Brick'. NTodd
You had to take your girlfriend for an abortion?
JeffCO |
09.22.06 - 11:23 pm | #
I think it's outrageous that Bush wants to watertiger the detainees.
You're familiar with the "My Cat Looks Like Hitler" website, no?
watertiger |
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09.22.06 - 11:24 pm | #
i just watch the latest Pride and Prejudice with Kiera Knightley. I really wayched it becaus e of Matthew MacFadyen who is always good. But her? She's not Scarlett Johanson...is Keira suppose to be a good actress? She's just pouting all the time, that's acting?
Plum P |
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09.22.06 - 11:24 pm | #
there werent any married people in dodge city either--marshall dillon, miss kitty, doc, chester, festus (well ok who would marry festus).
pretzelattack |
09.22.06 - 11:24 pm | #
eli made a funny
eli made a funny
how dare you call McCain a chickenhawk. I see no evidence for that particular non-organ failure technique by the Maverick!
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
09.22.06 - 11:24 pm | #
eli made a funny
eli made a funny
how dare you call McCain a chickenhawk. I see no evidence for that particular non-organ failure technique by the Maverick!
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
09.22.06 - 11:24 pm | #
I'm very concerned. concern troll
Is it wrong that this made me laugh?
JeffCO |
09.22.06 - 11:24 pm | #
Did you ever notice that there were no married people in all of Mayberry? Everyone was single. Andy. Barney. Bea. Floyd. Gomer. Gooper. Clara (a widow)
oh, Gomer was married, he just felt the need to keep it on the down-low
Rock |
09.22.06 - 11:24 pm | #
Did you ever notice that there were no married people in all of Mayberry?
All the married people in Mayberry were black. Therefore, they weren't part of Mayberry.
Max Planck |
09.22.06 - 11:25 pm | #
*Claps hands, says Yeah*
That's what I say, "I say yeah yeah."
Steve French |
09.22.06 - 11:25 pm | #
In case you missed it earlier, another pic of Pippin.
FeralLiberal |
09.22.06 - 11:25 pm | #
is Keira suppose to be a good actress? She's just pouting all the time, that's acting?
Uh oh, you're gonna piss off NTodd, who has a crush on every underage actress and barking-made right wing nutjob.
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09.22.06 - 11:26 pm | #
urineboarding, it's the new non-organ failure causing cool technique
Mmmm ... progressive!
I think you mean "peegressive".
Eli |
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09.22.06 - 11:26 pm | #
Barry: cats and snow always makes good photos. And how come you're still in Miami? You've been there a while, non?
Plum P |
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09.22.06 - 11:26 pm | #
Torture, it's whats for dinner!
I really fucked this country up bad.
Fuck'n up, it's what I do best.
WhoooHoooo!!!
George Fuck'n A Bush |
09.22.06 - 11:26 pm | #
Feral: does yor kitty like to go canoeing often?
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.22.06 - 11:27 pm | #
In case you missed it earlier, another pic of Pippin.
FeralLiberal
she's an Henriette clone! (click on my link)
Plum P |
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09.22.06 - 11:27 pm | #
Not too many people married on Star Trek either. Rumor has it that Star Trek was simply a remake of the Andy Griffith show.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.22.06 - 11:27 pm | #
Barry from AK--your cat, Hidey, is beautiful! Lovely photo.
jawbone |
09.22.06 - 11:27 pm | #
In case you missed it earlier, another pic of Pippin.
I really need to get my Yahoo albums up to date...
Eli |
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09.22.06 - 11:27 pm | #
and bonanza--sure lorne greene was allegedly married at one time, but where is the evidence. even hop sing was single.
pretzelattack |
09.22.06 - 11:27 pm | #
Feral: does yor kitty like to go canoeing often?
NO FLIRTING!
Steve French |
09.22.06 - 11:27 pm | #
Are you kidding? She doesn't really have an underbite. She's just that good.
JeffCO |
09.22.06 - 11:28 pm | #
Uh oh, you're gonna piss off NTodd, who has a crush on every underage actress and barking-made right wing nutjob.
The Kenosha Kid
no, no, no! She's 21 now, so it's ok, she's already too old for NTodd!
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09.22.06 - 11:29 pm | #
The Old Man From Scene 24
I wouldn't say often, once and a while I can convince her to jump into the canoe while I hold it next to the bank. She's nervous at first, but later relaxes and seems to enjoy it.
FeralLiberal |
09.22.06 - 11:30 pm | #
no, no, no! She's 21 now, so it's ok, she's already too old for NTodd!
NTodd has a tattoo that says "I love Suri"
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.22.06 - 11:30 pm | #
and bonanza--sure lorne greene was allegedly married at one time, but where is the evidence
Wasn't Li'l Joe married until his wife was shot dead? I'm not saying Viceroy Cheeeeeneeee HAL did it, mind you.
masculine_monica_nyc |
09.22.06 - 11:30 pm | #
I really need to get my Yahoo albums up to date...
sure lorne greene was allegedly married at one time, but where is the evidence
Well, Lucy and Ricky were certainly married. And enjoyed their heated fights and twin bedds.
Max Planck |
09.22.06 - 11:31 pm | #
Sumo Kitty Henriette
The Kenosha Kid
she's not fat she's big-boned! And she's got plush white fur only on the belly which makes her look bigger than she is! She's all offended now...
Plum P |
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09.22.06 - 11:31 pm | #
What is it about planning shit that drives people mad?
Bah...gotta do something productive. Just got some brand new dinnerware from two-week-from-now-father-in-law. Moss green w/ a solid black outside, and a kinda geode looking thing in the middle (Zap likes Crate & Barrel).
Not unlike the 1953 Bollywood classic "Shole," though they weren't "brothers."
masculine_monica_nyc |
09.22.06 - 11:35 pm | #
Bonanza when Hoss and Little Joe began having rough sex.
What're a coupla chaps to do?
JeffCO |
09.22.06 - 11:36 pm | #
I read somewhere (I'd link if I could find it quickly) that waterboarding was the interrogation technique that broke every high-level detainee but one. (The one exception, according to that report, was an al Qaeda leader who was taken to see Khalid Sheik Mohammed in his cell, and required no further persuasion.) So whether our interrogators can continue to use this highly effective technique is, I think, a very big deal. Waterboarding is denounced by critics as a form of torture. In fact, though, it is harmless, and we reportedly waterboard our own military pilots to acquaint them with the sensation of drowning after they bail out of an airplane.
Assrocket needs to experience this first hand, so he can find out for his own loathesome self if it's as harmless as he read somewhere.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.22.06 - 11:36 pm | #
ssSPo...... ....cK!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.22.06 - 11:37 pm | #
You don't understand what they did to these kids. They put stuff up my butt.
God Bless Jesus General, again.
melior |
09.22.06 - 11:37 pm | #
Pippin could definitely be related to Henriette. BTW, that's quite the music collection you have there!
FeralLiberal
yes, i know, too many cds, lps and 7". I had more, last last year i did have a good downsizing because of lack of space. But i'm still buying new ones...
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09.22.06 - 11:37 pm | #
Waterboarding is denounced by critics as a form of torture. In fact, though, it is harmless, and we reportedly waterboard our own military pilots to acquaint them with the sensation of drowning after they bail out of an airplane.
Not too clever, is he?
masculine_monica_nyc |
09.22.06 - 11:38 pm | #
Queen Acres?
Up the Petticoat Junction?
watertiger |
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09.22.06 - 11:38 pm | #
Wow - I thought I was about to drown, fellas; for real. Whaddya wanna know?, 'cause I really felt like was about to drown there for a minute. Really. Or come. It's difficult to tell really, 'cause for a minute it was sort of exilarating and then the next thing I knew I was drowning. But then you saved me and so I suppose you want to know Osama's pin number. Hang on, it's a mnemonic; let me see if I can remember it. You may need to put me in the dunk tank again and get your best pitcher to hit that little target. Oh, I remember now!!! It's . . .
how come when i go to your website and click on the small posters they don't open up bigger, so i can see properly all the fantabulous details?
Plum P |
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09.22.06 - 11:42 pm | #
It's a good thing I don't live near DC or I'd be tempted to kidnap a Rethug Congresscritter or two and give them some doses of the torture they like so much - on camera, of course, preferably broadcast as it happens.
Note to NSA: I'm too fuckin' broke right now to get to Toledo, so don't come knockin' at my door unless you want to do my vacuuming for me.
sister of ye |
09.22.06 - 11:43 pm | #
Bonne nuit Barry, enjoy the sights over Sweden!
Plum P |
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09.22.06 - 11:43 pm | #
If this 'coercive' stuff is so harmless, why don't they prove it themselves? It would make interesting tv to see, say, Kate O'Beirne or Rush Limbaugh or Toby Petzold undergo some of the latest fashions in CIA interrogation. It would be the least they could do for their country.
nick carraway |
09.22.06 - 11:43 pm | #
Yes. All the torture apologists need a week-long session. Sensory deprivation, loud music round the clock, standing for 12 hours or more, arms outstretched, naked... and of course, the waterboarding. Daily.
Which one of these brave motherfuckers is gonna come forward and volunteer?
Good question.
Given that they're clammoring to prove their manhood in Iraq, I'm sure we'll see a flood of them volunteering to experience this first hand to prove just how harmless it is.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.22.06 - 11:50 pm | #
there must be a real porno with 'sugartits' in the title by now... or maybe a bleachblonde from North Dakota with implants calling herself 'Sugartits Gibson'...
nick carraway |
09.22.06 - 11:50 pm | #
Bon soir, all you vituperative, foul-mouthed bloggers on the Left.
Jebus, doesn't Atrios ever link to music by non-white people?
steve simels |
09.22.06 - 11:51 pm | #
What's Happenin'?
Steve French |
09.22.06 - 11:51 pm | #
Have Gonad, Will Travel
-Paladong
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.22.06 - 11:51 pm | #
Family Ties
FeralLiberal |
09.22.06 - 11:51 pm | #
Hanging in there. Got in a financial tight spot made worse by my credit card company being pissy.
I am going into work tomorrow for some badly needed overtime. Thank God for trial prep.
But being broke always makes me phenomenally cranky. If Bush crossed my path today I'd gladly smack him with a 2x4. The only bright spot about that would be how being in Gitmo would piss off my credit card company.
sister of ye |
09.22.06 - 11:51 pm | #
WASHINGTON - Now the death toll is 9/11 times two. U.S. military deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan now surpass those of the most devastating terrorist attack in America's history, the trigger for what came next.
The latest milestone for a country at war came Friday without commemoration. It came without the precision of knowing who was the 2,974th to die in conflict. The terrorist attacks killed 2,973 victims in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20060...jRtBHNlYwMxNjk5
I meant milestone not millstone. Yeah milestone.
hadenough |
09.22.06 - 11:53 pm | #
That Three's Company spinoff, The Gropers.
Eli |
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09.22.06 - 11:53 pm | #
Smokey and the Bondage
FeralLiberal |
09.22.06 - 11:53 pm | #
"If this coercive stuff is so harmless, why do they think it's effective"
yeah, ask *that* to a wingnut on live tv & watch their heads melt down... much more entertaining than Katie Couric's colonoscopy.
nick carraway |
09.22.06 - 11:53 pm | #
"Welcome Back, Fucker"
see? i'm bad at that game
Made me laugh!
Steve French |
09.22.06 - 11:54 pm | #
WSJ -- How long does the stench of scandal stick to cash?
Apparently more than two years, at least according to Florida Senate candidate Katherine Harris’ camp, which is considering giving away the $6,000 she received from Ohio Congressman Bob Ney’s political action committee in 2002 and 2004.
Earlier this week, Ney pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges stemming from his involvement with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He still hasn’t given up his congressional seat, much to the dismay of the Ohio Republican party and their hand-picked replacement for him, Joy Padgett.
Harris was on hand for President Bush’s fund-raising appearance in Orlando Thursday despite some suggestion earlier that she might not be invited. She got a shout-out from the president during his speech, but didn’t get to be part of the big photo-op. “Missing from the stage was U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, who on Sept. 5 won the U.S. Senate nomination with less than 50% of the GOP primary vote; she was among the several hundred people who packed into the ballroom where the event was held,” the Orlando Sentinel reported.
It wasn’t all work for President Bush, who raised $2 million for Florida Republicans during the stop, according to the St. Petersburg Times. “…in between the two fundraisers, Bush…made an unannounced stop by the (Tampa Bay) Buccaneers’ new headquarters just as the team was wrapping up practice for the day. As Bush mingled - signing footballs, posing with running back Michael Pittman’s 19˝-inch biceps - nearby Karl Rove took a moment to work on his throwing arm, his Blackberry in hand.
P O'Neill |
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09.22.06 - 11:54 pm | #
It's so clear none of us wasted our youth.
JeffCO |
09.22.06 - 11:54 pm | #
there must be a real porno with 'sugartits' in the title by now... or maybe a bleachblonde from North Dakota with implants calling herself 'Sugartits Gibson'...
nick carraway
Magnum, BM
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 12:06 am | #
is this what happens to us when we are on a thread on a friday night....?
homer s |
09.23.06 - 12:06 am | #
C-SPAN Book TV Sunday at noon: Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival Updated at 5:24 PM
On Sunday, September 24 at 12:00 pm ET
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky
Description: From the United Nations Correspondents Association in New York City, Noam Chomsky discusses the "Bush doctrine" and its implications. In particular, Professor Chomsky addresses the Bush administration's space policy and its overall efforts to expand U.S. influence and power. He also talks about the case of British whistleblower Katherine Gun, who leaked a memo stating that the NSA had been spying on UN Security Council members, and discusses the charges against the Cuban 5, who were convicted in the U.S. of espionage in 2001. On September 20, 2006, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, speaking in front of the U.N. General Assembly, praised Professor Chomsky's book, "Hegemony or Survival," and recommended that Americans read it.
Author Bio: Noam Chomsky, a professor of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, is the author of numerous books on U.S. foreign policy, including "American Power and the New Mandarins," "Political Economy of Human Rights" (two volumes, written with Edward Herman), "Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians," and "Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World." His most recent books are "Failed States" and "Perilous Power."
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QuentinCompson |
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Charles In Charge.
Eli |
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Pink Taco and Jeff.
JeffCO |
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Sex in the shitty
Ok, I've gone and embarrassed myself.
Steve French |
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Taco & The Man.
Eli |
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is this what happens to us when we are on a thread on a friday night....?
homer s
yes, but i'm also stoned so what do i know...
Plum P |
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Gays of Our Lives
FeralLiberal |
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Futurandy
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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plum p--me, too...and all the talk of tacos has made me hungry...
homer s |
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plum p--me, too...and all the talk of tacos has made me hungry...
homer s |
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The Undouchables
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
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Starsky & Butch.
The Dicks Of Hazzard.
The Crotch Superstars, featuring H.R. Pufnstuf.
Eli |
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09.23.06 - 12:08 am | #
Hey guys. I'm getting ready to go to bed, but I just want to know:
Is it true what I'm reading and hearing? Are the Dems already saying they won't stand in the way of the torture bill?
I heard Carl Levin on NPR and it wasn't inspiring, and I just read on georgia10's diary that the WaPo is reporting that "top Democrats in both houses indicated that they will not stand in the bill's path and risk being blamed for its demise."
Please please tell me this is not true.
Does anyone know what is going on?
TJ |
09.23.06 - 12:08 am | #
The XXX Files
(how come nobody said that one before?)
Plum P
True story: I know a woman, no real fan of porn, who rented something with this title because she was a huge X-Files fan and thought it might be a little fun/racy to see Mulder and Scully getting it on. It turned out to be just your ordinary, garden variety, really nasty porno flick. No real X-Files references whatsoever.
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 12:08 am | #
Magnum, BI.
Magnum, BM
Magnum, BJ
BJ and the Bear
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QuentinCompson |
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09.23.06 - 12:08 am | #
Top Her. OK, that was a sitcom in the early 50's called Topper, starring Leo G. Carroll.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 12:09 am | #
Watching The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, I was reminded of Peter Schneider's great book The Wall Jumper
Thoough techically a novel, all the details are based on fact. It's about a big organization, including a lot of Berlin Wall guards, who hated the wall and simply decided they'd act as if it didn't exist. They'd go back and forth whenever they wanted.
One of my favorite stories concerns a group of teens in West Berlin. Their clothes identified them as Easterners, attracting the attention of the police who asked them if they were defecting. They said no, they were expected home for dinner. They were just in West Berlin for the afternoon to see The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Schneider also wrote Scenes from the German Comedy, a non-fiction book about life after the wall came down, and how nobody got quite what they wanted or expected.
Anyone else a fan of Schneider?
Draco |
09.23.06 - 12:09 am | #
The Streets of San Francisco.
JeffCO |
09.23.06 - 12:09 am | #
Doctor Quim, Medicine Woman.
Eli |
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09.23.06 - 12:09 am | #
TJ: yes
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 12:13 am | #
Signature counting stops for Green Party Senate candidate in Pa.
Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Green Party U.S. Senate candidate Carl Romanelli has fallen about 9,000 signatures short of the number he needs to qualify for the Nov. 7 ballot, said lawyers for Romanelli and state Democrats who are suing to have him thrown off the ballot on Friday. http://www.contracostatimes.com/...cs/
15585661.htm
South Pork.
Eli |
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09.23.06 - 12:14 am | #
One Adam 12 inches
elkal |
09.23.06 - 12:14 am | #
i was on romper room as a kid...i thought that cameraman was a bit too interested in all of us...
homer s |
09.23.06 - 12:15 am | #
The constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
its not punishment because the waterboardees have not been charged with anything let alone been convicted.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 12:15 am | #
Re porn titles, there's a gay one called Best Little Warehouse in LA. Haven't seen it.
Romancing the Bone.
Steve French |
09.23.06 - 12:15 am | #
The Bobbed New Tart Show.
JeffCO |
09.23.06 - 12:16 am | #
The Late Show with David Fuckerman
Late Night with Conan O'Dildo
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 12:16 am | #
Lassies
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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Leave it to Beaver
Nobody thought up that one?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
09.23.06 - 12:16 am | #
True story: I know a woman, no real fan of porn, who rented something with this title because she was a huge X-Files fan and thought it might be a little fun/racy to see Mulder and Scully getting it on. It turned out to be just your ordinary, garden variety, really nasty porno flick. No real X-Files references whatsoever.
This is what pisses me off about the pr0n industry; there was a time when they actually tried to make movies, with plots and stories and sex, but it's regressed totally to what was once called a "stag reel". Nothing but sex with no context at all.
How many of you remember actual porn flicks with at least a pretense of a plot? Deep Throat at least pretended to have a plot. The Devil and Miss Jones tried to string a bunch of sex scenes into a story. Then there was Flesh Gordon, which was a skinflick takeoff on the old serial.
Something like The XXX Files has, as indicated, a good shot at doing some nice takeoff on the Scully/Mulder relationship. Not to mention sex scenes with aliens and Cigarette Smoking Man.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 12:16 am | #
Crocodile Blondee.
Steve French |
09.23.06 - 12:16 am | #
Oh, the left blogosphere is intent on bringing down our gummint!
(Insert Prolonged Fart Noise Here).
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 12:16 am | #
I Cream on Jeannie
elkal |
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The Cockadile Hunter
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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Buffy the Vampire Layer
bo, vfmb(c)ol |
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Bay Twat
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When Cockrings Were Rotten.
JeffCO |
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I Cream on Jeannie
WE HAVE A WINNER.
homer s |
09.23.06 - 12:17 am | #
Uncle "Floyd"
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
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The Hollywood Scores.
Tic Tac Dough.
The Newlywed Game.
Let's Make A Squeal.
Eli |
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09.23.06 - 12:17 am | #
A 3-month-old infant fell off a bed into a bucket of her teenage mother's vomit and died, said police, who charged the woman with negligent homicide on Thursday. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireSto...tory?
id=2476682
hadenough |
09.23.06 - 12:20 am | #
And so would I, had I not been 4 years old at the time, and y'know, cool with her.
Barbara Eden, along with Sophia Loren, and Grace Kelly, and Elizabeth Montgomery and Shirley Jones and Brigette Bardot and Elizabeth Taylor and Tippy Hedren were fucking knockout, I mean stunning beauties in the early 60's.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 12:24 am | #
and now the pilots of the flying saucer lead our once-great nation...
After witnessing the vomitous spectacle of Charlie Rangel getting all huffy about Chavez ranking on "my
president" I have officially given up on the Democrats.
Fuck 'em, they deserve to lose. And they doubtless will.
From now on, I'm gonna lie back and enjoy the Apocalypse. Non-stop hookers and blow, that's the ticket.
steve simels |
09.23.06 - 12:26 am | #
Friends (with Benefits).
JeffCO
no, it''s "(fuck)Friends"
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 12:26 am | #
Egad, this may be the thread that beats them all.
Steve French |
09.23.06 - 12:26 am | #
Barbara Eden, along with Sophia Loren, and Grace Kelly, and Elizabeth Montgomery and Shirley Jones and Brigette Bardot and Elizabeth Taylor and Tippy Hedren were fucking knockout, I mean stunning beauties in the early 60's.
Max Planck
Toss in Kim Novak and Gina Lollabridgida... boy they made some serious babes back then...
elkal |
09.23.06 - 12:26 am | #
Kaptain Putangaroo.
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The Wildly Antisemitic World of Disney.
JeffCO |
09.23.06 - 12:27 am | #
Romper Room.
Eli |
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In any case, Mehlman felt the results of two key early contests in this cycle – the race for Duke Cunningham’s open House seat in California and the recent GOP primary for U.S. Senate in Rhode Island – were “encouraging.” http://
www.editorandpublisher.co...t_id=1003155851
How bad is it when you have to point to a repub win in an ultra-repub area and the real repub losing as "encouraging."
hadenough |
09.23.06 - 12:32 am | #
Touched By An Angel
there was a Simpsons opening where Bart was writing "I was not touched 'there' by an Angel" on the blackboard.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 12:32 am | #
I Remember Mama
bo, vfmb(c)ol |
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The Incredible Hunk.
Eli |
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09.23.06 - 12:32 am | #
The O'Reilly Factor
(OK, I think I'm running out of steam...)
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 12:32 am | #
at least we know how easy the job is of naming porn films...
homer s |
09.23.06 - 12:33 am | #
H. R. Sumpinsumpin
elkal |
09.23.06 - 12:33 am | #
Or, H. R. Humpinstuff
elkal |
09.23.06 - 12:34 am | #
From now on, I'm gonna lie back and enjoy the Apocalypse. Non-stop hookers and blow, that's the ticket.
We need to go out drinking and get you back on the optimist A train.
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
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09.23.06 - 12:34 am | #
I don't know how George Allen singing The Knack tunes will help clear things up with his macaca mess.
Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time, Macaca?
Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run.
Gun it comin' off the line Macaca.
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind.
My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh.
Close enough to look in my eyes, Macaca.
Keeping it a mystery gets to me.
Running down the length of my thighs, Macaca
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
When you gonna give it to me, give it to me.
It is just a matter of time Macaca.
Is it just destiny, destiny?
Or is it just a game in my mind, Macaca?
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind.
My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
pigboy |
09.23.06 - 12:34 am | #
The A-Team
bo, vfmb(c)ol |
09.23.06 - 12:34 am | #
at least we know how easy the job is of naming porn films...
There was an SNL sketch about this, where they were coming up with gay porno titles ("Bend It Like Beckham?" "Bend *Over* Like Beckham."), and couldn't think of *anything* they could do with "The Pianist".
Eli |
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09.23.06 - 12:34 am | #
See C***
Not gonna say it. Not gonna say it. Aw hell.
"By this time, my lungs were aching for air...."
JeffCO |
09.23.06 - 12:35 am | #
The O'Reilly Factor
(OK, I think I'm running out of steam...)
Buzz Bomb
OK, ok, cut his mic...
o'reilly, wanted dead or a lou |
09.23.06 - 12:35 am | #
Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time, Macaca?
Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run.
Gun it comin' off the line Macaca.
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind.
My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh.
Close enough to look in my eyes, Macaca.
Keeping it a mystery gets to me.
Running down the length of my thighs, Macaca
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
When you gonna give it to me, give it to me.
It is just a matter of time Macaca.
Is it just destiny, destiny?
Or is it just a game in my mind, Macaca?
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind.
My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
pigboy |
09.23.06 - 12:35 am | #
Sorry, but seeing Loudicris makes be agree with his name. It's all been done...
FeralLiberal |
09.23.06 - 12:35 am | #
There were art films in the 70s pushing the boundary between cinema and porn. I guess the 3 most famous are Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (sorta tame in retrospect--they never even show the butter), Pasolini's Salo (damn how pervy, and he blames the fascists), and Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (outstanding storyboarding and cinematography, even the cumshot).
Draco |
09.23.06 - 12:37 am | #
The Breastmaster
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 12:38 am | #
The Adventures of Ellery Queen
Troutski |
09.23.06 - 12:38 am | #
pigboy,
save yurself from TROLL COMMENT grief by preview afore you post.
bo, vfmb(c)ol |
09.23.06 - 12:38 am | #
Decemberists - 16 Military Wives is very good. Sounds a lot like Blur!
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 12:38 am | #
Stop with the names already.
Famous Anus |
09.23.06 - 12:40 am | #
Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time,
Macaca?
Ooh you make my motor run, my motor
run.
Gun it comin' off the line Macaca.
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch of
the younger kind.
My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh.
Close enough to look in my eyes,
Macaca.
Keeping it a mystery gets to me.
Running down the length of my
thighs, Macaca
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
When you gonna give it to me, give
it to me.
It is just a matter of time Macaca.
Is it just destiny, destiny?
Or is it just a game in my mind,
Macaca?
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind.
My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
pigboy |
09.23.06 - 12:41 am | #
Kaptain Putangaroo.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 12:41 am | #
There were art films in the 70s pushing the boundary between cinema and porn. I guess the 3 most famous are Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (sorta tame in retrospect--they never even show the butter), Pasolini's Salo (damn how pervy, and he blames the fascists), and Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (outstanding storyboarding and cinematography, even the cumshot).
Draco
the night porter: was that the 70's?
earl 'cliche' guevera |
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09.23.06 - 12:41 am | #
Desperate Anal Bleachers?
James Jesus Rimbaud |
09.23.06 - 12:41 am | #
Too Clothed For Comfort
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 12:41 am | #
That joke isn't funny anymore. We've been at it for over one hour. Even if the erection is...well, you know.Gone.Any new idea?
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 12:41 am | #
Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (outstanding storyboarding and cinematography, even the cumshot).
Draco | 09.23.06 - 12:37 am | #
I prefer the sequel that Disney did --
In the Realm of the Senses Goes to Monte Carlo!!!!
steve simels |
09.23.06 - 12:41 am | #
Don Kirchner's Rockhard Concert.
JeffCO |
09.23.06 - 12:42 am | #
You think the Republicans are going to stop at torture. It's just the beginning with them.
no they won't & the Dems won't even try to stop them.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 12:42 am | #
Any new idea? Plum P
I could make you breakfast.
JeffCO |
09.23.06 - 12:43 am | #
That joke isn't funny anymore. We've been at it for over one hour.
I have not yet begun to...
Whatever it is we're doing here.
Steve French |
09.23.06 - 12:43 am | #
god damnit i am not a troll and this is the last stinking time I post this stupid George Allen sing along.
Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time, Macaca?
Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run.
Gun it comin' off the line Macaca.
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind.
My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh.
Close enough to look in my eyes, Macaca.
Keeping it a mystery gets to me.
Running down the length of my thighs, Macaca
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Macaca...
pigboy |
09.23.06 - 12:43 am | #
I prefer the sequel that Disney did --
In the Realm of the Senses Goes to Monte Carlo!!!!
the cumshot with Minnie Mouse didn't do much for me.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 12:43 am | #
no they won't & the Dems won't even try to stop them.
The Old Man From Scene 24
my fear:
due to 'emergency' situations the law now applies to private security firms---------
earl 'cliche' guevera |
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09.23.06 - 12:44 am | #
hello, dears.
Sarah Deere |
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09.23.06 - 12:44 am | #
Fuck the Democratic Party. Its time to cross into Cambodia and make shit up as we go along.
James Jesus Rimbaud |
09.23.06 - 12:44 am | #
I could make you breakfast.
JeffCO
oh ouiiiiiii!
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 12:44 am | #
no they won't & the Dems won't even try to stop them.
Are you going to give them a chance or just fold up your tent now?
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
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09.23.06 - 12:44 am | #
young 'indie' rocker type girl at the used/new record store tells me 'i'm kind of pissed that dylan ripped off memphis minnie without giving her credit.....
earl 'cliche' guevera |
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09.23.06 - 12:45 am | #
That joke isn't funny anymore. We've been at it for over one hour.
I have not yet begun to... Whatever it is we're doing here.
It's too close to home and too near the bone - more than you'll ever know.
JeffCO |
09.23.06 - 12:45 am | #
I could make you breakfast.
I'm hoping someone will make me dinner...
Anyone for creamy cheese grits?
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 12:45 am | #
I could make you breakfast.
Dearest, I could make you forget about breakfast.
Steve French |
09.23.06 - 12:46 am | #
You all know how this is going to end. Just look at the faces of Pelosi and Reid...I'd rather the Dogs playing Poker be in charge. We pick up a few seats this November, more in '08, and toss out red meat to the Republicans in the Presidential Election. The Democrats will give them what they want.
James Jesus Rimbaud |
09.23.06 - 12:46 am | #
Fuck the Democratic Party. Its time to cross into Cambodia and make shit up as we go along.
James Jesus Rimbaud
I'm bringing a wicker sofa, 7 cases of 7-Up, and my Raquel Welch 'self-help' tapes..........
earl 'cliche' guevera |
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09.23.06 - 12:47 am | #
Re "In the Realm of the Senses," there's a scene near the end where the woman cuts off the erect shaft of her comatose, dying lover's penis and puts it in her purse.
When I saw the movie, the audience erupted in booing, then laughter.
Draco |
09.23.06 - 12:47 am | #
Are you going to give them a chance or just fold up your tent now?
they've had 5+ years and have done exactly squat about it in that time. I've supported them in every way I can, convincing friends, giving them money, voting for them etc during that time.
Time's up.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 12:47 am | #
hello, dears.
Sarah Deere | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 12:44 am | #
What's a nice girl like you doing in a dump with the vituperative foul-mouthed bloggers of the Left?
steve simels |
09.23.06 - 12:47 am | #
Okay.
Here ya go. Nice and thick, just the way I like 'em.
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 12:48 am | #
I folded up my tent already. I'm three rises over from the Democratic camp, sleeping on the ground out in the open, by myself. I've decided herds are bad for my health.
James Jesus Rimbaud |
09.23.06 - 12:48 am | #
Re "In the Realm of the Senses," there's a scene near the end where the woman cuts off the erect shaft of her comatose, dying lover's penis and puts it in her purse.
Good times, good times.
Lorena Bobbitt |
09.23.06 - 12:48 am | #
Dearest, I could make you forget about breakfast.
She'll need *something* to get her strength back and replenish fluids.
JeffCO |
09.23.06 - 12:48 am | #
what's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this........
haven't thought of that in some time
earl 'cliche' guevera |
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09.23.06 - 12:49 am | #
James Bond porn classics;
Dr No-No
Stinkfinger
Octopussy (PZ oughtta like that one...)
Elmer, PHD |
09.23.06 - 12:49 am | #
Time's up.
So whatever happens in November, you won't complain.
young 'indie' rocker type girl at the used/new record store tells me 'i'm kind of pissed that dylan ripped off memphis minnie without giving her credit.....
earl 'cliche' guevera | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 12:45 am | #
what's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this........
Of all the Dim joints in all the blogs in the world, she had to walk into mine.
JeffCO |
09.23.06 - 12:52 am | #
This isn't some kind of trick, right?
Nope. Made 'em tonight. mmm mmm good.
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 12:52 am | #
Whatever happens in November won't make any difference.
No, it doesn't. We could have elected George Wallace and Curtis LeMay in 1968 and things would have been damned peachy.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 12:53 am | #
har jeffco
(comment on way out)
earl 'cliche' guevera |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 12:53 am | #
the night porter: was that the 70's?
earl 'cliche' guevera | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 12:41 am |
Phh--I forgot that great movie, which somehow became a fave of feminist academics. I never quite got the reason. They seemed to think Rampling's repetition compulsion restaging her degradation was an act of empowerment.
My opinion was that it's inherently comical to have a bunch of dispossessed Nazis bonding together at a cheap single room occupancy hotel
Draco |
09.23.06 - 12:53 am | #
Nope. Made 'em tonight. mmm mmm good.
Thanks, that hit the spot. Not too many grit opportunities here in Pittsburgh...
Eli |
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09.23.06 - 12:53 am | #
i watched that Warhol 2 parts doc on PBS this week and since then , i have The Velvets' "heroin" in my head. It's kinda weird to be doing my groceries and singing "Heroin, be the death of me.Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life. Because a mainer to my vein. Leads to a center in my head.And then I'm better off than dead.Because when the smack begins to flow.I really don't care anymore" I'm scaring the children
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 12:55 am | #
the night porter:
Phh--I forgot that great movie, which somehow became a fave of feminist academics. I never quite got the reason. They seemed to think Rampling's repetition compulsion restaging her degradation was an act of empowerment.
My opinion was that it's inherently comical to have a bunch of dispossessed Nazis bonding together at a cheap single room occupancy hotel
Draco
weird to see it as 'empowering' when actually it was an enslavement to something degrading (woof woof)
earl 'cliche' guevera |
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09.23.06 - 12:55 am | #
Oops- you know what the music means. Later, taters!
JeffCO |
09.23.06 - 12:55 am | #
really out. night all.
somebody take that damn tricycle off the front sidewalk when you turn in.
earl 'cliche' guevera |
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09.23.06 - 12:56 am | #
You can always crawl into a hole if you like.
Tell me why despite acquiescing on tirture they are still worthy of support and then convince me that the dems will suddenly grow values and a collective spine if, depsite themselves, they stumble into a victory in November.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 12:57 am | #
Tell me why despite acquiescing on tirture they are still worthy of support
Where is the acquiescence?
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 12:59 am | #
Okay...I'm smelling a rat.
I've been out all night...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:00 am | #
Where is the acquiescence?
not a single Dem in congress has come out in opposition to the "compromise" between the republicans and the republicans.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 1:00 am | #
well, they did manage to hold the line on Social Security, and if they make gains in the midterms it will be that much harder for Dear Leader to make the second run at destroying it.
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:01 am | #
the fuckers! I'm not a lesbian but these women are damn hot!
Tina Fey not pinup-worthy? Christiane Amanpour not a supermodel? Maxim delves into the true worth of women in TV
not a single Dem in congress has come out in opposition to the "compromise" between the republicans and the republicans.
It having happened less than 48 hours ago, I am going to give them time to organize their opposition.
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
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09.23.06 - 1:03 am | #
Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 12:55 am | #
I don't think Heroin is by any means Lou Reed's best composition. But those electric viola obbligatos by John Cale. Darn he could make some aharmonic noise. Why didn't electric viola catch on?
Draco |
09.23.06 - 1:03 am | #
I've been out all night...
Vicki,
a date?
Plum P |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:04 am | #
Anyone on the east coast receive weird phone calls for polling?
TPM Cafe has this:
Constituents in West Virginia, for instance, have been bombarded with calls from the group, but when they check their caller ID, the number, (571) 522-6400, comes up as from a company called Aetr, Inc.
Who Called Us, an online site that allows users nationwide to log instances of anonymous callers, says the number also sometimes comes up on Caller IDs as originating from "Braddock, VA," or from "ER PR."
ellroon, ex-Black Lizzie |
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09.23.06 - 1:05 am | #
I used to get subscription offers from Maxim-- a deeply stupid magazine-- or at least that's the side they tried to sell.
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:06 am | #
a date?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:06 am | #
Now, see here!
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:06 am | #
But those electric viola obbligatos by John Cale. Darn he could make some aharmonic noise. Why didn't electric viola catch on?
Draco
I love Cale. But i must admit i do have a very soft spot for welshmen!
Plum P |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:06 am | #
I've been out all night...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 1:00 am | #
You sly boots, you.
Still falling in love, are ya?
steve simels |
09.23.06 - 1:07 am | #
JP + CURLY!
Plum P |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:07 am | #
Tina Fey not pinup-worthy?
Ahhh, she's (one of my) my wet dream(s).
Anorexia is not a girl's best quality, thank you.
Steve French |
09.23.06 - 1:08 am | #
Gwen Ifool is on here. Hmmm.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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09.23.06 - 1:09 am | #
But those electric viola obbligatos by John Cale. Darn he could make some aharmonic noise. Why didn't electric viola catch on?
Draco
I love Cale. But i must admit i do have a very soft spot for welshmen!
Plum P
This is code, right? You are going to attack at dawn? With the Welsh? Using electric aharmonic weapons of mass destruction?
ellroon, ex-Black Lizzie |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:09 am | #
Good Evening fellow torturers.
I've been out all night...
With Curly?
Pitchforks & Torches |
09.23.06 - 1:09 am | #
I love Cale. But i must admit i do have a very soft spot for welshmen!
Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 1:06 am | #
The world's greatest living Welshman?
Survey says......
Dave Edmunds!!!!!
steve simels |
09.23.06 - 1:09 am | #
It having happened less than 48 hours ago, I am going to give them time to organize their opposition.
How long does it take to stand up and say "this is wrong and it goes against everything this country stands for" ?
Don't worry the two major races i won't be voting in this November (Congress and Governor) are both safe Dem seats (and I live in Kansas!) and my few hundred dollars won't make any difference one way or the other.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 1:10 am | #
This is code, right? You are going to attack at dawn? With the Welsh? Using electric aharmonic weapons of mass destruction?
ellroon
you will know demain...
The world's greatest living Welshman?
Richard Burton!
Plum P |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:10 am | #
Arrrggghhh...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:11 am | #
This is code, right? You are going to attack at dawn? With the Welsh? Using electric aharmonic weapons of mass destruction?
Well, there was something in the Bible about horns bringing down the enemy fortress, and of course who could forget Mars Attacks with its Slim Whitman alien head explosion yodeling.
Pitchforks & Torches |
09.23.06 - 1:12 am | #
cruel to be kind
in the right measure
cruel to be kind
its a very good sign
cruel to be kind
means I'm American
Ay-rab
gotta be cruel to be kind
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:13 am | #
Still falling in love, are ya?
steve simels
Yeah, yeah...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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09.23.06 - 1:13 am | #
Shut up, everyone. I want to hear about soft, moist dewy vagina.
Cunning Linguist |
09.23.06 - 1:14 am | #
Shut up, everyone. I want to hear about soft, moist dewy vagina.
Cunning Linguist |
09.23.06 - 1:14 am | #
Yeah, yeah...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
It hurts to fall in love but where else would you rather be?
ellroon, ex-Black Lizzie |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:14 am | #
Yeah, yeah...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
It hurts to fall in love but where else would you rather be?
ellroon, ex-Black Lizzie |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:14 am | #
Yeah, yeah...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 1:13 am | #
Care to be more specific?
steve simels |
09.23.06 - 1:15 am | #
ah shit, fucked that up.
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:15 am | #
Christ, I went out on the town, and my purse was stolen (which included my cell phone).
Credit cards.
Et al.
Funny thing is that I hold my purse close to my heart....
I hate things sometimes.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:15 am | #
4th
I remember love. Faintly, of course.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:16 am | #
Jeffraham, 'you still in TN? And what about Naomi?
Pitchforks & Torches |
09.23.06 - 1:16 am | #
You wanna hear about falling in love?
I'll tell you about it.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:16 am | #
I went out on the town, and my purse was stolen (which included my cell phone).
that sucks! Call up the dredit card company right away. My Mom had her cards stolen and they started using them right away.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 1:17 am | #
Pitchforks & Torches: Jeffraham, 'you still in TN? And what about Naomi?
Yes, and if you're talking about who I think you're talking about, I'd prefer he youngest daughter, but she's married to a race car driver.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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09.23.06 - 1:18 am | #
poor Vicki!
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 1:19 am | #
The weird thing about the silence of the Dems so far is that usually, *someone* goes off the reservation- like Harkin saying he understood where Chavez was coming from, in the midst of all that "team playing" from Pelosi, Rangel, et al.
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:19 am | #
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore:
Lordy....are you okay?
steve simels |
09.23.06 - 1:20 am | #
I hate things sometimes.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
That is awful.
ellroon, ex-Black Lizzie |
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09.23.06 - 1:20 am | #
Dave Edmunds!!!!!
steve simels | 09.23.06 - 1:09 am | #
I didn't know Edmunds was Welsh. But I much sympathize with his story about the sudden realization of the scary implications that Johnny Cash was his father-in-law
Draco |
09.23.06 - 1:20 am | #
Vicki, if you had your Social Security number anywhere in your purse, you may want to block the ability for anyone to take out a new credit card or loan in your name.
Identity theft is naaaasty.
ellroon, ex-Black Lizzie |
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09.23.06 - 1:22 am | #
Anybody from the Seattle area here? Cause i added the west coast signals to my digital tv package and i see those political tv ads and cannot make out which are the good guys and which ones are the bad guys. The words "republican" , "Bush", "Iraq" are never mentionned?!?
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 1:22 am | #
Democratic leaders were largely positive about the agreement reached Thursday, signaling that they would continue to cooperate, rather than risk looking obstructionist heading into the midterms.
This is part of an article that will appear in the Washington Post tomorrow. Now I wonder why I have been defending these bastards.
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
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09.23.06 - 1:22 am | #
Vicki, you weren't strongarmed, right? The purse was taken in a club, while you were distracted, yes?
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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09.23.06 - 1:23 am | #
Fuck you, Arnie!
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a universal health care bill Friday, saying it would create a "vast new bureaucracy."
The bill would have provided every California resident with health insurance through a program administered by a new entity, the California Health Insurance Agency.
The system would have been partially financed by the state's current spending on health care and partly by consumers and their employers in place of private insurance payments. A state commission would have made recommendations on premiums for patients and businesses.
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bo, vfmb(c)ol |
09.23.06 - 1:23 am | #
Democratic leaders were largely positive about the agreement reached Thursday, signaling that they would continue to cooperate, rather than risk looking obstructionist heading into the midterms.
Like I say, fuck them.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 1:24 am | #
I'm working on the logistics, guys...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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09.23.06 - 1:24 am | #
Democratic leaders were largely positive about the agreement reached Thursday, signaling that they would continue to cooperate, rather than risk looking obstructionist heading into the midterms.
We knew they were killing people in the camps, but we had to go along for fear of being killed ourselves?
I of course offer my sincerest apology to the Old Man from Scene 24.
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
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09.23.06 - 1:25 am | #
Vicki, you weren't strongarmed, right? The purse was taken in a club, while you were distracted, yes? Totally ripped at the venue, which is why I ask my friends, to this day, why I cannot contribute in kind.
I'm pissed.
I lost my bet lipstick. $ 100 but it is beautiful.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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09.23.06 - 1:26 am | #
Pitchforks & Torches | 09.23.06 - 1:12 am | #
Are you a fan of Mars Attacks too? I feel lonely finding that movie hilarious. Critics, the mass audience, my old friends at AOL movie chat sites all fisfained it.
Favorite scene--the Martians raid Las Vegas, stealing slot machines, carrying them their backs, broadcasting "We are your friends." In a sense they were
I also liked how the Martians gad a two word vocabulary, ak and rak. Ak ak rak ak rak ak ak
Draco |
09.23.06 - 1:26 am | #
disdained, not fisfained
Draco |
09.23.06 - 1:27 am | #
It is too late to start drinking isn't it?
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:27 am | #
I also enjoyed Mars Attacks and thought it terribly underrated.
Eli |
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09.23.06 - 1:28 am | #
Are you a fan of Mars Attacks too? I feel lonely finding that movie hilarious. Critics, the mass audience, my old friends at AOL movie chat sites all fisfained it.
Love that movie!!! I think we should live in tepees.
It's best watched back-to-back with Independence Day. Same movie, except ID is stupid enough to take itself seriously.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 1:28 am | #
It is too late to start drinking isn't it?
Snow, Frank Sinatra
Only if you don't find your way into my bed...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:28 am | #
Good evening, all, and good catblogging!
rorschach
merci!!!
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 1:28 am | #
thought it terribly underrated.
It was not the worst movie ever made.
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:29 am | #
It is too late to start drinking isn't it?
What is this "too late" of which you speak?
Hecate, Brightly-Coiffed |
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09.23.06 - 1:29 am | #
It is too late to start drinking isn't it?
its never too late.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 1:30 am | #
Hecate, Brightly-Coiffed
Hold me.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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09.23.06 - 1:30 am | #
It's best watched back-to-back with Independence Day. Same movie, except ID is stupid enough to take itself seriously. - rorschach
Don't forget to throw in MIB and Starship Troopers.
bo, vfmb(c)ol |
09.23.06 - 1:30 am | #
I liked Mars Attacks. Independence Day sucked like a roomful of hoovers.
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:31 am | #
What is this "too late" of which you speak?
You are right. Sorry, Vicki, I am going to oblivion. Rain check?
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:32 am | #
Bitte schoen, Plum P!
What is this "too late" of which you speak?
Hecate, Brightly-Coiffed | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 1:29 am | #
Now I've got the image of Nick Cage in "Vampire's Kiss" in my head. "Too late! Too late! It's all too late, Alva!"
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 1:32 am | #
Don't forget to throw in MIB and Starship Troopers.
bo, vfmb(c)ol | 09.23.06 - 1:30 am | #
Heh indeedy.
It's funny, actually, the shitstorm stirred up among Heinleinians by the movie Starship Troopers...
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 1:33 am | #
I liked Mars Attacks. Independence Day sucked like a roomful of hoovers.
I was grooving along okay, taking it at face value... and then Jeff Goldblum figured out how to give... the alien computer... a virus.
Yeahright.
Eli |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:34 am | #
Aw, Vicki that's a shame. I am wishing for a good soul to find it and call you tomorrow.
melior |
09.23.06 - 1:34 am | #
It's a shame that readers of the Post's print edition won't get to read Mr. Froomkin's analysis:
Questions the Press Should Ask
Members of the traditional press were paying scant attention to the issue of state-sanctioned torture until a rift appeared within the Republican party itself. That, in Washington, qualifies as high drama.
And now that the rift has been papered over, most reporters' tendencies will be to cover the issue mostly from the angle of its effectiveness as a political cudgel in the mid-term elections.
But the American public deserves to hear a full and open debate on this important moral issue. And if Congress won't host it, then it's up to the Fourth Estate to rise to the challenge.
Step one would be some actual reporting into the CIA interrogation program, including aggressive truth-squadding of the assertions coming from the White House. President Bush, for instance, yesterday called the program the "most potent tool we have in protecting America and foiling terrorist attacks."
Can he back that up? What little investigative reporting I've seen on the program thus far, by Ron Suskind among others, suggests that Bush's assertion is exaggerated or just plain wrong -- and that in fact the use of torture or near-torture has produced little or no valuable information. It's imperative that the media give the public a better sense of whether Bush is credible on this issue.
Here's a question reporters should be asking: If, as Suskind has alleged, the administration is aware that those harsh CIA interrogation tactics don't really work -- and no one is currently in CIA detention anyway -- then why is this such an important issue for the White House? One possible answer: That this has nothing to do with the future; that it's about giving them cover for their actions in the past.
Here's another question reporters should be asking: Have the senators been assured that Vice President Cheney won't get Bush to attach a "signing statement" to this bill, asserting his inherent powers, as he did the last time he signed torture legislation?
Finally, as the White House gears up to use detainee policy as a political issue, it is incumbent on the press to remind the public that there are not only two choices: Doing it Bush's way and letting terrorists go free. Even if the Democrats aren't coherent about other alternatives, the press should be.
SteveLG, proudly pre 9/11 |
09.23.06 - 1:34 am | #
Too late to start drinking? Are you fucking insane? I have four cats who are encouraging me to make sure that I can get to sleep later. And I have yet to finish the NYT crossword.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 1:34 am | #
Bitte schoen, Plum P!
what? (i just know 2 languages, stupid me)
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 1:35 am | #
Well, I, as Yente, picked this totally cool actor dude for my daugher. I want him to be her "first" - if she wants it. He writes music, he's plays guitar and keyboards, he's an actor, a singer, all of that.
They are perfect.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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09.23.06 - 1:35 am | #
Draco:
I'm a Tim Burton fan, but Mars Attacks
is a complete misfire. Yeah, the Martians are funny, and yeah, Lisa Marie is hot, but IMHO, it absolutely drips contempt for the poor trailer park crowd that is its satirical raison d'etre and -- more to the point -- for any subspecies of humanity that wasn't actually involved in the making of the movie.
In other words, it's a symphony of misanthropy -- it hates literally everybody and everything (except the annointed, i.e. friends of the filmmakers).
Sow, you can hold me whenever...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:36 am | #
oh man, watching the rerun of maher, and this woman from fox is friggin insane. the level of delusion among bush supporters is frightening
linda |
09.23.06 - 1:36 am | #
Are you a fan of Mars Attacks too? I feel lonely finding that movie hilarious.
I thought the Martians were hilarious, the way they looked and when they went "Ack ack!" I laughed my ass off at that. I thought the rest of the movie blew.
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 1:36 am | #
I like the Starship Troopers movie, it has the basic format of a WWII propaganda film but it is really a political movie masquerading as a mindless Hollywood action movie.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 1:37 am | #
I'm a Tim Burton fan, but Mars Attacks is a complete misfire.
It reminded me of Seventh Seal, with a taste of Amarcord. Perhaps it tried to communicate too much. But I think only Kurosawa could have made it better.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 1:37 am | #
Sow
I am a boy, silly!
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:37 am | #
And I have yet to finish the NYT crossword.
spinoza Neque lugere
I have concluded that NYT crosswords are easier than sudoko when I am plastered.
melior |
09.23.06 - 1:38 am | #
Ack, ack! Rak, ack, ack. Ack, Rak!
Good night, Mrs. Calabash, where ever you are.
bo, vfmb(c)ol |
09.23.06 - 1:38 am | #
I have concluded that NYT crosswords are easier than sudoko when I am plastered.
Yeah, but filling in the NYT crossword squares with NUMBERS is not quite cricket.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 1:39 am | #
Bitte schoen, Plum P!
what? (i just know 2 languages, stupid me)
Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 1:35 am | #
"You're welcome."
In other words, it's a symphony of misanthropy -- it hates literally everybody and everything (except the annointed, i.e. friends of the filmmakers).
I disagree. I think it expresses utter scorn for the invasion genre, movies which do tend to hate everything outside of the "heroes."
rorschach |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:40 am | #
I like the Starship Troopers movie, it has the basic format of a WWII propaganda film but it is really a political movie masquerading as a mindless Hollywood action movie.
Yeah boy.
Not to mention, Denise Richards is at her best, and then some.
Steve French |
09.23.06 - 1:40 am | #
That this has nothing to do with the future; that it's about giving them cover for their actions in the past.
BINGO! this bill was brought up now for political reasons, but the reason it was brought up at all was to absolve Bush & the CIA of war crimes already committed.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
09.23.06 - 1:40 am | #
I like a little misanthropy once in a while...
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:40 am | #
I am a boy, silly!
Snow,
there was a discussion about that the other day between atriettes (some thought you were a girl). I put them right, and told them you were our young available boytoy here at Eschaton, n'est-ce-pas mon joli jeune homme?
Plum P |
Homepage |
09.23.06 - 1:41 am | #
Alas, must off to Dreamland.
Vicki -- my thoughts, such as they are, are with you.
steve simels |
09.23.06 - 1:41 am | #
He writes music, he's plays guitar and keyboards, he's an actor, a singer, all of that.
(Cue Heart...) He's got the magic hands, mama.
melior |
09.23.06 - 1:41 am | #
Mars Attacks was so uproariously funny that I have to avoid rerunning it. The critics have no sense of humor, they took it too seriously. Ed Wood was extremely well choreographed and filmed, and fortunately, it did get some underground adulation.
Much the same, the original Star Wars was the bomb, but the masses liked the action and effects, not the subtle parody.
People are hopelessly shallow.
Pitchforks & Torches |
09.23.06 - 1:41 am | #
I can't believe even one Vietnam hewned, ground, steel-flying officer would have approved of Shrub's "splendid little war" in Iraq.
I know General Powell was against the notion, but didn't have the nads to resign.
And I'm sure he will regret that lack of courage when it counted, for the rest of his life.
Because he was set up as the only legitimate identity this non-serving Assministration and PNAC coward convention had to back the invasion.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 1:42 am | #
You go, Hugo:
September 22,2006 | CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched yet another verbal attack against President Bush upon returning from a highly charged U.S. visit Friday, calling on the American leader to resign.
"He should renounce the presidency if he has any dignity. The president of the United States has failed completely," Chavez said at the inauguration of a natural gas project in northwestern Venezuela.
"If he has any dignity..."
Who knew Hugo was such a kidder?
SteveLG, proudly pre 9/11 |
09.23.06 - 1:42 am | #
CHAVEZ LAUNCHES ANOTHER ATTACK ON AMERICA.
CITGO AND OTHER VENEZUELAN BUSINESSES WILL BE PERMANENTLY HARMED BY THESE VIOLENT THREATS. http://www.wjla.com/printarticle...1=wor&
stat=wjla
billo |
09.23.06 - 1:43 am | #
Mars Attacks was so uproariously funny that I have to avoid rerunning it. The critics have no sense of humor, they took it too seriously. Ed Wood was extremely well choreographed and filmed, and fortunately, it did get some underground adulation.
I agree. I loved Mars Attacks!! Hilarious.
fourlegsgood |
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09.23.06 - 1:43 am | #
I put them right, and told them you were our young available boytoy here at Eschaton, n'est-ce-pas mon joli jeune homme?
Why thank you. I mean, merci. I do not know where this confusion comes from. But I was just teasing Vicki for leaving out a letter.
Snow, Frank Sinatra |
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09.23.06 - 1:44 am | #
Independence Day sucked like a roomful of hoovers.
nick carraway
I can't imagine anything more horrifying than a room full of Herbert Hoovers.
Pitchforks & Torches |
09.23.06 - 1:44 am | #
Not to mention, Denise Richards is at her best, and then some.
Steve French | 09.23.06 - 1:40 am | #
Ahem. Oh my, yes.
People are hopelessly shallow.
Pitchforks & Torches | 09.23.06 - 1:41 am | #
Yeah. I hate people. People are bad and so forth.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 1:44 am | #
And I'm sure he will regret that lack of courage when it counted, for the rest of his life.
Because he was set up as the only legitimate identity this non-serving Assministration and PNAC coward convention had to back the invasion.
Unfortunately he will never have that kind of realization. He has been apologizing for shit since My Lai if not before.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 1:44 am | #
In the push for Election 2006, we must emphasize the coherence of our Democratic platform. If we fail to frame the organic nature of our policies, we may betray the appearance of a loose coalition of disparate goals. Therefore, we agree upon these frames:
1) Federally-funded abortions for everyone, everywhere, anytime, for any reason.
2) Prosecution and punishment of the BushCo war-criminals.
3) Immediate redeployment of all US military assets to the state of Kansas.
4) Serving stem-cell salad at all breakfast buffets.
5) Outlawing severe weather in the Gulf of Mexico.
6) Appointing:
6a) Ray Nagin to head FEMA.
6b) Ned Lamont to SecDef.
6c) Feingold to State Dept.
7) Issuing sternly-worded warnings to Al Qaeda, followed by peace negotiations. Victim-For-Life designations to all Katrina survivors, plus cash awards.
9) Mandating national $20/hr minimum-wage; outlawing positive profit margins.
Frame the Future! Frame Success! Frame Your Dreams!
People-Power will make it happen!
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09.23.06 - 1:45 am | #
CHAVEZ LAUNCHES ANOTHER ATTACK ON AMERICA.
CITGO AND OTHER VENEZUELAN BUSINESSES WILL BE PERMANENTLY HARMED BY THESE VIOLENT THREATS. http://www.wjla.com/printarticle...1=wor&
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billo | 09.23.06 - 1:43 am | #
SO THE FUCK WHAT? WHY ARE YOU USING ALL CAPS?
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 1:45 am | #
oh, if Citgo sells gas a penny under the station down the street, they'll do just fine.
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:45 am | #
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO ACT IMMEDIATELY TO REMOVE HUGO CHAVEZ.
billo |
09.23.06 - 1:45 am | #
billo....
it's Friday night, and I was wondering if you were in the mood for a really good blow job....
weetabix |
09.23.06 - 1:46 am | #
Democratic ACTION Plan -FOAD, quickly as possible.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 1:46 am | #
Much the same, the original Star Wars was the bomb, but the masses liked the action and effects, not the subtle parody.
I think the first, what, 30 minutes are some of the best cinema ever made, especially the droids wandering in the desert. After that...eh. I'm remembering the film as I first saw it at the age of 11. I was absolutely entranced during about the first half. The rest of it, blowing up the Death Star and all that wack video game shit, I didn't even know what the hell was going on.
So...I'm game. What's the subtle parody?
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 1:46 am | #
Re Starship Troopers--I like most anything from Verhoeven. He always takes genre and goes oves the top with it. I liked in Soldier of Orange when the siegers lobbed ton after ton of diseased meat into the fortress. The longer the meat-catapulting sequence went on, the funnier it became
I won't even comment on the scary vagina imagery for the great spider monster in Starship Troopers--Verhoeven was doubtless laughing up hos sleeve.
My favorite movie by him remains The Fourth Man. Kei and Yuri and I had a nice discussion on why the lovers had their breakup in the opening sequence. It's mysterious, yet crucial. The other lever only has a few lines. K & Y just loves that sequence
Draco |
09.23.06 - 1:46 am | #
a room full of J Edgar Hoovers in drag would be damn nasty...
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:47 am | #
Amateurs have arrived.
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Democratic ACTION Plan | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 1:45 am | #
We all have wingnut cousins or co-workers who love to forward these hilarious emails to us. You don't have to post them here.
But congratulations on figuring out how, by the way.
SteveLG, proudly pre 9/11 |
09.23.06 - 1:48 am | #
i'm watching Loofah Bill on 20/20. Barbawa is soft and mushy on him, isn't she
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 1:48 am | #
He always takes genre and goes oves the top with it. I liked in Soldier of Orange when the siegers lobbed ton after ton of diseased meat into the fortress.
Reminded me of Katie O'Beirne stuffing those pepperoni in her twat for WF Buckley to eat.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 1:48 am | #
THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IS THE CLOSEST MODERN APPROXIMATION TO THE COSMIC, OBJECTIVE IDEA OF REASON CO-DISCOVERED BY SOCRATES AND THE HEBREW PROPHETS.
billo |
09.23.06 - 1:48 am | #
sure, billo, but can we get that *and* nuking Iran done before the Election? It's going to be good for the Republicans, no doubt about it.
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:48 am | #
Starship Troopers is highly underappreciated as satire of the entire WWII propaganda genre.
Plus, it has Doogie Howser as a Nazi. How could you not LOVE that!
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 1:49 am | #
i'm watching Loofah Bill on 20/20. Barbawa is soft and mushy on him, isn't she
Plum P
Babwa has never been known for her hard-hitting interview style.
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 1:49 am | #
All caps do not a Merkin make.
Go sleep it off, billo.
SteveLG, proudly pre 9/11 |
09.23.06 - 1:49 am | #
THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IS THE CLOSEST MODERN APPROXIMATION TO THE COSMIC, OBJECTIVE IDEA OF REASON CO-DISCOVERED BY SOCRATES AND THE HEBREW PROPHETS.
billo
Fuck you, jack. I had a full-blown Catholic education, right up through four years of college level Catholic philosophy/theology, and it's all a crock of shit.
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 1:50 am | #
I, for one, cannot sleep tonight, thinking about all of the injustice in the world.
Anybody who can sleep soundly tonight, amid widespread suffering and oppression, must be uninformed, morally obtuse, or less than human!
All the ignorant Merkins, greedily sucking the world's precious resources, thoughtlessly wasting, while one third of the planet's population begs for help!
These are the ever-present concerns of the truly enlightened.
I saw a Fat Piggie today, exiting the mall in her big SUV, with her spoiled brood, cellphone glued to her ear, and I thought "Who do you think you are, you Piggie!? Why don't you care about all the people who suffer for your wasteful lifestyle? Why can't you live like me and my friends: walking, riding bikes, taking mass-transit; buying Fair Trade wild rice from Buzzflash; putting a brick in the toilet tank; recycling; promoting environmentally-friendly hemp-based products?"
That's what I thought. And I was right, and proud, to think it!
I want to thank my psychology professor for opening my eyes to the true nature of Amerikkkan hegemony. I will never again enjoy the poisoned fruits of capitalist plunder.
PS: Looking for two plane tickets to Cabo San Lucas on Thanksgiving break. Awesome!
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09.23.06 - 1:50 am | #
Buzz Bomb--I semi-liked the first Stars Wars when I was 17. I've said this before but I recognized it as a rewrite of Prince Valiant with cool space gizmos.
It didn't surprise me to learn that Lucas was a Joseph Campbell fan. Yeah, just trade on archetypes with no updating or imagination except for the tech part.
Draco |
09.23.06 - 1:50 am | #
the weirdest Paul Verhoeven film i've seen is this one. Cold, macabre and sexy as hell. And very weird
saw it at 14 at the Montréal's film festival. I remember it vividly
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 1:51 am | #
I like to imagine going down on you, Billo. Might I?
No teeth. I promise.
(Are you cut or uncut?)
weetabix |
09.23.06 - 1:51 am | #
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO ACT IMMEDIATELY TO REMOVE HUGO CHAVEZ.
billo
which would you prefer, chavez's head or healthcare for our children?
just askin' |
09.23.06 - 1:51 am | #
G'night.
I still miss Central Scrutinizer.
Peace out, zappa scout.
Love knows no bounds.
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09.23.06 - 1:52 am | #
O'Reiley is such a wanker!
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 1:52 am | #
i'm watching Loofah Bill on 20/20. Barbawa is soft and mushy on him, isn't she
Plum P
We would just wuv it Biw, if you would tew the audience a wittwe maw about yaw wondewfuw wittwe vibwatow. And of cawse, that cute wittwe woofah, too!
melior |
09.23.06 - 1:53 am | #
Draco! Just saw your post on The Fourth Man! Hi hi hi, great twisted minds we have!
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 1:54 am | #
Starship Troopers is highly underappreciated as satire of the entire WWII propaganda genre.
Plus, it has Doogie Howser as a Nazi. How could you not LOVE that!
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 09.23.06 - 1:49 am | #
Not WWII actually, but Cold War.
It's an odd but telling fact that Heinlein took a break from writing his "hippy" novel Stranger in a Strange Land to write the utterly fascist Starship Troopers because the USSR detonated their first nuclear bomb...
Knowing that gives Stranger a whole new sinister level...
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09.23.06 - 1:54 am | #
PS: Looking for two plane tickets to Cabo San Lucas on Thanksgiving break. Awesome!
Bennington | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 1:50 am | #
Fuck! Dude! You sound just like Marin Sandalthong!
Is that a fucking coinkydink, or what?
Sundog Hempwedgie |
09.23.06 - 1:55 am | #
Bonne nuit Vicki
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 1:55 am | #
billo wants Chavez' head. that would prove he's a manly man & redblooded American.
Taking care of kids? Sheeyit, says billo, that be women's work, beneath the stature of a Marion Morrison wannabe.
I recommend the thread be steered back to porno titles.
later, 'bats
nick carraway |
09.23.06 - 1:56 am | #
Model UN rocks. Had to be part of the Liberian delegation. i regret not taking an offer to work for a diplomat fromt here who spoke at the conference. He was only entry level too, I should have taken the offer...
One of our team was the son of an instructor. He held up an "anarchy" sign while one of the other glasnost types was speaking. It threw the guy's delivery and rattled his speech, my Prof was not happy with that.
She was a cool Democrat who converted me from the abyss of Republicanism. Lucky for him that she was kind of tolerant, personally and professionally. She did the diplomatic thing and issued an apology on our behalf.
Mr.Murder |
09.23.06 - 1:56 am | #
The Verhoeven flick I hated was Hollow Man.
Although, it was appropriately titled. I know what he was getting at, but...Jesus. What a hateful film.
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 1:56 am | #
i'm watching Loofah Bill on 20/20. Barbawa is soft and mushy on him, isn't she
Plum P
"...a blue collar upbringing.. " That foundational lie gave him his start to making millions from countless other lies.
He wasn't raised blue collar! His pop was an oil company accountant, and he went to a private college.
Fucking stupid sheeple! I mean really!
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 1:56 am | #
I recommend the thread be steered back to porno titles.
Best line from Flesh Gordon: "I have the power pasties and I know how to use them."
melior |
09.23.06 - 1:57 am | #
I'm certain there's not much there, weetabix. billo is just another drunk underendowed self-empowerer.
Pitchforks & Torches |
09.23.06 - 1:57 am | #
" Starship Troopers is highly underappreciated as satire of the entire WWII propaganda genre."
So it wasn't a clairvoyant masterpiece describing the Utopian Rumsfeld World View.
EkCenTriK |
09.23.06 - 1:58 am | #
Sundog, you made my night!
Thanks for spotting my alter ego, Marin Sandalthong!
Man, I thought everybody forgot about MS!
You are the best!
Bennington |
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09.23.06 - 1:58 am | #
billo wants Chavez' head. that would prove he's a manly man & redblooded American.
No, no, nonono - billo wants Chavez to give him head.
I offered, but was rejected. Guess I'll put my teeth back in.
You don't know what you're missing, billo.
weetabix |
09.23.06 - 2:00 am | #
The Verhoeven flick I hated was Hollow Man.
Buzz Bomb
The one i loated was Total Reacal. I did not get over the violence in this one, not at all.Well, there's not one of his american films that interest me, not one! But I've seen a few of his european ones that i liked.
The obvious relationships between the characters, i.e. Han Solo and Princess Lea. The sarcastic barbs, the alien bar scene... everything about it was poking fun at previous 1950's scifi.
Pitchforks & Torches |
09.23.06 - 2:00 am | #
See what happens when you leave the magic mushrooms where the wingnuts can reach them?
The effects of psilocybin on their unrecquited secret lust for Toby Keith often creates this sort of logorrheic lucid dream state where they hallucinate they are PJ ORourke.
melior |
09.23.06 - 2:03 am | #
What's the subtle parody?
The obvious relationships between the characters, i.e. Han Solo and Princess Lea. The sarcastic barbs, the alien bar scene... everything about it was poking fun at previous 1950's scifi.
Pitchforks & Torches | 09.23.06 - 2:00 am | #
I don't think so. I do think that the movie is squarely within the tradition of space opera (not sci-fi per se), and does poke a little fun at that.
But the obvious relationships as you call them are, I think, simply a result of Lucas's phenomenal incompetence at portraying relationships at anything beyond an adolescent level.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 2:05 am | #
Hey, just popping in here... dowhatnow?
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MisterX |
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09.23.06 - 2:08 am | #
dowhatnow?
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MisterX
what? ( i MUST be really stone then)
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:08 am | #
dowhatnow?
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MisterX
what? ( i MUST be really stone then)
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:08 am | #
what? ( i MUST be really stone then)
Plum P
PP - I am stoned... immaculate!
Or not. Lemme check.
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MisterX |
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09.23.06 - 2:10 am | #
Is anyone watching TCM? There was just on some short whose title I have no idea--missed it. But everyone in it had some some of Germanic accent in English.
It appeared to be a reworking of Poe's Telltale Heart (complete with corny heartbeat percussion). The lead actor is as perfect a beauty as I've ever seen. I'd like to get his name at least, see what else he did. Anyone know the title?
Draco |
09.23.06 - 2:11 am | #
But the obvious relationships as you call them are, I think, simply a result of Lucas's phenomenal incompetence at portraying relationships at anything beyond an adolescent level.
After seeing Star Wars IV, that would be painfully apparent. However, I give the young Georges' lattitude with his staff writers the benefit of the doubt.
Pitchforks & Torches |
09.23.06 - 2:11 am | #
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO ACT IMMEDIATELY TO REMOVE HUGO CHAVEZ.
billo
The men in the white coats need to find billo and put him where he can no longer be a danger to himself and others.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 2:11 am | #
Apologies for the typos, lag and otherwise...
well I'd just started my questioning of authority. When GHWB pardoned his son Neil for felony embezzlement it opened my young eyes... plus meeting a person from central america in passing for a brief exchange.
Had been asked to join the Rep party by the current chair here. Her son got diebolded by another bigger money repub and was one of the few trustable fromt he cache of crooks that call themselves candidates here in the last primary.
I couldn't vote on party ticket...
Mr.Murder |
09.23.06 - 2:12 am | #
I always thought that Princess Leia was modeled after Lucille Ball.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 2:12 am | #
I always thought that Princess Leia was modeled after Lucille Ball.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
09.23.06 - 2:12 am | #
Or rather, Star Wars III, depending on how you sequence it.
Pitchforks & Torches |
09.23.06 - 2:12 am | #
Things I love:
Freedom in the USA
My Bunny
The United States Military
The Internets
Cats
Netflix
Music
Huevos Rancheros
College Towns with all the Weirdos and bookstores and restaurants
Online arguments with crazy lefties
Bennington Troll Spills All |
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09.23.06 - 2:14 am | #
ok, more wine, be right back
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:14 am | #
Speaking of movies: Anyone who is entertaining the idea of going to see The Black Dahlia--Don't do it.
It is atrocious.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 2:14 am | #
Good lord, I had forgotten... there's an entire generation that has been filtered through the movie STAR WARS...
I am reluctant to hand over the keys...
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MisterX |
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09.23.06 - 2:15 am | #
Freedom in the USA
My Bunny
The United States Military
The Internets
Cats
Netflix
Music Huevos Rancheros
College Towns with all the Weirdos and bookstores and restaurants
Online arguments with crazy lefties
Bennington Troll Spills All | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:14 am | #
Mmmmmmmm! Huevos Rancheros!
Homer |
09.23.06 - 2:20 am | #
My first act of civil disobedience was staying in the Sunday matinee to see STar Wars a second time for free.
Same place I met Hillary.
The arts council took over the once run down place and does things like concerts and Rocky Horror replays with prop gift bags at the door.
A friend taught a comics drawing class there recently.
I'm trying to get local circuit musicians to start teaching there. Informal training, just something to help inspire them and their prospective students expand their music knowledge.
Mr.Murder |
09.23.06 - 2:20 am | #
P&T--I don't quite buy you on Star Wars. Lucas himself said he thought he was making a kid's movie. He rather was. It's only later he laid out his grand 9 movie scheme, since scaled back to 6.
And I've been forced by my young nephew to watch one of the new series--damn Lucas is taling himself too seriously. His ex-wife thinks the same. She said something like "He's built an upside-down pyramid on top of a pea."
Draco |
09.23.06 - 2:22 am | #
The Verhoeven movie with them lobbing the plague infested meat into the water was "Flesh and Blood." Pretty gross and pointless flick. The late, great Bruno Kirby had a supporting role in that, his New York accent fiiting so well with the middle ages...
"Soldier of Orange" started well, but was endless.
"Spetters" was interesting.
"Total Recall" was an admirable effort at producing one of what, twenty something years ago, was considered one of the 10 greatest movie scripts that will never get made (another of the legendary 10 that eventually got made was called "Miracle Mile," starring Anthony Edwards, but Steve De Jarnatt eventually got it made).
Verhoeven achieved true hackdom, of course, when he followed "Basic Instinct" with "Showgirls." I remember an interview with him, when "Showgirls" came out, where he said that the main reason he made it was because he likes looking at naked tits and asses (not that there's anything wrong with it).
AlanSmithee |
09.23.06 - 2:23 am | #
...damn, my comp is lagging... wireless and it still sucks mothra balls.
Mr.Murder |
09.23.06 - 2:23 am | #
Or rather, Star Wars III, depending on how you sequence it.
Pitchforks & Torches
See, that shit annoys me. I know Lucas has been trying for years to get us to call the 1977 Star Wars move "A New Hope." But that title is ass, everyone knows it, and it will always be Star Wars.
All his retroactive bullshit sucks. Including his "Special Editions."
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 2:25 am | #
Mr. Murder, sounds like a neat place. What city?
ErinPDX |
09.23.06 - 2:25 am | #
You know, of course, that there exists a Star Wars generation gap.
There are the old line SW fans, who are into blasters, smugglers, and spaceships.
Then there are the new SW fans, who are obsessed with lightsabers.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 2:25 am | #
i'm still here, reading The Guardian. I guess less races with the presenters on Top Gear in the future...
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:26 am | #
rorschach--My NPR station is having all manner of shows sponsored by Black Dahlia. They insult us in the promos, "From the director of Scarface and the writer of LA Confidential," as if NPR listeners don't know who Brian DePalma and James Ellroy, both unnamed, are
Draco |
09.23.06 - 2:27 am | #
Speaking of Verhoeven, what about RoboCop?
That was some serious snark at Reaganesque privitization.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 2:27 am | #
Verhoeven achieved true hackdom, of course, when he followed "Basic Instinct" with "Showgirls." I remember an interview with him, when "Showgirls" came out, where he said that the main reason he made it was because he likes looking at naked tits and asses (not that there's anything wrong with it).
AlanSmithee
I'm sorry, but I love Showgirls. When I first saw it (on video), about ten minutes into the movie when Elizabeth Berkeley just up and VOMITS for no apparent reason, I thought, Oh man, we're in for a cinematic masterpiece here. I was not disappointed.
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 2:28 am | #
There are the old line SW fans, who are into blasters, smugglers, and spaceships.
Then there are the new SW fans, who are obsessed with lightsabers.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 09.23.06 - 2:25 am | #
Why must you snub the droid-lovers and the Jabba-philes? Not to mention the Saarlac-suckers.
And who doesn't love the Boba-babes?
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 2:29 am | #
"Miracle Mile," starring Anthony Edwards
Great movie, made even better (for me) by the fact that it was filmed in the neighborhood where I grew up.
I had such a crush on Mare Winningham.
hey |
09.23.06 - 2:30 am | #
Stars Wars, my take: saw them in the theaters as they came out. Untouchable those first 3 films...wanted to be Leah (she was a big deal to a little girl growing up in the 70's)... my fave is still Empire Strikes Back...The 3 newer ones are horrible and laughable...Should have never done them.
There, my 2$ on this subject.
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:30 am | #
Did you guys read the rest of the Clinton interview? Wow. mocks the smirk on Wallace's face. Where you been hiding billy boy?
ErinPDX |
09.23.06 - 2:31 am | #
AlanSmithee | 09.23.06 - 2:23 am | #
Thanks for your correxcion--Sorry I confused Soldier of Orange when I meant Flesh and Blood. I can always count on Atriots to correct me--I even tried to check in All movie Guide--they had site problems, so I winged it
Draco |
09.23.06 - 2:31 am | #
Speaking of Verhoeven, what about RoboCop?
That was some serious snark at Reaganesque privitization.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 09.23.06 - 2:27 am | #
Love that movie too.
Speaking of Reagan privatization--"Ghostbusters" is the ultimate movie endorsement of that political move.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 2:31 am | #
correction, not correcxion
Draco |
09.23.06 - 2:32 am | #
Plum P:
You're right. ESB is my favorite SW flick.
Although I love the lightsaber battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin in Ep III.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 2:32 am | #
Oh man, we're in for a cinematic masterpiece here. I was not disappointed.
Buzz Bomb
at this hour, we don't care about the spelling dear! Did you see my post i did on The Fourth Man juat a litle after yours? weirdo we are!
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:33 am | #
ErinPDX, yeah, the Clenis seriously slaps that Wallace beeotch around.
About time someone with a D behind their name took a media fucktard like the Wallace twit to school.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 2:33 am | #
...actually the community college here is experienceing an enrollment decrease.
...when I was going the core of teachers went on to be published and/or teach at major renowned institutions.
...it was once the world's largest photovoltaic display and power center.
Between the closures and wal-mart, plus nearby tri-state locations for families to commute from, they've killed main street and all local revenues.
It's a better ride(and less income tax) to drive in from neighboring Missouri or even ride from Dyersburg, Tn. A lot of people moved to Jonesboro the nearest in-state 4-year college is there, plus better medical access.
Mr.Murder |
09.23.06 - 2:36 am | #
my fave is still Empire Strikes Back...The 3 newer ones are horrible and laughable...Should have never done them.
There, my 2$ on this subject.
Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:30 am | #
Empire is far and away the best of the bunch, yes indeed.
I do have to say that I don't mind the last of the three new ones, though, if only b/c Yoda is a bad-ass.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 2:37 am | #
"Miracle Mile," starring Anthony Edwards
Great movie........
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The blonde with the short hair (not Mare Winningham) is Bing Crosby's daughter - usually plays icy blondes.
Bobby St. Chomsky |
09.23.06 - 2:37 am | #
if only b/c Yoda is a bad-ass.
rorschach
when Yoda became a computer graphic instead of a puppet, he lost all interest for me
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:38 am | #
Ro, why aren't you in bed snuggling Myriam?
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:39 am | #
when Yoda became a computer graphic instead of a puppet, he lost all interest for me
Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:38 am | #
My most significant act of civil disobedience was in 1986, crossing the line in Mercury NV, to try to stop nuclear weapons test "Shot Tahoe."
They jailed me in picturesque Goldfield for four days.
Today, far older and wiser, I hope the USA will resume nuclear weapons testing, to verify the potency of our arsenal. The reliability of our W76 warhead is questioned, and should be verified.
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09.23.06 - 2:40 am | #
i love Mare Winningham, i really do. I even watch the movie-of-the-weeks she does to pay the rent, I really like her.
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:40 am | #
Ro, why aren't you in bed snuggling Myriam?
Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:39 am | #
She spurns my advances, alas.
Actually, we are snuggled up on the sofa watching DVDs of Battlestar Galactica.
Further snuggling, in bed, to follow...
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 2:41 am | #
The blonde with the short hair (not Mare Winningham) is Bing Crosby's daughter - usually plays icy blondes.
Bobby St. Chomsky | 09.23.06 - 2:37 am | #
Denise Crosby, who -- as all good Trekkies know -- played Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation until she quit to get into some real acting, and wound up barely working at all for years.
hey |
09.23.06 - 2:41 am | #
Further snuggling, in bed, to follow...
rorschach
we trust you...
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:42 am | #
I remember an academic inspired conference on the topic "Violence in Cinema"
They got 5 big name directors, DePalma, Scorsese, Cameron Verhoeven, one I forget.
They went in alphabetical order, DePalma setting the tone, second
He said something like "Cinema has many options on the palette, violence being one of them. I never use violence indiscriminately, only when it suits the demands of the movie." Fine words from someone who not only showed Kirk Douglas' head exploing in The Fury, then showed it again in slo-mo
All the others echoed DePalma, praising his restraint
Then it came to Verhoeven, last. "I must be the only bad person here. I really like violence in movies."
Today, far older and wiser, I hope the USA will resume nuclear weapons testing, to verify the potency of our arsenal. The reliability of our W76 warhead is questioned, and should be verified.
Bennington Troll Spills All | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:40 am | #
Oh, lookee; a big yummy baited hook.
Whatever shall we do?
hey |
09.23.06 - 2:43 am | #
Denise Crosby, who -- as all good Trekkies know -- played Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation until she quit to get into some real acting, and wound up barely working at all for years.
hey
Scoring a role in a Trek series is a mixed blessing.
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 2:46 am | #
I really like violence in movies."
Hahaha
Draco
there was this moment in Total Recall where Arnold is chased by bad guys of some sorts. He was, i think, in an airoport. Thee baddies are shooting at Arnorld who then use the closest people as shields. That was the final straw for me. I switched the channel
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:46 am | #
Scoring a role in a Trek series is a mixed blessing.
Buzz Bomb
unless you're a shakespearian!
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 2:47 am | #
I'd like to see a bunch of arguments against the resumption of USA nuclear weapons testing.
I know you guys have it in you.
Bennington Troll Spills All |
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09.23.06 - 2:49 am | #
look at this, it's good. A tory sex scandal in the UK is always good
Jilted husband lashes out at Tory MP
A Tory MP yesterday faced calls for his resignation after his mistress's husband wrote a scathing letter to a newspaper accusing the politician of causing pain and hurt which would be felt "for decades"
James Gray was already in trouble after the revelation that he was leaving his wife, Sarah, for pro-hunting campaigner and mother of three Philippa Mayo. But his problems increased when Mrs Mayo's husband, barrister Rupert Mayo, denounced him to a local newspaper.
Mr Mayo said the irony was that he himself would not benefit from Tory leader David Cameron's "excellent family-based policy proposals" because one of his own MPs had "ripped my own family apart".
there was this moment in Total Recall where Arnold is chased by bad guys of some sorts. He was, i think, in an airoport. Thee baddies are shooting at Arnorld who then use the closest people as shields. That was the final straw for me. I switched the channel
Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:46 am | #
The idea that the entire planet of Mars could gain an atmosphere in 30 seconds just made me scorn the movie.
And the movie has utterly poisoned me for watching the NFL, because "Amani Toomer" and "It's not a tum-ah" sound very similar...
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 2:50 am | #
I do have to say that I don't mind the last of the three new ones, though, if only b/c Yoda is a bad-ass.
I don't mind them either.
Maybe because I have such affection for the Star Wars universe.
When the first movie came out I wanted to run to the front of the theatre and jump into the film.
fourlegsgood |
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09.23.06 - 2:50 am | #
no new star wars... the last trilogy with the muppet party ending was good enough
Mr.Murder |
09.23.06 - 2:50 am | #
The idea that the entire planet of Mars could gain an atmosphere in 30 seconds just made me scorn the movie.
Arghhhhh!! I hated that part.
And even if it were possible, he still would have decompressed and died before the 30 seconds were up.
fourlegsgood |
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09.23.06 - 2:51 am | #
Scoring a role in a Trek series is a mixed blessing.
Buzz Bomb
unless you're a shakespearian!
Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:47 am | #
Patrick Stewart? He will have work for as long as he wants it.
As an aside, he proved that bald men could play roles other than comedic foils, and play them well and with strength. (I'm not bald, but one never knows what the future will bring.)
hey |
09.23.06 - 2:51 am | #
Scoring a role in a Trek series is a mixed blessing.
Buzz Bomb
unless you're a shakespearian!
Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:47 am | #
Heh, damn right.
I know you guys have it in you.
Bennington Troll Spills All | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:49 am | #
Here's my ass. Kiss it, you moron.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 2:51 am | #
Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses
________________________________
A great, great film.
Bobby St. Chomsky |
09.23.06 - 2:53 am | #
When the first movie came out I wanted to run to the front of the theatre and jump into the film.
You could actually do that in Star Wars: Galaxies, until they fucked it up and made it obviously a game, and abandoned the attempt to make it a virtual reality.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 2:53 am | #
Patrick Stewart has that amazing voice.
And he was Karla in Smiley's people.
fourlegsgood |
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09.23.06 - 2:53 am | #
...can remeber when ronnie raygun resumed testing...air force kid's parents told them to "stay inside for a while" because they watched jet stream close enough to see where the exposure would fall and we were in line, five states away...
Mr.Murder |
09.23.06 - 2:54 am | #
I'd like to see a bunch of arguments against the resumption of USA nuclear weapons testing.
I know you guys have it in you.
Bennington Troll Spills All | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:49 am | #
Ooooh, look; there's a yummy piece of fresh bacon on the baited hook now, and the whole assemblage is bobbing up and down in an attractive manner.
hey |
09.23.06 - 2:54 am | #
In the Realm of the Senses One long psychological fallacy.
greg |
09.23.06 - 2:54 am | #
dildo breath
Plum P | 09.23.06 - 2:50 am |
a name stealer at this hour? Even sadder than usual! Wow, I'm impressed. How pathetic can you be to troll at this hour
Plum P |
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Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 2:50 am | #
As Profumo teaches us, all UK sex scandals are incomplete without--guess it--"A threat to natonal security."
Lewinsky lacked that, for sure
Draco |
09.23.06 - 2:55 am | #
Maybe Bennington's baited hook will return with a few sweet corn niblets on it in addition to the luscious fatty bacon. (Perhaps a drop of anise oil as well?)
I await, my fins moving gently, and my gills opening and closing in counterpoint to my innocent, curious, and foolish young mouth....
hey |
09.23.06 - 3:02 am | #
John Kerry is a coward.
how many purple hearts did he fake?
Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 3:03 am | #
Yeah, Max,
They are getting that way, I think. I hope.
Work has just been all kinds of nuts, and the homefront has been none too placid either...
But I'm seeing better times ahead...
I appreciate the concern...
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:03 am | #
...and the band played on...
Car bomb outside Baghdad orphanage kills 6
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed nine people and wounded 26 others when it exploded outside an orphanage near central Baghdad's busy Karrada district on Thursday, police said.
The car was detonated by remote control and a nearby police patrol car was caught in the blast.
You always seem to be balancing several plates. Your soul needs a bit of a rest by now, I would think.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 3:05 am | #
why, what did he do outside to need a bath?
Nothing.
He just came in and had a late night snacky-snack of pate.
Which means he had to wash his face afterward.
fourlegsgood |
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09.23.06 - 3:05 am | #
John Kerry is a coward.
how many purple hearts did he fake?
Darth Holden | 09.23.06 - 3:03 am | #
Another angler drops a line, this one rather clumsily and impatiently.
hey |
09.23.06 - 3:07 am | #
Which means he had to wash his face afterward.
fourlegsgood
i wouldn't dare give Henriette a bath, she would bite my heart out.
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 3:07 am | #
There's probably many leftists and Atriosites who hope and pray that the USA nuclear arsenal is untested, forgotten, unnecessary, obsolete, moldering away.
They forget that Russia still has thousands of nuclear warheads targeted on the USA.
They choose to ignore the apocalyptic declarations of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
They disregard the threat of jihadi Islam, and disparage the ultimate defense of Western freedom.
To them, I say: Huevos Rancheros!
Destroyer Of Worlds |
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09.23.06 - 3:08 am | #
Patrick Stewart? He will have work for as long as he wants it.
Best thing he ever did
Buzz Bomb | 09.23.06 - 3:02 am | #
I've seen everything, seen it all.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:08 am | #
John Kerry is a coward.
how many purple hearts did he fake?
Darth Holden
1. Seriously lame namesteal
2. John Kerry has more courage in the tip of his little finger than George W. Bush has his entire body. We know this from Bush's cowardice on 9/11 alone.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 3:09 am | #
i hope Miriam doesn't mind when i write Myriam with a Y, that's how we write it in french.
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 3:10 am | #
You always seem to be balancing several plates. Your soul needs a bit of a rest by now, I would think.
Max Planck | 09.23.06 - 3:05 am | #
You may be right. I never feel quite as though I've earned it, or as though it's possible, for whatever reason.
He just came in and had a late night snacky-snack of pate.
Your cat ate someone's scalp! That's rather intense.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:11 am | #
rorschach--Believe it or not I proofread. But I'm sensitive to light and have to stare into the computer screen, messing up. I should get one of those vocal programs telling me what I'm typing (cheap) or an LCD monitor (expensive but better)
I have my Mac set on lowest possible brightness and contrast. Minor help--imitating Spinal Tap's famous 11, I'd put it -1
Draco |
09.23.06 - 3:11 am | #
I've seen everything, seen it all.
rorschach
shiny head...sexay!
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 3:11 am | #
i hope Miriam doesn't mind when i write Myriam with a Y, that's how we write it in french.
Plum P | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 3:10 am | #
She actually commented that she rather liked it.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:11 am | #
Speaking of movies: Anyone who is entertaining the idea of going to see The Black Dahlia--Don't do it.
It is atrocious.
rorschach
Crap. Was looking forward to it.
But De Palma disappoints again and again.
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 3:11 am | #
To them, I say: Huevos Rancheros!
Destroyer Of Worlds | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 3:08 am | #
Jumping off a brown-water Navy boat into the Vietnam jungle after a firing enemy doesn't sound like much of a coward to me.
And that at least he did that was never contested by his good buddies for life, the Swiftboat Brutus Bunch.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 3:12 am | #
Well, it appears everyone disagrees with me on Star Wars thanks to free speech. I wouldn't want to be a rightist when it comes to that.
However, Lucas is a dope, most of us concur on that. He makes movies for children and defaults with adults as his main audience. While not in the same league as Bugs Bunny for its adult-aimed dialogue, it gives me the impression of satirical humor.
Perhaps I'm too youthful or maybe just more youthful than average. I refuse to view movies like Natural Born Killers because of the violence.
Unfortunately, living life in Bushland doesn't offer us that choice. Whatever happened to our country? Did it take the murderers too seriously as role models?
Pitchforks & Torches |
09.23.06 - 3:12 am | #
Do trolls get paid overtime for posting this late at night? You trolls should form a union and picket the GOP
Draco |
09.23.06 - 3:14 am | #
Crap. Was looking forward to it.
But De Palma disappoints again and again.
Buzz Bomb | 09.23.06 - 3:11 am | #
Yeah, sorry. But it really is that bad. I saw it here in Austin, and about halfway through, it had worn out its welcome to the extent that dramatic and/or violent scenes were eliciting laughter. And at the end, someone stood up in the back of the theatre and shouted, "I loved it!" and the house just cracked up...
That's how bad it is.
Perhaps I'm too youthful or maybe just more youthful than average. I refuse to view movies like Natural Born Killers because of the violence.
I'm not sure what "more youthful than average" means, but do you really avoid movies based on their supposed violent content? That is just rather suprising.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:16 am | #
dildo breath
Plum P
As namesteals go, this is especially weak. Dildoes don't smell like anything. Rubber or plastic, maybe. Big deal.
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 3:18 am | #
It is atrocious.
rorschach
Crap. Was looking forward to it.
But De Palma disappoints again and again.
Buzz Bomb
good tip, merci. The casting is interesting, Ellroy had good films done from his books, but De Palma always screws up, that's true
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 3:18 am | #
As namesteals go, this is especially weak. Dildoes don't smell like anything. Rubber or plastic, maybe. Big deal.
Buzz Bomb
they are so... not worth talking about. Let's ignore them.
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 3:19 am | #
Good night everyone.
fourlegsgood |
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09.23.06 - 3:19 am | #
do you really avoid movies based on their supposed violent content? That is just rather suprising.
rorschach
if so, one would have missed Fargo, but I do understand the logic.
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09.23.06 - 3:20 am | #
P&T--I've seen Natural Born Killers, having heard from gossipy Mivhael Musto that Oliver Stone was on acid the whole time and it showed.
I also liked the feud Stone and screenwriter Quentin T were in regarding how badly the script was compromised.
The movie was indeed awful beyond belief, stupid, incoherent, a mishmosh of styles
Best part? Robert Downey Jr. as the fake Geraldo, getting humoloated, acting like a clueless jerk. Downey has made a career being the best thing in bad movies (Exception--Wonder Boys, good movie).
Draco |
09.23.06 - 3:21 am | #
ror,
You are tasked to do a lot during the day, as am I. Don't you get tired? I get so exhausted. Then I wake up around 1 AM.
I often think that the 8-5 workday is extremely arbitrary.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 3:21 am | #
However, Lucas is a dope
Well, no argument there.
Ironclad evidence: Jar-Jar Binks.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
09.23.06 - 3:21 am | #
Quentin Tarantino just annoys the fuck out of me. He's a twitchy, pretentious ass.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:22 am | #
I hate my time zone.
:-(
WalterNeff, as Trent Baxter |
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09.23.06 - 3:22 am | #
yes, moi aussi. Time to go. Have to have my driver licence picture done tomorrow (well in a few hours!) . Beurk
ŕ plus tard!
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 3:23 am | #
I, mysekf, have reached the age where Ifind no attraction from watching bleak, fatalistic movies, no matter how "realistic" they may be.
I need Hope, not Realism.
Or, I need distraction, humor, romance, the odd chance that things DO work out for we hapless humans. I;ve just seen too much of despair, and failure, and...well, I need to Believe, is all. That things can be better. Artistic value is probably completely lost on me if the effort only describes/confirms our failures and hopelessness.
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09.23.06 - 3:23 am | #
Quentin Tarantino just annoys the fuck out of me. He's a twitchy, pretentious ass.
rorschach
hear hear
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 3:25 am | #
Quentin Tarantino just annoys the fuck out of me. He's a twitchy, pretentious ass.
rorschach
hear hear
Plum P |
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09.23.06 - 3:25 am | #
ror,
You are tasked to do a lot during the day, as am I. Don't you get tired? I get so exhausted. Then I wake up around 1 AM.
I often think that the 8-5 workday is extremely arbitrary.
Max Planck | 09.23.06 - 3:21 am | #
Word, that.
And not just arbitrary, but contra-indicated by what it does to people. Not to mention that we really have reached a point where a good bit of our production is unnecessary.
We really should have a 32-hour workweek, and much more vacation time, in this country, as some do in Europe.
But the American frantic, destructive "work ethic" rules...
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:25 am | #
Quentin Tarantino just annoys the fuck out of me. He's a twitchy, pretentious ass.
rorschach
Artistic value is probably completely lost on me if the effort only describes/confirms our failures and hopelessness.
Sarah Deere | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 3:23 am | #
No Hamlet for you, then? No Macbeth? No Oedipus Rex?
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:27 am | #
Sarah--Fargo was restrained in what violence it actually showed.
I was taken aback how casually the kidnapped lady was killed off, but it wasn't shown.
And the infamous woodchipper scene--you only saw a foot and calf sticking out of the woodchipper upside-down, not blood and bone and flesh spraying around
Draco |
09.23.06 - 3:27 am | #
But the American frantic, destructive "work ethic" rules...
rorschach
overlaid with the warmish wet velvet of GUILT.
Sarah Deere |
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09.23.06 - 3:28 am | #
I can watch Pulp Fiction over and over.
.
agave | 09.23.06 - 3:26 am | #
Sigh. You know what? Probably me too. But always with the sensation that someone's dragging fingernails across a chalkboard in the background...
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:28 am | #
Huevos Rancheros
1) Two eggs
2) Sliced Jalapenos
3) Diced Tomatoes
4) Sliced Onions
5) Pinch chili powder
A) Crack eggs onto skillet.
B) Explode fission weapon, exposing eggs to 5^10^6 roentgens prompt ionizing radiation.
C) Drown eggs in tomatoes, onions, chili powder.
D) Detonate thermonuclear warhead, covering eggs in gamma cherenkov blue sauce.
E) Serve hot, with parsley and radionuclides.
Chef Destroyer Of Worlds |
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09.23.06 - 3:31 am | #
I'm a maajor Quentin T fan--he's always funny. And He loves all movies, even from directors like Stanley Kramer whose sensibilities are quite opposite to his
I can't think of a more generous director, someone who just packs his movies with as much stuff as possible, stolen, original, made up on the spot--here it is
Sorry to use a cliche, but he's a "walking encyclopedia" of film history
Draco |
09.23.06 - 3:31 am | #
But the American frantic, destructive "work ethic" rules...
rorschach
For the past several years, I've been monitoring how the Dept. of Labor has ballyhooed the increase in productivity.
Well, hell, I could have told them that. US Corps have fired 90% of my colleagues, who 10 years ago were working hard, yet enjoying their new families.
They're fucked right now. I mean in despair.
Fuck these Mr. Potter people running things in DC now. We aren't asking for the world! We're just asking not to be written off.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 3:31 am | #
Quentin Tarantino just annoys the fuck out of me. He's a twitchy, pretentious ass.
A former Blockbuster employee screwing Mira Sorvino? Fits with what's going on. Down the rabbit hole again...
sammy |
09.23.06 - 3:32 am | #
Quentin Tarantino just annoys the fuck out of me. He's a twitchy, pretentious ass.
rorschach | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 3:22 am | #
Did you ever see Curdled?
hey |
09.23.06 - 3:32 am | #
And at the end, someone stood up in the back of the theatre and shouted, "I loved it!" and the house just cracked up...
Glad to hear Austin moviegoers are able to "get outside" the film.
Anyone you know manage to see Idiocracy during its, what, two-day release there?
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 3:33 am | #
Tarantino is also a master of chronology, which he loves screwing up. He stole the plotline and much of the storyboarding for Reservoir Dogs from the Hong Kong film City on Fire.
Then he put it in the Mixmaster and it made better sense
Draco |
09.23.06 - 3:35 am | #
OK, I admit I'm a little drunk myself, but is everyone too stoned/drunk to post any longer?
Hey, at least I can still spell...
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 3:36 am | #
Fuck these Mr. Potter people running things in DC now. We aren't asking for the world! We're just asking not to be written off.
Max Planck | 09.23.06 - 3:31 am | #
Damn fucking right. Why does "productivity" trump basic human liveability? Everyone I know in Europe is utterly appalled at how we do things here.
Did you ever see Curdled?
hey | 09.23.06 - 3:32 am | #
No, never did.
Anyone you know manage to see Idiocracy during its, what, two-day release there?
Buzz Bomb | 09.23.06 - 3:33 am | #
E) Serve hot, with parsley and radionuclides.
Chef Destroyer Of Worlds | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 3:31 am | #
Clever, with a soupçon of hostility.
hey |
09.23.06 - 3:36 am | #
Tarantino is also a master of chronology, which he loves screwing up. He stole the plotline and much of the storyboarding for Reservoir Dogs from the Hong Kong film City on Fire.
Then he put it in the Mixmaster and it made better sense
Draco | 09.23.06 - 3:35 am | #
Eh, his antics with timelines seem rather cheap to me.
Though, again, I have to say that I do enjoy his films even while they grate on me, and I have used "Pulp Fiction" as an example in writing courses I've taught...
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:38 am | #
Did you ever see Curdled?
hey | 09.23.06 - 3:32 am | #
No, never did.
I found it online, new, for 50 cents. Tarantino bought the rights from a cinema student and reshot the original project.
You might like it.
It reminds me not to mess with my sweet quiet wife.
hey |
09.23.06 - 3:40 am | #
I loved Kill Bill, parts 1 and 2. In fact, I think Tarantino is just hitting his stride. Watching those movies (or rather, movie split into 2 movies) caused me to reflect on what a damn shame it is that Tarantino's work ethic is so shitty. Apparently all he does is sit around and smoke pot and watch old movies. What with this busy schedule, he only gets around to making a movie of his own, oh, every seven or eight years. But then I thought, well, okay, maybe it's good that he does all that slacking and pot-smoking and movie-watching. Do that shit enough, and you end up making a kick-ass couple of flicks like the two Kill Bills, whereas if you crank out a movie a year, like Woody Allen, why, most of them suck.
Buzz Bomb |
09.23.06 - 3:41 am | #
cool, hey. I'll keep my eyes open for it... and I'll stop messing around with your sweet quiet wife.
I suppose.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:43 am | #
Clever, with a dash of kufr.
G'night all!
kufr |
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09.23.06 - 3:43 am | #
Chef Destroyer Of Worlds
Funny
But just coming back from NM where they make the best, not so much.
OK...
I think I know what bugs me about Tarantino; watching the man himself. When I watch him and listen to him, it's hard for me to believe that he's the man who made the movie I just watched.
hey |
09.23.06 - 3:44 am | #
I loved Kill Bill, parts 1 and 2.
Big fat "meh."
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:45 am | #
My favorite isolated Tarantino sequence is in Kill Bill I, when Uma T first arrives in Tokyo. She's in a convoy of limos cruising from the airport, surround by a swarm of scootering spies loyal to arch-rival Lucy Liu, framed by the Tokyo skyline.
Utterly beautiful, all the moreso because it hints at drama and violence, but nothing happens
Most people don't even remeber the scene, the other stuff was so extreme
Draco |
09.23.06 - 3:46 am | #
Random comment: "A History of Violence" is an absolutely brilliant film, in my opinion.
It's just well done. Well directed, well shot, well acted (without all the "pomo" self-consciousness of every QT movie...)
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:49 am | #
This Nations' conscience really took a body blow with this current Chief Executive, the "MBA" President.
It's no longer noble, in fact it's thought of now as kinda shitty, to be reduced to offering a damn hard day's service toward some goal.
You gotta be makin' a deal. It's all in the deal. Dealmakers are who you need to worship.
NM Green is people!!!
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:51 am | #
From Kill Bill II, I love Carradine's monologue--obviously QT's--on Superman. All the other superheroes are humans impersonating superheroes.
But Superman really is Superman, he impersonates a human as Clark Kent. That's what he thinks of humans--weak, ineffectual, subserviant, less attractive to women than Superman
Draco |
09.23.06 - 3:52 am | #
rorschach--I'll have to put History of Violence at the top of my Netflix list. Big fan of Cronenberg, Mortensen too
Is this the one movie where Cronenberg deviates from his pattern of repulsion from the human body? Great, but a bit one-note
Draco |
09.23.06 - 3:56 am | #
Is this the one movie where Cronenberg deviates from his pattern of repulsion from the human body? Great, but a bit one-note
Draco | 09.23.06 - 3:56 am | #
It is indeed that one. This film relies more heavily on character than anything else he's ever done, and Mortensen is very much up to the task.
And yes, his obsession is both great and one-note.
I love Videodrome!
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 3:59 am | #
Nice photos, nice places. Is that Mata Ortiz pottery?
hey |
09.23.06 - 4:04 am | #
ror,
I'm not sure what you teach young people. It's probably literary in nature. But you should think about film criticism. I've thrown out some stuff on these threads like the 44 year old version of Manchurian Candidate, and you jumped onto insights into that film like nobody's bidness.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 4:06 am | #
I teach college level writing, and I'm doing my diss on 1950s popular literature (which explains my familiarity with The Manchurian Candidate--I've actually read the book AND seen the movie! Few can claim that...)
I tend to incorporate some manner of popular culture in all of my writing classes, along with "literature."
I'm very flattered by your endorsement, I have to say.
And it comes at the perfect time. Number 1: I'm not actually teaching this semester. Number 2: Diss is rather stalled. Number 3: Job market season is here for literature academic...
So, thank you...
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I got this off TP check this out what these American Nationalist Libertarians think. And you thought Leeden was nuts;
"Here’s our Solution to Islamo-Fascism.
Here is how America could solve her terrorism problem in 5 easy steps:
Stop sacrificing American soldiers to bring “freedom” to savages in Iraq. Pull our soldiers out of that hell hole, and let the savages have their civil war. ( Iraq is not and never was the main source of terrorism against America. Iran and Saudi Arabia are.)
Declare war on Iran.
Obliterate, from high altitude and long distance, all known Iranian military assets, all Iranian government buildings, all Iranian mosques and madrassahs, and the residences of all Iranian leaders, imams, clerics, and government officials. Hit these targets when they are most likely to be occupied (e.g., mosques during the day and residences at night). Do not send soldiers in on foot, except as necessary to identify targets or gather intelligence. We do not need to send soldiers in on foot to fight, and it would be immoral to do so. We have many big missiles, fast planes, and good bombs, and we should use these liberally while building bigger, faster, and better ones. (As to innocent non-Americans, such as Iranian children, who would be killed in such a campaign, they are not properly the concern of our government. Nor would their deaths be the fault of our government. Such deaths are always the fault of the force-initiating regime—and of those who in any way support or enable it—whose actions necessitate such retaliatory measures.)
Airdrop leaflets across the Middle East explaining: “From now on, this is how America will respond to any and all threats to her citizens or allies. We look forward to the time when you decide to civilize yourselves, stop taking religion seriously, renounce the initiation of physical force, recognize the principle of individual rights, establish rule of law, and join the free world. Until then, we will be watching you from way up in the sky—higher even than Allah, by means of technology He cannot fathom—and if we see anything that we so much as feel might conceivably pose even a remote threat either to America or to our allies, we will annihilate it and everything in its proximity without further warning.”
Notify the regime in Saudi Arabia that it got lucky and has the option of not being obliterated; that we are prepared instead to seize “its” oil fields and sell them to private industry, in part to pay for the campaign against Iran, and in part to return the fields to private industry where they belong; that it has 24 hours to turn the fields over to our agents; and that if it fails to comply or ignites the fields or does anything to thwart our program, its leaders, like those of Iran, will meet Allah sooner than later.
HaloScan |
09.23.06 - 4:16 am | #
check this out what these American Nationalist Libertarians think
They're morons. Don't really care what they... "think."
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 4:17 am | #
American Nationalist Libertarians
Hmmm...
Why don't they just change their name to National Socialists and get it over with?
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09.23.06 - 4:17 am | #
I'm very flattered by your endorsement, I have to say.
That's cool. But I've never purposely flattered a person in my life. I've always thought it a waste of many things, not the least of which is time.
And it's caused me some grief along the way.
You know your shit about some things, and I was just acknowledging such.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 4:21 am | #
check this out what these American Nationalist Libertarians think
They're morons. Don't really care what they... "think."
Yeh your right your always much smarter than everyone else. I mean it pure jeanus.
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09.23.06 - 4:22 am | #
You know your shit about some things, and I was just acknowledging such.
Max Planck | 09.23.06 - 4:21 am | #
And I'll just say Thank Ya for your very well-timed praise.
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09.23.06 - 4:23 am | #
Poor Zoe.
She has a hurt foot and wants to go out so bad.
Not gonna happen.
She is mean and fierce but little. She needs to be 100% fit before she goes out there.
Yeh your right your always much smarter than everyone else. I mean it pure jeanus.
HaloScan | 09.23.06 - 4:22 am | #
What a very odd response.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 4:24 am | #
Why don't they just change their name to National Socialists and get it over with?
little league of brownshirts=)
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09.23.06 - 4:25 am | #
And Max-- How goes it with your job? Any major stressors at the moment?
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 4:27 am | #
But look into the film crit thing, ror. I think you might make a buck on the side doing that. Your analyses are quite useful to people.
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09.23.06 - 4:27 am | #
whats odd about beng smart?
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09.23.06 - 4:29 am | #
But look into the film crit thing, ror. I think you might make a buck on the side doing that. Your analyses are quite useful to people.
Max Planck | 09.23.06 - 4:27 am | #
I've always kind of included it in my job searches in the humanities, but I've never thought about doing it commercially...
You've given me something to think about...
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 4:30 am | #
What a very odd response.
whats odd about beng smart?
HaloScan | 09.23.06 - 4:29 am | #
Objection: Asserting facts not in evidence.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 4:31 am | #
Your analyses are quite useful to people.
Max Planck
But wait, no Decemberists talk? That was freaking--in a McSweeney's fashion--fab. So, okay, why not a musical of the Iraq War? Instead of stupid, hostile protests that focus on getting arrested I suggest that thousands of students recreate epic battles from the Second Iraq-US War. Hey, it's educational, right? And as long as it's musical and all it's not dangerous. Freaking Dave Chappelle can oraganize one for spring break in Miami. It'll be like paintball for Peta types and camping out for the hippies. War nerds welcome. Oh, and the Decemberists get to organize a reenactment in Brattleboro, VT.
It's as positive as anything right now.
Nigel Marvin |
09.23.06 - 4:46 am | #
Now THAT is a compliment, all the more genuine for not having been intended as such.
Sarah Deere
Oh, I verily intended it as a compliment to ror. Just not flattery, cuz, y'know I have a thing about that.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 4:51 am | #
A radio commercial for a local gun shop advises Houstonians to arm themselves against "Katricians," adding to the growing tension between Houstonians and the Katrina evacuees who have been blamed for a rising crime rate.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 4:51 am | #
My kitties are, luckily, happily distracted by boxes and paper bags, so my foodstuffs are secure.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 5:01 am | #
Why are y'all still up?! Go to bed right this instant, and I mean it!
[I will never be a parent, and thus I don't get to use the exasperated grown-up voice of authority much. ]
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09.23.06 - 5:09 am | #
Fuck this motherfucker:
Capitalism, eh?
Agave - wonderful pix from NM!!!!!!!!!!!
I love me some NM.
You guys are all loverly.
Taking drunken self to bed, now. 'Night. Sweet dreams, etc.
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09.23.06 - 5:14 am | #
Why are y'all still up?! Go to bed right this instant, and I mean it!
[I will never be a parent, and thus I don't get to use the exasperated grown-up voice of authority much. ]
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 5:09 am | #
But it's Friday night, and the night is young!
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09.23.06 - 5:14 am | #
Taking drunken self to bed, now. 'Night. Sweet dreams, etc.
Sarah Deere
G'nite, Sarah Deere
Well, I made Sarah go nighty-night...what power! But will I use it for good or evil?
But it's Friday night, and the night is young!
rorschach
Don't make me take my belt off!
[I mean, really don't, because my pants will fall down, and you truly don't want that.]
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 5:20 am | #
Today Shrub finally got his way.
Today marks the 2,974th dead soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan. Which officially eclipses the number of those who died on September 11th.
Have, just a wonderful, fabulous day, Shrub.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 5:20 am | #
Max,
You don't really think he cares, do you? These are just the little people - no one he should worry about.
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09.23.06 - 5:23 am | #
Max,
You don't really think he cares, do you? These are just the little people - no one he should worry about.
DWD |
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09.23.06 - 5:23 am | #
Thanks for sharing the NM pix, agave.
Wish I had been there. I haven't visited many states, but given the number of family vacations taken there, New Mexico is my nostalgic favorite.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 5:28 am | #
Max,
You don't really think he cares, do you?
No, my friend, I never did.
There will be more. I fear many more.
Max Planck |
09.23.06 - 5:29 am | #
I do on occasion miss New Mexico.
I have never seen sunlight with such clarity and complexity as I saw when I lived in Albuquerque...
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 5:30 am | #
you just gotta read the transcript of Clinton and Wallace to be shown sunday on Fux...Clinton reams Wallace.. http://thinkprogress.org/clinton...inton-
interview
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09.23.06 - 5:33 am | #
Osama Bin Laden Is Dead'
Updated: 10:11, Saturday September 23, 2006
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has died of typhoid in Pakistan, according to reports in a regional French newspaper.
The paper quoted one of the country's secret service reports, saying that Saudi Arabia is convinced that Bin Laden died a month ago.
L'Est Republicain also said a copy of the report was shown to President Jacques Chirac and the French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
"According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi services are now convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead," the document said.
"The information gathered by the Saudis indicates that the head of al Qaeda was a victim while he was in Pakistan on August 23, 2006, of a very serious case of typhoid which led to a partial paralysis of his internal organs."
mimi |
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09.23.06 - 5:33 am | #
For years, a network of fake citizens' groups and bogus scientific bodies has been claiming that science of global warming is inconclusive. They set back action on climate change by a decade. But who funded them? Exxon's involvement is well known, but not the strange role of Big Tobacco. In the first of three extracts from his new book, George Monbiot tells a bizarre and shocking new story.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 5:34 am | #
Well, I think I will head back to bed for a bit. Pain medication is starting to kick in.
I cannot possibly explain how much fun this injury is. (but I will say, I do understand how people get addicted to the good drugs for pain. Last night I was in absolute misery, half a pill later and I feel decent. That temptation is damned near overwhelming. But I am doing my best not to take the easy way out.)
And I think that someone should do the necessary paperwork/research to have Republicanism added as a mental disorder.
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09.23.06 - 5:35 am | #
And I think that someone should do the necessary paperwork/research to have Republicanism added as a mental disorder.
DWD | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 5:35 am | #
Fucking no way! That'll give so many evil motherfuckers an easy "not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect" defense!
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09.23.06 - 5:37 am | #
And Father Greeley speaks, The remembrance of the World Trade Center last week was an unbearably ugly event, a national disgrace, another blot on the integrity of the country. Under the deft direction of the administration and the supine cooperation of television, it was turned into an event for the Republican congressional campaign, whether the individual candidates wanted such help or not. The imagery was designed to stir up anger and the desire for revenge. What ought to have been a national liturgy of reconciliation and rededication became an exercise in opening old wounds and pouring salt on them. In its wake, those who disagree with President Bush -- even senators of his own party -- become allies of the terrorists.
Do he and his advisers have no shame at all?
Most obnoxious was the exploitation of the grief of the survivors. Anniversaries are always difficult for the bereaved. They should be permitted to suffer in privacy, supported by their faith and their families. Long ago, however, those behind the TV cameras lost all taste and sensibility. Grief, like sex, is no longer a private matter. The pain must be emblazoned across the television screen so a voyeuristic public can revel in it. Have TV journalists no shame at all?
You don't really think he cares, do you? These are just the little people - no one he should worry about.
DWD
People?! To the powers that be, they are tools to misuse and discard without a thought.
I'm waiting to see if people will add to their oh-so-grand "support the troops" magnets a "support the vets" magnet.
When the all-war-all-the-time blood lust wears thin, and the consequence of the meat grinder comes home, that's when we get to find the true national character.
Outside of the G.I. Bill, our history of dealing with vets has not been very good. The need to fix blame for disastrous military campaigns is almost as strong the blood lust that brought them on.
Blaming the planners and enablers is doctrinally unacceptable. That would mean asking oneself what one did or failed to do to prevent catastrophe. Introspection is not our strong these days.
Among the usual suspects of fifth columnists, liberals, and whatnot, there will be blame eventually placed on those who fought, especially when vets try to move into the political realm.
Same shit, different century.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 5:42 am | #
hey Bin Laden is dead. No more October surprise!
mimi |
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09.23.06 - 5:46 am | #
I have never seen sunlight with such clarity and complexity as I saw when I lived in Albuquerque...
rorschach
Waking in a sleeping bag on a crisp, golden morn to the shimmering rustle of aspen leaves, and looking down the mountainside to see the top of a low cloud creeping up the rocks, what a perfect moment that was.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 5:47 am | #
hey Bin Laden is dead. No more October surprise!
mimi
Wouldn't stop Karl from arranging a Pay-Per-View fundraising dead villian torture extravangaza. Fill the body with some animatronics and lights, camera, action!
The joke here is that, at least for a moment, you can actually picture Rove doing this.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 5:51 am | #
Smokes, same shit, different decade. You wonder if these fucks looked at the VietNam experience and thought, "We have to get us some of that!"
In truth, we learned nothing from the deaths of sixty thousand so what are the deaths and maiming of another twenty thousand or so?
BTW, for all of the bad-mouthing we give to religious people, Father Greeley has been consistently against this war from its inception to its disastrous end.
We should give credit to those who believe AND act on their beliefs.
DWD |
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09.23.06 - 5:53 am | #
Waking in a sleeping bag on a crisp, golden morn to the shimmering rustle of aspen leaves, and looking down the mountainside to see the top of a low cloud creeping up the rocks, what a perfect moment that was.
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 5:47 am | #
Sounds perfect, indeed.
Reminds me of a day when I drove up into the Jemez and played in the snow on the mountainside, while ABQ was dry.
But more of a secluded spot in Arkansas, in the Ouachitas, where I had a camping spot right on the edge of a cliff... the vultures would fly along just at eye level... and this was just 5 minutes away from the path to the waterfall. By the time you got there, you were all sweaty, but that was okay, because you could stand under the waterfall...
And one night, when camping (and tripping), I was kept company by a baby armadillo who bounced around like a little armored bunny.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 5:53 am | #
Night all, I am sleeping a bit more. Enjoy the stillness of the morning (or the dregs of the last day - depending on perspective)
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09.23.06 - 5:54 am | #
honest injun, Armitage didn't say 'we'd bomb Pakistan back to the stone age',..Musharraf just made that shit up...
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 07:19:48 -0400 (EDT)
To: gulf2000 list
Pakistan About-Face
From: Juan Cole
The Pakistan military and what is left of its civilian bureaucracy has therefore acquiesced in President Bush's demands, even though Pakistan has declined to involve its own troops in fighting outside the country.
What accounts for the alacrity with which Musharraf has moved on this issue? First of all, he appears to have been bluntly threatened. Dawn quotes Pakistani officials as saying, that " 'Pakistan has the option to live in the 21st century or the Stone Age' is roughly how US officials are putting their case." It is astonishing that the US is talking like this behind the scenes, if true, though presumably the blunt language is coming from aides & lower-level bureaucrats
doesn't quite seem that the chimp got the message from Musharraf (resolution of the Kashmir issue)..
Musharraf clearly wants, and told Bush so, a resolution of the Kashmir issue under the good auspices of the US, though he was careful not to make anything a quid pro quo (people with one foot in the Stone Age are apparently anyway not in a position to present any quids).
Animal, Bush roadkill |
09.23.06 - 5:56 am | #
I read the original French story (I am French) and the Saudis believe this story enough to have sent a note to the French and presumably the British, Americans etc.
They don't know where he is buried, but they are looking for his body. I believe that this was what Bush was referring to with his cryptic remarks about "Shall we tell them?" with Musharraf.
If we spread this story around now, that might diffuse the news when Bush does, and also might preclude any such display he had planned.
my homepage link has the link to the sky news story
mimi |
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09.23.06 - 5:58 am | #
That Redd Kross show I saw tonight shredded.
Thers |
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09.23.06 - 6:02 am | #
We should give credit to those who believe AND act on their beliefs.
DWD
Yeah, the problem of blog comments or even op-ed pieces is too broad a stroke to paint with.
However, I fear we will enter a period like after 1975, where we see nothing, nothing, nothing. America will be triumphant again, because America is exceptional. Next thing you know, we've got another Ronald Reagan (I suppose saying, "It's late morning just before lunch in America"), playing the mythic hero role of restoring national pride while his underlings arrange the next disaster.
Those who fought against this insanity will be unwelcome reminders of what could have been.
And one night, when camping (and tripping), I was kept company by a baby armadillo who bounced around like a little armored bunny.
rorschach
Thanks. I'm starting the morning off a bit grimly, and that image gave me a good giggle.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 6:05 am | #
That Redd Kross show I saw tonight shredded.
Thers | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 6:02 am | #
Who did the what now?
Something related to Sanford and/or his progeny?
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 6:06 am | #
Thanks. I'm starting the morning off a bit grimly, and that image gave me a good giggle.
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 6:05 am | #
I am glad. It really did crack me up, the little critter.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 6:08 am | #
No matter how you spin it, typhoid-induced organ failure in some clinic is not quite the climax we wanted for our archenemy.
The French may have just spoiled our chance to stage a glorious "capture" of the supervillian who died in the stuggle against the valiant forces that Bush has been mustering all along in secret...or some some such fakery that far too many people in this administration get paid very well to concoct.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 6:10 am | #
Now the death toll is 9/11 times two. U.S. military deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan now surpass those of the most devastating terrorist attack in America's history, the trigger for what came next.
More than one-third of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking medical treatment from the Veterans Health Administration report symptoms of stress or other mental disorders — a tenfold increase in the last 18 months, according to an agency study.
The dramatic jump in cases — coming as more troops face multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan — has triggered concern among some veterans groups that the agency may not be able to meet the demand. They say veterans have had to deal with long waits for doctor appointments, staffing shortages and lack of equipment at medical centers run by the Veterans Affairs Department.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb blew up a kerosene tanker truck in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, police said.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 6:12 am | #
So. Osama is dead from disease, not because w caught him.
ql in ny appalled |
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09.23.06 - 6:15 am | #
So. Osama is dead from disease, not because w caught him.
ql in ny appalled | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 6:15 am | #
Hey. W won the "waiting game." That proves that he's all bold and decisive and so forth.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 6:18 am | #
"'Pakistan has the option to live in the 21st century or the Stone Age' is roughly how US officials are putting their case."
Back in the day, we supposedly promised the Taliban, in negotiating a pipeline for Caspian oil, a "carpet of gold" or, if they did not play ball, a "carpet of bombs."
Well, they ultimately got a carpet of bombs, and we know what happened next.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 6:20 am | #
'Egypt will pursue nuclear energy'
Aw geez, there goes the neighborhood...this democracy thingy just seems to spread nuclear ambitions..
Animal, Bush roadkill |
09.23.06 - 6:22 am | #
meanwhile, with a memo sitting on his desk that Ossama Bin Laden is dead, Bush is posturing how he would send in troops to Pakistan without prior approval from Musharraf if he had a tip about where Bin Laden was.
And the Saudis are busy looking for the body...
Honestly, I wonder how Bush would have presented Ossama Bin Laden's death to everyone if this story hadn't leaked out.
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09.23.06 - 6:25 am | #
here is the French story. Use babelfish.altavista.com to translate because I'm too lazy. not too much more information but they do stress that the Saudis are convinced.
Oussama Ben Laden serait mort
Les services secrets saoudiens auraient acquis la conviction que le fondateur d'Al-Qaďda est mort.
Si elle était prochainement confirmée, l'information tomberait ŕ pic pour le président américain Georges Bush fortement malmené par les sondages ŕ moins de deux mois des élections.
L'information que nous révélons aujourd'hui résulte d'une note de renseignement classifiée « confidentiel défense » émanant de la Direction générale des services extérieurs (DGSE). Les services secrets français l'ont transmise jeudi 21 septembre au Président de la république, au Premier ministre, au ministre de l'Intérieur et de la Défense. Nous vous en livrons le contenu in-extenso. :
« Selon une source habituellement fiable, les services saoudiens auraient désormais acquis la conviction qu'Oussama Ben Laden est mort. Les éléments recueillis par les saoudiens indiquent que le chef d'Al-Qaďda aurait été victime, alors qu'il se trouvait au Pakistan le 23 aoűt 2006, d'une trčs forte crise de typhoďde ayant entraîné une paralysie partielle de ses membres inférieurs. Son isolement géographique, provoqué par une fuite permanente, aurait rendu impossible toute assistance médicale. Le 4 septembre 2006, les services saoudiens de sécurité ont recueilli les premiers renseignements faisant état de son décčs. Ils attendraient, d'obtenir davantage de détails, et notamment le lieu exact de son inhumation, pour annoncer officiellement la nouvelle ».
Les informations recueillies par la DGSE sur la mort de Ben Laden ont été jugées suffisamment fiables pour qu'il soit décidé d'en informer les plus hautes autorités françaises. Une premičre note avait été rédigée et diffusée le 19 septembre dernier. Elle était intitulée : « Les services saoudiens cherchent ŕ confirmer la mort d'Oussama Ben Laden ».
Avant la divulgation de cette nouvelle, cela faisait plus de trois ans que les responsables américains du contre-terrorisme n'avaient pas reçu d'informations crédibles. Il faut remonter ŕ l'arrestation d'un des dirigeants d'Al-Qaďda, Walid Mohamed Ben Attash en avril 2003, pour trouver une trace de Ben Laden. Il avait alors été établi que ce dernier avait rencontré le chef spirituel du Jihad, trois mois auparavant, dans la province de Khost en Afghanistan. Ces derniers mois, les commandos américains, qui étaient en charge de la traque, concentraient leurs recherches ŕ la frontičre entre l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan, au nord des régions tribales. C'est ŕ dire dans la région non contrôlée par les autorités d'Islamabad et oů l'armée ne s'aventure jamais. Il faut dire que les militaires pakistanais ont enregistré d'énormes pertes en hommes lorsqu'ils avaient tenté d'occuper le terrain en 2004 et 2005.
644 morts
Malgré les énormes moyens déployés par les Amé
mimi |
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09.23.06 - 6:28 am | #
Honestly, I wonder how Bush would have presented Ossama Bin Laden's death to everyone if this story hadn't leaked out.
mimi
Easy. Just put a tanned John Mark Karr in a beard and a turban and proclaim "We got him!"
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 6:29 am | #
mimi, never fear. That's why they haven't released the news yet. They'll come up with some cock and bull story about how w's initiative and bravery finally brought osama down. After all, who ya gonna believe, some frog newspaper or a brave Amurican prez?
ql in ny appalled |
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09.23.06 - 6:29 am | #
well, ql, the news is released now.
let's release it all over the place so that Bush gets pre-empted.
mimi |
09.23.06 - 6:32 am | #
and, just to show you that the story about the Saudis sending the file to the French is true, the Defense Minister in France has authorized a leak investigation: (click link)
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Defence Ministry said on Saturday a secret service report saying al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had died could not be confirmed but said it would launch an inquiry into the leak of secret documents.
"The information published this morning in the L'Est Republicain newspaper relating to the supposed death of Osama bin Laden cannot be confirmed," the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
"The Defence Minister has asked that an inquiry be carried out to determine the origin of the leak that can be punished by criminal charges."
mimi |
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09.23.06 - 6:34 am | #
Ack--I can't go to sleep. No offense, but back chacling out Eschaton is my best for now
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09.23.06 - 6:36 am | #
Than again, we might just have further use for Saddam, now that he has slimmed up a bit: Put him on stilts in a mujahadeen outfit, and videotape him at a distance with a soft focus lens. Would the average American know the difference, or even care?
I ask again: Did the French just spoil Mr. Rove's alleged October Surprise?
[Of course, all this could be bullshit. Bin Laden's been reported dead before. Maybe we're in negotitian with Pakistan for Bin Laden--watch out, India--and this story is a chance to punk the French, a classic Rovian two-fer.]
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 6:37 am | #
May I ask any distinction between "not asleep" and "up early"?
Draco |
09.23.06 - 6:38 am | #
Wow, I remember this thread from before I went to bed.
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09.23.06 - 6:38 am | #
from cnn.com about Putin, Chirac and Merkel meeting:
French President Jacques Chirac met Russia's Vladimir Putin for dinner at the Elysee Palace on Friday and the two leaders traveled to Compiegne north of Paris early on Saturday for a three-way meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The talks, taking place near the spot where the armistice ending World War One was signed, will cover a range of international issues, including Iran and Lebanon.
The leaders, who will give a joint news conference at about 12:30 p.m. (1030 GMT), will be asked about a report that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan last month.
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09.23.06 - 6:38 am | #
Thank the Lord that Osama is dead, because he, a religious fanatic, was clearly in cahoots with "secular progressives."
ThinkProgress has obtained an advance copy of Bill O’Reilly’s new book, Culture Warrior. In it, O’Reilly claims that Osama bin Laden supports American progressives. Some excerpts from Chapter 7:
Who do you think Osama Bin Laden supports in the American culture war: the traditionalists or the secular-progressives?
…[T]hink about what I am about to put forth: From his hideout somewhere in the Mulism world, Osama bin Laden and his cohorts have got to be cheering on the S-P [secular-progressive] movement…
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 6:39 am | #
May I ask any distinction between "not asleep" and "up early"?
Draco | 09.23.06 - 6:38 am | #
Where does "haven't slept in quite a good long while" fit into your schema?
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 6:40 am | #
Barry, I'm bummed you're not gonna be able to make not Eschacon II. I'm curious to meet the romeo of Atriots.
ql in ny appalled |
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09.23.06 - 6:40 am | #
Barry, I'm bummed you're not gonna be able to make not Eschacon II. I'm curious to meet the romeo of Atriots.
ql in ny appalled
Where did I get that moniker?
I just travel a lot. Nothing more.
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09.23.06 - 6:41 am | #
The O'Reillys of the world have just as much to fear from "Religious Progressives," too, the kind of folks who take the Sermon on the Mount seriously--very bad for the Gross National Product.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 6:43 am | #
Oh, and ql, I'm headed your way this afternoon. Layover at JFK for 30 something hours, then off to Gottenburg Sweden.
Barry from AK in Miami |
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09.23.06 - 6:44 am | #
The O'Reillys of the world have just as much to fear from "Religious Progressives," too, the kind of folks who take the Sermon on the Mount seriously--very bad for the Gross National Product.
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 6:43 am | #
It's a hot button word with O'liley, he throws it on anything or anyone he wants his audience to dislike.
When I hear it, my brain does a translation to "free thinker", and everything then makes sense.
Barry from AK in Miami |
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09.23.06 - 6:46 am | #
May I ask any distinction between "not asleep" and "up early"?
Draco
The first is a timeless state, and the second refers to a state within field of time.
Now...why does the phrase "wide awake" mean? Is its opposite "narrow asleep?" If one takes a "short nap," will "tall insomnia" later result?
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 6:48 am | #
Barry, I'm bummed you're not gonna be able to make not Eschacon II. I'm curious to meet the romeo of Atriots.
ql in ny appalled
I'll be there, QL, the Peter (scroll to end) of the Atriots.
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09.23.06 - 6:52 am | #
Now...why does the phrase "wide awake" mean? Is its opposite "narrow asleep?" If one takes a "short nap," will "tall insomnia" later result?
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 6:48 am | #
Your pontifications make me feel a "broad malaise."
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 6:52 am | #
morning, all.
Sorry, don't believe bin Laden died quietly somewhere - too perfect, that he would pass away peacefully while we're torturing innocent civilians that were accused of being terrorists by paid informers - under the excuse that we're supposedly fighting terrorism. Welcome to the terrorist society.
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 6:53 am | #
Barry - I live in Kew Gardens smack dab in the middle between JFK and LaGuardia. Lots of airline people have flop pads around here. They keep the local restaurants busy. There's one place that makes terrible Italian food that they seem to especially like.
ql in ny appalled |
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09.23.06 - 6:54 am | #
Ruth, dying of typhoid can hardly be called dying peacefully.
mimi |
09.23.06 - 6:56 am | #
Sorry to trouble anyone. There's a second hand store near me. Puzzling me they have nothing you'd want to buy, worst yard sale ever, overpriced. It's like they want to keep you away. They do.
Now I've been told--front for moonshine. Ack! Well, let them
Draco |
09.23.06 - 6:57 am | #
Your pontifications make me feel a "broad malaise."
rorschach
You made short work of such a tall order.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 6:57 am | #
Uncle - I'm looking forward to seeing you again. Somehow I feel responsible for making your visit a pleasant one. I received your latest CD and will listen to it later today.
I don't believe the torture bill will pass this session.
ql in ny appalled |
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09.23.06 - 6:57 am | #
Uncle - I'm looking forward to seeing you again. Somehow I feel responsible for making your visit a pleasant one. I received your latest CD and will listen to it later today.
I don't believe the torture bill will pass this session.
ql in ny appalled |
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09.23.06 - 6:57 am | #
You made short work of such a tall order.
Uncle Smokes
Which reminds me, time for breakfast and a short stack.
Why not just a pile?
Barry from AK in Miami |
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09.23.06 - 6:58 am | #
What I learned this morning: ABC could run a documentary showing Bill Clinton giving Osama Bin Laden a blow job. Chris Matthews would interview Clinton about it. Clinton would say it was obviously bullshit, and Tweety would say "let's let our viewers decide that." And the Jesus-addled dipshits would eat it up.
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09.23.06 - 6:58 am | #
Barry - I live in Kew Gardens smack dab in the middle between JFK and LaGuardia. Lots of airline people have flop pads around here. They keep the local restaurants busy. There's one place that makes terrible Italian food that they seem to especially like.
ql in ny appalled
Must be cheap, us plane types are notorious for being skinflints at the diners.
Barry from AK in Miami |
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09.23.06 - 6:59 am | #
There's a second hand store near me. Puzzling me they have nothing you'd want to buy, worst yard sale ever, overpriced. It's like they want to keep you away. They do.
...
Draco
...
Now I've been told--front for moonshine. Ack! Well, let them
Draco
All hail (hic) the hidden (hic) hand of the (hic) marketplace!
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09.23.06 - 7:00 am | #
So the Chimpster bravely waited for Osama to die? I guess that's a continuation of the bold anti-terror strategy he pursued during the first eight months of his term: cut taxes for the rich and hope terrorism goes away by itself. Or his own military service--go AWOL from the National Guard and wait for the war to end.
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09.23.06 - 7:02 am | #
Which reminds me, time for breakfast and a short stack.
Why not just a pile?
Barry from AK in Miami
Have a mess o' catfish and a shot of whiskey neat.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 7:05 am | #
mimi, perhaps typhoid is not a pleasant death, but it is unsatisfying to the terraist minded because it wasn't retribution. Also, I associate death by any sickness with lots of painkillers, which bin Laden is able to afford.
ql, I dearly hope not. It horrifies me to see our 'leaders' determining whether kicking some one to death is okay since it happened before we revised the Geneva Conventions and in another country where they didn't apply. What has come over these cretins, that they can consider moral behavior as negotiating points?
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 7:05 am | #
Have a mess o' catfish and a shot of whiskey neat.
Uncle Smokes
On the rocks for me. But no stones.
Barry from AK in Miami |
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09.23.06 - 7:08 am | #
People who have never discussed politics with be before have come to tell me how appalled they are at the actions of this maladministration. I sent a copy of the NYTimes editorial Hillary and Chuck Schumer with a short note asking them to please do something to stop the bill. We'll see.
ql in ny appalled |
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09.23.06 - 7:09 am | #
I don't believe the torture bill will pass this session.
ql in ny appalled
I hope not, desperate poll numbers make for last-minute legislation with horrible long-term consequences.
Just popping into my head is Lewis Black:
"A Republican stands up and says, 'I'VE GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!!' And a Democrat stands up and say, 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!!'"
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 7:09 am | #
Have a mess o' catfish and a shot of whiskey neat.
Uncle Smokes
On the rocks for me. But no stones, stones are for peaches.
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09.23.06 - 7:09 am | #
Uhm Barry, you have to fly a plane today. NO WHISKEY WITH BREAKFAST.
Thank you.
ql in ny appalled |
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09.23.06 - 7:10 am | #
Uhm Barry, you have to fly a plane today. NO WHISKEY WITH BREAKFAST.
Thank you.
ql in ny appalled |
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09.23.06 - 7:10 am | #
'go AWOL from the National Guard and wait for the war to end.
Dr. Wu '
some one who couldn't take the rigors of TX air national guard determines that torture is okay - even tho it doesn't produce utilizable info? This is so unacceptable, and I keep hearing it discussed as if there was justification for faith-based sadism?
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 7:10 am | #
I think he couldn't get medical attention, that's why bin Laden died.
mimi |
09.23.06 - 7:11 am | #
Just popping into my head is Lewis Black:
He's a treasure.
Barry from AK in Miami |
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09.23.06 - 7:11 am | #
Uhm Barry, you have to fly a plane today. NO WHISKEY WITH BREAKFAST.
Thank you.
ql in ny appalled
Actually, I'm in the back, riding on American from Miami to New York.
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09.23.06 - 7:12 am | #
Uhm Barry, you have to fly a plane today. NO WHISKEY WITH BREAKFAST.
Thank you.
ql in ny appalled
That's right. Have a bloody mary with a stick of celery, the healthy way to drink.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 7:14 am | #
Also please note that we are having a plague of food poisoning. No one making the connection with the switching of safety inspections at food production facilities, to voluntary compliance.
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 7:14 am | #
It was in some ways predictable that the central player in the system
of willed errors and reversals that is the Bush administration would
turn out to be its vice-president, Richard B. Cheney. Here was a man
with considerable practice in the reversal of his own errors. He was
never a star. No one ever called him a natural. He reached public life
with every reason to believe that he would continue to both court
failure and overcome it, take the lemons he seemed determined to pick
for himself and make the lemonade, then spill it, let someone else
clean up.
el |
09.23.06 - 7:15 am | #
The son of two New Deal Democrats, his father a federal
civil servant with the Soil Conservation Service in Casper, Wyoming,
he more or less happened into a full scholarship to Yale: his high
school girlfriend and later wife, Lynne Vincent, introduced him to her
part-time employer, a Yale donor named Thomas Stroock who, he later
told Nicholas Lemann, 'called Yale and told 'em to take this guy.' The
beneficiary of the future Lynne Cheney's networking lasted three
semesters, took a year off before risking a fourth, and was asked to
leave.
el |
09.23.06 - 7:16 am | #
Also please note that we are having a plague of food poisoning. No one making the connection with the switching of safety inspections at food production facilities, to voluntary compliance.
Ruth, revolted
Reminds me of this 2003 Toles toon.
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Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 6:48 am
As it means from "awake" to "asleep." there's my ex, Robert. Who wanted to kick me from bed so he could make time to work.
He made foul, me half-awake, prided himself on this skill. He wanted me out of bed. He liked me less insomniac, so I wasn't in the bed
I did not happily exit the bed half-awake, 3/4s awake or otherwise no matter Robert's nagging. Or boss's insistence. I got out of bed when I felt like it, OK?
Bosses and Robert eventually rejected me. I miss Robert, not bosses.
Draco |
09.23.06 - 7:18 am | #
I don't drive the jet again till 2 AM on Monday.
Barry from AK in Miami |
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09.23.06 - 7:18 am | #
The son of two New Deal Democrats, his father a federal
civil servant with the Soil Conservation Service in Casper, Wyoming...
Oh great, another jerk working out his parent issues on the international geopolitical stage...
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 7:20 am | #
No one making the connection with the switching of safety inspections at food production facilities, to voluntary compliance.
___________
Interesting. Would that be the case in terms of California spinach? Now fertilizer needs to be categorized as "food".
el |
09.23.06 - 7:22 am | #
You made short work of such a tall order.
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 6:57 am | #
If you can't fathom it, don't worry. It won't be fur-long.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 7:23 am | #
el--I much like the writings of Joan Didion, am glad to see them up since her widowhood. Glad to see her bitchy in her understaed style
Draco |
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I don't drive the jet again till 2 AM on Monday.
Barry from AK in Miami | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 7:18 am | #
I'll drink to that! Let's us raise a glass and bend an elbow together.
rorschach |
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Bosses and Robert eventually rejected me. I miss Robert, not bosses.
Draco
The combined body heat of a shared bed drove me nuts. I miss cuddling, but welcome the cool sleep of a solitary bed.
[Well, that's not quite accurate. I sleep in a recliner, which helps my back and acid reflux. I certainly miss being young and not falling apart bit by bit.]
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 7:26 am | #
Draco, yeah, play it as it lays.
el |
09.23.06 - 7:28 am | #
The combined body heat of a shared bed drove me nuts. I miss cuddling, but welcome the cool sleep of a solitary bed.
Puts me in mind of the Cowboy Junkies' "Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning."
That song consoled me quite a bit as my first marriage was going down in flames.
rorschach |
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09.23.06 - 7:28 am | #
If you can't fathom it, don't worry. It won't be fur-long.
rorschach
I'm too shallow to gauge the depth of your humor (by which I refer to medieval physiology).
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 7:30 am | #
I'm too shallow to gauge the depth of your humor (by which I refer to medieval physiology).
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 7:30 am | #
Bile means, feel free to ignore my phlegm.
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09.23.06 - 7:32 am | #
I love Joan Didion's prose style--straight out of Henry James, by which I mean clauses within clauses, then the kicker, which you might not recognize if you're speed-reading.
Her sentences are so complicated you don't get the full brunt unless you read them closely. And it doesn't come at the end like a punchline
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Puts me in mind of the Cowboy Junkies' "Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning."
That song consoled me quite a bit as my first marriage was going down in flames.
rorschach
Wow...just read the lyrics and put The Caution Horses on my list. I'll probably pick up some other Cowboy Junkies. They're one of those bands I know is good, but never get around to listening to.
For myself, I've long ago given up on the reltaionship thing, and I never sould write such a song. More's the pity, I think.
Bile means, feel free to ignore my phlegm.
rorschach
Your cool head makes my blood boil.
Uncle Smokes |
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09.23.06 - 7:37 am | #
I love Joan Didion's prose style--straight out of Henry James, by which I mean clauses within clauses, then the kicker, which you might not recognize if you're speed-reading.
Her sentences are so complicated you don't get the full brunt unless you read them closely. And it doesn't come at the end like a punchline
Draco | 09.23.06 - 7:33 am | #
I see her writing as quite the opposite. Henry James worked hard to render his vision in weighty, complex sentences. Didion, on the other hand, struggled to sublimate the chaos of her life and feelings into the simplest prose available to her... which wound up being not all that simple, but one can sense her efforts
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 7:38 am | #
el--I should welcome Robert back any moment, GRRR-so loving, such a pain. But the bosses I endured at the time-NO! I'll take Robert's affection, happily. Their paychecks, you're kidding
Draco |
09.23.06 - 7:38 am | #
el, inspection would be of the finished product, at the packaging facility. Safety of food is traditionally determined by testing the food. Which is not being done by the facilities, it is pretty obvious as this e coli outbreak has occurred in more than half of the lower 50.
bin Laden death rumor was reported on CSpan.
Ruth, revolted |
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Your cool head makes my blood boil.
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 7:37 am | #
Well, as they say, "Sulphur, so good."
I'd recommend that you not try to cope with this frustration by smoking pot, because it can be quite a lode-stoned.
rorschach |
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rorschach--I'll have to consider your take on Didion's prose--always worth considering, inherently beautiful
Draco |
09.23.06 - 7:41 am | #
rorschach--I find Didion about the most eloquent writer around. But sometimes she POs me--get to the point please lady, not so many clauses and qualifiers
Draco |
09.23.06 - 7:45 am | #
rorschach--I'll have to consider your take on Didion's prose--always worth considering, inherently beautiful
Draco | 09.23.06 - 7:41 am | #
I appreciate that you think my take is worthy of consideration, Draco. She is quite an enigma--it's no easy task to figure out where her writing is coming from, and how...
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 7:46 am | #
I'd recommend that you not try to cope with this frustration by smoking pot, because it can be quite a lode-stoned.
rorschach
I said, "I meant that was not just smart, but igneous, a conglomerate of rock-hard thinking with a soft sell."
[Ha! I've deployed the super secret pun...can you spot it?]
Well, thinking of the Cowboy Junkies has put me in a musical mood, and I'm off for a while to play with my noisy toys.
Ya'll take care of your good selves, and remember that friends don't let friends post puns.
Uncle Smokes |
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US President George W Bush and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf today celebrated their close cooperation in the war on terrorism but did not deny that it began with a US threat to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age".
rorschach |
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US President George W Bush and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf today celebrated their close cooperation in the war on terrorism but did not deny that it began with a US threat to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age".
rorschach
"Ya see, it's called 'tough love,' cuz I love tougher. Heh heh heh."
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09.23.06 - 7:51 am | #
so tell me Ruth, as an American, how do you think people will react to Bin Laden's death, if it is true?
I'm not from the USA and can never gauge how you guys react to things.
mimi |
09.23.06 - 7:51 am | #
US: ' conglomerate of rock-hard thinking with a soft sell."'
concrete thiking is better than schist.
Ruth, revolted |
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rorschach--Here's what I mean. Imagine yourself an attorney, friendly or oppositional, in any case, civil or criminal, involving Joan Didion on the stand
Would she not be the most frustrating witness ever? Damn she'd tie you into knots. I think most judges would cite her for contempt only to get rid of her, knowing it wasn't just exactly
Draco |
09.23.06 - 7:54 am | #
What has come over these cretins, that they can consider moral behavior as negotiating points?
Ruth
Thew short answer?
They only read the Coles Notes version of "The Prince".
JR, kerosene and a match |
09.23.06 - 7:58 am | #
rorschach--Here's what I mean. Imagine yourself an attorney, friendly or oppositional, in any case, civil or criminal, involving Joan Didion on the stand
Would she not be the most frustrating witness ever? Damn she'd tie you into knots. I think most judges would cite her for contempt only to get rid of her, knowing it wasn't just exactly
Draco | 09.23.06 - 7:54 am | #
I agree completely.
I've just always tried to figure the point and/or the origin of her style, and I really think she wants to write in a straight, "realist" style akin to Hemingway.
But she just can't; she gets all hung up in exactly the ways you describe.
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 7:59 am | #
O'Brideyos (sp), Lawrence NY, 8 pm for me!
Barry from AK in Miami |
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09.23.06 - 8:03 am | #
They only read the Coles Notes version of "The Prince".
JR, kerosene and a match | 09.23.06 - 7:58 am | #
Or Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier.
rorschach |
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mimi, as mentioned, it struck me as a disappointment for the cretins at the top. As to generally, unfortunately too many will look to our talking heads to decide what they think - and there, too a disappointment that we didn't bring him back 'dead or alive' - frontier justice, it's called - will probably lead to widespread rehashing of the failures of the cabal in the WH. Not a bad thing. the rightwingers will try to turn it into a triumph, that bin Laden was reduced to crawling from cave to cave and denied medical assistance.
As to me, after all the announcements that they had caught another high level al Quaeda operative, I see the military as being more under the gun than ever, overtaxed and incompetent as the civilian leadership. Must get our act back together, and hopefully this election will do that.
'most likely dead' on CBS.
Ruth, revolted |
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As to me, after all the announcements that they had caught another high level al Quaeda operative, I see the military as being more under the gun than ever, overtaxed and incompetent as the civilian leadership. Must get our act back together, and hopefully this election will do that.
Yep. Being al-Qaeda's "3rd in command" is tantamount to wearing a redshirt on the original Star Trek...
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:11 am | #
An 'expert' michael Scheuer saying al Quaeda will announce it if bin Laden is dead, that he has gone to Paradise in triumph.
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 8:11 am | #
'They only read the Coles Notes version of "The Prince".
JR, kerosene and a match | 09.23.06 - 7:58 am | #
Or Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier.
rorschach'
Are we ignoring that the moral compass of My Pet Goat is pretty much the standard?
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 8:14 am | #
Are we ignoring that the moral compass of My Pet Goat is pretty much the standard?
Ruth, revolted | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 8:14 am | #
More like "Where the Wild Things Are," alas.
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:16 am | #
Are we ignoring that the moral compass of My Pet Goat is pretty much the standard?
Ruth, revolted
It is a well known fact that Bush enjoys anything with short words and big pictures.
Supreme Commander Thor |
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If there were a way, I would share this light with you all, sunrise is lighting up the air all around me, and sitting under a cover of blooming crepe myrtle is almost tangible. Wonderful.
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 8:17 am | #
Or Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier.
rorschach
No, Il Cortegiano is what Rightblogistan uses as a training manual.
That's why they are so civil.
JR, kerosene and a match |
09.23.06 - 8:18 am | #
rorschach I think that "Where the Wild things Are" is over the CIC's head - as Thor points out, short words, big pics - and no concepts.
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 8:19 am | #
An 'expert' michael Scheuer saying al Quaeda will announce it if bin Laden is dead, that he has gone to Paradise in triumph.
Ruth
Exactly.
Although this is "more" credible than some of these reports, that isn't saying much.
My money is still on Osama showing up as a Holloween surprise so that FoxNews can proclaim him to be speaking like the Democrats.
It is going to happen.
attaturk |
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09.23.06 - 8:19 am | #
An 'expert' michael Scheuer saying al Quaeda will announce it if bin Laden is dead, that he has gone to Paradise in triumph.
Ruth
Exactly.
Although this is "more" credible than some of these reports, that isn't saying much.
My money is still on Osama showing up as a Holloween surprise so that FoxNews can proclaim him to be speaking like the Democrats.
It is going to happen.
attaturk |
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09.23.06 - 8:19 am | #
Are we ignoring that the moral compass of My Pet Goat is pretty much the standard?
Ruth, revolted
Are we ignoring the fact that these people had their moral compass surgically removed?
JR, kerosene and a match |
09.23.06 - 8:21 am | #
Ruth,
I am having one of those transcendant mornings here, too. Mist, crickets, late fall asters, goldfinches all about the sunflowers.
Note to self: must savor these moments.
noblejoanie |
09.23.06 - 8:21 am | #
'My money is still on Osama showing up as a Holloween surprise so that FoxNews can proclaim him to be speaking like the Democrats.'
attaturk, don't you think the DoJ will have abu Gonzales announcing he was outed under torture?
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 8:22 am | #
sitting under a cover of blooming crepe myrtle is almost tangible. Wonderful.
Ruth, revolted | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 8:17 am | #
sitting is almost tangible? I can generally feel it when I'm sitting somewhere.
rorschach I think that "Where the Wild things Are" is over the CIC's head - as Thor points out, short words, big pics - and no concepts.
Ruth, revolted | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 8:19 am | #
Yes, that could well be. I suppose I won't task him with my children's book/for adults, "New Moon."
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:24 am | #
'Note to self: must savor these moments.
noblejoanie '
thks, gives me chills that suddenly sheer beauty can just take over everything. Hopeful, even.
Ruth, revolted |
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attaturk, don't you think the DoJ will have abu Gonzales announcing he was outed under torture?
Ruth, revolted
Yes, that would be the "extra" special touch.
attaturk |
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09.23.06 - 8:25 am | #
Like the NY Times Review of Books, I did my own special smack-down of Dick Cheney:
rorschach, maybe your rear end hasn't gone to sleep already, mine has.
heh.
got a copy of New Moon I can access? I also have great grandkids. Well, actually, they're grandkids. The great is a quality, not a degree of removal in kinship.
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09.23.06 - 8:28 am | #
they had caught another high level al Quaeda operative
rorschach, maybe your rear end hasn't gone to sleep already, mine has.
heh.
got a copy of New Moon I can access? I also have great grandkids. Well, actually, they're grandkids. The great is a quality, not a degree of removal in kinship.
Ruth, revolted | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 8:28 am | #
Heh, indeed. I shall drink to your almost-tangibility.
I do wish I had a copy of New Moon to share, but I've got it only in hardcopy (I did all the lettering and the art, primarily collage), and have given hi-res color photocopies to friends... half of whom actually cried when the read it... and one of whom had the thing bound in leather! Quite an homage...
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:32 am | #
re: bin forgotten thought to be dead...
"wake me up when september ends"
mogwai |
09.23.06 - 8:33 am | #
It is going to happen.
Undoubtably, Attaturk.
Morning, all.
FeralLiberal |
09.23.06 - 8:34 am | #
9/11 WHISTLEBLOWER BOMBSHELL!!!
Military Sergeant Reveals The TRUTH OF 9/11:
http://www.v911t.org/ SergeantLau...LauroChavez.php
plunger | 09.23.06 - 8:31 am | #
rorschach, is there somewhere I can find a copy then?
Ruth, revolted | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 8:40 am | #
No, even I only have the original, and the few copies I gave out are all off with friends, almost all of whom I have lost contact with by now...
I could make a laser copy of it and send it to you in manuscript form, but that's rather pricey...
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:42 am | #
ok - no more quotes, time to think
mogwai | 09.23.06 - 8:40 am | #
You misspelled "drink."
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:44 am | #
rorschach, when you do publish it, let me know, okay?
'Yes, that would be the "extra" special touch.
attaturk'
I expect some poor disposable soul will actually have to be tortured to prove their point, say, Armitage - so that he spews out an 'admission' that Rove was out of the loop.
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 8:44 am | #
rorschach, when you do publish it, let me know, okay?
If I ever do, I'll let you know...
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:46 am | #
Morning all. Here is my latest.
Moe Szyslak |
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09.23.06 - 8:48 am | #
Oh you crazy Brit, what with yer time zones and all!
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:53 am | #
Oh you crazy Brit, what with yer time zones and all!
It's why we kicked their asses in the Revolution and 1812.
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.23.06 - 8:54 am | #
Oh my God, Moonbootica, they're stoned out of their gourds. Very funny!
Karin |
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09.23.06 - 8:55 am | #
You misspelled "drink."
Therefore, I am...
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.23.06 - 8:55 am | #
You misspelled "drink."
Therefore, I am...
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.23.06 - 8:55 am | #
check out a video of Heidi and George getting high on catnip
Moonbootica, Space&Freedom | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 8:51 am | #
Absolutely brilliant!
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:55 am | #
It's why we kicked their asses in the Revolution and 1812.
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 8:54 am | #
Or, in British time, 1813...
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:56 am | #
Moe: ' “If we want to grow, we need an outdoor venue to put on these kinds of events.”'
nice touch, that - brings up the question 'but do we 'want to grow'? and why? '
Big dark storm approaching here, must get off. Lovely morning, all.
Ruth, revolted |
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09.23.06 - 8:57 am | #
thanks
when times are as depressing at these I remain grateful that cats such as mine provide such mirth and merriment.
Moonbootica, Space&Freedom |
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09.23.06 - 8:58 am | #
Big dark storm approaching here, must get off. Lovely morning, all.
Ruth, revolted | Homepage | 09.23.06 - 8:57 am | #
Getting off would make it a lovely morning, it is true...
rorschach |
09.23.06 - 8:59 am | #
Morning. How is everyone doing here in the United States of Torture this crisp fall day?
TJ |
09.23.06 - 8:59 am | #
It's why we kicked their asses in the Revolution and 1812.
NTodd,
You Merkins don't know your history. This guy has the real story.
Moe Szyslak |
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09.23.06 - 9:00 am | #
check out a video of Heidi and George getting high on catnip
Hey, don't bogart the nip!
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.23.06 - 9:00 am | #
check out a video of Heidi and George getting high on catnip
Hey, don't bogart the nip!
NTodd, CT's Next Whale Vagina |
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09.23.06 - 9:00 am | #
Owls at last!
Agent Orange |
09.23.06 - 9:01 am | #
Thanks, Ruth! Looks like it might rain on tonight's show, hee-hee. Also, the local daily caught the province covering up a $140,000 gift to the Stones.
Moe Szyslak |
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09.23.06 - 9:01 am | #
on a totally unrelated note, my maternal grandmother celebrates her 87th birthday today.
so my family will be off later this day for afternoon tea followed by a meal at a local pub.
weather currently remains barmy, it is a sunny 18°C 64°F)
Moonbootica, Space&Freedom |
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09.23.06 - 9:02 am | #
That was great. How did they get Josh Goldberg to play America?
FastMovingCloud |
09.23.06 - 11:01 am | #
I like music. Laura used to be a teacher. That's a fine song.
But the actors were too old for their parts.
George W. Bush |
09.23.06 - 11:30 am | #