I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
First! and Thinnest!
Nicole, you bitch!
Third?
yeah, I coulda been a contender.
I am not a bitch!
(throws drink)
Foley
750k protection money for a predator
That's Hot
The "club" nature of both the House and the Senate needs to be resisted as much as possible. I know it's human nature to form these sorts of groupings, and no one wants to lose a member of the club, but this is too fracking important.
You can see the "club" mindset at its absolute worst in the DC press corpse.
The funny thing about that list, is that the RNC, and the NRCC both promised that Sekula-Gibbs would get $1 million in cash for her campaign.
They couldn't even give her $100k.
33 Percent?!?!?
Um, hello? What bouncer let people like "Jennifer" and "Liars for Bush" into the VIP room? I'm gonna have him fired!
another sheet?
There are really only 50-60 seats that can be turned in a landslide year. No party will ever go say below 160 in seats the way they are rigged. We have our safe seats, they have theirs. What Delay did in Texas was just more extreme of what is going on elsewhere.
You have 5,000,000 voters. For simplicity sake, they are half dems, half repub voters when independent leaners are thrown in. You could make 10 competitive districts, or you could give 5 to each as safe seats. Or you could put 400,000 dems and 100,000 Republican in 2 districts, and put 212,500 democrats and 278,500 Republicans in the other 8 districts. That way you have 8 seats to two in a state that is 50/50. Neat trick.
Never thought I'd see the day when I'd be alone with Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan, and Jennifer...
Billmon has some great posts up also, one about it's not just the power, it's the campaign contributions Foley could bring in--as long as he was, as Billmon put it, "sweet."
33 Percent?!?!?
watertiger
Bush is Bouncin' on Concrete these days.
(repost...again)
antorum Event...
About 75 protesters remained on the street, said Mr. Grove.
He said the crowd was asked repeatedly to disperse.
Mr. Grove said a Port Authority canine unit was called in to help with crowd control. Two officers used their tasers to stun two protesters who "were asked to leave, but did not go," Mr. Grove said.The tasers he said were empty of the cartridges that supply a more powerful charge.
"It was a very tense situation. They were very close to the governor and shouting on top of him."As a precaution, the governor was ushered into a T-station supply closet and stayed there until the crowd left.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/0...0/728177-
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Mmm. Sweet juicy Foley's. Eww.
Sheetenfreude!
Killed the monster thread with this one re Poppy Bush:
He's as evil as his son.
And almost as incompetent. The crisis that led to the first Persian Gulf War didn't even have to become a crisis, much less a war. Bush waited too long to respond to Saddam's threats against Kuwait, and when he did respond, he did so in the worst possible way -- by turning the whole thing into a public pissing contest between himself and Saddam, thus insuring that the crisis would never be resolved diplomatically...
ok, my last post missed this bit:
hiding in a closet??? oh dear!
Jeb Bush Hides From Protesters In a Closet During Santorum Event...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/0...0/728177-
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Did any of you know that Denny Hastert's roommate is his cheif of staff?
It's not unusual for congressmen to room together, particularly those who don't have financial resources other than congressional paychecks. Most of them are supporting a home and usually a family as well back in the home district.
But Hastert's worth $6 million. Obviously, he could afford a place of his own.
Curious, no?
The support for the deserting coward is nearing the point where just the slack-jawed Jeebus-addled are all he's got left, along with the multimillionaire parasites.
The key to third party success is to have a separate armed wing. That would lessen the number of incumbents.
The support for the deserting coward is nearing the point where just the slack-jawed Jeebus-addled are all he's got left, along with the multimillionaire parasites.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Yeppers.
I don't know about "first and foremost", but having worked within the party system, I can say there's some truth to that.
But also, the party is made up of people with all kinds of agendas and ambitions, and it is a vehicle for those.
Incumbents get elected, and defeated, for all kinds of reasons.
And of course money can raised entirely outside the party system, and often is.
But the main point, running candidates everywhere, is a good idea.
"It was a very tense situation. They were very close to the governor and shouting on top of him."As a precaution, the governor was ushered into a T-station supply closet and stayed there until the crowd left.
He's every bit as brave as his brother the deserter.
"He's as evil as his son."
You bet. I think of Boosh Sr as the cigarette smoking man and Jr as his son,Jeffrey Spender
and we know how that turned out
Also from billmon:
When climbing amid the ruined schools, fuel stations, shops, homes, roads and bridges of southern Lebanon or driving through village after village flattened and pulverized by the terror that rained down, it is clear that the civilian population was deliberately targeted. Over 1 million cluster bombs were dropped, and 40% of them did not explode. They remain in the south, waiting for children to play with them, for farmers to step on them, a gift that keeps on giving. The agricultural fields on which the south depends for its economy are destroyed. ...
Update 10/7 12:45 PM ET:
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article on Sept. 12 anonymously quoting the head of a rocket unit in Lebanon who was critical of the decision to use cluster bombs. “What we did was insane and monstrous; we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” Haaretz quoted the commander as saying.
He's every bit as brave as his brother the deserter.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
there's so many republicans hiding in closets lately 
HW Bush's diplomats literally told Saddam that he viewed this as a private thing between Iraq and Kuwait and didn't really want to hear about it, tusting Saddam to take care of it all. Somehow Saddam interpreted that as a green light.
Curious, no?
Jennifer
Didn't he just give his CoS the heave ho?
the multimillionaire parasites.
Make that multibillionaire.
We're so fucked. Rove is just lowering expectations. He's a genius.
Did any of you know that Denny Hastert's roommate is his cheif of staff?
Jennifer...
hum...look at this sweety! The puzzle is slowly making sense...
http://americablog.blogspot.com/...man-
snared.html
The Israelis released the cluster bombs after it was obvious that they'd lost, as they withdrew. Ehud Olmert, criticized for not killing enough Arabs, shot back: "How can you say we accomplished nothing? Half of Lebanon was destroyed!"
Apprentice - Unless that happened today, no. Hastert's COS remains in his employ. Maybe you're thinking of Reynolds' COS, who was formerly Foley's COS, Fordham?
North Korea is going to set off a nuclear weapon inside an abandoned coal mine. Isn't there a mine fire here in the States that has never been extinguished?
tunneling from the sardine can it opened into a majestic expanse of lavish rooms
it is nice to see the Rethugs playing defense.
“We’re working to redirect the debate back to national security and lower taxes,” said Brian Jones, the communications director for the Republican National Committee. “But this week that’s proved to be a difficult task.”
Republican pollsters said their first concern was that the page scandal could discourage Republican voters from turning out.
“We’re not seeing it affecting voter behavior; we are seeing it affect voter intensity,” said Glenn Bolger, a Republican pollster. “It’s more of a deflation effect among Republicans than it is a motivator for Democrats. Does that change in the
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/
0...artner=homepage
Republiscum out!
North Korea is going to set off a nuclear weapon inside an abandoned coal mine. Isn't there a mine fire here in the States that has never been extinguished?
plantsman, lowercase |
"we must not allow the north korenas to develop more m ine shaft sapce or else we face a mine shaft gap"
-FOX commenatator Buck Tiurdgison
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/0...g/0...0/728177-
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plum P
Oh, shit. Best not to fuck with steelworkers in Pittsburgh.
"Santorum, that's Latin for asshole." --Bob Kerry
Republicans
the party of cover up and hypocrisy
Richard Nixon
Bob Packwood
Crane
Libby
Livingston
Hyde
Schwarzenegger --the gropper
statistics put together by someone who didn't go to a charter school that doesn't believe in evolution
show that pedophilia has nothing to do with being gay
The slack-jawed Jeebus-addled don't like them no Foley-hiders.
Or you could put 400,000 dems and 100,000 Republican in 2 districts, and put 212,500 democrats and 278,500 Republicans in the other 8 districts. That way you have 8 seats to two in a state that is 50/50. Neat trick.
Well, now that mid-census redistricting is A-OK with the SCOTUS, we will have to take advantage of our impending control of a fair bit more state legislatures after this election and do as much of that in reverse as possible. What's good for the goose is good for the gander y'know. The whole edifice of Repug control was based on the premise that they could tilt the field so much in their favor that they would never be dislodged, not matter how much public opinion shifts. Once those barriers have been overcome, though, le deluge.....
Does that change in the next 34 days? That's part of our job."
Haloscan (or my clumsy typing) cut off the money quote.
Upon reflection, yeah, it's an incumbency protection racket, but the first rule in business (often ignored by idiot sales twits who operate on commisions) is that the customer you already have is worth ten potential customers.
So having a seat, and being an incumbent, is the way to retain what you've got in the House or Senate, then building on it. Even if the incumbent isn't ideal ideologically, he's at least in your party. Now, I realize this is a Democratic notion...the GOP has so little use for those who don't hew the partei line, at least in their votes. What they do privately (or in IMs) seems to be of very little concern, as long as they're incumbent, vote to support Commander Cuckoo Bananas at all times, and can raise money for the overall partei effort.
Somehow Saddam interpreted that as a green light.
And why wouldn't he, since we certainly supported him when he invaded Iran...
Repug control was based on the premise that they could tilt the field so much in their favor that they would never be dislodged, not matter how much public opinion shifts. Once those barriers have been overcome, though, le deluge.....
blerb
Well said.
ok, so what's going on? i went to bed early last night and all was fine. now, it's repug land again. wtf?
Didn't Saddam's first chemical weapons come from us?
You can never have too many.
link not, for me anyway.
Pssssttt...some of y'all may want to tell Harold Ford Jr.that in order to be a lawyer, you have to have had passed the bar exam...trying and flunking it miserably doesn't count.
Jr. continues to enmbarass himeself by going on CNN and calling himself a lawyer...of course CNN is never concerned about the truth.
in case someone brings it up again
"Mental health professionals agree that pedophilia should never be considered normal, because it is truly a disease. None of the things that make homosexuality a normal variation of human sexuality apply to pedophilia."
- Martin Downs, WebMD Medical News
"There is no medical evidence to suggest an association between homosexuality and impaired moral judgment."
- Journal of the American Medical Association - Pediatric Forum, March 2001
"It is ludicrous to identify pedophiles as homosexuals."
- Stan Robson, Chief Deputy, Benton County Sheriffs Department
(In over 14 years of Robson's work with pedophiles, 498 out of 500 offenders identified themselves as heterosexual.)
"The vast majority of offenders are heterosexual men. Male offenders who abuse young boys maintain adult heterosexual relationships. The habitual molester of boys is rarely attracted to adult males."
- Roland Summit, M.D. Head Physician, Community Consultation Service, Harbor UCLA Medical Center.
"The belief that homosexuals are particularly attracted to children is completely unsupported by our data. The child offenders who engaged in adult relationships as well, were heterosexuals. There were no homosexual adult oriented offenders in our samples who turned to children."
- A. Nicholas Groth, Ph.D., Director of the Sex Offender Program, Connecticut Department of Corrections, and Co-Director of the St. Joseph College Institute for the Treatment and Control of Child Sexual Abuse
Didn't Saddam's first chemical weapons come from us?
Shhh! Next thing, you'll be saying Rummy used to be Saddam's butthole buddy.
The crisis that led to the first Persian Gulf War didn't even have to become a crisis
Like an auto crash. There's at least one incompetent to cause a wreck, but if the other driver swerves, then the crash does not happen.
--
It's what is wrong with the current way of running military operations. The person making the decision, can safely run things from thousands of miles away and so, will suffer none of the pain of engaging in conflict. If the commander has no empathy with the troops and the public who'll be the ultimate recipients of the warfare, he'll have absolutely no reason to not do it.
ah crap.
in case it didn't work the first time.
North Korea is going to set off a nuclear weapon inside an abandoned coal mine. Isn't there a mine fire here in the States that has never been extinguished?
plantsman, lowercase |
There's one outside of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. A coal seam fire that has been burning for years.
in case it didn't work the first time.
Works now. Funny!
he'll have absolutely no reason to not do it.
Doug | 10.07.06 - 2:09 pm |
Indeed his career, and in some cases the superior size of his god, would demand it.
Pssssttt...some of y'all may want to tell Harold Ford Jr.that in order to be a lawyer, you have to have had passed the bar exam...trying and flunking it miserably doesn't count.
is this true?
“What we did was insane and monstrous; we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” Haaretz quoted the commander as saying.
Fuckers. I'm sorry, but not everyone that criticizes Israel is a kook. They refuse to behave like a responsibility country and verify their nuclear caches, and join the IAEA. They continual spy on us, and play us for saps. Some ally.
"The vast majority of offenders are heterosexual men. Male offenders who abuse young boys maintain adult heterosexual relationships. The habitual molester of boys is rarely attracted to adult males."
- Roland Summit, M.D. Head Physician, Community Consultation Service, Harbor UCLA Medical Center.
So important, it had to be seen again.
Pssssttt...some of y'all may want to tell Harold Ford Jr.that in order to be a lawyer, you have to have had passed the bar exam...trying and flunking it miserably doesn't count.
actually, as lawschool graduates understand it, one is a lawyer after receiving the J.D. one can only be an attorney if one passes the bar. and of course one must pass the bar to practice law, but there is a distinction.
Jr. continues to enmbarass himeself by going on CNN and calling himself a lawyer...of course CNN is never concerned about the truth.
dipshit
Not really, shopshit.
Ford couldn't hold a candle to you when it comes to embarrassing onesself. You are a master.
ok, so what's going on? i went to bed early last night and all was fine. now, it's repug land again. wtf?
me_imperturbe
What makes you think it's repug land again?
Bush is at 33% in the Newsweek poll, the party is imploding - how is it repug land again?
Wolcott, quoting Tony Judt:
"It is thus depressing to read some of the better known and more avowedly ‘liberal’ intellectuals in the contemporary USA exploiting their professional credibility to advance a partisan case. Jean Bethke Elshtain and Michael Walzer, two senior figures in the country’s philosophical establishment (she at the University of Chicago Divinity School, he at the Princeton Institute), both wrote portentous essays purporting to demonstrate the justness of necessary wars – she in Just War against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, a pre-emptive defence of the Iraq War; he only a few weeks ago in a shameless justification of Israel’s bombardments of Lebanese civilians (‘War Fair’, New Republic, 31 July). In today’s America, neo-conservatives generate brutish policies for which liberals provide the ethical fig-leaf. There really is no other difference between them."
Well said.
Thank you. I sure hope I'm right about that last bit....
Fuckers. I'm sorry, but not everyone that criticizes Israel is a kook. They refuse to behave like a responsibility country and verify their nuclear caches, and join the IAEA. They continual spy on us, and play us for saps. Some ally.
garage maha
Word.
#2 greatest common factor re child molestation: evangelical and/or fundamental christian background or extreme religion.
#1 is alcohol, which is also the most common consequence of a biblical upbringing. (among the puritans, drink was the only good earthly thing, and they drank cider every day.)
I noticed an interesting phenomon driving to and from work today. The campaign signs are out all along Lee Highway. The signs for Republicans just have the candidates' names and web address. The signs for Democrats say "Democrat" on them (except for the Webb/Moran signs, which is also interesting).
Bush is at 33% in the Newsweek poll, the party is imploding - how is it repug land again?
Tena
7.8 million bucks
What happened? I went to bed last night and when I woke up all my Cheetohs were gone!
Good post, Atrios. Never thought about like that, but when incumbents get scared, the tiers start to crumble.
50 State Strategy makes good sense.
Pssssttt...some of y'all may want to tell Harold Ford Jr.that in order to be a lawyer, you have to have had passed the bar exam...trying and flunking it miserably doesn't count.
There's a major crime that will distract everyone from the Repugs in Congress preying sexually on the pages - but but but Ford isn't really a lawyer!
Whooptifuckingdoo!
Every day we meet someone new who is sick of Israel lying to them, but the Zionist arguments we usually see are normally at least a few years old.
They continually spy on us, and play us for saps,while we subsidize them. Some ally.
There's a major crime that will distract everyone from the Repugs in Congress preying sexually on the pages - but but but Ford isn't really a lawyer!
Like the Nancy Pelosi ♥ NAMBLA meme they're pushing. It's fucking ridiculous.
"The signs for Democrats say "Democrat" on them"
Aren't some of the toaster signs also using 'Democrat' in big letters?
7.8 million bucks
me_imperturbe
Karl Rove is a genius!
I'm worried, people...
Pssssttt...some of y'all may want to tell H--
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7.8 million bucks
me_imperturbe
That's not really that much money for the national organizations to have in the bank.
It is alot for them to spend in one day, spread accross so many races, of which the vast majority are for incumbents campaigns.
It is bad for Republicans that this much money has to be spread out among so many.
Nancy Pelosi was the first to call for an investigation of Foley, and while Republicans booed her for it, it passed unanimously
I'm worried, people...
Worried, I tells ya - WORRIED!!!
Didn't Saddam's first chemical weapons come from us?
That's all? That's not gonna cover all their legal bills for the next couple of years.
Hell did Holden get another pony?
Shoot he must be hip dip in Pony ... stuff!
It is bad for Republicans that this much money has to be spread out among so many.
David (Austin Tx)
You know what's worse for Repugs? Abramoff is gone, Delay is gone, the money machine is broken.
That 7.8 million is all going on defense though. They are just trying to stop the bleed. They have given up trying to take any seats from democrats here, and they are in trouble. Can Diebold pull it off for them? Only in races where the polls are close. Diebold won't work when the exit polls are 60-40.
Like the Nancy Pelosi ♥ NAMBLA meme they're pushing. It's fucking ridiculous.
They're just having a hissy fit because we keep calling them ReNAMBLicans. In the end, it will fly like a brick. Hopefully, if she even dignifies it, Pelosi will slap them silly for having the gall.
Nancy Pelosi was the first to call for an investigation of Foley, and while Republicans booed her for it, it passed unanimously
The GOP are really gonna hate having her running the House.
BTW, what's with the "y'all" conceit? I can see how you'd use it in speech, whether you wanted to or not, but when you're writing? Sounds like something a Kansas City faggot would say if they were trying to sound like a "normal" person...
Ford lawyer
More of dipshit's monkey shit. It's motherfucking liar dipshit's way of telling us that he hates Bush now. Seeing as how Bush referred to Ford as a lawyer. As did Ford's opponent.
Dipshit: motherfucking liar.
That 7.8 million is all going on defense though. They are just trying to stop the bleed. They have given up trying to take any seats from democrats here, and they are in trouble. Can Diebold pull it off for them? Only in races where the polls are close. Diebold won't work when the exit polls are 60-40.
trifecta
this is true, and they were supposed to bankroll big time anyway right before elections.
trifecta - Diebold won't work when the exit polls are 60-40.
That and Democrats have got to GOTV. For once.
The GOP are really gonna hate having her running the House.
yup. heh.
dave™© must have the permanent impression of keys on his forhead from all the times he has fallen asleep at his keyboard.
Damn that lame troll induced narcolepsy!
A lot of what we gave Saddam was money with which to buy weapons from other countries. Arms merchants in Sweden and Italy joined a killing that eventually took in the entire industrialized world, but the whole thing was made possible by the dwarfing support of the American warmongers.
A WOMAN! An Uppity Woman!! An Uppity Democrat Woman!!!
7.8 million bucks
me_imperturbe
Karl Rove is a genius!
I'm worried, people...
Tena
We're done for, we're done for!
I was going to go to Wake Forest University straight out of high school, instead of the Army.
All I can say, is if I did, I would be going crazy right now.
They are kicking Clemson's ass.
Fake copyright dave, ya'll should shove it up ya'll's ass.
trifecta - Diebold won't work when the exit polls are 60-40.
notice how the "our internal poll numbers have us much closer" stories seem to have decreased in frequency?
You know what's worse for Repugs? Abramoff is gone, Delay is gone, the money machine is broken.
There's another self-defeating premise of Republican control. All this centralization of fundraising and message discipline has made them highly vulnerable to decapitating surgical strikes. Kind of like the aliens in that stupid movie Independence Day. Once the control center is destroyed, they're all just headless chickens.
I noticed an interesting phenomon driving to and from work today. The campaign signs are out all along Lee Highway. The signs for Republicans just have the candidates' names and web address. The signs for Democrats say "Democrat" on them (except for the Webb/Moran signs, which is also interesting).
Here locally, one of the candidates for a State Representative seat, who is heavily backed by the local corporate elite and developer interests, is bemoaning "partisan gridlock" in the Oregon legislature in his TV ads. Oregonians know that the legislature has been tilted wingnut R for many years now.
Naturally, he neglects to identify himself as a Republican.
A WOMAN! An Uppity Woman!! An Uppity Democrat Woman!!!
And a good looking one at that.
Denny's worried she's gonna cut off his "all you can eat" tab at the cafeteria.
Did any of you know that Denny Hastert's roommate is his cheif of staff?
[...] But Hastert's worth $6 million. Obviously, he could afford a place of his own. | Jennifer - 1:58 pm
Well, maybe it's the chief of staff who's hard up.
Somehwere in Karl Rove's office is a wall mounted glass fronted box, labelled Spin Control, In Case of Emergency Break Glass. The glass is shattered and the contents have been removed. More horrifying is the fact there is a blood trail leading away from the wall into Rove's private sanctuary.
BTW, what's with the "y'all" conceit? I
For me, I try to write how I'd talk at the moment. Don't laugh (okay, go ahead and laugh), if I'm in an Indigo Girls' mood, I might toss y'all in because they say that a lot in concert.
I'm a conversational writer, except when I have to write copy for industry.
That's my explanation.
Sounds like something a Kansas City faggot would say if they were trying to sound like a "normal" person...
This faggot was born in the South and is a "normal" person, shitheel.
Oh, Brian, ooops! I mean dipshit is here again?
Run along, Brian. Doesn't Janet have chores for you to do? It's Saturday, after all.
All well and good, but I'm so sick of being asked for money (never mind the phone banking, leaflet dropping/ door knocking) I could spit! The party of *Nothing* but pandering has left me cold. I'm not of a mind to serve them til they show some spine. Fuck 'em.
after listening to Brad from Bradblog this morning, discussing voting machines, got me depressed!
He is fucking worried.
None of the problems have been fixed - so this could be a repeat of '04.
We need paper ballets, not a paper trail. A paper trail means nothing cause the votes are taken from the machine!
We need a paper ballet "backup plan," cause these machines will fail!!!
dave ... is there something you're trying to tell us about? what happened to you in Kansas City?
We're done for, we're done for!
Rmj, Street Credentialed
Auntie Em! Auntie Em!
notice how the "our internal poll numbers have us much closer" stories seem to have decreased in frequency?
PoppieProng, Inter Alia | Homepage | 10.07.06 - 2:21 pm |
They spend huge amounts of money on complicated, difficult polls, but if they can't wring fake Bush support out of them (as has been the case lately) they sit on all that wasted money and act like nothing happened.
Like the Nancy Pelosi ♥ NAMBLA meme they're pushing. It's fucking ridiculous.
You know who else marches in the SF Gay Rights Parade?
PG&E, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Williams-Sonoma, a plethora of city and state workers' organizations...
You know who doesn't march in the SF Gay Rights Parade?
NAMBLA.
There's another self-defeating premise of Republican control. All this centralization of fundraising and message discipline has made them highly vulnerable to decapitating surgical strikes. Kind of like the aliens in that stupid movie Independence Day. Once the control center is destroyed, they're all just headless chickens.
blerb
The source of their strength becomes the source of their downfall?
Who'd'a thunk it?
'O Rose, thou art sick....'
Heh. The GOP should have had an English major as an advisor, to warn them about these things.
Like Vicki, I write like I talk. In fact, I write exactly like I talk.
"but but but Ford isn't really a lawyer!"
Yeah, this is great shit:
Republican assholes like Bush: "We don't need another lawyer in the Senate."
Ford responds.
Republican assholes like dipshit: "He called himself a lawyer but blah blah blah blah!"
No wonder lying Republican assholes can't protect America.
You know who doesn't march in the SF Gay Rights Parade?
NAMBLA.
Hannity was telling his audience yesterday than NAMBLA not only marches in the parade, but that Nancy Pelosi had lunch with the head of NAMBLA.
OY!
Hastert is so bloated with pride, hubris and fat that he looks like he's one thin mint away from exploding.
"I'm sorry, but not everyone that criticizes Israel is a kook."
The people who criticize Israel most intelligently and forcefully are...Israelis. Unfortunately, American reporters never think to interview them.
We're more likely to have a female or black president than one who has a rational and just policy toward Israel and Palestine.
They spend huge amounts of money on complicated, difficult polls, but if they can't wring fake Bush support out of them (as has been the case lately) they sit on all that wasted money and act like nothing happened.
exactly! i like how that they can't even get people to say bush is even a little good.
Does anyone read the Wayne Madsen Report?
October 7/8, 2006 -- The rumors about another top GOP member of the House being involved in sexual encounters with young "men for hire" are confirmed to WMR by well-placed sources in Washington's gay community. The member in question is House Speaker Dennis Hastert, whose "alternate" life style is the primary reason for him and his staff covering up the scandal involving ex-Florida GOP Rep. Mark Foley and his lewd messages sent to underage male congressional pages. Hastert's penchant to receive anal sex is well-known to our sources in DC's gay community. Additionally, Hastert's reported extremely small penis is the subject of many jokes among Washington's gay circles.
Holy shit!
The party of *Nothing* but pandering has left me cold. I'm not of a mind to serve them til they show some spine. Fuck 'em.
bigvic
Ooooh I so hope I remember to use this next time.
Like Vicki, I write like I talk. In fact, I write exactly like I talk.
Tena
Yes, you do. And you've heard me talk, so I'm venturin' you'd say the same about me.
dave - I have friends from the former confederacy who take the time to type out y'all in instant chat in MMOs. It reflects the way they talk.
msgop continues to pimp the idea that dems held the info
contessa brewer could you be a more stupid person --no one is trying to sell this story anymore
Well, since NAMBLA exists pretty much as a PO box only (except in the fevered minds of Pat Buchanan and wingtards, it's safe to say they aren't marching in ANY parades. They have like what these days - 3 official members?
Oh my! My little Lady Maine Coone, Marie, likes oatmeal cookies.
I shouldn't be too surprised. I had a Siamese once who would drink my orange juice and eat grapes--however, she peeled the grape very carefully before eating it!
Hannity was telling his audience yesterday than NAMBLA not only marches in the parade, but that Nancy Pelosi had lunch with the head of NAMBLA.
Hannity's a lying cocksucker. The orginizers of the parade should give the boy a beatdown over this, as it's slander.
O fer christ's sake, - how many people even know what NAMBLA stands for?
I had to google it the other day myself.
You know what's worse for Repugs? Abramoff is gone, Delay is gone, the money machine is broken.
They still have the ability to raise some serious cash though.
The only thing that was "good" for the Republicans was DeLay. His ability to enforce party discipline was the only thing he had.
Abramoff was a good fundraiser, but it was illegal. There are plenty of legal fundraisers who are quite effective on that side.
Like Vicki, I write like I talk. In fact, I write exactly like I talk.
Tena
If I did that, it would either be a jumble of letters, a la Boomhower (sp?) on "King of the Hill."
or LOOK LIKE THIS, BECAUSE I'D BE USING THE 'PREACHING' VOICE!
So better I write and speak in completely different ways....
Re: Writing like talking...
One of the things my mom says about me is that I write the way I talk.
Wayne Madsen is awesome! Check out his new book Jaded Tasks!
crazy poll on CNN
51% happy with the way things are going.
49% unhappy.
I don't get it.
Anyone who watches South Park knows what NAMBLA is. Got lots of attention there.
Vicki - yeah I can hear your voice now when I read your comments, as a matter of fact.
O fer christ's sake, - how many people even know what NAMBLA stands for?
I had to google it the other day myself.
Tena
You gotta watch TDS more often....
At least Harold Ford was accepted to law school (University of Michigan, no less).
President Chimpy McCokeSpoon was rejected from every law and business school to which he applied. Poppy had to get him into Harvard B School on the Affirmative Action for Stupid Rich People plan.
Brian -- oops! I mean "dipshit," as we know, never made it to college, right Brian?
We need a paper ballet "backup plan," cause these machines will fail!!!
the fact that even this simple request is denied strongly suggests that funny games are afoot.
LOOK LIKE THIS, BECAUSE I'D BE USING THE 'PREACHING' VOICE!
Can Maine Coon Cats, unlike other cats, taste sugar?
'Wash Post' Editor Downie: Everyone in Our Newsroom Wants to Be a Blogger
http://
www.editorandpublisher.co...t_id=1003221716
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http://www.electoral-vote.com/
A November swing of control of Congress to the Democratic party is possible.
current results:
Projected New Senate:
50 Democrats
49 Republicans
1 tie
Projected New House*:
218 Democrats
216 Republicans
1 Tie
The people who criticize Israel most intelligently and forcefully are...Israelis. Unfortunately, American reporters never think to interview them.
There are plenty of Americans who do too, and Israel certainly didn't get to be the way it is because of all those critics. American reporters don't thin at all, they do what they're told, and they inevitably either Zinists themslves or totally owned by Zionists.
135th or so?
The member in question is House Speaker Dennis Hastert, whose "alternate" life style is the primary reason for him and his staff covering up the scandal involving ex-Florida GOP Rep. Mark Foley and his lewd messages sent to underage male congressional pages. Hastert's penchant to receive anal sex is well-known to our sources in DC's gay community.
Holy. Freaking. Shit.
Aravosis is gonna be pissed!
O fer christ's sake, - how many people even know what NAMBLA stands for?
Oh, I know:
N = North
A = American Republican
M = Mark Foley Preys on
B = Boy Pages until the
L = Law takes Custody of his
A = Ass
Hannity was telling his audience yesterday than NAMBLA not only marches in the parade, but that Nancy Pelosi had lunch with the head of NAMBLA.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
it's only a matter of days, hours, seconds, when the real repugs stand up and disown Hannity/Rush/Ollie. i think it's already started.
what's all this YALL stuff anymore ... aint none of yaz ever heard of usin' youin's? (arkansas protest
If I did that, it would either be a jumble of letters, a la Boomhower (sp?) on "King of the Hill."
or LOOK LIKE THIS, BECAUSE I'D BE USING THE 'PREACHING' VOICE!
hahahaha!
i like using "y'all" because A) i grew up in texas, and B) i like that it is one of the few distinctive forms of the second person plural in spoken english. (i've always been jealous of the spanish, french, and italian speakers)
One of the things the GOP excells at is direct fundraising from the roots, they got this from direct mail types like Viguire and from accomplished con men like Falwell and Robertson.
The wingnuts set out in the 70's to convert the GOP into a wingnut party, and they've succeeded.
Afternoon bats!
bigvic --
This cycle please help the lesser of two evils --- it's important!
For those interested in the OH-2 (Mad Jean Schmidt) -- Survey USA has it 45% Schmidt to 42% for Victoria Wulsin (a pro-choice Episcopalian -- Schmidt is, of course, a pro-war Roman Catholic) -- dunno the margin of error, but in the 2004 election the result was 72%-28%
link (scroll down):
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
ev...ouse_polls.html
President Chimpy McCokeSpoon was rejected from every law and business school to which he applied. Poppy had to get him into Harvard B School on the Affirmative Action for Stupid Rich People plan.
Hahahahaha. Even a nit-wit like Commander fuck-up can go only so far on a legacy admission.
Reality vs. Insanity. Who wins in the end?
Can Maine Coon Cats, unlike other cats, taste sugar?
plantsman, lowercase
I don't think any cats have "sweetness" receptors.
A WOMAN! An Uppity Woman!! An Uppity Democrat Woman!!!
And they know Pelosi isn't a wimpy Democrat, and who they fear might just have a bit of payback on her mind. Even our pathetic MSM will have to show her face then, as Speaker, grabbing valuable air time telling the public truths.
All this centralization of fundraising and message discipline has made them highly vulnerable to decapitating surgical strikes.
I think this scandal is illuminating the dangers of "message discipline". Having all your talking heads say the the same thing can be devastating if people are being repulsed by the message.
BTW, from what I can gather (and I'm not going to waste too much time on the subject), the brownshirts are bitching about Pelosi being seen with gay rights pioneer Harry Hay. While Hay was not a "member" of NAMBLA, he supported NAMBLA's right to march in Gay Pride Parades, which usually ban the group.
Hay was also a union organizer and a fervent Communist, so... strike three, Dorothy! He died not too long ago; here's an informative look back at his life.
3...2...1... till k+y=666 erupts into overt anti-semitism.
good background on gerrymandering:
http://www.davidbrin.com/
gerryma...mandering1.html
Hi, Prior! I'm supposed to be working, but I gave up and came home.
I write like Vicki and Tena talk-- and I've never heard either of them talk!
Coincidence? I think not!
A WOMAN! An Uppity Woman!! An Uppity Democrat Woman!!!
And a Jew... or a nigger, we're not sure which yet...
Republiscum bubblehead on MSNBC, after pushing the BS about Dems being behind the Foley revelations, tells Dem spokesman to get off his talking points and not make allegations when he has no proof.
"Holy shit!
Nicole Richie |"
I would not take any stock in that report until there is something concrete to back it up. But given their response to this whole affair, there has to be a lot more going on. I cannot see any reason otherwise outside of intense ego, that Hastert didn't step down for the "good" of his party. If he is into spin control, a mea culpa and step away would likely have stopped a lot of the chaos and damage.
Just doesn't make much sense otherwise.
I guess I write the way I talk sometimes and other times I don't. I don't write as well as I should in either voice. I'm not nearly as tightassed in person as I am when I write. I'm actually funny in person or at least that's what people have told me.
the brownshirts are bitching about Pelosi
Pelosi is the new Hillary. Bottom line, women with ovaries scare the ever-loving frapping shit out of these guys.
the brownshirts are bitching about Pelosi being seen with gay rights pioneer Harry Hay.
Yes, that's exactly right. Hannity was talking about Hay, and then he said he was "Will Geer's" partner for 8 years.
We understand that word to signify violent bigotry directed against what Hannity would call "coastal iuntellectual elites" or its advocacy. Where have we done this?
Special K, yeah, forgot about that, and I've got a buttload of Arkansas relatives. My great aunt used youins all the time.
On the subject of NAMBLA, I first remember hearing about it back in the 70's. It's been kicking around for a long time.
The concept of NAMBLA dates back at least to ancient Greece.
If the commander has no empathy with the troops and the public who'll be the ultimate recipients of the warfare, he'll have absolutely no reason to not do it.
Poppy Bush also wanted to prove he was as "tough" as Reagan. Remember the "wimp factor"? A weak initial response followed by overcompensation and a lot of macho "get out of Dodge" rhetoric. It may have played well with the voters in the US, but it also meant that Saddam couldn't leave Kuwait with any kind of face intact, thus pretty much guaranteeing that there would be a war...
Let Hastert deny it.
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So better I write and speak in completely different ways....
Rmj, Street Credentialed
No one wants me to write like I speak.
First off, The Rude Pundit would be tame by comparison. And that would be assuming anyone could understand what I said.
Hey, Prior A!
You the man. My sis-in-law is working against Mean Jean, BIG TIME!
Oh, I thought you said Massage Discipline!
President Chimpy McCokeSpoon was rejected from every law and business school to which he applied. Poppy had to get him into Harvard B School on the Affirmative Action for Stupid Rich People plan.
He was born with a silver cokespoon in his mouth.
Nancy Pelosi had lunch with the head of NAMBLA.
New potatoes, baby peas, and veal, I suppose.
This is just me engaging in wishful thinking, but hey:
Let's get rid of all the lobbyists.
Let's get rid of all the consultants.
Let's marginalize the media's beltway insiders.
And let's put every fundamentalist in this country on prescription -- for our own sake.
Then maybe we could start rebuilding this country in an orderly and reasonable fashion without all these leeches draining us of blood...
But given their response to this whole affair, there has to be a lot more going on. I cannot see any reason otherwise outside of intense ego, that Hastert didn't step down for the "good" of his party. If he is into spin control, a mea culpa and step away would likely have stopped a lot of the chaos and damage.
Yeah, I was just thinking about this. I don't want to spread allegations about Hastert that are untrue, so I hedge to comment. I would say that I agree that there is something more than meets the eye...and I think it's probably pretty black.
If Nancy Pelosi wants to march with the North American Marlon Brandon Look Alikes, I say let her!
NAMBLA, Studds, Soros, Frank, Clinton, the culture, Democrats, Emmanuel, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi..."
Projected New Senate:
50 Democrats
49 Republicans
1 tie
Projected New House*:
218 Democrats
216 Republicans
1 Tie
Doug
i'm a pessimist by nature/genetics, and i'm really thinking this is not going to cut it. the polls should be sooooooo much better for us by now.
Jennifer - you write very well. You are very clear and have the ability to put things into words and phrases that sum them up very well.
How about this from Wayne Madsen Report?
October 4, 2006 -- SPECIAL ALERT. The Unification Church, the global enterprise of South Korean Rev. Sun Myung Moon (born Yong Myung Moon), may be attempting to take control of the United Nations through the all-but-certain election of South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as UN Secretary General. Foreign Minister Moon is slated to be formally elected Secretary General on October 9 by the UN Security Council. Moon has already won four straw polls by the UN Security Council and is now considered a shoo-in to replace Kofi Annan.
Some informed UN sources are concerned that Ban Ki-moon lists his religious affiliation as "non-denominational Christian," a code word often used by the "Moonies" for the Unification Church. In addition, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and UN ambassador John Bolton are attempting to have former Washington Times editor Josette Sheeran Shiner become the next Executive Director of the World Food Program. Sheeran Shiner is a member of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The term of the World Food Program Executive Director is five years. Shiner is currently the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs.
What is it with the Bushies and the Moonies?
Does Mimus Pauly have an army of monstous robots he isn't teling us about, and if so, what is to stop him from taking over for his own sake?
Jennifer, I've always admired your posts. You write very well, and you're passionate and funny.
*Mwah!
And they know Pelosi isn't a wimpy Democrat, and who they fear might just have a bit of payback on her mind.
You know, what's really funny to those of us in the Bay Area who have lived with Pelosi for some time now is, around here, she's considered a centrist sell-out by most of the left.
One of the local weeklies has been pissed at her for years for her bill that basically sold off the Presidio to the highest bidder, turning what should be a low-maintenance national park into a high-rent business plaza occupied by the likes of LucasFilms.
At one of her recent public meetings, she got shouted down in a very firm way over her support of the war and refusal to voice support for impeachment.
wondering about the funny (specially after the tightass clarification) funny butt?
Republiscum bubblehead on MSNBC, after pushing the BS about Dems being behind the Foley revelations, tells Dem spokesman to get off his talking points.
Earlier, she tried to saddle a gays-rights guy with, "but why are gay men so attracted to youth?"
He replied, " well, as far as I know, Britney's not a lesbian."
"I would say that I agree that there is something more than meets the eye...and I think it's probably pretty black."
Well, in my paranoid way of thinking, it would have nothing to do with sex scandals or money issues as another possibility.
These guys always give me the feel they are racing against a schedule that has to be met regardless of consequence. And we are not privy to the schedule and it's purpose.
(Huh? What's that? It looks like a black helicopter!)
Wayne Madsen Report
Yea, the Moonies will run the U.N. right after Fritz indicts Rove.
Let's get rid of all the lobbyists.
Let's get rid of all the consultants.
Let's marginalize the media's beltway insiders.
And let's put every fundamentalist in this country on prescription -- for our own sake.
I believe that if we did the first three, there's no need for the fourth. As a member of a disfavored religion, I've got a pretty strong attachment to the First Amendment. And psychiatric "punishment" of dissidents scares the crap out of me.
Non-Denominational American Mirimba Lovers asscociation?
Where did the bit about Hastert's catching proclivities come from? (The poor pitchers.)
just "venturin'" a guess but is your real name Gladys and not Jennyfur?
Hannity was talking about Hay, and then he said he was "Will Geer's" partner for 8 years.
Grandpa's gay!?!?!?
Where's the fainting couch???
"but why are gay men so attracted to youth?"
He replied, " well, as far as I know, Britney's not a lesbian."
Excellent.
Tena - thanks, but I always think it's too dry. There's a lot of folks around these parts whose writing skills I really envy.
OT -- Thinking of going to see "All the King's Men" tonight. Anyone seen it? Any reviews?
The original is one of my favorite movies and I usually don't go for remakes. But I love Sean Penn, too.
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Hastert's penchant to receive anal sex is well-known to our sources in DC's gay community.
....Young stud-for-hire tries desperately, with all his might, to hold those great, sweaty, heaving buttocks apart in order to get his cock even close to that deeply buried sphincter.....
AAAAAAHHHHHHH! The image, It BUUURNNSSSSSS!!!!!
The election is all-but fixed.
As long as we don't have paper ballets, we are screwed, and I don't know what to do to fix it.
Personally, I can't go through another stolen election. I just can't do it...
"I guess I write the way I talk sometimes and other times I don't. I don't write as well as I should in either voice.....".
--Jennifer
There are many great comments posted on this blog from many people, and you are one of my favorites.
what's really funny to those of us in the Bay Area who have lived with Pelosi for some time now is, around here, she's considered a centrist sell-out by most of the left.
This is true, but I knew this because of my ex who lives there, who is very, very liberal. That's how he and I hooked up - liberal politics.
I still maintain I belong in SF, dave. Maybe someday.
Geer, of course, was also a well-known radical progressive... loved him in "President's Analyst"!
What is it with the Bushies and the Moonies?
jawbone | 10.07.06 - 2:35 pm |
They go way the hell back, and sometimes fight. The Larry E King molestation story was originally broken by the Moonie Times. Neil Bush has appeared at fundraiser events with Moon's tentacle organizations.
The scariest thing the Moonies have done so far is to purchase the land in South America which contains the largest fresh water aquifer. Ostensibly it's for some spiritual resort thing. Do they know something we don't about drinkable water getting much more expensive in a hurry some time soon?
....Young stud-for-hire tries desperately, with all his might, to hold those great, sweaty, heaving buttocks apart in order to get his cock even close to that deeply buried sphincter.....
C'mon, it wasn't that bad!
Let Hastert deny it.
That great, bloated fool is the gift that keeps on giving. Let's cheer him on.
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I still maintain I belong in SF, dave. Maybe someday.
Maybe Tena can move out, too, and we can all move into that commune she lived in back in 1969 Berkeley!
dave™© ...
I think I read someplace that Pelosi is the wealthiest member of congress. I don't know where her bucks come from, but she has plenty of 'em. Explains a lot about the origins of her centrism. Takes a lot of rationalizations to protect that kind of cash.
Again, re the Pelosi-NAMBLA smear, the best response is: "Show us a picture of the two of them marching together. And if you can't, then sit down and have yourself a hot slice of STFU..."
Grandpa's gay!?!?!?
Where's the fainting couch???
That's what I said! Hell, he even mentioned, of "The Waltons." I have no idea why...
CNN talking about the newsweek poll and qualifying everywhich way they can
practically saying poor george a victim of timing
how about a victim of his poor performance
Thinking of going to see "All the King's Men" tonight. Anyone seen it? Any reviews?
Reviews are not good.
The first-time director apparently lets Penn feast on every bit of scenery he can find.
I'm with Tena: jennifer's the best poster around. And that's saying a lot.
"Ollie"
I so much want to see Ollie North in prison, just so I can say 'who's america's traitor bitch now???'
(The poor pitchers.)
A little less poor after the reach-around into Big Denny's wallet. Gannons don't grow on trees, you know.
Maybe Tena can move out, too, and we can all move into that commune she lived in back in 1969 Berkeley!
I'm so there.
There's a lot of folks around these parts whose writing skills I really envy.
Jennifer,
Me, too. At least two or three times a day I read something here and go, "Damn. I wish that I'd written that." I'm still incredibly jeallous of whoever it was (strawhat?) who came up with Jenna/not-Jenna.
I don't know where her bucks come from, but she has plenty of 'em.
Rich hubby. Real estate or something - can't recall offhand.
She got her start as a well-to-do Marin housewife with a lot of time on her hands.
Do they know something we don't about drinkable water getting much more expensive in a hurry some time soon?
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Potable water is the new oil
Why would the Messiah corner the market on all the water in South America, winemaking?
this is so depressing. we are making ourselves neanderthals.
protect the fire!
"A little less poor after the reach-around into Big Denny's wallet. Gannons don't grow on trees, you know.
Little Brøther"
Good point; I forgot how it works in Washington Babylon; we're not talking about pro-bono boners.
I believe that if we did the first three, there's no need for the fourth. As a member of a disfavored religion, I've got a pretty strong attachment to the First Amendment. And psychiatric "punishment" of dissidents scares the crap out of me.
If the fundies went back under the rocks they crawled out from under, I'd be happy.
I don't see any Amish, or Wiccans, or Buddhists trying to tell people how they should live their lives. The Jeebus addled have crossed the line.
Pelosi came from a well-to-do Baltimore family, I had heard.
'Wash Post' Editor Downie: Everyone in Our Newsroom Wants to Be a Blogger
That's because they're not allowed freedom of speech, and their idealism is showing through.
Why would the Messiah corner the market on all the water in South America,
you're kidding, right?
Wikipedia on Paul Pelosi:
The Pelosi family has a net worth of over $25 million, mainly investments of husband Paul Pelosi. Besides a large portfolio of jointly owned San Francisco Bay Area real estate, he also has millions of dollars worth of shares in publicly traded companies such as Microsoft, Amazon.com and AT&T.
jawbone -- What is it with the Bushies and the Moonies?
Haven't read Madsen but my first thought when I head Ki-Moon named was "I wonder if he's related to Rev. Moon." Probably silly, but having a South Korean secretary general with Moon in his name creeped me out. I don't think the Moonies are anything to snort about . . .
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Pelosi came from a well-to-do Baltimore family, I had heard.
her dad was a Baltimore pol, wasn't he?
NancyP's money comes from her husband Paul who is a real estate developer --family developed ski resorts at Tahoe among other things
how about a victim of his poor performance
liars for bush
but he's the poepualr wartime president america love
well the america CNN taks to
These guys always give me the feel they are racing against a schedule that has to be met regardless of consequence. And we are not privy to the schedule and it's purpose.
Heh, well said.
Yes, kidding.
"Holy shit!
Nicole Richie |"
I would not take any stock in that report
LBJ decided that he wanted to spread the rumor that an early opponent “fucked pigs.” An aide said: “Well, that’s ridiculous. Why would you want to spread that rumor when you know it's not true?” To which LBJ replied: “I just wanna watch him deny it.”
Let's not waste fairness on these murderous shitheads.
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I don't see any Amish, or Wiccans, or Buddhists trying to tell people how they should live their lives. The Jeebus addled have crossed the line.
well, in Houston, let me tell you, the Buddhist monks are EVERYWHERE, asking "have you reached nirvana?" and shoving prayer flags in your face.
and don't get me started on the pagans....
The moonies can buy up all the sheets of paper (title to water rights) they want, but in the end, they'll be just that: pieces of paper. The people will claim the water that's rightfully theirs, when push comes to shove.
All right, bats, I have to clean the living room. Big task. I'll be in and out in stages.
Need to get the living and my bedroom done today. Period.
File under "You Lie Down With Dogs:" Foley Case Upsets Tough Balance by Capitol Hill's Gay Republicans.
I'm a died in the wool upper midwesterner who can count on one hand the number of trips I've made south of Ohio. Doesn't stop me from throwing in an occasional "ya'll" into a post if I'm so moved. It is a part of American slang.
Of course, I'll also throw in an occasional "eh?" as well, living as I do in "almost Canada."
well to do Martian housewife ... mmmmm? What does Pontiac know that we dont?
Bush multitasks.
Wanna hear some fart jokes?
I think I read someplace that Pelosi is the wealthiest member of congress.
I'm pretty sure that, other than the obvious candidates for stinking rich, that would be Diane Feinstein.
In any case, I have just discovered that H*O*W*A*R*D B*E*R*M*A*N of Van Nuys, the very same H*O*W*A*R*D B*E*R*M*A*N who I voted for for the LA City Council because his Papa stood holding a sign asking that we vote for his son, at the onramp to the San Diego Freeway I used, was appointed to the House Ethics Committee in April. Awwwwwwwww.......... I'm so PROUD!
Ok, now you good people are embarrassing me. I come around here because I find all of you so interesting; it's gratifying to be able to fit in. Kind of like how when I got to architecture school, for the first time in my life, I didn't feel so much like an alien.
Nancy P was never a well do marin housewife
She started out as a Burton-Willie Brwon Demo --she became a fundraiser
for the Dem party, convention chair in 1984 and also worked for Olgivy and Mather
and she raised five children
Just for kicks, here's a well-known San Francisco nun bitching about Nancy "Sell Out" Pelosi.
That's because they're not allowed freedom of speech, and their idealism is showing through.
wouldn't that be amazing? young idealistic reporters screaming at their editors, "I'M TIRED OF BEING A STENOGRAPHER!!!"
I don't see any Amish, or Wiccans, or Buddhists trying to tell people how they should live their lives.
Merkin Patriot could do something brilliant with this.
he people will claim the water that's rightfully theirs, when push comes to shove.
Agreed, but it will be tres, tres bloody and, for about 40 or 50 years, there'll be a shitload of $$$$ to be made for a group smart enough to make the $$$$$ and move it to Switzerland. Switzerland, BTW, may be one place in Europe that will tolerate global climate change longer than lots of others.
Let's not waste fairness on these murderous shitheads.
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QuentinCompson
see now, that's what i think the dems need to do. it's time to go bill clinton/ howard dean on their asses and where the fuck are the dems anyway? get off NPR and get on the TV!!!!!!!
The first-time director apparently lets Penn feast on every bit of scenery he can find.
Not a good omen.
Penn can do good work, but he will take an inch given and turn it into a mile...he has to be disciplined to produce good work by a firm director's hand.
There are a lot of actors out there who can give restrained, nuanced performances if only they're coerced into them...otherwise they go all William Shatner on us.
Hannity was telling his audience yesterday than NAMBLA not only marches in the parade, but that Nancy Pelosi had lunch with the head of NAMBLA.
GM picked a doozy of a spokesperson, eh? Oh, yeah, GM, I'll believe everything you say about the quality of your cars 'cause ole Sean vouches for you. [snicker]
her dad was a Baltimore pol, wasn't he?
Mayor. For many years.
Please spell it "y'all" instead of "ya'll".
The misplaced apostrophe really grates on Tena's nerves. 
Nancy Pelosi had lunch with the head of NAMBLA.
New potatoes, baby peas, and veal, I suppose.
Or, ala Duncan Hunter: "Oven fried chicken, 3 kinds of fruit, and tea. Sweet tea."
World's greatest asshole.
Nancy P was never a well do marin housewife...
Sorry - I was thinking of Boxer.
Steve Simels regrets the etc...
http://www.catsofaustralia.com/c...t-
nutrition.htm
Discussion of cat nutrional, metabolism, requirements. Cats are considered by scientists, it says, to be strict carnivores, dogs omnivores with primarily carnivore needs. Dogs and cats manufacture their own Vit C in their bodies, so my Siamese did not need orange juice....
Now - nobody tell Hecate that I've painted the windowframes blue, okay?
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"i've had it and i'm not going to take it anymore"
that would be a good commercial
Please spell it "y'all" instead of "ya'll".
The misplaced apostrophe really grates on Tena's nerves.
mine, too. it's a contraction of you and all--there's no a in you.
i'm a pessimist by nature/genetics, and i'm really thinking this is not going to cut it. the polls should be sooooooo much better for us by now.
me_imperturbe
I'm worried, people...
Yeah, we get that about you.
jawbone --
Moon paid George H. W. Bush to speak on his behalf in South America -- man gives honest whores a bad name!
Hecate --
Lovely hear -- working outside?
bigvic --
I went to school in Boner's district -- very Red State area -- Wulsin has a tough row to hoe
me_imperturbe --
Agreed, but people are usually reluctant to admit that something THAT BIG is wrong -- even inmates in Stalin's gulag thought EVERYONE ELSE must be guilty -- surely so much misery & suffering couldn't be happening without a cause! People can believe Bush killed thousands of innocent Iraqis & Afghans & US personnel just to prove to his Mommy that his dick was bigger than Daddy's -- we could have all just chipped in & bought him a Hummer!
http://www.gocomics.com/tomtheda...bug/2006/09/16/
Anybody seen Pelosi's daughter documentaries? She made one about covering Bush. She took heat for being overly kind to the Chimp in Chief.
There's a lot of folks around these parts whose writing skills I really envy.
Hecate, you come up with some good stuff at times. Don't discount that or your inspiration will be squelched.
Uncle Smokes, Roadmaster, Virginia, Eli, JeffCO, and the hilarious Merkin Patriot have all written things I've copied down in the past.
dave™© -- The first-time director apparently lets Penn feast on every bit of scenery he can find.
Thanks. And rats! I wanted it to be good. Better look for an alternative plan. We have to drive 50 miles to see a decent movie and I definitely don't want to see a stinker instead.
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Do not feel sorry for this Fordham character for one fucking second.
From the NYT "You Lie Down With Dogs" article I linked to upthread:
Mr. Fordham’s history illustrates the potential tensions between private life and professional rhetoric. After leaving Mr. Foley’s office in 2004, he worked as finance director for the campaign of Senator Mel Martinez, Republican of Florida. In that race, a Martinez campaign flier accused a political rival of favoring the “radical homosexual lobby” by supporting hate crimes legislation that included protections for gay men and lesbians.
What a jerk.
...otherwise they go all William Shatner on us.
not that there's anything wrong with that...
I don't see any Amish, or Wiccans, or Buddhists trying to tell people how they should live their lives.
I don't know much about Amish or Buddhists, but Wiccans specifically do not prostelytize.
But the xian fundies could stand on street corners all day long and yell "repent" to no ill effects if we'd (1) take away tax free status for ALL religions and (2) restore fairness to the media.
I don't want to see the First Amendment weakened in any way and i don't want psychiatric treatment used by the government to shut up people that the majority finds offensive.
C'mon, it wasn't that bad!
Jeff Gannon
Good punchline!
well to do Martian housewife
There's a whole sci-fi novel just waiting to be written...
I think I read someplace that Pelosi is the wealthiest member of congress.
Woo Hoo! It's great to be RICH! Had enough?
they go all William Shatner on us.
(starts singing 'rocket man')
Please spell it "y'all" instead of "ya'll".
Unless one is contracting 'ya all', a regional disease.
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I love the idea of the Fat Bhastert gay meme.
I'd love to see someone throw this in Hannity's face Monday.
And each time Hannity says Nambla, we say Fat Bhastert could be gay could we hear he spreads his massive cheeks to anyone who'll do him.
Hasidic Jews proseltyze but only to other Jews. Annoying.
well to do Martian housewife
There's a whole sci-fi novel just waiting to be written...
Ridnik Chrome
I think Bradbury touched on this a little.
“radical homosexual lobby”
this means people who demand equal rights?
"all y'all"
is my afvrite
all y'all
they go all William Shatner on us.
And begin doing Comcast ads?
Unless one is contracting 'ya all', a regional disease.
hmmmm... i hadn't considered that.
"how ya doin?"
"ya gonna be there tonight?"
okay. i'm beginning to come around on this...
...but i'll still spell it "y'all."
(from res's NYT link):
“It’s one of the places the party goes when it’s in trouble,” he said. “A lot of us are holding our breath to see how this plays out.”
I simply cannot understand 1. how a gay person could keep their own lives secret for the purpose to work for a party that at least maintains a fiction of hating them, and 2. how these selfsame gay-hating pols can get away with employing gay staff.
Lovely hear -- working outside?
Dark, cold, rainy. A "perfect" fall day, actually. But perfect for staying inside.
I had nine witches here last night, the energy was incredibly high, and I'm still kind of resting from it all.
By rights, it's "all y'all", but "y'all" works just fine.
Hi, y'all.
Bye, y'all. Be back in a bit.
it's a contraction of you and all--there's no a in you.
But "wouldn't" is a contraction of "would" and "not"-- and there's not N in "would." What about that, huh?
it's a contraction of you and all--there's no a in you.
But "wouldn't" is a contraction of "would" and "not"-- and there's not N in "would." What about that, huh?
I don't know much about Amish or Buddhists, but Wiccans specifically do not prostelytize.
Praise Jeebuz! I'm so over the crazy fuckers on the *right* and their phony values. They can go straight to hell. Too gay for me!
me_imperturbe --
Agreed, but people are usually reluctant to admit that something THAT BIG is wrong -- even inmates in Stalin's gulag thought EVERYONE ELSE must be guilty -- surely so much misery & suffering couldn't be happening without a cause! People can believe Bush killed thousands of innocent Iraqis & Afghans & US personnel just to prove to his Mommy that his dick was bigger than Daddy's -- we could have all just chipped in & bought him a Hummer!
well, i don't believe that that is bush's motive. i don't think the american people believe that either. i think most people believe that bush is the result, not the cause for so much suffering.
But "wouldn't" is a contraction of "would" and "not"-- and there's not N in "would." What about that, huh?
Moe Szyslak
I'm'n't telling.
Oh, great, there are a whole bunch of English majors arguing about contractions....
I rest my case.
the plural
"all y'alls"
cs art is bread --
Reviews for "All the King's Men" universally execrable (they even change the setting to the 1950s -- no one seems to know why)!
Not much showing currently that i would want to see myself -- can you get to see Helen Mirren in "The Queen"?
k&y @ 2:38--Moonies into water, huh? My experience with Asians is that they do take an extremely long view economically. And water is the next oil--since it's still difficult to charge for the air we breathe.
I simply cannot understand 1. how a gay person could keep their own lives secret for the purpose to work for a party that at least maintains a fiction of hating them, and 2. how these selfsame gay-hating pols can get away with employing gay staff.
i don't get it either. i knew a young gay republican in indiana. he only liked them because of the low taxes stance. started coming around to the fact that, if he was REALLY paying A LOT in taxes, that meant that he was making A LOT of money.
But "wouldn't" is a contraction of "would" and "not"-- and there's not N in "would." What about that, huh?
Moe Szyslak
can we stop with all the yall shit. just don't put anything there and you'll be ok.
"I simply cannot understand 1. how a gay person could keep their own lives secret for the purpose to work for a party that at least maintains a fiction of hating them."
Happens whenever minorities are oppressed; they internalize the hatred, and join with their oppressor, from "house niggers" to Roy Cohn to Alberto Gonzalez...
May I just say that where else on the Internet do you find such awesome conversation?
Okay, my living room won't clean itself.
I think I read someplace that Pelosi is the wealthiest member of congress.
it said in her Wikipedia article, which BTW is locked b/c of "recent vandalism", that her family is worth around $25 mil. That's quite a chunk of change, but I'll bet that's a far cry from the wealthiest member of congress.
May I just say that where else on the Internet do you find such awesome conversation?
It's what keeps me coming back.
“radical homosexual lobby”
this means people who demand equal rights?
wingnut logic : if we give the gays equal rights, then everyone will want to become gay.
I'm'n't telling.
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers
I've heard that as "Am'n't telling" too.
or is it
"all y'all"
Hannity was telling his audience yesterday than NAMBLA not only marches in the parade, but that Nancy Pelosi had lunch with the head of NAMBLA.
And W. has hung out with Foley on occasion. Hannity's point? SMEAR.
Hannity, Carlson, et al, need to grabbed by the hair and have their heads pounded into the pavement.
We have to drive 50 miles to see a decent movie and I definitely don't want to see a stinker instead.
.
cs art is bread
Did you see Little Miss Sunshine yet?Really good.
fracking tags.
i don't get it either. i knew a young gay republican in indiana. he only liked them because of the low taxes stance. started coming around to the fact that, if he was REALLY paying A LOT in taxes, that meant that he was making A LOT of money.
PoppieProng, Inter Alia
Known in some circles as BBQs: bank balance queers.
remember how in 1984, the language got all revised, so that vowels were dropped?
rmmbr?
But "wouldn't" is a contraction of "would" and "not"-- and there's not N in "would." What about that, huh?
um...
um...
well... um...
hmmm.... it's because, um... well, it's because it would look funny as would'n't (and not save any space to boot), now wouldn't it?
The case for ya'll vs. y'all:
If the contraction is presumed to be a contration of "ya all" (which would be more in line with Southern patterns of speech than "you all"), then ya'll makes perfect sense. In other contractions: isn't, didn't, wouldn't, couldn't, you'll, the vowel from the second word is what is being dropped in all cases, though sometimes a consonant is dropped as well; the apostrophe takes the place of the dropped vowel. The first word retains its vowel(s). Thus, "ya'll" better fits the pattern for contractions.
Oh, great, there are a whole bunch of English majors arguing about contractions....
And they're coming two minutes apart now.
A Baby shall come soon, and we shall call him "Webster".
The Lincoln Logs sold themselves out after 2000 -- During the 2000 Campaign the frozen face of the Republicans Mary Matalin said the Republicans would support gay marriage --of course when they needed the fundies back it was see ya later to the gay community
During 2004 when it came up again -Republicans who are gay said they were willing to have their issues come later and it was for the great good....these are Tammy Bruce Republicans --from the self loathing wing
gay republicans are like charlie brown and lucy forever holding out hope they won't get kicked again
is Pelosi "the richest memebr"
like John Kerry was the "most liberal member"?
remember how in 1984, the language got all revised, so that vowels were dropped?
rmmbr?
ys, d .
I simply cannot understand 1. how a gay person could keep their own lives secret for the purpose to work for a party that at least maintains a fiction of hating them, and 2. how these selfsame gay-hating pols can get away with employing gay staff.
I strongly suspect that they go into this knowing that the most virulent homophobes are deep closet cases, thinking that this will give them leverage.
However, on the surface, it's mind-boggling that they'd work with a party that ostensibly panders to people who would not have the slightest moral objection to rounding up gays and processing them through vernichtungslagern.
Did you see Little Miss Sunshine yet?Really good.
footloose
A riot!
The chances of my posts being duplicated by Haloscan are apparently directly proportional to their stupidity.
Casto has visited the UN in New York many times on state business. I'm certain there were UN dinners. Every US official who attended that dinner is a communist supporter.
Right, Mr.Hannity?
Happens whenever minorities are oppressed; they internalize the hatred, and join with their oppressor, from "house niggers" to Roy Cohn to Alberto Gonzalez...
davidmizner
ask almost any woman in america. they'll explain it to you.
It's what keeps me coming back.
I come for the hash bar and stay for the ladies.
dims ima gettin outta yer cities. yer cities of sickness. yer cities of perpetual rain. yer cities of the plague. yer cities of forestalling darkness. yer cities of dead falconers. yer cities of hanging alligators. yer cities of black hole dreams. yer cities ruled by intellectuals and thugs. yer cities of innocence sold and then sold again. yer cities where the wounds never heal. yer cities without the songs of birds. F YER CITIES!
ima moving to Livingston Montana dims...
Noun 1. lawyer - a professional person authorized to practice law, conduct lawsuits or give legal advice.
Synonyms: attorney
Who knew?
CNN bubblehead: Foley checks himself into rehab and his attorney says he's dealing with a whole host of personal problems from being abused as a teenager to being gay to needing help with his alcoholism.
Hey, Fredericka, how are you dealing with the problem of being female?
simply cannot understand 1. how a gay person could keep their own lives secret for the purpose to work for a party that at least maintains a fiction of hating them, and 2. how these selfsame gay-hating pols can get away with employing gay staff.
i meant to quote this one not yours, davidmizner
Oh for g'ness sakes.
It's You All. All of YOU. You All. In the deeper south it gets faded into youall, and from there into y(glottal stop)all or y'all. The apostrophe substitutes for the glottal stop which is not common in most US English speech. Those of us whose people were from the Oklahoma/Missouri/Arkansas region actually say 'you all'.
"alls y'alls"
Livingston Montana
I hope to god they don't have Internet there.
The chances of my posts being duplicated by Haloscan are apparently directly proportional to their stupidity.
Moe Szyslak
The chances of mine getting quoted for comment is directly proportional to the number of grammatical errors contained therein.
Someone's going to be a dental floss tycoon.
Jennifer is correct -- it is "ain't" & it is "ya'll" (both "non-standard")
BTW -- billmon picked a lousy week to stop blogging -- so he didn't -- but a lot of stuff got buried -- like the "Velvet Bund" being common knowledge -- but liberals respect other people's privacy:
http://billmon.org/archives/002795.html
geez, it took an hour?
If the contraction is presumed to be a contration of "ya all" (which would be more in line with Southern patterns of speech than "you all"),
Where do you get that the pronunciation "ya" is southern?
What I have heard most often in NC sounds like its got an umlaut u in it -- "Yuue" all. I guess there's a fair amount of "yuh" all out there to. But Ya? That doesn't compute for me.
dims ima gettin outta yer cities.
I think I speak for everyone when I say, we'd be happy if you'd just get the fuck off of this blog.
Who knew?
Asked and answered.
dipshit: motherfucking liar.
the gayest part of San Fransisco
is names after Castro therefore all Gays are commies
Denny Hastert is a sodomite!
I had a girlfriend once from Latrobe, PA, who used to say "you'sens".
Noun 1. lawyer - a professional person authorized to practice law, conduct lawsuits or give legal advice.
Synonyms: attorney
Who knew?
Harold Ford Jr.
you wanna do the same thing for the Prez? oh yeah, he already did...."my job is to do my job"
Who knew?
Who cared?
G-damn it!!
I got new stationary and everything.
wingnut logic : if we give the gays equal rights, then everyone will want to become gay.
Sadly, yes, this is wingnut "logic".
Similar to a lot of war on drugs rhetoric, which states we'll all become junkies if the stuff was made legal.
Here in Chicago, we have a beautiful system of incumbency protection. It's call Tax Increment Financing.
It's simple - TIF districts are created to spur development in "blighted" areas. Property taxes in these "blighted" areas are then baselined, and all "incremental" tax revenues are funnelled into little kitties that the city and the aldermen control. It ends up being hundreds of millions of dollars over the 23 year life of these TIF districts.
The best part? The city and the aldermen enter into contracts with their cronies and buddy developers, who then funnell campaign contributions back to them and the mayor as well.
Maybe that's not the best part. The real best part is that the law defining "blighted" is so vague, that even the most vibrant area of the city - the Loop - is now designated as a "blighted" area, with a TIF that will suck $500 Million dollars out of the property tax funds that go to our schools, parks, county hospitals, forest preserves, etc.
Then, when the county runs a huge deficit and needs to raise taxes, you can blame the county, not the city.
It's beautiful! Ingenious!
Check out What the Helen for details.
"alls y'alls"
i had a friend from a different part of texas than me, and he always greeted people with "how y'all are?" but it really never sounded like a question.
always confused me.
Denny Hastert is a sodomite!
Now, Sonny, we don't know this.
What we do know is that he's a disgusting tub of goo, though.
Similar to a lot of war on drugs rhetoric, which states we'll all become junkies if the stuff was made legal.
wellllll.... i might.
Oh, dear: Just clicked on Riverbend's blog to see if she's posted since Aug. 5.
No new posts. Worrisome.
This scandal is really giving us a good look at contemporary conservativsm's black heart:
"Where does post-modern American ethics place Mark Foley's homosexuality on a scale of 1 to 10 - a 1 being just another gay guy and a 10 being a compulsive, predatory sex offender?" - Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal
I had a girlfriend once from Latrobe, PA, who used to say "you'sens".
Moe Szyslak
Pennsylvania Deutsch. We retained remnants of it - and I still occasionally tell someone to outen the light....
i had a friend from a different part of texas than me, and he always greeted people with "how y'all are?" but it really never sounded like a question.
Sounds like German sentence structure disease, to me.
Lots of Germans running around in Texas. Big problem in the upper midwest and Pennsylvania, too.
Bush the Elder visited Indonesia after the tsunami/earthquake.
It's a Muslim country, I guess that makes Poppy a terrorist.
Right, Mr.Hannity?
Denny Hastert is a sodomite!
Sonny Disposition
he once talked to ken mehleman
erego he is a soddomite by association
Hastert = sodomite
Heh. Just thought of something...
Remember that miserable "Wuzzadem" cunt? The one who made the comic strip of "liberal mom" who neglects to supervise kid on computer and kid becomes a suicide bomber. She should revise that as follows:
Conservative MOM (CM): (with Marilyn Quayle flip hairdo): "Whatcha doing?"
Son: Homework. (IM screen from MAF45 reads "Do you have a ruler handy?"
CM: On your computer?
Son: I'm getting help from Mark. He's a congressman! (IMs: "Hold on. My mom's here.")
CM: He's a Republican, congressman right?
Son: Uh-huh. (IM screen reads: "Take out a ruler and measure it.")
CM: Oh, okay then. I don't want you talking with any of those nasty liberals. What does he want you to measure?
Son: The distance between Grover Norquists Wednesday morning meeting and Karl Rove's office. (Types: "My mom's here! Cool it!"
CM: Oh, that's nice honey. Okay, I have a meeting at the Mall of America Megachurch. Back later. Do your homework or dad will beat you bloody again, okay?
Son: Uh-huh. (IM screen reads: "Do you wank it after she leaves?")
The Pelosi/NAMBLA connection being touted by various trolls on various blogs (And Hannity as well, it seems) is quite a stretch, to say the least. Here's where all the froth apparently started, an article in the American Spectator about the 2001 SF Pride Parade...
"Celebrant number 31 was the late Harry Hay. Harry, it seems, was quite the guy. [snip] Which makes one curious about the presence of marcher number 34 in the 2001 Pride Parade. Marching a mere three spots away from the famous Harry Hay, no doubt waving and smiling to the crowd, was, as the Chronicle logged her in the Official Guide and Program Parade Lineup: "U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi."
And here's the Wiki entry for Harry Hay.
Been noticing something interesting at some of the conservative forums. A lot of social conservatives are sort of going into the "not a dimes worth of difference" mentality that we saw of the naderites in 2000.
That can only bode well.
Nancy Pelosi | 10.07.06 - 3:05 pm | #
Remember, trollie: the future belongs to those who can spell!
Sounds like German sentence structure disease, to me.
Lots of Germans running around in Texas. Big problem in the upper midwest and Pennsylvania, too.
ficken krauts, ruining our language!
(that's what i love about english, actually, that it's a mish-mash of romance and germanic languages.)
I think I speak for everyone when I say, we'd be happy if you'd just get the fuck off of this blog.
Either give dipshit a good spanking, (what he really wants) or ignore the stinking mess.
Oh, dear: Just clicked on Riverbend's blog to see if she's posted since Aug. 5.
No new posts. Worrisome.
jawbone
Have you checked the Gitmo prisoner roster?
Bwahahahaha
US News
Faux News
Internal polling data from a prominent GOP pollster, however, show that House Republican candidates will suffer massive losses if Hastert remains speaker until Election Day. A GOP source briefed on the polling data told Fox News that the data suggest House Republican losses could be catastrophic if Hastert's speakership continues. Still, the GOP source familiar with the polling data said that while most GOP lawmakers have stood by Hastert, pending a full airing of the facts in his handling of the Foley matter, this data now suggest that many voters have already made up their minds. "The data suggest Americans have bailed on the speaker," the source told Fox News. "And the difference could be between a 20-seat loss and a 50-seat loss.'"
Scott Rasmussen
Sixty-one percent of American adults believe that Republican leaders have been "protecting [Mark] Foley for several years." A Rasmussen Reports national opinion survey conducted Tuesday and Wednesday nights shows that only 21 percent believe that the leadership "just learn[ed] about Foley's problems last week. The data support speculation that this issue could have a devastating impact on Republican prospects at the polls this fall. Even among Republicans, 31 percent believe the GOP leadership has been protecting Foley. Just under half (46 percent) of the GOP faithful believe that congressional leaders just learned about the problem.
Lastly, a diligently nonpartisan AP-Ipsos poll "found about half of likely voters say recent disclosures of corruption and scandal in Congress will be 'very' or 'extremely' important when they cast their votes. That group is much more likely to vote Democratic."
That can only bode well.
Bogsville
Nothing like trying to hoodwink an entire segment of the population. And nothing like the scorn from that population when it finds out it's been had!
Remember that stupid "Wuzzadem" cunt's little comic strip? Oh, we could do wonders with that little narrative now, couldn't we?
But none are closer than Scott Palmer is to Denny Hastert. They don't just work together all day, they live together.
Hastert = sodomite!
the dipshit-americans will vote republican
the mighty 30!
I had a girlfriend once from Latrobe, PA, who used to say "you'sens".
Moe Szyslak | Homepage | 10.07.06 - 3:05 pm | #
Musta been all that Rolling Rock.
I had a girlfriend once from Latrobe, PA, who used to say "you'sens".
Moe Szyslak | Homepage | 10.07.06 - 3:05 pm | #
Musta been all that Rolling Rock.
Casto has visited the UN in New York many times on state business. I'm certain there were UN dinners. Every US official who attended that dinner is a communist supporter.
He also spoke at the Riverside Church.
dims ima gettin outta yer cities. yer cities of sickness. yer cities of perpetual rain...
Can you hear me snapping my fingers, dith?
Christ is risen from the dead,
Trampling down death by death,
And upon those in the tombs
Bestowing life!
If the contraction is presumed to be a contration of "ya all" (which would be more in line with Southern patterns of speech than "you all"), then ya'll makes perfect sense.
Jennifer
Yes, but it isn't.
As a lifelong Southerner, believe me when I say it's "yew awl." Y'all.
Come spend some time in the South before presuming to tell us how we speak.
I'm going to go back out for a minute and get me some of those little cocktail weinies with the cheese inside. I'm such a sucker for stuff like that.
steve simels apologises to you all.
i had a friend from a different part of texas than me, and he always greeted people with "how y'all are?" but it really never sounded like a question.
always confused me.
PoppieProng, Inter Alia
Justin Wilson, the "Cookin' Cajun," popularized that on his TV show.
I am happy to see the Democrats are practicing voter suppression --usually a republican strategy
this all seems good to me
I don't want to see fundies voting
It looks like they are going to be beaten at their own game
dims ima gettin outta yer cities. yer cities of sickness. yer cities of perpetual rain...
Cities of perpetual rain?
dith, are you under the impression that you are living in Blade Runner?
Or have you been reading the Legend of John Titer too much?
so, harry hay was not the founder or chair or even related to or a memeber of that organization.
can we use this as a reference mark for how low we are to go as well? can we, say, explain how eric rudolf was able to stay alive in the appalachians for so long? let's start the rumor that eric rudolf was funded by the ..... GOP, yeah, that's the ticket.
dims ima gettin outta yer cities. yer cities of sickness. yer cities of perpetual rain...
Cities of perpetual rain?
dith, are you under the impression that you are living in Blade Runner?
Hmmm....
Could be that dith is in Portland or Seattle...
Which is way too close to me...
And here's the Wiki entry for Harry Hay.
So Pelosi standing somewhere near an old, iconic figure in the LGBT rights movement who for a time inexplicably defended these guys somehow equates with her "marching with the head of NAMBLA"?? I wonder, what "she had lunch with him" amounts to? Maybe all the people at he head of the parade had lunch together? And even if she sat across from him and talked to him, it's beyond obvious that there was a great deal more to Hay that the fact that he advocated for the tolerance of NAMBLA at one time.
Man, is this some thin gruel! They are truly desperate if they are trying to spin this.
Ridnik Chrome,
Really enjoyed meeting you last night. Thanks for coming by.
jac - given that I've never lived anywhere other than Georgia and Arkansas, I think I have a pretty good idea of how Southerners talk. Even to the point of being able to distinguish the different regional variations in accent.
Those of us whose people were from the Oklahoma/Missouri/Arkansas region actually say 'you all'.
Actually, both, Dr.
Ya'll is easier, But 'you all' gets its share.
Could be that dith is in Portland or Seattle...
Which is way too close to me...
Apprentice to Darth Holde
Somebody already outed him as being in New York. He claims he's moving to Montana (going to wrangle dental floss).
I haven't bothered to tell him how popular he will be in the mountain west if he is from NYC.
I hear "you all" down here exactly as often as I hear "y'all."
Those of us whose people were from the Oklahoma/Missouri/Arkansas region actually say 'you all'.
Actually, both, Dr.
Ya'll is easier, But 'you all' gets its share.
The Ozark types like to use "you uns" a lot. My grandmother and great aunt were "you uns" types.
Having grown up in Virginia, it always bothered me when northerners would make fun of southerners with the "y'all" thing, said to one person. Idiots. "Y'all" is plural.
Nowadays, I say "vous."
Erin will have me hunted down and killed for saying this, but it really doesn't rain incessantly in Portland and Seattle. We just allow the impression to linger in a vain attempt to suppress the population growth rate.
Im not from NYC, I'm in the West somewhere. Ive only been to NYC once...
Mother's family from PA -- "rede up the room" was normal -- "clothes press" well -- other things escape me
FWIW -- there is no such thing as "a" "Southern accent" -- there are regional accents all over this country -- I always thought I had the "Hi there, I'm from nowhere" accent of a baby boomer raised by TV -- a priest from Georgia who studies regional accents told me, "You speak Highland Southern -- either from Southwest Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Southern Ohio or Southern Indiana -- I'd guess Southeastern Ohio." (He was, of course, correct -- otherwise, I wouldn'y tell the story, now would I?)
Pelosi and nambla charge
the facts don't matter to people like
Patty O'Bigot Buchanan --but it is important to keep reminding the media that it is not true and if they permit it they are just as guilty as the liars
they will be responsible for an increase in gay bashing the death of the next matthew shepherd will be on their hands for this kind of lying
Somebody already outed him as being in New York. He claims he's moving to Montana (going to wrangle dental floss).
Raisin' it up.
Waxin' it down.
In a little white box
I can sell uptown
Im not from NYC, I'm in the West somewhere. Ive only been to NYC once...
And how was Bolton? He show you a good time at the local leather club?
dims ima gettin outta yer cities. yer cities of sickness. yer cities of perpetual rain...
Gonna make it harder to get your welfare benifits, ain't it?
If dith was really from NYC he wouldn't give a rat's fat ass how popular he'd be anywhere. That said, if dith is really in NYC, I'm tempted to tell him to show his face at a certain watering hole about two hours from now. I know a few people who would like to buy him a beer...and then dump it on his head.
People used to fear that everyone would have that TV anchor accent, but I read recently that regional dialects in the states have actually grown deeper.
Res -- Had an excellent time myself, and enjoyed meeting you, QL, Athenae and everybody else who was there (including the many lurkers). Wish I could attend the dinner and the picnic, too, but have major social obligations with the GF and her family...
Well, if we're going to play regional nitpicking, I blame southerners for the rampant mispronunciation of Detroit as DEE-troit, when it should be de-TROIT, or if we're really nodding at our roots, Day-TWAH.
FWIW -- there is no such thing as "a" "Southern accent" -- there are regional accents all over this country
That's very true. There are I don't know how many different regional southern dialects and accents, but each one is different than the other. People from Tennessee talk entirely differently than people from Georgia.
the facts don't matter to people like Patty O'Bigot Buchanan
True dat.
I have often said that my WASP ancestors really fucked up allowing Buchanan's Irish Catholic ancestors into the country.
dith, where are you, hon? Salt Lake City? Brokeback Mountain? Where, babe?
No problem, Ridnik. Wasn't it great that we had longtime lurkers? I got a kick out of that.
Well, if we're going to play regional nitpicking, I blame southerners for the rampant mispronunciation of Detroit as DEE-troit, when it should be de-TROIT, or if we're really nodding at our roots, Day-TWAH.
sister of ye
Excuse me? Detroit is not a southern city, so how is that our fault?
I should think people from Detroit would pronounce Detroit the way they think is right, never mind what someone in Athens, Ga. says.
"These guys always give me the feel they are racing against a schedule that has to be met regardless of consequence. And we are not privy to the schedule and it's purpose."
Picture an economic chart showing, as usual, most people somewhere in a slowly rising curve that suddenly makes a huge leap where the rich and super-rich dwell.
Mirror this image about its axis, now you have a rocket ship with massive first-stage engines, then other stages, till the payload at the top (the super-rich)
This is the escape plan, the golden starship. The masses are destined to be reaction mass. Only the payload will leave orbit.
So one either: becomes rich and enters the capsule, or one slows the escape and awaits the technology to advance to a point where the payload can be increased.
There is a third option: the nose cone. Where all the scanners and communication devices are stored. This allows the possibility of escape via uploading. From a sentient nose cones' viewpoint, the payload is reaction mass. So, learning computers allows for an escape.
Tena, sister of ye is just snarkin'.
Sister of ye, come on: Detroit is pronounced MOE TOWN. Simple
I see my offhand fucking-around comment about apostrophe placement in "y'all" has generated a buzz.
Is anyone else occasionally surprised by how a throwaway comment will get attention, yet comments that are more involved sink like a stone?
I'm perfectly aware that "more involved" can mean prolix, irrelevant, self-absorbed, tedious, and all of the above, so I'm not saying that more substantive comments necessarily deserve to capture the discussion.
I suppose it's like a comedian finding that an ad lib gets a bigger laugh than some jokes that the comedian has worked on and polished. I'm not complaining-- just wondering if anyone else experiences this phenomenon here.
Well, if we're going to play regional nitpicking, I blame southerners for the rampant mispronunciation of Detroit as DEE-troit, when it should be de-TROIT, or if we're really nodding at our roots, Day-TWAH.
I had a friend in the army from Michigan who prounounced the name of the wicked city near Windsor as DEE-troit.
I always thought it was de-TROIT myself. But yeah you can make a strong case for Day-TWAH if you've studied French.
Prior Aelred -- Unfortunately "The Queen" isn't here yet.
Our choices beyond "AtKM" are:
THE ILLUSIONIST
HEADING SOUTH
JESUS CAMP
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
THE OH IN OHIO
THE DEPARTED
...SO GOES THE NATION
Reviews, opinions anyone?
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I blame southerners for the rampant mispronunciation of Detroit as DEE-troit
My better half was morn in MI and lived in Flint for 13 years until her parents moved back to AR.
I say DEE-triot just to piss her off. After 27 years, she still corrects me.
I got a bud that's from North Joisey. He hates it when I accent the Mc in McDonalds as in MAC-Donalds. Same reason as above.
right now I'm somewhere not too far from the Pacific coast...
Is anyone else occasionally surprised by how a throwaway comment will get attention, yet comments that are more involved sink like a stone?
All the time. Some of mine of which I am not terribly proud seem to have staying power.
hey coingate repugs, will you blame this timing on the "liberal media" too?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/...r=1&
oref=slogin
Sister of ye, come on: Detroit is pronounced MOE TOWN. Simple
DWD
I like the sound of that.
People from Tennessee talk entirely differently than people from Georgia.
And OYMOYGAWD! Peopuhl from Lawn Guyland tawk totally FRICKin' diffrint dan peopuhl from duh Broinx.
I did my volunteer work for my state house candidate today. Her opponent, a noxious little puke named Farhat accused her of being in league with a Muskegon group with ties to Al Quida.
(I read that and burst out laughing. WTF? Muskegon, MI may be a lot of things but a hotbed of Al Quida supporters? Oh my.)
Tena, sister of ye is just snarkin'.
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore
[red faced] - D'oh!
the one time I was in NYC it was 1994 - I drank at the West End bar...accross from the campus there...then we went to the Anchor Bar...and like the Jungle Bar...sumpin' like dat....
How many ways do people from different parts of Alabama (& different social classes AND different ethnic groups) have of prouncing "Birmingham"?
(The extremes I can think of are "Buminum" & "Buhrminghayum")
dith, I'm concerned about your drinking, sweetpea.
I'm not from NYC, I'm in the West somewhere...
Dith is a cowboy. Just like Ronald Reagan...
footloose -- Ah, thanks. That one is playing.
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I suppose it's like a comedian finding that an ad lib gets a bigger laugh than some jokes that the comedian has worked on and polished. I'm not complaining-- just wondering if anyone else experiences this phenomenon here.
Little Brøther
Yes, my brøther, that would be the case. Often.
I should think people from Detroit would pronounce Detroit the way they think is right, never mind what someone in Athens, Ga. says.
There's a suburb of Augusta GA called Martinez.
I look at that and see mar-TEEN-ez.
But the locals say mar-tin-EZ.
Oh well.
Ok, here's a serious shibboleth for you all (y'all, you uns, whatever...)
How do you pronounce Willamette?
I read recently that regional dialects in the states have actually grown deeper.
What aboot the provinces, eh?
Is anyone else occasionally surprised by how a throwaway comment will get attention, yet comments that are more involved sink like a stone?
Little Brother, I am still kind of pissed off that no one wants to talk about hot and cold media and Marshall McLuhan or my theory on the denigration of sexual roles in modern society: what makes a man and what makes a woman.
But, we can talk all night to some pissant troll . . . .
"Only the payload will leave orbit."
--Mike
Considering the destruction of the environment, this will have to be taken literally. Has someone been constructing a subdivision on Mars the elite can inhabit?
Dith is a cowboy. Just like Ronald Reagan...
And George Felix Macacastein Allen Junior!
Will-a-Met.
I'm not from NYC, I'm in the West somewhere...
Maybe a Camarillo Brillo?
the one time I was in NYC it was 1994 - I drank at the West End bar...accross from the campus there...
Well, no wonder they just tore the place down!
OT: Henry Waxman is fighting the good fight! The White House is trying to scapegoat Susan Ralston:
The bipartisan report released by the Government Reform Committee documented 485 lobbying contacts between Mr. Abramoff and his associates and White House officials, including 186 contacts that occurred over meals, many at exclusive restaurants in Washington. Ms. Ralston accounts for just a small fraction of these lobbying contacts and meals. According to the documents released by the Committee, she was involved in just 69 of the lobbying contacts (less than 15%) and just 14 of the meals (less than 10%). The vast majority of lobbying contacts and meals with White House officials documented in the report were with White House officials other than Ms. Ralston.
http://www.housedemocrats.gov/
ne..._content_id=948
OT: Henry Waxman is fighting the good fight! The White House is trying to scapegoat Susan Ralston:
The bipartisan report released by the Government Reform Committee documented 485 lobbying contacts between Mr. Abramoff and his associates and White House officials, including 186 contacts that occurred over meals, many at exclusive restaurants in Washington. Ms. Ralston accounts for just a small fraction of these lobbying contacts and meals. According to the documents released by the Committee, she was involved in just 69 of the lobbying contacts (less than 15%) and just 14 of the meals (less than 10%). The vast majority of lobbying contacts and meals with White House officials documented in the report were with White House officials other than Ms. Ralston.
http://www.housedemocrats.gov/
ne..._content_id=948
But, we can talk all night to some pissant troll . . . .
DWD- Fortified with Resolve
I'll e-mail you my thoughts on that. A couple certain folks live for the trolls. When I see that shit, I'm either off, or in a REALLY good mood so I just scroll on by.
cs (etc.) --
I would so love to see "Jesus Camp"!
Fr Wm liked "The Illusionist"
Most people liked "Little Miss Sunshine" -- some thought it overhyped -- last thing I saw was "Hollywoodland" -- I would highly recommend it for any male baby boomer -- dunno how others would react
I got nothing, just wanted to do a quick fly by and get a post in from Toledo.
And just give Hastert a new excuse: It's all cause Lou let Mary have a job in the newsroom.
cs art is bread,
"Sunshine" is pretty good.
Noun 1. lawyer - a professional person authorized to practice law, conduct lawsuits or give legal advice.
Synonyms: attorney
Who knew?
Harold Ford Jr.
Oh [clutches pearls convulsively] we're ruined. RUINED I say! Harold Ford, with a JD from a law school, is passing himself off as a lawyer! And all the Repugs have going against them is a nothing little scandal about some teenage boys working as pages in Congress being sexually preyed upon by a Repug Congressman, and all the Repugs in Congress well aware of it and madly covering it up.
The Democrats are RUINED!
And OYMOYGAWD! Peopuhl from Lawn Guyland tawk totally FRICKin' diffrint dan peopuhl from duh Broinx.
Pam @ Atlas Shrugs
This one tickles the shit outta me. A hell of a lot funnier'n Merkin or the ever-present dith.
Barry from AK,
Why couldn't you fly my plane back from Rome? Bumpy all the way. They made us stay in our seats for nine hours. I'm still trying to recover.
These sports commentators tick me off. "Even if Boise St. wins every game they'd still never be worthy to oust Auburn from their rightful place amongst the top 10."
The Ducks could beat USC and still be #11.
"Is anyone else occasionally surprised by how a throwaway comment will get attention,"
I am the ultimate case of the throwaway comment getting massive, nationwide attention.
I think the blame for popularizing the mispronunciation of "Detroit" should be laid on Chuck Berry. Didn't he say "DEE-troit" in "Back in the USA"?
Hey, Barry! Good trip so far? Staying in Toledo overnight?
"Only the payload will leave orbit."
What's the date on that IM?
Friend of mine saw "The Illusionist" and enjoyed it.
I read recently that regional dialects in the states have actually grown deeper.
What aboot the provinces, eh?
Little Brøther
The accents are so deep here, they sound like different languages. Oh, wait.
Actually, there are huge difference in accent. Newfie talk is practically a different language, and the difference between our maritime accent and that English they speak in Toronto is much wider then the difference between the southern US accents and New England accents, for example.
Don't know for sure about BC-- I'm going there for the first time in a few weeks-- but I wonder how the Asians have affected the language.
Why couldn't you fly my plane back from Rome? Bumpy all the way. They made us stay in our seats for nine hours. I'm still trying to recover.
res ipsa loquitur
Nine hours with the seatbelt sign on? Wow, that's hard on the knees.
But I suppose better than bouncing off the ceiling.
It seems to me, that a lot of pilots just forget about the seatbelt sign.
This one tickles the shit outta me. A hell of a lot funnier'n Merkin or the ever-present dith.
You betchuh ass it is, yuh FRICKin' moonbat mistuh hookuh suh join!
Oh hell, "Day-Twah" is to Detroit what "Tar-zhay" is to Target. It matters not.
Will-a-Met.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Vicki, you'd stick out like a sore thumb in Oregon (pronounced Ory GUN).
Puyallup is a place name that tests your nativeness to the Other Washington.
Will-a-Met.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Will aah met
Hey, Barry! Good trip so far? Staying in Toledo overnight?
Virginia
Naw, leave here at 6pm for Honolulu.
Just a short break between flights.
Vicki, you'd stick out like a sore thumb in Oregon (pronounced Ory GUN).
I stick out like a sore thumb in Grand Rapids, my damned liberal self, so what's the dif?
Saskatchewan has no accent
just dialect
Sorry if this was brought up below, but in following the link to the NewsWeak poll, the caption reads 'Americans are divided over whether Hastert should resign." No they're not - 50/50 is divided. 70-30 is a clear mandate that fat ass should get off the throne.
I don't know how to spell aah.
Sounds like happy.
For all the years I've been posting here, I never *figured out* that Barry from AK was a pilot.
Well, now I know. Cool.
You betchuh ass it is, yuh FRICKin' moonbat mistuh hookuh suh join!
Pam @ Atlas Shrugs
XXX
Now shake them big tits for me, girl!!!
Will-a-Met
Will-a-Met, a-Will-a-Met, Will-a-Met, a-Will-a-Met... eeeeeeee, eeee-eeee-eeee-eee-mumm-mumm-a-way? 
Well, now I know. Cool.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
That's why the end of my handle keeps changing, I try and reflect where I am.
It's a hobby.
OK, I really need to go wash the windows in the living room. Back in a bit.
Barry from AK,
Hard on the bum, too.
Got scolded for getting up and told FA, "If I don't get to that loo, both of us are going to be embarassed in a moment." It was like that for everyone.
Nothing crazy: just moderate near-constant bumpiness (or what they pilot called "chop") once we got off the coast of France all the way to about St. John.
Little Brother, I am still kind of pissed off that no one wants to talk about hot and cold media and Marshall McLuhan or my theory on the denigration of sexual roles in modern society: what makes a man and what makes a woman.
But, we can talk all night to some pissant troll . . . .
DWD- Fortified with Resolve
Sorry we ain't up on your level, DWD.
Sometimes we just want to have fun.
That's why the end of my handle keeps changing, I try and reflect where I am.
It's a hobby
Cool. If you ever get to Grand Rapids, give me a ring. I'll send you the details.
will - AM - ette (actually, it, of course, depends where you are talking about & the setting -- Valparaiso in Chile & Indiana & Florida are not pronounced the same)
FWIW, ARG has Leiberman at 47% & Lamont at 43% (MOE ±4%)
For all the years I've been posting here, I never *figured out* that Barry from AK was a pilot.
Girl, where have you been? The man flies the big jumbo jets, too, not those little JFK-Junior numbers.
Prior -- Oh, I forgot all about Hollywoodland. Not playing at any of my fave theatres, but worth checking out. Thanks.
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Girl, where have you been?
It must have escaped me.
Oh, I knew someone would jump on that.
I'm talking about the mispronunciation of "Detroit" in the national media, which started after the influx of southerners up north, which filtered into country music, and spread from there.
Now can you quit the "you're not a real southerner" fingerpointing about a contraction? I promise from here on on to stand corrected on a word I won't ever use again.
Well, no wonder they just tore the place down!
Did they really? How could they? That was Kerouac and Ginsberg's hangout when they were Columbia students.
And by the way, I myself had a beer at the West End on my first trip to New York City, which was (interestingly enough) in September, 1994...
Why couldn't you fly my plane back from Rome? Bumpy all the way. They made us stay in our seats for nine hours. I'm still trying to recover.
res ipsa loquitur
What airlines?
Wil-AAM-et
I think. At least that's how it's said in Ducktown.
Why couldn't you fly my plane back from Rome?
Oh, I left Rome / And landed in Brussels
On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost died.
There were clergymen in uniform / And young girls pullin' muscles
Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside...*
*I know certain parties who shall remain shunned have done Dylan lyrics to death here, but I reserve the right to lay an occasional lash on the dead horse.
just got back from the gym. Earlier I did a 25 miles bike ride. Time to strip down to the boxers.
has anyone seen _Mysterious Skin_ (from 2005)? it creeped me out!! then the foley things breaks. it's a VERY creepy movie.
Ridnik,
The owners sold. The place will soon be called "Havana Central at the West End."
It's being gutted and renovated as I type.
Sorry.
Okay, I'm getting hung up on Canadian now. What's the difference between an imperial ton and a metric ton? And if I write "tonne," as they often do up here, which am I talking about?
Nothing crazy: just moderate near-constant bumpiness (or what they pilot called "chop") once we got off the coast of France all the way to about St. John.
res ipsa loquitur
It was like that two weeks ago on my JFK-Gottenburg flight.
Must be that time of year.
Time to strip down to the boxers.
What are you? Muscle man? Where's the web cam?
Will-a-Met
My name William, gets pronounced one of three ways. At home in AR it's either Will-YUM or Wi-YUM. Other places it's Will-LEE-um.
My grandmother, who knew about such things, maintained that the Southern pronounciations were due to the Spanish influence where LL is pronounced "yuh".
Why couldn't you fly my plane back from Rome? Bumpy all the way. They made us stay in our seats for nine hours. I'm still trying to recover.
res ipsa loquitur
What airlines?
Tena
Geez, on long flights you absolutely need to move to avoid deep vein thrombosis.
Valparaiso in Chile & Indiana & Florida are not pronounced the same)
Versailles, Kentucky -- pronounced just like it's spelled.
LIME-ah, Ohia.
LEEM-ah, Peru.
has anyone seen _Mysterious Skin_ (from 2005)? it creeped me out!! then the foley things breaks. it's a VERY creepy movie.
I love that movie. It's heartbreaking.
The end of the Korean conflict truce?
"Shots fired amid Korean tension
South Korean troops have fired warning shots at soldiers from the North amid rising tension over North Korean plans to test a nuclear weapon."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...fic/
5415304.stm
Vicki, you'd stick out like a sore thumb in Oregon
More like two sore thumbs, I should say.
And I base that conclusion on the party's own testimony.
- It is a well known fact that Democrats actually won a higher number of individual votes in the Presidential Elections of both 2000 and 2004. Right now, all Americans of conscience need to be proactive by setting up US National Vote Fraud Watch comittees with many local teams of US citizen observers and seasoned lawyers to scrutinize every single move by Republicans right up to Election Day. Since at least 2000, Republicans have stolen elections as they knew most Americans were already aware that Bush was a traitor, and was unable to win without resorting to blackbox manipulation, Vote buying, intimidation, & outright fraud -
Okay, I gotta go meet a bunch of Liberal Elitist Atriot Pony-Loving Beeyotches.
My best to you all (except the trolls, who can fuck off and die).
What's the difference between an imperial ton and a metric ton?
about 220 pds
CAWL-ass, Maine. Ca-LAY, France.
Okay, I'm getting hung up on Canadian now. What's the difference between an imperial ton and a metric ton? And if I write "tonne," as they often do up here, which am I talking about?
Moe Szyslak
I think an imperial tonne is one Hastert....or maybe that's imperialistic tonne...
What are you? Muscle man? Where's the web cam?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
gonna shower down and grill now
might use some Heinz maf54 sauce
We had a lot of turbulence on the way to DC last weekend. It was so bad that my stomach actually got a bit queasy, and that never happens to me. I was reading though, and I can't do that when I'm in a car.
I can't imagine nine hours of it. Yuk. And the leg circulation problems are very real.
Geez, on long flights you absolutely need to move to avoid deep vein thrombosis.
ellroon
That's one reason I want to know which airlines.
I actually liked the airbuses I flew to Italy and back on on Lufthansa. I liked Lufthansa, period. Terrible food and movies, but otherwise, a good airline, I thought. The airbus coming home had a bank of heads in an area between the two coach sections. It was big enough to stand around in and you were out of the aisles.
And I base that conclusion on the party's own testimony.
Little Brøther
res -- tell everyone I whined hello, OK?
OK, that number was from Noozweek's own polling - I have seen worse numbers for Hastert.
ellroon: That is indeed great work by Waxman to pin the tail directly on the corrupt fascist beast.
Okay, I gotta go meet a bunch of Liberal Elitist Atriot Pony-Loving Beeyotches.
Lucky! Say hello from all the computer-bound Atriots.
South Korean troops have fired warning shots at soldiers from the North amid rising tension over North Korean plans to test a nuclear weapon."
witnesses report seeing a mushroom cloud drilled through with perfectly placed shots...
Gotta run, as Duncan says, Travel Day.
See ya all from Honolulu (and odd as it is, I'd rather be in NYC.)
later bats.
I love that movie. It's heartbreaking.
masculine_monica_nyc
yes, very heartbreaking. if you weren't sexually abused as a child, you should watch the film: mysterious skin.
Geez, on long flights you absolutely need to move to avoid deep vein thrombosis.
ellroon
maf54: deep vein thrombosis? sounds yummy..........
Vicki would fit just fine in Oregon.
It was so bad that my stomach actually got a bit queasy, and that never happens to me
We had a flight back from France once that was bumpy like that, for hours. I never get motion sickness, but by the time the air smoothed out I was getting a leeeetle nauseous.
(Did I mention that I hate to fly and that one little bump will make me whimper?)
Don't forget to visit me in Gitmo.
ellroon: That is indeed great work by Waxman to pin the tail directly on the corrupt fascist beast.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Waxman is my hero. He's relentless and dogged and will NOT take no for an answer. God! We need more of his ilk!
Washington Post afghan reporter in response to the rumdum oped
shorter response
overly optimistic very overly optimistic....hughly optimistic
and er ummm some of his facts are wrong too
later bats.
Barry from AK in Toledo | Homepage | 10.07.06 - 3:54 pm | #
Have a great trip. And, glad to know you don't blog from work!!
gonna shower down and grill now
might use some Heinz maf54 sauce
Got a ruler?
Love details...
Don't know for sure about BC-- I'm going there for the first time in a few weeks-- but I wonder how the Asians have affected the language.
Moe Szyslak
What, the Hong Kong Chinese? Or the folks who stuck around after building the CPR?
The only weirdy I ran across that I can remember was "la cienega". In LA? La See-en-ega. In Albuquerque? La See-a-nayga. For some reason it brought home the diversification in Spanish norms.
South Korean troops have fired warning shots at soldiers from the North amid rising tension over North Korean plans to test a nuclear weapon.
This is not good.
The standing joke when I was stationed in the ROK in '87 was that the 2nd ID was there to keep the NKs and the ROKs from fighting each other.
From what depths of hell did these mean, evil, greedy, self-absorbed, perveted, cowardly, pathological lying rethug. demons spawn?
I can't imagine nine hours of it. Yuk. And the leg circulation problems are very real.
pie
When I went to Italy, there were two groups of us on this tour. One group was mainly from Houston. That group had a couple who had brought their 80 some odd year old mom along and the first day we were there, she had to go to the hospital. They thought it was thrombosis.
I'll be damned if they didn't release her about a day later and they picked up the tour again. She passed out in the road stop on the way back from Pompeii. If that had been my mother, she would have gone back to the U.S. as soon as she was out of the hospital the first time, cause I'd have taken her myself if she refused on her own.
I couldn't believe it -
(pie - I owe you an email. I started to answer you last night, but it was late. Sorry I haven't yet - I will.)
And, glad to know you don't blog from work!!
I thought that was what auto-pilot was for.
tonne is metric ton = 100- kilograms = 2204.62#
imperial (or long) ton = 2240#
displacement ton = 35 cubic feet of sea water
shipping ton (refers to cargo) = 40 cubic feet
register ton (refers to internal capacity of ships) = 100 cubic feet
It's okay, Tena. I know how it goes.
Vicki would fit just fine in Oregon.
Vicki would do just fine in Portland proper or Eugene, once she got her pronunciation of Willamette down right.
Around Gresham, places in Washington county, and the cesspit that is Josephine county, she'd definitely be a misfit.
BTW --
I listened to a conversation between a couple of Newfies & I literally cound not understand a single word (except, "eh")
From what depths of hell did these mean, evil, greedy, self-absorbed, perveted, cowardly, pathological lying rethug. demons spawn?
The twisted mind of Grover Norquist.
What, the Hong Kong Chinese? Or the folks who stuck around after building the CPR?
Both, I guess. There was a recent show on CBC about dating in Vancouver-- most people (I think it was something like 80 %) under 30 had at sometime in their life dated someone of a different race. All sorts of things result because of that, no doubt, but I'm wondering how it affects language.
Moe - the very best conversion site.
Thanks Prior Aelred, and Dr. B! Now to figure out if CP uses ton or tonne.
Robin Williams had a great, new phrase on Maher last night: Caucus Suckers!
pie - well, love you - which is mostly what I was going to say. And I will answer.
I've been going back and forth with a 19 year old who is being a WATB about her parents' refusal to let her go off to NYC on her own and go to school.
She hasn't even applied, for all love.
I've been slightly distracted.
And tonight Mr. Tena is giving me a birthday party. I'm still stunned by this - it's a first.
Now to figure out if CP uses ton or tonne.
Moe Szyslak |
shit
I don't have my CP style guide here!
Tena, just curious-- do you mean you would've taken the ailing old woman home on GP, i.e. because she was obviously unfit, if not incapacitated, for the kind of hyperactive touring you've described elsewhere?
I'm only wondering, because I've heard stories (from real people, not "some people say") of travellers developing unexpected health problems in Europe, and somehow receiving excellent and seemingly hassle-free care. I don't know about Italy; I vaguely recall France, Portugal, possibly Germany.
It's insane to expect an infirm person to enjoy an active "vacation", for sure. Unless they're prepared to say, "She died doing something she loved..." 
And tonight Mr. Tena is giving me a birthday party. I'm still stunned by this - it's a first.
Wow!
That's cool. So cool!
From O'Donnell at Huffpo:
The Odd Couple
Many chiefs of staff are close, very close, to their bosses on Capitol Hill. But none are closer than Scott Palmer is to Denny Hastert. They don't just work together all day, they live together.
There are plenty of odd couple Congressmen who have roomed together on Capitol Hill, but I have never heard of a chief of staff who rooms with his boss. It is beyond unusual.
Shades of Hoover and Tolson?
Hippo birdie two ewes, Tena.
Hmmm. Four p.m. Is it too early for a glass of embarassingly inexpensive sauv blanc? Nevermind. I've already answered that question. Cheers.
From the interview with Chris Wallace in the Times magazine:
Q. But why go to Fox News, of all channels, which has been criticized for having a conservative bias?
A.I thought it got a bad rap from the national media and the chattering classes. It did a fair, aggressive and extremely watchable job of presenting the news during the day. People confuse the basic mission of Fox News for the political-opinion shows they have at night, which clearly are conservative.
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors have wrapped up an investigation into the 2003 suspected CIA kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in Milan, which could lead to criminal charges being brought against 38 people, most of them CIA agents.
Judicial sources said on Saturday that 26 CIA agents and the head of Italy's Sismi military intelligence agency, Nicolo Pollari, were among the 38 suspects notified at the end of the probe, meaning prosecutors can now ask a judge to order them to stand trial.
The magistrates say a CIA-led team seized Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, in Milan in 2003 and flew him to his native Egypt. Nasr says he was tortured there while being questioned.
http://today.reuters.com/news/ar..._C2_worldNews-
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SOP in the New Amerika.
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And tonight Mr. Tena is giving me a birthday party. I'm still stunned by this - it's a first.
Whoa!! That's fabulous!
Glad to hear it.
Two somewhat good events in my life from the previous week. I may be getting a job, in a QA lab in Tucson. Pretty decent pay, that isn't defense work.
Also, me and my son poured a foundation for a large shed, and so far, after about 4 tons of concrete (before adding water) mixed by hand, poured and screeded, I show no ill signs from the hard work. Must have made a total recovery from last winter, where I was wondering if I was going to be still around at this time.
My red dress | 10.07.06 - 4:07 pm
Look, I don't think we should be any part of perpetuating innuendo about Hastert.
I don't want the taint in liberal blogistan.
Kerry was also on Real Time and he talked about putting a boot in GOP ass! Better than average episode indeed.
Forgot the link, in case you care:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/0.../
08wwln_q4.html
It did a fair, aggressive and extremely watchable job of presenting the news during the day.
The news? And what about the accuracy of your news, Chris?
Doug!
That's great news! I, for one, am enriched by you being here.
Congratulations all around.
All sorts of things result because of that, no doubt, but I'm wondering how it affects language.
Moe Szyslak
Okay, one more Bunny-Bunny and cross-cultural misunderstanding story and then I'm gonna go paint.
In Calgary, when Bunny-Bunny, I and my sister were little, there were lots of Ukrainians, Doukhoubours, Scandanavians, English, Scots, Irish, Germans, Blackfeet, Cree, Chinese and Texans, but what there weren't any of were black people. So, the first trip we took down to Tulsa, to visit with Mummy's Mummy and Daddy, there was the young and darling Bunny-Bunny, looking around as they went around town, finally asking why there were so many Chinese around.... It was the only not-us group that he absolutely knew.
There are plenty of odd couple Congressmen who have roomed together on Capitol Hill, but I have never heard of a chief of staff who rooms with his boss. It is beyond unusual.
Shades of Hoover and Tolson?
My red dress
I thought I'd read Dreier and his chief of staff live together...but then again, they are lovers.
evening moonbats
Come on, Tena, be nice: I have been on my best non-elitist behavior of late.
But I do mean the sexual differentiation thing. Honestly, people are so confused about what is the proper role that it is causing all sorts of problems and giving the haters a wedge to drive between us.
But that is neither here nor there. As the old saying goes, I could get my own blog and talk about whatever I want to.
Alone.
So alone.
That group had a couple who had brought their 80 some odd year old mom along and the first day we were there, she had to go to the hospital.
One of my mother's aquaintances made her 80-something year old mother go on a Caribbean cruise with her about a year ago. The mother died on the flight back from the cruise.
Alone.
So alone.
DWD- Fortified with Resolve
Moe, metric tonne = 1000 kg
imperial ton = 2000 lbs
and I lived in Vancouver for 5 years and didn't find that the Chinese changed the language that much except everyone in Vancouver knows how to say Happy New Year in Cantonese for Chinese New Year!
There are plenty of odd couple Congressmen who have roomed together on Capitol Hill, but I have never heard of a chief of staff who rooms with his boss. It is beyond unusual.
Shades of Hoover and Tolson?
My red dress
I think there's a 2nd aide who's part of the mix as well
DWD,
suffice to say I said I'd visit you, and I had a silly comment...
Years ago, on my first visit to Italy, I developed water on the knee. I went to an Italian medical clinic, where the doctor pointed out that the knee was sunburned. It was also, unlike the other similarly sunburned knee, about twice normal size. My joke ever since has been that in Italy, while the doctor beats the drum, the nurse shakes the rattle.
Ultimately, I had to cancel plans to go to Greece where the medical care was rumored to be similar in order to go to Switzerland for medical attention.
It's all anecdotal; I'm sure there are lots of very good doctors in Italy, perhaps they just aren't easy for broke college backpackers to find.
Better than average episode indeed.
Cartman | 10.07.06 - 4:09 pm | #
It would have been tonnes better if Robin Williams had not been on. He is incapable of allowing anyone else to speak. I kept yelling "shut up" at the tv for the entire hour.
I was hoping his stint in rehab would calm him down a bit, but alas, no.
Look, I don't think we should be any part of perpetuating innuendo about Hastert.
Agreed. I just read something about Hastert from WMR in a comment at TPM, and I didn't think it was a good idea to repeat rumors from over 20 years ago when they were precisely that - rumors.
This isn't about being gay anyway. Geez.
And a short ton is indeed 2,000 POUNDS....
Are you getting the hint cher? That since Canada is putatively on the metric system, and since the metric tonne is spellt tonne, that might be the one in use?
But that is neither here nor there. As the old saying goes, I could get my own blog and talk about whatever I want to.
Alone.
So alone.
DWD- Fortified with Resolve
hey DWD
don't take this the wrong way at all cause it's meant in the best of intentions:
I've stumbled across a few blogs where actual 'issues' are discussed in an intelligent objective non-'personal' manner- that might be what you are hoping for...
on the other hand- maybe not!
Back to the living room.
Hee, my BIL is a somewhat successful musician in Vancouver, putting out a CD next month. We're going for the party. But he's from Toronto, so that doesn't help at all.
I'm torn about the Hastert rumor. On the one hand, I don't think we're trying to be like them. On the other hand, "Dems had evil perverted kids set up poor Foley" -- fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
Re-HICA!
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Re-HICA!
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This isn't about being gay anyway. Geez.
pie
This is about a bunch of openly gay people and possibly more than a few closeted gay people using sexual orientation as a club and political wedge. It's about hypocrisy. Even average Americans who aren't that gay friendly "get it".
Forgot the link, in case you care:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/0.../ 08wwln_q4.html
david mizner
What a prick the younger Mr. Wallace is.
Good for the Clenis in slapping him down.
Vicki, I did the blog thing for years - before they were called blogs.
At one point we were getting 5K hits a day 139K a month (and mostly from newspapers and stuff) but never found a way to make it pay and the constant updating got old. Really old.
I used to be one half of the Doom Brothers, News with a Difference. I doubt you would remember me, but some do. The Doom Brothers did parody news (like the Onion and the Frumious Bandersnatch - who had us on their link page. I guess that was blogrolling before there was such a thing. We were awarded LA Time's Site of the Day and a Best of Web top 1000 comedy sites)
After doing it for years I vowed not to bother. But it was kind of fun while it lasted.
shit
I don't have my CP style guide here!
olexicon, Sir Shrill-a-Lot
maybe it's 'bookmarked' under 'pierre burton'
why do so many dislike dims?
It would have been tonnes better if Robin Williams had not been on. He is incapable of allowing anyone else to speak. I kept yelling "shut up" at the tv for the entire hour.
I think 'they' know that before they ask Williams to be on. That's his deal.
SEN. DeWINE: Tim, I was shocked by that as well. But you know, on reflection, this is their country. There’s a lot of things going wrong. You blame someone who is there. Still does not change that we’re not in Iraq primarily for the Iraqis. We’re in Iraq for us. We’re—have to do what we have to do, and it goes back to what the three generals—three military leaders said. It would be a total disaster for us to leave. It is in our self-interest, the interest to protect American families, that we are in Iraq. That’s why we’re there.
http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com
Dr. B, the problem is I'm quoting Maude Barlow, who uses "ton," but she's writing to a North American audience, inclusive of both the US and Canada, so I don't know what the hell she's talking about.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/...s-just-
gop.html
americablog reports that mr. steele ran an add defaming the support of drug companies for dems, though he just ran a drug comp fundraiser.
Earl, I enjoy this site and the people here. (Including you and Doug and the rest - my favorite Atriots)
pie - I don't think it's about "teh gay" but it might very well be about "covering up teh gay". As someone said way upthread, Hastert's actions don't make a lot of sense when viewed with just the facts we already know. The real danger I see here is that the Republicans will try to make it about teh gay rather than what it is actually about - teh corruption, teh incompetence, and teh lust for unfettered power.
I tripped over a railway line while in Switzerland and was in a caste for 6 weeks.
Well, Tena, you won't believe this-- but I was the one who thought up the idea for your party and talked Mr. Tena into it. I even put up some of the dough.
The thing is, we agreed between us to keep this in the vault. So no matter how hard you pump him, he'll swear up and down that he never heard of any jackass named Little Brøther, nobody has to tell him that giving a party for his adorable wife is quite a sweet and romantic gesture, etc.
I don't think you need to put the both of you through that.
And the only reason I'm telling you about this now is because I sense a certain latent uneasiness in your attitude about the party. And I worry that you may not enjoy it as much as you should because of this nagging concern about how the hell this came about, anyway?
So now you know. No-- don't thank me. You'll embarrass both of us. This is a private thing we'll just keep between ourselves and the one or two Atriots loitering about. 
Party Hearty! ♥ ♥
Tena - You were asking about airlines. I imagine Dallas has much the same gateways to Europe as Houston.
The best flight I have found by far is the afternoon KLM flight. You leave at four in the afternoon which puts you into Amsterdam at about seven AM. Best part, it's mainly a sleeper flight, so you arrive rested and no jet lag.
I would pay the extra and get into the bubble (second floor so to speak). It's business class, and mostly business people that have a morning meeting in Europe. Right from takeoff, they dim the lights, get out the blankets, and no kids (at least use to). Not sure if Lufthansa has the same airplanes. Anyway, flying in the bubble was head and shoulders better than anything I've ever flown.
why do so many dislike dims?
dith
www.pollingreport.com
Get an education. You got it backwards.
Moonbootica, what caste were you? In India? Switzerland? Oh hell, I am so confused.
why do so many dislike dims?
dith
why do so many like us, assface?
I tripped over a railway line while in Switzerland and was in a caste for 6 weeks.
Moonbootica
I didn't know they had untouchables in Switzerland.
I tripped over a railway line while in Switzerland and was in a caste for 6 weeks.
Moonbootica, Space&Freedom
was that temporary caste in Switzerland, Gujarat possibly?
So, the Tigers gonna win this PM? Dunno.
My nephew is visiting and he said, "Cheering for the Yankees is like hoping Brad Pitt gets the girl at the movies."
I kind of liked that.
The new Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is billionaires only. If you're net worth is a mere $999 million, forget it. A billion means a thousand million, and that's the Forbes 400 minimum -- up from $900 million in 2005. Donald Trump and two of his kids grace the Forbes 400 cover, but ranked No.94 with $2.9 billion, Trump's a long way from No.1 Bill Gates with $53 billion. The combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans is a record-breaking $1.25 trillion. That's about the same amount of combined wealth held by the 57 million households who make up half the U.S. population. The economy is booming for billionaires. It's a bust for many other Americans. A record 400 Americans are billionaires, and a record 47 million Americans have no health insurance. America has 400 billionaires, and 37 million people below the official poverty line. The official poverty line for one person was just $9,973 in 2005 (latest data). That wouldn't cover the custom-made men's shoes ($4,12 and Hermes purse ($6,250) on the Forbes Cost of Living Extremely Well Index. The official poverty line of $15,577 for a three-person family is lower than the cost of the Patek Philippe men's gold watch ($17,600). The Forbes 400 minimum is up $100 million since 2005, but the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 an hour -- just $10,712 a year -- since 1997. GOP leaders in Congress have been holding a raise for minimum wage workers hostage to more giant tax cuts for wealthy inheritors. Wealth isn't trickling down. It's flooding up -- from workers to bosses, small investors to big, poorer to richer. The heirs to Wal-Mart founders Sam and Bud Walton have a combined $82.5 billion -- while the children of Wal-Mart workers swell the ranks of state health insurance programs which pay only for the neediest. In today's corporate America, workers see gutted paychecks and pensions despite rising worker productivity, while CEOs get golden pay, perks, pensions and parachutes. The pay gap between average workers and CEOs has grown nine times wider since the 1970s. The number of billionaires is a record high, but the share of national income going to wages and salaries is at a record low. U.S. corporate profits increased 21 percent in the past year, Market Watch reported in March. "Profits have been so high because almost all of the benefits from productivity improvements are flowing to the owners of capital rather than to the workers," said Market Watch. The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans (minimum net worth $6 million) owned 62 percent of the nation's business assets, 51 percent of stocks and 70 percent of bonds as of 2004, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances -- which excludes the Forbes 400. That's way up from 1989, when the wealthiest 1 percent owned 54 percent of business assets, 41 percent of stocks and 52 percent of bonds. Our growing economy is not producing a growing middle class, but a richer aristocracy.
This is about a bunch of openly gay people and possibly more than a few closeted gay people using sexual orientation as a club and political wedge.
Well, this is about an adult using his position to irresponsibly and wrongly approach younger people for sex. And I agree that the repubs are the height of hypocrisy when it comes to gay issues, but I don't see how it helps anything to bring unsubstantiated rumors into an already hot-button issue. You'd think this would help some people wake up about and get a clue about the whole gay-straight orientation, but noooooooooo.
Whatever. People are going to do what they want anyway.
See you later, gaters.
ooops
sorry mispelling
you know what i mean.
sorry had a bit to drink.
Let's go, you Motor City kitties!
I'm torn about the Hastert rumor
Virginia
You are? Wolcott's not.
gawd i'm so embarassed lol