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GravatarHaw! Thrown out at home, Central!

Sorry.
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GravatarDamn you Jeff!!!


Gravatar♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Curly's hangin' his Saturday morning shingle over at the blogdiva's day gig, y'know.
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GravatarHow about a variant of Act Blue?I would put money into a blogger fund.
Well, one that doesn't involve political porn.


GravatarScrutinizer! You tgot that much free time, then get your ass over here and scrutinizer me!


GravatarVicki, Who ♥ Al Gore

Consider yourself scrutinized!


GravatarScrutinizer! You tgot that much free time, then get your ass over here and scrutinizer me!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore


I'm telling Thers.

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GravatarConsider helping out your favorite bloggers.

Yeah, right, Atrios.


GravatarConsider yourself scrutinized!
Central Scrutinizer


Hrrrmmmppphhhhh.

It'd feel better in person. Or at least over the phone.



GravatarScrutinizer! You tgot that much free time, then get your ass over here and scrutinizer me!
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore

*blushes*


GravatarThanks, Atrios. The local blogging scene is the next big frontier, and that's where the righties hope to swamp us with their money.

None of the guys behind PowerLine have to worry about whether they can afford to get a new car or put their kids through college, or whether their bosses will punish them for blogging (either Deacon or Big Trunk works for TCF Bank, which is run the former chair of the Minnesota Republican Party). But for most of the lefty bloggers, those are very real concerns.


GravatarNew Orleans bloggers are trying to kick out William "Cold Cash" Jefferson-- but due to his powerful machine, that task is not as easy as one would hope.


GravatarYa know, antiwar.com are doing their quarterly pledge drive and need money, but they continually post depressing stuff like Raimondo's latest:

"The Great Realignment of 2006 lasted a little over a week before it turned into the Great Sellout. It is a perfect illustration of how the War Party controls the leadership of both major parties and maintains its grip on the levers of power. Given near-monopoly status on account of repressive ballot access laws in most states, the parties can thwart the popular will. Given a mandate for peace, the Democratic Party leadership has effectively rejected it and reversed the election results.

Americans voted for peace, and they're going to get more war. That's how our Bizarro democracy works, and all I can say is God bless Bizarro America, land of the duped and home of the cowed."

http://antiwar.com/justin/? artic...articleid=10025


GravatarAnd Phoenix Woman wins the on topic award.

I don't know of any local bloggers, unfortunately.

I'll use The Google, I guess.


GravatarIt'd feel better in person. Or at least over the phone.


Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore


Aural sex?


GravatarSurraureal.


GravatarSorry to cut this flirting off so quickly, but I must bid you adieu.

Taking my daughter out for something to chew on.

*Mwah.


GravatarBonjour les amis!

here's someting cute: Koa Kitty

http://www.dailykitten.com/

i just gave 40$ yesterday to Québec Solidaire, the new provincial leftist party in the province. Will I go to heaven?


Gravatar*Mwah.
Vicki

Mwah back!


GravatarGiven a mandate for peace, the Democratic Party leadership has effectively rejected it and rev--

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GravatarMy blogging takes away from my career in Dinner Theatre.


GravatarNew Orleans bloggers are trying to kick out William "Cold Cash" Jefferson-- but due to his powerful machine, that task is not as easy as one would hope.
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...as part of the arrangement with the Congressional Black Congress to help get her elected as Speaker, the bug-eyed idiot (999,957) agreed not to investigate Jefferson..

...MOST.CORRUPT.CONGRESS.EVER


GravatarMy blogging takes away from my career in Dinner Theatre.
Attaturk

we noticed, tsk tsk tsk


GravatarI give to Gilliard about every other time he has a fundraiser. He's doing terrific work.


GravatarHere's a nifty little resource for finding local blogs.

http://www.leftyblogs.com/


GravatarIt is also helpful, and basically free, to add local bloggers to your blogroll. That's just not practical for Atrios and many other popular blogs, but those of us down in the trenches can do this.

*Wink* thanks Phoenix Woman!


GravatarJersey Blue was my place to go to double check what Young Tom Kean Jr was lying about that had made it into the local coverage.

Good stuff. Very helpful.

http://www.hinessight.com

was also good for getting info on state races.


GravatarHad I not awakened, I'd still be asleep.


GravatarBut it takes a long time to not just build up traffic, but reputation.

I hesitate to offer any advice to Atrios, since he seems to have an ornery streak actively resisting any.

But here are two problems with reputation:

The "dumbest trolls on the internet" rarely get banned. I understand there's some technical problem here where banning one troll spills over to affect non-trolls on the same server (or something), but surely that's surmountable

There's too much traffic here for Haloscan, a format which might work well on a lightly trafficked site, but creates a heap of problems on an 800 comment thread at peak hours.

I hope Atrios doesn't ban me as a demonstration of how he's serious about both problems.


GravatarYep, I'm still being a fucking baby who can't do the adult thing and move on.


Gravatarstemcell juju, what is it about you repukes that you pick on women?

Bad raising? Mama never taught you manners?

Or is it that you have such an inferiority complex concerning your lack of manhood that you have to compensate by being ugly to women?


GravatarTry again, namestealer Republican.

HASTERT and BUSH are the ones who thwarted the FBI's investigation, remember?


GravatarThis is another super easy, soul-satisfying recipe.
Mental Lentils

3 qts Chicken broth
3 nice-sized onions, chopped
3 large carrots, peeled and sliced into 1/4" pieces
2 avg smoked ham hock pieces
1 T Celery seed
4 cups water
bay leaves to taste
6 whole cloves, optional
2lbs lentils, rinsed and sorted thru
freshly ground pepper to taste
Salt to taste after cooking

Pour broth into a heavy-bottomed stock pot.
Add ham hocks, onions, carrots, celery seed, bay leaves and cloves to broth. Bring to full boil.
Add lentils, pepper and water and stir to blend well. Return to boil. Cover and reduce heat to
a low/moderate simmer and cook 1-2 hrs, stirring every 15 minutes or so. When the texture you prefer is achieved, add salt to taste.
Serve warm and garnish with grated parmesan if desired.

Serves a multitude.


GravatarG'morning all. What's new?

Thought i have (which may just illo my computer ignorance), but wouldn't it be nice to have a single central web address that had, say, 2 links to good, solid local bloggers in each of the 50 states? (And Puerto Rico, etc).

then these good ones would have some uptick in web trafficing, and the result would be that we could all get a little window into each state around the MSM. i suppose (tho the comparison pains) it would be something like that 'News from Around the Country' page in USA Today.
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GravatarThis is another super easy, soul-satisfying recipe.
Mental Lentils
3 qts Chicken broth
3 nice-sized onions, chopped
3 large carrots, peeled and sliced into 1/4" pieces
2 avg smoked ham hock pieces
1 T Celery seed
4 cups water
bay leaves to taste
6 whole cloves, optional
2lbs lentils, rinsed and sorted thru
freshly ground pepper to taste
Salt to taste after cooking

Pour broth into a heavy-bottomed stock pot.
Add ham hocks, onions, carrots, celery seed, bay leaves and cloves to broth. Bring to full boil.
Add lentils, pepper and water and stir to blend well. Return to boil. Cover and reduce heat to
a low/moderate simmer and cook 1-2 hrs, stirring every 15 minutes or so. When the texture you prefer is achieved, add salt to taste.
Serve warm and garnish with grated parmesan if desired.
Serves a multitude.


GravatarIf Bush wasn't being such an obvious imperialist chucklenuts, most of the libertarian douchebags at antiwar.com would be tripping over themselves to be the first to slob his knob. I stopped reading them on a regular basis long ago.


Gravatarhttp://www.leftyblogs.com/
Central Scrutinizer

what a great link! How come I didn't know about it before the elections?

It's the Grey Cup this week-end!


Gravatarwhat a great link! How come I didn't know about it before the elections?

It's the Grey Cup this week-end!
Plum P


Silly me, I should have shared!


GravatarBlue Jersey is a fabulous blog (especially strong on GLBT issues).


Gravatar Here's a nifty little resource for finding local blogs.

http://www.leftyblogs.com/
Central Scrutinizer | 11.18.06 - 11:21 am | #


Thanks, CS!

It is also helpful, and basically free, to add local bloggers to your blogroll. That's just not practical for Atrios and many other popular blogs, but those of us down in the trenches can do this.

*Wink* thanks Phoenix Woman!
shrimplate | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 11:21 am | #


Heh! You're welcome, though I don't know how many visits you're gotten as a result.


GravatarI understand there's some technical problem here where banning one troll spills over to affect non-trolls on the same server (or something), but surely that's surmountable

No, actually it isn't. IP banning at that level is extremely imprecise.


GravatarGive to bloggers, not politicans? I like it.


Gravatar...as part of the arrangement with the Congressional Black Congress to help get her elected as Speaker, the bug-eyed idiot (999,957) agreed not to investigate Jefferson..

...MOST.CORRUPT.CONGRESS.EVER
liberal jeenyus - 11:19 am


Our concern is that if we try to put pressure on Jefferson, he'll just caucus with the Republicans.


GravatarMe?, I'm tryin' to bribe traffic to stop by...

I am sooooo impressed that Hecate's blog has has soooooo many hits sooooo quickly...


GravatarI understand there's some technical problem here where banning one troll spills over to affect non-trolls on the same server (or something), but surely that's surmountable

No, actually it isn't. IP banning at that level is extremely imprecise.


Ah, so it's like the six month old being banned from boarding the plane because 'their' name is on the Homeland Security watch list?
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GravatarIf Bush wasn't being such an obvious imperialist chucklenuts, most of the libertarian douchebags at antiwar.com would be tripping over themselves to be the first to slob his knob. I stopped reading them on a regular basis long ago.
BlakNo1 | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 11:24 am | #


Make that "antisemitic racists libertarian douchebags". That's why I've always held them at arm's length -- if on the odd chance one of them finds something useful and factual, I always look for an alternate source for it.


Gravatarhttp://www.hinessight.com
jawbone

i check Hines Sight as often as Raw Story now. But who are behind it? There's no info at all on the blog about who produces it.

My political bookmarks. When i open the internets, i do the whole tour until i come back "home" (HERE!)

Eschaton ( in the tool bar, baby!)
AmericaBlog
Huffington Post
Think Progress
Josh's TPM
Raw Story
Hines SIght
Kos
Firedoglake
C & L

etc.


GravatarHey, my cleaning has brought me to the room where the computer lives, but then I realized that I forgot to blogwhore babyblogging this morning!


Gravatarso it's like the six month old being banned from boarding the plane because 'their' name is on the Homeland Security watch list?


Something like that. Nowadays, hacking software is sophisticated enough so that even a babbling, drolling moe-ron can be a "hacker", or at least enough of one to cause problems.


GravatarIn Massachusetts, we have several excellent local bloggers. Blue Mass Group is the grandaddy, but we have Left in Lowell and .08 Acres also.

Full disclosure: I met all those bloggers last night at a Victory Party, although I've been reading all their blogs for a yonk's age.


GravatarOur concern is that if we try to put pressure on Jefferson, he'll just caucus with the Republicans.

Gimlet


heh. And when he does, instead of finding $90,000 dollars in his fridge, they'll find $9,000,000,000.


GravatarI seek an art in this new medium.


Gravatarbut then I realized that I forgot to blogwhore babyblogging this morning!
Molly Ivors

hey you cheater! We need NEW pics, those i saw already yesterday, kapitch?


GravatarHere's one in Chicago.

http://www.soapblox.net/chicago/...go/ frontPage.do


GravatarBlakNo1 | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 11:24 am | #

I don't agree with your comment. The antiwar.com libertarians have a lot of problems with BushCo beyond imperialism.

Such as:
--ignoring the Bill of Rights
--undermining the separationof powers
--corporate welfare
--faith-based grants amounting to special-interest bribery
--excessive secrecy, defying the FOIA and other laws
--federal power grabs on state/local rights

Those off the top of my head


Gravatar"antisemitic racist libertarian douchebags".

Yeah, anyone who takes Buchanan that seriously fits the bill. They make pricipled criticism of right-wing Israeli policy damned near impossible.


GravatarI'd like to second the suggestion to contribute to antiwar.com.

http://antiwar.com/donate/

I don't agree with all the politics or analyses over there, but, wow, do they do a fantastic job of compiling all the news, international and domestic, re: conflicts. Plus politics.

An invaluable resource, and my third read of the day. There's so much there, you can be kept a long, long time!

Damn, I wish I were effin' rich....

Anyway, I snail mail my minute contritution so that PayPal doesn't glom on to its overly large share of my small amount or the credit card company get its bite.

Now I'm wondering which costs them more: cashing my check or credit card...anyone know?


GravatarNow I'm wondering which costs them more: cashing my check or credit card...anyone know?
jawbone

cashing the checks i think


Gravatar...MOST.CORRUPT.CONGRESS.EVER


The 109th. No Question.


GravatarDamn, Plum--you are one busy, busy, busy blog reader/commenter!


GravatarI don't agree with your comment. The antiwar.com libertarians have a lot of problems with BushCo beyond imperialism.

Such as:
--ignoring the Bill of Rights
--undermining the separationof powers
--corporate welfare
--faith-based grants amounting to special-interest bribery
--excessive secrecy, defying the FOIA and other laws
--federal power grabs on state/local rights

Those off the top of my head


An this be true, my hat's off to them. The 'libertarians' i have encountered are Republicans/authoritarians/etc. who want an intellectual justification for their emotionally-derived positions.

If these are the rare and elusive 'actual' libertarians, then i want to go look at them, see what they say.
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GravatarAh, so it's like the six month old being banned from boarding the plane because 'their' name is on the Homeland Security watch list?
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Cynicus


Boner: "My name is NOT Johnson."


GravatarWhere's 4LG? Lion Kitty Maxx needs to have his plushiness shared on the Saturday theme blog.


GravatarNo strings. You like it or you don't, I can't be helped.


GravatarWell, before the election I posted a big rant here about how we all needed to give even more money after the victory, so as to fuel the critical process of wresting back some contol of the media bully pulpit. The idea is to find a way to stop people like Noron from controlling the framing of the public discourse. I now fully intend to do my part, but I'm still pretty unsure about where to send my money. Basically, for me it's currently a choice between the DNC, organizations like the Rockridge Institute and Media Matters, or some aspect of the blogosphere. It's a tall order, and I'm not sure how effective any of these organizations can really be at this, but I do want to find an effective way to contribute to this undertaking. Any well-reasoned thoughts people might have on where the best place to throw down one's cash might be and why would be very welcome.


GravatarWhatever, if people enjoy reading the scribblings of Ayn Rand worshippers, that's their problem, not mine.


Gravatarmorning (barely) gang. so i suppose given the subject of the post, my idea to do a sex post over at corrente would be good for business?


GravatarI'm not a blogger but I do good stuff.

Send me money.

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Gravatarmorning (barely) gang. so i suppose given the subject of the post, my idea to do a sex post over at corrente would be good for business?

Hell yes.


GravatarDamn, Plum--you are one busy, busy, busy blog reader/commenter!
jawbone

no, i have a method! Eschaton is the only blog i post on ( i feel like cheating on my family if i post elsewhere). I read the headlines of each of those blogs and read the links when interested by the topics. But i don't read the threads, YOU lot are my family!


GravatarGene Lyons always needs money, click through my homepage.


GravatarYolanda Denise King memorializing her father on Cspan.
Our father was a king.......


GravatarDear At,

Thank YOU for being a winter soldier and persevering. You have a great perspective and wonderful community built here, even if NTodd is ignored most of the time.

I thank you profusely and will give monkeyfiest free advice here.


Gravatarmorning (barely) gang. so i suppose given the subject of the post, my idea to do a sex post over at corrente would be good for business?

Umm.....where is 'corrente'?
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GravatarHmm. Must add tip jar to new site.

BABY NEEDS A NEW PAIR OF SHOES!


GravatarJack Kemp standing on the stage for the King Memorial.


Gravatarmorning (barely) gang. so i suppose given the subject of the post, my idea to do a sex post over at corrente would be good for business?

never to early for vicarious arousal...

bring it OHN!!!!
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GravatarYep, I'm still being a fucking baby who can't do the adult thing and move on.
liberal jeenyus | 11.18.06 - 11:22 am |

Go back to dedstate.com where you belong.


Gravatarwho's ntodd?


GravatarTen percent of websites are non-sexually-oriented.


GravatarAntiwar.com considers the BuchMacht "conservatives" to have lost the true meaning of libertarianism and conservatism.

I see so much more to have in common with Raimondo--even than with some of our Dems. I'm much more skeptical of our Dear Dems than in my youth.

Dear Dems must prove themselves. I get the need to compromise to achieve some good. But I cannot tolerate the sucking up to the wealthy and corporations.

Where I part with Raimondo, et al, is that I believe government, managed well, can do tremendous good fot the people in society who don't have power and money. That government is the only way to balance the power of money and corporations.


GravatarSo far as i can tell, if you want to make money with the intertubes, the real successes are:
1) Porn
2) Gambling
3) Pawnshops (Ebay, et al)

Any or all of these you can incorporate into your internet efforts, the better the chances of actual earnings.
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GravatarI'm a working stiff, but I'd like to do some other stuff that cost a bit.

Send me money.

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GravatarMorning all.

Has anything of an irksome nature happened here since last we met?


GravatarI'm a working stiff, but I'd like to do some other stuff that cost a bit.

Send me money.

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Gravatarwho's ntodd?

I was going to note that he's on a plane right now.

thank god he hasn't seen this post.


Gravatareven if NTodd is ignored most of the time.
NSA

but Ntodd secretly loves it that way, it gives him an excuse to complain!


GravatarNow I'm wondering which costs them more: cashing my check or credit card...anyone know?
jawbone

Checks. You can also use debit card. That's usually a small flat fee.


GravatarRepublican "Christian" concedes via a lecturing email.


GravatarAn this be true, my hat's off to them. The 'libertarians' i have encountered are Republicans/authoritarians/etc. who want an intellectual justification for their emotionally-derived positions.

If these are the rare and elusive 'actual' libertarians, then i want to go look at them, see what they say.
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Cynicus | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 11:38 am | #

I agree with part of what you say. I left a decades-long relationship with a libertarian mailing list after many members seemingly forgot their philosophy and supported the invasions of afghanistan and iraq.

Still, I think true libertarians still exist, and some of them are an antiwar.com

Kos has embraced the so-called new libertarian democrats. Then again, kos is a site for serious political discussion.

Rethugs have lots of problems, libertarians have their share, and liberals have issues as well, including (imho) a dogmatic politically-correct mindset that prevents any serious discussion about, say, Israel.

OTOH the libertarians I used to know from the mailing lists never had a problem discussion any issue to mind-bloggling levels of pedantic detail, political correctness be damned.


GravatarOur concern is that if we try to put pressure on Jefferson, he'll just caucus with the Republicans.

Gimlet


we had an argument about this at corrente. i said that i wasn't so comfortable with the idea of picking on what is essentially a small time crook, and black man, when we all know that plenty of white (republica) pols are busy stealing millions, but doing it "legally" via gifts, junkets, campaign contributions, and other vehicles that only junkies like us bother to keep track of. he's scum, i don't doubt that, but a good focus? not so much. when the dem leadership announces an 'open government' policy and releases all their financial records and passes real reform, i'll be happy. until then, it smacks of 'pick on the little (black) guy.'


GravatarI see so much more to have in common with Raimondo--

Fuck Raimondo, he's an anti-semite douchebag.


GravatarJohn Zogby on with Alex Witless talking about current faves for Prez in 2008. Among Democrats, Al Gore stands at 55%, but he was placed down in the list and discounted in favor of Hillary and Obama. Typisch!


Gravatarah, that should have been 'mind-boggling'


GravatarNot to be harshin' on NTodd, but that no pants thing? David Letterman wasn't wearing pants a good 20 years before NTodd ever thought about going commando.


GravatarLibertarian version of MLK's famous speech:

"I have a Trust."


Gravatarwho's ntodd?
Atrios


you are a cruel, cruel overlord.


GravatarOn top of that, Raimondo despises left-liberals.


GravatarNot to be harshin' on NTodd, but that no pants thing? David Letterman wasn't wearing pants a good 20 years before NTodd ever thought about going commando.

Ah, but NTodd was born not wearing pants, so there!
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GravatarRaimondo also worships Joe McCarthy.


GravatarAll of Martin Luther King's children are brilliant speakers.


GravatarLibertarians are profoundly silly, dishonest people IMHO.

Essentially, their anarchsts who are to chicknshit to cop to the implications of their bullshit "philosophy."

Definition of a libertarian: Someone who stridently resists any encroachment on personal freedom by the government on the theory that the private sector can oppress you more efficiently.


Sorry if I've offended anybody.


Gravataruntil then, it smacks of 'pick on the little (black) guy.'
chicago dyke - 11:48 am


'clean government' reform is a delusion unless all the records of all the transactions of all the parties are open all the time to everyone.
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GravatarAnd, on top of all that, Raimondo loves Ann Coulter, who he has referred to as being "funny and smart".


GravatarRaimondo also worships Joe McCarthy.
BlakNo1


I've never cared much for him either.


GravatarNice castle TomKat rented. Wedding pictures?
I don't care. $500,000 for flowers?
Libertarian Scientologists.


GravatarMartin Luther King needs to be declared a Saint by the Pope.


GravatarMush, for lack of a better word than libertarianism.


GravatarMartin Luther King's little girl Bernice is a firebrand.


GravatarThe Dems should elect a shadow president just to piss off the wingnuts.


Gravatar'clean government' reform is a delusion unless all the records of all the transactions of all the parties are open all the time to everyone.

When i consider all the watch lists i'm on just because of book purchases, i'm damn well ready to know the same about my minders they know about me.
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GravatarDefinition of a libertarian: Someone who stridently resists any encroachment on personal freedom by the government on the theory that the private sector can oppress you more efficiently.


Sorry if I've offended anybody.
steve simels | 11.18.06 - 11:52 am | #


Definition of a liberal: someone evading their guilt for having failed to form a true liberal/libertarian antiwar alliance that might have had a slightly greater effect in preventing the iraq war. (I admit stopping the war would have been unlikely with anything short of a general strike).

Sorry if I've offended anybody.


GravatarI know I'm a few threads too late, but, wow, Jamison Foser is so consistently good.


GravatarSteve: a funny little read:

Strange days
Has there ever been a bigger crime against the aesthetics of rock than Jim Morrison's singular brand of vainglorious nonsense?, asks John Harris.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/ filma...1949235,00.html


GravatarThe Dems should elect a shadow president just to piss off the wingnuts.
Lime Rickey | 11.18.06 - 11:55 am | #

Dems should have done that in 2000.

I hope the dems form various regional alliances. Make the blue states secession-ready.


GravatarGranny Weatherwax. My hero.


GravatarDefinition of a liberal:

Go jack off to The Fountainhead, shit-for-brains.


GravatarBlak et al--It's indeed pretty jarring to see the antiwar.com regulars burst into Rand-worship now and then.

Has anyone ever seen the movie Noi Vivi (We the Living), a Rand-based tale of oppressibe statism produced in 1942? Here's the kicker: produced in Italy under Mussolini (!?!WTF?!)

It's a Raimondo favorite. I've never seen it, but perhaps it has cinematic merits akin to the beautiful, disorienting diving sequence in Riefenstahl's Olympiad. Still, that's one suspicious pedigree


GravatarDefinition of a liberal: someone evading their guilt for having failed to form a true liberal/libertarian antiwar alliance that might have had a slightly greater effect in preventing the iraq war. (I admit stopping the war would have been unlikely with anything short of a general strike).

Sorry if I've offended anybody.
Mike | 11.18.06 - 11:55 am | #


Translation: I'm a Republican who likes to smoke pot and bang hookers.


Gravatar'morning, bats!

"Ya know, antiwar.com are doing their quarterly pledge drive and need money, but they continually post depressing stuff like Raimondo's latest"


I don't like that guy, sorry!


GravatarSorry if I've offended anybody.
Mike


No, just boring us.


GravatarI hope the dems form various regional alliances. Make the blue states secession-ready.

Har har har. Hope you're ready for the illegal immigration from former neighboring states. As a resident of KY (48th or 49th ranking economically), you may expect to find me squatting in your shed and hanging out at the intersection with a sign saying "Will R.N. for food"
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GravatarRethugs have lots of problems, libertarians have their share, and liberals have issues as well, including (imho) a dogmatic politically-correct mindset that prevents any serious discussion about, say, Israel.

IMO, liberals who can't engage in serious discussion about Israel aren't really liberals. It's a pretty conservative stance to assume that Israel can't be criticized because it is beset by enemies on all sides and therefore must have our unwavering support, regardless of what they do. It is true that Israel is beset by enemies on all sides, but that is at least in part because they actively antagonize those on all sides. They, and everyone else, would be better off if they learned that such actions would result in less support.

But that's not what bugs me about liberals. What bugs me is the granola crunching. I have nothing against granola or hippies or whatever; I'm talking about people who assume this entire mantle of granola-crunching, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, no-armpit-shaving, poetry-reciting, Dead-following persona. I guess it just strikes me as being poseurish, conformist, and ultimately, unserious. And while I personally know and like a number of people fitting this general profile, I'm tired of it being the "face" of the left, because it's not where serious action or ideas reside - at least not these days. I tend to think of these folks as the Randians of the left - the agenda is just as prescribed and proscribed, though at least it's palatable.


GravatarDefinition of Libertarian. Someone who would cover up, deny, or never see at all, crime and injustice because of 'property rights.'


Gravataras the sweat pours out chore body like the music that you play


GravatarDraco, please understand that I've formed this opinion from being a regular antiwar.com reader during the late 90s-early 00s. I don't want to give the impressin that I'm just blowing them off because of a distaste for libertarians. I was a registered lib out of protest until I found out what they were truly about.


GravatarTranslation: I'm a Republican who likes to smoke pot and bang hookers.
steve simels



GravatarDefinition of Libertarian. Someone who would cover up, deny, or never see at all, crime and injustice because of 'property rights.'
matt



Repugnican light.


GravatarTranslation: I'm a Republican who likes to smoke pot and bang hookers.
steve simels | 11.18.06 - 11:59 am | #

I've never been a republican. I'm not even a US citizen. I've been in the US for decades, but never wanted to give up my birthright, which includes retiring in my home country, which has an external debt of, uh, somewhere around zero.

And I've never banged a hooker either.

Ah, dems, so eager to pigeonhole others into easily-dismissable categories.


Gravatargrapevine told me that justin is a cokehead.

just sayin.


GravatarWe've had lots of comment discussions here about our policy toward Israel, particulary during the war with Hizbullah and Lebanon, that have not been single-minded. You're talking out yer ass, Mike.


GravatarBut that's not what bugs me about liberals. What bugs me is the granola crunching

Wow. I don't even know where to begin with this one....


GravatarTranslation: I'm a Republican who likes to smoke pot and bang hookers.

Aren't they all?


GravatarAnd what utopia, pray tell, do you hail from?


GravatarJust got rid of the GuitarPort and Zoom to a local blogger for $60. Nice folx, he and his wife. They're heading over to Costco, as I type.
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GravatarKos has embraced the so-called new libertarian democrats. Then again, kos is a site for serious political discussion.

Please go back there. I'm sure they'll undelete your account.


GravatarDefinition of Libertarian. Someone who would cover up, deny, or never see at all, crime and injustice because of 'property rights.'
matt


Worse, somebody who is too damned stupid to see that the natural endpoint of totally unregulated capitalism is a tiny monopolistic oligarchy of which they will definitely not be a member. Wankers all, really.


GravatarAs a resident of KY (48th or 49th ranking economically), you may expect to find me squatting in your shed and hanging out at the intersection with a sign saying "Will R.N. for food"
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Cynicus


Can you windsurf?


GravatarAh, dems, so eager to pigeonhole others into easily-dismissable categories.
Mike


Ah, trolls - so quick to look down their noses at the folks here.


GravatarDefinition of Libertarian. Someone who would cover up, deny, or never see at all, crime and injustice because of 'property rights.'
matt | 11.18.06 - 12:00 pm | #

Then I was never a true libertarian since the concept of property rights was something I always argued about on the particular libertarian mailing list I was on. I felt that all property originated in coercion, which to me seemed contrary to libertarian principles.

Maybe I was a left-libertarian before left-libertarians were cool.


Gravatargrapevine told me that justin is a cokehead.

just sayin.
chicago dyke | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:02 pm | #


Well, in that case I hope to christ that he doesn't get back together with Brittney. Poor gal's got enough problems...


GravatarI guess it just strikes me as being poseurish,

Try, "I guess it just strikes me as a pose' , wordy one.


GravatarAh, dems, so eager to pigeonhole others into easily-dismissable categories.

Ah, trolls, so easy to be pigeonholed into easily-dismissable categories.


GravatarSo, should I eat at Cafe Coco, or hit the Crack'Ho Barrel for Mama's French Tongue Breakkie?
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GravatarVia antiwar.com--

Judge: Detainee can's speak to attorney
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison is not allowed to speak to a civilian attorney until an appeals court decides what rights military detainees have, a federal judge said Friday.

The Justice Department argues that under a new anti-terrorism law, detainees have no right to challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts. Human rights groups argue that's unconstitutional.


And so it goes under The BushMacht Rules.

Go get'em, Leahy! Rescue habeas corpus! Save the Constitution! Yeah, Leahy!

Oh, and did I mention antiwar.com is fundraising?


Gravatarso eager to pigeonhole others into easily-dismissable categories.

Unlike yourself who just put all liberals into an "easily-dismissible" category.

Twit.


GravatarAh, dems, so eager to pigeonhole others into easily-dismissable categories.
Mike


Ah, trolls - so quick to look down their noses at the folks here.
Terry C, An American Once Agai | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:05 pm | #

Oh, good one, you got me. Ha ha ha!


Gravatarwhat bugs me about liberals. What bugs me is the granola crunching


And yet, here you are, hanging out at a liberal blog. One of us is pretty fucking stupid.


Gravataris it okay to bang a hooker if she's your ex-wife and you dont get charged?


GravatarMaybe I was a left-libertarian before left-libertarians were cool.

Maybe you're just a fucking dick.


GravatarTranslation: I'm a Republican who likes to smoke pot and bang hookers.

Aren't they all?


Venturing a guess, maybe the libertarian is the Gooper who wants to be able to openly smoke and bang. The ordinary Republican indulges in pot and hookers, just covers it up and sponsors legislation criminalizing (further) cannabis and prostitution......
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GravatarPlease go back there. I'm sure they'll undelete your account.
dave™©



(I might still be still drunk)


Gravatarjust asking ô¿ô


GravatarI don't even know where to begin with this one....

Huzzah for granola!!


Gravatardave™©: Maybe you're just a fucking dick.

I'm the same flavor of dick, I suppose... I have very libertarian tendencies that do not involve tofu.
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GravatarMaybe I was a left-libertarian before left-libertarians were cool.
Mike


Whatever!


GravatarMuesli leaves me cold, I admit it.


Gravatarhit the Crack'Ho Barrel for Mama's French Tongue Breakkie?
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Jeffraham Prestonian

Frebch tongue?!?!?

going to take a bath then shop for jeans, later 'bats


GravatarWorse, somebody who is too damned stupid to see that the natural endpoint of totally unregulated capitalism is a tiny monopolistic oligarchy of which they will definitely not be a member. Wankers all, really.
blerb | 11.18.06 - 12:04 pm | #


A lesson I hope Milton Friedman is absorbing at this very minute in Hell.


GravatarSpeaking of granola, anyone remember back in the '70s when "granola belly" was a concern?

You know you're old if you do...


GravatarRand's phallic worship.


GravatarUm, why are people giving Jennifer such grief? I could understand if it were a name-stealer, which it isn't.


GravatarAs a resident of KY (48th or 49th ranking economically), you may expect to find me squatting in your shed and hanging out at the intersection with a sign saying "Will R.N. for food"
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Cynicus

Can you windsurf?


No idea - i've never tried.
Is that important?
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GravatarI'm the same flavor of dick, I suppose...

Oh, I doubt that... but I'm not volunteering to find out!

Not that there's anything wrong with it!!!


GravatarHecate - so, if you're not with the pose, you aren't a liberal? If you believe that pose obscures and gets in the way of good basic common sense that happens to be liberal, you aren't a liberal?

Gee, maybe I am confused about where I'm hanging out.


GravatarI have very libertarian tendencies that do not involve tofu.

OK. So how does any kind of libertarian system prevent a tiny minority of individuals from controlling everything through the power of the purse in the long run?


GravatarPlum P: Frebch tongue?!?!?

Yes, doll -- here I went and paid Comcast ~$200 to settle up and get reinstalled in time for your radio program... and your server let me down! No French tongue for Jeffro!
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Gravatar"Has anyone ever seen the movie Noi Vivi (We the Living), a Rand-based tale of oppressibe statism produced in 1942? Here's the kicker: produced in Italy under Mussolini (!?!WTF?!)"

I saw it. It was badly edited, confusing, imho not very good.

My very brief Randian phase ended a few minutes after finishing Atlas Shrugged.


GravatarSome days Jennifer is on, some days, like today, she's silly. No one gives a shit what she doesn't like about Dead-heads.


GravatarGee, maybe I am confused about where I'm hanging out.


Oh, pshaw! No, you're not.


Gravatar"granola belly" rechew cud


GravatarOh, and did I mention antiwar.com is fundraising?
jawbone | 11.18.06 - 12:05 pm | #


And a big Hi There to you!!!


GravatarMartin Luther King's little girl Bernice is a firebrand.
matt


jack:

Have you ever considered getting a life?

I mean, really...


GravatarWho's got Gmail account, and wants to hear ~9MB of French Vietnamese jazz guitarist, Nguyên Lê?

Anyone...?
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GravatarNo French tongue for Jeffro!
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Jeffraham Prestonian

it's down again? Damn. We're in the process of changing server, hopefully it will be back on soon.


GravatarBTW, David Blaine to hang from a hook.

Now THAT'S entertainment!


GravatarJennifer, you've admitted a bias against a group of people based on their appearance and eating habits.


GravatarNo one gives a shit what she doesn't like about Dead-heads.

Pleas read her post again. That's not what she's saying at all. She's talking about poseurs.

I say this as someone who takes a very hard line against hippie-haters.


GravatarThe antiwar.com libertarians have a lot of problems with BushCo beyond imperialism.

Such as:
--ignoring the Bill of Rights
--undermining the separationof powers
--corporate welfare
--faith-based grants amounting to special-interest bribery
--excessive secrecy, defying the FOIA and other laws
--federal power grabs on state/local rights

Those off the top of my head
Draco, overly friendly


Don't forget "the poor are poor because they want to."


GravatarNaw, I'll make soup.


GravatarSome days Jennifer is on, some days, like today, she's silly.

Well, not everyone can say the world's smartest and least controversial things every single post. If people are not willing to go out on a limb with their opinions, then this becomes a very boring place very quickly.


Gravatarplantsman - who gives a shit if you don't give a shit?

People can pretend that the pose doesn't turn off at least some people who philosophically agree with liberalism, but that doesn't make it "silly" to point it out.


GravatarOK. So how does any kind of libertarian system prevent a tiny minority of individuals from controlling everything through the power of the purse in the long run?
blerb | 11.18.06 - 12:09 pm | #

If it's any consolation, I don't know either. Then again, I don't see how dems or rethugs would accomplish this either.

What's the quote from Terminator 2? 'It's in your nature to destroy yourselves' or something?


GravatarOh, good one, you got me. Ha ha ha!
Mike


I don't want you.

I'm not sure that anyone else here wants you, either.


GravatarBTW, David Blaine to hang from a hook.

Now THAT'S entertainment!
watertiger | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:12 pm | #


Get back to me when that reads "David Blaine to be gutted like a fish."


GravatarA lesson I hope Milton Friedman is absorbing at this very minute in Hell.
steve simels


it's very hard not to love you, simels.


GravatarJennifer, you've admitted a bias against a group of people based on their appearance and eating habits.

Read again. I've admitted a bias against unseriousness, in which a pose is the stand-in for seriousness.


GravatarOK. So how does any kind of libertarian system prevent a tiny minority of individuals from controlling everything through the power of the purse in the long run?

And that's one of the fundamental issues for any and every political system - the fact that "liberty" and "equality" are opposing variables. To increase one is to decrease the other - and recorded history has shown that both are necessary.

It's one of the reasons that theory stubbornly fails to apply properly in the real world - and why government systems last in proportion to their ability to keep adapting, flexing, maintaining the dynamics between the two to the overall public will of the moment.
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GravatarGet back to me when that reads "David Blaine to be gutted like a fish."

steve simels


Thank you!


GravatarWould someone please bonk Brad Blakeman on the head with a cast-iron frypan?


GravatarHowever, anyone who is turned off to liberalism because of hippies is just looking for an excuse to be a republican, period.


GravatarAbsolut Vodka corrupts absolutely.

That's all I'm saying...


GravatarDummies for Libertarianism.


Gravatarblending idealism and the mechanics of social contribution isnt a perfect science ...there's work to be done and dreams to be dreamed


GravatarThen again, I don't see how dems or rethugs would accomplish this either.


Do yourself a favor, Mike. Go to the CIA world factbook site and take a look at the worldwide statistics for quality-of-life indicators (like life expectancy) and distribution-of-wealth indicators (like the GINI index), and try to draw some conclusions about what kind of systems seem to yield the optimal standards of living and the most equitable distribution of wealth. I'll save you some time -- they are democratic socialist systems. Every last one of them.


GravatarMaybe I was a left-libertarian before left-libertarians were cool.

Maybe you're just a fucking dick.
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:06 pm | #

Feel the love. FWIW, I don't know anywhere near what I would need to know about you to make such a proclamation. So, you aren't necessarily an asshat.


GravatarMy point ( and maybe I have one) is that ANY affect
may be perceived as a pose.


GravatarHey everybody! I'm having a 3-way with Ayn Rand & Satan, wish you were here!


GravatarGet back to me when that reads "David Blaine to be gutted like a fish."



GravatarHowever, anyone who is turned off to liberalism because of hippies is just looking for an excuse to be a republican, period.

BlakNo1


Bottom line.


GravatarBTW --

Saw the new James Bond movie yesterday. It's mostly really terrific.

It's also kind of incredibly gay.
I mean really -- he get's tortured in the nude at one point.


GravatarFeel the love. FWIW, I don't know anywhere near what I would need to know about you to make such a proclamation. So, you aren't necessarily an asshat.

trollie is as trollie does.


GravatarMore faux ideology, please?


GravatarIt's also kind of incredibly gay.
I mean really -- he get's tortured in the nude at one point.


We don't deserve pr0n?


Gravatar"Jersey Blue was my place to go to double check what Young Tom Kean Jr was lying about that had made it into the local coverage."


I was worried about that Senate race in my state.

Glad that little shit didn't win.


GravatarSaw the new James Bond movie yesterday. It's mostly really terrific.

It's also kind of incredibly gay.
I mean really -- he get's tortured in the nude at one point.


Bond flicks have always been tremendously popular with the Republicans - but that's just pandering to the target audience!

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GravatarChiDy, re: Jefferson (D-LA)--I think the Dems did the right thing in removing him from his committee chair, given the amount of evidence against him.

But what has me rather confused is just why the FBI is taking so damn long with this. I mean, the money was found when? Last year, after or was it before Katrina? There are, iirc, tapes. There's a conviction of an alledged partner in crime. What gives with this long, long, long investigation?

Are they waiting for a Rethug gov. to appoint a Rethug replacement?? Or how does it work in LA?


GravatarJennifer, are you saying this is the "perception" people have of a liberal?


GravatarHey everybody! I'm having a 3-way with Ayn Rand & Satan, wish you were here!

How is it, Miltie? Is Ayn as dry as I imagined?


GravatarI hope Daniel Craig is better than Brosnan or Dalton, they were hella lame.


GravatarFuck Glenn Beck and all his works. Looking forward to the James Dobson ad.
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GravatarBond flicks have always been tremendously popular with the Republicans!

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Cynicus


Women as decorative objects.

Sounds about right.


GravatarUh, Steve, is torturing men in the nude a gay thing? Or what? (No, I haven't seen the film, so don't know how it was presented....)


GravatarAlmost all libertarians and goopers make an unsupportable fetish of property rights.

I always enjoy reading accounts of imperialists encountering natives who have no concept of property, and who laugh at the presumptiveness of anyone who thinks he can "own" something, land especially.

Bunuel got at this fundamental difference in world views in Simon of the Desert. At one point a priest tries to explain to uncomprehending St Simon why theft is wrong. "Well, suppose I were to take your walking stick..." "You want it?" says Simon, handing it to him. "No, no, no!" says the frustrated priest.


GravatarThese are the people who hold our debt.

China admits taking executed prisoners' organs
Mark Magnier and Alan Zarembo, LA Times Staff Writers
November 18, 2006
BEIJING — After years of denial, China has acknowledged that most of the human organs used in transplants here are taken from executed prisoners and that many of the recipients are foreigners who pay hefty sums to avoid a long wait.
Speaking at a conference of surgeons in the southern city of Guangzhou, Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu called for a strict code of conduct and better record-keeping to stem China's thriving illegal organ trade, state media reported.
"Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners," Huang said Tuesday, according to a report Thursday in the English-language China Daily newspaper.
"The current big shortfall of organ donations can't meet demand," Huang said.

The acknowledgment of what had been an open secret online, in local magazines and among people awaiting transplants came about two weeks after China announced it would tighten oversight of capital cases, requiring that death sentences be approved by the country's highest court. Legal experts estimate that will reduce executions by a third.

Though China doesn't disclose the number of annual executions, Amnesty International says at least 1,770 people were put to death in 2005, based on a review of Chinese media reports. Some activists say the annual figure could be as high as 10,000.

The lower estimate represents more than 80% of at least 2,148 that Amnesty International says took place worldwide last year. The United States executed 60 prisoners.


GravatarI hope Daniel Craig is better than Brosnan or Dalton, they were hella lame.

Pity those who take the contract to play Bond - there's Sean Connery, and there's "the latest fake". It's pretty thankless.
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GravatarDoncha remember the laser beam headed for Sean Connery's package in Goldfinger?


GravatarDid someone say Dobson?

http://www.nndb.com/people/013/0.../013/000031917/


One fucked up dude, that one.


GravatarOne source of Chimpy's confusion about the Israel-Palestine issue.


Gravatarthere's Sean Connery, and there's "the latest fake". It's pretty thankless.

I'll cop to enjoying some of the Roger Moore movies too. After all, he was the one who was originally asked to be Bond.


GravatarI'll save you some time -- they are democratic socialist systems. Every last one of them.
blerb | 11.18.06 - 12:18 pm | #

I agree. Democratic socialist systems are great, in fact, I'm planning to retire in one.

Some years ago I corresponded with someone there, and he said, if you want to make real money, stay in the U.S.

Maybe things have changed, but forming business partnerships is very easy in the U.S. compared to at least some of these democratic socialist systems. People here can and do form business after having just met.

*Liberty* has value too.


GravatarUh, Steve, is torturing men in the nude a gay thing? Or what? (No, I haven't seen the film, so don't know how it was presented....)
jawbone | 11.18.06 - 12:23 pm | #


Well, you have to see it. Apart from the ridiculously obvious homo-erotic overtones (the scene is lit like a Tom of Finland poster) the sequence ends with Bond taunting the villain that eveybody is going to think he (the villain) played with his (Bond's) nutsac.

I'm not making this upp.


GravatarChina admits taking executed prisoners' organs

$100 cash wager that LGF, et al, will be filled with opinions that "we oughta do that here" if this story is noticed.
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GravatarComcast subscribers, Lynch's Dune is on Movies On Demand for free.


GravatarSo what's up, my peeps?


GravatarI don't know anywhere near what I would need to know about you to make such a proclamation.

You, however, have demonstrated all anyone fucking needs to know.

You can start pissing off any fucking time now.


GravatarPlum P: it's down again? Damn. We're in the process of changing server, hopefully it will be back on soon.

I couldn't get to it, ten minutes prior to your show, nor 5, 20, 45 minutes after it started. Maybe it was just me!
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GravatarI'll cop to enjoying some of the Roger Moore movies too. After all, he was the one who was originally asked to be Bond.
BlakNo1


I always thought Moore played the role with tongue firmly anchored in cheek.


GravatarVicki! Have you blogged about the new jobbie?
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Gravatari don't really care for bond movies, but i don't get the hate on for dalton and brosnan. they were pretty, smarmy, and actually british. it's not like any of the movies should be taken seriously.


GravatarWarning:

Do NOT use the word "cocksucker" anymore.

If you do, Ô¿Ô will tear you a new asshole.


GravatarHow's it Vicki. It may be the placebo effect, but I'm
into my second day of Glyburide, and I'm feeling better than yesterday.


GravatarComcast subscribers, Lynch's Dune is on Movies On Demand for free.
plantsman, lowercase | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:27 pm | #


I much prefer the Alan Smithee version.

Seriously.


GravatarHave you blogged about the new jobbie?




It's going well, although they're making me actually work for a living.

Which is all good.


Gravatar*Liberty* has value too.
Mike



Which is why we wanted the Repukes voted out.


GravatarBrosnan's Irish.


GravatarI'll cop to enjoying some of the Roger Moore movies too. After all, he was the one who was originally asked to be Bond.

I'd heard they wanted Patrick McGoohan, who gave them Connery's name.

The only Moore "Bond" I really like is "Octopussy" - the mostly-George MacDonald Fraser script captures a lot of that "old time" flavor.

And let's not pretend Connery was infallible - "Diamonds Are Forever" is one of the worst Bond movies around, and not just because of the nitwit script...


Gravatarmer - well, it's certainly a perception promoted by the media. And I still haven't recovered from my participation in the anti-war activities here in 2002 - 2003. There were a lot of really good pragmatic, ethical, and moral reasons to oppose the war. Instead of hearing about them, people who attended antiwar rallies here were treated to scruffy poets and bad folk bands. And most of the people who showed up left pretty quickly, when they figured out that the "rallies" were less about information and action than they were for gaining a captive audience for some shitty poets and bands.

If making this observation makes me a bad person, so be it.


GravatarDo NOT use the word "cocksucker" anymore.

If you do, Ô¿Ô will tear you a new asshole.


Big fucking deal. I'll use the word cocksucker when it applies.


Gravatari don't get the hate on for dalton and brosnan

I fell asleep in the theater during Licence To Kill(Dalton).


Gravatari don't really care for bond movies, but i don't get the hate on for dalton and brosnan. they were pretty, smarmy, and actually british. it's not like any of the movies should be taken seriously.
chicago dyke


Dalton is Welsh, Brosnan Irish.


Gravatarplease dont take my schtick


GravatarFree is still free. And most folks think that's what Lynch's Dune is worth. I love Alia at the end.


GravatarComcast subscribers, Lynch's Dune is on Movies On Demand for free.
plantsman, lowercase


Thanks.

Do you know where the frigging 'mote is?

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GravatarWell, you have to see it. Apart from the ridiculously obvious homo-erotic overtones (the scene is lit like a Tom of Finland poster) the sequence ends with Bond taunting the villain that eveybody is going to think he (the villain) played with his (Bond's) nutsac.

I'm not making this upp.


To review:
We have beefcake men in the nude
Torture
the reminder afterwards to keep this encounter between men "just between us"

Was Casino Royale held up in production for some hurried rewrites to include themes dear to the GOP?
Seriously.
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GravatarI love it when you talk dirty to me


GravatarDo you know where the frigging 'mote is?


My eye?


GravatarI also fell asleep at a friends house watching Tomorrow Never Dies(Brosnan).

When Michelle Yeough can't keep my attention, you've got problems!


GravatarWhich is why we wanted the Repukes voted out.
Terry C, American Once Again | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:30 pm | #

Me too!


Gravatardo again ...please .. ?


GravatarI s'pose this is OT by now, but the small blogs should be encouraged to make use of the Paypal monthly subscription feature. Gary Farber over at amygdala uses it, and it's a painless way to spread the love around.


GravatarTo review:
We have beefcake men in the nude.


Well, I'm sold.


GravatarI hope Keith declares Tom Cruise and everyone who attended this grossout on my tv the worst persons in the world.

What despicable people.
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GravatarWe did our anti-war demonstration at the polls last week.


Gravatarhttp://english.aljazeera.net/NR/ ...CC09B46E01D.htm

US army 'seized Iraqi homes'
By Ahmed Janabi

A leading Iraqi lawyer has accused the US army of throwing 211 families, including his, out of their homes.

Rabah al-Alwan, 36, head of the Union of Lawyers in al-Anbar governorate in western Iraq, said that the US army has occupied his family's house and those of with dozens of other families in al-Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar governorate.

Al-Alwan has accused the US army of seizing the whole neighbourhood of al-Soufiya in the centre of al-Ramadi and using the houses for military purposes.

The press desk of the US army command in Iraq did not respond to repeated requests to comment on the claim made by al-Alwan.

Al-Alwan said: "Ten months ago, the US army seized my house and dozens of houses in the neighbourhood where I live. Residents were not allowed take any of their savings, jewellery, furniture or clothes."


So, is this a new tactic or what? Of course, occupying armies have to have some place to stay.... I can see why they'd want some nice digs.


GravatarAs long as we are on the subject, commenters need the wage insurance and health benefits they have earned and paid taxes for as well. I was sytematically screwed out of no less than 8 different insurances following a work related injury 5 years ago. Apparently, the corporatocracy my recovery money for other priorities.
Any donations are most gratefully appreciated via free stormpay account to secureshop@usa.com Also available for graphic and web design as well as copywriting gigs. Most Gratefully Yours


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Gravatar"If making this observation makes me a bad person, so be it."
--Jennifer

Thanks for the response. I guess I identify more with people like Pelosi, Dean, Lamont, etc. as liberals these days.

As for being a bad person, never in my book.


GravatarI hope Keith declares Tom Cruise and everyone who attended this grossout on my tv the worst persons in the world.


He has a "restore habeus corpus" Special Comment" coming up Monday.


GravatarInstead of hearing about them, people who attended antiwar rallies here were treated to scruffy poets and bad folk bands. And most of the people who showed up left pretty quickly, when they figured out that the "rallies" were less about information and action than they were for gaining a captive audience for some shitty poets and bands.
Jennifer | 11.18.06 - 12:30 pm | #

Yes, exactly. Focus on the core issue would have helped. International ANSWER, in their idiocy, unintentionally supported the war.


GravatarI think I deserve a nap.

Later, taters.


GravatarUh, insert needed (eyeroll)


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GravatarWow. I don't even know where to begin with this one....
steve simels


Heehee. I don't think I fit in one of those categories. And in case anyone has been living under a rock, there haven't been hippies in about 30 years. Jeesh.


Gravatarhi y'all

Drive-by to the Globe's excellent coverage of Eric Keroack, the noisome cankered whoreson nematode of a wingnut appointed to head federal family planning. Choosing Velikovsky to head NASA would be as appropriate. This is the nut of it, but go ahead if you're in the mood; read the whole thing:

Meanwhile yesterday, scientists criticized Keroack's theories about human sexuality. In a 2001 paper prepared for a group called the Abstinence Clearinghouse, Keroack and a colleague said that having sex with multiple partners alters brain chemistry in a way that makes it harder to form relationships later in life.

But the lead author of a 1999 paper in the journal Psychiatry that Keroack cited said he had gone beyond any scientific evidence in making his claims.

"This is complete -- and I say this without any hesitation -- is complete pseudoscience," said Rebecca Turner , a professor at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco. "He claims that my study shows women will lose their ability to bond. It's just nowhere in my paper that says that."

http://www.boston.com/news/natio...alth_post_pick/


GravatarThe hippies tried to levitate the Pentagon. The New Majority, turned over the whole Congress.


GravatarBig fucking deal. I'll use the word cocksucker when it applies.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore


Sigh. That was a paltry attempt at humor. Read last night's/this morning's post from HERE on down to understand.


Gravatarat the risk of getting tarred and feathered, i thought james zogby on msnbc had a good point. he said the kerry "gaffe" wasn't an insult of the troops so much as an insult to people's intelligence, serving to reaffirm rightwing slander of democrats being out of touch elitists.


GravatarI hope Keith declares Tom Cruise and everyone who attended this grossout on my tv the worst persons in the world.

What despicable people.
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cs, art is bread
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I think Katie Holmes is out of her mind.

He's a control freak of the worst kind.

Oh, well - it's not like she has a career to lose.


GravatarFederal Family Planning? Duggars!


GravatarAnd in case anyone has been living under a rock, there haven't been hippies in about 30 years. Jeesh.

Exactly. There are a lot of people wearing that persona these days, though.


Gravatarat the risk of getting tarred and feathered, i thought james zogby on msnbc had a good point. he said the kerry "gaffe" wasn't an insult of the troops so much as an insult to people's intelligence, serving to reaffirm rightwing slander of democrats being out of touch elitists.
jello


Shorter wingnut: Kerry uses BIG words. He's too educated!


GravatarCocksucker. You say that like it's a bad thing.


GravatarA Scientology Wedding. How sweet.


GravatarWell, there certainly are people on the left who are just as holier-than-thou as those on the right. I remember one of those types getting on my case because I actually drove to the grocery store. I'm not sure how he expected me to stroll two toddler males that far and fit $200 worth of groceries in the stroller. Guess I was supposed to put on a 50 pound back pack on top of trying to keep my dudes from escaping into traffic.


Gravatargaining a captive audience for some shitty poets and bands.


This I agree with. Fortunately, the anti-war rallies around Boston weren't really like that at all.

Oh, and go to Burlington, VT or any Rainbow/Burning Man gathering and then try to claim that there aren't any hippies around anymore.


GravatarLynch's Dune is on Movies On Demand for free.

Lynch's cut or Smithee's cut (which is actually longer)?

Lynch's "Dune" is always fascinating to me - you rarely get to see a big budget movie from a talented director who is so completely inept with special effects.


GravatarAlliant International University

Oh, c'mon.


GravatarInternational ANSWER, in their idi--

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GravatarI much prefer the Alan Smithee version.

Seriously.
steve simels | 11.18.06 - 12:29 pm | #

It has problems, but the extra scenes, like Sting with Yueh, the post-assassination attempt meeting, and not to mention restoring the correct chronological order re the attempt and the spice mining visit, make it superior.

otoh they cut some great parts: the baron's doctor drooling over his open sores, the heartplug-pulling kissing scene, the spit on Jessica's face.

Put those back into the Smithee film, restore the original intro narration, and you'd have the best of both versions.


GravatarLeft wersus right is such a false dichotomy. Yogi sez: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."


GravatarAnd I'm a Really Bad Person because I don't save my shower water and use it to flush the toilet.


GravatarLocals Accuse US of Massacre in Ramadi
by Dahr Jamail with Ali al-Fadhily

RAMADI - U.S. military tank fire killed scores of civilians in Ramadi, capital of Al-Anbar province, late Monday night, according to witnesses and doctors. Anger and frustration were evident at the hospitals and during the funerals in the following days.

Iraqi doctors and witnesses at the scene of the attack said U.S. tanks killed 35 civilians when they shelled several homes in the Al-Dhubat area of the city.

SNIP
"We heard the bombing and we thought it was the usual fighting between resistance fighters and the Americans, but we soon realized it was bombing by large cannons," 60-year-old Haji Jassim explained to IPS at the burial. "We weren't allowed by the Americans to reach the destroyed houses to try to rescue those who were buried, so certainly many of them bled to death."
SNIP
Jassim, speaking with IPS while several other witnesses listened while nodding their heads, said that ambulances did not appear on the scene for hours because "we realized that the Americans did not allow them to move," and that as a result, "there were people buried under the rubble who were bleeding to death while there was still a chance to rescue them."

Winning hearts and minds. Now, where else does this sort of things happen?

Is this an indication that Dear Leader has decided to throw in his lot with the Shia majority and damn the Sunnis?

http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/? a...articleid=10035


GravatarPardon, but i must be going. Catch you later, perhaps.
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Gravatarthere certainly are people on the left who are just as holier-than-thou as those on the right.

That's why I can't go to anymore of those aforementioned gatherings. For every cool person that I meet, there are always self-righteous luddite dickheads who think they have the right to tell you how to live.


GravatarUS army 'seized Iraqi homes'

Oh, I already read about that at antiwar.com


GravatarInternational ANSWER, in their idi--

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dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:42 pm | #

Have a good nap. 600k+ dead, they're snoozing too, but unlike you, they won't wake up.


GravatarShorter wingnut: Kerry uses BIG words. He's too educated!
Terry C


not everybody attends college. kerry sent a message of exclusion instead of inclusion.

i know people harp at me for bringing things up, but if we don't analze our mistakes, they'll get repeated.


GravatarTerry C, American Once Again -- They are all fucking nuts. The world's in flames and these scientologists and their sycophants are acting like the French court.
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Gravatar"If making this observation makes me a bad person, so be it."
--Jennifer



Nope, not to me.


GravatarApart from the ridiculously obvious homo-erotic overtones (the scene is lit like a Tom of Finland poster) the sequence ends with Bond taunting the villain that eveybody is going to think he (the villain) played with his (Bond's) nutsac.

The scene as written in the book has its own interesting "overtones"... Fleming dug that torture stuff!


GravatarI like the Dune movie for all the Lynchian touches.

Like the scene where Kyle McL is training the new recruits in their spiffy uniforms. Inexplicably among the recruits are two moptop boys together, in perfectly fitting uniforms.

I'm told that the Lolita remake disappoints auteurists looking for Adrian Lyne's typical provocations. "If you were hoping for 9 1/2 Weeks with a 12 year old, forget it."


GravatarActual hippie here, and unshaved too. Spare some change Man? secureshop@usa.com

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Gravatarplantsman: glad you're feeling better; between you and the docs, you guys work on it, you'll feel better than you have in a long time, in ways you'll only notice in retrospect once they happen. Hang in there.

TerryC: the exception that proves the rule is Diana Rigg's part in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', never a mere ornament, though about as easy on the eyes as a woman's entitled to be. Of course, they had to kill her off...


Gravatar600k+ dead, they're snoozing too...

No, they're organizing protests. You're bitching.

I'll take the organizers over the whiner any day, pal.

Now don't you have a basket of fries to drop?


GravatarShorter wingnut: Kerry uses BIG words. He's too educated!
Terry C

not everybody attends college. kerry sent a message of exclusion instead of inclusion.

i know people harp at me for bringing things up, but if we don't analze our mistakes, they'll get repeated.
jello


I didn't go to college either, but I don't think Kerry or anyone else should have to dumb down to suit the anti-intellectualists in this country.


GravatarJust think if Thers, instead of having yet another half dozen children, supported this blog!


GravatarJello's act is pathetic. I can almost smell its breath.
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GravatarSay what you will about the ADD that afflicts much of the ANSWER crowd, until Cindy Sheehan came along they were among the only people keeping the antiwar movement alive.


GravatarTerryC: the exception that proves the rule is Diana Rigg's part in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', never a mere ornament, though about as easy on the eyes as a woman's entitled to be. Of course, they had to kill her off...
ProfWombat


I kind of liked Maud Adams in "Octopussy."


Gravatar"And I'm a Really Bad Person because I don't save my shower water and use it to flush the toilet."
--ErinPDX

Yes.

Simple answers....


GravatarHighlights from Friedman's writings in the WSJ. I like this one, from an op-ed on health care in 1993:

The company town has been revived in one major area: medical care. It is taken for granted that workers should receive their pay partly in kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How come? Why single out medical care? Surely food is no less essential to life than medical care. Why is it not at least as logical for workers to be required to buy their food at the company store as to be required to buy their medical care at the company store?


'Cause if you worked for an airline, you'd have to live on peanuts.


GravatarDr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers -- Have you checked the POB, today...?
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Gravatar"And in case anyone has been living under a rock, there haven't been hippies in about 30 years"

When did this come about? I mean, what happened? Did they all resign or was it a purge?


Gravatarcs, maybe it would have helped if you saw the interview or if i had the quotes. zogby's perspective was one i hadn't considered before.


GravatarKerry's "gaffe" was that he messed up the punch line of a fricken' joke about BushBoy.

Every Kewl Kid knew that, every reader of the news about the thing knew it. But the press chose to go with the RNC/WH/Rove talking points about the lack of a two letter word, "us," to give the Rethugs some payment under The Halperin Rule and to further kick Kerry, whom they had such a good time lying about and gigging during the presidential election.

God, if the Dems don't succeed, I hope the Rethugs throw some of their sorry asses in some black hole jail somewhere.

OOOOps--forgive momentary illiberal nasty thought! But, I can't believe Zogby said that--it feeds into the other MCM/RNC crap about Kerry, the elitism shit. Grrrrrr.

Now, I go to rake leaves. I will smush them into the bags with force and anger!


GravatarNow don't you have a basket of fries to drop?
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:46 pm | #

No, sorry, my work is altogether different.


Gravatari know people harp at me for bringing things up, but if we don't analze our mistakes, they'll get repeated.

The mistake is "Don't buy right-wing spin."

"Analze" that.


Gravatar♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ErinPDX! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Didja see my last-night e-mail?
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GravatarTerry C, American Once Again -- They are all fucking nuts. The world's in flames and these scientologists and their sycophants are acting like the French court.
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cs, art is bread


I give that "marriage" six months.


GravatarYou load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.


Gravatar...my work is altogether different.

Tongue-bathing Unka Karl? Well, it's a living...


GravatarThe mistake is "Don't buy right-wing spin."

"Analze" that.
dave™©


I'm tired of the attitude in this country of "smart bad, stupid good."


GravatarActually Kerry's statement about education and Iraq was an intelligence test.

If you didn't grasp it the first time...


GravatarDemocrats Split About Overhaul for Ethics Rules
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK 12 minutes ago

After railing for months against Congressional corruption under Republican rule, Democrats are divided on how far their proposed ethics overhaul should go.



Let the greed begin. The democrats are a joke and are going to be an unmitigated disaster for the country. I'd advise all Americans to keep both hands on their wallets and strongly consider moving to Canada. This country is sooooo fucked.


GravatarI didn't go to college either, but I don't think Kerry or anyone else should have to dumb down to suit the anti-intellectualists in this country.
Terry C


we shouldn't go out of our way either to make the working class feel excluded.

oh well, it's not like kerry was playing against type.


GravatarNo, I was out arguing with my insurer over whether they have a right to impose their 'judgement' as to whether to allow me access to a legal, unrestricted medication prescribed by a licensed physician. Post office Monday.

Meanwhile, there's this:
Bacon Brownies

2 sticks margarine
1/2 cup cocoa
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
4 strips of hickory smoked cinnamon bacon (or your favorite bacon), cooked crispy and finely chopped

Melt the margarine. Add the cocoa to the melted margarine. Separately, in large bowl, cream the sugar and eggs well. Add the flour and mix well. Then add the cocoa mix and chopped bacon and stir well. Bake in a 9x14 inch pan for 30-35 minutes at 350 degrees


GravatarI remember one of those {annoying lefty} types getting on my case because I actually drove to the grocery store.--ErinPDX

I'd not make a fuss about the grocery store. But people who drive to the gym? Grrr.


Gravatar"I'm tired of the attitude in this country of "smart bad, stupid good."
Terry C, American Once Again |"

You will be saying this the hundreds of people who camped out for days to be the first to get a PS3.


GravatarSay what you will about the ADD that afflicts much of the ANSWER crowd, until Cindy Sheehan came along they were among the only people keeping the antiwar movement alive.
BlakNo1 | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:46 pm | #

Maybe, but Cindy Sheehan seems to be more effective than the entire ANSWER crowd.

Which social systems allow a single person to be so effective?


GravatarThe democrats are a joke and are going to be an unm--

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Gravatarre: using big words etc.

Doctors do this all the time. They talk amongst themselves in a professional vocabulary that allows concision, precision and mutual understanding, and then have to use a quite different language to talk with patients about their issues. It's not easy, and a lot of them can't do it well. As soon as one says, 'Trust me,' or words to that effect, you know you've got a failure to communicate, out of inability, difficulty or even laziness born of a simple lack of taking the need for it seriously enough.


GravatarGreetings, again, rational people.


Gravatari know people harp at me for bringing things up, but if we don't analze our mistakes, they'll get repeated.
jello


The cry of the northern white-bellied concern troll, while less shrill and piercing than the southern species, carries a plaintive note that hearkens to be noticed by a suitor.


GravatarBlak - you're right on that point. I thought they squandered opportunity with the way they conducted a lot of the rallies, but at least they did something, when no one else was. I have to give them credit for that, even though I found them exasperating.

Which oddly circles me back around to my original rant. Why, with all the wide variety of people who oppossed this war that were out there...was this the face we allowed to be painted on the anti-war movement?


Gravatar"And in case anyone has been living under a rock, there haven't been hippies in about 30 years"

When did this come about? I mean, what happened? Did they all resign or was it a purge?
EkCenTriK | 11.18.06 - 12:48 pm | #


No, they all started writing stuff about how the internet was the next step in human evolution.

In prose indistinguishable from their earlier writings about how psychedelics were the next step in human evolution.


Gravatarwe shouldn't go out of our way either to make the working cl--

Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard...


GravatarWhite House -- Chimpy knows he's popular in Vietnam because people wave at his motorcade.


GravatarDems are trying to bring back peace and prosperity.


GravatarEventually someone will advertise or seek to advertise who pushes everyone's buttons in a major way and at that point, the "I take them all, anything else is an implied endorsement of some" argument won't hack it. It's a tough one, not saying otherwise, but a simplistic approach is going to blow up in your face one day, guaranteed.

Steve Gilliard has basic sympathy for Atrios's position, but stated matter-of-factly that he would not take a racist or pro-life ad. That seems reasonable.

I was on the board of a strike paper in the late 70s where we mobilized the entire left-progressive community behind the strike, including people who weren't inclined to be pro-labor, but we got 'em over, put that coalition together. Then a pro-life group put in a paid insert one day, bloody fetuses, the works, and the strikers thought that was dandy, paid the bills. There was hell to pay. The strikers felt quite self-righteous about the whole thing, they were the ones putting their asses on the line and all, working for nothing putting that fucking paper out every day. Large segments of the coalition were incensed in turn and walked away. The whole thing fell apart among mutual recriminations and bad feeling lasting for decades.

Long story short, this isn't simple and a broad policy can blow up in your face. Better to think this one through.
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GravatarThe mistake is "Don't buy right-wing spin."
"Analze" that.
dave™


james zogby, right wing spinner, riiiight.


Gravatar...my work is altogether different.

Tongue-bathing Unka Karl? Well, it's a living...
dave™©



Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!


Gravatarthere certainly are people on the left who are just as holier-than-thou as those on the right.

Actually, they are worse. They at least have a smidgeon of reality on their side. But they take it to the nth degree.

And really, I grew up in a highly cultured home, dirt poor and in a working class neighborhood. I really, really resented the rich kids dropping out of ivy league schools to live in roach infested apartments on the lower east side and preaching the wonders of brown rice and tofu while I was working as a waitress during the day and attending school at night.

There were very, very few real hippies even back in the sixties.


Gravatar"In prose indistinguishable from their earlier writings about how psychedelics were the next step in human evolution."

Oh no, bad feeling here. You are about to tell me that they are also the ones who bought the Lexus SUV's and really believe in the conservative cause.


GravatarActually, the real hippies today are Brit rock critics who think rave culture and music are significant.


Gravatar"I didn't go to college either, but I don't think Kerry or anyone else should have to dumb down to suit the anti-intellectualists in this country.
Terry C"

Exactly. We've got, at best, a few decades to solve basic issues that have not been resolved in thousands of years of human civilization. We need to get a lot smarter, and very quickly, or face mass extinction.


GravatarProfWombat

So you never would say, "Hand me that fucking saw."?


GravatarEkCenTrik: are the PS3 campers any crazier than somebody who will, say, buy a mechanical watch costing thousands of dollars that doesn't keep time as well as the cell phone he already owns, rather than feed somebody who hasn't got the spare change for a big Mac? Where to start with the insanity of consumption in this country?


GravatarWhen did this come about? I mean, what happened? Did they all resign or was it a purge?


Most of them were co-opted by the fiat money scam and some became rabid proponents of the shite the rest of us are still protesting. The media deliberately tried to turn our social and moral values into a joke, but the joke is on them, as the results of the last election and the shitstorm that is about to envelop the establishment is actually the direct result of our dirty commy pinko fag hippie persistence over time


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Gravatar...they all started writing stuff about how the internet was the next step in human evolution.

Actually, some of them skipped the writing and went straight into (first) inventing computers and software, and then making tons of money from it. Some of them do good with the wealth, some of them are scum.

Same old story...


Gravatar"Where to start with the insanity of consumption in this country?
ProfWombat"

In full agreement.


GravatarYou will be saying this the hundreds of people who camped out for days to be the first to get a PS3.
EkCenTriK


Don't even get me started on that crew!


Gravatar...the real hippies today are Brit rock critics who think rave culture and music are significant.

Rock critics? Are they still around???


GravatarThe true test of a hippie is staying one.
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GravatarWhich oddly circles me back around to my original rant. Why, with all the wide variety of people who oppossed this war that were out there...was this the face we allowed to be painted on the anti-war movement?
Jennifer | 11.18.06 - 12:52 pm | #

It's dave™©'s fault. He was napping.


GravatarI still say the livejournal format is the best comment system going. The only way this haloscan-type system maximizes its efficiency is if it's one continuous thread. I know a Russkie site infested with anarchist poets that's about 6 years long. The scrolling is insane, but as long as you index by date, it's all good.

Liberal bloggers (Netroots™) could consider banding together (kind of like unionizing; that is, if branded as "Unionizing♀♂", that'll tend to scare off the winger trolls) and wheeling & dealing with SixApart.

http://www.sixapart.com/livejournal/

Hey, 2 million active users, 75% of em left-leaning libs, lots of em are 16 years old this year, and would tend to notice a huge new dreadnought in their midst


GravatarOh no, bad feeling here. You are about to tell me that they are also the ones who bought the Lexus SUV's and really believe in the conservative cause.
EkCenTriK | 11.18.06 - 12:54 pm | #


Quite the opposite. In my perhaps too vague way, I was trying to make fun of a certain utopian optimism peculiar to the counter-culture.


GravatarLime Rickey: no, I wouldn't have (I'm retired from practice), but that's because I wasn't an orthopedist. Don't curse much myself, but that reflects habit rather than virtue...


GravatarMake that "Many of them". There's actually quite a few left. You might even be one and just don't realize it yet.


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GravatarExactly. We've got, at best, a few decades to solve basic issues that have not been resolved in thousands of years of human civilization. We need to get a lot smarter, and very quickly, or face mass extinction.
Mike


I cannot argue with you THERE!


Gravatarwhy was this the face we allowed to be painted on the anti-war movement?

Not having a draft helped with that, unfortunately. Many young people still don't give a shit because it doesn't affect them.

Also, many were happy to bitch and moan about ANSWER but they didn't give a shit about offering an alternative. As such, they ended up being the public face of the antiwar movement.


GravatarKerry's mistake is that he made a verbal error--BushBoy makes many, many, many verbal gaffes. Most are ignored by the MCM, some get covered in a kind of "isn't he cute" kind of way, and some make it to You Tube.

Seldom does he get any political heat for his gaffes. He can say the darnedest things and get away with it, 'cause, ya know, Kids Say the Darnedest Things! (I would put a trademark symbol, but can't do it.)

And BushBoy is just Poppy's Kid, so IOKIYAR.

I think Zogby was overanalyzing.


GravatarYou will be saying this the hundreds of people who camped out for days to be the first to get a PS3.

Good capitalists, all!

Did anyone actually buy one to keep it?


Gravatarmelior | 11.18.06 - 12:52 pm | #

the uncritical loyalist who thinks clapping louder will made the party better.

besides concern trolls are of the moment. deconstructing this now isnt going to affect anything or demoralize anybody from voting.

when is the time to for critical analysis? never?


GravatarActually, some of them skipped the writing and went straight into (first) inventing computers and software, and then making tons of money from it. Some of them do good with the wealth, some of them are scum.
dave™©


One of them won a Nobel Prize.


GravatarOld North Beach beatnik maxim:

The enlightened Bohemian is he whose woman works.


Gravatar...the real hippies today are Brit rock critics who think rave culture and music are significant.

Rock critics? Are they still around???
dave™©


Like Steven Wells who think the only music that counts is punk?


Gravatarwas this the face we allowed to be painted on the anti-war movement?

Wait a moment. "We" allowed? It seems to me that the media were at least complicit in reinforcing the notion that people opposed to our invasion of Iraq were replicas of the 'dirty hippies' who protested Vietnam.


Gravatarwhen is the time to for critical analysis?

When you start offering some instead of bullshit wingnut talking points, be sure to let us know.


GravatarKerry's mistake is that he made a verbal error-
and it was a complicated verbal error.


GravatarI think Zogby was overanalyzing.
jawbone


Yes, he was.

Kerry v. Bush = better to TELL a bad joke than to BE one.


Gravatarplantsman - already noted, in my response to mer.


GravatarKerry didn't make a verbal error. Folks there in the audience knew what he was talking about.

When are people gonna wake up and realize that they're doing to Kerry just as they did to Dean, and for years and years to the Clintons. They hound them, waiting for them to do or say something they can scew and then spread through the media like a virus.

Wake the fuck up.
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Gravatarmeanwhile .... Johnny's in the basement inventing a sure fire release agent for dentures and melted parmesan cheese


GravatarSounds to me as if the eventual Kynch/Smithee fusion for Dune will prove as intractible as editing King Lear.

In the original Lear, Albany assumes his rightful place as King according to succession rules.

But in production, Edgar proved the crowd-pleasing character, so Shakespeare revised the ending. Edgar assumes the throne while Albany, rightful heir, unaccountably looks on in silence

There's no way to reconcile the change


GravatarJennifer, the MCM paints the face. It ignores those it does not want to give air time to. It goes with the image it wants; not the image that's there. It has objectives to achieve in creating impressions among the people.

The blogs and internet have had some impact--and the general good sense that God gave geese has meant the American voter "gets" that they're not getting the real story.

It's the the aging hippies--or younger one--it's the MCM.


GravatarOld North Beach beatnik maxim...

Speaking of beatniks...

BTW, when are you coming out here to hang at Caffe Trieste, Steverino? I used to know the exact time every day you could run into Paul Kantner there...


Gravatarhey ql: good to see you
I'd agree, self-indulgence among the hippie/left, especially as they denounce it in others, isn't pretty; some of them grew out of it. My parents, who were classic old lefties, nevertheless had an apartment in Manhattan in the 1950s which couldn't have been rented to a black man...


Gravatarwhen is the time to for critical analysis? never?
jello


In this target-rich environment after The Thumpin', with Rethuglicans in fool panicked retreat, those rushing to reform a circular firing squad shall be shamelessly mocked for cowardice.


GravatarKerry's mistake is that he made a verbal error-
and it was a complicated verbal error.
plantsman, lowercase


No one wants to have a beer with someone who is complicated!


GravatarI accept paypal.

Just sayin.


GravatarLike Steven Wells who think the only music that counts is punk?
Terry C, American Once Again | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:59 pm | #


Yeah, that makes sense.


Gravatarcs, art is bread | 11.18.06 - 1:01 pm | #

shorter cs: dem pols are perfect and are above reproach.


Gravatarmer, you little poop!
Answer was annoying but thank goodness they were there.


GravatarOJ's "If I did It" is an awful idea.


Gravatarthe natural endpoint of totally unregulated capitalism is a tiny monopolistic oligarchy of which they will definitely not be a member.
blerb

Excellent. What bothers me about libertarianism is their lack of understanding that highly developed societies have a tight social structure in place that defines what you can & can not do.

Thus, you're not free without a government, you simply have some alternatives as you do when there's an active govt. As power in modern society is ultimately economic power, without govt. we'd be ruled by the economic super upper class. They would define the necessary education levels of the population, environmental issues, health & work safety standards etc.


GravatarGreetings, again, rational people.
Diane C. Barking-Mad | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:52 pm | #

Hmmm, I don't think you've read the whole thread


GravatarKerry did not tell a bad joke. It was quite an accurate statement on the intellectual curiosity of the POTUS.


GravatarWhat ql just said. Self-righteous trustafarians who scream about "choosing to be poor" while collecting interest on their trust funds and running back to mommy and daddy when things get too sketchy should be smacked in the mouth.


GravatarIt's NOT the aging hippies, etc.


Gravatarhe enlightened Bohemian is he whose woman works.

steve simels


Keroak's (sp?) wife wrote a scathing book about that. And it was quite true. My parents were beatniks in the Village til they had four kids. Then mom went out and worked while dad stayed home and painted. Good for him and he created a large body of work, but it sucked for her.


GravatarWhite House -- Chimpy knows he's popular in Vietnam because people wave at his motorcade.
P O'Neill | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:53 pm | #

Maybe they're tossing grenades?!?


GravatarI find it telling that the headline on Thursday was "Dems in Disarray" rather than "Repugs Re-Hire White Power Prick for Number Two Slot."


GravatarKerry's mistake is that he made a verbal error-
and it was a complicated verbal error.
plantsman


exquisitely timed. and strangely affirming perfectly widely held republican prejudices.


GravatarFucking Dirty Pinko Commie Fag Hippies

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Gravatarplantsman: OJ has had many awful ideas, though this may top all but one of them. WGG had a great take on OJ the other night, imagining him as Iago playing Othello in the same skin...


GravatarKerry did not tell a bad joke. It was quite an accurate statement on the intellectual curiosity of the POTUS.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker


Thank you!

Bush IS a moron.


GravatarMSNBC has at least been trying for a week to offer a slightly more varied group of pundits, and the statements from Democratic pols have been more upbeat and hopeful than the GOP "all is fear" norm.
I'm enjoying it.


GravatarIf the MCM hadn't worked so assiudously to fluff BushBoy, where do you think his approval rating would be?

Subzero.


GravatarFucking Dirty Pinko Commie Fag Hippies

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Truth



Oh, I LOVED Three Dog Night in high school.

Recently read Chuck Negron's book "Three Dog Nightmare."

Dude had MAJOR drug problems!


GravatarIn this target-rich environment after The Thumpin', with Rethuglicans in fool panicked retreat, those rushing to reform a circular firing squad shall be shamelessly mocked for cowardice.
melior


another blind loyalists who doesn't believe in self reflection. like i said, you're suggesting it is never the time for criticism.


GravatarFace painting is the media's fault for sure. They ignored our peaceful rallies of 40,000 prior to the war here in Portland. I could barely get through the crowds of little old ladies from the suburbs. None of them made the evening news. We filled 20+ blocks of streets. We were invisible.


GravatarWhen you start offering some instead of bullshit wingnut talking points, be sure to let us know.
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:59 pm | #

dave™©, you're a paragon of respect and rational discourse.


Gravatarjello: Republicans, and for that matter, people in general, usually look at the world with blinders sufficiently restrictive as to find their prejudices confirmed, in the same manner as the possessor of a dirty mind finding the world a perpetual feast...


Gravatarshorter cs: dem pols are perfect and are above reproach.
jello | 11.18.06 - 1:02 pm | #


shorter jello: I'm stupid and you can't fix stupid.
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Gravatarexquisitely timed. and strangely affirming perfectly widely held republican prejudices.
jello


So, everyone should dumb down to make the repukes happy?


Gravatarexquisitely timed

Just in time for the elections. In which the Democrats lost not one seat. Not. A. Single. One.

[does snoopy happy dance]

And the Bullshit Moose quit!

[continues snoopy happy dance]


GravatarTranslation: I'm a Republican who likes to smoke pot and bang hookers.
steve simels


Why bring me into this?


GravatarBoner: "And to work hard so that we can earn our way back into the majority. And to do that means that we need to fight for a smaller, less-costly and more accountable federal government.

Bwahahaha!
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GravatarOh, I LOVED Three Dog Night in high school.

Me too. The arrangements, perhaps due in part to the complexity of The Mamas and The Papas arrangements, were wonderful!


Gravataranother blind loyalists who doesn't believe in self reflection. like i said, you're suggesting it is never the time for criticism.
jello


Lighten up.


Gravatarshorter jello: I'm stupid and you can't fix stupid.
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cs,

what are you? in kindergarten?


GravatarMy take on the Kerry thing is that for whatever reason, most people don't like him and so are willing to believe every bad thing said about him. However, it didn't really take this time around. In fact, none of their slimy, shit encrusted lies did take. No matter how many turds they flung (flinged?), none stuck.


Gravatarmy take on the ANSWER crowd.

and, i admit i'm very stupid, but isn't the word "british" inclusive of everyone in the empire, welsh, north irish, scot and english? or do i misunderstand that?


GravatarKeroak's (sp?) wife wrote a scathing book about that. And it was quite true.

Kerouac.

Speaking of painters, let's not forget the most popular painter of those days, Walter Keane, whose wife did all the work while he schmoozed around and grabbed all the money.

BTW, the "let the old lady work" ethos was also popular during the hippie era, as Tena can attest to...


GravatarOld North Beach beatnik maxim:

The enlightened Bohemian is he whose woman works.

steve simels | 11.18.06 - 12:58 pm | #


I once saw a program on the lubavitcher sect of Orthodox Jews and they thought just the same. In an ideal household, the woman earns the money so the man can devote all his time to studying the Torah.

One mopey fellow wasn't so lucky; his underachieving wife had forced him into the diamond wholesaling trade


GravatarKary Mullis, who invented the ubiquitous and extraordinary useful technique of PCR, indisputably deserved the Nobel Prize. Like, among others, Shockley, he fails otherwise to be an exemplary human being...


Gravatarbut isn't the word "british" inclusive of everyone in the empire, welsh, north irish, scot and english? or do i misunderstand that?

You understand it perfectly. And you ain't stupid.


Gravatar...you're a paragon of respect and rational discourse.

Like I give a shit what you think.


Gravatarand, i admit i'm very stupid, but isn't the word "british" inclusive of everyone in the empire, welsh, north irish, scot and english? or do i misunderstand that?
chicago dyke | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 1:11 pm | #

Britain includes England, Wales, Scotland. Nothern Ireland is in the UK but not Great Britain.

There's a great Venn diagram on the web somewhere that shows the relationships.


GravatarBTW, the "let the old lady work" ethos was also popular during the hippie era, as Tena can attest to...
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 1:12 pm | #


As was "the only position for women in the Movement is prone."


GravatarOh, I LOVED Three Dog Night in high school.

Me too. The arrangements, perhaps due in part to the complexity of The Mamas and The Papas arrangements, were wonderful!
plantsman, lowercase


The record critics would think WE were uncool.


Gravatarisn't the word "british" inclusive of everyone in the empire, welsh, north irish, scot and english?

Don't ever try suggesting that to anyone Welsh, Scottish or Irish, except maybe some of the Northern Irish who are pretty much Tories anyway.


Gravatarmore accountable federal government.

I have no problem with an accountable government, Boner. I do have a problem with whom you wish to make the government accountable. The government is already accountable to the people. And your corporation friends are not people!

As for smaller and less-costly, let us change that to more efficient and effective; that is a goal I am willing to work with you on.


GravatarLike I give a shit what you think.
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 1:13 pm | #

Well, you certainly find the time to make comments on my posts.

So, either you do, or you enjoy wasting everyone's time. Which is it?


Gravatarand, i admit i'm very stupid, but isn't the word "british" inclusive of everyone in the empire, welsh, north irish, scot and english? or do i misunderstand that?
chicago dyke


You're not stupid.


GravatarSo, everyone should dumb down to make the repukes happy?
Terry C

that isn't what i'm saying. if somebody frumpy had said the same thing, it wouldn't had the same impact. the problem is kerry. he's such a stereotype, he's a walking caricature.


GravatarFrom Below:

I quit deer hunting here in WA. when I found out they give free hunting licenses to handicapped hunters.

Define handicapped? Paralyzed, loss of one or more limbs, mentally ill,
or BLIND.

Just ain't safe out there fer man 'nor beast, after you add in the beer.


GravatarKerry is frumpy, for a guy.


GravatarSo, either you do, or you enjoy wasting everyone's time. Which is it?
Mike



Dave isn't wasting anyone's time.


GravatarHowever, it didn't really take this time around.

That's because what Kerry meant was perfectly understandable, even if he did leave out "us." Ultimately, you can only spin something that has a small questionable element in it. If you try to spin something that is perfectly clear, you just look like a lying asshole.
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GravatarKerry is frumpy, for a guy.
plantsman, lowercase



I'll STILL take HIM over Bush ANY day.


GravatarThanks CS, equipment, software, and bandwidth can be expensive and my 600gb anti-war videos have been downloaded over 50,000 times in the past 5 weeks - so I could use the support.

Here is my site.

http://rosecoloredglasses.org


Gravatarok, someone explain to me why netflix doesn't offer the complete "LA Law" for rental. i'm pissed.


GravatarSpeaking of Margaret Keane...


Gravatarwhat are you? in kindergarten?
jello


Hmmm. Guess I hit a nerve.
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Gravatarthe problem is kerry. he's such a stereotype, he's a walking caricature.
jello


of what?

Someone who isn't afraid to show that he's educated and that he actually reads?


GravatarDave isn't wasting anyone's time.
Terry C, American Once Again | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 1:15 pm | #

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz


GravatarGotta go, alas.

Looking forward to chatting with you all later this evening...


GravatarKerry v. Bush = better to TELL a bad joke than to BE one.
Terry C, American Once Again| 11.18.06 - 1:00 pm

Good one, Terry.


Gravatar...you certainly find the time to make comments on my posts.

It's like shooting ducks in a barrel. No time involved.


GravatarARE CONSERVATIVES more charitable? "The book's basic findings are that conservatives who practice religion, live in traditional nuclear families and reject the notion that the government should engage in income redistribution are the most generous Americans, by any measure. Conversely, secular liberals who believe fervently in government entitlement programs give far less to charity. They want everyone's tax dollars to support charitable causes and are reluctant to write checks to those causes, even when governments don't provide them with enough money."

Apparently they're not big on paying the taxes to support those entitlement programs, either.


GravatarNice letter in the Boston Globe today sticks it to Governor Mitt Prettyhair:

November 18, 2006

GOVERNOR ROMNEY, apparently determined to go out with a bang, not a whimper, wants the people to vote on whether gays should be allowed to marry ("Foes of same-sex marriage to rally," City & Region, Nov. 16). Seems we haven't beaten this dead horse enough. I have a counterproposal: Let's let democracy have its day, as Romney asks. How about if we vote on whether Mormons should be allowed to wed? After all, don't all Mormon guys have, like, 50 wives each? I wouldn't know, because I know as little about Mormons as Mitt probably does about gay people .

I'm gay. Have been as long as I can remember, and not because of a domineering mom, childhood molestation, or anything so dramatic. I just am. Maybe nature, maybe nurture, maybe both -- doesn't matter. Mormons, it could be more strongly argued, are so by choice. They may be raised in the church, but once they come of age, they could leave it if they wanted.

Am I trying to trash Mormons ? No, but my point is this: In a pluralistic society, everyone deserves the same freedoms. Everyone. Even Mormons. That includes the right to marry whom one chooses.

JAMIE SIMPSON
Boston


Gravatarthe problem is kerry. he's such a stereotype, he's a walking caricature.

No right-wing talking points here!


GravatarThere are those who work very hard at turning Kerry into a caricature of himself. Kerry himself is occasionally complicit in their efforts. The price of political participation at Kerry's level is to find one subject to this sort of abuse, and hence to be required to find a strategy for dealing with it. All that said, I think Kerry's a flat-out good man, who some view, uncharitably and innacurately, as entirely responsible for a loss that was far from his sole responsibility.


Gravatarthank you cs, for adding to the discussion.


Gravatarhe's such a stereotype, he's a walking caricature.

Says who? Why the GOP and and the MSM; that's who. Well, let us all hop on board that bandwagon because I am sure it has some good stops.


GravatarThe enlightened Bohemian is he whose woman works.

steve simels


Enlightened Bohemian?

Or lazy ass prick?


Gravatar"the problem is kerry. he's such a stereotype, he's a walking caricature."
--jello

I watched Kerry often during the 04 campaign. I didn't and don't see him as a caricature. I think the media and republicans painted him that way, and it stuck with a lot of people.


GravatarBullwinkle is gone??!!

Strooth!

The great and grand political development of the past year has been the triumph of Independent - Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman. Joe has bravely revived the great tradition of Scoop Jackson that is so critically needed at this time of international challenge and crisis. The Moose is leaving the blogosphere with the deep satisfaction that in a small way he was part of this historic and monumental victory for the vital center.

My jaw nearly hit the floor on that one.
Ungabelievigable...


GravatarWhoohoo! Scooter Libby in the news again, new hot legal action.

By JOSH GERSTEIN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
November 17, 2006
A former White House aide, I. Lewis Libby, may have disclosed conclusions from a highly classified government report on Iraq to journalists before the report was declassified by President Bush, federal prosecutors said in a new court filing.

http://www.nysun.com/article/43724

Welcome back, Fitz! Just in time for the holidays.

(Via antiwar.com)


GravatarConversely, secular liberals who believe fervently in government entitlement programs give far less to charity



What bullshit.


Gravatarhttp://www.blueoregon.com/

Was up in Oregon recently and read this for a couple days while in town. Local bloggity-blog.


GravatarKerry frumpy? I don't see anything wrong with frumpy, but I also don't see how it applies to Kerry.
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Gravatarbut isn't the word "british" inclusive of everyone in the empire, welsh, north irish, scot and english? or do i misunderstand that?

For what it's worth, Hitchens a few years ago cited some legal precedents to define British as "subject to British law." He seemed sober and was trying to help the Greeks get the looted Elgin Marbles back from the British Museum.

By the way, I like how the British Museum catalogues The Doomsday Book as "Public Document 1"


GravatarSnow, Ordinary Thinker, I think I owe you a coke, or would that be a pepsi?


Gravataranother blind loyalists who doesn't believe in self reflection. like i said, you're suggesting it is never the time for criticism.
jello/Mike


Tawdry and stale marketing of Rove's talking points doesn't count as self-reflection anymore than pimping a cheap dominatrix nightclub act counts as masturbation.


GravatarI watched Kerry often during the 04 campaign. I didn't and don't see him as a caricature. I think the media and republicans painted him that way, and it stuck with a lot of people.
mer


They pulled the same shit with Gore.

"The smart kid that everyone in the class hated" bullshit.


GravatarI am, however, continueing my efforts to Keep and Arm Bears.


GravatarI LOVED Three Dog Night in high school.

You realize they were originally "discovered" by Brian Wilson? He was good friends with Danny Hutton. He recorded a couple of songs with them, one of which the Beach Boys grabbed, wiped the recorded vocals, replaced them with their own, and released it as "Darlin'" - their last "hit" for some time.


GravatarSnow, Ordinary Thinker, I think I owe you a coke, or would that be a pepsi?

Don't matter as long as there is rum or vodka in it.

I am kidding. I do not touch pepsi.


GravatarKerry's full of shit. It's an all volunteer military, and those people are queer for education. Naval officers are constantly getting degrees as a means of advancement, enlisted even moreso, rather than dubious membership in grave-robbing fraternities.


GravatarMy jaw nearly hit the floor on that one.
Ungabelievigable...
Elmer, PHD



Bullwinkle STOOPID to the very end.


Gravatarwow, who knew acknowledging what everybody knows - that kerry is a offputting stiff who people can't relate to - makes me a rightwing troll!

can't wait for dems to nominate another stiff. or better yet, let's nominate kerry again! that'll show the right!


GravatarShorter trolls: refusing to play our game is a blow to civil discourse!

Look at me!! LOOK AT ME!!!


GravatarKerry's full of shit. It's an all volunteer military, and those people are queer for education. Naval officers are constantly getting degrees as a means of advancement, enlisted even moreso, rather than dubious membership in grave-robbing fraternities.
Tim Finnegan


And the price paid for that education and advancement?


GravatarLincoln would never be nominated, let alone elected, nowadays. Very frumpy looking, long face, moody, told good stories and spoke well, but just not TV material.


Gravatarcan't wait for dems to nominate another stiff. or better yet, let's nominate kerry again! that'll show the right!
jello



Don't recall anyone here saying to nominate John again.

In fact, the sentiment has been the opposite.


Gravatarmer -- I watched Kerry often during the 04 campaign. I didn't and don't see him as a caricature. I think the media and republicans painted him that way, and it stuck with a lot of people.


This is exactly right. The great disappointment for me was that so many Dems/Progressives bought the framing instead of looking beyond it for themselves.

Kerry has been a nemesis to the right since the anti-war days. They've spent 30-odd years trying to stick him in a shadow box.

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GravatarLincoln would never be nominated, let alone elected, nowadays. Very frumpy looking, long face, moody, told good stories and spoke well, but just not TV material.
jawbone


Exactly.


GravatarAnd the price paid for that education and advancement?

Heavy.


Gravatar...who knew what everybody knows - that repeating stale, old right-wing talking points - makes me a rightwing troll!

Guess you should have read the job description closer.

BTW, fixed your typos. No charge.


GravatarKerry has been a nemesis to the right since the anti-war days. They've spent 30-odd years trying to stick him in a shadow box.

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cs, art is bread


Oh, please - John O'Neill needs to get a life. He acts like a spurned lover.

THIRTY PLUS YEARS engaging in a vendetta against John Kerry?

Sick sick sick!


GravatarAnd the price paid for that education and advancement?

Heavy.
Tim Finnegan


There ya go!


Gravatar/donning flame suit/

i think kerry is wooden, and lacks an appreciation of 'regular' people and their culture, humor, perspective, etc. as far as candidates go, i really didn't appreciate being told by "smart" liberals that dean was a loser, and kerry the "obvious choice." kerry also blew it with me when he took carville's advice, and didn't bother to follow thru with counting all the votes. i can't think of a stupider line than "i was for it before i was against it" coming from a supposedly well educated democrat. kerry has always been a dedicated member of the party, but consistantly has failed to finish the job, cf the banking scandals of the mid 80s that he investigated but never was able to make stick, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of BFEE collusion and criminality.

kerry's fine as pols go, but he's not my favorite by a long shot. you may flame me now.


GravatarGod, someone just posted who believes the MCM crap about Kerry's muffed joke line. Sheesh. That is sooooooo sad, that someone who reads and writes can't get beyond the RNC talking points. So very sad.

But, then, that's the RNC's audience, right?


GravatarI watched Kerry often during the 04 campaign

i watched kerry in the lead up to the iowa primaries, during primary season. i watched him literally run away from a out of work verizon worker pleading to him to do something about outsourcing. kerry didn't want to hear it.


GravatarMitt Romney's fervent attempt to enshrine unequal justice into law should be discussed at every opportunity.


Gravatarjello, elected officials say thousands of things over a month. Invariably, they say something that doesn't come out right. But, for Repubs, its never dwelled on.

Democrats, on the other hand, have their images defined by their occasional poor phrasing. Kerry is just following Dean, Gore, Clinton in MSM treatment. First, its reported endlessly by the RW outlets, ie. Drudge, FOX, MSNBC, CNN, RW talk shows. Then, its picked up by the regular MSM. Next, its part of the conventional wisdom.


Gravatarwow, who knew acknowledging what everybody knows - that kerry is a offputting stiff who people can't relate to

Funny how they said the same things about Gore. They were both wooden and stiff except when they weren't; in which case they were elitist to the manor born.

Since neither was true about either . . . well, I just prefer to laugh about it because crying is a waste.


GravatarIt's like shooting ducks in a barrel. No time involved.
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 1:18 pm | #

For the record, here's a collection of Dave's posts in this thread. I count 5 posts that are at least somewhat substantive. (part 2 follows)


ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 11:18 am | #

Aren't they all?
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:03 pm | #

Please go back there. I'm sure they'll undelete your account.
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:04 pm | #

Ah, trolls, so easy to be pigeonholed into easily-dismissable categories.
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:05 pm | #

Maybe you're just a fucking dick.
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:06 pm | #

Speaking of granola, anyone remember back in the '70s when "granola belly" was a concern?

You know you're old if you do...
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:08 pm | #

Oh, I doubt that... but I'm not volunteering to find out!

Not that there's anything wrong with it!!!
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:09 pm | #


You, however, have demonstrated all anyone fucking needs to know.

You can start pissing off any fucking time now.
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 12:27 pm | #


GravatarDon't recall anyone here saying to nominate John again.
In fact, the sentiment has been the opposite.
Terry C


(gasp) troll!


Gravatarjello:

What is it you want the left to do?

Attempt to violently overthrow the government?


GravatarSorry. Gore was wooden and stiff in 2000, and desperately petulant in the first debate.


Gravatarkerry didn't want to hear it.

Kerry was also running for president of the United States, not president of Verizon. What exactly would you have the POTUS do about outsourcing? Which law should he enforce?


Gravatar(gasp) troll!
jello



Okay, if that makes you feel better, keep telling yourself that.

You cannot talk to someone who is determined to be unhappy about anything and everything.


GravatarAhhh, 8:30 in the morning in Hawaii, a new 6 pack of Sierra Nevada, 60 hours to play.... life is good.

Except for that George Bush thing.


GravatarStiff? Gore, Kerry, and a cigar store Indian makes three.


GravatarSorry. Gore was wooden and stiff in 2000, and desperately petulant in the first debate.
plantsman, lowercase


And Monkey Boy WASN'T??????????


Gravatari was joking, terry.


Gravatarkerry's fine as pols go, but he's not my favorite by a long shot. you may flame me now.
chicago dyke


Really, I can flame you.

Dean was my first choice, but Kerry was a close second. I'm still rooting for Gore this time round, but two years is a long time.


GravatarKerry a caricature? Of what? A very intelligent, well-educated, well-traveled deep thinker with a long history of courageous service in war and in peace?

And get this -- he gets slimed for not telling a joke well! Good God, that man can't take a breath without getting slimed for something.


GravatarKerry a caricature? Of what? A very intelligent, well-educated, well-traveled deep thinker with a long history of courageous service in war and in peace?

And get this -- he gets slimed for not telling a joke well! Good God, that man can't take a breath without getting slimed for something.


Gravatari was joking, terry.
jello



Whatever.


GravatarHow are you wooden and stiff at the same time as desperate and petulant? How can you show emotion while being emotionless?


Gravatar(gasp) troll!

I love it when they talk to the mirror...


GravatarWhy, Jello, are you.......concerned?

I once even got a winger buddy to admit that any statement containing the phrase "everyone knows" (or "it's a known fact") is probably bullshit. Strike the probably...


GravatarA deer in the headlights.


GravatarKerry a caricature? Of what? A very intelligent, well-educated, well-traveled deep thinker with a long history of courageous service in war and in peace?

And get this -- he gets slimed for not telling a joke well! Good God, that man can't take a breath without getting slimed for something.
strawhat


"intelligent, well-educated, well-traveled deep thinker"

A crime in Bush's Murka.

Sounds too........French.


GravatarExcept for that George Bush thing.

It's ludicrous reading about his travels to Vietnam in NY Times this am. What a jerk.


GravatarOkay, both sides of this burgeoning Kerry conversation are getting a bit too silly for me, back later.

FWIW however, I'm convinced that the Dean 2004 campaign was ratfucked and knowing what I know now about how much Carville hates Dean, I'm even more convinced.

Flame me when I come back later.


GravatarHow are you wooden and stiff at the same time as desperate and petulant? How can you show emotion while being emotionless?

Everything's possible in "The Wonderful World of Concern Trolls"!

I think the holiday special is on next week...


GravatarStiff? Gore, Kerry, and a cigar store Indian makes three.
Tim Finnegan


And any one of the three has more intelligence that the asshole in the White House right now.

I'm not looking for a Toastmaster at the Friars Club. I'm looking for someone to run the country....and right it correctly.


Gravatarchicago dyke, Kerry wasn't my first choice. Though when he won the primary, I did want him to be president instead of Bushboy.


GravatarJohn Kerry is faaaaaar from my favorite politician, and I'd hoped other people would get the Dem nomination last time around.

But, he is far from the MCM caricature, just as Al Gore was far from the MCM/RNC-spoon-fed caricature.

Even now, intelligent people who should know better, speak about Gore as a "serial exaggerator," aka "liar." Or they reference Love Story or Love Canal. Lies are potent when they are simply and repeated over and over and over and over.

All because the MCM bought the RNC paint-by-the-numbers kit and went after Gore.

As they went after Kerry. As they went after Dean. As they went after Clinton. As they went after Dukakis. As they went after...name a Dem.

As they are going after Pelosi (shrieking harpie who may castrate Hoyer).

As they will go after the next Dem candidates for the nomination and then the actual candidate.

Yes, Kerry could be more telegenic, more charismatic.

But I don't find BushBoy telegenic or charismatic. But the MCM says he is. Better to have a beer with, that ex-alchie.

The framing, the painting, the MCM editing is so pervasive, even we who read the blogs get suckered in occasionally.


GravatarSorry -


RUN it correctly.


GravatarAre TomKat officially married yet?


GravatarIt's like shooting ducks in a barrel. No time involved.
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 1:18 pm | #

For the record, here's a remix of Dave's posts in this thread. I left out about 6 posts that are at least somewhat substantive.


ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...Aren't they all? Please go back there. I'm sure they'll undelete your account. Ah, trolls, so easy to be pigeonholed into easily-dismissable categories. Maybe you're just a fucking dick. You, however, have demonstrated all anyone fucking needs to know. You can start pissing off any fucking time now. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...Now don't you have a basket of fries to drop? Tongue-bathing Unka Karl? Well, it's a living...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard...When you start offering some instead of bullshit wingnut talking points, be sure to let us know. Like I give a shit what you think.


GravatarGood afternoon!!

Didja know that 'conservative' is a dirty word now?

It's been a while since I consulted the dictionary of slang...


GravatarI'm looking for someone to run the country....
I'm looking for someone to stand-up to the Republicans.


Gravatari completely agree that the SCLM is responsible for not correctly representing kerry's excellent record of public service, intelligence, and positions. i also think he was a complete bonehead for playing into their hands, cf ignoring the swift boaters until the damage was already done. he *is* an elite, he is a tad stiff and lacking the skillz in front of the camera, and he is a bit foolish for not recognizing the threat that bush's anticonstitutional government is to this country.

i'm a radical, and i suppose i'll never be happy with people like kerry. but for once, i'd like to see the democrats elevate, say, a black woman or out gay person or latina or someone who's actually worked for a living for the highest office. i'm sick and tired of being told by my "betters" that they know what's best for me and you. and i'm sick of the way they don't understand how the media fucks them over, time and again. i really wish they'd stop saying "thank you, may i have another" in the name of being "civil."


GravatarKatie Cruise. Perky name, innit?


GravatarKerry was also running for president of the United States, not president of Verizon. What exactly would you have the POTUS do about outsourcing? Which law should he enforce?
Snow

you're joking right? trade policies for one. bush gave tax breaks to companies who outsourced.

president of verizon, omg.
that wasn't the point. the point was kerry couldn't even be bothered to to show empathy.


GravatarExcept for that George Bush thing.

It's ludicrous reading about his travels to Vietnam in NY Times this am. What a jerk.
footloose


He never runs out of ways to embarrasss this country, does he?

Stupid people piss me off and he ranks among the most stupid.


Gravatar"Olbermann has a point of view and he isn't afraid to use it." -- SF Chronicle


GravatarPeorgie walks like a toddler with load in his pants but Gore, Kerry are stiff.

Peorge punctures every fractured sentence with a smirk or a jerk but Kerry's boring and Gore's petulant.

Good grief.
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GravatarBut I don't find BushBoy telegenic or charismatic. But the MCM says he is.

I can't stand watching him but I did during the debates and Wednesday last week when it felt like I had won the freakin' lottery or something!


Gravatari was joking, terry.
jello


You take the same course in standup comedy as JFKII?
Or did you teach it?


GravatarSilly OT:
'Borat'
In perhaps the most unlikely praise yet for the misogynistic, anti-Semitic and fictional Kazakh TV reporter Borat's new movie, a leading newspaper in the real Kazakhstan dubbed it "film of the year" on Friday.

On Friday, Karavan, a leading weekly tabloid, stepped into the fray after sending a correspondent in Vienna to watch "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."

"Cultural Learnings is certainly not an anti-Kazakh, anti-Romanian or anti-Semitic ... It is a cruelly anti-American movie," the newspaper said. "It is amazingly funny and sad at the same time."

"I think this is the best film of the year," the correspondent, Andrei Shukhov, wrote.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/ 20061...khstan_borat_dc


Gravatari'm a radical, and i suppose i'll never be happy with people like kerry. but for once, i'd like to see the democrats elevate, say, a black woman or out gay person or latina or someone who's actually worked for a living for the highest office. i'm sick and tired of being told by my "betters" that they know what's best for me and you.
chicago dyke


Chi:

There will be a Hispanic president before a woman or gay person ends up in the White House.


Gravatar"The framing, the painting, the MCM editing is so pervasive"

Jawbone

Right here is 99% of how the hyperpermamilitarycarceralmsmmindcontrolpetrochemi calfiatmoneyscamnuclearfubarstate has done what thaty have done.

Media is a drug more lethal than heroin.

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Gravatar"The framing, the painting, the MCM editing is so pervasive"

Jawbone

Right here is 99% of how the hyperpermamilitarycarceralmsmmindcontrolpetrochemi calfiatmoneyscamnuclearfubarstate has done what thaty have done.

Media is a drug more lethal than heroin.

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GravatarAs an occasional contributor and full-time curmudgeon at Blue Jersey...

Thank you very much, Mr. Big Sweaty Lunk, sir.



Gravatarsure elmer, why kerry is just as charismatic as clinton.


GravatarPeorgie walks like a toddler with load in his pants but Gore, Kerry are stiff.

Peorge punctures every fractured sentence with a smirk or a jerk but Kerry's boring and Gore's petulant.

Good grief.
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cs, art is bread


Bush and his cowboy pimp strut.

Oy vey!

I guess I'm unMurkan. I LIKE smart.


GravatarActually, I agree with some of Jello's comments.

While at this point we have to go to Congress with the Democrats we have, not the Democrats we wished we had (i.e., Lieberman, rather than Lampson, Casey rather than Pennochio -- whose name I probably butchered), that doesn't mean we should be giving any of them a free pass.

If Reid or Murtha or Hoyer or Pelosi don't follow through on their promise of an ethically squeaky clean Congress, then we need to get on their backsides and force them into it.

If another bankruptcy type bill comes up now or in January, we need to deluge offices with faxes, letters, phone calls, emails and bodies.

If these Dems don't perform, then we should get started earlier to find and fund those Dems who will.


Gravataras for favorites, Clinton was not mine, either, but when he won the primary I turned up and supported him and never have regretted it. And we all know that without w's war this country would be leading the world into decency and order rather than tearing down old conceptions about our character as a nation and economically sound which would give better standing to the world and its shaky economies.

From Friedman on Clinton's years, I have some fun with a 1991 speech;

'Pure theory can be lovely and promising. Hence, Prof. Friedman of the University of Chicago's 'monetarist' school of economics, could say on November 1, 1991:

We are being misgoverned in all these areas but not because of bad motives or bad people. '

http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/


GravatarI like Al Gore a lot these days. But when I went to
a campaign event in 2000 at the Rock Creek campus of Portland Comm. Coll. I got a bad vibe off him. Still voted for him.


GravatarWell, daughter wishes to use the computer, so I shall sign off till later.



jello?

Lighten the fuck up, okay?

Damn!


Gravatar'There will be a Hispanic president before a woman or gay person ends up in the White House.
Terry C, American Once Again '

why not a gay Hispanic woman? we have one as sheriff in Dallas.


Gravatari'm sick and tired of being told by my "betters" that they know what's best for me and you.
chicago dyke

Sounds like a closeted libertarian! Welcome!


Gravatartrade policies for one

Trade policies? What corporations do we have trade policies with?

And when you say Bush gave companies tax credits for outsourcing I can only guess what you mean is that Bush asked Congress to give them tax credits.


GravatarKerry didn't have a snappy theme song like Clenis. That's why he lost...


GravatarKerry is not snappy, period. Teresa is.


GravatarOne thing is definite. Iraq is Clinton and kerry's fault.


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GravatarWhen Kerry made his famous remark in re Vietnam, I was moved to tears. He's a wonderful, serious man; not a comedian.


GravatarAnd now, a pause from playing Fantasy Nominees, a dose of reality:

The Pentagon plans to build a military commissions compound at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, costing up to $125 million, a major undertaking meant to accommodate up to 1,200 people for the first U.S. war crimes trials since World War II, The Miami Herald learned Thursday.

If funded by Congress, the compound would be the largest single construction expenditure at Guantánamo since the Bush administration set up the offshore detention center in January 2002.
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Bill Sutey, military advisor on the staff of Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said: "As a matter of law, it would require an appropriation. It's not even authorized yet."

"To anybody it would beg questions: . . . `What are we doing here? Why are we doing it this way? What is the requirement? Why is it going to cost that much?' These are routine oversight questions and we will do this," Sutey said.


http://www.thestate.com/mld/thes...ld/ 16033072.htm

(Via antiwar.com)


GravatarOne thing is definite. Iraq is Clinton and kerry's fault

And so now I guess stiff wooden Al Gore is just nothing. Why are you leaving out The Al Gore?



GravatarBush grabbed the millstone of Iraq out of thin air, and put it around all our necks.


GravatarFor the record, here's a remix of Dave's posts in this thread.

Feel free to print those out and mail 'em to me - I'll be happy to autograph them for you.

A souvenir of the day when someone "paid attention" to you!


Gravatar'One thing is definite. Iraq is Clinton and kerry's fault.


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Truth'

sure it is, if they didn't make him feel so inadequate he wouldn't have to prove himself in the only way he knows how: cheat,lie,steal and fight, then call his parents in to pull him out of trouble.


Gravatar"The Pentagon plans to build a military commissions compound at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, costing up to $125 million, a major undertaking meant to accommodate up to 1,200 people for the first U.S. war crimes trials since World War II, The Miami Herald learned Thursday."

Well, there might be a silver lining to the construction of a facility for war crimes trials....


GravatarHe's a wonderful, serious man; not a comedian.

Maybe. But he could've had a little more fight in him in 2004.

I dunno.


GravatarKerry didn't have a snappy theme song like Clenis. That's why he lost...

I blame Fleetwood Mac.


GravatarSo, they are now spending yet another 125 million to themselves to justify the unjustifiable. After all, if there is a concrete building, that makes it more real.


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GravatarA souvenir of the day when someone "paid attention" to you!
dave™© | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 1:49 pm | #

There are tons of posts above discussing libertarians and antiwar.com. My posts often get plenty of attention. Thanks anyway.


GravatarStevie Nicks feels the same way.


GravatarWow, that's almost two hours of raking and the back yard is only about 1/3 done.


GravatarWith a heavy heart we must now say farewell to the bullshit Moose:

The Moose is leaving the blogosphere with the deep satisfaction that in a small way he was part of this historic and monumental victory for the vital center.

http://bullmooseblogger.blogspot.com/


GravatarYou could also apply Kerry's statement to Bush voters more aptly than you could to members of the U S military.


Gravatardave & Mike, get a room, 'kay?


GravatarSpread the wealth!



Or in my case, spread the poorth. :^(


GravatarThe Moose is leaving the blogosphere with the deep satisfaction that in a small way he was part of this historic and monumental victory for the vital center.

The center of a steamin' pile.


Gravatar"the only way he knows how: cheat,lie,steal and fight"

Well, Bush never fought. He gets other peoples children to kill other peoples children.


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Gravatar...get a room, 'kay?

Only if he pays!


GravatarAnd get this -- he gets slimed for not telling a joke well! Good God, that man can't take a breath without getting slimed for something.

George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi.

Each and every one of the above got slimed by the press at the insistence of the repuke machine. At some point the Democrats are going to have to get down in the mud, swing an ax and stop this shit.


GravatarBut, but, isn't blogging part of the Internet Gift Economy? Few of my favorite advertise.


GravatarWaaaaay OT:

There's a line out the door of Garrison Keillor's bookstore. Perhaps the stroke-prone lunk is making a showing?


GravatarKerry didn't have a snappy theme song like Clenis. That's why he lost...

I blame Fleetwood Mac.


Maybe my campaign theme song should be the song for the snoopy happy dance.

I shall have to make a note to myself to look into that.


GravatarWingnuts gone wild

I need some of that George Soros money

Anyone know anyone?


Gravatar"The moose is leaving yadayadayadayada"


Shut the fuck up and leave already.



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GravatarWith a heavy heart we must now say farewell to the bullshit Moose...

Atrios posted a comment earlier today speculating that Mooseboy would be joining McCain's campaigh any time now.

Roger Ailes had a good take on it, too...


GravatarIf these Dems don't perform, then we should get started earlier to find and fund those Dems who will.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |11.18.06 - 1:42 pm

damn straight, diane. And keep an eye on them minute by minute.

Someone over at DKos wrote a diary about setting up permanent Congressional committee watchdogs who would keep up with what various committees and sub-committees were doing, voting on, etc., so that we won't be blindsided the way we were so often over the past years.

Someone has got to keep an eye on Lieberman especially, as I (for one) fear he will delight in gutting the freedoms of the internet. He doesn't strike me as someone who much likes the Netroots or bloggers...and also as not very forgiving.

In this upcoming lame duck session, he and the Rethugs could do a lot of damage.

Anyway, the DKos idea sounded like a very, very good one to me. Maybe it's being done somewhere, somehow, but I'm not aware of anything like it. Bless the Dkos Busy Beavers.


GravatarMaybe my campaign theme song should be the song for the snoopy happy dance.

"Linus and Lucy" by the great Vince Guaraldi.


GravatarMoose, moose--we hardly knew ye...


GravatarMoose, moose--we hardly knew ye...


GravatarBlair was just on al-Jazeera admitting that Iraq was a clusterfuck but said it was bin Laden's decision to invade.


Gravatar'Well, Bush never fought. He gets other peoples children to kill other peoples children.


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Truth'

I'm sure he pinched littler girls.


GravatarDamn, almost 2:00PM.

I'm still in here, and the leaves are still out there, and not in thier bags.

Later, batsies.


GravatarDid anyone else see this commercial for a new channel?

"There's reality... then there's Fox."

I never thought they would come right out and say it.


GravatarThe Moose is leaving the blogosphere

Happy Dance! OW!
Happy Dance! OW!
Happy Dance! OW!
Happy Dance! OW!
Happy Dance! OW!
Happy Dance! OW!
Happy Dance! OW!

OW! OW! OW!

fuckin' arthritis,
but it was worth it.


:^)


GravatarWell, there might be a silver lining to the construction of a facility for war crimes trials....

That's what we have the Hague for.


Gravatargee, antiphone. That breaks my heart, it does.


GravatarAtrios posted a comment earlier today speculating that Mooseboy would be joining McCain's campaigh any time now.

*falls back on fainting couch*

Not that the straight talk express was ever on its rails, but I wouldn't put it past those two jokers.


GravatarAtrios posted a comment earlier today speculating that Mooseboy would be joining McCain's campaigh any time now.


They figured they would try to undermine with an entire troll blog. When it merely pulled a tiny bit toward the center they figured they'd better cut their losses and regroup on the side they are actually on.


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GravatarYou know, it's appalling how those MSM stereotypes do stick. I was chatting with a co-worker a while back, a Dem, and she said about Al Gore: "oh, his name's right on the tip of my tongue -- used to be vice president -- oh, what's his name -- you know who I mean, the one who invented the internet."

Dammit. How do you combat that stuff? I think the only way to fight it is jiu-jitsu -- for Al to jokingly claim it -- and then go on to jokingly claim he invented the telephone, floppy disks, light bulbs, and cable TV. Or something like that. How do you fight that?


GravatarRoger Ailes had a good take on it, too... - dave™©

Shorter Ailes: Meeeeow.

Good kitty, let bo skritch your ears.


GravatarBTW, here's Atrios' comment on Bullshit Moose, which I found rather pithy:

the fact that marshall wittman will likely go work for john mccain should not invalidate all of the good advice he's given to democrats over the years...


Gravatarjawbone: re: Guantanamo

There are those of us who view the existence of the Guantanamo Bay base itself a sad vestige of an imperialistic era that America should have long since outgrown. To spend an additional dime on its maintenance, much less its expansion, insults the decent opinions of mankind. That said, it's remarkable that $120 million of your money and mine is to go to a structure facillitating military tribunals there. Seems to me, were I a judge, that I'd find offensive such a blatant attempt to continue placing those tribunals, and their participants and subjects, outside recourse to American law...


GravatarI'm sure the Moose was just thrilled with the election results. He can retire in third person peace


Gravatar"How do you fight that?"



You keep telling the truth.




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Gravatar...SUCH AS DESI


GravatarIt really wouldn't surprise me much to see a McCain/Lieberman ticket for 2008. They're both ugly old men who think that they are entitled and who love war.


GravatarSpeaking of BEEEEEG Money, everybody knows Microsoft's campus and Bill Gates' home is in Bellevue/Redmond Washington.

Little Known Fact # 267: i betcha din't know Microsoft was founded, and the first lines of code were written in






Albuquerque


Gravatarthat I'd find offensive such a blatant attempt to continue placing those tribunals

And in a foreign country, too.


GravatarHow do you fight that?

I would call them out on it. In the press. And every time they lied, I'd call them on it again. I would go as far as to confront an opponent directly.


GravatarFeed a blogger starve a pundit!

gut morning what are you people!


GravatarVia TPM, wingnut magazine sez "Forget It, Rudy!"


GravatarIt really wouldn't surprise me much to see a McCain/Lieberman ticket for 2008. They're both ugly old men who think that they are entitled and who love war.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 2:04 pm


daggone, goddess, i pret' near got laughed off'n the blog when i posted that suggestion last spring...i almst hadda skulk away...


GravatarI have the Snoopy dance music as my cell ringtone.


Gravatari pret' near got laughed off'n the blog when i posted that suggestion last spring...

It's funny because it's true!


GravatarMcCain has a monument to himself in downtown Hanoi. I almost fell over when I saw it.

BTW, in Hanoi for Asia Pacific Economic forum, Bush declared that the US should have "stayed the course" in the Vietnam War.


Gravatarin Hanoi for Asia Pacific Economic forum, Bush declared that the US should have "stayed the course" in the Vietnam War.

Maybe we could have -- if we'd just had one more pilot.



GravatarHanoi George would say anything - he's been brainwashed by the Commies!


GravatarBush declared that the US should have "stayed the course" in the Vietnam War.

I guess 60,000 deaths wasn't enough for the sociopathic cheerleader of the MIC


GravatarGood God a'mighty, he didn't really say that, did he? Lord have mercy.


Gravatar'Maybe we could have -- if we'd just had one more pilot.

Toonscribe, BlogJohn'

Or if Nixon hadn't undermined the peace talks, so it could have ended in LBJ's admin, without our having run off during Nixon's.


GravatarI guess 60,000 deaths wasn't enough for the sociopathic cheerleader of the MIC
Boo_Dog Obscure Mu Child | 11.18.06 - 2:10 pm | #

You're leaving out around 3 million dead vietnamese and laotians


GravatarBush declared that the US should have "stayed the course" in the Vietnam War.

I guess 60,000 deaths wasn't enough for the sociopathic cheerleader of the MIC
Boo_Dog Obscure Mu Child


Had we won, VietNam would be a great source of cheap labor with no environmental issues to worry about.
Wait a minute we lost and it's still a great source of cheap labor with no environmental concerns.
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GravatarHe really doesn't have any shame or self-awareness at all, does he? I imagine everyone around him just cringed when that came out of his mouth. Just *cringed.*


GravatarHoy, i'm back. what did i miss?
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GravatarHoy, i'm back. what did i miss?
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Gravatar'Maybe we could have -- if we'd just had one more pilot.

In NY Times it compares bush and Clinton both famously evading service in Vietnam. Uh, I think Clinton was off to actually study (more than 3 Shakespears too) while bush was stuffing envelopes for some politician's campaign?


GravatarHe really doesn't have any shame or self-awareness at all, does he? I imagine everyone around him just cringed when that came out of his mouth. Just *cringed.*
strawhat |


Even Bush's handlers have given up on him. They know no one pays attention to him anyway...why bother?
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GravatarHey Atrios, thanks! We local and state bloggers don't get the advertising and such. I have a Tip Jar on The Pennsylvania Progressive and we'd appreciate any contributions. The blog takes a lot of time and effort with no advertising revenue.


GravatarHe really doesn't have any shame or self-awareness at all, does he? I imagine everyone around him just cringed when that came out of his mouth. Just *cringed.*
strawhat


Yeh...such a gracious guest he is, that George Bush.

I wish that just once he could be out in public without humiliating us.


GravatarIn NY Times it compares bush and Clinton both famously evading service in Vietnam. Uh, I think Clinton was off to actually study (more than 3 Shakespears too) while bush was stuffing envelopes for some politician's campaign?
footloose |


In an ANG unit that had no planes so he wouldn't be required to take an "airworthiness physical" which would have detected his cocaine use.
He transferred himself. The transfer was denied but a friensd of his fathers made a phone call and all was arranged.
He's just a piece of shit.
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GravatarIf some idiot managed to off Boosh during his vietnam visit, what would this country's response be? Invade vietnam?!?!?!


GravatarIf some idiot managed to off Boosh during his vietnam visit, what would this country's response be? Invade vietnam?!?!?!

Given Bushco ways, we'd get Australia and Poland to invade Vietnam, while US forces assault some oil=producing country - Venezuela, most likely.
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GravatarBush, in Vietnam, said we should have stayed the course in Vietnam?

Sounds like a blown punchline to me. I don't even know where to begin with thAt one.


GravatarHe's just a piece of shit.
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Agent Orange


Well said, my good man. Well said.

Shit he was, shit he is, and shit he will be.

He's reached the age of sixty and he still can't wipe his own ass.


GravatarPoland invading vietnam. That'd work well.


GravatarIn NY Times it compares bush and Clinton both famously evading service in Vietnam.

Did it mention Cheney, who got the same student deferment? Did it mention that, when Clinton graduated, he was eligible for the draft lottery and drew a number that didn't get called up?

Wanna bet a Coke on that?


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GravatarInvade vietnam?!?!?!
Mike | 11.18.06 - 2:19 pm |

Close the borders (destroying the economy), close the internet, use the emergency status to rape at will, round up certain academics blackballed by "sensitivity" and ostensibly anti-bigotry groups, mass arrests using the semi-secret camps they've set up at various places and turn back labor laws to 1900. But Vietnam would not be invaded because it wouldn't be blamed.


GravatarIf some idiot managed to off Boosh during his vietnam visit, what would this country's response be? Invade vietnam?!?!?!
Mike - 2:19 pm


i know i'd support that option...mebbe...in a coupla months...




...when the celebration was over...


GravatarIn NY Times it compares bush and Clinton both famously evading service in Vietnam.

Not to mention Rove is a ChickenHawk, just as man of the warmongers


GravatarPoland had an invincible horse weapon and dominated plains (its defeats were the result of its laughably weak government, which no amount of military strength could save it from, hint hint USA). Vietnam is all mountain and marsh and therefore impervious to cavalry.


GravatarClose the borders (destroying the economy), close the internet, use the emergency status to rape at will, round up certain academics blackballed by "sensitivity" and ostensibly anti-bigotry groups, mass arrests using the semi-secret camps

Sounds like the REX84 plan =)


GravatarBush, in Vietnam, said we should have stayed the course in Vietnam?

Sounds like a blown punchline to me. I don't even know where to begin with thAt one.


It was in response to a reporter's question, Wombat. Only Boots and the Aussie PM were present.

It was more of a result of Bootsy's inability to think on his feet and articulate a sensible answer to a question.

He started answering the question, "uh....................uh......."
[10 second pregnant pause]
"ya see..."


Gravataranyways


Gravatarhttp://www.chickenhawkcards.com/

Get your GOP Chickenhawk playing cards!!

Great Christmas gift for conservatives!


GravatarPoland had an invincible horse weapon and dominated plains (its defeats were the result of its laughably weak government, which no amount of military strength could save it from, hint hint USA). Vietnam is all mountain and marsh and therefore impervious to cavalry.

Now there's an interesting question. How many of the GOP pundits and tacticians and leaders are basing their foriegn policy upon their personal high scores on Civilization III ?
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GravatarWoody, you're retired and can spend all your time here and all. Maybe you should start your own blog.


GravatarSmall blogging is bootiful.
Or did Milton Friedman live in vain.

(That one's free, Atrios. Next one I charge for.)


GravatarIt was more of a result of Bootsy's inability to think on his feet and articulate a sensible answer to a question.

Man can't even stay on a bicycle or a sedgway I think he has beaten Pres Fords record for falling down


GravatarWoody, you're retired and can spend all your time here and all. Maybe you should start your own blog.
Ô¿Ô


He's had one for about six months now.
Check his homepage.
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GravatarThat explains it, the cretin in chief had to respond to a question he hadn't planted. No little box on the shoulder even?

So he said the line he'd been so carefully taught.

Betcha Babs Bush wishes she'd done like the Kennedys and lobotomized the family idiot.


GravatarPoland had an invincible horse weapon and dominated plains
kolodny | 11.18.06 - 2:26 pm | #

Many countries, including Poland, had a period of history where they expanded and conquered all before them. I wasn't trying to malign poles.


GravatarShit he was, shit he is, and shit he will be.

Ha!
Somehow the image of Phoebe singing Shittybush remniscent of Smelly Cat just came to mind.


GravatarSaturday Million Dollar Matinee

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GravatarSaturday Million Dollar Matinee

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Gravatar'Small blogging is bootiful.
Or did Milton Friedman live in vain.'

driftglass, on Friedman - 'That is why a private project that is a failure is closed down while a government project that is a failure is expanded.

Of course, he was talking during the Clinton years, to a business audience, and the needling about government power turning people into just the same as their predecessors was meant to imply that Democratic administration was no better at promoting prosperity in the populace than Republicans had been. '

see http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/


GravatarThat's good for him, he should be tending to it. I work over 80 hours a week so it would just be harder for me to maintain one.


GravatarWay off topic:

Mr. White Keys ran a cabaret in Ancorage for many, many years. Nothing and no one was safe from his skits. He closed the "Fly By Night" club just about 6 weeks ago.

Anyway, since closing the club, he does a weekly commentary on one of the Anchorage TV stations.

Here's his good bye to Governor Frank Murkowsi (R), rated at the bottom of all 50 governors.


Gravatardriftglass, on Friedman - 'That is why a private project that is a failure is closed down while a government project that is a failure is expanded.

Would any Friedman biographer please break down his lifetime earnings, government pay vs. private earnings, please? Pay from state-supported educational institutions may be counted as 'government' for these purposes.
Thank you.
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Gravatar Wow, that's almost two hours of raking and the back yard is only about 1/3 done.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator


I got the pretty pink flowered sage replanted, and planted the two yellow hibiscus in its former place - then I planted the new beautiful kumquat and the camellia - along with the geranium and the carnations. For once, I didn't overplant anything, did not slice open anything or do myself any damage. Arthur knocked his hard head against the hose holder, but he's all right. He got in a lot of good digging too. Next up - prune the Mexican birds of paradise, little leaf cordia and the bougainvillea! That, I know I will end up with hurty place.


GravatarAny homophobic remark from here on out, I will [say] something about it. Especially from mrs. raghead.


GravatarHi, Barry, had Alaskan salmon from my brother-in-law's catch in
Oct., it was wonderful.


GravatarThanks Glen Beck? WTF?


GravatarOn a personal note, I seriously fucked up my right arm and shoulder tugging my overpacked anvil of a suitcase out of the car trunk. There's an unremitting arc of pain from the flab that ate my triceps through my right shoulder blade.

Fortunately, I'm scheduled for an MRI for my fucked-up right knee on Monday, so I guess I'll see what they can do for me if it doesn't improve.

FWIW, I agree with ChiDyke about Kerry. And there's an additional wrinkle to his gaffe that hasn't been noted here, AFAI have seen from my skimmings: Kerry himself complicated the issue by identifying it as a muffed line, and offering a cutesy apology for muffing the joke.

He might have thought he was saying, "Well, it didn't come out exactly right, but I stand by my point, which is that Bush is a dopey fuckup." But he wasn't; typically, it was a complex sort of apology, something like genuinely apologizing for making a misstatement of a perfectly valid wisecrack in a manner which may have unintentionally offending to our wonderful troops and their families.

So finding fault with Kerry for that fiasco does not necessarily require accepting any wingnut spin. I have come to see him as a well-meaning doofus, like Capt. Parmenter from "F Troop". IMO, one of the problems with right-wing spin is that it makes it harder to express any legitimate criticism, because everyone is already on the defensive.

And if this doesn't pull down a new thread, I don't know what will.


Gravatar"Betcha Babs Bush wishes she'd done like the Kennedys and lobotomized the family idiot."

At the very least they didn't have to run him for prez for gosh sakes.


GravatarWould any Friedman biographer please break down his lifetime earnings, government pay vs. private earnings, please? Pay from state-supported educational institutions may be counted as 'government' for these purposes.
Thank you.-
Cynicus - 2:38 pm


it came to light some years ago that Miltie was collecting social security, although he was 1) a millionaire and 2) allegedly opposed to government largesse of this type; whjen asked to account for theis behavior, he claimed he had "earned it," and saw no inherent contradiction...
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Gravatari would say i'm not homophobic, but it wouldn't be true. Homo sapiens is the single scariest thing on the planet.
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GravatarHey Barry from AK. Here's a bad way to start a flight.
Click on the NTSB window and give it about 15 seconds to start.

http://www.ntsb.gov/Events/2006/ ...Description.htm
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GravatarHi, Barry, had Alaskan salmon from my brother-in-law's catch in
Oct., it was wonderful.
Ruth, revolted


Alaska Wild Salmon, the best, yepper.


Gravatar'At the very least they didn't have to run him for prez for gosh sakes.
sillysally'

She. If it had been an option ... nah.


GravatarI keep saying "big money, big money!" but I keep hitting BANKRUPT on the Wheel...


Gravatarmrs raghead, come out, come out, wherever you are...


GravatarSaturday Goddess Blogging is up.


Gravatarit came to light some years ago that Miltie was collecting social security, although he was 1) a millionaire and 2) allegedly opposed to government largesse of this type; whjen asked to account for theis behavior, he claimed he had "earned it," and saw no inherent contradiction...

Lead story for the upcoming Air America 2 hour special, "When Libertarians Attack"......

but yeah, thank you, exactly what i expected. From 'Commodore' Vanderbilt through Rockefeller through the Bush dynasty, the 'self-made' millionaires of laissez-faire myth all made big when they got government money flowing into their coffers, and not before.
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GravatarHey Barry from AK. Here's a bad way to start a flight.
Click on the NTSB window and give it about 15 seconds to start.

http://www.ntsb.gov/Events/2006/ ...Description.htm
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Agent Orange


That's one of my planes rolling out after landing, the 747, one of my best buddies in the Captain seat.

He is Ukranian, former MIG pilot, and he uses more cocksukers and bullshits than ever heard on Deadwood.

And you should hear him describe what happened.


GravatarBeen away... eatin', laundry... meatspacing with neighbs.
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Gravatarmrs raghead, come out, come out, wherever you are...
Ô¿Ô | 11.18.06 - 2:49 pm


c'mon, incog, ol sarge...give it a rest...

g'wan find some freepers to molest...they're much more worthy or your bile and villification

rilly!
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GravatarBarry from AK! How are you, kind sir?
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Gravatar'whjen asked to account for theis behavior, he claimed he had "earned it," and saw no inherent contradiction...
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WoodyG'sGuitar, Rogue Scholar'

An amazingly egomaniacal prof, who in the speech I used for the post at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/ was trying to impose his ideas on the Clinton era to come, which totally disproved them in operation. It's fun.


Gravatar"Gonzales was the second administration official in two days to attack a federal judge's ruling last August that the program was unconstitutional. Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday called the decision "an indefensible act of judicial overreaching.""

Well, I can see that things have changed at the White House this month.


Sick little bastards.


GravatarBarry from AK! How are you, kind sir?
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Jeffraham Prestonian


Very well, considering we were 36 hours late out of Chigago, thought I'd never get to Hawaii.


GravatarBarry from AK! How are you, kind sir?
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Jeffraham Prestonian


Very well, considering we were 36 hours late out of Chigago, thought I'd never get to Hawaii.


GravatarGuess it would take a Constitutional Amendment and be an impossible fracas, but I wish we had some minimum scientific knowledge requirements for office holders in the House and Senate (and the Executive branch, for that matter). CO2 accuumulation in the atmosphere is occurring at a rate 4 times what is was in the 09's, and we have an asshole like Imhoff braying away. The guy should be taken out and shot as an example.


GravatarNew York Times:


"A strange thing happened to the universe five billion years ago. As if God..."


Just can't help themselves...


GravatarI have a hippy-dippy confession to make. I really like ak-mak cracker-bread.


GravatarBeen away... eatin', laundry

Laundry must have lots of fiber, unless it's polyester...


GravatarHe is Ukranian, former MIG pilot, and he uses more cocksukers and bullshits than ever heard on Deadwood.

And you should hear him describe what happened.

Barry from AK in Hawaii


The image of those Ukrainian pilots puffing on cigarettes after dumping their MiG (or Sukhoi) into the crowd in Lvov was pretty amazing. IIRC the ejection seats didn't fire until after the wingtips hit the ground.
The Soviets did have the best ejection seats.
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Gravatarfuck michigan!


Gravatarg'wan find some freepers to molest...they're much more worthy or your bile and villification

rilly!
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WoodyG'sGuitar, Rogue Scholar


I'm not going to ignore and 'make nice' about any bigoted homophobic remark again.


GravatarInhofe is quite accustomed to braying.


GravatarHere's his good bye to Governor Frank Murkowsi (R), rated at the bottom of all 50 governors.

Barry from AK in Hawaii


Yanno, Barry, when you have a couple of weeks of free time and a few extra dollars, you might want to check out the Wellstone Camps.

This organization was founded after Paul Wellstone's death and it has done an incredible job in training folks for grassroots campaigning.

I think you'd make a superb candidate, but even if you just wanted to help out in a campaign, this might give you some mighty fine tools and connections.

And some of the rest of you folks might consider it as well.


GravatarOn Celebrity Jeopardy, even Harry Shearer thought the circumference of the earth was one million miles.

Yeesh.


GravatarBarry from AK: Very well, considering we were 36 hours late out of Chigago, thought I'd never get to Hawaii.

As long as it's all good now, I'll nod and wish you the best stop in HI you've yet experienced.

And... I have to finish up burning some Curly DVDs -- do you have one? You need a box set.
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GravatarAnd you should hear him describe what happened.

Barry from AK in Hawaii | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 2:50 pm


dat was some close....

i have a pal/acquaintance who's one of the first controllers signed after raygun destroyed patco...nearing retirement now, he's gt some haair-raising stories...
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Gravatar
And... I have to finish up burning some Curly DVDs -- do you have one? You need a box set.
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Jeffraham Prestonian


JP, that would be nice. I saw a post from a couple of days ago, you were looking for my addy.

I'll email to ya.


GravatarIsn't the circumference of the earth rather close to the geostationary point for satellites; 22,300 miles?


Gravatar90's - shit. I'm moseying towards Alzheimer Acres faster than I expected.


GravatarI'm not going to ignore and 'make nice' about any bigoted homophobic remark again.
Ô¿Ô | 11.18.06 - 2:54 pm


'again' being the operant term here, nichts?

done is done...cut 'em some slack til the next (inevitable, as you know) affront,,,mrs. ai-j's a good sort, truly, i believe she is...
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GravatarBarry, you got a mention and won some gifts in the media this AM.



=*=


GravatarOn Celebrity Jeopardy, even Harry Shearer thought the circumference of the earth was one million miles.

Yeesh.


Ok, i'm willing to look stupid - isn't it roughly 24,000 mi. circumference? Maybe i should say 22-25,000 or so?

what is it?
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GravatarFuck you!


Gravataroops, nevermind. That was bobby, not barry. (forehead smack)


=*=


GravatarI think the only way to fight it is jiu-jitsu -- for Al to jokingly claim it -- and then go on to jokingly claim he invented the telephone, floppy disks, light bulbs, and cable TV. Or something like that. How do you fight that?
strawhat | 11.18.06 - 2:00 pm

Al Gore tried that--he included it as an intro to many speeches, self-deprecating humor, the whole ball of wax. Didn't work, did it?

I don't know what works. When the MCM wants to maim your identity, I don't know what can work against it.

Find the way to fight 'em, you'll be the political strategist of the century.


Gravatarwhat is it?
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Cynicus |

"2 Pi r"
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Gravatar Diane C. Barking-Mad

Damn humbled, dear lady.

Running for any office is not in my future, current climate and skeletons prevent that.

(2nd time in as many days it has been suggested though)

I'm kinda happy in my position as senior king maker in my Union right now.


GravatarI think Kerry is a good guy and not at all a bonehead.

He didn't run a perfect campaign, but I can't think of anyone who ever really has, and I include Clinton, Reagan, or anyone else you care to mention.


GravatarWow. Robert Pollard is on NPR right now.

He's weird.


Gravatarwhat is it?
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Cynicus |

"2 Pi r"


Ok, now give me the numeric value of 'r', the radius, and i'll solve it.

(smartarse.)

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GravatarReagan, or anyone else you care to mention.


Nah. Just mentioning that dipshit makes me sick.


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Gravatar3,963.189 mi = r
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GravatarYes, Harry was offered the choice of "25,000", "250,000", or "One million".

Even if you have no idea, you must have some sense of how big a mile is and how big the earth is.

He is pretty smart, so I think he might have blurted out "one million" out of nervousness.

My larger point is that there is a lot of ignorance in the U.S. on basic shit and Celebrity Jeopardy is general gives you one example.


GravatarBarry, you got a mention and won some gifts in the media this AM.

=*=
Truth


Did what to who?


GravatarFuck you!
Michigan


Wolf Pussies gonna be LOOSERS today!


Gravataroops, nevermind. That was bobby, not barry. (forehead smack)

=*=


Gravatari have a pal/acquaintance who's one of the first controllers signed after raygun destroyed patco...nearing retirement now, he's gt some haair-raising stories...
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WoodyG'sGuitar, Rogue Scholar


I'm sure he does.

In this case, the controller really fucked up, and is probably going to be fired or put in a "non operational" position.


Gravatarpi d = 2pi r


GravatarWolf Pussies gonna be LOOSERS today!

They're wolverines, not wolves.


Gravatar36 hours delay out of Chicago? We did have some crappy weather this week but I didn't know it was that bad!


Gravatar3,963.189 mi = r
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Agent Orange | 11.18.06 - 3:03 pm


2 x 3.1416 x 3,963.2 = 24,907 (+/-)

or, rounding up, just about 25k miles, which is what i'da said...
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GravatarI'm making beef jerky this weekend.

Fuck CENTRAL Michigan


GravatarWolf Pussies gonna be LOOSERS today!

I thought that the Lout was the only one that cared about college football.

You need a new clique...


GravatarRecall that before the MCM turned on Clinton, they very much supported them. The NYTimes magazine had a very positive long article about Clinton long before he announed his candidacy. The NYT introduced him to most people, other than his overly long speech at the Dukasis nominating convention. It mentioned how he turned in his own brother for drug use in order to get him into treatment, after personal attempts had failed. He was greeted as a different kind of politician, lauded for his common sense populism combined with business-friendly acumen.

Clinton got good press--until he was sworn in as president. Then, wham!

Some have said the behind the scenes powers were unhappy with Poppy's presidency and wanted something different.

I still don't know why the support for Clinton changed--and so abruptly. It may have been what Bill Kristol memo'd to the Republicans, that if Clinton achieved universal health care the Rethugs would be out of power for decades (again). Perhaps Clinton was just too good at communicating with the public, so they had to hobble or destroy him.

Impeachment was in lieu of assassination.


GravatarMy larger point is that there is a lot of ignorance in the U.S. on basic shit and Celebrity Jeopardy is general gives you one example.
Culture of Truth


Look at Who Wants to be A Millionaire, and see how many people took a dive over simple stuff.

Well, I say simple, perhaps not to all, there is a lot I don't know too.

Like how these intertubes manage to move all the black pixels to just the right places on my screen.


GravatarMinister’s Own Rules Sealed His Fate
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/ 1...artner=homepage
COLORADO SPRINGS, Nov. 15 — The four ministers who assembled here two weeks ago to decide the fate of the Rev. Ted Haggard were facing a painful choice.

A male prostitute had accused Mr. Haggard, one of the nation’s most prominent evangelical ministers, of engaging in a three-year affair with him and of using drugs. Then, in a private emergency meeting, Mr. Haggard promptly confessed to the ministers — his handpicked board of overseers — that he had engaged in sexual immorality.

Now, the question was, what punishment did Mr. Haggard deserve? The board had two options: discipline him or dismiss him as senior pastor of New Life Church. Could he take a leave of absence, repent, receive spiritual counseling and return to ministry?

The answer became clear the next morning, the overseers said, when Mr. Haggard gave an interview to a television news crew as he pulled out of his driveway with his wife and three children in the car. He denied having sex with the male prostitute, and said he had bought methamphetamine but never used it. The overseers said they watched Mr. Haggard, affable as ever, smile grimly into the television camera and lie.

“We saw this other side of Ted that Friday morning,” said the Rev. Michael Ware, one of the overseers. “It helped us to know whether this would be a discipline or a dismissal.”

The Rev. Mark Cowart, another overseer, agreed. “It was a defining moment.”

In many ways, Mr. Haggard had sealed his fate long before the driveway interview by establishing a mechanism for accountability in his church that gave a committee of his peers ultimate authority to remove him. Years ago, Mr. Haggard had asked four of his closest friends, all senior pastors of their own churches, to serve as a board of overseers. They had only one function: if Mr. Haggard was ever accused of immoral conduct, they would act as judge and jury...

Mr. Haggard spelled out his system of checks and balances in bylaws that independent churches in the United States and overseas have adopted as a model. “All of our bylaws are really set up to protect our churches from us,” said Mr. Ware, the senior pastor of Victory Church in Westminster, Colo. “The same bylaws Ted wrote were the same laws by which he was dismissed.”


GravatarBarry from AK: I'll email to ya.

One karmic micropayment, on its way.
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GravatarIsn't the circumference of the earth rather close to the geostationary point for satellites; 22,300 miles?
plantsman, lowercase


It's one of those neat coincidences, apparently, like the moon being almost exactly the same size as the sun when viewed from the earth's surface.


GravatarThey're wolverines, not wolves.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker


...an' they ain't no steekin' badgers, neither.


GravatarMy neighbor to the north has his Michigan flag up; my neighbor to the east has his Ohio flag up; I suppose I should watch at least part of the Big Game.


GravatarThis thread is getting kind of stale.


Gravatar36 hours delay out of Chicago? We did have some crappy weather this week but I didn't know it was that bad!
strawhat

Wasn't the wing in ORD, was the MAINT in the company as a whole.

When something breaks on the plane, we have a book to reference. Some things are mandatory, some things can be broken for 72 hours, some 240 hours, others a month.

Well, things caught up with maintenance, and a whole bunch of deferred maintenance items grounded the plane.

That was the delay.


GravatarIt's one of those neat coincidences

Maybe it's not a coincidence. Maybe it was by design.

OK, I apologize for that.


GravatarIt's one of those neat coincidences, apparently, like the moon being almost exactly the same size as the sun when viewed from the earth's surface.
melior | 11.18.06 - 3:09 pm


that's no coincidence, it's evidence of the celestial master planner's intelligence...

jeezis, next you'll be tellin us you don't believe in miracles...
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GravatarOh. And grounding the plane grounded you, too? I hope you at least got some Lou Malnati's pizza while you were here.


Gravatar
One karmic micropayment, on its way.
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Jeffraham Prestonian


You don't need to do nothing JP.

Just email me about the Scooter, I missed most of that discussion.


GravatarThis thread is getting kind of stale.
Lumpenprolitariot


Why just one quick application of Thred-Fresh™ will clear that up in moments, and keep the thread minty-fresh for hours!


Gravatar"“The same bylaws Ted wrote were the same laws by which he was dismissed.”"
--Richard

Why does this remind me of Mark Foley?


GravatarIt's one of those neat coincidences


Coincidence... or Intelligent Design©?


Gravatar"“The same bylaws Ted wrote were the same laws by which he was dismissed.”"

Coincidence... or Intelligent Design©?
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GravatarOh. And grounding the plane grounded you, too? I hope you at least got some Lou Malnati's pizza while you were here.
strawhat


Hee, you must have limited experience with plane mechanics.

Every thing is "We'll have it fixed in 20 minutes." So, the crew is tied to the hotel, in 20 minute blocks, can't go anywhere cause once it's fixed, you're need RIGHT NOW.

I just went thru 36 hours of 20 minute fixes.


GravatarI'm listening to "Alien Lanes" right now.

What a great album!! Game of Pricks is one of the better songs out there...

/music snob


Gravatar"They're wolverines, not wolves."

more like chipmonks.


GravatarThere is absolute proof that intelligent design© is pee-pee-ca-ca. Just look at the fuckers who advocate that shit. How can anyone believe that a universe that contains Kirk Cameron was the result of intelligent design© ?


GravatarThis thread is getting kind of stale.
Lumpenprolitariot


Thread On, applied directly to the thread.

Thread On, applied directly to the thread.

Thread On, applied directly to the thread.


GravatarAre we just ignoring that piece of too oft repeated bad ID joke?

Good.


GravatarBarry from AK: Just email me about the Scooter, I missed most of that discussion.

Will do!
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GravatarHow can anyone believe that a universe that contains Kirk Cameron was the result of intelligent design© ?

How can anyone believe that a universe that contains women was not the result of intelligent design? Hmmmmm?


Gravataraffront,,,mrs. ai-j's a good sort, truly, i believe she is...
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WoodyG'sGuitar, Rogue Scholar


Er, mrs. raghead is a big hairy arab man.


GravatarLon Dree. Bee BAKED.
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GravatarEr, mrs. raghead is a . . .

And Mr Hyde the Bigot is out because . . . ?


GravatarHas anyone ever advocated an Unintelligent Design theory? That the Designer is a committee? "Let Us make man in Our image...", etc.

Would explain much - individual things that some one Comittee Member ran off on their own and was adopted without change went fine - but anything that had to be hashed out by the whole Committee in full meeting, such as "human nature", went completely to shit.....
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GravatarWhere the fuck is James Jesus Rimjob?


GravatarHas anyone ever advocated an Unintelligent Design theory? That the Designer is a committee?

You're going to get touched by His Noodly Appendage in a not so nice way with talk like that.


GravatarCan I do this again?

Not because the thread is getting stale; but because...


GravatarEr, mrs. raghead is a big hairy arab man.
Ô¿Ô | 11.18.06 - 3:20 pm


whatever...doesn't change the esential point: s.he is one of us, and doesn't intentionally offer affront, once informed of the sensitivity of a subject...
i have really curtailed my applicatrion of the term 'cunt' in tese conversations because it has been stressed often enough that it offends some whom i regard highly...
same w/gay-defamatory terms; in fact one of the reasons i coined the terms fucknozzle and shitwhistle was to offer alternative terms to some of the more inappropriately descriptive terms that might otherwise be employed...
we--i say, 'we', but i mean 'i', at any rate--do try to be politely 'pc' with the regulars...
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GravatarI have seen pictures of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He is real.


GravatarOh. And grounding the plane grounded you, too? I hope you at least got some Lou Malnati's pizza while you were here.
strawhat | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 3:12 pm | #


Ooh, Lou Malnati's pizza! I told my sister that I want a Tastes of Chicago care package this christmas:

http://www.tastesofchicago.com/


GravatarAnd Mr Hyde the Bigot is out because . . . ?
Snow, Ordinary Thinker


Because the big ass hairy arab man was calling me a "cocksucker."


GravatarHas anyone ever advocated an Unintelligent Design theory?

The earth is a flat plane sitting on the backs of Elephants.

Atlas holds up the world.

7 days.

Need more?


GravatarYou're going to get touched by His Noodly Appendage in a not so nice way with talk like that.

The Suthrun Babtist Church asked me to leave at the age of 15 for "askin' too many kweschuns" and general cynicism. Might as well keep up my record with Transcendant Pastapalooza Temple as well.
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Gravatar I have seen pictures of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He is real.

And Jimmy Walker taught me that Jesus was black...and velvet.


Gravatar I have seen pictures of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He is real.

And Jimmy Walker taught me that Jesus was black...and velvet.


Gravatarwhatever...doesn't change the esential point: s.he is one of us, and doesn't intentionally offer affront, once informed of the sensitivity of a subject...

I've told the big ass hairy arab man that the term, "cocksucker" was offensive to gay people over a year ago. The creep still [says] it.


GravatarI have seen pictures of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He is real.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 3:25 pm


Indeed he is; with all his noodly appendages


GravatarThe earth is a flat plane sitting on the backs of Elephants.

Atlas holds up the world.

7 days.

Need more?


In all those examples, i think that the tellers all held that the Designer in question knew what He/She/They were doing, whatever the form of the doings.

What i was after is someone who had the opinion that the Designer was great in Power, yet thick as two short planks.
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GravatarWhen mrs. big ass hairy arab raghead stops, I will.


GravatarThe Suthrun Babtist Church asked me to leave at the age of 15 for "askin' too many kweschuns" and general cynicism.

They've never had to ask me to leave.

I went in one of them places once. That was all I needed to let me know never go in there again. It is scary.


GravatarWhat i was after is someone who had the opinion that the Designer was great in Power, yet thick as two short planks.

Well... I always wondered what Atlas, or the elephants, or turtles were standing on.

That kind of thinking is at least one plank short.


GravatarAnd don't forget PhillyIMC! We're the Independent Media Center for Philadelphia and we do much the same thing that bloggers do. We've got a building and it costs money to maintain.


Gravataryou've got to reclaim offensive words, incog. i totally support your right to step in an remind people that it's a poor choice of words to use it in some circumstances, but at the same time i don't believe in policing everyone else's speech at every moment. sometimes it's an appropriate term, sometimes it's not, and either way you (should be and are) proud of who and what you are. words can't hurt you, especially when you reclaim them for your own use and power.

it's one of the reasons my nym uses 'dyke,' to remind the haters that they can't touch me with their childish schoolyard insults.


GravatarIndeed he is; with all his noodly appendages

'Swhat I'm talkin' about. Bet He scared that C-17 crew half to death chasing them like that.


GravatarI went in one of them places once. That was all I needed to let me know never go in there again. It is scary.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker- 3:32 pm


i was a catholic right up to the point i was told that masturbation was a 'sin.'

after that, welllll, not so much...
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GravatarMe an unclosed tags. Curse me.


Gravatarjust home from a great football game.

I see the resident racist redneck cocksucker is off his meds. again.

what a shame.


GravatarThat kind of thinking is at least one plank short.

Barry from AK in Hawaii | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 3:33 pm


clifford geertz, god love him: "Turtles all the way down!@!!"
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Gravataryou've got to reclaim offensive words, incog. i totally support your right to step in an remind people that it's a poor choice of words to use it in some circumstances

It's a fundamental bigoted way of thinking I've seen here. I've reminded, and gawd knows I have, for 4 years now, but they just wont "get it." Fuck them with a rusty chainsaw now.


Gravatari was a catholic right up to the point i was told that masturbation was a 'sin.'

after that, welllll, not so much...
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WoodyG'sGuitar, Rogue Scholar


Hell WGG, they could have sent you to Santa Fe, refuge of all good Catholic priests gone bad. Well, or Alaska, we're second close to SAF.


GravatarI see the resident racist redneck cocksucker is off his meds. again.

what a shame.
mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari | 11.18.06 - 3:36 pm


ohkay, now you made a liar outta me...
how's about just lightening the fuck up?
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GravatarThey've never had to ask me to leave.

I went in one of them places once. That was all I needed to let me know never go in there again. It is scary.


It's different when you're raised there.

Who was it that once said that the difference between "cult" and "church" was being raised in that religion, as opposed to converting as an adult?

Example was Hare Krishna and Pentecostal - the auto salesman in Des Moines would be regarded as a nutter if he shaved his head, donned a yellow robe, and began to sing the praises of Krishna.....just as the street peddler in New Dehli would be called a nutter for speaking in tongues and inisting to passers by that they MUST drop their false religion immediately for his, or suffer eternal damnation. But each would be regarded a good citizen with the religions reversed.
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Gravatari was a catholic right up to the point i was told that masturbation was a 'sin.'

Yikes. Why was anyone telling you about masturbation? I do not think that is a topic for church ladies and stuff. Weird places these church things. Them Baptist is ranting about fire and shit, while the Catholics is apparently a bunch of horn dogs pulling on their willies.


GravatarHi again!


Geezus, this thread is still going on?


Gravatar
I went in one of them places once. That was all I needed to let me know never go in there again. It is scary.


I had a good friend who became a fundamentalist Christian. I was an atheist anyway, but my encounters with his faith pushed me even further in that direction. Fundamentalism is a form of mental illness, in my opinion. With regards to my friend, he eventually escaped from the fundy snakepit, but it took him ten years to do it.


Gravatarwe--i say, 'we', but i mean 'i', at any rate--do try to be politely 'pc' with the regulars...
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WoodyG'sGuitar


And it is greatly appreciated. {{{{{smooch}}}}}

Nothing at all wrong or p.c. about being polite.

Really, incog, you need to lighten up just a tad.


GravatarSo, the MEDIA says we are now going to spend ANOTHER 127 billion, rotate and increase by ANOTHER 20,000.

So, clearly it's just one long continued fuck you to everyone.

So, how about we DON'T spend the money and we DON'T increase the troops and we IMPEACH CHENEY AND BUSH NOW instead?


=*=


GravatarHell WGG, they could have sent you to Santa Fe, refuge of all good Catholic priests gone bad.

funny you should have mentioned that, since i reckon you knkow i grew up, the last years of growing up, in Santa Fe???

and knew (though not in the biblical sense) a few of 'em...among my mother's several obsessions, she was a priest hag...
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Gravatarwgg

Everyone knows I ain't a homophobe, it's just this one particular racist who annoys me. His racism is vehement, omnipresent, and inescapable.

his trolling is one thing, but his virulent racism is another. and yet nobody around here much seems to care that he spews his racism, day in and day out.

he gets a pass on his racism because he is gay? go figure.


GravatarI see the resident racist redneck cocksucker is off his meds. again.

Well piss into the wind. Why not try ignoring each other and let that name calling shit pass. We got trolls for that kind of shit if you need to call names.


GravatarI see the resident racist redneck cocksucker is off his meds. again.

Well piss into the wind. Why not try ignoring each other and let that name calling shit pass. We got trolls for that kind of shit if you need to call names.


Gravatarhey moonbeams. just sauntering.


i was a catholic right up to the point i was told that masturbation was a 'sin.'


they lost me in the 8th grade. i read portrait of the artist for the first time.

ironically,someone recommended it specifically for the sermion on hell it contains. she thought it might get me back on the right path.

hehehe


GravatarWhen fashion victims collide.


GravatarHey, mrs. raghead. I've killed alot of your ragheads in the first Gulf War...


Gravatarand knew (though not in the biblical sense) a few of 'em...among my mother's several obsessions, she was a priest hag...

and here i thought i had heard it all
so, are they any good at doing the nasty? my


GravatarWhen fashion victims collide.

I need a nap.


GravatarHey, mrs. raghead. I've killed alot of your ragheads in the first Gulf War...

that's so sweet, racist cocksucker.

did you suck off any young Arab boys? I hear thta's what you military cocksuckers go for, young boys.


GravatarI like "fuck", great word. Lookie...

Well, daughter wishes to use the computer, so I shall sign off till later.
jello?
Lighten the fuck up, okay?
Damn!
Terry C, American Once Again


He fucking keyboards like that in front of his fucking daughter, cool.

ohkay, now you made a liar outta me...
how's about just lightening the fuck up?
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WoodyG'sGuitar, Rogue Scholar


Ok, let's all lighten the fuck up, phrase de jour.

It's a good word.


GravatarIf we ask nicely enough, will you two lay off of each other and not use one term requested by the other?


Gravatarhttp://www.digbysblog.blogspot.com

Radical Quacks, posted 10:43AM

Lots of good stuff up at Digby's, but this is, well, almost horrifying. How thoroughly the Family Research Council has seeded people throughout the Bush Maladministration and federal government. And how the Right Wing Religionists get their nominees in place, such as the egreious Dr. Keroack.

Shudder.


Gravatarhey, mrs i-ij...everybody who's grown up white in the USofA, sexual orientation be damned, is a bit of a racist...

i regard myself as a not-always-successfully-recovering asshole, and must keep a conscious rein on attitudes that i now renounce, but which are deeply embedded and want--for reasons i do not comprehend--to embarrass me at improvident moments...
...

just sayin'
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GravatarSnow

no problem. I will refer to the cocksuker as "racist gay" from now on. better?


GravatarBetcha Babs Bush wishes she'd done like the Kennedys and lobotomized the family idiot.
Ruth, revolted


From all accounts, Rosemary wasn't an idiot.

She was just too strong-willed for Joe's liking.


Gravataror would "gay racist" be better?


GravatarNew Law: no more using the word 'cocksucker' or 'raghead' anymore.

We'll drink a Miller Lite to this new law.


GravatarJesus, WT, that woman dresses worse than I do, and I pay almost no attention at all to clothes & style. I wonder if someone is paid to pick out her clothes.


GravatarÔ¿Ô, chill, OK? Thanks.


GravatarMore than one pacifist has pointed out that in a world of 'an eye for an eye,' everyone is blind.


GravatarWhen fashion victims collide.

"We'll just have to trade Simplicity outfit patterns"
.


GravatarOr I'll just go run some errands and let others sort this out as they see meet and right to do.


Gravatar'From all accounts, Rosemary wasn't an idiot.

She was just too strong-willed for Joe's liking.
Terry C, American Once Again'

then if that was the case, I do apologize from comparing her with w.


GravatarI call EXCEPT for Dick Cheney and George Bush. They are both really really big, big, BIG cocksuckers.

=*=


GravatarWe'll drink a Miller Lite to this new law.

If you want me to start civil disobedience already, insist on making me drink that canoe beer.

And i have to be going yet again. later all.
-


Gravatar'From all accounts, Rosemary wasn't an idiot.

She was just too strong-willed for Joe's liking.
Terry C, American Once Again'

then if that was the case, I do apologize from comparing her with w.
Ruth, revolted


Oh, I'm sure Joe would have done the same to Kathleen, if he could have.

I mean, Joe the Anglophobe's daughter married TWO English Protestants.


GravatarMore than one pacifist has pointed out that in a world of 'an eye for an eye,' everyone is blind.

And this is the origin of that saying: in the world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

More should think about this.


GravatarWhen fashion victims collide.

dat pickles got some SERIOUS wrackage...
betcha her mammaries hang down to her navel when she gets outta de support garments...
./


Gravatar"We'll just have to trade Simplicity outfit patterns"
.
Agent Orange




Thanks, I needed that.

So do I insist that Mr. QL do the marketing that he should have done yesterday so I can make a roast beef dinner, or do I let him off the hook and send out for some sushi instead?


Gravatar"We'll just have to trade Simplicity outfit patterns"
.
Agent Orange




Thanks, I needed that.

So do I insist that Mr. QL do the marketing that he should have done yesterday so I can make a roast beef dinner, or do I let him off the hook and send out for some sushi instead?


GravatarNew Law: no more using the word 'cocksucker' or 'raghead' anymore.

We'll drink a Miller Lite to this new law.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker


No, don't think I'll do that.

I'm a Al Swearingen type of person when it comes to using cocksucker.

Like, imagine McCaine. OK?


GravatarOops - my error.

"Kick" Kennedy was married once, to
William Cavendish (Marquess of Hartington, b. 1917, d. 1944 WWII)


GravatarHow thoroughly the Family Research Council has seeded people throughout the Bush Maladministration and federal government. And how the Right Wing Religionists get their nominees in place, such as the egreious Dr. Keroack.


Those blind apes.

The credentialed , sober people are leaving the public sector because of these cretins.

There is a good discussion of this at talk2action with links to a lot of other places, including pharyngula

http://www.talk2action.org/story...11/16/3345/ 1636


GravatarOk, let's all lighten the fuck up, phrase de jour.

If our Dear and Exalted Leederz played golf in a thunderstorm, maybe God, were he to decide to exist for moment, would lightning the fuckups...


Gravatar
We'll drink a Miller Lite to this new law.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker


And secondly, Miller Lite sucks.


GravatarWell, daughter wishes to use the computer, so I shall sign off till later.
jello?
Lighten the fuck up, okay?
Damn!
Terry C, American Once Again

He fucking keyboards like that in front of his fucking daughter, cool.



(a) I'm not a "he".

(b) Daughter is 25 years old.


GravatarOh dear, Ô¿Ô has a big case of Mr. CrankyPants again today. Boring.


GravatarMostly, we just buried the ragheads alive who were shooting at us. Bulldozed them over in their bunkers. But one raghead ran out in front of my dozer and I couldn't stop and flattened him. It's really dry out there in the desert and he laid on that asphalt road and was run over for weeks. He was flat as a fritter with his arms outstretched, run over by everything from trucks to tanks.


GravatarIf our Dear and Exalted Leederz played golf in a thunderstorm, maybe God, were he to decide to exist for moment, would lightning the fuckups...
Elmer, PHD


And as the bolt zapped Dubya and Darth Cheney, god would say:

"Take that, cocksuckers!"


GravatarAnd secondly, Miller Lite sucks.

All major American brews suck. I was trying to play off of the commercial.

It crashed.


GravatarPickles is a slatternly tramp with some fucking weird stepford wife eye thing going on. All of these people want to run and ruin your life. They are a bunch of fucking nazis, period.
The U.S. and the world has been progressively taken over by a bunch of
criminals. The sooner we face facts the better.

=*=


GravatarAnd secondly, Miller Lite sucks.

Barry from AK in Hawaii | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 3:53 pm


miller lite sucks
bud lite sucks
coors lite sucks

ALL the USer lite alcoholic malt beverages suck--'cept mebbe sam adams...
./


Gravatar"Pickles is a slatternly tramp with some fucking weird stepford wife eye thing going on."


And then, there's Condi.


GravatarThis thread has a half life like a Twinkie


GravatarIf Michigan hangs on to win this game, Bo will have raised the bar for "taking one for the team" to a new level.


GravatarÔ¿Ô, chill, OK? Thanks.
jawbone


Tell the hairy arab raghead to stop calling gay people "cocksucker.' If not, FUCK OFF!


GravatarYuengling Light Lager isn't so bad


GravatarCondi belongs in a fucking mental institution.


=*=


GravatarBut one raghead ran out in front of my dozer and I couldn't stop and flattened him.

Say good bye, asshole. That type of humor is only appropriate at LGF or among Misha's Creeps

Good bye, asshole.


Gravatar"meatspacing"

Say what?


GravatarGood WGG and Snow. We're good on NO MILLER LITE.


Terry C, American Once Again Sorry about the Gender mixup, now I know, and 25 year old daughter kicking you off important blog comment business... well she just needs one of her own. Sorry, I was imagining a tyke.

BTW, is she single?


GravatarDang ol' monster thread...
.


GravatarIf you're in the just-west of Nashville crowd, you'e kick your own ass if you don't go see these guys TONIGHT.
.


Gravatar'He was flat as a fritter with his arms outstretched, run over by everything from trucks to tanks.
Ô¿Ô '

okay, not long ago we had a moonbootica imitation saying how ugly she felt. This strikes me as being in that vein.


Gravatar"meatspacing"

Say what?
Deacon Blues


Herd kerning...


Gravatar
okay, not long ago we had a moonbootica imitation saying how ugly she felt. This strikes me as being in that vein.
Ruth, revolted


Agreed.


Gravatar'He was flat as a fritter with his arms outstretched, run over by everything from trucks to tanks.



homicidal psychopaths should be locked up for society's safety


GravatarBut one raghead ran out in front of my dozer and I couldn't stop and flattened him.

cocksucker
pedophile
racist
and War Criminal

quite a resume you got there, fucker.


GravatarIncog, ol' sarge, i think you might wanna impose on the VA fer a lil PTSD counselling...

i mean it in the MOST friendly possible way...

those aren't the most pleasant dreams...
./.


GravatarTerry C, American Once Again Sorry about the Gender mixup, now I know, and 25 year old daughter kicking you off important blog comment business... well she just needs one of her own. Sorry, I was imagining a tyke.

BTW, is she single?

Barry from AK in Hawaii


She IS single. Just had a long-distance relationship end.

She didn't kick me off. She asked nicely.


GravatarThis strikes me as being in that vein.

trust me, you are seeing the real deal here. this isn't a namestealer, this is the authentic Incog as we have come to know and loathe him.


GravatarA&E doing a show on the Philadelphia Parking Authority.

Talk about bureaucracy at its worst!


GravatarBesides, I'm not sure anyone really wants to be so condemnatory about cocksucking. Ooops, I didn't say that.


GravatarThe U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, launched a scathing attack on the United Nations Friday.

Bolton was furious over the adoption by the General Assembly of a resolution which said the assembly regretted the deaths of 19 civilians in an attack by the Israeli military in the town of Beit Hanoun last week.

Despite the resolution being significantly watered down at the behest of the United States, and being passing by 156 votes to seven, Bolton launched a blistering attack on the UN, and many of its members.

snip

The United States, and Australia joined Israel in voting against the motion, together with four small Pacific island nations. All countries in Europe, including Britain, voted to support the resolution.

snip

The resolution was taken to the General Assembly after the United States used its veto to squash a similar motion in the Security Council. It was the 31st time the U.S. had used its veto at the UN to stop resolutions concerning Israel and the Palestinians.


GravatarYeah JP, I've got the chauffer cranking up the Rolls to take me over to the learjet right now. I'll see ya in 1/2 an hour or so and we'll go catch that show. Then well scoot over to paris for some steak and eggs, should get back to my cardboard box by dawn, and then my pilot can drop you back at nashville.

Gotta get my $47 tax refund from 2003 first though.

=*=


Gravatartrust me, you are seeing the real deal here. this isn't a namestealer, this is the authentic Incog as we have come to know and loathe him.
mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari



It's pretty sad.


GravatarShe didn't kick me off. She asked nicely.
Terry C, American Once Again


No harm intended Terry. I'm pretty harmless. And again, I imagined a tyke, not a fully grown, asking nicely person.

Peace?



GravatarI wish there was a decent college footbal game to watch this afternoon.


GravatarSpeak for yourself Jifari. Incog's no worse than you.

=*=


GravatarSay good bye, asshole. That type of humor is only appropriate at LGF or among Misha's Creeps

Good bye, asshole.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker


Actually, I've always felt really bad about it. He was about my age now. I've often wondered, and most certainly know, he had a wife and children and they never knew what or where it happend to him.


GravatarYeah JP, I've got the chauffer cranking up the Rolls to take me over to the learjet right now. I'll see ya in 1/2 an hour or so and we'll go catch that show. Then well scoot over to paris for some steak and eggs, should get back to my cardboard box by dawn, and then my pilot can drop you back at nashville.

Gotta get my $47 tax refund from 2003 first though.

=*=
Truth


Hey dood, you were gonna pick me up on the way, weren't ya?


GravatarMy swap spot has already been rid of three items, on its first Saturday!

Hell, this is better than eBay, or yard selling...
.


GravatarOh, lord, are you back at it again, cocksucker (TM)?


Gravatargonna go watch that shitty football game fer a spell...

mebbe when halftime rolls around, we'll have some fresh to soil...

...


Gravatar
Actually, I've always felt really bad about it. He was about my age now. I've often wondered, and most certainly know, he had a wife and children and they never knew what or where it happend to him.


America's psychopathic Ambassador of Hate killed him.

fucking war criminal. go the fuck away, cocksucker.


GravatarGood bye, asshole.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker


Bye the way, the raghead's comments were offensive to millions of gay people.


GravatarMy swap spot has already been rid of three items, on its first Saturday!

Hell, this is better than eBay, or yard selling...
.
Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 4:09 pm | #


Swap spot is teh cool.

As is this.


GravatarHeh... I thought we had a new post, titled "Big Monkey, for a minnit.
.


GravatarALL the USer lite alcoholic malt beverages suck--'cept mebbe sam adams...
./
WoodyG'sGuitar, Rogue Scholar



Sam Adams is quite good, actually.

Although everytime I see a commercial for it, I think of Dave Chappelle
doing that bit:

"Samuel Jackson beer..good choice, BITCH!"


GravatarMrs. al-

From a.m. conversations with incog, I haven't seen anything so stoopid from him, really. I think you're being had on.


GravatarBut of course Barry.

Once I finish this plate of rice. With salt.


GravatarBye the way, the raghead's comments were offensive to millions of gay people.
Ô¿Ô


Wait - YOU speak for "millions of gay people"??????????????


GravatarÔ¿Ô

What is the word on String?


GravatarWhat's wrong, folks?


Gravatarruth

this racist has told various versions of this story over many many months. his last meltodown included his fond desire to "nuke all the ragheads" and turn the Middle East into a "sea of glass."

trust me, this is the real Incog.


GravatarMich v OSU: 7-7


GravatarI personally like SNPA, and it's pretty widely-distributed...
.


GravatarOnce I finish this plate of rice. With salt.
Truth

Well, to each his own, I suppose.

I'll wait for that jet to come get me anyway.


GravatarThe problem with putting up shelves is you found out things.

You work and work, making it level, making perfectly vertical and voila, when it is done, it just doesn't look right.

So there you go, measuring again, checking out each standard, doing the horizontal and the vertical.

Then you realize, the shelves are perfect. The house ain't.


Gravatar"Herd kerning..."
Come again??


GravatarIs incog off the handle again? Last meltdown was around Xmas last year.


GravatarThe NERD-GRAVITY in this is so strong it may melt my 20-sided dice.


GravatarHe wants to know what's wrong.


Nothing an immediate Dual Impeachment won't fix, zap.

=*=


GravatarI personally like SNPA, and it's pretty widely-distributed...
.
Jeffraham Prestonian


Number 4 or 5 here now.


GravatarShe didn't kick me off. She asked nicely.
Terry C, American Once Again

No harm intended Terry. I'm pretty harmless. And again, I imagined a tyke, not a fully grown, asking nicely person.

Peace?


Barry from AK in Hawaii


Oh, no - Barry, I KNEW you were kidding.

I can't get the emoticons working or I would have winked.


GravatarBarry from AK: Number 4 or 5 here now.

Personal beer ranking, or how many you've quaffed today?
.


GravatarWell, to each his own, I suppose.


Uh, no. To each what is left in his overpriced cardboard hovel.


=*=


GravatarAttention anybody involved - all the pomegrantates have been mailed. Expect them probably around Tuesday/Wednesday time frame. Enjoy - they're pretty darned good and sweet this year (as tho I had anything to do with that.)


GravatarSOMEone in this household invited the fundie elatives over for dinner, and all I want to do is watch beer and drink football.

RrrrrrrrrrrrBLEAH.


GravatarDeadwood: Ratio of fucks to cocksuckers: 89 : 1

Fuck wins.


GravatarIs incog off the handle again? Last meltdown was around Xmas last year.
Sweetie


He's been like this the last couple of days.

eedsnay edsmay.


GravatarI get a whole 5 days of fundy elatives. No, actually there is one liberal, thank goodness.


GravatarThen you realize, the shelves are perfect. The house ain't.
EkCenTriK | 11.18.06 - 4:14 pm | #


Oh, lord, ain't it the truth? I have built so many things into and onto this house (including a front porch), and every time, I am amazed by whatever ancient person it was who imagined the insane idea of a "right angle."


Gravatar"International law is being used as a rhetorical weapon against us," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, a former federal appellate judge, said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative policy group.
Chertoff cited members of the European Parliament in particular as harboring an "increasingly activist, left-wing and even elitist philosophy of law" at odds with American practices and interests.[empire building]
But he said the same pattern could be seen in the policies of the United Nations and other international bodies.
"What we see here is a vision of international law that if taken aggressively would literally strike at the heart of some of our basic fundamental principals — separation of powers, respect for the Senate's ability to ratify treaties and … reject treaties," Chertoff said.

The wacko federalist wacko Bush wackos


Gravatarthers

if BC wins, and wake forets loses, then BC beats Miami, Boston College will win the ACC

got to hurt.

just came back from a 62-0 ass whipping. it was funnnnnnnn.


Gravatar"SOMEone in this household invited the fundie elatives over for dinner, and all I want to do is watch beer and drink football."

So?

In fact, take a few pointers from Ntodd on what to say when there is a bad play.

(At the top of your lungs)


Gravatar SOMEone in this household invited the fundie elatives over for dinner, and all I want to do is watch beer and drink football.

You, sir, are a sad-sap...


Gravatar
Personal beer ranking, or how many you've quaffed today?
.
Jeffraham Prestonian


This morning. Hawaii, always get here after a long day, and everyone else want's coffee, but it's my "night" schedule.

I've learned to live with the looks at the 7-11.


GravatarSam Adams and SNPA are good.
But
FINALLY we are getting Fat Tire here in SoCal!


Gravatar"SOMEone in this household invited the fundie elatives over for dinner, and all I want to do is watch beer and drink football."



It's your house, Thers.

Drink beer and watch football.


Gravatar"Here, my 2/3 rd's. Here, mine too"

That is one of the most amusing lines I've heard in a while.

Turkman, you are one of my heros.

=*=


GravatarRuth - Incog was like this a few years ago, then seemed to settle down somewhat when he moved in with his twin sister. I think his meds need adjusting. The war did some horrible things to everyone involved.


Gravatarif the OSU/Michigan game ends with a margin of victory less than 7, do ya'll think the BCS voters will keep them 1/2 ?


GravatarPersonal beer ranking, or how many you've quaffed today?



Well, when the daughter and I go for our Saturday night dinner thing, I think I will order a Sam Adams or two.

I've been put in the mood.


Gravatar"I am amazed by whatever ancient person it was who imagined the insane idea of a "right angle."
rorschach "

My strategy today is to put books of different heights on the top shelf and seldom look up.


GravatarWar. How 'bout mythomaniac?


GravatarSam Adams and SNPA are good.


Peroni.


Gravatar
if BC wins, and wake forets loses, then BC beats Miami, Boston College will win the ACC


Well, good for the Catholics.

Rotten, rotten season.


GravatarWhere would we be without fundamental laxatives?


Gravatarror -- Those aren't your t-shirts, is they?
.


Gravatarjust came back from a 62-0 ass whipping. it was funnnnnnnn.
mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari


Ouch!


GravatarSam Adams is a terrible beer.

SNPA, Summit, and some fucking Scottish beer that my wife likes are the only ways to go...


Gravatarmiller lite sucks
bud lite sucks
coors lite sucks


Mick Light ain't bad.

My favorite light beer is Molson. Damn good. I'm having one now.

Amstel and Sam Adams lights are over-rated and way too pricey, IMHO.


Gravatar"International law is being used as a rhetorical weapon against us"

Shorter Chertoff: "Goddamit, why won't you just let the snarling rabid frothing terminally psychotic charging elephant sodomize you?"


GravatarI prefer Schlitz


GravatarTerry

it was a tuneup for next week's FSU game. they had the 3rd string out there for the second half.


Gravatar
It's your house, Thers.

Drink beer and watch football.


I will.

But fundies in the house!


Gravatar ror -- Those aren't your t-shirts, is they?
.
Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 4:22 pm | #


No. Designed by miriam, actually.


GravatarPacifico is a great light (not lite) beer, if you ice it down and serve really really cold. With lime


GravatarDeacon Blues: FINALLY we are getting Fat Tire here in SoCal!

That's not the brand with the Ralph Steadman illustrations, izzit?
.


GravatarSam Adams is a terrible beer.

SNPA, Summit, and some fucking Scottish beer that my wife likes are the only ways to go...
Zap Rowsdower, Motor Away



My daughter favors Guiness, Stella Artois and Newcastle Brown Ale.


Gravatar
Mick Light ain't bad.

My favorite light beer is Molson. Damn good. I'm having one now.

Amstel and Sam Adams lights are over-rated and way too pricey, IMHO.
billy b -blues deluxe | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 4:22 pm | #


Fuck that shit!

Pabst Blue Ribbon!


GravatarJust to settle the disagreement, cocksucker is not a anti gay word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f...h? v=f4XQaO3RYX8


GravatarWhere would we be without fundamental laxatives?
rorschach |


Two drops of phenolphthalein has the same effect as one Ex-Lax.
.


GravatarTerry

it was a tuneup for next week's FSU game. they had the 3rd string out there for the second half.
mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari


Sounds as though they DID get tuned up.


Gravatarrorschach: No. Designed by miriam, actually.

Caution, Will Robinson.
.


GravatarMrs I, I need your address.


GravatarTwo drops of phenolphthalein has the same effect as one Ex-Lax.
.
Agent Orange


A nice stalk celery and a handful of peanuts.


Gravatar"What is the word on String?"


It proved to be just a theory.


=*=


GravatarBarry from AK: Just to settle the disagreement, cocksucker is not a anti gay word.

I know of exactly one cocksucker offended by the word, "cocksucker."
.


Gravatar'trust me, this is the real Incog.
mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari '

and ql,

so he melts down at xmas, so isn't this an answer of sorts.

People I like can get pretty stoopid and I still like them. And I'm far from perfect. just saying.


GravatarJeffraham
No, that's Old Scratch (great name, great labels, so-so beer)


GravatarCaution, Will Robinson.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 4:25 pm | #


??


GravatarJust to settle the disagreement, cocksucker is not a anti gay word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f...h? v=f4XQaO3RYX8

Barry from AK in Hawaii




(Well, got the emoticons working again)


GravatarFrom the land of sky blue waters...

Hamm's is beer-refreshing.


GravatarTHANK YOU for the love! Finally took down all the ads since I went for nearly a year without a single click on any of them.


GravatarMrs I, I need your address.

my condolences.

but don't worry about it. buy the bottle and give it to the next homeless person you bump in to. that will make me feel better.


Gravatar SOMEone in this household invited the fundie elatives over for dinner, and all I want to do is watch beer and drink football.

RrrrrrrrrrrrBLEAH.
Thers, Extant


Can't you keep Sean Patrick off the phone?


GravatarBut fundies in the house!


Better put a chastity belt on the kitty kat.


GravatarYou know who has it good, beer-wise? Denver. They have such a hot microbrewery thing happening all up and down the front range.
When I moved from there to SoCal, I had to give up on microbrews - couldn't find any. So I made the switch to martinis.


Gravatarbuy the bottle and give it to the next homeless person you bump in to

OK. I'll keep the liquid though.

Name a worthy cause & I'll send them $30.


Gravatarrorschach: ??

Legal, I mean. Licensing, IP rights, etc.
.


Gravatar
I know of exactly one cocksucker offended by the word, "cocksucker."
.
Jeffraham Prestonian


Ouch.


GravatarBut fundies in the house!


Just fumigate real good after they leave. And don't leave the kids unattended for a minute.


GravatarTaser incident at UCLA under review
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ 20061...student_stunned
LOS ANGELES - An attorney who was part of a review of excessive force complaints following the Rodney King beating will investigate a UCLA police officer's use of a Taser on an Iranian-American student, the school said Friday.

The move came in response to student demands voiced earlier Friday at a news conference and subsequent rally, where speakers said the shocking of Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, sent a chill across the campus.

"As students we feel our safety is endangered, and we do not feel safe on campus," said Sabiha Ameen, president of the Muslim Students Association.

Tabatabainejad, 23, was shocked Tuesday night after arguing with a campus police officer who was conducting a routine check of student IDs at the University of California, Los Angeles, Powell Library computer lab.

Campus police say he refused to show his student ID and refused to leave the building when asked.

A few hours after the rally, acting Chancellor Norman Abrams announced he had chosen Merrick Bobb, the founder of a local nonprofit dedicated to police reform, to lead an independent investigation.

Bobb served as staff attorney for the Christopher Commission, which was formed to examine allegations of excessive force in the Los Angeles Police Department after the King beating in the early '90s.


GravatarSOMEone in this household invited the fundie elatives over for dinner, and all I want to do is watch beer and drink football.

At least they didn't invite any relatives.


GravatarFucking haloscan.

Ate my post. Bah.


Gravatar
Hamm's is beer-refreshing.
Zap Rowsdower, Motor Away


Might as well add "Oly Pop" to that list, kinda flavored water.


GravatarZap Rowsdower: Hamm's is beer-refreshing.

OMG, I haven't had that since I was a pup. My bro and his 2nd wife used to drink that allatime. Then, the wife made a move on my young, age 19 ass... and I stopped goin' over there.
.


GravatarFuck that shit!

Pabst Blue Ribbon!
rorschach


What have you got......
Pabst Blue Ribbon.

What have you got......
Pabst Blue Ribbon.

What have you got......
Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.


Gravatar
Legal, I mean. Licensing, IP rights, etc.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 4:30 pm | #


Well, she designed them herself, as far as I know, and found the graphics on sites involving free-use, so, I think it's okay...


GravatarSOMEone in this household invited the fundie elatives over for dinner, and all I want to do is watch beer and drink football.


I'm using lion kitty maxx as an excuse.

I can't possibly leave town and leave him alone when he's sick, now can I?


GravatarDifficult to beat an ice cold Becks.

Although Pilsner Urquell is ace as well.

Heinekens IN Amsterdam is NOT like in US bottles, it is a whole different and much, much better beer.

Kingfisher is not bad at all.

Rolling Rock and St. Pauli Girl are quite fine light and dark, respectively.

Red Stripe has good flavor, and good old Bud works too.

Tsing-Tao is way good.

Whatever beer you drink, it has to be ice cold.


Cheers

=*=


GravatarAnother paragraph from that UCLA story...

Police said they shocked Tabatabainejad after he urged others to join his resistance and a crowd began to gather. Footage from another student's camera phone showed Tabatabainejad screaming on the floor of the computer lab.


GravatarSpeaking of Deadwood:


GravatarMight as well add "Oly Pop" to that list, kinda flavored water.

Speaking of which...


GravatarThen, the wife made a move on my young, age 19 ass... and I stopped goin' over there.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian


Danm. Another lost video on alt.binaries.erotica.familyrelations

The usenet will never forgive you JP.


GravatarThen, the wife made a move on my young, age 19 ass... and I stopped goin' over there.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian


Danm. Another lost video on alt.binaries.erotica.familyrelations

The usenet will never forgive you JP.


Gravatarrorschach: Well, she designed them herself, as far as I know, and found the graphics on sites involving free-use, so, I think it's okay...

At one time, Paramount, for example, used to send C&Ds and nastygrams to webbers who were using Trek-derived stuff on their sites, and making t-shirts, mugs, etc.

Oh, they saw no humor in that.
.


Gravatara campus police officer

never give a rent-a-pig a weapon.


GravatarSorry.

Speaking of Deadwood

http://www.comcast.net/entertain.../18/ 523851.html


So long as they don't call it Cocksucker Cove.....


GravatarNo, that's Old Scratch (great name, great labels, so-so beer)

To be more exact, Steadman does the labels for all the products from the Flying Dog Brewery (see pics here: http://www.flyingdogales.com/default.asp


GravatarTwo drops of phenolphthalein has the same effect as one Ex-Lax.

At one time that was the active ingredient in Ex-Lax.


GravatarWant a tasty beer? Ice down a Tsing-Tao.

Pilsner Urquell too.


Gravatarfourlegs:

I'm using lion kitty maxx as an excuse.

Really? I'm so [surprised].


GravatarThers

Food Bank of WNY

you'll get us next year!


GravatarAll right. Done.


GravatarBoo_Dog Obscure Mu Child

You are still listed.


GravatarOh, the little sociopath is here.

You know why people here hate you Toby? because you're fucking boring.


GravatarI'm using lion kitty maxx as an excuse.

I can't possibly leave town and leave him alone when he's sick, now can I?


No you CAN not. Anybody cares about you will come visit you. And bring pate.


GravatarBarry from AK: Danm. Another lost video on alt.binaries.erotica.familyrelations

The usenet will never forgive you JP.


Sorry. Even then, I had pretty good moral steering -- one, she was HAWT (a bit thin for my tastes, but beautiful), and at 19, a dick gets hard before the hat hits the floor, boy. So, I made it a point to ONLY visit when my bro was there, too. I never did tell him about that, and they've been divorced more than ten years, now.
.


GravatarWant a tasty beer? Ice down a Tsing-Tao.

Pilsner Urquell too.
Truth


Agreed, beer with 99% water.


GravatarBoo_Dog Obscure Mu Child

You are still listed.

Not sure I follow....


GravatarNo you CAN not. Anybody cares about you will come visit you. And bring pate.

Well, it gives me a convenient reason for not going to visit my wingnut brother, which I wouldn't want to do anyway.


GravatarAuburn 14, Alabama 3

ror, keep us updated on the OSU game.


GravatarSam Adams. Yuengling. You guys have good taste.

Bo would be rolling in his grave.


GravatarI'm using lion kitty maxx as an excuse.

Really? I'm so [surprised].


Speaking of surprises, there's Toby being a complete asshole for no fucking reason.


Gravataruurgh. drool. Books make think. Master no like books. drool. Think bad. urrghh drool. ID shiny. nguurrfgh. Army Strong. Army shiny ID. drool mnghurgh. He books. drool Taser! he noid. nguurgh. heheheh Taser fun. drool HEY YOU ID? hahaha he books noid BLAMMO nggghhurgh. drool.

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Gravatarror, keep us updated on the OSU game.
mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari | 11.18.06 - 4:39 pm | #


14-7 Ohio, as of 5 seconds ago.


Gravataryou'll get us next year!

Grumble, grumble. We needs us a new coach...

I'll enjoy FSU getting stomped, tho.


GravatarAnyone else find it slightly amusing that Glenn Beck would advertise his program on Eschaton? Atrios has been working hard to dilute and misdirect his cult followers, banging the drum of "discussing terrorism = fearmongering" louder than most.

But it does make sense. Far be it for those who scream the loudest to actually sit down and watch what others say about this country in the media, say about other religions in their houses of worship, and read what others are teaching their children.

Not sure about his usual smear merchant fees, but I would pay to have a Duncan Black review of the program.

Thanks for 2004, and for helping the Murtha and Nedrenaline smackdown by moderate Democrats in 2006. Could not have done it without your hard work.


GravatarSam Adams. Yuengling. You guys have good taste.

Bo would be rolling in his grave.
mike in pr


My late dad drank Schmidt's.

Horrible, horrible stuff!


GravatarSorry. Even then, I had pretty good moral steering -- one, she was HAWT (a bit thin for my tastes, but beautiful), and at 19, a dick gets hard before the hat hits the floor, boy. So, I made it a point to ONLY visit when my bro was there, too. I never did tell him about that, and they've been divorced more than ten years, now.

That would make a good movie.


GravatarGrumble, grumble. We needs us a new coach...

Me too.


GravatarAnyone elsZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzze

Cog


You lost. Get over it!


GravatarYou know why people here hate you Toby? because you're fucking boring.

I don't hate Toby because thats what he thrives on and I refuse to become a hater.


GravatarReally? I'm so [surprised].
Toby Petzold


TOBES!!!!! GOT DAYUM!!!!!

How the hell are ya!!!!


GravatarMacEwan's Scotch Ale in the wintertime, when it's cold. German lager and pilsner when it's hot. And decent English ale pretty much anytime. And American microbrews in those styles, of which there are many.

Light beer is like making live in a canoe.

And St Pauli, Clausthaler and Beck's make non-alcoholic beer (the only kind I can drink these days) that's almost as good as the real thing.


Gravataryeah, next week will be fun. a bunch of old friends will be back in town, we are frying up some turkeys, and stuffing with oysters, green bean casserole, etc...

this will be the real homecoming game for many folks here. FSU is going down.

ror, thanks.


Gravataruurgh. drool. Books make think. Master no like books. drool. Think bad. urrghh drool. ID shiny. nguurrfgh. Army Strong. Army shiny ID. drool mnghurgh. He books. drool Taser! he noid. nguurgh. heheheh Taser fun. drool HEY YOU ID? hahaha he books noid BLAMMO nggghhurgh. drool.

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Truth



Great Bush impersonation


GravatarCog,

You multitask as both a moron and a clod.

Thanks again for 2006.

Sincerely,


GravatarLight beer, of course, is like making love in a canoe. I regret the error, not to mention ever having tried light beer...


Gravatar I never did tell him about that, and they've been divorced more than ten years, now.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian


Wait till you are both in your 80s.

Thats when my dad told me about doing (or did she do him?) a nurse on Gen. Claire Chenault's desk in Kunming durning WWII.

Hee hee, he had to look around an make sure Mom was not in ear shot.

He finally got it of his conscience.


GravatarTo not just have a readership, but hope to have a wider influence, you have to demonstrate that you're not nuts
I knew I was doing something wrong...


GravatarSavage Weinie: Anti-gay remarks will "wind up tomorrow" on "blogs run by gays," who are "like drug addicts"


Man, doesn't it get tiring to HATE that much?


GravatarBeck is another idiot fuckwad that ought properly be washing dishes in a Dennys.

Such is the power of the media crack to elevate these snivelling retards to purported "significance".

=*=


GravatarProfWombat, ever had a Black and Tan? Half Guiness, half Bass Ale. That's some nice drinkin


GravatarI think I would like Michigan to win this game.

For no particular reason.


GravatarMy late dad drank Schmidt's.

I live about a mile from the old Schmidt's brewery...

Still a beaut of a building.


GravatarWow. Michigan just caught a huge break. "Roughing the center."


GravatarThanks for 2004, and for helping the Murtha and Nedrenaline smackdown by moderate Democrats in 2006. Could not have done it without your hard work.
Cog


Ah, a bitter little pussy.

Why don't you go change your tampax, puss-pie?


GravatarCog lives in a stupid universe where antiwar Dems didn't just clean up by Bush-bashing.


GravatarThanks for 2004, and for helping the Murtha and Nedrenaline smackdown by moderate Democrats in 2006. Could not have done it without your hard work.
Cog

Ah, a bitter little pussy.

Why don't you go change your tampax, puss-pie?
billy b -blues deluxe


2004 is SO much in the PAST!


GravatarProfessor Wombat, in a canoe, with the candlestick.

the NEW version of Clue!


GravatarPilsner Urquell too.
Truth


Actually, I like that Czech beer too also, mainly because I prefer pilsners to more full bodied beers.


GravatarStill a beaut of a building.

Add a thunderstorm and that would look like a nice location for a lovecraftian horror story. Nice.


GravatarClusthaler tastes better than many actual beers.

=*=


GravatarMy late dad drank Schmidt's.

I live about a mile from the old Schmidt's brewery...

Still a beaut of a building.
Zap Rowsdower, Motor Away


Zap:

Location?


GravatarJeff Pres:Even then, I had pretty good moral steering -- one, she was HAWT (a bit thin for my tastes, but beautiful), and at 19, a dick gets hard before the hat hits the floor, boy.

At 50, that still applies to me. Much to my better half's chagrin.


Gravatarmrs I: in a canoe, but not with a candlestick, of course. Two out of three isn't bad, especially after a few beers...


GravatarCog lives in a stupid universe where antiwar Dems didn't just clean up by Bush-bashing.

As do all trollz.

Still too stupid to live and too dumb to know it.


Gravatarwhoever wins that game, please make it by a big big score. 36 to 10, or soemthing. Michigan, preferred, but big score more preferred.


GravatarBeck is another idiot fuckwad that ought properly be washing dishes in a Dennys.

Such is the power of the media crack to elevate these snivelling retards to purported "significance".

=*=
Truth


See: Hannity, Sean


GravatarThat's because Clusthaler is beer, then they burn off the alcahol. Don't ask me how.

=*=


GravatarAt 50, that still applies to me. Much to my better half's chagrin.
billy b -blues deluxe


She should consider herself fortunate!


GravatarOh, and rumor has it that a Republican or two voted for Lieberman, so crediting moderate Democrats with his victory appears to overstate the case...


GravatarThanks for 2004, and for helping the Murtha and Nedrenaline smackdown by moderate Democrats in 2006. Could not have done it without your hard work.

Thanks for 2006, bitch. Murtha won his election, you might have noticed. And the Dems kicked your sorry asses.


GravatarFull-bodied is good.

Just not too full

=*=


GravatarFar be it for those who scream the loudest to actually sit down and watch what others say about this country in the media, say about other religions in their houses of worship, and read what others are teaching their children.

Said the freekrepublican Tim Lahaye wacko


GravatarDeacon: yup, a great pint, if carefully poured, in the hands of someone who can carefully drink it...


GravatarLocation?

St. Paul, MN.

Home of Hamm's, Stroh's, and Summit.


GravatarShe should consider herself fortunate!

Thanks, TC. She doesn't. She considers me a big pain in the ass.


GravatarLocation?

St. Paul, MN.

Home of Hamm's, Stroh's, and Summit.
Zap Rowsdower, Motor Away


Just curious.

I remember the whole time I was growing up, the commercials talked about "Schmidt's of Philadelphia."


GravatarPilsner Urquell is the only actual pilsner in the world. It has to be from Pilsen to actually be Pilsner.

=*=


GravatarOy.

21-7 Ohio.


GravatarShe should consider herself fortunate!

Thanks, TC. She doesn't. She considers me a big pain in the ass.

billy b -blues deluxe




GravatarWho couldn't see play action coming on that play?


GravatarHoly shit, look at Ohio State.


GravatarWow. Michigan just caught a huge break. "Roughing the center."

How the fuck do you rough the CENTER?


Gravatarcog's delusion that Murtha is a liberal is on par with the Austin Nazi's crowing that "moderates" really smacked down Pelosi.

"moderates" like Barney Frank and Maxine Waters.

the stupid, it burns, it burns.


GravatarBoo_dog: a lot of people don't know how truly vile is the theology in the 'Left Behind' books, which have sold millions of copies to folk who presumably accept it. That's a scary bunch of people. Really not all that far from 'The Turner Diaries'...


GravatarOh, and rumor has it that a Republican or two voted for Lieberman, so crediting moderate Democrats with his victory appears to overstate the case...
ProfWombat


Trolls NEVER permit FACTS to stand in the way of their incoherent rants.


GravatarI remember the whole time I was growing up, the commercials talked about "Schmidt's of Philadelphia."

I've gotta believe that they had more than one brewery.

But Schmidt's was HQ'd in Pig's Eye (former name of St. Paul, and a beer that was brewed at that plant).


Gravatar
Thanks for 2006, bitch. Murtha won his election, you might have noticed. And the Dems kicked your sorry asses.


One wonders what in the fuck Cogswell's Cogs thinks it's getting at?

Repukes get routed and the fuckstick's talking about 2 years ago?

"Yeah, man, we whipped ya'll's ass back then."

Big motherfucking whoop.

Who's got the pussy now, Cog?


GravatarBoo_dog: a lot of people don't know how truly vile is the theology in the 'Left Behind' books, which have sold millions of copies to folk who presumably accept it. That's a scary bunch of people. Really not all that far from 'The Turner Diaries'...
ProfWombat


I can't believe ANYONE would READ that shit.

Total crap....as well as very badly written.


Gravatarhow about the MI D?

bwahahaha!

eat it chimpmonks.


GravatarHow the fuck do you rough the CENTER?
NT'odd (Mandatier)


Knock him upside the head when he's snapping for the punt.


GravatarThe center can't be touched until he gets his head up, otherwise he could be unfairly brutalized.


GravatarIt's not just Lieberman, there is an entire Lieberman fronde inside the Democratic Party, and we can guess who is in it...Biden, Schumer, Clinton, Baucus, Nelson.....


Gravatar"Roughing the center?" Cripes, if you can't rough up the centeer who can you rough up.?


GravatarRepukes get routed and the fuckstick's talking about 2 years ago?

"Yeah, man, we whipped ya'll's ass back then."

Big motherfucking whoop.

Who's got the pussy now, Cog?
billy b -blues deluxe


Reminds me of election night, when it was pretty certain that the Pukes were going down to ignominious defeat and Tweety trots out all the GOP "strategists" who talked of nothing but 1994.


GravatarGood evening, Moonbats! Le nouveau beajoulasi est arrive!


Gravatar"if you can't rough up the centeer who can you rough up.?"

hahahaha. Brownskin children in other countries that have natural resources you want.


=*=


GravatarGo Wolverines!


GravatarOh, and then there's the State Senator in Montana who was re-elected last week as a Puke and switched to Democrat this week.



GLOAT GLOAT GLOAT!


GravatarKnock him upside the head when he's snapping for the punt.

GO BUCKS!


GravatarKnock him upside the head when he's snapping for the punt.

GO BUCKS!


GravatarI've gotta believe that they had more than one brewery.

But Schmidt's was HQ'd in Pig's Eye (former name of St. Paul, and a beer that was brewed at that plant).
Zap Rowsdower, Motor Away


I always learn something new here.


GravatarCog lives in a stupid universe where antiwar Dems didn't just clean up by Bush-bashing.

Cog graduated from Bush Jesus err I mean Satan camp of blood cult christian crazies.

And Yes COG I am probably the only one here who is a 'Christian' even though I am 'listed'

I prefer the company of rational people [Gay or not] and not irrational Bush brownshirts.


GravatarGood luck to the Dems, because there is a power struggle inside the party between the lefties (a solid 30% of Dem voters), the centrists and the hawks. I'm happy with the victory...but where do they go from there? It don't look pretty.


Gravatarfucks, cocksukers, bad beer all of that aside, I just want to wish Lion Maxx Kitty all the best. I haven't been able to say till now, and this should have gone directly to 4lg's blog, how heartbroken I am about Maxx.

Hell, he's Magoo's big brother. It's personal.

Hell, I still can't do it. Sorry for the imposition.

I'll quit now.


GravatarSpeaking of rodents:

The Gophers won back "Floyd of Rosedale" and beat the Hawkeyes...

Floyd is a bronze pig, BTW.


GravatarHow the fuck do you rough the CENTER?

Start with the left and work your way rightward.

=*=


GravatarGO BUCKS!
NT'odd (Mandatier)


At least Ohio has ONE Good Pro team.


GravatarTHERS! EXTANT! OVER HERE!

http://www.baconunwrapped.com/

It's calling you. You know you want it.


Gravatarnur, as a Floridian you'll find this funny:

Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, the Legislature's rightest winger, the force behind the Sue Your Prof (Especially if He Mentions Evolution) Bill, the sponsor of the Take Your Handgun to Work Bill and adviser to the Tom Gallagher for Governor campaign, will take the No. 2 position in the Florida House.


GravatarGlenn Beck looks permanently constipated.

Eet must be from having hees cabeza rammed so far up hees culo, eh?

so.


Gravatar Knock him upside the head when he's snapping for the punt.

GO BUCKS!
NT'odd (Mandatier) | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 4:59 pm | #


Nah, that's some dangerous shit, yo.


Gravatar21-14 Ohio now...


Gravatar"Internecine squabbles yaydayda It don't look pretty." -nur

Compared with the singularly grotesque Republican freakshow Democrats of every stripe look like Bibi Anderson in Wild Strawberries.


=*=


Gravatar How the fuck do you rough the CENTER?

Is that some kind of political joke, or...


GravatarTouchdown Michigan. This game transcends anything in all of sports.


GravatarI'd laugh if it didn't hurt, mrs. al jaafari


GravatarTh refs are keeping Michigan in this game by bailing them out of trouble with timely bad calls against Ohio State.


GravatarNur: Democrats don't often do looking pretty. But if they, say, require Bush to get a Democratic majority to confirm the next Supreme, or hold actual hearings on the next bill Bush introduces that limits a fundamental liberty, I'll be happy. Of course, my ideal Democratic Congress would also append the Wombat Codicil to every passed piece of legislation, to the effect that, once signed into law, the bill means what it says, signing statement or no signing statement, unitary executive or not, and that failure to take care the laws be faithfully executed or preserve and defend the Constitution, contrary to oath of office, might be an impeachable offense...


GravatarEet must be from having hees cabeza rammed so far up hees culo, eh?


Blechh needs an abdominal plexiglass insert so he can see where he's going.


GravatarI prefer my College Football without the fucking AFLAC Duck


GravatarSo did I miss anything?


GravatarAt least Ohio has ONE Good Pro team.

For the Browns, it's a rebuilding century. We're just lucky we have a team. But your Steel Curtain is looking a little rusty, motherfucker!


Gravatarfor those who are still unaware, fresh drapes have been hung.


GravatarWild Strawberries.

I lovethat movie.


GravatarTh refs are keeping Michigan in this game by bailing them out of trouble with timely bad calls against Ohio State.
mike in pr | 11.18.06 - 5:05 pm | #


Yeah, right. Homefield advantage and all. Blah blah.


Gravatar2004 Red Sox down by three, the last by an obscenely lopsided score, to the Yankees, then pulling it out in seven games, is as good sports as I've ever seen...


GravatarThe refs are keeping Michigan in this game by bailing them out of trouble with timely bad calls against Ohio State.

That's exactly what the MSM and Supremes did for the goop in 2000 -2004

=*=


GravatarWombat, on most domestic issues it's a damn good thing. But I see the victory like Brown replacing Blair. More of same.


GravatarHow the fuck do you rough the CENTER?
NT'odd (Mandatier)


As Max pointed out, hitting the center in the head when the center is deep snapping.

I was a center in MS and got a concussion when this motherfucking middle linebacker gave me a fore-arm shivver to the back of the head when I was deep-snapping.


GravatarFor the Browns, it's a rebuilding century. We're just lucky we have a team. But your Steel Curtain is looking a little rusty, motherfucker!
NT'odd (Mandatier)


I was talking about the Buckeyes.


Gravatar'Wild Strawberries' is just wonderful, and is one of the first movies I ever saw that made me realize that they could be as high art as anything.


Gravatar So did I miss anything?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator


I planted the yellow hibiscus and the kumquat bush and the beauty-ful camellia. And was in the spa for awhile. Everybody else is quarrelling about some kind of ball game. And beer.


GravatarI have an intrinsic hatred for any college team that puts those damned stickers on the helmets, like smiley faces on a four-year-old's homework.


GravatarThe Michigan corners are playing 10yds off the line of scrimmage. WTF?


GravatarWhatever happened to three yards and a cloud of fucking dust?


GravatarNur: I'd like to disagree with you with more certainty than honesty allows me; on cup-half-full days, I hope for the best...


GravatarI have an intrinsic hatred for any college team that puts those damned stickers on the helmets, like smiley faces on a four-year-old's homework.
rorschach


How do they earn them? They seem to have about 43 of them after 3 games.


GravatarI planted the yellow hibiscus and the kumquat bush and the beauty-ful camellia. And was in the spa for awhile.

Sounds like heaven. I raked leaves for hours and hours. And there's still tons more. Have bulbs to plant but haven't gotten to them. Maybe over T/giving weekend.


GravatarHow do they earn them? They seem to have about 43 of them after 3 games.
Max Planck | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 5:12 pm | #


I have no idea. Blowing the refs?

28-14 Ohio.


GravatarI was a center in MS

That's HS (High School) not Missilepissy.


GravatarSounds like heaven. I raked leaves for hours and hours. And there's still tons more. Have bulbs to plant but haven't gotten to them. Maybe over T/giving weekend.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator


It was, rather. The camellia is going to be gorgeous, white with a little bit of pinky red stripe, and it opens to its golden yellow heart. To-morrow I'm going to trim everybody back for 'winter'! Did I tell you I finally got a dibble? It's great! Put in a whole bunch of onion sets without taking a breath.


GravatarSpeaking of financial assistance, would anybody be interested in helping out with the bandwidth fees for a memorial website I'm developing? It's going to be called kennethpinyan.org, if I can secure the address.

Long live Mr. Hands!


GravatarWow, now even the fake Cogs are soliciting donations.

What happened to Murtha should be a signal to the rest of the Democratic party. Smear merchants like Atrios are toxic to the centrists and moderates from both parties that can swing an election.

Feel the Nedrenaline!


GravatarFor the Browns, it's a rebuilding century. We're just lucky we have a team..... [NT'odd (Mandatier) | Homepage | 11.18.06 - 5:06 pm]

Hmmm, with the worst schools in the country and an infrastructure that is desparate...yep, they needed them Browns all right.

Made a searing impression on me coming from out West to Ohio for graduate school.


Gravatar"Herd kerning..."
Come again??
Deacon Blues


Herd = meat
Kerning = spacing


GravatarI just gave to one. Since most of the blogs I read have money drives at the same time and my desposable is limited, I give to one each drive and try for two.
I appreciate the blogs and what they do for us. At Americablog, a reader just passed away and his relative wrote and told of how much they meant to him.
I do hope that the bloggers know how much they are truly appreciated and what they have done for those of us who felt lost in a rightwing wilderness. You were the lifeline of sanity.


GravatarAtrios is nuts.


GravatarThat's gotta be the longest post you've written in two years, Atrios. Congrats.


GravatarIt's funny that you claim that Glenn Beck's ad revenue is helping you so much. I'm glad, AND I would never watch that douchbag, even if Jesus Christ came back from the dead and went on his show. The truth is that the MSM can advertise themselves to death as far as I am concerned, and that goes for wackjob networks running the entire spectrum, like ABC (Halperin was a speechwriter for Bush 41, wasn't he?) and for that matter the neutered PBS. The other networks are simply commercials and crapola. If I could, I'd literally filter FOX off my cable selection--I never watch it. I'm virtually finished with wasting my "media time" with their find two sides to every issue (like Social Security last year), their find a GOP voice whenever anyone remotely democratic speaks, their total censoring of progressives, their ridiculous attacks on both sides of the political spectrum (although I luv watching the GOP hypocrites squirm still). I go online at least twice a day, often eat lunch reading this page (and a dozen or so others--Kos, Raw Story, Jesus General, Crooks and Liars, etc...). When I watch tv nowadays, it's HBO or the niche channels--DIY, "The Soup" on E, HBO, History, Weather. Watching the so-called news, with the exception of Olbermann (whose commercials are a major interference with viewing pleasure), is something I used to do for hours every day; now it's been cut back to about five or ten minutes, IF something happens to be airing as I punch in channel numbers. So, Glenn, have your moment in the dimming sunshine; your work on CNN will likely only add to the ranks of other disaffected viewers like me (male, early 40s, educated, middle class) who will search out the news (and the bias we desire) in other media.


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