HULK SMASHED
1st!
Cue up the wingnuts claiming cold weather disproves global warming...
3rd?
that's funny, I live in Arizona and a week ago it was 22 degrees on my patio.
Global warming? Bah, humbug! Posh! Fiddle faddle!
Home Run!
Please don't feed the animals.
Hey
I wish it were 10 degrees here. -3F with windchill warnings until noon.
tagged out at the plate :-p
He gets this joke a lot.
I wish it were 10 degrees here. -3F with windchill warnings until noon.
Wuss!
Maria Bartiromo at CNBC -- possibly the best thing about that network -- is being targeted by a bogus scandal: http://phoenixwoman.blogspot.com...e-and-
well.html
The Morning Swoon [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
As if asking the most blockbuster question in journalism, after talking to him about the Irq resolution, Meredith Vieira said to Chuck Hagel at the top of Today today: "I can't let you go without asking you..." Before she finished asking the 2008 question though, Vieira added: "You're certainly sounding presidential."
I bet she'd say the same thing to Duncan Hunter (as if).
You fickle bitch! Not long ago you were mooning over Mitt.
I wish it were 10 degrees here. -3F with windchill warnings until noon.
Wuss!
I wore a hat.
I actually love the super cold because nobody else is out and the sounds change a lot. But no -37 this January...
It's winter! Deal with it.
brass monkey balls are falling all around town...
Maria Bartiromo at CNBC -- possibly the best thing about that network
She and those luscious lips were the only reason I ever watched...
AH, a balmy mid-60s forecast for Austin Texas today.
Mmmm...sex kitten.
Fact is, a lot of people, who live with temperature swings in the tens of degrees over 24-hour periods, have trouble understanding why a global average of one to three degrees c. increase might not be a good thing to the extent of getting hot and bothered about it...
levity.
Was Pumpkinhead on Anus in the Morning?
Global warming is not a problem and does not exist. God Bless Our President, America, Israel and Our Troops.
Speaking of pooping our drinking water.
Auggy, you suck ass, okay?
Crusher: Captain, sensors detect troll emissions.
Picard: Steady, Ensign. Shields up, maintain course...
I like the part about not diginifing shit like that, it's all you can do, really. Is she a talent, or a jounalist?
Heard a weatherbimbo saying today, "New York is in the middle of a deep freeze; they're expecting their coldest day in two years."
That's a fuckin' deep freeze?
Breaking news is that Bush this morning moved to provoke a war with Iran with "Shoot to Kill" orders.
BTW, Matt Yglesias is having a throw down with Johnny Chait re: Wesley Clark and Chait's dipshit boss.
Fabulous Friday Cat Blogging
It's 37 right now, still dark. Compared to the last few days, that seems like Global Warming to me.
Breaking news is that Bush this morning moved to provoke a war with Iran with "Shoot to Kill" orders.
That order went out months ago. He's not gonna be happy until he nukes something.
AH, a balmy mid-60s forecast for Austin Texas today.
Have you heard what's coming next week?
Crusher: Captain, sensors detect troll emissions.
Picard: Steady, Ensign. Shields up, maintain course...
Just don't let Worf shoot; he always misses.
Wezley Crusha is SOOOO gay.
Cue up the wingnuts claiming cold weather disproves global warming...
Certified Mutant Enemy
It's not just that they don't understand the difference, it's that (as usual) there's no consistency to their argument. Every time the temperature down here in GA dips below 40 degrees, we get some idiot making snide remarks about global warming, but when we have two full weeks of 70+ degrees around Christmas and New Years, you don't hear a peep.
I think I can tolerate somebody being plain ignorant or misinformed much more easily than the deliberate hypocrisy that is the wingnut staple.
Bush's orders are to Shoot to Kill Iranian agents in Iraq. I assume the blogosphere will be talking about this today.
While the media expresses bafflement I think dirty hippies can see exactly what is going on here.
temperature here in Devizes is 5°C (41°F)
cloudy skies, was clear and sunny earlier.
Wezley Crusha is SOOOO gay.
He had a chance to nail Ashley Judd and let it slip...
If i were a congressperson, I'd get a resolution on the floor within thirty seconds to the effect that it is the sense of Congress that use of nuclear weapons is utterly abhorrent, that it is a crime against humanity, and would be grounds for impeachment. Can't think of a more urgent piece of business.
It seems the frightful wind over England has abated, then?
Salah Mehdi Hamza, a popular children's doctor who had been kidnapped in Baghdad, was killed even though his family handed over a $40,000 (£20,000) ransom and a box full of jewels and gold ornaments to the gang who seized him.
Kidnappers have preyed on Iraqis for three-and-a-half years, holding thousands in safe houses and basements while desperate relatives try to raise the money for their release. Often they kill their victims despite receiving a ransom. Fear of abduction as much as anything has forced 1.8 million Iraqis, including the best-educated and richest, to flee the country.
People who try to help others are the most vulnerable. Dr Hamza was in his clinic in the al-Khudat district of west Baghdad on 16 January when a man knocked on the door and said a woman was in a car downstairs, too sick to move. The doctor grabbed his bag and went to see her. When he got to the car, a gun was stuck in his back and he was taken away.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
wo...icle2186519.ece
Bush to Iran: I'm not touching you. Does this bug you? I'm not touching you.
Keep hoping against hope that your amoral, socialist paradise will come about on Earth in your lifetime. Not on our watch! The USA is strong, and we, the defenders of the good, will never tire, just like our brave men in uniform never do, even if you attack nd make fun of them, which is what terrorists do.
"Al Gore is too tubby to be correct about global warming. Now if he was a fake cowboy, that'd be different."
- Howie Fineman
So every two years New York has the coldest in two years.
Global warming is a fraud!!
I don't know how the collapse of the Gulf Stream would affect the eastern US and Canada. Might make things colder, like definitely will happen to Britain.
plantsman, lowercase | 01.26.07 - 9:09 am | #
yeah, gale and rain gone replaced by cold weather.
He had a chance to nail Ashley Judd and let it slip...
Oh, I'm pretty sure he nailed her.
Pressure on Home Secretary John Reid over the prisons overcrowding crisis heightened today as the head of the Youth Justice Board resigned with a stinging broadside on criminal justice policy.
Professor Rod Morgan said Government targets for bringing criminals to justice were "swamping" the youth courts and children's prisons with minor offenders who were "cluttering up" the system.
Meanwhile, a Crown Court judge made clear that he would resist any pressure to avoid handing down custodial sentences to help bring down prison numbers.
Judge Richard Bray said that prison populations would continue to rise until politicians woke up to the fact that courts can no longer hand down sentences tough enough to deter criminals.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
uk...icle2188062.ece
Kraphammer:
This is nonsense. As my colleague Robert Samuelson demonstrates, biofuels will barely keep up with the increase in gasoline demand over time. They are a huge government bet with goals and mandates and subsidies that will not cure our oil dependence or even make a significant dent in it.
Please don't diss biofuels. You know not whereof you speak.
Not on our watch!
Whose "watch" you talkin' 'bout, fool?
He had a chance to nail Ashley Judd and let it slip...
Oh, I'm pretty sure he nailed her.
They didn't show it on TV...
-20 wind chill in NYC!
About fuckin' time!
Have you heard what's coming next week?
War On War Off
Yeah, but if it's 10 degrees in Austin just think how cold the rest of the country will be.
All plans to deal with "Global Warming" involved hobbling our economy and the free market, which is why the USA, as the last bastion of freedom on earth, should never knuckle under to the internationalist jihad against the modern world.
Trade unions attack 'corporate greed' of private equity firms
'Buy it, strip it, flip it' acquisitions denounced by global union
The growing influence of private equity companies was strongly attacked by global coalitions of trade unionists yesterday as they used the gathering of executives from some of the world's biggest companies to condemn "corporate greed".
Phillip Jennings, general secretary of the UNI global union - which has 15 million members in 150 countries - said organised labour had come to Davos with the intention of forcing the activities of private companies into the spotlight.
I think I can tolerate somebody being plain ignorant or misinformed much more easily than the deliberate hypocrisy that is the wingnut staple.
to me the wingnut staple is based upon ignorance and misinformation...peppered with willful disregard
I'll dis biofuels if I want to, and I do.
They didn't show it on TV...
It's in the director's cut. Damn, I hate PG-13 sex scenes...
Cheap gas or democracy? US's Turkmen problem
His patronymic included, Gurbanguli Myalikgulyevich Berdymukhamedov can probably claim to have the longest name of any national leader. But Mr B is giving short shrift to opposition hopes of a more open, democratic Turkmenistan as the central Asian country plods towards presidential elections on February 11. His almost inevitable victory over token rivals poses a larger problem for the US and Europe, whose interest in promoting "freedom's march" is surpassed only by their appetite for cheap energy.
One has to be profoundly imbecilic to place any trust whatsoever in the current Administration. They've proven what failures they are.
Data: Captain, we're picking up increasing concentrations of absurditons. Shall we respond?
Picard: No, Data; with our reconfigured spinor-compatible warp drive, they pose no threat to our mission. Carry on...
"Global Warming" involves hobbling our economy and the free market
There, fixed your typo.
think I can tolerate somebody being plain ignorant or misinformed much more easily than the deliberate hypocrisy that is the wingnut staple.
Not hypocrisy.
Doublethink.
The wingnuts are the people Orwell warned us about.
to me the wingnut staple is based upon ignorance and misinformation...peppered with willful disregard
mogwai
Don't forget myth, some of their own invention and some traditional.
This is nonsense. As my colleague Robert Samuelson demonstrates, biofuels will barely keep up with the increase in gasoline demand over time. They are a huge government bet with goals and mandates and subsidies that will not cure our oil dependence or even make a significant dent in it.
It's not like people are suggesting that's the only remedy. Part of a holistic approach involving myriad alternative energy sources. Geesh.
Woodchips is the answer. Chimpy said so.
JOE LIEBERMAN IS A MAN YOU CAN TRUST!
JUST TRUST ME!
YOUR PAL,
Unknown gunmen have killed five people in a series of attacks in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses say.
A BBC correspondent saw three bodies with gunshot wounds lying in waste ground and reliable witnesses have seen two more bodies elsewhere in the city.
Four people were also injured in mortar attacks. Insecurity has increased since the ousting of Islamists last month.
Meanwhile, South Africa says it does not have the troops to contribute to an African Union peacekeeping force.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ica/
6301809.stm
Dealing with Global Climate Change will create jobs. Anyone with a lick of sense can see this.
Curse you Al Gore!
And fy shows up!
And, while our Preznint tries to gin up a war weith Iran, the troops in Afghanistan are facing serious Taliban assaults this Spring:
"I think we will face a strong offensive and will have a difficult and dangerous and bloody spring," U.S. assistant secretary of state for south and central Asia Richard Boucher told the BBC, calling the guerillas "virulent and tough."
You all remember Afghanistan, it was the country against which we did have a legitimate grudge. The country that Bushco failed to adequately secure so that they could go to to fail to adequately secure Iraq.
Whenever I hear someone declare that this President deserves one last chance I want to punch them in the mouth.
Auggy, they're onto you!
Wesley could've had it all on Rubicun III, dammit.
The cash-for-honours investigation took a fresh twist today as Downing Street was forced to deny claims that it had a secret computer network from which potentially crucial emails had been deleted.
It followed allegations on ITV News that police had discovered a hidden email system at Number 10.
The information was said to have come to light in recent weeks and was reportedly a trigger for the arrest last week of Ruth Turner, one of Tony Blair's closest aides, on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
But the prime minister's official spokesman said today: "This story is untrue. There is no second computer system at No10.
"There are no emails of the type that seem to be described. The police have had full access to the system and full cooperation and the police have not put any of this to us."
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/
f...1999426,00.html
our economy and the free market
nice to see that euro killing our dollar...real nice economy we got going here - the economy of burger-flippers and walmart shoppers
And fy shows up!
It's raining dumbasses!
Shall we try a tachyon burst?
Dealing with Global Climate Change will create jobs. Anyone with a lick of sense can see this.
Indeed. But the GOP is like most corporate bigwigs: they look at things one quarter at a time (no Tastee Freeze jokes, please), not the long-term.
And of course, you've got to make fun of Al Gore and NativeEnergy and all the other folks making money off this. Capitalism is only for the Right, see...
'mout. l8rh9rs.
Late in 2004, King Abdullah of Jordan coined a controversial phrase that still resonates powerfully in the Middle East: there was, he argued, a "Shia crescent" that went from Damascus to Tehran, passing through Baghdad, where a Shia-dominated government had taken power and was dictating a sectarian brand of politics that was radiating outwards from Iraq across the whole region.
The king's words were certainly prescient: the divide between Sunni and Shia Muslims looks like being one of the big themes of 2007 as both come to terms with the apparently unstoppable chaos in Iraq, the rise of Iran as a regional power, and the fear of new and catastrophic consequences if the US and/or Israel enter into armed confrontation with the Islamic republic.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
elsewh...1999399,00.html
Hi all. I see there are Maria Bartiromo fans about. I'd never heard of her until Joey Ramone's final album, Don't Worry About Me. He seemed to like her too:
What´s happening on Wall St.
What´s happening at the Stock Exchange
I want to know
What´s happening on Squawk Box
What´s happening with my stocks
I want to know
I watch you on the TV every single day
Those eyes make everything okay
I watch her every day
I watch her every night
She´s really outta sight
Maria Bartiromo
Maria Bartiromo
Maria Bartiromo
Does the biofuels concept include recapturing all the methane gas produced by feedlot cattle?
They are a huge government bet with goals and mandates and subsidies that will not cure our oil dependence or even make a significant dent in it.
That's right. That's why I don't approve of stem cell research. As Patricia Heaton and Kurt Warner say, any cures for diseases is still 10 years, away so why bother???
You liberals do not have the will to win the war on terror. Please get out of the way of those of us who do.
get out of the way of those of us who do.
1-800-GOARMY, bitch.
Kraphammer:," biofuels will barely keep up with the increase in gasoline demand over time.//that will not cure our oil dependence or even make a significant dent in it."
Please don't diss biofuels. You know not whereof you speak.
One single fat wingnut rendered into fats and esters, could power up a diesel smart car for a few thousand miles.
You liberals do not have the will to win the war on terror. Please get out of the way of those of us who do.
My solution to the war on terror is to round up the fraidy cats, like auggysback, and put them in rubber rooms.
Forever.
Listen to how Maria makes the word "business" sound nasty. You'll chub.
Tony Blair is under new pressure on gay adoptions as cabinet ministers and Labour MPs called for the Roman Catholic Church to be given only months to come to terms with a new anti-discrimination law.
Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, wants a transitional period of six months to allow the church to decide how to respond and possibly transfer the 80 staff employed in its 10 adoption agencies to other agencies. But some professionals working in the adoption service say they need a three-year period to ensure children do not suffer from any changes. Catholic leaders have warned that the agencies may be closed unless the Government exempts them from a law banning discrimination in the provision of goods and services on grounds of sexuality.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
uk...icle2186511.ece
Prince Charles is coming to see you, Atrios!
'Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, are making a whirlwind trip to the city this weekend to get a big slice of Philadelphia culture.
The royal couple was to arrive Friday afternoon and spend about 24 hours visiting everything from historic sites to modern neighborhoods, fine arts patrons to urban painters, gospel hymns to classical music.'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20070..._prince_charles
Time to get those cherry blossoms back out. Hope you give him a anti-war button?
Gather the sea-floor methane hydrate and use it as fuel!
Please get out of the way of those of us who do.
Tell us again your part in this Grand War, Chickenhawk fucker?
Part and parcel of dealing with global climate change is reducing our dependence on foreign oil which is directly related to the war on terror.
1-800-GOARMY, bitch.
Holden Caulfield | Homepage | 01.26.07 - 9:20 am | #
You first. You sign up before telling everyone else to. Since you think you know how to win, you sign up and do it. I am already in the trenches, the digital trenches in the braoder war of American ideals against the unelightened. God Bless the USA.
Well, it's -1 Celsius (that's one degree below freezing, or about 30 Farenheit)here in the Siberia of the West, should be -20 in a normal year.
We've had exactly one day of -30 weather in the last two years. Can usually expect at least a week or two every winter...
lol!
liberals are the only ones that can win the war on terror, auggs. your weak little cowboys have failed miserably at everything except fooling the fools like you. you are now history; get used to it. america is on its way to freedom from idiots and morons like your sweet little king and his court.
nice to see that euro killing our dollar...real nice economy we got going here - the economy of burger-flippers and walmart shoppers
mogwai
We will rise to new heights as the latte powerhouse of the world.
You power a car with a wingnut, it may go, but it won't be a "smart" car anymore.
Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, are making a whirlwind trip to the city this weekend to get a big slice of Philadelphia culture.
I guess they can't refer to them as "the Waleses" anymore, can they?
One single fat wingnut rendered into fats and esters, could power up a diesel smart car for a few thousand miles.
Rush could get an A-380 off the ground and half way to Europe.
perhaps Atrios might get a knighthood.
Why can't gays adopt Tony Blair?
'Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, are making a whirlwind trip to the city this weekend to get a big slice of Philadelphia culture.
So, how long does it take to eat a cheese steak?
I just saw An Inconvenient Truth and what I noticed was the pattern of creating doubt Al pointed out. The American Tobbaco Institute's internal memos discussed this as their objective years ago about smoking and tobacco addiction. I smoke. Trust me. Nicotine is habit forming and an addiction. The American Petroleum Institute discussed this as an objective WRT to Global Warming. This is the job of any good defense attorney as well, creating reasonable doubt in the mind of a jury with respect to the guilt of their client.
That's what these guys do. Create reasonable doubt among the population, the jury, about their own guilt. They still do it. What else have they got.
to get a peerage Atrios would need to furnish Tony Blair with lots of cash.
'the economy of burger-flippers and walmart shoppers
mogwai '
Much more of the 109th Congress and that would have been lawnboys and -girls and apple vendors.
Here's a quarter, Auggy- buy a clue.
The Iraq war is the best Al-Queda recruiting tool imagineable.
Idiot.
Since terror is directly related to occupation, winning the war on it in part means withdrawing our forces from those places where they are ineffectual.
'The USA is strong, and we, the defenders of the good, will never tire, just like our brave men in uniform never do, even if you attack nd make fun of them, which is what terrorists do.'
My, my, but the Emir of Dumbfuckistan is at it earlier. Must have finished underpaying undocumented aliens ahead of schedule.
It is odd about your sentence that you separate "we, the defenders of the good" from "our brave men in uniform," who quite obviously do not include yourself, in that your JaxJags replica jersey does not count as a uniform for this purpose. How are the Jaguars doing, by the way? And what exactly is it that you and your fellow "defenders of the good" do to defend the good?
Oh yes, in that you have repeated your craven lie that we disparage the troops, I think that many of our number would happily stand in line to punch you in the teeth.
I am already in the trenches, the digital trenches in the braoder war
If so, how come you don't have a spell checker?
You first. You sign up before telling everyone else to. Since you think you know how to win, you sign up and do it. I am already in the trenches, the digital trenches in the braoder war of American ideals against the unelightened. God Bless the USA.
I've already done that, yellowstain.
Come to think of it, I don't want little fraidy cats in my Army.
I don't think the Marines will take you, either.
Go and seek out terror, and wherever you find it, and tear it out by the roots.
I am already in the trenches, the digital trenches in the braoder war of American ideals against the unelightened.
Shorter Dipshit: "There's a lot of gay porn on the Internets, did you know that?"
Catholics bleating about the welfare of children is just too fucking rich.
You first. You sign up before telling everyone else to.
No, no, you said we should get out of your way so you could single-handedly win the war on Islamfascilibrulhomostanism.
Go right ahead.
Not asceered, are ya?
You first. You sign up before telling everyone else to. Since you think you know how to win, you sign up and do it. I am already in the trenches, the digital trenches in the braoder war of American ideals against the unelightened. God Bless the USA.
You moronic little fascist fuckwit!
The jail, the torturer, and the most unlikely defence witness
Two years after his release from Guantanamo Bay, Moazzam Begg was asked to stand up for one of his captors. By Robert Verkaik
Two years after US soldiers used bolt-cutters to break Moazzam Begg's shackles and release him into British custody, America has found a new way to torment the man leading the campaign to close his former prison.
Attorneys acting for one of the guards accused of torturing captives held in the "war on terror" asked Mr Begg to be their client's character witness. It seemed an extraordinary request to make of a man who is still coming to terms with the three years of psychological and physical torture he endured in the notorious prisons of Bagram airbase in Afghanistan and later at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
moonbootica, you mean you hadn't already put in his application for a peerage yet? Guess the not-Waleses will find something nice for him anyway.
The digital trenches are a series of tubes.
Neither I, nor anyone on this board, nor, indeed, anyone in the country, in or out of government or the military, know how to win in Iraq. It's that sad, and that simple.
It's not like people are suggesting that's the only remedy. Part of a holistic approach involving myriad alternative energy sources. Geesh.
Yes but the question is whether this
holistic approach will allow us to continue business as usual, the same way we moved from wood to coal to petroleum, each time getting a bigger bang for our buck and expanding our economy.
Pelosi, Murtha, other dems are in Iraq.
Fred Dicker (good journalist) says it's likely that Guiliani will run.
I concur.
No wider war...No Broder war!
"...the digital trenches in the braoder war of American ideals against the unelightened."
This is just too precious. Should we take up a collection and buy Auggy a dictionary?
If an A-380 ever crashes, what a mess!
'The USA is strong, and we, the defenders of the good, will never tire, just like our brave men in uniform never do, even if you attack nd make fun of them, which is what terrorists do.'
Nice opening sentence...for a 5th grade child doing an essay on "Why I Love My Country".
.
I know how to win in Iraq.
The usual "American" way... declare victory and leave.
Henceforth, Auggy shall be known as:
Assclown McDingleberry.
So let it be written, so let it be done!
The 605 life peers and 91 hereditary peers will keep their seats in the House of Lords until they die out, under a White Paper to be published next month.
The plans, agreed by the Cabinet, will disappoint supporters of an elected second chamber, who had hoped to see existing peers lose their right to sit and vote. "Not all of them are ancient; it could take 30 years to get them out," said one minister who wanted a more immediate clear-out.
Opponents of the long delay said the reprieve for the hereditaries would breach the spirit of Labour's manifesto at the last general election, which said: "We will remove the remaining hereditary peers."
http://news.independent.co.uk/
uk...icle2186521.ece
That's what these guys do. Create reasonable doubt among the population, the jury, about their own guilt.
...and in a culture which accepts stupid beyond dumb people as being OK and normal (W Bush), that works very well - try that in yurop and you get run out of town - they gots thousands of years of being fucked by asshole leaders and other power-mongers
Did you know Camilla Parker bowls?
Atrios, with the Prince in your town, I suggest you keep an eye on your neighbors the Princips, especially their kid Gavrilo.
Is it possible that Auggy is a very poor attempt at another Merkin?
If an A-380 ever crashes, what a mess!
Name a passenger plane that, when it crashed, wasn't a mess.
'know how to win in Iraq. It's that sad, and that simple.
ProfWombat'
The concept of 'winning' means a multitude of things, and to the wingnuts it is domination. That's not going to happen. See: French Algiers.
And leave soon, before we get run out, like Vietnam, and declaring victory won't sell.
It won't even be peace with honor.
It'll be a perverse pleasure watching wingnut money and resources being wasted on the unachievable end of enabling a Giuliani presidency. Am I the only one who's flabbergasted that anybody thinks such a thing is possible?
'Did you know Camilla Parker bowls?
plantsman, lowercase'
Is she in a league?
'The USA is strong, and we, the defenders of the good, will never tire, just like our brave men in uniform never do, even if you attack nd make fun of them, which is what terrorists do.'
Merkan Patriot is a much better parody.
Is it possible that Auggy is a very poor attempt at another Merkin?
No, he's just an ass clown.
We shouldn't even bother invading Iran. We should just nuke it flat.
Sir Atrios of Eschaton
auggy is the detatched retina of a blind eye.
Atrios, with the Prince in your town, I suggest you keep an eye on your neighbors the Princips, especially their kid Gavrilo.
Attaturk
Ask him what it sounds like when doves cry.