Click here to see the profile of this user Conditions at Walter Reed - 2007/02/24 10:01 Let's write our congress and back Robert Gates in his dismissal of people who are responsible for the conditions at Walter Reed. This is deplorable!!!!
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Click here to see the profile of this user Re:Conditions at Walter Reed - 2007/02/24 11:06 However upsetting this might be, it is not part of the Mission of The Victory Caucus. Please refrain from posting topics not addressing our Mission or Beliefs.
Atrios |
02.24.07 - 4:06 pm | #
How are ya, A-man?
FireFox® |
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02.24.07 - 4:08 pm | #
You're so vain. You prolly think this thread is about you.
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 4:08 pm | #
A shame how we're losing the best and brightest of the young conservatives in this country to that damn war.
How, exactly, is our leaving supposed to throw Iraq *into* chaos?
Dr. Molly Ivors |
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02.24.07 - 4:08 pm | #
Everytime I hear the wind gust thru my almost soundproof windows, I cringe now.
I'm afraid my roof is about to get blown off.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 4:09 pm | #
Well, yeah, but I'm sure if we give it 4-6 more months of American occupation, it'll be just fine.
Lolly |
02.24.07 - 4:09 pm | #
Yeah, I only blogged that hours ago...
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 4:09 pm | #
I don't see how it could get worse.
FireFox® |
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02.24.07 - 4:09 pm | #
But we should give the escalation another 4 to 6 months to see if it will work?
What, we need to wipe out the entire Iraqi population?
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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02.24.07 - 4:10 pm | #
However upsetting this might be, it is not part of the Mission of The Victory Caucus. Please refrain from posting topics not addressing our Mission or Beliefs.
BREAKING: large rabbit boiled on Atrios' stove, killing 1 and wounding 2.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 4:10 pm | #
How, exactly, is our leaving supposed to throw Iraq *into* chaos?
Without the invisible hand of the freemarket to guide them, who is going to learn about the invisible finger?
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 4:10 pm | #
I'm afraid my roof is about to get blown off.
you must be near me....geeeze it's howling
FireFox® |
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02.24.07 - 4:10 pm | #
I'm really glad the surge is working so well.
mer |
02.24.07 - 4:10 pm | #
Re:Conditions at Walter Reed - 2007/02/24 11:06 However upsetting this might be, it is not part of the Mission of The Victory Caucus. Please refrain from posting topics not addressing our Mission or Beliefs.
That's fucking brill. The only vets at Walter Reed are loosers.
San Antonio here, wind is up but not bad. Last night was worse to me.
EkCenTriK |
02.24.07 - 4:12 pm | #
We're suppose to have high winds and hail later tonight. Guess the weather is not cooperating.
mer |
02.24.07 - 4:12 pm | #
Let's make this thread an intense self-examination of what we are accomplishing by sitting here writing blog comments instead of doing something useful such as:
1) stocking large quantities of food and water for the trouble days ahead.
2) learning how to cook with roadkill
3) training with firearms
4) forming insurgent cells
A few years from now, when your kids stop coughing and crying enough from the endless smoke and debris, death and destruction, they might ask what you did during this time.
Mike |
02.24.07 - 4:12 pm | #
Aren't freeance and peance wonderful things?
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 4:12 pm | #
So if we leave Iraq they will start bombing our mosques here?
How can we tie any explosion to any particular statement? I bet someone in that town that day said we should just give our oil to Americans if they leave us alone - maybe that is what sparked the bombing.
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02.24.07 - 4:13 pm | #
you must be near me....geeeze it's howling
Yep. My earlier comments told the story of how my solar panels got blown off already. And of how your trusty narrator nearly went the way of Dorothy.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 4:13 pm | #
Everyone should have their own recent surge in violence.
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QuentinCompson |
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02.24.07 - 4:13 pm | #
1) stocking large quantities of food and water for the trouble days ahead.
2) learning how to cook with roadkill
3) training with firearms
4) forming insurgent cells
Ahm from Texas, we's born doin' that shit.
FireFox® |
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02.24.07 - 4:13 pm | #
4 or 5 more tours and we'll get the hang of it.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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02.24.07 - 4:13 pm | #
A few years from now, when your kids stop coughing and crying enough from the endless smoke and debris, death and destruction, they might ask what you did during this time.
Let's make this thread an intense self-examination of what we are accomplishing by sitting here writing blog comments instead of doing something useful such as
Alternately, you could stock up on indignation, smug asshattery and a case or two of STFU.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 4:14 pm | #
Joe Klein has a post up, inspired by an open-bathrobe media sponsored Iraqi bloggers, about how the surge is working, and he again pats himself on the back for hoping for the best
Jim |
02.24.07 - 4:14 pm | #
I guess those a lot of those dead kids won't be able to enjoy the wonderful schools we built for them.
Naysayer |
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02.24.07 - 4:14 pm | #
This is good news for Republicans.
shrimplate |
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02.24.07 - 4:14 pm | #
A few years from now, when your kids stop coughing and crying enough from the endless smoke and debris, death and destruction, they might ask what you did during this time.
Shoveled shit in Loosiana?
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 4:14 pm | #
"So if we leave Iraq they will start bombing our mosques here?"
I believe they will attack the oil fields, cause a world wide shortage, horribly forcing everyone to begin a sincere effort towards developing alternative energy products and...
sorry for the repeat...
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WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar |
02.24.07 - 4:15 pm | #
Re:Conditions at Walter Reed - 2007/02/24 11:06 However upsetting this might be, it is not part of the Mission of The Victory Caucus. Please refrain from posting topics not addressing our Mission or Beliefs.
The Red Zone is for loading and unloading only.
watertiger |
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How, exactly, is our leaving supposed to throw Iraq *into* chaos?
Well, at that point the republicans will recognize that it's chaos, which will make the chaos a reality.
San Antonio here, wind is up but not bad. Last night was worse to me.
EkCenTriK | 02.24.07 - 4:12 pm | #
Winds gusting to 50 mph in Dallas as we speak.
I'm about to start hiding in my closet.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 4:15 pm | #
my brother has been on the roadkill meat receiving list for, I think, three years, and has never gotten any. It is possible that his wife did not pass on a message.
Jim |
02.24.07 - 4:15 pm | #
Re:Conditions at Walter Reed - 2007/02/24 11:06 However upsetting this might be, it is not part of the Mission of The Victory Caucus. Please refrain from posting topics not addressing our Mission or Beliefs.
Mission of the Victory?
These guys sound like 3th graders playing with their army men.
fourlegsgood, kittenslave |
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02.24.07 - 4:16 pm | #
The Red Zone is for loading and unloading only.
watertiger |
Don't start that Red Zone shit again, Betty.
Jim |
02.24.07 - 4:16 pm | #
I'm about to start hiding in my closet.
Have you looked at the brown sky? Every speck of loose sediment is in the air right now
FireFox® |
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02.24.07 - 4:16 pm | #
Gore Vidal says that this country can't survive another two years with these people in charge. (He was more polite than I am.) I believe this is true. He said that Pelosi was stupid to say impeachment was off the table. If he were chairman of the Armed Services Committee he would hold many hearings starting with what happened before and after 9/11 and including the money that has been spent in Iraq. We have to get rid of them or there is nothing left of the life we knew.
McIhenny | 02.24.07 - 4:08 pm | #
Propaganda circulating in Afghanistan and Pakistan about American "atrocities" and jihadist "heroics" has also energized the Taliban, encouraging a previously somewhat isolated movement to see itself as part of a wider struggle. Our study found a striking correlation in how terrorist campaigns intensified in Iraq and Afghanistan. The rate of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan gathered pace in the summer of 2005, a half year after a similar increase in Iraq, and in 2006 the rate of attacks in both countries rose in tandem to new, unprecedented levels.
1Watt Hermit
Geniuses. Just PURE Fucking Genius. The GOP has managed to unite the Arab terror contingent, something which otherwise would never have occured in a million years. This is FANTASTIC news for the oil and weapons cartels. But, that's the genius of Cheney, Bush and the GOP. They're ALWAYS thinking about what's best for America and the world.
A few years from now, when your kids stop coughing and crying enough from the endless smoke and debris, death and destruction, they might ask what you did during this time.
Mike | 02.24.07 - 4:12 pm
having no children or get of any kind, i just expect to be dead..../
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WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar |
02.24.07 - 4:16 pm | #
3) training with firearms
4) forming insurgent cells
Back in the sixties and seventies, anyone in our peace group who suggested we do that later turned out to be an FBI "informer" but more accurately described as an agent provocateur.
George Johnston |
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02.24.07 - 4:17 pm | #
Don't start that Red Zone shit again, Betty.
You want me to have an abortion!
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 4:17 pm | #
Oh man so many attacks and deaths this has gotta be another good sign that we are winning!
pigboy |
02.24.07 - 4:17 pm | #
We have to get rid of them or there is nothing left of the life we knew.
McIhenny | 02.24.07 - 4:08 pm | #
Too late. There is nothing left of the life we knew.
Mike |
02.24.07 - 4:17 pm | #
Mission of the Victory?
These guys sound like 3th graders playing with their army men.
fourlegsgood, kittenslave
Third graders are smarter.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 4:17 pm | #
smalfish-
Sorry 'bout your solar panels. I hope nothing else goes wrong for you.
shrimplate |
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02.24.07 - 4:17 pm | #
I guess those a lot of those dead kids won't be able to enjoy the wonderful schools we built for them.
Naysayer
Amazing how ungrateful they are for all we're doing for them, isn't it? I mean, we let them get purple fingers and all, and they don't seem to appreciate it at all.
Lolly |
02.24.07 - 4:18 pm | #
You want me to have an abortion!
watertiger
So glad you got that!
Jim |
02.24.07 - 4:18 pm | #
smalfish
I was looking at the wind chart on WeatherUnderground, looks like S.A. is bobbing a bit below the worse of it.
Back in the sixties and seventies, anyone in our peace group who suggested we do that later turned out to be an FBI "informer" but more accurately described as an agent provocateur.
George Johnston | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:17 pm | #
Yup. When three sit to conspire, one is a fool and another is a government agent.
Mike |
02.24.07 - 4:18 pm | #
Have you looked at the brown sky? Every speck of loose sediment is in the air right now
I was out earlier today and just marveled at how blue the sky was. It was truely a wonderful sight. Reminding me of how good mother nature can be. I guess she just had to go and remind us of her vengance.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 4:18 pm | #
i am in houston now, taking delivery of my "new" old mercedes... and was expecting to contact agave...
but his phone isn't in service at the moment...
WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar |
02.24.07 - 4:19 pm | #
Back in the sixties and seventies, anyone in our peace group who suggested we do that later turned out to be an FBI "informer" but more accurately described as an agent provocateur.
Certainly was the case in NTodd's Folks' experience. Their "best friend" was an informer. He killed himself later by sniffing freon.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 4:19 pm | #
The only insurgent cells I know of are all sperm.
shrimplate |
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"“CBS has a bias. We don’t.” – Sean Hannity, who is upset about this 60 Minutes report on active duty soldiers protesting the war. Apparently he never saw this. 2:58 pm | Comment (12)"
Some idiot deleted the Vagina entry at conservapedia.
Have you tried looking under Vergina?
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 4:20 pm | #
WGG, did you find a shop to take a look at it?
FireFox® |
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02.24.07 - 4:20 pm | #
Woody, you got your car yet?
mer |
02.24.07 - 4:20 pm | #
So glad you got that!
Jim
Nobody got my upthread GC Scott Patton Louisiana shit shoveling reference.
I hereby throw dog poopy on all your shoes!
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 4:21 pm | #
So what's wrong with me that I don't just go buy this?
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:12 pm |
Only 16000 Canadian? that's like 2 dollars US, correct?
Seriously, that looks like a possibility, go for it!
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
02.24.07 - 4:21 pm | #
So glad you got that!
No, thank YOU! That's what I was quoting.
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 4:21 pm | #
Guess I'll go to the grocery store.
I feel like eating something healthy for dinner.
Plus I needs to get Maddie a couple new feathers on a stick, since she's about plucked the one she's got.
fourlegsgood, kittenslave |
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02.24.07 - 4:21 pm | #
"However upsetting this might be, it is not part of the Mission of The Victory Caucus. Please refrain from posting topics not addressing our Mission or Beliefs.
Now we'll go and jerk off to Red Dawn."
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 4:21 pm | #
I hereby throw dog poopy on all your shoes!
Not my new Chucks!!!
FireFox® |
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02.24.07 - 4:21 pm | #
Someone has been listening to Life During Wartime on *waaaaaaay* too much meth.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 4:22 pm | #
Have you tried looking under Vergina?
Also try "icky girl's place" and "cooter."
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 4:22 pm | #
Some idiot deleted the Vagina entry at conservapedia.
Proves conservatards DO fear The Vagina.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 4:22 pm | #
WGG, did you find a shop to take a look at it?
FireFox® | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:20 pm | #
Also try "icky girl's place" and "cooter."
watertiger
I belive "hoo-haa" is currently in vogue.
Just Another Zero |
02.24.07 - 4:23 pm | #
Geniuses. Just PURE Fucking Genius. The GOP has managed to unite the Arab terror contingent, something which otherwise would never have occured in a million years. But, that's the genius of Cheney, Bush and the GOP. They're ALWAYS thinking about what's best for America and the world.
Well, Chimpy McCokespoon did tout himself as a "uniter", after all!
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
02.24.07 - 4:23 pm | #
Back in the sixties and seventies, anyone in our peace group who suggested we do that later turned out to be an FBI "informer" but more accurately described as an agent provocateur.
George Johnston
You apparently have a few age-peers here, George, me included.
I remember those days well, a lot of the "lawn order" theories of those days are resurfacing with the old men now running things, I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
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02.24.07 - 4:23 pm | #
"It's STICKY!"
You know Frodo wasn't having anything to do with any Hobbit hoohah.
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 4:23 pm | #
petition for redress finally to be reported on 60 minutes.
Wait - that was The Hot Spot.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 4:28 pm | #
Which side are you on, WGG.
North/ South?
FireFox®
The North beat the living dogshit out of the South. Only because the South was doubling down on the 75-1 five horse in the third race, and couldn't find its checkbook.
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Back in the sixties and seventies, anyone in our peace group who suggested we do that later turned out to be an FBI "informer" but more accurately described as an agent provocateur.
seems like there is a Benz dealer close by, it's been a while
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02.24.07 - 4:28 pm | #
Speaking of which, what's wrong with me that I just don't go buy this? I mean it's effing $130k US, big deal.
You like living in Arizona?
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02.24.07 - 4:28 pm | #
"(CBS) They say they are not disloyal. They say they are not shirking their duty and that they do not oppose war. But more than 1,000 active-duty and reserve members of the U.S. military are against the war in Iraq and have said so in an unusually public way — by petitioning Congress last month.
Several of them appear to explain their actions to correspondent Lara Logan this Sunday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
"I'm not anti-war. I'm not a pacifist. I'm not opposed to protecting our country and defending our principles," says Navy Petty Officer Jonathan Hutto, an Iraq war veteran who, along with another veteran, initiated the petition.
A 1995 law called the Military Whistleblower act enables military personnel to express their own opinions about Iraq in protected communication directly to Congress.
Hutto and others spoke with 60 Minutes while off duty, off base and out of uniform as conscientious citizens. "But at the same time, as citizens, it's our obligation to have a questioning attitude … about policy," Hutto tells Logan." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/
2...in2505412.shtml
pigboy |
02.24.07 - 4:28 pm | #
Whatever your serving, pal.
Just Another Zero |
02.24.07 - 4:29 pm | #
The North beat the living dogshit out of the South.
that ain't whut we was learned down hnyah
FireFox® |
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02.24.07 - 4:30 pm | #
The smell is like you're wallowing in a hole in the ground.
Unbelievable!
Well, you're in Dallas, so that's not so unbelievable.
fourlegsgood, kittenslave |
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02.24.07 - 4:30 pm | #
Dammit!
I missed the music thread while I was out for my run!
grrrrr....
And, I'm one of the people who think Atrios should put up lots of Arcade Fire YouTube links, though I've never said as much to him directly.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 4:30 pm | #
I think this thread should be a hands on guide explaining how we sleep while our beds are burning.
Speaking of which, what's wrong with me that I just don't go buy this? I mean it's effing $130k US, big deal.
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GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:27 pm |
Well, it has 4 bedrooms, but only one bathroom, are you and Arthur going to share?
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
02.24.07 - 4:31 pm | #
Well, you're in Dallas, so that's not so unbelievable.
Actually, it really is.
I've never seen the dust like this. Only thing that comes close is when there was a big fire in Mexico and the smoke blew up here.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 4:32 pm | #
The North beat the living dogshit out of the South.
that ain't whut we was learned down hnyah
FireFox®
General Sherman saw things differently at the time.
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 4:32 pm | #
He killed himself later by sniffing freon.
NTodd, Stalker | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:19 pm | #
That's chilling...
Mike | 02.24.07 - 4:20 pm | #
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The above repartee, nominated for both a Hekyl And Jekyl Award and a Marx Brothers Award is available framed in genuine wood and tastefully hand embroidered as a sampler on finest linen, for only $39.98 at Mr. A's Freaky Emporium And Gift Shoppe on your way out, first left down the hall before the exit sign.
Needs more cowbell.
Richard |
02.24.07 - 4:34 pm | #
I'm really glad the blue serge suit is working so well.
mer
Fixed the whole sentence so that it makes as much sense as Boosh's War.
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02.24.07 - 4:34 pm | #
You like living in Arizona?
fourlegsgood, kittenslave
I love my house, 4legs, I really do - that's a funny thing for an old woman to say, except that it's the first place I made into home and I don't really want to give it up. Living in Arizona, not so much. Living in the US, not so much. It's getting more and more difficult every day. But one thing I know about myself is that when I get truly and clinically depressed the desire to run away increases proportionately. And right now, Slocan BC is pretty much a place to run away....
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 4:34 pm | #
Freaking Canadians.
Dr. Molly Ivors
Watch yourself, missy, or we'll tear up Carl Newman's passport.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 4:34 pm | #
Well, after all, they's brown and non-Christian!
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02.24.07 - 4:35 pm | #
"But, that's the genius of Cheney, Bush and the GOP. They're ALWAYS thinking about what's best for America and the world."
"WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a radio
address by President Bush to the nation:
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, I traveled to a hospital in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, where I visited with doctors and health care
experts. We discussed an urgent priority for our Nation, how we can make
health care coverage more affordable and accessible for all Americans.
We need to maintain the gains we made by keeping competition in Medicare -- and by opposing any effort that would put the Federal government in charge of "negotiating" and setting drug prices.
We should also apply the same market-based principles to other parts of
our health system." http://www.prnewswire.com/usnewswire/
pigboy |
02.24.07 - 4:35 pm | #
Martha's hard to figure: her new mag-ette Everyday FOOD pays mucho lip service to healthy eating, the photography's cute, but sugars and refined carbs creep well up into nearly every recipe.
I'm a wee bit frustrated; I'm looking for inspiration, and there's a good bit here, but I'll have to work harder to make the best use of it.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 4:35 pm | #
He killed himself later by sniffing freon.
NTodd, Stalker
Is that anything like sniffing a Clingon?
Shaw Kenawe |
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02.24.07 - 4:35 pm | #
Sherman's taking the time to pull up, heat, and twist the railroad ties around trees was a kinda Maplethorpe touch, I thought.
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 4:35 pm | #
Heavens to Murgatroid, I hate Bush!
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:36 pm | #
Rails not ties, obviously.
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 4:36 pm | #
Heavens to Murgatroid
I love that expression.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 4:36 pm | #
Sherman's taking the time to pull up, heat, and twist the railroad ties around trees was a kinda Maplethorpe touch, I thought. Max Planck
It was Peabody's idea.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 4:36 pm | #
MONKEY BOY: Good morning. This week, I traveled to a hospital in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, where I visited with doctors and health care
experts.
Shame they couldn't declare him insane and have him locked up.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 4:37 pm | #
Well, after all, they's brown and non-Christian!
Terry C
that is un-freakin'-believable
Jim |
02.24.07 - 4:37 pm | #
there is a mockingbird boingboinging along the railing of my fire escape.
I DO live in NYC, right?
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 4:37 pm | #
Looks like Rudy Berlusconi little bit of fascism Giuliani is the puke to beat. One can only imagine what step up on the Bush doctrine this guy would take us. Probably shut down the www, send bloggers to gitmo, further suspend the constitution, but we would get rid of the street bums and the planes would run on time.
hilldick |
02.24.07 - 4:37 pm | #
Heavens to Murgatroid
I love that expression.
SteveNS
me too. I am also looking for opportunities to work "Great Googly Moogly" into daily conversation
Jim |
02.24.07 - 4:38 pm | #
Heavens to Murgatroid
I love that expression.
Snagglepuss knew what he was talking about.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:38 pm | #
Alternately, you could stock up on indignation, smug asshattery and a case or two of STFU.
NTodd, Stalker | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:14 pm | #
LOL!!!
(Where are those damn smiley's when you need them!?)
NTodd, could I borrow your brain, please? More often than not, you hit the nail on the head!
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02.24.07 - 4:38 pm | #
Watch yourself, missy, or we'll tear up Carl Newman's passport.
Noooooooo!!!!!!
Hey, I'm playing around with this Splashcast thing I found on Sadly, No! Go to my homepage and let me know if it works.
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02.24.07 - 4:38 pm | #
Your kid gets really sick and you take them to the hospital. A week later they come home. Then you go bankrupt and lose your house.
shrimplate |
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02.24.07 - 4:38 pm | #
Well, after all, they's brown and non-Christian!
Terry C
that is un-freakin'-believable
Jim
The part that blew MY mind?
The assholes who are "PROUD" that the US of A is committing mass murder on a grand scale.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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"Landmark FCC Ruling Against Univision is Result of United Church of Christ's Public Advocacy for Children
CLEVELAND, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Church of
Christ is celebrating a landmark decision by the Federal Communications Commission, which has ruled in favor of the church's filed complaint that Univision, the nation's largest Hispanic television network, is not serving the educational programming needs of children.
According to a front page story in The New York Times (Feb. 24), the
FCC ruling is expected to cost Univision about $24 million and will be the largest fine ever imposed by the FCC against any company. The decision was made public during a NYT interview with FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin."
there is a mockingbird boingboinging along the railing of my fire escape.
I DO live in NYC, right?
Maybe it's trying to escape the KFC/Taco Bell rat infestation.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:38 pm | #
Here's how free-market healthcare works:
Your kid gets really sick and you take them to the hospital. A week later they come home. Then you go bankrupt and lose your house.
shrimplate
In America, yep!
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02.24.07 - 4:39 pm | #
And right now, Slocan BC is pretty much a place to run away....
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar
Well, dearheart, after hearing about this development, I certainly wouldn't blame you for such a move.
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02.24.07 - 4:39 pm | #
"We discussed an urgent priority for our Nation, how we can make health care coverage more affordable and accessible for all Americans."
An "urgent priority" that he's addressing 6 friggin' years into his prezdensey, when he doesn't control the Congress so that he could push through any plan to improve the nation's healthcare system.
Yeah. Urgent. Riiiiiiiiight.
I'm truly sick of this pile of cells.
Shaw Kenawe |
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02.24.07 - 4:39 pm | #
NTodd, could I borrow your brain, please? More often than not, you hit the nail on the head!
Sandy-LA 90034 | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:38 pm | #
Comedians may well be welcome during the dark days ahead.
Mike |
02.24.07 - 4:39 pm | #
Congratulations... or are you messing with my head?
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:39 pm | #
If the federal government were involved in negotiating drug prices, it would be the largest entity in the country doing so, and thus would get the lowest prices. This would be in harmony with how it decides upon reimbursements for medical services, and completely at odds with the rubbish Bush just mouthed about it, which makes not an iota of logical sense.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 4:40 pm | #
there is a mockingbird boingboinging along the railing of my fire escape.
I DO live in NYC, right?
probably one of ours, the wind is pretty damn strong
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02.24.07 - 4:40 pm | #
MONKEY BOY: Good morning. This week, I traveled to a hospital in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, where I visited with doctors and health care
experts.
Shame they couldn't declare him insane and have him locked up.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:37 pm |
Another shame is he didn't walk down the street to Walter Reed. Now there is a true example of his Healthcare system in action.
pigboy |
02.24.07 - 4:40 pm | #
I used "heavens to Betsy" the other day, and boy, did I hear about it. SteveNS
As well you should, boy howdy!
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 4:41 pm | #
My husband and brother-in-law are replacing my kitchen floor. I'm so afraid. So so afraid.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:41 pm | #
Snagglepuss wishes he would exit, stage left.
Richard |
02.24.07 - 4:41 pm | #
I am also looking for opportunities to work "Great Googly Moogly" into daily conversation
Must be used ironically to maximize its effect.
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02.24.07 - 4:41 pm | #
Another shame is he didn't walk down the street to Walter Reed. Now there is a true example of his Healthcare system in action.
pigboy
He won't even attend military funerals.
Go see living folks??????? Not that asshole.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 4:41 pm | #
On c-span2/BookTV now -
On Saturday, February 24 at 4:30 pm
The Joke's Over: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson
Ralph Steadman
Description: Illustrator Ralph Steadman talks about his longtime friendship with the late Hunter S. Thompson and the drawings that accompanied many of Thompson's books and magazine articles. During this event, Mr. Steadman discusses the creation of gonzo journalism, shares stories about his time together with Hunter S. Thompson, and shows a large selection of his drawings. He also talks about Hunter S. Thompson's funeral. This program contains language and images that some viewers may find offensive.
Author Bio: Ralph Steadman first started working with Hunter S. Thompson in 1970, when he and Thompson covered the Kentucky Derby together. He is, most famously, the illustrator for Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Mr. Steadman has also illustrated a 50th anniversary edition of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland." His own books include "I·Leonardo" and "The Grapes of Ralph." For more on Mr. Steadman and his work, visit www.ralphsteadman.com.
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QuentinCompson |
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02.24.07 - 4:42 pm | #
Monica,
I've been a doc for like a decade. Seriously.
Dr. Molly Ivors |
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02.24.07 - 4:42 pm | #
Has anyone mentioned:
"Good grief, Charlie Brown!"
(I'm dating myself, I know).
Sandy-LA 90034 |
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02.24.07 - 4:42 pm | #
It's hard to come up with idioms that don't rely on expletives or pay worship to a sky fairy -- Good Heavens! is fine, Good Grief!, not so bad; Heavens to Britney!, entirely trendy.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 4:42 pm | #
My husband and brother-in-law are replacing my kitchen floor.
I should be drinking Dos Equis, should I?
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:42 pm | #
How about someone link the best Arcade Fire video they can find?
if i find a good one
FireFox® |
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02.24.07 - 4:42 pm | #
Heavens to Murgatroid, I hate Bush!
Snagglepuss wishes he would exit, stage left.
Richard
Stage right, even!
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 4:42 pm | #
We need a national healthcare system that includes everyone. It would help business and workers alike.
pigboy |
02.24.07 - 4:43 pm | #
I've been a doc for like a decade. Seriously.
Congratulations, Molly. Can I come live with you. My B-I-L is talking about a propane torch to take up the vinyl flooring.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:43 pm | #
How about someone link the best Arcade Fire video they can find?
smalfish
I like this one myself.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 4:43 pm | #
Go see living folks??????? Not that asshole.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:41 pm | #
Those living folks would hand his ass to him. They know there is a big difference between watching it on tv and actually suffering from shrubs failed policies.
pigboy |
02.24.07 - 4:45 pm | #
Is it all vinyl, or vinyl-asbestos? Make'em wear dust-masks, at least!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 4:45 pm | #
He won't even attend military funerals.
And stain his beautiful mind? Surely you jest!
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:46 pm | #
He won't even attend military funerals.
Go see living folks??????? Not that asshole.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now
Those living folks would hand his ass to him. They know there is a big difference between watching it on tv and actually suffering from shrubs failed policies.
pigboy
Exactly. He's a fucking coward. Always was, always will be.
He and Five Deferment Dick.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 4:46 pm | #
How about someone link the best Arcade Fire video they can find?
smalfish
I like this one myself.
Goddamned. How many people are in that band?
If one member told two people of their band they could have a worldwide following.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 4:46 pm | #
He won't even attend military funerals.
And stain his beautiful mind? Surely you jest!
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough
His beautiful WHAT?
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 4:46 pm | #
Goddamned. How many people are in that band?
It varies. I think there've been as many as 12 at some performances.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 4:47 pm | #
Is it all vinyl, or vinyl-asbestos? Make'em wear dust-masks, at least!
Not asbestos according to my husband (recalling a conversation with the owner).
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:47 pm | #
But it can get a lot worse.
Too late. There is nothing left of the life we knew.
McIhenny |
02.24.07 - 4:47 pm | #
Monica_A,
Sure, but if the floor is that adhered, maybe they should consider laying on top of it.
Dr. Molly Ivors |
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02.24.07 - 4:47 pm | #
I like this one myself.
No band is complete without a xylophonist.
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 4:48 pm | #
Monica_A,
Sure, but if the floor is that adhered, maybe they should consider laying on top of it.
That's b-i-l's idea. My husband wants it as clean as possible. I want to drink until it's all done.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:48 pm | #
If I said you had beauitful flooring, would you lay on top of it with me?
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 4:48 pm | #
If one member told two people of their band they could have a worldwide following.
I think that's how it worked, actually.
I know the kid who wrote their first breakout Pitchfork review. He said they ushered in a new era of post-irony, or something.
Dr. Molly Ivors |
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02.24.07 - 4:49 pm | #
If I said you had beauitful flooring, would you lay on top of it with me?
Jeffco,
I like you, but I don't "like you" like you.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:49 pm | #
What kind of floor is going on top of it?
Dr. Molly Ivors |
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02.24.07 - 4:49 pm | #
I like this one myself.
No band is complete without a xylophonist.
watertiger
Lionel Hampton's wasn't.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 4:49 pm | #
This looks promising: The movie leans heavily on Village Voice journalist Wayne Barrett's evisceration of a biography, titled "Rudy!" Barrett dug deep in Giuliani's biographical back yard and unearthed gems, not least the information that Mr. Clean's father was a stickup man and loan shark who swung a mean baseball bat. The film also shines a light on Giuliani's record as associate attorney general in Ronald Reagan's Justice Department, where he led efforts to deport Haitian boat people.
"Repression," Giuliani announces after returning from a meeting with President Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, "simply does not exist now" in Haiti.
Also, Monica_A, bump up the XX to something soundly cocktailish, release custody of the floor to the men-folk, and decide to be pleased. It's much less wear-and-tear on you.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 4:50 pm | #
Exactly. He's a fucking coward. Always was, always will be.
He and Five Deferment Dick.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:46 pm | #
I am still bothered by Randi Rhodes show about Walter Reed. She brought up a story about a little girl whose mother was killed in Iraq and was not eligible for benefits. Which reminded me of one of Dickhead Cheney's execuses used in one of his deferments and that he was married with children. These fucks are cruel beyond belief.
pigboy |
02.24.07 - 4:50 pm | #
It varies. I think there've been as many as 12 at some performances.
Eh.
I dunno, putting that many people on stage, for me, really just washes out the sound of a band.
I never really did care for those " allstar" concert performances either.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 4:50 pm | #
Not asbestos according to my husband (recalling a conversation with the owner).
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough
Asbestos is a real danger, now that we are demo'ing a lot of post-WWII buildings. Builders went ape-shit whith that stuff as a cheap fire-retardantyears ago. Making that shit into aerosol form on a demo is not very cool for urban re-developers.
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02.24.07 - 4:50 pm | #
I like you, but I don't "like you" like you. Monica_A
Yer killin me here, Winnie.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 4:51 pm | #
What kind of floor is going on top of it?
Vinyl tiles. My husband wanted to do wood, but we're a pretty spastic bunch over here.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:51 pm | #
How can Black gloatingly describe such tragedies while advocating policies which would vastly worsen the situation?
ab |
02.24.07 - 4:51 pm | #
Also, Monica_A, bump up the XX to something soundly cocktailish, release custody of the floor to the men-folk, and decide to be pleased.
Thanks. That sounds like a plan.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:52 pm | #
Monica,
Fuck it. Stick 'em and be done. When the boy is grown, pull ALL the vinyl off at once and put down wood.
Dr. Molly Ivors |
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02.24.07 - 4:53 pm | #
How can Black gloatingly describe such tragedies while advocating policies which would vastly worsen the situation?
is it dark in there, and smells like shit?
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02.24.07 - 4:53 pm | #
How can Black gloatingly describe such tragedies while advocating policies which would vastly worsen the situation?
This ain't gloating, buddy. But we did warn you and were called traitors for it.
So fuck off.
Dr. Molly Ivors |
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02.24.07 - 4:54 pm | #
How can Black gloatingly describe such tragedies while advocating policies which would vastly worsen the situation?
Prove the situation can get worse with different policies and we'll allow you to live.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 4:54 pm | #
I dunno, putting that many people on stage, for me, really just washes out the sound of a band.
Part of their appeal, for me at least, is the density of their sound. They have these bombastic arrangements that tend to build to big crescendos...
I'm a sucker for that stuff, especially with the apocalyptic lyrics they add to the mix.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 4:54 pm | #
That's a good idea, Molly. B-I-L wants to spread Rid-X over the floor. Let's see what's in the magic liquor cabinet.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:54 pm | #
I know when I gloat I always say "Meanwhile, over there."
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 4:54 pm | #
How can Black gloatingly describe such tragedies while advocating policies which would vastly worsen the situation?
1) No gloat.
2) Advocates policies that will improve the situation.
3) Strawmen to the left, assholes to the right.
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02.24.07 - 4:55 pm | #
That's a good idea, Molly. B-I-L wants to spread Rid-X over the floor.
what the hell is he trying to do?
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02.24.07 - 4:55 pm | #
assholes to the right
Mine's pretty much dead centre.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 4:56 pm | #
Rid-X, as in the septic tank bacterial digester?
Maybe I don't wanna know.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 4:56 pm | #
I don't know what he wants the Rid-X for. I just know I need to drink as much as I possibly can.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 4:57 pm | #
3) Strawmen to the left, assholes to the right.
NTodd, Stalker
Federal Judge Orders Labor Department to Answer for Eight-Year Delay in Requiring Employers to Pay for Safety Equipment
DOL Failure has resulted in 400,000 Injuries and 50 Deaths
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A United States Court of Appeals ordered the Department of Labor (DOL) to respond in 30 days to a suit requesting the court to order OSHA to implement a long-delayed standard that would require employers to pay the costs of protective clothing, lifelines, face shields, gloves and other equipment used by an estimated 20 million workers to protect them from job hazards.
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the AFL-CIO sued the DOL January 3 over an eight-year delay in implementing an Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule requiring employers to pay for personal protective equipment (PPE)." http://www.prnewswire.com/usnewswire/
pigboy |
02.24.07 - 4:58 pm | #
I'm not sure if I would ever do a wood floor in my kitchen.
mer |
02.24.07 - 4:58 pm | #
Don't let him pour that shit in your house.
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02.24.07 - 4:58 pm | #
Monica,
I wouldn't do that, but mopping it with bleach to break down any wax buildup might be a good idea. Gives the new tiles a rougher surface to stick to.
Dr. Molly Ivors |
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02.24.07 - 4:58 pm | #
I just know I need to drink as much as I possibly can.
Veterans, aside from military retirees/pensions, have survivor benefits that are not at all well publicized. While there is greater generosity toward vets with service during war-time, there is plenty to review that could apply to any veteran/family:
I don't know what he wants the Rid-X for. I just know I need to drink as much as I possibly can.
Your second sentence needs the word "alcohol" in there somewhere, or I'm calling poison control.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 4:58 pm | #
The military says our ground forces will be "broken' in a few years at this rate. What then?
Lumpenprolitariot |
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02.24.07 - 4:59 pm | #
Remember Michelle Bachmann, that crazy Katharine Harris-looking congresswoman who was hugging, groping and kissing Bush after the SOTU? Look at this bizarre stuff she wrote about him on her blog last summer:
I could not believe I was discussing what flavor of custard to order with the President of the United States!
...
I asked the President if he had a napkin and he said no. So, I had to quickly grab napkins. I cannot imagine dripping custard in the Presidential limousine.
President Bush and I did share our custards with Governor Pawlenty, Senator Coleman and Karl Rove. Every bit of custard was gone well before we arrived at the Jundt home!
Paging Dr. Freud...
At least when Clinton shared his custard with a woman, he did so in private, not in a giant orgy of custard-spewing with governors, senators, and flesh-haired aides in the back seat of a limo.
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02.24.07 - 4:59 pm | #
How can Black gloatingly describe such tragedies while advocating policies which would vastly worsen the situation?
It's called pending checkmate, asshole. This administration had nothing but "Yessir, three bags full" for five years. Like few other admins in US history. And for our trouble, we've gained a strategic position of have to beg cooperation from others.
President Bush and I did share our custards with Governor Pawlenty, Senator Coleman and Karl Rove. Every bit of custard was gone well before we arrived at the Jundt home!
How can Black gloatingly describe such tragedies while advocating policies which would vastly worsen the situation?
And what the hell are you talking about?
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:01 pm | #
I asked the President if he had a tampon and he said no. So, I had to quickly grab napkins. I cannot imagine dripping *custard* in the Presidential limousine.
President Bush and I did share our *custards* with Governor Pawlenty, Senator Coleman and Karl Rove. Every bit of spooge was gone well before we arrived at the Jundt home!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:01 pm | #
I'm just going to sit in this chair, drink my gin and rock back and forth until it's all done.
I find that's the best approach to everything.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 5:02 pm | #
Remember Michelle Bachmann, that crazy Katharine Harris-looking congresswoman who was hugging, groping and kissing Bush after the SOTU? Look at this bizarre stuff she wrote about him on her blog last summer:
Any woman who could find Monkey Boy worthy of hugging, groping and kissing has something seriously wrong with her.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:02 pm | #
Michelle Bachman said she copped a feel of the presidential being and claims he has just 1% body fat. She furthe went on to say that he was dreamy.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:03 pm | #
If you can't laugh at someone with Parkinson's disease who can you laugh at?
"Rudy Giuliani makes fun of a man with Parkinson’s during radio call in…"
Oh,that Michelle Bachmann, the one whose hubs is the gay de-programmer guy. Riiight.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:04 pm | #
Have I missed much today?
Nope. Same war, same certifiable cabal, same moral and fiscal bankruptcy.
Pitchforks & Torches, Cranky |
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02.24.07 - 5:04 pm | #
Monica, I'd go ahead and dial 9-1 and wait a few minutes
Rid-X was vetoed. Still trying to convince them to rent a floor stripper. Now it's back to hardwood flooring. Husband vetoed b-i-l on the subject. Drinking lots of booze.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 5:04 pm | #
Hard to believe that Bachmann thing is real, huh? It's like something you'd expect from the Onion, Patriotboy, or conservapedia!
wtfwjd? |
02.24.07 - 5:04 pm | #
smalfish, are you having a dust storm too? Here, it's that weird kind of lighting I remember from the dustbowl, altho it's eased up a bit and the sun is dimly visible now.
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02.24.07 - 5:04 pm | #
Michelle Bachman said she copped a feel of the presidential being and claims he has just 1% body fat. She further went on to say that he was dreamy.
trifecta
What about the 99% HEAD fat?
That bitch is nuts!
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:05 pm | #
"Rudy Giuliani makes fun of a man with Parkinson’s during radio call in…"
Taking Asshole Lessons from Rush?
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:05 pm | #
How can Black gloatingly describe such tragedies while advocating policies which would vastly worsen the situation?
Sending Guard troops on two and three rotations in Iraq is good policy?
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02.24.07 - 5:05 pm | #
The military says our ground forces will be "broken' in a few years at this rate. What then?
Lumpenprolitariot | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 4:59 pm | #
Then we'll have a broken army. This would be the best thing that could happen.
I'm for disbanding most of the army now. We don't need them to defend the U.S. Who's gonna invade us anyway. (We can keep the air force and the navy).
Rebuilding the army will only embolden our leaders to start another war.
Every time an american joins the army, there's a good chance that american civilians will get the hatred, contempt, and maybe terrorist blowback resulting from our government's actions.
Mike |
02.24.07 - 5:06 pm | #
Rid-X was vetoed. Still trying to convince them to rent a floor stripper. Now it's back to hardwood flooring. Husband vetoed b-i-l on the subject. Drinking lots of booze.
Tile can be laid ontop of existing vinyl flooring (if it's all down tightly to the concrete) by using something called Admix in your thinset.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 5:06 pm | #
Plantsman, have you tried deprogramming? I haven't yet, am split between spending the cash on that and hair restoration.
Pitchforks & Torches, Cranky |
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02.24.07 - 5:06 pm | #
If you have to keep said floor pretty, bag the hardwoods until servants can take over.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:06 pm | #
13 minutes is a big investment of time, but I'm giving it a shot...
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 5:06 pm | #
Huffington Post headline...
Cheney: Iraq War A
"Remarkable Achievement"
Richard |
02.24.07 - 5:07 pm | #
I can't make up my mind who has the bigger school girl crush on Preznit Fuckwit.
Bachmann or Rove.
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02.24.07 - 5:07 pm | #
smalfish, are you having a dust storm too? Here, it's that weird kind of lighting I remember from the dustbowl, altho it's eased up a bit and the sun is dimly visible now.
That really is pretty stunning. Quinnipiac's new poll has Giuliani at 40% in the race for the GOP nomination. McCain clocks in at a relatively feeble 18%. And Romney, with 7%, is beat out by Gingrich at 10%.
I'm really not convinced Giuliani can win the GOP nod as a pro-choice, pro-gay rights candidate. But numbers trump opinions.
"An Army representative initially told LaVena's father, Dr. John Johnson, that his daughter died of "died of self-inflicted, noncombat injuries" and initially added it was not a suicide -- in other words, an accidental death caused by LaVena herself. The subsequent Army investigation reversed this finding and declared LaVena's death a suicide, a finding refuted by the soldier's family. In an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dr. Johnson pointed to indications that his daughter had endured a physical struggle before she died -- two loose front teeth, a "busted lip" that had to be reconstructed by the funeral home -- suggesting that "someone might have punched her in the mouth."
A promise by the office of Representative William Lacy Clay to look into the matter produced nothing. The military said that the matter was closed.
Little more on LaVena's death was said until St. Louis CBS affiliate KMOV aired a story on Thursday which disclosed troubling details not previously made public - details which belie the Army's assertion that the young Florissant native died by her own hand. The video of the report is available on the KMOV website."
"And then he kissed me in my Virginia."
wtfwjd? |
02.24.07 - 5:09 pm | #
Plantsman, have you tried deprogramming? I haven't yet, am split between spending the cash on that and hair restoration.
No, I'm single and happy and waiting to see if diabetes really does cause ED. As to my hair, I am blessed with very thin colorless to dishwater stubble, which I buzz off with dog clippers only I use. Waste of money de-programming me.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:09 pm | #
smalfish, this happened a couple of times in the 50's, dust was in everything. So glad to have the storm windows. It's eased up now, birds are back out.
Ruth |
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02.24.07 - 5:10 pm | #
"[Monkey Boy] and I did share our custards with Governor Pawlenty, Senator Coleman and Karl Rove."
The thought of THAT gang bang just made me lose my appetite.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:10 pm | #
Monica, if it's hardwood flooring, make sure there are at least four or five coats of water-proof sealent applied.
mer |
02.24.07 - 5:10 pm | #
Sinfonian,
Doesn't Jeopardy pale in comparison to seeing your son in a baseball uniform? I think I'm going to wait out this floor thing in my bedroom. Netflix sent "M" and the Bombay is right next to me. See you in about two hours for an update.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 5:10 pm | #
President Bush and I did share our *custards* with Governor Pawlenty...
i wonder if Congressman Goode was there?
focus |
02.24.07 - 5:11 pm | #
I'm really not convinced Giuliani can win the GOP nod as a pro-choice, pro-gay rights candidate. But numbers trump opinions.
-- Josh Marshall
Richard | 02.24.07 - 5:09 pm | #
Give it some time. The blogs have yet to get indepth on his record and the people of NY have yet to be heard. He will be exposed for the fraud he is.
pigboy |
02.24.07 - 5:11 pm | #
harper's index....
number of iraqis given refugee status in US since 2003: 764
number from 99 -2002 : 9051
percentage of US military who thought more troops should be sent to iraq: 38
number of consecutive months american workforce has spent more than it's takehome pay: 20
number of previous months since depression that this has been the case: 0
david mizner |
02.24.07 - 5:11 pm | #
Giuliani at 40% in the race for the GOP nomination. McCain clocks in at a relatively feeble 18%.
It's gonna get real ugly on that side
Jim |
02.24.07 - 5:11 pm | #
I used "heavens to Betsy" the other day, and boy, did I hear about it.
SteveNS
Tee-hee - I have a cousin named Betsy Ruth.... Never said anything but "Heavens to Betsy Ruth" which means nobody has a clue what I'm talking about....
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 5:12 pm | #
Sinfonian,
Doesn't Jeopardy pale in comparison to seeing your son in a baseball uniform?
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough
No doubt about it. It's no contest. It's nice to have the credit cards paid off, but I'd gladly stay in a lifetime of debt if I had to, in order to see my son play baseball. Wow.
Sinfonian, proud dad |
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02.24.07 - 5:12 pm | #
sinfonian,
Yeah, I swear you turn your head and they look just exactly like this.
Monica, if it's hardwood flooring, make sure there are at least four or five coats of water-proof sealent applied.
It's Saturday and she's got Bombay! Like that's gonna happen!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:13 pm | #
"Then we'll have a broken army. This would be the best thing that could happen."
I'm not sure a broken army, guard and reserve is that great when we have Blackwater here.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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02.24.07 - 5:13 pm | #
A Guliani victory in the primary would be great: it would spark a pro-life third party challenge: in fact it could force nothing less than the dissolution of the Republican Party. Go Rudy!
david mizner |
02.24.07 - 5:13 pm | #
I am looking forward to my son playing soccer for the first time in a few years. I pity the other children, and hope they are insured though.
Bet you had loads of fun sinf.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:13 pm | #
"Reporter Matt Sczesny spoke with LaVena's father and examined documents and photos sent by Army investigators. So far from supporting the claim that LaVena died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the documents provided elements of another scenario altogether:
Indications of physical abuse that went unremarked by the autopsy
The absence of psychological indicators of suicidal thoughts; indeed, testimony that LaVena was happy and healthy prior to her death
Indications, via residue tests, that LaVena may not even have handled the weapon that killed her
A blood trail outside the tent where Lavena's body was found
Indications that someone attenpted to set LaVena's body on fire
I'm not sure if I would ever do a wood floor in my kitchen.
mer
Best kitchen floor I ever had was a sprung wood one. Real wood, not laminate, but popped together the way the laminates are, over a thing layer of plastic membrane - it was like working on a fine dance floor. And, when you dropped things? They bounced! Big jars of mayonnaise! Bottles of pickles! Greatest thing I ever had in the kitchen. A snap to keep clean, the wood was pre-laquered within an inch of its life. You could spill a bowl of hot spaghetti sauce on it and it all came right up with a couple of paper towels. Loved it!
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 5:15 pm | #
I'm not sure a broken army, guard and reserve is that great when we have Blackwater here.
Lumpenprolitariot | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 5:13 pm | #
The army isn't gonna protect us from Blackwater.
Mike |
02.24.07 - 5:15 pm | #
Waste of money de-programming me.
I assumed as much beforehand, it was in jest.
Pitchforks & Torches, Cranky |
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02.24.07 - 5:15 pm | #
sinfonian,
Yeah, I swear you turn your head and they look just exactly like this.
Congratulations on your initiation into the fathers league.
DWD
Thanks! Great pic of your son ... Lake Michigan, I presume? Not so little, though ...
Sinfonian, proud dad |
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02.24.07 - 5:16 pm | #
trifecta; My son went to a soccer development program run by really professional coaches, learned to play as a team member. then got into organized games on the local level and everyone played as if they were the only one on the field. He got really tired of that really quickly.
Ruth |
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02.24.07 - 5:16 pm | #
I hoped so, I'm still fond of willie!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:17 pm | #
Americans Underestimate Iraqi Death Toll http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hu...in-iraq-ap-
poll
WASHINGTON — Americans are keenly aware of how many U.S. forces have lost their lives in Iraq, according to a new AP-Ipsos poll. But they woefully underestimate the number of Iraqi civilians who have been killed.
When the poll was conducted earlier this month, a little more than 3,100 U.S. troops had been killed. The midpoint estimate among those polled was right on target, at about 3,000.
Far from a vague statistic, the death toll is painfully real for many Americans. Seventeen percent in the poll know someone who has been killed or wounded in Iraq. And among adults under 35, those closest to the ages of those deployed, 27 percent know someone who has been killed or wounded.
For Daniel Herman, a lawyer in New Castle, Pa., a co-worker's nephew is the human face of the dead.
The number of Iraqis killed, however, is much harder to pin down, and that uncertainty is perhaps reflected in Americans' tendency to lowball the Iraqi death toll by tens of thousands.
Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated at more than 54,000 and could be much higher; some unofficial estimates range into the hundreds of thousands. The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq reports more than 34,000 deaths in 2006 alone.
Among those polled for the AP survey, however, the median estimate of Iraqi deaths was 9,890. The median is the point at which half the estimates were higher and half lower.
Richard |
02.24.07 - 5:17 pm | #
I am looking forward to my son playing soccer for the first time in a few years. I pity the other children, and hope they are insured though.
Bet you had loads of fun sinf.
trifecta
I did, thanks, trifecta (other than having to hang out with my ex-wife's boyfriend for a while ...).
I'm going to get to as many games as I can - even though my son lives 130 miles away (along with my daughter, of course), it's worth every mile.
Sinfonian, proud dad |
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02.24.07 - 5:17 pm | #
Oh,that Michelle Bachmann, the one whose hubs is the gay de-programmer guy. Riiight.
plantsman, lowercase
Was HE his own first "success"?
SHE looks like a drag queen.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:18 pm | #
'Mamber the granular wax they used to toss on dance floors at the beginning of the evening?
Cats' Wax or Katz Wax, I was never sure.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:18 pm | #
How can Black gloatingly describe such tragedies while advocating policies which would vastly worsen the situation?
Sending Guard troops on two and three rotations in Iraq is good policy?
billy b; camarillo brillo
The troll doesn't care. His sorry ass is safe and sound because he doesn't have the stones to enlist.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:19 pm | #
'Mamber the granular wax they used to toss on dance floors at the beginning of the evening?
Cats' Wax or Katz Wax, I was never sure.
Give it some time. The blogs have yet to get indepth on his record and the people of NY have yet to be heard. He will be exposed for the fraud he is.
The beauty of the situation is that all the GOPer candidates are frauds. Here's hoping that they annihilate each other.
Richard |
02.24.07 - 5:20 pm | #
'I'm not sure a broken army, guard and reserve is that great when we have Blackwater here.
Lumpenprolitariot'
Those National Guardsmen being sent back again and again, with the jobs they held back home getting more and more scarce, I suspect we're seeing a real diminution in the numbers who make it. 'Breaking the army' looks to me like another way of making sure not a lot of knowledgeable people survive to tell about what happened over there. Maybe I'm excessively cynical.
Ruth |
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02.24.07 - 5:20 pm | #
That really is pretty stunning. Quinnipiac's new poll has Giuliani at 40% in the race for the GOP nomination. McCain clocks in at a relatively feeble 18%. And Romney, with 7%, is beat out by Gingrich at 10%.
No average person is thinking about this yet. And probably no crazy wingnuts either.
Neponset |
02.24.07 - 5:21 pm | #
Ruth, I grew up playing club soccer on the travel circuit in So Cal. So, I hope my son doesn't stink. If he does, he can play a woosie sport like football or basketball or hockey even if he wants.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:22 pm | #
The depth and breadth of the Republican Implosion
has yet to be felt. With any luck, Bush will utterly destroy them.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:23 pm | #
The only somewhat major conservative in the race who isn't a flip flopper is Brownback, and he has turned against the war in Iraq. Poor rethugs.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:23 pm | #
And she's mortified by the "like" quote. She doesn't talk like a Valley Girl.
Like, that's just crazy talk.
smalfish
I am SO shure!
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:24 pm | #
Sinfonian,
Yeah, not too little anymore. That is the large, fast, puck-carrying defenseman I brag to Plum P about every once in a while. He is merely 6-3 and 215 lbs of buff muscle now. Just graduated from MSU and is looking forward to his career in the Criminal Justice system - should begin shortly he thinks. But to me he will always be the little guy I sat up with at night when his mamma had to go back to work and I was laid off. I was lucky enough to be with him most of his first two years of his life. That is a great thing.
But I still remember him making his baseball debut . . . .
DWD |
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02.24.07 - 5:24 pm | #
Pontius Pilate was a bad, bad, man!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:24 pm | #
Thanks for checking out my post about my son. I just wanted to share it with you all.
I've got to go ... must get ready for (ahem) a date tonight.
Be good and don't shoot anyone in the face.
Sinfonian, proud dad |
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02.24.07 - 5:24 pm | #
I used to like totally live next to the San Fernando Valley. Like OhmiGod!
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:24 pm | #
Ghouiliani is counting on the American public being misinformed and so far it is working
Liars for Bush |
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02.24.07 - 5:24 pm | #
I am SO shure!
Like, take off ya hoser.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 5:25 pm | #
Evening, all. Or late afternoon, all.
Whatever.
As long as Bush is still president....
steve simels |
02.24.07 - 5:25 pm | #
Oh, and that is Lake Huron since the picture was taken at Mackinac Island.
DWD |
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02.24.07 - 5:25 pm | #
But I still remember him making his baseball debut . . . .
DWD
Too cool! You know I worked at MSU 2001-04, right?
Did your son play hockey there?
Sinfonian, proud dad |
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02.24.07 - 5:25 pm | #
Hey Simels.
So 23 really sucks? Is it at least DVD worthy?
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:26 pm | #
Oh, and that is Lake Huron since the picture was taken at Mackinac Island.
DWD
Ah, okay. I never did get to Mackinac when I lived in Michigan. More's the pity, I suppose ...
Sinfonian, proud dad |
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02.24.07 - 5:26 pm | #
If he does, he can play a woosie sport like football or basketball or hockey even if he wants.
trifecta
Yeah, right. Lace em up, shut up and skate.
DWD |
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02.24.07 - 5:26 pm | #
I am SO shure!
Like, take off ya hoser.
smalfish |
Beauty, eh?
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:27 pm | #
Alllrighhht, trifecta. Good perspective, then. I got so sick of watching all the kids on my son's teams try to be superstars, and anyone else with ability on their own team was the worst enemy. He was such a teamplayer. Just sad.
Ruth |
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02.24.07 - 5:27 pm | #
So 23 really sucks? Is it at least DVD worthy?
trifecta
I thought "23" was just a prequel to "24" ...
Sinfonian, proud dad |
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02.24.07 - 5:27 pm | #
Ghouiliani is counting on the American public being misinformed and so far it is working
Liars for Bush
So far, yes.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:27 pm | #
Yeah but just club. He is good but not pro material - he has enough talent but does not possess the crazy desire necessary.
No, I did not know that you worked at MSU. E. Lansing is a crazy place.
DWD |
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02.24.07 - 5:28 pm | #
I could see that. It was daylight savings time clock change Sunday and Jack Bauer was under a bit more pressure
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:28 pm | #
I can't remember. Someone refresh my memory, please.
Is Blazing Saddles "kid safe"? I would'nt mind showing it to my ten year old.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 5:28 pm | #
That is SO cool, GWPDA! Queen Creek was a far different place 'ere I was a lad!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:29 pm | #
well, sexual innuendo, bodily humor joke, some racial profanity.
But not harsh. Depends on how old the kid is for that.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:29 pm | #
So 23 really sucks? Is it at least DVD worthy?
trifecta
Saw it yesterday. Yes, it sucks hippo root.
If I were Rex Reed (granted, a terrifying thought) my review would be:
Is Blazing Saddles "kid safe"? I would'nt mind showing it to my ten year old.
smalfish
Depends on your tolerance for hilarious but profane humor, I think ...
Sinfonian, proud dad |
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02.24.07 - 5:30 pm | #
Rex Reed promised to quit if another Police Academy movie was made. Three more of them were made after his promise. That queen is such a liar.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:31 pm | #
No, I did not know that you worked at MSU. E. Lansing is a crazy place.
DWD
That it is. I lived in Mason, which was great and only about 15 minutes from campus. I loved living there and working at MSU, but we (I was married then) just couldn't handle the winters. We called it quits after the third one.
Sinfonian, proud dad |
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02.24.07 - 5:32 pm | #
Re 23:
The four most terrifying words in the English language:
Directed by Joel Schumacher.
steve simels |
02.24.07 - 5:32 pm | #
Steve,
I was looking for you earlier. You brought up Eva Cassidy. I am not sure how much of your story you know but it is just so fucking tragic.
She was a local sensation in the DC area but could never get any more than that. Made two or three CDs (self produced) and sold them out of the trunk of her car. Finally got breast cancer and died. Some DJ in England picked up her version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and used it for a telethon of some sort. Went straight to the top of the pop charts.
Why can't we find these people - writers, musicians, actors, painters, sculpters - while they are still alive?
In fact, before Sedona went New-Agey, people went there for Slide Rock and the Minutemen were old-style right-wing wackos up there rather than at the border.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:32 pm | #
Okay, I really need to go. Talk to y'all later ...
Sinfonian, proud dad |
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02.24.07 - 5:32 pm | #
smalfish, good bean/fart jokes. So I dunno how tolerant you are about hearing for days about it.
Ruth |
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02.24.07 - 5:32 pm | #
Sinfonian,
When I was chairman of the school's school improvement committee, I used to have to go to Lansing periodically to meet with the mucketymucks at the State Department of Education. I described Lansing as having a dome of ignorance around it, nothing gets in and nothing gets out.
DWD |
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02.24.07 - 5:34 pm | #
As I understood it, Cassady's cancer was in her hips, and went undiagnosed until she developed a slight limp. "Songbird" went to #1 on the UK charts, and then became popular here.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:34 pm | #
So sad.
DWD | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 5:32 pm | #
I knew the story, and of course you're right. But it's also a pretty damning indictment of a record bizness that wouldn't know good music if it bit them in the ass.
steve simels |
02.24.07 - 5:35 pm | #
"Car bombs kill dozens; blasts rattle Baghdad
Attackers targeted a Sunni mosque near Baghdad on Saturday, setting off a car bomb that killed 39 people and wounded more than 60. Meanwhile, just hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki cited progress in the effort to restore order in Baghdad, car bombs and mortar rounds killed nine people and injured 42 there. Saturday night, a series of blasts were heard in the city" --cnn.com
I like the way they use "meanwhile."
It's going to get worse and worser no matter what we do.
mer |
02.24.07 - 5:35 pm | #
Is Blazing Saddles "kid safe"? I would'nt mind showing it to my ten year old.
FARTS!
A few shits and shit, too. Lots of "nigger", so not PC, which is Mel Brooks, 'course.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 5:35 pm | #
Sinfonian,
Other weird fact: Mason (fictional town) is actually the setting for the college in CHALLENGE. I did not even know of such a town. I thought I had invented it. In my mind it was an amalgam of Holland, GR, and Muskegon.
DWD |
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02.24.07 - 5:35 pm | #
Looks peaceful from up here.......
Don Rumsfeld, 30,000 feet |
02.24.07 - 5:36 pm | #
“Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., a private organization, respects the values and beliefs of each of its members and does not investigate or intrude into personal matters. Therefore, we do not have policies that focus on individual sexual preference.”
Anybody here know a Boston band from the early 90s called Knots and Crosses?
steve simels |
02.24.07 - 5:37 pm | #
Steve,
It is not just the recording industry It is everything. How does one differentiate themselves from the mass of material?
I have no fucking idea.
(obviously)
But Eva Cassidy is our patron saint at this point. And if you have not heard her version of Autumn Leaves, let me know and I will send it along.
DWD |
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02.24.07 - 5:38 pm | #
I love Canada and Canadians, but their musical exports in the last couple decades have been a wee bit substandard.
Glad to see some other folks don't get the big deal with the Arcade Fire. A coffee shop I go to in the city plays 'em non-fucking-stop.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 5:38 pm | #
Isn't that interesting?
You might even call it "humane."
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:38 pm | #
BLazing Saddles also has some pretty heavy sexual innuendo and more for a ten year old (Lilly von Schtupp?)
DWD |
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02.24.07 - 5:39 pm | #
Directed by Joel Schumacher.
steve simels | 02.24.07 - 5:32 pm | #
Fuck you, you fucking fuck.
.
Mike Reno, Loverboy, Sweatband |
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02.24.07 - 5:40 pm | #
Oscar prediction: Al Gore wins, gives brief acceptance speech, does not announce presidential campaign.
Snow |
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02.24.07 - 5:40 pm | #
Fuck you, you fucking fuck.
.
Mike Reno, Loverboy, Sweatband | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 5:40 pm | #
I saw you assholes live. While high on acid, no less. You were terrible. Thank God I got in for free.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 5:41 pm | #
In the UK pop scene Eva was poured into, synth-pop and dance music ruled. Her very simplicity, pathos, and genuine musicality won peoples ears and hearts, I think.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:41 pm | #
btw, at the homepage, Diane has really appreciated the Canadian overturn of their winger attempt to prevent detainees from the right to challenge their detention. We should be so advanced.
Ruth |
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02.24.07 - 5:41 pm | #
Oscar prediction: Al Gore wins, gives brief acceptance speech, does not announce presidential campaign.
Snow
I wouldn't think he would use that platform to focus on himself. He will shine a light on global warming.
Falstaff |
02.24.07 - 5:41 pm | #
I love Canada and Canadians, but their musical exports in the last couple decades have been a wee bit substandard.
And what have either Philadelphia or Italy offered lately in music?
Are you still claiming the Hooters? Or Frank Stallone?
.
Mike Reno, Loverboy, Sweatband |
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02.24.07 - 5:41 pm | #
Condi raps to Barbara Boxer
Liars for Bush |
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02.24.07 - 5:42 pm | #
I used to go to that beach in San Francisco where the guy from Loverboy drowned. He must have been using Canadian maps.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:43 pm | #
And what have either Philadelphia or Italy offered lately in music?
Are you still claiming the Hooters? Or Frank Stallone?
.
Mike Reno, Loverboy, Sweatband | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 5:41 pm | #
Philadelphia's got nothing to do with me. Neither has Italy. What are you going on about?
I actually met the guy who signed Loverboy to Columbia.
I always felt bad that on his tombstone it would say "The Man Who Signed Loverboy."
Fortunately, in a previous life he had been the guitarist for the Zombies, so when he died history remembered him more fondly.
steve simels |
02.24.07 - 5:43 pm | #
I wouldn't think he would use that platform to focus on himself. He will shine a light on global warming.
But CNN so wants it to happen.
Snow |
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02.24.07 - 5:43 pm | #
I love Canada and Canadians, but their musical exports in the last couple decades have been a wee bit substandard.
Depends on where you look. Nobody with an ounce of sense would compare, say, Celine Dion and Shania Twain to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, but there are plenty of great artists up here, even if Arcade Fire isn't your cup of tea.
Probably the stuff you'd like more just isn't getting any play in the States.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 5:43 pm | #
Is Blazing Saddles "kid safe"? I would'nt mind showing it to my ten year old.
I saw it in the theater with my parents. I fell out of my chair during the farting scene.
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 5:43 pm | #
Did Mike Reno steal William R.'s thumbsnap? What's going on here?
mer |
02.24.07 - 5:44 pm | #
I love Canada and Canadians, but their musical exports in the last couple decades have been a wee bit substandard.
Musical tastes are like sexual attraction.
One person's meat is another's poison.
To each his/her own.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:44 pm | #
' wouldn't think he would use that platform to focus on himself. He will shine a light on global warming.
Falstaff'
Guatemala has a Nobel Prize winner in the race for President (Rigoberta Menchu). Costa Rica has Nobel Prize Winner Arias as President. We can get there if we try REally Hard.
Ruth |
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02.24.07 - 5:44 pm | #
Did Mike Reno steal William R.'s thumbsnap?
More likely he ate it.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 5:45 pm | #
Mike Reno did look extremely woosified in that power ballad he did with Nancy Wilson for Footloose. Well more woosied than usual.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:45 pm | #
Celine Dion has never been a lyricist, Shania Twain is an extension of Mutt Lange.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:45 pm | #
Bruce Cockburn and Neil Young do tend to redeem Canada.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:45 pm | #
Helen Mirren will win and, at the risk of getting flamed, undeservedly so.
Snow |
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02.24.07 - 5:46 pm | #
I always felt bad that on his tombstone it would say "The Man Who Signed Loverboy."
And what of the rest of us who had to live through that hell? It was bad enough to have Foreigner and Journey and Bryan Adams and Toto. But Loverboy took mainstream "rock" sucking to new lows.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 5:46 pm | #
Probably the stuff you'd like more just isn't getting any play in the States.
SteveNS | 02.24.07 - 5:43 pm | #
Used to live up there, and didn't find that to be the case no matter how many times I heard the Ghandarvas, the Tea Party, the Tragically Hip, or Bran Van 3000. Or Godspeed! You Black Emperor, for that matter.
However, I'm sure there are indeed fine bands up there who don't make it down. And being as my taste for rock music is pretty well sated, my opinion doesn't count for shit anyway.
Anyway, if listening to Arcade Fire is the price I have to pay for you guys invading and reinstating the rule of law, I'll pay it gladly.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 5:46 pm | #
Celine Dion has never been a lyricist, Shania Twain is an extension of Mutt Lange.
True enough, I'm just choosing them as recent Canadian musical exports for the sake of convenience.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 5:47 pm | #
Baby red potatoes and spinach/feta/pine nuts-filled salmon steaks in the oven. Martini in hand, cat on lap. I feel pretty happy. What's going on?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 5:47 pm | #
Did I tell you guys I'm writing and directing SPEED III?
It's gonna star kei and yuri.
They play two guys who post on a blog at all hours, until somebody rigs their computer to explode if they ever stop typing at 60 words per minute.
steve simels |
02.24.07 - 5:47 pm | #
Jump Little Children was the greatest undiscovered band ever.
Snow |
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02.24.07 - 5:48 pm | #
Hey hecate. I like my salmon rare please.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:48 pm | #
Monica_A's husband and BiL are replacing a tile floor. Monica decided to drink.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:48 pm | #
no matter how many times I heard the Ghandarvas, the Tea Party, the Tragically Hip, or Bran Van 3000
Geeesh. Sorry for all of that. Seriously.
I can't stand any of them either.
SteveNS |
02.24.07 - 5:49 pm | #
They play two guys who post on a blog at all hours, until somebody rigs their computer to explode if they ever stop typing at 60 words per minute.
steve simels | 02.24.07 - 5:47 pm | #
Is Blazing Saddles "kid safe"? I would'nt mind showing it to my ten year old.
"Scuse me while I whip this out"
Gomez, Popsicle Toes |
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02.24.07 - 5:49 pm | #
They play two guys who post on a blog at all hours, until somebody rigs their computer to explode if they ever stop typing at 60 words per minute.
God, how I love the Simels.
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 5:49 pm | #
Baby red potatoes and spinach/feta/pine nuts-filled salmon steaks in the oven. Martini in hand, cat on lap. I feel pretty happy. What's going on?
You make me hunnngry! I'm going out to a large bookstore to spend money on books that I can't fit anywhere but I pretend that it's all for the blogging thing.
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.24.07 - 5:49 pm | #
Conservapedia's long sweeping entry on Reproduction is as follows.
Producing more cells.
Boy, those conservative kids are so going to ace their health quizes.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:50 pm | #
I just read the LTEs in the NYT. OMG! What is wrong with these people??? They're basically admitting that, yes, they really do want coverage of Briteny Spears and Anna Nichole Smith and they say, well, gee, we went to a march or two and it didn't help so now, just give us celebrity news. Thank Goddess Washington didn't have them w/ him at Valley Forge.
Has anyone heard from Moon? I think she was going to the London protests today, wasn't she?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 5:50 pm | #
Mike Reno did look extremely woosified in that power ballad he did with Nancy Wilson for Footloose. Well more woosied than usual.
trifecta
Ann Wilson.
And she deserved a better ballad partner.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:50 pm | #
'What's going on?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator'
My son is moving today, over behind Iwo Jima, pro'ly by now he and his friends are all sweaty and stinky and yelling at each other and he's gouged a few holes in the wall and decided he should have forked out the money for a mover. Enjoy your salmon. snif.
Ruth |
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02.24.07 - 5:50 pm | #
Bruce Cockburn and Neil Young do tend to redeem Canada.
Yes. But is it enough for Loverboy....and Anne Murray, Bryan Adams, Corey Hart, Celine Dion, and Shania Twain? Is it? Is anything worth that much pain?
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 5:50 pm | #
Is Blazing Saddles "kid safe"? I would'nt mind showing it to my ten year old.
"Scuse me while I whip this out"
Gomez, Popsicle Toes
"You are the biggest asshole in the state!"
"Up yours, nigger!"
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:51 pm | #
I got a 2lb block of Amish butter at the farmer's market tonight. Dinner might just be amish butter and saltines. That stuff is like crack compared to store butter.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:51 pm | #
Moon was going and hoping for better than predicted weather. I hope she had the time of her life!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:52 pm | #
I can't stand any of them either.
SteveNS | 02.24.07 - 5:49 pm | #
Well, we're responsible for Linkin Park, and all those other current bands that combine the earnest winsomeness of the Backstreet Boys with the bone-crunching metal pyrotechnics of Poison and the hip-hop cred of Vanilla Ice. So you've got a ways to go before you need to be apologizing to us, Our Lady Peace notwithstanding.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 5:52 pm | #
over behind Iwo Jima
Ruth, it's nice over there. If he's on a high enough floor, he can probably see the river.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 5:52 pm | #
I hope she had the time of her life!
Ack!
Time to whip out the Green Day lyrics!
Snow |
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02.24.07 - 5:52 pm | #
I just read the LTEs in the NYT. OMG! What is wrong with these people??? They're basically admitting that, yes, they really do want coverage of Briteny Spears and Anna Nichole Smith and they say, well, gee, we went to a march or two and it didn't help so now, just give us celebrity news. Thank Goddess Washington didn't have them w/ him at Valley Forge.
They're probably all on Dr Helen's blog, complaining about other people having too many children, too few children, no children, too many pets and otherwise being the cause of the death of Western Civilization.
There is a nasty smell to certain parts of our humanity.
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.24.07 - 5:53 pm | #
watertiger:
Did the mail arrive?
(I love you too, BTW)
steve simels |
02.24.07 - 5:53 pm | #
Is Blazing Saddles "kid safe"?
You're guaranteed to get several straight weeks of fart jokes as a result.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 5:53 pm | #
"Can't you see he's a ni--"
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 5:53 pm | #
That is SO cool, GWPDA! Queen Creek was a far different place 'ere I was a lad!
plantsman, lowercase
Me too, absolutely. And I've not even been out there for at least five years, for the peaches. But I'm a sucker for real olives and real olive oil, so I'll be there. Maybe there'll be olive fights too, the way there were in Pyle Estates!
Unbelievable number of blossoms on the apricot tree incidentally - if they all set this will be the first year where's there's a real harvest. They are sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet....
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GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 5:53 pm | #
I just got a call from my son. He's driving to Phoenix today and is stuck in what appears to be a crash related traffic jam on the free going there.
Anyway the auto in front of him is a Toyota Rav4, which has some sort of US Senate plates, which means this is probobly being driven by either McCain or John Kyle.
My son who has one of those geenormously loud car stereos, and is playing it very loud he says. I asked him if he had some Vietnamese music to play, in case it was McCain driving.
Doug |
02.24.07 - 5:54 pm | #
You make me hunnngry! I'm going out to a large bookstore to spend money on books that I can't fit anywhere but I pretend that it's all for the blogging thing.
Echidne of the snakes | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 5:49 pm | #
Just don't ever move, is my advice. I'm only hanging out here because Day 15 of book-packing has a certain...saminess to it.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 5:54 pm | #
Another turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.
It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.
Snow |
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02.24.07 - 5:54 pm | #
Hecate, farther behind than that. But he's only moving up two floors, so he should survive.
Ruth |
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02.24.07 - 5:54 pm | #
Just don't ever move, is my advice.
I know. I even had my books shipped over the pond at one point and spent days at the customs and had to rent a van to get them here.
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.24.07 - 5:55 pm | #
(That wasn't what I wanted to say, but what I wanted to say might have struck some as unseemly.)
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:55 pm | #
Rudy Guiliani's favorite movie is Godfather.
John Edwards - Dr Strangelove.
Snow |
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02.24.07 - 5:55 pm | #
You're guaranteed to get several straight weeks of fart jokes as a result.
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William H. Rehnquist | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 5:53 pm | #
From a ten-year-old? That'll be a change, I bet.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 5:55 pm | #
Just don't ever move, is my advice. I'm only hanging out here because Day 15 of book-packing has a certain...saminess to it.
You moving a long way, Phila?
masculine_monica_nyc |
02.24.07 - 5:55 pm | #
Is Blazing Saddles "kid safe"? I would'nt mind showing it to my ten year old.
Unless you're a prude, it's perfectly fine.
I was 10 years old when I originally saw it back in 1974. My family went as a group to see it when it first came out. Fun for everyone.
Richard |
02.24.07 - 5:56 pm | #
Phila, use SMALL boxes to put the books in.
The big ones will weigh too much.
Doug |
02.24.07 - 5:56 pm | #
I hate moving. Never doing it ever never ever again. Unless I win the lottery and hire movers to move stuff into the mansion.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 5:56 pm | #
Rudy Guiliani's favorite movie is Godfather.
John Edwards - Dr Strangelove.
Snow
Big Dick Cheney - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Shaw Kenawe |
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02.24.07 - 5:56 pm | #
Baby red potatoes and spinach/feta/pine nuts-filled salmon steaks in the oven. Martini in hand, cat on lap. I feel pretty happy. What's going on?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Red jacket potato salad with ham and fresh green onions, roast chicken, whiskey and the spa.
Arthur's watching the chicken to make sure it doesn't burn.
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GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 5:56 pm | #
Oedipus accuses the Sphinx.
yesss
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.24.07 - 5:56 pm | #
Just don't ever move, is my advice. I'm only hanging out here because Day 15 of book-packing has a certain...saminess to it.
I can't ever move because I finally got all of my books catalogued and organized in the bookshelves. I only had one of those in me.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 5:56 pm | #
'There is a nasty smell to certain parts of our humanity.
Echidne of the snakes'
Just get to the mall and fergiddaboudit
Ruth |
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02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
Where the white women at?!
And yes, Steve, I got it!
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
Rudy's real favorite movie is The Night Porter.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
I hate moving. Never doing it ever never ever again. Unless I win the lottery and hire movers to move stuff into the mansion.
trifecta
In our family, we curse our enemies with "I hope you move!"
Shaw Kenawe |
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02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
I know. I even had my books shipped over the pond at one point and spent days at the customs and had to rent a van to get them here.
Echidne of the snakes | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 5:55 pm | #
I'm putting mine in storage, which really adds to the horror. Either I'm paying through the nose to store 'em for months, or I'm gonna have to move 'em again soon.
The only smart thing I did was to put them into small, easily liftable boxes. No more of these 100-lb cartons. Only took me five or six moves to figure that out...
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
Cheney was already quick to utter that all options are open against Shia Iran.
ccokz |
02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
Rudy Guiliani's favorite movie is Godfather.
John Edwards - Dr Strangelove.
Those are two of my fsvorite movies.
Richard |
02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
I'm sure glad our Veep Creep has declared that the Iraq insurgency is "in it's last throes."
I'd hate to think what Iraq would look like if it wasn't.
Rudy |
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02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
Arthur's watching the chicken to make sure it doesn't burn.
That's not why he's watching it.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
a very tired hello moonbats
just got back from a big anti war demo in London.
need a new pair of legs lol
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
I asked him if he had some Vietnamese music to play, in case it was McCain driving.
Doug | 02.24.07 - 5:54 pm | #
You are one sick bastard, and I mean that in the nicest way possible.
steve simels |
02.24.07 - 5:58 pm | #
That's not why he's watching it.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Baby red potatoes and spinach/feta/pine nuts-filled salmon steaks in the oven. Martini in hand, cat on lap. I feel pretty happy. What's going on?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
I think I have Goddess envy.
Shaw Kenawe |
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02.24.07 - 5:58 pm | #
Shaw!
Richard was right! We didn't get a ticket.
Good seeing you both!
Rudy |
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02.24.07 - 5:58 pm | #
Hello, Moon; we were just talking about cha!
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 5:59 pm | #
Rudy Guiliani's favorite movie is Godfather.
John Edwards - Dr Strangelove.
Snow
Big Dick Cheney - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Shaw Kenawe - Pretty Woman and Flashdance (tie!)
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 5:59 pm | #
Arcade Fire kind of reminds me of Smashing Pumpkins, more in terms of aesthetics than the actual music. And the simplicity of that song Rebellion is reminiscent of early U2 in some ways (and of Cold Play, more recently).
Marchbleed |
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02.24.07 - 5:59 pm | #
Rudy Guiliani's favorite movie is Godfather.
Don Rudy
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 5:59 pm | #
I will blog my photos tomorrow when i'm less shattered.
Good on you for going, Moon. Was it big? I heard the PM couldn't bother to meet with the mothers of dead soldiers, but promised to write them a letter. He's soooo not running again.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:00 pm | #
Shaw!
Richard was right! We didn't get a ticket.
Good seeing you both!
Rudy
Great! We really enjoyed our afternoon with you guys!
Just made a big pot of Portugese kale soup.
Good for an arctic night like this.
Shaw Kenawe |
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02.24.07 - 6:00 pm | #
You moving a long way, Phila?
masculine_monica_nyc | 02.24.07 - 5:55 pm | #
Not right yet. I'm working on repairing a house I want to sell, and am going to live in it during the process...however long that takes. So 90 percent of my stuff is just going into storage for the duration.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 6:01 pm | #
Where the white women at?!
Don't make me bite again.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 6:01 pm | #
Big Dick Cheney - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
I would have thought he'd be a big fan of Triumph of the Will.
Richard |
02.24.07 - 6:01 pm | #
I heard the PM couldn't bother to meet with the mothers of dead soldiers, but promised to write them a letter.
need a new pair of legs lol
Moonbootica, Candylion | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 5:57 pm | #
Well, don't keep us hanging.
Did you or didn't you spit on a one-legged Iraq war vet?
steve simels |
02.24.07 - 6:02 pm | #
Just made a big pot of Portugese kale soup.
Good for an arctic night like this.
Shaw Kenawe | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:00 pm | #
Caldo verde? We just made a pot two nights ago! Nothing better.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 6:02 pm | #
Rudy appreciates the leadership lessons to be gleaned from The Godfather.
Snow |
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02.24.07 - 6:02 pm | #
I would have thought he'd be a big fan of Triumph of the Will.
So would he.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 6:02 pm | #
On the topic of the post, sometimes I think that the whole plan is to kill most everybody in Middle East, but that the neocons don't dare to nuke it all to ice as they say. So instead we get plans to make the area have internal wars.
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.24.07 - 6:03 pm | #
George W. Bush - The Animated My Pet Goat
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:03 pm | #
Conservapedia's long sweeping entry on Reproduction is as follows.
Producing more cells.
Huh? Same entry for Crime Prevention.
Falstaff |
02.24.07 - 6:03 pm | #
Wasn't Rummy sending out form letters with a computer signature?
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 6:03 pm | #
Not right yet. I'm working on repairing a house I want to sell, and am going to live in it during the process...however long that takes. So 90 percent of my stuff is just going into storage for the duration.
Sounds like an adventure. Good luck!
masculine_monica_nyc |
02.24.07 - 6:03 pm | #
Rudy Guiliani's favorite movie is Godfather.
John Edwards - Dr Strangelove.
Snow
Big Dick Cheney - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Shaw Kenawe - Pretty Woman and Flashdance (tie!)
William H. Rehnquist
Oh, Bill, you're sweet for a guy who's been dead for, what? 2 years?
And your favorite movie?
So many to choose from, but No. 1, it's gotta be:
Night of the Living Dead
Shaw Kenawe |
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02.24.07 - 6:03 pm | #
Good on you for going, Moon. Was it big? I heard the PM couldn't bother to meet with the mothers of dead soldiers, but promised to write them a letter. He's soooo not running again.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:00 pm | #
yeah we didn't start till 2pm from Hyde Park, as people came in droves.
and all sorts from Trade Unions to CND to various Muslim Associations.
I was marching right near a samba band and behind us was this I think communist or anarchist or something of the far left all very organized in their chanting.
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 6:03 pm | #
Al Gore - Tron
Gomez, Popsicle Toes |
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02.24.07 - 6:04 pm | #
Drop it! Or I swear I'll blow this nigger's head all over this town!
Oh, lo'dy, lo'd, he's despit! Do what he sayyyy, do what he sayyyy...
Barndog, Steelhead Junkie |
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02.24.07 - 6:04 pm | #
anarchist or something of the far left all very organized in their chanting.
When the anarchists get organized, you'd better look out!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:04 pm | #
Well, don't keep us hanging.
Did you or didn't you spit on a one-legged Iraq war vet?
steve simels | 02.24.07 - 6:02 pm | #
funny you should ask that, on the coach I was on we did have a one legged man who came to the protest.
but no spitting was involved.
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 6:04 pm | #
Don't make me bite again.
at least you didn't break the skin.
[/runs out of the room]
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 6:05 pm | #
On the topic of the post, sometimes I think that the whole plan is to kill most everybody in Middle East, but that the neocons don't dare to nuke it all to ice as they say. So instead we get plans to make the area have internal wars.
Echidne of the snakes | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:03 pm | #
"So instead we get plans to make the area have internal wars."
--Echidne
If we nuke it, there goes the oil as well.
mer |
02.24.07 - 6:06 pm | #
Dog foodage is required. Human foodage is desired. Laters.
plantsman, lowercase |
02.24.07 - 6:06 pm | #
Or minor, as the case may be.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:06 pm | #
Hillary?
The Hunting of the Preznit?
masculine_monica_nyc |
02.24.07 - 6:07 pm | #
And your favorite movie?
Actually it's "Harry Palmer and the Gonad of Fire," which is the fourth film in the Harry Palmer series. (Based on the books by JK Bowling).
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 6:07 pm | #
Oh, I must spend hours tonight looking up wingers who have continuously rediscovered the 550 tons of yellowcake.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:07 pm | #
Hillary-Thelma and Louise
Feldman |
02.24.07 - 6:08 pm | #
Not right yet. I'm working on repairing a house I want to sell, and am going to live in it during the process...however long that takes. So 90 percent of my stuff is just going into storage for the duration.
If it's a big project, I can tell you you're going to be hating life. And contractors hate when the homeowners live in the house while it's being remodeled.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:08 pm | #
Sounds like an adventure. Good luck!
masculine_monica_nyc | 02.24.07 - 6:03 pm | #
Thanks! I'm picking up one of those automatic bread makers tomorrow, which'll make it a bit more bearable not to have a proper kitchen for a week or two. And God knows I'll be glad to get out of the house I'm in...way too small.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 6:08 pm | #
Now if that don't beat all. Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the West, and for what? So we can appoint a sheriff that's blacker than any Indian.
I AM depressed.
Barndog, Steelhead Junkie |
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02.24.07 - 6:08 pm | #
Hillary?
Long Island Lolita: The Amy Fisher Story
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 6:09 pm | #
Now if that don't beat all. Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the West, and for what? So we can appoint a sheriff that's blacker than any Indian.
"Schvartzes! They darker than us!"
watertiger |
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02.24.07 - 6:10 pm | #
We're supposed to have rad thunderbooms tonight, heah.
Thanks the FSM the winds here died down. The dust is starting to clear and the sun is starting to come back out of hiding.
It was touch and go for a bit here.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:11 pm | #
43's is: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
Bill O'Reilly's favorite as well.
Snow |
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02.24.07 - 6:11 pm | #
Two cats on balcony. One geek on notebook.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:11 pm | #
Red jacket potato salad with ham and fresh green onions, roast chicken, whiskey and the spa.
Sun-dried tomato, shrimp, garlic, basil, and ancho pepper puree over spinach linguine with a nice salad and fresh Italian bread...
billy b; camarillo brillo |
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02.24.07 - 6:11 pm | #
If it's a big project, I can tell you you're going to be hating life. And contractors hate when the homeowners live in the house while it's being remodeled.
smalfish | 02.24.07 - 6:08 pm | #
I've been hating it about as much as I can stand for the past couple months anyway. It is a big project, but a lot of it's already done. We know the contractor well and get along with him.
And we'll be out of the house most days anyway. It's a big place, and we're cramming ourselves into one bedroom, so it should be OK.
The alternative would to pay rent and mortgage simulataneously, which has its own drawbacks.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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02.24.07 - 6:12 pm | #
We're supposed to have rad thunderbooms tonight, heah.
Boom, Boom, out goes the lights.
Doug |
02.24.07 - 6:12 pm | #
Moonbootica, great photo. I'm glad you got to attend.
mer |
02.24.07 - 6:12 pm | #
Now if that don't beat all. Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the West, and for what? So we can appoint a sheriff that's blacker than any Indian.
That does it. I'm going to go and buy that movie. I don't think I'll let my innocent ten year old watch it yet, but I most certainly will.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:12 pm | #
I just read that story (and saw the video)about that KFC in The Village w/the rat infestation.
And here we had a duststorm. The sky went murky, and the sun faded away. next the locusts. Then we paint the doorjambs with lambs' blood. Then we leave Egypt??? I have another option to suggest.
And at the homepage, take a look at my favorite tropical island, Coiba Wildlife Refuge. We saw island deer about the size of key deer, but first you wanna see beaches.
I made some sloppy joes earlier - that may also be dinner, later.
Barndog, Steelhead Junkie |
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02.24.07 - 6:16 pm | #
And a manual can opener. Make sure that you have a can opener.
Is that a euphemism?
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 6:17 pm | #
Have you blown off the bluff yet?
nope. Seems like another fire somewhere nearby though- I smell the smoke and I went out a little while ago and passed two firetrucks with their lights and sirens.
virgotex |
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02.24.07 - 6:17 pm | #
I've made a devilish raspberry sauce to pour on vanilla ice cream. Don't know what's for dinner since said sauce is going to friends' house to be savored during dessert.
mer |
02.24.07 - 6:17 pm | #
And a manual can opener. Make sure that you have a can opener.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Or a Swiss Army knife, and some paper clips.
And I think tube socks are usually helpful. For some reason.
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:17 pm | #
I just read that story (and saw the video)about that KFC in The Village w/the rat infestation.
MMMM, Kentucky fried rat, the way that old grandma down the street used to make it.
Doug |
02.24.07 - 6:17 pm | #
Is that a euphemism?
No, it's a necessity in a household with cats.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:18 pm | #
On the topic of the post, sometimes I think that the whole plan is to kill most everybody in Middle East, but that the neocons don't dare to nuke it all to ice as they say. So instead we get plans to make the area have internal wars.
BING-FUCKING-O.
When I read the deal about Bootsy asking the old man what a neocon was, and hte old man said, "You want names or description?"
Bootsy said, "Description."
"Israel", said the old man.
billy b; camarillo brillo |
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02.24.07 - 6:18 pm | #
nope. Seems like another fire somewhere nearby though- I smell the smoke and I went out a little while ago and passed two firetrucks with their lights and sirens.
You're in Dallas as well, are'nt you?
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:19 pm | #
Why are we talking about emergency supplies? Storm inc? Earthquake? Blizzard? Collapse of civilization?
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now! |
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02.24.07 - 6:19 pm | #
No, it's a necessity in a household with cats.
I liked it better when it seemed like flirting.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 6:19 pm | #
Hecate: And a manual can opener. Make sure that you have a can opener.
I have two -- and a bottle opener on my keychain!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:19 pm | #
Have you blown off the bluff yet?
nope. Seems like another fire somewhere nearby though- I smell the smoke and I went out a little while ago and passed two firetrucks with their lights and sirens.
virgotex | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:17 pm | #
Looks like its off 2325 near the Sites place. Its been burning since yesterday.
I was in San Marcos about 2 and the brush fire wagons were heading this way. Must be a pernicious fire.
Hellkitty |
02.24.07 - 6:19 pm | #
"message to the troops" currently showing on the pentagon's iraq site
Saturday, 24 February 2007
Real Americans are still with you.
Newv York Times, NBC and Democratic Party Leadership (aka Al-Queda in America) are lying.
Semper Fi.....
rene, new york
P O'Neill |
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02.24.07 - 6:20 pm | #
STOP TALKING ABOUT RELIGION!
STOP MAKING SENSE!
I GOT A GIRLFRIEND THAT'S BETTER THAN THAT!
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 6:20 pm | #
Don't forget the coleman stove for the cans of foodstuff that are opened by the can opener. And fuel to fire the stove.
mer |
02.24.07 - 6:20 pm | #
Why are we talking about emergency supplies? Storm inc? Earthquake? Blizzard? Collapse of civilization?
Damn! And it's not on the news! Strange....
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now! |
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02.24.07 - 6:22 pm | #
Barndog,
Ran into my BIL's father today. We sad and reminisced about drift fishing in Lake Erie for Walleye and tried to figure out a time when we could do it again.
You ever do that? One of the more pleasant fishing experiences I have had. Just drive the boat out about three miles and let it drift with crawler harnesses and reel in those big Lake Erie Walleyes ... that is some good stuff.
DWD |
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02.24.07 - 6:22 pm | #
That does it. I'm going to go and buy that movie. I don't think I'll let my innocent ten year old watch it yet, but I most certainly will.
smalfish | 02.24.07 - 6:12 pm
I think my nephews were about 10 and 8 when my sister and bil first let them see it.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
02.24.07 - 6:23 pm | #
Another interesting justapositioning of comments:
Curly won't eat wet food... he just licks at it a while.
I had a girlfriend like that.
What is up, Eschaton?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 02.24.07 - 6:22 pm | #
I understand those are good when sauted in a fresh ginger, hot green pepper, garlic salsa.
Doug |
02.24.07 - 6:24 pm | #
DWD - haven't fished in years off Erie.
However, I have been known to fish Little Bay De Noc for walleyes.
Barndog, Steelhead Junkie |
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02.24.07 - 6:25 pm | #
no to Dallas, smalfish. out in the hills in Wimberley.
virgotex
Burning already? I know I've been away for 15 years, but ain't this the wrong season?
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:25 pm | #
And what of the rest of us who had to live through that hell? It was bad enough to have Foreigner and Journey and Bryan Adams and Toto. But Loverboy took mainstream "rock" sucking to new lows.
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William H. Rehnquist | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 5:46 pm | #
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foreigner and journey are like blissful manifestations of paradise compared to the mutant grinding of...............rush
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:25 pm | #
So...the 70% of Americans opposing the war are not "real Americans."
Whatever!
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:25 pm | #
NO FLIRTING!
NTodd, Stalker
I don't think it'll matter, the trollie likes to pick on me whether I'm solving world peace or thinking of sucking and fucking.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:25 pm | #
Saw a bumpersticker today on a hairdresser's car: Tease it 'til it stands up.
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now! |
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02.24.07 - 6:25 pm | #
So I've got to go to a birthday party tonight at a bar that's frequented by both meat and knuckle heads; but is across the street from one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's boyhood schools.
And it's supposed to snow another 8-10".
Can I have fun?
Zap Rowsdower |
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02.24.07 - 6:26 pm | #
Burning already? I know I've been away for 15 years, but ain't this the wrong season?
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:25 pm | #
they shouldn't be just now, but some folks are too dumb to read a weather warning. 40mph gusts up where we are.
Hellkitty |
02.24.07 - 6:26 pm | #
Saw a bumpersticker today on a hairdresser's car: Tease it 'til it stands up.
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now!
I like that!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:27 pm | #
foreigner and journey are like blissful manifestations of paradise...
Take that back. Right now.
No wonder this site gets a bad rep for knocking religion.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 6:27 pm | #
Can I have fun?
Zap Rowsdower
Stop by the store. Take Falstaff's list (above) with you. And a credit card.
You'll have a great time.
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:27 pm | #
foreigner and journey are like blissful manifestations of paradise compared to the mutant grinding of...............rush
Ok!
That's fucking IT!
I've had enough of this Rush bashing!
Foreigner and Journey?
Of fucking gag me with a spoon, so to speak.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:27 pm | #
I just read that story (and saw the video)about that KFC in The Village w/the rat infestation.
MMMM, Kentucky fried rat, the way that old grandma down the street used to make it.
Doug
THAT must be what dith is talking about when he talks about grandma's home cooking.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:27 pm | #
Va. Lawmakers Pass Slavery Apology
By LARRY O'DELL, Associated Press Writer
Good. I'm glad they did. Now if the motherfuckers could get their act together and raise taxes so we could do something about the transportation mess here in VA, that would be just as nice. Grrrr.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:28 pm | #
Burning already? I know I've been away for 15 years, but ain't this the wrong season?
don't know what the right season is but this is the second brush fire I know of this week.
virgotex |
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02.24.07 - 6:28 pm | #
foreigner and journey are silly boys creating boozy ballads. quite harmless.
rush are 'artistes' who one can love or hate.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:28 pm | #
they shouldn't be just now, but some folks are too dumb to read a weather warning. 40mph gusts up where we are.
Hellkitty
Same ones who didn't think we meant it when we talked about "flash flooding." The tragic ones pitched tents in the arroyos; the stupid ones built houses that, come spring, had creeks running through 'em.
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:29 pm | #
MMMM, Kentucky fried rat, the way that old grandma down the street used to make it.
don't know what the right season is but this is the second brush fire I know of this week.
virgotex
Should be too wet for much burning just now; usually much drier in July-August.
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:29 pm | #
Moon,
It looks as if the rain held off?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:30 pm | #
Now if that don't beat all. Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the West, and for what? So we can appoint a sheriff that's blacker than any Indian.
"Schvartzes! They darker than us!"
watertiger
"Boss, you use yer tongue purtier than a two dollar whore."
"Shitkicker!"
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:30 pm | #
foreigner and journey are silly boys creating boozy ballads. quite harmless.
Foreigner and Journey killed mainstream rock.
Harmless, my ass.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:30 pm | #
foreigner and journey are silly boys creating boozy ballads. quite harmless.
rush are 'artistes' who one can love or hate.
mrs. antleros-X21
I like all three. Does that make ME a bad person?
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:31 pm | #
Moon,
It looks as if the rain held off?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:30 pm | #
yeah just about, made attempts to rain but mostly stayed dry.
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 6:31 pm | #
and geddy lee's voice sounds like andy warhol's can opener........
mrs. antleros-X21
LOL
No offense, but I can't stand that band. Nor do I enjoy Journey, Foreigner, Boston, Loverboy, REO Speedwagon, and on and on.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:31 pm | #
Should be too wet for much burning just now; usually much drier in July-August.
Lent is code for global climate change.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:31 pm | #
foreigner and journey 'killed' mainstream rock?
i thought it was only sleeping.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:31 pm | #
Who has cats? I have cats!
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Jeffraham Prestonian
All God's chillun got cats!
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:31 pm | #
One of my first trips to California, my client told me that arroyo is Spanish for "stay the fuck out of here."
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:32 pm | #
Foreigner and Journey killed mainstream rock.
And Supertramp and...REO Fucking Speedwagon (the worst band on the planet).
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:32 pm | #
Same ones who didn't think we meant it when we talked about "flash flooding." The tragic ones pitched tents in the arroyos; the stupid ones built houses that, come spring, had creeks running through 'em.
yeah, those "Turn Around/Don't Drown" signs? just there for teh funny
virgotex |
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02.24.07 - 6:32 pm | #
Should be too wet for much burning just now; usually much drier in July-August.
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:29 pm | #
what they do up here is wait for a day when rain is predicted. They start massive piles of cedar on fire with gasoline. It will burn through a heavy rain. By nighttime, if they do it right its all done. What worries me are the guys who spend all day with a cooler or two of Lone Star and say "hey Bubba watch this" while they are tending the piles.
Hellkitty |
02.24.07 - 6:33 pm | #
i thought it was only sleeping.
You can blame Foreigner and Journey for bands like Coldplay and Creed.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:33 pm | #
I like all three. Does that make ME a bad person?
Terry C - End Bush's War Now
And Supertramp and...REO Fucking Speedwagon (the worst band on the planet).
I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore may be the greatest song ever written.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 6:33 pm | #
Almost all music sux, people. Don't you get it?
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:34 pm | #
I like all three. Does that make ME a bad person?
Terry C - End Bush's War Now
Yes.
Yes, it does.
[ducks & runs!]
Gummo
Music snobs!
(Rolls eyes)
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:34 pm | #
You can blame Foreigner and Journey for bands like Coldplay and Creed.
Certainly Creed, but Coldplay?
I'd say they're more Radiohead's fault...
Zap Rowsdower |
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02.24.07 - 6:34 pm | #
what they do up here is wait for a day when rain is predicted. They start massive piles of cedar on fire with gasoline. It will burn through a heavy rain. By nighttime, if they do it right its all done. What worries me are the guys who spend all day with a cooler or two of Lone Star and say "hey Bubba watch this" while they are tending the piles.
Hellkitty
Well, the first problem is relying on weather reports.
The second is, as you say. Reminds me of the joke about putting "black boxes" in pickup trucks. On the tape of the first one recovered from a wreck were these last words: "Hold my beer and watch this!"
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:34 pm | #
The Newman that does all the soundtrack shit -- now THAT is good music!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:35 pm | #
I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore may be the greatest song ever written.
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William H. Rehnquist
[chokes on raisin...]
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:35 pm | #
Oh, how classy!
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:36 pm | #
Burning cedar with gasoline; drinkin' beer while it burns.
Damn, you're makin' me miss the Hill Country!
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:36 pm | #
I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore may be the greatest song ever written.
Grr.
It's fucking on!
Here we stand
Worlds apart, hearts broken in two, two, two
Sleepless nights
Losing ground
I'm reaching for you, you, you
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:36 pm | #
Newer music would be a billion times better if everyone would've listened to Leon Redbone.
...or took fashion cues from him.
Zap Rowsdower |
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02.24.07 - 6:37 pm | #
They should the name to Mel Gibson High School.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:37 pm | #
yeah, those "Turn Around/Don't Drown" signs? just there for teh funny
Someone should make an anti-horror movie in which one of the characters dutifully and successfully warns the stars *not* to pitch tent in the arroyo, *not* to go out to the laundry shed in their underwear, *not* to drive up to lookout point to make out ...
masculine_monica_nyc |
02.24.07 - 6:37 pm | #
I bet if I took a shower, I'd feel cleaner.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:37 pm | #
Newer music would be a billion times better if everyone would've listened to Leon Redbone.
...or took fashion cues from him.
Zap Rowsdower
Diddy Wah Diddy...........
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:37 pm | #
Go ahead. Sign the petition. You know you need to for the sake of everyone on the planet.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:37 pm | #
Sorry.
They should CHANGE the name OF THE SCHOOL to Mel Gibson High School.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:38 pm | #
It's fucking on!
Don't even.
I'll Wang Chung your ass.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 6:38 pm | #
Hallo. What've you good moonbats been up to this day?
flory |
02.24.07 - 6:38 pm | #
I like all three. Does that make ME a bad person?
Terry C - End Bush's War Now | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:31 pm | #
well, I don't want to be the person who says you killed any hope we now have of tuba solos making a huge comeback in rock music........
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:38 pm | #
Almost all music sux, people. Don't you get it?
It's probably (a) my Sun in Pisces and (b) my lack of musical education, but there's very little music that I can't enjoy, at least in reasonable doses. Some I like lots more than others, but, well, music is magic in terms of what it can do for your attitude. Literally changes the chemicals in your brain.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:38 pm | #
For better or worse, I can't cast my memory back beyond Christopher Cross any more. He has burned out all my bad music memories from the '70's, and sits there squatting in the place the music memory doesn't want to go.
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:38 pm | #
It's probably (a) my Sun in Pisces and (b) my lack of musical education, but there's very little music that I can't enjoy, at least in reasonable doses. Some I like lots more than others, but, well, music is magic in terms of what it can do for your attitude. Literally changes the chemicals in your brain.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Not for the same reasons, but yeah, I can listen to almost anything.
Except '70's music. "The horror! The horror!"
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:39 pm | #
He won like 700 Grammy awards.
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William H. Rehnquist
And sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:40 pm | #
I like lots more than others, but, well, music is magic in terms of what it can do for your attitude. Literally changes the chemicals in your brain.
Absolutley!
I was once at a concert and, as you know, they like to play music while the roadies are setting up the stage. Journey came on and you could feel the chemical of the crowd start to change.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:40 pm | #
And Supertramp and...REO Fucking Speedwagon (the worst band on the planet).
"Wheel in the Sky keeps on turnin"
Gomez, Popsicle Toes |
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02.24.07 - 6:40 pm | #
You can blame Foreigner and Journey for bands like Coldplay and Creed.
smalfish | 02.24.07 - 6:33 pm | #
hey I love the song Yellow.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:41 pm | #
For better or worse, I can't cast my memory back beyond Christopher Cross any more. He has burned out all my bad music memories from the '70's, and sits there squatting in the place the music memory doesn't want to go.
For X-Mas, we got all 11 CD's of the Time Life Classic Soft Rock Collection.
Tearjerker on every track, I tells ya!!
Zap Rowsdower |
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02.24.07 - 6:41 pm | #
He won like 700 Grammy awards.
Which is why the Grammy Awards pretty much lost all credibility.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:41 pm | #
Hey - folks like what they like.
With all the shit going down in the country and in the world right now, I really don't give a rat's ass what music people listen to.
Unless it's that white supremacist shit.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:41 pm | #
Where the bluidy hell is my hammer? I have to put my beautiful picture of Maxx as Robert Taylor!
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GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 6:41 pm | #
well i am a fan of ABBA and Prince
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 6:41 pm | #
to drive up to lookout point to make out ...
In my younger days I used to do that.
What was dangerous?
That you might have a cop tap on your window, while you were in a moment of passion/love.
What's with those cops, are they gay hetero haters?
Doug |
02.24.07 - 6:41 pm | #
Damn, you're makin' me miss the Hill Country!
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:36 pm | #
come on up. We have a guest room complete with feline accompaniment.
when the wind dies we can stuff some cedar in the chimemea, sit on the deck and watch the oaks leaf out. And there is always plenty of beer
Hellkitty |
02.24.07 - 6:41 pm | #
Velveeta?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Musical Velveeta.
Sometimes you just can't help yourself.
Gummo |
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02.24.07 - 6:41 pm | #
I love Supertramp.
I cant recall hearing anything ever by Creed or REO Speedwagon.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:41 pm | #
"Wheel in the Sky keeps on turnin"
Gomez, Popsicle Toes
[puking on your popsicle toes]
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:42 pm | #
Except '70's music. "The horror! The horror!"
"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor..."
Best disco lyrics ever.
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 6:42 pm | #
flory: Hallo. What've you good moonbats been up to this day?
I watched a couple of flix -- one was a Portman flick about people wearin Guy Fawkes masks, and the other was Clooney on a space station around a giant electroball thingies you see at Spencer's Gifts allatime.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:42 pm | #
well i am a fan of ABBA and Prince
Moonbootica, Candylion | Homepage |
currently going through a musical fave, love Evita
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 6:43 pm | #
well i am a fan of ABBA and Prince
Moonbootica, Candylion
Prince did the only good SuperBowl show there's ever been or ever will be.
Not to get all hyperbolic or anything.
Gummo |
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02.24.07 - 6:43 pm | #
yeah, those "Turn Around/Don't Drown" signs? just there for teh funny
I have always wondered why they only put the baricades on two sides of the road and not make them really impassible with four.
Hellkitty |
02.24.07 - 6:43 pm | #
Best disco lyrics ever.
"I was working as a waitress at a cocktail bar when I met you..."
(God, I hate that song, too.)
I am a music snob. At least I am certain that my own taste in music is exquisite. To me.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:44 pm | #
I cant recall hearing anything ever by Creed or REO Speedwagon.
Creed sang Jesus songs. And songs about how much the lead singer loved his wife and baby. Until the lead singer decided that his soul mate was actually the chick who played Buffy in the original Vampire Slayer movie. Then they broke up too. And Creed kept right on sucking.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 6:44 pm | #
*phase
I also have 2 version of Phantom of the Opera, the movie and original cast recording on my Creative and the soundtrack to Dreamgirls.
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 6:44 pm | #
where I was working the other day they decided to really cut loose and put on an easy listening station.
i thought oh fucking hell. i just know im going to hear the song 'I.Had.The.Time.Of.My.Life.' + Lionel Ritchie..........yep.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:44 pm | #
Or that incest and cracker music.
More commonly known as country and western.
What, Trains and lost dogs and whoring women and broken pick up trucks don't appeal to your musical interests?
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:44 pm | #
I see that Bruce Crandall, Greg Kinnear's "Snake Shit" 1965 Ia Drang chopper pilot character in "We Were Soldiers" won the MOH, 42 years after the fact.
And will have TANG President Shrub award it to him.
Max Planck |
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02.24.07 - 6:44 pm | #
First boom of thundah!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:46 pm | #
currently going through a musical fave, love Evita
Moonbootica, Candylion | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:43 pm
saw a pretty good production of that many moons ago at ARTPARK in upstate N.Y.
am not a fan of music purists generally.
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 6:46 pm | #
thought oh fucking hell. i just know im going to hear the song 'I.Had.The.Time.Of.My.Life.' + Lionel Ritchie..........yep.
I want into a United Rental once, and they had some bullshit radio station going on in the background. It was playing Sonny and Cher. I asked the guy if this was normal?
Yep was his answer.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:46 pm | #
Or that incest and cracker music.
More commonly known as country and western.
I've grown into "good" C & W as I've gotten older.
I mean, Bob Wills? C'mon. What he did was very punk rawk for its time.
Zap Rowsdower |
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02.24.07 - 6:46 pm | #
Sun-dried tomato, shrimp, garlic, basil, and ancho pepper puree over spinach linguine with a nice salad and fresh Italian bread...
billy b; camarillo brillo
OOoooohh.... That's a very illuminating answer....
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 6:46 pm | #
[puking on your popsicle toes]
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
That kinda tickles.
Gomez, Popsicle Toes
Are you two flirting?
flory |
02.24.07 - 6:46 pm | #
Prince did the only good SuperBowl show there's ever been or ever will be.
Duh, bitch (note my restraint in not blogwhoring).
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 6:47 pm | #
Same ones who didn't think we meant it when we talked about "flash flooding." The tragic ones pitched tents in the arroyos; the stupid ones built houses that, come spring, had creeks running through 'em.
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited
My sister knew a guy who got his new VW Beetle stuck in an arroyo. Luckily he went for help. I don't think they ever found the car.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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02.24.07 - 6:47 pm | #
I heard 'Love Shack' yesterday at a coffee place.
The 'barrista' had a pointed stud below her lip.
Sort of a spear.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:47 pm | #
That kinda tickles.
Gomez, Popsicle Toes
Well, I'm not Jesus, sweetheart, so you're going to have to wash your own feet.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:47 pm | #
am not a fan of music purists generally.
How about music puerilists?
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 6:47 pm | #
What, Trains and lost dogs and whoring women and broken pick up trucks don't appeal to your musical interests?
I've haven't had much interest in C&W music since Jonny Cash died.
Doug |
02.24.07 - 6:47 pm | #
Are you two flirting?
flory
Its just been one continuous flirt since the end of September.
Just assume we are.
Gomez, Popsicle Toes |
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02.24.07 - 6:48 pm | #
oh and those who go on about how 'music was so cool between this year and this year' and say modern music is rubbish.
every decade has its brilliant and crap music, music moves on, it does not stand still.
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 6:48 pm | #
I can even like about 60% of C&W if I'm on a road trip. It just lends itself to road trips. Allison Crouse has a voice that just works with the highway.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:48 pm | #
I mean, Bob Wills? C'mon. What he did was very punk rawk for its time.
Zap Rowsdower | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:46 pm | #
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who was that guy with bob wills and the texas playboys who always made that cool little sound?
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
each to ones own anyways, any debate about music is never gonna find consensus, cause like we're all different!
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
Are you two flirting?
flory
If he'll have me, I'll flirt with him for the rest of his wonderful life, trolls be damned.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
For X-Mas, we got all 11 CD's of the Time Life Classic Soft Rock Collection.
Tearjerker on every track, I tells ya!!
Zap Rowsdower
Got stuck on a 30 minute infomercial for that collection the other day. The wife had the remote and wouldn't give it up.
I couldn't sleep for three nights. Two days of Beethoven and Te Kanawa to get rid of the ear worms.
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
You can barely see my cats, but they're there, maaaaan.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
I've haven't had much interest in C&W music since Jonny Cash died.
Doug,
Check out the soundtrack to O, Brother!
Or anything new by Willie Nelson.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
every decade has its brilliant and crap music, music moves on, it does not stand still.
She speaks the truth!!!
virgotex |
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02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
I liked the film version of Evita.
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
who was that guy with bob wills and the texas playboys who always made that cool little sound?
That was Carrot Top.
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William H. Rehnquist |
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02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
I am a music snob.
I had some guy ask me what was playing on my car stereo the other day, and when I told him, he said it sounded "trippy". I got to thinking, yeah, that could certainly define my musical tastes.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
music purists are on thing.
music pointellists are another.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
Speaking of the 70s, I just had to put in Boogie Nights...
NTodd, Stalker |
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02.24.07 - 6:49 pm | #
See, by this time in my Bridge on the River Kwai/Lawrence of Arabia double feature at the Doheny theatre, I was just about dead. Fortunately, they had hot dogs.
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GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 6:50 pm | #
Well, I'm not Jesus, sweetheart, so you're going to have to wash your own feet.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
If you were I'd be asking to to turn water into lemonade.
Gomez, Popsicle Toes |
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02.24.07 - 6:50 pm | #
If he'll have me, I'll flirt with him for the rest of his wonderful life, trolls be damned.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
So long as you don't talk about religion.
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:50 pm | #
every time I look down in the lower right of the main page I misread the ad.
It looks like it says "meet Neanderthal singles"
Hellkitty |
02.24.07 - 6:50 pm | #
I'm currently being serenaded with the bass frequencies of some gangsta rap, from below. Lovely music.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:50 pm | #
Just assume we are.
Gomez, Popsicle Toes
But that breaks about 14 of the cardinal laws of the intertubes. Something must be done!
flory |
02.24.07 - 6:50 pm | #
This issss ourrrr coun-treeeeeee
Had to be said.
Now, I must take a cue from Jeffraham and shower. Gotta look cute for the knuckledraggers.
Peace (and check blog for purdy snow pictures).
Zap Rowsdower |
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02.24.07 - 6:50 pm | #
My description of Dick Cheney: the lying, pussy-hating, circumcised dick-looking, military service-avoiding, classified information-leaking, shitstained, cowardly, sodding bloody idiotic, moronic, nerf-herding, grass-chewing, duck-murdering, can't shoot straight or practice proper gun safety, corporate shill, tax avoiding, mendacious, hide in a bunker, usurping presidential power, shrill, fearmongering traitor to the United States visiting another country while trying to attack elected leaders of the United States like a whiny-ass titty baby?
It seems like it is missing something, like it is incomplete.
Snow |
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02.24.07 - 6:50 pm | #
If he'll have me, I'll flirt with him for the rest of his wonderful life, trolls be damned.
Wait! Is that the second Eschaton proposal???
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 6:51 pm | #
come on up. We have a guest room complete with feline accompaniment.
when the wind dies we can stuff some cedar in the chimemea, sit on the deck and watch the oaks leaf out. And there is always plenty of beer
Hellkitty
I wanna go home with the Armadillo...
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 6:51 pm | #
O, Brother!
Happens to not be C&W. It is bluegrass - and not related to C&W in any way.
Barndog, Steelhead Junkie |
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02.24.07 - 6:51 pm | #
Shower, yes! I know I was forgetting something!
Try to have me a new thread when I dry off, eh?
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 6:51 pm | #
I mean, Bob Wills? C'mon. What he did was very punk rawk for its time.
Zap Rowsdower
Damn straight. Why else would my cousin have had his version of "Take Me Back to Tulsa, I'm too Young to Marry" played at her wedding? HUnh? Hunh?
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 6:51 pm | #
Check out the soundtrack to O, Brother!
I really liked that song they sang in the blind dude's record studio.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:51 pm | #
I can even like about 60% of C&W if I'm on a road trip.
What turned me off of C&W was the jingoism.
And the formulaic songs.
But mostly the jingoism. What the C&W branch of the music industry did to the Dixie Chicks is unforgivable.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:51 pm | #
...I try to be respectful and I do not believe that religion is a con. I enjoy discussing this issue with religious people of good will and I count many among them as my friends. But I also think you have to cut people a little slack when they fail to make all the proper distinctions among believers in light of the massive number of revelations these past few years about the Catholic Church and the Protestant fundamentalist leaders who fail spectacularly to practice what they preach. These are people who are at the forefront of the religious right movement and are in direct and often aggressive opposition to progressivism and liberalism. Most importantly, they are constantly represented in the media and politics as being the true religious face of America.
I don't know about the first one, but Willie Nelson is OK to me.
Doug
You haven't seen O, Brother Where Art Thou?, the Coen brothers movie? O jeez- that's one of their very very best.
The first time Mr.Tena and I watched it, we turned right around and watched it all over again that night. It's that good.
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02.24.07 - 6:54 pm | #
Johnny Cash knew how to treat the CMA.
Cash was a Democrat, to boot!
O Brother is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:54 pm | #
But mostly the jingoism. What the C&W branch of the music industry did to the Dixie Chicks is unforgivable.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Having heard their latest CD, which was womderful, it is an absolute travesty that a group this good was treated the way they were.
Gomez, Popsicle Toes |
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02.24.07 - 6:54 pm | #
The Iraqis are not twirling enough, obviously.
HoneyBearKelly |
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02.24.07 - 6:55 pm | #
It seems like it is missing something, like it is incomplete.
Since you were describing the cheney-hole, it needs more cursing.
Doug |
02.24.07 - 6:55 pm | #
Tena, you missed a big ol' dust storm here today.
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 6:55 pm | #
I'm a Dapper Dan man myself.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 6:55 pm | #
But mostly the jingoism. What the C&W branch of the music industry did to the Dixie Chicks is unforgivable.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
All those Grammys....and where's Toby Keith NOW?
Terry C - End Bush's War Now |
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02.24.07 - 6:55 pm | #
wait.
i mean preston sturges.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:56 pm | #
Having heard their latest CD, which was womderful, it is an absolute travesty that a group this good was treated the way they were.
Gomez, Popsicle Toes
But in the long run, good for both them and the rest of us. It got them a much wider audience they never would've reached, stuck in CW limbo.....
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02.24.07 - 6:56 pm | #
I have not seen that and I'm just dying to because so many people whose opinions I respect have told me it's their favorite movie. I can't believe I haven't seen it - I'm going to have to rent it.
Tena |
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02.24.07 - 6:57 pm | #
Sullivan's Travels by Preston Sturges. one of the best american films of all time.
one source of inspiration for 'o brother where art thou'
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:57 pm | #
BTW, I am currently dressed all in black just like Johnny Cash.
Gomez, Popsicle Toes |
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02.24.07 - 6:57 pm | #
BTW, I am currently dressed all in black just like Johnny Cash.
I have not seen that and I'm just dying to because so many people whose opinions I respect have told me it's their favorite movie. I can't believe I haven't seen it - I'm going to have to rent it.
Tena | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:57 pm | #
you'll love it.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 6:58 pm | #
BTW, I am currently dressed all in black just like Johnny Cash.
Come on over and fall into my burning ring of fire...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 6:58 pm | #
Evening, batsies. What's shakin?
Went andbougt a pair of cargo pants today. When I called my daughter to tell her, she exclaimed, "Shut the door!"
I assume that means she couldn't believe it or something.
pie |
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02.24.07 - 6:58 pm | #
O Brother is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore
It's my favorite George Clooney movie. He is so perfect - everytime he wakes up and says: "My hair" and he has that hairnet on - goddamn he's good.
Tena |
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02.24.07 - 6:58 pm | #
Oh.My.God! I'm going to need to move in with someone for a few days or remain in a perpetual state of drunkeness. Just go rent the damned floor stripper already!
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 6:58 pm | #
My description of Dick Cheney: the lying, pussy-hating, circumcised dick-looking, military service-avoiding, classified information-leaking, shitstained, cowardly, sodding bloody idiotic, moronic, nerf-herding, grass-chewing, duck-murdering, can't shoot straight or practice proper gun safety, corporate shill, tax avoiding, mendacious, hide in a bunker, usurping presidential power, shrill, fearmongering traitor to the United States visiting another country while trying to attack elected leaders of the United States like a whiny-ass titty baby?
It seems like it is missing something, like it is incomplete.
Snow | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 6:50 pm
Mention something about the sneering...
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now! |
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02.24.07 - 6:59 pm | #
I hope the idea of blow torching the vinyl was dropped. That sounds like something that could lead to a Darwin Award.
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
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02.24.07 - 6:59 pm | #
James Cameron claims he found Jesus. Literally. The whole ressurection thing didn't happen. This guy directed Titanic you know, so I am sure Christians now will reject the whole faith on the spot.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 7:00 pm | #
Goddamn friggin' piece of armadillo shit Haloscan!
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in |
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02.24.07 - 7:00 pm | #
It's my favorite George Clooney movie.
Oh, yeah. He was awesome in that movie.
In fact, we have a storm coming, maybe I'll have to rent that again...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 7:01 pm | #
I always thought country music should have stayed in it's own genre, instead of trying to sound more mainstream, pop or even rockish.
I think some of the old time country artists are spinning in their graves right about now.
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hey i saw merle haggard oh shit not merle it was waylon jennings in the late 80s i think. man what a drugged out dude with some heavy thing goin for his wife's daughter (not his) who was singing with him.
unless i read the situation entirely wrong.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:01 pm | #
BTW, I am currently dressed all in black just like Johnny Cash.
Even the skivvies?
Thers |
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02.24.07 - 7:01 pm | #
I hope the idea of blow torching the vinyl was dropped.
I shot my husband a look that said "no".
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 7:01 pm | #
It seems like it is missing something, like it is incomplete.
The part where viceroy HAL is a hyprocrite for pushing a constitutional amendment that would hurt his professional lesbian daughter, were she not the spawn of evil?
masculine_monica_nyc |
02.24.07 - 7:02 pm | #
pie,
I'm clueless on those phrases. They keep them from us to talk in code, I swear.
Hell, I'm still marvelling over the term "straight edge" - it cracks me up.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 7:02 pm | #
quiz:
which country 'star' wrong 'the pusher man' recorded by steppenwolf?
clue.
initials that make a short exclamation.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:02 pm | #
Rock n' roll is a form of country music and country music is a form of folk music therefore rock n' roll is a form of folk music.
slooop |
02.24.07 - 7:02 pm | #
last year for one of my modules I had to do a group presentation on a scene from Oh Brother Where Art Thou, my friend Gem designed a snazzy powerpoint and we got high marks.
we talked about the Siren's scene.
Moonbootica, Candylion |
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02.24.07 - 7:02 pm | #
I'm going back upstairs. It's all going to work out. I just know it.
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough |
02.24.07 - 7:03 pm | #
Oh.My.God! I'm going to need to move in with someone for a few days or remain in a perpetual state of drunkeness. Just go rent the damned floor stripper already!
You have my sympathies. I'm not sure how I'm going to get through having the landscapers tear up my yard.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 7:07 pm | #
dont worry Moonbootica. it's all highly overrated.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:07 pm | #
Tena,
My kid's a straight edge.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 7:07 pm | #
What's a teen who does do drugs and sex, a slide ruler?
spinoza Neque lugere, neque in | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 7:07 pm
for awhile, with your boots and your flag shirt, I was thinking you were really Garth Brooks.
[winky]
Tena
So, you were spying on me yesterday!
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 7:10 pm | #
A straight edge is a teen who doesn't drink, do drugs, or have sex.
Ok, so what's a protractor?
Doug |
02.24.07 - 7:11 pm | #
when i was a teenager my slide ruled me.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:11 pm | #
A slide compass.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
A John Donne reference!
Rmj, Curiosly Surfeited |
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02.24.07 - 7:11 pm | #
a protracter is a zen buddhist
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:11 pm | #
jdw,
I posted something special for you this afternoon on one of the earlier threads.
Just. for. you.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 7:12 pm | #
Anyone remember the French Curve?
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now! |
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02.24.07 - 7:12 pm | #
here's yer coke toddler.
to see we were thinking the same i find disconcerting. off to slit wrists...or remove pants or something...
jdw |
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02.24.07 - 7:12 pm | #
In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim that Jesus wasn't resurrected --the cornerstone of Christian faith-- and that his burial cave was discovered near Jerusalem. And, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene.
The Airplane wrote a song about that - "Bastard Son of Jesus."
Sullivan's Travels is good, but fairly overrated =p
Nim, ham hock of liberty |
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02.24.07 - 7:14 pm | #
And, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene.
I thought she was married to James Carville.
Gomez, Popsicle Toes |
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02.24.07 - 7:14 pm | #
I'm humbled, thanks, but actually...I didn't raise her to be that way. Baffles me, it does.
Vicki,
I think a lot o them have seen friends go down that road and it didn't turn out well. My 20 year old friend, the younger daughter of a friend of mine who is my age, is so uptight because her sister is a crack head, that she is 20, doesn't do drugs and has never had sex. I'm working on getting her to loosen up - she needs to quit worrying about "upsetting her parents." She's grown.
Tena |
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02.24.07 - 7:15 pm | #
And, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene.
Wait, I think that I read that book.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 7:13 pm |
anybody know why the holy roman catholic church slaughtered the Knights Templar in s. France?
serious inquiry.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:15 pm | #
Welp, the flix will just have to be late back to Blockbustah. I am not riding the bike in the rain to wait on a bus.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 7:15 pm | #
how nice, but i ain't been around for weeks, 'cept drivebys.
don't tell me, it was some indigo crap???????
No, it wasn't.
I ain't been around much, either.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 7:15 pm | #
what was the french curve? something like the 'spanish fly?'
Welp, the flix will just have to be late back to Blockbustah. I am not riding the bike in the rain to wait on a bus.
JP- any word at all on the scooter? I'm so sorry about that.
Tena |
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02.24.07 - 7:16 pm | #
One theory is that the Knights Templar's banking system was threatening the power of the church.
The knights templar basically started branch banking. You could deposit in one area, get a slip, and withdraw it when you reached a different location.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 7:16 pm | #
I didn't raise her to be that way.
pie |
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02.24.07 - 7:17 pm | #
anybody know why garth brooks slaughtered the knights templar in s.france?
I have always just said -gully-.
sadly, no |
02.24.07 - 7:17 pm | #
So, you were spying on me yesterday!
Rmj,
O yeah, I have magic powers - I can see you all the way from Gig Harbor, Washington, which is only about 3100 miles from Houston.
Tena |
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02.24.07 - 7:17 pm | #
I thought she was married to James Carville.
Gomez, Popsicle Toes
That's her eveeeeel twin.
anybody know why the holy roman catholic church slaughtered the Knights Templar in s. France?
serious inquiry.
mrs. antleros-X21
You mean it wasn't about the money?
flory |
02.24.07 - 7:17 pm | #
One theory is that the Knights Templar's banking system was threatening the power of the church.
The knights templar basically started branch banking. You could deposit in one area, get a slip, and withdraw it when you reached a different location.
trifecta | Homepage | 02.24.07 - 7:16 pm | #
And yet you still know better than she how she needs to be?
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 7:18 pm | #
You guys with the dust storms wanna come pick your soil? I got sprinkled on by an odd looking cloud and it turned out to be mud.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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02.24.07 - 7:18 pm | #
French curve is part of the old drafting equipment along with the protractor. Computers got rid of all that...
ellroon, Leave Iraq/n now! |
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02.24.07 - 7:18 pm | #
Tena, while you are there, you can observe the latest coffee trend in Seattle. Picture mixing hooters with espresso and you get bikini coffee stands. They are all over the place in Seattle.
trifecta |
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02.24.07 - 7:18 pm | #
The straight edges should be punished, not rewarded, for their 'morality'.
push |
02.24.07 - 7:18 pm | #
I hate it when I do that!!!
I didn't raise her to be that way.
Children are a product of their environment.
She hada loving, supportive one.
pie |
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02.24.07 - 7:18 pm | #
Tena: JP- any word at all on the scooter? I'm so sorry about that.
No word -- and, unless you helped the thieves in some way (which I found very doubtful), you needn't apologize.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 7:18 pm | #
i 'heard' the knights templar were starting up some sexual-mystical heresy......didn't know about the money
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:19 pm | #
Tena,
Are you up w/ your granddaughter? How's she doing??
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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02.24.07 - 7:19 pm | #
One theory is that the Knights Templar's banking system was threatening the power of the church.
trifecta
That was my understanding.
Tena |
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02.24.07 - 7:19 pm | #
"anybody know why the holy roman catholic church slaughtered the Knights Templar in s. France?
serious inquiry."
The church had irrefutable evidence that the Templars were engaging in weapons of mass destruction-related-programs. Only a fool or a Frenchman could believe otherwise.
That, and the Templars were ALWAYS leaving the toilet seat up and using all the hot water.
Nim, ham hock of liberty |
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02.24.07 - 7:19 pm | #
anybody know why garth brooks slaughtered the knights templar in s.france?
Does it have something to do with the mark of the cheeeeeney beast, reo speedwagon and our forbiddance from talking about religion?
masculine_monica_nyc |
02.24.07 - 7:19 pm | #
The straight edges should be punished, not rewarded, for their 'morality'.
i have an old french curve but didn't think of that as a eupemism.
i dont think i've used it once and ive had it for over two decades.
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:20 pm | #
Does it have something to do with the mark of the cheeeeeney beast, reo speedwagon and our forbiddance from talking about religion?
masculine_monica_nyc | 02.24.07 - 7:19 pm | #
Are you up w/ your granddaughter? How's she doing??
Hecate,
She's incredible. We went up to Seattle today to this enormous and very cool museum complex where there is the Science Center with a whole bunch of hands on exhibits for kids and a whole bunch of playground stuff. She had more fun - and it's so much fun to be with her. She's turning into a little girl!
Yesterday we took her to the Disney Store (I know, but what are you going to do? ) and then to Gymboree and I bought her all kinds of new clothes - she loves to wear dresses. She's such a girly girl.
Tena |
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02.24.07 - 7:21 pm | #
Only a fool or a Frenchman could believe otherwise.
That John Kerry sure gets around, aright.
masculine_monica_nyc |
02.24.07 - 7:22 pm | #
Straight Edge (also known as sXe, and xXx) refers to a lifestyle, a personal commitment, a philosophy, and a subculture that is closely associated with hardcore punk music. Straight edgers abstain from recreational drugs, including tobacco and alcohol. Some followers of the straight-edge philosophy also abstain from promiscuous sex, the regular use of painkillers, and the intake of caffeine. Some also practice vegetarianism or veganism.
Straight edgers abstain from recreational drugs, including tobacco and alcohol. Some followers of the straight-edge philosophy also abstain from promiscuous sex, the regular use of painkillers, and the intake of caffeine. Some also practice vegetarianism or veganism.
Did you manage to connect with mena?
flory |
02.24.07 - 7:23 pm | #
making healthy lifestyle choices...jeezus christ on a razor, V, you know better than that to use a variation of a word twice in one phrase.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 7:23 pm | #
when will some genius decide we need a blend of hooters and stationary store?
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:23 pm | #
"when will some genius decide we need a blend of hooters and stationary store?
mrs. antleros-X21"
...have you seen Idiocracy? =x
Nim, ham hock of liberty |
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02.24.07 - 7:24 pm | #
Hecate- she's 3, but she's still so small that she's like a little fairy child. But my 3 year old granddaughter is fucking brilliant! She just slays me - she was talking gondolas yesterday. Gondolas!
She gets this shit from the Baby Einstein/Young Einsteins DVDs.
Tena |
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02.24.07 - 7:24 pm | #
Straight edgers abstain from recreational drugs, including tobacco and alcohol. Some followers of the straight-edge philosophy also abstain from promiscuous sex, the regular use of painkillers, and the intake of caffeine. Some also practice vegetarianism or veganism.
I guess that explains the blood-soaked sea-sponge behind the gymnasium
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:25 pm | #
My double bill is "Network" by Lumet & Chayefsky and "A Face In The Crowd" by Kazan & Shulberg.
A taste: While contemporary reviewers scoffed at the prospect of a hayseed fireball like Lonesome Rhodes becoming a national sensation, Kazan-Schulberg's depiction of the packaging and marketing of fake authenticity now looks prophetic, if a trifle overcooked. In 1990, Kazan told biographer Schickel that the film anticipated the rise of Ronald Reagan, and Schickel adds, "It also anticipates George W. Bush's manipulation of the crowd." These days we pride ourselves on being more sophisticated in perceiving image manufacturing and media manipulation, but I would argue that it's the average voters who have savvied up over the last half-century and the Beltway pundits who have become the rubes, regressively dumber with each political cycle. They're suckers for a "man of the people" more than the people themselves are! It's the Beltway cognoscenti who fetishized Bush's likability, harping on how much more fun he'd be to have a drink with than the cardboard Gore (never mind that Gore won the popular vote), lionize John McCain as a no-guff maverick (never mind his rampant reversals and shameless backflips to court favor with the Republican far right), and keep fobbing off Newt Gingrich—that Uriah Heepish fraud—as a bubbling fountain of futuristic intellect instead of the flagrantly opportunistic manure spreader he has shown himself to be over the last two decades. It was the majority of the American people who kept "Monicagate" in sensible perspective while archdeacons of capital wisdom such as David Broder worked themselves up to a fine moral lather, and it was the majority of the American people who faced reality and turned against the war in Iraq while the archdeacons frittered and fence-straddled. The militant gullibility and brassy confidence of today's elite opinion-makers produce more harm and folly than anything conjured in A Face in the Crowd. Because they possess influence. They're professional dupes.
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02.24.07 - 7:25 pm | #
Straight edgers abstain from recreational drugs, including tobacco and alcohol. Some followers of the straight-edge philosophy also abstain from promiscuous sex, the regular use of painkillers, and the intake of caffeine. Some also practice vegetarianism or veganism.
One such is the guy who played Michael on "Queer as Folk."
masculine_monica_nyc |
02.24.07 - 7:25 pm | #
Did you manage to connect with mena?
flory
We've emailed and we're working on it.
I don't know how we're going to connect, but I cannot imagine coming all the way up here and not seeing darling mena.
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02.24.07 - 7:25 pm | #
She's incredible. We went up to Seattle today to this enormous and very cool museum complex where there is the Science Center with a whole bunch of hands on exhibits for kids and a whole bunch of playground stuff. She had more fun - and it's so much fun to be with her. She's turning into a little girl!
Oh, that's so cool! I can't wait to do stuff like that w/G/Son, but he's too little right now. It's really amazing what they're doing w/ museums, these days and how kid-friendly they've gotten.
i went today to the Baltimore Visionary Art Museum and there were so many parents there with their kids. It was very cool.
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02.24.07 - 7:26 pm | #
but I cannot imagine coming all the way up here and not seeing darling mena.
Tena
Twould be a definite pity.
flory |
02.24.07 - 7:26 pm | #
You guys with the dust storms wanna come pick your soil? I got sprinkled on by an odd looking cloud and it turned out to be mud.
At the very least, straight edge kids are choosing healthy lifestyle choices. - Vicki
I think there's something to the idea that the straight-edge declaration gives some breathing room to kids who aren't ready for sex and whatnot to resist peer pressure.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 7:26 pm | #
Erudite film critique: that movie sucks vilsack.
Nim, ham hock of liberty |
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02.24.07 - 7:27 pm | #
"In Other News... reporting wrangled from the best rest of the Web
U.S. military cancels non-nuclear test explosion in desert
The US government said Thursday it is canceling Divine Strake, a non-nuclear explosion that would have caused the first mushroom-shaped cloud in decades over the desert in the western state of Nevada. The 700-ton test explosion at the Nevada Test Site, proposed to gather data about penetrating underground bunkers, prompted a lawsuit and intense opposition in Nevada and neighboring Utah, where critics feared it would scatter decades-old radioactive material from previous Cold War-era tests.
Main Source: Associated Press" http://newstandardnews.net/conte...m/bulletin/
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02.24.07 - 7:27 pm | #
I think there's something to the idea that the straight-edge declaration gives some breathing room to kids who aren't ready for sex and whatnot to resist peer pressure.
I think so, too.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 7:28 pm | #
Tena, while you are there, you can observe the latest coffee trend in Seattle. Picture mixing hooters with espresso and you get bikini coffee stands. They are all over the place in Seattle.
trifecta
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My son never mentioned this - maybe he doesn't know about it.
There is nothing like that down here in Gig Harbor, but there's a great independent coffee joint just across the parking lot here - excellent capuccino.
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02.24.07 - 7:28 pm | #
straight edge: no curved expanding belly which goes down after 9 months.
thats not a bad thing.
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02.24.07 - 7:28 pm | #
There's a lot more to the question of morality than sexual behavior, of course, but sexual behavior is one of the things Beck is thinking about when he makes his claims about moral collapse. And he's simply full of it. The facts (those, yes) just don't bear these claims out
And that's the real problem with culture-war critiques like D'Souza's, Beck's, and, yes, Helmy's: they have nothing to do with what's happening in the real world. If you want to look at real immorality, then you might want to consider things like torture, corruption, crooked elections, and misleading countries into war.
But then you wouldn't have time to complain about all the fucking cursing bloggers.
masculine_monica_nyc |
02.24.07 - 7:29 pm | #
How do you pronounce -arroyo?-
I have always just said -gully-.
RACIST!
And just whose quarters WON'T you take at the tastee freezze?
Is'nt "strait edge" just another way of saying Chasity balls?
smalfish |
02.24.07 - 7:30 pm | #
Oh.My.God! I'm going to need to move in with someone for a few days or remain in a perpetual state of drunkeness. Just go rent the damned floor stripper already!
Monica_A: Not Dumb Enough
Honey, just get to the airport and tell them you want to go to Phoenix. Midway thru the flight, wake up and call me. I'll pick you up.
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02.24.07 - 7:31 pm | #
And that's the real problem with culture-war critiques like D'Souza's, Beck's, and, yes, Helmy's: they have nothing to do with what's happening in the real world. If you want to look at real immorality, then you might want to consider things like torture, corruption, crooked elections, and misleading countries into war.
If you bring me a hammer. Well, I will anyway, but if you bring me a hammer that would be really good.
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GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar |
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02.24.07 - 7:31 pm | #
Nimster,
Where are you?
And apropos of nothing, I watched a woman back into my two week old Bug last night. She hit it and took off. Damaged the driver side fender and wheel.
I know where she lives, so I put a note in her mailbox to give me a call.
"You may not have realized it, but I saw you back into my car at 6:00 PM tonight....please call me with your insurance information."
So far, no call, so I'm going to drive over to her crib in a couple of minutes and see if I can't get her license plate number to give to the claims agent and the police department.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 7:32 pm | #
I know some Straight Edge kids.
Their holier-than-thou attitude reminds me of religious fundamentalists. Not nice people.
bloggus horribilis |
02.24.07 - 7:32 pm | #
GWPDA: If you bring me a hammer. Well, I will anyway, but if you bring me a hammer that would be really good.
Would you hammer in the morning? Would you hammer in the evening? All over this land?
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02.24.07 - 7:32 pm | #
Is'nt "strait edge" just another way of saying Chasity balls? smalfish
No - it has nothing to do with creepy pledges to dad or Xianity necessarily.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 7:33 pm | #
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Family detention centers for illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in the United States are like prisons, where residents face harsh discipline and lack adequate health care, two advocacy groups said on Thursday.
The Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service surveyed facilities in Texas and Pennsylvania that can hold up to 600. Most of those held there are mothers and children.
"(The) Homeland Security (Department) has to look for alternative models," said Michelle Brane, director of the Women's Commission. "Families should not be split or put in something that looks like a prison."
One of the facilities, the Don Hutto Residential Center in Texas, can house 512 people. Before it opened last year, most of the families were either released from detention or separated and detained individually, the report said.
It is operated by Corrections Corporation of America under contract with Williamson County, Texas."
So far, no call, so I'm going to drive over to her crib in a couple of minutes and see if I can't get her license plate number to give to the claims agent and the police department.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 02.24.07 - 7:32 pm | #
before she gets the scratches cleaned off
mrs. antleros-X21 |
02.24.07 - 7:34 pm | #
I'm in Muskegon this weekend.
And definitely call the cops on your hit and run. If she won't talk to you, sue her ass =p
Nim, ham hock of liberty |
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02.24.07 - 7:35 pm | #
s h e e p s
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.24.07 - 7:35 pm | #
And apropos of nothing, I watched a woman back into my two week old Bug last night. She hit it and took off. Damaged the driver side fender and wheel.
I'm glad you saw it.
What a *responsible* adult.
pie |
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02.24.07 - 7:35 pm | #
Their holier-than-thou attitude reminds me of religious fundamentalists. Not nice people.
As though inflexibility is restricted to the straight-edge crowd.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 7:35 pm | #
"Run, Forrest, run!"
Gah. I hate that movie as much as I dislike "Schindler's List" and "Crash."
masculine_monica_nyc |
02.24.07 - 7:35 pm | #
The US government said Thursday it is canceling Divine Strake, a non-nuclear explosion that would have caused the first mushroom-shaped cloud in decades over the desert in the western state of Nevada.
Those folk have a strange take on devinity.
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02.24.07 - 7:36 pm | #
Their holier-than-thou attitude reminds me of religious fundamentalists.
Not my kid. She just doesn't drink, smoke or have sex.
I'm jiggy with that.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
02.24.07 - 7:36 pm | #
"What holds 400 illegal immigrants from 30 countries, 170 of them children? The T. Don Hutto Family Detention Center, for which the Corrections Corporation of America receives $2.8 million per month.
A jail by any other name is still a jail. A detention camp is still a detention camp. That the prisoners wear scrubs instead of orange jumpsuits or pink underwear doesn't change a thing.
The Government invited the media today. Surprise, for the first time there was pizza on the menu. How humane. They brought in plastic potted plants to warm up the place. The Government says its more like a community college than a jail.
And everyone knows that kids who have sex and use drugs never display an attitude of superiority over the kids who don't.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 7:38 pm | #
As though inflexibility is restricted to the straight-edge crowd.
I'm not as flexible as I used to be.
Maybe I should take up yoga.
pie |
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02.24.07 - 7:38 pm | #
Thank You to whomever it was that alerted re: retrospective and lecture by Ralph Steadman, illustrator most known from his work with Hunter Thompson.
Steadman has always been a remarkable, eccentric and wholly original phenomenon, and the program was most interesting.
It was followed by an interview with Morley Safer, also an interesting program filled with perspective on viet nam and specifically about Safers work as a tv journalist there.
All I can say is what I've felt ever since the age of 7 or 8, watching vietnamese 7 or 8 year olds being killed every night on tv: the whole thing is a bust, war is nothing but an immense, senseless, useless amoral waste, a mess, a mire, a human disgrace. As an adult, understanding how people profit from the whole thing just reinforces that conviction to the core.
In the very most extreme cases, such as the imperative to stop Hitler and the Nazis war finds its only possible justification, but even then the fact that steps are not taken to prevent the rise of such horrors is itself an equal horror.
War is nothing but a sordid enterprise, a scam as Smedley Butler clearly showed. It's an industry, a way of life, a sick, distorted and futile mindset, and it is so deeply ingrained in our American system that at times we do not even notice it. It is the lack of war that that we do notice, a few years here, a few years there when there is peace.
Our nation was founded in a war; to some extent, or perhaps to a very large extent it is hard-wired in our evolutionary roots and had its origins in tribal conflicts for resources. I do not know, I am not an expert. It does seem to me that the best we can do, what we should do, what we must do as Americans and as a species is to somehow use the good that has come of war, our freedom, our knowledge, our technical abilities, our eventual realization sooner or later that our nominal enemies are simply other human beings that bleed red as we all do, to find another way, a way to peace. For if we do not do this, we doom ourselves to a future which is not worth living.
And everyone knows that kids who have sex and use drugs never display an attitude of superiority over the kids who don't.
pie |
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02.24.07 - 7:41 pm | #
I give up.
No one is saying that peer pressure isn't a problem.
pie |
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02.24.07 - 7:42 pm | #
I just thought the idea that somehow one segment of teens is holier-than-thou-er than the rest was extremely silly. It's practically defining for being a teenager that one's peer group is superior to all the others.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 7:45 pm | #
JeffCO,
In keeping with its Abrahamic view of the natural order, the sexual politics of the Hardline movement were very conservative. Pre-marital sex was frowned upon, homosexuality seen as anathema, pornography abjured, artificial contraception avoided, and abortion militantly opposed.
Nice trick - take the most extreme, hardcore version of some political movement and use it to represent some kid in Podunk who doesn't want to get shit for not doing drugs and having sex. Tiny problem - not the same thing.
JeffCO |
02.24.07 - 8:45 pm | #
The "Surge" More of our chrildren sent to die.
veloer |
02.24.07 - 9:00 pm | #
May Bush rot in hell for all eternity forwhat he has wrought on this earth...........