I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Me?
11 Billion for PA alone? gaah
Damn you, Kenosha Kid!
There's no joy in blogtopia
Toonscribe has struck out
That is teh AWESOME! I think it should replace the elephant as the offical logo of the GOP.
Yeah, but I stopped uoi with a single.
All those people are lazy, though, and just waiting for government handouts.
I prefer, as a symbol, the paper-filled levees in Louisiana. Because if there's one thing this administration's good at, it's covering a pile of crap with whipped cream and telling you it's cake.
A.
That's only a few weeks of the Iraq war.
The Broken Bridges Badge of Merit
Goes right next to the Flooded Streets on New Orleans
We're spending all our money there so we don't have to spend it here.
uoi = you
Difficult to type with a squirmy chihuahua in my lap.
This is a win-win for McCain.
All the smaller bridges in Chester County PA were built 75+ years ago (you know, back when we had things like the CCE, and spent money putting people to work to build our infrastructure) and now they are ALL crumbling apart.
After a big rainstorm, the bridges and back roads around here will wash out, and then they'll be closed for a few years. Or forever.
I prefer, as a symbol, the paper-filled levees in Louisiana. Because if there's one thing this administration's good at, it's covering a pile of crap with whipped cream and telling you it's cake.
That's pretty good too A, but maybe a little too subtle for the Faux News crowd.
Difficult to type with a squirmy chihuahua in my lap.
Don't worry, sparky, I hear you can get a cream for it in Lubbock.
A.
It's easier to steal the money after its sent to Irackeystan.
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Expensive Stuff We Need To Do
But can't because Huggy Bear wants to stay in Iraq until people stop shooting at us so we can stay there forever.
That's exactly right. Supposedly McCain is a different republican because he wants to clean up the environment and do something about global warming. I have no idea how he's going to do it since there's no friggin money for anything but wars. No money for children's healthcare. No money for infrastructure repairs. And money for rebuilding NOLA and helping the people there is considered pork. But he's a "different" republican. Sure he is.
Who cares about fallen bridges?
If we clap real hard, we can have ferries.
GOP: "I do believe in ferries! I do believe in ferries!"
If you believe any of the shit the Republicans tell you, I have a bridge on the verge of catastrophic failure I can sell you.
Just think of all those bridges in Alaska.
Hair on fire social security will go broke in 40 years, maybe! We must act now to cut benefits! And lets spend $2 trillion to occupy Iraq, forever! Now!
/McCentury
we can haz ferrets?
from below:
Warn mankind not to return unbidden.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
and besides, the oil was all burned because they're an advanced civilization and use solar.
we've got an eye on Mars
Don't go there. The Angry Red Planet is inhabited by 50-foot parameciums who will gobble you up in a trice.
I saw the movie.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash | 05.03.08 - 10:27 am | #
I believe in Angry Red Planet the monster is actually the fabulous RatBatSpiderCrab....
Seriously...
We're spending all our money there so we don't have to spend it here.
R. McGeddon | 05.03.08 - 10:30 am
The military industrial leeches are a growth industry keeping America out of recession on the back of these government contracts.
why does Atrios hate America and want it to go in to recession?
Holy crap. Being a person who avoids TV news, I had not seen a picture of the bridge collapse.
After my gas tax holiday the Highway Trust Fund was in trouble so the only thing we can do is raid Social Security.
However, don't touch my disability check.
Mars need women!
Everyone watching at home will think that Obama won. Then the talking heads will go to work and complain that Obama seemed "aloof", "distant", "professorial", "elitest", and "out of touch".
Tweety will say: "America loves a warrior president. They love a guy who finished at the bottom of his class. A guy that doesn't talk down to them and make them feel stupid. Every time I look at Obama, I'm seeing Adlai Stevenson, another egghead from Illinois."
Newton Minnow
Too good to be left on the dead thread. Reads like a transcript from the future.
God damn it.
Later, folks... see you on the drive-by.
Bridges, levees, what't the difference?
TKK, you can haz ferret video, if you scroll down to yesterday at First Draft.
You can also has sexy pictures of Starbuck. If you like that sort of thing.
(Holy god, the new TV Guide is full of hot.)
A.
I believe in Angry Red Planet the monster is actually the fabulous RatBatSpiderCrab....
Listen to Simels, he's pre-law!
However, don't touch my disability check.
John McCain - Sucking on the tit of the American taxpayer for 71 years.
"The Bridges of Madison County 2" plot summary:
Photographer and farmer's wife fall in love. As they escape her boring, Madame Bovary-ish existence they drive over bridge, which collapses. Both drown.
not to show you guys up but to offer a solution:
in Canada, some of the VAT on goods and services has been diverted to the municipalities so they can invest in infrastructure improvements.
You want bridges? I will sell you some bridges. Got wood?
"The Bridges of Hennepin County 2" plot summary:
FYT
Listen to Simels, he's pre-law!
Does that mean he is older than the Code of Hammurabi?
okay, gotta do things now that we're all up. Have good times and do see how expertss have us sending more troops to goof up in Afghanistan, at
http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
Infrastructure? Sounds commie.
TKK, you can haz ferret video, if you scroll down to yesterday at First Draft.
Is that a ferret in your handbag or are you just glad to see me?
Supposedly McCain is a different republican because he wants to clean up the environment and do something about global warming.
"Well, my friends, I would truly like to do those things. But regrettably, we have to make hard choices."
(And even if we did have the money, the crony-filled republican bureaucracy would have no one competent to get it done)
mcsame--wooing the press and the nation on the lap dance express. a little music, a little razzle and its just a tease.
0.1% of GDP.
Chimpy sez 4% of GDP for defence is no big deal.
that's why a "gas tax" holiday is the bestest idea EVER!
Don't forget to leave room for a Katrina picture!
Tweety will say: "America loves a warrior president. They love a guy who finished at the bottom of his class. A guy that doesn't talk down to them and make them feel stupid. Every time I look at Obama, I'm seeing Adlai Stevenson, another egghead from Illinois."
Tweety will also say: "Did you see my official presidential flight harness? HA! I'm a sex machine. Sex. Machine. Baby, you know you wanna do me, right? Come hang out with Chris Matthews sometime. I like the president. He's a real man, the kind who'll punch you in the cock and then laugh at you while you whine on the floor in pain. You know what else I like? VAGINA. Lots of it. [Rapping like Bulworth] And when you on MSNBC you get it all the time! HA! Where are you going? Come play the bongos with me. Here's a mojito, I made it myself. Have I ever told you I grow fruit trees? Well, not me, but the Mexicans I pay to do it are okay at the job. My hedge fund manager told me it was a good investment. HA!"
He's like Larry King without the blinding sex appeal, is Chrissy lately.
A.
Chimpy sez 4% of GDP for defence is no big deal.
P O'Neill
It's not my fault that my daddy makes weapons and not bridges.
Hmmm...I'm thinking more along the lines of the Cloverfield monster taking out the Brooklyn Bridge, but that's just me.
Does that mean he is older than the Code of Hammurabi?
goes into the Simels Is Old Joke hall of fame
The GOP philosophy of governance: EQUITY BURN.
Why tax to raise the money for governance, when we have a perfectly good infrastructure we can suck the equity out of?
Atrios,
'nomics Q: is this collateral any better than Big Shitpile™ ?
The Federal Reserve announced new steps on Friday to help ease tight global credit markets by increasing the size of its cash auctions to banks and allowing financial institutions to put up credit card debt, student loans and car loans as collateral for Fed loans.
81% of the country says we're on the wrong track.
73% of the country disapproves of the President.
Democrats are winning special elections in Denny Hastert's district, and in deep-red districts in Louisiana.
And McCain is campaigning on more of the same.
When the coming Tidal Wave sweeps these bastards out to sea in November, it's gonna be a beautiful thing.
Yo Athenae,
Feel free to call me if you want to chat about that thang.
HBK,
I keep meaning to tell you that you have a great voice.
Whenever possible sell it to foreign corporations, and if nobody's buying throw a fuckin' rager and just walk away! Let the bank (Democrats) deal with the cleanup.
allowing financial institutions to put up credit card debt, student loans and car loans as collateral for Fed loans.
res ipsa loquitur
Just say, "Charge it!"
if infrastructure repair is done correctly, it would generate a lot of jobs and give the economy a real boost.
put up credit card debt, student loans and car loans as collateral for Fed loans.
Just passing the shitpile on to the taxpayer.
Yeah, so why does your side block any domestic drilling that would end US dependence on mideast oil? Why do democrats block construction of new refineries by killer regulations?
The democrats bear responsibility for the oil shortage and high gas prices. I'm waiting for the American people to rise up and demand Congress make these changes!
No one in Canada calls it a VAT, thus demonstrating exactly how familiar this "Canadian" troll is with Canada.
Of course, it's an engineer that is unfamiliar with catwalks, too.
They sound desperate to me. But I am no 'nomics pro.
I believe in Angry Red Planet the monster is actually the fabulous RatBatSpiderCrab....
I will readily grant that the FRBSC did play a significant role in the film. But if you recall the humans did manage to deal successfully with the creature. That big fucking one-celled animal, OTOH, was totally unstoppable. I mean that fucker ate Jack Kruschen! Digested his ass!
Five years ago today:
CHRIS MATTHEWS, host: "Well, we've won the war in Iraq."
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/chr...es/chr...?0cb=-
s1W109515
The trolls' foray into negative IQ territory rolls merrily on...
Yeah, so why does your side block any domestic drilling that would end US dependence on mideast oil?
TCB recites a gooper lying point. Domestic drilling has no chance of ending US dependence on mideast oil.
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I am glad they printed new pictures of Dear Leader in the flightsuit. My old copy was getting too stained.
1. Where was the Exxon Valdez going? Japan? Didn’t think so.
2. Where does the pipeline end? Japan? Didn’t think so.
3. Remember that oil is a commodity. That is, it’s pretty much the same, whereever (there are weight issues, but not germaine here) it comes from. Let’s pretend, for a moment, that all the Alaska oil went to Japan. Well, then Japan wouldn’t have to buy oil from elsewhere, such as the Middle East (where we get oil), thereby lowering the price for all.
It’s basic economics, but of course liberals don’t understand economics or they would not be liberals.
The rhetorical effect of founding your premises in cuckoo fantasy land cannot be overlooked.
Please ignore TCBY.
Under the mccain health care plan, hundreds of thousands of people will die much sooner than under the dem plans, and this will save the fed gov enough money to fix roughly 187 bridges.
It's time to cut the pork, and the life expectancy of the American worker. Yes we can!
put up credit card debt, student loans and car loans as collateral for Fed loans.
So with jobs disappearing, food/gas prices going up, none of those three collateral items are a problem?????
Nobody drives over bridges in PA. Everybody knows this.
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Huggybear won't like this ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x...h? v=x1V7rJfo1TE
Next time he complains about how unfair it is, I'd like to see somebody ask him this:
You said: “If we leave Iraq prematurely, the jihadists will interpret the withdrawal as their great victory”. Is there any limit to how long you would keep American troops fighting and dying in Iraq to prevent that?
After he refuses to set a limit, he'll wish he could return to the good old days when the ads said he only wanted to stay for 100 years.
germaine
What the fuck does a Brit feminist have to do with oil?
TCB recites a gooper lying point. Domestic drilling has no chance of ending US dependence on mideast oil.
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ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©
And when and where - besides in environmentally sensitive areas - has drilling been discouraged? They are drilling all over Michigan. They don't want them to drill in the Great Lakes (wonder why?)
By the way, Smilin' Tim Pawlenty had MnDOT work extra hard to get the 35W bridge rebuild ahead of schedule so it'll be open JUST IN TIME for the convention. Of course, he's so starved MnDOT and other branches of state government that this required pulling tons of money from other projects, such as the Hastings bridge that was deemed in even WORSE shape than the 35W one pre-collapse. The Democrats forced through a gas tax and license fee increase in order to give MnDOT the cash needed to start fixing some of Pawlenty's Axle-Busting Pothole Farms.
if infrastructure repair is done correctly, it would generate a lot of jobs and give the economy a real boost.
mimi
Work Pays America!
The idea of using public funds in such a way is anathema to the neo-Reaganite-Ayn-Rand-free-market-worshipping crowd...and private enterprise is no use, for there's no immediate single-quarter mega-profits to be had.
So with jobs disappearing, food/gas prices going up, none of those three collateral items are a problem?????
That's my Q. They sound desperate to get cash out there.
Tweety will also say: "Did you see my official presidential flight harness? HA! I'm a sex machine. Sex. Machine. Baby, you know you wanna do me, right? Come hang out with Chris Matthews sometime. I like the president. He's a real man, the kind who'll punch you in the cock and then laugh at you while you whine on the floor in pain. You know what else I like? VAGINA. Lots of it. [Rapping like Bulworth] And when you on MSNBC you get it all the time! HA! Where are you going? Come play the bongos with me. Here's a mojito, I made it myself. Have I ever told you I grow fruit trees? Well, not me, but the Mexicans I pay to do it are okay at the job. My hedge fund manager told me it was a good investment. HA!"
He's like Larry King without the blinding sex appeal, is Chrissy lately.
A.
Athenae | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 10:39 am | #
That's a frighteningly good impression of Tweety.
Well, with the new bankruptcy law, it may be harder to avoid credit card debt... but it's still unsecured. Student loans are nondischargeable, and car loans are secured.
Yesterday both Faux News (it was on in the doctor's waiting room) and cnn.com were wanking about how good the economy is.
Learn how to create links
or just copy and paste
Thanks res ipsa.
One reason why it's a mistake to call the GST a VAT is because the GST is added to the marked price. VAT is included e.g. in Yurp. So to the consumer, it looks different to a VAT (even though the economics is similar).
The NYT sez that Vito Fossella (R - Of Course) might have to do time in VA for his DWI. His blood alcohol level was twice over the legal limit. And Cheney came up here a few weeks ago to raise money for this Bada Bing! b/c the GOP is in danger of losing his Staten Island district in the fall.
Please Virginia: send Vito to jail. I beg of you.
Neither party can seem to come to terms with the near future of oil and what it means to a country that leans so heavily on cars, planes and trucks for transportation. The fact that at least one of the Dems hasn't made high speed rail a priority is beyond baffling. It's an embarrassment. We are a country of children being run by children.
Dear John McCain,
Pease, please, take Pawlenty away.
Please Virginia: send Vito to jail. I beg of you.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 10:51 am | #
Seconded!
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The Country's Best troll wanker.
Cornholer Schiffren
I had the most astonishing thought last Thursday. After a long day of hauling the kids to playdates and ballet, I turned on the news. And there was the president, landing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, stepping out of a fighter jet in that amazing uniform, looking--how to put it?--really hot. Also presidential, of course. Not to mention credible as commander in chief. But mostly "hot," as in virile, sexy and powerful.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/ta...e/?
id=110003472
I can't remember the English name for the "VAT" in English, I have to admit.
In French, it's TPS for the federal and tVQ for the provincial.
I think it's GST for the federal in English, and since the Québec govt doesn't do English, TVQ again.
Only been gone 2 1/2 years though.
I think Fosella's a goner not matter what.
Part of his district is in Bay Ridge and that nabe has changed in the last couple of years.
Thanks, P O'Neill. My breakfast is going to come right up again after reading that. Gross.
I predict that there will be a dramatic economic turnaround for the whole world parctically the minute Obama takes office. The mere perception that somebody is going to return us to a sane set of national priorities will be very good for the markets. If he then actually does the right things, that turnaround will be sustained.
I hope President McCain looks good in a flight suit.
the VAT varies with the type of product or service as well
the GST and TVQ are either paid or they're not, as far as I know. Like take-out meals are not taxed but if you eat the same meal in the restaurant, they are.
VAT = Value Added Tax.
Hope this helps.
It "made the most of his manly characteristic."
I was pretty taken aback by the shameless presidential wang worship those days.
The maturity level of our public discourse... was just incomprehensible.
Keeping bridges in operation does not give Rethugs hardons like F22s do.
That's fine, I don't need the juvenille insults to reasoned posts. But don't drink the liberal kool aid so much, research Alaskan drilling and make up your own mind.
End foreign energy dependence.
Over and out.
Neither party can seem to come to terms with the near future of oil and what it means to a country that leans so heavily on cars, planes and trucks for transportation.
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In 1974 I traded in my wife's ginormous Ford for a Fiat (I know, it sucked for reliability but it got great mileage and was a blast to drive). Thirty-four years later and we're having the exact same conversations we had back then.
Time for a fucking change.
Oh my God, remember that WaPo "Why are women so dumb?" thing?
I think the Shriffren thing to which P O'Neill linked proves that woman fucking RIGHT.
HBK,
Ay-rabs. They got Ay-rabs in that district.
Bye, Vito!
/falls off chair laughing
so I suggest a VAT in the USA that depends on the type of goods being purchased - 40 % for luxury goods, for example, and 0% on food, medicine, rent, etc.
fur coats - 100%
nylon parka -0%
you get the idea.
I think it's GST for the federal in English, and since the Québec govt doesn't do English, TVQ again.
Only been gone 2 1/2 years though.
mimi | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 10:53 am | #
And that is relevant to the fact you're a fat bearded Aggie transvestite exactly how?
VAT = Value Added Tax.
A tax named by the marketing department because in reality it adds no value.
"I predict that there will be a dramatic economic turnaround for the whole world parctically the minute Obama takes office."
Why, will Obama be announcing a new form of absurdly cheap energy to take the place of oil? Can't wait.
We're pissing away without even getting a handjob all our money there so we don't have to invest it here.
R. McGeddon
FYT.
To the best of my knowledge no serious Texan puts beans in chili.
research Alaskan drilling and make up your own mind.
Done and done. Now my humble advice to you: go fuck yourself.
A VAT is, of course, a tax on added value.
Oooh.
That didn't turn to be a wise choice of venue, did it?
Arabs in Bay Ridge? Can they dance like Vinnie Barbarino?
To the best of my knowledge no serious Texan puts beans in chili.
Beans are to chili as turds are to punchbowls.
the creepiest bit of the Schiffren piece is the end, where she wants to be Laura Bush.
and if you don't like the sound of VAT, call it a luxury tax like in Monopoly. I doubt any normal person would object to that.
In 1974 I traded in my wife's ginormous Ford for a Fiat
I had a fiat and average gas usage was very low - how much gas can a car burn while sitting at the repair shop?
res ipsa it's been yuppiefied a bit as well.
Manhattan rent refugees.
Vito's toast.
I'm can't watch this fucking MSNBC.
"Obama's pastor problem".
Yeesh.
Start talking about "McBombBomb's pastor problem".
Assholes.
To the best of my knowledge no serious Texan puts beans in chili.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
I certainly will not stand for chili-with-beans on a chili-cheese dog. It's important to have principles and fight for what's right.
Comment by mimi blocked.
'Nuff said!
That's fine, I don't need the juvenille insults to reasoned posts. But don't drink the liberal kool aid so much, research Alaskan drilling and make up your own mind.
End foreign energy dependence.
Over and out.
Texaschilibean
1. Where were you in 1981 when Reagan deliberately as almost his first official act sabotage the energy independence initiatives of History's Greatest Monster?
2. Only serious wankers and dilletants say "over and out", wanker.
Why does Gallup waste money on these national presidential polls?
Were they absent the day their seventh grade social studies teacher taught the electoral college lesson?
so I suggest a VAT in the USA that depends on the type of goods being purchased - 40 % for luxury goods, for example, and 0% on food, medicine, rent, etc.
Correctamundo. And when House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman (D-Ore.) suggested a VAT some 30 years ago the wingers spent a fortune to run him out of office.
Served him right.
P O'Neill,
The creepiest part is that the crazy wingnut lives near me.
If Obama wore a codpiece, the conversation would change.
Why, will Obama be announcing a new form of absurdly cheap energy to take the place of oil? Can't wait.
tbone
Because a lot of the pessimism now stems more from the perception that we are just sailing straight off the cliff rather than from actual shortages of anything. Just turning the gummint back in the right direction will increase confidence, and therefore also increase credit availability. Obviously impending real shortages of oil are an issue, but those won't really directly interfere with the economy for a couple of decades yet.
1. Where were you in 1981 when Reagan deliberately as almost his first official act sabotage the energy independence initiatives of History's Greatest Monster?
In 1981, TCB was not even a twinkle in his daddy's scrotum.
Well, with the new bankruptcy law, it may be harder to avoid credit
card debt... but it's still unsecured. Student loans are
nondischargeable, and car loans are secured.All of that assumes that people will have money to repay those debts. Suppose people decide to "walk away"?
A repossessed car is of no worth unless you can resell it, right?
Someone fresh out of college needs a job that will allow repayment...
RIL is right, "they're" desperate. If they can just keep it propped up 'till after November...
that's why the luxury tax proposal has to come from the electorate
turn the tables on the class war and I'm sure a lot of people would sign a petition for getting a luxury tax going!
texas has virtues, but new mexico knows chili and texas does not.
In 1981, TCB was not even a twinkle in his daddy's scrotum.
Harry Doghiney (D-TX)
What a disturbing image..."Hey...uh...did that scrotum just wink at me?!"
texas has virtues, but new mexico knows chili and texas does not.
Oh no you di'n't!
Why does Gallup waste money on these national presidential polls?
Who was it that said opinion polls are meant to shape opinion?
Even if a student loan is non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, if you can't pay it you can't pay it.
Nevertheless, the Fed has made clear that it remains concerned about the risk from credit markets seizing up because of losses from bad loans, particularly in the housing sector.
What's the default situation on credit cards right now?
I had never tasted proper chili until I arrived in New Mexico. Rule 1: no beans in the pot!
I had a fiat and average gas usage was very low - how much gas can a car burn while sitting at the repair shop?
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When my Fiat's right front wheel literally sheered off at the ball joint while I was driving, I thought it passing strange.
A few months later, when the left front wheel did the same, I concluded it was trying to kill me.
so I suggest a VAT in the USA that depends on the type of goods being purchased - 40 % for luxury goods, for example, and 0% on food, medicine, rent, etc.
And if we pass this seat belt law, we will never stop you for not wearing seat belts. And if we give you a ticket, it will not involve a fine. . .
And if you pass this law, your property taxes will go down and never go up again. . .
And if you allow us to take care of the terrorists in Iraq we will win the war on terror. . .
(no thanks - income tax, progressive up to 55%)
DWD,
you're against a seat belt law?
Are you sure you're at the right blog?
George Johnston,
I have a friend who does a lot of professional work re polling and is always telling me that Gallup and the CBS/NYT poll are the best methodology wise, but the national prez poll just seems like a waste of money.
Maybe they are using it as a marketing tool.
Happy birthday, SPAM!
Thirty years ago today, the first unsolicited commercial e-mail went out over the research network that was the Internet's predecessor - and the modern aggravation of spam was born.
That e-mail, sent to advertise a new machine from the now-defunct computer manufacturer Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), was swiftly and forcefully condemned by the tiny community of engineers developing the Arpanet, or Advanced Research Projects Agency network, named after the Defense Department office that funded the project.
"It was rather an insult to one's sensibilities to have an obvious commercial message sent out over a research network," said computer scientist Peter Neumann of SRI in Menlo Park, who was one of the 393 recipients of that primordial spam...
...research also suggests that the term "spam" originated during the late 1980s when "multi-user dungeons" or MUDs came into being as chat and role-playing programs. According to Templeton, the inspiration for the term was a skit by Monty Python's Flying Circus involving a restaurant that serves what Hormel Foods Corp. calls spiced ham, or Spam.
How did this brand-name canned meat come to be used as a term of derision on MUDs? It was apparently something of a mischievous sport amongst these MUDers to flood the databases of rivals with electronic trash. Templeton said this action was named after the Spam song from the Monty Python skit in which the performers sing, "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam" until told to shut up.
Why not a tax holiday for the first $50,000 of wages and a windfall profits tax on oil companies until the Iraq war is paid for?
If Obama wore a codpiece, the conversation would change.
underwhelm
He a black man, he don't need to - Winger.
So real chili is supposed to be spicy, runny, chopped up beef?
Let's have a tax on usurious interest profits of credit card companies.
All of that assumes that people will have money to repay those debts. Suppose people decide to "walk away"?
I'm saying you can't walk away from a student loan debt, unless by "walk away" you mean "commit suicide."
The car thing, you have a point, inasmuch as there are some cars that aren't selling very well at the moment, and people might be inclined to trash their car before it is repo'd like you're seeing with houses right now… that'd be some real Mad Max stuff if we start seeing that.
Until I was 20, I thought that "chili" was basically spaghetti sauce with chili powder instead of Italian seasoning and a coupla cans of kidney beans added. Oy.
Templeton said this action was named after the Spam song from the Monty Python skit in which the performers sing, "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam" until told to shut up.
dave™© | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 11:05 am | #
Reguires linky!!one1!
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youtube is now reachable
mimi - once I will answer.
I accept no law that limits my personal freedom for the benefit of the insurance companies. I hate insurance companies with the hatred I save for Republicans though they are the same fucking thing.
Oh Lord, where is RMJ. He has views on chili. So does GWPDA.
Ground beef v. other forms of beef.
Discuss.
He a black man, he don't need to - Winger.
I was going to add that the conversation would head directly to race, but it's clear that I didn't need to.
blerb,
I think the idea that oil shortages won't interfere with the economy for two decades is optimistic to the point of madness.
I agree that a shift to a president who won't invade countries willy-nilly will boost other countries' opinion of us, but it will take more than good vibes to pull us out of the economic strife that high fuel prices mean to a world, and more specifically, a superpower, that is mindlessly wandering into the future.
.So real chili is supposed to be spicy, runny, chopped up beef?
Tralfaz
What? You want to be able to eat it with the spoon upside down? Real chili is hunks of some kind of meat braised in a rich sauce of chiles, onions, garlic,and spices. Rice, beans, hominy, tortillas, etc. are eaten separately.
Chili - is wonderful New Mexico style. Lots of chilis and a few tomatoes (not at all what you thinking though. Just a few.) and some beef (usually minced, not ground) and cooked a long time.
people might be inclined to trash their car before it is repo'd like you're seeing with houses right now…
Talk to insurance people about the rise of auto "thefts" and mysterious car fires.
DWD,
oh my.
I'm someone whose life was saved more than once by seatbelts, and if the law hadn't forced me to wear one, I probably wouldn't have gotten into the habit.
Fine, so it's not chili, but I like kidney beans in the mix for texture (and fiber). I prefer not to spend the entire next day in the bathroom.
I think the idea that oil shortages won't interfere with the economy for two decades is optimistic to the point of madness.
At $100+/bbl, lots of sources of liquified fossil carbon become profitable to exploit/convert. Moe has made a pretty good argument here that it's not that we have too little oil, it's that we have too much.
res ipsa I heard that bankruptcy filings have gone up 47.7%.
Don't know how much of that is because of credit cards.
Are you sure you're at the right blog?
mimi | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 11:05 am | #
You certainly are, you empty-headed twit.
Until I was 20, I thought that "chili" was basically spaghetti sauce
with chili powder instead of Italian seasoning and a coupla cans of
kidney beans added. Oy.I had a uncle whose spaghetti sauce was made from Campbell's Tomato Soup
Served with over-cooked spaghetti. Yum.
Real chili is hunks of some kind of meat braised in a rich sauce of chiles, onions, garlic,and spices.
You forgot about the bright orange sludge that seeps out of real chili, soaking the chilidog bun with heart-stopping goodness.
blerb, you're making me salivate. time to start dinner.
Watching the HBO special with Bob Costas on the changing world of sports coverage.
I can sum it up for you:
"OMG!!!! Bloggers use the word fuck!!!!!!!"
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I'm someone whose life was saved more than once by seatbelts, and if the law hadn't forced me to wear one, I probably wouldn't have gotten into the habit.
mimi | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 11:10 am | #
too bad for us.
I doubt any normal person would object to that.
mimi | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 10:59 am | #
You're a fat bearded Aggie transvestite.
What the fuck would you know about normal or normal people...?
Buzz Bissinger:
"Blogs are only about cruelty."
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res ipsa I heard that bankruptcy filings have gone up 47.7%.
Okay, so what the hell is the Fed doing?
ronjazz,
you're added value to this blog = 0.00000000000
If the markets are operating efficiently there will never be shortages, just higher and higher prices.
Eventually, only the military, the largest corporations, and the ultra wealthy will be indulging in gasoline, not because it's unavailable at the pump, but because the price is too high for John Smith to justify putting it in the tank on his wages.
CoT you must admit that Bizzinger beat up on Leitch.
Culture of Truth,
Check your email.
How come, in 2008, we don't have an automobile yet that can get 100 miles to the gallon? Is there no brilliant engineer anywhere that can't figure that out? It wouldn't seem to me to be as big of a problem as trying to send a rocket to Mars, and yet we have done that.
you're added value to this blog = 0.00000000000
mimi | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 11:12 am | #
so, twice yours. thanks, fuckwit. see what other brilliant irrelevancies you can conjure.
Tralfaz,
Make your chili the way you like it.
I'm someone whose life was saved more than once by seatbelts, and if the law hadn't forced me to wear one, I probably wouldn't have gotten into the habit.
I'll have to admit I almost never wore seat belts till the cops started to ticket me. During those days, the lack of a seat belt never affected my crash safety, avoiding crashes did.
Well, the US military is the largest user of petrol products in the world.
Yeah, could Buzz Bissinger have come off as more of a cranky old guy chasing kids off his front lawn than he did during that Costas segment? Embarrassing.
Bob Costas to Buzz:
"Do you feel threatened by blogs?"
Buzz:
"Of course. That's why I'm so angry. My son reads blogs and
they are glib and profane and despicable."
.
Ew. It slobbered on me.
mimi loves the Abusive Stepfather State.
Okay...
"Estimates are that oil under the Arctic refuge might supply the nation's needs for six months or a year, maybe more and maybe less."
"But even the additional domestic production would not be enough to overcome increased demand, meaning continued heavy reliance on imports, the EIA said. Currently, the United States imports about 56 percent of the oil it consumes."
Research done.
The reality: Our whole economy from top to bottom is predicated on oil, period. Most of that oil is not in the territory of the United States.
We are in a tripartite world, stuggling against both the Western European economies and those of Japan-China-India, whose hunger for oil is increasing exponentially (and for the latter, a better geographic position for exploiting known oil reserves).
I can imagine the collapse of the advanced technological order based on this oily Achilles heel, but your great grandchildren will see it for real.
Buzz told him "I think you're full of shit."
eh.
That's right, Res, they have a good methodology. I think the problem is the poll is then used as a factual basis to push certain memes onto the public.
Polls cost money and why are some questions paid for and others not? There were lots of polls about impeaching Clinton and hardly any about impeaching Bush.
Tralfaz,
Make your chili the way you like it.
res ipsa loquitur
OK, but it will be "chopped beef in spicy tomato sauce with kidney beans" or CBSTSKB.
they are glib and profane and despicable
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Hi, Smokes.
Remember when I met you on the street in PHilly at the crack of dawn and we hung out and had coffee? That was nice and very relaxing.
I think this is a first, I agree with mimi
Seat belt saved my life going through the Mont Blanc tunnel when we had a head on collision. It wasn't a legislated law at the time, just a Mr. ql rule when he was driving. Everyone had to buckle up.
but I like kidney beans in the mix for texture (and fiber). I prefer not to spend the entire next day in the bathroom.
Tralfaz
I always have rice and beans with my chili. The point is that the gravy flavors up all the bland parts so nicely. Dipping that warm tortilla in the chili sauce and using it to scoop up a little bite of rice and beans...mmm.
Is there no brilliant engineer anywhere that can't figure that out? It wouldn't seem to me to be as big of a problem as trying to send a rocket to Mars, and yet we have done that.
Many engineers would like to make one, but the investment bankers are too busy doing other things with our money to invest in such a hair brained scheme.
"who'd want to buy a high millage auto"
"Who'd want to buy a computer"
"Who'd want to buy a copy machine"
/investment bankers
Real chili is hunks of some kind of meat braised in a rich sauce of chiles, onions, garlic,and spices.
For the love of God, don't go there. Here's some real information
http://www.nmchili.com/
res ipsa the fed is doing the rubbernecking thing.
I also heard that drilling in ANWR would reduce a barrel of oil by 50 cents.
In other words not one fucking bit.
That's right, Res, they have a good methodology. I think the problem is the poll is then used as a factual basis to push certain memes onto the public.
Polls cost money and why are some questions paid for and others not? There were lots of polls about impeaching Clinton and hardly any about impeaching Bush.
George Johnston
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If I remember correctly Zogby refused to run a poll about impeaching Bush. Maybe the pollsters are afraid of the long arm of the Cheney mafia.
Help the GOP pick their VP nominee.
Huggie Bear needs a mate!
http://innovation.cq.com/vpmadness
George Johnston,
Didn't we find out that Gallup has got some wingnut ax to grind? Who owns Gallup, anyway?
Okay, so what the hell is the Fed doing?
res ipsa loquitur
Spending billions to make sure banks don't lose their office buildings.
Buzz hates profanity so he sat and told the blogger he's full of shit. Not the best spokesman for his own cause.
res ipsa the fed is doing the rubbernecking thing.
???
I usually put roasted tomatoes in my red chili too. It's more or less the same ingrediants, just prepared and arranged a bit differently. Well, with pinto beans instead of kidney beans. But otherwise it's basically the same stuff.
Huggie Bear needs a mate!
Jeb Bush?
Zogby's methodology is for crap, according to my pal.
Gallup's is good, but George Johnston is right. It can be good methodology applied to questions that are meant to shape opinion.
"Eventually, only the military, the largest corporations, and the ultra wealthy will be indulging in gasoline..."
Absolutely true. And the rich will need security to drive with them so they aren't hijacked for their gas by angry members of what was once the middle class.
We need to return to a modern version of the 19th century model of cities and inner suburbs served by mass transit. Outside the ring of mass transit, the newer car dependent shit-holes should be left to rot.
I always have rice and beans with my chili. The point is that the gravy flavors up all the bland parts so nicely. Dipping that warm tortilla in the chili sauce and using it to scoop up a little bite of rice and beans...mmm.
blerb
Sounds good. The beans gotta be there. But they gotta have something on them.
sheets
res ipsa isn't what they call people who slow down to look at an accident "rubbernecking"?
I make a mean vegetarian chili. Omnivores are afraid to eat it because the lack of meat confuses and infuriates them, but that just means more for me.
Suckers.
Okay, so what the hell is the Fed doing?
res ipsa loquitur
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handing out wealthfare to stupid, greedy large banks who apparently don't know their business.
Always funny how the republicans can't stand to give handouts to the poor, but boy the minute their rich buddies get into trouble, they can't shovel our money out fast enough.
Remember when I met you on the street in PHilly at the crack of dawn and we hung out and had coffee? That was nice and very relaxing.
res ipsa loquitur
I not only remember it--I have it recorded!
I've finally started the project using the ton of material gathered from EschaCon08. There will certainly be a place for our discussion of Iraq as "Randian paradise."
For the moment I'm listening to the piece I'm working on that strings together the responses to my question: "What come to mind when I use the phrase 'President John McCain?'"
The tune leads off with Watertiger's pithy offering: "Oh, fuck me!"
I also heard that drilling in ANWR would reduce a barrel of oil by 50 cents for Exxon and other oil companies. These savings would not be passed along to consumers.
beaned your chili
The tune leads off with Watertiger's pithy offering: "Oh, fuck me!"
Uncle Smokes
For some reason that made me LOL.
.Here's some real information
http://www.nmchili.com/
rootless-e
When I said "chili", I meant "chili con carne". You can of course make a sauce out of chiles withoutany meat. But I don't think I've ever tasted one that didn't involve some onions and garlic too.
How did this brand-name canned meat come to be used as a term of derision on MUDs? It was apparently something of a mischievous sport amongst these MUDers to flood the databases of rivals with electronic trash. Templeton said this action was named after the Spam song from the Monty Python skit in which the performers sing, "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam" until told to shut up.
Bloody vikings.
ronjazz,
you're added value to this blog = 0.00000000000
mimi | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 11:12 am | #
As you know, I'm actually a fat bearded Aggie transvestite.
But the interesting thing is that 0.00000000000 is the exact size of my dick.
How about that?
My (famous?) Chili
1.5 lbs ground beef
1 large sweet onion
green peppers and (if desired) hot peppers - up to you here as to quantity and heat
salt, pepper, Franks Hot Sauce, white pepper, French's Chili-O mix
quart of tomatoes, sixteen ounces of tomato juice
cook beef, peppers, and onion. Add spices and tomatoes. Cook until desired "doneness" and "thickness"
There were lots of polls about impeaching Clinton and hardly any about impeaching Bush.
George Johnston | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 11:16 am | #
You've reminded me of that douchebag, WaPo's own pollster Richard Morin, who refused to ask the question about impeaching Bush, because it would "produce a biased result".
This never stopped him from sniffing around the Clintons, of course.
~
For some reason that made me LOL.
res ipsa loquitur
Writing the phrase doesn't give full range to the how earnestly aghast she was when she said it.
Also, politicians talk about ANWR like a tap just needs to be turned on and oil will flow. It will cost a minimum of a billion a year for ten years to get that puddle of oil out of the ground. An absurd waste of resources.
A poll question I would like to see:
How would you like the Federal Government to spend money on the mortgage crisis?
A: Spend billions to prevent American families from losing their home.
B: Spend hundreds of billions to prevent banks from losing their office buildings.
Okay, so what the hell is the Fed doing?
res ipsa loquitur
We keep looking for complexity where simple will suffice. I am going with, "They are taking money from the working poor to give to the rich by means of a weak dollar and imported oil for the purpose of completing the subjugation of the American People to the whims of the corporations."
I've said it before:
Why own slaves when it's cheaper to rent?
Sheets
For the moment I'm listening to the piece I'm working on that strings together the responses to my question: "What come to mind when I use the phrase 'President John McCain?'"
The tune leads off with Watertiger's pithy offering: "Oh, fuck me!"
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 11:22 am | #
I just want to go on record as saying that when you recorded me I was most certainly drunk.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Suze Rotolo's revealing look at young Bob Dylan
The book by the singer-songwriter's former girlfriend, 'A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties,' ends years of silence.
By Josh Getlin
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 2, 2008
NEW YORK -- It was one of the most iconic record album covers ever released, and Suze Rotolo was part of it: On a snowy day in 1963, she snuggled with Bob Dylan as the two walked down a Greenwich Village street. "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" went on to become one of his best-known records, but the long-haired girl on his arm was always a mystery.
Now, Rotolo has broken years of silence to tell the story of what it was like to fall in love with Bob Dylan at 17, to introduce him to civil rights politics and modern poetry, and to finally break up with him when the pressures of his stardom became too great. Her new book, "A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties," offers a revealing glimpse of the young artist, whom she calls with understatement "an elephant in the room of my life."
You can read the rest
http://www.latimes.com/entertain...35.story\">here
Met Rotolo at a dinner party in the early 80s. We were told under no circumstances were we to mention Bob or ask questions about the part of her life.
I thought she was cool, for what it's worth....
We have a governor in MN who is a pimp for the GOP...who is talked about as a possible VP for huggy bear. He's a real jerk who has run this state into the river...he has vetoed all attempts to finance transportation. Now the National Highway Transp. Board is refusing to have public hearings here on th cause of the collapse. Coincidence? Hardly.
Thanks for posting this picture...Unfortunately I don't have a lot of faith in the Dems right now to figure out that this is the message they should be focusing on. No...we're too busy chasing flag pins and Rev. Wright. Jusst like in 2004 we were too busy trying to pull purple band-aids off at the Repub Convention.
I am one who has believed all along that the recent Wright media campaign was planned so that Obama could denounce him.
In spite of what the pundits want you to believe though, he will never put Wright, Ayers, Rezko and others behind him.
If you support Obama or McCain, please drive with your headlights off at night.
"we can only spend money killing Muslims"-John McCain
That photo should be made into a commercial. Start tight on the bridge on the left: "This is your country." Pan over to the one on the right: "This is your country under Republicans.
"Any questions?"
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