So are the only two calender girl choices soapy tits or blow up doll mouth?
Supreme Commander Thor |
12.21.07 - 10:33 pm | #
I'm havin' cheep beer.
The landlord carted me to Kroger in the rain, last night. They didn't have a fuckin' hoppy beer in the house, which was QUITE the surprise!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 10:33 pm | #
Late night at the bar? Are the drinks on the house, yet? I'd like a stoli.
Coming! With an olive.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 10:33 pm | #
Are we too late to jump on this? Who's the smart money on?
In this slow, slow pre-Xmas week, he handed Vanity Fair a fun little blind item. It all dates back to a campaign Flynt held over the summer to build dossiers on politicians who have had "illicit sexual or intimate relations." Apparently, a male Republican senator is into the man-on-man sex action and Flynt claims to have proof:
The ripest target now, Flynt claims, is a closeted gay Republican senator who is not Larry Craig, though last spring Flynt's investigators were also pursuing rumors about Craig, going as far as putting a surveillance team on him, before his arrest in June for allegedly soliciting sex in a men
’s room at the Minneapolis airport. "The other shoe's going to drop any day," Flynt says, speaking of the other senator. "It'll surprise a lot of people that he's gay. And I'll bet you he resigns the same day and rides off into the sunset. He won't be as stupid as Craig... His boyfriend is in a quandary about selling him out. It's really somewhat of a pathetic situation. But we also have other boyfriends that he's been involved with... We got some motel records. We got some photographs. They don't involve sex, but sort of romantic walks on the beach and that sort of thing.
Int'l Jewish Conspiracy |
12.21.07 - 10:36 pm | #
Hecate: haven't heard Karl called a genius much, recently...
ProfWombat |
12.21.07 - 10:36 pm | #
An Imperial pint of best bitter would go over nicely, actually...
Heh. I would keel over with one of those, especially with the custom of everyone paying for a round. It took me a while to figure out that I'd have to drink orange juice most of the night.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 10:36 pm | #
Here's a little Holiday catblogging. Emma and Pippin's honorary grandma gave them a special gift.
FeralLiberal |
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12.21.07 - 10:37 pm | #
If we're whoring, I decided to look the USA Today NH Polling data that showed a resurgent McCain and conclude NH Republicans are teh scary.
Illegal immigration is their top issue! new hampshire-illegal immigration?
Iraq is the top issue for NH Democrats!
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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12.21.07 - 10:37 pm | #
NTodd,
All day today, I kept remembering that sommelier who said, "Thank you. Just thank you," so quietly when she heard that you were here to end the war.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.21.07 - 10:37 pm | #
I'm really quite grooving on the Tal Wilkenfeld CD.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 10:37 pm | #
hecate: lots of people out there waiting for fighting leadership from the left. It'd be special if they got it. It'd be nice to get my country back from the Bushists.
ProfWombat |
12.21.07 - 10:39 pm | #
I'm really quite grooving on the Tal Wilkenfeld CD.
All day today, I kept remembering that sommelier who said, "Thank you. Just thank you," so quietly when she heard that you were here to end the war.
That. Was. Fucking. Awesome.
If only Congress could hear that.
NTodd, Snacking Pink |
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12.21.07 - 10:40 pm | #
billy b: Who he?
She. Amazing, 21 years old. Australian, bassist, and to be quite sexist about it, total babe.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 10:40 pm | #
Just once I'd like to make it home from a club without someone wanting to kick the shit out of me for being a dirty fucking hippy.
Lord Arkenor Oakshadow |
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12.21.07 - 10:41 pm | #
Barkeep,
Seething Webbs, all around.
bo |
12.21.07 - 10:41 pm | #
Seething Webbs, coming. Mind it over there at the end of the counter. Thankee!
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 10:41 pm | #
Hello? Is this thing on???
"The ripest target now, Flynt claims, is a closeted gay Republican senator who is not Larry Craig... "The other shoe's going to drop any day," Flynt says, speaking of the other senator. "It'll surprise a lot of people that he's gay. And I'll bet you he resigns the same day and rides off into the sunset. He won't be as stupid as Craig... His boyfriend is in a quandary about selling him out. It's really somewhat of a pathetic situation.'
Int'l Jewish Conspiracy |
12.21.07 - 10:41 pm | #
Just once I'd like to make it home from a club without someone wanting to kick the shit out of me for being a dirty fucking hippy.
A suggestion: stop being a dirty fucking hippie.
NTodd, Snacking Pink |
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12.21.07 - 10:42 pm | #
And after you pick up yer '08 Lexus for your spouse, go ahead and buy some major rock, at your local jeweler.
Otherwise, your marriage is doomed.
MP |
12.21.07 - 10:42 pm | #
A suggestion: stop being a dirty fucking hippie.
NTodd
You first.
Lord Arkenor Oakshadow |
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12.21.07 - 10:43 pm | #
So, Larry Flynt's here with his tectonic shoes, again?
bo |
12.21.07 - 10:43 pm | #
JeffPres
Fanx- I'll check her out...
billy b |
12.21.07 - 10:43 pm | #
I haven't looked like a hippie since 1982.
I look like your average working stiff with a beer belly, that can barely dress himself.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 10:44 pm | #
k&Y
Flynt is starting to remind me of Josh Marshall with his shifting tectonic plates.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.21.07 - 10:44 pm | #
It'll surprise a lot of people that he's gay.
So it's NOT Lindsey Graham!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.21.07 - 10:44 pm | #
I've given up on stopping the war, our Democrats are worthless. We'll just have to see another 10,000 soldiers dead. Nice stain on our country brought by the Bush crime family.
puppethead |
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12.21.07 - 10:45 pm | #
/Pours bo a fizzy drink
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.21.07 - 10:45 pm | #
"So, Larry Flynt's here with his tectonic shoes, again?"
where?
edwards is charming the pants off me on cspan 2.
jdw |
12.21.07 - 10:45 pm | #
An Imperial pint of best bitter would go over nicely, actually...
I am enjoying an Imperial pint or two of some rather good IPA from the local bre pub.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.21.07 - 10:45 pm | #
Next round of Webbs on you, Hecate.
bo |
12.21.07 - 10:45 pm | #
Hmm - should I hide this new Huckabee video in comments or wait and see if it gets some real promotion?
I guess I should wait....
Lee Stranahan |
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12.21.07 - 10:46 pm | #
puppethead,
What are we going to do about it?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.21.07 - 10:46 pm | #
Scientist claims men are funnier than women
That is not even a proper study. It's just another one of those pieces they publish every few months or so, to remind women of their deficiencies.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 10:46 pm | #
What are we going to do about it?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
I support better democratic candidates in upcoming elections, but the Empire is too strong right now. Not much else I can see to do, at least for the next year. That fucking blank check vote again is just more of the same.
puppethead |
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12.21.07 - 10:47 pm | #
Scientist claims men are funnier than women
That is not even a proper study. It's just another one of those pieces they publish every few months or so, to remind women of their deficiencies.
Echidne
But, men are more fragile.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 10:48 pm | #
That is not even a proper study. Echidne
whaaa? one guy can't be wrong, besides he read some jokes and shit ...
focus |
12.21.07 - 10:48 pm | #
Did everyone become rich while I slept? WTF is going on? My wife and I make, combined, what I consider is very good money.
Top 10% of the country. Which is less than $150,000.
But the ads on TV seem to be gravitating to folks with buying power that I've never met.
MP |
12.21.07 - 10:48 pm | #
Fed lends another $20B to ease crunch
setum' up for the house, barkeep..welfare check just cut...
six-pack |
12.21.07 - 10:48 pm | #
I've given up on stopping the war, our Democrats are worthless.
NTodd,though i can't leave my apt. or this damn chair, i follow your exploits with great interest. Keep up the fight and try not to let outside problems get you down. Sorry to hear of the passing of your uncle? get some rest, play with your dogs, put your feet up and spark up a FATTY. you're doing a great job Bro...Rick
rick wilson |
12.21.07 - 10:48 pm | #
Flynt is starting to remind me of Josh Marshall with his shifting tectonic plates.
Well Flynt keeps teasing us with the same story but it seemed for a while that Marshall had a new tease every week.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.21.07 - 10:48 pm | #
"Shuster's findings that suggest men are more likely to use humour aggressively by making others the butt of the joke."
He hasn't been to WT's site has he.
EkCenTriK |
12.21.07 - 10:49 pm | #
"Not much else I can see to do, at least for the next year."
you could hassle the congresscritter you have now about what you want - or even speak out to the people around you about what you want the country to look like.
hope is good, but it's not necessary.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 10:49 pm | #
But, men are more fragile.
Toucari, on sabbatical
sometimes, I don't think anybody can realize just how much a man can hurt ... inside
focus |
12.21.07 - 10:49 pm | #
Tom Hanks Tells Hollywood Whopper in 'Charlie Wilson's War'
By Melissa Roddy, AlterNet. Posted December 21, 2007.
Hollywood wants to avoid a key truth about 9/11.
... The lie is that U.S. support to the mujahiddin went only to the faction led by Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Afghan leader who was assassinated on Sept. 9, 2001. I spoke with Rep. Charlie Wilson, D-Texas, in 2002, at which time he called Massoud "a Russian collaborator." I find it disingenuous that Wilson and his Hollywood biographers now want to throw their arms around him. (Note: George Crile's book does not make this false claim.) Moreover, if this movie succeeds in convincing Americans that the U.S. support went to Ahmad Shah Massoud alone, it will have effectively let the CIA and Wilson off the hook for their contribution to the circumstances leading up to 9/11. During the 1980s, Wilson engineered the appropriation of approximately $3.5 billion to help the Afghans fight the Soviets. According to Milt Bearden, CIA chief of station to Pakistan, Massoud received less than 1 percent of it.
So, if Massoud was not receiving the $3.5 billion that Congress was sending, who was? There were seven factions based in Pakistan who were the recipients of American largesse, but about 40 percent of it went to a blood-thirsty, fundamentalist, loudly anti-American bastard named Gulbaddin Hekmatyar.
...
It was Hekmatyar and Sayaf who, with bin Laden, established terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That is why after 9/11, Wilson went on Fox News and said, "This was as much my fault as anybody's." He understood the link between U.S. support for these thugs and the events of that terrible day. But Wilson's mea culpa is not included in Charlie Wilson's War, nor is there any mention of Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, Abdul Rasul Sayaf or Arab volunteers.
The Mighty Wurlitzer with the reverb on.
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QuentinCompson |
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12.21.07 - 10:50 pm | #
Rick! Thanks, man. You keep the faith, too, you hear?
And on that note, I really gotta go to bed. I'm hella tired. Peace out, you dirty fucking hippies.
NTodd, Snacking Pink |
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12.21.07 - 10:50 pm | #
"men are more fragile."
I thought that was only in the groin region.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 10:50 pm | #
or even speak out to the people around you about what you want the country to look like.
I do that every day. Most people agree, but it's disheartening that nothing changes. I guess I need some more Christmas spirits.
puppethead |
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12.21.07 - 10:50 pm | #
You ride a unicycle and that is supposed to be funny? And if you feel sorry for the poor bugger and don't say anything you don't have a sense of humor?
Although I love that piece for so many reasons. It will be a perfect example of terrible popularization of a terrible piece of research with terrible additional commentary. I can sell it to all professors who teach how to do research.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 10:51 pm | #
sometimes, I don't think anybody can realize just how much a man can hurt ... inside
focus
Sometimes, not even the guy who is hurting. It is a bad deal; we die the womb more often and generally live shorter lives.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 10:52 pm | #
"Dr Nick Neave, a psychologist at the University of Northumbria who has studied the physical, behavioural and psychological effects of testosterone, said men might respond aggressively because they see the other unicycling man as a threat, attracting female attention away from themselves.
"This would be particularly challenging for young males entering the breeding market. It does not surprise me that their responses were the more threatening," he said."
I always did feel challenged by all the other unicyclers at the bars. They always got the girl.
In a year where most investment banks lost billions of dollars on bad bets in the mortgage industry, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, still managed to take home $68.5 million in total compensation _ a record for an investment bank chief executive.
Blankfein will receive $26.8 million in cash, and $41 million in stock and options. He also will get a base salary of $600,000.
Blankfein's bonus is a 27.2 percent jump from the record bonus he received last year of $53.4 million in cash and stock.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.21.07 - 10:52 pm | #
That is not even a proper study. It's just another one of those pieces they publish every few months or so, to remind women of their deficiencies.
Echidne
actually the headline was quite misleading.
the study shows that men react to the unknown with snide comments and aggressive commentary and actions that might be thought of as "humour" while women tended to react with more supportive or inquisitive comments.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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12.21.07 - 10:52 pm | #
"Most people agree, but it's disheartening that nothing changes."
well, you're pushing against a big rock, as it were.
be discouraged if you need to - just don't quit.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 10:52 pm | #
Echidne: You ride a unicycle and that is supposed to be funny?
No. I ride a two-stroke, 49.7cc scooter, and yes, it IS funny!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 10:53 pm | #
If the media is making fun of Romney's pizza eating does that mean Fuckabee the anointed one?
George Johnston |
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12.21.07 - 10:53 pm | #
the study shows that men react to the unknown with snide comments and aggressive commentary and actions that might be thought of as "humour" while women tended to react with more supportive or inquisitive comments.
Tom - 大肚腩
Sounds psychologically defensive and fragile.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 10:53 pm | #
the study shows that men react to the unknown with snide comments and aggressive commentary and actions that might be thought of as "humour" while women tended to react with more supportive or inquisitive comments.
And, as we all know, nuturing just isn't funny.
Int'l Jewish Conspiracy |
12.21.07 - 10:54 pm | #
"they see the other unicycling man as a threat, attracting female attention away from themselves.
"This would be particularly challenging for young males entering the breeding market."
what. the. fuck.
you need to ride a unicycle in order to get laid?
WHY DOES NO ONE TEL ME THESE THINGS?
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 10:54 pm | #
It is a bad deal; we die the womb more often and generally live shorter lives.-Toucari, on sabbatical
not often enough! huh, am I right?huh, come on where are the funny men?
focus |
12.21.07 - 10:54 pm | #
No. I ride a two-stroke, 49.7cc scooter, and yes, it IS funny!
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Jeffraham Prestonian
I hope he's prepared for the rush of new fans, the sorts of pipples who'll demand he give them an autograph and a flag pin in return for their grubby, much worn ticket stubs.
the study shows that men react to the unknown with snide comments and aggressive commentary and actions that might be thought of as "humour" while women tended to react with more supportive or inquisitive comments.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
Perhaps. But the guy had no proper controls. We just have his word for what happened. How did he decide where to go and at what times? Because this affects the mix of women and men around and their social class and so on. How did he define humor? Did he test that riding a unicycle is seen as a very funny thing in some objective sense? What IS the objective definition of humor?
Then add the fact that a woman making snide comments to a young (?) man might get molested, and that women are taught not to be rude to people who appear to be a screw loose. These things have nothing to do with a sense of humor as such.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 10:55 pm | #
"No. I ride a two-stroke, 49.7cc scooter, and yes, it IS funny!"
It ain't funny until you have LE in a Kaiser's Helmet and Goggles on the handle bars.
EkCenTriK |
12.21.07 - 10:55 pm | #
One Picture is worth ten thousand words
George Bush, vulgar, petulant child.
Chris Tucker |
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12.21.07 - 10:56 pm | #
"WHY DOES NO ONE TEL ME THESE THINGS?
Uncle Blodge"
The Masons and their secrets.
Wait till you find out the correlation between virility and Shriners.
EkCenTriK |
12.21.07 - 10:56 pm | #
I guess the image consultant to Tom Hanks advised him against the blowback angle of the story...
George Johnston |
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12.21.07 - 10:57 pm | #
yes, too many of us men meet a premature end in taverns, drunk and on unicycles which we have never seen until the night we drive them off the bar, all in usually-futile efforts to impress women....
nick carraway |
12.21.07 - 10:57 pm | #
Anyway, I am quite funny, though only I tend to laugh at me. If you know what I mean.
Today was a bad day, though. First my sweet and kind neighbor was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas, and I think he is getting the brown people shit from the hospital. Then I found that my hairdresser has a tumor in his lung.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 10:57 pm | #
women are taught not to be rude to people who appear to be a screw loose.
A basic condition for romance.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 10:57 pm | #
billy b -- If you dig Jeff Beck, and can handle lo-fi UTubage, czech it.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 10:58 pm | #
Hecate,
As you've exhaustively documented on your blog 'lo these past seven years, the US middle class, the shining star of ol' Ronnie's rhetoric, has taken a terrible whipping.
MP |
12.21.07 - 10:58 pm | #
too many of us men meet a premature end in taverns
Why do they call last call 15 minutes early?
George Johnston |
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12.21.07 - 10:58 pm | #
A feminist, a politician and an evolutionary psychologist walk into a bar...
ProfWombat |
12.21.07 - 10:58 pm | #
I confess to finding them mildly annoying, much as I find jugglers, and people who try to convince me that poi are a valid form of entertainment at parties.
Lord Arkenor Oakshadow |
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12.21.07 - 10:58 pm | #
A feminist, a politician and an evolutionary psychologist walk into a bar...
Please go on.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 10:58 pm | #
Of course, riding a unicycle before getting laid minimizes the possibility of pregnancy...
ronjazz |
12.21.07 - 11:00 pm | #
A feminist, a politician and an evolutionary psychologist walk into a bar...
I don't know the punchline, but one of them is not coming out alive.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:00 pm | #
"Wait till you find out the correlation between virility and Shriners." I thought the Shriners correlated with whoopie cushions.
Is there a correlation between fart jokes and sex?
A feminist, a politician and an evolutionary psychologist walk into a bar...
and the bartender says, "A politician? Answer me this, why do George Bush's daughters have the initials J&B?"
George Johnston |
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12.21.07 - 11:01 pm | #
We could talk about how I-35 is the holy road or the holey road.
Echidne
Sounds like a scene from a Carl Hiaasen novel.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:02 pm | #
Evening,
Sorry to hear your news, Echidne. That is not pleasant. For some reason, this time of the year brings such stories to the forefront. There must be some deep, psychological need in us to feel insecure in our tenuous existences or a need to feel relieved we are not dying. NEver figured out which. Mrs DWD is full of endless stories of people dying or finding out they have dread diseases: it is enough to make a man whimper. Yet, she carries on.
We could talk about how I-35 is the holy road or the holey road.
Echidne | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:00 pm
Maybe it's only me, but I'm still trying to figure out how New Hampshire Republicans find illegal immigration to be their #1 issue. (economy #2, terra #3, health care #4, iraq #5, taxes #6)
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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12.21.07 - 11:02 pm | #
We could talk about how I-35 is the holy road or the holey road.
The sad thing is I prefer shopping at Circuit City over Best Buy, but what Circuit City did to their work staff is disgusting.
puppethead |
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12.21.07 - 11:04 pm | #
sure, anything you like - my unicycle is built for two ...
Growing up in the early sixties, the term "middle class" was revered.
You didn't have to dick everyone you met economically.
And, finally, working your fucking ass off for four decades, actually drew a modicum of assurance, that you wouldn't survive your kids, because of lack of medical attention, or starvation.
Or that you yourself, wouldn't die penniless, a fucking pauper, after spending all of your productive years making somebody else richer.
IOW, fucking hope.
And for you Chimpy loving, Rethug giggly little shits, people fucking starved in this country not too long ago.
MP |
12.21.07 - 11:04 pm | #
I just bought someone Kenny G as a gift. I feel guilty and sick but it's what they wanted.
floyd |
12.21.07 - 11:05 pm | #
Gilly Gonzylon: Check out this dude play Jeff's Boogie. He can play anything note for note!
You're pullin' my laig, man. It takes more than hitting the notes.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 11:05 pm | #
If I say the word "pontoons", will I be shunned?
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MisterX |
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12.21.07 - 11:05 pm | #
"All I am saying is there is more to all of this than meets the eye."
ah. it's the silly hats.
I can't ride a unicycle but I CAN wear a silly hat!
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:05 pm | #
"I just bought someone Kenny G as a gift. I feel guilty and sick but it's what they wanted."
It makes you an enabler, you know.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:05 pm | #
Maybe it's only me, but I'm still trying to figure out how New Hampshire Republicans find illegal immigration to be their #1 issue
Two blue collar incomes=one middle class household.
optimus |
12.21.07 - 11:06 pm | #
I just bought someone Kenny G as a gift. I feel guilty and sick but it's what they wanted.
floyd
Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. (male humor)
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:06 pm | #
Daisy?
Echidne,/i>
or nightsy, anything you like querida
focus |
12.21.07 - 11:06 pm | #
I can dance on stilts. They were my first carpentry project. Fun.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 11:06 pm | #
She may have been twenty in that video, but it was this past summer; she's now 21.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 11:06 pm | #
must be a solstice thing... days get shorter & shorter & darker & darker, and it seems there is only an End in sight... yet, in a week or two the days are noticeably longer... and on we go.
nick carraway |
12.21.07 - 11:06 pm | #
I like Jeff Beck's new base player http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=n...feature=related
Toucari, on sabbatical | 12.21.07 - 11:04 pm | #
NTodd...you still here? We're staying at the Hyatt on Nicollet Mall tomorrow night!
Zap Rowsdower |
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12.21.07 - 11:10 pm | #
I just cannot believe the new levels of indifference and coldness to the human suffering that the Republican Party is openly embracing.
MP |
12.21.07 - 11:11 pm | #
I was almost pleased to hear about the Circuit City news today.
Serves them right for the way they've treated their employees.
Zap Rowsdower |
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12.21.07 - 11:11 pm | #
I just cannot believe the new levels of indifference and coldness to the human suffering that the Republican Party is openly embracing.
It's like the trolls. If bad things happen to others, well, they did something wrong and deserve them.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 11:12 pm | #
I just cannot believe the new levels of indifference and coldness to the human suffering that the Republican Party is openly embracing.
MP
It is frightening.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:12 pm | #
It's the hats
Tell that to Attaturk...
FeralLiberal |
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12.21.07 - 11:12 pm | #
I don't have to go back to work until January 2. I'm so glad. I like my job but good god have I needed some time off.
Now, should I drink another glass of zinfandel, or should I just stagger upstairs to bed? Hmm, hmm, decisions decisions.
Saddest of all is that they got it exactly right while the MSCM still refers to him as "America's Mayor."
Int'l Jewish Conspiracy |
12.21.07 - 11:12 pm | #
Or it could be all those illegals from Massachusetts who move to New Hampshire.
Echidne | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:07 pm
Roving lawn maintenance crews in New Hampshire to be the subject of a Scorsese film? or maybe it's huge swarms of Quebecois conducting raids on the white women of NH?
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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12.21.07 - 11:12 pm | #
"I just cannot believe the new levels of indifference and coldness to the human suffering that the Republican Party is openly embracing."
and they are the ones claiming to be christians! I find myself disliking that religion a lot anymore. jeebus needs to get his ass back here and clear out the fucking temple big time.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:12 pm | #
Roving lawn maintenance crews in New Hampshire to be the subject of a Scorsese film? or maybe it's huge swarms of Quebecois conducting raids on the white women of NH?
Tom - 大肚腩 | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:12 pm | #
Only if the Rolling Stones are the soundtrack
Gilly Gonzylon |
12.21.07 - 11:13 pm | #
I'm trying to upload an mp3 I can share...
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 11:14 pm | #
"Shriners and their little cars get ALL the pussy!"
It's the hats.
Echidne
Attaturk needs a new look.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:14 pm | #
"I don't have to go back to work until January 2. I'm so glad. I like my job but good god have I needed some time off."
Oh man do I know this one.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:15 pm | #
Now, should I drink another glass of zinfandel, or should I just stagger upstairs to bed? Hmm, hmm, decisions decisions.
strawhat
These are not mutually exclusive events.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:15 pm | #
ok ok what kind of hat goes with a guy inna motorized wheelchair?
"Attaturk needs a new look.
Toucari, on sabbatica"
No one is going call him Fez Boy anymore.
EkCenTriK |
12.21.07 - 11:16 pm | #
and they are the ones claiming to be christians! I find myself disliking that religion a lot anymore. jeebus needs to get his ass back here and clear out the fucking temple big time.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Their worst nightmare would be Jesus coming back to judge them. Seriously.
DWD - Unelected Legislator |
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12.21.07 - 11:16 pm | #
wellfuckit
my accound password doesn't work on the fucking ftp server
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 11:16 pm | #
What fresh hell is "carmel"? I know what caramel is, but what the fuck is carmel?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
12.21.07 - 11:17 pm | #
but of course echidne, ty tyvm... i bow down to your intelligence.
rick wilson |
12.21.07 - 11:17 pm | #
I just got done listening to some good "shoe-gazer" bands:
You have to believe in a certain Deity, you have to submit to just egregiously fishing expedition wiretaps, you have to sign on to militarily invading an essentially non-combatant counrtry to topple its disagreeable leader.
Otherwise, you're not a "Patriot". You're not an "American".
Fucking Reichstag, 1939.
This nation just loves to wave flags, but we're really just unaccountable to the globe.
MP |
12.21.07 - 11:18 pm | #
Their worst nightmare would be Jesus coming back to judge them. Seriously.
DWD - Unelected Legislator | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:16 pm | #
What they're doing to jesus now is worse than what they did to him 2000 years ago.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
12.21.07 - 11:18 pm | #
they'd shoot jesus for being a "socialist" or something.
nick carraway |
12.21.07 - 11:18 pm | #
What fresh hell is "carmel"? I know what caramel is, but what the fuck is carmel?
Instant Carmel's goona get you ...
focus |
12.21.07 - 11:19 pm | #
What fresh hell is "carmel"?
Oh, a toxic melange of petroleum products and pesticides, no doubt. By giving it a made-up name it can be made out of anything.
puppethead |
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12.21.07 - 11:19 pm | #
"ok ok what kind of hat goes with a guy inna motorized wheelchair?"
I was thinking a sombrero for some reason - but the viking helmet is better.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:19 pm | #
Their worst nightmare would be Jesus coming back to judge them. Seriously.
DWD - Unelected Legislator | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:16 pm | #
Reminds me of a bumper sticker that I saw once....
"Jesus is coming and boy is he pissed!"
Shared Humanity |
12.21.07 - 11:19 pm | #
-Spiritualized
-The Good, The Bad, and The Queen
-Ride
Zap Rowsdower
well, well, well. I played those of those on my radio show last night. Lay Back In The Sun and History Song....Ride i played some about a month ago
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.21.07 - 11:20 pm | #
Oh, a toxic melange of petroleum products and pesticides, no doubt. By giving it a made-up name it can be made out of anything.
puppethead | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:19 pm | #
That's nougat.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
12.21.07 - 11:20 pm | #
"they'd shoot jesus for being a "socialist" or something."
he'd be in gitmo, maybe?
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:20 pm | #
Miss July has a certain charm but I wish she hadn't shaved off her eyebrows and drawn on new ones with a Sharpie.
M31 |
12.21.07 - 11:20 pm | #
they'd shoot jesus for being a "socialist" or something.
nick carraway
As a non-beliver, I always like Jesus, partly for the message, and partly because the messages was counter to the fundie agenda.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:20 pm | #
"Oh my god...underage kids drinking beer without a permit!!!"
A lot of the right-wing Christianity seems to me to be not Christian but something more Old Testamenty. It also allows people to amass wealth and not care about the poor as long as they care about the fetuses.
"An eye for an eye" type religion, and always about other people's eyes.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 11:21 pm | #
What fresh hell is "carmel"?
Oh, a toxic melange of petroleum products and pesticides, no doubt. By giving it a made-up name it can be made out of anything.
puppethead
Oh, a toxic melange of petroleum products and pesticides, no doubt. By giving it a made-up name it can be made out of anything.
puppethead
No, that's "creme".
M31 | 12.21.07 - 11:21 pm | #
Crunchy Frog sounds more appetizing.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
12.21.07 - 11:22 pm | #
I can't stay. I've just realized I don't know how anyone here eats pizza, and the uncertainty of that is really disturbing.
Rmj, Gimme Las Posadas |
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12.21.07 - 11:22 pm | #
1Watt: ok ok what kind of hat goes with a guy inna motorized wheelchair?
"Jesus is coming! Grab a broom."
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QuentinCompson |
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12.21.07 - 11:23 pm | #
"Jesus is coming! Look busy!"
heheh that's a good one.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.21.07 - 11:23 pm | #
I can't stay. I've just realized I don't know how anyone here eats pizza, and the uncertainty of that is really disturbing.
Rmj, Gimme Las Posadas | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:22 pm | #
I prefer "pizza in a cup"
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
12.21.07 - 11:24 pm | #
The good thing about Congress going on vacation is it reduces the chances that Reid and Pelosi will give away the rest of the store in the next week.
George Johnston |
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12.21.07 - 11:24 pm | #
Their worst nightmare would be Jesus coming back to judge them. Seriously.
DWD -
They claim to live their lives to prepare to meet their gawd, yet are scared shitless that they are going to die.
A lot of the right-wing Christianity seems to me to be not Christian but something more Old Testamenty. It also allows people to amass wealth and not care about the poor as long as they care about the fetuses.
"An eye for an eye" type religion, and always about other people's eyes.
Echidne
That's not even the OT. It's plain, old-fashioned selfishness, with attribution to a deity to make it all "OK."
It sickens me, sometimes.
Rmj, Gimme Las Posadas |
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12.21.07 - 11:24 pm | #
they'd shoot jesus for being a "socialist" or something.
"A lot of the right-wing Christianity seems to me to be not Christian but something more Old Testamenty."
Don't give them that much credit. They are a bunch of sour, scared nitwits who are lazy enough to hand their will and responsibility over to a bunch of hucksters.
EkCenTriK |
12.21.07 - 11:24 pm | #
"Jesus is coming! Grab a rope"
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.21.07 - 11:24 pm | #
Oh I almost forgot, my favorite bumper sticker says
"I play the accordion and I vote!"
M31 |
12.21.07 - 11:24 pm | #
thanx all, a lot to muse over...
rick wilson |
12.21.07 - 11:24 pm | #
I prefer "pizza in a cup"
You're a female biker that works the carnival circuit?
Zap Rowsdower |
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12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
gitmo? yeah, maybe.
I once thought a short story might be made about God sending him back again and again but he dies before he becomes "jesus"-- like an Indian kid dying of smallpox, or a slave killed for not being docile enough, or as a Russian Jew... maybe even an Iraqi teenager.... God's up there thinking, "What's wrong with them?"
nick carraway |
12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
I remember well the days when I was nekkid with no clothes on. Then there were the five guys and the fire extinguisher in the stairwell. But that's a story for another day.
Candymarl |
12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
FERAL!
i want my kitties, as promised earlier by toi
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
Today, while I was out and about in the car and listening to the "Made-up" new on the radio I decided, in my infinite wisdom (sigh) that what is needed is a new network to provide two minute, five minute, and ten minute news round ups to radio stations. The only difference would be that instead of the BULLSHIT that is propelled from the current crop of BULLSHIT assholes, this would actually have TRUTH in it. (Not TRUTHINESS)
There even is a defunct radio station in Muskegon on the AM Band I could pick up for a little money and use their call letters and prepare the news cast with the help of some of the internet people and sell it. The radio station, oddly enough, was WTRU.
DWD - Unelected Legislator |
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12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
Bjorn: I prefer "pizza in a cup"
Pizza for two girls, one cup?
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
I can't stay. I've just realized I don't know how anyone here eats pizza, and the uncertainty of that is really disturbing.
I eat the middle and leave the crusts.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
they'd shoot jesus for being a "socialist" or something.
Why do you think they killed him the first time?
Rmj, Gimme Las Posadas |
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12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
There's probably more variation in how people eat leftover pizza than fresh pizza.
Me, I gotta have it reheated in an oven. The microwave makes it too mushy/ruibbery. And cold pizza is revolting.
Tralfaz |
12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
they'd shoot jesus for being a "socialist" or something.
No, they'd just Swift Boat him.
FeralLiberal | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:24 pm | #
That's scary good.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
Over Under Sideways Down with Jimmy Page on lead guitar (Awesome live version)
Raw, dead, unboned frog!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.21.07 - 11:26 pm | #
And cold pizza is revolting.
Tralfaz | 12.21.07 - 11:25 pm | #
I'd agree with you if you were right...
Gilly Gonzylon |
12.21.07 - 11:26 pm | #
Why do you think they killed him the first time?
Rmj, Gimme Las Posadas
An intrinsic problem with a messiah.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:26 pm | #
But our sales would plummet!
M31 |
12.21.07 - 11:27 pm | #
Crunchy Frog sounds more appetizing.
Raw, dead, unboned frog!
The Old Man From Scene 24 | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:26 pm | #
Spring delight!
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
12.21.07 - 11:27 pm | #
What must the righteous flock be thinking when they finally have Huckabee, one of their own, in reach of the apex of their holy struggle and ordained deliverence only to have their greater masters tear him asunder?
focus |
12.21.07 - 11:27 pm | #
If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today
He'd be gunned down cold by the C.I.A.
Oh, the lights that now burn brightest
Behind stained glass
Will cast the darkest shadows
Upon the human heart
-Matt Johnson, The The
puppethead |
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12.21.07 - 11:27 pm | #
"I've just realized I don't know how anyone here eats pizza, and the uncertainty of that is really disturbing."
Me - bite chew swallow repeat until someone tells you you've had enough and save some for your sister who is late arriving to the party.
hope that clears things up.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:28 pm | #
JP, U sure that's not one of those Grey alien heads?
1Watt, Hermit |
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12.21.07 - 11:29 pm | #
"Why do you think they killed him the first time?"
Palling around with hookers?
nick carraway |
12.21.07 - 11:29 pm | #
Sarah Deere!!! muah
how iz yooo??
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:29 pm | #
An intrinsic problem with a messiah.
Toucari, on sabbatical
Nah(to be pedantic), the Romans did it, not the Jews (who had no power; they were occupied, after all, and completely insignificant to Rome, or Pilate).
Jesus preached an "empire of God", which didn't set well with the divine Caesar. Only one empire at a time, and Rome was jealous of the privilege.
Besides, an empire where the first are last and the last first, and the greatest of all is servant of all, really doesn't appeal to those who want power.
Rmj, Gimme Las Posadas |
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12.21.07 - 11:29 pm | #
"And cold coffee is revolting."
I like cold coffee. I hate iced coffee.
Weird.
Echidne |
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12.21.07 - 11:29 pm | #
-Matt Johnson, The The
puppethead
Armageddon Days Are Here Again!
man, it's been years since i listened to that track.
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.21.07 - 11:30 pm | #
I eat pizza with a spoon.
Richard |
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12.21.07 - 11:30 pm | #
Why do you think they killed him the first time?
There always has to be a first time.
Kurt Godel |
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12.21.07 - 11:30 pm | #
What must the righteous flock be thinking when they finally have Huckabee, one of their own, in reach of the apex of their holy struggle and ordained deliverence only to have their greater masters tear him asunder?
I'm wondering if some will turn violent. They have all the instincts (and many of the specific social policies) of the Taliban. All it takes is a little more realization of how lost the culture war is for them.
Tralfaz |
12.21.07 - 11:30 pm | #
If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.21.07 - 11:30 pm | #
"I like cold coffee. I hate iced coffee."
I hate bananas. I like banana bread.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:31 pm | #
Why do you think they killed him the first time?
There always has to be a first time.
Kurt Godel
You got me there.
Impeccable logic, by the way.
Rmj, Gimme Las Posadas |
Homepage |
12.21.07 - 11:31 pm | #
How's Pippin? All cured now i hope?
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.21.07 - 11:31 pm | #
I hate bananas. I like banana bread.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 12.21.07 - 11:31 pm | #
I like traffic lights, but only if they're green
Gilly Gonzylon |
12.21.07 - 11:31 pm | #
Hell, I make decent money, but if I parted with $25,000 for an automobile, the bitch better last trouble-free for a good long while.
Because that's $25,000 I now ain't gonna have, when I retire.
MP |
12.21.07 - 11:31 pm | #
*sigh*
Check please!
Thanks barkeep, here's a little bit for you... happy holidays! I gotta be gettin'...
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MisterX |
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12.21.07 - 11:32 pm | #
Rmj, Gimme Las Posadas
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Any messiah has to be killed in order to perpetuate the hope. There is not a single messiah in history who has survived, except in a {hopeful} afterlife.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:32 pm | #
Thanks barkeep, here's a little bit for you... happy holidays! I gotta be gettin'...
he's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.21.07 - 11:33 pm | #
1Watt: JP, U sure that's not one of those Grey alien heads?
Is this where I say something in Italian, ending in "Pussy Malanga!" and shoot you?
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 11:33 pm | #
Uncle B...body okay, psyche not so much. Missing granddaughter, hating Xmas, that sort of thing. Locating boostraps, trying to pull them up. How's by you?
Sarah Deere |
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12.21.07 - 11:33 pm | #
I like traffic lights, but only if they're green
Gilly Gonzylon
On the streets of Philly, that is a moot point.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:33 pm | #
Any messiah has to be killed in order to perpetuate the hope.
That's not how Buddha played it. But he's not really called a messiah.
puppethead |
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12.21.07 - 11:33 pm | #
"better to burn out than fade away"
s'pose Fidel is the longest lived "messiah"?
nick carraway |
12.21.07 - 11:33 pm | #
I'm buying "Honey's Dead" right now.
Sold that album eons ago; will be glad to have it back.
Zap Rowsdower |
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12.21.07 - 11:34 pm | #
"I hate queers, but I love having sex with men!"
Larry Craig
Chris Tucker |
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12.21.07 - 11:34 pm | #
How's Pippin? All cured now i hope?
Almost completely back to normal. She still holds her tail to the side a bit which may be permanent, but is her lively, inquisitive self again.
FeralLiberal |
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12.21.07 - 11:34 pm | #
I love pancakes; hate maple syrup.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 11:34 pm | #
That's not how Buddha played it. But he's not really called a messiah.
puppethead
Besides, an empire where the first are last and the last first, and the greatest of all is servant of all, really doesn't appeal to those who want power.
The thing about that is, the total lack of any correspondence to current political events.
I mean it's weird.
Thers |
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12.21.07 - 11:36 pm | #
I have tortelloni on the boil!
So that's how you cure them?
FeralLiberal |
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12.21.07 - 11:36 pm | #
"How's by you?"
Hate xmas big big time, in part cause the 11th was the 20th anniversary of my fathers death. worried about the students at my old school as there has been some race based violence (black V Puerto Rican, and one of my favorites is Puerto Rican) met an old student who looked great, one of my coworkers is in the shit again with principal queeg, and she does not get what she is doing wrong. let my kids have a party and they left my room IMMACULATE! (that i take as a compliment)
so damn glad to be on break you have no idea.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:37 pm | #
Awww! A quarter! Thank you, sir!
Echidne
It's the best I can do, under the circumstances. I'd offer a smoochie under the mistletoe, but that would probably be much to forward. Thanks, and cheers!
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MisterX |
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12.21.07 - 11:37 pm | #
so damn glad to be on break you have no idea.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 12.21.07 - 11:37 pm | #
To sir with love!
Gilly Gonzylon |
12.21.07 - 11:38 pm | #
Paul Atreides stuck around quite a while as Emporer and then as a wandering blind preacher after his Messiah function was accomplished on Arrakis. Of course, the people he freed started trying to assassinate him pretty soon after he freed them.
Tralfaz |
12.21.07 - 11:38 pm | #
"I've just realized I don't know how anyone here eats pizza, and the uncertainty of that is really disturbing."
Chopsticks make it challenging and therefore, more rewarding.
bo |
12.21.07 - 11:38 pm | #
Late Night at the Bar
So make it one for my baby
and one more for the road......
Jim, Collieresque |
12.21.07 - 11:38 pm | #
I hate bananas. I like banana bread.
I hate tomatoes, but I like spaghetti.
Richard |
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12.21.07 - 11:38 pm | #
Welp, weenie me needs to eat, and veg.
♥
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.21.07 - 11:38 pm | #
"On the streets of Philly, that is a moot point."
hell on the sidewalks, too...
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:38 pm | #
so damn glad to be on break you have no idea.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
I'm happy for you.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:38 pm | #
All it takes is a little more realization of how lost the culture war is for them.
Tralfaz
I heard some sadly deranged individual on Sam Seder tonight talking about some group praying for the "break down" of the Annapolis peace talks because it was an impediment to the return of Jesus – I wish he had not had her on; rather just read her statements. That manner of psychosis is just too much and too sad ... good grief - and, as a man, I used to be so damned funny
focus |
12.21.07 - 11:39 pm | #
People actually eat the doughy part of pizza?
bill |
12.21.07 - 11:40 pm | #
"some group praying for the "break down" of the Annapolis peace talks because it was an impediment to the return of Jesus "
and they think it is impossible to be moral without the savior.
So make it one for my baby
and one more for the road......
Jim, Collieresque
Just jumping back in here to say that "Flying Tigers" is one of my favorite Fred Astaire movies, and not just for the kicking the shit out of the bar glasses scene, but there is that...
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MisterX |
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12.21.07 - 11:41 pm | #
but is her lively, inquisitive self again.
FeralLiberal
phew! great news. Henriette is happy too about it
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.21.07 - 11:41 pm | #
Evening, all.
Been gone since yesterday -- and just back from a lovely meet and greet with some East Coast Atriots.
So -- have I missed anything irksome I should know about while I've been gone?
steve simels |
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12.21.07 - 11:42 pm | #
Dew picked and flown in especially from Iraq.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
12.21.07 - 11:42 pm | #
I heard some sadly deranged individual on Sam Seder tonight talking about some group praying for the "break down" of the Annapolis peace talks because it was an impediment to the return of Jesus
Uh, that was Senator Katherine Harris, aka Janeane Garofalo. It was satire.
Scary that it's hard to tell sometimes these days, isn't it?
puppethead |
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12.21.07 - 11:42 pm | #
Has Huckleberry joined the I-35 Cargo Cult?
1Watt, Hermit |
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12.21.07 - 11:42 pm | #
So -- have I missed anything irksome I should know about while I've been gone?
steve simels
Yes, but I'm glad you had a good time.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.21.07 - 11:43 pm | #
So -- have I missed anything irksome I should know about while I've been gone?
steve simels
Jesus And Mary Chain, bitches!
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.21.07 - 11:43 pm | #
"People actually eat the doughy part of pizza?"
I find all parts of the pizza to be edible. I really like Papa Murphy's "take and bake" pizzas. Yum!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.21.07 - 11:43 pm | #
Henriette is happy too about it
I love your recent pic of Henriette out in the cold.
FeralLiberal |
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12.21.07 - 11:43 pm | #
So -- have I missed anything irksome I should know about while I've been gone?
The Enlightenment? The Treaty of Westphalia?
Thers |
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12.21.07 - 11:43 pm | #
So -- have I missed anything irksome I should know about while I've been gone?
The Enlightenment? The Treaty of Westphalia?
Thers | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:43 pm | #
How about that fricking Diet of Worms, pal?
steve simels |
Homepage |
12.21.07 - 11:47 pm | #
this was my Is It Real Or Is It The Onion moment today.
Apparently, it's real
When asked his favorite novel in an interview shown yesterday on the Fox News Channel, Mitt Romney pointed to “Battlefield Earth,” a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. That book was turned into a film by John Travolta, a Scientologist.
Jim, Collieresque |
12.21.07 - 11:47 pm | #
Mitt Romney pointed to “Battlefield Earth,” a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. That book was turned into a film by John Travolta, a Scientologist.
Jim, Collieresque
! How he wants those fundie votes...
ellroon |
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12.21.07 - 11:48 pm | #
So -- have I missed anything irksome I should know about while I've been gone?
Someone complained that their gravatar wasn't showing up. They blamed you, simels.
Richard |
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12.21.07 - 11:48 pm | #
look at my lovely festivus tree she wanted to destroy
Not in the Holiday Spirit, is she? My girls are Very Good about leaving the tree alone, although I think it makes a difference being artificial.
FeralLiberal |
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12.21.07 - 11:49 pm | #
No, but we got to finally meet the lovely Madamab, who is delightful.
steve simels |
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12.21.07 - 11:49 pm | #
Geez, watched a movie tonight with Youngest DWD called, THE LAST LEGION. It was sort of a "Pre-quel" to the King Arthur legend. I had to stop the movie every once in a while to make corrections in the storyline for Youngest DWD. (I am getting to be a bit of a bore with this Arthurian Legend stuff )
DWD - Unelected Legislator |
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12.21.07 - 11:49 pm | #
How about that fricking Diet of Worms, pal?
Yummy!
Have fun to-night?
Thers |
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12.21.07 - 11:49 pm | #
If I say the word "pontoons", will I be shunned?
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MisterX
Uh, that was Senator Katherine Harris, aka Janeane Garofalo. It was satire. Scary that it's hard to tell sometimes these days, isn't it?
puppethead
yikes, thank dog ... I thought it was the daughter of that "preacher" who protests the soldiers funerals ... and yes, lines are blurring *sigh*
focus |
12.21.07 - 11:50 pm | #
You folks are gonna be blown away when you meet me at EschaCon. I suck worse than you think.
Zap Rowsdower |
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12.21.07 - 11:51 pm | #
Have fun to-night?
Thers | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 11:49 pm | #
Yep. Apart from the usual suspects, there was the irrepressible racymind, plus monica-a and hubby the ourzo stallion (I think that's the name) and the aforementioned Madamab.
Very nice...at some dive Irish bar in the east village. A splendid time etc...
steve simels |
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12.21.07 - 11:51 pm | #
Plum P,
Do you know what the Mary Chain is, btw?
DWD - Unelected Legislator |
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12.21.07 - 11:51 pm | #
Feral has the slanties
Get 'em off me, GET 'EM OFF ME!
FeralLiberal |
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12.21.07 - 11:51 pm | #
I had to stop the movie every once in a while to make corrections in the storyline for Youngest DWD. (I am getting to be a bit of a bore with this Arthurian Legend stuff )
DWD - Unelected Legislator
But when Youngest DWD thinks about these later, the correct legend will be there.
ellroon |
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12.21.07 - 11:52 pm | #
In the car just now:
Teen son: "wait, wait, check out that sweep"
Me: (listens) "hell, that's an arpeggio"
Husband: "zappa - that's a sweet little arpeggio"
ErinPDX |
12.21.07 - 11:52 pm | #
Ron Paul Potts.
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QuentinCompson |
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12.21.07 - 11:53 pm | #
so damn glad to be on break you have no idea.
Uncle Blodge
and Gilly already said it: "to sir with love".
Good on ya Unc B.
Sarah Deere |
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12.21.07 - 11:54 pm | #
Ron Paul Potts.
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QuentinCompson
Pope John Ron Paul
ellroon |
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12.21.07 - 11:54 pm | #
Honey's Dead is their baggy, groovy records. I love them. I danced a lot on that one at university!
Do you know what the Mary Chain is, btw?
DWD
apart from a great rock band?
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.21.07 - 11:54 pm | #
"Good on ya Unc B."
tanks.
I'm still crazy over the present i got - a clean room after a party by 20 teens with potato chips....
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:55 pm | #
flea spray works against the slanties? Who knew!
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.21.07 - 11:56 pm | #
You folks are gonna be blown away when you meet me at EschaCon. I suck worse than you think. - Zap Rowsdower
Maybe if you at less beans you'd be less likely to blow us away. Also, stay healthy to avoid broad spectrum antibiotics.
bo |
12.21.07 - 11:56 pm | #
but ellroon, correct and legend are sort of contradictory. (I explained that to him as well.) In my corrections I specified that according to Geoffrey of Monmouth and Thomas Mallory (the two earliest and most complete sources) these are the "Facts" but we do not know if these are true or not. The sword in the stone is generally NOT Excaliber (Excaliber is traditionally delivered later to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake) and Uther Pendragon was Arthur's Father and Vortigern was not a SAXON and so on. . . .
DWD - Unelected Legislator |
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12.21.07 - 11:56 pm | #
Also, I heard an interesting interview on NPR this week.
A guy who is in charge of soup kitchens, is finally convincing the local restaurant owners not to just throw away the perfectly good food left by the patrons.
The guy said "What the heck, we get barely touched porterhouse steak sometimes. We make a stew, and that feeds a lot of people."
The report said that this dude has an annual budget of $28,000. Staff and everything.
Errr, no thanks, that might make him a relative.
bo |
12.21.07 - 11:57 pm | #
"I should find some Primal Scream while I'm at it.
And suggestions?"
think about the bush administration.
that should have you screaming
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.21.07 - 11:58 pm | #
Uh, that was Senator Katherine Harris, aka Janeane Garofalo. It was satire.
Scary that it's hard to tell sometimes these days, isn't it?
puppethead
Thank heaven Pontoons never got to be Senator.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.21.07 - 11:58 pm | #
Ron Paul Putz.
sidhra, snow princess ص& |
12.21.07 - 11:58 pm | #
Atrios is always asking people to kill him.
Douglas Watts |
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12.21.07 - 11:58 pm | #
Steve's Friday Movie Reviews.
SWEENEY TODD.
Tim Burton's first absolute masterpiece. Brilliantly directed, Depp/Helena/Alan Rickman all to die for. And it's the scariest bloodiest film musical any ever imagined.
Hell, I don't even like Sondheim or the music and it's fucking great.
WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY.
Pretty funny parody of "Ray" and "Walk the Line". It helps if you like dick jokes. Star John C. Reilly does his own singing and actually sounds like Roy Orbison. Marshall Crenshaw wrote the title song, so obviously the movie deserves respect from mere mortals like you and I.
steve simels |
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12.21.07 - 11:58 pm | #
(I am getting to be a bit of a bore with this Arthurian Legend stuff )
DWD - Unelected Legislator
Well, I hope you gave him the Mists of Avalon version. Especially tonight.
ErinPDX |
12.21.07 - 11:59 pm | #
Some pictures of Montreal...
Richard
hey! i know that place!
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.21.07 - 11:59 pm | #
The sword in the stone is generally NOT Excaliber (Excaliber is traditionally delivered later to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake) and Uther Pendragon was Arthur's Father and Vortigern was not a SAXON and so on. . . .
DWD - Unelected Legislator
Ok, then. The corrections are necessary to understand the legend from the beginning. Then we can piece together the mutations of the story as we tell it and Disney mangles it.
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:00 am | #
Wine's almost gone, and it's too late to open another bottle...
FeralLiberal |
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12.22.07 - 12:01 am | #
Plum P, I was minding my own business listening to music (as I usually do) when I heard these lyrics, "It's there in the light of the long forgotten, Running deep in the Milky Way, It's in the night of the prayer wheels turning
In the dawning of the day, It's in the names of the Christian martyrs, And the blood of the Jesus chain, It's in the flame of the fire starters, And the cave where the Crow man paints,
It's revealed in the codes of the tombs of Cairo, Shining she rode through the crimson rain ,
I'll see you again in the grand reunion, And the prayers of the Mary chain,
The Jesus Chain and the Mary Chain are the endless line of prayers that have ascended to heaven since their deaths. It is a tradition within the Catholic Church for there to be a constant stream of prayer and praise - the Jesus and Mary Chain.
DWD - Unelected Legislator |
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12.22.07 - 12:01 am | #
Looks like stewart, Colbert, Letterman, Leno, and Conan have caved to the giant corporations and will get back to work January 2.
burt |
12.22.07 - 12:02 am | #
Quick, before Saturday starts on the east coast...Friday Cat blogging!
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:02 am | #
I should find some Primal Scream while I'm at it.
And suggestions?
Zap Rowsdower
hell, are you behind me of something? I just downloades in the computer all the Primal Scream records and i'm actually listening to Vanishing Point right now. That's the psyché-rock lp. If you want them harder edge, go for Exterminator with the fantastic KILL ALL HIPPIES
Wine's almost gone, and it's too late to open another bottle...
FeralLiberal
Finally got home to pop one - have a glass of this Wash. chard.
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 12:02 am | #
And this guy's policy was "Welcome all".
He said "These folks really don't need to be pestered. We feed all who come here."
MP |
12.22.07 - 12:02 am | #
Is there a right way and a wrong way to ask people to kill you?
Does saying, "please fucking kill me now," unnecessarily impose on people a demand that they rearrange their busy schedules to kill you, or is saying "please please kill me now" a legitimate way of expressing a valid and rational outcome, given the circumstances?
Douglas Watts |
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12.22.07 - 12:03 am | #
(Excaliber is traditionally delivered later to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake)
Listen, if I went round saying I was na emperor just because some watery tart had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.22.07 - 12:03 am | #
Plum,
Just got "Rocks".
That'll suffice for now.
Zap Rowsdower |
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12.22.07 - 12:03 am | #
Wow, steve. I loved the Cariou/Lansbury stage version of Sweeney Todd. Guess I'll have to see the film.
sidhra, snow princess ص& |
12.22.07 - 12:04 am | #
The Old Man From Scene 24
I thought she was a moistened bint?
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:04 am | #
Erin and Ellroon,
I am going to take my time and do the best I can to tell the story of Arthur in the clearest way possible using whatever sources I can find. I will use Mallory as my primary but the Avalon story must be included. (But not mangled as they did with the miniseries)
DWD - Unelected Legislator |
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12.22.07 - 12:04 am | #
- the Jesus and Mary Chain.
DWD
well the band is swimming in sacrilege then!
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.22.07 - 12:04 am | #
Ack! I got to get up in 6 hours time to go to the airport, but I still have a pint (Imperial) of IPA left. What to do, what to do...
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.22.07 - 12:04 am | #
have a glass of this Wash. chard
Ah, so nice Erin. Thank You!
FeralLiberal |
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12.22.07 - 12:04 am | #
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Yellow streaked asshole.
bo |
12.22.07 - 12:05 am | #
One of the attorneys I work for gave me a $100 gift card for Amazon.
I just went into my wish list and went to town.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:06 am | #
I should head for the horizontal, I have 23 lbs of cranberries demanding my attention tomorrow.
FeralLiberal |
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12.22.07 - 12:06 am | #
Annnnd the scariest part of the link:
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bo |
12.22.07 - 12:07 am | #
I thought she was a moistened bint?
You are correct! I mixed up the emperor bit with the supreme executive power bit. Obviously I need to re watch it for the brazillianth time!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.22.07 - 12:07 am | #
I will use Mallory as my primary but the Avalon story must be included. (But not mangled as they did with the miniseries)
DWD - Unelected Legislator
Ack! I got to get up in 6 hours time to go to the airport, but I still have a pint (Imperial) of IPA left. What to do, what to do...
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
Drink it, then you'll have to get up to pee in 6 hours.
1Watt, Hermit |
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12.22.07 - 12:08 am | #
Terry,
You're supposed to buy gifts for others.
shaw |
12.22.07 - 12:08 am | #
One of the attorneys I work for gave me a $100 gift card for Amazon.
Before I slip off toe bed, I will upload FIELD WHERE THE ANGELS DANCE for you, Plum P, it is an interesting song. Kind of Rock. (at least for me)
DWD - Unelected Legislator |
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12.22.07 - 12:08 am | #
My mother, in the white dress, with 5 of her 18 siblings...
Richard
my father came from a family of 14...11 girls and 3 boys. For a poor farmer, it was dramatic!
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.22.07 - 12:08 am | #
going now. going to sleep in and not think about lesson plans and creating multimedia for at least 5 days!
Ack! That's a sweet face ... but a little off-putting...
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:09 am | #
They're are no 'corrections' to be made to arthurian romances. These tales never would have even got off the ground with that attitude. Only time well tell if the innovation sticks.
beef |
12.22.07 - 12:10 am | #
Drink it, then you'll have to get up to pee in 6 hours.
Sounds like a plan!
Cheers!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.22.07 - 12:10 am | #
I should head for the horizontal, I have 23 lbs of cranberries demanding my attention tomorrow.
FeralLiberal
Good Grief. If each guest ingested a quarter pound of cranberries, you'd have nearly 100 Holiday interlopers.
MP |
12.22.07 - 12:10 am | #
You are correct! I mixed up the emperor bit with the supreme executive power bit. Obviously I need to re watch it for the brazillianth time!
The Old Man From Scene 24
No, you are right. She was first a watery tart then a moistened bint...
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:10 am | #
If you want them harder edge, go for Exterminator with the fantastic KILL ALL HIPPIES
My mother, in the white dress, with 5 of her 18 siblings...
..You're not joking?...
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:12 am | #
And I thought you were such a nice well behaved young lady...
steve simels
are you out of your mind?
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.22.07 - 12:12 am | #
These oral romances and epics were constructed with each teller adding their own embellishment.
beef |
12.22.07 - 12:12 am | #
Good Grief. If each guest ingested a quarter pound of cranberries, you'd have nearly 100 Holiday interlopers
Heh, not for guests. I'm getting another batch of wine started.
FeralLiberal |
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12.22.07 - 12:12 am | #
my father came from a family of 14...11 girls and 3 boys. For a poor farmer, it was dramatic!
My grandfather was well to do, but eventually fell on hard times.
My grandmother started having kids when she was 14 and didn't stop until she was 42. I think there were four sets of twins. She died of ovarian cancer a few years after this picture was taken...
french canadian families, you only have to go back for 50 or 60 years to have those size of families here
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.22.07 - 12:13 am | #
www.kingdomcometraining.com
Come dancing, instead.
sidhra, snow princess ص& |
12.22.07 - 12:13 am | #
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Duncan Black |
12.22.07 - 12:14 am | #
Too late, Plum P
Here it is: John Stewart's FIELD WHERE THE ANGELS DANCE (For anyone interested. John Stewart does interesting American music)
A concoction of mine, a blend of Cranberries, Apples and a can of Zinfandel concentrate I call CranZapple.
FeralLiberal |
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12.22.07 - 12:18 am | #
Dr. Steve Hotze, where Huckabee is meeting donors in Texas. These are some of the things he believes (via Crooks and Liars.)
According to a separate Houston Press article that suggests that Hotze’s medical credentials and views are a bit suspect, he also signed something called the Coalition on Revival’s Manifesto for the Christian Church in 1986 that dictated:
* A wife may work outside the home only with her husband’s consent
* “Biblical spanking” that results in “temporary or superficial bruises or welts” should not be considered a crime
* No doctor shall provide medical service on the Sabbath
* All disease and disability is caused by the sin of Adam and Eve
* Medical problems are frequently caused by personal sin
* “Increased longevity generally results from obedience to specific Biblical commands”
* Treatment of the “physical body” is not a doctor’s highest priority
* Doctors have a priestly calling
* People receiving medical treatment are not immune from divine intervention or demonic forces
* Physicians should preach to their patients because salvation is the key to their health
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:18 am | #
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Duncan Black | 12.22.07 - 12:14 am | #
Yet another example of the rapier wit that has gotten you your well deserved reputation as the Dorothy Parker of moronic asshole trolldom.
steve simels |
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12.22.07 - 12:18 am | #
I want Giuliani Insurance - the kind where you get an overnight stay in a private room at a major hospital because you have a headache.
Pussy.
I think he had a total meltdown when he realized he's gonna lose!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.22.07 - 12:18 am | #
A wife may work outside the home only with her husband’s consent
Fuck that shit.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:19 am | #
Pussy.
WalterNeff, graceful
Big time. His actions serve perfectly to make himself the anti-Guiliani.
MP |
12.22.07 - 12:19 am | #
* All disease and disability is caused by the sin of Adam and Eve
* Medical problems are frequently caused by personal sin
* “Increased longevity generally results from obedience to specific Biblical commands”
In WHAT century are these people living?
What nonsense!
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:20 am | #
Physicians should preach to their patients because salvation is the key to their health...
I'm sure I'd accept Jesus or anybody else while the doctor is threatening me with a 6 inch needle....
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:20 am | #
billy b: Who he?
She. Amazing, 21 years old. Australian, bassist, and to be quite sexist about it, total babe.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 12.21.07 - 10:40 pm | #
JP -- you realize, of course, that Beck is boinking her?
I'm sorry man, but I had to tell you...
steve simels |
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12.22.07 - 12:21 am | #
I'm enjoying seeing Rudy! crash & burn although he would make a very easy to beat candidate in the election.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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12.22.07 - 12:21 am | #
Dr. Steve Hotze, - ellroon
Bound to be Huckajeebus's pick to run the CDC or DHHS.
bo |
12.22.07 - 12:21 am | #
Night all. Have a good evening.
(I managed, with the help of my drugs, to not be negative. I consider that a miracle) But tomorrow may be worse.
DWD - Unelected Legislator |
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12.22.07 - 12:21 am | #
jdw
fucking freaky koinkidink
we were on way home from drummer son's bday dinner
said son was asked to do drum tracks for friends on a zappa tune.
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 12:21 am | #
* Medical problems are frequently caused by personal sin
Then Bush and Cheney should have every disease known to medical science.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:21 am | #
Can a US Prez candidate get so mobbed up as to make it kind of emabarrassing?
Stay tuned, Rudy will answer this.
MP |
12.22.07 - 12:22 am | #
she was 18, and he was 28.
Richard |
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12.22.07 - 12:22 am | #
Sheets!
Terry C -Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:23 am | #
* Physicians should preach to their patients because salvation is the key to their health
Yeah....and that physician is going to need a surgeon to remove my foot from their ass.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:23 am | #
peaches and regalia
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 12:23 am | #
Bound to be Huckajeebus's pick to run the CDC or DHHS.
bo
Ooo, then we'd have public stonings and stuff!
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:23 am | #
i don't see these new sheets
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 12:24 am | #
Sheets!
Terry C -Democratic Bitch | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 12:23 am
Name-stealer (no avatar).
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:24 am | #
Stop calling sheets.
There are no more sheets left.
MP |
12.22.07 - 12:24 am | #
The people cry Sheets! Sheets! But I don't see any fucking sheets.
Speedy |
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12.22.07 - 12:24 am | #
i don't see these new sheets
Nor do I...
FeralLiberal |
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12.22.07 - 12:25 am | #
Oops = GRAVATAR
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:25 am | #
My, Allen Butler is being particularly infantile.
Richard |
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12.22.07 - 12:25 am | #
He calls sheets and sheets, but when the real sheets come, no villagers came to help him and all his sheep were eaten ....
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:26 am | #
My, Allen Butler is being particularly infantile.
Richard
What a sad individual he is.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:26 am | #
I could put up new sheets just to make things more confusing, of course.
Echidne |
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12.22.07 - 12:26 am | #
Time to crash myself. Sleep well 'bats,
and dance on the Solstice.
FeralLiberal |
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12.22.07 - 12:26 am | #
Likewise for the call previous. The Attention Deficit Trool working hard for attention.
bo |
12.22.07 - 12:27 am | #
peaches and regalia
ErinPDX
Bongo Fury!
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:27 am | #
she was 18, and he was 28.
Richard
You have very nice looking parents!
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:27 am | #
How do you deal with another human, whose sole driving force is to repel other humans?
Fuck you, trolls. Your contribution to the human condition is really shitty.
MP |
12.22.07 - 12:27 am | #
peaches and regalia - ErinPDX
What happened to Herb?
bo |
12.22.07 - 12:28 am | #
Butler is here?
Feh...I'm going to bed...
steve simels |
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12.22.07 - 12:29 am | #
I could put up new sheets just to make things more confusing, of course.
Echidne
Maybe you could coax the troll onto new sheets and slam the door, trapping him inside. Start a thread and then remove the link?
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:29 am | #
It was HER fault for not being a fetus or someone in a coma for over ten years:
There was a photograph, now lost sadly, of the night they met, Dec. 31, 1956. It was the New Year's eve party at the air base they were stationed. It was a picture of them dancing that was published in the base newspaper.
Richard |
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12.22.07 - 12:30 am | #
erin: once they get peaches down, they can try this:
Out shakin' his groove thing?
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:32 am | #
There was a photograph, now lost sadly, of the night they met, Dec. 31, 1956. It was the New Year's eve party at the air base they were stationed. It was a picture of them dancing that was published in the base newspaper.
Richard
Dancing parents. What a gift.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.22.07 - 12:33 am | #
There was a photograph, now lost sadly, of the night they met, Dec. 31, 1956. It was the New Year's eve party at the air base they were stationed. It was a picture of them dancing that was published in the base newspaper.
Richard
Anyone tried to find a copy of the newspaper?
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:33 am | #
I feel for anyone going through this:
on Friday at the start of the busy holiday travel season.
Travelers also encountered weather-related delays at airports in the New York City area.
Flights in and out of O'Hare, the nation's second-busiest airport, were delayed by up to two hours, airport spokesman Gregg Cunningham said.
Chicago's Midway International Airport reported delays of up to 45 minutes, but did not report any cancelations.
The National Weather Service issued a dense fog advisory for northern Illinois Friday morning, and meteorologists said the low visibility would likely continue through Saturday morning.
Cloudiness was delaying arriving flights at New York's LaGuardia Airport and the Newark Liberty (N.J.) International Airport by an average of more than an hour late Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The agency said the volume of traffic was holding up departing flights by an average of up to half an hour at Newark, but the delays were waning.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:34 am | #
Anyone tried to find a copy of the newspaper?
Pretty hard to find I think. My mother had the photo for over 40 years, but it got misplaced somehow.
Richard |
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12.22.07 - 12:35 am | #
That's the kick ass version of Montreal!
Gilly Gonzylon |
12.22.07 - 12:37 am | #
Someone actually short sheeted this Thread?
EkCenTriK |
12.22.07 - 12:39 am | #
Gonzales Has Rough Time Tapping Young Minds for Legal Defense Fund
Buried by legal bills and hard up for cash, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales hit the college speaking circuit last month hoping to rake in big bucks. Instead, he's been raked over the coals, heckled or flat out turned down by students whose institutions he charges exorbitant fees to tap his amnesiac mind.
Ho ho ho
-
QuentinCompson |
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12.22.07 - 12:40 am | #
Someone actually short sheeted this Thread?
EkCenTriK
Early this morning I was lamenting the state of the human condition. But, then I realized my error. I actually expected people to be rational. What a mistake!
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.22.07 - 12:40 am | #
Did anyone read any interesting newspaper articles today?
dave |
12.22.07 - 12:41 am | #
Richard, have you tried
No. Part of the difficulty was that it was a Canadian air base newspaper, so it really is something particularly obscure.
Richard |
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12.22.07 - 12:42 am | #
The Wall street Journal has a front page story 'Fraud Seen as a Driver In Wave of Disclosures'
dave |
12.22.07 - 12:43 am | #
bo
wishywashywu sent me a mailer
yawn
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 12:43 am | #
off to bond w/ hubby watching Bill Moyers...
Bless you all, wonderful peoples!
ellroon |
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12.22.07 - 12:43 am | #
Sorry, Wave of Foreclosures...
dave |
12.22.07 - 12:43 am | #
Did anyone read any interesting newspaper articles today?
That rarely happens, finding them interesting. I did as a child. All that really weird stuff about aliens and the gossip pages. I wish I could get that first-time feeling back.
Echidne |
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12.22.07 - 12:44 am | #
I wish I could get that first-time feeling back.
Echidne
Well, there is that.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.22.07 - 12:46 am | #
Buried by legal bills and hard up for cash, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Couldn't happen to a more deserving schmuck.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 12:46 am | #
Atlanta ring scams BEar stearns, Getting 6.8 million in Loans.
Now this story isn't on the WSJ's editorial page but it is attempting to deflect the blame from the big banks.
My point is, the Wall Street Journal isn't a good paper at all. It seems like it is packed with great content but EVERY STORY HAS AN AGENDA.
wHAT i'M SAYING IS... It's a myth this is a good paper. Let Murdoch have the piece of shit.
dave |
12.22.07 - 12:47 am | #
Did anyone read any interesting newspaper articles today?
dave
[looks at the Friday copy of the Bend, Orygun, Bulletin; shakes head sadly]
TweetTwoot |
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12.22.07 - 12:47 am | #
sprays toucari with fleapowder spray.
Echidne |
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12.22.07 - 12:48 am | #
Buried by legal bills and hard up for cash, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
You insisted on conspicuously backing the wrong horse.
From what your Republican comrades keep informing us, Americans don't like a loser, nor do they like a quitter.
You lose. Pay at the window, please.
MP |
12.22.07 - 12:50 am | #
Strange. I no longer feel like scratching.
Night all.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.22.07 - 12:50 am | #
Fuck you, trolls. Your contribution to the human condition is really shitty.
MP
ugh ... yes butler, et al, are here ... look for lipreader or beep to show up soon - zod is laying low
X Present |
12.22.07 - 12:50 am | #
well, THAT was fun!
watertiger |
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12.22.07 - 12:51 am | #
I'm in awe.
Toucari, on sabbatical |
12.22.07 - 12:54 am | #
well, THAT was fun!
The meat Eschaton?
Echidne |
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12.22.07 - 12:54 am | #
Print off a copy, roll it up, and swat him with it.
bo |
12.22.07 - 12:54 am | #
...how the hell did I become TweetToot?!?
Jack K., the Grumpy Forester |
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12.22.07 - 12:54 am | #
...how the hell did I become TweetToot?!?
It's some sort of a Haloscan rebellion thing. I became exji yesterday, with new e-mail addy and homepage.
Echidne |
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12.22.07 - 12:55 am | #
The most interesting story I read?
The fire in the VPs office.
Can't tell you the cause because of national security. WTF?
At an afternoon news conference, Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty and Fire Chief Dennis Rubin said security concerns prevented them from saying exactly where or how the fire started.
Snip
Rubin said about 100 firefighters responded to the scene with about 60 pieces of equipment.
Rubin added that federal authorities will be taking over the fire investigation, which will be coordinated through the Secret Service.
And
From the LA Times story:
Lawrimore said one person was injured, a Marine who was treated at the White House medical office for cuts on his hand.
Cuts on his hand? Hm...
s p ocko |
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12.22.07 - 12:55 am | #
omg
clouds parting, see the moon
guys starting fire out back
have to take pics
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 12:55 am | #
Couldn't happen to a more deserving schmuck. - Terry C - Democratic Bitch
...those industrial-strength shredders can be nasty if you don't know what you're doing...
Jack K., the Grumpy Forester |
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12.22.07 - 12:57 am | #
The Justice Department has begun an inquiry into chocolate makers pricing practices.
dave |
12.22.07 - 12:58 am | #
We're all in awe. And shock. And Awe and Shock and Shock and Awe.
wHAT i'M SAYING IS... It's a myth this is a good paper. Let Murdoch have the piece of shit.
dave | 12.22.07 - 12:47 am | #
And you're gonna get the rest of the media to treat Murdoch's WSJ with the contempt it deserves exactly how?
The same way you're getting them to make fun of FOX NEWS as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party?
Wow -- that's been a huge success...
Yeah, great idea...give the bastard another outlet to give him respectability.
Sorry -- don't mean to be personally snarky, but really...
steve simels |
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12.22.07 - 1:00 am | #
The EU moved to include airlines in the bloc's emissions trading program. The US opposes the plan and has threatened litigation.
dave |
12.22.07 - 1:01 am | #
"The Justice Department has begun an inquiry into chocolate makers pricing practices."
Scowling at the M&M I hold in my hand. (Not melting either).
EkCenTriK |
12.22.07 - 1:01 am | #
Jack K, Grumpy Forester
They said something about it being in a electrical switching space.
I'm really fraking sick of these people getting away with EVERYTHING under the guise of "national security" security concerns prevented them from saying exactly where or how the fire started.
Please explain to me how in the FRAK not talking about how or where the fire started is a security concern?
s p ocko |
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12.22.07 - 1:01 am | #
"
Please explain to me how in the FRAK not talking about how or where the fire started is a security concern?"
It is a little embarrassing discussing the concept that our V.P. was playing with matches again. Lynne just didn't get them away from him in time.
EkCenTriK |
12.22.07 - 1:02 am | #
Is anyone paying attention?
Mr French |
12.22.07 - 1:02 am | #
Sorry -- don't mean to be personally snarky, but really...
steve simels
It's why Congress back in the day, took the time, and the corporate backer heat, to limit media consoldation.
You simply cannot trust corporations to do the right thing. Fuck, how many non-wealthy people have to die miserable deaths before voters learn this?!
MP |
12.22.07 - 1:04 am | #
...those industrial-strength shredders can be nasty if you don't know what you're doing... - Jack K., the Grumpy Forester
Particularly if your wearing a tie. I've had co-workers at two jobs get snagged. One of them paniced a just started screaming. Fortunately a secretary with presence of mind got there and shut it off. About 2" short of his chin. had to cut the tie at the back of his neck. It was hung on the wall above the shredder as a reminder.
Second guy's experience wasn't quite as harrowing, but periodically he'd wear the shredded tie.
bo |
12.22.07 - 1:04 am | #
And with that, I'm too pooped to work anymore. Thanks to all for helping me stay up this late. Night, bats...
Upsidasium |
12.22.07 - 1:05 am | #
Fuck you, trolls. Your contribution to the human condition is really shitty.
MP
ugh ... yes butler, et al, are here ... look for lipreader or beep to show up soon - zod is laying low right MP? ... MP?
X Present |
12.22.07 - 1:05 am | #
Please explain to me how in the FRAK not talking about how or where the fire started is a security concern?
s p ocko
The Eye of Sauron gets very, very angry if the Fires of Mordor get trespassers.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
12.22.07 - 1:06 am | #
OK. 500 comments means I should be a total threadkiller now.
flory |
12.22.07 - 1:07 am | #
Hi Flory!!! You are no threadkiller to me. Welcome. Good to see you. How are you?
s p ocko |
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12.22.07 - 1:09 am | #
Ontario's Superior Court of Justice on Nov. 21 granted search warrants to be issued to all of those candy makers "based on evidence that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a number of suppliers in the chocolate confectionery industry have engaged in activities contrary to the conspiracy provisions of the Competition Act," a spokeswoman for Canada's Competition Bureau said in a statement last month.
dave |
12.22.07 - 1:09 am | #
Nicely phrased as always...
steve simels
The cold New York wind blows through from the left ear to the right with no resistance...wheee! is the best I can do.
racymind |
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12.22.07 - 1:10 am | #
Chocolate makers have been hurt lately by high dairy costs and have been raising prices to offset them. Hershey cut its earnings forecast earlier this year as a result.
dave |
12.22.07 - 1:10 am | #
OK. 500 comments means I should be a total threadkiller now. - flory
But where's your lengthy, carefully thoughtout post to leave stranded?
bo |
12.22.07 - 1:10 am | #
Dave -
Sounds like Harper's minions are loonier than your coinage.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
12.22.07 - 1:10 am | #
OK. 500 comments means I should be a total threadkiller now.
Don't you DARE crimp my style.
Mr French |
12.22.07 - 1:10 am | #
man, haloscan is being a real cock tonight.
glad to see racymind and flory made it back to their respective hotels...
A very interesting commentary on modern american life......
flory |
12.22.07 - 1:12 am | #
Soon, there will be no more chocolate anywhere. At any price.
ak ek |
12.22.07 - 1:12 am | #
Hey Flory, how goes it?
Ex son in law out of surgery, in critical condition.
I really want to be a total asshole, but I can't help but feel that this really sucks.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
12.22.07 - 1:12 am | #
plum...gorgeous snow pix and lovely ones of the glorious Ms Henriette!!!
Sarah Deere |
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12.22.07 - 1:12 am | #
Please explain to me how in the FRAK not talking about how or where the fire started is a security concern?
s p ocko
...we will never be allowed to know the truth about things they don't want us to know about. The truth behind all those Roswell, New Mexico, mysteries may be that the massive power sources needed to sustain a strange and repulsive alien life form in the guise of the Vice President of the United States can overwhelm the ancient core wiring harnesses in the Old Executive Office Building and that could be just such a secret...
Have I ever mentioned that Deschutes Brewery's Jubilale is a particularly tasty treat...
Jack K., the Grumpy Forester |
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12.22.07 - 1:12 am | #
I've got some meatspace to offer tomorrow night. Monsieur J Pres already knows. Everybody else is welcome too. Being somewhere near East Tennessee helps.
Go to homepage and click around to email me if you want.
Peace. Seriously. If you're so inclined. Yes.
Speedy |
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12.22.07 - 1:13 am | #
Second guy's experience wasn't quite as harrowing, but periodically he'd wear the shredded tie.
bo
Had a 5 year gig at a Ford assembly plant. Showed up the 1st day in a suit and tie. Besides being given the fisheye by everybody, the chassis section manager took me aside and said he really couldn't let wander around his plant dressed like that. It was just too dangerous to be wearing a necktie around the machinery.
For the next 5 years, it was polo shirts and khakis.
MP |
12.22.07 - 1:13 am | #
mumble mumble, mumble mumble, fart, fart, fart
dave |
12.22.07 - 1:13 am | #
Floy. Wow! Are you in NYC?
s p ocko |
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12.22.07 - 1:13 am | #
Sallyh - what's up w/ex-s-o-l?????
Sarah Deere |
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12.22.07 - 1:13 am | #
Ex son in law out of surgery, in critical condition.
WTF?
what happened?
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 1:13 am | #
But where's your lengthy, carefully thoughtout post to leave stranded?
bo
Erm....you already seen it....
flory |
12.22.07 - 1:13 am | #
I'll go away now.
Mr French |
12.22.07 - 1:14 am | #
The fools should have made chocolate gasoline and they'd be home free.
-
QuentinCompson |
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12.22.07 - 1:14 am | #
I really want to be a total asshole, but I can't help but feel that this really sucks.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
WHAT?!?!?!?!?
The soap opera takes another turn?!?!
Please fill me in.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
12.22.07 - 1:14 am | #
Dear Abby,
I am trying to understand my eldest of cats. She is nocturnal, 19 yrs old and started yowling about a year back now. She has been a ghost for years. Then suddenly boom, all this noise and activity. We took her to the vet since it looked like she was hurting or ill. No dice, after mucho bucks, she is exceptionally healthy.
Now what she is doing constantly is heading into one of our bedrooms. In that room is an upright vacuum. She will cozy up to it and yowl, grumble and meow for ages. I chase her off, back she goes.
She is driving me nuts, what should I do?
EkCenTriK |
12.22.07 - 1:15 am | #
Sarah D, 80ish woman driving the wrong way on the freeway, crashed into the ex, sent him flying through the air. Saw the news footage--his motorcycle was in pieces all over the freeway, as was his blood and gear. Mlle lost it when she saw that the backpack she'd given him last Father's Day was lying in the road. He's got broken femurs, pelvis, clavicle, wrist, ribs and possible head injuries.
He asked to see Mlle tomorrow before he went to surgery. She has to--it's the decent thing to do. She did make it clear to her ex MIL that the marriage was still over, regardless, but that she would be there.
I'm grateful that Maddy is too young to know what's going on.
Right now, his survival is iffy.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
12.22.07 - 1:17 am | #
I really want to be a total asshole, but I can't help but feel that this really sucks.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
You're entitled to have the feelings that some might consider assholish in regards to this person.
But he's stil Maddy's daddy so that sucks.
spocko:
I'm in Noo Yawk City til tomorrow and spent this evening congregating with teh Atriots.
flory |
12.22.07 - 1:17 am | #
She is driving me nuts, what should I do?
EkCenTriK
Sallyh,
I was going to say you can rest assured that his unsound judgement played a mojor role in this, but you know that already.
dave |
12.22.07 - 1:18 am | #
Now what she is doing constantly is heading into one of our bedrooms. In that room is an upright vacuum. She will cozy up to it and yowl, grumble and meow for ages. I chase her off, back she goes.
Do you throw catnip on the floor or on a rug for her and then eventually vacuum it up?
merle |
12.22.07 - 1:18 am | #
Dan Balz on PBS says the country is completely disgusted with both political parties.
bird |
12.22.07 - 1:19 am | #
Automobile assembly plants are facinating things to watch. Allkinds of raw materials are coming in the front non-stop.
And at the end, a shiny new vehicle emerged, ready for sale.
1,000 per day, when I was there.
MP |
12.22.07 - 1:19 am | #
oh damn Sallyh
all my love to you and yours
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 1:19 am | #
Sallyh -
SERIOUS hugs to you - and especially to Mlle. This is one emotional roller coaster nobody should ride.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
12.22.07 - 1:19 am | #
...uh...
In case anyone is interested, the cat just drug Atrios in and he laid in some new Sheets!!! upstairs...
Jack K., the Grumpy Forester |
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12.22.07 - 1:20 am | #
Roadie, worst part is that he has extensive internal hemorrhaging. and he's Hep C+.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
12.22.07 - 1:20 am | #
"
Do you throw catnip on the floor or on a rug for her and then eventually vacuum it up?"
No. But I thought there might be something attracting her. Just doesn't seem right. I will point out that she was not very normal after a surgery many years back, hence the ghost remark. Over this last year, she has started truly associating with us, being interactive. All strange.
I thought dementia, but I am not sure on that either. Just doesn't seem to fit.
EkCenTriK |
12.22.07 - 1:21 am | #
Roadie, worst part is that he has extensive internal hemorrhaging. and he's Hep C+.
What was the last thing that you vacuumed up? Was it animal, vegetable or mineral? There are some items that, when vacuumed up in a non-hepa vacuum spread into the air like catnip. Pepperment tea is one of these items. There are other items that do the same.
Empty the vacuum and clean it out thoughly out side. Restart it out side and let it run for awhile to rid it of excess dust. The problem should be solved.
The other reason could be that while you were away a couple of people came into your house and stole the ashes from the urn of your loved one. During the robbery they knocked some ashes on the floor which they used your vacuum cleaner to get rid of the evidence.
Check your Urn(s) to see if they are still full.
There have been a rash of ash thefts lately. The thieves use the ashes to either send souls back to hell or hold them for ransom. If you get a ransom know you know what they want.
Hopefully they won't be used in some bizarre ritual.
Your cat is tipping you off, you should thank him with a saucer of milk and some salmon.
s p ocko |
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12.22.07 - 1:26 am | #
I thought dementia, but I am not sure on that either. Just doesn't seem to fit.
I think that you're going to do exactly the right thing for her, which is the same thing you've always done for her; you're going to love her. If she were in pain, I'd worry, but from what you say she doesn't seem to be.
merle |
12.22.07 - 1:27 am | #
1,000 per day, when I was there.
MP
but where, you have changed your IP ? why?
X Present |
12.22.07 - 1:27 am | #