HULK SMASHED
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How-DEE! I'm back from my vacation, thankfully, blessedly back from my vacation.
The first part was spent with a friend who is addicted to reality shows. I don't watch much commercial TV, and I got crash exposure to a panoply of this genre--cruelty and voyeurism, carefully planned and target-marketed faux-reality.
I didn't like the effect it on my mind, even after such a short exposure. It seemed to me that a whole nation consuming this material would easily come to view all of us as being part of a vast and elaborate reality TV show, a national dissociative disorder, a country of schizophrenics incapable of normal human relations--everyone being pigeon-holed into categories and stereotypes to watch and to judge, but never to know.
Then again, the second part of the vacation was spent with my brother's family, an enervating obsessive-compulsive passive-aggressive psycho-drama. I love them, but…whew! I'm so glad to be back to my work-eat-relax-sleep normality.
I got a good laugh from the cab driver when I said, "I have a boring life, and I've worked hard to achieve it!"
Hello Budokan!!!!!
Hi!!
Time for my nap. Happy Birthday, ql.
$5 footlong? $300,000,000 battery. .
Weeee!!!
We're pulling up carpet! I'm taking down a tree stump! It's Motivation Day at Chez Rowsdower. WTF??
bonjour Uncle Smokes! It's QL's birthday today!!!
QL's birthday?! Huzzah and a lotta happy to ya!!!
Cold beer to Zap for additional motivation
Joe Klein's conscience = oxymoron
of course, Joe NEVER had a conscience 
Happy Birthday, QuiltLady, wherever you are!
I let QL beat me in scrabble for her b-day 
Isn't it also Gomez's birthday?
of course, Joe NEVER had a conscience
plum p,better democrats please
Well...maybe con science...
What this country needs is an anti-Soderbergamy LaW.
From Greenwald:
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Nancy Soderberg was deputy national security advisor and an ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration. Today, she has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times defending the FISA bill and telecom amnesty. The entire Op-Ed is just a regurgitation of the same trite, vague talking points which the political elite are using to justify this bill, accompanied by the standard invocations of "National Security" which our Foreign Policy elite condescendingly toss around to justify whatever policy they're claiming is necessary to protect us. But it's the language that she uses -- and the brazeness of the lying (and that's what it is) to justify this bill -- that's notable here.
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Wonder how much of Obama's ear this woman has?
Cold beer to Zap for additional motivation
Thanks, bill!
/takes sip, zones out
Well, that didn't last...
Tomorrow is Miserable Failure's birthday... what to get the man who fucks up everything he touches?
Again thanks all.
from below
My neighbor has informed me that I haven't learned how to be retired yet. But it's only been a year. I'll be become expert with time.
Happy Birthday QL!
Light as many candles as u like and make a wish!
I think some folks were looking for something like this: Snow, Glass, Apples.
Hey Uncle Smokes! Thanks for the CD. What a perfect interpretation and document of that glorious weekend. I recognized my moaning before it was recognizable!
And Happy Birthday, ql & Gomez.
My sister shares a birthday with ql. My other sister has a birth day the day after tomorrow and my brother's was on the first of July.
My mother was in academic life in those days and had fairly precise fertility plans.
GWPDA: if i was richer, i would send you the Québec City 400th Anniversary Limited Edition Caribou Throw. Alas...it's a bit dear
http://shop.hbc.com/stores/shop/...1/143849/
Throws
Wonder how much of Obama's ear this woman has?
bo
As much as necessary, and then some, to secure the support of the "right people."
Ah, politics...yippee...are we having fun yet?
Soderberg repeats the lie that George Bush's illegal wiretapping started after Septemeber 11th.
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
50% increase in martini casualties. pizza reinforcements on the way.
Tomorrow is Miserable Failure's birthday... what to get the man who fucks up everything he touches? -
George Johnston
I got to send him a card for free, thanks to the RNC's insistance on sending solicitations to my deceased Mom.
Don't think he's gonna like the personal message.
The FISA Court is a rubberstamp court that gives the government a grace period for filing requests. What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
50% increase in martini casualties. pizza reinforcements on the way.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
Ha! Though I can't help you kill martinis, I *will* be going out to pick up pizzas in just a minute. In order to get the 5yo to agree, I had to make a deal with the devil and agree to watch "Flicka!"
My mother was in academic life in those days and had fairly precise fertility plans.
Echidne
My mom had three kids in july and one in October. I wonder how the winter had to do with it.
Hey Uncle Smokes! Thanks for the CD. What a perfect interpretation and document of that glorious weekend. I recognized my moaning before it was recognizable!
...
ina, forest princess
Whew. I was worried you'd find the manipulation of your voice disturbing, but that kind of stuff is a lot of fun to do.
Tomorrow is Miserable Failure's birthday... what to get the man who fucks up everything he touches?
Gloves?
What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
George Johnston | Homepage | 07.05.08 - 4:58 pm | #
sometimes they are assholes just on principle.
Though I can't help you kill martinis,
you are either with me, or with the pimentoes.
What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
George Johnston
Even the FISA court has standards.
What To Get Der Furhrer on Der Furhrer's Birthday? Didn't "Hogan's Heroes" address this important question?
Assrocket sees a violent crime wave -- in the UK.
What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
George Johnston
Data mining has been the pat answer. Cheating at anything and everything is far more likely.
Don't think he's gonna like the personal message.
bo
I keep thinking we need to find the perfect christian innocent to write to him imploring him to do the right thing for the lord and step down.
My mom had three kids in july and one in October. I wonder how the winter had to do with it.
Not sure. I was born over the Christmas break, though, and that, too, was on purpose. Only the youngest was off the schedule but then she was an unintended blessing.
BREAKING: SOME HOMOSEXUAL WAS INJURED AT THE OLYMPIC TRIALS.
That is all.
why is the snorg girl chewing on her finger? is she hungry?
Aw, Plum_p, that iz beauty-ful! What a swell thought!
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
Peeing on his effigy from a great height....
why is the snorg girl chewing on her finger? is she hungry?
jdw
Lets hope she didn't just have it in her nose.
you are either with me, or with the pimentoes.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
Well, aren't you fighting them there so I don't have to fight them here?
Chimpy
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you. Let me make sure I get -- this is the old three-part question and I'm about to be 62 years old, so -- (laughter.) By the way, I will be celebrating my birthday on Japanese soil; that's interesting.
Q Congratulations.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, come to the party. It's not going to be much of a party; it's only 62.
BONNE FÊTE GOMEZ!
mwah
your 50th year will be so happy!
Peeing on his effigy from a great height....
montag | Homepage | 07.05.08 - 5:02 pm | #
effigy?
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
He'd probably like a nice tie.
In Western Canada, most babies (at least in teh '50s and '60s) were born in March and April.
Western Canadians are people of considered habit.
Chimpy
And this is a fitting place [monticello] to celebrate our nation's independence. Thomas Jefferson once said he'd rather celebrate the Fourth of July than his own birthday. For me, it's pretty simple -- the Fourth of July weekend is my birthday weekend. (Applause.)
By the way, I will be celebrating my birthday on Japanese soil; that's interesting.
I'm sorry, but didn't he just insult the Japanese?
"He'd probably like a nice tie."
i'll get him a can of simonize.
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
bill
Everybody in the country should donate $25 to the Democrat of their choice.
I found it very depressing to read this morning that W has raised a boatload worth of money for rethugs. Typically, he'll fly in for some made up event at daycare center or school, give a five minute speech, then attend a fund raiser. Because of the staged event, he gets to charge the traveling to us. Son-of-a-bitch.
He'd probably like a nice tie.
Gomez
Hemp?
Whew. I was worried you'd find the manipulation of your voice disturbing, but that kind of stuff is a lot of fun to do.
Uncle Smokes |
And I remember when you recorded it -- it seems you already knew how you could make it work & you were right. By chance, did you record any of my set?
give a five minute speech, then attend a closed door fund raiser.
no one wants to be seen with him, but they like his money.
Western Canadians are people of considered habit.
GWPDA
they only fuck in july? i did not know that!
Chimp's always gotta outdo the old man. My guess is an alien's going to emerge from his belly in Japan.
What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
Spying on their political friends and enemies, just like Nixon did.
They also saw it as a mission to destroy FISA (which Cheney, in particular, sees as an unconstitutional infringement on the President's powers), and the best way to do that is exactly what they've been doing....
Maybe the Japanese will serve him as naked sushi, to celebrate the day?
He'd probably like a nice tie.
Gomez
In addition to our love of all things Vicki, we share a natal day. Many happy returns.
they only fuck in july? i did not know that!
Holidays! Mostly at Banff, or Victoria. Somtimes abroad.
Happy Gomez and ql day, all!
you are either with me, or with the pimentoes.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Now this is an instance where I can seriously support bipartisanship.....
The FISA Court is a rubberstamp court that gives the government a grace period for filing requests. What in the world was Bush and Cheney doing that wouldn't even hold up to that flimsy barrier to wiretapping?
The very idea that anyone has even the most cursory supervisory role over them drives these fascist fucks absolutely bonkers.
effigy?
Well, I don't think we can get the whole nation together where he'll be on July 6th.
Symbolic gestures count, too.
Tomorrow is Miserable Failure's birthday... what to get the man who fucks up everything he touches?
George Johnston
I'm reminded of this great Barry Deutsch toon.
SMOOOOOOKES!
Lunch Weds?
Caribou throw? Those Canadians and their crazy games.
Gomez, Happy Birthday, you old coot!
the pizza has arrived - morale is improving. now if only we had a plastic turkee.
NTodd: are you home now? Is Gracey back? I've been worrying all week, stupid me!
and post some pics s'il-vous-plaît
Happy Birthday, Gomez.
May you have many more and may they all be wonderful.
(and may you always be happy together with your love)
SMOOOOOOKES!
Lunch Weds?
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba
Sounds good...when I get back to work Monday I'll double-check the schedule.
Did you keep the email with my phone numbers?
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
I know I started this one, but what the hell; I say knocking over lawn jockeys.
i always liked uncle smokes. and that's not just the martinis talking. er, typing.
Thank all for the nice birfday wishes.
Harry Birthday, ql.
the DC democratic establishment is deeply invested in this FISA bill. They are not "knuckling under", but are actively collaborating
Happy Birthday, I mean, ql.
Thank all for the nice birfday wishes.
Here is a cyber giftbag for you: Fifty chocolate bars, fifty glow-in-the-dark condoms, fifty dfh bumper stickers.
DWD: i'm quite impressed that The Wings got Hossa, if only for a one year contract. You lot my get a second Stanley Cup in a row...
happy birfdays for those that have them!!!
Thank all for the nice birfday wishes.
Gomez | 07.05.08 - 5:11 pm | #
hows it feel to be half a century old? more than just idle curiosity, i'm getting there this orbital pass as well.
I keep thinking we need to find the perfect christian innocent to write to him imploring him to do the right thing for the lord and step down. - ina
I've fantasized about writing Scripture-and-Hell-Fire tinged LTE's to the Central Valley papers imploring Fundies to consider the grevious danger they posing for their Immortal Souls by indulging in such secular acts as politicin' and votin'. The Devil's Playground, I tell ya, and no Rightous Christian should even hold a Gummint Job, much less run for office.
and Gomez, what happened? I thought Jagr was going back to the Penguins?
hows it feel to be half a century old? more than just idle curiosity, i'm getting there this orbital pass as well.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Nothing hurts, everything works.
and Gomez, what happened? I thought Jagr was going back to the Penguins?
plum p,better democrats please
We signed Satan instead.
plum - hell, we haven't left Portland yet! We'll be in South Dakota by Weds, which is about halfway. Home before the 16th. NTodd's Pa reports Vinnie and Lola greeted him--everybody else was in hiding.
Smokes - yup, I've got that contact info. We're pretty flex on schedule, so just let us know what works for you.
Nothing hurts, everything works.
Gomez | 07.05.08 - 5:13 pm | #
wow, something to look forward to! i haven't felt that way in years.
Off to put up.
Pico-de-Gallo
Ingredients
6 Tomatoes
1 ½ Onion
2 Fresh Jalapeños
3 Canned Jalapeños (La Costena)
3oz Juice from the Canned Jalapeños
3 Fresh Lemons or 3oz Lemon Juice Concentrate
Salt to Taste
Directions
1. Chop Tomatoes in to ¼ inch pieces
2. Finely Chop Onions
3. Chop both types of Jalapeños
4. Combine chopped ingredients with the juices of the Lemon and the Jalapeños and mix together adding salt to suit your taste
We lost Naslund. Not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing yet.
And Morrison, too, I think. Linden retired, so it's a whole new team this year.
I'm off to visit my fundie parents.
They'll prolly give me a bible or something.
We signed Satan instead.
Gomez
who? i thought Avery was going to Dallas!
gomez, i wonder - will i be able to play the violin after i hit 50?
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
bill
A baseball game with all pinch-hitters attempting to bunt, but getting nothing but foul balls...the crowd yells to the pitcher, "Bean...bean...bean!" Alas the pitcher is deaf and blind, and the ump lets everyone walk anyway...safe!
gomez, i wonder - will i be able to play the violin after i hit 50?
dirk gently, sociopathetic
I see no reason why not (hanging curve)
I see no reason why not (hanging curve)
Gomez
*awaits punchline*
I love it here!
who? i thought Avery was going to Dallas!
plum p,better democrats please
Miroslav Satan.
What should the national pastime be for celebrating George W. Bush's birthday?
bill
The media seems to think it is supposed to be Calvinball...
Nothing hurts, everything works.
Gomez
Hah.
Just wait.
There's a reason insurance rates skyrocket when u turn 50.....
And Morrison, too, I think. Linden retired, so it's a whole new team this year.
Ali
and your Vancouver offered some crazy money to Sundin. We want Sundin in Montréal. But 2 years for 20 millions for a 36 years old? that's really crazy money.
Miroslav Satan.
It's pronounced boo-TAY.
Miroslav Satan.
Gomez
have fun
In honor of Gomez' birthday, the article "36 Hours in Pittsburgh" is #2 on the NYT hit list.
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/0...72f7&ei=5087%
0A
But 2 years for 20 millions for a 36 years old? that's really crazy money.
plum p,better democrats please
Team management are all blissed out on yoga or something. Bubble tea, maybe.
I keep thinking we need to find the perfect christian innocent to write to him imploring him to do the right thing for the lord and step down.
Jesus himself could appear to Bush and implore him to change his ways, and Junior would just give him that stupid lopsided smile and tell him that he was "gonna stay with mah prinzpulls."
The only way Dubya thinks of God is as his enabler....
GWPDA, What, no cilantro? It needs cilantro.
we have a roll of toilet paper with Bush's face on every sheet.
one of many:
http://www.prankplace.com/
bushto...toiletpaper.htm
everything works
Glad you checked.
Sorry...got motivated again.
We didn't set out to tear up our carpeting on the stairs today. But golly, that's what we're doing!
pittsburgh also has the warhol museum
we have a roll of toilet paper with Bush's face on every sheet.
Ew...
No way would that creature's face get anywhere near mah private parts..
things could start falling off.....
did the BUSH TP kill the thread?
Zap, I did that yesterday! Must be a bug going around.
Now I'm sanding them. Much less satisfying than tearing out the carpet.
Where did everybody go? All ordering Bush TP online?
Gomez,
Satan is a fine forward. I hope it works out for you.
PlumP, I am surprised by the Hossa thing. Truly surprised. But I guess word does get around. As you know my son's friend was on the squad, but did not play, in the playoffs. For the last game in Pittsburgh, Mike Illitch - the owner of the Wings - chartered a plane and flew the parents and relatives of all of the players to the game in Pittsburgh and arranged for them to be in attendance.
When Brad Stuart's wife had a baby in the middle of the playoffs the team sent him home to be with his wife and new child for a couple of days - he said that was one of the reasons he wanted to stay.
I guess word does get around.
we have a roll of toilet paper with Bush's face on every sheet.
peterboy
Why did I just think of Grandpa Simpson telling the man borrowing his ointment to "clean off the applicator this time!"
Its good to see that the NYT has discovered Pittsburgh.
We've only been the first big city southwest of them for like 250 years.
I guess word does get around.
DWD
indeed.
time to go cook some loot from my farmers' market trip
au revoir all
Tail end of Thunder Road on TMC.
Yee-hah!
i wouldn't call the burgh a big city.
that's great, i never could before.
__/
Its good to see that the NYT has discovered Pittsburgh.
We've only been the first big city southwest of them for like 250 years.
Hey, when they did my town, it was 30 minutes instead of 36 hours.
Took you long enough, Dirk.
i wouldn't call the burgh a big city.
moi
Three major league teams.
Two million in the metropolitan area.
Yeah that's big.
wsj today covers the $95M given to congress and parties by housing industry to get the bailout bill written lucratively.
Goddam hairy tragi! I swear I'm mutating into a venus flytrap.
Hey Gomez, happy birthday to yooooooooou.
Took you long enough, Dirk.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
the pimentoes had me pinned down in a foxhole. interestingly enough, there was an atheist in there.
Okay, party is starting. Let's hope I can get out of bed tomorrow.
Ciao a tutti.
you can drive 10 minutes outside of pittsburgh and be in the country. and not pseudocountry.
The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (also called Greater Pittsburgh), as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of seven counties in western Pennsylvania, anchored by the city of Pittsburgh. As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 2,431,087 (though a July 1, 2007 estimate placed the population at 2,355,712).
and Quilt Lady, what can I say? You remain my favorite and I look forward to your presence every day.
Happy Birthday. Enjoy your retirement.
you can drive 10 minutes outside of pittsburgh and be in the country. and not pseudocountry.
moi
Sounds like good planning to me!
moi, arguments are down the hall.
Tail end of Thunder Road on TMC.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed.
Thunder Road?! Let's play Viking Fjord Miniature Golf!
wsj today covers the $95M given to congress and parties by housing industry to get the bailout bill written lucratively.
rootless-e
WSJ like any other wingnut outlet is horrified that the main beneficiaries of the bailout bill will be regular folks and not the banks.
trust me that is a good thing about pburgh. i love it. though the roads are upsetting.
you can drive 10 minutes outside of pittsburgh and be in the country. and not pseudocountry.
moi
More like 45 minutes.
Three major league teams.
Two million in the metropolitan area.
Yeah that's big.
Pretty big. But not enough major sports championships to qualify.
Now I'm sanding them. Much less satisfying than tearing out the carpet.
I'll bet.
The stairs and risers look to be in pretty good shape. We may opt for a runner, but we haven't decided yet.
The Burlington Metropolitan Statistical Area (also called Greater Burlington), as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of half a county in northwestern Vermont, anchored by the city of Burlington. As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 75,666, 12,548 cows, a distressing number of cormorants, and one dromedary camel.
Pittsburgh is the 22nd largest market.
More like 45 minutes.
Gomez | 07.05.08 - 5:29 pm | #
you drive too slow. comes with age, i guess.
i have an expt site in natrona heights. that is prob 20 minutes. not much there.
Pretty big. But not enough major sports championships to qualify.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba
Not like Cleveland.
Not like Cleveland.
Gomez | 07.05.08 - 5:30 pm | #
i spent a week there one night.
As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 75,666, 12,548 cows, a distressing number of cormorants, and one dromedary camel.
Gromit
Didn't I see a pitcher of some alpacas?
Cleveland is ranked 25th
From where I am, takes a good hour minimum to get away from Houston's SMSA.
Least densely populated SMSA in the country. The sprawl is mind-boggling. But the trees are nice. Amazingly green place, considering how much of it is paved over or covered imperviously.
Re: Thunder Road. The kid playing Mitchum's younger brother is in fact Mitchum's son.
Pretty big. But not enough major sports championships to qualify.
I believe that the Twin Cities is the 13th biggest sports market (and all four major sports). But we've only got two championships to brag about.
Go Twins!
Sprawl is nothing to be proud of.