I'MMA LET YOU FINISH

GravatarOkay!


GravatarTwokay?


GravatarOK - but how does she do it?


GravatarMy colon is so clean you could eat off it.


GravatarI shall now call sheets.


GravatarWe all have to make sacrifices for our careers. Even liberals know that.


GravatarLara Logan is a better journalist and well hotter too.

Damn CBS for not listening to Dan Rather about who should replace him.

Now CBS is doing the we aren't ready for a female anchor crap. If you put Armstrong Williams on tv and he tanks it doesn't mean we aren't ready for a black anchor either.


GravatarI challenge anyone here to identify an instance where I have lied to cover up President Bush's faults.

Just one.


GravatarYou can interpret it how you wish, but I know of no such restriction to jury trials only.

Perjury would be lying during legal proceedings, not necessarily just to a jury, and there's plenty of God-directed lying and treachery otherwise, so I'm not interpreting, I'm going by the Book.

How about a half point?


GravatarAlso, it goes without saying that Paris Hilton's criminal activities are newsworthy, while Lindsay Lohan's drinking problem is not.


GravatarThe Doom Brothers' take on Katie Couric, from June 4 "It is being reported that Katie Couric is having trouble catching on with the public as ''CBS Evening News'' anchor because she is the first solo female anchor for a network nightly news show instead of the fact that she is a mendacious twit with illusions of glory and intelligence. And while the Doom Brothers have never found anything remotely sexy about the bint, it is really her brain - a place where thoughts go to die a lonely death - that scares us."


GravatarKaties says these things it's proof that she has no control over her show and that other people are making the decisions as to what gets aired. But we already knew that.


GravatarBuh-buh-buh-but Ann Coulter said Katie Couric called Reagan an airhead! She must be a liberfuck!


GravatarNo. No, they aren't.
GWPDA


I'm with our ancestors on this, language isn't math, double negatives are just fine.


GravatarI credit God with keeping my husband alive as long as possible.


GravatarElizabeth Vargas wasn't terrible.

But Connie Chung and Katie Couric? Why don't we put Mary Hart in while we are at it?


GravatarKatie could, of course, make a difference if she made a little noise at those production meetings.

Instead, she chooses to voice her high flying idealism in a commencement address.

Nice dress, Katie.


GravatarKatie holds herself in undeserved high regard.

She's just a goddamned newsreader, and not even good at that.


GravatarWhy are we bashing Katie? She has no input to the national discussion. It's her bosses that have all the say. Along with every other anchor muffin.


GravatarKaties says these things it's proof that she has no control over her show and that other people are making the decisions as to what gets aired. But we already knew that.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted | 06.09.07 - 3:05 pm | #


Spot on. I think she made a truly Faustian deal to get the gig.


GravatarShe wears glasses now though. That means she is a serious journalist.

Fuck, replace her with Ashley Banfield.


GravatarApparently, "shalt" is the second person singular form of "shall". Go figure.


Gravataroh katie........ we'll always have Paris.......


GravatarNow CBS is doing the we aren't ready for a female anchor crap.

Adrienne Clarkson laughs at you.


GravatarIf this ain't sexy than nothing is.

http://members.aol.com/flopez154.../ KatieCheer.jpg


GravatarTime for another colonoscopy?


GravatarKatie could, of course, make a difference if she made a little noise at those production meetings.

Two foolproof ways of controlling someone's behavior - aim for their head or aim for their wallet. Katie's $300,000 per week makes for a nice mute button.
.


GravatarLara Logan is a better journalist and well hotter too.

Damn CBS for not listening to Dan Rather about who should replace him.

Now CBS is doing the we aren't ready for a female anchor crap. If you put Armstrong Williams on tv and he tanks it doesn't mean we aren't ready for a black anchor either.


The problem with all forerunners is that they are a sample of size one. The strategy in the past has been to pick someone obviously very superior for the role, but even that strategy can backfire. There is no solution to the problem, as far as I can figure out. Once more than one woman has the role then the problem disappears, because some women can do the job well and some can't. Just like with men.


Gravatarsmalfish-- anchors actually call the shots on news shows. At least, they used to-- I presume they still do.


GravatarIn the old days, anchors were also the chief editors. Does anyone know if Couric has any editorial input, or does she just read the teleprompter?


GravatarApparently, "shalt" is the second person singular form of "shall". Go figure.
Moe Szyslak


Yes. Yes, it is.

And time for a nap!


GravatarHow about a half point?

I'll take the half pint then throw in the prohibition against coveting for another half point. That's three.


GravatarApparently, "shalt" is the second person singular form of "shall". Go figure.
Moe Szyslak


Not a baby shallot?

Hmph.


GravatarWell, she would know.


Gravatar Surfing the web may be fast and fun, but sometimes pursuing knowledge requires you to go in the deep end — and not just dip your toe in the shallow water.

Uh, just because people use the term "surfing," don't mean the web is watery. It's made of tubes, and they don't float.


GravatarKatie could, of course, make a difference if she made a little noise at those production meetings.


That may be true. But how do you know she is not? And ten or more million a year is not to be just thrown away. "Faustian deal" indeed.


GravatarEchidne, they knew Katie was a light weight though.

If they wanted bland conventional wisdom with a bit more gravitas, they could have hired Judy Woodruff.

If they were daring, Lara Logan. Katie Couric got good ratings in the morning baking cookies, and bantering with Al Roker. They weren't being serious here.

try #2


GravatarOkay. I meant half point, but I may be too focused on the consumption of beer.


GravatarWhy are we bashing Katie? She has no input to the national discussion. It's her bosses that have all the say. Along with every other anchor muffin.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted


Recall Les Munvees personally went to the White House and apologized for the 'Dan Rather incident' and promised things would change.
iirc He got a nice ride on Air Force One for that. Hell, the AF1 worked with Dennis Miller too.
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GravatarI'll take the half pint then throw in the prohibition against coveting for another half point. That's three.
Snow


But you had to work real hard. Have a chocolate-pecan cookie.

Now name three that are not directly contradicted within the Old testament itself...


GravatarEchidne, they knew Katie was a light weight though.

Perhaps. It could even be that some of those people wanted to see her fail, to get the pressure off them. Or maybe not. But they obviously had an idea of what a woman could bring in, an idea which had very little to do with what the news require.


GravatarIn the old days, anchors were also the chief editors. Does anyone know if Couric has any editorial input, or does she just read the teleprompter?

I think the evidence is overwhelming. The anchors are not making editorial decisions anymore. That job is going much higher. Like as far as the board rooms.


GravatarIt seems like half the show is devoted to advertising big pharma "breakthroughs".


GravatarNow name three that are not directly contradicted within the Old testament itself...

No. You asked for three, and, through very hard work, I arrived at three. My Bible resembles that of Thomas Jefferson more than King James.


GravatarRecall Les Munvees personally went to the White House and apologized for the 'Dan Rather incident' and promised things would change.


On behalf of Sumner Redstone, no doubt.


GravatarUh, just because people use the term "surfing," don't mean the web is watery.
Lime Rickey


But there are sharks.


Gravatar
I think the evidence is overwhelming. The anchors are not making editorial decisions anymore. That job is going much higher. Like as far as the board rooms.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted | 06.09.07 - 3:13 pm | #


When GE bought NBC, Jack Welch was very upfront about that. He said he'd have to be nuts to buy a news organization and not have it conform to his views.


GravatarOn behalf of Sumner Redstone, no doubt.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted


Of course. Munvees enjoys his 'pay days' too and wants to keep them coming.
.


GravatarIt seems like half the show is devoted to advertising big pharma "breakthroughs".

Everytime I see a teaser for local news it invariably has a big pharma reference.


GravatarMy Bible resembles that of Thomas Jefferson more than King James.
Snow


Well, I was asking about the Old Testament, not your Bible. It's pretty much a sewer.


GravatarAnd stop whining, Snow, I gave you a cookie.


GravatarWell, I was asking about the Old Testament, not your Bible.

I know that. But since I reject most of the OT, I cannot speak to its specifics. I just said there are kernels to be gleaned from it that ain't so bad.


GravatarWhen GE bought NBC, Jack Welch was very upfront about that. He said he'd have to be nuts to buy a news organization and not have it conform to his views.


And it ain't just Jack Welch that is pulling the strings. Look at who has invested in the GE venture. By how many other big corps are sitting on the board of GE (and the other big media moguls) you can see that the agenda is set by those people.


GravatarRick Blaine: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you actually reported the news? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up without a job. Isn't that true, Louie?
Captain Renault (Claude Rains): I'm afraid Andrew Heyward would insist.
Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me stop reporting the news.
Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with CBS. You're part of it's propaganda, the thing that keeps it going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with CBS, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about the news?
Rick: We'll always have Paris..............


GravatarMy regard for the existence and views of Katie Couric is so infinitesimally tiny that not even string theorists can accurately describe its dimensions.


GravatarDoug Brinkley on Cspan2 says there's an entry in Reagan's diary that says ,'I upchucked last night."


GravatarAny day now, one of the NBC anchors will do an expose on GE's business practices.

Heck one of the other stations will do it.

My theory is that GE is the model corporate citizen, that is why they never get scrutinized by the media.


GravatarI'm not wining; I am beering. I thought I made that clear.

Oh, you said whining.

May I have some cheese. Sharp cheddar please.


GravatarI agree that the corporate media are now making the decisions that editors and producers used to make, with input from the stars in front of the cameras, but what if those 'stars' refused to cooperate fully?

Is $10 million what it takes to sell one's professional integrity? $5 million? What happens when the news gets outsourced for someone who will do it for $600,000?


GravatarDoug Brinkley on Cspan2 says even during Iran-Contra Reagan had a 70% approval rating.


GravatarDoug Brinkley on Cspan2 says Reagan thought gossip was evil.


GravatarBTW -- I believe Reagan wrote his diaries about as much as I believe that HItler wrote his.


GravatarDon't wank. Don't wank so. Don't wank so close to me.


GravatarMy theory is that GE is the model corporate citizen, that is why they never get scrutinized by the media.


Here's a pretty fine example. Both Ford and Chevy have people who sit on their boards and on the boards of the big media co's. Chrysler seems not to. Which company just got gobbled up?


Gravataras long as corporations run both the government and the media the rayguns of the US will always have high approval.


GravatarIs $10 million what it takes to sell one's professional integrity? $5 million? What happens when the news gets outsourced for someone who will do it for $600,000?
Diane C. Barking-Mad

In the ultimate irony "Lou Dobbs Tonight" will be outsourced to India.


GravatarIs $10 million what it takes to sell one's professional integrity? $5 million? What happens when the news gets outsourced for someone who will do it for $600,000?
Diane C. Barking-Mad


Even large market local news anchors are making way more than that. Once a newperson seriously gets a whiff of that kind of money their integrity is gone. No friggin' way they're going to fuck up that kind of dough.
It's all about the bucks and the ease with which it can be taken away.
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GravatarMay I have some cheese. Sharp cheddar please.
Snow


How do you feel about Rat Trap Cheddar ("So sharp, you don't need the trap")?

As for gleaning kernels... I mental image involving meadow muffins comes to mind.

The Old Testament is the reason there are so few Jewish literalists...


GravatarOur missing friend WGG said it best (and often):

In a corporate state, the corporate media are state media.


Gravatar
Is $10 million what it takes to sell one's professional integrity? $



Fucking people sell out for alot less than ten million.


GravatarI agree that the corporate media are now making the decisions that editors and producers used to make, with input from the stars in front of the cameras, but what if those 'stars' refused to cooperate fully?

I had a weird dream. I was in a debate on Faux and was criticizing Rupert Murdoch for making people pay for cable access received through a public right of way on their own property while running annoying advertisements to further increase his revenue all the while claiming that cable was different than broadcast.

Then he cut my mike.


GravatarMust do something useful.

later, flitter-mice.


Gravatarin all fairness to kkkkatie, this is what she said:

The kind of fluff that accosts us on the newsstand may seem like harmless fun,

kkkkatie's on teeeebeeee, so what she chooses to put on the air doesnt count.


GravatarIn a corporate state, the corporate media are state media.


I don't know why, but that statement hits me like nails on a blackboard.


GravatarHow do you feel about Rat Trap Cheddar ("So sharp, you don't need the trap")?

Intriguing. I shall investigate this cheese and its location.


Gravatarso what she chooses to put on the air doesnt count.

C'mon, pay attention, SHE chooses nothing. She has no choices but to collect her ten million a year or not.


GravatarThe fact that Couric occupies the seat once occupied by Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather shows just how far downhill this country has gone.


GravatarBTW -- I believe Reagan wrote his diaries about as much as I believe that HItler wrote his.
steve simels


Thank you!


Gravatar"Romney Boys Dish on Dad


The Romney Boys have a blog! A Gosh-Oh-G-Rated blog! It's called Five Brothers, and is the most popular feature on Mitt's website. And, golly wolly, you can see why:
Tagg Romney, 37, loves the Sox and has a thing for Billy Joel. Matt Romney, 35, always tunes in to "Saturday Night Live," and Josh Romney, 31, likes to surf and water-ski. Ben Romney, 29, hesitates to call his dog, Kingsley, a half yorkie and half poodle, "a yorkie-poo." And Craig Romney, 26, a Tom Brady look-alike, has 337 friends on MySpace and cites his dad, along with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., as his heroes.
Aren't they fun? Wowsers, I can't resist just one more snippety-snip-snippet:" http://cliffschecter.blogspot.com/


GravatarThe free market totally neuters any excess influence GE might have had in a world without free markets.


GravatarThe free market totally neuters any excess influence GE might have had in a world without free markets.
cut


(Yawn!) Whatever, jack.


GravatarExactly how does one compete with GE?


GravatarDoug Brinkley on Cspan2 says even during Iran-Contra Reagan had a 70% approval rating.
lone



Wrong, jack.


GravatarThe free market totally neuters any excess influence GE might have had in a world without free markets.


Gravatar"Oooo! Oooo! Did you catch that? You get to ask questions on their wacky, crazy bloggy-woggy!
A query such as, "Being a Mormon, does Romney campaign on Sunday?" gets a reply -- yes, Romney tries to make it -- while something like, "Have any of the five Romney brothers, all healthy heterosexuals well under 42, considered volunteering for military service in the Global War on Terror?" is ignored."
http://cliffschecter.blogspot.com/


GravatarThe fact that Couric occupies the seat once occupied by Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather shows just how far downhill this country has gone.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now!


You damn skippy.


GravatarThe free market totally neuters any excess influence GE might have had in a world without free markets.

That may be the single most stupidest comment I have ever seen.


GravatarThe fact that Couric occupies the seat once occupied by Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather shows just how far downhill this country has gone.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now! | Homepage | 06.09.07 - 3:28 pm | #


Although as somebody said yesterday, Edward R. Murrow was probably always an anomaly.

The press in this country has probably been mostly trash since day one....


GravatarExactly how does one compete with GE?


"You're either with us, or against us".


GravatarHello moonbats

*sipping a cosmopolitan, made with Stoli vodka*


GravatarThe free market totally neuters any excess influence GE might have had in a world without free markets.

So then the fellatious crap about the liberal media is just fellatious crap?

You know, since the market demands what the market demands.


GravatarMy Take on the blogging Romney boys.


Gravatar"Have any of the five Romney brothers, all healthy heterosexuals well under 42, considered volunteering for military service in the Global War on Terror?" is ignored."


First thought in my mind when I read about his five sons was "why aren't they over in Iraq fighting for our freedoms?"


GravatarThat may be the single most stupidest comment I have ever seen.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted | 06.09.07 - 3:32 pm | #

It's still early.


GravatarThe press in this country has probably been mostly trash since day one....

Yep. The problem now is that they have a bigger megaphone.


GravatarYou probably don't know that the government wants to implement wholesale filtering of URL requests from the end of next month, do you? Not that the national press, TV, or anything else has reported on it, nor has there been any serious parliamentary debate. Nuh. But the Home Office is pressurising British ISPs to install a system BT has been using since 2003, at the behest of (guess who) David Blunkett, called Cleanfeed.


GravatarThe fact that Couric occupies the seat once occupied by Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather shows just how far downhill this country has gone.


I think even Cronkite would have been blackmailed or pushed out in todays climate.


GravatarThe press in this country has probably been mostly trash since day one....
steve simels


Maybe, but now they're the absolutely pits.


GravatarI'm still in laughter from that Creationist Museum.

i mean holy fuck!


GravatarThe press in this country has probably been mostly trash since day one....

Well, the Lt Gov of SC once shot a newspaper man for unfavorable reporting.

But seriously, news pamphlets were once a vibrant part of this country's lexicon.


GravatarExactly how does one compete with GE?

I for one am trying to sell the spinoza turbine engines to Airbus. I just can't figure out whether to have them run on coal or bat guano.


GravatarAnd if the market demands a liberal media, why is that?


GravatarThe press in this country has probably been mostly trash since day one....




William Randolph Hearst comes to mind.


GravatarAn Egyptian court has ruled that a US-accredited university in Cairo was wrong to bar a female scholar who wears an Islamic face veil from using its facilities.

The American University in Cairo had revoked the woman's longstanding library privileges after she donned the niqab, a face veil that leaves only the wearer's eyes uncovered.


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/ ...C1666BA4E20.htm


GravatarThe free market totally neuters any excess influence GE might have had in a world without free markets.

That may be the single most stupidest comment I have ever seen.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted

Well it does seem to have kept Olbermann on the air. But that's the only example I can think of.


GravatarI for one am trying to sell the spinoza turbine engines to Airbus. I just can't figure out whether to have them run on coal or bat guano.

I hear the half digested spreckles are a new fuel source that big oil is suppressing.


GravatarI think even Cronkite would have been blackmailed or pushed out in todays climate.

I heard he was never in London during the war. He was broadcasting from a cheap motel in New Jersey while Tokyo Rose suck him off.


GravatarExactly how does one compete with GE?
Snow, Dirty


Certainly not by fantasy, magical thinking that George Soros buying a network would even things out.

Look, we can't compete on a sheer money basis. We can, however, do a pretty good job in terms of numbers.

If we elect a congress that returns us to something as simple as the 'equal time' rule, we'd make progress.


GravatarWell it does seem to have kept Olbermann on the air. But that's the only example I can think of.


GravatarWilliam Randolph Hearst comes to mind.

Hearst, and his papers, were the most important ideological force arrayed against the Trusts. without Hearst little, if any, trust-busting would have occurred. His radical, democratic bent became conservative later, but in the first decasde of the 20th century he opened up a can of whoop ass on the monopolists and their minions.


GravatarI hear the half digested spreckles are a new fuel source that big oil is suppressing.

To NToddd, "big oil" is a new shipment of KY jelly.


GravatarHey, Steverino:

1. McCartney album?
2. "Ocean's 13"?

I'll take my answers off the air...


GravatarWalter Conkrite (teh gay).

He knew all the songs from the gay 90's, memorized all of Mae West's dialogue, and had the most organized color co-ordinated desk at CBS headquarters.

Plus he sucked cocks.


GravatarWell it does seem to have kept Olbermann on the air. But that's the only example I can think of.


Olberman is not an anomaly, he is a token to those that would storm the gates.


Gravatarah! something very rare right night on MSNBS: a missing BLACK woman.


GravatarI heard he was never in London during the war. He was broadcasting from a cheap motel in New Jersey while Tokyo Rose suck him off.
spinoza | 06.09.07 - 3:38 pm | #

and john wayne actually rode a shetlen pony while working with his midget co-stars.


GravatarThe People's Republic of Chippenham, a little slice of North Korea just off the M4

· Wiltshire town courts country's Olympic team
· Leisure centre could be put at athletes' disposal


GravatarA couple of Israelis are building a "Bible Park" in Murfreesboro.


Gravatar(Although I do have this fanstasy of some wag suing Fox News Channel for false advertising, using Media Matters stats as evidence. "Fair and Balance" my pasty white ass!)


GravatarCertainly not by fantasy, magical thinking that George Soros buying a network would even things out.

But that is exactly the point. It is not a free market.


GravatarHearst, and his papers, were the most important ideological force arrayed against the Trusts.

"TRACTION TRUST EXPOSED"
"TRACTION TRUST BLEEDS PUBLIC WHITE"
"TRACTION TRUST SMASHED BY INQUIRER."

"Is that really your idea of how to run a newspaper!?!?!"


GravatarDavid Geffen is trying to buy the LA Times. If he succeeds, I wonder if/how the paper will change when the advertisers start telling him they will pull out if he changes the focus of the paper.


GravatarIf we elect a congress that returns us to something as simple as the 'equal time' rule, we'd make progress.


Bullshit. Recent history has proven that our vote means nothing. And that electing people to do something about the media is a death sentence to their campaign. Even if it were not, there is too much corporate money from the big media and their compatriots that would disallow any such thing.


Shit, brother just got into a wreck and I gotta go.


GravatarWiki search of the day,
Spanish missions in California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Spa...s_in_California


Gravatar...it does seem to have kept Olbermann on the air. But that's the only example I can think of.

Ratings. If MSNBC gains traction with some other programs (and they're not), Olbermann would become expendable.

Example: Fox TV, "TV Nation."


GravatarComment is Free - But Not That Free (Updated)


GravatarOpper cartoons for Hearst, along with the Sunday sections with comics by Dirks, Opper, Swinnerton, et alia, is what revolutionized visual satire and made it a truly mass democratic, working-class medium.

hurrah for Hearst.


GravatarI am listening to Douglas Brinkley on cspan2 talk about the Reagan diaries. I am very suspicious about these diaries. Reagan is being made over and over again into this mythological god who was some kind of fucking Wheaties ubermensch. His time in office was a disaster. And I suspect that some of this material is produced at an industrial level by Peggy "Dolphin" Noonan.

Wow, someone shouting down Brinkley saying that Reagan was a rascist. I used to respect Brinkley, especially for his take on Katrina. But not now.


GravatarDavid Geffen is trying to buy the LA Times. If he succeeds, I wonder if/how the paper will change when the advertisers start telling him they will pull out if he changes the focus of the paper.

"You're right, Mr. Thatcher, I lost a million dollars last year. I lost a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, at this rate, I'll have to close this place --- in 60 years!"


GravatarThe Reagan Diaries were written by Michael Deaver in his retirement.


Gravatarhurrah for Hearst.

Love his castle!


GravatarShit, brother just got into a wreck and I gotta go.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted


Good grief...

I hope your brother is ok, smalfish.


GravatarSynchronicity: George Galloway and BAe


GravatarThe Reagan Diaries were written by Michael Deaver in his retirement.

Something like that.

Eek! Now Brinckley says Schultz is one of the great secretaries of state. WTF. Schultz and Casper were disasters.


GravatarShit, brother just got into a wreck and I gotta go.

I hope all is well.


GravatarThe Reagan myth is really all they have to cling to after Bush. They don't care if it's fiction.


GravatarDoug Brinkley,' Reagan detected working people weren't about Trotsky and Samuel Gompers but Merle Haggard and Ford Trucks.'


GravatarHey, Steverino:

1. McCartney album?
2. "Ocean's 13"?

I'll take my answers off the air...
dave™© | Homepage | 06.09.07 - 3:40 pm | #


So far I've only heard one song from the McCartney, which was...er, cute (not meant as a compliment).

Oceans 13 is total gas, however.


GravatarDoug Brinkley,' Reagan detected working people weren't about Trotsky and Samuel Gompers but Merle Haggard and Ford Trucks.'

Yeh, that was odd. Who gave the workers more rights?


GravatarWell, I'm off for an earned nap. I'll be back later, but in the mean time, you might want to check out what some of our Canadian friends think of the Military Commissions Act.

After all, a Canadian citizen has been sitting and rotting in Guantanamo Bar for the past five years.


GravatarAfter all, a Canadian citizen has been sitting and rotting in Guantanamo Bar for the past five years.

There's a bar at Gitmo? Is there a tastee freeze?


GravatarMr. Tena is walking the plane off.


The Reagan myth is really all they have to cling to after Bush. They don't care if it's fiction.
Lumpenprolitariot


I find it unutterably hilarious. They are trying so desperately to build a 9 foot Reagan so nobody can see CooCoo back there.


GravatarDoug Brinkley,' Reagan detected working people weren't about Trotsky and Samuel Gompers but Merle Haggard and Ford Trucks.'

Yeh, that was odd. Who gave the workers more rights?
spinoza | 06.09.07 - 3:51 pm | #


Merle Haggard has never been the right-wing caricature people think he is because of "Okie From Muskogee."

He's a cranky socially liberal populist, who currently hates Bush and thinks the war was a disaster.


GravatarOn this day...

68 - Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate.


GravatarThe white lie

Diamond rings, designer gowns, lavish receptions: in today's Bridezilla culture your big day is big business. Rebecca Mead on how the modern wedding became a grotesque spending spree


GravatarHe's a cranky socially liberal populist, who currently hates Bush and thinks the war was a disaster.

We're full up with them down here. They are everywhere. And in the mountain west.

The Libertarian party is going to have to be watched - it's growing.


GravatarI've only heard one song from the McCartney, which was...er, cute...

I've only heard the "single" (do they still make those?) from the McCartney elpee, which is probably what you heard. There might be something good on the album - his last had a few good numbers.

Of course, I like "Wild Life," so...

Anyway, in appreciation for your recommendations, here's the lesbian answer to Maxim's Hot 100 Women list. It gets pretty good around #21, IMHO...


GravatarI find it unutterably hilarious. They are trying so desperately to build a 9 foot Reagan so nobody can see CooCoo back there.
Tena

I don't find it funny, I find it very, very creepy.


GravatarWell, this has been enormous fun, but I have to get ready to journey to Gomorrah on the Hudson, where a gaggle of other Atriots and I will be dining with some centaur from out of town.

I suspect there will be drinking involved as well.

Talk to you fine folks much much later tonight, j'espere.


GravatarI don't find it funny, I find it very, very creepy.
Lumpenprolitariot |


I really do find it hilarious.


GravatarAfter all, a Canadian citizen has been sitting and rotting in Guantanamo Bar for the past five years.

I don't disagree with that. I just asked who made more of an impact.


GravatarMerle Haggard got himslef put on the cover of one of those hemp magazines a few years ago. Said he regretted the whole Okie from Muskogee thing, and is a big supporter of hemp and pot.


Gravataroops! Wrong citation.


GravatarHe's a cranky socially liberal populist, who currently hates Bush and thinks the war was a disaster.

Our "gardener" (a guy from the neighborhood who likes to grow stuff in our backyard) is an old coot from Oklahoma who moved to the Bakersfield area as a young man - kinda like Merle.

Hates Bush with a white-hot passion.


GravatarPaul McCartney's new video, for those interested.
Homepage | 06.09.07 - 3:57 pm | #


Gravataris a big supporter of hemp and pot.

That's one good thing I can say about Libertarians, and I"m pretty sure he is one. They are fine with drugs and hate the War on Drugs as much or more than liberals.


GravatarCharlie Rangel is a strong proponent of the war on drugs which drives me batshit crazy.


GravatarBritish Values - The Vicar Harps On


GravatarGreetingz, batz.

If you're interested, I'm liveblogging some of the Florida Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Weekend activities at my place.

I just posted pics of Nancy Pelosi and Bill Nelson, which I took about 15 minutes ago.


GravatarCharlie Rangel is a strong proponent of the war on drugs which drives me batshit crazy.
trifecta |


Well, I wish everybody in America wasn't so very into re-runs.

I guess the War on Poverty started this. Can they not think something better up? It's been a damn long time. Could we rethink? We didn't win that one, either.


GravatarI don't think enough people call Bush "Whistle ass" anymore. I forget who the old lady was whose obit had that she called him that.


GravatarRepublicans have been waging a War on Truth for years ...


GravatarTPM-

From the president's press conference this morning in Rome with Italian Prime Minister Prodi:

Q: And the deadline for the Kosovo independence --

BUSH: What? Say that again?

Q Deadline for the Kosovo independence?

BUSH: A decline?

Q Deadline, deadline.

BUSH: Deadline. Beg your pardon. My English isn't very good. (emphasis added)


GravatarRepublicans have been waging a War on Truth for years ...
Sinfonian,



Not just truth - it's been full out against Truth, Justice and the American Way.


GravatarHow about a war on war.


GravatarDo they know you are bad at Colonial history questions Sinfonian or are you keeping it secret?

x3


GravatarQ: And the deadline for the Kosovo independence --

BUSH: What? Say that again?

Q Deadline for the Kosovo independence?

BUSH: A decline?


Still drunk.

Don't tell the Kossacks!


GravatarSpeaker Pelosi seemed rushed when she arrived, but Sen. Nelson appeared to be cordial. He was in a conversation with someone, so I didn't want to interrupt, but sometime tonight I do hope to ask him why he supports torture.


GravatarIf you're interested, I'm liveblogging some of the Florida Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Weekend activities at my place.

Terrific pictures!


GravatarBloggus, just going to go there.


GravatarDo they know you are bad at Colonial history questions Sinfonian or are you keeping it secret?

x3
trifecta


Here's a clue for ya:

"In November 2006, this Jeopardy! contestant successfully answered all five clues in the category 'Pre-Civil War America.' "



GravatarBUSH: Deadline. Beg your pardon. My English isn't very good. (emphasis added)
bloggus |



*sigh*

CooCoo told the truth. It's the unsealing of the 7th Seal.


GravatarTerrific pictures!
Tena


Thanks, Tena. That means a great deal to me, coming from you.

I'll do my best to keep up tonight, but without wireless in the banquet room, I may have to improvise.


GravatarJeopardy must be going downhill.

You won right?

Seriously though. You are having fun there?


GravatarStill drunk.

Don't tell the Kossacks!
dave™©


No shit, Sherlock. He's so drunk.

He's been drunk for a couple of years at least.


come here, halo, I have a cookie for you and there's someone I'd like you to meet...


GravatarAlso at TPM-

Rep. Zack Wamp (R-Tenn.), one of Fred Thompson's boosters on the Hill, recently suggested the actor/senator/lobbyist would make a good president, in part because of his speaking voice.

"He has a commanding voice," Wamp said. "He has a commanding presence. He makes people feel secure. He makes us feel confident."


"He'd be the best Daddy EVAR!!!"


GravatarIt's actually pretty cool sitting in the lobby of this resort wearing my official "BLOGGER" credential.


GravatarThanks, Tena. That means a great deal to me, coming from you.


lord god, I cannot for the life of me imagine why.



but thank you for the compliment.


GravatarThe shouting match on drugs?


Gravatar"He has a commanding voice," Wamp said. "He has a commanding presence. He makes people feel secure. He makes us feel confident."

I feel safer with James Earl Jones.


Gravatarnow having a glass of white wine


Gravatardave, comment for you at Sinfonian's place.


GravatarI feel safer with James Earl Jones.
watertiger


O wrod! (tee hee)

Are you having a better time than you have been having, today, I hope?


GravatarSeriously though. You are having fun there?
trifecta


Yeah, it's cool so far. I met a bunch of Florida bloggers at the luncheon (they knew me when I said I was popularizing the terms "Drunky McStagger" and "America's Wang™" ), and there is a palpable sense of excitement around ...

Oh, there goes Sen. Nelson again. Damn. I do want to ask him about his pro-torture vote, but how to do it discreetly and politely ...


GravatarCOMIC BOOK URBAN LEGEND: Jesus Christ was a supporting character in Ghost Rider.

STATUS: Basically True
http://goodcomics.comicbookresou...-106/#more- 7350


GravatarSin this is very cool. I'm loving this live blogging.


GravatarBeen waiting for her wanker days, finally it arrives, cheer!


GravatarAnother bonus: I'm at a beachfront resort, so sometimes the, um, scenery is pretty nice.


GravatarAnyway, in appreciation for your recommendations, here's the lesbian answer to Maxim's Hot 100 Women list. It gets pretty good around #21, IMHO...
dave™©


The Lesbian List made more sense than Maxim's.

I mean, come on......Lindsay Lohan?


GravatarYou are referring to the pre-op tranny hookers right?


GravatarAre you having a better time than you have been having, today, I hope?

i haven't set anything on fire by accident yet, so yes.


GravatarBUSH: Deadline. Beg your pardon. My English isn't very good.

We noticed.


GravatarSin this is very cool. I'm loving this live blogging.
Tena


Unless I get any more pics or talk to someone prominent, I probably won't post again at my place until after 6 or so Eastern.

But I'll stick around here for a while. Hell, I'm paying $15 to park. I might as well get my money's worth.


GravatarRep. Zack Wamp (R-Tenn.), one of Fred Thompson's boosters on the Hill, recently suggested the actor/senator/lobbyist would make a good president, in part because of his speaking voice.

"He has a commanding voice," Wamp said. "He has a commanding presence. He makes people feel secure. He makes us feel confident."




Reagan II - Electric Bugaloo.


GravatarThe Clinton, Obama, and Edwards campaigns (roughly in that order) are pretty visible here. I haven't seen any others, though.


Gravatarbye for now

catch you all laters


Gravatari haven't set anything on fire by accident yet, so yes.
watertiger


I'm so glad.

And your vacation draws very nigh, indeed!


GravatarThe Clinton, Obama, and Edwards campaigns (roughly in that order) are pretty visible here. I haven't seen any others, though.

Kucinich is kind of short, you might miss him in a crowd.


GravatarYou are referring to the pre-op tranny hookers right?
trifecta



I had enough of Allen Butler last night.

I don't want to talk about him anymore.


GravatarI don't want to talk about him anymore.
Terry C


I feel that!


GravatarZack Wamp?????




Gravatartrif, I just replied to you at my place.


GravatarRe-HICA!

Accomplishing much, today.

And I will be getting my commuter scooter on Tuesday, if'n it don't rain!
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Gravatar74 Visitors Online

About six of whom are commenting.


Gravatar
You are referring to the pre-op tranny hookers right?


Post-op, lobotomy, that is.


Gravatar"The Clinton, Obama, and Edwards campaigns (roughly in that order) are pretty visible here. I haven't seen any others, though."

Was it the authentic Clinton or the doppleganger Bernstein is trying to sell?


GravatarWas it the authentic Clinton or the doppleganger Bernstein is trying to sell?
Lumpenprolitariot


Well, the literature looks authentic.

The candidates aren't here, though.


GravatarAbout six of whom are commenting.
Sinfonian,


It's always like that. Echidne put up a post the other night on just this subject.

IF there are 25 people in the conversation, the online visitor count is around 200+, often.

It was a damn dark day when comments started getting picked up and posted publicly. The conversation is not representative of all the readers.

that's just one reason.


GravatarInteresting mix here of people in business attire with briefcases, and people in swimsuits and towels.


GravatarI'm sorry; I feel like I've dropped into the middle of a commenting meta-commenting commenting, and I can't make any comment on those comments.
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GravatarIt was a damn dark day when comments started getting picked up and posted publicly. The conversation is not representative of all the readers.

that's just one reason.
Tena


Oh, yeah, I've seen the trend, since I'm always one of the commenters.

Indeed, at the luncheon today a number of people said they regularly read blogs (most were Kossacks, some read mine and others), but rarely if ever commented.


GravatarI'm here, but working on something else. I pop in when I need a break, catch up on the comments, make one of my own if I feel the urge.


GravatarWas it the authentic Clinton or the doppleganger Bernstein is trying to sell?
Lumpenprolitariot



Why doesn't Carl write a nasty book about one of the Repug candidates?

The powers that be wouldn't like it, I suppose.


GravatarInteresting mix here of people in business attire with briefcases, and people in swimsuits and towels.

Anybody wearing jetpacks. I want my fucking jetpack!


Gravatarspinoza: Anybody wearing jetpacks. I want my fucking jetpack!

I can pick mine up Tuesday.
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GravatarNobody ever comments at my blog. My ratio might be 300-400 visitors per comment or so.


GravatarAnybody wearing jetpacks. I want my fucking jetpack!
spinoza


Not that I've seen, but there are several motorized wheelchairs. Will that do?


GravatarWhy doesn't Carl write a nasty book about one of the Repug candidates?


You really want a 600 page book on Liddy Dole's
-gerbils up her butt
-auxiliary nipple
-Bob's claw as a sex toy
-sucking off Strom Thurmond


GravatarGood evening, intelligent and interesting people.


GravatarDid you all hear that wheelchair story this week? A trucker pulled off the curb, not realizing a guy in a wheel chair was crossing, who got caught in the grill going 50 mph for 5 miles until police waved the driver down.


Gravatar"About six of whom are commenting."
--Sinfonian,

You all type too fast. I can't get a fucking word in edgewise.


GravatarI do not type too fast. Maybe at 55 words a minute, or 68 if I am on crack.


GravatarAnother day on call, another couple people cared for. What have i missed today from the Atriots?
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GravatarIndeed, at the luncheon today a number of people said they regularly read blogs (most were Kossacks, some read mine and others), but rarely if ever commented.
Sinfonian,



Quite obviously, they are one of the vast majority of readers.

I have about decided we're exhibitionists.

or performance artists.



Gravatar"Nobody ever comments at my blog. My ratio might be 300-400 visitors per comment or so."
--trifecta

That's because people comment about your posts here.


GravatarWhy doesn't Carl write a nasty book about one of the Repug candidates?

The powers that be wouldn't like it, I suppose.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now!

He seems so inconsistant when he talks about it, I don't what he actually thinks.


GravatarLet's see. Molly's toddler accidentally killed the duck. Tena' husband flew in under bad weather. Bush is wanking. Katie Couric is a wankette.

And sinfonian is stalking Nancy Pelosi.


GravatarThey are one? I are stupid.


GravatarIt was a damn dark day when comments started getting picked up and posted publicly. The conversation is not representative of all the readers.

I had to run when the you tube video of some of the comments was posted. Who did that and why?


GravatarOh no, the duck is dead??!!


GravatarMr. Tena got here and slightly early and is out trying to work the kinks out of his back.

That's the main thing. I are happy, too.


GravatarThe duck died? What did I miss? That's awful.


GravatarThe duck is at the big petting zoo in the sky.


GravatarI had to run when the you tube video of some of the comments was posted. Who did that and why?
ql was in ny


That would be Allen Butler's sockpuppet, "annieangel."

Posted some of the more graphic anti-Falwell comments from when he kicked.


GravatarDuck? Comments? Arrrgh!

Someone, fill me in!
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GravatarO dear, not the ducky again.


o man.


GravatarTena, i'm a left-thinker in the midst of Kentucky, a blood-red(neck)state. If i don't talk here, it will burst out elsewhere, and i will be lynched. so yes, i came in, read for a day or two, then started typing.

Sometimes people are nice enough to reapond, and that's nice indeed. But mostly i HAVE to have some-damn-where i can say "Hey! The Emperor's ass-naked!"
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GravatarWalter Cronkite is spinning in his grave.

What???

Oh...

Edward R. Murrow is spinning in his grave.

Walter Cronkite is as mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore.


GravatarWhoa, I didn't hear about the duck.


Gravatar
Quite obviously, they are one of the vast majority of readers.

I have about decided we're exhibitionists.

or performance artists.


I like to jump on stage naked while slapping a steak against my forehead and shouting "Aye! Aye! Aye!".


Gravatar Molly's toddler accidentally killed the duck.

WHAT?!


GravatarSin, thanks.

Well, I guess it serves as a reminder, but it really is pretty low. I have the guest count, makes me feel like Truman. I'm a pretty private person and I forget sometimes that we're not all sitting around A's coffee table.


GravatarRosie stepped on it accidentally, and broke it's neck.

The teen was making a grave. It really sucks..... I am not sure if it was the duck or the duckling though.


GravatarSometimes people are nice enough to reapond, and that's nice indeed. But mostly i HAVE to have some-damn-where i can say "Hey! The Emperor's ass-naked!"

If ever anything was preaching at the choir, that was, love.




I've been here so long now it's stupid.


GravatarRosie stepped on it accidentally, and broke it's neck.

She's channeling Dick Cheney.


Gravataroh, no.

That's going to bother Rosie for years. I have some similar experiences in my life that I've never forgotten.


GravatarUh...duck deaths?
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GravatarCynicus-

You're a wonderful voice. After I have to wade through all the blather of watertiger, attaturk, NTodd and thers, it is a delight to see a post from you. You are like a stream of bat piss.


GravatarAbout six of whom are commenting.
Sinfonian, protojournalist | Homepage | 06.09.07 - 4:20 pm | #


Sometimes I feel like lurking. Sometimes I don't.


GravatarIf she was channeling Dick Cheney she would have tried to step on the duck and kneed a senior citizen in the kidney instead.


GravatarFor example, once in Reno I shot a man just for snoring.


GravatarI lurked for a long time before I posted. I was pretty intimidated by all the smartitude and whatnot.

Yeah, there is bad news on the duck front.


GravatarRosie will be fine. She's really too young to understand death yet. It is too bad.


GravatarRosie stepped on it accidentally, and broke it's neck.

Oh Christ! I hope she ... aw shit.


GravatarYou are like a stream of bat piss.
spinoza


You just caused me to get a lot of questioning looks from people here in the lobby nearby.


Gravatarter I have to wade through all the blather of watertiger, attaturk, NTodd and thers, it is a delight to see a post from you

*blows kiss to Spinoza*


GravatarIn Cynicus' honor, lets discuss Medicare Part D and the impact it will have during the donut hole period on seniors who have $2,300 in prescriptions per year.

Or he can just blow me.


Gravatar Rosie will be fine. She's really too young to understand death yet. It is too bad.


I still say they duct tape her to the wall until she's 18.


Gravatar*blows kiss to Spinoza*

Verbs are important.


Gravatarafter I have to wade through all the blather of watertiger, attaturk, NTodd and thers,

Hey!

I'm just as annoying and repetitive as they are!


GravatarYou are like a stream of bat piss.

And you, spinoza, are like a dose of the clap.


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GravatarWanker of the Millenium, Michael Behe:

"Here's something to ponder long and hard: Malaria was intentionally designed. The molecular machinery with which the parasite invades red blood cells is an exquisitely purposeful arrangement of parts."

The above is from a new book called "The Edge of Evolution" by creationist and tenured Lehigh University biochemist professor Michael Behe.

Read my essay on this becuz I've been working on it now for 4 straight hours and it also mentions getting high and a chihuaha screwing a Saint Bernard and why some female grasshoppers are frigid unless you are good at karaoke.

http://tispaquin.blogspot.com/


GravatarHey!

I'm just as annoying and repetitive as they are!


True, but I just can't credit someone who laid on the couch with Alex Trebek.


GravatarYou're a wonderful voice. After I have to wade through all the blather of watertiger, attaturk, NTodd and thers, it is a delight to see a post from you.

Your failure to mention my master will cost you dearly.


GravatarSinf, I have a new comment on your blog. I shall we say.. blasted off.


GravatarAnd you, spinoza, are like a dose of the clap.

What is the sound of 27 penises clapping?


GravatarOr he can just blow me.
trifecta | Homepage | 06.09.07 - 4:35 pm | #


N'todd won't let me in the union.
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GravatarIf she was channeling Dick Cheney, the duck would apologize.


Gravatarthe impact it will have during the donut hole period

And I thought I had a sick mind.


GravatarSinf, I have a new comment on your blog. I shall we say.. blasted off.
trifecta


I hope you cleaned up afterwards.


GravatarI still say they duct tape her to the wall until she's 18.
watertiger


My younger girl was a lot like Rosie, too smart, too energetic, too emotional, no.fucking.fear.

Wait, she still is. Only now, I don't need to cope with it.


Gravatarets discuss Medicare Part D and the impact it will have during the donut hole period on seniors who have $2,300 in prescriptions per year.

I'm working with some clients who are in the donut hole. Elderly lady working four days a week in a convenience store to pay for their prescriptions. He has a very advanced neuromuscular disorder and can't be left alone.

Wheeee!


Gravatarintentionally or intelligently designed? Malaria as one of God's little gifts to the world?


GravatarYou are only as sick as your secrets Doug.

I for example often fantasize about a walrus and a monkey having a menage a tois with a wallaby. And they were all dudes.

Now that I have revealed this, I am not sick anymore.


Gravatar My younger girl was a lot like Rosie, too smart, too energetic, too emotional, no.fucking.fear.




GravatarI still say they duct tape her to the wall until she's 18.
watertiger


My younger girl was a lot like Rosie, too smart, too energetic, too emotional, no.fucking.fear.

Wait, she still is. Only now, I don't need to cope with it.

..


GravatarThat's going to bother Rosie for years. I have some similar experiences in my life that I've never forgotten.
Sinfonian,


Actually, she recovered in about 10 minutes flat, according to Molly.


I almost killed a kitten when I was a kid. What can I say? It's not uncommon.


GravatarThe creationists are argueing that God's one sick fuck.


Gravatar"Here's something to ponder long and hard: Malaria was intentionally designed.

From which we conclude that the Lord is a rotten bastard?
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GravatarI forgot to tell the end - then the kids all said: "Can we get two ducklings"

And they went to the pet store.


GravatarWell, so long as they don't nickname her "Duck Destroyer", she'll probably recover.


GravatarMalaria was intentionally designed.
Oh great. Now we have designer parasites. Soon only the cool kids will have them, and everybody will want one.


GravatarMy younger girl was a lot like Rosie, too smart, too energetic, too emotional, no.fucking.fear.

If those are her faults, her virtues would blow my mind.


GravatarMark Twain's short story "Little Bessie" is about God being a sick fuck for creating malaria infested mosquitos.

He was a bit bitter at the time. His daughter and wife both died early.

There are copies of the story online.


GravatarI'm surprised they didn't send her to GITMO:


http://www.comcast.net/news/ nati...vqh=itn_armymom


GravatarThat's good news about Rosie, then.

Maybe I'm just emotionally scarred because I'm a fucking wuss. Hard to say.


GravatarWell, so long as they don't nickname her "Duck Destroyer", she'll probably recover.
watertiger



I'm not overly concerned. Kids are little masses of resiliency.



GravatarActually, she recovered in about 10 minutes flat, according to Molly.


I almost killed a kitten when I was a kid. What can I say? It's not uncommon.


I killed a boyfriend just to see him die. And look at me. I am perfectly fine.. Ok. Enough on that. I have to go have anal sex in the Lincoln Bedroom with Pope Ratzi.
-Laura Bush


GravatarI for example often fantasize about a walrus and a monkey having a menage a tois with a wallaby. And they were all dudes.

Now that I have revealed this, I am not sick anymore.


If you painted it as a picture, you'd be the new M.C. Escher.
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Gravatar
Oh great. Now we have designer parasites. Soon only the cool kids will have them, and everybody will want one.


Can I download them on my ipod?


GravatarHere's something to ponder long and hard: Malaria was intentionally designed.

I can definitely see this as the POV of our friends the Jeebofascists in regard to the clap and syphillis, not to mentnion HIV/AIDS and every other STD out there.

Obviously designed to punish those who do the unspeakable nasty, the bane of mankind.


GravatarMaybe I'm just emotionally scarred because I'm a fucking wuss. Hard to say.
Sinfonian,


It's hard to say - maybe the reactions around you enhanced your bad feelings.

God, I sound like Dr. Malfi or something. Stop me - I have no license for this...


GravatarWell, so long as they don't nickname her "Duck Destroyer", she'll probably recover.
watertiger


She's three years old. She won't even remember for christ's sake.


GravatarOh great. Now we have designer parasites. Soon only the cool kids will have them, and everybody will want one.
left field, 3Σ | Homepage | 06.09.07 - 4:43 pm | #



But MOM, I want the HANTAvirus for Xmas. Billy and Janie BOTH have it. It's not fair!


GravatarI almost killed a kitten when I was a kid. What can I say? It's not uncommon.
Tena

I've got one damn lucky cat. Her mom got tired of babysitting and dumped her in bed with me as I slept.


GravatarThere's this hot blogger here ... she's only 29 and talks like Monica Goodling, but she's a Democrat. I think I may have to introduce myself.

She keeps not looking over here, though.

Reminds me of when I was out the other night. Saw an old girlfriend ... it was obvious she still wanted me. She was just making out with that guy at the bar to get my attention.



GravatarShe's three years old. She won't even remember for christ's sake.

We teased a friend's little sister for a long time because she thought she was helping when she cleaned out the little turtle display they had and refilled it with scalding hot water.


Gravatarby "talks," I meant "sounds." Not "says the same things as."


GravatarSinfonian, tell her you met Alex Trebek. Chicks dig Alex.


GravatarWell, inasmuch as we're all just like that - we decided that it was a good lesson about death. They had a nice funeral, I believe and went off for more ducklings.

It sounded like a chapter from Mrs. Wiggins of the Cabbage Patch. Honest.



GravatarBut MOM, I want the HANTAvirus for Xmas. Billy and Janie BOTH have it. It's not fair!


GravatarVia FDL, I'm shocked, frankly, to see the WaPo's running this in its Sunday edition.

Of course, she has to make the obligatory shot at the "left-wing blogs," but aside from that...


GravatarWe teased a friend's little sister for a long time because she thought she was helping when she cleaned out the little turtle display they had and refilled it with scalding hot water.

You and attaturk need to keep quiet about that secretary of state you parboiled in Youngstown.


GravatarPoor duck. Ah well. Life is sometimes... well, almost always ends in death, I reckon.
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GravatarAck, slanties.

But MOM, I want the HANTAvirus for Xmas. Billy and Janie BOTH have it. It's not fair!

"If Billy and Janie both had their arms chopped off with a rusty hatchet, would you want that too?"


GravatarI have a sister who accidentally killed a kitten when she was very young, and another sibling who still won't forgive her for it, 45 years later. Sheesh.


GravatarSinfonian, tell her you met Alex Trebek. Chicks dig Alex.
trifecta




Yeah, I tried that. The guys were all impressed. The chicks, not so much.


GravatarI'm surprised they didn't send her to GITMO:
http://www.comcast.net/news/ nati...vqh=itn_armymom


Even though she quit, Cindy Sheehan taught Bushco that Kipling knew his stuff when he penned "The Deadlier of the Species". They aren't opening any similar cans any time soon.
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GravatarYou and attaturk need to keep quiet about that secretary of state you parboiled in Youngstown.

Shrum's the word.


GravatarPerceived peer pressure is a terrible thing.


GravatarBut MOM, I want the HANTAvirus for Xmas. Billy and Janie BOTH have it. It's not fair!
Barbarism Begins at Home | 06.09.07 - 4:46 pm | #


Do you have any idea what those things cost? You'll get the common cold virus and like it. When you're grown up, you can buy you own HANTAvirus.


GravatarThat would be Allen Butler's sockpuppet, "annieangel."

Posted some of the more graphic anti-Falwell comments from when he kicked.
Sinfonian, protojournalist


What a fucking loser.


GravatarI hit and ran over a young dog about seven years ago on Christmas Eve. That sucked.


GravatarI can't believe it -- I buy a scooter, and sell a scooter -- IN THE SAME DAMN DAY?!?
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Gravatar
Here's something to ponder long and hard: Malaria was intentionally designed.


Keep in mind that the designer once drowned everyone on the planet except for Noah and his clan.

God is love. Yup.


GravatarShrum's the word.

touche


GravatarGod wanted us all to buy mosquito repellent.


GravatarI hit and ran over a young dog about seven years ago on Christmas Eve. That sucked.

Had you had sex with the dog first?

-Laura Bush


Gravatarmy nephew's cat was killed in the dryer last year. I think it was suicide. She was 18 years old. He adopted it as his cat when he was a toddler.

My sister in law turned on the drier, didn't realize the furball was in there.

We told the nephew she passed in her sleep, not that his clothes were covered with the cat's blood and fecal matter and had to be rewashed.

We are sensitive that way.


GravatarI can't believe it -- I buy a scooter, and sell a scooter -- IN THE SAME DAMN DAY?!?
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Jeffraham Prestonian


Yes, but did your scooter get sentenced to 30 months in prison?


Gravatar"it is really her brain - a place where thoughts go to die a lonely death - that scares us.""

Oh my gosh. We need to set up a charitable organization to Rescue Katie Couric's thoughts.

DO you want this woman's thoughts to be lonely, to wander the streets, face disease, breed without restraint?

Be a foster parent to a Couric thought. You can make a difference.


GravatarI can't believe it -- I buy a scooter, and sell a scooter -- IN THE SAME DAMN DAY?!?

That's how it goes in the fast-paced world of scooter arbitrage.
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GravatarKeep in mind that the designer once drowned everyone on the planet except for Noah and his clan.

Thank heavens they had those parasites on board!


Gravatartrifecta-TMI!


GravatarPosted some of the more graphic anti-Falwell comments from when he kicked.
Sinfonian, protojournalist


What a fucking loser.
Terry C - End Bush's War Now! | Homepage | 06.09.07 - 4:49 pm | #


Does anyone have the link? I wanna see if any of my comments made the grade!


GravatarHad you had sex with the dog first?

-Laura Bush
spinoza


Funny, Rick Santorum asked me the same thing.


GravatarOf course, she has to make the obligatory shot at the "left-wing blogs," but aside from that...
dave™© |


Yeah, but she sure laid everything out very clearly, and that sure needed to be done.

thanks for the link.


GravatarWhen I was a kid, we had a cat that my sister and her friends insisted on dressing in "Chatty Cathy" doll clothes and shoving into a baby stroller so they could wheel it around. Incredibly, for the most part, the cat put up with it, though occasionally he could be spotted running through the house in a dress.

One day, our neighbor came over and said he'd found the cat drowned in his irrigation ditch. My father told me the cat committed suicide.


GravatarSinfonian: Yes, but did your scooter get sentenced to 30 months in prison?

No, but if I sell the Vino 50 tomorrow, it'll sure make the $1400 balance on the Kymco easier to handle. I've got a buyer for the Vino @ $1200. Never dreamed I'd make money on a scooter deal, but there ya go. Scooters are hot.
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GravatarDoes anyone have the link?

Do a search on youtube for "bloggingpoints". That also happens to be the name of his parody blog as well.


Gravatar...she sure laid everything out very clearly, and that sure needed to be done.

Oh, yeah - Barbara Comstock's gonna be pissed!


GravatarBarb - I had log off around 3:00 on Thursday. It was sometime before then.


GravatarI'd think "Jeopardy champion" would be the very bestest pick-up line. Hmmmm, maybe I'll start using it.


GravatarDo a search on youtube for "bloggingpoints". That also happens to be the name of his parody blog as well.
Richard | 06.09.07 - 4:53 pm | #



Sweet! Thanks!


Gravatarholy fuck, Heidi just caught a mouse, but managed to drop it and now we have a live mouse somewhere in the hall.

George was much more cowardly, crouching and generally a bit freaked out.


GravatarKeep in mind that the designer once drowned everyone on the planet except for Noah and his clan.

Thank heavens they had those parasites on board!


Once they threw out a couple of brontosaurs, there was plenty of room for the "Disease and Parasite" section.
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GravatarJeffraham Prestonian,

"annieangel" recently claimed that "she" left a phone message on your answering machine. Is that true?


GravatarHere's annieangel's video, if you must.


GravatarHere's something to ponder long and hard: Malaria was intentionally designed.


Keep in mind that the designer once drowned everyone on the planet except for Noah and his clan.

God is love. Yup.
Richard


But remember "God" never punishes people for being "wrong."

He just punishes them for not loving Jebus.

Or some shit like that.


GravatarOne day, our neighbor came over and said he'd found the cat drowned in his irrigation ditch. My father told me the cat committed suicide.
dave™©


That is one of the funniest stories I've ever read. I mean it.



Gravatarstill mouse hunting should keep Heidi occupied for hours

my mum is not liking the thought of a mouse in the house


Gravatarshe thought she was helping when she cleaned out the little turtle display they had and refilled it with scalding hot water.
watertiger


I would still be losing sleep over this. I'm glad Molly's kids are more balanced than I.


GravatarRichard: "annieangel" recently claimed that "she" left a phone message on your answering machine. Is that true?

Uh, no.
.


Gravatarjust a bit unusual, as Heidi and George are indoor cats and well seeing a live mouse in Heidi mouth is a usual sight


GravatarUh, no.

Thought so.


GravatarWithout having locusts and fleas on board the ark, even God would not be able to scourge the Egyptians with them later on. Same with leprosy and the clap and the other dribbling disease goops.

I guess


GravatarI've got a buyer for the Vino @ $1200. Never dreamed I'd make money on a scooter deal, but there ya go. Scooters are hot.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian

I've even been seeing them in Kansas. I never thought I'd see that.


GravatarHere's annieangel's video, if you must.
Sinfonian, protojournalist



Allen Butler is a head case.


Gravatarholy fuck, Heidi just caught a mouse, but managed to drop it and now we have a live mouse somewhere in the hall.

She'll find it. It's history. The mouse is no more. It's an ex-mouse.


GravatarI'd think "Jeopardy champion" would be the very bestest pick-up line. Hmmmm, maybe I'll start using it.
Moe Szyslak


Well, truth be told, it's not that bad. But my friend's prediction never came true.

I think I've told this story here before, but my best friend of 25 years attended my tapings. After I won the five games, she exclaimed, "Do you realize how much pussy you're going to get from this?!"

Feh, as it turned out, not so much.


Gravatargod i thought it was a fake mouse at first.

but man she is a hunter at heart, compared to George, not much courage there!


GravatarThat is one of the funniest stories I've ever read. I mean it.


Thanks!

I'm thinking of doing some Thurber-esque "memoirs" of my family... or maybe it's more Jean Shepard!

There's a somewhat sadder story where my mother woke up in the middle of the night and saw a mouse in the bedroom. My father, being the rugged protector he was, got a shoe and started a-bashin' away. When he turned on the lights, he was horrified to see he'd clobbered my little sister's pet hamster.

My sister, on the other hand, wasn't that broken up by it...


GravatarWhat? Noah had the clap??


GravatarShe needs to go back to the proctologist: it seems to be she's still got her head jammed up there.


GravatarLumpenprolitariot: I've even been seeing them in Kansas. I never thought I'd see that.

Well, I hope they're bigger than the Vino, 'cause, after all... where can you go in Kansas at 30mph?
.


GravatarWouldn't it had been easier for God to simply create all the drowned animals anew, rather than have Noah do that ark bit?


GravatarSo, Jeffraham, have you related the story of your scooter brokeraging already? What's up with that?


Gravatarwell seeing a live mouse in Heidi mouth is a usual sight

Walt Disney first said that, in 1953.
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Gravataryep George is not a hunter.

a neurotic cat


Gravatar"Annieangel" did leave a voicemail on NTodd's machine, which NTodd duly converted into an MP3 and posted a link to in the comments section, this being Wednesday or Thursday last.

It sounded female to me, so it's indeed possible that "Annieangel" is a separate entity from the shitstain Butler.

However, this does not mean that "Annieangel" is any less of a Jeebofascist asshat that is a waste of skin.


GravatarOnce they threw out a couple of brontosaurs, there was plenty of room for the "Disease and Parasite" section.
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Cynicus | 06.09.07 - 4:54 pm | #
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It's sort of like curating a museum show.

If I take out this huge, crappy 10 x14 portrait of the old dude with the powdered wig ... hmmm .... that opens up all kinds of space ...


GravatarThere's a somewhat sadder story where my mother woke up in the middle of the night and saw a mouse in the bedroom. My father, being the rugged protector he was, got a shoe and started a-bashin' away. When he turned on the lights, he was horrified to see he'd clobbered my little sister's pet hamster.

dude, you better write that fucking book! I'll hunt you down if you don't.



GravatarI can't BELIEVE i didn't make the video. I'm gonna try much harder next time!


Gravatar
Wouldn't it had been easier for God to simply create all the drowned animals anew, rather than have Noah do that ark bit?


Damn your logic! Stop thinking and believe!


GravatarHere's annieangel's video, if you must.

Is that the one where he paid some crack whore to play the part of "annie"?

Just put on a fucking dress and go out in public, dude. No one gives a shit.


GravatarWanker of the Millenium, Michael Behe:

"Here's something to ponder long and hard: Malaria was intentionally designed. The molecular machinery with which the parasite invades red blood cells is an exquisitely purposeful arrangement of parts."


So Behe's position is that this disease, which has killed millions of people, was intentionally, specifically, put on this planet by some sort of interfering diety.

Why in the world would I want to worship such a malevolent and destructive entity? Behe's god sounds like an evil son of a bitch.


Gravataryou better write that fucking book! I'll hunt you down if you don't.


Why do I hear James Earl Jones' voice saying "It is your destiny!"???


Gravatarnah. annie is Butler. Ntodd asked "her" to call him then and there that night. "annie" said tomorrow. Butler likely got his sister to call Ntodd the next day.


GravatarIs that the one where he paid some crack whore to play the part of "annie"?

Just put on a fucking dress and go out in public, dude. No one gives a shit.
dave™©


No, thank Jeebus. I'm still bleaching my eyes from that one.


Gravatarstill will have to pull the covers up to ones chin tonight, so the mouse doesn't go for the throat

still at least this isn't a Macquarie Island Flesh Eater


GravatarI can't BELIEVE i didn't make the video. I'm gonna try much harder next time!
Barbarism


Hecate posted that right after. I didn't make it either. There's nothing I can bad enough for Michelle I guess. I got Ted Rall's dander up on something I said about Malkin, but it didn't even make her book.

It's a conspiracy against me, I tells you!


GravatarWouldn't it had been easier for God to simply create all the drowned animals anew, rather than have Noah do that ark bit?
Moe Szyslak | 06.09.07 - 4:58 pm | #
---

You have to be a Ph.D. theologian to ask such questions of God.

Undergrads or non students auditing classes are not allowed. It's all garden work for you. Weed those beans.


GravatarOh, there's Sen. Nelson again.

Talking with someone again. I really do want to ask him about his pro-torture vote.


GravatarHeidi the Mouse

fast reflexes


GravatarWell, I've dicked around this long, might as well wait around another 20 minutes to see the Belmont...


Gravataratrios could end all this by telling us if annie and limpdick share an ip address.


GravatarWhy in the world would I want to worship such a malevolent and destructive entity? Behe's god sounds like an evil son of a bitch.
Seraphiel


I like Douglas Adams' (Spag rest his soul) take on it: If god is the kind of person who goes around putting bricks under hats on the sidewalk and waiting for someone to kick it, what kind of deity is that?


Gravatar* Heidi the Mouser


Gravatardave™©: So, Jeffraham, have you related the story of your scooter brokeraging already? What's up with that?

Well, I put down a deposit on a Kymco Agility 125, today. Could have drove off with it, but I had a bad back yesterday, and didn't go into work to get my paycheck. Amazingly, it was in my mailbox as soon as I got back from the scooter store. S'ok -- dude had to buff some paint off the front fender, where another scooter was being moved, and scraped it. He's open again on Tuesday, so I'll bus down there at lunch on Tuesday, and pick it up.

The Vino 50, I put on craigslist this morning. Nine minutes later, I had a dude inquiring (and a couple more within the hour). His wife has a Honda Metropolitan, which is the same size, and he wants something similar to scoot around with her. The Vino is perfect, so he's coming to get it tomorrow night. His sis came to test drive it an hour ago (he's out of town, right now), and she offered me $100 deposit to hold it.
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GravatarWhy in the world would I want to worship such a malevolent and destructive entity? Behe's god sounds like an evil son of a bitch.
Seraphiel |


Because, my dear Seraphiel, if you do, maybe the son of a bitch will smite your enemies. If you don't, he smiteth you!

that's how that works.


Gravataratrios could end all this by telling us if annie and limpdick share an ip address.

apparently, they don't.

One's Canadian-based, the other in Texas.


GravatarWell, I hope they're bigger than the Vino, 'cause, after all... where can you go in Kansas at 30mph?
.
Jeffraham Prestonian

I assume just scootin' to work and back. But it was decidedly weird riding by a house and seeing a bunch of good old boys standing around admiring a friends new motor scooter.


Gravatar
It sounded female to me, so it's indeed possible that "Annieangel" is a separate entity from the shitstain Butler.


The caller could have just as easily have been a friend of Butler's that he roped in just for the one gag.


Gravatarwhat makes the Cretionist Museum funny is that is all so serious.


GravatarSpectacular, JP! It sounds like much goes well in your world -- glad to hear it!


GravatarSo, Jefferson P., you decided against the Honda, then.


Gravatarjust say no!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ ar...ioreamnesty.DTL


GravatarI can't BELIEVE i didn't make the video. I'm gonna try much harder next time!

i don't know what it will take. i suggested putting a wick in him and letting him be his own eternal flame,and that didn't make the cut.

not vulgar enough, i guess.
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GravatarWhy in the world would I want to worship such a malevolent and destructive entity? Behe's god sounds like an evil son of a bitch.
Seraphiel | 06.09.07 - 5:00 pm | #
--
Behe, as a tenured biochemistry professor, was the ID movement's great White Hope. But he's really stabbed his entire movement in the back with this book, albeit unintentionally.

First, he comes out and says God designed malaria. Smooth move ex-lax.

Then, he admits that natural Darwinian mutations completely explain how malaria can become drug resistant.

Wanker.


GravatarThere's a somewhat sadder story where my mother woke up in the middle of the night and saw a mouse in the bedroom. My father, being the rugged protector he was, got a shoe and started a-bashin' away. When he turned on the lights, he was horrified to see he'd clobbered my little sister's pet hamster.

I once blew a gerbil out of my butt so hard that Strom leapt out of bed and said the Russians were invading.

-Liddy Dole


GravatarOT--Factlet from travel show on PBS

The scultpures of Brititsh lions (Huh? Lions in Britain?) )in Trafalgar Square are made from melted French cannonry. They're oversize and you can jump on them and have a tourist photo taken, no problem

The sculptor had never seen a lion. He used his retriever's paws as a model. They look it too, once you know--big flat paws with inter-toe webbing, good for retrieving birds from shallow ponds, Not exactly leonine


GravatarHey, kids, it's an old-fashioned newspaper war!

It's actually been brewing for a while...


Gravatar
"Here's something to ponder long and hard: Malaria was intentionally designed. The molecular machinery with which the parasite invades red blood cells is an exquisitely purposeful arrangement of parts."


Of course, evolutionary theory tells us that through the reproductive process and mutation, things that at first blush seem to be intended to do certain things can be explained as just how the evolutionary process works.

But to do this, you need to get your head out of your ass, which is the problem we're facing with this shithead.


Gravatarwhat makes the Cretionist Museum funny is that is all so serious.
Moonbootica,


O yes. Yes, if it wasn't completely serious it wouldn't work.

This way it's just so funny you could die laughing.

I'm going to baked and go through it with Virginia.


GravatarGood Afternoon, Moonbats! Did I miss anything?


GravatarIt sounded female to me, so it's indeed possible that "Annieangel" is a separate entity from the shitstain Butler.



No, Butler IS his own girlfriend.


GravatarThe Vino 50, I put on craigslist this morning. Nine minutes later, I had a dude inquiring...

I didn't know they had a craigslist for Nashville! I'll have to check it out...


GravatarWhy didn't God turn all into salt like Lot's wife. Why did retarded babies and bambi need to die gruesome deaths?

Bambi frollicking on a hillside felt the heavy rains coming. She called to her mother down below but there was silence.

As the water rushed into bambi's lungs, her mother's bloated corpse with bulging eyes greeted her, as the pain seared her, and the world faded into darkness.

Apparently, her leaf chewing pissed the G man off.


GravatarHi, Hecate. Very nice to see you. What's happenin'?


Gravatari don't know what it will take. i suggested putting a wick in him and letting him be his own eternal flame,and that didn't make the cut.

not vulgar enough, i guess.
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Cynicus


WOuld have made one hell of a lard fire.


Gravatar
atrios could end all this by telling us if annie and limpdick share an ip address.

apparently, they don't.

One's Canadian-based, the other in Texas.


If he's using proxy servers (which he almost certainly is to get around being banned), that doesn't mean very much.


GravatarSo I guess the Belmont's on ABC... ESPN just switched to bowling!


GravatarThe caller could have just as easily have been a friend of Butler's that he roped in just for the one gag.

Yes, perfectly plausible.

Especially when we're dealing with someone with no apparent scruples, like Butler.


GravatarApparently, her leaf chewing pissed the G man off.
trifecta



COCOA leaves?


GravatarOh, there's Sen. Nelson again.

Ask him why his campaign signage last year said "Democrat party." Ask him why the only way we could get a sign in Volusia county was to download it off the intertubes and glue it on something.

Ask him why he's such a tool.


Gravatarrst, he comes out and says God designed malaria.

That would be the loving, merciful god, right? The one who loves the little children?


Gravatarwhat makes the Cretionist Museum funny is that is all so serious.
Moonbootica,

"COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The man who plays Adam in a video aired at a Bible-based creationist museum has led a different life outside the Garden of Eden, flaunting his sexual exploits online and modeling for a clothing line that promotes free love."
http:// www.editorandpublisher.co...t_id=1003596352


Gravatarnuncamas: So, Jefferson P., you decided against the Honda, then.

Well, the one with 14K miles for $2250? It had been layed down, and reconstituted... and maybe not so well.

Hell, with the Kymco, I have a brand new bike with a 2 year warranty, and they are very nice machines. Not mainland Chinese junk.
.


GravatarCOCA leaves, far more stimulating!


GravatarAsk him why he's such a tool.
V for Virginia


Actually, I'm not sure I'll do that.

Oh, here he comes, and he's alone ...

wait, no he's not. Shit.


GravatarGeorge has now joined Heidi in mouse watching


Gravatarnuncamas,

I'm resting in between bouts of cooking. Trying to cook/prepare most of what I'll need for the week. How 'bout you?


Gravatardave™©-- the guy starting the new newspaper is named Hack. Heh.


GravatarFunny thing about Behe : his wonderment about desigend evil was preceded by a long stretch by a Willam Blake, considering not malaria, but 'tygers'

When the stars cast down their spears
And watered Heaven with their tears
Did He smile his work to see?
Did He who made the Lamb make thee?

-
-


GravatarMoe, what happened to your gravatar?


GravatarThe Church of England is considering legal action against entertainment firm Sony for featuring Manchester Cathedral in a violent PlayStation video game.

The Church says Sony did not obtain permission to use the interior in the war game Resistance: Fall of Man.

The game, which has sold more than one million copies, shows a virtual shoot-out in the cathedral's nave in which hundreds of enemies are killed.

Sony said it believed it had sought all necessary permission for the game.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla...ter/ 6736809.stm


GravatarWithout malaria, there would be no quinine-laced tonic water. I would have to find some other no-calorie mixer for vodka!


Gravatar'Everlasting US pyramids in Iraqi sands

President George W Bush's touting of a "South Korea model" for Iraq has been dismissed as an historical grotesquerie. But the model - up to 40,000 troops on a few mega-bases for decades to come in a calming Iraq - shouldn't be laughed off, and it is not something stumbled on in post-"surge" desperation. It's the imperial fantasy, America's pyramids, that has been on top of the Bush administration's agenda from the first shock-and-awe moment. - Tom Engelhardt'
http://www.atimes.com/


GravatarWithout malaria, there would be no quinine-laced tonic water. I would have to find some other no-calorie mixer for vodka!
plantsman, bemused | Homepage | 06.09.07 - 5:12 pm | #


and G&T


GravatarI would have to find some other no-calorie mixer for vodka!

Ice!


GravatarI may be remember wrong, but I thought Sickle Cell was due to a genetic anomaly that Africans developed to fight malaria.

It somehow increases resistance to malaria.

Naw, this isn't one big biosphere or anything.


Gravatarjust say no!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ ar...ioreamnesty.DTL
sabertooth kitty


The wingnuts wouldn't GET that.

They don't DO history.


Gravatarremembering

my fingers go faster than my head.


Gravatarplantsman: Without malaria, there would be no quinine-laced tonic water. I would have to find some other no-calorie mixer for vodka!

Ooh, far too bitter for me! When people tell me they think hoppy beers are bitter, I always point to tonic.
.


GravatarThe original Planet of the Apes is on A&E, and nearing the end where Charlatan Heston finds the Statue of Liberty.


GravatarMoe, what happened to your gravatar?
Marcellina


You tell me and we'll both know.


GravatarOkay, Sen. Nelson is in the snack bar. I've got him cornered.

I'm on my way over. Wish me luck.


Gravatar"US ire over trigger-happy North Korea
The US has reacted sharply to North Korea test-firing two short-range missiles off its western coast on Thursday, saying it should instead focus on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. From Pyongyang, only silence."
http://www.atimes.com/


GravatarDisaffected employees have alleged that workers from Asia and West Africa were deceived in Kuwait into flying to Baghdad by being given boarding passes that said Dubai for chartered flights to Iraq.

Once on the ground, an unspecified number of labourers had their passports seized, effectively trapping the workers in Iraq for the duration of their contracts.

Although the labourers are relatively well paid, receiving $1,000 (£550) a month, they endured harsh conditions on the site.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/.../09/ wirq109.xml


GravatarI'm Troy McClure.

You won't made a damn dirty monkey out of me.


GravatarI thought Sickle Cell was due to a genetic anomaly that Africans developed to fight malaria.

I think that I've read that, as well.


GravatarNo shit, this is Behe's take on the Designer that he himself says must be the Creator of all life and malaria too:

"A torrent of pain undeniably swirls through the world—not only the world of humans, but the world of sentient animal life as well. Yet, just as undeniably, much that is good graces nature. Many children die, yet many others thrive. Some people languish, but others savor full lives. Does one outweigh the other? If so, which outweighs which? Or are pleasure and pain, good and evil, incommensurable? Are viruses and parasites part of some brilliant, as-yet-unappreciated economy of nature, or do they reflect the bungling of an incompetent, fallible designer?"

http://scienceblogs.com/ pharyngu...on_part_i_1.php


GravatarI may be remember wrong, but I thought Sickle Cell was due to a genetic anomaly that Africans developed to fight malaria.

The ability of all those Africans to fight off malaria in ways that Europeans could not fueled the slave trade between Africa and the New World.

Made Africans a superior work force in tropical climes.


GravatarCOCA leaves, far more stimulating!
plantsman, bemused


Don't know if you were here last night, but a certain schizo troll(who shall remain nameless) referred to COCA leaves as COCOA leaves.


GravatarTonic water also glows a lovely light blue under black-light, making drinks easy to find in hippie clubs. And oddly, it goes better with saccharin than aspartame, which phony sweetness stays in my mouth.


GravatarActually, I'm not sure I'll do that.

I wouldn't, either, but it was worth a shot.


Gravataror do they reflect the bungling of an incompetent, fallible designer?"

Uh oh.

Houston, we've got a problem here...


Gravatarplantsman: Tonic water also glows a lovely light blue under black-light, making drinks easy to find in hippie clubs. And oddly, it goes better with saccharin than aspartame, which phony sweetness stays in my mouth.

I like "pink sugar" in my coffee. Very complimentary taste, IMO.
.


GravatarAnd isn't the US currently searching for a way to allow khat-chewing immigrants their vice?


GravatarSheets!


GravatarDon't know if you were here last night, but a certain schizo troll(who shall remain nameless) referred to COCA leaves as COCOA leaves.

Yes, that was one of the most inane things ever seen in these parts.


GravatarOh, doh! I missed spelled my name in my email addie.


Gravatar"Bush calls for action over Kosovo

The two leaders had lunch together in Rome
US President George W Bush has said a plan for Kosovo's UN-backed independence should take effect now, despite Russian and Serbian opposition.
Mr Bush was speaking after holding talks with the Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, during a visit to Rome."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ope/ 6737367.stm

I wonder why shrub didn't say this to Vladimir....... you know he call him that... Vladimir......... when he saw him earlier in the week?


GravatarLumpenprolitariot: I assume just scootin' to work and back. But it was decidedly weird riding by a house and seeing a bunch of good old boys standing around admiring a friends new motor scooter.

Heh! I love it. But really... with the gas mileage, and the fun factor, expect to see many more of them.
.


GravatarWent to the farmers market this morning and bought blueberries. The sweet elderly lady that I try to converse with in spanish foisted off a Watchtower tract on me, which kind of spoiled my warm fuzzies, but no matter.

Then I went to a garden celebration at a little community garden, largely created and maintained by a good friend of mine. There were herb vendors, crafts vendors, genealogy tents, etc. Quite an impressive flower/contemplative garden in a space where there was once just a burned out house--and my friend is 77 years old. She bakes cookies for the drug task force guys at the PD so they'll keep an eye on the gangstas on her street.

I'm just hangin' around here for a while now.


GravatarSheetz!!!!


And isn't the US currently searching for a way to allow khat-chewing immigrants their vice?
plantsman,


Where do I sign up?


GravatarTonic water also glows a lovely light blue under black-light, making drinks easy to find in nipple clubs. -- plantsman

--

I like their drink specials, myself.


GravatarOpen sheets.


Gravatar...the guy starting the new newspaper is named Hack. Heh.

Saw that. Though the "hack" is the guy that took over the old paper.

The Light won a pullet surprise about a million years ago, and the guy that owned it tried for years after to make a go of it, but Jesus, it's Point Reyes. Circulation: 100?

It should probably be owned by a little old lady who puts her weekly gardening column on the front page, frankly...


GravatarDon't know if you were here last night, but a certain schizo troll(who shall remain nameless) referred to COCA leaves as COCOA leaves.

Yes, that was one of the most inane things ever seen in these parts.
Apprentice to Darth Holden



Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...chocolate cocaine.


GravatarThe original Planet of the Apes is on A&E, and nearing the end where Charlatan Heston finds the Statue of Liberty.

The WHAAAAAAAA???

Please don't ever announce "Citizen Kane" is on...


GravatarI have a confession to make, I use Hazelnut Coffee-Mate (not sugar-free, not fat-free) if I adulterate my coffee. When I first talked to a diabetes educator, who was hooked on a different flavor of Coffee-Mate, we agreed it wouldn't be worth it to give up.


GravatarYes, carriers of the sickle-cell trait have superior malaria resistance. It's just when you inherit a doubled dose tha t you get the anemia.

Similar links have been forund for other genetic diseases - for example, the most common European-heritage generic disease, cystic fibrosis, appears in the partial form to increase survival of cholera by decreasing fluid losses to the disease. Similarly, Tay-Sachs carrying amongst Ashkenazi Jews seems to help agains tuberculosis.

that's another thing to make humans reconsider genetic engineering. You may not know what you think you do about the 'weaknesses' you want to eradicate........
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GravatarWow, it sure is cheap to live in Nashville!

That is, if I was making what I'm making in the Bay Area, which isn't enough to live here, but the jobs don't pay in Nashville what they pay here, so...


GravatarIf you can afford to live in Western Marin County, it's HIGHLY worth it. Tomales Bay Oysters, Point Reyes, Bodega Bay, Bolinas.....


GravatarIf you can afford to live in Western Marin County, it's HIGHLY worth it.

You're fucking telling me!

30-35 years ago, you could pick up a ranch for a song.

That's how come all the hippies moved out there.


GravatarIf you can afford to live in Western Marin County, it's HIGHLY worth it. Tomales Bay Oysters, Point Reyes, Bodega Bay, Bolinas.....
plantsman, bemused | Homepage | 06.09.07 - 5:23 pm |

How about San Bernadino county?


GravatarI know about male wanking, but how does a female wanker work?


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