Victory Is Within Reach in Iraq
By Michael A. Ledeen
Word Count: 1,483
Should we declare victory over al Qaeda in the battle of Iraq?
The very question would have seemed proof of dementia only a few months ago, yet now some highly respected military officers, including the commander of Special Forces in Iraq, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, reportedly feel it is justified by the facts on the ground.
These people are not suggesting that the battle is over. They all insist that there is a lot of fighting ahead, and even those who believe that al Qaeda is crashing and burning in a death spiral on the Iraqi battlefields say that the surviving
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Ten years of Labour rule have failed to create a classless society, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows that Britain remains a nation dominated by class division, with a huge majority certain that their social standing determines the way they are judged.
Of those questioned, 89% said they think people are still judged by their class - with almost half saying that it still counts for "a lot". Only 8% think that class does not matter at all in shaping the way people are seen.
The poorest people in society are most aware of its impact, with 55% of them saying class, not ability, greatly affects the way they are seen.
As I put it — in COAL I talk a lot about history, and it’s worked its way into my head — we hope we’re about to elect FDR, but there’s a chance all we’ll get is Grover Cleveland.
Zap Rowsdower |
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10.20.07 - 5:45 pm | #
Damn you spinoza, damn you to hell!
mer |
10.20.07 - 5:45 pm | #
Moon, I'm sorry for your loss.
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 5:45 pm | #
From below:
I believe you are correct, but I'm not sure what the antibiotics are for exactly.
Toonscribe
Growth promotion. Feeding animals antibiotics produces larger animals; more bang for the buck. All about $$$
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 5:46 pm | #
wtf is fif?
ql optimist
a reference to a dave chappelle sketch...my shorthadn for getting into the top five
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 5:46 pm | #
You're suggesting that they should plan for the worst, and then you talk about a middle.
If we take this to its logical extreme, then yes, as Hecate suggested, we should have population control. For starters, I'd say about 25 million people should probably be moved out of California.
Well, that might not be a bad idea. I don't how the hell you'd accomplish it though.
Richard | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 5:21 pm
If you're a planner, you plan for everything, including the worst. You're focusing on the extreme end as the first option-population control in this example.
That's what I'm talking about, planning for every contigency, and being a leader in focusing the population on doing the small things that can help, less obsession with green lawns (xeriscaping), and that sort of thing.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 10.20.07 - 5:44 pm |
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
10.20.07 - 5:47 pm | #
ql ...I'm searching youtube as we speak
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 5:47 pm | #
Paddy | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 5:42 pm | #
Cliff Schecter rules ! The only non-whimp leftie on TV.
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.20.07 - 5:48 pm | #
Moon, I'm sorry for your loss.
Marcellina | 10.20.07 - 5:45 pm | #
thanks
i console myself with the thought that we managed to get to a world cup final even though we have played quite rubbish
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 5:48 pm | #
I'd say about 25 million people should probably be moved out of California.
Well, that might not be a bad idea. I don't how the hell you'd accomplish it though.
Easy. Drop a fragmentation bomb in stategic locations.
Barndog, not fishing |
10.20.07 - 5:48 pm | #
If you're a planner, you plan for everything, including the worst.
Well, that might not be a bad idea. I don't how the hell you'd accomplish it though.
Richard | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 5:21 pm
Legalize pot in Wyoming.
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.20.07 - 5:48 pm | #
That's what I'm talking about, planning for every contigency, and being a leader in focusing the population on doing the small things that can help, less obsession with green lawns (xeriscaping), and that sort of thing.
Nobody could have predicted that planning works.
-Condi Rice
spinoza Neque lugare, neque in |
10.20.07 - 5:48 pm | #
The planners in our area are the developers who tell the city and county commissioner what to do.
mer |
10.20.07 - 5:49 pm | #
Police in England are setting up a nationwide task force to tackle what they say is an "explosion" in thefts of metal which is then sold on as scrap.
School roofs, statues and power lines have all been targeted as millions of pounds worth of metal has been stolen.
British Transport Police, which is leading the task force, said the theft of rail signalling copper had become its biggest problem after terrorism.
Police believe the demand for metal in India and China is forcing prices up.
Copper is now worth £4,000 a tonne, twice as much as two years ago.
BBC Breakfast has obtained figures which show that in Cambridgeshire metal theft is up 170% in a year, in West Mercia 120%, in the West Midlands 112% and 100% in Warwickshire and Sussex.
No, I don't think that's correct. Antibiotics should not make any difference with regards to the size of the animal. I do think they give some cattle injections of Bovine Growth Hormone -- don't know if there's something like a poultry equivalent of that or if BGH would also work on poultry. I think the antibiotics are more an outgrowth of factory farming, where if there is an outbreak of a contagious bacteria, it could mean the death of thousands of animals in a short time, either from the disease or as a forced preventative slaughter.
Toonscribe |
10.20.07 - 5:50 pm | #
What I Said To Those Declaring 'Victory' In Iraq Because Violence Is Down
"I'm not sure how the rate of iraqis getting murdered since we went in compares to that under saddam, but we, as a nation, have a lot to answer for for the bloody chaos of the past four years. If your ears are open, you can clearly hear the heartbreaking disappointment of the iraqi people for all the blood and chaos that the supposedly idealistic and efficient americans have brought them. Haven't you heard what iraqis have been saying about us? "They landed a man on the moon. If they wanted to get the electricity fixed and stop the violence, they could do it. Why don't they?"
If we can bring peace to iraq, successfully turn it over to them, and leave them with a functioning government, we will still have the period 2003 until now as a blot on our record as a nation. And we haven't accomplished peace yet."
Just for the record with regard to the "Values Voter Summit". They can throw around the word "values" all they like. But people who live and vote based on hatred, fear, intolerance, and misogyny do not have American values.
Tralfaz |
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10.20.07 - 5:52 pm | #
Kenosha, come over to FDL, we're rapping with Krugman.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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10.20.07 - 5:54 pm | #
...and I can't find it
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 5:54 pm | #
Toonscribe:
n the United States, antibiotics and related drugs are used routinely to encourage growth and to compensate for crowded and unsanitary conditions in the production of poultry, swine, and cattle. Livestock producers are not restricted from using antibiotics that are important in human medicine, nor are they required to get a prescription from a veterinarian or limit treatment to the few individuals who demonstrate symptoms of illness. Instead, antibiotics are commonly administered in drinking water to entire flocks of chickens, fed to pigs to stave off illness during forced early weaning, and given prophylactically to beef cattle to ease their transition from grass to a corn diet. The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70 percent of antibiotics and related drugs used in the United States are used in animals.
Not if I don't have too.
Barndog, not fishing |
10.20.07 - 5:55 pm | #
"See 'Jesus Camp'"
--Gilly Gonzylon
We truly have become a country I don't recognize anymore.
mer |
10.20.07 - 5:55 pm | #
MPs have backed a parliamentary motion calling on the Government to investigate claims that failed asylum-seekers are routinely abused by their British guards when they are being forcibly returned to their own countries.
The issue was first highlighted in The Independent, which published revelations this month about 200 cases of alleged physical or racist mistreatment.
An early day motion tabled by Diane Abbott and signed by MPs raises particular concern that deportations continue to take place even when detainees have clear signs of mental or physical illness.
The MPs are especially troubled by the case of a Cameroon woman who claims she was so badly beaten by her escort team during the flight that the Cameroon government sent her back to Britain.
Beatrice Guessie, 29, has since been granted bail by an immigration judge and is now living in Liverpool pending a second attempt to remove her. She has instructed lawyers to sue the Home Office for assault and unlawful imprisonment.
Agreed. That's the kind of thing I "get" without needing to sit through it. Life's too short...
Tralfaz |
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10.20.07 - 5:56 pm | #
I'm watching the breeze blow thru the leaves and sway the trees.
While the tv in the other room rolls on and on with the prattle of football announcers.
vox clamantis in red state |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 5:57 pm | #
Life's too short...
And, I have many, many more fish to catch.
Barndog, not fishing |
10.20.07 - 5:58 pm | #
(re: antibiotics as growth-promoters)
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 6:00 pm | #
know thy enemy...
A majority of the wife's family fits the mold, so I see it everytime I'm around them.
Barndog, not fishing |
10.20.07 - 6:00 pm | #
Poles vote tomorrow in an early general election that will decide whether the robust nationalism of the prickly twin brothers, prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and president Lech Kaczynski, is given another four years in power.
The prime minister has called the election two years early following the collapse of his coalition with two small extremist parties. While the opinion polls have varied wildly in their predictions for tomorrow's ballot, the main liberal opposition, the Civic Platform, has been edging ahead since last week when its leader, Donald Tusk, was judged to have trounced the prime minister in a televised debate.
Yesterday the Kaczynskis sought to mobilise support by claiming a big victory at the European summit in Lisbon, which made concessions to Polish complaints about voting power in the EU.
n the United States, antibiotics and related drugs are used routinely to encourage growth and to compensate for crowded and unsanitary conditions in the production of poultry, swine, and cattle.
What are the "related drugs"?
"encourage growth and to compensate for crowded and unsanitary conditions" -- okay, I can see antibiotics compensating for crowded and unsanitary conditions, but they don't encourage growth -- other than keeping the animal alive. I'd say the "related drugs" (whatever they are) are to encourage growth. That seems to me to be a poorly worded sentence, lumping two things (antibiotics and related drugs)together to get two different results -- growth and compensation for crowded and unsanitary conditions.
Toonscribe |
10.20.07 - 6:01 pm | #
See "Jesus Camp"
Wife and I rented it....very entertaining.
Shared Humanity |
10.20.07 - 6:01 pm | #
In a frightening sort of way.
Shared Humanity |
10.20.07 - 6:01 pm | #
Ha! Krugman is a cat owner!!
Then why doesn't he catblog?
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 6:02 pm | #
my father just offered to pay for my flight to go attend Eschaton '08!!!!
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 6:02 pm | #
A majority of the wife's family fits the mold, so I see it everytime I'm around them.
It's not just the individual mold, but their strategic approach to taking over this country. I recommend the movie.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 6:03 pm | #
I'm watching the breeze blow thru the leaves and sway the trees.
While the tv in the other room rolls on and on with the prattle of football announcers.
vox clamantis in red state | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 5:57
72 degrees in Chicago today. Supposed to be 80 tomorrow.
Shared Humanity |
10.20.07 - 6:03 pm | #
Then why doesn't he catblog?
He has a real job.
Barndog, not fishing |
10.20.07 - 6:03 pm | #
so yeah my attending Eschacon 08' is just a bit more reality
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 6:04 pm | #
my father just offered to pay for my flight to go attend Eschaton '08!!!!
Oh my god! Go!! You won't regret it, ever.
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 6:04 pm | #
In 1953, just 10 years after penicillin became widely available, Iain Macleod, the then minister of Health, told the House of Commons that feeding antibiotics to farm animals to make them grow faster would have `no adverse effect whatever on human beings.'
Maybe I'm just being dense, but I don't see how antibiotics make an animal "grow faster" -- except in the general sense of making the animal healthier.
Toonscribe |
10.20.07 - 6:04 pm | #
my father just offered to pay for my flight to go attend Eschaton '08!!!!
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier
The mechanism by which low levels of antibiotics encourage growth is uncertain. One
possibility is that less food has to be metabolized because there is less need for energy to
fight off infection. Another possibility is that antibiotics destroy bacteria found in the
intestine, thinning its lining, thus increasing nutrient absorption. Furthermore, bacteria
living inside the intestine use some of the energy provided by nutrient breakdown.
Eliminating them leaves more food for absorption by the host organism.
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 6:05 pm | #
It's not just the individual mold, but their strategic approach to taking over this country
At least they're not that kind of nutjobs.
Although, I constantly question that analysis.
Barndog, not fishing |
10.20.07 - 6:05 pm | #
Poles vote tomorrow in an early general election that will decide whether the robust nationalism of the prickly twin brothers, prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and president Lech Kaczynski, is given another four years in power.
The prime minister has called the election two years early following the collapse of his coalition with two small extremist parties. While the opinion polls have varied wildly in their predictions for tomorrow's ballot, the main liberal opposition, the Civic Platform, has been edging ahead since last week when its leader, Donald Tusk, was judged to have trounced the prime minister in a televised debate.
Yesterday the Kaczynskis sought to mobilise support by claiming a big victory at the European summit in Lisbon, which made concessions to Polish complaints about voting power in the EU.
Not that I'd know if you regret Eschacon 08, but it'll be a great adventure.
I am from Philadelphia (sorta - grew up outside of it, lived in it for about 6 years) and it's a great city. Lots to experience, and you'll be there with, what, 100 friends? Go!!!
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 6:07 pm | #
Victory Is Within Reach in Iraq
By Michael A. Ledeen
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
Or hell for that matter.
pie |
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10.20.07 - 6:07 pm | #
Bjorn is malformed:
"The url contained a malformed video id."
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 6:07 pm | #
Huh! Texas I have just learned has a tax stamp law for pot.
therealhellkitty |
10.20.07 - 6:08 pm | #
my dad sez when your young you gotta go for it!
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 6:08 pm | #
my father just offered to pay for my flight to go attend Eschaton '08!!!!
Okay, that makes sense -- though it seems to be quite a bit of expense for small increments of added growth.
Toonscribe |
10.20.07 - 6:09 pm | #
Cécilia Sarkozy yesterday gave a lengthy newspaper interview to say that her marriage to the French president failed because she hated the limelight. She admitted falling in love with another man two years ago.
Hours after Nicolas Sarkozy's office said neither he nor his ex-wife would discuss their divorce, France's former first lady went public. "I met someone, I fell in love, I left," she said of her decision to start a new life with an events organiser in New York in 2005. A year later she returned to her husband in time for his presidential campaign. She told L'Est Républicain she wanted to "behave correctly ... to try to rebuild something". But she added: "We tried everything, I tried everything. It just wasn't possible any more."
Ntodd, I asked about cat blogging.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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10.20.07 - 6:09 pm | #
Urban Meyer is standing 20 feet on the field watching the play. What a dick. You're not allowed to do that.
MP |
10.20.07 - 6:10 pm | #
Maybe I'm just being dense, but I don't see how antibiotics make an
animal "grow faster" -- except in the general sense of making the
animal healthier.
CBS News has confirmed that outed CIA agent Valerie Plame "was involved in operations to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons." RAW STORY first revealed Plame's Iran mission and the damage done to CIA operations by her outing two years ago, in a February 13, 2006 story by Raw investigative editor Larisa Alexandrovna.
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.20.07 - 6:10 pm | #
What The Winger Said
For that reason, I wouldn't trust a modern dictionary. Note this is not my failing, but our intelligentsia's.
Start going for it now, and you'll be going for it your whole life. It's a good habit to get into!
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 6:10 pm | #
out to eat and drink.
ql optimist |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:12 pm | #
I'm all excited now
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:12 pm | #
One reason for using antibiotics is the abominable, overcrowded conditions under which most livestock are raised.
noblejoanie |
10.20.07 - 6:12 pm | #
Moon, your dad is so right! I like his attitude.
therealhellkitty |
10.20.07 - 6:12 pm | #
CBS News has confirmed that outed CIA agent Valerie Plame "was involved in operations to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons."
You mean, she wasn't some CIA secretary who lobbied for her husband to make fun of Dick Cheney, and was actually a critical player in defending this country?
Limbaugh won't like this at all.
MP |
10.20.07 - 6:13 pm | #
I hope CBS convinces someone that this time, it's telling the truth, after hanging Rather and Mapes and whomever out to dry.
I hope its ratings for Couric's news show are so pathetic that it needs to readjust.
pie |
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10.20.07 - 6:13 pm | #
I was once able to shut up a "values voter" by stating it was blasphemous to call purient interest in other people's sex lives moral while letting poor people starve. It was like I had removed the numbers from a paint-by-numbers canvas.
rootless-e |
10.20.07 - 6:14 pm | #
I hope CBS convinces someone that this time, it's telling the truth, after hanging Rather and Mapes and whomever out to dry.
I hope its ratings for Couric's news show are so pathetic that it needs to readjust.
I hope Dan Rather fucks them with a rusty chainsaw and shames them into acting like the CBS of old.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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10.20.07 - 6:15 pm | #
hope its ratings for Couric's news show are so pathetic that it needs to readjust.
pie | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 6:13 pm | #
Katie "Bernard" Couric has one hell of a colon.
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.20.07 - 6:15 pm | #
my father just offered to pay for my flight to go attend Eschaton '08!!!!
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier
The Rethugs just go into the DT's unless they have a cartoonish boogeyman. Without Russia, I guess It's Iran that we have to gird ourselves against.
Watch out, Omaha, the Iranians are coming to get you.
MP |
10.20.07 - 6:19 pm | #
time to go see what the Meerkats are up to
therealhellkitty |
10.20.07 - 6:20 pm | #
I hope Dan Rather fucks them with a rusty chainsaw and shames them into acting like the CBS of old.
It's possible
Breaks into song lyrics:
Cinderella: For the world is full of zanies and fools who don't believe in sensible rules and won't believe what sensible people say
Both: And because these daft and dewey eyed dopes keep building up impossible hopes Impossible things are happening every day.
Where that came from, I can't say.
pie |
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10.20.07 - 6:20 pm | #
I was once able to shut up a "values voter" by stating it was blasphemous to call purient interest in other people's sex lives moral while letting poor people starve. It was like I had removed the numbers from a paint-by-numbers canvas.
rootless-e | 10.20.07 - 6:14 pm | #
despite the powerful aversion to facts and logic that most wingers and fundies display, sometimes small victories like this are possible!
so yeah i'm happy
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 6:25 pm | #
I'd come to EschaCon, but I tghink it's not feasible at this point, once I'm on the job for a year and get paid vacation, i would totalkly do it
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 6:26 pm | #
i might even stay for a little longer
British invasion!
Are you also going to occupy the country?
pie |
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10.20.07 - 6:27 pm | #
What voters can't seem to uptake, is that the terorrism threat is real, but the current US response to that problem is being cartoonishly mishandled.
MP |
10.20.07 - 6:27 pm | #
I have a real job. It just don't pay real good.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 6:27 pm | #
British invasion!
Are you also going to occupy the country?
pie | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 6:27 pm | #
I promise not to burn down the White House
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 6:27 pm | #
I promise not to burn down the White House
Damn!
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 6:28 pm | #
I have a real job. It just don't pay real good.
I have a real job too, I'm just able to multi-task.
BTW, Krugman says he'll cat blog when the NYTimes fixes their image loading problem.
Can us left coasters join a saturday evening thread, even tho its only satiddy afternoon out here?
flory, from Northern Californi |
10.20.07 - 6:30 pm | #
I'm cured no longer mal-formed!
Praise Jebus!!!
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 6:30 pm | #
Anyone got teh dates?
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:30 pm | #
well I currently don't have a job, but may well get some Christmas work and have been applying for two jobs per week
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 6:31 pm | #
unless you want me too
NSA, she was just keeding.
pie |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:31 pm | #
we are in iraq to protect ourselves against the anglofascism
have you already forgotten the lessons of 1812?
if we don't fight them over there, pretty soon they'll be making your women eat beans on toast for breakfast!!!
End of March, methinks.
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 6:32 pm | #
I hope Dan Rather fucks them with a rusty chainsaw and shames them into acting like the CBS of old.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U?
Acting like the CBS of old would require hiring journalists the caliber of the CBS of old.
You see any of those in their roster of spokesbots?
flory, from Northern Californi |
10.20.07 - 6:32 pm | #
unless you want me too
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier
darn it, you just made the no-fly list.
1Watt, Hermit |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:32 pm | #
I'll pretend to be related to royalty
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 6:33 pm | #
Can us left coasters join a saturday evening thread, even tho its only satiddy afternoon out here?
flory, from Northern Californi | 10.20.07 - 6:30 pm | #
flory, my last capitalistic venture was the princely sum of $25 donated to a local political club, along with my only mildly in arrears dues.
bo |
10.20.07 - 6:50 pm | #
Hecate --
No -- went & looked at your post (I posted something at Pax Americana, BTW) -- stability is the KEY Benedictine vow which differentiates us from all other orders -- we make vows to a particular monastery & stay there -- it makes a tremendous difference in the life.
Sr Joan Chittester's articles at the National Catholic Reporter are must reading (& available online for free).
I do not know the sisters at St. Gertrude, although I have met a number of the monks from Idaho.
Prior Aelred |
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10.20.07 - 6:51 pm | #
I'm glad that Oakland still has it's great newspaper
LEt's not go overboard here. The Tribune is mostly fishwrap that relies on the wire services for 90% of its content. But every now and again they do a bit of original reporting that's worth reading.
Latino immigrants are MORE healthy than US born whites.
Hah!! So much for those illegal brown people using up all our precious health care dollars...
flory |
10.20.07 - 6:51 pm | #
A party w/o a centaur is like a day w/o sunshine.
True, dat, though these days I'm hoping you see some rainy skies.
For your garden.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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10.20.07 - 6:51 pm | #
Bismark engaged in various wars to strengthen Prussia's position
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 6:51 pm | #
Quite a good game going on between Cal and UCLA.
ErinPDX, L & R-brained |
10.20.07 - 6:51 pm | #
Funny, when I hear Bismarck I think big shipwreck.
I think North Dakota.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 6:52 pm | #
Oh, you weren't asking me.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U?
We know you're coming. Maddie and Ripley already have the wormhole targeted.
flory |
10.20.07 - 6:52 pm | #
Funny, when I hear Bismarck I think big shipwreck.
Marcellina
Doughnuts. Very nice ones.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:52 pm | #
Sink the Bismark!!!!!
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 6:53 pm | #
True, dat, though these days I'm hoping you see some rainy skies.
For your garden.
Goddess, I wish, but I'm not hopeful. Had lunch today w/ and environmental writer who says the SE is headed for a La Nina that will bring many more dry months. At this point, I'm trying to keep the 300 year old oak trees alive and not worrying about much else. My water bill was double last quarter's.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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10.20.07 - 6:54 pm | #
I did get a shiny new fry pan today, though!!
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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10.20.07 - 6:54 pm | #
Otto von Bismark
his descendant died of a drug overdose
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
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10.20.07 - 6:54 pm | #
flory, my last capitalistic venture was the princely sum of $25 donated to a local political club, along with my only mildly in arrears dues.
bo
See? Fledgling VC. I knew it.
flory |
10.20.07 - 6:54 pm | #
Doughnuts. Very nice ones.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
how canadian of you...and i suggested the same thing(wayyy upthread)
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 6:54 pm | #
Fuck it, I'm not going.
NTodd, Cupcake-American
Thers is planning on sending all the urchins to Vermont that weekend. You sure you wanna be there?
flory |
10.20.07 - 6:54 pm | #
Sink the Bismark!!!!! - Moonbootica
Dunked your cruller in your tea, you did?
bo |
10.20.07 - 6:55 pm | #
how canadian of you...and i suggested the same thing(wayyy upthread)
olexicon, at woik
I see that - Red Rose?
.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
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10.20.07 - 6:55 pm | #
Meanwhile, we have a heavy snow advisory for the mtns, 15" expected, chains required. Early.
ErinPDX, L & R-brained |
10.20.07 - 6:56 pm | #
Dunked your cruller in your tea, you did?
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:56 pm | #
Hecate, how much, about are you paying a month for water?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:56 pm | #
I see that - Red Rose?
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
what we had for tea when visiting my garandma in the Qu'appelle Valley
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 6:56 pm | #
I see that - Red Rose?
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
what we had for tea when visiting my garandma in the Qu'appelle Valley
olexicon, at woik
What I'm having now, in the Valle del Sol.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:57 pm | #
Thers is planning on sending all the urchins to Vermont that weekend. You sure you wanna be there?
I need somebody to fetch me beer.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:58 pm | #
# 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
# 1781 - Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
# 1818 - The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
# 1827 - Battle of Navarino - a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.
# 1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
Meanwhile, we have a heavy snow advisory for the mtns, 15" expected, chains required. Early.
Thus proving Al Gore is fat.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:58 pm | #
Hecate --
Nice photo essay -- bookmarked it -- they are incorrect in their translation of "conversation morum suorum," however (most "popular" interpreters of the Rule are) -- it really means "living the monastic life" with all that entails (hence our Order of the Holy Cross talks of the monastic "vow" in the singular)
I'm trying to get Krugman to EschaCon 08 -- who's with me?
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:58 pm | #
ecate, how much, about are you paying a month for water?
I pay for it in with trash pickup and I pay quarterly. I'd estimate that, this past quarter, I paid $100 for water, so, say $333/month?? The quarter before, I paid about half that because I used so much less.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 6:59 pm | #
It's actually nice here today. My widget says it's 88, but it feels a lot cooler.
No humidity- I actually have the windows open. Teh kittehs have been enjoying the breeze.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:00 pm | #
I did get a shiny new fry pan today, though!!
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
Go to FDL and invite him. He's ignoring me.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:00 pm | #
I need somebody to fetch me beer.
NTodd, Cupcake-American
Like there'll be any left with all those mick urchins about the place.
I'm trying to get Krugman to EschaCon 08 -- who's with me?
Prior Aelred
Well, of course. He was at the original....
flory |
10.20.07 - 7:01 pm | #
What I'm having now, in the Valle del Sol.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historia
you'll appreciate this< In the past week I've been to two Fall Supper's at two different churches--_RC and Bible, SASKATOON BERRY PIE! APPLE PIE! Turkey and all the trimmings, I go for work and stay to meet peopole and have a wicked supper
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 7:01 pm | #
Meanwhile, we have a heavy snow advisory for the mtns, 15" expected, chains required. Early. - ErinPDX
Weatherguessers here told us we were to have 3 storms between the previous Friday and yesterday. They went 0 for 3. Nonetheless, most of the state north of Bakersfield has had twice the average amount of rain so far for the rainyear. Course 2" vs 1" may not mean a whole lot this early.
bo |
10.20.07 - 7:01 pm | #
A pink one?
A stainless one.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:01 pm | #
There is a story at CNN that is pissing me off. The Family Research Council's head douche Tony Perkins is bragging about how their membership in their political arm went up from 5,000 to 8,000 members in time for the vote this week-end on the wankathon.
If their political group has had only 5,000 members, why the fuck has Tony Perkins been on my tv all the time. He gets more time than alot of huge liberal groups.
trifecta |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:01 pm | #
I'm trying to get Krugman to EschaCon 08 -- who's with me?
He has been invited. I'd like to see him there again.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:02 pm | #
...Stark said something mean about Bush during a congressional debate. The president is a big boy; I think he can handle it. But by throwing a tantrum, congressional Republicans are suggesting that they can't handle it. They're not grown-ups. Random, intemperate criticism of Bush is just too much for the fragile, virgin ears.
In other words, by throwing a fit, Republicans end up looking weak and hysterical. Indeed, it reinforces the least flattering GOP caricature of all -- these guys can't govern, but they can fall onto a fainting couch like nobody's business.
For years, Republicans worked to create the opposite reputation. They're tough. This is the macho "daddy party." They don't care about "political correctness" and wussies who cry over words that rub people the wrong way. This is a crowd that calls it like they see it, and doesn't look bad or apologize.
I pay for it in with trash pickup and I pay quarterly. I'd estimate that, this past quarter, I paid $100 for water, so, say $33/month?? The quarter before, I paid about half that because I used so much less.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Hmmmmmm..... My city water (not irrigation) is also paired with waste services - my bill this month was $50. That was about $25 less than last month and $20 less than last year this time.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:02 pm | #
Like there'll be any left with all those mick urchins about the place.
If I buy enough, statistically I have a good chance of getting drunk enough.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:03 pm | #
SASKATOON BERRY PIE
~~~faints dead away in jealousy~~~
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:03 pm | #
...man cutting this historian interview is hard work...
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 7:04 pm | #
Erin Burnett bragging about going to Williams and the rest of Timmeh's guests laughing about their GE stock is pretty damned disgusting.
Karatist Preacher |
10.20.07 - 7:04 pm | #
Shockingly, he's actually responded to me a couple of times.
He probably doesn't realize I'm a hippie centaur.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:04 pm | #
~~~faints dead away in jealousy~~~
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
I had to seek it..>It was worth it, considering it was a crappy year for wild saskatoon's
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 7:04 pm | #
Please excuse my absence, I'm cooking spaghetti sauce from scratch.
Gomez |
10.20.07 - 7:05 pm | #
If their political group has had only 5,000 members, why the fuck has Tony Perkins been on my tv all the time. He gets more time than alot of huge liberal groups.
His God is bigger than our Dog.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:05 pm | #
...man cutting this historian interview is hard work...
olexicon, at woik
Don't do it.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:05 pm | #
Saskatoon berry pie is the apotheosis of berry pie.
Finny |
10.20.07 - 7:05 pm | #
My city water (not irrigation) is also paired with waste services - my bill this month was $50. That was about $25 less than last month and $20 less than last year this time.
Please excuse my absence, I'm cooking spaghetti sauce from scratch.
Did you make enough to share?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:07 pm | #
Don't do it.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
But It has to be done for monday, and I'v transcribed and edited, odd thing was the historian was a proffesor of mine and I worked with his daughter at the U of S paper
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 7:07 pm | #
Are you or have you ever been a subscriber to the publication known as The Limbaugh Letter?
fox |
10.20.07 - 7:07 pm | #
/glares jealously at GWPDA
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Since I stopped going out to work I don't bathe much any more.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:07 pm | #
I had to seek it..>It was worth it, considering it was a crappy year for wild saskatoon's
olexicon, at woik
What's a saskatoon berry?
Does it have anything to do with mooses?
flory |
10.20.07 - 7:07 pm | #
least i'm finally over the legal drinking age in America!
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:08 pm | #
If Democrats were smart, they'd look at this as an opportunity to rebrand the GOP as pathetic cry-babies who can barely go a week without throwing a hissy fit over one manufactured outrage or another. Alas, it doesn't look like Dems are smart at all.
Well, maybe not. But I emailed Stark and invited him to call the rethugs a whiny ass titty baby on the floor of the house.
It would make their eyeballs rupture.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:08 pm | #
OK, I have to either order room service or go downstairs and be nice to people for money.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:08 pm | #
But It has to be done for monday, and I'v transcribed and edited, odd thing was the historian was a proffesor of mine and I worked with his daughter at the U of S paper
olexicon, at woik
Do it in between bites of saskatoon berry pie.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:08 pm | #
winger just told me that Bismark was a socialist
Well, of course he was.
He coopted the agenda of the Social Democrats (to keep the Junkers
in their place of privlege).
He was a smart conservative. Which is why wingers loathe him.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 10.20.07 - 6:50 pm | #
well, i make the distinction between socialism as in state ownership of means of production (usually only major industries), and a social welfare state, having pension and health care financing programs, which would be all modern 'industrial' states. if socialism includes the latter, all modern governments are socialist. and, in fact, that is what wingers say.
their problem is that they don't connect the dots. because, they insist that socialism == fascism, and also that socialism inevitable leads to economic disaster. by this logic, of course, all modern governments are not only socialist, but are also fascistic, and we will all be brought down in the inevitable economic collapse that will surely occur, since they are wise enough to foresee the future with absolute certainty
but of course logic is not exactly a strong point with our friends on the right wing
the greatest berry in thw whole wide world, and it is strictly a prairie berry
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 7:09 pm | #
I emailed Stark and invited him to call the rethugs a whiny ass titty baby on the floor of the house.
It would make their eyeballs rupture.
I will write him a check for $200 the day that he does it.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:09 pm | #
least i'm finally over the legal drinking age in America!
Moonbootica, Der Rosenkavalier
Yes, but you will discover that there's a significant and affecting difference in proof.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:09 pm | #
"He has been invited. I'd like to see him there again.
NTodd, Cupcake-American"
If U R not going, how will U C him there?
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:09 pm | #
The founding fathers believed in the welfare state.
fox |
10.20.07 - 7:10 pm | #
Do it in between bites of saskatoon berry pie.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
That was last sunday, man I should ask mom to hook me up with one of her sasaktoon pies
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 7:10 pm | #
That was weird. Haloscan cut my answer. Okay, then. It's a small purple berry much like a blueberry in appearance. It grows on a tall bush on the Canadian prairies. When baked it takes on a faint almond flavour, and makes a sublime pie.
Finny |
10.20.07 - 7:12 pm | #
My connection is so bad that it takes forever for FDL to refresh -- OY!
Hecate -- room service? -- where U at?
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:13 pm | #
Since I stopped going out to work I don't bathe much any more.
Truly a DFH!
Is a Saskatoon berry like a blackberry?
ErinPDX, L & R-brained |
10.20.07 - 7:14 pm | #
Since when are lawyers *nice* for money?
When they are at the borg retreat. At which, if I hear one more sexist joke, I am likely to take a fucking hostage.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:14 pm | #
Jefferson wanted land for every citizen and Paine wrote a tract on a guaranteed income for all. Hamilton had an entirely different idea but still a state that actively promoted the general welfare. What was completely lacking were modern laissez faire notions.
fox |
10.20.07 - 7:14 pm | #
OK, I have to either order room service or go downstairs and be nice to people for money. - Hecate
Is that what the kids are ...
on second thought, I don't want to be turned into a Gingrich.
bo |
10.20.07 - 7:15 pm | #
Hecate! Call room service! That's what makes hotels fun!
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:15 pm | #
Saskatoon berry jam is delicious!
One of my facebook friends has been studying at the U of Sak. & brought us lots of it (she is now going to Purdue -- no Purdue berry jam that I know of)
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:15 pm | #
Erm.....have you changed careers?
Since when are lawyers *nice* for money?
I believe she's at some evil borg weekender thingee.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:15 pm | #
winger just told me that Bismark was a socialist
i thought he was a herring
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Tacitus Voltaire | 10.20.07 - 6:29 pm | #
I thought it was a pastry.
Shared Humanity |
10.20.07 - 7:16 pm | #
(she is now going to Purdue -- no Purdue berry jam that I know of)
Prior Aelred
prior...thanx for adding me as a facebook friend
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 7:16 pm | #
When they are at the borg retreat. At which, if I hear one more sexist joke, I am likely to take a fucking hostage.
There's still time to employ my "barf on the table" technique.
Hecate is with the Vice President!
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:17 pm | #
olexicon --
No sweat!
Been to see the monks recently?
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:18 pm | #
When they are at the borg retreat. At which, if I hear one more sexist joke, I am likely to take a fucking hostage.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
I just finished watching _Strange Justice_. I have a spare VCR copy - would you like it to have for the next 'retreat'?
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:18 pm | #
So what does Moon need to experience while she's in Philadelphia?
Pat's Steaks
The Mummers
The Reading Terminal Market
nah...though that is still within striking distance of my new location
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 7:19 pm | #
Yeah, I guess a visitor has to see that. But really, with all that security and the long wait, just to stand in front of a cracked bell?
Independence Hall.
South Street
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 7:19 pm | #
I thought it was a pastry. -Shared Humanity
You did bring cokes with you, right?
bo |
10.20.07 - 7:19 pm | #
Please excuse my absence, I'm cooking spaghetti sauce from scratch.
Gomez
co winky dink" I've fed chickens scratch, & I've just potted a 7# stewing chicken.
1Watt, Hermit |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:19 pm | #
When they are at the borg retreat. At which, if I hear one more sexist joke, I am likely to take a fucking hostage.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Oh, dear. U shoulda warned us. We coulda supplied extra vodka.....
flory |
10.20.07 - 7:19 pm | #
Huzzah! got it worked down to two column's (`18 inches)!
olexicon, at woik |
10.20.07 - 7:19 pm | #
Jefferson wanted land for every citizen and Paine wrote a tract on a guaranteed income for all. Hamilton had an entirely different idea but still a state that actively promoted the general welfare. What was completely lacking were modern laissez faire notions.
Paine would have beaten Ayn Rand with a musket. She was about as enlightened as Nicholas II. All she did was replace the czar's notions of hegemony with mammon's notions of hegemony.
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 7:20 pm | #
Atrios?
Toucari, fka cosmic tumbler
Well yeah, but she said she might stay longer. I meant after the panels.
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 7:20 pm | #
City Tavern is cool in a replica kinda way.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
10.20.07 - 7:23 pm | #
Chinatown - Marcellina
That's already on DVD.
Jiffy Jeff |
10.20.07 - 7:24 pm | #
Jefferson wanted land for every citizen and Paine wrote a tract on a guaranteed income for all. Hamilton had an entirely different idea but still a state that actively promoted the general welfare. What was completely lacking were modern laissez faire
the economic environment was so different then. most people were farmers, and the modern corporation was represented by only a very few companies.
but, it appears that 'liberals' and 'conservatives' have switched places in regard to government intervention in society since the era of the funding, uh, founding fathers
Do they still do Halloween tours in there?
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 7:29 pm | #
"Do they still do Halloween tours in there?"
as far as i know, yes.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 7:30 pm | #
Got to agree in the liberty bell - you can see it through the window.
It looks like a bell.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Heh. I'm sure I'm an uncouth philistine, but I remember standing in line to see Michelangelo's David and when we finally got in front of it, everybody staring at it thinking "Is this thing gonna start tapdancing? More beer. More gelato."
I was twenty-one and hungover.
Jim, Collieresque |
10.20.07 - 7:31 pm | #
What we should do is organize at least an east coast tour for Moonboo. She could be hosted by a dozen or so Eschatonians and given exquisite hospitality and a taste of the local culture. For example, someone could drive her after the Philadelphia event to their city, put her up for the night, and show her around, etc.
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 7:32 pm | #
True that, but maybe there are Merry Olde England places like that across the pond. And, it's expensive, isn't it?
Marcellina |
The way the dollar's going, Moonbootica will have some pretty significant purchasing power.
Jim, Collieresque |
10.20.07 - 7:32 pm | #
My reaction to first seeing the David was to weep.
Toby Petzold |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:33 pm | #
Vicki was playing Scrabble with her mom and sister when I called her.
I suggested to Vicki to work in the word "cocksucker"
Thus did I spend a three-week-long college choir tour of Ireland and France. Mostly I remember the back of the bus.
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 7:33 pm | #
"I'm sure I'm an uncouth philistine"
I took my mother to the art museum. She was in front of an exhibit of modern art when she said LOUDLY "my god what the hell is this shit? my granddaughter could do better!"
some were offended some were not - but that's my mom.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 7:33 pm | #
My reaction to first seeing the David was to weep.
Toby Petzold
And then you burned a dog in his honor.
Gomez |
10.20.07 - 7:33 pm | #
Gomez is a litmoid fuck.
Toby Petzold |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:34 pm | #
And then you burned a dog in his honor.
Gomez
Como se dice, inflammatario di cane?
Jim, Collieresque |
10.20.07 - 7:34 pm | #
"And then you burned a dog in his honor."
just curious - how did old toby get the handle of dogburner?
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 7:34 pm | #
I took my mother to the art museum. She was in front of an exhibit of modern art when she said LOUDLY "my god what the hell is this shit? my granddaughter could do better!"
some were offended some were not - but that's my mom.
Please tell me it was for the Cy Twombly stuff.
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 7:36 pm | #
My memory is that City Tavern is expensive but not outrageous - if I've eaten there it can't be too bad.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 7:36 pm | #
Gomez is a litmoid fuck.
Toby Petzold
Toby Petzold is a paranoid fuck.
Gomez |
10.20.07 - 7:37 pm | #
Gomez is a litmoid fuck.
Toby Petzold | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 7:34 pm | #
you might have better luck if you didn't devolve to pissy fits by your second or third post whenever you come here
take a cigar out of petty cash - you are correct.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 7:37 pm | #
just curious - how did old toby get the handle of dogburner?
Nothing wrong with a noisy dog that a can of lighter fluid and a lit match can't fix.
Toby Petzold 10.03.05 - 8:51 pm | #
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:38 pm | #
what's a 'litmoid'?
I think its like a henway.
Gomez |
10.20.07 - 7:38 pm | #
dirty fucking hippy Lascaux cave paintings!
-Toby Neanderthal
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 7:41 pm | #
"Toby Petzold is a paranoid fuck."
--Gomez
I'd say more of a paranoid fuckless.
Toonscribe |
10.20.07 - 7:42 pm | #
I've just noticed that my gravatar has disappeared. Hmmm....
Toonscribe |
10.20.07 - 7:44 pm | #
pumpkin pie takes longer to cook than the smell warrents........
smelly cat
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oh dear! I love me some home made pumpkin pie aroma~
I had a room mate once who suppressed his hatred of the smell of cooking broccoli - which I eat a few times a week. He blew up on me one day - about the smell of my fucking vegetables.
Nancy Willing |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:44 pm | #
I've just noticed that my gravatar has disappeared. Hmmm....
That proves you're a litmoid.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:45 pm | #
i have to admit, i never did get the cy twombly thing.
lovely scribbling, i'm sure there is something more, but still...
jackson pollock, now him i dig. but only if the stories that he pissed on his paintings before delivery are true.
charley |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:45 pm | #
the only non toby reference to 'litmoid' is in a scientific article where it appears to mean 'like litmus'. that would mean dye-like
actually Twombly's stuff was better than the artist that directed the Art Museum's maintenance staff to chip away a strip of plaster about 2 inches wide from floor to ceiling then glue the chips into a pile on the floor.
He didn't even come and do it himself he just sent directions. That's nice work if you can get it.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 7:48 pm | #
He didn't even come and do it himself he just sent directions. That's nice work if you can get it.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
A republican artist!! The CEO approach to art.
flory |
10.20.07 - 7:49 pm | #
This sounds strangely pornographic.
Shaw Kenawe
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he is a passionate Columbian and we did have a bit of hot sex just before he moved out.
Nancy Willing |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:49 pm | #
I'm going to go finish my tea.
If anyone loved me they'd at least send me one lousy jar of saskatoon berry jam.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 7:10 pm |
Something new to try on my Wolferman's english muffins.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
10.20.07 - 7:50 pm | #
He blew up on me one day - about the smell of my fucking vegetables.
Nancy Willing | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 7:44 pm | #
And every time I eat vegetables
It makes me think of you
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
10.20.07 - 7:50 pm | #
"we did have a bit of hot sex just before he moved out."
Must have been some fucking vegetables
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 7:51 pm | #
You may ask if that broccoli foreplay works for everyone. Beets me!
Shaw Kenawe |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:57 pm | #
oh dear! I love me some home made pumpkin pie aroma~
gonna do some sweet taters with spice bush berry's & maple syrup tonite.
1Watt, Hermit |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:57 pm | #
Re-HICA!
I was the only person not behind the counter at Arby's that was under 70 years old.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:58 pm | #
He didn't even come and do it himself he just sent directions. That's nice work if you can get it.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
“I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.” – Andy Warhol
then there is that kasabi fellow.
charley |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:59 pm | #
Now, I prepare for that long-running Fox program, Badboyzbadboyzwatchoogonnado?
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 7:59 pm | #
Time to party. Later.
Toucari, fka cosmic tumbler |
10.20.07 - 8:00 pm | #
all the talk about organic sulphur laden foods... don't forget the Raw Milk and cod liver oyl-
When Eschaton comes to pass, the strong and healthy moonbats will be the last mouths left to feed, standing on there two feet, enjoying earth's virtues, and attending fundie funerals-
Chatting about Zeus, Apollo, and other imaginary Gods-
Kumquats?
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 8:09 pm | #
Speaking of Warhol, last year we had a super exhibit of his work with Basquiat and some Jamie Wyeth thrown in (it was in Chadds Ford after all). http://www.brandywinemuseum.org/...06/
news030.html
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10.20.07 - 8:09 pm | #
On c-span2/BookTV now - Speech
Brother, I'm Dying
Karibu Books
Hyattsville, Maryland (United States)
ID: 201168 - 09/22/2007 - 1:01
Danticat, Edwidge Author
Edwidge Danticat talked about her book Brother, I'm Dying, published by Knopf. The book tells the story of her uncle Joseph, a Baptist minister who took care of her as a child in Haiti. Joseph Danticat fled Haiti in 2004, at the age of 81, and came to the U.S. seeking political asylum. Upon arrival, he was imprisoned by U.S. Homeland Security and died while in custody. She read excerpts from the book and responded to questions from members of the audience.
Edwidge Danticat is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club pick, and The Dew Breaker. Her book, The Farming of Bones, was awarded the American Book Award.
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10.20.07 - 8:11 pm | #
This is for the Eschaton community and especially Dr. Black: (part1)
Figlio di puttana, sai che tu sei un pezzo di merda?
Hm? You think you're cool, right? Hm? Hm?
When you kicked out people [out of] your house
I tell you this, one of three Americans die of cancer,
you know? Asshole.
You're gonna be one of those.
I [don't have the] courage
to kick your ass directly.
Don't have enough courage for that,
I could, you know.
You know you're gonna have another accident?
You know I'm involved with black magic?
Fuck you. Die. Bastard.
You think you're so cool, hm? Asshole.
And if I ever see your fucking face around,
In Europe or Italy,
h8tred |
10.20.07 - 8:12 pm | #
Part 2:
Well I'll -- That time I'm gonna kick your ass.
Fuck you. Fucking Americans, Yankee.
You're gonna die outta cancer, I promise.
No one does what you did to me.
You wanna know something? Fuck you.
I want your balls smashed, eat shit. Bastard.
Pezzo di merda, figlio di puttana.
I hope somebody in your family dies soon.
Crepa, pezzo di merda, e vai
a sucare cazzi su un aereo!
h8tred |
10.20.07 - 8:12 pm | #
BOSTON -- It was a move that Red Sox manager Terry Francona first contemplated before Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, only to reconsider and opt to put his faith in center fielder Coco Crisp for two more games. But Crisp never came out of his funk, and Jacoby Ellsbury took over in center for the Red Sox for Saturday night's Game 6.
Ellsbury, a speedy September callup who gave the Red Sox plenty of energy down the stretch, was excited to make his first postseason start.
"I come out here every day for this opportunity. I've just got to go out there, be relaxed and let it take care of itself," said Ellsbury. "You know, there's nerves, but I think that's good. It keeps you alert, it keeps you on your toes, and it's healthy."
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10.20.07 - 8:14 pm | #
hoy up - the lunatics are thickening with the night's falling - I'm out.
Nancy Willing |
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10.20.07 - 8:14 pm | #
Tony Perkins looks like the love child of Eric Stoltz and David Caruso.
Tralfaz |
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10.20.07 - 8:15 pm | #
Three cheese rigatoni, meatballs made with ricotta cheese, some chicken dishes, veggies. Whatever I can manage to cook and keep in my fridge.
Shaw Kenawe |
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10.20.07 - 8:17 pm | #
The critter is one butt-ugly mofo, but it is a critter.
And if you die out there, you'll be in its shit!
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 8:18 pm | #
An assortment of EYE-talian delicacies. If I have time, I hope to be able to make a timbale
Mmmm...
Lemme know what I should bring.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 8:19 pm | #
I would very much like to sample your broccoli.
NTodd, Cupcake-American
Let them call me a rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul..." - Thomas Paine
Nancy Willing |
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10.20.07 - 8:19 pm | #
pg. 413 Catch 22
"Won't you give up you life for Colonel Cathcart and me?"
"What's that?"... "What have you and Colonel Cathcart got to do with my country? You're not the same."
"How can you separate us?" Colonel Korn inquired with ironical tranquility.
"That's right." Colonel Cathcart cried emphatically. "You're either for us or against us. There's no two ways about it."
"I'm afraid he's got you."
"Oh no, Colonel. I don't buy that."
Colonel Korn was unruffled. "Neither do I, frankly, but everyone else will. So there you are."
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10.20.07 - 8:19 pm | #
An assortment of EYE-talian delicacies. If I have time, I hope to be able to make a timbale
Mmmm...
Lemme know what I should bring.
NTodd, Cupcake-American
I've asked people to help out by bringing a bottle or two of what they like to drink. That should do it.
Shaw Kenawe |
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10.20.07 - 8:20 pm | #
And if you die out there, you'll be in its shit!
NTodd, Cupcake-American
Unfortunately, what's been in its shit lately is lead, which complicates the restoration efforts enormously.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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10.20.07 - 8:21 pm | #
Catch-22. What a fantastic book. I've read it at least ten times, and there's something new in it each time.
Deacon Blues |
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10.20.07 - 8:21 pm | #
Thomas Paine was a blogwhore.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 8:21 pm | #
I've asked people to help out by bringing a bottle or two of what they like to drink. That should do it.
Then I'll bring the best boxes of wine I can find!
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 8:22 pm | #
Thomas Paine was shrill.
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie |
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10.20.07 - 8:22 pm | #
Unfortunately, what's been in its shit lately is lead, which complicates the restoration efforts enormously.
It should stop eating Chinamen.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 8:24 pm | #
Thomas Paine was a liberal!
Shaw Kenawe |
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10.20.07 - 8:24 pm | #
Catch-22. What a fantastic book. I've read it at least ten times, and there's something new in it each time.
If rorschach doesn't put that on the syllabus of his course next semester I am going to send Milo Minderbinder to cut off his balls and sell them to Al Qaeda.
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 8:24 pm | #
I reckon last weekend was a freebie weekend for some of these digital channels, 'cause almost all of the movie channels I was getting are no longer there.
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10.20.07 - 8:25 pm | #
If rorschach doesn't put that on the syllabus of his course next semester I am going to send Milo Minderbinder to cut off his balls and sell them to Al Qaeda.
spinoza, non ridere, non luger
Well, at least we'll all have a share of that.
Deacon Blues |
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10.20.07 - 8:25 pm | #
Andrews' father? who was quite the famous illustrator himself, and made the very notable statement while teaching a drawing class. "Pay very close attention to the fall of that drape, it will never fall quite that way again."
charley |
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10.20.07 - 8:27 pm | #
"Endangered Bush Owl" sent me on a wild-goose chase for a new thread about Endangered Bush.
Made Me Look! |
10.20.07 - 8:28 pm | #
almost all of the movie channels I was getting are no longer there.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
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pity! when I first bought into cable it took them a year to figure out that they were giving me all of the movie channels for free when I had only signed up for HBO and Starz.
I now happily have a contract that pretty much gives me everything but showtime and max with my high speed internet and phone for $140 a month.
Nancy Willing |
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10.20.07 - 8:30 pm | #
Not for Dumbledore.
Hesiod |
10.20.07 - 8:32 pm | #
Dumbledore was gay?
Hesiod
Does it matter? He was, like, 850 years old!
Darryl Pearce |
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10.20.07 - 8:32 pm | #
"Endangered Bush Owl" sent me on a wild-goose chase for a new thread about Endangered Bush.
Made Me Look
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FUCK BUSH
I saw the end of the movie Hoot yesterday so cute; so perilous to live among Selfish Greedy Souless Republicans
Nancy Willing |
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10.20.07 - 8:32 pm | #
Nancy Willing: I now happily have a contract that pretty much gives me everything but showtime and max with my high speed internet and phone for $140 a month.
I'll stick with the Internet and channels I get for $55/mo., thanks. I still have some new channels, including GoreTV, CSPAN3 and a free movie channel with is Comcast's free movie on demand service... I just can't get it "on demand."
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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10.20.07 - 8:33 pm | #
Thomas Paine wasn't really an economist, though.
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Is that you Paul? Ti amo!
Shaw Kenawe |
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10.20.07 - 8:33 pm | #
Hardly. It's difficult to sum him up with a label but I'm sure he would be considered a socialist or communist by many Americans today (read Agrarian Justice). Or maybe he's The DEVIL!
"I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to that book (the Bible)." "Among the most detestable villains in history, you could not find one worse than Moses. Here is an order, attributed to 'God' to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers and to debauch and rape the daughters. I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by (attaching) it to this filthy book (the Bible)." "It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible." "Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins...and you will have sins in abundance." And; "The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty."
-- Thomas Paine
Hootie and The Blowhard |
10.20.07 - 8:36 pm | #
Thomas Paine wasn't really an economist
Maybe in the big picture, kill the ruling class sense.
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QuentinCompson |
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10.20.07 - 8:36 pm | #
Does it matter? He was, like, 850 years old!
No, that was his friend Nicolas Flamel, who was 600-something.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 8:36 pm | #
Yes. see the old prison, The Eastern State Pen. Its legends inspired the ghosts indistinguishable from living of Sixth Sense. But is now apparently beautiful and peaceful.
garampani |
10.20.07 - 8:37 pm | #
Yeah, and it's retrograde Mercury. Not pretty.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
so, communications majorly fucked up...?
Sarah Deere |
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10.20.07 - 8:40 pm | #
"Its legends inspired the ghosts indistinguishable from living of Sixth Sense."
the building used as the school in the sixth sense is the school where i teach now.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 8:43 pm | #
Sarah Deere: so, communications majorly fucked up...?
I'm having no probgleybm.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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10.20.07 - 8:43 pm | #
Fresh Thread
Saturday evening edition.
Aw, just call it the Saturday Evening Post, and be done with it. Who's gonna sue ya?
Elmer, PHD |
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10.20.07 - 8:45 pm | #
i first read catch 22 when i was 18 or 19.
you can't really understand that book at that age. even tho i thought i did.
as my daddy used to say. "If I'd have been as smart as you when I was 18 I'd be somebody by now." i thought it was just drunk old man rambling. wish he was still alive to say "i see what you meant."
charley |
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10.20.07 - 8:46 pm | #
Dumbledore was gay?
Teh Old Newz.
NTodd,
I seriously wonder how many copies will be thrown out across this great land of ours over the next week.
Jim, Collieresque |
10.20.07 - 8:46 pm | #
Pressed by police, even innocent confess.
__________________________________________
Well, I didn't really read the article, but just a quick glance at those mug shots convinced me that those people were certainly guilty of something!
One of my favorite Thurber cartoons depicts a woman dancing in an ecstatic whirl, apparently in the middle of a cocktail party; the caption is what one prim observer watching the spectacle says to another: "She's all I know about Bryn Mawr, and all I need to know".
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10.20.07 - 8:46 pm | #
I seriously wonder how many copies will be thrown out across this great land of ours over the next week.
None. The only people who would freak out are ones who already think it's all about witchery and very UNCHRISTIAN.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 8:48 pm | #
I seriously wonder how many copies will be thrown out across this great land of ours over the next week.
Jim, Collieresque
Not many. Fundie nut jobs that would worry about a gay Dumbledore won't let their kids read them anyway because they're all about witches. Which of course means satan.
Or some horseshit like that.
flory |
10.20.07 - 8:53 pm | #
Way late to this thread, and I hope it hasn't already been beaten to death, but has there been any discussion here about the Limbaugh letter thing?
Did he commit to match the bid price before or after the price went to 2.1 million.
Please, God, let it be before. The thought of him realizing just how much money that stunt cost him cracks my ass up.
Did he commit to match the bid price before or after the price went to 2.1 million.
semi-reformed redneck
It was before, but he's donating the money to a charity that he heads up, so out of one pocket into the other it seems.
Iggy |
10.20.07 - 8:57 pm | #
The WaPo framed it like he matched her bid afterward.
I was watching CNN with my 80 year old mom, and we were cracking up thinking he prolly thought it would sell for 700 bucks or something.
semi-reformed redneck |
10.20.07 - 8:57 pm | #
As a Phillies fan I hate JD Drew
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 8:59 pm | #
and who the fuck was dumb enough to pay that kind of money for this letter???
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 9:00 pm | #
So,
crickets on the limbaugh thing huh?
Damn, I thought it was poetic justice, but what do I know?
semi-reformed redneck |
10.20.07 - 9:00 pm | #
Dammit. I guess I owe NToddler some fizzy boxed wine.
flory | 10.20.07
Does Cold Duck come in a box ?
Jim, Collieresque |
10.20.07 - 9:00 pm | #
and who the fuck was dumb enough to pay that kind of money for this letter???
Uncle Blodge
Now, who do you think?
Iggy |
10.20.07 - 9:01 pm | #
Drew hit a gland slam home run!
It's a good thing I like the Sox so I won't be totally disappointed when the Indians fucking choke. Some day I'd like my favorite team to win, though...
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 9:01 pm | #
I now happily have a contract that pretty much gives me everything but showtime and max with my high speed internet and phone for $140 a month.
Nancy Willing
EEEEEEEEK!
Cox is urging me to consolidate phone/net/cable for 79.95/month.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
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10.20.07 - 9:01 pm | #
and who the fuck was dumb enough to pay that kind of money for this letter???
Uncle Blodge
Now, who do you think?
Iggy
The guy who paid Oral Roberts seven million dollars so that god wouldn't call him home said Roberts needed help.
Jim, Collieresque |
10.20.07 - 9:02 pm | #
"Now, who do you think?"
A great and patriotic American?
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 9:02 pm | #
It's a good thing I like the Sox so I won't be totally disappointed when the Indians fucking choke. Some day I'd like my favorite team to win, though...
NTodd, Cupcake-American
It ain't over til it's over. Sox have plenty of opportunities to lose this.
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10.20.07 - 9:03 pm | #
It ain't over til it's over. Sox have plenty of opportunities to lose this.
Pffft. You guys broke your streak. Cleveland will still find ways to continue theirs.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 9:05 pm | #
On Kos DHinMI has a fan club! That guy is consistently the most knuckleheaded commentator there.
rootless-e |
10.20.07 - 9:07 pm | #
4-1 this could be a slugfest.
Jesus X. Crutch |
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10.20.07 - 9:07 pm | #
I was listening to WBZ in Boston the other night. Sounded like they hated Drew as well.
That may have changed, however.
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie |
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10.20.07 - 9:08 pm | #
Results from "Values Voter Summit" Straw Poll
Candidate Name ... Percentage
1. Mitt Romney ... 27.62 %
2. Mike Huckabee ... 27.10 %
3. Ron Paul ... 14.98%
4. Fred Thompson ... 9.77 %
5. Sam Brownback ... 5.14 %
6. Duncan Hunter ... 2.42 %
7. Tom Tancredo ... 2.30 %
8. Rudy Giuliani ... 1.85 %
9. John McCain ... 1.40 %
It's going to be fucked if we get a mormon president before a woman, a jewish woman, a black, a black woman, or a black jewish woman.
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 9:11 pm | #
It's going to be fucked if we get a mormon president before a woman, a jewish woman, a black, a black woman, or a black jewish woman.
spinoza, non ridere, non luger | 10.20.07 - 9:11 pm | #
I'd vote for Terry Tempest Williams.
rootless-e |
10.20.07 - 9:12 pm | #
Someone here recently said Gore would be introuble because his son was caught speeding under some influence.
That doesn't bother me at all.
A person who does that kind of thing to a dog?
That's a whole different thang.
pie |
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10.20.07 - 9:13 pm | #
It's going to be fucked if we get a mormon president before a woman
DHinMI has a fan club! That guy is consistently the most knuckleheaded commentator there.
He's been around a long time. I always liked him.
Are you he?
pie |
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10.20.07 - 9:17 pm | #
A person who does that kind of thing to a dog?
That's a whole different thang.
pie
Hey. We've lived with a guy for 7 years who doesn't mind torturing humans. So we've already set the bar as low as it goes.
Shaw Kenawe |
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10.20.07 - 9:17 pm | #
Cox is urging me to consolidate phone/net/cable for 79.95/month.
Um-possible for me.
Telephone? Land-line and cell.
TV? Sat
Internet? Wireless (this provider is kind of good, I get download rates of about 355 MBytes to 385 MBytes.)
Not always the greatest media connections to my house. I guess one of the problems with living in the sticks, though there are many advantages; cooler nights, zip amount of local crime. (The last time I saw police cruisers out here it was due to a party being thrown for a cop living out here by his buddies. They came to his house with their cruiser lights on.) an interesting amount of animal wild life, even big cats. I've heard something yowling some nights, but I'm not sure what.
Doug |
10.20.07 - 9:18 pm | #
Yes please. A fine box of Franzia would be lovely. Then I can vlog!
NTodd, Cupcake-American
Throws NTodd spare bottle of TwoBuckChuck Sauvignon Blanc.
time to adjust the votin machines... no other way to 'win'
pigboy |
10.20.07 - 9:21 pm | #
EEEEEEEEK!
Cox is urging me to consolidate phone/net/cable for 79.95/month.
GWPDA,
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*sigh*
I was on the one year three-fer $99 plan that got me up to C-SPAN 2. I really, really like Sundance and IFC so the extra cash is well spent.
Nancy Willing |
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10.20.07 - 9:21 pm | #
there's a baseball game goin on ain't there?
pigboy |
10.20.07 - 9:22 pm | #
Bhuto for political hottie of the week!
Dude, she's always been hot. First time I saw her on 60 minutes--uh...in the 80s?--I was in love.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 9:22 pm | #
I've heard something yowling some nights, but I'm not sure what.
Doug
I understand sometimes the dreaded Coulter prowls in the scarey parts.
The howl ended in a deep throated rumbling cough not a little girl squeek.
Doug |
10.20.07 - 9:22 pm | #
Results from "Values Voter Summit" Straw Poll
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
the rethuglicking party has a BIG problem
the fundies won't stand for giuliani, and there are no other plausible candidates except
That's it. I am going to get some ice cream I just don't care anymore.
pigboy |
10.20.07 - 9:26 pm | #
Most in post season play. By the BoSox.
sidhra صي ذ& |
10.20.07 - 9:27 pm | #
"What record?"
Most double plays turned in a LCS
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 9:27 pm | #
Then I can vlog!
NTodd, Cupcake-American
I cannot participate. I would be contributing to the delinquency of all your viewers.
Prolly a felony in most states.
flory |
10.20.07 - 9:30 pm | #
Post season or LCS?
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
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10.20.07 - 9:30 pm | #
"Post season or LCS?"
I thought LCS but I could be wrong
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 9:31 pm | #
I'm going to El-Corral in a bit. Does anyone want some great steak or prime-rib, brought back in a to-go box?
Doug |
10.20.07 - 9:32 pm | #
Evening, all.
Interesting article in the Times about water and the West. Extensive and interesting as it explains that there really are not alternatives to changing the way people live.
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10.20.07 - 9:34 pm | #
Like the rants of Rush Limbaugh or the films of Michael Moore, Krugman’s shrill polemic may hearten the faithful, but it will do little to persuade the unconvinced or to advance the national discussion of the important issues it addresses...
That's because of assholes like you, Kennedy, you sick fuck.
Stunt Woman |
10.20.07 - 9:35 pm | #
"Post season or LCS?"
Is this Boston hitting into double plays?
pie |
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10.20.07 - 9:38 pm | #
From what I can tell, Obama's money is a lot less dirty than Hillary's. Is that the impression y'all are getting, too?
Toby Petzold |
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10.20.07 - 9:39 pm | #
Like the rants of Rush Limbaugh or the films of Michael Moore, Krugman’s shrill polemic may hearten the faithful, but it will do little to persuade the unconvinced or to advance the national discussion of the important issues it addresses...
This is the friggin' Unity 08 crap. If the jews had just been willing to ask for better food in the concentration camps instead of demanding, shrilly demanding freedom, surely the Nazis would have met them halfway.
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 9:40 pm | #
I was listening to WBZ in Boston the other night. Sounded like they hated Drew as well.
Haven't liked him. Big contract, weak numbers. Replaced the much-loved Dirt Dog Trot Nixon. No personality.
Now, of course, I take back every disparaging thing I've ever said about him...
bill buckner |
10.20.07 - 9:42 pm | #
I wonder if they give away coupons at the Values Voter Summit?
Gomez |
10.20.07 - 9:42 pm | #
Fuck "unity." We DFHs have been right all along about pretty much everything. Time for the other side to spend some time listening for a change.
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie |
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10.20.07 - 9:42 pm | #
surely the Nazis would have met them halfway. before they mowed them down and buried them in trenches.
sidhra صي ذ& |
10.20.07 - 9:44 pm | #
Is that the impression y'all are getting, too?
Nah.
Now people are pissed at him because of his hook up with an anti-gay CW twanger.
Man, those perfect candidates are not to be found.
Dang it all.
pie |
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10.20.07 - 9:45 pm | #
over at orangasatan's place
Or, they could pull out of the Republican coalition for this election, see the Republican lose (which they may be calculating is likely to happen regardless of whether they stay committed to the Republicans), and then say "see, we’re the reason you lost, and you need to come back to our position or you’ll never again win." Then, in a few years, the donations pick back up, because they’ve re-exerted their coercive control and they’ll be back in positions of influence in the GOP and their organizations will be back in the money, thanks to their donors.
What about the virus that selectively infects and wipes out all the fundies? Surely someone is working on that.
Stunt Woman |
10.20.07 - 9:46 pm | #
Hit into another tonight to breakth record
Yet Manny scores, and Carmona's done. Go Sox!
sidhra صي ذ& |
10.20.07 - 9:46 pm | #
My screen is funny-looking. Tipped to one side for some reason.
someone was drunk. He's not that good.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 9:47 pm | #
pg. 101 Catch 22
"Oh c'mon Major. Can't we do without that horseshit?"
Major Major lowered his gaze sheepishly, and fiddled with his fingers. "What do you want me to tell you?"
"That I've flown enough missions and can go home."
"How many have you flown?"
"Fifty one."
"You've only got four more to fly."
"He'll raise them. Every time I get close he raises them."
"Perhaps he won't this time."
"He never sends anyone home, anyway. He just keeps them around waiting for rotation orders until he doesn't have enough men left for the crews, and then raises the number of missions and throws them all back on combat status. He's been doing that ever since he got here."
What could you do? Major Major asked him self again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?
charley |
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10.20.07 - 9:47 pm | #
From what I can tell, Obama's money is a lot less dirty than Hillary's. Is that the impression y'all are getting, too?
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That filthy stinkin Hillary money compared to the dirty stinkin Obama money is nothing compared to the multigenerational stink to high heaven of the Bush money, is that the impression you were referring to?
el |
10.20.07 - 9:50 pm | #
Aarom Rowand is going to get a ton of $ if Drew got that.
Phils have no shot at resigning him
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 9:50 pm | #
Conservatives are hypocrites and sinners. Np better. No worse.
Just like everybody else.
pie |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 9:53 pm | #
Between Manny and JD, they could own the entire Indians roster. With money left over.
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 9:53 pm | #
It's not entirely NTodd's fault. I let my cat Emelie choose which Indians shirt I should wear today for luck.
She made a bad choice.
I guess kittehs don't know from baseball.
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 9:55 pm | #
WTF?? Where do people get this shit!
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday.
The city of more than 1.5 million people was also found to be among the least stylish, least active, least friendly and least worldly.
...For unattractiveness, Philadelphia just beat out Washington DC and Dallas/Fort Worth for the bottom spot. Miami and San Diego are home to the most attractive people, the poll found.
Oh, my. It's looking like there MIGHT possibly be a Game 7. I'm supposed to start a new temp assignment very early Monday morning. Do you think they'll mind if I show up visibly hungover and still wearing my colors?
bill buckner |
10.20.07 - 9:56 pm | #
I know so little about sports that they could have shown the same few clips on the news every day for the past 20 years and I would never have been able to tell the difference.
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.20.07 - 9:56 pm | #
Conservatives are hypocrites and sinners. Np better. No worse.
Just like everybody else.
pie
Me thinks they're a wee bit more mean-spirited and hateful than the average bear.
Shaw Kenawe |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 9:57 pm | #
Stunt Woman, if I ever find a way to have a lethal strain of MRSA affect only Republican fundies, I'm going to unleash it
Can you include batshit crazy neocons?
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 9:57 pm | #
I think we're fat, drunk and rude too.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 9:57 pm | #
A Democrat and dirty money?
*
Edwards is calling out the DLC corporatist DEMs for what they are - fooking sell outs.
Nancy Willing |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 9:57 pm | #
Miami and San Diego are home to the most attractive people, the poll found.
San Diego? If you find neon shorts and flip flops sexy...
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.20.07 - 9:57 pm | #
This damned game started an hour and a half ago, and it's still in the thirf inning. I love baseball. Yoooooooouk! 10-1!
sidhra صي ذ& |
10.20.07 - 9:58 pm | #
10-1 Baaah-stin!!!!!!
Drinks are on moi!
Shaw Kenawe |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 9:58 pm | #
I don't think the people who think Philadelphia has the ugliest people has ever been to Detroit. . . (Or Muskegon for that matter)
DWD - Withdrawing |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 9:58 pm | #
Edwards is calling out the DLC corporatist DEMs for what they are - fooking sell outs.
Can't understand why John isn't in the lead.
Oh, wait a minute. The DLC and the MIM - yeah, that's it.
billy b - get off of my cloud |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:00 pm | #
I don't like how Philadelphians pronounce it "Woooter"
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.20.07 - 10:00 pm | #
No matter what happens, I'm still wearing my Indians cap at the march next week.
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:00 pm | #
Turn out the lights.....
Gomez |
10.20.07 - 10:00 pm | #
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States
Check out any Walmart in any major city. Actually, the parts of Philly I hang out in (University City, Downtown), people seem attractive. These surveyors need to change their sampling methods.
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 10:00 pm | #
But Farley pointed out the results don't mean people in Philadelphia are ugly or the city is a bad place to visit.
"We were asking people to vote on attractiveness, not unattractiveness. Travel & Leisure editors believe there are a lot of attractive people in Philadelphia," she said.
"The relative attractiveness of its residents is only a minuscule factor in evaluating a city's merit."
Philadelphians' self-esteem has been undermined by national surveys showing they are among the fattest people in the United States. The American Obesity Association ranked the city in the top 10 for overweight people every year between 2000 and 2005.
And sporting pride in a city known for the fierce loyalty of its fans has been hurt by not having had a national champion in any of its four main sports since the 76ers won the National Basketball Association title in 1983.
Nancy Willing |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:01 pm | #
"I don't like how Philadelphians pronounce it "Woooter""
that's WUDDER!!
you know - the stuff inda crick.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 10:01 pm | #
DFW.... I can see that, but there are some ugly motherfuckers in Houston.
Jesus X. Crutch |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:01 pm | #
I don't like how Philadelphians pronounce it "Woooter"
Gilly Gonzylon
Wudder.
People around here chew on "Phone Home".
F'yone H'yome.
billy b - get off of my cloud |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:03 pm | #
No matter what happens, I'm still wearing my Indians cap at the march next week.
Which is how I will ID you, and we shall raise a glass or two...
bill buckner |
10.20.07 - 10:03 pm | #
My grandpa had a Philadelphia accent. So every time I hear one, it reminds me of him. (A union man and a liberal, he was.)
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:03 pm | #
that's WUDDER!!
you know - the stuff inda crick.
Uncle Blodge
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In Delaware we say wudder inda crick.
My mid-western mom was always mouthing hilarity at the speech here when I kept hearing her say r in words that have no r.
Nancy Willing |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:04 pm | #
The American Obesity Association ranked the city in the top 10 for overweight people every year between 2000 and 2005.
Too many cheesesteaks wit'.
Toonscribe |
10.20.07 - 10:05 pm | #
The American Obesity Association ranked the city in the top 10 for overweight people every year between 2000 and 2005.
Too many cheesesteaks wit'.
Toonscribe |
10.20.07 - 10:05 pm | #
Hey, what is this? Trash Philadelphia Night?
Terry C - Edwards/Kucinich 08 |
10.20.07 - 10:05 pm | #
But people who live and vote based on hatred, fear, intolerance, and misogyny do not have American values.
Tralfaz
Can't said enough!
Terry C - Edwards/Kucinich 08 |
10.20.07 - 10:06 pm | #
Evening Bats
Hey, what is this? Trash Philadelphia Night?
Terry C
you mean West Bagdad?
::matthew |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:06 pm | #
And how the fuck did I double post?
Toonscribe |
10.20.07 - 10:06 pm | #
Oops =
can't be SAID enough
Terry C - Edwards/Kucinich 08 |
10.20.07 - 10:06 pm | #
I seen the pope in Cleveland
. |
10.20.07 - 10:06 pm | #
Google News fucking sucks. Top stories now have Steven Milloy and John Stossel bullshit hit pieces on Al Gore on climate change.
What the hell is wrong with this country?
lipreader |
10.20.07 - 10:07 pm | #
And how the fuck did I double post?
Toonscribe
it used to be one of haloscan's favorite torture methods...must be retro night
::matthew |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:07 pm | #
i didn't start voting because i'm a democrat.
i started voting because republicans are fuck'n dangerous.
free speech, fine, but listen to that shit rush limbaugh says.
repbublicans are fundamentally...
i don't want to go to far. i've known some good people who are republicans, but they are horribly misguided.
charley |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:08 pm | #
Hey, what is this? Trash Philadelphia Night?
Why the hell not? Cleveland is getting skullfucked tonight, so I gotta get my entertainment somehow...
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:08 pm | #
Cleveland needs something like the Terrible Towel.
I got it - the Great Jockstrap!!!!
Gomez |
10.20.07 - 10:08 pm | #
Cleveland could use some help from the pope about now!
I should go run another five miles!
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:08 pm | #
Trash Philadelphia Night?
See Fields, W. C.
sidhra صي ذ& |
10.20.07 - 10:08 pm | #
"you mean West Bagdad?"
Hey - I've never been shot at.
Only one person ever tried to mug me.
so there
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 10:08 pm | #
you mean West Bagdad?
::matthew
heh...heh...heh...
Master Black is the Philly equivalent of al-Maliki.
How's that baby girl?
billy b - get off of my cloud |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:08 pm | #
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday.
Like that Grace Kelly. Ugh.
Jim, Collieresque |
10.20.07 - 10:09 pm | #
OK, Cleveland, grow a pair and win Game 7.
Gomez |
10.20.07 - 10:09 pm | #
No. Not in this country. Not anywhere.
pie
That's my point. Given the time and opportunity the kind of "conservatism" now being practised never realises its promise, to improve life for all. It eventually succeeds in destroying itself. It only benefits a very select few in the process, however. Even Hayek recognised that in 1960 when he wrote: Why I Am Not A Conservative.
But first they need to take a run at the Sox in this game.
Gomez |
10.20.07 - 10:10 pm | #
goodness, you all should see the corm fed peeps in sowest mo.
1Watt, Hermit |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:10 pm | #
How's that baby girl?
billy b
she's quite well..Sarah asked the doctor yesterday if something was wrong with her because she hasn't really cried yet(other than very brief requests for new pants and food)
::matthew |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:10 pm | #
There is something weird about Google News -- it always pulls up right wing shit -- church news, whatever!
I also get quite different results self searching on Google & Yahoo (Google more religion -- Yahoo more wargaming)
All very odd
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:10 pm | #
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday.
Providence, Rhode Island, had the ugliest woman in the world.
I occasionally toy with the idea of moving to Providence - rents and cost of living are much cheaper, and it's only an hour to Boston. Problem is, you'd have to live in Providence.
bill buckner |
10.20.07 - 10:10 pm | #
I seen the pope in Cleveland
And the Hitler Youth.
sidhra صي ذ& |
10.20.07 - 10:11 pm | #
What's a better alternative to Google News. I'm finished with their propaganda and 10 day old "news".
lipreader |
10.20.07 - 10:12 pm | #
she's quite well..Sarah asked the doctor yesterday if something was wrong with her because she hasn't really cried yet(other than very brief requests for new pants and food)
Cool beans. Here's to hoping she doesn't cry too much.
billy b - get off of my cloud |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:13 pm | #
Speaking of Grace Kelly -- anyone see that Deborah Kerr died yesterday -- classy broad -- looked like she was about 30 for about 30 years (& TEH HAWT in "From Here to Eternity" & "The King and I" -- just sayin')
Prior Aelred |
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10.20.07 - 10:13 pm | #
I occasionally toy with the idea of moving to Providence - rents and cost of living are much cheaper, and it's only an hour to Boston. Problem is, you'd have to live in Providence.
bill buckner
I've got some relatives in Providence. For a little postage stamp-sized city, the taxes are outrageous. Years of corruption and cronyism. It's not a deal.
Shaw Kenawe |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:13 pm | #
I'd like to see Giuliani on a US Postal Stamp soon.
lipreader |
10.20.07 - 10:13 pm | #
Speaking of Grace Kelly -- anyone see that Deborah Kerr died yesterday -- classy broad -- looked like she was about 30 for about 30 years (& TEH HAWT in "From Here to Eternity" & "The King and I" -- just sayin')
Prior Aelred
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison.
She was classy.
That dance scene from the King & I is one of the most wonderful moments in filmdom.
Shaw Kenawe |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:15 pm | #
Terry C - Edwards/Kucinich 08 | 10.20.07 - 10:11 pm | #
Says therein that two of the supporters Oven Mitt brought with were Congressmen. Any idea which two?
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 10:15 pm | #
I've got some relatives in Providence. For a little postage stamp-sized city, the taxes are outrageous. Years of corruption and cronyism. It's not a deal.
Shaw Kenawe
I'd like to see Giuliani on a US Postal Stamp soon.
lipreader
Let's be moderate and reasonable
and never get too shrill
torture is negotiable
with people of good will
Let's not become uncivil
or loose our serious ways
no need to descend to their level
because moderation pays
Some people draw the line at pliers
inserted in someone's knee
or wars of choice and blood
or old folks who drown in the street
But I'd throw away the bill of rights
and ignore the blood they spill
there's nothing they can do to you
that justifies being shrill
rootless-e |
10.20.07 - 10:16 pm | #
I'd like to see Giuliani on a US Postal Service Bulletin Board soon, with his pal Bernie Kerik.
sidhra صي ذ& |
10.20.07 - 10:16 pm | #
Speaking of Grace Kelly -- anyone see that Deborah Kerr died yesterday -- classy broad -- looked like she was about 30 for about 30 years (& TEH HAWT in "From Here to Eternity" & "The King and I" -- just sayin')
Prior Aelred
Deborah was a doll.
My mother and grandmother saw her and Yule in 'The King and I' the night before I was born.
billy b - get off of my cloud |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:17 pm | #
I'd like to see Giuliani on a US Postal Stamp soon.
lipreader
Google always shows a profile pic of Rudy like he's on a dime or a stamp or something too. Fuck Google.
lipreader |
10.20.07 - 10:18 pm | #
Speaking of Grace Kelly -- anyone see that Deborah Kerr died yesterday --
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yeah, I watched The king and I this morning in her honor
Nancy Willing |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:19 pm | #
I'd like to see Giuliani on a US Postal Stamp soon.
lipreader
So I can spit on BOTH sides.
Terry C - Edwards/Kucinich 08 |
10.20.07 - 10:19 pm | #
Years of corruption and cronyism...
Oh Shaw, you gotta see "Buddy" - the new documentary about Buddy Cianci. (Saw it at the MFA a couple of months ago - don't think it's on DVD yet...)
Fucker makes Mayor Curley look like a choirboy... Good stuff!
bill buckner |
10.20.07 - 10:19 pm | #
there's nothing they can do to you
that justifies being shrill
rootless-e
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heh
Nancy Willing |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:21 pm | #
Wake me up if the Tribe stages a comeback.
lipreader |
10.20.07 - 10:21 pm | #
One of the KUHL things about the ex-Nazi beatifying someone who refused to fight for the Nazis, is that the widow of the beatus is going to be present for the ceremony (at 96)!
Mind you, I bet she would rather have spent all these years since 1943 with her husband.
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:22 pm | #
Regis Philbin is Albanian. By choice.
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.20.07 - 10:22 pm | #
documentary about Buddy Cianci.
Any scenes involving Buddy relieving his bladder?
sidhra صي ذ& |
10.20.07 - 10:22 pm | #
What about the virus that selectively infects and wipes out all the fundies? Surely someone is working on that.
Stunt Woman
It would make the world a much nicer place.
Terry C - Edwards/Kucinich 08 |
10.20.07 - 10:23 pm | #
Google always shows a profile pic of Rudy like he's on a dime or a stamp or something too. Fuck Google.
Think of it as one of his arrest & booking photos.
me |
10.20.07 - 10:24 pm | #
What about the virus that selectively infects and wipes out all the fundies? Surely someone is working on that.
You mean the one called "reading"?
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 10:24 pm | #
Oh Shaw, you gotta see "Buddy" - the new documentary about Buddy Cianci. (Saw it at the MFA a couple of months ago - don't think it's on DVD yet...)
Fucker makes Mayor Curley look like a choirboy... Good stuff!
--bill buckner
Yeah. I heard about it. Does it have his wife Nancy Ann in it?
Duh, you ARE old!
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:24 pm | #
Richard Reeves reads through his old anti-war columns and finds this nugget of wisdom:
Sept. 11, 2003. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked about who would pay for the reconstruction of Iraq. He mentioned oil, of course, but then added: "Tourism is going to be something important in that country as soon as the security situation is resolved."
Just something to be added to the Writ of Indictment for Eternal Wankery for Rummy
and this one
March 28, 2003. "The White House is finally willing to talk about the cost of war in Iraq, throwing out a first figure of $75 billion," a column began. I offered the opinion that the cost had to be at least $200 billion, winning me several hundred letters calling me an "idiot" and a "traitor." The cost estimate now (in late 2007) has reached $2 trillion -- or something above $3,000 per American family.
Jim, Collieresque |
10.20.07 - 10:25 pm | #
What about the virus that selectively infects and wipes out all the fundies? Surely someone is working on that.
Stunt Woman
You don't even want to get started with that shit, y'know?
hey |
10.20.07 - 10:25 pm | #
"The White House is finally willing to talk about the cost of war in Iraq, throwing out a first figure of $75 billion," a column began. I offered the opinion that the cost had to be at least $200 billion, winning me several hundred letters calling me an "idiot" and a "traitor." The cost estimate now (in late 2007) has reached $2 trillion -- or something above $3,000 per American family.
People making 83k should easily be able to afford that...
NTodd, Cupcake-American |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:28 pm | #
anybody here seen my car keys?
fokowi |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:28 pm | #
I was in Providence last year (a neice lives in Greene) to experience Water Fire. If good old Mayor Buddy hadn't opened the canals there'd be no water fire. That is his one prime accomplishment. http://www.waterfire.org/
Nancy Willing |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:29 pm | #
anybody here seen my car keys?
Look in the fridge.
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 10:29 pm | #
anybody in here seen my fridge?
fokowi |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:30 pm | #
anybody here seen my car keys?
Look in the fridge.
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American
I once found my phone in the freezer.
Sober as a judge, I swear.
Jim, Collieresque |
10.20.07 - 10:30 pm | #
It's sad. Every day when I wake up one of the first questions that pops into my mind is, "How is the Democratic 'leadership' going to cave in to the Bush junta today?"
George Johnston |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:30 pm | #
Sept. 11, 2003. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked about who would pay for the reconstruction of Iraq. He mentioned oil, of course, but then added: "Tourism is going to be something important in that country as soon as the security situation is resolved."
Why isn't his head on a pike on the National Mall?
Shaw Kenawe |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:31 pm | #
People making 83k should easily be able to afford that...
Do I get a chance to choose between an illegal war and healthcare?
-Forst family member
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 10:33 pm | #
Do I get a chance to choose between an illegal war and healthcare?
-Forst family member
spinoza, non ridere, non luger
New Bush health care plan - send the seriously ill to Iraq to act as human shields for Blackwater employees.
George Johnston |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:35 pm | #
anybody in here seen my fridge?
Dood, forget about the keys. I don't think you should be drivin'.
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 10:35 pm | #
Why isn't his head on a pike on the National Mall?
Shaw Kenawe
They get enough tourists as it is.
Peter Pinguid |
10.20.07 - 10:36 pm | #
Spinoza, did one of the Frost family really say that? To whom?
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 10:37 pm | #
Why isn't his head on a pike on the National Mall?
Shaw Kenawe
There are laws against littering.
George Johnston |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:37 pm | #
Have the national league playoffs started yet? Anyone know when the Mets play?
.
William H. Rehnquist |
10.20.07 - 10:37 pm | #
Spinoza, did one of the Frost family really say that? To whom?
ThinlyVeiled,
Shaw has mail...
bill buckner |
10.20.07 - 10:38 pm | #
We're all Frosts now.
Don't I know it; my health insurance expires Nov. 1.
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 10:39 pm | #
Everyone in the US without health insurance should legally change their last names to Frost.
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 10:40 pm | #
Have I mentioned that I'm so cool I bought Krugman's book Thursday?
R.Manhammer: Muffin |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:41 pm | #
Well, as of this moment, it is no worse than 10-1, so there's that ...
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:41 pm | #
It's sad. Every day when I wake up one of the first questions that pops into my mind is, "How is the Democratic 'leadership' going to cave in to the Bush junta today?"
Scenario: You're a Democratic congressperson. While you're at work, someone delivers a note to you. There's a URL on the note. You go to your computer, fire up your browser, and enter the URL. You find yourself looking at a closeup photo of your child's face, asleep. You notice that there's a gun pointed at your child's head, and that the hand holding the gun has the word "Blackwater" tattooed on it. At the bottom of the photo, there are these words: "Tell anyone about this, and it'll be even worse.
When you head off to vote that afternoon, how do you vote?
Has anyone thought that maybe things lke this have actually happened? Look at who and what we'e dealing with, folks.
hey |
10.20.07 - 10:42 pm | #
Well, as of this moment, it is no worse than 10-1, so there's that ...
A TRUE Sox fan does not relax until it's at least 15-1.
bill buckner |
10.20.07 - 10:42 pm | #
Sept. 11, 2003. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked about who would pay for the reconstruction of Iraq. He mentioned oil, of course, but then added: "Tourism is going to be something important in that country as soon as the security situation is resolved."
Tourism=terrorism for this bunch of thugs.
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 10:43 pm | #
The synthesizer backing track is playing back at 48K instead of the 44.1K it was recorded in. Eddie manfully tries to transpose up approximately 1 1/2 semitones, with predictable results - the licks during the "chorus" starting at 1:48 are instructive, and the guitar solo starting at 3:00 is... well... I don't think I've ever heard anything like it!
This is the new sober Van Halen, David Lee Roth is working on his Ozzy "shuffle 'n' wobble" stage moves & ex-bass player Michael Anthony must be lying on a beach somewhere blessing his lucky little stars and laughing his tootsie off.
The really terrifying thing to me is the Pavlovian crowd, obediently cheering & "jump"-ing at the end - a standing ovation for that, no less. It really does matter who you are, not what you do...
rich |
10.20.07 - 10:45 pm | #
Have I mentioned that I'm so cool I bought Krugman's book Thursday?
R.Manhammer: Muffin
I have vivid dreams of buying Valerie Plame's book.
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QuentinCompson |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:45 pm | #
Chris Dodd in the house at Fenway! Cool!
bill buckner |
10.20.07 - 10:45 pm | #
Those Value Voters sure don't like Rudy.
Troutski |
10.20.07 - 10:46 pm | #
so what's going down on the sunday bobbleheads regarding dodd's stop motion? i'm liking it.
Unreal listening to Bud Krogh on c-span2/BookTV talking about his jail time.
I am sure he was only trying to help America.
spinoza, non ridere, non luger |
10.20.07 - 10:51 pm | #
666th?!
Darryl Pearce
You beast!
George Johnston |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:52 pm | #
Where's Simels?
I believe he's out trying to forget how old he is. (In other words, celebrating his birthday.)
ThinlyVeiled, Vaginal American |
10.20.07 - 10:53 pm | #
Conspiracy theorist! It's not like George Bush's dad was head of the CIA with a history of abetting assasination on American soil.
It's the only way I can give any benefit of the doubt to the reasons behind the Democrats' lack of spine & balls. I'd hate to be right in either case, but I'd rather believe that they've been threatened than believe that they're all just Republicans Lite.
hey |
10.20.07 - 10:53 pm | #
This is the new sober Van Halen, David Lee Roth is working on his Ozzy "shuffle 'n' wobble" stage moves...
Rich
He looks more like he's working on the Star Wars kid's moves.
One of Krogh's job's for Nixon was with a drug task force that took down a big French heroin ring. One day inside he was in line for a dental exam and noticed that the inmate 'dental assistant' was the big Frenchie dealer, with lots of pointed metal tools handy. The guy recognized him and told him not to worry, they were both professionals who had screwed up at their job and were paying the price. They became buds etc.
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QuentinCompson |
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10.20.07 - 10:56 pm | #
It's the only way I can give any benefit of the doubt to the reasons
The link, BTW, was to Robert Parry's column about H.W. covering up an assasination on American soil while he was CIA chief.
George Johnston |
Homepage |
10.20.07 - 10:57 pm | #
I call for a universal ban on the word "ilk".
Troutski |
10.20.07 - 10:57 pm | #
Apparently, there's a whole bunch of Renaldo and Clara posted over at YouTube.
My kith and kin'll fight ye!
Darryl Pearce |
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10.20.07 - 10:59 pm | #
I call for a universal ban on the word "ilk".
Does that mean all those small towns will have to close their Ilks Clubs?
George Johnston |
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10.20.07 - 11:00 pm | #
"I call for a universal ban on the word "ilk"."
I will bilk their ilk of milk while wearing silk
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
10.20.07 - 11:01 pm | #
Renaldo and Clara...
I've seen boot DVDs at record shows, but never pulled the trigger. Someday I will learn this Bittorrent business...
bill buckner |
10.20.07 - 11:01 pm | #
Too much sports this day. My head is exploding
DWD - Hating Their America |
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10.20.07 - 11:02 pm | #
WN- I was wondering something: Would the Ken Bacon who works at your site be any relation to the Kenneth Bacon who wrote a bio of Jackie Gleason?
Jim, Collieresque |
10.20.07 - 11:03 pm | #
I knew Moonbats were GUIDED BY VOICES!!!
YEOW!!!!!
Syd B |
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10.20.07 - 11:04 pm | #
Aha! 10-2 -- now if the Indians pull off another 7 run inning -- no, that's not good enough ...
New Frank Rich is up: I haven't the heart to read it all yet. But it is there if anyone else can. (It deals with corruption in Iraq. A LARGE subject)
DWD - Hating Their America |
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10.20.07 - 11:11 pm | #
Well, its interesting that the unknown anthrax terrorist targeted Democrats and was never caught.
rootless-e
Not just Democrats, but also the teebee news media. ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News among others.
Another interesting fact is that Dead-Eye and the Cod Piece let a contract to Mitchell Wade's company, MZM, to screen their mail for anthrax. MZM had zero experience at this sort of thing. The cost? Precisely the amount of money necessary to buy Duke Cunningham's payoff yacht, $145,000.
The only reason one would let a contract for what appears to be a critical service to a git like Wade is because you don't ever expect to need the service. I.e., the White House KNEW who had done the anthrax killing and KNEW they had nothing to fear.
R.Manhammer: Muffin |
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10.20.07 - 11:11 pm | #