Went out with my sons and bought my wife a digital camera. She is going to be surprised.
Shared Humanity |
12.22.07 - 4:07 pm | #
I guess I'll go eat some worms.
The Kenosha Kid |
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12.22.07 - 4:07 pm | #
a repost
instead I'm watching the original Three Tenors, Channel 4 is showing the original concert
Lady Moonbootica, Employed |
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12.22.07 - 4:04 pm |
It isn't the Christmas concert is it? That was painful to watch.
therealhellkitty | 12.22.07 - 4:05 pm | #
nah, they are re-showing the concert they performed for the 1990 World Cup
Lady Moonbootica, Employed |
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12.22.07 - 4:07 pm | #
solstice celebration was a gas.
women everywhere. I was invited back after the fire dancing for the pot luck.
I love the druids.
peterboy |
12.22.07 - 4:08 pm | #
PBS had the Christmas concert on the other night. It was painful to listen to. It seemed as if they were competing with each other to mangle the songs.
I know that it is a package deal, but I am enjoying the Celtic Woman offerings.
By Blue Oyster Cult
Richard |
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12.22.07 - 4:13 pm | #
PBS had the Christmas concert on the other night. It was painful to listen to. It seemed as if they were competing with each other to mangle the songs.
I know that it is a package deal, but I am enjoying the Celtic Woman offerings.
therealhellkitty | 12.22.07 - 4:10 pm | #
my mother has on CD Christmas with the Three Tenors, not a recording of the concert but an album they did of Christmas songs
she loves it and always puts it on around Christmastime
Lady Moonbootica, Employed |
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12.22.07 - 4:13 pm | #
POODLE NOW A CATHOLIC
DON'T CHEW THE WAFER, DOOD.
You'll go straight to hell.
Gomez | 12.22.07 - 4:12 pm
The poodle bites
the poodle chews it
Jesus X. Crutch |
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12.22.07 - 4:14 pm | #
I have a Celtic Christmas CD that is hauntingly beautiful. I also have a Nylons CD of Christmas songs that is fantastic.
Shared Humanity |
12.22.07 - 4:15 pm | #
College Station is pretty much of a hellhole isn't it?
Richard |
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12.22.07 - 4:15 pm | #
Russia's judo-loving President, Vladimir Putin, has recorded an instructional DVD along with Japanese Olympic champion Yasuhiro Yamashita.
The DVD will be released as a supplement to a judo manual and is due to come out in January or February, the Kremlin's most famous black belt said.
He and Yamashita attended a judo lesson in his home city St Petersburg, two years ago after meeting in Tokyo.
"Sports like judo teach you mutual respect," Mr Putin said.
"Respect for your rival, with the knowledge that an adversary who appears weak can put up resistance and even beat you if you lose concentration and become complacent."
I'm going to assume that Putin will make sure everyone buys his Judo guide, if you get my drift!
Lady Moonbootica, Employed |
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12.22.07 - 4:15 pm | #
my mother has on CD Christmas with the Three Tenors, not a recording of the concert but an album they did of Christmas songs
she loves it and always puts it on around Christmastime
And then I'd spend your ransom money,
But still I'd keep your sheep
I'd peel the mask you're wearing,
And then rob you of your sleep
Rob you of your sleep
billy b |
12.22.07 - 4:15 pm | #
♪ Come with me, Tony B
To the C, the C of E...
JeffCO |
12.22.07 - 4:16 pm | #
College Station is pretty much of a hellhole isn't it?
You're talking to the dude who is known for the blogging equivalent of fart jokes.
NTodd, Pinked Out |
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12.22.07 - 4:16 pm | #
well am watching it till the final part of the Grand Finale of Strictly Come Dancing (the original version which inspired your Dancing with the Stars)
Lady Moonbootica, Employed |
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12.22.07 - 4:17 pm | #
almost time to go make marshmallow cream as a prelude to fudge and divinity.
therealhellkitty |
12.22.07 - 4:17 pm | #
You're talking to the dude who is known for the blogging equivalent of fart jokes.
Who among us does not know what simels wants on his tombstone?
JeffCO |
12.22.07 - 4:18 pm | #
If you post at CodePink and here, you can say you have one in the Pink and onw in the Stink.
Gomez |
12.22.07 - 4:18 pm | #
College Station is pretty much of a hellhole isn't it?
That, I can't vouch for as I've never had the pleasure of gracing the place.
billy b |
12.22.07 - 4:19 pm | #
Gee, I go off to start the chicken soup and come back only to find that TKK has firsted again.
Jesu, for a pun like that, you will get your just desserts.
NTodd, Pinked Out |
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12.22.07 - 4:20 pm | #
If you post at CodePink and here, you can say you have one in the Pink and onw in the Stink.
Why would a loving God give him two hands but only one stalk?
JeffCO |
12.22.07 - 4:20 pm | #
I iz having a quiet weekend, spent all last week rushing about, up to York, down to Bath and doing last minute xmas shopping
Lady Moonbootica, Employed |
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12.22.07 - 4:21 pm | #
Marshmallows in fudge is just wrong. Unless you give me to recipe so I can check it out.
mer |
12.22.07 - 4:21 pm | #
One of the saddest things that I remember from this past year was when I took one of our dogs into the vet for his yearly checkup/shots. A policeman brought a huge German shepherd in with a muzzle over its mouth. Don't know why, but it made me want to cry. Beautiful dog, trained to kill.
mer |
12.22.07 - 4:27 pm | #
We're prolly gonna have figgy pudding and some razzleberry dressing.
MP |
12.22.07 - 4:28 pm | #
A policeman brought a huge German shepherd in with a muzzle over its mouth. Don't know why, but it made me want to cry. Beautiful dog, trained to kill.
Those bastards make me want to RUN.
billy b |
12.22.07 - 4:29 pm | #
A policeman brought a huge German shepherd in with a muzzle over its mouth. Don't know why, but it made me want to cry. Beautiful dog, trained to kill.
mer
A K-9 dog was shot and killed here during a drug bust awhile back. They gave the animal a full official burial, with black armbands and gun salute.
MP |
12.22.07 - 4:31 pm | #
Is it Festivus already? When do we begin the airing of grievances?
The Kenosha Kid |
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12.22.07 - 4:32 pm | #
Howdy, Festivus crowd.
il principio gior3gio
Buon giorno, gior3gio.
What up?
D'yoo turn eye-tye sense I last saw you?
billy b |
12.22.07 - 4:32 pm | #
bye for now
Lady Moonbootica, Employed |
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12.22.07 - 4:32 pm | #
That, I can't vouch for as I've never had the pleasure of gracing the place.
I knew someone who did a sabbatical at Texas A&M. From his description, College Station was good for steaks, and not much else.
Richard |
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12.22.07 - 4:32 pm | #
True. It's easy to make your own and much tastier. Just remember to buy two boxes of plain gelatine.
I'm with the daughter, I can't stand that shit.
billy b |
12.22.07 - 4:33 pm | #
A K-9 dog was shot and killed here during a drug bust awhile back. They gave the animal a full official burial, with black armbands and gun salute.
Not to mention a full doggie chorus howling Amazing Grace.
Bourgeois Liberal |
12.22.07 - 4:33 pm | #
A K-9 dog was shot and killed here during a drug bust awhile back. They
gave the animal a full official burial, with black armbands and gun
salute.
the ones that worry me are the airport sniffer dogs. My husband shoots black powder muzzle-loaders. I'm sure that stuff has left a residue on everything here.
I could never stand store bought marshmallows either. Making my own changed my mind. You make the cream then let it stand over night and it dries into marshmallows. Dip them in dark chocolate an rolled in toasted coconut and they really are divine.
Had I not grown up with it, I'd probably agree. Atop hot cocoa, it's comfort food.
That's another thing I can't stand. Hot cocoa. Even chocolate milk is skeevy anymore.
Loved it as a kid, tho...
billy b |
12.22.07 - 4:37 pm | #
I could never stand store bought marshmallows either. Making my own changed my mind. You make the cream then let it stand over night and it dries into marshmallows. Dip them in dark chocolate an rolled in toasted coconut and they really are divine.
therealhellkitty
Recipe. Must have recipe.
[tilts head back. drools.]
il principio gior3gio |
12.22.07 - 4:38 pm | #
He gave up the coon-skin hats for Lent. I will tell you that a 50caliber bullet puts a big hole in whatever it hits. With the rate of reload for a skilled marksman at about 3X per minute it gives me a lot of respect for the country marksmen who fought in the Revolution.
"If you post at CodePink and here, you can say you have one in the Pink and onw in the Stink."
THE SHOCKER!
"My husband shoots black powder muzzle-loaders."
man, those are fun!
jdw |
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12.22.07 - 4:39 pm | #
That's another thing I can't stand. Hot cocoa. Even chocolate milk is skeevy anymore.
Loved it as a kid, tho...
billy b
There's this excellent little place in Edinburgh called Plaisir du Chocolat. Serves amazing from-scratch cocoa in infinite varieties. I remember having a pure 99% unsweetened with chili powder. 'Twas heavenly.
il principio gior3gio |
12.22.07 - 4:40 pm | #
"My husband shoots black powder muzzle-loaders."
That's between him and his urologist.
il principio gior3gio |
12.22.07 - 4:40 pm | #
"Recipe. Must have recipe."
alton brown did a show on how to make 'em this week!
alton brown did a show on how to make 'em this week!
Thanks! Bookmarked it.
il principio gior3gio |
12.22.07 - 4:43 pm | #
The Bach Prelewds and Fudges? My favorite Fudge is the "Wedge."
Lenore |
12.22.07 - 4:44 pm | #
Dog, I hate this weather. 32 degrees, it's been pea-soup foggy for two days, and the air is thick with mist. I wish it would just be winter.
dmark |
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12.22.07 - 4:44 pm | #
That's another thing I can't stand. Hot cocoa. Even chocolate milk is skeevy anymore.
Loved it as a kid, tho...
billy b
There's this excellent little place in Edinburgh called Plaisir du Chocolat. Serves amazing from-scratch cocoa in infinite varieties. I remember having a pure 99% unsweetened with chili powder. 'Twas heavenly.
il principio gior3gio | 12.22.07 - 4:40 pm | #
The one and only. IIRC one thing I found amusing is that they were catty-corner to a three story Starbucks.
il principio gior3gio |
12.22.07 - 4:46 pm | #
My favorite way to eat marshmellows when I was a kid was to roast them over an open fire. I did like them.
We didn't know about s'mores when I was young, but my kids loved the hershey bars, marshmellows and graham crackers smooshed together.
mer |
12.22.07 - 4:47 pm | #
Combine 3T plain gelatine with 1/2 cup cold water and allow it to stand for one hour. Easiest to do this in the mixing bowl.
After about 1/2 hour prepare a syrup.
Place in a heavy bottomed pan over low heat: 2 cups sugar 3/4 cups light corn syrup 1/2 cup water 1/4 t. salt.
when the mixture starts to boil cover the pan for three minutes to wash own any sugar crystals that have formed. Continue to cook over high heat until the temperaturereaches 244*. Do not stir while it cooks or you will create crystals that will make the final product grainy.
Remove the 244* syrup from the heat and while the mixer turns slowly pour it over the gelatine. Use the balloon whisk. continue to beat until the mixture thickens (15 minutes) it is done when the cream comes of the whisk in slow strands.
Add 2T. vanilla and blend it in. Coat an 8x12 glass pan with a light dusting of cornstarch. Pour the marshmallow minxture into the pan and dust the top with cornstarch. Allow it to sit uncovered for 12 hours. Turn it out onto a cornstarched surface and cut into cubes. To coat with chocolate, dust off the cornstarch and dip as any other candy.
I finally got around to watching "Children of Men" yesterday, near the end during the birthing scene and afterwards I realized I was watching a nativity story. LOL that angle was unexpected, but the final scenes were the most powerful of the film IMO.
Jesus X. Crutch |
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12.22.07 - 4:51 pm | #
With the rate of reload for a skilled marksman at about 3X per minute it gives me a lot of respect for the country marksmen who fought in the Revolution.
The only compensation for modern troops is that while you don't have to be as skilled with the loading process, the catch is that everything is more deadly...and military medicine can keep you from dying, but can never give you back your life.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.22.07 - 4:51 pm | #
I do love homemade French fries though. Going to drain and towel dry the sliced potatoes from the ice bath now. Give them a one-minute fry, and stick them in the freezer for an hour before finishing them off.
mer |
12.22.07 - 4:52 pm | #
Dog, I hate this weather. 32 degrees, it's been pea-soup foggy for two
days, and the air is thick with mist. I wish it would just be winter.
The one and only. IIRC one thing I found amusing is that they were catty-corner to a three story Starbucks.
il principio gior3gio | 12.22.07 - 4:46 pm | #
My friends went to Edinburgh two years and seemed have missed this. Or they 'forget' to bring anything back.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
12.22.07 - 4:52 pm | #
My friends went to Edinburgh two years and seemed have missed this. Or they 'forget' to bring anything back.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
Had my English companions not already known about it, I'd have passed it over myself.
il principio gior3gio |
12.22.07 - 4:53 pm | #
78* here yesterday. I really wish it would get colder. Today the wind is blowing 35mph if was 66* this morning.
I'd love to have a little winter.
Me too.
I am tired of this spring like weather. How am I supposed to get in teh christmas spirit?
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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12.22.07 - 4:53 pm | #
military medicine can keep you from dying, but can never give you back your life.
22,000 brain wounded vets can't be wrong...
NTodd, Pinked Out |
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12.22.07 - 4:53 pm | #
78* here yesterday. I really wish it would get colder. Today the wind is blowing 35mph if was 66* this morning.
I'd love to have a little winter.
therealhellkitty
Last week we had two inches of snow. Today it's 55 F. Tomorrow we expect severe wind chill and rainfall. I'm ready to get back NE.
il principio gior3gio |
12.22.07 - 4:54 pm | #
"How am I supposed to get in teh christmas spirit?"
At this point, so would I. It's just grey, dirty and wet right now.
dmark |
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12.22.07 - 4:55 pm | #
22,000 brain wounded vets can't be wrong...
NTodd, Pinked Out
Future Mrs. Geor3ge is bracing herself for an experience. Her new job has her working largely with the veteran population, including many recently injured. She looking forward to it in one regard, in another she's terrified.
il principio gior3gio |
12.22.07 - 4:56 pm | #
I needs to go out, but I iz WAITING FOR BARRY'S PICTURES.
My advice to her: she should ask them how it happened.
Many of them want to talk about it, but no one will let them.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Her theses in grad school were on the effects of PTSD on the amygdala, especially amongst vets. No surprises there.
il principio gior3gio |
12.22.07 - 5:00 pm | #
It was like totally awesome day over the Alps today
R U sick?
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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12.22.07 - 5:00 pm | #
I wuz hoping for pictures of Magoo, Zoey and Hidey.
But noes, we gets a picture of a toilet.
Life is sukky
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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12.22.07 - 5:01 pm | #
Nice observation deck on that toilet, Barry. Must be Yurpeen.
Grand Duchess Marcellina |
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12.22.07 - 5:01 pm | #
Isn't Mt Everest located somewhere in the Alps?
boon |
12.22.07 - 5:01 pm | #
WASHINGTON, Iowa - Barack Obama suggested Friday that he has more foreign policy experts from the Clinton administration backing his candidacy over Hillary Rodham Clinton's, but lists provided by both campaigns show hers is nearly twice as long.
Clinton's campaign provided more than 80 names of her husband's former foreign policy advisers who are publicly backing her, while Obama's campaign provided 47.
C'mon, Barak, stop making shit up and be honest for once.
Isn't Mt Everest located somewhere in the Alps?
boon
Yea, just north of Mount Etna, south of Mount Idy.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:03 pm | #
Just saw a report on last minute shopping and one of the main points was that most people were buying with cash instead of credit. I didn't buy anything on credit this year, and was just wondering if this is a big trend or not.
foolme1ns |
12.22.07 - 5:03 pm | #
Isn't Mt Everest located somewhere in the Alps?
If when you say "the Alps" you actually mean "the Himalayas", then, yes, Mt. Everest is in "the Alps."
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.22.07 - 5:03 pm | #
"It was like totally awesome day over the Alps today"
"I didn't buy anything on credit this year, and was just wondering if this is a big trend or not."
same here. all cash.
jdw |
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12.22.07 - 5:04 pm | #
Barack Obama suggested Friday that he has more foreign policy experts from the Clinton administration backing his candidacy over Hillary Rodham Clinton's, but lists provided by both campaigns show hers is nearly twice as long.
Both of these centrist plutocrat dick sucking assholes can stuff it.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.22.07 - 5:04 pm | #
Bear Grylls from the show Man vs. Wild flew an automated parasail over Mt. Everest.
boon |
12.22.07 - 5:04 pm | #
R U sick?
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U?
Sick, er noes, no thnks so?
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:05 pm | #
"I didn't buy anything on credit this year, and was just wondering if this is a big trend or not."
same here. all cash.
jdw
I charged some for the sake of convenience, but I pay my balances in full.
il principio gior3gio |
12.22.07 - 5:05 pm | #
Just saw a report on last minute shopping and one of the main points was that most people were buying with cash instead of credit. I didn't buy anything on credit this year, and was just wondering if this is a big trend or not.
I've been doing it for the last ten years.
fourlegsgood, gots torch du U? |
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12.22.07 - 5:05 pm | #
I have a couple mexican friends, who dole out tamales during football/holiday season.
I should probally call them, and place an order.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:11 pm | #
No cash no presents. I have no cash to spare ergo no presents.
I am making candy and husband is making tamales to give as gifts.
I think that is every bit as nice as buying something. I do that every year at the office (and also buy them a really nice bottle of wine).
Who needs more crap? No one. But everyone likes them some nice fudge, banana bread and cookies. And wines!
fourlegsgood, on kitteh strike |
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12.22.07 - 5:12 pm | #
Awesome over the Alps
As awesome from above as they are from on the ground.
Man, is that sky ever blue!
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.22.07 - 5:12 pm | #
Awesome over the Alps
Hey, that's me down there at seven o'clock! I'm waving, see?
Grand Duchess Marcellina |
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12.22.07 - 5:12 pm | #
could I interest you in a jar of homemade mango chutney
Could I interest you in some candy and cookies?
"I" haven't even baked yet. Ask Vicki about my "baking skills".
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:12 pm | #
WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. But there is no evidence to suggest that President Truman or any subsequent president approved any part of Hoover's proposal to house suspect Americans in military and federal prisons.
Hoover had wanted Truman to declare the mass arrests necessary to "protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage," The New York Times reported Saturday in a story posted on its Web site.
The plan called for the FBI to apprehend all potentially dangerous individuals whose names were on a list Hoover had been compiling for years.
Gimlet |
12.22.07 - 5:13 pm | #
Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor....
Dr. Tettrazini |
12.22.07 - 5:14 pm | #
The Alps: What happens when you try to ram an Italian boot up Germany's behind.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.22.07 - 5:14 pm | #
Nice view, Barry. Do you work in a corner office?
MP |
12.22.07 - 5:14 pm | #
I've had venison & pork/beef.
Anytime I get a homeade tamale, I'm in as close to heaven as can be.
Except, of course, being waist deep in a river, with steelhead bouncing off your waders.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:15 pm | #
WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.
J. Edgar was borrowing from the Reinhard Heydrich playbook.
And with that, I must adieu, as I'm due for annual solstice party with my buddies from the old freenet days.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.22.07 - 5:16 pm | #
I iz glad to see that other kittehs steal teh keys and go joyriding:
can you get masa & corn shucks where you live? they are really easy to make
Oh yeah. Here in Lansing, MI - our hispanic population is almost 25%. Always a wonderful abundance of great food to be had.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:19 pm | #
Awesome over the Alps
I think I can see mimi's ego from here.
NTodd, Pinked Out | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 5:10 pm
I live about 75 minutes from San Antonio and I have yet to find a good Mexican restaurant. Let me know if you want our tamale recepit. I am guessing that you can get venison there and you don't have to be make trout tamales ?
Hah, just got back from getting some beers from the bar.
The bartender asked for my room number, and I said "102".
He said, "Do you know who stayed in that room?" I answered "Richtoffen"
He nodded.
I asked, "Do you know what's wrong with the toilet", he said "Its backward"
See, I'm not going crazy.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:22 pm | #
Barndog, Where do you fish and what are you angling for?
cahuenga |
12.22.07 - 5:22 pm | #
WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.
Hope he's enjoying hell.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 5:23 pm | #
The trend toward fewer conflicts reported by peace researchers since the late 1990s now seems to have been broken. This is shown in the latest annual report “States in Armed Conflict,” from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. The findings worry the researchers. The Middle East is the region where peace initiatives are most conspicuous in their absence.
Since the most conflict-ridden years in the early to mid 1990s, a continuous decline was registered up to 2005. Since that time the number has held steady at around 30 active armed conflicts per year. This is probably also the case for 2007.
I asked, "Do you know what's wrong with the toilet", he said "Its backward"
See, I'm not going crazy.
Okay.
I thought teh picture of teh toilet was to say that wuz the only scenery you were seeing.
fourlegsgood, on kitteh strike |
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12.22.07 - 5:23 pm | #
Be backs later.
fourlegsgood, on kitteh strike |
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12.22.07 - 5:24 pm | #
I really do kinda vicariously enjoy your fishing expeditions
Very seldom do people go with me - least up north anyways. I have a number of 'fishing buddies' in the areas which I do fish.
It's always a great time...even if they aren't biting. That's kind of the point of it all. Fish are a bonus, but being in the streams, doing what I've enjoyed since I was 4 (ish), well, just can't be beaten in my book.
Just the way I learned to enjoy it in the first place.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:25 pm | #
Fuck George Bush.
In the ass.
tcv
With a very large exploding dildo
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 5:25 pm | #
More COPS coming up next, only on G4!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.22.07 - 5:25 pm | #
gotta go make marshmallows. back later.
therealhellkitty |
12.22.07 - 5:25 pm | #
See, I'm not going crazy.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach
I believe you.
Philip Francis Queeg |
12.22.07 - 5:26 pm | #
Typically steelhead (lake run rainbow trout) or, salmon.
In Michigan, we are gifted with a wonderful fishing system. I try to take advantage as often as feasable.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:26 pm | #
I've never met Barndog. But from reading this blog over the years, I'd bet the house, that fucker knows how to coax fish out of the water.
MP |
12.22.07 - 5:27 pm | #
Barry, old toilets in Yurp look like that. So you can examine your "output" better, so I'm told.
Grand Duchess Marcellina |
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12.22.07 - 5:27 pm | #
Hope he's enjoying hell.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch
and he won't be lonely given the actions of our current government.
therealhellkitty
Hell, he has Nixon, Reagan, Weinberger, Falwell and most of the Watergate gang down there for company now.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 5:27 pm | #
I've never met Barndog. But from reading this blog over the years, I'd bet the house, that fucker knows how to coax fish out of the water.
MP
"Don't fuckin' MAKE me come IN there and GET you!"
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 5:28 pm | #
Tested, no looos in this one.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:29 pm | #
"Don't fuckin' MAKE me come IN there and GET you!"
If they don't wanna play, then so be it. I enjoy being there more than anything.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:29 pm | #
Board still says our delayed departure is estimated at 535. Kinda hard to leave without an airplane.
And I'm totally high now thanks to the lady who did her nails next to me.
NTodd, Pinked Out |
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12.22.07 - 5:29 pm | #
The rivers were the highways for ancient man. And pretty good ones.
coin |
12.22.07 - 5:30 pm | #
I try to take advantage as often as feasable
Me too. Seasons closed out here but you can hardly keep me off the water once the rockcod and halibut come in.
cahuenga |
12.22.07 - 5:30 pm | #
I really want to fish with jdw.
Anyone who builds bamboo fly rods for a living, knows what the fuck their doing in a steam.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:30 pm | #
Barry from AK: See, I'm not going crazy.
I just took a nap with the cats, and this was the first thing I read, here.
Kitter persons are somewhat particular about which end of the box they.. er.. do.
Least mine are, each has a spot in the sand.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:31 pm | #
er... that would be STREAM.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:32 pm | #
If they don't wanna play, then so be it. I enjoy being there more than anything.
Barndog, not fishing
Which is the point. Hauling in a big one is just gravy.
MP |
12.22.07 - 5:32 pm | #
"I live about 75 minutes from San Antonio and I have yet to find a good Mexican restaurant."
--therealhellkitty
This is a funny story. My son, who now lives in Tucson, insists we go to our favorite Mexican restaurant when he visit us in Knoxville. Says there is nothing as good in Tucson.
mer |
12.22.07 - 5:32 pm | #
A stream isn't a stream unless it has a certain minimal current.
coin |
12.22.07 - 5:33 pm | #
Least mine are, each has a spot in the sand.
Of course, you are aware of the 'for now' phenomenon, I assume?
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:33 pm | #
Well, since we were sleeping, we were in the sleeping box, not the pooping box.
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12.22.07 - 5:36 pm | #
Which is the point. Hauling in a big one is just gravy
I have a buddy up in Eureka, I go up there to salmon fish on the Eel River. He goes crazy when they aren't biting. He cusses and thrashes around, yells at the seal at the river mouth for eating the fish. I just stand in the river with a beer and my rod and laugh at him. I'm just happy to be there.
cahuenga |
12.22.07 - 5:36 pm | #
i kan haz airpalne?
NTodd, Pinked Out |
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12.22.07 - 5:36 pm | #
This is a funny story. My son, who now lives in Tucson, insists we go to our favorite Mexican restaurant when he visit us in Knoxville. Says there is nothing as good in Tucson.
mer | 12.22.07 - 5:32 pm
That's funny.
I know my friend took me to a very good Mexican restuarant when I was in Tucson, but that was in 1990. Probably not around anymore.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
12.22.07 - 5:36 pm | #
"Barry, old toilets in Yurp look like that. So you can examine your "output" better, so I'm told."
--Grand Duchess Marcellina
Did anyone but me notice the water in the loo looked like a tongue?
mer |
12.22.07 - 5:36 pm | #
3 more of the Alps today.
I forget which one Insbruck is in, I think its the one with plane bits in the forground.
Did anyone but me notice the water in the loo looked like a tongue?
mer
No one commented on my gynormous thing.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:37 pm | #
I live about 75 minutes from San Antonio and I have yet to find a good Mexican restaurant.
Tinks Tacos
I forget the street, but over in the Jefferson HS area of town.
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12.22.07 - 5:38 pm | #
He goes crazy when they aren't biting. He cusses and thrashes around, yells at the seal at the river mouth for eating the fish
I have aquaintences like that also. Love them as people, but the character flaws are sometimes too hard to overlook.
And, like I'm a fuckin' saint myself.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:39 pm | #
Buckeye, the people who own the place are Mexicans. They have been here for over 20 years. Nicest wait staff ever. Cheese dip and fresh-made tortilla chips to die for.
mer |
12.22.07 - 5:40 pm | #
Photo number 2!!!
Grand Duchess Marcellina |
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12.22.07 - 5:40 pm | #
these right wing Wise Fools are amusing
an "ex fortune 50 executive" posts some charts showing, he thinks, that american workers are getting more prosperous, with better jobs. so, 'leftists' are full of it!
"So would I - mine's as big as a bucket."
jac |
12.22.07 - 5:41 pm | #
I live about 75 minutes from San Antonio and I have yet to find a good Mexican restaurant.
Hey, y'all.
My daughter just visited a friend in San Antonio, and I told her to go to a place that specializes in puffy tacos. It's been featured on the Food Channel. She didn't think it was that good at all.
pie |
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12.22.07 - 5:41 pm | #
He should be glad that anyone is writing anything about him, the has been:
Was waiting to pick the prez up while on a campaign trip, all at taxpayers expense.
The pilots were not happy about it.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:43 pm | #
pie - and some people would put ketchup on filet mingon.
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12.22.07 - 5:43 pm | #
Nice backers ya got there, Hucksterbee!
That story A posted about the seven-year-old yesterday was fabulous.
Politicians and kids always make for an interestng encounter.
pie |
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12.22.07 - 5:44 pm | #
This is a funny story. My son, who now lives in Tucson, insists we go
to our favorite Mexican restaurant when he visit us in Knoxville. Says
there is nothing as good in Tucson.
I live about 75 minutes from San Antonio and I have yet to find a good Mexican restaurant.
I think you live many hundreds of miles from the good Mexican restaurants. They are in Tucson, Santa Fe and, of course, Mexico.
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12.22.07 - 5:44 pm | #
Yeah, but you heard it anyway, didn't you?
Yes, yes I did. If I had any computer knowledge, I'd have an automatic rimshot coded in.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:45 pm | #
pie - and some people would put ketchup on filet mingon.
Barndog, not fishing
(raises hand, sheepishly)
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 5:45 pm | #
i kan haz airpalne?
NTodd, Pinked Out
U can haz mine... come to Alaska and take it home wif ya.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:45 pm | #
follow this link for a daily accounting in detail of violent deaths of iraqis
it shows that the success of the surge has stalled, with violent deaths averaging about 10% higher in dec than in nov
to read the detail of the blood spilled everyday in the streets of iraq - barely reported in the hypothetically 'liberal' MSM - is a sickening reminder of the hell that we have wrought in iraq by breaking its fascist government but failing utterly to replace it with a functioning one
and some people would put ketchup on filet mingon.
She loves Mexican food and frequents a really good one in DC owned and operated by a Mexican family - tiny place but great food, so I think she had high expectations, especially because it was in San Antonio.
Barndog, and that buddy of mine in Eureka occasionally fishes with Gary Burghoff, made him kiss a sturgeon on the lips once.
cahuenga |
12.22.07 - 5:48 pm | #
I guess I'll forgive you THIS time, Terry.
Barndog, not fishing
MY take on that is, hey, if I pay for it and I'm the one eating it, why can't I have it the way I like it?
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 5:48 pm | #
I had (past tense) an aunt, who lived down near the border in Tx, for about 15 years or so.
When she came back in the late 60's, she brought back some nice recipes.
I still use her salsa recipe.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:49 pm | #
My parents live near a Mexican cuisine restaurant, run entirely by Asians.
It's kinda weird.
MP | 12.22.07 - 5:37 pm | #
in manhatten, we used to have a lot of cuban-chinese restaraunts
"comidas criollos y chinas"
but a large number of restaraunts in NYC are run by people from greece or china, and staffed by puertoriquenos. i have heard spanish spoken in accents both greek and chinese:
The boxes are full of Roses, I had 116,000 kilos of Roses and green beans on the plane. The flowers will be in all the Amsterdam Floral shops in a few hours.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:52 pm | #
My parents live near a Mexican cuisine restaurant, run entirely by Asians.
Fresco Tortilla here in NYC is Asian owned and operated (Chinese, I think).
res ipsa loquitur |
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12.22.07 - 5:54 pm | #
why can't I have it the way I like it?
You're wasting your money?
You might as well order a nice, juicy hamburger.
pie |
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12.22.07 - 5:54 pm | #
You're wasting your money?
You might as well order a nice, juicy hamburger.
pie
Get a salad, a nice leafy salad.
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12.22.07 - 5:55 pm | #
Puffy tacos are the latest fad just like Baja fish tacos wer several years ago.
I love fish tacos! But there's nothing like one made with skirt steak.
pie |
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12.22.07 - 5:55 pm | #
Best mexican food I've ever had was at a place called Garduño's in Albuquerque, it's really the only reason to go to Albuquerque. Kick ass margaritas too.
cahuenga |
12.22.07 - 5:55 pm | #
The boxes are full of Roses, I had 116,000 kilos of Roses and green beans on the plane. The flowers will be in all the Amsterdam Floral shops in a few hours.
It still bothers me that they waste that much fuel on things you don't eat.
Gomez |
12.22.07 - 5:56 pm | #
Get a salad, a nice leafy salad.
Bro... hate to break it to ya, but, a salad pizza - I would not trust.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 5:56 pm | #
Best mexican food I've ever had was at a place called Garduño's in Albuquerque, it's really the only reason to go to Albuquerque. Kick ass margaritas too.
cahuenga
Best mexican food in ABQ is Blakes Lotta Burger with Japalenos.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:57 pm | #
I can't stand it. Damned this administration. What we have done to Iraq is an abomination.
Someone brought some plastic mailing bags into the store today. They're used to send old cell phones to the troops, so they can call home.
All that money and the troops have to go begging for cell phones.
Fuck George Bush. Bastard.
pie |
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12.22.07 - 5:58 pm | #
It still bothers me that they waste that much fuel on things you don't eat.
Gomez
Hey, I maybe had 8000 kilos of green beans on the plane too!
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:58 pm | #
Bro... hate to break it to ya, but, a salad pizza - I would not trust.
Barndog, not fishing
The roughage does wonders the next day.
Gomez |
12.22.07 - 5:58 pm | #
I just had some middling Mexican food (a burrito). Middling is the best we can expect here in NYC.
res ipsa loquitur |
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12.22.07 - 5:58 pm | #
But I hear ya Gomez, the flower industry is something else.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 5:59 pm | #
Y'all are making me wanna can the frozen pizza and eat dinner at Tequila's.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.22.07 - 5:59 pm | #
Hey, I maybe had 8000 kilos of green beans on the plane too!
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach
I saw that after I posted the comment.
Why do they need to fly in green beans?
Can they grow them there?
Gomez |
12.22.07 - 6:00 pm | #
Has the Grim Reaper finally located his long lost brother?
I wonder if Giulianni has been looking so horrible because he's been sick.
I just had some middling Mexican food (a burrito). Middling is the best we can expect here in NYC.
res ipsa loquitur
Look around, they are hidden.
I was born and raised in El Paso, I kinda know good mexican food.
We got joint in Anchorage that are run by immigrants (legality I'm not gonna question) that are would stand up to anything in El Paso or Juarez.
Little holes, but just awesome.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:01 pm | #
But I hear ya Gomez, the flower industry is something else.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach
I heard that sometimes, they bring in "other things" with the flowers if you catch my drift.
Gomez |
12.22.07 - 6:01 pm | #
Why do they need to fly in green beans?
Well, our seasonal produce peak has come and gone. Thus, them green beans need to come from somewhere. Be it Texas, Austraila, whatever.
Barndog, not fishing |
12.22.07 - 6:01 pm | #
Middling is the best we can expect here in NYC
Yeah, I grew up about an hour from the border in Atrios's favorite place, Orange County. I'm pretty picky about my Mexican food.
cahuenga |
12.22.07 - 6:02 pm | #
North Carolina is becoming more and more hispanic so the choices are better. I do find that the best places to go if you aren't in California or the Southwest are those that cater to a Mexican crowd.
Gringo mexican food can often be mediocre.
trifecta |
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12.22.07 - 6:02 pm | #
I wonder if Giulianni has been looking so horrible because he's been sick.
Last night some Atriots spectulated that him going to the hospital was a ploy to drop out of the race because he's losing. They said the prostate cancer thing was the same schtick, i.e., that he never had it and made it up so he could not get his ass whupped by a girlie.
res ipsa loquitur |
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12.22.07 - 6:02 pm | #
I had some good, crunchy green beans at the dean's lunch, Thursday. Yummy.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.22.07 - 6:02 pm | #
Why do they need to fly in green beans?
Can they grow them there?
Gomez
Hee, this is Tulip land dude.
6 months from now, I'll be flying Tulips to Africa.
Green beans in Holland, the absurdity.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:02 pm | #
I think the top three Republican contenders have been sufficiently damaged that they will be easy pickings for the Dem nominee.
Gomez |
12.22.07 - 6:02 pm | #
I heard that sometimes, they bring in "other things" with the flowers if you catch my drift.
NYC's best Mexican food isn't as good as California's worst Mexican food.
res ipsa loquitur |
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12.22.07 - 6:02 pm | #
I used to live above a Thai restaurant, the owner of which would drive out to the airport every morning to pick up fresh orchids or something flown in from southeast Asia. They were decoration and you could eat them. It's still extravagant. We have come to expect to have everything we want at any time of the year.
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12.22.07 - 6:02 pm | #
I heard that sometimes, they bring in "other things" with the flowers if you catch my drift.
Gomez
And that's why any freighter with flowers going into MIA from Bogota is met by 20 ICE or whatever the acronym is now folks, with dogs.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:04 pm | #
Back in the late 80's when I lived in Anchorage, I was driving around town and found a "mexican" restaurant.
I was depressed when I left. Everything was canned, bland, and crappy.
It made taco bell seem interesting.
trifecta |
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12.22.07 - 6:04 pm | #
NYC's best Mexican food isn't as good as California's worst Mexican food.
res ipsa loquitur
Taco Bell
Jack in the Box Taco
Both California heritage.
I rest my case.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:05 pm | #
Buckeye, the people who own the place are Mexicans. They have been here for over 20 years. Nicest wait staff ever. Cheese dip and fresh-made tortilla chips to die for.
mer | 12.22.07 - 5:40 pm
Amazingly enough, we have at least three very decent Mexican restuarants in the Dayton area.
All run by actual Mexicans. All three slightly different in styles and tastes.
Now if we could get other ethnicities (Chinese exepted) it would be great.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
12.22.07 - 6:12 pm | #
therealhellkitty,
Grew up in Huntington Beach, high school at Fountain Valley.
Tustin: Foothill High 1978. Moved out of So. Cal in 1990, mom and siblings still live there. Without a doubt the best burgers are to be found at Knowlwoods.
Jack in the Box is a surprisingly good fast food place if you can't get real food and their milkshakes are amazing. They're actual milkshakes. However, the unparalleled height of Californian Fast Food and entendre is the Double Double at In and Out Burger. They use no freezers and receive fresh meat daily.
kei & yuri |
12.22.07 - 6:13 pm | #
he saidz he had a rilly rilly bad headaches
That's what he tells his roomates when he's not in the mood.
Barry, what are you doing in little Traben-Trarbach?
Grand Duchess Marcellina
Waiting for the big jet to come so I can fly it mysterious Toledo Ohio tomorrow.
I'll end up in Chicago before the day is thru though.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:14 pm | #
Drive by OT: Hoover wanted mass arrests of up to 12,000 people before the Korean War.
ellroon | Homepage | 12.22.07 -
He also knowingly kept an innocent man in jail for thirty years.Its a sad comment on our nation that we didnt execute him in 1950 when he proposed the arrests.
ergot function |
12.22.07 - 6:14 pm | #
Stupid Germans and their "16 to a pack" rule on ciggies.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:14 pm | #
the unparalleled height of Californian Fast Food and entendre is the Double Double at In and Out Burger. They use no freezers and receive fresh meat daily.
kei & yuri
On Camrose?
Those are good burgers.
jac |
12.22.07 - 6:15 pm | #
You might as well order a nice, juicy hamburger.
Younger son has been trying to eat vegetarian for about 3 months. Last night for his birthday he ordered a double burger w/slice of ham, fried egg, 4 kinds of cheese.
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 6:15 pm | #
Julie Annie "I can't make it to the cheer leading finals because I have cramps. But I rilly, rilly wanted to be on the squad. Sniff."
the unparalleled height of Californian Fast Food and entendre is the Double Double at In and Out Burger. They use no freezers and receive fresh meat daily.
kei & yuri
my favorite part of In 'n' Out is that they have a 'secret' menu only for initiates
My mom's still in Huntington, she still loves it there. I don't even recognize the place when we go back to visit. It's all one big beige stucco Mediterranean shopping plaza.
cahuenga |
12.22.07 - 6:17 pm | #
Drive by OT: Hoover wanted mass arrests of up to 12,000 people before the Korean War.
ellroon
Didn't he also want Hedda what's her name to design a wardrobe for him?
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:18 pm | #
Hoover was an example of precisely the sort of old world classic governmental corruption that the founding fathers wanted to avoid. The only reason he stayed in power at all was because he had dirt on everyone, and a lot of that dirt was stuff that shouldn't have mattered (for example, Roosevelt and Eisenhower had consensual heterosexual one-person-at-a-time non-bestial adult non-anal sex outside of marriage).
kei & yuri |
12.22.07 - 6:18 pm | #
Rinse and repeat
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 6:16 pm | #
i see that many of us have second careers as kittycat doormen
As for strange ethic mixtures in NYC restaurants, I frequented a Mexican place run by Chinese for lunch. The two steak taco takeout was awesome. It was in Lower Manhattan somewhere, a few blocks from City Hall. I'm certain Rudy never went there.
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink |
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12.22.07 - 6:19 pm | #
have you been spying on us?
therealhellkitty
Just know my kitterpersons
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:19 pm | #
Last night for his birthday he ordered a double burger w/slice of ham, fried egg, 4 kinds of cheese.
There's nothing wrong with eating more vegetables and less meat.
My mom's still in Huntington, she still loves it there. I don't even
recognize the place when we go back to visit. It's all one big beige
stucco Mediterranean shopping plaza.
You couldn't get my mom out of Tustin with blasting caps. OC is one big stucco nightmare. It wasn't that way when I was a kid. We had an orange grove behind our house. On spring nights you could open the windows and it was quiet and smelling of blossoms. Saddleback Mountain was visible on most days. Then they built South coast PLaza and that was the end of it all.
There's nothing wrong with eating more vegetables and less meat.
Sure there is: the meat tastes better.
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12.22.07 - 6:21 pm | #
The wisemen will be gossiping like a sewing circle cux Julie Annie may not make the cheerleading squad.
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
You just reminded me of something in the Nairobi paper I kept.
Looking to see if the article is on line, else... gasp, I will have to transcribe a 2000 word editorial.
It was wonderful
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:21 pm | #
This is comical:
Thompson is betting that a third place finish in Iowa -- ahead of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and Arizona Sen. John McCain, both of whom have abandoned the state -- will give him the momentum he needs to compete in New Hampshire and beyond.
Fred "The Basset" Thompson: Master of Low Expectations.
I bet he does no better than fourth.
SteveLG |
12.22.07 - 6:22 pm | #
Hi Moon! You're up late.
Grand Duchess Marcellina | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 6:19 pm | #
heh well 11.16pm isn't late
i'm on my third glass of wine (had a Cosmopolitan earlier)
Lady Moonbootica, Employed |
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12.22.07 - 6:22 pm | #
Jack in the Box
True story. Back in the day, before they got big, Jack in the Box used to have "Ralston Purina Co." (cat food) printed on the bottoms of their bags. Even though Ralston Purina owned them they finally wised up and stopped printing it on their bags..
cahuenga |
12.22.07 - 6:22 pm | #
I shudder to think what would happen if J Edgar Crossdresser would have served under Chimpy:
Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. But there is no evidence to suggest that President Truman or any subsequent president approved any part of Hoover's proposal to house suspect Americans in military and federal prisons.
Hoover had wanted Truman to declare the mass arrests necessary to "protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage," The New York Times reported Saturday in a story posted on its Web site.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 6:23 pm | #
Allan Holdsworth used to live in Tustin, in a funky geodesic house. That's where I visited him for his birthday party.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.22.07 - 6:23 pm | #
Protein style is a bunless burger wrapped in whole leaf lettuce.
I miss IN N OUT. Whine.
trifecta |
Geez, so the "ol in and out" in a Clockwork Orange was about a burger joint.
Imagine that!
Bond, James Bond |
12.22.07 - 6:23 pm | #
Julie Annie slammed her locker door and flounced off in a huff.
my husband buttles for kitties daily. I am thinking of getting him some gold braid to go on the shoulders of his pearl snap shirts. One wouldn't think that a redneck would open doors for cats but he does.
therealhellkitty |
12.22.07 - 6:24 pm | #
Thompson is betting that a third place finish in Iowa -- ahead of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and Arizona Sen. John McCain, both of whom have abandoned the state -- will give him the momentum he needs to compete in New Hampshire and beyond.
He's the next one to drop out.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 6:24 pm | #
my cat Heidi celebrated her birthday on Friday, 3 years old.
she had fresh tuna and a new toy
but she remains as ever a naughty minx
Lady Moonbootica, Employed |
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12.22.07 - 6:24 pm | #
That action by J. Edgar should have heralded his retirement.
Gimlet |
12.22.07 - 6:24 pm | #
Fred Thompson is betting that locating a penny on any sidewalk within the next year will give him the momentum he needs to compete in New Hampshire and beyond. Unless that is he has to go in against Joe Lieberman, whom Fred cautiously fears as too young, fast and wild.
kei & yuri |
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12.22.07 - 6:25 pm | #
my cat Heidi celebrated her birthday on Friday, 3 years old.
she had fresh tuna and a new toy
but she remains as ever a naughty minx
Lady Moonbootica, Employed
From my Hidey to your Heidi, Woo HOO..
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:25 pm | #
Allan Holdsworth used to live in Tustin, in a funky geodesic house. That's where I visited him for his birthday party.
Barry, what are you doing in little Traben-Trarbach?
Grand Duchess Marcellina
Waiting for the big jet to come so I can fly it mysterious Toledo Ohio tomorrow.
I'll end up in Chicago before the day is thru though.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 6:14 pm
I'll wave to you from Dayton, south of Toledo on I-75.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
12.22.07 - 6:28 pm | #
therealhellkitty: Do you remember where it was? its not a very big town.
It was on a dead-end street, not far from a 4-lane main artery. If I looked at a map, I could probably figure it out. I used to know the name of the street.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.22.07 - 6:28 pm | #
where is 4lg, I have found our new home
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:29 pm | #
Let's make some phony phone calls.
gop:scrod
Arabella Trefoil
Hey Julie Annie, do you have Prince Albert in a can?
Bond, James Bond |
12.22.07 - 6:29 pm | #
Bur McCain is making a comeback, accoring to the NY Times. He is going to finish second at least.
At this point, McCain must be the candidate they want.
It was on a dead-end street, not far from a 4-lane main artery. If I
looked at a map, I could probably figure it out. I used to know the
name of the street.
time to go find libations and a viand for dinner. Back later. Barry, 4LGS said he was going to the market.
therealhellkitty |
12.22.07 - 6:31 pm | #
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach - I was just showing my father your photo of the Alps (on 4lgs blog) and he wanted to know where you flew from.
Lady Moonbootica, Employed |
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12.22.07 - 6:31 pm | #
That action by J. Edgar should have heralded his retirement.
Gimlet
And his arrest as a traitor.
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12.22.07 - 6:32 pm | #
Marcellina-- If you're still up, how did your opening go? Any broken legs?
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12.22.07 - 6:32 pm | #
I lovez this town.
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12.22.07 - 6:32 pm | #
Hoover was in some ways the precursor of Rove. If you get enough dirt on politicians, you can command power. Rove must have some very nasty dirt on Pelosi, Rid and others to make them into lap dogs.
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12.22.07 - 6:32 pm | #
Sure there is: the meat tastes better.
Not always.
We're having broccoli gratineed with romano and red pepper flakes tonight. Looks delish.
To go along with the steak.
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12.22.07 - 6:33 pm | #
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach - I was just showing my father your photo of the Alps (on 4lgs blog) and he wanted to know where you flew from.
Lady Moonbootica, Employed
Twas enroute from Nairobi to Amsterdam.
The pics were in Northern Italy, along the Austrian border.
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12.22.07 - 6:33 pm | #
my father is off skiing at the end of Jan in Switzerland
and my sister is off skiing for the New Year
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12.22.07 - 6:34 pm | #
At this point, McCain must be the candidate they want.
McCain was never the anybody that anyone wanted. It's just that this gaggle of rethugs is so pathetic, he's least worst.
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12.22.07 - 6:34 pm | #
Lady Moonbootica, Employed
Oh, and best to your dad too.
Grew up a nice kid he did.
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12.22.07 - 6:34 pm | #
Twas enroute from Nairobi to Amsterdam.
The pics were in Northern Italy, along the Austrian border.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 6:33 pm | #
ah hah my father recognized the Dolomites (he has skiied and hiked there also)
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12.22.07 - 6:35 pm | #
Hoover was a closet fag.
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12.22.07 - 6:35 pm | #
Gromit, fine, all as planned, although the audience didn't seem so enthusiastic. Lukewarm applause.
I'm just happy rehearsals are over and I can go have a holiday now.
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12.22.07 - 6:35 pm | #
How did Germany get so many hyphenated town names? Mergers and acquisitions?
Gromit |
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12.22.07 - 6:35 pm | #
How did Germany get so many hyphenated town names? Mergers and acquisitions?
Gromit |
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12.22.07 - 6:35 pm | #
McCain was never the anybody that anyone wanted. It's just that this gaggle of rethugs is so pathetic, he's least worst.
Wandering around the internets just now I came across these very fine words from Rep Jesse Jackson , Jr., delivered on the occasion of Bill Clinton's impeachment, just nine years ago:
Today Republicans are impeaching Social Security, they are impeaching affirmative action, they are impeaching women's right to choose, Medicare, Medicaid, Supreme Court justices who believe in equal protection under the law for all Americans.
Something deeper in history is happening than sex, lying about sex and perjury. In 1868, it was about reconstruction and in 1998, it's still about reconstruction.
Vegetarianism is much easier if you don't like meat. I never liked meat, so veggie was the way to go, and, 40 years later, no meat could taste as good as a good tomato. If you like meat, it would be very difficult to go veggie in our culture.
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12.22.07 - 6:36 pm | #
McCain was never the anybody that anyone wanted. It's just that this gaggle of rethugs is so pathetic, he's least worst.
kei & yuri
I don't think so. He's fellated Bush for the past seven years, true enough, but none of the "values villagers" trust him as far as they can throw him. Moreover, the moneyed class that owns the fucking goopers want nothing to do with him.
At this point, I see McCain more as an object lesson to the other candidates. Step to the music, boys, or you, too, will become irrelevant. That sort of thing.
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12.22.07 - 6:36 pm | #
At this point, McCain must be the candidate they want.
McCain was never the anybody that anyone wanted. It's just that this gaggle of rethugs is so pathetic, he's least worst.
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Regardless who the Republican candidate is, it'll be wall to wall 'war on terror' and 9/11. Does it really matter who the candidate is ?
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12.22.07 - 6:37 pm | #
McCain was never the anybody that anyone wanted. It's just that this gaggle of rethugs is so pathetic, he's least worst.
kei & yuri
Like Dole in 1996, they won't have sacrificed much when he loses.
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12.22.07 - 6:37 pm | #
How did Germany get so many hyphenated town names? Mergers and acquisitions?
Gromit | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 6:35 pm | #
Maybe from all the double posting.
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12.22.07 - 6:37 pm | #
It's just that this gaggle of rethugs is so pathetic, he's least worst.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink |
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12.22.07 - 6:37 pm | #
I think in the case of where Barry is, it's two towns on each side of a river,which merged.
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12.22.07 - 6:37 pm | #
McCain was never the anybody that anyone wanted. It's just that this gaggle of rethugs is so pathetic, he's least worst.
kei & yuri | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 6:34 pm | #
i see malkin, limbaugh and other right right right wingers condemning giuliani, huckabee, and mccain as unacceptable "liberals".
they want mitt 'n' fred
this is how far the reaganites have fallen from the mainstream
Step to the music, boys, or you, too, will become irrelevant.
Are you kidding?
McCain did the jig.
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12.22.07 - 6:39 pm | #
Upon another millisecond's thought and analysis, perhaps McCain will be the one to "lose" in '08. Everyone with an ounce of sense realizes that the Democrats will win the election. The only question is who will be holding the Gooptard sign when they sink. McCain might well be a good choice for that. It will end his national ambitions.
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12.22.07 - 6:39 pm | #
Marcellina, do you have nights when you feel like the audience just wasn't paying attention? I have a short rant about a bad audience at a symphony concert over at my place. It's a highly-condensed version of the long-form rant that Dr Mrs G had to endure as we drove home from the theater. (Fortunately for her, it's only a ten minute drive)
Apologies for double post. Apologies for double post.
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12.22.07 - 6:39 pm | #
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:39 pm | #
Regardless who the Republican candidate is, it'll be wall to wall 'war on terror' and 9/11. Does it really matter who the candidate is ?
Bond, James Bond | 12.22.07 - 6:37 pm | #
giuliani is already saying "a democratic president will mean more dead americans"
gah!
since he is undead, he must know something about it...
Gromit, oh sure. And it would be our fault, I guess, but sometimes you just can't please 'em. I never take it personally.
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12.22.07 - 6:42 pm | #
Bacon is not just one word.
A flowchart is superfluous when bacon is involved.
cahuenga |
12.22.07 - 6:43 pm | #
therealhellkitty: Seventeenth Street and Newport Blvd are the main arteries there.
For some reason, "Linda Lane" is coming to mind...
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12.22.07 - 6:43 pm | #
Fascism itself has been explained as a form of repressed homosexuality.
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12.22.07 - 6:43 pm | #
I think if Romney were not a Mormon, he'd win in a heart beat.
I STILL say if Alan Keyes was white, the GOP would nominate him in the blink of an eye.
He's exactly what the base likes.
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12.22.07 - 6:43 pm | #
NBC NEws is reporting Giuliani is a cancer survivor but now he's ok and the doctor gave him a 100% clean bill of health.
carp
I've got a second opinion on that.
He will die.
Eventually.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:43 pm | #
Yea, someone built a bridge.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach
Or a river followed by 'bruck' (sp)?
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12.22.07 - 6:43 pm | #
Giuliani is a cancer survivor but now he's ok and the doctor gave him a 100% clean bill of health.
Too bad he's still an asshole.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 6:44 pm | #
Gotta check out how the baron's backward crapper hanles an ashtray full of butts.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 6:44 pm | #
NBC NEws is reporting Giuliani is a cancer survivor but now he's ok and the doctor gave him a 100% clean bill of health.
carp
For some reason this is reminding me of Oscar Wilde's comment, on learning that Lord Randolph Churchill had a benign tumor removed, that it was typical of modern science that it could isolate and remove the only portion of Lord Randolph that was not malignant.
I STILL say if Alan Keyes was white, the GOP would nominate him in the blink of an eye.
He's exactly what the base likes.
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If Joe McCarthy were alive today and somehow looked at least as 'good' as Fred Thompson, he'd be the Republican candidate!
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12.22.07 - 6:45 pm | #
Are you kidding?
McCain did the jig.
pie
How come the MSM said nothing about the blowjobs he was giving Bush?
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 6:45 pm | #
BARRY!
4LG posted a pic of yours on her blog!
How is Zoey?
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.22.07 - 6:46 pm | #
Fascism itself has been explained as a form of repressed homosexuality.
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well, for roehm and the S.A., it was a form of very un-repressed homosexuality.
i guess when hitler had them all massacred, homosexuality in the 3rd reich became extremely repressed
Poot. It was Evelyn Waugh.
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12.22.07 - 6:46 pm | #
If Joe McCarthy were alive today and somehow looked at least as 'good' as Fred Thompson, he'd be the Republican candidate!
Bond, James Bond
Cough-Closet Case-Cough!
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12.22.07 - 6:46 pm | #
As a flock of tourists strode up to the entrance of the Church of the Nativity - the reputed site of Jesus Christ's birth - a Palestinian tour guide moved in for the hard sell.
"Do you need a guide?" asked Adil Dweib as the visitors marched by him without saying a word.
In previous years, Mr Dweib would have pursued the group, but this time he shrugged his shoulders and rejoined a couple of colleagues leaning against a wall.
"This year is like 2000," says Mr Dweib - a slight exaggeration perhaps, as the millennium year was a bumper time for tourism in Bethlehem.
"Business is good and next year there will be hopefully even more tourists," he adds.
Community and business leaders, shopkeepers and tour guides, all tell you the same thing: the economy is getting better in this Christian pilgrimage centre in the rolling West Bank hills.
They were just pulling raccoons out of a chimney on COPS. Awww, teh cute.
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12.22.07 - 6:55 pm | #
Fags fighting other fags for absolute power while the poor populace gets shit on as a further form of psychosexual perversion.
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12.22.07 - 6:56 pm | #
LarryElvis is so big now!
plum p,better democrats please |
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12.22.07 - 6:56 pm | #
They were just pulling raccoons out of a chimney on COPS. Awww, teh cute.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Did the raccoons have a shirt on?
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12.22.07 - 6:57 pm | #
At Fark: After almost a year, Circuit City discovers what could go wrong in firing their most experienced staff.
kei & yuri |
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12.22.07 - 6:57 pm | #
I believe that black people are bear the mark of Cain. The blessed ones are "white and delightsome."
Let's not forget her!
Terry C - Democratic Bitch | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 6:54 pm | #
lynn wrote a novel in which it appears that two women get it on
when asked on teebee, lynn replied that that "wasn't necessarily" the interpretation of that scene
on the other hand, since her daughter is in a gay marriage, lynn cheney's attitude towards this is at odds to the administration's. when asked about it by jon stewart, she allowed that a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was a "very silly idea".
Seriously.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 6:59 pm | #
At Fark: After almost a year, Circuit City discovers what could go wrong in firing their most experienced staff.
kei & yuri
Sounds like the CEO is deserving of an extra large bonus this year.
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12.22.07 - 7:00 pm | #
I want a temple wedding. My husband and I will be sealed for all eternity and bring spirit babies into the world.
On gold plates.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 7:00 pm | #
I may smoke a beer.
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 6:58 pm | #
The story that followed the raccoon segment was cuter: they found a shoebox in the ruins of a burnt house, and "just because the firemen here are good guys," they put an oxygen mask on two puppies found totally inert in the box. The puppies revived and the cop narrating the post-raccoon segment adopted one.
kei & yuri |
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12.22.07 - 7:01 pm | #
Why does Dick Cheney continue to live?
Only the good die young?
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12.22.07 - 7:03 pm | #
kei & yuri: The story that followed the raccoon segment was cuter: they found a shoebox in the ruins of a burnt house, and "just because the firemen here are good guys," they put an oxygen mask on two puppies found totally inert in the box. The puppies revived and the cop narrating the post-raccoon segment adopted one.
I missed that. May have been looking at a map of Tustin.
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12.22.07 - 7:03 pm | #
Deborah Howell Speaks
Our very most favorite ombudsperson has a long and column discussing the way in which the Washington Post makes decisions about .... reviewing dance performances.
The description of the clothing of the Jewish high priest in the Book of Exodus portrays the Urim and Thummim as being put into the sacred breastplate, worn by the high priest over the Ephod
Just remember, when you fill the bong with beer to allow for "foam over" when you inhale. Assuming you inhale that is.
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12.22.07 - 7:07 pm | #
On gold plates.
Those are xtra cheese pizzas!
leibniz |
12.22.07 - 7:07 pm | #
Where are Harry, Ron and Hermione when we need them?
I'd like to set Fluffy loose in the White House.
(Mr Secret Service Person-- only because he'd make such a fine guardian)
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12.22.07 - 7:08 pm | #
Conservative officials who served in the Reagan administration are upset by the left-wing slant of the new movie” — Charlie Wilson’s War. They “said the movie promotes the left-wing myth that the CIA-led operation funded Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda and ultimately produced” the 9/11 attacks. “The officials blamed the anti-Reagan slant of the film on the movie’s screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin
From thinkP - could someone please answer for me how is it a myth that reagan the hater of all blacks funded and helped create al qaqa?
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12.22.07 - 7:08 pm | #
Have you ever searched for the origins of a river?
blake
And a good evening to you all.
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12.22.07 - 7:10 pm | #
It's hard for me to believe that Romney can win.
gop:scrod
Arabella Trefoil
if the magic urrim and thummim of the political polls are to be believed, only giuliani, hucksterbee and mccain have any chance of winning, and then only against hillary
Ronald Reagan's presidency paved the way for an even bigger idiot president - George W Bush.
What else is there to know?
Bond, James Bond |
12.22.07 - 7:11 pm | #
The Mittster is slick although his ego often gets the best of him and he tells tall tales or gets caught in outright lies (I saw daddy march with MLK, Jr.).
But worst of all he's blitheringly incompetent and he is Bushboy's favorite to succeed him, because he'll keep the wars going and keep feeding the Defense Contractors like crazy.
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12.22.07 - 7:11 pm | #
It's hard for me to believe that Romney can win.
I thought that about the Chimpy in 2000 and 2004, so there's that.
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12.22.07 - 7:11 pm | #
Conservative officials who served in the Hitler administration are upset by the left-wing slant of the new movie” —WWII. They said the movie promotes the left-wing myth that the Nazi operation funded Krupp ultimately produced the holocaust.
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12.22.07 - 7:12 pm | #
"Thompson's somewhat lackadaisacal lope is a smart counterfoil to Mitt Romney's executive-vampire zeal and glinty opportunism--maybe it takes a real fake to show up a fake fake."
They said the movie promotes the left-wing myth that the Nazi operation funded Krupp ultimately produced the holocaust.
leibniz
Not just coffee makers?
Cookie Guggleman |
12.22.07 - 7:13 pm | #
I thought that about the Chimpy in 2000 and 2004, so there's that.
Cookie Guggleman
Yeah, if the administration draws down troops to the pre-surge level and the press keeps telling us how much better Iraq is doing in every way, well, then I think we have a horse race.
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12.22.07 - 7:13 pm | #
ook at this little kitten her eyes are not the same size and so what? She's just special and original!
I saw her, yea special little thing, gonna be a jazz to watch grow up.
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12.22.07 - 7:14 pm | #
The Mittster is slick although his ego often gets the best of him and he tells tall tales or gets caught in outright lies (I saw daddy march with MLK, Jr.).
Apparently there are 2 witnesses who claim they in fact saw George Romney march with MLK. The real Mitt story is the guy is so shallow and disingenious that when his story was challenged he immediately back pedaled from what appears to be true.
He's basically a sack of shit.
I'm not so sure, Nick. The president has already started hinting that the spendthrift ways of Congress are going to put a drag on the economy.
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12.22.07 - 7:17 pm | #
A classic. Barney Frank (D-MA) on Mitt Romney
“The real Romney is clearly an extraordinarily ambitious man with no perceivable political principle whatsoever. He is the most intellectually dishonest human being in the history of politics.”
Bond, James Bond |
12.22.07 - 7:17 pm | #
The reason Iraq violence is down is because the Sunnis and Shia have all scattered to ethnic enclaves to avoid being murdered.
Bushboy balkanized Iraq and now wants to take credit for it!
And the MSM plays along as if he accomplished something worthwhile.
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12.22.07 - 7:17 pm | #
The only way to really search for the origins of a river is from the air and during a flood. The Victorian expedition for the origin of the Nile was absurd. The real origin of the Nile is a huge geographical area only seen from space and these clowns are searching in vain like they would find a fawcet in the deep woods.
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12.22.07 - 7:18 pm | #
“The real Romney is clearly an extraordinarily ambitious man with no perceivable political principle whatsoever. He is the most intellectually dishonest human being in the history of politics.”
Bond, James Bond
I lost ya at the second extrodainary thing.
He's a liar, is that what was said?
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 7:19 pm | #
bratwurst und schnapps?
jdw
Choose aging young jedi.
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 7:19 pm | #
at this point, does Bush really have credibility with the voters on any subject?
I don't think what he says matters (aside from announcing martial law or nuking Iran), and the next election is up to whoever the parties nominate.
nick carraway |
12.22.07 - 7:20 pm | #
Wow as if terri hatcher wasn't hot enough for xmas she makes stuffed cornish game hens and asparagus and ginger soup
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12.22.07 - 7:20 pm | #
Wow as if terri hatcher wasn't hot enough for xmas she makes stuffed cornish game hens and asparagus and ginger soup
Culture of TrÜth
Superman had to fly?
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 7:21 pm | #
Opium productivity in Afgahnistan up 34%.
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12.22.07 - 7:21 pm | #
The Mittster will say anything to get elected to office. We in Massachusetts know this for a fact, because he either was lying when he said he was pro-choice and anti-gun when he ran for governor or he's lying now saying he is "pro-life and pro-gun" now that he's running for the Gooper nomination.
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12.22.07 - 7:22 pm | #
A little quiet on the Eschaton front this evening, I see ...
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12.22.07 - 7:22 pm | #
The only way to really search for the origins of a river is from the air and during a flood. The Victorian expedition for the origin of the Nile was absurd. The real origin of the Nile is a huge geographical area only seen from space and these clowns are searching in vain like they would find a fawcet in the deep woods.
blake |
I recall as a child being at a small lake in the Northern Rockies where the eastern end drained ultimately into the Mississippi and the western end ultimately into the Columbia. It purports to be exactly on the Continental Divide???
At least that's what I was told. After that we went on a Jack-o-lope hunt, snipe were out of season.
Bond, James Bond |
12.22.07 - 7:22 pm | #
Well, poop. Looks like Simels isn't around at the moment.
I just returned from seeing Enchanted, and I was going to concur with his assessment of Amy Adams.
Sinfonian, Daddy |
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12.22.07 - 7:23 pm | #
A little quiet on the Eschaton front this evening, I see ...
Sinfonian, Daddy
Twas the 13000th day since declaration of Mission Accomplished, and my true love gave to me...
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 7:24 pm | #
I was at Barnes and Noble earlier this week and ran into an employee who I know because she has worked there since they opened. We chat a bit whenever we see each other. She said "Happy Holidays." I was so happy she said that. She has no idea if I'm Jewish, Christian, pagan, whatever and I thought it was so respectful of her to say this.
Now, if only I can find a way to get her past her disbelief in global warming...
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12.22.07 - 7:28 pm | #
The good people of the earth defy the atriots. The good people fight back by using their credit cards having fender benders in parking lots.
I've been saying things like "have a wonderful holiday" to everyone, since I don't want to assume they are Christmas-celebrators. Seems to me to be the appropriately progressive thing to do.
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12.22.07 - 7:30 pm | #
Tacitus Voltaire - Ah, come on. All's for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
The good people of the earth defy the atriots. The good people fight back by using their credit cards having fender benders in parking lots.
Could be worse. At the Town Center of Boca Raton last week, some assailant shot and killed a woman and her 8-year-old daughter following an evening of Christmas shopping.
Sinfonian, Daddy |
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12.22.07 - 7:31 pm | #
It's a quiet night because the atriots are out waging war on Christmas.
"Bury my heart with a Wal Mart Jesus." Pass it on; we strike at midnight, San Fran Commie Time.
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12.22.07 - 7:31 pm | #
I've been saying "Happy Holidays".
Any rightard who doesn't like that can bite me!
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 7:31 pm | #
Me, I just say "Bah, Humbug!" and leave it at that.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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12.22.07 - 7:32 pm | #
I hope Santa brings me a Buddy Christ this year.
Sinfonian, Daddy |
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12.22.07 - 7:32 pm | #
I'm watching "The Wizard of Oz."
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 7:32 pm | #
Scrooge never had any problem with xmas except that it wasn't sufficiently commercial.
The Ebenezer Scrooge we meet at the beginning of "A Christmas Carol" would have loved xmas as we know it. He could have dispensed with all the ghosts and gotten a good night's sleep.
The war on xmas is, in fact, over and Scrooge won.
SteveLG |
12.22.07 - 7:36 pm | #
Congratulations to your niece, Arabella.
What a wonderful reason to celebrate!
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Terry C - Democratic Bitch | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 7:34 pm | #
you don't know what good it does me to be able to know I'm not the only one who wants xmas gone out of my life.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
12.22.07 - 7:37 pm | #
Does anyone know how Tena H is doing? I have been here on and off for short periods over the last month and haven't seen a post by her. It could just be timing, but thought I'd check in with you regulars.
TEBB |
12.22.07 - 7:38 pm | #
TEBB - Tena took her ball and went home some months ago. Some philosophical dispute or something. At any rate, she no longer frequents this space.
Sinfonian, Daddy |
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12.22.07 - 7:40 pm | #
"you don't know what good it does me to be able to know I'm not the only one who wants xmas gone out of my life."
i like aspects of it, like memories of being a kid at xmas and putting out my leg lamp.
but other then that, by and large, fuck it.
jdw |
12.22.07 - 7:40 pm | #
I think Tena was burnt out. Too bad she left, though.
If the majority of the country is makde up or God-fearing Christians, why is pornography popular?
That part's easy: repressed sexual urges. Same reason the Repukes are forever getting into sex scandals. They're too busy covering up their "sordid" desires instead of just enjoying them guilt-free.
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12.22.07 - 7:42 pm | #
Tena took her ball and went home some months ago. Some philosophical dispute or something. At any rate, she no longer frequents this space.
Someone, I can't recall who, mentioned having lunch with her a few weeks ago.
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12.22.07 - 7:42 pm | #
If the majority of the country is makde up or God-fearing Christians, why is pornography popular?
That part's easy: repressed sexual urges. Same reason the Repukes are forever getting into sex scandals. They're too busy covering up their "sordid" desires instead of just enjoying them guilt-free.
Sinfonian, Daddy
They act like sex is so dirty, but they are the worst perverts around.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 7:44 pm | #
"Don't you like xmas music?" someone asked me.
"You know, I like water, but I wouldn't want to have a garden hose shoved down my throat and turned on for a month."
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12.22.07 - 7:45 pm | #
"You know, I like water, but I wouldn't want to have a garden hose shoved down my throat and turned on for a month."
And so this thread, like so many others, returns to waterboarding.
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12.22.07 - 7:45 pm | #
"They act like sex is so dirty,"
it is, if done properly..
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12.22.07 - 7:45 pm | #
I'm so happy for her.
gop:scrod
Arabella Trefoil |
Congrats. Get her a snow shovel for Christmas.
Bond, James Bond |
12.22.07 - 7:46 pm | #
They lost me when they started putting the Xmas stuff out in late September.
They lost me when they starting putting that stuff out on Xmas.
leibniz |
12.22.07 - 7:46 pm | #
Sinfonian,
What are you doing here on a Saturday PM? I never see you on weekends ...
res ipsa loquitur |
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12.22.07 - 7:46 pm | #
"
They lost me when they starting putting that stuff out on Xmas."
Jareds pushed all the final buttons to disengage our race to the 25th.
The ads are annoying.
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12.22.07 - 7:47 pm | #
From an earlier thread: Journalism degree (Worthless), Journeyman electrician, CDL and an RN license. The RN part took just two years. I advise all my neices and nephews to get a degree, but also LEARN A TRADE.
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12.22.07 - 7:47 pm | #
"They act like sex is so dirty,"
it is, if done properly..
jdw
I don't remember.....
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12.22.07 - 7:47 pm | #
I actually had a little observance for myself around the hour of the solstice late last night. I really enjoyed it, and had the most vivid and complex dreams, which I almost never do.
I'm still not so good at remembering them. Many scenes remain with me, but I've lost the :narrative" altogether.
SteveLG |
12.22.07 - 7:47 pm | #
Today and tomorrow are great days to stay at home.
Conservative officials who served in the Hitler administration
Those fuckers are still around?
Terry C - Democratic Bitch
Not really. They served in the Nixon assministration alongside a young and mildly gay Dickless Cheney before he moved to the dark(er) side.
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12.22.07 - 7:48 pm | #
"Decades of retail work have ground xmas out of me."
Me - it's the fact that xmas is my fucking birthday, and the fact that I had to act grateful for people being stupid around me about that and people demonstrating they couldn't think about me and then wanting (actually demanding) to be thanked. Fuck it.
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12.22.07 - 7:48 pm | #
Jareds pushed all the final buttons to disengage our race to the 25th.
The ads are annoying.
EkCenTriK
My daughter said the same today.
I told her that we were saying that on Eschaton, too.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 7:48 pm | #
Can I haz stupid Huckabees for 300 now?
Barry from AK Traben-Trarbach |
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12.22.07 - 7:48 pm | #
I don't remember.....
Terry C - Democratic Bitch | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 7:47 pm | #
I don't remember.
Sinfonian, Daddy
In lieu of cokes I recommend an exchange of bodily fluids.
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12.22.07 - 7:49 pm | #
Have a coke on me, Terry. If I could remember where I put them ...
Hi, res. Just got back with the kidz from seeing "Enchanted," and so they're ready to just settle down. For once they're not clamoring at me to get off the laptop, so I thought I'd check and see what was up around here.
I'm sometimes around on weekends ... just not as reliably, I guess.
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12.22.07 - 7:49 pm | #
Today and tomorrow are great days to stay at home.
gop:scrod
Arabella Trefoil
I'm off until the 27th, since we put wto papers to bed berfore noon on Friday
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12.22.07 - 7:49 pm | #
Bush's theme song coming up on "The Wizard of Oz":
"If I Only Had a Brain"
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 7:51 pm | #
I'm for it. Why the question?
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink |
the one word that jumped out from mmy threadscan, so i put it in the from of a question
olexicon, |
12.22.07 - 7:51 pm | #
I'm off till January 2.
And I have nothing to do between Christmas and New Year's.
Who wants to invite me over?
Sinfonian, Daddy |
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12.22.07 - 7:51 pm | #
From an earlier thread: Journalism degree (Worthless), Journeyman electrician, CDL and an RN license. The RN part took just two years. I advise all my neices and nephews to get a degree, but also LEARN A TRADE
i have the R.N. license also; and if the genie gave me wishes, i'd trade it to be a master welder, or plumber.
At least they won't "outsource" plumbing. Not even the CEO class would jet to New Delhi to shit.
"Jareds pushed all the final buttons to disengage our race to the 25th."
they play this one ad here that cracks us up: the woman tells her husband, jeff, not to get her hedge clippers but instead a piece of jewelry because that's more romantic.
my wife would kill me if i bought her baubles, but she's asked for and got all sorts of lawn equipment...
jdw |
12.22.07 - 7:52 pm | #
run for viands and vino successful. a nice glass of Menage a Trois by my side....beef stew on the cooker. now to sit back and wait.
therealhellkitty |
12.22.07 - 7:52 pm | #
The December Full Moon occuring on the evening of the 23rd and morning of the 24th being so close to the solstice places it about as high in the sky as you'll ever see it full at midnight.
Bond, James Bond |
12.22.07 - 7:53 pm | #
Dickless Cheney's is "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!"
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink
Actually, I think he comes along around the time of "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
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12.22.07 - 7:53 pm | #
the one word that jumped out from mmy threadscan, so i put it in the from of a question
olexicon
Interesting. Porn is simply something in which one demonstrates a prurient interest, apparently. A prurient interest is one marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire. So, there is gun porn, torture porn, celebrity gossip porn, religious porn, and all manner of other porn.
The key fact is that "porn" lives inside the observer, not in the material observed.
Not that the SCROTUS gives a shit.
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12.22.07 - 7:55 pm | #
I think they could have used a bit less Zinfandel in this wine.
Actually, I think he comes along around the time of "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
Sinfonian, Daddy
He shoots... he scores.
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12.22.07 - 7:55 pm | #
"
my wife would kill me if i bought her baubles, but she's asked for and got all sorts of lawn equipment...
Don't go cheap on her. Make sure you get the expensive Potting Soil.
EkCenTriK |
12.22.07 - 7:55 pm | #
Actually, I think he comes along around the time of "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
Sinfonian, Daddy
I thought that was Karl's Theme...
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink |
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12.22.07 - 7:56 pm | #
Interesting. Porn is simply something in which one demonstrates a prurient interest, apparently. A prurient interest is one marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire. So, there is gun porn, torture porn, celebrity gossip porn, religious porn, and all manner of other porn.
How can I, as lamer high tech pilot, even deign to lay in his bed?
Oh yea, more beerz.
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12.22.07 - 7:57 pm | #
"Don't go cheap on her. Make sure you get the expensive Potting Soil."
she had a weed whacker on her list this year, along with a sewing machine..which is what she got.
jdw |
12.22.07 - 7:57 pm | #
Dickless Cheney's is "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!"
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink
"If I Only Had A Heart"
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12.22.07 - 7:58 pm | #
Anyone want talk about Mitt the Twit? .... nah, let's put on the Muppet's Christmas CD instead. Gotta get in that Salt Lake City state of mind.
montanaheadcold |
12.22.07 - 7:58 pm | #
I'm off till January 2.
And I have nothing to do between Christmas and New Year's.
I still have grades to do.
leibniz |
12.22.07 - 7:58 pm | #
i suppose i might be looking at 'porn', by the R. Manhammer definition.
i was given a "James Bond Encyclopedia" as an Xmas prize, and some of the gadgets, vehicles, and sheer unconsciously-gay admiring of the virile agent is probably porn.
The "Bond Women" section? Ah, that, my friend, that is art.
The commercials with the luxury cars tied up with ribbons on xmas morning piss me off.
How rich do you have to be for it not to cause a marriage-ending argument when one spouse goes out and drops sixty grand for a "little surprise" ?
SteveLG |
12.22.07 - 7:58 pm | #
"How rich do you have to be for it not to cause a marriage-ending argument when one spouse goes out and drops sixty grand for a "little surprise" ?"
i can only figure they get their money's worth out of those ads, which tells me there's a shitload of money out there just waiting to be spent...
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12.22.07 - 8:02 pm | #
The toddler is watching the wizard of oz now.
I lasted an hour. Need a break.
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12.22.07 - 8:02 pm | #
I just finished reading Joe McGinniss's new book Never Enough.
It's sickening. Shows what the pursuit of money does to you.
When did this site become a race to be "first," rather than the first to say something?
How about being the "first" to volunteer for something? Like being fisted by Lynne Cheney? I wasn't the first to join in that. I just hope I'm not the last.
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12.22.07 - 8:04 pm | #
It's funny. I didn't think the Wizard of Oz was all that great as a child. It wasn't until I was in college that I really began to appreciate it.
A bit delayed developmentally, I guess.
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12.22.07 - 8:04 pm | #
Okay, the kidz are hungry. It's getting late (by their standards) so I'd better put some food on them so I can get them to bed soon.
yup. and that's why i got little patience with that type singing the blues about money.
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12.22.07 - 8:06 pm | #
Someone above noted that it's not the troops or the war that will be the big mover in the next hellection, but rather the economy.
Let me count the ways.
1) Rich motherfuckers paying less in taxes than their secretaries.
2) The Fed giveth not a single shit about asset inflation, but comes down like a ton of bricks on anything remotely like wage growth.
3) Stagflation like the 1970s, which is always what happens when a war of choice is paid for not through taxation, but through debasement (inflation) of the currency.
4) Unregulated predatory lending has set the housing market up for a very very nasty tumble. No bottom in sight for YEARS to come.
5) All new bankruptcy law for the megajillionaires of the credit card scam, er, industry. Makes it nearly impossible to dump the credit debt when shit happens.
6) A Republican labor market, which is one in which millions of people have been out of work for so long that their benefits have expired and they no longer show up on the unemployment statistics. This allows employers to really fuck over their workers because other jobs are really difficult to find. Also helps keeping wages down since the employer can always fire the expensive help and hire cheap help (axe Circuit City how that's working for them).
7) No fucking health care for tens of millions, but an unbelievably rich and profitable health "insurance" industry. Hope your kid doesn't get seriously ill while you're holding down that third job at McDonald's.
Don't even THINK about protesting. Your name and picture goes into the Gooptard Enema's List and you can never get on another airplane without being harrassed.
Have I mentioned how much I hate Gooptards?
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12.22.07 - 8:06 pm | #
I agree... they must run them year after year because a significant number of people actually do that... and a larger number aspire to it.
they want to sell as many as possible before the end of the year. Remember they pay tax on inventory. Also, allocation of the next year's vehicles, who get's the most of the hottest models, is based on those sales.
You know, I think Sinfonian is right.
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12.22.07 - 8:09 pm | #
i was given a "James Bond Encyclopedia" as an Xmas prize, and some of the gadgets, vehicles, and sheer unconsciously-gay admiring of the virile agent is probably porn.
The "Bond Women" section? Ah, that, my friend, that is art.
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Cynicus
Sept à la banque!
Night all.
Bond, James Bond |
12.22.07 - 8:10 pm | #
Someone above noted that it's not the troops or the war that will be the big mover in the next hellection, but rather the economy.
I'd like to think it might be about wealth and income inequality and unfairness, rather than "the economy" but it's hard to believe that the msm will ever report it as such... at least without resorting to "class warfare" name-calling.
Class warfare is, of course, what's been going on for decades. What Edwards is calling for is more like "self-defense."
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12.22.07 - 8:10 pm | #
" vehicles, who get's the most of the hottest models, is based on those sales."
they run these ads on the radio where they say they are blowing the cars out AT COST, so they can get more cars allocated next year. makes no sense.
jdw |
12.22.07 - 8:12 pm | #
i was given a "James Bond Encyclopedia" as an Xmas prize, and some of the gadgets, vehicles, and sheer unconsciously-gay admiring of the virile agent is probably porn.
The "Bond Women" section? Ah, that, my friend, that is art.
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Sept à la banque!
Night all.
For your Solstice season, may that be "soixante-neuf a la banque".
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Cynicus |
12.22.07 - 8:12 pm | #
Sinfonian - thanks for letting me know about Tena. I live in Dallas and met her once at a Democratic organizational meeting. She's a very sharp person with a strong sense of justice for people from all socio economic groups.
Right now in Dallas it is 37 degrees and the wind is at 29 mph with gusts to 35 mph. I ventured out only once today - to the grocery store to buy 5 pounds of fresh green beans (that were shipped from Florida!) that I'll be preparing for Christmas eve at a friend's house. She has 16 people coming. I wonder how many hours it will take me to snap all five pounds? I could have cheated and bought frozen ones but that doesn't seem right for the holidays. I'll cook them with some olive oil and minced garlic, then toss them with slivered almonds. Oh crap, I forgot to buy the almonds. Back to the horribly crowded groc store tomorrow I guess.
TEBB |
12.22.07 - 8:13 pm | #
they want to sell as many as possible before the end of the year. Remember they pay tax on inventory. Also, allocation of the next year's vehicles, who get's the most of the hottest models, is based on those sales.
therealhellkitty
I know... I had a bout with car sales many years ago... if there is an occupation I'm less suited for I don't know what unless it's NBA center.
I still hate the goddamn ads, though.
SteveLG |
12.22.07 - 8:14 pm | #
I'd like to think it might be about wealth and income inequality and unfairness, rather than "the economy" but it's hard to believe that the msm will ever report it as such... at least without resorting to "class warfare" name-calling.
Ah, the MSM. You're quite right. They will NEVER call it by the right name or provide correct information. They suck, largely because they are owned and operated by the obscenely wealthy.
Class warfare is, of course, what's been going on for decades. What Edwards is calling for is more like "self-defense."
SteveLG
From my knothole, what Edwards is advocating looks more like nobless oblige. It's self-defense when it comes from the ones needing the defending, I think. Of course, it could be that he's advocating that we defend ourselves. I think that would be a valid read.
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12.22.07 - 8:15 pm | #
Hey dudes, I need some advice.
I like drinking Sambuca, but I think the stuff I'm drinking is crap.
What's a quality brand? I'm ready to take my Sambuca to the next level.
wÒÓ† |
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12.22.07 - 8:15 pm | #
"Noelboarding"?
or should that be "Noelboreding?"
Culture of TrÜth |
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12.22.07 - 8:16 pm | #
they run these ads on the radio where they say they are blowing the cars out AT COST, so they can get more cars allocated next year. makes no sense.
jdw
Of course, the dealers have many sources of profit besides the margin on new cars.
It's mainly the salespeople (OMG!) who get screwed.
SteveLG |
12.22.07 - 8:16 pm | #
Also, allocation of the next year's vehicles, who get's the most of the hottest models, is based on those sales.
therealhellkitty
If all I have to do to get a smoking hot model like this, then point me to some cars!
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink |
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12.22.07 - 8:17 pm | #
"class warfare" - (noun) Of, or pertaing to the condition of one of the proles starting to catch on to what the rich are doing. Antonyms "trickle-down economics", "unregulated free market", "Randian capitalism".
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Cynicus |
12.22.07 - 8:17 pm | #
I'll cook them with some olive oil and minced garlic, then toss them
with slivered almonds. Oh crap, I forgot to buy the almonds. Back to
the horribly crowded groc store tomorrow I guess.
saute the garlic with some fresh rosemary then toss in the almonds, or use pine nuts (even better!) I'm down in wimberley and we are getting the same wind here. Don't know that it's 37* but I do know it's snowing in Amarillo which is as it should be.
Think I'll go watch the game.
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12.22.07 - 8:18 pm | #
I could have cheated and bought frozen ones but that doesn't seem right for the holidays.
I always, always buy fresh veggies. But I've been reading about this and have found out that fresh frozen veggies actually have more nutritional value than those that are shipped across the country, because those veggies lose their vitamins the longer they take to get to the table.
I used frozen french cut string beans today to make my dish of green beans with sauted garlic, pancetta, sun dried tomatoes and toasted pignole nuts, dressed with olive oil and a touch of balsamic vinegar.
They were delicious.
Shaw Kenawe, Solsticer |
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12.22.07 - 8:19 pm | #
yo, from the road.
Moe, avec nuveau laptop |
12.22.07 - 8:19 pm | #
what's so hard about "tax the filthy-rich!"?
gary in fl |
12.22.07 - 8:20 pm | #
The commercials with the luxury cars tied up with ribbons on xmas morning piss me off.
How rich do you have to be for it not to cause a marriage-ending argument when one spouse goes out and drops sixty grand for a "little surprise" ?
SteveLG | 12.22.07 - 7:58 pm
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Last night on one of the local TV shows they did a NEWS STORY on the whole Buy your Wife a Car for Christmas! deal.
The focus of the story? Was it the vast amount of wealth people had where they could buy a new car as a gift?
Nope. The focus? Do you get to keep the oversize bow?
I kid you not. They compared the Lexus bow keeping vs the BMW deal where they LOAN you the bow.
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12.22.07 - 8:20 pm | #
From my knothole, what Edwards is advocating looks more like nobless oblige. It's self-defense when it comes from the ones needing the defending, I think. Of course, it could be that he's advocating that we defend ourselves. I think that would be a valid read.
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink
I think you're right... Edwards' rhetoric does tend to focus on "the right thing to do" rather than "sticking it to the man," if you will.
I'm on the last chapter of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine and she feels that the lessons learned in those countries in South America which appear to be successfully overcoming their bout with The Chicago School of privatization, looting, impoverishment and exploitation is that organization needs to be local and broadly-based.
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12.22.07 - 8:21 pm | #
I kid you not. They compared the Lexus bow keeping vs the BMW deal where they LOAN you the bow.
I kid you not. They compared the Lexus bow keeping vs the BMW deal where they LOAN you the bow.
s p ocko
These are crucial points in a society composed of the obscenely wealthy and those who are so deluded that they think at some point they, too, will be obscenely wealthy and so need to defend the priveliges of the uber class.
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12.22.07 - 8:22 pm | #
If all I have to do to get a smoking hot model like this, then point me to some cars!
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink
Uh, miss... is anyone using that spare cuff?
SteveLG |
12.22.07 - 8:23 pm | #
what's so hard about "tax the filthy-rich!"?
gary in fl
Yeah, after all, you imploded WTC 7, so anything's possible.
Richard |
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12.22.07 - 8:23 pm | #
"If you LIKE licorish-flavored alcohol *shudder*, try ouzo or Pernod."
In an early MASH episode a Greek officer asked henry blake if he'd ever yried ouzo. Blake's response - yes I did - I woke up in a trash can.
My experience was similar.
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12.22.07 - 8:23 pm | #
I'm on the last chapter of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine and she feels that the lessons learned in those countries in South America which appear to be successfully overcoming their bout with The Chicago School of privatization, looting, impoverishment and exploitation is that organization needs to be local and broadly-based.
SteveLG
She is absolutely correct. If we could become organized at that level and with some intensity, we Americans could reverse the fascist police state for the rich trend we are in currently. Of course, that would only last a generation.
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12.22.07 - 8:24 pm | #
Speaking of the wind, I just stepped out to have a smoke. Spit a big hock of phlegm and, I shit you not, it went on the roof.
TinyPorcelainMouse |
12.22.07 - 8:25 pm | #
I kid you not. They compared the Lexus bow keeping vs the BMW deal where they LOAN you the bow.
s p ocko | Homepage
OMG!!! those bastids i wan the boa!!!!
Culture of TrÜth |
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12.22.07 - 8:25 pm | #
I kid you not. They compared the Lexus bow keeping vs the BMW deal where they LOAN you the bow.
So the important thing is the quality of the bow job? Hmm.....
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Cynicus |
12.22.07 - 8:25 pm | #
"Class warfare"
Yeah, right - because the obscenely wealthy are SUCH victims.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 8:26 pm | #
Two Sambuca brands I've had:
Samuca Romano and Opal Nera
Once, a girlfriend and I sat up all night talking about our rotten boyfriends and drank a bottle of Sambuca. I threw up in the cat's litterbox that night.
Yeah, right - because the obscenely wealthy are SUCH victims.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch
Oh, but they are! Of course, it's "victim" in the same sense as the evangelical snake-loving xstian "victim." I.e., wholly made up.
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink |
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12.22.07 - 8:27 pm | #
This week's edition was caused by my needing something cute today.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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12.22.07 - 8:28 pm | #
I'm drinking Romano right now and it's not bad.
I'm wondering where on the quality scale it is, compared to say, the ne plus ultra of Sambucas, whatever that may be.
wÒÓ† |
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12.22.07 - 8:29 pm | #
If you like liquorice flavored booze the green fairy is for you.
Absinthe.
When Italians put Sambuco in their caffe, it's called "caffe correcto."
They know.
My grandfather used to make anisette liquer every year and make "caffe correcto" for his family and friends.
Shaw Kenawe, Solsticer |
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12.22.07 - 8:33 pm | #
Ah! White tail deer. The blondes of the forest. We like them.
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink |
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12.22.07 - 8:35 pm | #
Try absinthe
or Ouzo
or Pernod
Sinfonian -- I loved "Enchanted" -- I grew up with all those Disney animated features & was thoroughly entertained -- Amy Adams is also magnificent in "Junebug"! (& we currently have three unoccupied guest houses -- when can you come?)
BTW -- I highly recommend Krugman's "The Conscience of a Liberal"
Have I killed this thread (he asked, hopefully [astonishing everyone by using the word correctly)
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12.22.07 - 8:35 pm | #
Can you buy absinthe in the US?
wÒÓ†
It's legal, but demand is currently far exceeding supply.
SteveLG |
12.22.07 - 8:35 pm | #
I think student loans are about to become the next economic meltdown. I noticed, after the bankruptcy bill passed, there were a slew of commercials about how to get out of debt using home equity. Then came commercials about how to get out of credit card debt using home equity. Both types of debt are now feeding off one another. Now I'm seeing more adverts about how to refinance your student loan. And yes, I'm not an economist.
Candymarl |
12.22.07 - 8:35 pm | #
Last night we all met the Ouzo Stallion.
Culture of TrÜth |
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12.22.07 - 8:36 pm | #
the realhellkitty - thanks for that great suggestion. i have a rosemary plant in a pot on my deck, assuming the wind has not torn it from its pot......
TEBB |
12.22.07 - 8:36 pm | #
Hey, Richard, I liked both pictures.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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12.22.07 - 8:36 pm | #
Now I'm seeing more adverts about how to refinance your student loan. And yes, I'm not an economist.
Candymarl
What a great idea! Roll up all one's debt into a home refinance, then walk away as the market crumbles. It slaughters the bankers, whose hearts are as dank and corroded as Dickless Cheney's (if he had one), but has a limited impact on normal people. Certainly far lower than trying to pay off a $100,000 student loan burden while plying one's trade.
R. Manhammer, Packing Snink |
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12.22.07 - 8:38 pm | #
i *think* that the Fed law now allows absinthe, but i also think some states still opt to ban sales.
i haven't seen any in KY.
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Cynicus |
12.22.07 - 8:39 pm | #
These are crucial points in a society composed of the obscenely wealthy and those who are so deluded that they think at some point they, too, will be obscenely wealthy and so need to defend the priveliges of the uber class.
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I really KNOW this group of people. The interesting thing is that for some of them they DID make it. But of course they don't see that they made it because of a system from FDR that was set up to help them and prevent the robber barons and obscenely wealthy from winning all the time.
So they passed down the hate of the unions to their kids. They passed down the Aspirational world view to their kids. It is easier to say, 'We are not the poor and we will not stay poor and be with the poor. We are better than that.' than to say, "Let's stop the rich from screwing us."
They associate with the Republicans because THEY are the ones they want to be. Of course they never look at the lack of morality of the rich, the things that they do to get the money. They don't look at that because they say, "When I'm rich I'll be different." And some are. They are vilified as Limousine Liberals.. They want to GET away from the poor, they don't ever want to think of themselves as working class or even middle class. They WANT the lifestyle of the rich and famous because they KNOW that with their hard work they will make it!
And the only people who are stopping them are the people BELOW them. They don't want to look at the people above them who are sending their jobs away. They can't see blaming them because the real people to blame are the people in Mexico or in China who are taking their jobs. How did they get those jobs? Well in the case of Mexioo they get the jobs illegally by sneaking here. They have no idea who hires them, certainly not corporations and rich people who want the cheap labor.
They don't think about how the Chinese got all the manufacturing jobs. Until the cheap labor and lack of environmental controls start killing their pets and poisoning their babies.
The killing of pets was the first time people her really paid the price of the capital chasing cheap labor around the globe and them going to places where they can destroy the environment or exploit workers in the service of the rich.
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12.22.07 - 8:41 pm | #
Hey, Richard, I liked both pictures.
My brother's doggies, and the deer were observed in a park about thirty miles away.
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12.22.07 - 8:42 pm | #
Salon had an interesting report on absinthe & its bad rep & how it is now available in the US -- Br Cuthbert tried it when he was in Yurp but he hates licorice, don't don't pay him any mind! (he also hates marzipan, but I get his so that is OK -- the best thing about St. Francis of Assisi is his purported last words -- "Bring marzipan!")
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12.22.07 - 8:42 pm | #
"I think student loans are about to become the next economic meltdown. I noticed, after the bankruptcy bill passed, there were a slew of commercials about how to get out of debt using home equity."
How would this negatively impact student loans?
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12.22.07 - 8:43 pm | #
the realhellkitty - thanks for that great suggestion. i have a rosemary
plant in a pot on my deck, assuming the wind has not torn it from its
pot......
but of course. I steal rosemary from the landscape plants next door all the time. It's great in the smoker or under a standing rib roast.
Here's a recipit for you.
2-3 dozen dried, pitted prunes soaked in marsala or port. a bunch of bootleg rosemary fronds stripped of needles. Be sure they are at least as big as bamboo skewers.
Take your soaked prunes, run a few up your rosemary skewers and wrap each prune in bacon. Secure bacon with toothpicks. Place kebabed prunes over a charcoal fire and cook until the bacon is crisp.
Sure you can. I have bought it here in Texas right in the middle of the bible belt.
therealhellkitty | 12.22.07 - 8:37 pm | #
The hill country is not really bible belt no more.
rootless-e |
12.22.07 - 8:43 pm | #
I spent part of a college summer in northern italy on an archaeological dig. The local town mayor was a former WWII POW who spent his time in Ohio. He came back a rich man. He served us grappa, which a colleague said should have an octane rating. It was like drinking jet fuel. I remember sleeping with another student, then standing on a balcony screaming "Cinque".
leibniz |
12.22.07 - 8:44 pm | #
Hey R.M., I never thought of it that way. Students, start your engines!
Candymarl |
12.22.07 - 8:45 pm | #
Take your soaked prunes, run a few up your rosemary skewers and wrap each prune in bacon. Secure bacon with toothpicks. Place kebabed prunes over a charcoal fire and cook until the bacon is crisp.
Serve while warm.
therealhellkitty
You forgot to add the crucial last steps:
Discard the skewer and the prune and gnosh the bacon.
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12.22.07 - 8:45 pm | #
(he also hates marzipan, but I get his so that is OK -- the best thing
about St. Francis of Assisi is his purported last words -- "Bring
marzipan!")
Oh, good grappa is just wonderful... sweet fruit and fire.
I guess that's the exception, given the comments I invariably hear about it, but when I've visited wineries in Italy I always try their own grappa and it's unfailingly brilliant.
Given the way they feed you over there, a shot after dinner as a digestif is indispensable. I'd hate to get drunk on the stuff, though.
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12.22.07 - 8:47 pm | #
He served us grappa, which a colleague said should have an octane rating. It was like drinking jet fuel
i must have had some tamed grappa, as mine was not nearly so bad.
the 'jet fuel' experience for me was a case of mescal. All of the Spanish on the case i could read was the 'keep away from fire and flame' warnings. Made for a hell of a party, but a 3 day hangover. Did get to send Dave to Kansas, tho.
"He served us grappa, which a colleague said should have an octane rating. It was like drinking jet fuel."
my italian friends have served it to me, and assurred me what they were serving was of the highest quality....i'd rather drink paint thinner.
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12.22.07 - 8:48 pm | #
That whole Mitt Romney is nothing but a game show host line is good, but I'm a little concerned about raising the ire of Bob Barker. I've seen him beat people up for less.
bill |
12.22.07 - 8:48 pm | #
The hill country is not really bible belt no more.
Speaking of alcohol, for xmas we're going to have some Chateau de Beaulon Pineau des Charentes. It's good stuff.
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12.22.07 - 8:49 pm | #
Hey R.M., I never thought of it that way. Students, start your engines!
Candymarl
Actually, it's very benign socially, I believe. As usual, the obscenely wealthy will be protected. All the collapsed debt will be cast upon the shoulders of the taxpayer (follow the glorious shitpile and you'll see), who should have been shouldering the costs for post-secondary education anyway, as we did during the fifties, sixties, and seventies.
It's incredibly inefficient to force twenty-somethings with low earning power to indenture themselves to MBNA for the next twenty years of their lives to pay off a debt secured by their education. Society as a whole benefits from having a highly educated population and workforce. Society as a whole should pay for, or at least strongly subsidize, post-secondary education for all those who can qualify for it scholastically. Not just for those who parents are wealthy or for those willing to indenture themselves to some blood-sucking credit card company.
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12.22.07 - 8:50 pm | #
Fresh? You call dis FRESH!?!?!
bo |
12.22.07 - 8:50 pm | #
Grappa: This is my favorite.
SteveLG |
12.22.07 - 8:50 pm | #
That whole Mitt Romney is nothing but a game show host line is good, but I'm a little concerned about raising the ire of Bob Barker. I've seen him beat people up for less.
bill |
The Shitster reminds ME of a used car salesman.
A not very successful used car salesman.
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12.22.07 - 8:51 pm | #
one bourbon. one scotch. one beer...
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12.22.07 - 8:51 pm | #
It's far better for those twenty-somethings to be able to buy cars and furniture and clothes than to have to channel all that money to banks.
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12.22.07 - 8:51 pm | #
(he also hates marzipan, but I get his so that is OK -- the best thing
about St. Francis of Assisi is his purported last words -- "Bring
marzipan!")
Prior Aelred |
The thread that would not die.
Richard |
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12.22.07 - 8:55 pm | #
You know something that would be nice to cultivate? Disgust for the obscenely rich.
The money lenders can kiss my brown ass.
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12.22.07 - 8:55 pm | #
Or disgust for the rich who don't use their wealth wisely. We have a society that lives on consumption of goods, so making people NOT want to buy stuff is not good for our consumption society.
Did you know that we as a country have a NEGATIVE savings rate?
That is really insane.
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12.22.07 - 8:55 pm | #
Jesus. The beverage for those who are concerned that their normal diet doesn't contain enough turpentine.
SteveLG
Thanks. I did not know that.
Jesus |
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12.22.07 - 8:55 pm | #
Did I way I was outta here.
Stupid skank at home just accused me of having..
well... let it go
Nite bats.
Oh, Happy Holidays too iffnn I don't see ya before New Years or such.
Grrrrrr....
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12.22.07 - 8:55 pm | #
Leave me alone, loon. You have me on ignore, remember?
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12.22.07 - 8:57 pm | #
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bo |
12.22.07 - 8:57 pm | #
Well, ok, but it's not far from San Marcos which is now hipsterville.
rootless-e |
12.22.07 - 8:58 pm | #
I don't know R.M. Next thing you know those twenty somethings will want health care, jobs, unions, constitutional rights, freedom from torture etc. Then where will we be? They might even agitate for democracy. The Horror!
Candymarl |
12.22.07 - 8:59 pm | #
"Leave me alone, loon. You have me on ignore, remember?"
Nah... Remember Bush is realy just a bully. He doesn't have the balls to go to war with Russia (Cheney OTOH???)
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