I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Knock, knock
woohoo
Crunchy!
Man, haloscan is playing with my head.
doggone laptop
Ooops, I miscounted - thought the previous thread had been up longer than it actually was. Kind of blogger jet-lag.
wow
Arf.
o. i was robbed!
OK, I'll bite. Who's there?
Blogger jet lag. I like that idea.
I was second and then I was third. And now No Comments
Hello moonbats 
just been watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (what a mouthful)
the second half was better than the first but I can see how some people would give up on it, it rewards you eventually.
loved the cinematography
meh.
It seems weird to me, that come the general election campaign, Democratic candidates seem to spend lots of efforts trying to convince Republicans that they are in agreement with them on many issues and pandering to get their votes.
Congratulations.
You have successfully digested and regurgitated Charles Krauthammer's latest editorial.
I did call sheets
OK, I'll bite. Who's there?
Upsidasium
The ghost of politicians' spines.
You make up the joke.
Wow...comments all over the place.
Jevan needs a paddlin'.
Thomas L. Friedman, mall rat by marriage:
Friedman's wife, Ann, is a graduate of Stanford University. Her father, Matthew Bucksbaum, is the chairman of the board of General Growth Properties, the real estate development group that he co-founded with his brother in 1954. The Bucksbaums helped pioneer the development of shopping centers in the United States. As of 2007, Forbes estimated the Bucksbaum family's assets at $4.1 billion, including about 18.6 million square meters of mall space.
Knock, knock
Who's there?
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Gorgeous Friday Cat Blogging
Jevan needs a paddlin'.
Zap
Why reward good behavior. 
Knock, knock
Who's there?
I heard a three-year old telling herself knock-knock jokes and laughing at them riotously. The best one had this:
"Who's there?"
"The door, silly."
Nap time.
Later, 'bats
Met my wife's relatives today. Nice people. (The world is truly getting smaller.) Here is semi-rural Michigan my nephew Jeff brought his wife from the Netherlands. Joacim from Sweden brought his wife (something totally unpronouncable) from Japan. They met in Laos where she was doing field work as an anthropologist. They are living in Chicago by Barack Obama in Hyde Park where she is a professor at the University of Chicago. (I gave HER a book too. Some day someone is going to notice - I hope)
But that is pretty amazing. Of the fourteen people there. One from Sweden, one from Japan, and one from the Netherlands.
Peace.
Peace.
DWD - S☮S
Motorists are facing further pain after a new warning that the latest surge in crude oil prices to record highs could add another 20p to a litre at the pumps within weeks.
The forecast, from the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) came as new figures showed car sales wilting in the face of sky high fuel prices and collapsing consumer confidence.
Fuel prices set yet another record today at the pumps, rising to an average of 119p for unleaded petrol and 132.4p for diesel, according to the IAM Motoring Trust, which monitors pump prices daily.
Technical director Tim Shallcross said that the surge in oil prices in recent days to fresh records above $146 a barrel had yet to feed through to the pumps.
"If crude prices stay around their current level, we could well see another 20p on a litre over the coming month," he said.
But he added that petrol retailers had not passed on the full cost of the 100% rise in crude prices over the 12 months to the end of June. If they had, he said, unleaded would already be at 140p a litre on average and diesel 150p, with further rises to come.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
busine...l.petrol.diesel
"The door, silly."
Truer words have never been spoken.
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Okay, I'd better go be social.
But it's been a crazy day at the homepage: apparently MLK was a Republican, GWB exploits Jefferson's legacy, a Helms tribute, a secret Crist picture, and more. So go check it out at your convenience.
Catch you patriotz laterz.
He's certainly become enamored with the kids in camo, almost weirdly so. His straining heart skips a beat when a platoon marches by in formation, and you see an aging man who never wore a military uniform fantasize about the experience, seemingly sad that he missed out in his radical youth.
Don't think so.
Hitchens isn't enamored of the idea of being in the military.
He just wants to spend a few weeks in the barracks with all those young hardbodies -- preferably in the showers.
the ghost of politicians' spines who?
triangulation!
Echidne,
Knock knock
Who's there?
Madam
Madam, who?
Open the door ma dam foot's stuck.
Motorists are facing further pain after a new warning that the latest surge in crude oil prices to record highs could add another 20p to a litre at the pumps within weeks.
Also, stay away from the Atmos devices.
peace
so you all enjoying July 4th?
Good one, Avedon.
Echidne,
Knock knock
Who's there?
Madam
Madam, who?
Open the door ma dam foot's stuck.
Two fishes swam into the glass wall in an aquarium.
"Dam," said one to the other.
so you all enjoying July 4th?
Jesse Helms untimely death has thrown a pall on our celebrations.
baba durag
What is the code for the angry face?
so you all enjoying July 4th?
We're gonna blow things up later.
Sorry we hastened the death of your Empire.
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Off to work the grill for the dinnertime part of the neighborhood festivities. Pics from earlier today at homepage.
Reposted from the dead thread:
So - what statements?
Fisa - stupid. give you that one.
He didn't say anything new or different on Iraq
His late term abortion line is standard and has nothing to do with being pro-choice.
Agreed. But FISA is the big sticking point. If you're willing to sell out the Bill of Rights, how can you take the oath of office, in which you promise to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. If you circumvent the Bill of Rights by allowing the government almost unlimited powers of surveillance, don't you join those enemies? As I said, I'll support Obama, but he needs to reverse his position on FISA to get my unqualified support.
We're gonna blow things up later.
Sorry we hastened the death of your Empire.
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spork_incident | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 4:41 pm | #
bloody colonials
Jesse Helms untimely death has thrown a pall on our celebrations.
Karin Hussein
Wait. That wasn't what everyone was shooting fireworks about?
[puts self in corner]
Sp ocko - : mad :
take out the spaces.
Well, Zapette's home now. Better spend some time with her.
Later.
Barbecued steak in belly time is drawing nigh.
I love this: 
I imagine Kenosha kid looking like that all the time.
Sorry we hastened the death of your Empire.
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No, we're NOT!
I still can't get over the concept of the Aspen Ideas Festival.
so you all enjoying July 4th?
I have declared my independence from English muffins, though I'm still open to an invasion from Nigella.
it is pretty.
bloody colonials
Considering we lost a war with Canada I can't disagree.
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Umm, that's quite a pair of muffins.
Alice turned round, ready to find fault with anybody. `Where's the servant whose business it is to answer the door?' she began angrily.
`Which door?' said the Frog.
Alice almost stamped with irritation at the slow drawl in which he spoke. `This door, of course!'
The Frog looked at the door with his large dull eyes for a minute: then he went nearer and rubbed it with his thumb, as if he were trying whether the paint would come off; then he looked at Alice.
`To answer the door?' he said. `What's it been asking of?' He was so hoarse that Alice could scarcely hear him.
`I don't know what you mean,' she said.
`I talks English, doesn't I?' the Frog went on. `Or are you deaf? What did it ask you?'
`Nothing!' Alice said impatiently. `I've been knocking at it!'
`Shouldn't do that -- shouldn't do that -- ' the Frog muttered. `Wexes it, you know.' Then he went up and gave the door a kick with one of his great feet. `You let it alone,' he panted out, as he hobbled back to his tree, `and it'll let you alone, you know.'
well the British Empire still hung about despite losing the American colonies
I still can't get over the concept of the Aspen Ideas Festival.
billy b
You mean, the I-wanna-spend-the-4th-in-Aspen-how-can-I-get-
someone-else-to-pay-for-it Festival?
I still can't get over the concept of the Aspen Ideas Festival. billy b
Friedman didn't make the cut at the Aspen Comedy Festival.
I imagine Kenosha kid looking like that all the time.
He does.
although I'm curious to see what he looks like when he returns from Italia.
Friedman didn't make the cut at the Aspen Comedy Festival.
JeffCO |
Knock knock jokes aren't as cool as they used to be...
although I'm curious to see what he looks like when he returns from Italia.
Perhaps with a moustache added?
well the British Empire still hung about despite losing the American colonies
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008
Moon, you Brits couldn't control us.
Lord North even said so.
Even the Earl of Sandwich agreed.
well the British Empire still hung about despite losing the American colonies
Who wouldn't be proud of owning Las Malvinas?
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although I'm curious to see what he looks like when he returns from Italia.
watertiger
How long will he be there?
I imagine Kenosha kid looking like that all the time.
He does.
Bless his roundy little head. Truly his is the crown of creation.
You mean, the I-wanna-spend-the-4th-in-Aspen-how-can-I-get- someone-else-to-pay-for-it Festival?
If that's the reason one went, I could understand it, my dear.
I went to the website and found this:
Some of the world's most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers, and leaders are gathered here. Each day, they'll teach, speak, lead, question, and interact with an audience ready to delve into a world of ideas, thought, and discussion.
Tommy Friedman, provocative thinker.
heh.
Some of the world's most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers, and leaders are gathered here. Each day, they'll teach, speak, lead, question, and interact with an audience ready to delve into a world of ideas, thought, and discussion.
Nah. That's the definition of these here comments threads. And it's all free, too!
Perhaps with a moustache added?
(Imagining KK with a 'stache just made me laugh out loud.)
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As I said, I'll support Obama, but he needs to reverse his position on FISA to get my unqualified support.
Mark B. from Austin TX | 07.04.08 - 4:39 pm | #
I was a delegate. I'm giving money. I'm going to volunteer. But that guy does not have my unqualified support.
On the other hand, I'm refusing to allow Marc Ambinder to make me depressed every time he reprints some Rove blast fax about how Obama has flip-flopped.
How long will he be there?
I believe 6 weeks.
Tommy Friedman, provocative thinker.
Oh, I don't know, he provokes strong thoughts in me, usually of the obscenity laden kind.
Nah. That's the definition of these here comments threads. And it's all free, too!
For instance, I've got a mosquito bite on my thigh. It offers scope for delicious scratching. So is it a bad thing or not?
I'd like to spend some time with Tom Friedman and his book and render Tom Friedman flat.
Ah, Condi. Always wrong, always irrelevant.
Friedman didn't make the cut at the Aspen Comedy Festival.
heh.
Here's a little bit of the bio of one of the speakers/moderators:
Carol Adelman is currently the president of the leadership training program Movers and Shakespeares and senior fellow and director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity, which specializes in international development and public policy, private giving to developing countries, foreign aid, and global health policy.
The Movers and Shakespeares?
That's too cute by half.
I could have had a first on this one but I read the links at the post instead. Barry's piece was as moving as yours Avedon.
Thanks for the pointer. I may still blog on this myself. I've found it remarkably difficult to address for some reason.
(.)(.)
To hell with guano that's just frightening.
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For instance, I've got a mosquito bite on my thigh. It offers scope for delicious scratching. So is it a bad thing or not? Echidne
Umm, did you need someone to suck out de poison?
For instance, I've got a mosquito bite on my thigh. It offers scope for delicious scratching.
Echidne
You have my attention.
He may be a politcal hack, but he's our political hack, sorta.
Tom Friedman is like the kinda dim-witted guy on the periphery at college that everyone remembers, only now he's really rich, and really published.
Oh, I don't know, he provokes strong thoughts in me, usually of the obscenity laden kind.
That's my reaction to most of Tommy's gibberish. Tommy's another that takes his shit way too seriously.
For instance, I've got a mosquito bite on my thigh. It offers scope for delicious scratching.
Echidne
pictures?
I deserved all that. Note that the bite is fairly low on the thigh...
What, is this the "Hit On Echidne Hour"?
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The Movers and Shakespeares? That's too cute by half.
There's a British headline joke to be made titled Love Labour's Loss, but I'll leave it Moonbo.
I deserved all that...
Echidne
JeffCO and I will decide what you deserve. We'll get together and discuss it. We'll even call it an "idea festival".
Tom Friedman is actually the poor man's Tom Friedman.
I believe 6 weeks.
watertiger
Wow. How lucky. I hope he has a wonderful time.
I deserved all that...
Echidne
JeffCO and I will decide what you deserve. We'll get together and discuss it. We'll even call it an "idea festival".
I'm quivering in my boots.
I deserved all that. Note that the bite is fairly low on the thigh...
It wouldn't matter if it were high as a snake goddess' eye on the 4th of July.
billb - did you see the other provocative thinkers and speakers
Ken Adelman - mr. gathering storm himself
Jim Albaugh of Boeing!
Rahm Emanuel.
Gwen Ifill
Tommy Thompson
James "I'm as insane as I look" Woolsey
some ok people too, to be fair.
What, is this the "Hit On Echidne Hour"?
[reviews schedule]
Shit. I slept right through "Hit on Watertiger Hour".
[goes back to trying to organize receipts]
Tom Friedman is like the kinda dim-witted guy on the periphery at college that everyone remembers, only now he's really rich, and really published.
The jerk that always had an answer that was always inane and you wanted to throttle the jackass.
"What time is it?"
"Four-forty-five."
Tommy: "Well, actually it's four-forty-seven."
Folks' comments here have way too much influence on me. Someone mentioned deviled eggs earlier, so I had to get up and make me some out of the four eggs I boiled yesterday.
Also I'm going to make peach/apricot/blueberry tarts in a bit. Southern Living magazine had a page on them with a beautiful photo, in this issue (my late Mother in Law always bought me an annual subscription, although I don't care for the mag all that much). I guess this is the last year of my Southern Living reading.
RIP Jayne.
Tommy: "Well, actually it's four-forty-seven."
[applies knee to Tommy's groin with more than a modicum of force]
Shit. I slept right through "Hit on Watertiger Hour".
We're used to you anyway.
:-p
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I slept right through "Hit on Watertiger Hour".
Not the way I experienced it.
I'm quivering in my boots. Echidne
Long as you're working the Juli Andrews do, ever seen S.O.B.?
watertiger
Rowwrr!
We're used to you anyway.
Shit. I slept right through "Hit on Watertiger Hour".
Why don't you come West and see me sometime?
Rowwrr!
s'alright, man. I was being mein facetious self.
sheeets.
Long as you're working the Juli Andrews do, ever seen S.O.B.?
JeffCO
Yes... let's schedule a reenactment. That must have been liberating for her.
Just testing. I've been wondering how you make those faces.
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-:happy:
Well, yes, I think you could say I've been provoked by Friedman.
A blunder into the middle of a Fresh Air interview one time, as the interviewee was expounding at length. At first it sounded rather profound, then a couple of glossy generalities were thrown out and, finally, in response to a question from Terry, some simpering and giggling and a utter babble.
"Whoever this is, is a flippin' idiot", I said to myself, then Terry said, "We'll continue our interview with Tom Friedman after this break".
To hear him live is to know that he is the Great American Twit.
Why don't you come West and see me sometime?
Only if you take me to Aspen so I can kick Tommy's ass.
OK, Dalmatians are barking, meaning dinner is served shortly. You folks have a great 4th. Later.
sheeets.
I can't keep up.
Hey, my first ever happy face and it's mad.
[applies knee to Tommy's groin with more than a modicum of force]
watertiger
ROWWRRRR!
Just do a regular smily face from colon and right parenthesis.
Lemme, say it again,
SHEETS!
Someone mentioned deviled eggs earlier, so I had to get up and make me some out of the four eggs I boiled yesterday...
helena handbasket
Mrs. U made a batch of those for a group of her students last Saturday. One of the students managed to find time between mouthfuls to observe that deviled eggs are "retro."
billb - did you see the other provocative thinkers and speakers
I would imagine that the whole thing is a mutual admiration society.
Kind of like a big circle jerk.
I wonder how many times Tommy repeats his "flat earth" deal?
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