I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Some say that McCain will lose AZ by 30K votes.
snorg me
Did I forget to say something?
Some say that McCain will lose AZ by 30K votes.
shrimplate
Wouldn't that be great?
i'm still not confident.
Dammit, I missed all three Dinotopias today. That's what I get for doing stupid stuff like bills, cleaning, errands and lesson prep.
Actually, and this is a bit of a coincidence, it's time for me to hang the sheets out to dry.
We quit using the dryer a few months ago and it's saved quite a bit on our electricity bill. Dry clothes are basically free here in 'Zona.
Some say that McCain will lose AZ by 30K votes.
That'd be worth celebrating in and of itself.
haloscan is the lyingist liar in the history of lies and liars. just so you know.
The ending of Akira is totally different in the movie and the books. in the movie there is apotheosis and in the books it's very explicitly about Japan and Japanese-ness (Yamatocity?), shall we say exactly the kind of work which even in fiction and even in a comic book would be expressly forbidden in Germany?
Palin punked by Quebec comedy team....
http://www.570news.com/news/
inte...ontent=w110195A
Missouri's Republican-dominated state house has seen to it that the state has no early voting, a constant furor around ID laws, and a lot of righteous fist shaking over new voter registration.
someone said it here earlier, if it weren't for voter suppression democrats would win every election.
I really should scoll down before I post...
Please ignore.
Eat Me in St. Louis.
"I fucked many a man in Missouri"-genital wartess Sarah Palin
Sallyh has a most adorable gravatar!
Here in WI, if you're in line at 8 p.m. when the polls close, you get to vote. If it took the line until the next week to finish, you'd still get to vote.
While the kos diarist describes the same old same old, I'm willing to bet this time it'll be different. There is an army of volunteer lawyers out there to jump on this bullshit and fast.
ms fahrenheit, what is a dfo?
"Sallyh has a most adorable gravatar!"
indeed
She must not have found this predictable at all: Here is a hilarious punk'd on S-Pal, with a phony call from "Nicolas Sarkozy." Palin seems quite convinced and oblivious all the way through:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/USEl...7275526-
cp.html
POODLE! BITES!
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♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
I'm thinking of some night-vision Curly video...
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Ali and Uncle B, which grav are you seeing?
the local student newspaper is urging students to 'keep it under 4" drinks this holiday weekend. i suppose that's realistic.
SheBush of the Arctic is so impressed with herself that she would take a call from jeebus.
Some say that McCain will lose AZ by 30K votes.
shrimplate
We're doooomed.
Jeffraham, Curly vid is always wonderful!
A v. cute little girl, sallyh.
Jac, if that's the case, I sincerely hope so 
"A v. cute little girl, sallyh."
very!
Ali, that's my granddaughter! It came up!
dfo = NTodd
dfo = deputy field organizer
Grandefille, sallyh?
Charmant.
"Saturday, November 1, 2008
Mr. Gallup Poll thinks the Undecideds will split, which means...
By GottaLaff
Frank Newport, of the Gallup Poll Newports (I just wanted to make him sound wealthy), was just on Hardball. Chris Matthews asked him if the Undecideds would break one way or the other, and Newport said no, they'd split. He also saw no real possiblity of Gramm-pa McCain changing the poll numbers much at this point."
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...ideds-
will.html
Jac, if that's the case, I sincerely hope so
Sallyh
Amen, sister.
I'm not worried. This time, Dems aren't just going for a win - everyone wants to run the fucking table. No one's gonna slack up.
I like it when Larry Elvis eats wasps. But I always worry he will be stung.
Afternoon, good people.
Now that was a depressing article from the Orange Satan.
Joanie, yes, she is my grandfille. And a beauty she is. Miss her terribly.
ms fahrenheit - i just assumed it was dirty f*cking o... something!
From a previous thread:
They watch the porn because they dig the music.
Monica_A: Killfiled
Phil Specter received an award in the UK for his years of contribution to rock music. During the presentation, reference was made to claims by conservative Christian groups that watching the Spice Girls perform is like seeing a porno film.
Phil's reply was, "The difference between the Spice Girls and a porno film is that the porno film has better music."
and here i though dfo meant "dirty fucking obamaite." i'm so unaware of internet traditions.
I'm sad for you, sallyh.
Diane, they're not exactly an amusing bunch over there.
Here, if all else fails, at least someone's going to make you laugh, whether you like it or not
Tweety sez McOld has refused to play the race card.
Tweety, Nicolas Sarkozy on the line for you.
"Saturday, November 1, 2008
Close encounters of the Obama kind
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/
_mupm2B...mahalloween.jpg
A child dressed up as Barack Obama for Halloween encounters the real Obama."
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...obama-
kind.html
Hello, bats! I early voted today in Fla, on the last day of early voting. Waited in line about 3 1/2 hours. Very cheery crowd - lots of Obama volunteers handing out water and snacks - no McCain presence at all.
never understood the 'appeal' of the spice girls. i'm very glad they aren't all over the place anymore.
Joanie, I will see her again. It may not be for a few months, though. Custody issues need to be litigated. And I'm not playing by the ex's rules anymore. Fuck that noise.
shrimplate: I like it when Larry Elvis eats wasps. But I always worry he will be stung.
He does get stung, I think, but not always. I've noticed him jerking back, shaking his head, and pawing at his face during these wasp battles, but he still kills and eats the fucker.
I think maybe cats have a very high tolerance for pain.
He ate a wasp, today, but wasn't obviously stung. He has a technique, I think.
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I have it on good authority that the results from Hennepin County MN (Minneapolis) will be slow to come in.
Just so those of you who are interested in the Franken race know...
Fuck Missouri fundie Repukkkes.
They are the cancer at the center of bleeding wound.
Hello again moonbats
had to restart my crappy computer
Much much worse out there than the spice girls.
Joanie, furthermore, does anyone seriously think I want to be alone with my daughter's assailant?
Hello, bats! I early voted today in Fla, on the last day of early voting. Waited in line about 3 1/2 hours.
That's fucked.
Tweety sez McOld has refused to play the race card.
I gather Mark Shields said the same thing. I'd call it the first step in McCain's media rehabiliation, but with the exception of Joe Klein and maybe one or two others, he never really lost the media beyond a tut-tut or two.
YellowDogJen | 11.01.08 - 6:28 pm | #
Thank you YellowDogJen FLA Obama for sure
Militants stone to death Somali rape victim, 13
Amnesty: Stadium packed with 1,000 spectators watched horrific slaying
'Somalia is among the world's most violent and impoverished countries. The nation of some 8 million people has not had a functioning government since warlords overthrew a dictator in 1991 then turned on each other.
A quarter of Somali children die before age 5; nearly every public institution has collapsed. Fighting is a daily occurrence, with violent deaths reported nearly every day.'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27484976/
I can remember libertarians crowing that Somalia was doing just great without a government.
Tweety sez McOld has refused to play the race card.
A. Morphous
Cuz, you know, he himself in front of a camera or microphone never used the N-word. :rolling eye thingie:
I wish my early voting experience had been among a bunch of other Obama supporters but I had to listen to some dingbat 20 yo talk about needing to go buy more guns because of all the bible prophesies coming true all over the place.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I recognize Missourah!
-Abe Simpson
Tweety sez McOld has refused to play the race card.
That was just a true WTF moment.
I loved the Spice Girls when I was like 11
me and my friends used to pretend to be them and yes I even had the albums
i also had this leopard print mini skirt which i would put on to be Scary Spice
Pithy, bummer.
That's fucked.
It's a crime that people should have to wait to vote early. This is atrocious.
talk about mean. really, making kids cry to show your support for a candidate? lame.
A suburban Detroit woman has decided to scare up the vote among neighborhood children by just offering treats to John McCain supporters.
Shirley Nagel of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., handed out candy Friday only to those who shared her support for the Republican presidential candidate and his running mate Sarah Palin. Others were turned away empty-handed.
TV station WJBK says a sign outside Nagel's house warned: "No handouts for Obama supporters, liars, tricksters or kids of supporters."
Nagel calls Democrat Barack Obama "scary." When asked about children who were turned away empty-handed and crying, she said: "Oh well. Everybody has a choice."
I was a big fan of the Go Gos back in the day. They'd never make it today--too chubby!
I really doubt that I will have to wait more than 5 minutes to cast my vote at the fire station around the corner in my affluent white suburb.
Chidy, you in the mood to bitchslap that woman?
I certainly am.
I have it on good authority that the results from Hennepin County MN (Minneapolis) will be slow to come in.
If it's only Hennepin or Ramsey, that's fine...it's all DFH.
The rest of the state, however...
Thank you YellowDogJen
srsly.
The Obama volunteers were trying to entice peeps to sign up to canvass by giving away tickets to a Jimmy Buffet concert.
Errrr...that didn't attract many takers.
But I had fun, StuntWoman. People were cheery. I didn't see anyone leave.
"does anyone seriously think I want to be alone with my daughter's assailant?"
maybe if you had a blackjack...
i don't know, there were a lot of rednecks in that line this morning.
granted it's central fl. all the campaign signs and there 100s were republican. a couple of obama. the guys in front of me were theater majors. definitely obama. the guy behind me was a biker, but also a teacher, so who knows?
i'd have called it 60/40 mccain.
The Go-Go's were great, campy, girl-next-door sexy.
Uncle B, you forget, darling, I have a psychiatric history.
Otherwise...
Here, if all else fails, at least someone's going to make you laugh, whether you like it or not
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
A fact of which I am fully aware and for which I am very grateful.
You got any rain today?
Looks like those of us in the "other" valley are about to get some showers.
Nagel calls Democrat Barack Obama "scary." When asked about children who were turned away empty-handed and crying, she said: "Oh well. Everybody has a choice."
chicago dyke, rake |
Can't you just see the icy, self-satisfied little smirk she had as said that?
That's fucked.
It's a crime that people should have to wait to vote early. This is atrocious.
What's fucked is that the main reason behind the sick delays is that "Country First" "Kill Foreigners For Democracy" style Repukkers **want it to be that way** because it's the only way for their minority interests to remain in power.
KISS THE FUCKING SHIT GOODBYE REPUKKKES YOUR TIME HAS COME.
When they burn their skin pops and crackles and smells like pig fat.
If it's only Hennepin or Ramsey, that's fine...it's all DFH.
But the number of voters in the county mean Franken has to haul a big share in Hennepin to win.
stoat, yer welcome. Twas nothing.
I can remember libertarians crowing that Somalia was doing just great without a government.
sekmet | 11.01.08 - 6:30 pm |
Back when we were arming Usama binLadn, Grover went to the antinational wasteland between Iran and Pakistan and got photographed in a "cool" pose next to some missiles.
sekmet | 11.01.08 - 6:30 pm | #
whats ironic is the Islamic Courts Union actually created a sphere of stability, they even managed to get the airport working but lo and behold they threaten western interests, so the Americans backed the Ethiopian army to go invade Somalia and add even more instability
Somalia is a hidden victim of the fucking criminal 'War on Terror'
its barely mentioned in the press except in relation to piracy and thats linked to the fact its on the route of a strategic link, the Suez Canal
Diane, we've had cells of rain on and off. Sometimes at the same time when the sun momentarily shows itself. We had a lot of wind earlier, too.
never understood the 'appeal' of the spice girls. i'm very glad they aren't all over the place anymore.
I thought they changed their name to the Pussycat Dolls...
Can't you just see the icy, self-satisfied little smirk she had as said that?
BlueinColorado | 11.01.08 - 6:33 pm | #
Razor blade in her stewed prunes anyone?
Chidy, you in the mood to bitchslap that woman?
my problem with getting violent is that i don't know when to stop, so no. i don't want to. i do however want to go to her house on election night and play loud gangster rap music and african drums when the results come in. wearing a palin costume.
When asked about children who were turned away empty-handed and crying, she said: "Oh well. Everybody has a choice."
A target for tire-slashing if ever there was one.
Everybody has a choice, lady...
A Morphous, I bet I can find a recipe for that. I know Auntie GWPDA can
we would even do the dance moves and poses, especially at the school discos
and have all sorts of adventures
Ooooh, Robby The Robot!
When asked about children who were turned away empty-handed and crying, she said: "Oh well. Everybody has a choice."
Guess she gets the trick.
Obama."
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...l.blog...obama-
kind.html
pigboy | 11.01.08 - 6:27 pm | #
OMG that was cute.
President Bush is sitting out the last few days before the election. But earlier today, Dick Cheney came out of his undisclosed location and hit the campaign trail. He said that he is, and I quote, "delighted to support John McCain."
I’d like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn’t come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington’s biggest cheerleader for going to war in Iraq, and supports economic policies that are no different from the last eight years. So Senator McCain worked hard to get Dick Cheney’s support.
But here’s my question for you, Colorado: do you think Dick Cheney is delighted to support John McCain because he thinks John McCain’s going to bring change? Do you think John McCain and Dick Cheney have been talking about how to shake things up, and get rid of the lobbyists and the old boys club in Washington?
Barack Obama fuckin rulez.
Nagel calls Democrat Barack Obama "scary." When asked about children who were turned away empty-handed and crying, she said: "Oh well. Everybody has a choice."
Grosse Pointe Farms?
The one-percenters and the dividend coupon-clippers must be very worried about paying another 3% in taxes.
If there's one single thing that's gonna kill this country, it's that sort of greed.
Tweety just had the Sarah Palin prank call on...
Hey! What the hell is Tweety doin' on my teebee on Saturday?
Back in the Johnson/Goldwater race, our solidly Dem blue collar neighborhood had the city's Goldwater campaign manager living on our block who kept saying his guy was going to win. During election night, the dads went over and taped Johnson signs all over their house, including the second story, wall to wall signs. Then they all greeted him when he came out for work the next morning.
It truly was all in good fun. There were no hard feelings--the guy was a great sport about it. (And they all helped take down the signs.)
Do that today and that same guy would probably greet you with a shotgun.
She should have "slipped" and said McCheney.
Cheney endorses McW. Heh. It's like that SNL skit where McW is trying NOT to get his picture taken with Boosh.
Tweety sez McOld has refused to play the race card.
But it through the crazy to English translator, and it makes sense: Obama has refused to play the race card.
{{{Montag!}}}
How goes your afternoon?
The one-percenters and the dividend coupon-clippers must be very worried about paying another 3% in taxes.
But they will experience something called "capital gains", something not experienced for 8 years.
A Morphous, I think about where Monsieur and I were 10 years back...
It really was better.
McSame is the race card.
New e-mail from Obama National HQ:
Hi everyone - Thanks for all your work today. We just met our goal of 250,000 calls, but have been asked if we can make even more today.
Can you help us get to 400,000 calls today?
Click here to start making calls: http://my.barackobama.com/call
.
bb momentarily. Canvassers coming in. Have to tally.
But they will experience something called "capital gains", something not experienced for 8 years.
A. Morphous
What is this capital gains you speak of? I have heard that in theory it can happen, but the last eight years....
"Predictable As Sunrise"
there's gotta be a better way.
purple fingered iraquis didn't have to put up with this shit.
a national disgrace.
Dick Armey sounds like he's raided the likker cabinet.
According to the Detroiist, you can find Shirley Nagle in the online white pages.
Just sayin'...
sigh. just got another email from my friend, the world's most pathetic str8 man. "my wife is cheating on me, again, but i can't leave her." i don't even know how to respond...
My nephew, a law student at Washington U in St. Louis, will be poll-watching.
I hope everybody has done their duty and made an early vote for Hillary.
cuz she is "this" close.
Brooklyn Girl, how thoughtless of him, and not saving any for us!
TV station WJBK says a sign outside Nagel's house warned: "No handouts for Obama supporters, liars, tricksters or kids of supporters."
I know some children that would not take that laying down. That's an invitation for some bad trouble with little ones who have this way of not staying little, growing up and not forgetting.
sigh. just got another email from my friend, the world's most pathetic str8 man. "my wife is cheating on me, again, but i can't leave her." i don't even know how to respond...
Tell him it's with you, and apologize.
(puts self in corner)
BG
how was Gay Paree?
I was this close to writing that, Molly!
/goes to same corner
Neponset, I was one of those little girls content to lie in wait till the right moment.
And then, the pounce.
Dick Armey sounds like he's raided the likker cabinet.
Actually, Dick has inserted a couple of phenobarbital suppositories up the old bum, consumed a pint of Popov's, and let 'er rip.
purple fingered iraquis didn't have to put up with this shit.
a national disgrace.
jdw
Wow...
What a timely reminder.
Went walking the streets, handing out lit for my local candidate, today. Saw some Obama signs that had been vandalized, a few wingnut bumper stickers, but got lots of good interest.
ChiDy, there are a lot of pathetic straight men, alas.
/goes to same corner
noblejoanie
Ixnay irtingflay!
""my wife is cheating on me, again, but i can't leave her." i don't even know how to respond..."
how about "unless you like this sort of thing, try one foot in front of the other and out the door"
not a lot to hold onto there
how was Gay Paree?
She didn't go! She lies! She lies!
/simels' personal troll
Billy B, that was a most disgusting image!
Which I laughed at
How goes your afternoon?
Very quiet... as I hope it has been for those wishing for a little quiet.
Just reading an older article in Harper's by Kevin Phillips (it was behind the paid wall when I first wanted to read it, in May, and just forgot to check the next month) on the statistical manipulations done by the government over the years to minimize and obscure the accumulating bad economic news.
Brooklyn Girl, how thoughtless of him, and not saving any for us!
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 11.01.08 - 6:42 pm | #
Well, he is a Republican ...
"my wife is cheating on me, again, but i can't leave her." i don't even know how to respond...
okcupid.com
You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
Ooo slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
BG
how was Gay Paree?
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari | 11.01.08 - 6:43 pm | #
Fantastic, actually.
OT: AL TANF, Iraq-Syria Border, October 30 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has rushed assistance to hundreds of Palestinian refugees stuck in camps on the Iraq-Syria border after heavy rain and flooding caused chaos and misery.
Rainstorms on Tuesday night left tents inundated with water and sewage, possessions soaked and electricity supplies cut at Al Tanf, a settlement housing almost 800 people in the narrow no man's land between Iraq and Syria. The small mosque was damaged by fire, but there were no human casualties
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4842...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
Montag, I don't think the public's going to be fooled by that anymore.
Maybe there will be another Rosa Parks moment in St Louis this election, some elderly man or woman of color who won't leave until they've cast their ballot.
This time, let's make sure it's on video, preferably live teevee.
That's really what needs to happen, open this up--C'mon, CNN Election Central, put a crew in St Louis late in the day.
In about 2 hours, assuming no heavy rain showers, I will get to attend an apartment building party for our three new citizens, sworn in on Thursday (which, unfortunately, was too late for them to register to vote ... funny about that).
I am told there will be speeches.
I'm OK with that.
She didn't go! She lies! She lies!
/simels' personal troll
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 6:45 pm | #
You found us out. We really spent the week in Dayton ... they have a replica of Baudelaire's grave downtown.
mmmm, i get to spank noblej and molly tonight? that's good. who wants video? i can put on the leather from last night...
Diane, what a lovely thing to celebrate!
Went walking the streets, handing out lit for my local candidate, today.
Are people aware of the local race? Downticket still is such the forgotten stepchild it seems...
Do that today and that same guy would probably greet you with a shotgun.
noblejoanie
see, that's what i was getting at.
the whole experience was creepy, like standing with an unknown enemy.
i voted in 04 for the first time. if barack doesn't win this, i voted for the last time, today.
Actually, Dick has inserted a couple of phenobarbital suppositories up the old bum, consumed a pint of Popov's, and let 'er rip.
billy b | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 6:44 pm | #
Sounds about right.
Kelly O'Donnell must have a wind-up key in her back ... she can't be real.
they have a replica of Baudelaire's grave downtown.
They're so cosmopolitan!
I am sick to death of elections in this country being (mis)run by the unethical.
I love that photo of Steve at Baudelaire's grave...
Diane, after a period of calm, we have pounding rain again.
Dick Cheney emerges, look out for missing virgins
You found us out. We really spent the week in Dayton ... they have a replica of Baudelaire's grave downtown.
Steverino learned well from the Photoshop master!
Will anybody be here on Tuesday night? Or are you all going to fabulous parties?
Montag, I don't think the public's going to be fooled by that anymore.
That was Phillips' conclusion. The public may not know how they are being lied to, but, they're beginning to figure out that they have been lied to.
They're so cosmopolitan!
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 6:50 pm | #
And erudite!
Ali, this IS the fabulous party place to be on Tuesday night!
I'd be there on Tuesday night but i'll be in bed, as i have work the next day
Will anybody be here on Tuesday night? Or are you all going to fabulous parties?
I'll be at a brewpub until at least 8 eastern.
Then, it's cigar time.
Smoking ordinance, you see.
.
I think I'll be here because the missus will be at work.
okcupid.com
underwhelm
crashed my browser, that did. is it for real?
he's a really, really sweet man. that's his problem. he's powerless before the women he loves, and this one is a skank who married him for his paycheck and willingness to not see what a skank whore she is. i'm so sorry they had a child, even as i know how much he wanted one. i'm at such a loss, i really don't know what to say to him anymore.
Yay!! Pitt just beat the Mickey School.
Diane, after a period of calm, we have pounding rain again.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
We could use some of that down here behind the Orange Curtain, Sallyh.
I love that photo of Steve at Baudelaire's grave...
bill buckner | 11.01.08 - 6:50 pm | #
Deacon, what, no rain your way?
It's nasty up here in The Valley.
NTodd -- did you click the link in the e-mail about the Thing?
It doesn't get me anywhere useful.
Sallyh: ChiDy, there are a lot of pathetic straight men, alas.
Don't remind me!
[ until tears flow ]
.
I am sick to death of elections in this country being (mis)run by the unethical.
underwhelm
Well, there is, of course, an answer to that.
Whether it's appointed or elective, the commissions which run elections under the local Elections Commissioner and the Secretary of State are usually citizen-staffed.
It might not be as glamorous as running for the city council or school board, but election commissions are an increasingly important part of our democracy.
Maybe you (and the rest of us) should find out how to get on board with those folks.
as i have work the next day...
I have consciously structured my unemployment as to not go back to work before 11/6. Really broke, but I'm not missing a minute on Tuesday.
I'm not sure where I'll be on Tuesday.
I was thinking of going to DL over in Mpls., but I think that I'll just buy a sixer and sit here on my chair...clutching my pearls.
It's real, but not much of a suggestion. He's got to get himself some self-respect, so a counter-affair probably wouldn't be a wise choice.
Jeffraham, I hate to tell you this, but...
You're not one of them.
I'd be there on Tuesday night but i'll be in bed, as i have work the next day
Moonbootica
you need to tell you bosses what chris rock said: nov 5 no black person will be at work, so prepare.
Speaking of the Detroitist, I got a kick out of their presidential endorsement.
And erudite!
Brooklyn Girl, at home
Kinda French, tho.
Pitt is now Bowl-eligible.
"Jeffraham, I hate to tell you this, but...
You're not one of them."
but I thought all the good ones were married or gay!
Hey Virginia!
I was bowl eligible at 2.
you need to tell you bosses what chris rock said: nov 5 no black person will be at work, so prepare.
chicago dyke, rake | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 6:55 pm | #
heh there is a small matter of time difference
i really can't stay up till 4am on a weekday, i'd never get up for work the next day and i don't want to loose my first job
nor could I do it anyway and call in a sickie
i hate being dishonest
ChiDy, I suspect there may be high absenteeism that day due to extreme hangoverness, regardless of color
Hey, Sally! 
Is this the freak comment section?
Sallyh -- Thunder and rain here in the west Valley.
I have work Wednesday, but I expect to be completely pumped. Plus, I'm showing a movie.
BedBug, you found us out!
Toons, just had a cell move out here.
Kinda French, tho.
Deacon Blues | 11.01.08 - 6:55 pm | #
Ah ... that explains the accent.
OK, I got email from a certain princess of the law, who is known by three initials, asking for my guess re: the EV.
After some thought and some bonding with Nate's site, I think the following.
I think MO and IN go Red, FL and VA go Blue, OH Blue, PA Blue. (This wrecks MO's always going with the winner. Tough.) I think NC goes Blue, but that's a stretch.
Team Blue: 353; Team Red: 185.
yah its all down to time different
i live in the UK, so you can see my reasons
I have pre-emptively invited my boss and her husband over to watch the returns and drink with us. I will call an audible Wednesday morning at 7.
BedBug, you found us out!
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
I deed I deed! =)
Hangovers are impossible when you're excited.
I already bought the champagne.
430 EV. We win Texas.
nor could I do it anyway and call in a sickie
i hate being dishonest
You'll never make it in republican circles.
Maybe you (and the rest of us) should find out how to get on board with those folks.
My wife is an election official, so I don't mean to tar everyone with the same brush. Certainly many are committed to public service.
I can see myself doing something like this, but things are pretty clean in my neck of the woods already.
I have work Wednesday, but I expect to be completely pumped. Plus, I'm showing a movie.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 6:58 pm | #
What movie?
I already bought the champagne.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 6:59 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Just don't jinx us!
I already bought the champagne.
Moi aussi.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced he is suspending "indefinitely" the operations of the US drug enforcement agency in his country.
Mr Morales accused the agency of having encouraged anti-government protests in Bolivia in September.
He did not say whether its staff would be asked to leave the country, as coca- growers have been pressing him to do.
Bolivia's first indigenous president once served as the leader of the country's union of coca-growers.
Coca is the raw material used in the production of cocaine and is widely grown in Bolivia.
Relations between Bolivia and the US have been strained since Evo Morales took power in January 2006.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...cas/
7704528.stm
I already bought the champagne.
Molly Ivors
I already bought the scotch.
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Ed Rogers's hairdo frightens me.
We could use some of that down here behind the Orange Curtain, Sallyh.
Deacon Blues | 11.01.08 - 6:52 pm | #
You got that right, Deacon Blues. The weather report sez possible showers early a.m. tomorrow, I'll believe it when I see it. BTW, Irvine is swarming with Yes on 8 idjits today. I gave 'em the evil eye while out on my errands this morning. When they call (and they do) I tell them I have 2 gay sons (I do) and why are they bothering to call me????
Monsieur brought back a lovely bottle of Champagne from Paris, which he intends to break into Tuesday night.
nor could I do it anyway and call in a sickie
i hate being dishonest
Moonbootica back from Cairo
you are very young.
the trick is to call in two days. then they believe you were really sick.
trust me, they will take more out your hide then you'll ever get out of theirs.
nor could I do it anyway and call in a sickie
Mental health days fall under sick time.
I already bought the champagne.
Molly Ivors
I already bought the scotch.
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Grand Moff Texan | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 7:00 pm | #
I already bought the elitist chardonnay.
Team Blue: 353; Team Red: 185.
David Derbes, hopeful
David, for my fantasies to come true that night, I went there to be long coattails. Long, long, L-O-O-O-N-G coattails.
I want two of the three branches of government so far out of reach of the GOP that they will have to pay for toilet paper in every men's room in DC.
I already bought the dream.
I already bought the dream.
Deacon Blues | 11.01.08 - 7:01 pm | #
Good one.
Deacon, I already bought the key limes
what movie?
blackula!
Plus, I'm showing a movie.
Molly Ivors |
you won't fool anyone; we always knew when the prof was hungover and too wasted to teach. you may as well just tell them class is canceled.
Recall how DeLay and Rove redistricted the country once they seized power (not that it did guarantee them permanent majority status, bwahahahaha) but what say one of the very first thing the new Obama administration and Dem Congress do is clean up the election laws and campaign finance. Fix the rigged deal.
Bring back our democracy as step one, the right to vote.
Gravatar430 EV. We win Texas.
Gomez
McCain takes Texas by fewer than 14%, just on the strength of the zombie hicks alone.
But, Dallas County, South Texas, Travis, and maybe even Williamson become an alarming shades of blue and purple.
Republicans are going to be extra hard on their rent boys, come Guy Fawkes Day.
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Just days before the US elections, it is unlikely that US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain will be sharing a stage.
But in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, their characters will be singing and dancing together when Obama, The Musical opens on Sunday.
The hour-long play is hotly awaited in a country where Mr Obama, whose father was Kenyan, is a wildly popular figure.
Those involved in the production are doing little to hide their sympathies.
Mr Obama, who has never lived in Kenya and has only come to the country on visits, is a national hero. A local beer has been named after him.
Scriptwriter and director George Orido complies with Kenyan preferences in his casting of Mr McCain, his running-mate Sarah Palin, and President George Bush.
"McCain comes in as the villain, the chief villain. His supporting cast are George Bush and Sarah Palin who are standing in Obama's way," the director says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ica/
7702840.stm
From TPM:
"Nutball Congressman Chris Cannon (R-UT) tried to hire an Oxford don to use his special computer program to prove that Obama's memoir was actually written by Bill Ayers. The program 'can detect when works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases.' Apparently, he got cold feet after the he learned that the Oxford academic, Dr Peter Millican, would release the results publicly no matter what they showed."
ChiDy, I only have one section on Wednesday, and I don't intend much in the way of teaching.
Oh jeez. BBL. Have to go buy champagne!
I already bought the elitist chardonnay.
Brooklyn Girl
Just so long as it wasn't Bordeaux Blanc.
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Obama the Musical!
hee hee--- Jay Newton Small has a little meltdown at teh Time.com blog
Jay Newton-Small Says:
Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 5:57 pm
sgwhiteinfla: I LINKED to the story assuming you would get the bones of it there. My interest was in exploring his temperament not reporting the news of it, which I relied on Reuters to do. And then when I do report the news, like Obama's aunt, I also get eviscerated. So, tell me, is there any criticism of Obama that ya'll can take? Because the campaign is totally fine with my posts. Amazingly, they read critical thought -- like ruminations on Obama's temper and what that means or the grey gardenesque news that he has a poor aunt living in a hard situation -- amazingly better than you all.
JNS
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/...heney/
#comments
Quite a thunderstorm going on. Shutting down for a moment. BBL.
David, for my fantasies to come true that night, I went there to be long coattails. Long, long, L-O-O-O-N-G coattails.
"It's twue! It's twue!"
/puts self in corner/
BG,
Dunno. They vote Monday. The choice is between The Corporation, The Thin Blue Line, Jesus Camp, CSA, and Hacking Democracy.
Blue, they have medications for that now.
I'm back, and I'm pushing downticket candidates. [muscle flex]
"Nutball Congressman Chris Cannon (R-UT) tried to hire an Oxford don to use his special computer program to prove that Obama's memoir was actually written by Bill Ayers. The program 'can detect when works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases.' Apparently, he got cold feet after the he learned that the Oxford academic, Dr Peter Millican, would release the results publicly no matter what they showed."
montag | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 7:03 pm | #
Big deal ... everyone knows it was really written by Obama's real father, Malcolm X, before he died, and edited by his real mother, Angela Davis.
Christ, does Haloscan suck.
Check this out.
Republican mayor of San Diego on Proposition 8.
I think I'll go with the Bell's Two-Hearted Ale vintage on Tuesday. Apparently, I'm the only person that buys is from our quasi-ghetto liquor store.
But in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, their characters will be singing and dancing together when Obama, The Musical opens on Sunday.
The hour-long play is hotly awaited in a country where Mr Obama, whose father was Kenyan, is a wildly popular figure.
In Japan, a similar production of Kabuki will reveal to the audience's aching knees, on the forth day, that McCain the narrator has been the ghost of McCain protagonist ALL ALONG !!!
BWA-HA-HA-HA [yawn]
Fucking Kabuki. Always turns out the same.
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Gordon Brown has arrived in the Middle East to ask Gulf states to help stabilise oil prices and to contribute to tackling the global economic crisis.
Speaking ahead of the visit, he said Gulf states had an interest in a "well functioning economy".
And he said they had an interest in a "stable energy price" not in "massive volatility" that had been seen.
Mr Brown is being joined in Saudi Arabia by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and Business Secretary Peter Mandelson.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/77.../uk/
7703862.stm
Apparently, he got cold feet after the he learned that the Oxford academic, Dr Irwin Corey, would release the results publicly no matter what they showed."
Fourth, not forth.
I'll take the fifth.
[glug glug glug]
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BG,
Dunno. They vote Monday. The choice is between The Corporation, The Thin Blue Line, Jesus Camp, CSA, and Hacking Democracy.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 7:05 pm | #
Wow ... so it will be a winner no matter what!
Can I take your class, please?
I think I'll go with the Bell's Two-Hearted Ale vintage on Tuesday. Apparently, I'm the only person that buys is from our quasi-ghetto liquor store.
AndyMN
Excellent choice. Oddly, you can't get the THA in Chicago, though many Bell's are now available here after a long hiatus.
Uh-oh. Jay Newton-Small's caught the Joe Klein disease. This can only lead to trouble.
I think I'll go with the Bell's Two-Hearted Ale vintage on Tuesday.
Kalamazoo Stout over here.
Its not wrong to use a sick day if one is sick of work, =)
res is here?
long time no viddy, droog!
Howzit?
I'm laying in Shiraz, Chardonnay, Bombay Sapphire, and Champagne.
Res, you saw my Fearless Prediction above? Us: 353. Them: 185.
Dyson is good.
I'm back, and I'm pushing downticket candidates. [muscle flex]
ms fahrenheit/camelot | 11.01.08 - 7:06 pm | #
Heh...that's my girl!
And you GO.
I'm fucking sick of this unitarded presidency, no matter whose address it involves.
Oddly, you can't get the THA in Chicago
We started getting it here in Virginia about a year ago after I repeatedly asked Whole Foods to start carrying it and now it's so popular I can't get it because it's often sold out.
"Blue, they have medications for that now."
new gravatar?
NTodd -- did you click the link in the e-mail about the Thing?
Shit, I haven't actually looked at my own e-mail today. Now I must eat pizza a supporter brought in and we have to plan out our door hanger shit. l8rh9rz!
353 is aggressive. I went with 332 myself.
Hey, Blodge. I'm well. Yourself?
Dyson is good.
Brooklyn Girl, at home
Freeman? Michael Eric? The vacuum cleaner?
Whaaa?
Wasn't Even Cowgirls Get the Blues the source for calling in well? I love that concept.
The prospect of a generation growing up with a black president as the norm gives me chills.
49-10, now that's a good old fashion ass whooping.
Dr. Derbes,
Do you have a Black Swan? Mine is Georgia.
Oddly, you can't get the THA in Chicago, though many Bell's are now available here after a long hiatus.
That is odd.
it all sounds so exciting over there
Wasn't Even Cowgirls Get the Blues the source for calling in well? I love that concept.
noblejoanie
Shit! I thought I made that up! I did read that book a zillion years ago...but that was during the Eisenhower Administration.
It's not "sick." It's "mental health day" or "eye problems - can't see going to work."
Freeman? Michael Eric? The vacuum cleaner?
Whaaa?
David Derbes, hopeful | 11.01.08 - 7:10 pm | #
Michael Eric, although I think the Vacuum Cleaner is a good nickname for him. He just cleaned Pat Buchanan's clock.
The chief of staff of Japan's air force is to be sacked after he claimed the country had been drawn into the second world war by the US and denied it had been an aggressor during its occupations of the Asian mainland.
In an online essay entitled Was Japan an Aggressor Nation? General Toshio Tamogami yesterday claimed that Japan had been provoked by the then US president, Franklin D Roosevelt, and that many of Japan's wartime victims took "a positive view" of its actions.
The claims drew a swift rebuke from politicians. The defence minister, Yasukazu Hamada, said he would dismiss the general immediately. "I think it is improper of the air force chief of staff to publicly state a view that clearly differs from the that of the government," he told reporters. "It is inappropriate for him to remain in this position."
The prime minister, Taro Aso, a nationalist who has upset Japan's neighbours with ill-judged comments about the war, described Tamogami's views as "inappropriate, even if they were made in a personal capacity".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/...r-war-
hiroshima
I'll be out for drinks w. the locals I manned the registration barricades with, (then) hopefully back early enough to watch Toby melt into a puddle of goo..
The cross-eyed wingnut on Hardball is offended, as an African-American, that Barack Obama is trying to inject race into this campaign.
Mount Gay Mojitos is our planned libation.
Moonbat Nation. If you don't love it, get the hell out.
Cookie Fleck '08--in fact, I think that character felt so well they up and quit.
please, please, please let barack win and tom feeney lose.
and somebody tell ron christie to shut the fuck up.
no, you didn't call him black, you called him a terrorist. nice.
any Bell's product is decidedly not "ghetto." trailer trash, mebbe. but in truth, K'zoo is pretty progressive and diverse, for that part of the state.
C'mon over, Moon! I have a nice guest room here in Duke of Albany, NY.
Blodge -
Are you STILL walking around with a silly grin, for no apparent reason? Enjoy the endorphin rush while it lasts, mu friend...
I just want CoT to Bobblespeak Scarborough for me on The Morning After.
General Toshio Tamogami yesterday claimed that Japan had been provoked by the then US president, Franklin D Roosevelt
Uh, well, since FDR's order to the US Navy to do just that was declassified a few years ago, he's got a point there.
The tiny matter of an oil embargo against a nation at war.
Yep.
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Geezus, Tweety is giving cross-eyed wingnut the whole show
How dare you!
Ron Christie is my favorite cross-eyed black gay wingnut!
Mount Gay Mojitos is our planned libation.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
Next time, try St. James. It's the most affordable form of "rhum agricole," which is the traditional shit.
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I just want CoT to Bobblespeak Scarborough for me on The Morning After.
res ipsa loquitur
Here, I'll start off.
Scarborough: The race is tightening!
The tiny matter of an oil embargo against a nation at war.
Yup. I'd never justify Japanese aggression, but it certainly didn't happen _ex nihilo_.
Ron Christie is my favorite cross-eyed black gay wingnut!
res ipsa loquitur
He does rather set the gaydar spinning, doesn't he?
Here, I'll start off.
Scarborough: The race is tightening!
Cookie Fleck '08 | 11.01.08 - 7:14 pm | #
Mika: So are my nipples!
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Scarborough: The race is tightening!
That's your sphincter, Joe.
The chief of staff of Japan's air force is to be sacked after he claimed the country had been drawn into the second world war by the US and denied it had been an aggressor during its occupations of the Asian mainland.
man, i really don't get japan. in a twisted way, i want to go there, just so i can see some of these types up close. i just watched a film about japanese soldiers at the end of the war, and it was surprisingly reflective. i guess that's gone away over there, or something.
LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A commander of Britain's elite special forces in Afghanistan has resigned, a defence source said on Saturday, declining to give further details.
Major Sebastian Morley, a reservist commander with the Special Air Service (SAS), blamed a chronic lack of investment in equipment for the deaths of some of his soldiers, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
He described the failure to equip his troops with heavy armoured vehicles as "cavalier at best, criminal at worst", the paper reported
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/...sk/
L1121634.htm
After Boosh and Blair, British accountability works like in the US - NONE.
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Cookie Fleck '08--in fact, I think that character felt so well they up and quit.
noblejoanie
I've felt that way too.
Damn, now I really have to do this meeting.
A question for the cooks.
My hippie younger son brought me a half gallon of raw milk. I'm reluctant to just drink the stuff as is, so am wondering about suggestions for recipes that involve cooked milk.
Custard? Other ideas?
any Bell's product is decidedly not "ghetto." trailer trash, mebbe. but in truth, K'zoo is pretty progressive and diverse, for that part of the state.
I was only speaking to my local liquor store, not the beer.
Scarborough: The race is tightening!
Cookie Fleck '08
Actually, it will go something like this:
MIKA: As we've been reporting, Barack Obama has won the presidential election with 379 electoral votes. John McCain called Senator Obama to concede ...
JOE: This plays well for Rudy Guiliani.
In the essay, which is likely to spark outrage in China and South Korea, Tamogami wrote: "Even now there are many people who think that our country's aggression caused unbearable suffering to the countries of Asia during the Great East Asia War." Japanese nationalists use the term the Great East Asia War to support their view that Japan entered the conflict to free Asian countries from western colonialism.
"But we need to realise that many Asian countries take a positive view of the [war]. It is certainly a false accusation to say that our country was an aggressor," he wrote.
He said the Korean peninsula had been "prosperous and safe" under Japan's 1910-1945 occupation and that Roosevelt had "trapped" Japan into attacking Pearl Harbour in December 1941. He went on to accuse Roosevelt of being a puppet of the Comintern, the international communist movement founded in Moscow in 1919.
Tamogami, who did not seek the defence ministry's permission to submit the essay, called for Japan to reclaim its "glorious history". He said: "A nation that denies its own history is destined to pursue a path of decline."
He shares the view of many neo-nationalists that the Allied war crimes tribunals - which sent several Japanese leaders to the gallows - were a farce.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/...r-war-
hiroshima
does that glorious history include the awful treatment of British POWs
my dad told me of this guy he knew when he was younger, he ran a news agents and had been a POW of the Japanese, he committed suicide
How dare you!
Ron Christie is my favorite cross-eyed black gay wingnut!
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 7:14 pm | #
Well if that's true I've wasted a lot of money trying to get my gaydar machine fixed, because it starts flashing lavender everytime Ron Christie appears on my teevee.
Yup. I'd never justify Japanese aggression, but it certainly didn't happen _ex nihilo_.
ok, i'm really stupid when it comes to modern history. weren't the japanese in places like china a bit before pearl harbor? educate me, peeps.
Ms. Res, not really. I think MO goes R and the country goes D so that breaks their streak. I think GA goes R, as usual. I would love to be wrong about that.
I just went with the odds. If Indiana goes Blue it will make me very happy. If Ohio goes Red I'll be astonished.
Gromit: Rice pudding!
OK, I'm off for a bit while the lightning flashes.
I know where just so close to a new revolution that it's hard to concentrate on anything else, but, in the mean time (up until 1/20/09) a whole helluva lot is still going on in DC.
Like corrupt congress critters using a clause in the Constitution to protect them from corruption charges.
Later, good people.
i imagine the song tells it's own story.
with a cane that he twirled 'round his diamond ring finger...
"Hey, Blodge. I'm well. Yourself?"
back to work monday after an injury. not looking forward to "the holidays" other than that I'm my usual charming self
SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — An ex-convict who thought he was being robbed gunned down a 12-year-old trick-or-treater, spraying nearly 30 rounds with an assault rifle from inside his home after hearing a knock on the door, police said Saturday.
Quentin Patrick, 22, is accused of killing 12-year-old T.J. Darrisaw on Friday night. T.J.'s 9-year-old brother, Ahmadre Darrisaw, and their father, Freddie Grinnell, were injured but were released after being treated at a hospital.
The family attended a Halloween celebration in downtown Sumter, 45 miles east of Columbia, then stopped at Patrick's house because the porch light was on, police said. Another sibling was with them but wasn't hurt.
Police said at least two of the boys were wearing ghoulish masks when they knocked on the door. The boys' mother and a toddler stayed in the car nearby.
Patrick emptied his AK-47, shooting at least 29 times through his front door, walls and windows after hearing the knock, Police Chief Patty Patterson said.
He told police he had been robbed and shot in the past year.
"He wasn't going to be robbed again, and he wasn't going to be shot again," Patterson said Saturday at a news conference.
In an online essay entitled Was Japan an Aggressor Nation? General Toshio Tamogami yesterday claimed that Japan had been provoked by the then US president, Franklin D Roosevelt, and that many of Japan's wartime victims took "a positive view" of its actions.
Partly true, I think, although it was not FDR himself who instituted the policies that rankled the Japanese. There were some rather long-term agreements made, partitioning resources, in the early `20s, and Japan was particularly rankled by what it perceived to be attempts to short-change it on oil.
The Japanese embassy staff were trying to renegotiate some of those terms in 1940 and 1941, with little success, because FDR thought that continuing those resource policies would keep Japanese military expansionism at a minimum, without direct military intervention by the U.S.
Ultimately, it came down to the Japanese believing too much in their military, a lesson which ought to be heeded today in some quarters much closer to home.
Ms. Res, not really. I think MO goes R and the country goes D so that breaks their streak. I think GA goes R, as usual. I would love to be wrong about that.
I'll be pleasantly surprised if NC goes blue. Going out on a limb, I'll say Obama gets one of these three: GA, IN or MO. Icing on the cake.
my sister spent a year in Japan teaching
her main impression as how the women were all head bowed and deference to their husbands, like how they walked behind their husbands and so forth
but also sometimes a detected hostility to foreigners
she enjoyed her time there, grew to love Japanese food and so she will always have a soft spot for it
Custard? Other ideas?
Gromit | 11.01.08 - 7:17 pm | #
do you like yoghurt? that's easy to make.
"Blodge -
Are you STILL walking around with a silly grin, for no apparent reason?"
world FUCKING CHAMPIONS!!!
She keeps digging:
Former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, who earlier this week was dispatched by the GOP to go after Al Franken, graced the set of the "O'Reilly Factor" Friday night, where she delivered an amusingly incoherent attack on Obama. Having previously called Obama everything from a racist to a communist, she told O'Reilly that Obama reminds her of "Castro In Cuba, the guy in China." (Mao?) She also noted, proudly, that she's read "1984," twice! O'Reilly, meanwhile, defended Obama as being ostensibly a capitalist because he "buys things."
Oh, man.
I put NC Blue. Maybe that's my Black Swan.
Jay Newton Small has a little meltdown at teh Time.com blog
She's really getting bitchslapped. Good.
No doubt, Swampland will disappear after the election. No big loss...
I think there's a v good chance NC will go blue--lots of African-Americans voting, dem transplants in Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, etc., and people just fed up.
She also noted, proudly, that she's read "1984," twice!
How many Shakespeares?
I'll be pleasantly surprised if NC goes blue. Going out on a limb, I'll say Obama gets one of these three: GA, IN or MO. Icing on the cake.
BlueinColorado
I gave 'em all to Team Red.
Ron Christie is my favorite cross-eyed black gay wingnut!
res ipsa loquitur
Who would be a poor man, a Democrat, a thief -- if he had a rich man in his stand. And who would steal the candy
from a laughing baby's mouth if he could take it from the money man. Cross-eyed wingnut goes carping on again. He signs no contract but he always plays the game. Dines in Georgetown on expense accounts of fools, and the jack-knife barber drops him off at school.
Learing at the playground -- gets his kicks from little boys: would rather make take a short impale. Or maybe his attention is drawn by Cunt the Dumb, who watches through the railings as they flail.
Cross-eyed Mary finds it hard to get along. He's a poor man's rich girl
and he'll do it for a song. He's a rich man stealer but his blathe is running strong: He's the Robin Hood of Alt-A -- let the poor man run along.
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Notre Dame, where is your Touchdown Jesus now?
weren't the japanese in places like china a bit before pearl harbor?
Yes. They had occupied Korea for quite a while and had taken Manchuria from China.
Former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, who earlier this week was dispatched by the GOP to go after Al Franken, graced the set of the "O'Reilly Factor" Friday night, where she delivered an amusingly incoherent attack on Obama.
Mark Evanier posted that at his blog with the notation "It's always painful to see a friend of yours make a fool of herself".
New post at fivethirtyeight!
The chief of staff of Japan's air force is to be sacked after he claimed the country had been drawn into the second world war by the US and denied it had been an aggressor during its occupations of the Asian mainland.
He was immediately hired by the US military to run operations in Baghdad.
MIKA: As we've been reporting, Barack Obama has won the presidential election with 379 electoral votes. John McCain called Senator Obama to concede ...
Do ya really think McCain will actually concede?
After all, it IS his turn.
but also sometimes a detected hostility to foreigners
i have an ebon-skinned, dread-wearing friend who is a scholar of asian religions. her first time in nippon, she said (she's also very tall) that japanese children would come running up to her in the street, pointing and laughing at her "odd" coloring and hair, and asking her strange questions about her musical and athletic prefs.
"weren't the japanese in places like china a bit before pearl harbor? educate me, peeps."
Very much so - they also occupied korea from about 1905 to 1945 and ran it like part of japan.
google the rape of nanking if you have a strong stomach
a young Chinese American woman who wrote a book about it committed suicide afterwards. she's the last casualty of the incident
Chris Matthews is looking for a man date. I don't want to go there.
"A Face in the Crowd" on TCM at 8 (EST). Now.More.Than.Ever.
Yeah, yeah, St. Louis' crooked, and KC's even worse. Okay. Fine.
Did I mention that I have this land grant, signed by James Buchanan, that evidently gives me just about two thirds of Country Club Plaza in KC? I really need to get that checked out. Would that be neat or what?
New post at fivethirtyeight!
Wait...you call sheets for another blog here? 
they all dislike each other, Korea, Japan and China
bitter and entwined history
I had a friend who spent time in China (also teaching) and he took a photo of an anti Japanese museum
Notre Dame, where is your Touchdown Jesus now?
You left out the "nyaaaaaaaaah!"
blodgewhore:
teaching stories up
read if you dare
comments (there and here) always appreciated
sad | 11.01.08 - 7:19 pm | #
It's a good thing that people can still get machine guns when they need it. Can't limit them!
I hope that nobody stops trick or treating because of this, that might threaten the 2nd amendment. I think that should be the thing that is emphasized by the NRA lobbyist to the kid's mom.
From Nate the Great:
That leaves our five states in play. The victory conditions for Obama involving these five states proceed something as follows:
1. Win Pennsylvania and ANY ONE of Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, or Nevada*
2. Win Ohio and EITHER Colorado OR Virginia.
3. Win Colorado AND Virginia AND Nevada.
(* Nevada produces a 269-269 tie, which would probably be resolved for Obama in the House of Represenatives.)
Now, suppose you think that Colorado is already in the bag for Obama because of his large edge in early voting there. We can then simplify the victory conditions as follows:
1. Win Pennsylvania
2. Win Ohio
3. Win Virginia AND Nevada
That's basically what it comes down to, although I'm sure each campaign would claim that there are a larger number of states in play.
How did an ex-con get an AK-47?
that's what i thought, blodge. and no, i won't read 'rape of nanking.' i don't have the stomach for it. schindler's list and hotel rawanda fucked me up enough, thank you very much.
a few years back British POW's of the Japanese were irked when a new schoolbook expunged any mention of the horrific treatment metered out to POWs by the Japanese
I've also just contacted a realtor in Claresholm, detailing what kind of little cottage I want.
Ur supposed to say, 'O my Lord, she means it!' Yes. Ur right.
How did an ex-con get an AK-47?
Molly Ivors
How does anyone in the US get an AK?
CHarlie Cook: "David Brooks is one of the smartest guys on the planet"
Where's my hammer?
Notre Dame, where is your Touchdown Jesus now?
Gomez
He's on USC's team today. 21-0 end of 1Q.
From a fivethirtyeight comment: "The partisan differences in Florida's early in-person returns are still pretty clear. Democrats have now reached the 1,000,000 mark; Republicans have returned just 600,000 in-person ballots."
http://www.earlyvoting.net/blog/
I don't understand black Republicans any more than I understand gay Republicans.
Which is not at all.
CHarlie Cook: "David Brooks is one of the smartest guys on the planet"
Just ask him; he'll tell you.
How did an ex-con get an AK-47?
Molly Ivors |
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Typical liberal, wanting to stop people who served their time from having a gun!
CHarlie Cook: "David Brooks is one of the smartest guys on the planet"
Where's my hammer?
BlueinColorado
He was talking about our next President as one of the smartest people on the planet, not Brooksie.
'O my Lord, she means it!'
Good on you, my dear. Seems like a propitious time in all sorts of ways.
Ur supposed to say, 'O my Lord, she means it!' Yes. Ur right.
HUZZAH!
Female Republicans.
How did an ex-con get an AK-47?
Probably at a gun show from a private individual. If you want to circumvent the federal background checks, that's how it's done.
That he had one that would fire in automatic mode is another tip-off, since I think the conversion kits are not legal for sale in gun shops.
The author of "Rape of Nanking" killed herself at some dreadfully young age, under thirty I think.
Such a talent. The vessel was not strong enough to contain the spirit.
Typical liberal, wanting to stop people who served their time from having a gun!
I'd rather they have a vote than a gun.
CHarlie Cook: "David Brooks is one of the smartest guys on the planet"
Did he mention which planet?
Female Republicans.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 7:29 pm | #
Yeah ... them, too.
He was talking about our next President as one of the smartest people on the planet, not Brooksie.
ah, that makes more sense. I always thought COok was less of a wanker than his sidekick Rothenburg.
CD- you really want to try to read Iris Chang. She gave everything she had to making sure that no one forgot.
But I understand entirely. It's all right if you can't, because you do know anyway.
Forget that shit.
CBS/NYT now 13 points.
It. Is. Ovah.
The Shawnee Indians have a treaty that still gives them all of Johnson County, KC's white flight burbs in Kansas. Fat lot of good it does them.
When the US government got rid of a 9000 acre army ammunition plant in wester JoCo, the Shawnee were supposed to have first dibs. Funny thing, they didn't get informed until after the deadline.
Politically connected friends of Bob and Libby got it, with Libby introducing a bill on the floor that gave it to them, it was kept secret from all local interests.
any more than I understand gay Republicans.
My former father-in-law was a Log Cabin Republican. His rationale was "I'm a businessman first." Wonder how that's been working out for him...
Muslim Republicans?
I don't understand black Republicans any more than I understand gay Republicans.
self hatred is a powerful and exciting sexual thrill. i wish i didn't know this from experience, but i do. i'm ashamed to admit it, but some of the hawtest fucks i've ever had have been with the self-denying closet case, "you'll never break the cherry in my ass," and/or "but i'm white! White!!" types. i'm a sinner and i'll burn in hell, i know.
Btw, if I do manage to move north for the summer, u all realise that the house in Phoenix then becomes someplace for people to stay?
i'm a sinner and i'll burn in hell, i know.
chicago dyke, rake | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 7:32 pm | #
No, you're not and no, you won't.
"schindler's list and hotel rawanda fucked me up enough, thank you very much."
I had to read an account of Rwanda for a college class. when the professor (who was a survivor of the slaughters in ethiopia in the 80s) asked what people had to say about the readings I said damn you for making me read that.
he said well, I see you're the only one who did the readings, because if the rest of you had,you'd be upset too.
OMG
A new volunteer just walked in. He came in from New York.
Thank you New York.
IT'S DECISION WEEKEND! I CAN'T DECIDE!
(good thang I voted on 10/15, I reckon)
.
Should I dl Glenn Gould's Original Jacket Collection?
13 points, but with Cheney's endorsement the race is tightening.
from my nephew, re: this post:
It's going to get really nasty here in STL come Tuesday. I'm volunteering as a law student with an election protection organization and at our training they said they are expecting a turnout of at least 80% in the county. Waiting in line to vote will be a 2-4 hour wait.
Still, voter protection programs are focusing on our area and we are getting a big group of international election monitors as well. There will be people stationed outside of every polling place, at a regional command center with media, and a team of lawyers waiting at the court house.
Voter protection is so well organized in this area that I doubt the GOP can get away with the sort of shenanigans they have in the past. Of course that is not to say they won't try.
It will be one of the closer states, but I am willing to bet that Missouri is going to go for Obama.
Man, there's a lot of yelling on Hardball tonight!
japan made the nikon famous.
well, it's not a leica, but it's a helluva camera.
schindler's list and hotel rawanda fucked me up enough
On the Beach does that to me.
And stencil - land grant rights trump indigene treaty rights. Sorry. (Not like I think the rights still apply. Between James Buchanan and now, I'm sure one of my shirt tail relatives sold out to somebody.)
dave™© ...
I keep meaning to tell you about these guys.
"i'm a sinner and i'll burn in hell, i know."
I'll see you there.
you try to act like the badass, but I've seen the sweetness.
particularly the time you threatened to kill the troll that was bothering me
BG there always is.
That's why I watch with the mute on.
Dr. J I might take you up on that offer.
The author of "Rape of Nanking" killed herself at some dreadfully young age, under thirty I think.
Iris Chang. I didn't know she killed herself. I've got the book, and have read parts of it, but I've never been able to make myself read it all the way through. Really horrific stuff in it.
to go for Obama.
It's what my attorney in Belton says as well. Missouri is going for Obama.
Everywhere will go for Obama.
Ha, wicked witch Liddy Dole
But I understand entirely. It's all right if you can't, because you do know anyway.
i'm weak, and i admit it.
i guess the appeal of ancient history is that they're so blatant about it, the inhumanity and gore and all that. i'm soft and weak and i like to think we've evolved from all that; it's more comforting to believe that neck-stocks and foot-chopping are all 'in the distant past.' a friend of mine, scolding me, once offered to take me to various hellholes in asia, so that i could see up close the horror that still takes place in this age of "enlightenment." despite my lack of travel, i turned him down. i know what i don't know, if that makes any sense. i'd rather stay here and cultivate my garden, and not think too much upon why our species deserves to die furiously in a fireball of divine retribution and wrath.
Man, there's a lot of yelling on Hardball tonight!
Brooklyn Girl,
Greatest moment on Hardball was some time last week, Tweety said arguably the most insightful thing he ever has, it was, of course unintentional. He said Pat Buchanan represents 'a certain worldview, one that's fading away...'. You can see it and feel it in everyone of Buchanan's MSNBC appearances. He's bewildered at watching his 1950's, WASPy, little wife at home, imagined America slipping further and further away. And I know he's Catholic, but he's still a WASP.
Tweety sez: Liddy Dole = Wicked Witch of the West.
"well, it's not a leica, but it's a helluva camera"
Kind of like Shamano isn't Campy but it's . . . crap in comparison.
13 points, but with Cheney's endorsement the race is tightening.
stencil
In North Dakota!
Thank you New York.
ms fahrenheit/camelot
Where are you? PA?
i confess i have not read much of those v deep and heavy books
i must be so shallow lol
"Iris Chang. I didn't know she killed herself."
she gave her life to write that book.
why can't we all just g-g-g-g-g-g-get along?
Iris Chang. I didn't know she killed herself. I've got the book, and
have read parts of it, but I've never been able to make myself read it
all the way through. Really horrific stuff in it.
Yes, about a year ago, darling girl, with a sweet husband and baby.... Historians take a lot of hell into themselves.
why can't we all just g-g-g-g-g-g-get along?
Lubyanka
DIE, YOU PIG.
what interest other than denying citizens their right to vote do the Republicans have?
what interest would anyone ... an appellate or district judge or court have EXCEPT to deny citizens their right to vote?
where's the harm in providing for early voting and extended hours voting? This whole thing is becoming a clearly apparent display of blatant racism. Where's the outrage?
CHarlie Cook: "David Brooks is one of the smartest guys on the planet"
Charlie needs to get out more.
Iris Chang, according to WikiPedia, 28 March 1968-9 November 2004, aged 37.
A beautiful, remarkably talented young woman with a very young child and a husband.
Depression is a terrible, terrible disease.
just watching tweety talking about liddy. seems as if unless your not godless, you suck and should rot in hell and not get elected.
maybe i missed something, but that was my take...
3. more. days.
If Obama wins Tuesday, your hometown high school will become your hometown Homo School, do you really want that?
It's been four years, GWPDA.
You know we're both getting old. The years go like months now.
not think too much upon why our species deserves to die furiously in a fireball of divine retribution and wrath.
It's all right, dearie. No one can take everything.
The author of "Rape of Nanking" killed herself at some dreadfully young age, under thirty I think.
Dead at 36. She had a nervous breakdown and Aug '04, due in part to sleep deprivation while doing research on the Bataan Death March and promoting a book.
In Nov. '04 she was found in her car having shot herself in the mouth.
Ok I need to go be with a kid
as i said - new stories up on da blog.
comments appreciated but not required.
see ya in an hour or two
If Obama wins Tuesday, your hometown high school will become your hometown Homo School, do you really want that?
Concerns of the Heartland
Better that than having it named Ronald Reagan High School.
your hometown high school will become your hometown Homo School
:golf clap: That's parody we can believe in my friends.
CHarlie Cook:"David Brooks is one of the smartest guys on the planet"
did he say which planet?
You know we're both getting old. The years go like months now.
David Derbes, hopeful
/sigh/
I like most periods of History
Ancient History remains my preference but i also love the history of Islam
Byzantine History as well
If Obama wins Tuesday, your hometown high school will become your hometown Homo School, do you really want that?
The smell of flop sweat is getting overpowering, ain't it?
BG, UB: you're too sweet. thank you.
This election is the Perfect Storm.
It will vanqusih all things conservative.
I, for one, will not miss them or weep for them.
The high school in my nabe is named after Edward R. Murrow.
The bus depot is named after Jackie Gleason.
I love Brooklyn.
Better that than having it named Ronald Reagan High School.
Well done, sir.
Yes res.
damn you for making me read that.
I took Raul Hilberg's ("The Destruction of the European Jews") class as an undergraduate. A brilliant scholar, but notoriously dour and difficult as a teacher. (As would be ANYONE who devoted their entire adult life to the day-to-day machinations of The Holocaust.)
I keep meaning to tell you about these guys.
Wow, that is SO cool.
I bet they're great on getting into the pit bull scene. I really like pit bulls. We get them at the local shelter a lot, and most of the time, you can tell they've been psychologically tortured. They're great little dogs when treated nice.
Hi res ipsa loquitur!
How are you. What to know what the unemployeed M elanie M organ is doing.
These are from her Online Shoppe:
http://www.thumbsnap.com/v/dHL6duzt.jpg
http://www.thumbsnap.com/v/YsChe1aV.jpg
Not like she is suggesting violence toward Obama or anything.
I really like pit bulls.
I like kittehs.
If Obama wins Tuesday, your hometown high school will become your hometown Homo School, do you really want that?
yes.
i've been very concerned with the recent drop in support for the drama clubs. this may help.
Or they could name it Epic Fail High after John McCain.
Does anyone know how Obama's Bible tax is suppose to work?
I really like pit bulls.
I like kittehs.
Gomez
I like redheads
Who among us does not love Brooklyn?
And while we're at it, the Bronx, Staten Island, Manhattan and Queens?
The Greatest City in the World, and ladies and gentlemen, I know from cities.
I like kittehs.
Well, we've got five of those (three official, two "guests").
And a rabbit!
Not a good house for a dog, thankfully!
You know we're both getting old. The years go like months now.
Feels like yesterday. Truly.
Kind of like Shamano isn't Campy but it's . . . crap in comparison.
stencil
no, not like that. cameras are more about the photographer then bicycle are about the bicyclist. well, except for digital, that's changed the equation.
new thread.
Wingnut talk radio on 11/5 is going to be special.
costumed sheets.
(everyone is a ghost)
My wingnut friend continues apace. Alas.
Gotta go fetch a teen. Later!
I really like pit bulls.
dave™© ,
Rescue Ink has gotten a lot of press here lately.
About two years ago, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a NYer article about how pit bulls as a breed were not the problem, but rather, the dickheads who got the dogs with the assumption that they were badass and then basically tortured them into becoming, well, badasses.
Wingnut talk radio on 11/5 is going to be special.
Gomez
Will Rush say he's done carrying water again?
Homos Rule, dude! Just look at that high-fashion poofter, Tom Gunn!
I really like pit bulls.
I like kittehs.
I like knitting. And tomatoes.
The high school in my nabe is named after Edward R. Murrow.
The bus depot is named after Jackie Gleason.
I love Brooklyn.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants
Nice! Is it Ralph Kramden Depot?
Next trip to NY Mrs. Blues and I want to go to Prospect Park.
i love studying for my Ancient History degree, enjoyed going to lectures and the reading and talking about it
but i could never master essays, i'd get bored easily or distracted
its funny i seem to retain lots of information in my head but it never translates onto paper
no i didn't really develop an academic discipline
Wingnut talk radio on 11/5 is going to be special.
Gomez
I may just have to force myself to listen to the Bloated One.
Homos Rule, dude! Just look at that high-fashion poofter, Tom Gunn!
Lubyanka | 11.01.08 - 7:45 pm | #
When are you coming out luby-booby?
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About two years ago, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a NYer article about how pit bulls as a breed were not the problem, but rather, the dickheads who got the dogs with the assumption that they were badass and then basically tortured them into becoming, well, badasses.
Pretty much.
Any dog is going to respond to its training, or lack of it. Chihuahuas can be pretty fucking dangerous, believe it or not...
dave™©...
Here is the Gladwell thing re pit bulls (and profiling).
Any dog is going to respond to its training, or lack of it. Chihuahuas can be pretty fucking dangerous, believe it or not...
dave™© | Homepage | 11.01.08 - 7:46 pm | #
I'd sooner pet a strange pit bull than a strange Chihuahua.
I've never been bitten by a pit, and I've met several.
I HAVE been bitten by Chihuahuas - unprovoked.
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Re Obama's Bible tax: Every Bible sold and assigned to the purchaser will have an electronic sensor that tracks how often it is opened. The tax will be progressive, getting higher the more often the Bible is opened.
I believe it is to start at 1/10 of a cent, but with a
1,000 openings it's something like 78 cents.
Removal of the sensor is a 10-year sentence in Leavenworth -- and Gitmo with the dome fills -- with no appeal.
DIE, YOU PIG.
Gomez | 11.01.08 - 7:38 pm | #
no, i want them to live, our trolls. live to see Socialism and universal health care and an end to war, and the integration of the sexes and races, and their heroes every last one in Den Haag.
it's a fantasy, but hey, everyone has them, right?
sp ocko ,
That's charming. Has she found a job yet, or is she still "consulting" ?
Prop 8 gaining ground bigtime--what, another repudiation of poofters?
the horror!
stencil | 11.01.08 - 7:48 pm | #
The charges double whenever Leviticus is opened...but the Beatitudes are free...
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chicago dyke
I hear you about the self loathing. But I sometimes wonder about the hate for the gay from straight people.
The local radio host was attacking gays the other day and he then attacked, on the air, PG&E for contributing money to defeat Prop 8.
This is a tactic that they have used to go after companies that the feel are wrong for supporting gay marriage.
I'm very interested in learning what I can about Sumeria or Sumer
chitown dyke:
have you voted early, voted often?
Res.
She is traveling the country helping wingnuts win elections. She turned her MAF into a PAC so that she could endorse candidates.
I'm sure she will end up on the radio again after the election.
Former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, who earlier this week was dispatched by the GOP to go after Al Franken
From the Wikipedia bio of Jackson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/
index....oldid=249092942
In 1986, Jackson was hired to join Saturday Night Live for its 12th season, following Lorne Michaels' firing of most of the 11th season's cast and writers in his second season back as executive producer. The only cast members who survived from the 11th were Nora Dunn, Jon Lovitz and Dennis Miller, another right-wing scumbag..
Now edited and cleansed
Sarah Palin continues to refuse to release her medical records. Why?
McCain, Obama and Biden have released their medical records, to varying degrees, but Palin adamantly refuses to divulge anything about her medical history. Why?
I doubt that there would be anything shocking healthwise, so it must be something else she is seeking to hide.
Maybe, that she got an abortion?
Just a guess.
But Palin is definitely hiding something from her medical past, and the only thing that makes any sense is that she probably got an abortion in the early 1980s, something that she doesn't want anyone, especially her fanatical religious fundamentalist anti-abortion followers, finding out about.
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