Oh Deanna!
D-A-ANNA!
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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10.07.08 - 3:13 pm | #
I'm looking fiveward to the debate
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.07.08 - 3:13 pm | #
Deep thought: Is it too late to hold the shotgun wedding in Wasilla?
Harry Doghiney (D-TX) |
10.07.08 - 3:14 pm | #
Before his strange murder in 1993, party founder Vogler preached armed insurrection against the United States of America. Vogler, who always carried a Magnum with him, was fond of saying, "When the [federal] bureaucrats come after me, I suggest they wear red coats. They make better targets. In the federal government are the biggest liars in the United States, and I hate them with a passion. They think they own [Alaska]. There comes a time when people will choose to die with honor rather than live with dishonor. That time may be coming here. Our goal is ultimate independence by peaceful means under a minimal government fully responsive to the people. I hope we don't have to take human life, but if they go on tramping on our property rights, look out, we're ready to die."
Vogler's greatest moment of glory was to be his 1993 appearance before the United Nations to denounce United States "tyranny" before the entire world and to demand Alaska's freedom. The Alaska secessionist had persuaded the government of Iran to sponsor his anti-American harangue.
That's right ... Iran. The Islamic dictatorship. The taker of American hostages. The rogue nation that McCain and Palin have excoriated Obama for suggesting we diplomatically engage. That Iran.
AIP leaders allege that Vogler, who was murdered that year by a fellow secessionist, was taken out by powerful forces in the U.S. before he could reach his U.N. platform. "The United States government would have been deeply embarrassed," by Vogler's U.N. speech, darkly suggests Clark. "And we can't have that, can we?"
That was the environment of the AIP in the early 90's. Todd joined the AIP in 1995, 2 years later.
trifecta |
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10.07.08 - 3:14 pm | #
I! AM! KIROK!
Who is called Usul among us.
Sufferin' Succotash |
10.07.08 - 3:14 pm | #
Gilly Gonzylon: I'm looking fiveward to the debate
Five?
Five dollar?
Five dollar footlongs?
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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10.07.08 - 3:14 pm | #
Atrios seems to be having a pretty bad ADD day
foolme1ns |
10.07.08 - 3:14 pm | #
So good I repost
"I don't want the Republican Party simply defeated in November, I want to see it smashed beyond all recognition, in such wriggling, writhing, anguished disarray that it can barely reconstitute itself, so desperate for answers that it looks to Newt Gingrich for visionary guidance, his wisdom and insight providing the perfect cup of hemlock to finish off the conservative movement for good so that it can rot in the salted earth of memory unmissed and unmourned in toxic obscurity.
I really don't think that's too much to ask, even in these frugal times.'
Okay folks. off to get lunch. see you in a little bit
Anon, Unfinished Sympathy |
10.07.08 - 3:15 pm | #
Five?
Five dollar?
Five dollar footlongs?
.
Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 10.07.08 - 3:14 pm | #
That's one more than Fourward!
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.07.08 - 3:15 pm | #
the best question to ask Wingnuts is: Does Sarah plan on bringing the witch hunter to the Swearing in Ceremony?
fuzed |
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10.07.08 - 3:15 pm | #
Five?
Five dollar?
Five dollar footlongs?
Fiveward is one more than fourward.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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10.07.08 - 3:16 pm | #
Wolcott is unpleasantly strident.
Why can't he participate in political discussions with dignity and grace, like Peggy Noonan sez?
Sufferin' Succotash |
10.07.08 - 3:16 pm | #
U.S. consumers reduced their debt load by a record amount in August, the Federal Reserve reported Tuesday. Total seasonally adjusted consumer debt dropped by $7.9 billion, or a 3.7% annual rate, in August to $2.58 trillion. This was the first decline since January 1998. Consumer credit rose 2.4% in July. Non-revolving credit - such as auto loans, personal loans and student loans - dropped sharply by $7.3 billion, or 5.4%, to $1.61 trillion, after rising 0.9% in July. Credit-card debt dropped by $612 million, or 0.8%, in August to $969 billion.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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10.07.08 - 3:16 pm | #
What municipality would bill rape victims for traumatic post-assault forensic exams? And especially in Alaska, where the rape rate is twice the national average.
I think the second question answers the first.
Let's face it: Alaskans are fucking cheap. Why do people live there? Because they want to "get away from all the bullshit," i.e., get away from any sense of responsibility to others. "Hunt your own fucking meat."
Stunt Woman |
10.07.08 - 3:17 pm | #
I! AM! KIROK!
Kirk: Khan, you bloodsucker. You're gonna have to do your own dirty work now, do you hear me? Do you?
Khan: Kirk. You're still alive, old friend.
Kirk: Still, "old friend." You've managed to kill everyone else but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target.
Khan: Perhaps I no longer need to try, Admiral.
[beams the Genesis device away]
Kirk: Khan... Khan, you've got Genesis, but you don't have me. You were going to kill me, Khan. You're gonna have to come down here. You're gonna have to come down here.
Khan: I've done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her: marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet, buried alive. Buried alive.
Kirk: KHAAANNNN.
[echo]
Kirk: KHAAANNNN.
Richard |
10.07.08 - 3:17 pm | #
From below:
Some people can't be monogamous no matter who they're married to, I'm afraid.
Ah, The Hugh Grant theorum.
You cheated on Elizabeth Hurley, you idiot!
Anon, Unfinished Sympathy
Hell, both of Vanessa Williams' husbands cheated on her.
What are those guys - nuts????
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:17 pm | #
Maybe it's the lawn from the Walter Reed Middle School?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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10.07.08 - 3:17 pm | #
"You know, DE-ANNA, I'm an expert in interspecies mating rituals. Would you like to assist me in some field studies?"
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:17 pm | #
I want the GOP brand to be so toxic they'll go back to calling themselves Whigs.
LadyHoneyBear de Kelly |
10.07.08 - 3:17 pm | #
U.S. consumers reduced their debt load by a record amount in August, the Federal Reserve reported Tuesday.
I assume this means people (i) started losing their jobs, so they quit borrowing money, and (ii) the ones who still had jobs in August started curtailing their spending and borrowing, too.
Harry Doghiney (D-TX) |
10.07.08 - 3:18 pm | #
What municipality would bill rape victims for traumatic post-assault forensic exams? And especially in Alaska, where the rape rate is twice the national average.
From the stats I've seen, Alaska is NOT a nice place for women.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:18 pm | #
What are those guys - nuts????
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008
No, their problem was they let their nuts do the thinking.
Supreme Commander Thor |
10.07.08 - 3:18 pm | #
I think Federalists would be more appropriate than Whigs.
Sufferin' Succotash |
10.07.08 - 3:18 pm | #
Too bad there aren't "This Is Your Brain on Credit Cards" commercials. They can be just as life wasting as drugs.
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.07.08 - 3:18 pm | #
Isn't it ironic that the biggest employer is Alaska is the government.
sekmet |
10.07.08 - 3:18 pm | #
"I don't want the Republican Party simply defeated in November, I want to see it smashed beyond all recognition, in such wriggling, writhing, anguished disarray that it can barely reconstitute itself, so desperate for answers that it looks to Newt Gingrich for visionary guidance, his wisdom and insight providing the perfect cup of hemlock to finish off the conservative movement for good so that it can rot in the salted earth of memory unmissed and unmourned in toxic obscurity.
I really don't think that's too much to ask, even in these frugal times.'
Amen, Mr. Wolcott.
And fuck Peggy Noonan...sideways, etc., etc.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:19 pm | #
Dr Corsi said he had a $1,000 cheque for George Obama
oooooooh. A whole thousand dollars.
Mighty white of him.
Where does he think George is going to be able to cash a foreign bank check for $1000? Laughable.
Karin |
10.07.08 - 3:20 pm | #
What are those guys - nuts????
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008
No, their problem was they let their nuts do the thinking.
Supreme Commander Thor
Thinking with the LITTLE head.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:20 pm | #
Hell, both of Vanessa Williams' husbands cheated on her.
What are those guys - nuts????
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008
Could be that those women, off camera, are mean and stupid, and treat their partners terribly. Probably not, but we dunno.
I'm probably not alone here when I say that I haven't found much correlation between happiness in a relationship, and where the other person would place in a beauty pageant.
Nim, ham hock of liberty |
10.07.08 - 3:20 pm | #
Isn't it ironic that the biggest employer is Alaska is the government.
No, it's one of the dirty little secrets of these glibertarian assholes.
The fact of the matter is they wouldn't survive without government to protect them from reality.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:20 pm | #
What municipality would bill rape victims for traumatic post-assault forensic exams? And especially in Alaska, where the rape rate is twice the national average.
I think the second question answers the first.
Let's face it: Alaskans are fucking cheap. Why do people live there? Because they want to "get away from all the bullshit," i.e., get away from any sense of responsibility to others. "Hunt your own fucking meat."
this is voglerville, man.
a capitalist, resource exploiting, libertarian society.
peterboy |
10.07.08 - 3:20 pm | #
Terry C: And fuck Peggy Noonan...sideways, etc., etc.
... with an ungreased cinderblock.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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10.07.08 - 3:20 pm | #
in Alaska, where the rape rate is twice the national average.
Someone needs to do a study why that is.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:21 pm | #
McCain will knock over the podium and storm off.
Matt |
10.07.08 - 3:21 pm | #
Wonder why everyone on TV and in the government is so surpised about the financial problems we're having? I mean, that DFH Atrios has been talking about the "big shitpile" since at least November 4, 2007, nearly a year ago. (Anybody find an earlier example?) Can't say we weren't warned.
This early warning actually helped me to decide that stocks weren't so hot, and move some money, so this doesn't hurt me as badly as it might. But I wasn't as smart as Joseph Kennedy who, when the fellow giving him a shoeshine also gave him a stock tip, got completely out of the market. Lived quite handsomely through the Depression.
David in NY |
10.07.08 - 3:21 pm | #
HBK
Here's the YouTube I mentioned last night.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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10.07.08 - 3:21 pm | #
Isn't it ironic that the biggest employer is Alaska is the government.
sekmet
I already knew it was the biggest employer of Sarah Palin's high school pals.
Harry Doghiney (D-TX) |
10.07.08 - 3:21 pm | #
McCain will knock over the podium and storm off.
Matt
Oh, I fucking hope so.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:21 pm | #
I think Federalists would be more appropriate than Whigs.
Nah, these are good old fashioned divine right Tories.
They imagine that they'd be the aristocrats on top of the heap.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:21 pm | #
I doubt we got the full smash up up the Goopers unless we have the full-blown crash.
I prefer to not go that way, but as I am unemployed for all of this year, maybe I am closer to it than many.
peterboy |
10.07.08 - 3:21 pm | #
McCain will knock over the podium and storm off.
Matt | 10.07.08 - 3:21 pm | #
...revealing a dwarf who was fielding the answers to him
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.07.08 - 3:22 pm | #
McCain was for denouncing civilians being killed by air attacks before he was against it.
Stunt Woman |
10.07.08 - 3:22 pm | #
the horror!
Messiah Obama's campaign affiliate, ACORN, raided in Vegas!
I am Dr. Jerome Corsi, from the United States of America. I represent the renowned Maverick JOHN MCCAIN and am authorized to present to you the sum of 1,000 ONE THOUSAND U.S. Dollars.
It's kind of the reverse Nigerian scam ....
Mark B. |
10.07.08 - 3:23 pm | #
Everybody see TDS segment from Wasilla last night?
Those people were way scarier than Texans.
virgotex |
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10.07.08 - 3:23 pm | #
Yahoo News
Waxman opened the hearing by lambasting the company for spending more than $440,000 to hold a weeklong retreat for its executives at a luxury resort in California less than a week after receiving its $85 billion federal bailout.
Gimlet News |
10.07.08 - 3:23 pm | #
McCain will knock over the podium and storm off.
Matt
Maybe he'll knock over the lectern and storm off the podium instead.
/pedant
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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10.07.08 - 3:23 pm | #
I said, Hey! You! Get off of my lawn
Hey! You! Get off of my lawn
Hey! You! Get off of my lawn
Don't hang around from dusk to dawn
On my lawn, baby...
R. McGeddon |
10.07.08 - 3:23 pm | #
McCain falls off podium and is surrounded by North Vietnamese who beat him with large semi-hard dildos.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
10.07.08 - 3:23 pm | #
(yawn)
Luby with his usual bullshit.
The boredom!
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:23 pm | #
Wonder why everyone on TV and in the government is so surpised about the financial problems we're having? I mean, that DFH Atrios has been talking about the "big shitpile" since at least November 4, 2007, nearly a year ago. (Anybody find an earlier example?) Can't say we weren't warned.
Indeed. It's been sickly amusing to note this fact to the clueless hordes.
Stunt Woman |
10.07.08 - 3:24 pm | #
lambasting the company (AIG)
Gimlet News |
10.07.08 - 3:24 pm | #
Everybody see TDS segment from Wasilla last night?
I could smell the shit that constitutes the brains of those idiots from down here in Oregon.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:24 pm | #
Why can't he participate in political discussions with dignity and grace, like Peggy Noonan sez? - Sufferin' Succotash
The magic dolphins would want it that way
That being snarked, part of the reason why some Dems come off as strident to many people is their cadence in speaking. You can get a way with spewing a lot of venom if you sound avuncular doing it.
Compare how even the wonderfully witty Ann Richards delivered her bon mot "Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth" (she sounded like Dilbert's "Loud Howard" ... "Poor! George! He! Can't! Help! [...]") vs. Reagan's "oh, there he goes again".
If Obama can cut McCain's "kids, get off my lawn" with an avuncular "there he goes again", he'll win the election. But if he lapses into one or the other typical Democratic cadences, he'll remain for many one of those overly strident liberals and "scary Negroes" ...
Obama's been doing pretty good lately and he has a lot of potential. He needs to just keep doing better and better ...
DAS |
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10.07.08 - 3:24 pm | #
I always liked the story about how Pope John XXIII was criticized for not using his office to enrich his brothers. He said that they had led such happy lives on their own that he didn't want to ruin it for them.
sekmet |
10.07.08 - 3:24 pm | #
McCain will knock over the podium and storm off.
no, he's going to probably try and look grandfatherish and humble and kind. And it will be completely and recognizably fake.
virgotex |
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10.07.08 - 3:24 pm | #
Those people were way scarier than Texans.
Unpossible. There are dark corners in Texas just as bad as Wasilla.
Mark B. |
10.07.08 - 3:24 pm | #
Everything is fine with the economy! I still make $6 million a year!
Neil Cavuto |
10.07.08 - 3:24 pm | #
McCain will knock over the podium and storm off.
McSpain's not strong enough to knock over the podium, if he tries this, the podium will knock his little ass over.
Billy B |
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10.07.08 - 3:24 pm | #
virgotex--it was sorta fishing in a barrel on TDS. They went to a Palin event at a bar and only used the interviews shot after everyone was drunk.
You could hear worse in OC...I doubt they could say "TWO of my colored friends...."
peterboy |
10.07.08 - 3:25 pm | #
Luby with his usual bullshit.
Since he's still talking about ACORN, he must think the matchstick furniture industry is recession/depression-proof.
Harry Doghiney (D-TX) |
10.07.08 - 3:25 pm | #
Had a friend frosh year in college who took lots of recreational medicines and finally fled to Northern Maine to escape certain insanity. When we spoke to him a year later he was much more calm. When asked what he did all day up in the North woods he said "hunt and fuck". We asked him what he hunted and he said "somethin to fuck." I think that's typical North Country folk humor, Alaska, UP, or Maine.
Bad Art |
10.07.08 - 3:25 pm | #
But if he lapses into one or the other typical Democratic cadences, he'll remain for many--
Waxman opened the hearing by lambasting the company for spending more than $440,000 to hold a weeklong retreat for its executives at a luxury resort in California less than a week after receiving its $85 billion federal bailout.
If this were a just universe, those assholes would be rounded up, dropped into East LA naked with the wrong gang signs tatooed on their asses.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:25 pm | #
Barack Obama has his William Ayers connection. Now John McCain may have an Iran-Contra connection. In the 1980s, McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.
egon |
10.07.08 - 3:25 pm | #
he's going to probably try and look grandfatherish and humble and kind. And it will be completely and recognizably fake.
virgotex |
Or he'll be so zonked out on some kind of meds that he won't make any sense whatsoever.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:25 pm | #
I go to watch TDS nao.
bbl
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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10.07.08 - 3:25 pm | #
Dow Trolls suck my ass.
Stunt Woman |
10.07.08 - 3:26 pm | #
Shit. Did I miss the David Duchovny-just-got-released-from-rehab-for-sex-
addiction-conversation?
Neponset |
10.07.08 - 3:26 pm | #
Did you see the big bald closet-case sherrif at the Palin rally on CNN?
Poster boy for the Partei.
Speedy |
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10.07.08 - 3:26 pm | #
po·di·um (pd-m)
n. pl. po·di·a (-d-) or po·di·ums
1. An elevated platform, as for an orchestra conductor or public speaker. 2. A stand for holding the notes of a public speaker; a lectern.
3. Architecture
a. A low wall serving as a foundation.
b. A wall circling the arena of an ancient amphitheater.
4. Biology A structure resembling or functioning as a foot.
Dow Trolls suck my ass.
Stunt Woman | 10.07.08 - 3:26 pm | #
Well, if you're offering...
Neil Cavuto |
10.07.08 - 3:27 pm | #
Granted, Mark B. I think those dark corners exist almost everywhere, including the northeast.
I was never chased down the street by bigots intent on hurting me until I moved north. Happened twice, once in MASS and once in NYC.
virgotex |
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10.07.08 - 3:27 pm | #
McCain/Palin: appealing to Joe Six-House and Lawn Jockey Moms throught the country.
Stunt Woman |
10.07.08 - 3:27 pm | #
Did you see the big bald closet-case sherrif at the Palin rally on CNN?
Poster boy for the Partei.
Speedy
So the missus & I weren't the only ones whose gaydar was pinging like mad when that jerk was talking?
Gummo |
10.07.08 - 3:27 pm | #
John McCain may have an Iran-Contra connection.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit.
What a phoney.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:27 pm | #
2. A stand for holding the notes of a public speaker; a lectern.
I hang my head in shame at being out pedanted
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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10.07.08 - 3:28 pm | #
where in Mass and NYC--southie and queens?
peterboy |
10.07.08 - 3:28 pm | #
Dow Trolls suck my ass.
Stunt Woman
Is this an invitation?
Dexter Methorphan |
10.07.08 - 3:28 pm | #
Shit. Did I miss the David Duchovny-just-got-released-from-rehab-for-sex- addiction-conversation?
Neponset
I would be honored to be his counselor.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:28 pm | #
Thank you, Billy B!
The podium/lectern debate was really getting on my nerves.
[he said as the world crashed down around him...]
Gummo |
10.07.08 - 3:28 pm | #
I always liked the story about how Pope John XXIII was criticized for not using his office to enrich his brothers. He said that they had led such happy lives on their own that he didn't want to ruin it for them.
An even better story: while Papal Ambassador to France, he was working in the office when a carpenter working nearby banged his thumb with his hammer. Carpenter curses up a storm, taking the Virgin's name in vain. Then-Cardinal Roncalli storms in, saying "What's the matter? You can't say 'shit' like everyone else???"
DJ |
10.07.08 - 3:28 pm | #
Did you see the big bald closet-case sherrif at the Palin rally on CNN?
Bernie Kerik is making public appearances again?
Tlazolteotl, CCd |
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10.07.08 - 3:29 pm | #
Neil Cavuto's was better.
Dexter Methorphan |
10.07.08 - 3:29 pm | #
I'd love for Waxman bring the heads of the bond rating agencies before the committee.
The corrupt fucks who rated shitpile securities AAA should be behind bars.
Without those high ratings in the first place, shitpile could never have been built up to the degree it was, since AAA is a requirement that many financial institutions insist on before buying a security. Conversely, when the ratings drop, those institutions are forced into selling them. That's basically what's created the precarious situation we are in now.
Richard |
10.07.08 - 3:29 pm | #
Dexter, it was not worth owing somebody upthread a coke to make such a lame comment. Ditto for whoever got the coke.
David in NY |
10.07.08 - 3:29 pm | #
where in Mass and NYC--southie and queens?
Somerville, and in the city- the second was probably B&T assholes.
virgotex |
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10.07.08 - 3:29 pm | #
From the stats I've seen, Alaska is NOT a nice place for women.
wingnut friend from high school sent me a letter after moving there, breathlessly describing it as "the land of opportunity" for women to find men. Couple years later she had two kids and was divorced....called me to say that I too would end up in her situation eventually.
Just had my 18th anniversary.
Relationships are hard work, so I continue to knock on wood.
ErinPDX |
10.07.08 - 3:29 pm | #
Did you see the big bald closet-case sherrif at the Palin rally on CNN?
McCain is linked to Renamo, a terrorist group that used to chop off people's hands and ears.
sekmet |
10.07.08 - 3:30 pm | #
wingnut friend from high school sent me a letter after moving there, breathlessly describing it as "the land of opportunity" for women to find men.
I don't consider being raped an "opportunity."
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:30 pm | #
I hang my head in shame.
Dexter Methorphan |
10.07.08 - 3:30 pm | #
Did you see the big bald closet-case sheriff at the Palin rally on CNN?
A Republican closet case?
UNpossible!!!!!!
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:31 pm | #
The corrupt fucks who rated shitpile securities AAA should be behind bars.
Indeed. And I hope that regulation of those guys (so that ratings are fair and transparent) is one of the first new bills out of the next administration.
Tlazolteotl, CCd |
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10.07.08 - 3:31 pm | #
I don't consider being raped an "opportunity."
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008
You are an honorable commentator, Dexter. I cannot say that of both men running for President, unfortunately.
David in NY |
10.07.08 - 3:32 pm | #
Darn. Kenya has deported Jerome Corsi. Why couldn't they have just kept him?
Glenn |
10.07.08 - 3:32 pm | #
Well, you must be a lesbian, then.
- signed, N.E. Wingnut
Given a choice between that and fucking a wingnut.............
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:33 pm | #
The corrupt fucks who rated shitpile securities AAA should be behind bars.
Indeed. And I hope that regulation of those guys (so that ratings are fair and transparent) is one of the first new bills out of the next administration.
Tlazolteotl, CCd
Won't they be subject to lawsuits from stockholders, etc.?
Gimlet |
10.07.08 - 3:33 pm | #
The podium/lectern debate was really getting on my nerves.
[he said as the world crashed down around him...]
Diverting one's attention from events one has little or no chance to change is not a bad practice.
The corrupt fucks who rated shitpile securities AAA should be behind bars.
Indeed. And I hope that regulation of those guys (so that ratings are fair and transparent) is one of the first new bills out of the next administration.
Tlazolteotl, CCd | Homepage | 10.07.08 - 3:31 pm | #
An airport police officer who also requested not to be named said Corsi was to be deported later Tuesday.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha...
What a moroon.
He probably thought he was going to be greeted as a liberator.
krsaz |
10.07.08 - 3:33 pm | #
Whatever thing he stands behind -
A lectern or a podium –
He won't give up a single bit
Of earned disgrace and odium.
Fly-fornication Moscowitz |
10.07.08 - 3:34 pm | #
Kenya has deported Jerome Corsi. Why couldn't they have just kept him?
They shoulda thrown him in the slammer as a message to anyone who would enter a country to illegally work.
The Old Man From Scene 24 |
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10.07.08 - 3:34 pm | #
Corsi probably favors strict immigration laws.
David in NY |
10.07.08 - 3:34 pm | #
Did you see the big bald closet-case sherrif at the Palin rally on CNN?
Most government employees aren't allowed to participate in Political campaign events, particularly in uniform, because tax dollars pay his salary and supply his uniforms.
I realize that area is pretty red, but I wonder if there isn't some complaints about that.
Falstaff |
10.07.08 - 3:35 pm | #
corsi in kenya....
some places dont have to put up with his shit and allow the gooper elite to call it discourse.
peterboy |
10.07.08 - 3:35 pm | #
Darn. Kenya has deported Jerome Corsi. Why couldn't they have just kept him?
Glenn
They have enough problems.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:35 pm | #
Just had my 18th anniversary.
28 for me and my better half.
Congrats, kiddo.
Billy B |
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10.07.08 - 3:35 pm | #
Does Johnny McMaverick have any connection to Jack Abramof?
smalfish |
10.07.08 - 3:35 pm | #
Won't they be subject to lawsuits from stockholders, etc.?
Fuck if I know. But I do know that when you have a situation where banks and brokerages are basically paying for ratings of bonds they are selling, you are inviting opacity and corruption.
Tlazolteotl, CCd |
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10.07.08 - 3:35 pm | #
I don't think they have lecturns in this debate, they walk around within their little confined space and answer questions from the audience. I think they have a chair.
McCain could probably knock over a chair.
krsaz |
10.07.08 - 3:36 pm | #
Today would have been my Sister's 56th birthday. Hard to believe it's been 37 years since she died.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
10.07.08 - 3:37 pm | #
I don't think they have lecturns in this debate, they walk around within their little confined space and answer questions from the audience.
Maybe McSpain will pop off and Obama will cold-cock his sorry little ass.
Billy B |
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10.07.08 - 3:37 pm | #
An airport police officer who also requested not to be named said Corsi was to be deported later Tuesday.
McCain had his walk-through of Belmont University already and Obama is now in the city.
Unfortunately, it's pouring rain. Has been all day. Sorry, I love ya, Barack, but I'm not gonna stand outside holding a sign for you in the pouring rain.
I'll make another donation to make it up to him.
Southern Beale |
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10.07.08 - 3:37 pm | #
I would have been married 21 years this year if my first marriage didn't end in divorce after 7 years...
I spend four years in a Vietnamese prison camp and I've been married for four years, and to this day I couldn't tell you which was worse.
krsaz |
10.07.08 - 3:39 pm | #
2. A stand for holding the notes of a public speaker; a lectern.
I hang my head in shame at being out pedanted
The Old Man From Scene 24
As the Doors sang, "Strange Dais Indeed."
Roadmaster, Daliville CityLmts |
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10.07.08 - 3:39 pm | #
No, it is not. Just back from Greenwood.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
10.07.08 - 3:40 pm | #
'But as the project grew, Stanley Cheslock's fortune didn't. His merchant banking firm lost $100 million in the faltering economy and the couple became anxious. To be fair, they're still worth just under $100 million, but with the real estate market grinding to a halt they couldn't unload the house that costs $200,000 in upkeep every year.
'Gollinger and the Cheslocks have now taken a cue from the foreclosure world, opening a five-week auction with bids starting at $19 million -- a measure usually reserved for properties seized by banks, not high-end real estate.
"What we do is we set a sealed bid price at a price point that is a below market price," said Gollinger.
Real-estate experts say Hillcrest is the most expensive house in U.S. history to be sold this way. '
sekmet |
10.07.08 - 3:40 pm | #
Good thing our President has an MBA from Harvard eh?
I thought Bush went to Yale? And Kerry was the Harvard man?
Southern Beale |
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10.07.08 - 3:41 pm | #
A gentle terrorist fist-bump to GWPDA.
R. McGeddon |
10.07.08 - 3:41 pm | #
Thanks Hecate for the link way above.
LadyHoneyBear de Kelly |
10.07.08 - 3:41 pm | #
Bush was undergrad at Yale, MBA Harvard.
plantsman |
10.07.08 - 3:41 pm | #
Indeed. And I hope that regulation of those guys (so that ratings are fair and transparent) is one of the first new bills out of the next administration.
Having a system where ratings agencies compete with each other to see who can hand out the highest ratings in the hopes of attracting more customers (companies have to pay for their bonds to be rated) is absolutely insane.
The for profit raters should be regulated out of existence, or at least put in a position where there isn't a conflict of interest. Say, each company is assigned one set of securities and doesn't compete with others on that block.
Richard |
10.07.08 - 3:41 pm | #
They shoulda held Corsi for ransom.
Karin |
10.07.08 - 3:42 pm | #
Just had my 18th anniversary.
Yesterday marked the 36th. And we lived together for two years before getting hitched. Ack, how the hell did we get so old?
qlª - Obama/Biden |
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10.07.08 - 3:42 pm | #
I thought Bush went to Yale? And Kerry was the Harvard man?
Bush = Yale undergrad, Harvard MBA
Kerry = Yale undergrad, Boston College law
DJ |
10.07.08 - 3:42 pm | #
I thought Bush went to Yale? And Kerry was the Harvard man?
Bush went to Yale as an undergrad. He got his MBA at Harvard because he couldn't get into law school in Texas...
Certified Mutant Enemy |
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10.07.08 - 3:42 pm | #
Hard to believe it's been 37 years since she died.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian
Wow. This I did not know.
May your memories, though they bring sadness, also bring you fond recollections of the times you shared.
Roadmaster, Daliville CityLmts |
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10.07.08 - 3:42 pm | #
McStroke -- we need to sell even more weapons to Taiwan to help deal with the financial crisis.
P O'Neill
He's probably convinced that the only way out of this mess is to start another war — one that would be on a bit larger scale than the two we're fighting now.
Just another reason to be scared to death of Johnny Mac.
Glenn |
10.07.08 - 3:43 pm | #
Bush was undergrad at Yale, MBA Harvard.
It's hard to believe those schools aren't fighting for his preznitial library.
Okay, no it isn't.
Neponset |
10.07.08 - 3:43 pm | #
Tonight is not going to be pretty. Senator McCain is going to tear Obama to shreds, chew him up and spit him out. He is going to give Obama one hell of a whipping that he'll never forget
jack |
10.07.08 - 3:43 pm | #
They shoulda held Corsi for ransom.
Karin
More folks would pay to keep him there than to get him out.
Roadmaster, Daliville CityLmts |
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10.07.08 - 3:43 pm | #
They shoulda held Corsi for ransom.
Karin
Who would pay a dime to see that stupid fuck again?
Kerry and Bush went to Harvard, I think Kerry was three years ahead of Bush, and serving his second tour in Nam when Bush snuck into the Texas Air National Gaurd.
krsaz |
10.07.08 - 3:43 pm | #
Aw, Atlas Juggs could've held a fundraiser, dave.
Karin |
10.07.08 - 3:44 pm | #
Froomkin today at WaPoo.com: "Another Gallup Poll finds that "only 9% of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the United States -- the lowest such reading in Gallup Poll history."
I'm still trying to decide if this is an aggregate of the super-rich, CEOs with platinum parachutes, and economic morons, but, I guess there could be some survivalists, militia men and end-timers mixed in there, too.
montag |
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10.07.08 - 3:44 pm | #
Kenya should have turned Corsi over to Somali pirates...
Certified Mutant Enemy |
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10.07.08 - 3:44 pm | #
I would have been married 21 years this year if my first marriage didn't end in divorce after 7 years...
guess you don't want the one i stretched out
ErinPDX |
10.07.08 - 3:44 pm | #
spend four years in a Vietnamese prison camp and I've been married for four years, and to this day I couldn't tell you which was worse.
My favorite line from A Bridge Too Far was Elliott Gould's where he's asked (amongst cheering Belgians) if he's ever been liberated before, and he replies "I got divorced twice. Does that count?"
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:44 pm | #
They shoulda held Corsi for ransom.
Besides his publisher, Mary Matalin, who would pay it?
Neponset |
10.07.08 - 3:44 pm | #
He is going to give Obama one hell of a whipping that he'll never forget.
I don't think that whips are allowed under the rules.
David in NY |
10.07.08 - 3:44 pm | #
Kenya should not be saddled with Jerome Corsi -- they deported him, as was their right.
plantsman |
10.07.08 - 3:45 pm | #
Dow sinking like McCain's poll numbers.
Not much time to have a big rally.
smalfish |
10.07.08 - 3:45 pm | #
jack | 10.07.08 - 3:43 pm
Just like the straw bosses on the field n*****s, right?
You racist bastard. Go hide behind your blow-up dolls, because you're too much of a chicken shit to face ANYONE in reality.
Roadmaster, Daliville CityLmts |
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10.07.08 - 3:45 pm | #
fuck off jack
LadyHoneyBear de Kelly |
10.07.08 - 3:45 pm | #
He is going to give Obama one hell of a whipping that he'll never forget
Probably not a an appropriate metaphor...
Certified Mutant Enemy |
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10.07.08 - 3:45 pm | #
Eddie Vanhalen is going to get married again.
Brian |
10.07.08 - 3:45 pm | #
How To Memorize Scripture
Schedule for Monthly Reading
1. Select The Particular Version you wish to memorize. Use it exclusively when teaching from the Bible. Use the same Bible so that your verses are always at the same place on the page.
2. Find Someone To Memorize With You - your spouse, a preacher, or any other friend. Its better whenever two people memorize, then recite to each other at scheduled times. Two people can maintain goals easier by keeping each other on schedule.
3. Memorize A Few Verses Each Day. Preview the chapter, then assign certain passages for each day of the week. Carry a pocket New Testament. Memorize during small bits of time.
4. Study Each Chapter The Week You Memorize It. Check the meaning of any difficult words or phrases. Understand each idea within the context of its verse, chapter and book.
5. Visualize the Benefits that a memorization of the New Testament will have on your effectiveness as a teacher of God’s word. Keep such benefits before you always.
We have received your instructions in re Jerome Coris and hereby propose the following counteroffer: you pay us the sum of seven hundred billion Dollars U.S. ($700,000,000,000) to take Corsi off your hands, no questions asked. We need the money to fund ongoing activities of a global nature.
Very truly yours,
U.S.A.
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10.07.08 - 3:46 pm | #
Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday.
The upheaval that has engulfed the financial industry and sent the stock market plummeting is devastating workers' savings, forcing people to hold off on major purchases and consider delaying their retirement, said Peter Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Office...
More than half the people surveyed in an Associated Press-GfK poll taken Sept. 27-30 said they worry they will have to work longer because the value of their retirement savings has declined.
Orszag indicated the fear is well-founded. Public and private pension funds and employees' private retirement savings accounts — like 401(k)'s — have lost some 20 percent overall since mid-2007, he estimated. Private retirement plans may have suffered slightly more because those holdings are more heavily skewed toward stocks, Orszag added...
Kerry and Bush went to Harvard, I think Kerry was three years ahead of Bush, and serving his second tour in Nam when Bush snuck into the Texas Air National Gaurd.
No, they both went to Yale. The deserter later attended Harvard for his MBA when the University of Texas wisely chose to reject his worthless ass for law school there.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:47 pm | #
Dow in Death Spiral -400.00
Unrepentant Fenian |
10.07.08 - 3:47 pm | #
Congrats to those celebrating wedding anniversaries.
And good thoughts to those remembering anniversaries of much more melancholy events.
Glenn
20 years for me and the Mrs. two weeks ago.
Deacon Blues at work |
10.07.08 - 3:47 pm | #
Both the NYT and the WSJ confirm what tax bloggers have already concluded. The Palins did not declare the $43,490 the state reimbursed them for travel costs for Todd and the kids to accompany Sarah on official trips. And they should have--certainly for the funds reimbursing travel for the kids. Here's the WSJ:
While several tax experts have raised serious questions about whether the payments to Gov. Palin are taxable income, they said the case was clearer cut for treating the reimbursements for the children's expenses as taxable income. "The kids are a slam dunk problem," said Robert Spierer, a partner with the accounting firm Perelson Weiner LLP in New York City. "The husband you could make an argument that he had to be there because it was required for spouses to be there."
But not the children, he said. "I don't think I would ever claim that on my clients' returns. I can't think of a real strong argument for it."
[snip]
Bryan Camp, a tax professor at Texas Tech University School of Law and a former Internal Revenue Service lawyer in Washington, said the IRS would ask several questions to determine whether the travel reimbursements were reported properly.
Those questions include whether Mr. Palin and the children were employees of the state of Alaska, whether they traveling for bona fide business purposes, and whether they would have been able to deduct those travel expenses on their own tax returns for business purposes.
Because the answer to at least one and possibly more of those questions is no, "The Palins should have reported the $43,000 in family travel allowances received in 2007 as income," Mr. Camp wrote in an analysis.
See, the Palins almost certainly owe taxes on these funds (the NYT says they owe $6000). Asssuming they pay their back taxes, they can just say, "aw shucks, we didn' know." They do that, and we'll stop calling them tax cheats.
peterboy |
10.07.08 - 3:47 pm | #
how the hell did we get so old?
qlª - Obama/Biden | Homepage | 10.07.08 - 3:42 pm | #
My dad once told me that, while he never wanted to get old, once he realized he had gotten old he wanted to get just as old as he could.
mto3 |
10.07.08 - 3:49 pm | #
congratulations mr. and mrs. ql.
ErinPDX |
10.07.08 - 3:49 pm | #
Oh, Palin moved on to Rev. Wright today.
plantsman |
10.07.08 - 3:49 pm | #
No, they both went to Yale.
Well, I knew they both went to some fucking ivy-league privileged asshole school.
krsaz |
10.07.08 - 3:50 pm | #
how the hell did we get so old?
qlª - Obama/Biden | Homepage | 10.07.08 - 3:42 pm | #
My dad once told me that, while he never wanted to get old, once he realized he had gotten old he wanted to get just as old as he could.
mto3
I've always tried to treat every stage of life as a great new adventure.
But it is nice to have someone you love to grow older with.
Gummo |
10.07.08 - 3:50 pm | #
Oh my. Dow tanking even worse. Did someone fart in the halls of he market place?
That would be the Deciderer on the teebee earlier today.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:50 pm | #
Instead of rote memorization, does "God Fearing" put his faith into action by showing love and compassion to his fellow men and women?
"God Fearing" puts his faith in cutting and pasting. Religion got nuthin' to do with it.
montag |
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10.07.08 - 3:50 pm | #
And they said it couldn't be done!
Gummo
No, they said it shouldn't be done JK - congrats!
Deacon Blues at work |
10.07.08 - 3:50 pm | #
20 years for me and the Mrs. two weeks ago.
Deacon Blues at work
Twenty-five years as of 9-21 for me and my terrific wife. Second marriage for me. Married at 19; divorced at 30; single parent for six years. All part of the training I suppose.
This time has been absolute happiness.
Glenn |
10.07.08 - 3:50 pm | #
Oh, Palin moved on to Rev. Wright today.
Oh I see she has the Random Factless Smear Of The Day desk calendar.
Anon, Unfinished Sympathy |
10.07.08 - 3:50 pm | #
And they called it puppy love.
smalfish |
10.07.08 - 3:51 pm | #
Oh, Palin moved on to Rev. Wright today.
Palin shouldn't be talking about other people's reverends...
Certified Mutant Enemy |
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10.07.08 - 3:51 pm | #
Instead of rote memorization, does "God Fearing" put his faith into action by showing love and compassion to his fellow men and women?
This person, being totally unaware of any of the earthly aspects of Jesus' teachings, of course does not.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:51 pm | #
it is nice to have someone you love to grow older with.
Twenty-five years as of 9-21 for me and my terrific wife. Second marriage for me. Married at 19; divorced at 30; single parent for six years. All part of the training I suppose.
This time has been absolute happiness.
I married relatively late in life. I just tell people I skipped my fist marriage...
Certified Mutant Enemy |
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10.07.08 - 3:52 pm | #
Twenty-five years as of 9-21 for me and my terrific wife. Second marriage for me. Married at 19; divorced at 30; single parent for six years. All part of the training I suppose.
This time has been absolute happiness.
Glenn
:golf clap:
And just how the fuck old are you anyway??
Deacon Blues at work |
10.07.08 - 3:52 pm | #
And just how the fuck old are you anyway??
Deacon Blues at work
Age 62 my friend. So old that porn is no longer porn but prostate therapy.
Glenn |
10.07.08 - 3:54 pm | #
Will it hit 9400?
I did not think it would. Now I'm not so sure.
smalfish |
10.07.08 - 3:54 pm | #
S&P at 1005
Woof!
Will it go under 1000?
Actually I'm having a little too much fun playing with Yahoo! Finance interactive charts.
Philip Seyman Hoffmore |
10.07.08 - 3:54 pm | #
I even know many of the trees' botanical names; Scripture, just snippets remembered from childhood.
plantsman |
10.07.08 - 3:56 pm | #
Mr. Potter just took over the bank.
This calls for the SNL ending of "It's a Wonderful Life".
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:56 pm | #
holy poop on a stick!
Anon, Unfinished Sympathy |
10.07.08 - 3:56 pm | #
And just how the fuck old are you anyway??
Deacon Blues at work | 10.07.08 - 3:52 pm | #
If you do the math, he's 61.
krsaz |
10.07.08 - 3:56 pm | #
S&P also "dead money" going back 10 years.
Philip Seyman Hoffmore |
10.07.08 - 3:56 pm | #
does "God Fearing" put his faith into action by showing love and compassion to his fellow men and women?
In one sense, the point of the Jonah story, read on Yom Kippur, is not to highlight the forgiveness of God, but the importance of putting faith into action.
God's smackdown of Jonah was that God created a whole city yet Jonah (like a conservative trust fund baby) whined when the tree Jonah did nothing to create (yet Jonah felt he deserved) was taken away from him. God is God because God Creates. If we want to achieve a more divine existence we need to be active partners with God in God's creation and take some responsibility rather than whining and complaining a la Jonah.
Even the fundies are starting to realize what the Divine Command of Stewardship means in terms of, e.g., caring for the environment.
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10.07.08 - 3:56 pm | #
But it is nice to have someone you love to grow older with.
Gummo | 10.07.08 - 3:50 pm | #
Indeed!
while we're noting anniversaries, Mrs. 3 and I celebrated our 22nd last August.
She was married for 15 years before. She says she like me better.
mto3 |
10.07.08 - 3:56 pm | #
Age 62 my friend. So old that porn is no longer porn but prostate therapy.
Glenn
I don't' know whether to lol or :cry: at that thought
Deacon Blues at work |
10.07.08 - 3:56 pm | #
Fuck off, jack
DJ
jack is a strange and sad little creature and he (almost) has my pity.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:56 pm | #
My Grandpa Herb looked rather like a thinner Spencer Tracy. He was charmed that his only child had such a lot of nice children, even if they were suspciously Canadian-esque.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
10.07.08 - 3:58 pm | #
I still think McCain will be overly unctious and condescending- and it will be completely disengenuous
virgotex |
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10.07.08 - 3:59 pm | #
Hell-O-Scum is having a Paulson day.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 3:59 pm | #
Is Neil Cavuto on suicide watch yet?,/i>
Unrepentant Fenian
speaking of porn for lefties - there's a pleasant thought
misanthrope |
10.07.08 - 3:59 pm | #
does "God Fearing" put his faith into action by showing love and compassion to his fellow men and women?
God Fearing is a hypocrite and a bore.
Like all fundies.
Terry C - Obama/Biden 2008 |
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10.07.08 - 3:59 pm | #
The Ads for financial companies on MSNBC amaze for running themselves. Shuster just ran the video of McCain supporter answering "Terrorist!" when Huggy asked, "Who is the REAL Obama?"
Marsha Blackburn will NOT say Obama isn't a terrorist.
plantsman |
10.07.08 - 4:00 pm | #
He'll be fine. He'll just console himself with videos of Victoria's Secret fashion shows and Hooters girls. Which is all I've ever seen on that sorry excuse for a business show he hosts.
Neponset |
10.07.08 - 4:00 pm | #
Looks like haloscan's jumping off the lege of its finance district high rise.
Deacon Blues at work |
10.07.08 - 4:00 pm | #
You know, all this pain will end, and the markets will move back up, when Kudlow admits its a recession.
He won't do it.
Dexter Methorphan |
10.07.08 - 4:00 pm | #
McCain and his lawn: "I'm going to kill you boy."
cosmosis |
10.07.08 - 4:01 pm | #
Damn, these nutjobs just get nuttier. Finally actually read some coverage of the Corsi incident:
But Peter Mbae, Corsi's Kenyan publicist, said that although the author had always planned to leave this evening, he still viewed his departure as forced.
"They treated him like a criminal," Mbae said.
He said the author arrived in the country last week and had been "researching connections between Obama and [Kenyan Prime Minister Raila] Odinga."
Corsi was also planning a publicity event in which he would give $1,000 to one of Obama's impoverished relatives. He was detained at a downtown hotel by immigration officials shortly before the news conference was set to start.
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What kind of stunt is that? Throwing money at a relative like that?
Southern Beale |
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10.07.08 - 4:01 pm | #
Haloscum is tanking along with the DOW
qlª - Obama/Biden |
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10.07.08 - 4:01 pm | #
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Knobgobbler), on MSNBC calling Obama a terrorist, is a greaseball McGramps whore.
melior |
10.07.08 - 4:02 pm | #
If this goes on much longer, CNBC is going to look like The Blair Witch Project.
Falstaff |
10.07.08 - 4:02 pm | #
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) - This volcanic island near the Arctic Circle is on the brink of becoming the first "national bankruptcy" of the global financial meltdown.
"Everything is closed. We couldn't sell our stock or take money from the bank," said Johann Sigurdsson as he left a branch of Landsbanki in downtown Reykjavik.
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.07.08 - 4:02 pm | #
HaloScan is buugered, but I have a Snorgette triptych.
Professor Wagstaff |
10.07.08 - 4:02 pm | #
HaloScan is about to snap. I hate only emailing Atrios about HaloScan.
plantsman |
10.07.08 - 4:02 pm | #
I'm glad I'm not planning on retiring anytime soon. I had my retirement in my thirties. From here on, it's work til I drop.
cosmosis |
10.07.08 - 4:03 pm | #
Grandpa Herb looks like a college professor I used to know, but the name escapes me.
Karin |
10.07.08 - 4:03 pm | #
Corsi was also planning a publicity event in which he would give $1,000 to one of Obama's impoverished relatives.
Maybe he would have better luck giving money to Cindy McCain's impoverished relatives...
Certified Mutant Enemy |
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10.07.08 - 4:03 pm | #
HaloScan is buugered, but I have a Snorgette triptych.
Professor Wagstaff
You win!!
With that's I'm back to w**k. l8r!
Deacon Blues at work |
10.07.08 - 4:03 pm | #
The S&P has two minutes to fall below 1,000.
mer |
10.07.08 - 4:03 pm | #
And it is just killing McShame to be so grumpy....Kinda makes you feel for him for a sec, doesn't it:
can we get a WEEEEEEEEEE?
trypticon |
10.07.08 - 4:05 pm | #
Is it Bachman or Blackburn whose husband shops for all her clothes?
LadyHoneyBear de Kelly |
10.07.08 - 4:06 pm | #
S&P when Clenis took office: 450.
S&P when Clenis left office: 1350.
R. McGeddon |
10.07.08 - 4:06 pm | #
memo to Mike Allen: Gramps keeps telling us there is a reason he wasn't Miss Congeniality in the Senate. What reason was that? Hint: he's a grumpy asshole just like now.
cosmosis |
10.07.08 - 4:06 pm | #
I think Icelend should have to do credit counseling first.
Gomez
Doesn't Iceland already have a huge alcoholism problem because of all the darkness (or something)? This certainly isn't going to help.
Glenn |
10.07.08 - 4:06 pm | #
Another 500 point drop for the dow. How many 5% drops does this thing have in it?
smalfish |
10.07.08 - 4:06 pm | #
During recessions the strippers and porn stars get hotter
Neil Cavuto |
10.07.08 - 4:06 pm | #
Blackburn has that unctuous Southern Fundy thing going on, so to have her be unChristian was more in keeping with the McCain/Palin campaign.
plantsman |
10.07.08 - 4:07 pm | #
Mike Allen reports on why McCain has been so grumpy lately: "McCain is miserable about having to run a campaign that's antithetical to his persona."
Lucky for him, he's got a running mate who LOVES it.
Karin |
10.07.08 - 4:07 pm | #
Catch the grey men
As they jump from the 14th Floor.
But what friends call “grumpy McCain” is showing up regularly on the campaign trail, and several top advisers worry that it’s hurting his campaign by making him appear peevish and hunkered down when the country is looking for a larger and more optimistic brand of leadership.
Shorter to advisers: "ZOMG the real McCain is being seen! Rewrite, stat!"
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 4:07 pm | #
Ironically, ExxonMobil stock is up.
My very liberal Jewish friend will be pleased.
smalfish |
10.07.08 - 4:08 pm | #
Sigur Ros is a great Icelandic band
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.07.08 - 4:08 pm | #
So far, Obama had tallied 8,455 global votes and McCain 16 - from Andorra, Georgia and Macedonia.
gandhi |
10.07.08 - 4:09 pm | #
Pakistan is also less than a month from running out of money.
Gilly Gonzylon |
10.07.08 - 4:09 pm | #
Gramps keeps telling us there is a reason he wasn't Miss Congeniality in the Senate.
How's he gonna do this reaching across the aisle thing? Seems problematic if he pisses off everyone on both sides.
Oh, right, Sarah will help. (Silly me)
Gromit, Mooseketeer |
10.07.08 - 4:10 pm | #
Breaking news on first question of the Nashville debate as selected by Tom Brokow
"Senator Obama, the Dow Jones closed down today over 500 points (-5.0%), while the S&P closed below the 1000 mark (-5.7%) for the first time in over a decade. In light of those facts, why are you still palling around with William Ayers?"
Thread Theorist |
10.07.08 - 4:10 pm | #
Of course, when I think about it, the markets have an infinite number of 5% drops, if the basis is the previous day....
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10.07.08 - 4:10 pm | #
Shorter McCain: "Don't make me yell again!"
War On War Off |
10.07.08 - 4:10 pm | #
Oh, this is priceless:
Now some advisers fear that he’s becoming known for being too cranky — acting out David Letterman’s jokes about an old man shouting, “Get off my lawn.” In particular, some advisers say his harshly negative attacks on Obama do not fit the worrisome circumstances facing the country.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
10.07.08 - 4:10 pm | #
Sigh. My little brother is sitting down in London right now to dine on a salad of roasted wood pigeon, pancetta, and pink grapefruit and roast venison haunch with truffled artichoke, with a 2001 rioja to wash it all down.
I must be living wrong.
Professor Wagstaff |
10.07.08 - 4:11 pm | #
So far, Obama had tallied 8,455 global votes and McCain 16 - from Andorra, Georgia and Macedonia.
How did Freedonia vote?
Karin |
10.07.08 - 4:12 pm | #
Dow at closing: 9,447.11 -508.39 (5.11%)
SoCalCommie - Pot Tester |
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10.07.08 - 4:17 pm | #
Fly-fornication Moscowitz | 10.07.08 - 3:34 pm |
Nice. Very nice.
Soprano, sempre libera |
10.07.08 - 4:20 pm | #
OK Atrios.
What's happening to all the money that Wall Street is taking and why won't they make it available to whomever?
Are they just sitting on it, putting it in Cayman accounts, paying off creditors? What?
Gimlet |
10.07.08 - 4:27 pm | #
Well, quite a number...until it gets to 0.
You did not major in mathematics.
David in NY |
10.07.08 - 4:33 pm | #
"my panties have grass stains. Next time we should fuck indoors"-Sarah Palin to Todd's Business Partner
jr |
10.07.08 - 6:09 pm | #