HULK SMASH
Not cool.
I mean, if you're the rule maker, who rules the rule maker?
Wow, a new thread!
Rule 1: Don't talk about the rules.
35,000 at an Obama rally today.
Fuck you, that's my name, McCain
Eli Pariser:
Senator Clinton has her facts wrong again. MoveOn never opposed the war in Afghanistan, and we set the record straight years ago when Karl Rove made the same claim. Senator Clinton's attack on our members is divisive at a time when Democrats will soon need to unify to beat Senator McCain. MoveOn is 3.2 million reliable voters and volunteers who are an important part of any winning Democratic coalition in November. They deserve better than to be dismissed using Republican talking points.
http://
tpmelectioncentral.talkin...tely_blaste.php
/throws out Newsmax link about how Thers is sexy
I mean, if you're the rule maker, who rules the rule maker?
Like you're not married...
4. No BSG spoilerz
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT
i wwanted to go to the BHO rally. it was right outside meh borg.
How about no assumption that respectable commentators are "in the tank" for a candidate? Exhibit A: Paul Krugman. There seems to be a discounting of his columns on the assumption he's pro-Hillary.
I'm only guilty of sexyism.
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Fall 02, as a moveon volunteer i helped coordinate the presentation of 10,000 signatures to "let the inspections work" to Sen Smith, R, OR.
They had to have presented sigs to Sen. Clinton. Anybody know how that went?
Well, after way too much vino, I'm off to bed. See y'all in four or five hours...
No flirting?
Apple Ibook G4 for $399
This Apple iBook G4 1.0 GHz notebook is looking for a good home. Pre-installed components include an Apple G4 1.0 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, a 30 GB hard drive, and an Airport Wireless card! The Apple iBook notebook has Mac OS X pre-installed and a CD-ROM drive ready to access media.
Heh. He forgot about flirting.
Zap you were 100% right last night. ive seen the error of meh ways.
And poopy jokes.
Link for the Cheap Apple
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp...G410-1B&
cat=SYS
Rule #4: No :rocket:
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Your candidate sucks!
Jesus. If only the world were nothing but rainbows and flowers!! This "idea" is too stupid to be on Atrios's blog. People disagree. Often they disagree about what constitutes racism, sexism, and/or "bullshit". Good god. I'm sure you and I would be on the same side of most topics, I'm pretty far leftist, but this is just stupifyingly idiotic. How old are you, 13?
Rule #4: No :rocket:
BAN HIM!!!!
These rules are great until someone offers him bacon.
The first rule about Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club
Who wrote the them to the Odd Couple?
It's a start, Thers...but what about making frequent references to Herbert Croly? David Brooks said a couple years back that it'd help our cause.
Rule #69:
I couldn't think of one. I just wanted to claim rule 69.
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#5: Gotta say "fuck" a lot.
Unless, of course, they're selling damaged copies as new,
I don't think they are doing that. I used to run a business from Montana, that about half was comprised of out of state shipping. I think I finally figured out how to get the packages to get to their destination without damage but this required me to ship as if the boxes were dropped out of orbit to the customer. The package handling standards for UPS and FedEx is that a package has to be able to withstand being dropped onto a concrete floor from about 6 feet, up to 20 times. This does not count the other damage that can occur due to lame-brained package handlers, doing things like stacking a load of steel on top of a package marked with the label, "fragile, contains glass and crystal".
Doug | 04.18.08 - 11:21 pm | #
"The first rule about Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club"
Then how does anyone know to join?
Like you're not married...
Thers
I like the fact that you accept the world as it should be.
Then how does anyone know to join?
The glossy brochures.
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3. No parroting of MSM/Wingnut bullshit.
"MSM" is the wingnut bullshit term for corporate media. They're the ones who started calling it "mainstream media".
I'm going out on a limb and then I'm going to bed:
What did Aryaan Hirsi Ali expect? I don't think Theo Van Gogh deserved to be murdered in the least, but you dealing with extremist. Their not known for thinking things through.
This "idea" is too stupid to be on Atrios's blog.
This is just so...sincere. Hats off!
...I did't think 13-Y.O.'s were allowed to have 237 children and whiskey-soaked bacon...
I am so out of touch...
Keep in mind that baggage handlers' nicknames for each other is "thrower".
Don't forget that MoveOn was formed to help the clenis. Thanks a bunch Senator Clinton.
Like you're not married...
Hmmm....you got me.
Exhibit A: Paul Krugman. There seems to be a discounting of his columns on the assumption he's pro-Hillary.
Not knowing his reasons, I can't imagine why he's pro-Hillary.
Make all the rules you like and follow them to the letter.
Rule #4 in politics is never get caught breaking the rules.
Rule #5 is known as the Nixon or Watergate rule and you can probably figure it out from #4.
Fuck that, you mick maven of masculine dominance. What about Vince Foster?
For all you DFH's in Northeast Tennessee, assuming there are any:
***
Subject: Rob Russell fo Congress Fund-Festival Tomorrow Night!
Just a reminder: I'm having my first "Rob Russell for Congress" fundraiser -- a "Fund-Festival" of music -- tomorrow night at the Acoustic Coffeehouse's Next Door stage in Johnson City (415 W. Walnut St. - Johnson City, TN 37604) starting at 7 pm and ending around 11 pm. Hope you can make it -- and spread the word! = RR
Rob Russell
www.robrussellforcongress.com
rob@robrussellforcongress.com
***
I'll be the DFH playing guitar (and singing some) with the Bystanders. The other guitarist is Rob Russell himself.
No Democrat has won in that district since like 1832. But Rob just might do it!
I'd love to see you there! Peace.
6. No gratuitous Monty Python references.
I'm pretty far leftist, but this is just stupifyingly idiotic. How old are you, 13?
I'm pretty grateful that you're willing to share your thickness with the entire internet. It shows a lot of dedication!
In participating in this blog over the past several years, I've found one commenter, whose grandfather was older than mine.
His grandfather was born in 1867.
Mine was born in 1872.
Krugman has always _always_ been pro free trade.
ni!
The package handling standards for UPS and FedEx is that a package has to be able to withstand being dropped onto a concrete floor from about 6 feet, up to 20 times. This does not count the other damage that can occur due to lame-brained package handlers, doing things like stacking a load of steel on top of a package marked with the label, "fragile, contains glass and crystal".
Doug | 04.18.08 - 11:21 pm | #
I've been selling books and records internationally for the last 25 years, and my stuff has never gotten damaged in transit.
What really pisses me off is that I actually sell through Amazon, and their standards for "proper" packing for independent sellers are actually more stringent than their own.
Plus, I like how when I get a book from them that's damaged, I need to describe that damage if I later decide to sell it on their site, instead of trying to pass it off as new. Such a deal!
7. Topless gravatars are welcome
(Does that violate rule #1?)
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6. No gratuitous Monty Python references.
watertiger
7. No zombie jokes.
Krugman isn't pro-Hillary, but he is pro-Schumer.
hahahaha! You realize you're in America, right?
long but interesting (not as interesting as bacon on a kaiser):
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Glo...y/
JD17Dj05.html
And now for something different...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzz/
Abd...dominal_Etching
This is the only place the wingnut talking points ever get adequately and punctually answered.
7. No zombie jokes.
Yeah!
What if some of the rules conflict with one another? Will there be a governing body that decides? And what will she be wearing?
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6. No gratuitous Monty Python references.
Is there such a thing as a non-gratuitous MP reference?
7. Topless gravatars are welcome
(Does that violate rule #1?)
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William H. Rehnquist
Not if you include both genders....
Just to clarify:
I think speaking out against any type of extremism is brave, but let's not be naive to think they would not be upset by what you said. Half of the time I post here I expect to be attacked (albeit not to death). Let's not be naive about consequences is my point.
This is the only place the wingnut talking points ever get adequately and punctually answered.
orr | 04.18.08 - 11:30 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
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the collective knowledge of this site could at LEAST make Jeopardy Tournament of Champions.
This is your moment Arthur Pewtey
9. No Psychiatrists
7. Phila needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine.
8. Whenever Phila's not onscreen, all the other commenters should be asking "Where's Phila?"
PS:
BSG was pretty dark.
#457: No flirting.
Is there such a thing as a non-gratuitous MP reference?
Zap Rowsdower
there was once, but it is no more, it has ceased to be
moi! you could possible mean moi!
Not if you include both genders....
Oh, I hadn't thought about that. I suppose women could have topless gravatars as well. I was actually referring to a gravatar I was planning where I let my moobs run free.
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Exhibit A: Paul Krugman. There seems to be a discounting of his columns on the assumption he's pro-Hillary.
I don't know if he's pro-Hillary or not, but today's column pissed me off. The fact that the median income in PA may have gone up in the 90s has nothing to do with how many small towns were decimated by job losses and economic decay.
He's an economist. He knows better and yet he used income statistics what can only have been a deliberately misleading way.
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#457(a) Changed my mind. More flirting.
8. Whenever Phila's not onscreen, all the other commenters should be asking "Where's Phila?"
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 04.18.08 - 11:32 pm | #
If you weren't absent so much, you'd see that this rule is unnecessary. We may need a rule to address the "aw fuck, is he still here?" posts, though.
wow - I just noticed Vladimir Guerrero doesn't wear batting gloves - ouchy
His grandfather was born in 1867.
b.1865. d. 1942
BSG was pretty dark.
Monica_A: Dammit!
Y'know...when you add up all the collective 'noncomments' about BSG tonite, those of us who haven't seen it can get a pretty good idea of what happens.
Just sayin.......
8. Whenever Phila's not onscreen, all the other commenters should be asking "Where's Phila?"
Who's Phila?
And it's an awesome idea. Gonna take some serious enforcement, though.
It will be especially hard to combat the third one. People unknowingly sink into it without paying attention.
Which brings me to tonight's example of media bias. From the "with friends like this you don't need enemies department."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
ne...1,1761868.story
Did this putz ever hear of the Vitter Amendment, the single most important piece of gun rights legislation of recent years, preventing the government from taking your guns away from you in an emergency?
Obama supported it. Some gun owners groups that are not part of the GOP internal command structure have endorsed him for it. But does Oliphant care?
Y'know...when you add up all the collective 'noncomments' about BSG tonite, those of us who haven't seen it can get a pretty good idea of what happens.
Just sayin.......
flory | 04.18.08 - 11:34 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
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no. you have no idea.
Oh, I hadn't thought about that. I suppose women could have topless gravatars as well. I was actually referring to a gravatar I was planning where I let my moobs run free.
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William H. Rehnquist | 04.18.08 - 11:32 pm
Zombie Moobs!
I don't know if he's pro-Hillary or not, but today's column pissed me off.
Let's not forget that Krugman is not too far removed from his "free trade can do no wrong" days.
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Y'know...when you add up all the collective 'noncomments' about BSG
tonite, those of us who haven't seen it can get a pretty good idea of
what happens.
[glares at Euphronius]
What's the best way to bid on an ebay auction? Does everybody slip in a final bid at the last minute?
He's an economist. He knows better and yet he used income statistics what can only have been a deliberately misleading way.
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Sparkle Plenty | 04.18.08 - 11:32 pm | #
when bill gates walks into a bar, average wealth increases.
Classical and neo-classical economists expect the other drunks to be grateful.
What's the best way to bid on an ebay auction? Does everybody slip in a final bid at the last minute?
marcia
rule #4?
Wouldn't an auction be more optimal if you knew what others were bidding?
Rule #57: Visit my blog
(link may contain joke stolen from Watertiger without so much as a hat tip)
i shut up! i didnt say anything!
has nothing to do with how many small towns were decimated by job losses and economic decay.
my childhood county, big time
Y'know...when you add up all the collective 'noncomments' about BSG tonite, those of us who haven't seen it can get a pretty good idea of what happens.
Anya was killt! I have a theory ...
What's the best way to bid on an ebay auction? Does everybody slip in a final bid at the last minute?
marcia
A study was done and it showed that people who bid before the last minutes end up driving the price up. It's best to hold off as long as possible.
Krugman isn't pro-Hillary, but he is pro-Schumer.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
Pretty much the same difference.
wow - I just noticed Vladimir Guerrero doesn't wear batting gloves -
Well, not on his hands anyway. If you know what I mean.
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Marcia, I don't if there hasn't been any action up until then. But I watch it like a hawk if there have been several bids.
not my favorite krugs column.
WATERTIGER!
I need to send you A VERY IMPORTANT EMAIL.
wow - I just noticed Vladimir Guerrero doesn't wear batting gloves -
Well, not on his hands anyway. If you know what I mean.
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William H. Rehnquist
so *that's* flea's real name...
UPDATE: Yes, I mean YOU specifically.
Crap. I'm busted.
What's the best way to bid on an ebay auction? Does everybody slip in a final bid at the last minute?
marcia
Depends what the item is. But if it's sought after, people may have automatic bidding set up for 30 seconds or so before it closes. You can still beat 'em, but you usually need to have a couple windows open and ready to go.
Y'know...when you add up all the collective 'noncomments' about BSG tonite, those of us who haven't seen it can get a pretty good idea of what happens.
Just sayin.......
flory
...I actually wrote about rule #943 being a prohibition of quasi-liveblogging BSG episodes that others can't see at the same time, then I deleted it...
Fourth rule: No telling other people what they can write on their blogs.
sidhra, no shit, are you actucally claiming the oldest Eschaton grandfather?
You realize, that 1865 is a big thing to do.
What's the best way to bid on an ebay auction? Does everybody slip in a final bid at the last minute?
marcia
Yes.
And wait til GWPDA is around and ask that question.
She is the queen of eBay.
But, I can still use the "F" word, right?
It's best to hold off as long as possible.
The other rule is to decide before hand how much the item is worth to you, and not ever bid higher than that.
I never bid at the last moment myself, prefering instead to bid a low price and hoping others don't find this item.
Matthews: Obama "can't walk into a dinette with five or six guys there, white guys, in some cases ... He can't just shake hands and hang out"
That Obama fellow sure is one uppity negro, eh, Matthews?
Rule #9: Head on over to Swan's blog
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wow - I just noticed Vladimir Guerrero doesn't wear batting gloves -
Well, not on his hands anyway. If you know what I mean.
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William H. Rehnquist | 04.18.08 - 11:36 pm | #
and his pants fit like a glove...
"But, I can still use the "F" word, right?"
why the fuck not?
I'm afraid people just aren't taking rule 57 seriously enough.
(link may contain joke stolen from Watertiger without so much as a hat tip)
it's alright. i still owe you from that dinner.
Here's an article on the benefits of late bidding that refers to the study I mentioned.
white guys, in some cases
Display cases?
THERS!
I AM AT MY COMPUTER, AWAITING YOUR VERY IMPORTANT EMAIL!
Here's an article on the benefits of late bidding that refers to the study I mentioned.
puppethead | Homepage | 04.18.08 - 11:40 pm | #
this isn't helping me to grok BSG.
I'm afraid people just aren't taking rule 57 seriously enough.
What do I have to do?
"Matthews: Obama "can't walk into a dinette with five or six guys there, white guys, in some cases ... He can't just shake hands and hang out"
ok - did he really say this? he's capable, no doubt but did he?
"I'm afraid people just aren't taking rule 57 seriously enough.
What do I have to do?"
Invoke rule 303?
nah we be librulz
"But, I can still use the "F" word, right?"
why the flower not?
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Sorry...
forty years ago, Matthews' sentence would have ended after the word 'dinette'
ok - did he really say this? he's capable, no doubt but did he?
Yes. Yes, he did.
What do I have to do?
Your perfunctory comment fulfilled your obligation.
ok - did he really say this? he's capable, no doubt but did he?
In abiding by Rule 57, I found the quote at the linked blog.
I AM AT MY COMPUTER, AWAITING YOUR VERY IMPORTANT EMAIL!
EXCELLENT!
I AM GETTING READY TO SEND IT NOW!
BE ALERT!
Matthews is being unfair. You really can't fit more than 5 or 6 guys into a dinette.
"why the flower not?
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Sorry..."
aw fuck....
Geez, I hope Obama wins in PA. That would be a sublime surprise.
"He's an economist. He knows better and yet he used income statistics what can only have been a deliberately misleading way.
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Sparkle Plenty"
Krugman "used income statistics" in a "deliberately misleading way"
Wow. Your facts backing that point up were marvelous. Oh right... you didn’t back that up.
the overt racism of some of the so-callled "progressve" blogs is pretty fucking funny. I guess it takes an Obama candidacy to brng out their inner racist reactionary
BE ALERT!
Thers
the the hell is a lert?
"Matthews: Obama "can't walk into a dinette with five or six guys there, white guys, in some cases ... He can't just shake hands and hang out"
What the hell was Matthews trying to say with this? I don't get it.
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In abiding by Rule 57, I found the quote at the linked blog.
See? That's how it's done!
I AM AWAITING A VERY IMPORTANT EMAIL TOO!
Just thought you should know.
alert? I am thelert
Dirty fucking hippies don't give a shit about no rules.
ok - did he really say this? he's capable, no doubt but did he?
Yes. Yes, he did.
Jesus.
I keep one thing in mind about economists: if you laid all of the economists in the world end-to-end they'd still point in different directions.
BE ALERT!
I AM SITTING ON THE EDGE OF MY CHAIR!
NO, REALLY! I AM!
alert? I am thelert
WalterNeff
who's the walrus?
I got a very sweet email from a Ms Tiger. Made my day.
BE ALERT!
Thers
Indoor voice please.
People are sleeping.
I wonder if the dinette was gold-flecked formica.
Jesus. If only the world were nothing but rainbows and flowers!! This "idea" is too stupid to be on Atrios's blog. People disagree. Often they disagree about what constitutes racism, sexism, and/or "bullshit". Good god. I'm sure you and I would be on the same side of most topics, I'm pretty far leftist, but this is just stupifyingly idiotic. How old are you, 13?
Fuck you.
I hope that helps.
I am not really sure where Krugman is coming from in this election. There is more to this than meets the eye. Perhaps there is a personal connection to the campaigns? Is a former student advising Clinton or a rival advising Barack? The columns just reek or pettiness (from my perspective.)
As far as the free trade issue. It is so difficult to even discuss because what it means to one person is not what it means to another. When Marcellina explained the other day that American goods were not actually going down in price in Europe because the prices are controlled and the only benefit was to the store owners and distributors: it just made me furious. (And me alone, apparently)
So we have free trade here when the dollar's value is lower we pay more. When the dollar rises in value, we pay less for foreign goods. But this is not true in Europe? Who agreed to this and why? This is free trade?
And we send our manufacturing jobs away and replace them with what? Financial sector jobs - like the 9000 that Citigroup eliminated today? - and what do they MAKE that we can sell?
I am sorry, Professor, you really do not see enough for me.
You realize, that 1865 is a big thing to do.
MP
I may need to see some documentation if you expect to get this toaster.
remind me to not include some of you in meh secret resistance force. jeeze.
See? That's how it's done!
I am an enabler.
This exchange of a potential email exchange is really exciting. I can't believe that I'm actually witnessing it!
I got a very sweet email from a Ms Tiger. Made my day.
AND YOU . . . ooh, excuse me.
And you made mine.
The Reagan revolution proved adept in its prime goal of redistribution of wealth from 1980 until today. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows in a 2007 study:
The top 1% of the population received 14.0% of the national after-tax income in 2004, nearly double its 7.5% share in 1979. (Each percentage point of after-tax income is equivalent to US$71 billion in 2004 dollars.) In contrast, the middle fifth of the population, which has 20 times more people in it, received 15.0% of the national after-tax income in 2004, down from 16.5% in 1979. The bottom fifth received 4.9% of the income in 2004, down from 6.8% in 1979.
Yet, the most important cultural impact of the Reagan revolution was the unleashing of the power of mega-corporations. It can be said in the year 2008, that the power of large corporations is as unfettered as any time in American history, and that is saying something.
The modern industrial corporation and the American republic were born contemporaneously. The basically centralized authoritarian structure of the corporation and the comparatively distributed democratic structure of the republic led to rather a fitful existence between the two from the beginning. Thomas Jefferson was the first to warn of the concentrated power of the new corporate entities. Fifty years later, at the dawn of the first Gilded Age, Henry and Charles Adams, the great grandsons of America's second president John Adams, would warn in their Chapters of Erie:
And yet already our great corporations are fast emancipating themselves from the State, or rather subjecting the State to their own control, while individual capitalists, who long ago abandoned the attempt to compete with them, will next seek to control them. In this dangerous path of centralization, [shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius] Vanderbilt [1794-1877] has taken the latest step in advance. He has combined the natural power of the individual with the factitious power of the corporation. The famous L'Etat, c'est moi of Louis XIV represents Vanderbilt's position in regard to his railroads. Unconsciously he has introduced Caesarism into corporate life. He has, however, but pointed out the way which others will tread. The individual will hereafter be engrafted on the corporation, democracy running its course, and resulting in imperialism; and Vanderbilt is but the precursor of a class of men who will wield within the State a power created by the State, but too great for its control. He is the founder of a dynasty.
It would be a warning continually sounded by others across the last decades of the 19th century. Eventually, the Populist Movement would emerge, a uniquely American movement that was a reaction from a dominant but declining agriculture economy to a growing and increasingly powerful industrial economy. The question of concentrated corporate power became a popular concern.
I am an enabler.
Apostate | 04.18.08 - 11:46 pm | #
You smell like a lert.
"Yes. Yes, he did."
(bangs head on wall)
really the coloreds are just like real people... ya know?
SHIT repugs are STUPID about race.
How many left coasters here are heading to Erin's house in Sept? I am planning on it.
Sexson 2nd home run!!!!
I can't believe that I'm actually witnessing it!
You should see when we talk to each other in person.
Uncle Blodge, don't slam your head against that wall! You might hurt the wall!
did A man go to the philly obama rally tonight? they say he got 35,000!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20...1053/669/
498696
SHIT repugs are STUPID about race.
Uncle Blodge
they're a stupid race...