I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
MINE
ALL MINE!
Yours
Good morning.
How're Chimpy's mosquito bites?
Can't even get a home run at this hour, jeesh.
Morning, Avedon, and thanks. I'm getting offline so the phone can ring inviting me to breakfast. Glad you picked up Sherry's remarks about her t-shirt at Sideshow!
Can't even get a home run at this hour, jeesh.
Ya gotta get up pretty early.
Morning, all
NOW THAT'S COMMITTMENT
Dan Keating, a member of the Irish Republican Army and the last surviving veteran of Ireland’s 1919-21 war of independence from Britain, died Wednesday in County Kerry. He was 105.
Mr. Keating joined the First Kerry Brigade of the Irish Republican Army in 1920 and took part in two major 1921 ambushes, which left at least five police officers, four British soldiers and five I.R.A. members dead.
He joined the I.R.A. faction that opposed the 1921 peace treaty with Britain, and fought against former colleagues in Ireland’s 1922-23 civil war.
In 1970, he switched his allegiance from the “official” Irish Republican Army to a new, Northern Ireland-based faction called the Provisional I.R.A., which spent 27 years trying to overthrow British rule.
When the Provisional I.R.A. called a 1997 cease-fire and supported the Sinn Fein push for a negotiated deal, he switched support to a breakaway faction, Republican Sinn Fein, which opposed compromise and backed the I.R.A. dissidents’ continued bombings.
Mr. Keating opposed the existence of the Republic of Ireland so much that he refused to accept the state’s old-age pension. In 2002 he also refused a $3,500 award from President Mary McAleese that was offered to all Irish citizens who reach age 100; Mr. Keating argued that she was not the real president of Ireland.
He appeared in a 2007 newspaper ad appealing to Sinn Fein not to begin cooperating with the police, the step that preceded this year’s rise of a new Catholic-Protestant administration in the British territory.
With the smart-arses namestealing the trolls, it's sometimes difficult to determine exactly what any given troll has said.
Reposted before I go back to bed...
...here's Orange Satan on the incredibly ludicrous campaign to pay that idiotic "Cheers and Jeers" guy:
I'm in for a one-time $500 contribution, plus a $20 monthly recurring.
They're goal is $50k and they're well over halfway there.
Aside from the idiotic spectacle of a supposedly serious "political" site (and the Kossacks are the ones who tiresomely keep driving home that appelation) hiring as they're only "paid" staffer a guy who stole his schtick from TV Guide and does a piss-poor job imitating it, there's this: A. Whitney Brown is a long-time Kossack and frequent contributor. If you wanted to pay a "humorist" to write regularly on your site, why the fuck wouldn't you hire HIM?
Okay, dolls. I have a leaking chest freezer in the basement I need to deal with.
We're going to drive to Ithaca to see some bitching cool Buddhist mandalas today, and resolve our wardrobe malfunction (the Altmouse wig has gone missing, mysteriously). But I need to mop up the basement first.
Have a good one!
Going up 87 degrees here for the next few days. Ugh.
Ruth: alas, there's no shortage of examples of American complicity with torture. Think of the contras, the death squads, the embrace of Pinochet and Gaultieri in another era. If you haven't read Jacobo Timerman's 'Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number,' it's a harrowing book, and deals with torture's effect on the torturer and his enablers. It's sadly, and horribly, on point.
NOW THAT'S COMMITTMENT
How many children did he kill?
WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney once said financing his own campaign would be a "nightmare." Writing checks, he said this week, is "painful." It doesn't seem to be stopping him. Romney is his presidential campaign's most generous supporter, lending $17.5 million from his personal fortune so far. His Republican rivals are bracing themselves for him to do it again. And again.
Romney's former company Bain, just purchased the Clear Channel too. Nice.
Sweater weather.
I'm jealous. Another day in the mid-80's here.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 8:31 am |
Same here, we're expecting record highs the next three days. It's been 10-20 degrees above normal for nearly two months.
Of course, the end of next week it's supposed to be 'normal'-68 for highs. Some people are going to complain how cold it is.
Salt Lake City is expeting a rain/snow mix today.
Bob Herbert on decent political leadership, noting, well, its absence:
Yet much of the nation’s top leadership is either wasting its time on complete nonsense or trying with great determination to push us back to the era of top hat and tails.
Among other things, Republicans are trying to figure out what to do about Larry Craig, the loony senator from Idaho who got caught in a public toilet behaving as if he thought the promised land was just one stall away.
Democrats, unable to do anything about George W. Bush’s policy of eternal war in Iraq, found themselves reduced to fulminating in official Congressional proceedings about the latest wackiness from Rush Limbaugh.
Meanwhile, the president and his priceless band of can’t-get-it-right-wingers, are busy vetoing health insurance for children, dreaming up secret torture protocols, funneling lucrative federal contracts to friends and cronies and fulfilling their paramount mission — making the very rich richer.
So much for leadership.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/0...herbert.html?
hp
Going up 87 degrees here for the next few days. Ugh.
ql-was in NY
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I have a week of exterior painting to do so this weather works for me.
Karin, you bring up a good point: I have never formally introduced myself to the blog.
Hello. I am an American woman, originally from Pennsylvania, living in western Austria and working as a musician (since 1994). My boyfriend lives in Munich, I get home every summer, I love scuba diving, reading, and cinema, and I spend way too much time hanging out here when I should be doing other things.
And I hate Bush.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting in touch with my feminine side this morning.
If you know what I mean....
Going to be 88 here today. Air quality alert. I've never raked leaves when it was 88 before.
Hello. I am an American woman, originally from Pennsylvania, living in western Austria and working as a musician (since 1994). My boyfriend lives in Munich, I get home every summer, I love scuba diving, reading, and cinema, and I spend way too much time hanging out here when I should be doing other things.
And I hate Bush.
Marcellina | 10.06.07 - 8:37 am | #
I'm not really me, but hello anyway.
slj: well, that's OK, as long as you're willing to concede that the Beach Boys are overrated...
About that Woodrow Wilson quote....
ProfWombat:
Are you going to EschaCon 08?
Reason I ask is, a woman friend of mine (who lurks here) is very curious about you.
Seriously...she thinks you're a riot.
Later, flittermice....
Your new name, mimi?
Marcellina, my mother grew up in the center of Vienna, the oldest part of the city. My grandfather was a metal worker, he used to work on those copper roofs you see on the old buildings.
Hi Marcellina. I'm a retired surgeon who's finishing a law degree, in love with my wife and three daughters north of Boston. I read lots of stuff, am naturally clumsy at sports of all descriptions and have found this board a lifeline to sanity, populated by mostly smart, decent, generous people, in fraught times...
Hello. I am a 57 y.o., recently retired, grandmother wanna be. Today we are celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary. We lived together for two years before being married, so all totaled I've lived with mr. ql for 37 years. That's a long time. Worth every minute. I would still rather be with him than anyone else.
Karin, you should tell this to blerb too. He moved to the US from here as a child.
ql. that sounds so...... well-adjusted, and very sweet.
Hello. I am a 57 y.o., recently retired, grandmother wanna be. Today we are celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary. We lived together for two years before being married, so all totaled I've lived with mr. ql for 37 years. That's a long time. Worth every minute. I would still rather be with him than anyone else.
ql-was in NY | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 8:43 am |
Happy anniversary!
Happy Anniversary, ql!
slj: I don't get to travel much; I'm principal caretaker of my daughters with a full-time working wife. I'll join the meetup in Boston this month, though. Too bad; I'd love to meet all you guys. And regards to your friend the lurker, and my sympathies for her poor taste, of which you've given two examples...
Happy Anniversary ql!
ProfWombat, are you near Cape Ann? That's one of my favorite places in the world.
ql: happy anniversary: well played, indeed, m'dear; many more...
I, too, am 57, by odd coincidence...
Marcellina: I'm in Andover, about half an hour straight north of Boston, and about half an hour from Cape Ann, which is indeed great...
heh:
WHATS THE POINT OF HAVING A JURRY IF THEY DONT GIVE THE VERDICT
EVERYBODY WANTS THEM TO GIVE - FOR THAT GO BACK TO MOB RULE
Merkin Patriot | 05.03.06 - 5:19 pm |
BTW, if want to piss off the Kossacks, you can recommend this.
If you've got a super-secret Kossack decoder ring, that is...
Happy anniversary, ql, and many more.
That's a long time. Worth every minute. I would still rather be with him than anyone else.
ql-was in NY
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when I stopped in last night, QL, some guy was talking about taking you out back for a make out session.
Happy Anniversary to you and Mr. QL you hussie!
In fact, I always remember the date of the Anschluss, because it was my mother's 16th birthday.
I know of one thing that's going on...the Indians are up 2 games to none over the Yankees this morning.
Me. So. Happy.
I'm a 19-year-old blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader at a small midwestern college who's never written to Forum before. Then yesterday, when I was showering in the girls' locker room after cheerleading practice...
Happy anniversary, mr and mrs ql.
Boggle my mind, you and ProfWombat do. As well as many others on this board.
In fact, I always remember the date of the Anschluss, because it was my mother's 16th birthday.
Good god. When and how did she "come over" to America?
Happy Anniversary, Mr and Mrs Quilt Lady - Many More!
Marcellina,
I am me.
Hi everyone,
I am poster here who would like to hear rest of dave™© story.
I know of one thing that's going on...the Indians are up 2 games to none over the Yankees this morning.
I am me.
DWD - Uncivil
On my better days, so am I.
Me, I mean. Not you.
Oh, yeah: I am fifty-seven too.
ql -- all the best to you and mr. ql.
I'm so jealous...
Hi DWD,
my Mom is halfway through your book and says, and I quote, it's fascinating.
I am poster here who would like to hear rest of dave™© story.
Send $50000 to...
Oh, and a very happy anniversary to ql. You're an inspiration to us all. Me and the missus are only in our 18th year of blissful togetherness.
Our marriage is now old enough to drink a beer.
SteveLG:
(raises glass of well kept 1961 Chateau Chasse-Spleen)
To the fact--not just the dream, or the aspiration, mind you, the fact--that, one of these days, it'll happen to you. Count on it. Nothing less than you deserve.
(drains glass dry and throws it into fireplace)
Are we doing the "disclosing ages" thing while all the young 'uns are still asleep?
55
True thing:
A woman friend of mine from college, who I haven't seen in about thirty years, is dropping by my watering hole this evening.
I don't really know what I think about this....
Our marriage is now old enough to drink a beer.
Cleveland Bob
Now that's funny!
really, I don't know how it happened. I think we just lucked out. At twenty, I was really way to young to think about settling down.
Nothing less than you deserve.
This is right on point for me. I'm currently in the throes of making myself miserable obsessing about a finished relationship that I know I'm well rid of.
Just takes time, I s'poze.
'course at fifty-five it dawns on you that you don't have forever, exactly. Makes "settling" look like a perilously attractive option.
steve: sound like something more to be experienced than thought about.
Found out a few years ago that the gawky, sweet, bright 13 yo girl who had a crush on me in summer camp many years ago is now one of the country's eminent professors of intellectual property law...
Off to do my morning constitutional.
45.
Strange fact: my boyfriend was born in the night that the Berlin Wall went up. On the wrong side of it. They had a hard time rounding up a doctor because everyone was glued to their radios, listening to the western stations for any info they could get.
Marcellina,
Excellent. (That is my goal: fascinating) I will settle for interesting but I really want fascinating.
I LOVE it when people like what I do. As a performer, this is the applause part for writers.
A woman friend of mine from college, who I haven't seen in about thirty years, is dropping by my watering hole this evening.
Do you need to borrow my Best of Barry White cd?
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Send $50000 to...
dave™© | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 8:53 am | #
What the fuck are you doing up so early?
Here's an unexpected development - someone "troll rated" my comment at Orange Satan!
Color me shocked!!!
Steve Simels,
May your evening be filled with the deliciously positive kismet of ten thousand charmed nights.
What the fuck are you doing up so early?
It's never to early to feed a cat!
But seriously... I'm going back to bed now.
'course at fifty-five it dawns on you that you don't have forever, exactly. Makes "settling" look like a perilously attractive option.
SteveLG
You pretty much get past it by 105. Trust me.
,
How about a Betty White CD?
GWPDA: good morning to you and your noble beast, m'dear. A jammy doughnut and coffee? Or, alternatively, I've some challah for French toast...
Good god. When and how did she "come over" to America?
Her & her younger brother went to England on the "Kindertransport" if you know what that is. Later on, my grandparents were able to get visas to come to the US, and they brought the kids over here.
How about a Betty White CD?
Or just show her the Betty White sex tape.
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Here's an unexpected development - someone "troll rated" my comment at Orange Satan!
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I haven't been following all of the drama over ther.
WHR: you still own a Barry White record?
No wonder you're dead...
You pretty much get past it by 105. Trust me.
,
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
I'll take what comfort I can from that.
Do you need to borrow my Best of Barry White cd?
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William H. Rehnquist | 10.06.07 - 8:57 am | #
Nothing like that. Just a friend I lost track of.
The whole "it's been thirty years" thing freaks me out, though.
I'm a 19-year-old blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader at a small midwestern college who's never written to Forum before. Then yesterday, when I was showering in the girls' locker room after cheerleading practice...
dave™©
Dumbya was a cheerleader. Did he shower with the boys or the girls? If he did shower with the girls did they point and snicker a lot?
Lime Rickey: no girls at Phillips in Bush's day. The boys, now, they probably pointed and snickered a lot...
Or just show her the Betty White sex tape.
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William H. Rehnquist | 10.06.07 - 9:01 am | #
You guys are starting to frighten me.
WHR: you still own a Barry White record?
No wonder you're dead...
Perhaps. But t'was the Barry Gibb record that actually killed me.
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The whole "it's been thirty years" thing freaks me out, though.
steve simels
Someone (might have been Trademake Dave come to think of it) pointed out that yesterday was the day, thirty-seven years ago, that Led Zeppelin released THE IMMIGRANT SONG.
GWPDA: good morning to you and your noble beast, m'dear. A jammy doughnut and coffee? Or, alternatively, I've some challah for French toast...
ProfWombat
And to you, aussi. I think just plain toast this morning - I've brought my own apple butter....
Karin, the Kindertransport: gracious, she was one of the lucky ones. Many of those kids were left off in Holland and didn't make it when the country was invaded.
Re-HICA!
Second cuppa coffee!
So... my fangers is numb. I have throttle thumb!
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Her & her younger brother went to England on the "Kindertransport" if you know what that is. Later on, my grandparents were able to get visas to come to the US, and they brought the kids over here.
Karin
I am incredibly proud to say that my almost-sixteen year old younger daughter, Hallie, is playing "Eva" in The Annapolis Colonial Players' production of Diane Samuels' play "Kindertransport."
Performances start in a couple of weeks. I know I'm going to be a total mess, watching it. Lots of hankies. Maybe a squeegee.
off to the Farmers Market. You kids play nice.
To-morrow would have been my sister's fifty-fifth birthday. She died thirty-five years ago. Time's a bitch.
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A lot of happy, a lot of hurt on the board today.
A day like any other day, I guess, but it feels particularly close to the surface.
Sorry, GWPDA. 20 years old, meh.
The whole "it's been thirty years" thing freaks me out, though.
In my experience with these kind of things, you'll either find that neither of you has really changed and you kind of pick up where you left off or you quickly discover that you have absolutely nothing in common anymore beyond shared memories and spend the evening wondering how the hell you ever became friends in the first place.
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Someone (might have been Trademake Dave come to think of it) pointed out that yesterday was the day, thirty-seven years ago, that Led Zeppelin released THE IMMIGRANT SONG.
Indeed it was.
And as I also mentioned, I had listened to it just a day or two previous. I had to actually listen to it twice, because it occured to me how fucking weird it is. What the hell's that "ah-ah-aaaaaaaaaaaaaah-AH" thing all about? I always thought it was an organ, but it's actually Plant's vocals double-tracked through some filter. And there's an incredible amount of reverb on the guitar at the beginning of each verse.
How the hell did this thing make it onto Top 40 radio?
Read a review of a book (I'm blanking on the name, sorry) about the aftermath of World War II in Europe. Not a well-known part of history. No shortage of brutality and ethnic cleansing.
It's worth stepping back and looking at Europe today, recalling the horrors of the past century. Not, clearly without problems, but, on balance, one of the more decent places inhabited by human beings, and a miracle for so being.
We can recover, and advance, from the disgrace and tragedy of Bushism. We can do it. Never doubt it for a minute. It'll happen, if only because it'd be good for business...
GWPDA, didja see the Smithsonian is falling apart under Dumbya's watch?
Smithsonian--‘Nations Attic'--Leaking Badly
An article in (what else?) the Washington Post, Jim Grimaldi outlines the decline and fall of yet another American institution.
Free speech? No, the corporate and media giants have already co-opted that one.
Freedom of the press and an independent media? Sorry, that was bought while we were busy at the mall, by an Australian billionaire.
Then, it’s gotta be our right to be left the hell alone in our own homes. Uh, uh. That most cherished of our rights was the first casualty of the War on Drugs.
The institution of which I speak is not philosophical, but actual bricks and mortar—the Smithsonian, “an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazine.” Commonly called the nation’s attic—a sort of Hubble telescope of our historic past, it’s in trouble.
Deteriorating Smithsonian facilities have damaged historic airplanes, threatened collections and resulted in the leakage of tens of millions of gallons of water at National Zoo enclosures, while cuts in security staff have exposed artifacts in the institution's 18 museums to vandalism and theft, the Government Accountability Office reported yesterday.
To-morrow would have been my sister's fifty-fifth birthday. She died thirty-five years ago. Time's a bitch.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
I'm so sorry. Really. I can't imagine life without my sisters. We're in touch almost everyday, and we kid each other mercilessly--actually, we try to see who can get the other two to laugh the hardest by saying the most outrageous things.
We had a rough time growing up (lost our mother to severe mental illness) and I think that made us so close.
Hmm.
The whole breakfast and coffee thing beckons.
Back in a few...
I have always wondered what planet Led Zeppelin dropped in from. Their stuff was like nothing else before. They created a completely new genre out of some blues and a lot of psychedelic drugs.
We can recover, and advance, from the disgrace and tragedy of Bushism.
First we have to admit we have a problem...
BTW, missed the end of last night's game on account of sleep. Pretty smooth.
19, Marcellina - she died in February. It is impossible to think of her being 55 of course.
Ah, well. Time to paint the study - if I spend one more day looking at these damned khaki colored walls I'm going to start throwing things.
Oh and ql, happy, happy to you and mr. ql.
Last night's game ending drama, I mean. Not my sleeping.
GWPDA: (hug)
They don't know that "Orange Satan" is a term of affection? They need to get out more.
More rain on the way. A 4-bag, 6-bus shopping trip yesterday. I try to avoid those.
I am incredibly proud to say that my almost-sixteen year old younger daughter, Hallie, is playing "Eva" in The Annapolis Colonial Players' production of Diane Samuels' play "Kindertransport."
That's very cool. I've read a couple of books on the subject, but I've never heard of that play. My mother never talked about it, and she died in 1969 of cancer, but she was one of the few lucky ones who was reunited with her family.
Happy anniversary, qls!
Halfdan: that was one of the best games I've seen in a while. Tight defense, aggressive baserunning, great bullpen pitching, my guys win with 2 outs in the ninth on a walk-off home run. A lot of the best of the sport on display...
ProfWombat, are you setting up to practice law when you have your degree?
GWPDA: (hug)
ProfWombat
'Enkew - don't get that apple butter on you. Will you have a paintbrush?
We can recover, and advance, from the disgrace and tragedy of Bushism. We can do it. Never doubt it for a minute.
A wonderful 2003 essay by Bill Moyers shares some of this optimism.
Never mind the odds. Remember what the progressives faced. Karl Rove isn't tougher than Mark Hanna was in his time and a hundred years from now some historian will be wondering how it was that Norquist and Company got away with it as long as they did – how they waged war almost unopposed on the infrastructure of social justice, on the arrangements that make life fair, on the mutual rights and responsibilities that offer opportunity, civil liberties, and a decent standard of living to the least among us
But it won't happen automatically, or through some "pendulum swing" or passive movement of history. It'll have to be fought for.
I'm hoping my DVD rentals came in last evening's mail, myself.
I never go to Kos.
Maybe I should. I hear their posters get rich and famous.
I'm hoping my DVD rentals came in last evening's mail, myself.
plantsman, areligious
Maybe with the chiles?
Bill Moyers is a national treasure.
Hooray for ql and the Mr.! 
ProfWombat,
I am sorry to be the one to tell you this but Cleveland is a better team than either Boston or New York. They are really very good this year.
Ohh, that could be cool. Got the pork chops entirely unawares!
The pendulum swings in a democracy naturally as voters are able to judge progress and competence by media account.
Now-a-days, not so much.
The tide is turning, I can FEEL it.
The tide is turning, I can FEEL it.
Are you sure it's not the worm?
I have small post to blogwhore at very new, modest homepage.
[kaufman]
Thank you viddy much
[/kaufman]
To-morrow would have been my sister's fifty-fifth birthday. She died thirty-five years ago. Time's a bitch.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
My little sister died ten years ago. She was 45. We had been estranged for many years due to her drug and alcohol abuse. Still, it hit me like a ton of bricks and I still get teary on occasion.
Yes, I'm sure. Humanity is returning.
No,`really... the butt is fine. It's the throttle fingers.
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They don't know that "Orange Satan" is a term of affection? They need to get out more.
That same person considers the fact that they have never "bashed" Harry Reid something to be proud of.
A very peculiar group over there...
Ye-Ouch! Jeffraham. Never thought about that, but now that you've mentioned it, I'm getting sympathetic hand-cramps!
A very peculiar group over there...
Indeed. Politicos need to be back-patted and bashed according to their actions, not their frickin' team label.
Oh, and if you ever take a scooter trip up TN-11E, towards Johnson City, be advised: The last 20 miles or so have a 65 mph speed limit.
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My new chair - only in a vivid gold and orange print. It reclines too!
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That's very cool. I've read a couple of books on the subject, but I've never heard of that play. My mother never talked about it, and she died in 1969 of cancer, but she was one of the few lucky ones who was reunited with her family.
Karin
It's a very powerful play, not a "great" one necessarily, but well worth reading.
It's almost as much about the relationship between mothers and daughters as The Kindertransport itself, although it's solidly rooted in historical fact.
You might (or might not) recognize a lot of Eva, who comes to call herself Evelyn as she shuts away the horrors of her past by becoming "English", and perhaps even her daughter Faith who only discovers her mother's history once she's an adult.
The play isn't chronological but the characters exist alongside one another, at their various ages, throughout the play.
My sister detests me. It's mutual. But we love each other.
You've got a way to keep me on your side
You give me cause for love that I can't hide
For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide
Because you're mine,
I walk the line
Nice Chair!
Good one from Orange Satan:
Am I the only one here who thinks that if Markos wants BIPM on the payroll he should HIRE HIM and PAY BENEFITS?
Since when is honest work compensated by a fund-raising drive? Professional writers should be paid, just like any other kind of workers.
What happens to BIPM if the "recurring" subscribers don't follow through? What happens a year from now if no one wants to give to continue his "salary?"
If BIPM's column is that valuable, maybe Kos should use some of the receipts from Chevron ads and pay him.
MSNBC is all over the Princess Diana crash, and Pat Buchanan is outraged that Obama doesn't wear a flag pin.
Time for shopping.
GWPDA, didja see the Smithsonian is falling apart under Dumbya's watch?
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the best general descriptor that I can think of for Bushco is greed and the corollary disrespect.
Since when is honest work compensated by a fund-raising drive?
When it sucks?
kos follies!
plantsman: Ye-Ouch! Jeffraham. Never thought about that, but now that you've mentioned it, I'm getting sympathetic hand-cramps!
Not cramping (although there was some of that, yesterday, sitten rubbed this gnarly eucalyptus and clove stuff into the laef hand, and that went away).
Numbness!
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The animals are awake and the coffee pot calls to me......
Too much sadness surrounds us you know? It is the best we can do, sometimes, just to keep it at bay a bit longer. Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we fail. For the times when we fail, it is nice to have a place to come to listen and speak a bit.
Is Alex Witt in da chair?
SteveLG: I talk about this all the time; it's wonderful to read one of my heroes, and a far better writer, doing it. Of course we need to fight for it. But it'll happen. Make no mistake about it.
Cynicism, despair and pessimism are easy default positions these days, for any of the reasons we rail about. They vitiate the will to fight, and play into the hands of those we'd fain push aside as we rejoin the world of decent men. We need to fight them, too.
As a counterexample to the pusillanimity we see all too much of today in opposition, here's a transcript of Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous speech, in which he goes on the attack with wit, ebullience and ruthless accuracy, while blaming all of it on his dog, Fala:
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him - at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars- his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since. I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself - such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable. But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.
http://www.hpol.org/fdr/fala/
Read the whole thing. That's how it's done right.
Nice Chair!
plantsman, areligious
T'is, ain't it? Somewhere in Phoenix there's somebody whose taste is mine, exactly, and who is even now redecorating. I can hardly wait to see what they get rid of next.
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Numbness!
Oh, that. Half of Left hand's been numb since the stroke.
MSNBC is all over the Princess Diana crash, and Pat Buchanan is outraged that Obama doesn't wear a flag pin.
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well last night on Meet the Press we endured "the cackle" again.
when there's no news...
the best general descriptor that I can think of for Bushco is greed and the corollary disrespect.
Nancy Willing
One of the many reasons that actual historians get really vitriolic when Shrub describes his interest in history.
ProfWombat,
I wish we had an FDR around today. The Dems could use some wit, charm and spine.
Apparently the acceptance of free speech and assembly in "democracies" is undergoing revision.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/200...n-
o06_prn.shtml
The Metropolitan Police have banned a demonstration by the Stop the War Coalition in central London. Police spokesmen have indicated that this is in response to pressure from the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The march is planned to coincide with the reopening of Parliament on Monday October 8. This is a major attack on the freedom of speech.
The march has been banned under a little-known law dating from 1839, at the time of the Chartist movement—a period that was to encompass class conflict at home and colonial insurrections abroad. It was a time when the British ruling class believed they were on the brink of social revolution—a fear which was to be confirmed by the 1848 revolutions that toppled thrones in Europe and gave birth to the Marxist movement.
The order allows the police to break up demonstrations and disperse crowds on any day that the Houses of Parliament are sitting. It could be applied to a demonstration anywhere within London that might be interpreted as hindering MPs and Lords from travelling to Parliament.
Since August 1, 2005, spontaneous demonstrations have been banned in a wide area of central London under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCP Act 2005). This act created an exclusion zone within a one kilometre radius of the Houses of Parliament. A large part of central London is covered by the exclusion zone. It takes in St James’s Park, an extensive area of the South Bank, and a swathe of London from Charing Cross to Lambeth Bridge.
In December 2005 Maya Evans became the first person to be convicted under the SOCP Act 2005, when she read out the names British soldiers who had been killed in Iraq. Her companion, Milan Rai, who read out the names of Iraqi civilians who had died, was found guilty of breaching the act in April 2006. The site of their protest, the Cenotaph war memorial, falls within the exclusion zone.
plantsman: Oh, that. Half of Left hand's been numb since the stroke.
Well, if I'm lucky, the feeling will return, next week.
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Good Lord, the Kossacks actually think that Cheers-n-Jeers guy should - and COULD - get hired by TDS.
The self-delusion - it BURNS!!!
The UK does not have civil rights as we remember them.
Nice Chair!
plantsman, areligious
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good blogging support, does the computer desk recline too?
Read the whole thing. That's how it's done right.
ProfWombat
I've heard that before and love it. JFK had similar skills... as a nine year old I used to sit there transfixed by his press conferences, and how he handled or deflected the questions.
Jeffraham,
sorry to ask you all the time, but how is sitten doing?
DWD: y'know, if we had to lose to someone, I wouldn't mind Cleveland or the Cubbies, or Detroit in an better year, take it.
Anybody but the Yankees, and expansion teams representing places that themselves didn't exist much 50 years ago...
I'm far too busy to continue making my beloved comments on this crappy blog. But if y'all scrape together 50 grand or so I'd consider giving you a reprieve.
Scooter throttles induce carpal-tunnel syndrome, I'll bet.
But it won't happen automatically, or through some "pendulum swing" or passive movement of history. It'll have to be fought for.
SteveLG
The pendulum always swings, as long as the underlying institutions aren't destroyed. One problem I think we have on the left at this point is we lack a coherant bold philosphy to move the country forward. We are still playing catchup. We are winning elections and then standing around naval gazing. Say what you will about the tenets of neoconservatism - at least it's an ethos.
Right now, I think the left is a jumble of promising ideas, restated variations on ideas from the right and tired old ones from the 70s. We need to be bolder. We need to start from scratch, state in no uncertain terms where we want to lead the world, come up with a series of attractive approaches to get us there and charge forward.
But if y'all scrape together 50 grand or so I'd consider giving you a reprieve.
Hey, pal, this is MY streetcorner. Shove off!
Marcelina,
Re: Led Zep
I get the same feeling about the white stripes. They really remind me of Zeppelin, doing that blues thing channelled through artsy white kids. Not blues songs, but definitely using the blues as a touchstone for some really weird meanderings.
Dear Chimpy:
K-9 Advantix kills fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes for a month and prevents flea larvae from maturing, too.
Father Greeley really is a terrific writer, "Obviously there is a subtext to the TV series: If that war was the most terrible ever and yet was necessary, what about the subsequent wars and the present war? It is, I suspect, the reason that the Journal's critic is so measured in her approval.
Why was it necessary to invade Iraq? Because they attacked us? But they did not. Most of the 9/11 killers were in fact Saudis. Because they had weapons that might kill us? It turns out that they did not. Why is it necessary to continue this pointless, never-ending war? For the sake of democracy in Iraq? For victory? Because the president says it's the "right thing" to do? So that a future president will be blamed for "weakness?"
And I think of that young woman in St. Angela Church in 1943 and of similar young women today and wonder why we don't have war crimes trials for unnecessary wars."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/
gre...eeley03.article
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JFK had an elan and grace that has rarely been equaled in the oval office.
I remember the time he returned from a state visit to France with his wife and in typical self-deprecating mode, after all the attention she got in the French press, he said he felt like "the man who accompanied Jackie Kennedy to Paris."
the exclusion zone.
Gimlet | 10.06.07 - 9:28 am |
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seems a bit over the top, but maybe security is different post-subway bombings
good blogging support, does the computer desk recline too?
el
Nah - the desk is accompanied by the Leather Desk Chair of Destiny, with Niagara heating action! A CHAIR so big it had to be taken to bits in order to get it thru the door! Comfy!
Marcellina: sorry to ask you all the time, but how is sitten doing?
She's great -- overwhelmed with animal care issues, right now. We're going in search of hillbilly breakfast in just a few.
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The present War was entirely unnecessary.
"My new chair - only in a vivid gold and orange print. It reclines too!"
nice lines. may i sit in it? oooo, very good! can you bring me a martini? you will? that's very nice!
Anybody but the Yankees, and expansion teams representing places that themselves didn't exist much 50 years ago...
ProfWombat
PBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBTT.......
One problem I think we have on the left at this point is we lack a coherant bold philosphy to move the country forward.
The "right" has swung so far into batshit territory that "the left" now includes anyone who doesn't support crowning Bush Chimpster-for-Life and handing all government functions over to Repuke patron corporations. It's no wonder that there doesn't seem to be much unity among a group that now makes up 70% of the electorate.
There are no avian Cardinals in Arizona that I can remember.
ProfWombat,
I saw the writing on the wall in Mid Sept. The Tigers had been winning a lot: They were five behind Cleveland had a three game series. I believe they went ahead in all three games and LOST. They were swept.
Don't bet against Cleveland or Colorado this year.
I am sorry to be the one to tell you this but Cleveland is a better team than either Boston or New York. They are really very good this year.
DWD - Uncivil
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Here, here! Testify. It's true. I've watched nearly every inning this year. They're very good indeed and Fausto Carmona is off the charts, and, er, ummmm...no one knows of him.
He may be a better pitcher than Pedro ever was.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/ gre...eeley03.article
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DWD - Uncivil
Wow. That was great. Thanks.
plantsman: Scooter throttles induce carpal-tunnel syndrome, I'll bet.
I'm guessing that it's the 100 miles of WOT riding I did, to stay with the flow of traffic. Competing with the four wheelers at 55-65mph can cause a bit of tension.
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I hope Yankees fans don't blame Chamberlain for last night. He seems like a likable guy (for a Yankee).
This may not come across in the debates, but in person Obama reminds me of JFK, and has some of the FDR wit. He's really funny, and is far stronger in his attacks in meetings with Dems.
plantsman,
The present war was not only unnecessary but it has been tragically detrimental to the US, the Middle East and especially to the poor bastards that live(d) in Iraq.
And the depraved Bushboy pushed the button on this with no more forethought than you give to taking a pee.
I'm far too busy to continue making my beloved comments on this crappy blog. But if y'all scrape together 50 grand or so I'd consider giving you a reprieve.
Dr. Wu
what has unfortunately become same old same old news:
NEWS MIDDLE EAST
At least 17 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, have been killed in a US air raid.
US military officials issued a statement that it had killed 25 Shia fighters near the city of Baquba, in the same area as the alleged attack on the civilians.
An Iraqi army official said civilians were killed when they rushed out to help those hurt in the initial bombing.
Oday al-Khadran, Khalis' mayor, said the US military targeted areas built up by local people to protect their neighbourhood against attacks by al-Qaeda fighters.
The target of the operation was a "commander believed to be associated with members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard-Quds Force", the statement said.
The US military said at the weekend it had seized Iranian-made surface-to-air missiles that were being used by opposition fighters in Iraq.
We're going in search of hillbilly breakfast in just a few.
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Jeffraham
Which is what? Gravy on everything?
JP! Glad to hear you made it safely. Long way to Johnson City from here.
Dana Perino is from another universe, if I'm not mistaken.
I'm guessing that it's the 100 miles of WOT riding I did, to stay with the flow of traffic. Competing with the four wheelers at 55-65mph can cause a bit of tension.
Jeffraham
Sounds similar to the persistent numbness that occurs with jackhammer use.
It takes enormous self-confidence to act as JFK and FDR did. I see alot of fear and timidity in some Dems, even those wo have gotten far in politics (Pelosi and Reid) This comes from a fear of being called unpatriotic if you don't support teh Republican party.
They saw, and I think Barack sees, that the answer to the question every Democrat gets from the media whether the issue is zoning, foreign policy or health care, "why do you hate America?" is not "I don't hate America!" but "I'm not going to answer such a stupid question."
Chimpy compares self to Amish.
Halfdan: JP! Glad to hear you made it safely. Long way to Johnson City from here.
You're tellin' me...? Adding stops, it took me 11 hours!
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Sounds similar to the persistent deafness that occurs with jackhammer use.
/fileted yer taco
Which is what? Gravy on everything?
Gravy on gravy over gravy... served with grits. And gravy.
Cuppa gravy with that?
Cleveland may or may not have a better team than the schizophrenic Redsox. It depends on which Redsox team shows up for the ALCS (assuming the Yankees and LAA succumb).
If the Redsox pitching is it's league leading best and if their hitting continues to shift to it's more potent side, Cleveland will be overcome.
I made good time, though, really. I took two meal breaks of about 45 minutes each, and five refueling stops.
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Kittehs on their own, JP?
Prof - They actually had a tape of that speech running when we visited the National Archives on 9/14. It seems as if w's people cannot control everything all the time. Stopped me dead in my tracks it did.
I'm guessing that it's the 100 miles of WOT riding I did, to stay with the flow of traffic.
You drove 100 miles... on a scooter???
Is that allowed?
"I've watched nearly every inning this year. They're very good indeed and Fausto Carmona is off the charts, and, er, ummmm...no one knows of him."
it's a good day to be a clevelander!
it was actually a shame someone had to lose last night. petit was a magician. fausto was money. what a great game.
the pronk whipped out the donkey in the 11th. (he has his own line of beef jerky out now...I wonder if it's longer then nrormal jerky).
300 miles, I believe.
They saw, and I think Barack sees, that the answer to the question every Democrat gets from the media whether the issue is zoning, foreign policy or health care, "why do you hate America?" is not "I don't hate America!" but "I'm not going to answer such a stupid question."
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I'm hoping to hear precisely that from Bruce Springsteen tomorrow night, because apparently that's exactly the question so-called liberal media guy Scott Pelley asks him on 60 Minutes.
Heh. sitten's never eaten at Bob Evans. She thought that'd be a good hillbilly breakfast source. 
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If the Redsox pitching is it's league leading best and if their hitting continues to shift to it's more potent side, Cleveland will be overcome.
Assuming both teams continue their winning ways, it should be a great series though.
There are no avian Cardinals in Arizona that I can remember.
plantsman, areligious
Nor lakes in Los Angeles, jazz in Utah, or grizzly bears in Memphis.
And the depraved Bushboy pushed the button on this with no more forethought than you give to taking a pee.
Rudy
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Bush and his team gave it a fuckload of foresight, we wuz right duped all along the way.
No accountability - Patriot Act; signing statements
No invoices - all off budget supplimental
No sacrifice - no draft; mercenary
No media - embedding; propaganda
Which is what? Gravy on everything?
Be still my heart.
I would love to see Obama take on this infantile "flag pin" bullshit head-on and really make some points about the childish nonsense the supposed news business focuses on.
You know that people understand it and are ready to hear it. You know they are, left and center and right alike.
You also know that there are very well-paid wise men and women who well tell him, and ultimately prevail: "No, Barack. You simply can't do that."
I'm hoping to hear precisely that from Bruce Springsteen tomorrow night, because apparently that's exactly the question so-called liberal media guy Scott Pelley asks him on 60 Minutes.
Excellent! Pelley is always good for a liveblog.
If i recall correctly he was recently P0wnd by a insane puppet wearing a Members Only jacket.
Darth Cheney-sized coveys of quail near Phoenix, though.
Gravy on everything?
Be still my heart.
Halfdan
That will do it, eventually.
I had a microwave Light Breakfast Sammich this am - it was almost like fast-food. I feel positively wicked!
SOUNDS VAUGELY FAMILIAR
Gen. Pervez Musharraf swept the presidential
vote today, but the Supreme Court will have the
final word on whether the balloting was valid.
Chimpy compares self to Amish.
P O'Neill
Heh heh. You don't even have a hex sign, Chimpy, or a barn to put it on.
I sometimes wonder if FDR and JFK would have fared as well today given the savage Gooper control of the media and their resort to any political tactic regardless of how immoral or illegal.
Just as important as rendering the Goopers politically impotent is smashing the Gooper/rightwing, lying media machine.
That will do it, eventually.
Oh I'm on the wagon. Once every few years, but my wife doesn't make it and restaurants generally put too much flour, and not enough sausage grease...
Which is what? Gravy on everything?
Be still my heart.
Halfdan
Very likely, cause and effect.
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Could someone please change the sheets i n the guest room, put the ducks in the marinade, and wrap my SIL's b'day gift?
I seem to have sprained something in my head.
Ouch.
Oh, I think there's a hex on W.
Good morning all.
JP I'm glad you got there safely.
Bush uses Nickel Mines? Un frickin real.
TBogg was on a roll yesterday... I esp. liked this:
Shorter Gun Counter Gomer:
Since Robert Gates doesn't have any experience selling hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons to other countries, let me explain how we used to do it at WalMart.
And don't miss his latest slapdown of Ace of Holes.
Yeah, I know - it's like shooting fish in a barrel... but he's so GOOD at it!
Darth Cheney-sized coveys of quail near Phoenix, though.
plantsman, areligious
Alas, not so much any more. Not very many citrus groves or anything. I did love to watch the little quail families go by tho - all of a row.
The Cleveland Indians pitching today is almost as good as they had in the 1950s when their staff consisted of Feller, Lemon, Garcia and Wynn with great relief pitching from a guy whose name I can't remember.
Fred: "My wife would wear a flag pin but she doesn't want to call attention to her breasts."
jdw,
It is indeed a good morn for Tribe fans everywhere. And yes, regardless of one's team affiliation, it was a great baseball game that will probably be remembered more for the bugs rather than the pitching.
A brief explanation of the aforementioned critters can be found below. They're really an indicator of a very healthy Lake Erie!
http://tinyurl.com/2po5av
Chimpy compares self to Amish.
P O'Neill
Amish are afraid of horses?
"I'm not going to answer such a stupid question."
Culture of TrÜth
I sure the fuck hope so. The only thing I want to hear on most of the Chimpwhore shows is the candidate pointing at the host and laughing, saying "Why in the world do you think anyone cares about that when (insert real issue here)" or "Are you advancing GOP talking points because you're rich and want to keep the Paris Hilton tax cuts, or is your upper management actually making you?" or "I'm sorry, I thought this interview was going to be about my qualifications and my policy viewpoints" or "(turning around to look at the logo) When did this become Entertainment Tonight?"
Start rubbing these so-called journalists' noses in their Chimpwhoring doo-doo. Have every Dem on Hardball ask Tweety whether he's gotten over his worship of flight suits and Aqua Velva. On NBC ask about GE's defense contracts and how much money they would lose every day if the Iraq war ended. On ABC make everything about the "Path to 9/11" uncompensated GOP ad written by one of Drug Rush's closest friends. Killing the myth of the "liberal media" and helping the public understand the media's true allegiances is even more important than advancing a candidate's specific viewpoint.
Obama on the pin:
BO ANSWER "You know, the truth is that right after 9/11 I had a pin.
Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest."
Doesn't he know that waving/wearing the flag is more important than personal integrity? Doesn't deserve to be preznit!
Peroxide Perino has a "fact" sheet out on Chimpy's $83,000 S-CHIP lie.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/r...20071006-
1.html
Corrupt Republican closet fag?
It's okay if you wear a flag!
Dr. Wu,
This is why I like Hillary's laugh. I think it is a deliberate tactic to undermine the media, which I think most people are beginning to realize, could use a little undermining.
Oddly, Hillary and Obama are running similarly clever, long-term campaigns in this regard
If i recall correctly he was recently P0wnd by a insane puppet wearing a Members Only jacket.
In a well ordered society that puppet would be in a straight jacket.
Bushboy and the Goopers have turned America into an international pariah nation, and domestically they have made us a nation where the rich are coddled and the poor are punished, as their fiscal policies dump crushing debt on future generations.
And most Americans are oblivious to these facts because the MSM refuses to tell them.
Chimpy compares self to Amish.
P O'Neill
Well, you know, most Amish are trust-fund babies of war-profiteering dynasties that bankrolled the Nazis, so it makes a lot of sense.
costa rica, just say no to CAFTA...everything Bush and the Wall Street Journal editorial pages wants, then you want the opposite...
i didn't know this but the richest man in the world is a mexican? that is capitalism gone wild and wrong....no wonder costa rica is looking to turn leftward
Corrupt Republican closet fag?
It's okay if you wear a flag!
You're a grand old fag, you're a high flying fag...
(with many apologies to all gay atriots. But I did hear this from a gay man.)
Good morning.
Persuing the thread, I see that QL is celebrating an anniversary.
Allow me to be the umpteenth one to say congrats!
If I were truly wicked, QL, I would steal that magnificently kind and intelligent hubby from you.
Alas, my love for you, QL, keeps me from being truly wicked.
"And yes, regardless of one's team affiliation, it was a great baseball game that will probably be remembered more for the bugs rather than the pitching."
if i had time, i bet i could make a mint making and selling 'rally muffleheads' before the next few games....
If i recall correctly he was recently P0wnd by a insane puppet wearing a Members Only jacket.
In a well ordered society that puppet would be in a straight jacket.
HoneyBearKelly
Although it's applicable to either, are we talking about Bush or Ahmadinejad here?
Once the Democrats are in power for real, with the WH, the House and the Senate (60+), I have this feeling that all we are going to see on TV is still Tom Delay, Pat Buchannan, Joe Biden, Frank Gaffney, Donna Brazille, Terry Jefferies, Ed Rollins, Charlie Rangle, Kate O'Berne, Mary Matlin, Mary Matlin's husband, Pat Buchannan's sister, Ron Christie, JC Watts, Armstrong Williams, Bill Press, Mark Shields, Mike Smirconish, Melanie Morgan, and everyone who wrote a book entitled "If Only the White House had Listend to ME!"
I hope Yankees fans don't blame Chamberlain for last night. He seems like a likable guy (for a Yankee).
I would blame the bugs. That was disgusting.
This is how the pubic party did it.
They hammered and hammered away at the media for being liberal until they had them whimpering in a corner begging to be let back in the daddy party's clubhouse.
Larry Craig's word is worthless -- that's his problem.
Fred: "My wife would wear a flag pin but she doesn't want to call attention to her breasts."
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uh, not supposed to wear pins over the nipple. Up near the collarbone. Fred should tell her.
Nowhere in that "fact" sheet doesn't say that NYS was turned down and the eligibility rules were made a bit stricter.
I want somebody to call her a liar to her face.
In public.
Chimpy compares self to Amish
Time for a CAT scan to see if he actually has a brain at all.
Catalexis, don't forget Ron Christie!
I am disgusted about the pin and cackle. It's more swiftboating personal attack that makes a real live person into a caricature.
Time for a CAT scan to see if he actually has a brain at all.
No need. His English is no better than his Spanish.
Although it's applicable to either, are we talking about Bush or Ahmadinejad here?
Take your pick.
Time for a CAT scan to see if he actually has a brain at all.
Neponset
Remember what the neurosurgeons say: No brain is better than bad brain.
And that's bad news where Bush/Cheney is concerned.
"why do you hate America?"
An Answer...
"There are some people who view America as a work of art to be gazed upon with the uncritical eye of devotion, and there are those who see American as a garden which requires endless toil to maintain it's glory from season to season. I am a gardener and not an empty headed fawning patron. If I see a weed I pull it, if I see a pest I seek to eradicate it, if I see a somebody has thrown garbage in the garden I get angry. Ridicule me if it gives you pleasure, but I am going to continue working to make America bloom from season to season and bequeath her undiminished to posterity."
Fred: "My wife would wear a flag pin but she doesn't want to call attention to her breasts."
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uh, not supposed to wear pins over the nipple. Up near the collarbone. Fred should tell her.
"it's not a pastie, Fred"
The parade of rightwing mediawhores is a long and winding one that would cover 5th Avenue in NYC from Central Park down to Herald Sq.
Never in history have so many been paid so much to repeat the most obvious lies over and over again.
Fred: "My wife would wear a flag pin but she doesn't want to call attention to her breasts."
This brings to mind an incident on the old "Smothers Brothers" show...
Fred has flopped.
I am disgusted about the pin and cackle. It's more swiftboating personal attack that makes a real live person into a caricature.
el
Dean Scream.
Works good, dunnit?
but I am going to continue working to make America bloom from season to season and bequeath her undiminished to posterity.
Chauncey?
Laundrette opens at 8. I can hardly wait.
I like to watch
Besides the SCHIP program is administered by the states.
If your state runs out of money then that's that states problem.
They can't go back to the feds and ask for more.
Dana I'd prefer if you were smart instead of pretty.
"There are some people who view America as a work of art to be gazed upon with the uncritical eye of devotion, and there are those who see American as a garden which requires endless toil to maintain it's glory from season to season. I am a gardener and not an empty headed fawning patron. If I see a weed I pull it, if I see a pest I seek to eradicate it, if I see a somebody has thrown garbage in the garden I get angry. Ridicule me if it gives you pleasure, but I am going to continue working to make America bloom from season to season and bequeath her undiminished to posterity."
Falstaff
I like to watch.
I am disgusted about the pin and cackle. It's more swiftboating personal attack that makes a real live person into a caricature.
el
Edwards Haircut.
Works really good, dunnit?
Dana makes Scottie look like a genius.
Sorry jac
I am disgusted about the pin and cackle. It's more swiftboating personal attack that makes a real live person into a caricature.
el
Why am I having trouble thinking of Republican examples? Help me out here, somebody.
I can't think of anything since George Romney in 1968.
Don't be Sorry. Ante up with a Coke!
Dana makes Scottie look like a genius.
I am so happy I miss out on 90% of their tv appearances.
This house is still for sale. And Slocan Valley just got high speed wireless, community wide!
To add to all the good feeling in this blog today, I want to thank you all for making my life more bearable.
Not to get all goooey, but it is easier to have faith in humanity when you're here with you people.
Happy anniversary qls. I'm thinking of you two holding hands while marching.
Also I promise to ignore my daughters when they chant, "Bloggers anonymous, Bloggers anonymous!"
Crazy Fritz Mondale.
And Crazy Ed Muskie.
Crazy John McCain
The parade of rightwing mediawhores is a long and winding one that would cover 5th Avenue in NYC from Central Park down to Herald Sq.
...will history be honest about our media? it won't matter to most of us, but i don't think history will be that honest, it never has before (see: native americans as written into history)
1 bedroom, 3 baths? Now, that's luxurious.
Al Gore's sin of wearing clothing with "earth tones."
This house is still for sale.
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What happened to that one upslope from a river? I liked that one better.
Wouldn't it be cool if all the Dems, at the next debate got together and did the scream, then handed the questioner thier haircut receipts?
Apparently those midges are also called "Canadian Soldiers," because they don't bite....
Modo,
Obama=Spiderman
Hillary=Wonder Woman
Al Gore's sin of wearing clothing with "earth tones."
Rudy
And the "sigh".
thier=their
Besitos camelot.
Wouldn't it be cool if all the Dems, at the next debate got together and did the scream, then handed the questioner thier haircut receipts?
How about "the fate of the free world is on the line and you're asking me about a haircut?"
mogwai,
As usual it will depend on who writes the history. Howard Zinn's book on American history is far more truthful about how the vast majority have fared under our capitalist, racially discriminatory and war mongering past than most others, which tend to glorify America's riches and victories.
sheets
It's more swiftboating personal attack that makes a real live person into a caricature.
the dumbest 50% don't give a shit about issues or parties, etc...they sure as fuck don't get the difference, so it's childish and immature attacks that win.
Also I promise to ignore my daughters when they chant, "Bloggers anonymous, Bloggers anonymous!"
I live alone, but there's a little part of my conscience that's going to start that chant, I think....
Wouldn't it be cool if all the Dems, at the next debate got together and did the scream, then handed the questioner thier haircut receipts?
camelot
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how about: did the scream, handed receipts, wore pin over nipples, and gave the horse laugh?
owls
Wouldn't it be cool if all the Dems, at the next debate got together and did the scream, then handed the questioner thier haircut receipts?
camelot
They could then claim that while serving in the Texas Air National Guard during Christmas in Cambodia, they invented the hairnet.
it's childish and immature attacks that win.
mogwai
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just like "our country doesn't torture" wins
'it's UNCONTESTED childish and immature attacks THAT ARE ALLOWED TO STAND that win'
Note, for example, the Obama campaign's destruction of the 'madrassa' slur. You don't hear it much now.
They need to be fought. Tooth and nail, blood on the hands, skin under the fingernails fought. They haven't been fought that way for a long time, and they won't look good responding to it with lese majeste.
Skimming through this morning. Happy Day, QL! We're at 36 years and counting here...
And here in the east Valley, we have quail in plenty. They wander the streets around our house. Cool to be out on a bike at this time of day and see them all. Along with the mockingbirds and doves and such. Hummers are gone for the year, but I saw a Gila 'pecker the other day...
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