I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Shoot later!
wow
sob
and sob
Don't cry. 
I'm just passing through.
that was my frist.... mine... mine ... mine... good thing I am not a petty person....
Ah that new thread smell.
This is deep communication.
Turtles crossing was a pretty obsure sheets call. But I guess if you've been here long enough...
Echidne you are number one in my book.
Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X...h?v=X5axMyJ_-
Z8
okay. time to clean the gutters.... unless there are some volunteers here.....
BREAKING: Craig to blame arrest on Airport Music.
Apparently they play some real toe tappers in Minneapolis.
I was going to call afternoon owls but who would have believed that?
Now I feel bad.
Now I feel bad.
catalexis who ♥ Al Gore
as well you might.
I was kidding. I'm happy as a clam in a clam sauce!
The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1...related&
search=
"Now I feel bad."
--catalexis
Oh, don't feel bad. I didn't mean anything was wrong. I even understood.
I was kidding. I'm happy as a clam in a clam sauce!
Echidne |
no flirting!
The French might actually win this rugby
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/...ion/
7030373.stm
I think New Zealand has scored a try
peace and humptiness Forever
close to the top!
New Zealand get the try and are back in front
hah if New Zealand get through, England ain't got a chance!
John Fowles on Martin Amis and others
I got the turtle reference. I must be getting old. I have been coming here since, I think, early 2004.
The Le Monde texter isn't taking it too well
ESSAI !!? Sur cette belle phase, So'oialo évite un nouveau plaquage, tombe et se relève pour aplatir. Mais l'arbitre demande l'arbitrage vidéo. A priori, il devrait être accepté
Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X.....h?v=X5axMyJ_-
Z8
Richard
Still blows my mind that the same group also called itself "Fat City" when backing John Denver on "Country Roads, Take Me Home."
Jim, I was out of the news reading thing yesterday. MIL's 95th birthday....what happened with Countrywide?
therealhellkitty
I can't find it now, but I think A had a link yesterday or the day before about the CEO of Countrywide selling stocks--selling his own stock back to the company--when he knew trouble was coming. And his salary was something like 140 million.
France level again with another try
I'm still gonna lose my job if I keep hanging out here.
France now lead after a successful conversion
I didn't know clams could be happy, especially after being stewed in a sauce.
Thanks for the info Echidne.
10 minutes left, if France can hold their nerves they will be thru to the semi final and will play England
France level again with another try
Moonbootica, Tea Drinker
Thanks Moon, you're way quicker than the media texters.
France level again with another try
Moonbootica, Tea Drinker |
they get points just for trying?
I'm still gonna lose my job if I keep hanging out here.
If you hung out at Orange Satan, you could get 50k/yr... but you'd have to steal your bits from TV Guide...
Turtles crossing was a pretty obsure sheets call. But I guess if you've been here long enough...
mer
I remember the Night of the Turtles.
Now, to take apart my desk and reconfigure it. Sigh.
.
jeebus, what's up with the porn ads?
I didn't know clams could be happy, especially after being stewed in a sauce.
i'm always happiest stewed in the sauce.
When a mobile home dweller defaults on a loan, they call it "absconding under cover of darkness". When the CEO of the company that lent the money to buy the mobile home sneaks out, they call it good business sense.
...what's up with the porn ads?
I don't know, but if you point me to them, I'd be happy to investigate!
after all the talk about weaker northern hemisphere rugby, it could be 3/4 semi-finalists from the north.
Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
One of many classic moments on "Arrested Development"...
So even the "premium" beef is getting recalled now.
Heckuva job, USDA!
BBC sez there was a forward pass in the sequence leading to the french try.
BBC sez there was a forward pass in the sequence leading to the french try.
P O'Neill | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 4:43 pm | #
nah, my dad says it was a legit try and there was no forward pass
Heckuva job, USDA!
dave™©
Since Bushboy's policy is to appoint lobbyists who work for the industry that each federal agency is supposed to regulate, do you think after FEMA, EPA, FDA, FCC and USDA scandals that he might re-consider?
Nah! We're talking about one depraved moron monkey here!
I can't find it now, but I think A had a link yesterday or the day
before about the CEO of Countrywide selling stocks--selling his own
stock back to the company--when he knew trouble was coming. And his
salary was something like 140 million.
Jim |
10.06.07 - 4:37 pm | #
I had heard about that. Didn't Martha Stewart do time for something like that?
oh yes, Texas is in the lead over Oklahoma if anyone cares.
I had heard about that. Didn't Martha Stewart do time for something like that?
she sold stocks on an inside tip, but i don't think it was her stock or to her company.
otoh, she was an uppity woman and had to be taught a lesson.
Martha Stewart didn't sell back company stock that she thought was going to tank.
That was Ken Lay and assorted other execs at Enron.
oh yes, Texas is in the lead over Oklahoma if anyone cares.
Nice to hear, but Tennessee is leading Georgia 21-0 at the moment. Make that 27-0. Go Vols!
martha was convicted of being successful without a penis.
hellkitty
It was Krugman last week
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/0.../Paul%
20Krugman
In late 2006, even as Countrywide began using shareholders’ money to buy back its own stock at more than $40 a share — it’s now worth only $19 — Mr. Mozilo was selling. Between November 2006 and August 2007 — that is, during the months before investors fully realized the extent to which his company would be hurt by the subprime mortgage crisis — he unloaded $138 million worth of Countrywide’s stock.
otoh, she was an uppity Democratic woman and had to be taught a lesson.
Fricasseed your telegraph...
Conservative economics is 100% based on fantasy. When you try to explain to free market morons that, for example, the transistor was invented by a government licensed monopoly and the internet was built by the DOD, they just refuse to admit that facts exist.
New Zealand just tried a drop goal, didn't go anywhere
France now have to kill time i.e running around with it and kicking it lock
martha was convicted of being successful without a penis.
With additional time added to her sentence for having no testicles.
*long
kicking it long
Martha also had the temerity to be a lifelong Democrat and make donations to the Party.
Which is why Bushboy didn't "pardon" her like he did a real crook, like Libby.
"Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight"
Can't that get you banned around here? And if not so, it should.
Conservative economics is 100% based on fantasy. When you try to explain to free market morons that, for example, the transistor was invented by a government licensed monopoly and the internet was built by the DOD, they just refuse to admit that facts exist.
Without government interference, the internet and the transistor would have been invented before world war I.
-Milton Friedman bot
otoh, she was an uppity Democratic woman and had to be taught a lesson.
Fricasseed your telegraph...
dave™© | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 4:50 pm | #
republican women are only allowed to stand behind their man. even katherine harris learned that lesson.
and France are thru!
my dad placed a bet at the bookies that France will win the Rugby World Cup
so its still looking good
England stand a better chance against France, we'll just beat the crap out of them!
Martha also had the temerity to be a lifelong Democrat and make donations to the Party.
It's a miracle she didn't get the death penalty.
The "free market" was a favorite fantasy of the late Milton Friedman, who thought everything should be privatized and life would be blissful, even though unregulated capitalism has routinely been one of the worst human experiences in history.
and France are thru!
my dad placed a bet at the bookies that France will win the Rugby World Cup
so its still looking good
Moonbootica, Tea Drinker
I know a dude from NZ who spend 5,000 euro on tickets for the final. Oy.
"Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight"
Can't that get you banned around here? And if not so, it should.
EkCenTriK
It did spawn one of the funniest Arrested Development moment, tho
Thats pretty damn good: having the company you manage bleed out cash to pump up the value of the stocks you are unloading!
Fiduciary responsibility
is so sweet
even when ruin is complete
you can bail out to easy street
Can't that get you banned around here? And if not so, it should.
EkCenTriK | 10.06.07 - 4:51 pm | #
well, it's not as bad as "muskrat love"
"Arrested Development"
I have the feeling I have not watched enough television again.
I know a dude from NZ who spend 5,000 euro on tickets for the final. Oy.
P O'Neill | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 4:53 pm | #
wow - that's like $10,000
Going out for a new/used lamp.
NO MORE BROWN. This also includes NO MORE BRASS.
.
its possible Scotland might beat Argentina tomorrow
because they have a big pack, which makes a difference
even though unregulated capitalism has routinely been one of the worst human experiences in history.
The idea that capitalism can exist without regulation is one of the worst shell games ever invented. It's like saying that rivers can exist without gravity. It's a kind of Ponzi scheme.
because they have a big pack, which makes a difference
Moonbootica, Tea Drinker |
they're allowed to bring supplies?
i just don't get rugby.
well, it's not as bad as "muskrat love"
I had a roommate who was a Captain and Tennile fan. It seriously tested our friendship.
I am watching this show called Risk Takers. This episode, Polar Bear Alert Agents. The agents are always tracking down and detaining bears, moving them away from town an so forth. They spend a lot of time tranq-ing the bears, but the bears keep showing up. I think there is a cause and effect going on here.
I had a roommate who was a Captain and Tennile fan. It seriously tested our friendship.
Toonscribe | 10.06.07 - 4:56 pm | #
tenille was kinda hot, i always thought.
republican women are only allowed to stand behind their man. even katherine harris learned that lesson.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Or sometimes they absord them into their own physical manifestation. No one has seen Mr Karen Hughes in eleven years.
Or they marry Democrats and suck their brains and souls for nourishment, thus creating a servant-zombie that does their bidding. See Matalin-Carville, Inc
Or they marry Democrats and suck their brains
Hmm.
i just don't get rugby.
dirk gently, sociopathetic | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 4:56 pm | #
--------
"big pack" is a rugby euphemism for "so completely drunk that massive bodily injury seems funny to them."
Damn, that bear is tripping. I think they are going to talk him down.
altho she was no maria muldaur.
midnight at the oasis
send your camel to bed
let's slip out to the
sand dune
real soon
...
i'm sure that's not quite right...
Or sometimes they absord them into their own physical manifestation. No one has seen Mr Karen Hughes in eleven years.
i said "women"
I have the feeling I have not watched enough television again.
If you haven't seen the late, great "Arrested Development," run, don't walk, to your local video store or public library and check it out.
One of the true greats...
Jeez, now they are coloring the bear's fur with neon green dye. What next? Nose rings and tats?
tenille was kinda hot, i always thought.
Absotively posilutely.
"The Captain" was a long time collaborator with the late 60s-early 70s Beach Boys... even co-wrote the great "Cuddle Up" with Dennis Wilson.
Paul Krugman's blog comments are not overrun by trolls. I think that is surprising.
altho she was no maria muldaur.
Maria played the local blues festival a couple of years back... she was great!
She's got an album of Dylan covers out now that's pretty good, too.
General election: why turn-out will hit an all-time low
Danish police have clashed with demonstrators, arresting a record 437 people, after they attempted to occupy a vacant building in Copenhagen, according to officials.
Many of the protesters taking part in Saturday's demonstration on Saturday were evicted six months ago from a youth centre scheduled for demolition.
"We have arrested 437 people today. That is a record," Flemming Munch, a Copenhagen police spokesman, was reported by the AFP news agency as saying.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...E4544CF343A.htm
Another of my favorite moments on "Arrested Development" involved the running gag of Tobias' business card from his psychotherapist days, when he combined the professions "therapist" and "analyst" so the card read:
Tobias Funke
Analrapist
WTF is wrong with dittoheads? Did anyone hear the kind of email votervets got after they denounced the Big Fat Liar for his idiotic and insulting "phony soldiers" remark and pathetic excuses afterward? It was on KO's show on Friday.
Instead of holding Limpballs accountable for his asinine and deceptive aspersions, the dittoheads told the vets it was too bad they didn't die.
heh if by some amazing chance England and Scotland get thru to the final, it could be quite vicious 
/jk
OK, I am doing penance for having been undeservedly first...I am listening to "Wild Wild West". Not the song, the movie starring the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. I am not looking at Selma. That's the suffering I am undergoing. Well, that, and listening to Wild Wild West.
Instead of holding Limpballs accountable for his asinine and deceptive aspersions, the dittoheads told the vets it was too bad they didn't die.
Republicans to the Troops: Shut Up and Die!
the dittoheads told the vets it was too bad they didn't die.
They're only expressing their inner asshole.
bye for now moonbats
I used to watch the TV version of Wild, Wild West to see bare chests and hunky guys in tight pants.
But that's just me.
I got a kick out of this: Propellarheads discover you need to market your nifty idea to real people who don't speak propellarhead.
Imagine that!
Well I guess if they could tell the Dixie Chicks to "Shut up and sing," they wouldn't have any compunctions about telling Iraq vets, opposed to Bushboy's war, to drop dead.
And then they go out and fly the American flag and call themselves, "Patriots."
Yeah. Right.
I used to watch the TV version of Wild, Wild West to see bare chests and hunky guys in tight pants.
So just how short was Robert Conrad, anyway?
world turns black and white
pictures in an empty room
your love starts fallin' down
better change your tune
you reach for the golden ring
reach for the sky
baby, just spread your wings.
we'll get higher and higher, straight up we'll climb...
just had to do it
So just how short was Robert Conrad, anyway?
Taller than Tom Cruise.
Okay, since it's not all about me, but this is an open thread, I just had all of the color cut out of my hair. (In other words, it ain't very long... ) I haven't seen my natural color in years. Looking for gray. Alas, there is none.
It is just brown.
Carry on.
Imagine that!
dave™© | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 5:08 pm | #
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j...h?
v=j50Xd40EfJg
Saw the movie, "In the Valley of Elah," last night with Tommy Lee Jones and Cherize Theron (also Susan Sarandon in a cameo role).
It was a hell of a movie and it was bitterly anti-war, especially this Iraq atrocity.
It is just brown.
brown is a color.
"As one who used to advocate strongly for the liberation of Iraq (perhaps more strongly than I knew)..."
Hitchens has a minor case of buyer's remorse, his dead soldier notwithstanding.
brown is a color.
Yeah, but when I was younger and in all my glory, it was lustrous auburny brown.
I can't find it now, but I think A had a link yesterday or the day
before about the CEO of Countrywide selling stocks--selling his own
stock back to the company--when he knew trouble was coming. And his
salary was something like 140 million.
Jim |
10.06.07 - 4:37 pm | #
pretty damned illegal, that.
Well I've made it through another year of my so called life. Hoozah.
Gee. 88 degrees out on Oct 6th.
That's okay though. A few days of rain next week (while I'm fishing), and it'll drop back to seasonable levels.
pretty damned illegal, that.
No, it wasn't necessarily illegal, even if it was clearly immoral.
Gee. 88 degrees out on Oct 6th.
It's 87 here.
Yeah, but when I was younger and in all my glory, it was lustrous auburny brown
Hell Vicki - mine was blond until I was about 6.
It is just brown.
Carry on.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
Homepage |
10.06.07 - 5:12 pm | #
Vicki, you will find two things when the grey does come.
1. it grows faster than normal hair.
2. it is coarser and sticks out at odd angles.
Carry on.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 5:12 pm | #
if we can't make it all about you, let's at least make it all about al.. what's atrios gonna do, deadthread us?
he put up 3 threads on pledge pins. fucker better do a gore thread pretty soon...
ya' think?
Well I've made it through another year of my so called life. Hoozah.
Lumpenprolitariot
Many happy returns! (And may they be under Democratic administrations).
it is coarser and sticks out at odd angles
Oh, you mean like the occasional Andy Rooney eyebrow I get every so often.
Yeah, but when I was younger and in all my glory, it was lustrous auburny brown.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
i think i remember a picture of you with striking red (actually, crimson) hair?
fucker better do a gore thread pretty soon...
Or what?
Looking for gray. Alas, there is none.
It is just brown.
Carry on.
Vicki,
You can borrow some of mine. I've got PLENTY.
"As one who used to advocate strongly for the liberation of Iraq (perhaps more strongly than I knew)..."
The "used to" is surprising. I thought Hitch was all about teh Surge and teh Course (staying it).
The "more strongly than I knew" is just a delusion. He was one of the chief spewers of the Chamberlain smear.
Shouldn't I have gray by now, though? I'm three years shy of 5-0.
mine is still auburn with a bit of grey here and there. Its only virtue at this point is the fact that is is nearly 28 inches long.
Shouldn't I have gray by now, though? I'm three years shy of 5-0.
My lovely wife (who has like two strands of gray) will gladly switch with you.
before about the CEO of Countrywide selling stocks--selling his own
stock back to the company--when he knew trouble was coming. And his
salary was something like 140 million.
Jim |
10.06.07 - 4:37 pm | #
pretty damned illegal, that.
therealhellkitty | 10.06.07 - 5:16 pm
Legal. Immoral.
http://www.latimes.com/business/...ack=8&
cset=true
Anyone know if Joe Torre is a repub?
NYT web header:
"TORRE EYES WANG FOR GAME 4"
Hell Vicki - mine was blond until I was about 6.
Barndog, not fishing today
mrs g had platinum blond - almost white - until she was about 12. then it went a lovely strawberry blond almost overnight.
now it's darker and starting to grey. she was visiting our 4 yo grandson (as some of you know a bright redhead) a few months ago, and when she left she said "goodbye, big red!"
without batting an eye, he replied "goodbye big white!"
my daughter hasn't stopped laughing yet.
Shouldn't I have gray by now, though? I'm three years shy of 5-0.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 5:19 pm | #
Not necessarily. Depends on your genetics.
Hitchens made his bed with rightwing scumbags, knowing full well what they were before the Iraq War.
But he was well paid for his verbose endorsements of that useless war and bragged about how much better off he was to his former NATION collegues.
He can spend his ill-gotten gains on more whiskey I suppose.
So just how short was Robert Conrad, anyway?
You can ship him Fedex.
Dirk,
You mean this one, from 1979?
I was 18 and on my way to a play in Stratford. No toothy smile because I still had braces.
Or what?
Iced Tea, Order Up! | 10.06.07 - 5:19 pm | #
or else this site will not have weighed in on the dynamics of him winning a nobel prize...
ergo et al ie, how it would affect at worst, a gore candidacy.... at best, how it will fundamentally change the progressive debate...
The "used to" is surprising. I thought Hitch was all about teh Surge and teh Course (staying it).
I think he does still support the war, but he wrote a piece for Vanity Fair about a soldier killed in Iraq who joined the army having been influenced by Hitchens's pro-war writing. Here is the link.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politi.../
hitchens200711
Shouldn't I have gray by now, though? I'm three years shy of 5-0.
i'm only a year away, and i have very few greys. at least, on my head.
(my beard is going grey. get your mind out of the gutter.)
Oh, you mean like the occasional Andy Rooney eyebrow I get every so often.
Barndog, not fishing today |
10.06.07 - 5:19 pm | #
we both know that he has badger pelts glued to his face. Unless you have been overly friendly with badgers, it must be something else.
Vicki, I recall that you and I are of an age. Glad that you aren't getting grey yet. I will be 47 on 10/19. Was looking at the teevee with the spouse the other day. An ad for AARP came on..in the fine print it said "membership available to those 50 and over" I thought Oh shit! that's only three years away.
My husband remains unsympathetic. He is 72.
Lumpenprolitariot,
I assume you are referring to the natal adjustment to the calendar based notation of another year? That would mean....
Happy Birthday!
Hey, Vicki, did you see the Kossacks bitching at me today because I dared suggest that instead of paying 50k to that Cheers-n-Jeers idiot, they hire fellow Kossack A. Whitney Brown?
Got me several "troll ratings" with that one...
Its only virtue at this point is the fact that is is nearly 28 inches long.
I'm so jealous!
You mean this one, from 1979?
no, that one's lovely but i think it was much more recent.
or i may be confused, it might have been someone else.
You mean this one, from 1979?
That'll come in handy some long, lonely night...
Anyone know if Joe Torre is a repub?
I seriously doubt it. My mother used to work with his mother as a seamstress in Brooklyn, NY. The mother was an ardent FDR Democrat.
Thanks Rudy. I look foreward to seeing dems in office, but they better govern better then they've been showing lately.
lumpen.
congratulations on another lap around the sun...
Speaking of AARP - I get my card in little over a month.
Woo Boy.
i've got to go.
later, beautiful people.
Speaking of AARP - I get my card in little over a month
I was offended when I turned 50 and they began sending me letters. But their car insurance deal cut my yearly costs from $1200 to $450.
Lumpenprolitariot
I agree. The Dems have to do much, much better!
Damn, we're all old.
Via Greenwald, Mahablog has the ultimate "Irony Is Dead" moment.
I'm 36......kiss it
I'm so jealous!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
Homepage |
10.06.07 - 5:24 pm | #
well, I got tired of paying $50 every 6 weeks to have it cut about 15 years ago. Its like shoeing horses..expensive, and why should they have more/better shoes than I do? I think I have had a total of about 24 inches cut off over the years just for neatness' sake.
It's time again and I am dithering but it needs to be done.
The water here in central Texas is so alkaline it makes it hard to keep nice. I will keep it long though.
I'm an odd mix of follicle styles. Grey, almost white beard but long red hair. (Not 23in, but getting there )
spinoza - it really helps my wife works for our insurance company.
We get sweet rates.
firefox, you scamp! how's the baby?
I ran across a picture of myself a couple of days ago from about fifteen years past. I forgot I used to have brown hair. Hard to even remember how I looked.
Hey, Vicki, did you see the Kossacks bitching at me today because I dared suggest that instead of paying 50k to that Cheers-n-Jeers idiot, they hire fellow Kossack A. Whitney Brown?
No, but I'm gonna have to check that out!
I'm with you, for the record.
I'm 36...
Cut or uncut?
Terrorism is a tactic.
Posting threads is a tactic.
We are at war, people. We are at war.
Heheheh.
Fucking stupid motherfucking fuckheads. I hate Republicunts. I Hate Them. Not that I'm proud...
I have consistently refused to become a member of AARP. If it cuts your insurance costs (life, car, health, whatever), that's a good thing, and more power to you.
But I've never gotten over their sell-out of Medicare to the Bushboy regime and this stupid Rx program that was instituted.
firefox, you scamp! how's the baby?,/i>
His grandmother had him secretly baptised while I was away on business, so I ate him.
No, he's fine...crawling and pulling himself to standing...he'll be six months on the 18th
My 8 year old charges are here.
BBL.
Time for a beer run so I can celebrate tonight.
But I've never gotten over their sell-out of Medicare to the Bushboy regime and this stupid Rx program that was instituted.
Rudy |
Homepage |
10.06.07 - 5:31 pm | #
they were one of the prime movers behind that weren't they.
cut, of course
I'm with you, for the record.
The most amazing part is, they seriously think Mr. Swoosh-Gong should get a gig writing for "The Daily Show".
How fucking delusional can you get?
His grandmother had him secretly baptised while I was away on business
Funny - my ex MIL had my son circumcized secretly while I was on my annual duty for the National Guards.
Needless to say, I was FUCKING PISSED.
Bush Administration Manufacturing Democrats At Record Pace:
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (NBC) -- When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as part of President Bush's surge.
1st Lt. Jon Anderson said he never expected to come home to this: A government refusing to pay education benefits he says he should have earned under the GI bill.
"It's pretty much a slap in the face," Anderson said. "I think it was a scheme to save money, personally. I think it was a leadership failure by the senior Washington leadership... once again failing the soldiers."
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/articl...x?
storyid=71741
.
His mother knows better than to let anything like that happen....there would be some feet in some asses
I'm an odd mix of follicle styles. Grey, almost white beard but long red hair. (Not 23in, but getting there )
I'm 56. Beard almost completely white. But on the bright side, I still have almost all my hair, but it's now white at the temples, with a few streaks elsewhere, and at the moment it's long -- almost down to my shoulders.
This is Mack, the Pug we found and no one ever claimed.
Got his rabies shot today and I'm working on getting his appointment with the vet to be neutered.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/bTxxofZy.jpg
His grandmother had him secretly baptised while I was away on business, so I ate him.
she could have had him circumsized so count your blessings.
Glad to hear he is doing well. They are soooo cute at that age.
1st Lt. Jon Anderson said he never expected to come home to this: A government refusing to pay education benefits he says he should have earned under the GI bill.
But the Bush regime supports the troops!
help, i'm being held prisoner...
since nobody is listening, i'll just rant, then go away...
i think it would be cool if he wins, but doesn't run. would love to see him do the talk circuit, do every bobblehead show.
when they ask him their usual inane/insane shallow questions, he can bitch slap them into reality. putting the interviewing villagers on their heels would not only change the debate, it would elevate it.
a lot of people would cheer at their tv's if a progressive voice took over the fucking debate and put stupid questioners in their place. a candidate can not do that... but he sure as fuck could.
change the debate as well as elevate the debate... mmm
but, wtfdik?
gungulla
Tacitus Voltaire |
10.06.07 - 5:36 pm | #
their orders were written for 729 days rather that 730. At 730 the education bennies kick in.
My hair is almost completely white but colored. I got my first white hairs at 13, and by the time I finished college, was salt and pepper.
My beard, however, is almost black.
OMG Vicki!
Babe city!
help, i'm being held prisoner...
NTodd, Religious Whackjob |
Homepage |
10.06.07 - 5:39 pm | #
Zenda seems so far from here at the moment.
I had him cut at birth....luckily his doctor was Jewish and had no problem with it. She even did it herself.
But the Bush regime supports the troops!
Terry C - Edwards/Kuchinich 08
With words and blathering.
When it comes to money, healthcare, military equipment and leave from the war, not so much!
get kinky with Lola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I...h?
v=IMsnqQHOwFg
I'm listening to the NPR special on New Orleans on the second anniversary of Katrina on KQED this afternoon while cooking my spaghetti sauce.
I think that of all the evil things the motherfucking Busheviks have done in the years since they took power, nothing else fills my heart with black hatred like the way they have just left that great city to die. Words fail me.
when they ask him their usual inane/insane shallow questions, he can bitch slap them into reality. putting the interviewing villagers on their heels would not only change the debate, it would elevate it.
That's true, he can be very effective as a non-candidate.
give me just a sec, hellkitty and I'll put up a recent pic
I was offended when I turned 50 and they began sending me letters. But their car insurance deal cut my yearly costs from $1200 to $450.
spinoza
The downside is that you have to agree to drive no more than 15 miles an hour and keep your left blinker on at all times.
hah if New Zealand get through, England ain't got a chance!
Moonbootica, Tea Drinker
Moon!
How ya feeling today, girlfriend?
The downside is that you have to agree to drive no more than 15 miles an hour and keep your left blinker on at all times.
Dr. Wu |
10.06.07 - 5:42 pm | #
when they ask him their usual inane/insane shallow questions, he can bitch slap them into reality. putting the interviewing villagers on their heels would not only change the debate, it would elevate it.
Like he did in 2000? I'll believe it when I see it.
But the Bush regime supports the troops!
Terry C - Edwards/Kuchinich 08
With words and blathering.
When it comes to money, healthcare, military equipment and leave from the war, not so much!
Rudy
Well, they believe that the troops should just be grateful for having the honor of fighting the global war on turra.
Like he did in 2000? I'll believe it when I see it.
Dr. Wu |
Actually, he did that a couple of times.I remember when Tweety tried to ambush him at some campaign event, Bradley was still in the primary, and Gore just toyed with Tweets like a cat with a mouse. If he didn't have to worry about being the "angry candidate", he could be very effective surrogate.
after the post on the economic situation in Yurp (and all the other political bullshit here) I am seriously considering contacting my relatives in Florence and Nice. Maybe they will take an exile murkan.
From The Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/200...71015/
perlstein
The rightards' version of the Viet Nam Debacle.
I was offended when I turned 50 and they began sending me letters. But their car insurance deal cut my yearly costs from $1200 to $450.
spinoza
The downside is that you have to agree to drive no more than 15 miles an hour and keep your left blinker on at all times.
Dr. Wu | 10.06.07 - 5:42 pm | #
Or drive 65 m.p.h. in a school zone at 3:30 p.m. on a Wednesday with your right-turn blinker on. That's optional for the neoconservative retired-and-rich-but-still-bitter set.
And a story about Keith Olbermann in The Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/200...20071008/
kitman
First speeding ticket I ever got, at sixteen, was for 47 in a 35 zone. I went to traffic court, and the case in front of me was an old lady doing 40 in a school zone. She very crankily told the judge that when she was driving, she was watching the road, not the speedometer, especially in a school zone. Judge let her off with a warning, and two minutes later he made me go to traffic school and pay the fine. Bastard.
Terry C - Edwards/Kuchinich 08 |
10.06.07 - 5:55 pm | #
how many times can we vote in the poll next to the atricle? that shot of Falafel Boy makes my vote finger itch.
The New York Times yesterday offered up an interesting new take on the California ballot measure that has garnered a great deal of media attention as of late, suggesting that its probable demise next month will be largely due to a shock-and-awe style assault on it by supporters of Hillary Clinton. The initiative would redistribute California's electoral votes by congressional district, effectively handing Republicans 20 free points in the otherwise blue state. The measure, sponsored by a Republican law firm, has been linked to supporters of Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani. Surprisingly, however, opposition has come not from grassroots internet stalwarts but instead from influential supporters of the Clinton campaign.
From Casey Minor at MoJo blog:
http://www.motherjones.com/
mojob..._york_ti_2.html
Mitt On DNC Payroll:
"Big City, Big Spender," read a news release from the Romney campaign that drew attention to Giuliani's fight to keep in place a commuter tax when he was New York's mayor.
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Romney's strategy is to try to instill doubt about Giuliani's Republican credentials among conservatives already worried about Giuliani's stance in favor of abortion rights.
http://www.reuters.com/article/d...&rpc=22&
sp=true
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Graying of the hair is probably mostly genetic. My dad's family does not go gray until at 70 and then they're white within a year. My mom's family grays early. Very early in the case of my brother who found his first gray hair at 17. Mine was around 25.
In a scathing attack, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards went after frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, Friday, calling her a "corporate Democrat," comparing top Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn to former Bush aide Karl Rove, and assailing Penn's ties to Blackwater USA, the embattled private firm of military contractors accused by the Iraqi government of firing upon and killing 11 unarmed Iraqi civilians last month.
Mark Penn is a nightmare for social justice advocates.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...vi_n_67359.html
conservatives already worried about Giuliani's stance in favor of abortion rights
Heh heh
They said "stance."
I Has Been To Yurrip!
when i worked for the army, one of the dittoheads there was telling me that his german brother-in-law, who had two teenage boys, was complaining to him about the 60% income tax there and saying he might move to the U.S. "so he could keep more of his own money". I said: "didja tell him that health care and college educations are not free here in the U.S. like they are in germany?"
end of discussion
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Check out my teefs
Very cute, but I see no teefs.
Check out my teefs
FireFox |
Homepage |
10.06.07 - 6:02 pm | #
Oh Firefox, he's really adorable.
hold on...he haves teefs...better pic
his mother refuses to listen to me when I tell her how to let the auto-focus do it's job
another time when i wuz in the army, these dittoheads were telling me how germany was coming apart at the seams (they had been there and they knew stuff, ya know) because "no country can maintain a socialist total pension and health care system like that for more than a few decades without bankrupting itself". Germany, they said, would collapse withing 10 years if they didn't get rid of it. (this was in 1993). I said: "do you mean the pension and health care financing system that was instituted in germany in the 1880s by Bismark?"
oh, that one...
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another time when i wuz in the army
please amend to "another time when i was a civilian contracted to work with the army"
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when i worked for the army, one of the dittoheads there was telling me that his german brother-in-law, who had two teenage boys, was complaining to him about the 60% income tax there and saying he might move to the U.S. "so he could keep more of his own money". I said: "didja tell him that health care and college educations are not free here in the U.S. like they are in germany?"
I think that the social security part is also in the income taxes in some of those countries. It's hard to compare taxation because the way countries collect taxes varies so much. For instance, property taxes might not exist at all in some European countries.
Never ceases to amaze (and sadden) me how, in some places, it's a crime to be female.
http://www.comcast.net/news/inde...&
cvqh=itn_kurds
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - pewter with dill green shade!
here's my teefs
Two cake axes! On old lady called them that when my sister was a baby.
how many times can we vote in the poll next to the atricle? that shot of Falafel Boy makes my vote finger itch.
therealhellkitty
Shame he can't be voted off the earth.
Two cake axes!
dittoheads - too dumb to live.
Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-Va.) has passed away from breast cancer, her office announced Saturday. First elected in November 2000, Davis has been battling breast cancer for several years.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/
2...in3339242.shtml
Bummer. Too many congresscritters dying lately, seems like.
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I think that the social security part is also in the income taxes in some of those countries. It's hard to compare taxation because the way countries collect taxes varies so much. For instance, property taxes might not exist at all in some European countries.
Echidne
The critical difference between the US & Canuckada. Even within provinces. I was astounded to learn recently that car insurance in BC and Alberta is not handled in the way it is in the US.
"Graying of the hair is probably mostly genetic"
My late father, like my ex, GAVE gray hairs.
They didn't get them.
The critical difference between the US & Canuckada. Even within provinces. I was astounded to learn recently that car insurance in BC and Alberta is not handled in the way it is in the US.
Yes, lots of things differ. And most European countries don't have the equivalent of federal and state taxation systems, but do have much more progressive income taxes. Someone paying 60% is earning a lot.
When your penis is TOO big, sometimes you have to de-compensate a li'l bit.
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Wow... Re-HICA!
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Don't everyone leave at once... now.
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Not leaving. Just trying to think deep thoughts, which is not easy since I think I'm coming down with a cold.
Toonscribe, Emergen-C, quickly! Then elderberry syrup.
"Graying of the hair is probably mostly genetic"
Early grey hair is also connected to hypothyroidism. The fun part is that sometimes, -sometimes-, when the hypothyroidism is corrected, the grey hair will 're-color'. Not necessarily the original color however. Mine went blonde! (My hairdresser was not amused - she thought I'd done some very silly.)
the dittoheads believe that switzerland is, as they put it, "the only place left that really honors work". what they mean is they think there are no income taxes there. with a bit of effort on the intertubes, i discovered that this cherished belief is noncorrect: in switzerland, there is no federal income tax. income tax is by canton, and ranges from 15% in the rural cantons to 30%+ in the cities. low, but hardly non-existant...
i find that it is really not easy to find out about tax and social welfare policies in different countries around the world. hence, myths abound
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I did some garden clearance work in a sleeveless top and linen pants. They are now both covered with those little thistle seeds that have claw pinchers. Hurts.
oh JP that yellow vehicle is really disgusting. we had a white corvette in front of us yesterday going home. he continued to race his engine althought there was someone doing 40 mpg in front of him. he didn't really want to go fast as he turned right within a .25 mile...just being an asshole.
Emergen-C, quickly! Then elderberry syrup.
Mrs Toons is out with the son. I'll give her a call and see if she can pick some up, but where do you get elderberry syrup?
Hahaha, I saw a guy and his wife pulling one of those trailers in Virginia Friday.
It was a '55 Chevy, though.
Mrs Toons is out with the son. I'll give her a call and see if she can pick some up, but where do you get elderberry syrup?
Toonscribe |
10.06.07 - 6:25 pm | #
health food store.
Beer mission accomplished.
Tacitus Voltaire, to compare taxes requires to know not only the income taxes and what the government pays for (like health care or education) but also things such as the payroll tax in the U.S. to cover pensions and the taxes on goods and services purchased.
When all the different types of taxes are looked at, the U.S. does not have progressive taxation but something very close to a flat tax (as a percentage of income).
ana marie cocks:
Hitchens is one of my favorite writers; even when he's wrong, his wit and erudition amplify a wider range of emotions than most opinion journalists would dare to encompass...
http://time-blog.com/swampland/
2..._a_euology.html
He gets everything in his writings wrong but he does a really good job of it. I like his drunken teevee ramblings best.
Sure he is a bitter mean spirited little man whose loyalty and principals blow with the wind but ya got luv a guy like hitch who went from writing anal jokes on a blog to the pages of time mag... oh wait a minute.
Whole Foods sells elderberry syrup.
health food store.
Thanks. Those abound here in So Cal.
therealhellkitty: oh JP that yellow vehicle is really disgusting. we had a white corvette in front of us yesterday going home. he continued to race his engine althought there was someone doing 40 mpg in front of him. he didn't really want to go fast as he turned right within a .25 mile...just being an asshole.
Probably related to the asshole yesterday, who came from a parking lot to my left, in Knoxville, across four lanes of traffic, to be 10 ft. in front of me, traveling at 45mph, only to veer off in an unsignaled right-hand turn, three blocks later.
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time to indulge in the wonderful split pea soup I made earlier and watch the Longhorns lose (oh JOY!)
have a good night. I may be back later, or tomorrow.
The areas of my greatest expertise are the ones I will not touch with a six-foot pole, unless lots of money is offered, of course.
july 18, 2007
echidne. we should talk sometime, but not now...
The elderberry syrup tip was originally from Phila, by the way. I find it works to make the duration of colds shorter.
echidne. we should talk sometime, but not now...
You gonna offer me lots of money?
Echidne | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 6:26 pm | #
very true
i wish somebody would write a book doing an in depth comparison of all these factors for countries around the world so we could get closer to a fact based discussion of these issues.
i really like the article that duncan linked since i see lots of beliefs, and very few facts, about the differences btw the u.s. & other countries in these areas...
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where do you get elderberry syrup?
Toonscribe
Well, your father smells of elderberries - ask him.
*rimshot*
Greetings and salutations to all! Haven't been around much since work got rather crazy - in a good way that will keep me employed.
Enjoying a lazy afternoon vodka buzz.
Vicki, if you're still here - started going gray at 27, now I'm a mix of gray and mousy brown. But I figure I've earned every gray hair, one way or another. Keep it incredibly short for a woman, but it's comfortable.
Re: the MN situation with those logging 1 day under the requirement for higher ed compensation--
Friend who spent many years in the Reserves and National Guard told me they regularly would schedule people for 89 days when 90 would give them additional pay, benefits.
He says it's a common and old Pentagon tactic to "keep costs down."
And fuck the service person.
I said it sound just like WalMart and other placew which limit hours so people won't be able to get benefits.
Probably related to the asshole yesterday, who came from a parking lot
to my left, in Knoxville, across four lanes of traffic, to be 10 ft. in
front of me, traveling at 45mph, only to veer off in an unsignaled
right-hand turn, three blocks later.
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Jeffraham |
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10.06.07 - 6:27 pm | #
here in TX tailgaiting is passe. To be really in crowd you have to pull out in front of people. Especially if you drive a white pick=up truck
Hey, this thread smells of ... [sniff, sniff] ... elderberries?
I have several near-heartstopping tales involving zombietrucks -- beat-up pickups with big mudders on 'em, and usuallys some camo paintjob on at least part of 'em -- sitting at the side of the 55mph road, appearing ready to jump out in my path... but none of 'em ever did.
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I don't know about elderberries, but elderflower syrup is very popular in the part of Austria where my mom came from. It has a rerallinteresting, aromatic flavor. A bit like passionfruit, but different.
You might be sore tomorrow, Jeffraham, after eleven hours in the saddle.
i wish somebody would write a book doing an in depth comparison of all these factors for countries around the world so we could get closer to a fact based discussion of these issues.
acitus Voltaire | 10.06.07 - 6:31 pm
I'm pretty sure such stuff exists--and is kept in the fog like other things the powers that be don't want us to know.
During the Clinton effort to pass health insurance coverage for all, even NPR and WNYC were absolutely flommoxed about that mysterious Canadian health care system. No on could gainsay the US insurance industries slanders of the Canadian system.
Just too difficult a country to get to and the language differences make it impossible for regular reporters to venture there....
After a scary bit of crosswind tension on U.S. 70, between Center Hill Lake and Crossville, I came upon a sign: "Prepare To Meet Thy Maker."
Oh, shit. I rode carefully.
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Sigh. Someday I will learn how to spell.
i wish somebody would write a book doing an in depth comparison of all these factors for countries around the world so we could get closer to a fact based discussion of these issues.
There have been some fairly good professional articles comparing systems, but I can't recall a book. Could be that there is one, though.
Oh no...Tweety on Timmeh.
Echidne: You might be sore tomorrow, Jeffraham, after eleven hours in the saddle.
Well, I feel fine today, after last night's sleep. Except for some minor inner-thigh soreness, and the numbness of my right index fingertip and thumbtip.
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Afternoon, rational people.
Afternoon, Ms. Barking-Mad.
'fertnoon, Diane C.!
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e. am open to discussing a few things...
Echidne, I wish you had been around with your sage advice on Thursday when I the cold I currently am suffering hit.
I feel like hell, at the moment.
I heard a fews days ago they were going to deploy Ospreys to Iraq. I sure hope they got the bugs worked out of those.
and JP, I'm glad you arrived safely.
Well, at least Jane Hamsher gets it: If you don't like Hillary you are a misogynist.
Glad she cleared that up for me.
Diane, the remedy doesn't always work. But since I started following it I get two-day colds and I skip the coughing-out-your-lungs stage. So it's worth trying.
Did y'all see the horny bull that is sittenpretty's neighbor? I swear, that bull was trying to dig under the fence, to get to the cows on the other side.
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Since when has defending the racists in Jena become a cause celebre for the right wing talk show hosts?
Diane, the remedy doesn't always work. But since I started following it I get two-day colds and I skip the coughing-out-your-lungs stage. So it's worth trying.
Echidne
I will pick up the supplies now for the next time this fell disease comes around.
Diane C.: and JP, I'm glad you arrived safely.
I hope no one lost too much money on that bet. Of course, I still have to make it back. I've sent the landlord cat care instructions, just in case...
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That asshole in Knoxville was my closest call... there were a lot of asshole drivers, there. I thought Nashville was bad, but boy-o.
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Oh, forgot to add the required warning: NO elderberry syrup if it's bird flu, because the syrup supposedly works by enhancing the immunity system and that is not recommended with bird flu.
Oh, before I forget: I have a post up on how Iraqis view Blackwater.
Oh, before I forget: I have a post up on how Iraqis view Blackwater.
I'm sure they view Blackwater very favorably.
And a story about Keith Olbermann in The Nation:
Terry C - Edwards/Kuchinich 08
Oh, man. That is great!
I found it interesting that he doesn't mention that K.O. started life as a sportscaster. K.O. has earned his stripes as a newsman and shouldn't be typecast as an ex-sportscaster, but I believe that his sports experience is significant when it comes to explaining why he's a better newsman than most so-called "serious" journalists. The average American is a lot more likely and (at least in their own mind) qualified to hold a strong opinion about the hometown coach or quarterback than the hometown mayor or Congressman. Sportscasters learn early how to ask the tough questions without taking sides. The White House Press Corps wouldn't last 15 minutes in an NFL press booth before being dragged out and beaten to death by the fans of whichever team was the equivalent to the Democrats. Big-dollar sports has to attract a wider and less brain-dead audience than network news--it's a TV destination, not just the half-hour filler slot between the local weather and Jeopardy. Bottom line--it's harder to be a good sportscaster than a good talking head reading GOP talking points off a TelePrompTer. If, as the article advocates, K.O. were given a network anchor job, the other networks could do worse than taking a look at the stars in their sports divisions than the lackeys in their news divisions.
Just listened to some dickweed named Mike McConnell defending the Jena racists.
Do they want blacks to never vote for Republicans again?
And God forbid we ever get Randi Rhodes here in Pittsburgh.
I mean we have no liberals here.
Do they want blacks to never vote for Republicans again?
Gomez
Yes.
Gomez: Do they want blacks to never vote for Republicans again?
Ask Tavis Smiley.
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Do they want blacks to never vote for Republicans again?
I seriously do not think they care.
And God forbid we ever get Randi Rhodes here in Pittsburgh.
I mean we have no liberals here.
She isn't on here in the Gomorrha, either.
Do they want blacks to never vote for Republicans again?
I seriously do not think they care.
They are concerned about the white Christian men, recently. How the Democratic party is letting them down.
There's no city in the world like Pittsburgh. The whole city was cut into the side of a mountain.
Is Zap here?
I was kinda wondering how the debate between the various DLF candidates for
Senate in Minnesota went.
Tweety and Timmeh slobbering over the 'brave' Pat Buchanan.
I'm not religious but I think I've done everyone's penance or something for watching this crap.
Since when has defending the racists in Jena become a cause celebre for the right wing talk show hosts?
Gomez
Gee, who'd have thought that wingnut radio's demographic would include rednecks who hate uppity niggers?
The other day, just for fun: I turned the AM band on in the car radio and pressed SEEK. It went round and round and never found a station. Not one. Not a single solitary AM station.
So instead of Randi Rhodes we get some jagoff from Cincinnati off the neverending right wing bench.
to get to the cows on the other side.
Bulls will do that. Can't think of why.
Afternoon, all...
Just back from a Brass Band Festival - where brass bands played the blues, and people chanted anti-Bush slogans, and other people dressed up in animal costumes like they were in "The Wicker Man" and shit. Real Cool Time.
And you?
Not a single solitary AM station.
DWD - Uncivil | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 6:55
I get about 30 when I do that.
Yay! Tennessee beats Georgia 35-14!
half my skull was cut away to make room for 7-11 and a laundromat.
They are concerned about the white Christian men, recently. How the Democratic party is letting them down.
Echidne
I am not saying this lightly, but it is my opinion that there are no Christians left - at least in the so-called Evangelical Christian Churches. There simply cannot be. No one can pervert the commandments of Jesus enough to justify what is being done in His name. No one.
Do they want blacks to never vote for Republicans again?
Gomez
They want blacks to never vote again, period.
How is your neck doing, DWD?
They are concerned about the white Christian men, recently. How the Democratic party is letting them down.
Echidne | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 6:53 pm | #
i was reading in a rat wing blog how we were making them feel guilty and like they were being scolded because we insist on talking about people who get the short end of the stick. apparantly we are not supposed to stir up their guilty consciences...
however, since a lot of the social justice concerns raised by democrats are suffered by white men, this claim is 100% grade A farm fresh bullshit
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Pittsburgh is all bridges and tunnels cut into mountains.
Imagine how these assholes would have covered the Emmitt Till case?
DWD, I like most of your comments. Could you possibly lighten up a bit?
Pittsburgh is also the mother of three great rivers.
Not a single solitary AM station.
DWD - Uncivil | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 6:55
I get about 30 when I do that.
Ralphie | 10.06.07 - 6:56 pm | #
I pick up a station on which someone who sounds like a NYC music reviewer keeps saying "Blow me"
We get Armstrong Williams in the am on the local AAR station.
I can't even wake up to decent radio.
They want blacks to never vote again, period.
That's what I think. They've found it is easier to suppress black voting than to try to persuade blacks to vote against their interests for Repukes.
Rush: Well my friends, Mr. Till looked at a white woman. He deserved to be tossed into a river with a radiator tied to his neck.
Isn't armstrong williams black?
Echidne,
Don't ask(but thanks for asking) In a few words, it continues to get much worse. I might have an appointment with a new group of doctors in Grand Rapids that have been highly recommended.
But I am continuing to try to do enough to rehabilitate the heart muscle - the primary concern at this point. But it remains difficult.
But thanks for asking. I have been trying NOT to mention it: everyone has trying times. I guess these are mine.
I can't even wake up to decent radio.
Two choices. Don't wake up or get a better radio.
bill buckner: And you?
Went to an Apple Festival (the fruit, not the boutique electronic toy company), and half of East Tennessee was there. I swear, I thought the Titans were playing, or something.
Hundreds of women in E. TN try to make a living making homemade soaps, balms and fruit butters, btw. And dog clothing.
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i was reading in a rat wing blog how we were making them feel guilty and like they were being scolded because we insist on talking about people who get the short end of the stick.
Oh, that's a big part of it. Wingnuts like strong Daddy-type authority figures but throw a tantrum when Mommy tells them they have to clean their room. With their mental development arrested at the age of eight, it's no surprise that misogyny and latent homosexuality are hallmarks of the breed.
I swear, I thought the Titans were playing, or something.
JP, they suck.
Ralphie,
I am trying to be light and all: You should actually step into the cesspool of my mind for a while; Here there be monsters and the hurricane winds and devils of all sorts.
I'm watching Tweety go on and on about his book and his soulless philosophy of life to Pumpkinhead.
It is an appalling recitation of life at court. The worst of populist cynicism and posturing is what this guy puts forward as normative, as ideal. Inconsistent at best in his recollections and most so with respect to his description of his own "respectful" demeanor toward others.
He thinks he would like to write a movie script about politics. I would want to see it for the same reason you can't help glancing at the wreck on the highway.
...I know Tweety. Who's "Pumpkinhead" again?!
I can't see why libruls are getting so bent out of shape over this Emmitt Till thing. It was just a fraternity prank. And they're going to RUIN LIVES over this??
I'm watching Tweety go on and on about his book and his soulless philosophy of life to Pumpkinhead.
What a great time for a ceiling collapse.
The Titans got that talented black quarterback.
I'm watching Tweety go on and on about his book and his soulless philosophy of life to Pumpkinhead.
NBC circle jerk.
Gomez: JP, they suck.
Your team wishes it were so! This is the comeback season. Mark my words.
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Darryl, Pumpkinhead is Tim Russert
Tweety's book will be a bestseller.
If you have a mystery illness, the best thing to do is take Cipro for about 6 months.
Pumpkinhead is Tim Russert.
Matthews isn't ruling out a run for office in the future.
Tweety's book will be a bestseller.
blue
Tweety's book will be pig food after it makes it to the remainder table in record time.
blue
Fixed that for you.
sitten is gettin' ready to go out to din-din. We did breakfast in, today... waffles, bacon, eggs.
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I am not saying this lightly, but it is my opinion that there are no Christians left - at least in the so-called Evangelical Christian Churches.
Absolutely agree with you. I'm not a churchgoer at the moment, and probably won't ever be again. But in the past I've been devout, if not particularly reverent. And it appalls me that, despite his clear teaching, the Man from Galliee can be twisted to support war on people in the very region where he lived and to piss on the poor for whom he was an advocate.
DWD - sorry things have been so hard for you lately. Wish I could give you some pep talk, but I can only say I'm sorry to hear it.
Review: Despite several enlightening expositions on the topography of western Pennsylvania, this reviewer finds blue better suited for the killfile than for Eschatonian audiences.
I'm on Redhook ESB #2.
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I am trying to be light and all: You should actually step into the cesspool of my mind for a while; Here there be monsters and the hurricane winds and devils of all sorts.
I do understand your pain, I have had plenty of my own. I try not to dwell on it. If I did ,I would probably be ready for the gas pipe. Please do not make your pain into something that you can't overcome. Trust me, you will feel better for it.
Tweety's book is brilliant. Life really is a campaign. The book brings hope to millions who can see it's possible to rehabilitate yourself from any possible adversity. The politicians are geniuses at refashioning broken lives.
Shorter Matthews Book: Suck up. Hustle. Bluster. Bluff. Omerta.
Assholes come in all colors.
Tweety
I always liked SNL's Darrell Hammond's impression... impersonation?
Sun's goin' down, like a big bald head. jack gets horny just thinking about Larry King.
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Comment by blue blocked.
If I want to learn about Pittsburgh, I'll step outside.
Assholes come in all colors.
HoneyBearKelly
Until they get bleached.
Okay, let's go eat!
♥
Okay, let's go eat!
Chinese food tonight (can't get the family to go to sushi).
Tweety's book is brilliant. Life really is a campaign. The book brings hope to millions who can see it's possible to rehabilitate yourself from any possible adversity. The politicians are geniuses at refashioning broken lives.
Another enthusastic drinker of Stupid in a Bottle (tm).
A sense of shamelessness is a necessary condition of a successful life.
The people who feel excessive guilt over small things get nowhere in life.
Tweety's book is brilliant. Life really is a campaign.
When do we get to vote against him?
And it appalls me that, despite his clear teaching, the Man from Galliee can be twisted to support war on people in the very region where he lived and to piss on the poor for whom he was an advocate.
sister of ye | 10.06.07 - 7:06 pm | #
my impression is that in most christian sermons, jesus is the least quoted person in the bible.
no surprise - returning good for evil, not letting other people see your prayer and good works, and giving all you have to the poor are not the values they wish to promote
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Another enthusastic drinker of Stupid in a Bottle (tm).
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blue------->kill file
email me.
later, all you dfh's. just had an offer that i can't understand.
must. go. seek. truth.
gungulla
They want blacks to never vote again, period.
That's what I think. They've found it is easier to suppress black voting than to try to persuade blacks to vote against their interests for Repukes.
Toonscribe
I think they'll be adding hispanics to that list in a major way.
When do we get to vote against him?
I haven't been watching him and he's still on television.
I haven't listened to Limbaugh in ages, and he's still on the radio.
I haven't listened to, watched, or read O'Reilly and he's still on tv, the radio, and my newspaper.
...eeeck
must. go. seek. truth.
Lot's of luck. Are you Greek?
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Oh, and hell-o-scan: I HAVE NOT ALREADY SAID THIS, ASSHOLE!
You better watch limbaugh, o'reilly and the nightly news because they're pullin shit-tricks everyday. These are the arguments you'll have to face at the thanksgiving dinner table.
Bush pulls a media stunt every year just before Thanksgiving.
They want blacks to never vote again, period.
That's what I think. They've found it is easier to suppress black voting than to try to persuade blacks to vote against their interests for Repukes.
Toonscribe
Well, what with caging and outlawing former felons being able to vote, they have upgraded things like the poll tax to a new level.
You better watch limbaugh, o'reilly and the nightly news because they're pullin shit-tricks everyday. These are the arguments you'll have to face at the thanksgiving dinner table.
Unlikely.
I'm not related to gross retards.
I'm not related to gross retards.
That's nice, unfortunately many in here are even married to them.
As Army General Petraeus is now conclusively proving in Iraq, military solutions are always the best.
This thread has been taken over by complete morons.
The blacks have had the franchise for at least a generation.
What makes a successful life is highly subjective. The person who lived the life is one view and those who interact with that person form their views and there may be some who never knew the person but whose lives are affected for better or worse.
Now that hopelessly muddles the issue but shows that pronouncements about the success of lives is not a reliable criteria.
You better watch limbaugh, o'reilly and the nightly news because they're pullin shit-tricks everyday. These are the arguments you'll have to face at the thanksgiving dinner table.
Unlikely.
I'm not related to gross retards.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 10.06.07 - 7:18 pm | #
no rat wingers found anywhere in my family, either
gotta stop my father-in-law sending me daily emails about the bad influence of AIPAC. clogging up mah damn email
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...Ralphie, of all people, you know that there are three kinds of people: bullies, toadies and the hapless rabble of victims.
I think they'll be adding hispanics to that list in a major way.
Lumpenprolitariot
That kinda puts the ICE raids rounding up 1,300 illegals here in SoCal in a new perspective, doesn't it?
These are the arguments you'll have to face at the thanksgiving dinner table.
Not me. My family has long since cast me out as a pariah. I'll have my turkey by myself, and if that sounds pathetic, better that than among those who despise you.
SciFi channel - Grissly Rage - Eatage -
In fact,
Possible Blonde Eatage.
Oh crap. Someone left the screen door open.
Ahh the Incredibles is on! No capes!
Later.
Noone will marry me, even though me feet don't smell that bad.
Possible Blonde Eatage.
no flirting!
Where's our Eatage Expert?
Gomez
Get AAR. You shouldn't cry over Randi Rhodes; she is annoying as hell sometimes. Rachel Maddow is great though. You don't have to go on 28 this weekend do you?
Hey HBK!
4Legzzzzz!!!!
..."grissly"?
Is that like when you left the lard in the boiler overnight?
I am safely out east and away from the Rt 28 landslide.
Saturday cat blogging-spinoza cat in a box:
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These are the arguments you'll have to face at the thanksgiving dinner table.
Not if I'm carving the turkey.
Saturday cat blogging-spinoza cat in a box:
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spinoza, non ridere, non luger
Someone left his lights on.
Spinoza: I luvs me some cat lzr-eyes!
Is there anyone here rooting for the D-Backs or Rockies?
It would have been nice had Rep. Daryl Issa been present during the congressional surge hearings last month to pose the same question to General Petraeus that he had posed to Blackhawk Executive Officer Erik Prince, which, would, in the case of Petraeus, whether he and his army were acting as partisan Republicans.
I luvs me some cat lzr-eyes!
You oughta see the scorch marks around the house.
Is there anyone here rooting for the D-Backs or Rockies?
me,me,me
Inspirational Sing-Along of the afternoon, via the Leftist Marching Band:
"If Georgie Bush were smarter
then he'd think like Jimmy Carter
If he only had a brain
"He would work for conservation
and avoid proliferation
If he only had a brain
"New Orleans' still in squalor
And for health care we still holler
But he doesn't have a brain....
And so on... Maybe you had to be there...
Is there anyone here rooting for the D-Backs or Rockies?
Hell, no... See my forthcoming novel "Bury My Heart On Waveland Avenue..."
It's apple harvest season in Nova Scotia. So guess where the apples at the mega grocery chain are from...
the answer is here
Bill, Didn' you have your chance?
The blacks have had the franchise for at least a generation.
blue | 10.06.07 - 7:20 pm
And jack has been posting dumb shit on blogs for what seems like a generation.
Moe, Apples are like grapes. A universal fruit, so to speak.
spinoza, I that a new one? I thought you had Siamese cats.
My cat now likes to pee anywhere but in the littebox. Luckily, only on wipe-up areas. She's getting old.
Bill, Didn' you have your chance?
Stanley didn't cover first...
Stanley didn't cover first...
Okay, I'm out. I've been awake for 28 hours, and it shows.
It's apple harvest season in Nova Scotia. So guess where the apples at the mega grocery chain are from...
Moe, they have the advantage of being well-aged. Who the hell wants fresh apples?
A spinoza cat practicing giving tongue:
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The blacks have had the franchise for at least a generation.
blue | 10.06.07 - 7:20 pm
And George Clinton is still not president. WTFWWD ? (What the fuck would whitey do?)
Thanksgiving Stunt™ - Republican party
That's what I'm talkin' bout!
spinoza, I that a new one? I thought you had Siamese cats.
spinoza cats can morph.
BTW, when was Ntodd having his date with Valerie Plame? Did I miss it?
Thanksgiving Stunt™ - Republican party
marmoset
Preznit gimme turkee.
Is there anyone here rooting for the D-Backs or Rockies?
Gomez
I'm kinda for the Rockies since they're giving a share of their prize money to the family of the minor league coach killed by a line drive
Everything about sending apples from New Zealand to Nova Scotia in the middle of apple harvest is irrational. It's stupid for the store to stock them, and it's stupid for the customers to buy them.
Must provenderize family. L8rz
In Sunday’s Times
Book Review
Maureen Dowd reviews Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s journals.
That is so wrong.
How can you be cutesie and precious and simpering about Schlesinger?
Holy crap. The whole NYT.com front page is one giant wankfest:
In Fall From Top, McCain Lands in His Comfort Zone
By MARK LEIBOVICH 1 minute ago
Once swollen with overhead and consultants, today’s slimmer McCain campaign better matches the senator’s maverick sensibility.
translation: Now that cranky old Senator Slippers has alienated half his staff and fired a bunch of people cause he's not fund-raising, there's no one left to tell him he's a pandering old fool.
But Moe, what else is there to feed the hoardes bargain-hunting Americans?
Oh, sweet Jesus, don't tell me that Falafel Boy and I agree on something:
(from ThinkProgress)
When [Former White House Press Secretary Tony] Snow revealed his plans to write a book on how to deal with cancer, O’Reilly responded:
O’REILLY: You know what you can do with all respect? You can combine how I deal with cancer with how I deal with the White House press corps. Because they’re both insidious, invasive. They both have to be wiped out.
It's apple harvest season in Nova Scotia. So guess where the apples at the mega grocery chain are from...
Lemme guess...Yakima, WA, right?
Everything about sending apples from New Zealand to Nova Scotia in the middle of apple harvest is irrational. It's stupid for the store to stock them, and it's stupid for the customers to buy them.
Moe Szyslak | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 7:49 pm | #
The free market is ultimately rational
That is our holy faith
Any heretics will be free to choose banishment and economic liberty (previously known as "starving").
Aha!
Let me guess...Nova Scotia is sending their apples to Melbourne....
bo-- the bargain hunters go the other way nowadays. News report today said the hotels in Bangor, Maine were sold out, filled with Canadians going south for the big bargains. They can drive four or five hours each way, get a hotel room over night, and still save big money with their All Powerful Loonies. Ain't no Merkins coming up here nowadays.
It's apple harvest season in Nova Scotia. So guess where the apples at the mega grocery chain are from...
It's the only way to keep the airlines in business, flying fruit, soldiers, and ammunition half way around the world. This is one of the main reasons we didn't invade canada. It's too close. And why we buy from china.
The Big Lebowski is on Flix at 8.
The Dude Abides.
It's apple harvest season in Nova Scotia. So guess where the apples at the mega grocery chain are from...
New Zealand. And the apples from Nova Scotia go to Chile and the apples from Chile go to Japan and then the coal goes to Newcastle and that is why the earth is flat.
Okay, I gotta go watch some cool TV show you guys have never heard of. Laterz.
New Zealand. And the apples from Nova Scotia go to Chile and the apples from Chile go to Japan and then the coal goes to Newcastle and that is why the earth is flat.
Tom Friedman, is that you?
who are these go*@%mn belly-itchers?
"Bush has been a perfect example of cronyism, because Blackwater has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republicans and to President Bush. I also saw this morning that Sen. Clinton's primary adviser, Mark Penn, who is like her Karl Rove – his firm is representing Blackwater. I think it is important for Iowa caucus-goers to understand the choices they have in this election. And it is the reason I continue to say we don't want to replace a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats."
Edwards
Tom Friedman, is that you?
spinoza, non ridere, non luger
If you don't watch them, the apples will roll right off the edge of the world.
DWD, sorry for a late answer. I made dinner and then ate it.
I mentioned earlier about pain clinics and suggested they might be worth it, even if you have to travel.
But perhaps the most important figure in the campaign is her pollster and chief strategist, Mark Penn, a combative workaholic. Penn is not yet a household name, but perhaps he should be. Inside Hillaryland, he has elaborately managed the centrist image Hillary has cultivated in the Senate. The campaign is polling constantly, and Penn's interpretation of the numbers will in large part decide her political direction.
Yet Penn is no ordinary pollster. Beyond his connections to the Clintons, he not only polls for America's biggest companies but also runs one of the world's premier PR agencies.
Morris knew Penn from his days as a pollster in New York and brought him into the White House. Morris decided what to poll and Penn polled it. They immediately pushed Clinton to the right, enacting the now-infamous strategy of "triangulation," which co-opted Republican policies like welfare reform and tax cuts and emphasized small-bore issues that supposedly cut across the ideological divide. "They were the ones who said 'Make the '96 election about nothing except V-Chips and school uniforms,'" says a former Clinton adviser. When Morris got caught with a call girl, Penn became the most important adviser in Clinton's second term. "In a White House where polling is virtually a religion," the Washington Post reported in 1996, "Penn is the high priest." He became known as the "most powerful man in Washington you've never heard of."
A corporate whore manages Hillary. How surprising. She will triangulate the democratic party to death if he has his way.
The true "Horror of Europe" is that Americans might find out that Europeans work less for their corporate overlords and have a higher standard of living.
That's what really scares the shit out of our worthless parasite class.
moonbats!!
Hi from the wva apple butter festival!!! G Son and i are ha-pee!
Lou Holtz may have been a good football coach, but he sounds like the Elephant Man.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/200...20070521/
berman
The true "Horror of Europe" is that Americans might find out that Europeans work less for their corporate overlords and have a higher standard of living.
That's what really scares the shit out of our worthless parasite class.
This depends a lot on what country in Europe you use as the comparison and also on what measures you use. But my family in Finland does very well indeed.
Jesus H. Crackers! CNN just announced that the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced next week and the people who were nominated, Al Gore and Rush Limbaugh!
Assholes at CNN are too stupid to understand that Al Gore was nominated by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, whereas, Rush Limbraugh had some fan of his write a letter nominating him.
THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING!
Any asshole can write a letter to nominate any other asshole for the Nobel Peace Prize, but only the members of the committe for the Nobel Peace Prize actually nominate the candidate.
Is it too much to ask that CNN "The Most Trusted Name, etc., etc., to get that fact straight?
Is it too much to ask that CNN "The Most Trusted Name, etc., etc., to get that fact straight?
Yes.
This has been...
moonbats!!
Hi from the wva apple butter festival!!! G Son and i are ha-pee!
Hecate
Fabulous, Goddess! I'm Hipee, too!
Well, let's see if haloscan will behave more appropriately this time around.
Diane:
haloscan has been very jumpy lately for me.
bakatcha, Shaw.
And, Hecate, this apple butter...did you save any for me?
I phone posting is hard its hard work
The true "Horror of Europe" is that Americans might find out that Europeans work less for their corporate overlords and have a higher standard of living.
I just wish voters would stop waving flags long enough to wise up as to where all the enormous amounts of money are going.
Actually, many countries in Europe do have "lower standards" of living.
But it's relative. How you quantify it is tough?
Does a person who make $150,000 a year in NYC and rents a loft have a higher standard of living than somebody who makes $100,000 in Nebraska?
Many would argue that the cultural life makes up for the living arrangements.
When you consider the amount of hours worked, many of these "poorer" countries actually produce more income per hour, they just have a ton of time off.
BTW, can we at least assign OJ Simpson to track down that "lost" 9 billion dollars when Jerry Bremer ran Iraq?
Apple butter is actually quite easy to make. I keep the skins on my apples when I make it.
Just wash apples 8-10, core them, chop them into chunks, place in 4 qt. sauce pan on medium low heat. Let them come to a bubble, then simmer until they cook down to the consistency of thick oatmeal. Add cinnamon to taste. That's it. The natural sugars in the apples make this sweet, and you can spread the apple butter on toast and muffins without guilt.
But it's relative. How you quantify it is tough?
It is tough, of course, because it depends not only on how much money you make but also on what you want to do with that money, and what you want to do tends to change depending on the culture and environment in general.
For instance, rice might be quite expensive in Scandinavia, so if you mostly eat rice you would find it hard to keep the same standard of living. On the other hand, Scandinavians grow up not using rice as a staple, so its highish price is unimportant.
So it seems, according to the latest post, the Kossacks are actually only 1/4 of the way to raising $50k for that Cheers-n-Jeers dope to keep posting.
I guess there aren't as many stupid Kossacks as I thought...
Shaw, no water to begin with?
IT'S NOT THE SIZE OF THE ARMY; it's how you use it. That's the conclusion of a recent study by Patricia Sullivan, a professor at the University of Georgia, who has devised a simple yet effective statistical formula that correctly predicts the outcome of 78% of the conflicts plugged into it.
Limited goals mean better odds. Sullivan calculates the U.S.'s chances of success in Vietnam were 22%. The 1991 Gulf War had a 93% chance of succeeding. The invasion to overthrow Saddam had a 68% chance of working; as for routing insurgents and installing democracy, chances of success are 1 in 5.
I would suggest, trifecta, that not living on a treadmill of overconsumption of crap that is made possible by putting yourself into more and more debt is an infintely higher standard of living than what we've got here.
For instance, rice might be quite expensive in Scandinavia, so if you mostly eat rice you would find it hard to keep the same standard of living.
Lutefisk in Mongolia is pricey.
The Big Lebowski is on Flix at 8.
The Dude Abides.
Gomez
But, Dude! That rug pulled the room together! |
Another difference I've noted between my consumption patterns and those of my brother who lives in Yurp is that when he has extra money he spends it on travel or sailing his boat or renting a summer cottage, because the windfall really is a windfall for him. But when I get a windfall I have to save and invest it, because I might need it one day for health expenses or to subsidize my retirement income.
Having worked (unfortunately) in teevee you have people that really don't give a fuck and are ready to hit the bar versus the wackjobs (producers) who see it as their mission to spread the truth.
If CNN said that limbaugh is up for a Nobel Prize then more than a few folks should be canned.
actually only 1/4 of the way to raising $50k for that Cheers-n-Jeers dope to keep posting.
that's still a lot of people with too much money on their hands. i demand everyone here raise 12.5K and send it to me, or i will cease blogging. is that the jist of it? nice scam.
"He's a nihilist"
"That must be exhausting."
The Big Lebowski is on Flix at 8.
First time I'd ever heard of the word micturate.
that's still a lot of people with too much money on their hands. i demand everyone here raise 12.5K and send it to me, or i will cease blogging. is that the jist of it? nice scam.
I was thinking of the reverse scam: Send me 12.5 K or I will continue blogging.
"It is tough, of course, because it depends not only on how much money you make but also on what you want to do with that money, and what you want to do tends to change depending on the culture and environment in general."
--Echidne
"..but also on what you want to do with that money" is the key.
The things people spend money on in this country replulses me.
I have taken a hiatus from blogging regularly, because I had to take a fucking job.
I wish people sent me money instead.
"You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole."
The things people spend money on in this country replulses me.
mer
NASCAR is a billion dollar industry, and for the life of me, I don't know why. It's kind of a celebration about how fast you can use up resources.
It's kind of a celebration about how fast you can use up resources.
So much for "conservative".
What is a necessity and what is a luxury also depend on what the society provides. If public transportation is good and safe then having one car or none at all is ok even for a family. If public transportation is nonexistent you may need two cars just to function.
The things people spend money on in this country replulses me.
Like you paying Atrios to alert you when there are new posts?
It's kind of a celebration about how fast you can use up resources.
That's a decent definition of the Iraqi War.
Rush's nobel nomination is a fraud and an old one..if CNN is running the story -it is just more fake news
Self-described Nobel Peace Prize "accredited nominee" Limbaugh: "I don't even know why Gore's qualified for this"
On the March 30 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, after noting that Ole Danbolt Mjos, the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, reportedly "praise[d]" former Vice President Al Gore's efforts to draw attention to global warming, Rush Limbaugh declared: "I don't even know why Gore's qualified for this. ... I have done more for world peace to promote liberty and freedom than Al Gore has." Limbaugh stated that he is "an accredited nominee this year for the Nobel Peace Prize" and asserted that it was "cheap" that "Gore's over there" in Norway "lobbying" for the award. He later said: "My lawyers at the Landmark Legal Foundation are looking into the possibility of filing an objection with the Nobel committee over the unethical tampering for this award that Al Gore is engaging in." In fact, according to a February 22 Associated Press report, Limbaugh's "nomination" by the Landmark Legal Foundation "appeared to" be "invalid" because the foundation may not have "nomination rights."
According to a March 29 Reuters article, Mjos attended a March 29 speech by Gore in Oslo, Norway, and afterwards "prais[ed]" Gore for advancing a "very important message" on the threat posed by rising global temperatures. Referring to the report, Limbaugh claimed: "Gore's over there lobbying. That's cheap. You're not supposed to lobby for this thing. You're supposed to have dignity. You're supposed to sit back there and let the selection process take its course." Limbaugh then offered himself as a contrast to Gore: "I'm not over there speaking to these people about anything" and asked: "What in the hell's global warming have to do with world peace?"
On February 1, Landmark president Mark Levin sent a letter to Mjos purporting to nominate Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing his "nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all mankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin." But according to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, only certain individuals are "qualified to nominate" people for the award: "members of national assemblies, governments, and international courts of law; university chancellors, professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology; leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs; Nobel Peace Prize Laureates of previous years; board members of organizations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize; present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; and former advisers of the Norwegian Nobel Institute." Moreover, only those individuals who are specifically invited by the committee may submit candidates. As Levin made clear in his February 1 letter to Mjos, the organization's nomination of Limba
It's kind of a celebration about how fast you can use up resources.
How many resources do NFL and MLB and NHL and NBA use?
Moreover, only those individuals who are specifically invited by the committee may submit candidates. As Levin made clear in his February 1 letter to Mjos, the organization's nomination of Limbaugh was "unsolicited."
Meanwhile, Gore was reportedly nominated by two Norwegian lawmakers, who the AP reported are "among the thousands of people and groups with rights to nominate Nobel candidates
"Musharraf wins presidential vote
Gen Musharraf's supporters are celebrating
Gen Pervez Musharraf has easily won a vote to be re-elected Pakistan's president, even though it is unclear if his candidacy was legal.
He won all but five of the votes cast in parliament's two houses and swept the ballots in the four provincial assemblies, election officials said.
Opposition MPs abstained or boycotted the vote, calling it unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court says no winner can be declared until it decides whether Gen Musharraf can stand while army chief.'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
7031070.stm
"Iraq Shia leaders sign truce deal
Hakim (L) and Sadr say they want to prevent further bloodshed
Two of Iraq's most influential Shia leaders have signed a deal to try to end violence between their groups.
Radical cleric Moqtada Sadr and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq, have been locked in a bitter dispute for months.
The leaders have agreed to try to end further bloodshed, foster a spirit of goodwill and form joint committees throughout the country.
A number of recent attacks in southern Iraq have been blamed on Shia rivalry.
'Iraqi unity'
In a statement, the two leaders said their aim was to maintain both the Islamic and the national interest."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ast/
7031683.stm
did I just kill this thread?
Saturday cat blogging-spinoza cat in a box:
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spinoza, non ridere, non luger | 10.06.07 - 7:30 pm |
Kitty in a bag:
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How many resources do NFL and MLB and NHL and NBA use?
Iced Tea, Order Up!
Did a lot of car racing in vacant lots as a kid, did you?
i demand everyone here raise 12.5K and send it to me, or i will cease blogging. is that the jist of it? nice scam.
Actually, as far as I can tell, Mr. Swoosh-Gong! didn't really have anything to do with it. He lost his job and said he couldn't really keep doing the cut-and-paste and look for a new job at the same time, so he was "going on hiatus."
Kos, of all people, was the one who started the fund drive.
I guess I was thinking about an article in the NYT someone linked to earlier today. A couple bought a $5m space in NYC. Renovations were going to be $1.5m. $30,000 for a new couch.
"OLYMPIA, Wash. A sharply divided state Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a law which bars political candidates from deliberately making false statements about their opponents violates the First Amendment right of free speech.
In a 5-4 decision, the high court affirmed a state Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the law. The measure was enacted by the Legislature in 1999, a year after a similar ban on false statements involving initiatives and other ballot measures was thrown out by the state Supreme Court.
State Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch, invoked the law in 2002 after his Green Party challenger, Marilou Rickert, distributed a flier that asserted Sheldon voted to shut down a state institution in his district. In fact, he voted against a budget that included closure of the Mission Creek youth camp, although critics said he didn't do enough to support the facility.
He filed a complaint with the state Public Disclosure Commission, which investigated and imposed the maximum fine, $1,000. By then, Sheldon had easily won re-election. The commission action was upheld in Superior Court, but overturned by the appeals bench.
The Supreme Court majority said in Rickert v. State of Washington and PDC that the new law "like its predecessor, is unconstitutional on its face."
"The notion that the government, rather than the people, may be the final arbiter of truth in political debate is fundamentally at odds with the First Amendment," Justice James Johnson wrote for the majority, joined by Justices Charles Johnson, Richard Sanders and Susan Owens.
"The best remedy for false or unpleasant speech is more speech, not less speech. The importance of this constitutional principle is illustrated by the very real threats to liberty posed by allowing an unelected government censor like the PDC to act as an arbiter of truth.""
http://
www.editorandpublisher.co...t_id=1003654541
Kos, of all people, was the one who started the fund drive.
dave™©
I suspect it was sort of a test run for him, seeing what the possibilities of his blog were.
Moreover, only those individuals who are specifically invited by the committee may submit candidates. As Levin made clear in his February 1 letter to Mjos, the organization's nomination of Limbaugh was "unsolicited."
Meanwhile, Gore was reportedly nominated by two Norwegian lawmakers, who the AP reported are "among the thousands of people and groups with rights to nominate Nobel candidates
Liars for Bush
Rush Limbaugh is The Shit Stain of the Universe.
It's so good to know that the bastards spend our money so...so...damn
just look at this
Even sprinkler systems fail at U.S. embassy in Baghdad By Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers
Sat Oct 6, 2:56 PM ET
WASHINGTON — The latest problem with the trouble-plagued new U.S. embassy complex in Iraq is that the sprinkler systems meant to contain a fire do not work, according to officials in Congress and the State Department
http://news.yahoo.com/s/
mcclatch...gn_editors_ytop
teh stoopid
http://news.yahoo.com/s/
mcclatch...gn_editors_ytop
defines the boosh era.
"$30,000 for a new couch."
jesus the gap between the 'have mores' and the rest of us is just stunning.
I suspect it was sort of a test run for him, seeing what the possibilities of his blog were.
Doubtful. He already knows, in any case.
Although he can now use this to market to advertisers - "my readers have a shitload of money just burning a hole in their pockets. Advertise here!"
I suspect it was sort of a test run for him, seeing what the possibilities of his blog were.
Jim
I'm not so sure. Kos has been pretty successful in raising money for candidates on Act Blue. That should make a "test run" really unnecessary.
Rush Limbaugh has about as much chance as I do to win a Nobel prize. Less, maybe.
"RICHMOND, Va. - U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, a Republican who represented southeastern Virginia for seven years, died Saturday morning after a two-year battle with breast cancer, her office said.'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20071...whHxrQABx6s0NUE
Did a lot of car racing in vacant lots as a kid, did you?
No. What makes MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL carbon footprints more acceptable than Nascar's?
Kos, of all people, was the one who started the fund drive.
Many people try to get their online friends to give them money. What's the big deal in this case?
Rush Limbaugh is The Shit Stain of the Universe.
Shaw Kenawe | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 8:44 pm | #
nice of CNN to step in it and spread it around. To bad there isn't a cable casters ethics panel
JohnJS
I don't drink sodas, settle for a vod. tonic?
OT, but De-Motivational Posters.
If CNN said that limbaugh is up for a Nobel Prize then more than a few folks should be canned.
Karatist Preacher | 10.06.07 - 8:21 pm | #
instead of the promotions and bonuses they will get
jesus the gap between the 'have mores' and the rest of us is just stunning.
Who cares what individuals choose to do with their money when governments and corporations are making sure that money stays in the hands of very few?
Go Purdue.
No. What makes MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL carbon footprints more acceptable than Nascar's?
Because you can play all those other sports with zero carbon footprint as a kid.
Because you can play all those other sports with zero carbon footprint as a kid.
No you can't.
Rush Limbaugh has about as much chance as I do to win a Nobel prize. Less, maybe.
mer
mer,
I'd be happy to nominate you.
OT, but De-Motivational Posters.
No you can't.
Iced Tea, Order Up
U can haz tow-foo?
You simply cannot conduct a decent auto race without expending a lot of gasoline, a lot of tires, and a lot of metal.
I smell tofu...
sorry mp - purdue is evil.
Can you hear the midnite combines reaping the fields?
I got buddies face down in the mud in Nam just so you people can enjoy this fucking blog, man.
I liked that article about "Sick Old Europe", which is actually "Rather Healthy Europe".
And the Cubs still suck...very consistent in their sucking...
sorry mp - purdue is evil.
Karatist Preacher
They suck, too. But OSU needs beating somehow.
I say I cut uff jur yahnsen.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice.
John Bolton
They suck, too. But OSU needs beating somehow.
MP
They will lose when it counts - no reason to root for purdue
Yo. So the Ziggy audience applauded "Blade Runner" before AND after the movie.
Loved it, btw.
I can't believe all of the college and pro Rastas are genuine. The look is cool, but it's 2 feet of hair. That shit takes forever to grow naturally.
Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Game at Church
Across the country, hundreds of ministers and pastors desperate to reach young congregants have drawn concern and criticism through their use of an unusual recruiting tool: the immersive and violent video game Halo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/0...=us&
oref=slogin
They suck, too. But OSU needs beating somehow.
MP
They will lose when it counts - no reason to root for purdue
Karatist Preacher | 10.06.07 - 9:05 pm
OSU doesn't lose as much when it counts, not anymore.
Cubs about to be eliminated.
cut off your Slasen
You're presence here is illegal.
big explosion shuts I5 in washington state.
watch video
http://www.king5.com/video/news-...tml?
nvid=181544
Cubs about to be eliminated.
lip
In other news: Water Wet.
Cubs about to be eliminated.
lip
Shame, that.
I was kind of hoping for a Cubs-Indians Series.
I just popped by, but I think I can settle the matter at hand.
The Big Ten is evil.
kthxbai
I remember a guy I knew in grammar school who spelled Europe "urip" on a test...
He probably works for the American Enterprise Institute now....
In other news: Water Wet.
Gomez | 10.06.07 - 9:12 pm | #
More news...
Bush sucks, the sky is up, dirt is down, fire hot, ice cold....
All I see is a Dennis Hopper ad - did Dennis Hopper 'splode?
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 10.06.07 - 9:05 pm | #
Blade Runner, a real director's cut...
He probably works for the American Enterprise Institute now....
I think he's the President.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice.
Can has walrus? John Bolton?
Donwantskaithksbai.
The Pens are starting to put the biscuit in the basket.
All I see is a Dennis Hopper ad - did Dennis Hopper 'splode?
WalterNeff
Hopper went from Hollywood wildman to pitching sensible annuities.
Good Grief.
OK, I'm off for the evening. Have a good Saturday night, bats, and if you are so inclined, do check out this week's Bonus Critter Blogging.
My brother lives in Tacoma - did he 'splode?
Blood Diamonds on HBO
Boston vs. Cleveland
Arizona vs. Colorado.
COUPLE WEDS IN WALMART LAWN AND GARDEN SECTION
I'm getting misty eyed. *sob*
The MSM reminds me of Dennis Hopper's character in Apocalypse Now and his blind worship of Kurtz.
The MSM does that with Bush. No matter what Bush does, it's brilliant...
Southwest Airlines said it will apologize to a passenger who was told he would be removed from a flight if he didn't change clothes, the second time in recent months the budget carrier has been forced to do so.
Joe Winiecki, of Largo, Florida, boarded a Southwest flight in Columbus, Ohio, wearing a fictional fishing shop T-shirt which featured the words, "Master Baiter."
Winiecki, who was traveling home, said he was in his seat when an employee told him he had to change his T-shirt, turn it inside out, or get off the plane.
All I can say is that its a good thing I didn't wear my shirt.
we just flicked the switch on our dns - waiting to propagate throughout the galaxy, then: presto-chango: no more WalterNeff.
OSU doesn't lose as much when it counts, not anymore.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
hmmm...basketball, football, guess I'm missing the major sports.
John D.R. Atchison, the federal prosecutor who was arrested in an Internet sex sting after he allegedly traveled to Michigan from Florida to have sex with a 5-year-old girl, hanged himself in a Michigan federal prison Friday morning.
Atchison, 53, of Pensacola, Fla., was put on suicide watch after he used a bed sheet in an attempted suicide in September.
Detroit police confirmed Atchison's suicide death at 10:14 a.m. Friday. They have not released any details.
Where's Gonzo when we need him!
Anybody got the keys? This long thread is really messing with this dial-up birthday boy.
Back in a few...
then: presto-chango: no more WalterNeff.
(Starts singing a mournful Irish ballad, in your honor... )
OSU was destroyed in the National Championship last year. There's no reason to any longer trust their franchise.
The University of Arizona is now the nation's largest campus.
Crazy outrageous librul compares Chimpy to Hitler
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
tol...icle2602564.ece
then: presto-chango: no more WalterNeff.
Alas WalterNeff.
I knew him, Atrios.
A man of infinite jest.....
sheets
Apparently I'm not going to have to deal with this Bosox/Cubs divided loyalty thing for much longer...
"no more WalterNeff."
Damn, I hate that. Best of luck. Can you post a link?
The MSM does that with Bush. No matter what Bush does, it's brilliant...
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
I know, you're looking the heads. He just gets carried away some times.(paraphrase)
OSU doesn't lose as much when it counts, not anymore.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
hmmm...basketball, football, guess I'm missing the major sports.
Karatist Preacher | 10.06.07 - 9:19 pm
I said 'as much'. And for Buckeye fans, in some ways beating the Blue and Maize is more important.
Hopper went from Hollywood wildman to pitching sensible annuities.
Good Grief.
MP
In general, I hate baby boomers as a group. For that very reason.
The folks who brought you war protests, antidisestablishmentarianism and free love when it suited them brought you Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush when it suited them.
Crazy outrageous librul compares Chimpy to Hitler
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ tol...icle2602564.ece
P O'Neill
If the shoe fits, you must admit.
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