HULK SMASH!!!
hot
Peace
Invalid Looser?
Good evening...my neighborhood sounds like Basra--smells bad, too. I hate fireworks.
peeeps
uh huh
Smash!
Such a girly kitty! She looks as tho she's just finished a tea party.
There might, or there might not be, post up above.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Schroedinger's post!
Very kuhl.
Too %##%*%& hot:
Growing blaze near Goleta is California's top firefighting priority
Too %##%*%& hot:
Jessie's saying this right about now.
Satan is laughing his ass off . . . he just loves how they never GET IT when they're alive!
Man, Grace Kelly's dress is beautiful in "Rear Window". Not my favorite movie, but whatever.
Naught much else on the teebee tonight.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
Weird
That's downright surreal.
.
Gentle, gentle rain.
The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of . . . America?
I keep thinking of T.J.'s unquiet ghost, having to watch Chimp pretend to be president, today, at T.J.s home.
Repost...
Throughout his long public career, Senator Jesse Helms was a tireless advocate for the people of North Carolina, a stalwart defender of limited government and free enterprise, a fearless defender of a culture of life, and an unwavering champion of those struggling for liberty.
Throughout his long public career, Adolf Hitler was a tireless advocate for the people of Germany.
He restored the German economy and built the autobahn. He made the trains run on time.
He was fearless defender of the arian culture, and an unwavering champion of those struggling for living space.
"It is my God Given Right as an American to blow my hand off with illegal fireworks. It's in the Bible! If you don't like it you liberal pussy I'll tell the cops that you are a terrorist and were seen taking photos of the GG Bridge. Then you will be an enemy detainee and can't do anything about it!"
C the slack jawed Y.
Obama scores a major endorsement.
This is HUGE!
That's downright surreal.
Yeah, kinda leaves me speechless...
You get weird ads in yer gmail when you have "nascar" in your name...
I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His day is marching on.
Impeach!
Off to watch fireworks - although it is going to use $20 worth of gas...
Are we singing campfire songs now?
I must've missed Kumbaya.
Hecate, Miss Thing always looks so regal.
What would please Her Highness?
Man, Grace Kelly's dress is beautiful in "Rear Window". Not my favorite movie, but whatever.
Naught much else on the teebee tonight.
helena handbasket | 07.04.08 - 7:30 pm |
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I actually thought the exact same scene. I remember Hitchcock talking about that exact scene and what he wanted to accomplish. The perfect image when Stewart opened his eyes. I'll say he came close.
Haz u seen mah bukkit?
I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
“As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal”;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on.
Obama scores a major endorsement.
Obama's better than the alternative.
Not a stirring endorsement, I know.
Fuck.
.
focus, I hope you're safe.
Kitty, if the government wants to prevent Chinese cyber attacks, they should write to this here place.
There is computer whiz-bangs here (not me, take notice).
You get weird ads in yer gmail when you have "nascar" in your name...
When you have obscure utensils in your name Google leaves you alone.
.
Zero posts my snowshoe rabbit!
It is my God Given Right as an American to blow my hand off with illegal fireworks. It's in the Bible!
Makes me think of Mark Pauline of SRL...
BTW, are you aware of the upcoming Crucible shows? You can see them setting up from BART at West Oakland station...
Hecate!
Talked to Dr Dean not half an hour ago, and shared your concern about the potential damage to Dem candidates associated with inadequate voting facilities and Repub shenanigans in low income and repub-dominated areas.
He saud that the DNC was on this in a serious way at several levels:
Getting rid of bad Secy's of State and replacing them with new ones who have fair voting as their highest priority. He used Ohio as an example.
Getting rid of bad voting machines whose tallies can be tampered with or not verified (used Florida as example).
"Legions" of trained observers at the polling places. He said this was part of the 50-state initiative that had not received much public attention, but was nonetheless a very high priority.
Of course, actions count a lot more than words, but I feel quite certain that it is on their radar.
Well at least the feminist blogs have all been...
I haz a Z list blog, so I don't count. You know what I want to know? Where are the white boyz of the blogosphere? Those 30 somethings who were so all fired het up for Obama?
When you have obscure utensils in your name Google leaves you alone.
No cheesy diner ads?
That's a shame.
That's downright surreal.
Yeah, kinda leaves me speechless...
Hey, fast cars and the Navy go hand in hand.
Just ask Black Stig.
Gromit, how is your day? We're having a quiet one, some work, some simply being languid.
And no, I'm not going to tell you.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 07.04.08 - 7:02 pm |
You must be from outer space. No earthling is this lame.
Did the Hutt send you after me?
Hecate's cat looks wise and ageless.
Gromit, aren't Chartreux cats gorgeous?
Chewey, blast 'im!!
/?/
focus, I hope you're safe.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Thanks Sallyh, I'm safe for now ... evacuated friends afraid to stay here though heading for the ocean - I may just join them ...
Hecate's cat looks wise and ageless.
Gromit
she looks like she's getting ready to pounce on something.
something grilled, for preference.....
oh man, halo says '0' what kind of '0' is this?
The MGM Wedding Dress for Princess Grace
The whole wedding attire was designed by Helen Rose, wardrobe designer at MGM. The MGM wardrobe department made the wedding dress as a gift from MGM. 1956 Wedding of Grace Kelly to Princess Rainier of Monaco
At the time, film star Grace Kelly was tied to an MGM contract for another 7 years. To get out of her 7 year contract with MGM Grace Kelly had to agree to the wedding being filmed by MGM for worldwide distribution. In later days she regretted the filming intruding on her wedding day.
"Your ass belongs to US Kelly! No way you are getting out of your contract."
so what's with the comments tonight
focus -- are you in the middle of the fires?
July 4, 2008: Uncle Sam as seen by the rest of the world these days?
foolme, in my case, a combination of grading papers, heat and humidity, and lack of motivation
Jesse Helms is still dead
Obama sucks. He is a politician.
Still voting for him, but meh.
Oh, I have heard a new song that is way groovy.
pigboy, the day started looking up at that point
Gromit, how is your day?
Outstanding, with perfectly beautific weather all the livelong day! Just packed my mom off after the evening part of the day-long block party, and Dr Mrs Gromit just headed to the ER to see a patient, so I get a few quiet minutes.
Several pictures from today at the home page. Including today's party, our house, the neighbor's incredibly cute grandson, and a very happy Howard and Dr Mrs Dean from breakfast this morning.
http://vtwayback.blogspot.com/
"Your ass belongs to US Kelly! No way you are getting out of your contract."
Sp ocko
she should have dared them to sue her for breach of contract.
she was the fairy tale princess. they'd have been killed in the press if they'd tried.
in the basin south and beneath the Gap fire -
What I really want to do is bake, and Monsieur is screaming no no no!
hey have you heard the news?
timmeh russert died
another weekend of ridiculous eulogies to a racist villager
a complete whitewashing of jesse's horrible record and failure to point out the shamefulness of having such a person in government for so long
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
I should have been more specific. My apologies. I tried to post something a moment ago and got a message to wait 20 seconds before posting again. The comment never posted and when I hit publish again, it said it was a duplicate post.
Then when I asked what's with the comments it popped up as pretty as you please.
Jesse Helms is still dead
Might not be a bad idea to cut off his head and stuff his mouth with wild roses.
Just in case.
Gromit, looks as if it was a wonderful day!
I woke up thinking it was Saturday, and my spirits really got a bounce when Monsieur reminded me it was only Friday
pigboy, the day started looking up at that point
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 07.04.08 - 7:45 pm | #
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now if we could only get the current leader of the senate to say say something as stupid as Frist did so he'd resign and we'd get new leadership.
foolme, sorry, my dear
what does patriotism really mean?
It means telling people who ask such questions that they are to blame for our country's suckitude.
foolme, sorry, my dear
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
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my fault. by the way as an ex student, grade on the curve
The difference between Jar Jar Binks and Karl Rove?
Jar Jar Binks has actually seen combat.
I woke up thinking it was Saturday, and my spirits really got a bounce when Monsieur reminded me it was only Friday
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 07.04.08 - 7:47 pm | #
Bonus... it is like waking up thinking you're late for work on your day off, then realizing you have the day off
Foolme, I love you, but I don't curve my grades.
*retch*
NTodd, did you eat something foul, or are you simply trying to emulate the 8 year old?
I haz a Z list blog, so I don't count.
I certainly like the opening:
You know what, Barack Obama, you can fucking bite me, OK?
The rest of it's pretty good, too.
I posted some suggestions on what to do at my brand-spanking-new blog at MyBarackObama.com, btw. Just sayin'...
another weekend of ridiculous eulogies to a racist villager
a complete whitewashing of jesse's horrible record and failure to point out the shamefulness of having such a person in government for so long
Tom Brokjaw | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 7:46 pm | #
You wonder how a 'liberal' press could do such a thing! But they will.
I just saw an article over on Americablog that John Warner, Republican Senator of Virginia, is trying to resurrect Jimmy Carters 55 mile an hour speed limit. He's just discovered that it not only saved oil and gas, but actually saved lives as well!!!
The republicans have managed to make Jimmy Carter, their most hated President, look like a prophet. He also had solar panels installed on the White House. Crazy.
The McLaughlin Group is discussing the state of the country and the state of our democracy. Are our best days behind us? Michelle Bernard says we're the best country on earth because people aren't murdered in our elections. Firstly, Michelle, tell it to the Kennedys. Secondly, if you set the bar any lower you would have to dig a trench.
Foolme, I love you, but I don't curve my grades.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
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Oh well, I hope everyone gets an A anyway.
Just ask Black Stig.
*waits patiently for response*
An embarrassing shitstain has just been erased from North Carolina.
Good fucking riddance to scum sucking shitbags like Jesse.
I hope there is a hell.
Jesse Helms is still dead
A friend of mine pointed out earlier how apropos it was that Jesse and Bozo the Clown went in such close proximity...
"resurrect Jimmy Carters 55 mile an hour speed limit."
We were chatting about this at lunchtime. Consensus seemed to be "do it yesterday".
Michelle Bernard says we're the best country on earth because people aren't murdered in our elections.
Whereas, in Europe, people fear to vote or run for office.
foolme, most of the class is doing very well, and they'll get their A's.
I don't think I have anyone outright failing at the moment in any of my sections, although some are skating on the edge of it. Happily, they're a minority.
"UPDATE: Fox News phoned former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) for his reaction to Helms’ passing. “He had a philosophy, had principles he believed in, and he stood and fought for them,” Lott said, adding that he admired that Helms accomplished his work without being “mean-spirited and disrespectful.” Lott added:
Senator Helms did it by sometimes supporting things that surprised people. But if you looked at it, if you looked at his faith and principles he believed in, it made sense."
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07...ms-passes-away/
NTodd, did you eat something foul, or are you simply trying to emulate the 8 year old?
I had food poisoning from, we think, some bad, unpasteurized apple juice. Not. Pretty.
Say hello to four years of me!!!
I'm sure some here will be very happy about that.
And...we get Maddy all day Sunday and overnight
"resurrect Jimmy Carters 55 mile an hour speed limit."
We were chatting about this at lunchtime. Consensus seemed to be "do it yesterday".
Gromit
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I'm a little behind the times I see. Not unusual. I was in the picturesque little town of Gilbert for the Peach Festival around noon. Then came home and had a 4th of July nap. (felt it was the patriotic thing to do )
Just ask Black Stig.
*waits patiently for response*
nascardaughter
Ah, I see. From info on the show, "Top Gear":
The Stig's name derives from presenter Jeremy Clarkson's days at Repton School; where, according to Clarkson, new students were always called "Stig". A proposed name for the Stig was originally "The Gimp" until protests from Perry McCarthy nixed the idea. There have been two official Stigs on the show, while various other Stigs have made cameo appearances for particular episodes. The first Stig wore black overalls and helmet. It was introduced in the first episode of the current format by Jeremy Clarkson as the resident test driver, as the presenters could not consistently post fast times themselves. Clarkson noted that "we don't know its name, we really don't know its name, nobody knows its name, and we don't wanna know, cause it's a racing driver." Clarkson then described The Stig as having a very small brain, who had worthless opinions, a disorder described by Clarkson as "Mansell Syndrome". Its job description was to "just go out there and drive fast". This Stig was used for the first two series of the show. It was then "killed off" at the start of the third series when he was shown driving a modified Jaguar XJ-S off the flight deck of HMS Invincible during a stunt and landing in the sea.
NTodd, sorry to hear that. E is offering plenty of TLC, I assume?
Leonard Nimoy - Put A Little Love In Your Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=w...feature=related
http://
alabasterbrow.blogsome.co...racelovely3.JPG
http://z.hubpages.com/u/109600_f260.jpg
Grace Kelly in a dress from Rear Window
Damnit, I get better mileage doing 73 in my Forrester than I do at 60.
is trying to resurrect Jimmy Carters 55 mile an hour speed limit
That was Nixon, actually.
The republicans have managed to make Jimmy Carter, their most hated President, look like a prophet. He also had solar panels installed on the White House. Crazy.
foolme1ns
Marx said history is tragedy the first time, farce the second.
Those of us who remember the Carter administration have a sense of deja vu whenever we watch the news.
And for anyone crying salt tears over the problems at GM and Ford, just bear in mind that this is the second time in 30 years they got caught making big gas guzzlers in a time that calls for smaller more sensible vehicles.
Now that is farcical.
I had food poisoning from, we think, some bad, unpasteurized apple juice. Not. Pretty.
Once you've had real food poisoning, you realize all your previous "cases" were just tummyaches...
Richard, you're a dear, but no way am I clicking on that. My inner geek has its limits.
The Reason for the Season:
The Declaration of Independence.
(For all those whose personal copy might not, for whatever reason, be close at hand today.)
foolme, most of the class is doing very well, and they'll get their A's.
I don't think I have anyone outright failing at the moment in any of my sections, although some are skating on the edge of it. Happily, they're a minority.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
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hooray then. Maybe the skaters will start to catch on soon.
"resurrect Jimmy Carters 55 mile an hour speed limit."
We were chatting about this at lunchtime. Consensus seemed to be "do it yesterday".
Sorry. I can't drive . . . 55!!!!
Marx said history is tragedy the first time, farce the second.
Those of us who remember the Carter administration have a sense of deja vu whenever we watch the news.
And for anyone crying salt tears over the problems at GM and Ford, just bear in mind that this is the second time in 30 years they got caught making big gas guzzlers in a time that calls for smaller more sensible vehicles.
Now that is farcical.
Adam Hominem
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I like what Mark Twain said: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes".
I'm a little behind the times I see.
Not at all. I meant I was chatting with human neighbors over hotdogs and salad. In the real world.
Double penetration.
Leonard Nimoy - Both Sides Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=W...feature=related
I can't tell if he's singing, or yawning.
I have had "real" food poisoning once.
You are right Dave. The other times were pikers compared to that one time.
Rain! All over the yard! Naked Happy Dancing Summer Rain! Plantz iz happy. Hecate iz happy.
Oh, this is rich. The Heritage Foundation's big minds published a study in 1986 claiming the 55mph limit saved no more than 1% of fuel.
"Rain! All over the yard! Naked Happy Dancing Summer Rain! Plantz iz happy. Hecate iz happy."
Wingnut neighbor calling police to complain about wet, naked witch next door.
Hecate-- Did you see that Dr Dean answered your question (above)?
Sorry. I can't drive . . . 55!!!!
Supreme Commander Thor
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you might just be surprised, after a few tickets. 
When we had the 55 mile an hour speed limit all the cars that were made had the 55 in the middle of the speedometer. Psychological.
Did you see that Dr Dean answered your question (above)?
No ?????????????????
/
Genuflects in Dr. Dean's direction
you might just be surprised, after a few tickets.
As someone who's almost lost his license twice--no, I wouldn't be.
greetings again, folks.
Sallyh, that's good news.
NTodd, that's not such good news. As your lawyer I recommend Imodium AD and a frequently freshened damp cloth for your brow.
I'm a little behind the times I see.
Not at all. I meant I was chatting with human neighbors over hotdogs and salad. In the real world.
Gromit
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Oh. I feel better now.
Clarkson then described The Stig as having a very small brain, who had worthless opinions, a disorder described by Clarkson as "Mansell Syndrome".
Hmm. This disorder may also affect some members of the pundit class...
type, type, type,
what's that? .... oh it's fireworks....
type. type... type.... what's that?.... oh it's fireworks....
type, type, type... what's that?... oh it's fireworks....
type... type... type... what's that? oh it's fireworks....
NTodd, sorry to hear that. E is offering plenty of TLC, I assume?
Oh, yes, she's been wonderful. And prepared to take me 2 blocks to the emergency room, but I improved after several bouts of the most amazing vomiting I have experienced.
As someone who's almost lost his license twice--no, I wouldn't be.
Supreme Commander Thor
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well take heart, I'm sure this is going no where fast, (no pun intended)
Wingnut neighbor calling police to complain about wet, naked witch next door.
If he didn't call the police about our singing around a burning caldron and singing last night, I figure we're safe. Waxing moon and all. There's about one rain a summer like this one, demanding dancing. I have a big fence, anyone offended has to work hard to be offended.
Hecate, See my post at 7:39. And my picture from this morning:
http://vtwayback.blogspot.com/20...-jay-
lorie.html
And the world's cutest kid, other than your grandson:
http://vtwayback.blogspot.com/20...cutest-
kid.html
Hecate nails it:
It is my fucking body. If I take a whim to tattoo it, I will. If I take a whim to shave my head, I will. If I take a whim to cut my toenails, I will. If I take a whim to get an abortion, I will. On a whim. Because it is my fucking body and there's just no compromise between you, who apparently believes that my body can become state property for the use of the state's interests, and me, since I believe that, well, that it is my goddess-damned body and not the state's. One could have hoped that someone whose ancestors were considered property might have had an understanding of this point, but, turns out, possessing a penis make that point irrelevant.
You stupid, naive fucktard. The fundies won't vote for you no matter how fast you sell me down the river. And I, I am going to have to get v drunk to make myself vote for you. And you'd better hope that John McCain starts gaining on you, or my checkbook, well, I won't be in a hurry to open it. You stupid, arrogant, male asshole.
Enjoy.
YOU ARE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!!!!!!
Gromit,
Wow; Dr. Dean is looking v good! Your grandkid???
"I have a big fence, anyone offended has to work hard to be offended."
People like that really offend me.
dave™© | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:05 pm | #
That's my boy!!!
Gromit, that child gives me hope. Thank you.
Back later, maybe, after I dry off.
Love you, you lovely, liberal Moonbats.
That's my b--
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzz...
"Democracy
"Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into
the wrong hands."
Senator Jesse Helms"
sadly he was not talking about the current administration
Wow; Dr. Dean is looking v good! Your grandkid???
Yes, he's lost weight and seems very relaxed and happy. Dr Mrs Dean takes the credit and says she's been getting him to do daily bike rides.
Neighbor's grandkid. My boys tell me that I have none, and I'm willing to take their word for it.
The other times were pikers compared to that one time.
A nurse friend of mine told me, when it's coming out both ends - THAT'S food poisoning!
Obama scores a major endorsement.
This is HUGE!
Obama scores a major endorsement.
This is HUGE!
dave™©
Wow the note left on my Obama-stickered car yesterday said exactly the opposite. Yet interestingly, that message and yours are both intended to make me think less of Obama.
Sometimes I think my whole life is a Fox reality show...
several bouts of the most amazing vomiting I have experienced.
Our bodies do attempt to care for us.
Negro
"To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem
in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he
doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for
singing and dancing."
"The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint
that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic,
and interfere with other men's rights."
When a caller to CNN's Larry King Live show praised guest
Jesse Helms for "everything you've done to help keep
down the niggers," Helms' response was to salute the camera
and say, "Well, thank you, I think."
(Wilmington Star-News, 9/16/95)
dave™© | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:11 pm
Come on, you don't have to pretend. You'll be very happy when I win. You can spend the next 4 years saying "I told you so!". It will be a very vindicating experience for you.
UK judge rules that Pringles are not spuds
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080...Cuf8wH.1h1vaA8F
New York Times and The Washington Post
"The New York Times and The Washington Post are both infested
with homosexuals themselves."
The Post, he charged, "caters to homosexual groups.
Just about every person down there is homosexual or lesbian," jesse helms
Smoking
I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were
smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of
customers we need!
Jesse Helms, US Senator from North Carolina,
at a dinner to promote the state's tobacco industry, 1996
Source:BQ
Tax Dollars
"Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school
classes that teach our children that
CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER
of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. ''
Part of the text of a fundraising mailer sent out by the
Helms campaign.
It will be a very vindicating experience for you.
President John McCain | 07.04.08 - 8:13 pm | #
You are deluded. I knew it.
Voodoo
Nevertheless, if the Administration insists on funding these
programs I shall not stand in the way, so long as you agree
to the following conditions: 1) that no funds be obligated to
any affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood
Foundation (IPPF) in Haiti, including PROFAMIL; and 2) that no
funds be provided directly or indirectly to any group whose
programs include producing material intended to be used in
a voodoo ceremony ... A.I.D. is funding programs that
endorse or legitimize what amounts to witchcraft."
Jesse Helms, quoted in Mat Honan, "Jesse Helms'
Political Voodoo," Mojo, March 23, 1999
WSJ sez the big tomato/salmonella scare is actually due to Jalapeños.
WSJ sez the big tomato/salmonella scare is actually due to Jalapeños.
P O'Neill
So it's the Mexicans' fault?
Interesting.
WSJ sez the big tomato/salmonella scare is actually due to Jalapeños.
P O'Neill
How did they get across teh border?
Overall, NPR's story on the death of Jesse Helms was pretty disgusting. Emphasis on recollections by his friends, and of the well-known campaign ad that played off of equal opportunity law, they described it as "famous, or to some, infamous."
Very little said about the vile, divisive racist prick that he actually was.
montag
And NBC very thoughtfully ran Helms' most famous ad, the "hands wadding up the job rejection letter" one with the voiceover of "You really needed the job but they had to hire a minority..." without the slightest mention that that ad was the singlehanded product of Charlie Black.
Charlie Black Who, you say? Charlie Black the just-named Top Boss of the McCain campaign. But that I suppose wouldn't be Respectful when the story is about the death of another ancient bigot. Oh noes.
Doubts about "daring" hostage rescue
By GottaLaff
Report:
But while [Ingrid Betancourt] was still in the air, the Swiss radio station RSR broadcast a report questioning the official version of the operation to free Ms Betancourt and 14 other hostages – saying that money, not cunning, had clinched their freedom.
According to Bogota, the hostages were freed in an elaborate ruse by Colombian intelligence agents who had infiltrated the Marxist Farc rebels holding them.
But RSR said that the 15 hostages “were in reality ransomed for a high price, and the whole operation afterwards was a set-up". Citing a source "close to the events, reliable and tested many times in recent years", it said that the United States – which had three citizens among those freed – was behind the deal and put the price at $20 million."
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...age-
rescue.html
Apparently it's specifically salsa served in restaurants and not in jars that is the suspect.
WSJ -- The search for the cause of an outbreak that has affected nearly 1,000 people since April 10 has centered on salsa because many of the victims had eaten some. The government is concentrating on fresh salsa prepared at certain restaurants, not processed and canned salsa. Officials continue to decline to name the restaurants, but say most are not affiliated with chains.
New surveys with patients who only became sick recently, as well as some earlier victims, show that many ate jalapeño peppers along with tomatoes, one official said. Investigators now are looking for jalapeño peppers contaminated with the rare salmonella strain dubbed Saintpaul. They are hunting them in restaurant leftovers and victims' homes, as well as along the distribution chain, this official said.
Health officials said the evidence linking jalapeños to the disease is compelling, but are erring on the side of caution before making a public warning. The mounting illnesses, despite the tomato warning, have left consumers and regulators confused, and the industry struggling with financial losses.
Hunting jalapenos. Dangerous business.
Hot.
Well at least the feminist blogs have all been...
I haz a Z list blog, so I don't count. You know what I want to know? Where are the white boyz of the blogosphere? Those 30 somethings who were so all fired het up for Obama?
Now I feel guilty. I'm off until Monday. Time enough.
re pigboy, For anyone who can read French: rumour that the Betancourt "rescue" was a set-up, $20m ransom paid to FARC commander's wife
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/articl...-
1065672,0.html
OBAMA!
Actual WSJ headline
Jalapeños Probed in Outbreak
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB...7990229423.html
Fresh, hot chocolate chip cookies? With home made pecans? Anybody?
re pigboy, For anyone who can read French: rumour that the Betancourt "rescue" was a set-up, $20m ransom paid to FARC commander's wife
Oh, no no no, P O'Neill.
St. John of McCain engineered the whole thing.
protesters at shrub speech today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1...l.blogspot.com/
Hunting jalapenos.
Band name.
I freed the hostages. I beat the crap out of the commies with my Viagra Blaster!
More pics & vid of protesters at shrub speech today.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.or....org/node/
34528
The idle brain is the devil's playground.
re pigboy, For anyone who can read French: rumour that the Betancourt "rescue" was a set-up, $20m ransom paid to FARC commander's wife
Oh, no no no, P O'Neill.
St. John of McCain engineered the whole thing.
Diane C. Barking-Mad | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:23 pm | #
I had heard about the McShame connection but not the FARC connection.
What I found interesting was NBC new interview with US hostages who were held captive for so long under terrible conditions.... one captive said... oh, no they fed us daily... no.. we weren't beaten... we didn't have any news papers or tv. All we had was each other to talk too. Far worse than Guantanamo if you ask me.
The idle brain is the devil's playground.
jj | 07.04.08 - 8:27 pm | #
We know, we've seen Bush in action.
Cat Blogging R Us.
For those who are looking for a new companion, please consider your local animal shelter.
WSJ --
"I think it was a sign of confidence of President Uribe and the defense minister in Sen. McCain and maybe the two of us that they were prepared to share this information...which was highly classified," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who accompanied Sen. McCain to Colombia along with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.).
For those who are looking for a new companion, please consider your local animal shelter.
Diane C. Barking-Mad | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:29 pm | #
Are there hawt babes working there?
My own personal memorium to J. Helms, So Very Pious But Now, It Seems, Deceased:
On July 5, 1852, [Frederick] Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his audience:
"This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." And he asked them, "Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day
that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross
injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him,
your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license;
your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are
empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted
impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your
prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your
religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud,
deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes
which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on
the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the
people of the United States, at this very hour.
Happy Independence Day bats!
from "Smoke Signals":
Happy Independence Day, Victor. You feeling independent today? I'm feeling independent. I'm feeling extra magical today, like I could make anything disappear. Houdini with braids, you know? Poof, wave my hand! The white people are gone, sent back to where they belong. Poof! London, Paris, Moscow. Poof, poof, poof! Wave my hand and the reservation is gone. The trading post and the post office, the tribal school and the pine trees, and the drunks and the Catholics and the drunk Catholics. Poof!
[Arnold looks at his son with a smile, musses his hair.]
And the little Indian boys named Victor. I'm so good, I can make myself disappear. Poof! And I'm gone.
THE TWO CHICKS FROM ABBA DID NOT AGE WELL
Are there hawt babes working there?
ronjazz
There always are.
Gomez: Sex drugs and rock'n'roll, baby! They've done better than Keith Richards....
Gomez: Sex drugs and rock'n'roll, baby! They've done better than Keith Richards....
Of course, that's kind of like saying that the Exxon Valdez is better than the Titanic....
ABBA THEN
*sniff*
Still hot.
Stray-Rod's wife sez A-Rod having affair with Madonna
http://www.nydailynews.com/
gossi...eves_madon.html
Where are the male ABBAs? Did they age any better? And, being billionaires, do they care a whit?
Lalo Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist and composer.
One of Schifrin's most recognizable and enduring compositions is the theme music for the long-running TV series Mission: Impossible. It is a famously distinctive tune written in an unusual 5/4 time signature.
Where are the male ABBAs? Did they age any better? And, being billionaires, do they care a whit?
ronjazz
No word on Benny and Bjorn.
Still hot.
Jesse Helms | 07.04.08 - 8:35 pm | #
Gettin warmer.
"Stray-Rod's wife sez A-Rod having affair with Madonna"
Well, at least he's not chasing the baby-sitter
I found that story about people yelling at the president interesting. Mostly because I think about all the ways that he has organized it so that he NEVER has to hear directly opposing points of view.
It's always on "private property" and screened an invitation only.
And you know what, he used personal safety and national security to protect himself. Which I think is just fine. But just like the media won't demand to have a real press conference (more than one question per person) it would be great to figure out a way to keep the President physically safe but still protest him. Everything is designed to keep his image clean.
St. John of McCain engineered the whole thing.
Diane C. Barking-Mad | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:23 pm | #
he just delivered the payoff. just like Bush, a bagman for the royalty.
But just like the media won't demand to have a real press conference
Imagine if they just ignored him.
If Gromit is still here, would it be asking to much to get directions to your lovely house!
Stop pokin' me with that goddamned thing, you miserable darkie! Strom!!! Help!!!!!"
--Jesse, getting used to his new digs.
Stray-Rod's wife sez A-Rod having affair with Madonna
I can't tell you how much that doesn't interest me.
Baseball-movie star: Dimaggio did it with MM...
Fresh, hot chocolate chip cookies? With home made pecans? Anybody?
Happy Fourth--off to watch the fireworks.
A real man would spit in Madonna's face.
With home made pecans?
You a tree?
Everything is designed to keep his self image clean.
Sp ocko |
fyo....
Baseball-movie star: Dimaggio did it with MM...
atablarasa
Madonna is so mimicking MM.
A real man would spit in Madonna's face.
jess | 07.04.08 - 8:41 pm | #
Not really.
If Gromit is still here, would it be asking to much to get directions to your lovely house!
noblejoanie
http://vtwayback.blogspot.com/20...07/11/
home.html
Anytime you're in the neighborhood of Burlington, darlin'.
Not really.
ronjazz | 07.04.08 - 8:42 pm
I agree.
A real man would spit in Madonna's face.
jess
What? Are you GAY?
Echidne, you just have to take a pecan, plant it, water it, and wait a few years. Presto! Homemade pecans!
You stupid, naive fucktard. The fundies won't vote for you no matter how fast you sell me down the river. And I, I am going to have to get v drunk to make myself vote for you. And you'd better hope that John McCain starts gaining on you, or my checkbook, well, I won't be in a hurry to open it. You stupid, arrogant, male asshole.
no, no, no ... you are just naive, Hillary would have said exactly the exact same exact thing and if she didn’t she’d have thought and then lied to us about it. I just know it.
Hillary would have said exactly the exact same exact thing and if she didn’t she’d have thought and then lied to us about it. I just know it.
The Opologists | 07.04.08 - 8:44 pm | #
Isn't that the unfortunate truth.
St. John of McCain engineered the whole thing.
I doubt he had anything to do with it. However, once he found out about a presidential candidate had been kidnapped for five years he's probably trying to figure out how to establish a North American branch of FARC to disappear Obama.
And as someone who pays alot of attention to the news I find it odd how little publicity these three guys got during their captivity. Which is odd. Whatever could they have been up to.
With home made pecans?
You a tree?
Echidne
While Echidne's picking nits, I'm eating cookies!
Re: ABBA -- well, actually, the wimming of ABBA were never really beautiful - there were rather normal looking young women who had good makeup - they were beautiful -- most young women with good makeup are (just sayin' -- I mean there is a reason that the species hasn't died out!)
OK - you you commies hate "Smoke Signals" (one of my favorites movies) - try this -- I preached today & ended the sermon with these words from Thomas Jefferson:
May (July 4) be to the world, what I believe it will be -- to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all -- the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form (of government) which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
Everytime Madonna needs to get somewhere in her life, including the initial launching of her career, she turns into a whore.
She's a calculating, catholic whore. Julia Roberts is a talentless whore as well.
For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
Prior Aelred | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:46 pm | #
well, OK, but where are the fireworks?
Prior, have you seen Into The Silence yet? A monkish flick.
I can't say that I loved Smoke Signals, since it depressed me for days, but it's a good movie....
And as someone who pays alot of attention to the news I find it odd how little publicity these three guys got during their captivity. Which is odd. Whatever could they have been up to.
Not white wimmin, so not news...
She's a calculating, catholic whore. Julia Roberts is a talentless whore as well.
jess | 07.04.08 - 8:47 pm | #
whores gotta eat, too. and there are no bigger whores anywhere than in the Republican Congress.
For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
Prior Aelred |
Prior A, that odd sound to your left was me giving you a standing ovation.
Prior, how did your "monkish ignorance" go over?
While Echidne's picking nits, I'm eating cookies!
I got my protein and you did not. Besides, I just had a chocolate florentine.
I got my protein and you did not. Besides, I just had a chocolate florentine.
Echidne | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:50 pm | #
whazzat? chocolate and spinach?
Echidne I saw your comments re: the Detective Lewis series now on PBS.
I don't think he's been given very good material yet.
But for some odd reason I think his sargent (played by Laurence Fox) is hot.
I, for one, have sold my time, talents and a few of my ethics for money.
So, as whores go, I don't have a lot of room to comment on Julia Roberts or Madonna.
Fresh, hot chocolate chip cookies? With home made pecans? Anybody?
Yes, please.
Echidne I saw your comments re: the Detective Lewis series now on PBS.
I don't think he's been given very good material yet.
That's quite possible. Also, the series can grow if he settles on his persona a bit more.
I just had a chocolate florentine.
Chocolate with spinach and hollandaise? Ewwwwww!
whazzat? chocolate and spinach?
Almond thins with chocolate gluing two of them together, into pairs. Fun to eat because I want to split them first. Like choc divorce.
And, regarding whoredom, for fresh, hot chocolate chip cookies with pecans, I'd entertain options on my soul....
Madonna is so mimicking MM.
She's not half the woman MM was.
Literally. All the soft and squishy parts have been removed.
I've got some very good homemade pizza slices left over from dinner if anyone wants a piece.
Funny how that whore thing goes, innit?
Almond thins with chocolate gluing two of them together, into pairs. Fun to eat because I want to split them first. Like choc divorce.
Echidne | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:54 pm | #
yummo. where got?
Funny how that whore thing goes, innit?
Everyone has a price.
On the CBC tonight at 9:
"The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives: Cover Your Man"
Heh. Those crazy Canadiants
Literally. All the soft and squishy parts have been removed.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:55 pm | #
Except for between the ears. Seems to be more of that as time goes by.
(hands ronjazz a coke, but cheerfully)
yummo. where got?
At a local Italian bakery, sadly.
Actually, thinking of Madonna as the present-day Marilyn Monroe tells us a lot about where we've come in the last 60 years.
Funny how that whore thing goes, innit?
Everyone has a price.
I once volunteered to marry Limbaugh so that he would shut up. To take one for the team, so to speak.
(hands ronjazz a coke, but cheerfully)
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:56 pm | #
gracias. I'll see if I can trade it for an Orangina.
She's a calculating, catholic whore. Julia Roberts is a talentless whore as well.
Y'know, I don't have to pay one bit of attention to either of them. I don't have to spend a nickel to expand their bank accounts, if I don't want to do so.
Neither one of them has ever passed one bit of legislation to which I objected. Neither one of them ever tried to steal my rights in broad daylight. Neither one of them ordered thousands of soldiers to their deaths for a passel of goddamned lies.
Neither one of them used billions of tax dollars, including mine, to enrich their friends.
They may be superficial, and they certainly could be seen as culturally insignificant and superfluous. But, by dog, they aren't the real problem in society.
At a local Italian bakery, sadly.
Echidne | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:57 pm | #
Hmmm. I haz office in Providence, RI. They have a zillion Italian bakeries.
The game is afoot.
I'm having a hard time believing that whole A Rod - Mad Donna story.
He's got a hot wife and Mad Donna looks like she's been rode hard a put away wet.
But, by dog, they aren't the real problem in society.
montag | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 8:59 pm | #
Not like that Britney Spears, that's for sure.
re pigboy, For anyone who can read French: rumour that the
Betancourt "rescue" was a set-up, $20m ransom paid to FARC commander's
wife
Robert Lindsay (a leftist who qualifies as rightist and racist hereabouts) has an excellent article on this. He notes that far from kidnapping and so forth, the FARC et al are the effective government of large stretches of territory and as such demand effective taxes from the various modern day feudal lords, who are normally content to pay them by delivering reasonable sums of money to rustic places. If they pay their taxes they have no need to worry; if they refuse, they are given a reason. It becomes very perceptual, what is a government action and what is kidnapping. The liars who necessitated the FARC et al are trying to get American tourists involved to make their enemy look bad, but for the most part it is a misrepresentation.
I'm having a hard time believing that whole A Rod - Mad Donna story.
He's got a hot wife and Mad Donna looks like she's been rode hard a put away wet.
I think he HAD a hot wife.
He's got a hot wife and Mad Donna looks like she's been rode hard a put away wet.
HoneyBearKelly?GoGiants | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 9:00 pm | #
i like wet.
HoneyBearKelly, love, it is blind and deaf and so on.
With home made pecans?
You a tree?
Teh tree's next door. I picked 'em, then, I cracked them open and picked them over and then I saved them so I could use them in these particular cookies.
Well, I LIKE monkish & superstition, but I made it clear that I was quoting Jefferson! I also mentioned the current "King George"
We have our fireworks BEFORE sunset (we gotta be in church by 4:0 AM) - a guest snuck in some stuff from Ohio that shot exploding stuff into the sky (illegal in Michigan)
"Smoke Signals" is a great movie! Not all great movies make you happy!
ronjazz - I very much liked "Into Great Silence" -- ditto the book, "An Infinity of Little Hours" -- about the English Carthusian monastery just before Vatican II - there are parts of that book that only a monk would full appreciate! (viz. how other people's pronunciation of Latin could become the most important thing in the world!)
You a tree?
Teh tree's next door. I picked 'em, then, I cracked them open and picked them over and then I saved them so I could use them in these particular cookies.
Ah. That explains it.
I'm having a hard time believing that whole A Rod - Mad Donna story.
He's got a hot wife and Mad Donna looks like she's been rode hard a put away wet.
Body of Evidence?
Besides the whole story got it's start in the NY Post.
Unsuitable as bird cage lining.
I love Odetta's voice. Like vodka with something smooth.
WooHoo! I've written "one of the most disrespectful" about the passing of the racist, homophobic pusball!
I'm so proud! *sniff!*
I very much liked "Into Great Silence" -- ditto the book, "An Infinity of Little Hours" -- about the English Carthusian monastery just before Vatican II - there are parts of that book that only a monk would full appreciate! (viz. how other people's pronunciation of Latin could become the most important thing in the world!)
Prior Aelred | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 9:02 pm | #
I have watched about half of it earlier today. It's very thought-provoking, and visually stunning. My wife theorized that their carbon footprint is microscopic.
Oops!
Hi, Molly.
I'm so proud! *sniff!*
You go girl!
I love Odetta's voice. Like vodka with something smooth.
Echidne
The woman is a national treasure. I think I've said it before, but I have never seen another with such a presence. She commands the audience's full attention when on stage, entirely from her grace and dignity.
(((SteveLG!!!)))
What are we drinking?
I'm so proud! *sniff!*
M'self, I think you went easy on him....
"Smoke Signals" is a great movie! Not all great movies make you happy!
I think Saving Private Ryan is the best movie I'll never watch again. I have a hard time with lots of them, like Little Big Man and To Kill a Mockingbird, too...
Oh, and I'll never watch Wanted again, but that's because it was the worst movie I have set through recently. A literal train wreck....
Re: Marilyn Monroe -- some years ago there was a brain scan study of monks from different traditions -- Japanese Zen monks had a big surge when someone mentioned Marilyn Monroe -- a busty blond is not supposed to be the sort of woman that Japanese men find attractive, but apparently the monks thought otherwise! (There is another description of men who don't like busty blond women -- GAY! -- not that there's anything wrong with that ...)
Err. That's one of the most disrespectful *posts*, obviously.
The woman is a national treasure. I think I've said it before, but I have never seen another with such a presence. She commands the audience's full attention when on stage, entirely from her grace and dignity.
I had tickets last time she was here and got a migraine attack from hell (hi, Jesse!) so couldn't go. Now nothing will keep me away if she ever comes back.
Russians suspect Welsh arsonist stripper could be British spy. But surely it's the other way round: why would any Briton pretend to be Welsh?
Have to head in soon, but the sky is glorious here--stripes of magenta and plum on a soft blue, fading to dark.
Damn, I love having a westward view over the valley.
You know, I considered making a Roy Cohn joke in that post and decided not to, but I'm glad TBogg did.
What are we drinking?
Molly Ivors
Lagunitas New Dog Town Pale Ale.
I like it... tastes a lot like their Maximus but doesn't kick your ass quite so quickly. That seems like a good idea tonight... other nights not so much.
How are you doing? Book and such?
(There is another description of men who don't like busty blond women -- GAY! -- not that there's anything wrong with that ...)
Prior Aelred | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 9:07 pm | #
Teh gay must go more for attytood,
the Divine Miss M and Kathy what's er name.
There's still going to be a lot of hurt feelings around here aren't there? I'm not saying there isn't good reason, there most certainly is, it's just....all the anger makes my stomach hurt and when I hope people will calm down they mistakenly think I'm disagreeing with them. I'm disappointed too, I thought for once we actually had a fighter who wasn't going to be "handled" into mush. The powers that be are not our friends and we won't overcome them like this. So we'll stop the bleeding of this maladministration and then we'll have to suck it up and deal with the continuing fecklessness of the next. Now I know I'm too old and I won't live to see the restoration of the Republic, it's going to be more years than I have left. So be it. I just won't let myself get my hopes up too much anymore. I'm not going to be "mad" at Obama, I'm just not going to be cheering for him anymore. Cynicism is my permanent mode now.
We just had a stranger come to the front door asking for $ 10 for medication.
I feel really, really shitty for spending $ 300 today on jewelry and art. I don't have any cash left to give her.
SteveLG, I have huge sections done, but it's a hard topic: the author is brilliant, but she has a gift for burning bridges, and I have to find a way to talk about that without actually, you know, saying it.
I believe I saw "Little Big Man" about 20 times (the broadcast it over the TV aboard the USS Newport News" almost continuously - God knows why since it undermined everything we were doing!)
"Shoot the Indian ponies!"
a busty blond is not supposed to be the sort of woman that Japanese men find attractive
Northeast Asians, who are generally without much milk in their diets, have a hard time growing certain parts. This was so normal for so long that the former standard of beauty involved a flat chest. This would be smoothed if need be with wraps; one of many excellent scenes in Orwell's Burmese Days has a British financee humiliated by Malay women admiring her [what the Germans call "mosquito bites"] and asking how she keeps them so small. However, it is erroneous to think that the process of persuasion took very long, even if the Japanese continued to claim they didn't like this sort of thing, especially in mixed baths.
Hummers and sparrows are fighting over the hummingbird feeder and off to the east the Superstitions are in full sun with a big dark storm behind them to the east. Makes for a dramatic setting. I'm hoping for a great sunset in another hour or so...
Okay, dolls. I'm out.
**mwah!!**
I feel really, really shitty for spending $ 300 today on jewelry and art
Jewelers and artists need to eat and get their meds too. So much need out there, though.
Vicki be careful.
'bye, Molly.
My apricot/peach/blueberry tarts just came out of the oven and cooled enough that I have eaten one for dinner.
Wow, they're good.
Okay, dolls. I'm out.
**mwah!!**
Molly Ivors
I thought she was going in?
[confused]
we aren't hearing much good about Wanted, which is not necessarily a surprise, but the real news is that Hancock apparently sucks and sources agree it sucks because of studio interference. They want to do a "drunk Superman," but they were hamstringed by a studio eager to bag family cash, and wind up with pudding. The same reviewers who pee on Hancock however also agree that Will Smith never phones it in.
Jimmy Smits is so hot. But get the fuck RID of that pencil thin moustache.
Ooh. I can hear the fireworks from The Mall.
We just had a stranger come to the front door asking for $ 10 for medication.
I'm sorry?
Will Smith is a secret Scientologist. Hard to give him any money now.
honeybearkelly,
I know.
Feh.
It's the 4th. People try all kinds of weird things.
Police respond to call from man reporting "bright stationary object" in the sky. M-O-O-N spells "Dumbass"
I believe I saw "Little Big Man" about 20 times (the broadcast it over the TV aboard the USS Newport News" almost continuously - God knows why since it undermined everything we were doing!)
"Shoot the Indian ponies!"
I can't hear "Garry Owens" without seeing the attack on the village.
Oddly, I just saw an old "Time Tunnel" show that covered the Little Bighorn. I couldn't believe how badly they did with 1) trying to make white guys into Sioux and 2) replicating Montana (they even had saguaros in one scene!)
"Little Big Man"
My all time favorite movie
I believe I saw "Little Big Man" about 20 times (the broadcast it over the TV aboard the USS Newport News" almost continuously - God knows why since it undermined everything we were doing!)
"Shoot the Indian ponies!"
Prior Aelred
Great novel by Thomas Berger, a vastly underrated American author. Amazing script by John Milius (surprisingly) and others. One of Berger's other novels made it to Hollywood. For a fizzy firecracker beverage can anyone tell me what it was?
My neighborhood smells like the desert in the rain.
It's monsoon season.
We just had a stranger come to the front door asking for $ 10 for medication.
Sounds like a con to me. It is Traveller season, after all. But then, I'm a cynical SOB.
I'm sorry?
The fact that the fireworks are a half a mile from my house and that god and everyone cruises by tonight...I'm skeptical, but I do feel guilty. I'm a fucking emotional ATM machine. I'd give and give and give if I could, until the money was gone.
Guilt is unproductive. Talking myself out of it.
"Little Big Man"
My heart soars like the eagle.
We just had a stranger come to the front door asking for $ 10 for medication.
They meant self-medication.
Will Smith is a secret Scientologist.
He's not a Scientologist! It's just that he's close friends with Scientologic John the Baptist Tom Cruise and references Scientological concepts in his interviews and his creepy private school openly plagiarized their curricula from Lafayette Hubbard. But other than that he's just like any other well any other guy who is also a movie star.
My all time favorite movie
Gromit
I think mine is still "McCabe and Mrs Miller."
Ooh. I can hear the fireworks from the next town over.
SteveLG
Fireworked your town.
One of Berger's other novels made it to Hollywood. For a fizzy firecracker beverage can anyone tell me what it was?
Legally Blonde?
It's monsoon season.
Tis, but it hasn't come down to the Valley yet. Raining from east of Florence all the way up to Payson or so on the radar.
Jimmy Smits has the Clark Gable look going on PBS (music and fireworks from DC)
"Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't".
Little Big Man
I can't believe the neighbors are shooting off firecrackers. I hasn't rained for the last 10-12 days here. The woods are ripe for a fire.
I am lucky, but Puck is unlucky. I can see the fireworks from my front yard. Puck goes insane.
Doggie xanax ideas, anyone?
It isn't dark here, yet. We are on the very western edge of the Eastern zone, so the poppers don't start until at least 10:00 here. Probably ten fifteen.
Fireworked your town.
ina, virtually serious
Well, DC is the next town over.
How are you this evening?
Nothing monsoonish showing up here in NW AZ yet at all. A few clouds, nothing to write home about.
Loved Chief Dan George in LBM
Re: Berger.
Actually, there were two, besides Little Big Man.
Feud, and Neighbors
Legally Blonde?
leibniz
Very funny. It did have two very famous comedic actors in it, however.
*fireworks going off in distance*
They're setting off fireworks o'er the ramparts and shit.
My Fellow Americans?
Dude never played a piano before in his life,
hits head on bottom of pool and suddenly becomes a master pianist.
Submitter tempted to hit head to see if he becomes fluent in Spanish
THERE'S SO MANY FISH IN THE SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEA~!
Feud, and Neighbors
montag
I did not know that.
You learn something new...
I've never seen Feud.
I have silent fireworks on my homepage.
Gomez, I spent the Bonnie and Clyde bankroll on art and jewelry today.
I think Blazing Saddles still is my favorite, but I also enjoyed Cat Ballou in the Western genre. Same Time, Next Year, mostly because I loved watching the "Wanna fuck?" scene (I still tear up over Michael...). The Incredibles.
As you can see, I'm deep into drama...
Bush's last Fourth of July az preznit... I ought to at least go light a sparkler or something.
I have never worked up the nerve to watch Night Of The Hunter again.
That movie creeped me out in ways that just stood with me.
Vicki, my 75-pound dog wants up in my lap right now. She hates the sound of firecrackers.
"Hire the muleskinner!"
"You are no Cheyenne brave."
"Your miserable life is not worth the reversal of a Custer decision."
"You go down there, General. But those are helpless women and children but Cheyenne braves and Sioux. You go down there. There won't be nothing' left of you but a greasy spot."
"You want me to believe that you don't want me to go down there, but the subtle truth is that you really don't want me to go down there. Satisfied now, Major?"
"I told them this would happen, but he just sat there in the White House and laughed at me, the damn drunkard!"
atablarasa, those are my faves as well.
The Feud:
http://www.film.com/movies/the-f...e-feud/
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Jimmy Smits is gonna rock on Dexter.
Or perhaps we should say he will rip.
Vibraphone instead of piccolo solo.
{scoff]
How in the world can you refresh and have no comments? That defies every rule of browsership.
How are you this evening?
SteveLG | 07.04.08 - 9:22 pm |
I'm doing well, thanks. The next town over usually does their fireworks the Saturday before the 4th, but they canceled them last Saturday (and the rain date, Sunday) 'cause it looked like rain. It didn't rain.
It looks like enough people complained that they decided not to cancel them entirely, but do them tonight. The girls are still awake, chatting in their room. Just as I was about to type, "I guess we could've gone," the 7yo just said from the other room, "Oh, I wish we were there for those fireworks."
How are you?
catalexis, what part of the NW? Kingman-ish?
"It is good to se you again, my son. My heart soars like a hawk. You want to eat? I won't eat with you because I am going to die soon."
"Die, grandfather? Why would you want to die?"
"Because there is no other way to deal with the white man, my son. Their world has no center to it. Whatever else you may say, you cannot get rid of them."
Your flat screen TV contains a gas that is 17000 times more potent than CO2 and hangs around for 550 years.
That film is full of great lines.
Yes, Kingman.
I can see the fireworks from Coney Island out of my window but they haven't started yet.
I remember Kody during her first 4th of July. Someone set off a large firecracker, and right after it exploded, she ran over to the spot it had exploded on. That dog was fear deficient. She also tried to pick fights with bears and moose which is never a good idea for a dog, though she was always able to scramble off before anything bad happened. Speeder the other dog once almost got kicked to death by a moose, till I started yelling and tossing rocks at it.
I thought for a moment I was going to have to clamber up a tree.
Boston can't even build a sidewalk without three government agencies suing and fining each other
How are you?
ina, virtually serious
I'm running on fumes and ready to go to bed. Tomorrow is my day off, rather than today. I plan to enjoy it.
Take care.
Vicki, my 75-pound dog wants up in my lap right now. She hates the sound of firecrackers.
mer
Same with my male Dalmatian. He no likee. The female is ear-perked, but nothing more.
Cspan has a roundtable discussion on the legacy of Thurgood Marshall. Guests include Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier,
Night of the Hunter gets better and better - amazing Lilian Gish! Astounding, that.
Doggie Xanax? Doggies can all tolerate a small quantity of beer - the hops are quite soothing. That'll help. -Small- quantity - the alcohol is the sedative, and u mustn't go overboard.
Lalo Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist and composer.
One of Schifrin's most recognizable and enduring compositions is the theme music for the long-running TV series Mission: Impossible. It is a famously distinctive tune written in an unusual 5/4 time signature.
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To follow what seems a non-sequitur, Schifrin also did the music for the Robert Loggia TV series T.H.E. Cat.
It has never been released on vinyl or anything else that I can determine. If you know differently, I'd like to hear about it.|
"I met a great man, grandfather. His name is General Custer."
"What does the name mean, my son?"
"It means, Long Hair."
"Good name! How did he win it?"
"He won it in the war to free the black men."
"Ah, the black white men. It is said that a black white man once became a 'Human Being', but mostly there are just like the white men and just as crazy."
Re: "Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't." -- I once preached on that.
Cspan2 has a talk by black intellectual Shelby Steele.
My neighbors have real fireworks they're putting off over the lake. They must get them at South of the Border in South Carolina.
We are very close to downtown, so it's always stressful on my fourlegged buddies.
Thank you, as always, for your wisdom, GWPDA.
As much as I'd like to stay up for the TV Guide troll I think I'm going to crash.
Cspan2 has a talk by black intellectual Shelby Steele.
Using the term, "intellectual," in one of its looser senses, of course....
I can see the fireworks from Coney Island out of my window but they haven't started yet.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
can I come over?
Larry King exposing the UFO coverup right now.
Sweet dreams, SteveLG, enjoy tomorrow.
Ina you're welcome anytime.
And let us give a moment's silent thought to those who are going to stupidly maim or kill themselves this night.
"The female is ear-perked, but nothing more."
--MP
The 115-pounder could care less.
Houndin, the frightened one, is afraid of thunder and any loud noises.
Apparently there are strange lights in the sky tonight.
Happy Birthday, old gal.
Henrietta was very scared of thunder but never fireworks. Somehow she could tell the difference. Hank didn't care about anything at all. The only thing she was afraid of was her own shadow when she was a puppy. It was very funny.
"I have a new wife. She's a Comanche. You know, they like to copulate with horses. She's says she doesn't. That's why i cal her, 'Doesn't Like Horses.' Of course she's lying."
I plan on doing some grocery shopping at Walmart after the fireworks.
Yes, Kingman.
Still on my "places to go" list - I've passed through wandering toward Hoover Dam, but not slowed down to explore.
Do you know how the bridge over the Colorado is coming? Last time I was up there, the south tower crane had collapsed, but that was a couple years back, IIRC...
NYC fireworks on NBC are much more artistic than those from DC on PBS.
Prior, I'm impressed!
Taylor Hicks.
America's idea of an Idol.
Derbes - comment reveals/suggests that:
"A version was recorded by Al Hirt for his "The Horn Meets The Hornet"
album. Sadly, I don't think this album was released as a CD, but the
vinyl comes up from time to time on eBay."
We're tempted to warn Larry not to touch the subject lest he come down with a case of mergelleons, but the fact of the matter is Larry has prolly had them and gotten past them with prunes and vitamins.
The woman is a national treasure. I think I've said it before, but I have never seen another with such a presence.
Had a backstage pass at the Edmonton Folk Festival in 1980. Rode on the same bus from the hotel to the venue in the seat opposite Odetta. Thought seriously about offering to carry her guitar for her, but didn't. She sang Rock A Bye Baby and by the time she finished the song the mist had turned into a sprinkle and the sprinkle into a pouring rain. Concert didn't resume for nearly an hour. Nobody doubted it was her doing.
It was long a standard story that people moved to Kingman when their vehicles died here on the way to somewhere else. The reason for the town had been, first a railroad camp and later as the county seat and home to many Duval copper miners.
Currently the only thing of interest here is the trial of Warren Jeffs. He spends his days as I would like to see Bush and Cheney do, on 24/7 suicide watch in the county jail.
Talk of fireworks reminds me of a story George Plimpton wrote in The Paris Review ages ago about his and Norman Mailer's attempt to build the biggest mortar ever. They apparently tried to strap about sixty of the large commercial mortars together (the kind normally available only to large municipalities), dragged the contraption out to the beach on Long Island, lit the fuse and ran.
But, their engineering went a bit awry, and they instead blew a gigantic crater in the sand.
Lovely choreography betw fireworks and music.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian,
I'll bet you already have seen this site, but here's a link anyway...
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Vicki! who never wrirtes to me & is supposed to come down for a visit before she moves away to get married! We should have planned things better for that ordination - afterward we all went to Founder's & drank until 2:00 AM - the next day was not good! -- Br Cuthbert & I were in habit - one pretty young girl who had visited the monastery came over quite surprised to see us there -- lots of people came over to talk about religion (& celibacy)
Thanks to Gomez for the pointer to Larry King.
The Roswell story is certainly interesting, but there are far more compelling incidents. The Trent photos of McMinnville, OR have never been satisfactorily explained, and William K. Hartmann, a noted astronomer, tried his damnedest for Edward U. Condon in 1968.
Nanci Griffith has quite the chapter on Odetta in her "Other Voices" book.
Jimmy Smits' pencil thin moustache reminds me of Jimmy Buffett's song.
Oy yoy yoy.
I have an ouchy.
Ouch.
Obviously not impressed by my typing skills - but I did see "Little Big Man" a lot -- the things I misquote are probably improvements!
Prior! I could have met you that night. I thought you were leaving!
Founders...oy, ale. Lots of ale.
You sly McTavish, you.
Hecate nails it:
It is my fucking body.
Hecate has a position on abortion rights that is way beyond Roe v. Wade and explicitly rejected by nearly every elected official in the nation, and the medical bodies, and almost certainly most voters.
The bridge...I really don't know. The last I heard anything about that area there were two nasty semi-truck crashes that closed the Bullhead Laughlin bridge for hours. I had forgotten about the crane collapse. There sure as hell has been a lot of those lately haven't there?
GWPDA, Thanks.
By a weird coincidence my grammar school, Ecole Classique, was administered by Al Hirt's brother.
I'll have a look at GEMM. (http://www.gemm.com, the best second hand spot for music I know of via the intertubes.)
Hecate has a position on abortion rights that is way beyond Roe v. Wade and explicitly rejected by nearly every elected official in the nation, and the medical bodies, and almost certainly most voters.
On the flip side, she is correct.
Hecate has a position on abortion rights that is way beyond Roe v. Wade and explicitly rejected by nearly every elected official in the nation, and the medical bodies, and almost certainly most voters.
Nonetheless, her position stands well with me and with many other women. We are entitled to our beliefs, and we hold them firmly and proudly. Keep your fucking laws off my bodily functions.
Thanks.
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07.04.08 - 9:40 pm
Could be timing rather than engineering. Explosive timing is a bastitch. Among the problematic superweapons of the Civil War was a brace of cannons that shot one half of a specialized round which was just two normal cannonballs connected by a chain. One would always fire sooner than its mate and the early missile would swing right around to smash into the later cannon. Never mind that they already had chain shot, with the two halves put in the same cannon and physics spreading out the chain.
Hecate's position on abortion is just about identical to mine and to nearly every other woman I know, have known, have heard of or have had any connexion with, either personally, thru co-respondence or thru reading.
My body is mine. What I do with it is my business. I do not give permission to anybody to control it, either in my own 'best interest' or for any other reason.
I had forgotten about the crane collapse.
I tell my wife when we see one of those things way up in the air, that if that were the only way for me to make us a living, we would would lose the house and starve.
Ina you're welcome anytime.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
Thank you. I have been missing New York lately.
And, Derbes? There are two copies available on EBay right now - those are the URLs to them.
But -- Hecate -- you must be punished for having sex because that is bad! (RIGHT?)
One of my recent Facebook friends is a Republican atheist. I asked if that were allowed. She was surprised. I assume she is from a wealthy family that just doesn't want to pay any taxes.
It was long a standard story that people moved to Kingman when their vehicles died here on the way to somewhere else. The reason for the town had been, first a railroad camp and later as the county seat and home to many Duval copper miners.
What about "Historic Route 66 Museum, Army Airfield Museum, and the Mohave Museum of History and Arts that recount the travels on Route 66, depict the World War II era and the early days of railroading, mining and ranching.?"
And I do want to go to the Skybridge one of these days, too...
And yeah, a ton of those collapses in the last little while. Probably that good "drown government in a bathtub" inspection attitude.
Hecate has a position on abortion rights that is way beyond Roe v. Wade and explicitly rejected by nearly every elected official in the nation, and the medical bodies, and almost certainly most voters.
rootless-e
That pretty much describes my position on every "right" you can think of.
On the flip side, she is correct.
Thers | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 9:45 pm | #
Really? You think that a woman has the right to terminate an 8 month healthy fetus? 9 months?
Well, that's a point of view, but if it's going to make you mad when politicians don't sign up for it, you got a lot a mad years ahead of you.
JAPAN, DECADENT ANGLO-AMERICAN HAIRBALLS!
The innertoobs giveth and the innertubes taketh away.
I enter "12345 webcam" where the numbers represent the name of the town where I grew up. 1,740,000 hits and the webcam on the main street is the first hit. Looks pretty much the same as when I left nearly 40 years ago so it should not surprise me that the webcam was last updated May 26.
Now lets see how long it takes for someone to get the name. Five letters, common english word, two vowels.
OK, my dumbass next door neighbor is shooting off Roman candles horizontally. He's probably sauced.
Really? You think that a woman has the right to terminate an 8 month healthy fetus? 9 months?
Have you ever been there? From which soapbox do you preach?
It's not your fucking business.
My body is mine. What I do with it is my business. I do not give permission to anybody to control it, either in my own 'best interest' or for any other reason.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
I feel the same way, and I'm male.
Your body belongs to you alone, and it's your business what you do with it.
Which is why I'm opposed to the draft.
Vicki -- we hadn't planned to stay afterward & drink but the newly ordained deacon & his wife invited us & Br Cuthbert (who was driving) was OK with it -- I like Founders very much! (what's not to like?)
rootless, that is without a doubt an extremely narrow minded parochial lot of hogwash. Where ever would you get the idea that a woman should put her reproductive autonomy in the hands of fucking voters?
Hecate has a position on civil rights that is way beyond PLessy vs. Ferguson and explicitly rejected by nearly every elected official in the nation, and the medical/eugenics bodies, and almost certainly most voters.
THEREFORE SHE IS WRONG. -Average thinker in circa 1920.
This would be a perfect time for Al Qaeda to attack.
Everyone would think it was fireworks.
NYC fireworks on NBC are much more artistic than those from DC on PBS.
I remember when I lived in the city, sitting out on one of those west side docks and being able to see fireworks from Central Park, downtown, and New Jersey, all at once.
WE had Roman candles this evening & held them in our hands in spite of the warning labels -- lots more fun that way!
Have you ever been there? From which soapbox do you preach?
It's not your fucking business.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 07.04.08 - 9:50 pm | #
If that's a bedrock principle for you, then there was not one single acceptable candidate in the entire democratic nominating process.
OK, my dumbass next door neighbor is shooting off Roman candles horizontally. He's probably sauced.
MP
Your direction? Or into empty and non-flammable space?
Hecate speaks for me.
If women had full reproductive freedom and control, there would be precious few late term abortions. And fewer abortions overall, I daresay.
Let's examine Hecate's opinions while she's not here, shall we?
/rolls eyes
I should probably just shut up and sing. I happen to agree with Hecate on almost everything.
Hecate has a position on abortion rights that is way beyond Roe v. Wade and explicitly rejected by nearly every elected official in the nation, and the medical bodies, and almost certainly most voters.
rootless-e
It's also the only one that cuts to the heart of the matter: who decides, the individual or the State?
When you concede in the slightest degree the right of the State to have any say in the matter you never know how that's going to work or how it's going to change. What one state can forbid another can make mandatory, as say in the case of abortion, China.
Of course you are quite correct on the political aspects of the matter. Flawed as Roe v Wade may be from any perspective, I'd still rather have somebody committed to saving it than someone who wants to destroy it.
Really? You think that a woman has the right to terminate an 8 month healthy fetus? 9 months?
Um, yes.
Under Roe v. Wade it is allowed but restricted.
Auntie, there are two at GEMM, one for $15 and one for $10.
I'm gonna pass, thanks. I like Al Hirt, but I'm holding out for Lalo Schifrin.
In fact, thanks to you, I have a bunch of DVD's of the old series (the quality is not optimal, but you can watch, and the sound is excellent.) You pointed to some random eBay person a few months back, and I bit.
If that's a bedrock principle for you, then there was not one single acceptable candidate in the entire democratic nominating process.
Tammy Baldwin.
Sheri Tepper's Fresco has an interesting subplot on anti-abortion politicians. These planetary gigantic insects steal them to make them bear their babies. It's nothing much for pro-life politicians to worry about as they won't die and the pain will pass.
Really? You think that a woman has the right to terminate an 8 month healthy fetus? 9 months?
Might want to keep that straw man inside tonight, what with the fireworks and all.
Your direction? Or into empty and non-flammable space?
____league
Not in our direction. His baseline posture is moron, so if he were to set the woods on fire, it wouldn't surprise me a bit.
Was Jessie Helms in one of those amphibious vehicles that landed at Normandy Beach?
This would be a perfect time for Al Qaeda to attack.
Everyone would think it was fireworks.
If they were on the march, they would be shooting roman candles sideways.
If that's a bedrock principle for you, then there was not one single acceptable candidate in the entire democratic nominating process.
(Al Gore) duh.
Sometimes you just want to look up something you don't know about.
It's natural.
Oh, well, yes. Embarrassingly, I admit, the museums are definitely worth a stop in. Sort of like the New Yorker who just never got around to visiting the Statue of Liberty, I am afraid I must admit that those just slipped my mind.
And while I'm at it let me recommend a drive up into the nearby Hualapai Mountain Park.
rootless-e as I said earlier today late term abortions are so rare that the only reason that people bring them up is to cloud the subject of abortion.
In other words it's that bullshit.
All right, all right, I'm enjoying!
Whenever a guy came on the tv protesting abortion, my dad would say, "that sonofabitch ought to go home and mind his own goddamn business"...
Personally, I think there is more support for that position than polling would indicate, I suspect the questions are pretty loaded.
Not in our direction. His baseline posture is moron, so if he were to set the woods on fire, it wouldn't surprise me a bit.
MP
A 911 call might be in order before he does just that.
The only fairly late-term abortion I know about in real life is a case where the fetus was developing inside out and was not viable at all and the woman's blood pressure was out of control.
If that's a bedrock principle for you, then there was not one single acceptable candidate in the entire democratic nominating process.
Mr. Smith went to Washington a long time ago. Since then, it's always a matter of compromise. And I don't want anybody telling me or my Ms. what to do with our bodies. I want to be able to leave this world when I choose, for instance.
THEREFORE SHE IS WRONG. -Average thinker in circa 1920.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ | 07.04.08 - 9:51 pm | #
I don't say that. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing. I'm simply pointing out that if you think that pregnant women should have the right to terminate 8 or 9 month healthy fetus's, then you are way way outside the consensus view and nobody who has a chance of being elected to any national office will come close to your position.
Really? You think that a woman has the right to terminate an 8 month healthy fetus? 9 months?
In RL, that doesn't happen. Late term abortions are generally reserved for fetuses that have died in utero or are suffering from a congenital defect that will be lethal.
Really? You think that a woman has the right to terminate an 8 month hea lthy fetus? 9 months?
Yes.
I'll give you but one example. I knew a woman, a Catholic, who conceived at rape. She gave birth. She didn't deal with it appropriately. Hated the kid and abused her. Hated the rapist more. Both kid and mother are profoundly fucked up.
Maybe that's their karmic choice, but Jesus Christ. All that hate, and too little time.
And this is a true story.
Re: abortion, yes -- the bottom line is who decides -- the interested party or the (BIG, EVIL) federal government?
The Republicans, who pretend to hate big government, are all for it when they control other people's lives!
Was Jessie Helms in one of those amphibious vehicles that landed at Normandy Beach?
Miss H., Great Expectorator
I read that as "Was Jesse Helms one of those amphibious vehicles..."
He was, actually. They called him Brontosaurus, and his driver's shouts of Hi-yo, dinahsowah! frightened the wits out of the Germans.
I was going to say Al Gore, actually, Gomez. But I figured it was too obvious.
The only fairly late-term abortion I know about in real life is a case where the fetus was developing inside out and was not viable at all and the woman's blood pressure was out of control.
Echidne
One I know of is not one at all: the baby died in utero and they induced labor and she delivered it.
Another I know of, a woman went in for an abortion, the baby was alive, the doctor panicked and killed it, the woman sued. I never heard how that turned out.
rootless-e as I said earlier today late term abortions are so rare that the only reason that people bring them up is to cloud the subject of abortion.
The example of terminating an 8 month healthy fetus because of a divorce came from Hecate. I've never heard anyone say that before, except from wingers.
My guess is that the vast majority of women who choose an abortion make that decision very very soon after learning they are pregnant.
So these late abortions are not likely to arise from the mother's choice, but from medical necessity.
In any case, I think it's her call.
catalexis, I'm working on an AZ web site based on the premise that as a newcomer I'm seeing things around the state that people who've been around awhile have either not seen or not seen recently....
ok, power is back up. This is frickin'intolerable- blackouts everyday for hours on end, constant incoherent evacuation warnings/advisories, and air so thick that that if I through my respiration mask in the air it would probably stay up there – we are Santa Barbararians we’re goddamn rich we shouldn’t have these issues. we are better than this – we are not New York
WE had Roman candles this evening & held them in our hands in spite of the warning labels -- lots more fun that way!
Prior Aelred
i never play with fireworks anymore.
when my daughter was about 5 i shot off a bottle rocket. i safely put in the bottle, it shot off across the pond flying low, not the expected trajectory, went about 200 feet and did an abrupt 180 and came right back at us. i grabbed and covered her. good thing as it slammed right into my back.
my father was right about at least 2 things. only sparklers, and a gun is always loaded.
Exactly Maestro Derbes.
One I know of is not one at all: the baby died in utero and they induced labor and she delivered it.
That happened to me at 5 months. Although the uterus opted not to expel itself, so I had to have a D&E.
And you would be right, I've lived in Kingman off and on for over forty years and I think it's been more than fifteen years since I went to the museum.
TTFN!
That Bill Nye the science guy trying to debunk the Roswell witnesses to aliens comes off as a bit of a prick.
I never watched his tv show.
So these late abortions are not likely to arise from the mother's choice, but from medical necessity.
We have a winner.
Shelby is an intellectual . . .obama isn't (obama is an evangelical); no offense, just fact
Shelby is a self hating dickhead.
Obama has considerably more intellect than the current occupant by orders of magnitude.
I love "Oh Shennandoah." Damn, I love that song.
My music background required me to learn a lot of folk songs. I'm glad for it.
Guess who's still dead, trolls?
That happened to me at 5 months. Although the uterus opted not to expel itself, so I had to have a D&E.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
I'm so sorry, Vicki.
Yes.
Getting hotter.
Every other time I refresh on this blog it says 0 comments, and the next time it says 415 comments.
That's oddddd.
I love "Oh Shennandoah." Damn, I love that song.
My music background required me to learn a lot of folk songs. I'm glad for it.
Keith Jarrett's solo version is as exquisite as music gets.
Getting Mohammed to London to receive his prize was a major diplomatic
operation. Israel has perfidious control over Gaza's borders, and only
with a Dutch embassy escort was he allowed out. Last Thursday, on his
return journey, he was met at the Allenby Bridge crossing (to Jordan)
by a Dutch official, who waited outside the Israeli building, unaware
Mohammed had been seized by Shin Bet, Israel's infamous security
organisation. Mohammed was told to turn off his mobile and remove the
battery. He asked if he could call his embassy escort and was told
forcefully he could not. A man stood over his luggage, picking through
his documents. "Where's the money?" he demanded. Mohammed produced some
US dollars. "Where is the English pound you have?"
I love "Oh Shennandoah." Damn, I love that song.Springsteen does a nice cover of that on his Pete Seeger tribute album
I'm not gonna get bogged down in one of THOSE back and forths tonight. I'm out for a bit. Need to check some other places in the virtual universe.
Ol' Strom's getting Jesse's seat next the boiler ready.
That Bill Nye the science guy trying to debunk the Roswell witnesses to aliens comes off as a bit of a prick.
I never watched his tv show.
helena handbasket
Oh no! I haven't seen him in years, but I used to think he was quite cute on his show!
Shelby is an intellectual . . .obama isn't (obama is an evangelical); no offense, just fact
SOOTHSAYER
The President of the Harvard Law Review isn't an intellectual?
Do tell.
Gromit, i love the way Jarrett performed that piece.
I'm so excited--we'll have Mlle and Baby Sunday!
So these late abortions are not likely to arise from the mother's choice, but from medical necessity.
Well, it's probably hopeless, but just in case. I'm not making an argument about abortion rights, but about politics. Hecate is very angry at Obama on abortion rights. But she advocates a position that neither Obama nor anyone else seriously running for national office in the US has advocated.
re-HICA!
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hey, my comment on the abortion issue is gone?
and my homepage has been canceled.
haloscan censors!
My mother lost a fetus at 8 months. Her only daughter was strangled by the umbilical cord. She had to carry it to term thanks to this kind of nonsense. She carried a dead child for 4 weeks so the piously wicked could celebrate.
Everyone (in the east, anyway) fireworked out?
We could see the downtown show AND the neighbors' shows from here. Quite an evening.
I wonder who gets to be first to shove the pitchfork up Jesse Helms' ass?
The abortion debate is a trap. Once you start analyzing under what conditions abortion is or is not acceptable, you lose to the anti-abortionists.
Abortion is a medical procedure. Medical procedures should not be legislated based on emotion. The only one who should have any say at any time should be the woman.
Really, shouldn't McConnell's tongue catch fire and fall off for this? And AP's description of the AIDS bill is too much, too.
"Senator Helms certainly was no bigot," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday. "He was a man however not into subtlety. You know what he thought about a particular issue. You certainly knew because he was not into the kind of nuance and subtlety that so often divides American politicians."
...In the debate over reauthorizing a domestic AIDS program, Helms tried but failed to prohibit any money from being used to promote homosexuality.
comment
Would the White House be Able to
Eavesdrop on Obama Under the
FISA Bill Barack Supports? You Bet.
buzzflash.com
Excerpt:
The Obama Campaign may be assuming that such electronic manipulation of votes will not happen,
but this may be wishful thinking given what we now know about how far this administration will go
to get what it wants—and what it clearly wants is to see John McCain "win" the election.
It's strange - seeing Buzzflash 'attack' Obama after a year of worship.
I wonder who gets to be first to shove the pitchfork up Jesse Helms' ass?
Gomez
J. Edgar Hoover?
Well, as far as I'm concerned, the fireworks are celebrating the fact that the Bush crime syndicate has just 200 days left in power.
Sadly, their impact will be felt for far longer.
Ina, I love Bill Nye. He rulz.
Ina, it was 19 years ago or so. It was just one of those things that happen.
It was hard, but in the scheme of things, compared to my friends who lost their awesome 18 year old son this week.
My loss seems microscopic, you know? And Ina, you'd have loved this kid. He was a musician. Played the bass and the juce harp. And he was intelligent, funny, insightful, and inclusive of everyone (a great testament to his parents' love).
Many good times in my memories.
I wonder who gets to be first to shove the pitchfork up Jesse Helms' ass?
Gomez
who removed the one that was up there in the fifties?
Shelby is a self hating dickhead.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
i think this is really the best way to put it.
did everyone see sinfonians' blog, where he's a story about some republican black group that is putting up billboards around florida claiming MLK was a republican.
it's weirder than nixon on his knees crying before lincolns' portrait
I wonder who gets to be first to shove the pitchfork up Jesse Helms' ass?
Gomez
Based on comments earlier today, I'm betting on either Reagan or Russert.
I wonder who gets to be first to shove the pitchfork up Jesse Helms' ass?
Eldridge Cleaver....
Fireworks haven't quite started here yet. I expect in about 7 minutes.
Jesse and Strom can sit back and exchange diaper stories.
puppethead, you have expressed my sentiments. The only parties who should have anything to say regarding terminating a pregnancy should be a woman and her health care professional.
re: Larry King tonight, on Roswell, etc, with sundry authors and Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
Bill Nye is a bit smug, but he is being the rational guy here.
On the one hand, stories about bodies are to me highly suspect. When the original witness, Major Jesse Marcel of Louisiana, came forth, there was nothing, not a whisper, of bodies. Marcel never said anything about that. He talked about strange material. Marcel died about thirty years ago, but his son, Jesse Marcel Jr, a medical doctor, remembers being awakened to see some of it. The metallic material seemed to have some unusual properties. (Dr. Marcel was about ten years old in 1947.)
The original press release prepared on the orders of Major Walter Haut said that the remains of a flying disk had been recovered. Again, nothing about bodies.
I do not know what Marcel found. Probably it was terrestrial. But I do not believe that we have the entire story yet. Moreover, there are many photographs and radar evidence that have yet to be explained satisfactorily.
In my opinion, the only rational position to take is skepticism. It is absolutely correct that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but it is also true that we have a lot of something going on that we really don't understand. Not necessarily little green men. Might simply be experimental military aircraft, or aerial phenomena we don't yet know enough about, or both.
OK -- gotta be in church @ 4:0 am & 6:00am & teach a class @ 7:00 am -- outta here!
Hell gets a little more crowded.
Obamians are just dis-satisfied righties.
Thanks, charley.
Here's the story: National Black Republican Association is posting billboards throughout Florida stating that Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Republican.
And the family is pissed.
I don't believe the UFO stories.
If beings from another planet found us, they'd just kill us all and take our stuff.
FORP.
I liked the part in Coneheads where they were setting off fireworks at the high school and Papa Conehead's offering was a thermonuclear explosion.
They all thought he was cool after that.
Bugs is just a racist pig.
Fuck off, you piece of trash. Go infest some other blog.
Gomez?
Gomez?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Its me.
We need a new nominee. Obama is changing his position on everything that matters. Maybe we can choose a different nominee at the convention.
Hillary?
Sinfonian, Bugs is like a bad case of MRSA.
Bugs makes farts smell like diarrhea.
Fireworks haven't quite started here yet. I expect in about 7 minutes.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Ah, yes. Michigan summers.
I used to play golf till 9:30 pm some nights. Good times.
We need a new nominee
You're stuck with McCain. Happy 73rd birthday.
We can always draft Hillary at the Convention.
If Obama won't prosecute the phone companies for illegal wiretapping, he's definitely not going to impeach Bush for illegal wiretapping.
Why nominate a fake centrist when we can have the real thing?
I dunno, Gomez. If we found a completely nutty group of otherwise intelligent beings, we'd probably film 'em for prime time specials. It would be vastly entertaining.
Obama is changing his position on everything that matters
Then you should vote for him.
I'd rather shart on a first date than meet Bugs.
Bugs makes farts smell like diarrhea.
Vicki
------------
Vicki you too?
I dunno, Gomez. If we found a completely nutty group of otherwise intelligent beings, we'd probably film 'em for prime time specials. It would be vastly entertaining.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed
I'd want to see if they were tasty too.
Vicki, I am very sorry for your friends' loss. It is tragic. I'm glad you have good memories of their son and I'm glad they have as compassionate a friend as you.
Evening, all.
Just back from a nice pyrotechnic display.
Anything irksome going on I should be cognizant of?
They're starting. We're going to go out and watch for a hot second. GR usually does a good job with the big fireworks display.
I'd want to see if they were tasty too.
Gomez
Of course you're kidding. You don't eat monkeys or dolphins or whales.
I don't care if they taste like the best chocolate in the galaxy. Intelligence is pretty scarce, too scarce to be made into calories.
So, now you are starting to see the real Obama!! Talks big and then changes his mind. He is a weak kneed waffler and you all jumped on the Clinton's as if they were the enemy. What a plan on the part of Ted Kennedy,Bill Richardson and all the rest of the turncoats. They were not concerned with the best leader for our country, all they wanted was a puppet they could control.
Of course you're kidding
Yeah.
i just noticed the ad on the right.
how screwed are you?
one more time for for jesse.
Steve, we have Bugs. I consider that in the 'irksome' category.
I don't believe the UFO stories.
I saw something UFOish about a month ago -- in the sense that it appeared to be flying objects of some sort that I could not identify. I was on my patio here in the Valley and a jet airliner was flying south to north across the Valley. Trailing very close behind it, maybe a third of the length of the airliner, was a v-formation of some kind of shiny, gleaming silver round objects -- 5 of them -- each one seeming about one tenth the size of the jetliner. I watched for about thirty seconds and then dashed inside to get my binoculars, but by the time I got back outside, the jetliner and whatever it was behind were out of sight behind some trees. The five round objects could have been some kind of light or atmospheric phenomenon, but I've been watching jets fly over here for 15 years and have never seen it before.
Of course you're kidding. You don't eat monkeys or dolphins or whales.
I don't care if they taste like the best chocolate in the galaxy. Intelligence is pretty scarce, too scarce to be made into calories.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed.
I believe it was a reference to Martian Chronicles.
The idea of intelligent chocolate intrigues me, though.
Evening, all.
Just back from a nice pyrotechnic display.
YOU WERE OUT AT NIGHT IN NEW YORK?
YOU COULD HAVE BEEN MUGGED!!!!!
WSJ sez Maverick to be less Mavericky
Until recently, Sen. McCain began town halls with his standard stump speech that touched briefly on a variety of issues, from immigration to the economy.
Now, most town halls will begin with a scripted speech wound around a topic of the day. Sen. McCain is then supposed to weave that topic through his answers and come back to it at the end. He will still take questions on any topic from audience members. But the campaign said it recognizes that most questions cover familiar territory, so the candidate's answers aren't likely to make news that will upstage the message of the day.
Of course you're kidding. You don't eat monkeys or dolphins or whales.
you are of course kidding...
You haven't seen anything yet about this Obama guy. Where did he come from anyway? 3 years in the Senate, most of it campaigning for the presidency, that he isn't fit to be elected to.
Hillary 2008!
Republican platform: McCain rode in a plane about 108 years ago. The end.
Toons, toasty enough for you today?
I suspect any unidentified aircraft belong to some law enforcement agency AND I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF THEY WOULD QUIT FUCKING FLYING OVER MY NEIGHBORHOOD!
Thank you.
Feh. I was barefoot. I'd rather sit inside than brave the concrete.
Fourth of July always reminds me of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
Shower and bed for me.
Buenas noches.
Those who support a candidate no matter what or where he is on the issues on any given day are rightfully castigated as members of a personality cult and not a political movement.
Sallyh -- Plenty toasty for me, but really not too bad. Maybe about 100, but not any more.
BTW,
I saw Nim's kid today. He is soooooohhh cute.
I changed his little pooey diaper.
4th of July, to me, is a song by X.
Republican platform: McCain rode in a plane about 108 years ago. And Obama didn't.The end.
MP
Better.
The idea of intelligent chocolate intrigues me, though.
Makes me think of an '80's film called, "the Stuff"...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090...094/
plotsummary
Industrial spy and former FBI agent David 'Mo' Rutherford is hired by executives of the ice-cream industry to disclose the recipe of the phenomenally successful marshmallow- and yogurt-like desert called the Stuff. Somehow, its consumers become addicted in the product, and competitors want the formula. With the support of Nicole, the the designer of the Stuff's advertising campaign; and a boy named Jason, who refused to eat it after his family became consumed, Mo tries to prove that the Stuff is a malevolent, possibly sentient, natural substance that is trying to take over the minds of the population of Earth.
Evening, beautiful people.
Bugs
Hi Elias.
MARCELLINA!
Still coming to visit?
Fourth of July always reminds me of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
Always reminds me of Gettysburg.
Thanks, charley.
Here's the story: National Black Republican Association is posting billboards throughout Florida stating that Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Republican.
And the family is pissed.
Sinfonian, in St. Pete
At first look the billboard is quite shocking. But (thanks Sinf for the link) a look around the "NBRA" website is downright baffling, and in short order goes to ludicrous, and ends up just laughable.
First of all it looks like some AOL page constructed by noobs in about 1994. And the bulk of their "argument" seems to consist of the notion that since Lincoln was a Republican then ML King woulda shoulda coulda been one too. Which in the 1950s is indeed completely plausible.
Of course there is no notice taken of the implementation of Nixon's Southern Strategy and the complete and utter switch of (non-self-loathing-or-paid-off) blacks to the Democratic Party in the years since then. It just...never happened.
And of course they dig up every example they can find of "Democrat" blogs that have differences with Obama to any degree whatever, or which expressed views they can point to as Shocking And Horrid Racism. Fortunately that stuff is down towards the bottom under the Malkin and Goldberg columns. Sure hope they paid the current owner of The News Blog for the rights to run an image of theirs.
My ma loves out on a bayou on Spring Lake, and every year, my dad's friends would come over and do a 2 hour fireworks display. Awesome, too.
I guess they're there now.
I love how they look out for my mom.
Plus, they have the perfect spot for fireworks.
I wish I could have stayed there tonight.
For teh WT...
4th of July, to me, is a song by X.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Heeeyyyyy baaaaabbbyyy. ...
Isn't that a Dave Alvin song?
Van Morrison's Almost Independence Day isn't bad either. But I guess that's really July 3rd.
I love "Oh Shennandoah." Damn, I love that song
Theme song for a series by that name starring Wagon Train star,Robert Horton. Back when it was okay to have pretty cowboys.
Fourth of July always reminds me of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
It was probably the 24th of July before most people even knew what went down.
Still coming to visit?
Are you kidding? Natürlich!
hmm... ice cream or beer...
Intelligence is pretty scarce, too scarce to be made into calories.
Or cannon fodder.
What a plan on the part of Ted Kennedy,Bill Richardson and all the rest of the turncoats. They were not concerned with the best leader for our country, all they wanted was a puppet they could control.
Bugs | 07.04.08 - 10:26 pm | #
Seriously, that's like the most asinine thing anybody's ever posted here. Why don't you just say that Obama's being run by giant Communist frogs controlled by Lawrence Welk? Would make just as much sense....
Tim Russert, 1776: Independence? Some say unlikely.
Beer for me. No ice cream in the house.
I was wrong. They officially just started now. Aud's outside watching them.
I'm watching them on PBS. They're better'n DC's.
Still coming to visit?
Are you kidding? Natürlich!
YAY!
We'll prolly be up there on the 29th, so if you want to stop by early just holler. And you can stay later, too.
Now we just gotta figure out whether Gromit and Mrs stay over for the slumber party! Are you getting reliable internet access?
Ina, btw. thanks.
He was a great kid. I don't say that lightly.
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
giant Communist frogs controlled by Lawrence Welk?
I always wondered who made those bubbles.
Moonbats!
It was probably the 24th of July before most people even knew what went down.
I was born on the 24th of July (not 1776, though -- that would make me almost as old as Simels).
giant Communist frogs
Great horny toads!
- Yosemite Sam
As much as we hate to admit it, it took the French to get militarily involved in the fight before Britain finally said "Fuck it."
And the Dutch, to finance the thing.
If men got pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.
This is apropos nothing, but I thought I'd say it anyway.
It's the 4th of July and it's dark. As a proud 'merkin I think I'll go outside and blow some shit up.
Beer for me. No ice cream in the house.
sidhra صي ذ& | 07.04.08 - 10:3
Hey sidhra! How's it going?
Now we just gotta figure out whether Gromit and Mrs stay over for the slumber party! Are you getting reliable internet access?
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
Slumber party???
Hecate!
Another favorite old movie of mine is "semi-tough", burt reynolds notwithstanding.
lots of pretty good lines in that one, too.
THE B-52S EYES WIDE OPEN
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bHVd8YKK3k4
There are men all over my neighborhood blowing shit up, while Puck hangs at my feet.
NTodd, it's pretty good so far. I've even been able to get onto the threads.
I always confused Russert with that sports guy that does the week's league highlight clips at half-time on Monday Night Football.
Actually Hillary at least as done something to help middle and lower class people. Tell me again Steve, something O has done?
Hey Hecate. You shoulda been here earlier for much discussion on abortion. Your writings were cited and debated.
I said you speak for me on that issue, fer shur.
Going ok, Ina.
Slumber party?
Well - this storm seems to have circled round and come back at the Valle del Sol - maybe we'll get some more rain! Temp's dropped to 88F.
Ditto, Hecate.
NTodd, it's pretty good so far. I've even been able to get onto the threads.
Good!
BUSH TO TOUR AREAS AFFECTED BY HIS PRESIDENCY
THE B-52S EYES WIDE OPEN
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bHVd8YKK3k4
Richard
Temp's dropped to 88F.
That must feel like a cold spell to you!
Ntodd gets sick as soon as I roll into stumptown.
Got a good resturant to suggest, or with your current health, avoid?
Bugs
Where's mimi?
Dress in the wash, Butler?
7.5 earthquake off russian pacific coast.
one for obama.
i actually am pissed about the FISA capitulation.
By the way, everyone, Gomez turns
oh, poop. let's try this...
Eyes Wide Open, the Lonesome Brothers.
oh heck. i give up.
if you want to stop by early just holler. And you can stay later, too.
How are you so sure you won't wish me gone already within the the first hour?
So looks like I missed my chance to help Little Tommy Friedman save the world, since I was too busy eating barbeque, drinking beer, and lighting stuff on fire with a four year old. Sucks for me!
GOMEZ TURNS 50 IN ONE HOUR AND 23 MINUTES
hmm... ice cream or beer...
ina, holiday spirit
root beer float?
After I blow some shit up I think I'll crash a purity ball. That should be the capper on a perfect evening.
Slumber party?
sidhra صي ذ& | 07.04.08
At NTodds...
hi folks
I can't get my taqs right. Ane hour and sixteen minutes.
Obama may not be "as bad as McCain," but that's not the point. Is that what's it come down to already, that Obama merely isn't "as bad as McCain?" How sad is that? What happened to the messiah who was above politics, who wasn't like the evil Clintons?
Hillary 2008
Jessie Helms: Still Roasting in Hell.
This just in: Satan says, "Why's this fucking trash gotta be dumped in MY lap? Some of these fuckers aren't my lackeys, you know?"
giant Communist frogs controlled by Lawrence Welk? Would make just as much sense....
steve hüssein® simels
And now, giant Communist frogs, hoppin' to a polka tune with the Lennon Sisters! A one, and a two...
OOOOOOOOOOOOH, AAAAAAAAAAH That is all.
So looks like I missed my chance to help Little Tommy Friedman save the world, since I was too busy eating barbeque, drinking beer, and lighting stuff on fire with a four year old. Sucks for me!
Florida
Suck. On. This. Delicious baby-back rib bone.
Happy Birthday Gomez, you old fuck.
Me, I'm a streamlined, Adonis-like 48.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GOMEZ.
May all your dreams and wishes come true!
After I blow some shit up I think I'll crash a purity ball. That should be the capper on a perfect evening.
"It's the God-given right of everyone who loves their country to blow up a small part of it."
Youngster. I've been 50 for weeks!
Somebody around here is blowing up some seriously big shit--sounds like thunder.
My ex used to really dig fireworks on the fourth--moreso than even the four kids. He'd buy up a shitload every year.
I'm not into 'em. I'd stay on the porch for as long as I could stand the heat, and talk to other like-minded persons, and then go inside to drink.
Suck. On. This. Delicious baby-back rib bone.
edub, stuck between stations
Delicious freedom ribs at that!
Ntodd gets sick as soon as I roll into stumptown.
Got a good resturant to suggest, or with your current health, avoid?
Cup and Saucer on Hawthorne is good, but watch out for the apple juice. Where abouts are you?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GOMEZ.
May all your dreams and wishes come true!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Thank you.
Happy Birthday Gomez!
I'm told that a vanilla ice cream/orange sherbet float made with ginger ale is exceptionally nice.
Bugs
fat aggie transvestite
Happy birthday, Gomez!
"It's the God-given right of everyone who loves their country to blow up a small part of it."
Thank you for the affirmation supreme commander.
My sister just turned 50 a week ago.
I wanna be 50! Dad, can I be 50 like she is?!
GOMEZ TURNS 50 IN ONE HOUR AND 23 MINUTES
Ohhhh, Cancers.
Happy b/day Gomez
I'm told that a vanilla ice cream/orange sherbet float made with ginger ale is exceptionally nice.
Ooooooo, that does sound good.
Zero comments is a lot of comments.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GOMEZ. I hope the Steelers win the Super Bowl again.
This is not possible.
Speaking of blowing shit up, this is both scary and spectacular...
What happen when you remove every safety from your electric water heater?
Kaboom. Mythbusters Style!
http://youtube.com/watch?
v=Cv178...feature=related
Gomez, have a very happy birthday!
Actually Hillary at least as done something to help middle and lower class people. Tell me again Steve, something O has done?
Bugs | 07.04.08 - 10:43 pm | #
Yeah, you're right. He's done nothing for poor people.
Ah, it seems I've stumbled onto Gomez' birthday thread.
Happy birthday Gomez!
"This is not possible."
Ceci n'est pas une pipe
Richard, how did they do that to the water heater? Whaa?
Catalexis, 50's come and gone for me. But I'm still younger than Simels
Gomez is gonna' party like it's 1999.
Has Obama "jumped the shark"?
Thank you all.
David Gray - Silver Lining
Born with our eyes wide open.
Speaking of blowing shit up, this is both scary and spectacular
Thats scarier than the guy in Wed. NYT who has jiggered his electric range so he can bake pizzas at 800 degrees.
We are all younger than Simels. But no one is cooler.
damn tags.
Gomez is gonna' party like it's 1999.
Richard
I'm holding my own personal Purity Ball in his honor.
Richard, how did they do that to the water heater? Whaa?
They disabled all the safety features, in particular, the pressure relief valve. Here's the full segment...
http://youtube.com/watch?
v=pu3Fw...feature=related
Gomez turns fif-tahy yeahs old tommorrah!
The Associated Press has jumped the shark.
"Has Obama "jumped the shark"?"
Fuck jumpin' the shark. I'm hoping the news at 11 has video of him wearing a flag pin while blowing some shit up. It's the 4th of July goddamnit.
That way we know for sure he's a proud 'merkin.
Uncle Blodge, how the hell are you?
50 is a kick ass age.
You can still divide people into young punks and old farts.
It's harder being 60.
But it's easier to tell idjits to fuck off.
Which Presidential candidate might actually understand what "jump the shark" means?
I think the question can be answered subsequently.
I'm holding my own personal Purity Ball in his honor.
What do you call the other one?
I'm told that a vanilla ice c