I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
aha?
there should be sentences for watching soap operas everywhere
aha3
aha4
"No Comments"?
I'm not falling for THAT ONE again!
hello
And I was RIGHT!
Right.
home run at least
hell-o-scan has the shits I see...
Dear Atrios:
HaloScan is self-destructing.
OK, Haloscan has gone into full landshark mode.
Yes, you infuriating bit of code, there really ARE new comments.
God forbid they should discover the internets.
Whatever. Guerrilla Poetry!
Hello again, beautiful people.
There are no comments.
I guess Afghanis don't get the "increase your penis size" e-mails.
The vast majority of the erratic driving I encounter is because the person screwing up is on a cell phone. I counted three yesterday alone. All in the 8 mile trip coming home from work. It's infuriating.
billy b | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 11:43 am | #
People confuse their cars with their living rooms.
Brooklyn Girl, flittermouse | 05.24.08 - 11:44 am
Their cars, and the busses here. They have no boundaries.
/hey you kids, get off of my lawn!
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins | 05.24.08 - 11:45 am |
Hello moonbats 
Maybe we are all nuts because every AM station, every FM station, every TV antenna tower and all those cell phone repeaters are causing billions of electrons to vibrate at weird frequencies inside our heads.
What's it all about, again?
Why, capturing the mastermind of the [max headroom]9/11, 9/11, 9/11 [/max headroom] Attack On America (tm).
Forcing US-style Christo-Republic-acracy down the throats of Afghans is just gravy.
We've succeeded equally well at both.
I've got Weekend Rooftop Blogging: Green Roofs at my pad.
"Hello again, beautiful people."
hello. even though one of my students said i looked like krusty the clown...
Arrested for Excessive Diligence
Hey Moon, are you ready for your Par-tay?
what's it all about, indeed. We've been in Afghanistan more than 6 1/2 years! Can't we declare failure and just leave?
"These shows have a bad impact on our traditions," said Babrak Yusufzai, 19, a political science student wearing jeans and a Yankees baseball cap. "Children are learning about Indian ceremonies instead of Muslim ones." Yusufzai said he liked the idol-search show called "Afghan Star" but added, "Why don't they have idols of learning or law, not just singing songs?"
Don't try to make it in show biz, Babrak.
one of my students said i looked like krusty the clown...
I have a colleague who looks just like a latino Homer Simpson. Head shape and all.
Hey Moon, are you ready for your Par-tay?
Marcellina | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 11:49 am | #
yeah, should be a corker
Reposting from below.
preferably one that requires a lot of anal probing. and needles. lots of needles.
dirk gèntly, sociöpathètic
I considered it later while wearing my conservative thinking cap and I think it is analogous to conservative-think on welfare.
Why should my tax money go toward supporting a segment of the population that is lazy and won't work?
Why should my tax dollar go toward helping health care problems that resulted from an unhealthy lifestyle?
Why should my tax dollars via the NEA go toward supporting art like "Piss Christ"?
All of these are a small percent of the whole program and don't justify eliminating the whole program to remedy it.
what's it all about, indeed. We've been in Afghanistan more than 6 1/2 years! Can't we declare failure and just leave?
Nope, we're mini surging there now, actually. Because the Taliban has control of wide swaths and is being more aggressive. But cheap, cheap heroin...
Bombs, murder, famine... how do we solve these problems...?
Yes! We need to impose decency standards.
one of my students said i looked like krusty the clown...
You look more like Sideshow Bob.
I have a colleague who looks like a cotton-top tamarin.
"The world crisis is now past its peak. The initial quadrupling of the price of crude oil after the Arabs cut output was a temporary response that has been working its own cure. Higher prices induced consumers to economize and other producers to step up output . . . In order to keep prices up, the Arabs would have to curtail their output to zero; they would not for long keep the world price of crude at $10 a barrel. Well before that point the cartel would collapse."
- Milton Friedman, 1974
This has been another chapter of "Conservatives Say the Stupidest Things".
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Mmmmmm. Can't you just smell the liberty?
Good thing we forced this kind of freedom on Iraqis with their liberation, too!
USA! USA!
Spreading freedom across the globe.
(Well, we are spreadin' somethin'!)
Yeesh! Conservative! Here, there, everywhere, they hate and hate and repress and repress. They feel obliged to stamp out all human activity.
I once explained to a conservative that the sexual revolution really got started because of the automobile.
Young people could tell their parents they were going to the movies, they'd drive off to a motel, do it, take a shower, then meet their buddies at the malt shop where they could get the rundown on what the film was about, then they'd get home and tell their parents how much they enjoyed the film.
My conservative buddy looked puzzled "No, no, that suggests that people just naturally...no, that can't be it...no."
Aw snap I lurve Indian soap operas. Especially any subplot involving a dispute over the ownership of livestock.
Why should my tax money go toward supporting a segment of the population that is lazy and won't work?
Why should my tax dollar go toward helping health care problems that resulted from an unhealthy lifestyle?
Why should my tax dollars via the NEA go toward supporting art like "Piss Christ"?
There is such a thing as "the general welfare" that they may have heard of once or twice.
Osama bin Laden could have been the next Omar Shariff,but Noooooooooooo,he had to go blow the shit out of everyone.
They should be seeing Baywatch, instead
"You look more like Sideshow Bob."
when my hair was shorter I was also told I looked like napoleon dynamite.
I am catching a theme here.
NTOdd -- how'd you & Pa like Indy?
Me, I enjoyed the hell out of it, even the more sci-fi elements.
I once explained to a conservative that the sexual revolution really got started because of the automobile.
That may be true. So if the conservatives want to ban birth control and abortions, why don't they also want to ban cars?
The UK has formally laid claim to 200,000 sq km of the Atlantic seabed surrounding Ascension Island as the international race to establish sovereignty over underwater territories gains momentum.
In a submission lodged with the UN this month Britain has demarcated its bid to gain control of the area - almost equivalent to the UK's entire land surface.
The mountainous ocean floor up to 350 miles from the isolated island in the South Atlantic is believed to contain extensive mineral deposits. With no near neighbours, other states are unlikely to challenge the claim.
The deadline of May 2009 for countries to submit maps of their underwater stakes is approaching, intensifying diplomatic rivalries in contested parts of the globe, such as the Arctic and Antarctica.
Claims are being processed by the New York-based UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. States may extend their territorial rights over the seabed beyond the 200-mile limit and up to 350 miles from an adjacent coastline.
They have to prove that the seabed is part of a continuous continental shelf adjoining their coastline.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/
...tarctica.arctic
There is such a thing as "the general welfare" that they may have heard of once or twice.
They skip that part because "welfare" only means one thing to them.
NTOdd -- how'd you & Pa like Indy?
Me, I enjoyed the hell out of it, even the more sci-fi elements.
Fucking awesome.
"hello. even though one of my students said i looked like krusty the clown..."
OUCH! That had to leave a mark.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher,
I feel your pain.
when my hair was shorter I was also told I looked like napoleon dynamite.
IDIOT!
There is such a thing as "the general welfare" that they may have heard of once or twice.
When right wing speechmakers recite the preamble to the Constitution they either omit that phrase or add some really witty aside such as "not promote welfare generally".
This always draws big laffs from the sort of people who listen to right wing speechmakers...
when my hair was shorter I was also told I looked like napoleon dynamite.
I look a bit like Lila in Futurama, except with two eyes.
At the bottom of the linked page is Keith's "Special Comment" from last night.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...a_n_103319.html
Me? Ned Flanders, I'm sorry to report.
Marcellina -- Have I told you lately how much I love your blog?
my sister is back this week, its half term at the boarding school she works at
so we're thinking of going to see the Sex and the City movie heh
we don't get a lot of chance to spend time together
and i have yet to see Indiana Jones 4
Me? Ned Flanders, I'm sorry to report.
Gromit, lurking & working
Time for a new gravatar?
The UK has formally laid claim to 200,000 sq km of the Atlantic seabed surrounding Ascension Island as the international race to establish sovereignty over underwater territories gains momentum.
Just what we need. Another splendid little war in the South Atlantic.
Up Yours, Johnny Gaucho!
Our "friends" the Pakistani government just gave a chunk of Afghanistan back to the Taliban hoping that they'll stop attacking in the border regions.
That, my friends, is appeasement.
Marcellina, Die Planzen (und Cacteen) are awesome!
I look a bit like Lila in Futurama, except with two eyes.
How many tits?
i am planning to make this cocktail tonight: Hedgehunter (Pimms royale)
Ingredients
cubed ice
60ml/2fl oz premium gin
120ml/4fl oz Pimms
prosecco or Champagne, to top
4 strawberries
4 large mint sprigs
4 cucumber strips
4 cocktail sticks
Method
1. Fill four large wine glasses with ice and the spirits.
2. Top with prosecco or Champagne.
3.To garnish, take the top off a strawberry to reveal a central 'hole', poke a mint tip into the hole. Roll the cucumber strip around the base of the strawberry and spike the whole lot together, from left to right, with a cocktail stick and balance on the rim of the glass.
4. Serve.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/
recipe...oya_82323.shtml
Oh, and once again: Condi is trying to justify torture.
Our "friends" the Pakistani government just gave a chunk of Afghanistan back to the Taliban
Love the sound of Shanana law.
Total vehicle miles driven fell in March by 4.3%, or 11 billion miles, to 246.3 billion miles, compared with the year earlier. It was the largest year-over-year decline in miles driven since the government began keeping records in 1942.
http://www.smartmoney.com/breaki...523-000679-
1254
Tweren't going anywhere anyway.
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Kabul's new drug crisis
Is it any surprise they all want to get stoned, not having any Indian soap operas to watch?
Ooh, like a Pimm's Cup on steriods!
Robin Chase, Zipcar co-founder is on c-apan2/BookTV.
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2 months ago I was defending hillary - calling for civility - she and her surrogates sure are good at the racist smearing stuff, huh? - I'd really like to see hill go on a hunting, shot-drinking party with the VP - I don't think he'd survive the day though
as for the clusterf*** gwb jr has made out of what was seemingly a righteous cause should be all the proof righttards needed to know bush could care less about anything except his rich buddies - the MSM was only too happy to help mislead Americans on all things WAR
I haven't thought of Pimm's cups in years. Don't you have to choose a flavor?
teens are really good at spotting your resemblance to someone: I have been
Ben Franklin (actually fucking ben franklin)
Triple H
Mankind
Napoleon dynamite
Krusty
sideshow bob (yeah been done)
and some guy in scary movies
also
Lodgeman and derivatives of that + my favorite
Mr T dog
How I got that one is kinda interesting. 
I've got Weekend Rooftop Blogging: Green Roofs at my pad.
Marcellina | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 11:48 am | #
I wish Dayton would get into the green roof thing, though a couple of the new developments are 'green'.
Thanks, Toonscribe and Plantsman! I try to give it my best shot. Always open to new topics, though.
Oh, and once again: Condi is trying to justify torture.
Butbutbut...America is a different place!
Pimm's comes in numbers, as I recall; number 6 I know I like.
WASHINGTON — An internal audit of some $8 billion paid to U.S. and Iraqi contractors found that nearly every transaction failed to comply with federal laws or regulations aimed at preventing fraud, in some cases lacking even basic invoices explaining how the money was spent.
Of the money paid during a five-year period _ from 2001 through 2006 _ $7.8 billion in payments skirted billing rules with some violations egregious enough to invite potential fraud, warned the Defense Department's inspector general.
The findings provided fresh fodder for anti-war Democrats, who say the Bush administration has turned a blind eye to the problem of corruption and fraud by relying too heavily on contractors to manage the war.
"There is something very wrong when our wounded troops have to fill out forms in triplicate for meal money while billions of dollars in cash are handed out in Iraq with no accountability," said Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Results of the investigation were released at a committee hearing on Thursday, the same day the House approved legislation by Waxman intended to strengthen anti-fraud measures and increase transparency in contracting. Waxman's bill was passed as part of a major military policy bill, which authorizes $601.4 billion in defense spending.
In its report, the IG estimated the Army made more than 180,000 commercial payments from stations in Iraq, Kuwait and Egypt in the five-year period. The payments were made for various supplies and services, including bottled water, food and trucks.
In one example, $11 million was paid to a U.S. company without any record of what goods or services were provided, the IG wrote.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4431...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
teens are really good at spotting your resemblance to someone: I have been
I have gotten
Mike Meyers
Jim Carrey
The dude from Blues Clues (the original guy, Steve?)
Our "friends" the Pakistani government just gave a chunk of Afghanistan back to the Taliban hoping that they'll stop attacking in the border regions.
That, my friends, is appeasement.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants
The Taliban are not Al-Queada, that's Boosh's # 1 mistake.
Butbutbut...America is a different place!
Post Weimar?
I look like Kerney.
HABEAS!
How many tits?
NTodd, Poseur
Um, two.
(Lila has two, doesn't she? I mean, as far as anyone can tell.)
I look like Kerney.
Zap Rowsdower
True, but you're thinner. 
Invading Afghanistan was stupid. We should have used our highly vaunted special forces to run down OBL and then gotten the fuck out. If we went into to take down the taliban, we should have also invaded Saudi Arabia, which is ruled by the same sort of nutjob muslim fascists.
(Lila has two, doesn't she? I mean, as far as anyone can tell.)
I don't remember. The Wonder Bra of the future can conceal many things.
"Condi is trying to justify torture."
she mentions anthrax.
sure found them didn't we?
Post Weimar?
Unitary Executive, bitches!
she mentions anthrax.
sure found them didn't we?
Clearly we haven't tortured enough people.
Condi has a thing for hair bands.
Condi, your Commie wisdom does not translate into Turrist wisdom.
You should go back to tickling the ivories.
I look like Kerney.
Zap Rowsdower | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 12:06 pm
You remind me of one of our local weathermen:
http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story...7&
nav=menu590_3
"Clearly we haven't tortured enough people."
clearly
At the bottom of the linked page is Keith's "Special Comment" from last night.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ 20...a_n_103319.html
plantsman, less blue
Which was his worst ever and harmed his credibility.
In comparison to Condi, Susan Rice seems kind of alive.
HABEAS!
Shhh....I'm missing.
Funny about that anthrax thing, isn't it?
"Condi, your Commie wisdom does not translate into Turrist wisdom.
You should go back to tickling the ivories."
there's a joke involving Bush in here somewhere.
Funny about that anthrax thing, isn't it?
Shhh. Memory hole.
Heavy rain and flooding in Chile have displaced 15,000 people and shut down the world's largest copper mine, according to the government.
So far, five people are known to have died in the floods - described by some as the worst in at least two decades.
Road and railway bridges have collapsed, and at least seven rivers have burst their banks.
There is also a shortage of drinking water after floodwaters churned up sediment at water treatment plants.
The rains started in the middle of this week and have hardly stopped since. The hardest-hit region has been the central valley, immediately south of the capital, Santiago.
A railway bridge collapsed under the weight of a raging torrent of water and a road bridge fell apart on the Pan American Highway, in effect cutting the country in two.
Those who have died were either swept away by rising rivers or killed by mudslides and falling trees.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...cas/
7418242.stm
Always open to new topics, though.
You seem to get around on topics -- as I recall, pretty much everything from local resistance to Nazis to now green roofs. That's what I like about your blog -- if you find it interesting, important, or amusing, you blog about it and your personality, as far as I can tell, really comes through. Great job.
And the pictures are just awesome.
Which was his worst ever and harmed his credibility.
I don't know if I'd go that far, but he's definitely diluting the brand...
Condi's area of academic expertise is about as relevant to dealing with terrorists as a thorough knowledge of Polish cavalry tactics in 1939.
I don't blog as much as I used too, mainly its too much effort
so mostly is just cat blogging with the occasional post thrown in
Toonscribe, you're too kind. mmmwah!
Invading Afghanistan was stupid. We should have used our highly vaunted special forces to run down OBL and then gotten the fuck out. If we went into to take down the taliban, we should have also invaded Saudi Arabia, which is ruled by the same sort of nutjob muslim fascists.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ | 05.24.08 - 12:07 pm | #
I mentioned the Saudi-AQ thing to my b-i-l before Afghanistan and Iraq. He thought we could invade SA after our success in Iraq.
Eight Italian policemen and three other people have been injured in clashes over the site of a new rubbish dump in a densely populated suburb of Naples.
Most injuries occurred overnight but two police were hurt in the morning, trying to remove a bus being used as a barricade near the site in Chiaiano.
The site is one of 10 approved by the new government in a bid to end a crisis over uncollected rubbish in Naples.
Some fear the proximity of the dump could affect local people's health.
The situation in Chiaiano remains tense with residents appearing determined to resist the use of a local stone quarry as a landfill, the BBC's David Willey reports.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ope/
7418558.stm
sorry for being so randomly OT before - just had to vent about Lady McScottish play
I can't figure out why Canada is in Afghanistan - if the bush admin had spent their resources on making Afghanistan livsable for the war-weary Afghanis the Middle-Eastern world would have noticed and the good-will engendered would have helped make terrorist attacks on western targets less likely (imHo) - hearts and monds... what a silly DFH thing to say!
don't forget British involvement in Afghanistan
OMG Harrison Ford just restarted the Cold War!!!
"MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history."
I have to go.
Peace.
the House of Saud and the religious nutjobs
Opium poppies naturally grow very well in Afghanistan. A concerted push to connect the opium to legal pharma companies would have given them a viable economy. Too logical.
Nazis...I *hate* those guys!
No, wait...Commies...I *hate* those chicks!
Afghanistan is a NATO commitment, as the USofA was attacked.
you're too kind.
Not being kind, just honest. Your blog is one of my favorites. Thanks for writing it.
And *mmmwah* back atcha.
Russia and China have condemned a US plan for a global missile defence shield, saying it will set back international disarmament efforts.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a joint statement with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing.
The US says the shield, parts of which it plans to deploy in Europe, is key to its own security and that of allies.
Both Russia and China have opposed the plans in the past but this is the first time they have come together to do so.
The US, which wants to locate a radar base in the Czech Republic and an interceptor missile site in Poland, says the system will offer protection against missiles fired from states like Iran and North Korea.
However, the plans have soured US-Russian ties, with Moscow fearing that the system could be used against Russia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...fic/
7416734.stm
if the bush admin had spent their resources on making Afghanistan livsable for the war-weary Afghanis the Middle-Eastern world would have noticed and the good-will engendered would have helped make terrorist attacks on western targets less likely
Well, yeah. But the Bushies don't actually care about that stuff. Never have.
Seeya, Zap! Don't be a stranger!
Nazis...I *hate* those guys!
No, wait...Commies...I *hate* those chicks!
NTodd, Poseur | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 12:16 pm |
Russian communists aren't happy with the new Indy movie:
Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/...s.ap/
index.html
Afghanistan was just a warm up for Iraq
the Neocon fuckheads had a tunnel vision, to attack and invade Iraq and re-make it into a Neocon paradise
Afghanistan was just a means to an end
For no good reason:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=i...feature=related
Russian-British relations have soured a bit, too.
"MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history."
EkCenTriK
That's just stoopid. Indiana Jones already defeated the Nazis. Next on the list would have to be the Commies.
"That's just stoopid. Indiana Jones already defeated the Nazis. Next on the list would have to be the Commies."
When does he take on the Bushies?
You DFHs never do get it, do you.
The point is not to make turrist attacks less likely, but more likely.
As Condi said, America is a different place now.
Prague- Almost two-thirds of Czechs are against the stationing of the U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic, while fewer than one-quarter are for the project, according to a poll conducted by the polling agency CVVM in early April and released today.
The public mood has been stable since 2006, with only a small decrease in the number of the opponents since the end of 2007, CVVM analysts said.
The plan is mainly supported by the voters of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), while the rest of the parties reject it, most resolutely the voters of the opposition Social Democrats (CSSD) and Communists (KSCM).
Some 70 percent of Czechs believe a referendum should decide on the plan, the opposite view is held by 20 percent.
The United States wants to build the radar base in the Brdy military district, some 90 km southwest of Prague, and a base for ten interceptor missiles in Poland as part of the missile shield that is to protect its territory and a large part of Europe against missiles that states like Iran might launch.
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/i...w.php?
id=314424
Baba Wawa is pouring her heart out to Punkinhaid.
It's kinda gloppy.
When does he take on the Bushies?
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Stupid, Greedy, and Mean?
"Condi is trying to justify torture."
Silly wabbit! It's enhanced interrogation techniques! (
The United States wants to build the radar base in the Brdy military district, some 90 km southwest of Prague, and a base for ten interceptor missiles in Poland as part of the missile shield that is to protect its territory and a large part of Europe against missiles that states like Iran might launch.
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/i...w.php? id=314424
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008 | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 12:19 pm |
This is one of those projects I hope that gets cancelled sometime on January 20, 2009.
Opponents of the U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic Jan Tamas and Jan Bednar will continue with their protest hunger strike they started on Tuesday, they told journalists Saturday.
They vowed to only accept liquids until some of their demands are met such as the promise to end Czech talks with the USA, the referendum on the issue and the beginning of "an open, real democratic discussion."
They said they had not seen any reaction from the government.
They said their protest had mobilised the opponents of the radar base in the Czech Republic.
"The hunger strike has sent a clear signal to the people who are opposed to the radar," Tamas told journalists.
http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/...nal_news/22863/
For those who enjoy watching the freak show that is the Libertarian Party, Jim Galloway is in Denver with Bob Barr's contingent.
"Each of the 500-plus delegates were given a token when they arrived at the Sheraton . . . To participate in tonight’s debate, which will be carried live on C-SPAN from 9 to 11 p.m. back in Atlanta, a candidate must collect 10 percent of all tokens by noon local time today (that’s 2 p.m. back in Georgia) . . . Georgia’s Bob Barr, who is seeking the LP nomination, won’t say whether he has enough tokens yet, but he and his advisers indicate they think they’ll make it."
That's just stoopid. Indiana Jones already defeated the Nazis. Next on the list would have to be the Commies.
Lime Rickey
Too bad Bush thought Leslie Neilson had the plan for A-Q.
the missile shield that is to protect its territory and a large part of Europe against missiles that states like Iran might launch.
Suppose Iran doesn't attach beacons to their missiles?
TV is like Satan
Bealzeboob tube.
Suppose Iran doesn't attach beacons to their missiles?
Then we're totally fucked.
Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history.
Communist ideology did a prety damn good job of undermining itsownself. And as for distorting history, a great many Heroes of the Revolution were awarded the Order of the Iron Airbrush...
Afghanistan is a NATO commitment, as the USofA was attacked.
1Watt, Lysenkoist
Right. But once the Americans made their focus Iraq there was no reason to stay except to do the work that the US had decided wasn't all that important - just saying
"
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Stupid, Greedy, and Mean?"
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Numbskulls
Right. But once the Americans made their focus Iraq there was no reason to stay except to do the work that the US had decided wasn't all that important - just saying
Nuts! kinda' marxist
I didn't accuse them of being smart about it.
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — The Red Cross in South Africa said Saturday it was caring for 25,000 displaced people following nearly two weeks of anti-immigrant violence amid emerging evidence of a humanitarian crisis.
The new figures came as the army said it had shot dead a man in a Johannesburg township during joint operations with the police aimed at quelling the tide of unrest.
"The Red Cross is helping over 25,000 people spread around 21 locations, mainly in Johannesburg," Red Cross director for southern Africa, Francoise Le Goff, told AFP.
"The situation has deteriorated since now it (the violence) is starting in Durban and Cape Town."
Aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF - Medecins Sans Frontieres) also warned of the danger of illness among the displaced and said the government needed to make a decision on how victims would be cared for.
Police reported a generally calmer situation across the country Saturday amid signs the vicious attacks of the past two weeks, in which armed mobs have purged some poor neighbourhoods of immigrants, were abating.
At least 42 people have been killed and more than 500 arrested since the unrest broke out in a Johannesburg slum area nearly two weeks ago before spreading to seven of the country's nine provinces.
http://afp.google.com/article/
AL...nvJxw276kIqNemQ
I hate having a 7 ft. sofa & 6 ft. of dogs.
wow Diane is on a roll
At this point in time, Republicans will not and cannot "face up to the hard reality" because it would be an admission that the last seven years have been a dreadful mistake, a mistake they perpetuated at the costs of thousands of lives.
at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
glad my hand is acting up again
I believe it was Jim Carey who explained it best: "Americans watch TV. Canadians watch American TV."
According to Wikipedia, the Russian Communist Party only seems to get around 18% of the votes.
An international bidding war broke out yesterday over Expro International, the UK oil and gas industry services provider, between Halliburton, the world’s second-biggest oilfield contractor, and a private equity consortium led by Candover Partners.
Umbrellastream, a special purpose vehicle made up of Goldman Sachs, Capital Partners, AlpInvest Partners and Candover, raised its bid to £15.50 a share in cash, valuing Expro at £1.71 billion.The independent directors of Expro said they recommended the new cash offer, having on April 17 agreed to a bid of £1.61 billion, including £200 million debt, from the same party.
The improved bid was in reaction to Halliburton’s confirmation yesterday morning that it was prepared to offer £1.7 billion or £15.25 a share, also in cash and subject to conditions.
Expro’s shares closed 85p or 5.5 per cent higher at £16.26. Shares in Halliburton were down 51 cents at $47.77.
In April, many analysts forecast that Halliburton would not come back with a counter offer given the high price. But with oil prices rising to a record $135 a barrel and companies desperately searching for new sources of energy, Expro’s oil well production-testing technology is increasingly valuable.
Halliburton, formerly led by US Vice-President Dick Cheney, yesterday “strongly urged” Expro’s investors to take no action, as it considered its position. It has until June 20 to update its proposal, although a response is expected sooner.
http://
business.timesonline.co.u...icle3995513.ece
This is one of those projects I hope that gets cancelled sometime on January 20, 2009.
President Obama's hands will be sore from signing papers before he ever gets to the Inaugural Balls.
This place is a little bit of a soap opera at times, especially when mimi is around.
This place is a little bit of a soap opera at times, especially when mimi is around.
Maybe Dark Shadows?
Posh and posher: return of the Old Etonians
Afghanistan was just a warm up for Iraq
Afghanistan was an annoying distraction that interfered with President AWOL's hard-on for Iraq.
That Boosh's march to Baghdad began the month of his inauguration has been well chronicled and documented in books by Tommy Franks, Paul O'Neill, Ron Suskind etc. etc. etc.
The only complicating factor was that one damaged and threatened us, and the other one did not.
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The improved bid was in reaction to Halliburton’s confirmation yesterday morning that it was prepared to offer £1.7 billion or £15.25 a share, also in cash and subject to conditions.
and to think dear ol halliburton was near bankrupt just 6 years ago.
Hecate
I think from November to January the Dem nominee should be inundated with ERA legislation demands.
What a great idea you've had!
Gordon Brown is losing the confidence of his cabinet as an increasing number of ministers voice the fear that Labour cannot win the general election under the prime minister's leadership, authoritative sources told the Guardian yesterday.
Labour's disastrous performance in Crewe and Nantwich in the early hours of Friday - leading to the Tories' first byelection gain in a quarter of a century - has persuaded cabinet ministers that the prime minister's position is fast becoming irretrievable.
"People are not far away from thinking that we cannot win under Gordon Brown," a senior Labour figure said last night. "We wish it was different from what it is. But it is hard to avoid looking at the facts."
The growing collapse in confidence in Brown's leadership became clear yesterday in the wake of Labour's poor byelection performance as the Tories won on a swing of 17.6% - the sort of figure that would place David Cameron in Downing Street with a susbstantial majority.
Had the byelection happened on its own, Brown would probably face no more than a whispering campaign, senior sources say. But two factors are convincing cabinet ministers that Labour's poor performance is directly linked to the prime minister: the local election reverses earlier this month, and Brown's decision to give away £2.7bn in tax cuts in an emergency mini-budget designed to solve the crisis provoked by the abolition of the 10p starting rate of tax in his last budget as chancellor last year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
politi...our.gordonbrown
Cable station around here TLN runs Latin Lover-typical soap with lots of nudity.
This place is a little bit of a soap opera at times, especially when mimi is around.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ | 05.24.08 - 12:31 pm |
Shh, you'll summon it!
Minority Leader in a Storm
By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
May 24, 2008
"Awful. Awful." That's John Boehner's candid answer when I ask what life is like for House Republicans these days. The question the 58-year-old minority leader is pondering is how long that awfulness will last.
The GOP is in a panic after a string of special election defeats that suggest voters haven't forgiven Republicans for straying from small-government principles. Rival wings of the party are fighting over where to go next. About the only thing everyone agrees on: If the GOP doesn't redefine itself soon, it's facing a rout this fall.
Some people suggest that those special election defeats were because of the war and the economy, but you probably know best.
Maybe Dark Shadows?
As the World Turns...Around Me.
President Obama's hands will be sore from signing papers before he ever gets to the Inaugural Balls.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Speaking of which, wouldn't it be great if BO just held a small ceremony in the conference room of a Motel 6, saved the public a Brazillion or so bucks, and made the Banana Mashher in Chief look like the spoiled brat he is?
This has been Your Daily Fantasy. Tune in again tomorrow...
Labour have been in power for too long and thus are running out of ideas and energy, happens to any ruling party.
it is quite possible that we will have a Tory government at the next General election
Labour really does have stupid people if they thought scrapping the 10p tax rate would not bother anyone, of course it did, for certain sections of the population having £10 taken away every week really hurts them
everyone told Labour how stupid it would be but they went ahead anyway
"Awful. Awful." That's John Boehner's candid answer when I ask what life is like for House Republicans these days. The question the 58-year-old minority leader is pondering is how long that awfulness will last.
Lime Rickey made my day.
Maybe Dark Shadows?
As the World Turns...Around Me.
General Hospital -- Psychiatric Ward
The question the 58-year-old minority leader is pondering is how long that awfulness will last.
until he's voted out?
and calling your opponent a toff when you live in a bigger house than the Tories is just not going to work
This place is a little bit of a soap opera at times, especially when mimi is around.
leibniz leibkins
Haloscan Place...
This place is a little bit of a soap opera at times, especially when mimi is around.
You mean Leonard?
General Hospital -- Psychiatric Ward
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
all my trollies
made the Banana Mashher in Chief look like the spoiled brat he is?
Somehow, I just don't see Bush managing to be at all classy about handing over the reigns of power to President Obama, nor do I see Pickles managing to be even as classy to Michelle Obama as her mother-in-law was to Hillary Clinton. The Bushes are just not classy people.
Lime Rickey made my day.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
My good deed for this year.
Speaking of which, wouldn't it be great if BO just held a small ceremony in the conference room of a Motel 6, saved the public a Brazillion or so bucks,
Public money doesn't pay for the parties and balls. They're all done privately, and some of them are great fun to go to.
and calling your opponent a toff when you live in a bigger house than the Tories is just not going to work
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008
[runs off to google translator]
NTodd,
You in DC yet? It's a perfect day here.
You mean Leonard?
NTodd, Poseu
MISSterrrr Leonarrrrrrrrrd?
The police in Canada have a gruesome mystery to puzzle over as after a human foot was found washed up on a beach near the west-coast city of Vancouver.
It is the fourth such foot to be found on beaches in the area in the past eight months.
All four of the feet were wearing socks and running shoes and all four had been in the sea for some time.
But police say they have no idea how or why they came to be there and hope DNA tests, now under way, may help.
Last August, two human feet washed up on the beaches of two small islands north of Vancouver. Then in February another single, right foot drifted ashore.
And now a fourth - again a right foot - has been found - this time on a beach in suburban Vancouver. The city's newspapers and coffee shops are buzzing with theories to explain the mystery.
Organised crime, boating accidents - even the 2004 Asian tsunami - are all being offered as possible, if amateur, solutions. The professional detectives are saying very little.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...cas/
7418239.stm
General Hospital -- Psychiatric Ward
Daze of My Life
Afghan PM Ben Kingsley's stunt double is a charming fellow
made the Banana Mashher in Chief look like the spoiled brat he is?
Somehow, I just don't see Bush managing to be at all classy about handing over the reigns of power to President Obama, nor do I see Pickles managing to be even as classy to Michelle Obama as her mother-in-law was to Hillary Clinton. The Bushes are just not classy people.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 12:40 pm | #
Great sketch on SNL about Nancy Reagan having trouble leaving the White House...I think it was Jan Hooks.
You in DC yet? It's a perfect day here.
Yuppers! And it's gorgeous, so I will prolly head down to The Mall in a bit. Liz is doing some housekeeping and Des is researching fleet actions in South America. We'll be doing banner prep later, but I'm off the hook for real work right now...
Organised crime, boating accidents - even the 2004 Asian tsunami - are all being offered as possible, if amateur, solutions. The professional detectives are saying very little.
Sole fisheries?
Edward Smith, who lives with his current "girlfriend" – a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, insisted that he was not "sick" and had no desire to change his ways.
"I appreciate beauty and I go a little bit beyond appreciating the beauty of a car only to the point of what I feel is an expression of love," he said.
"Maybe I'm a little bit off the wall but when I see movies like Herbie and Knight Rider, where cars become loveable, huggable characters it's just wonderful.
"I'm a romantic. I write poetry about cars, I sing to them and talk to them just like a girlfriend. I know what's in my heart and I have no desire to change."
He added: "I'm not sick and I don't want to hurt anyone, cars are just my preference."
Mr Smith, 57, first had sex with a car at the age of 15, and claims he has never been attracted to women or men.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...1,000-
cars.html
Toff is a British slang term for the Upper Classes
Organised crime, boating accidents - even the 2004 Asian tsunami - are all being offered as possible, if amateur, solutions. The professional detectives are saying very little.
Sole fisheries?
Shoes of the fisherman?
Public money doesn't pay for the parties and balls. They're all done privately, and some of them are great fun to go to.
MikeJ
Well, in that case...Party like it's 1999!
Still rather see all that loot, private though it may be, going somewhere more important...
Mr Smith, 57, first had sex with a car at the age of 15, and claims he has never been attracted to women or men.
Okay, now that's a bit unusual.
Wasn't there a guy in Washington state who was arrested a month or so ago for having sex with a picnic table?
NTodd, I thought Leonard was just the name of the poor schmuck who was sent the pictures.
NTodd, I thought Leonard was just the name of the poor schmuck who was sent the pictures.
Beats the shit out of me. He has 'em on his Picasa, that's all I know.
Meanie,
I've often wished they's spend some of the loot sending nice meals to DC's homeless shelters, but I do understand the desire to celebrate a new administration. And, I'm sure Obama's parties will rock.
kaymoutl8rh9rz
Still rather see all that loot, private though it may be, going somewhere more important...
Meh, we all do things with our money that aren't ideologically pure. I suppose instead of going to Drinking Liberally I should be working in a soup kitchen. Not every minute of every day is dedicated to helping others.
I'm sorry I don't live up to your standards.
Mr Smith, 57, first had sex with a car at the age of 15
He's a real fender bender.
dont get too cocky the far left is popping corks too soon. obama and all the dem trees in the forest will fall in november. from the politico
"But the contours of the electoral map, combined with McCain’s unique strengths and the nature of Obama’s possible vulnerabilities, have led to a cautious and muted optimism that McCain could actually surpass Bush’s 35-electoral-vote victory in 2004. Though they expect he would finish far closer to Obama in the popular vote, the thinking is that he could win by as many 50 electoral votes."
Fluff, Stuff and the Joy of James
Shoes of the fisherman?
Heh! That pun has legs.
"I'm a romantic. I write poetry about cars, I sing to them and talk to them just like a girlfriend. I know what's in my heart and I have no desire to change."
Crap on a clutch...
Shoes of the fisherman?
Heh! That pun has legs.
It's a shoe-in.
Moon, will you be online during your Eurovision partay or am I liveblogging this alone?
How strange. I mention someone arrested for having sex with a picnic table and sonny ablaza shows up.
shorter sonny:
Maybe we'll manage to steal one more.
Found the SNL sketch with Jan Hooks as Nancy Reagan and Phil Hartman as Barbara Bush:
http://www.jibjab.com/view/170862
Moon, will you be online during your Eurovision partay or am I liveblogging this alone?
Marcellina | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 12:53 pm | #
I should be
It's a shoe-in.
Glad to see you are instep with these puns.
primary owls!!!!!!!!!!!
I should be
Moonbootica
Wasn't there a guy in Washington state who was arrested a month or so ago for having sex with a picnic table?
Yeah, but, it wasn't a serious thing, y'know... he was just pining for some company.
Ostentatious displays of wealth are subversive if you're poor. Our media would never report anything so invidious at home.
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