I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Buon giorno.
Me again?
Terzo.
Home run.
(Doing a lot better than the Diamondbacks...)
OK now this is getting ridiculous.
oh alright I guess i will follow the link.
I have learned not to go read the newspaper comments. damn near as bad as youtube ones.
Atrios, are you familiar with the ravings of "ToddStallion1" over at azcentral.com? He's a classic kooky commenter.
Several of them like this one:
Posted by Kaiser Sosa 08:21 PM, 07/16/2009
Buying a gas guzzler next weekend. My carbon footprint is massive and I love it!
anyone who would include the word 'stallion' in his nym - has the same 'jerk alert' those reclining wench mudflaps do.
Countries where nobody has a car, and everybody has government healthcare are countries that have to build walls around themselves to keep citizens in because everyone wants to escape to countries where everyone has a car and nobody has government healthcare. If you don't like your car, move to North Korea.
yes, choking on car exhaust = freedom!
America, fuck yeah!
Calling Sheets would be good.
how about this "There is something wrong with you people. Feel free to live out your sick fantasies, but leave the rest of us alone."
sick fantasies?
Called Them.
Thanks plantsman.
(blushes) It's just my nature.
Those same 13 people are now engaged in a symbolic squirklejerk on the library steps.
hello, it's time for me to go get my car back now. On my dime.
Shorter Ruth - "Hello, I must be going" 
from below;
QL, I seldom eat out, too cheap, but do order the Seniors specials and find that a good deal usually.
Philly?
Chances are their cars would have been stolen anyway.
One of these days, when I have the time and inclination, I will write a superlong, boring post on the distributed work idea and the possible abandonment of the cities.
But not now and maybe never.
(My next book to read is CITY by Clifford Simak. I read it forty years ago. Need to get refreshed on the concepts. I do like CLiff though he used way too much description)
I can't afford to eat out, but I treat myself to a $1.50 soft taco now and again.
Is today the day Judge Sotomayor flashes her tits?
WSJ -- Citigroup reported net income of $4.3 billion, or 49 cents a share, helped by gain from Smith Barney stake sale, on revenue of $30 billion.
Highly unlikely, I'd wager.
She has more dignitude than that.
I do like CLiff though he used way too much description)
Speaking of too much description...I pick up used books on tape at our local library book sale, on cassette they're going for 50 cents apiece, so I''ll try just about anything. Got S. King's "Dreamcatcher", 18 hrs on 12 cassettes and that was abridged! What a slog - it could have easily been pared by several hours. And it wasn't very good either.
*sigh*
now I hear that the new surgeon general, an admirable person in every way, is being concern-trolled for her weight.
Nothing tempts the palate as much as an empty wallet.
She has more dignitude than that.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
A tit flash would be entirely appropriate every time a wingnut makes some insipid, racist generalization.
A gesture which simply states, "Suck on these, boys".
What, with the passive-aggressive "it sends the wrong signal" approach?
Newspaper commenter nominations? On Chip Pickering's corruption by the Big House on Christian Street:
I think he and the wife could work it out if he just speaks to her in tongues like he did in the Borat movie.
http://www.clarionledger.com/
app...1#pluckcomments
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It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant.
Where did I hear that before?
She dare not risk her confirmation for snarky fun.
What a slog - it could have easily been pared by several hours. And it wasn't very good either.
Stephen has long since ascribed to the Tom Clancy method.
She dare not risk her confirmation for snarky fun.
that is true, and unfortunate. I wish someone would do a series of photos of her giving measured, intelligent answers to batshit stupid questions, with a thought balloon included showing what should have REALLY been said.
Stephen has long since ascribed to the Tom Clancy method.
Self-indulgent? Stephen King?
(you betcha)
Two SUV's already, and that sillybilly guy is still so worried about his, erm, shortcomings that he needs to buy a huge, useless pickup truck.
Stephen has long since ascribed to the Tom Clancy method
Hey Billy B. Heh - paid by the word...
What, with the passive-aggressive "it sends the wrong signal" approach?
plantsman, mad google skillz
This level of tit flashing assertiveness would demontrate an inner conviction worthy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Morgana the Kissing Bandit.
Sotomayor has a great incredulous, quizzical look that screams "WTF is this cracker even talking about?" she deploys without saying a word.
Sotomayor has a great incredulous, quizzical look that screams "WTF is this cracker even talking about?" she deploys without saying a word.
plantsman, mad google skillz
It's wonderfully condescending.
QL, I seldom eat out, too cheap, but do order the Seniors specials and find that a good deal usually.
Ruth
Me either but mostly because the food is just not that good and fairly expensive for what you get.
When I eat out now it must be for these reasons: I cannot efficiently, nor taste-wise make what I am purchasing. (Asian food comes to mind. By the time you buy the ingredients it is easier and cheaper to eat the best available.)
Other categories include my seldom - but earnest need for something deep-fried. (I eat very little of this, but is a mess to do at home)
But fast food or chain restaurants: pretty much never.
Drug Makers Score Early Wins as Plan Takes Shape
WASHINGTON -- The pharmaceuticals industry, which President Barack Obama promised to "take on" during his campaign, is winning most of what it wants in the health-care overhaul.
The final contours of the legislation are far from settled, but the industry, led by a onetime powerful congressman, has notched a string of victories.
...
Legislation expected soon in the powerful Senate Finance Committee will leave out cost-cutting steps as part of an agreement with the industry and the White House, according to Congressional aides, industry lobbyists and others involved in the talks.
The missing items include two planks of Mr. Obama's campaign platform: allowing cheaper drugs to be imported from Canada and giving the federal government the right to negotiate Medicare drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies.
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB...mod=rss_US_News
My country is a joke.
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Y'all wanna get your motorcyle self on?
http://www.muskegonbiketime.com/
They are EVERYWHERE now.
Sotomayor has a great incredulous, quizzical look that screams "WTF is this cracker even talking about?" she deploys without saying a word.
plantsman, mad google skillz
Her restraint is uncanny. It would have taken me six valiums to get through the Lindsey Graham part of the hearings alone.
And what was Say-Shun's "crack cocaine" remark about?
But fast food or chain restaurants: pretty much never.
there is actually a couple of semi-fast food places in my area - tokyo joe's has bowls for which you can specify brown rice; the meat is organic, and the veggies very fresh and minimally cooked.
Quenton.
Earlier I told Diane that I cannot believe that the chasms separating us are not going to end in violence: the lines are too firmly drawn and teh evil needs addressing and Congress is bought and paid for . . . .
And what was Say-Shun's "crack cocaine" remark about?
plantsman, mad google skillz
I like the fact that the media has stopped even trying to figure out what the spirit of the question was. They just play the bizarro sound bites so we can all have a good laugh.
We can light the match any time as far as I'm concerned.
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Nico Pitney again live-blogging on Iran at HuffPo; says demonstrations and violence have broken out at Friday prayers.
Rafsanjani breaks silence in sermon before Friday prayers - calls for release of all protesters
http://www.alarabiya.net/article...7/17/
78993.html
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Self-indulgent? Stephen King?
(you betcha)
Hey Billy B. Heh - paid by the word...
It's like Clancy's and King's publishers are afraid to send in the editors.
Morning, all.
Uh let's see -- oh yes, apologies for the blogwhore, but at Box Office, I sing the praises of a new DVD box set of John Barrymore flicks, plus we debate The Most Memorable Version of an Often-Filmed Story!
http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve...nia-spec-
50.php
Comments encouraged and gratefully accepted as always....
I recall reading a "love-scene" in one of Clancy's books, and I wondered if he'd ever actually had sex with a living being,
My country is a joke.
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QuentinCompson, Retributionary
As George Carlin said, this country was sold off a long time ago.
It's sometimes difficult not to fall into a total state of despair.
Billy B,
Actually, that is exactly what happens. When a writer is successful, they are granted more freedom. When they are mega-successful (Clancy, King, Rowling) they are not even edited for anything other than misspellings (if that)
The problem is that writing is an activity that lends itself to self-aggrandizement (trust me here) and because of this the writer's ego - already as large as can be imagined, is stroked to full erection.
I STILL edit my stuff harder than any editor, btw. In fact, during the editing portion of the last book we almost came to blows because they kept ADDING things.
And what was Say-Shun's "crack cocaine" remark about?
Sessions was speaking with someone (a fellow Senator?) about reducing the federal criminal penalties for possession of crack so as to make them more equitable in comparison to the penalties for possession of powdered cocaine (Sessions seems to be in agreement with the plan).
Nico Pitney again live-blogging on Iran at HuffPo; says demonstrations and violence have broken out at Friday prayers.
Has it been 40 days already since the initial protests?
(And having been reading extensively the last week again - six books I think - I can report that my construct of allowing the reader to enter into the book's creation by allowing them enough detail to establish the scene and expecting that they provide whatever other niceties they need - is still viable.)
DWD -
I can see what you're getting at.
My cousin has written several books and relates stories similar to yours concerning editors.
If you don't like your car, move to North Korea.
"With about 500,000 new private cars hitting China's roads every month in 2007 (and over 800,000 vehicles per month in the first nine months of 200
"....i forsee 13 people scrambling to find that bag.
Get thee to an urban hellhole.
There is something wrong with you people. Feel free to live out your sick fantasies, but leave the rest of us alone.
Cooties! They've got cooties!
I love the intertubes!
From way below:
But Moe, the problem is here is in generalizing: my people had NOTHING to do with slavery. Nothing.
Never said that you did.
But the celebration of an earlier age of sail, without mention that it was based on slavery, serves to give an inaccurate picture of history, and one that by emission serves to invalidate those dealing with the historic aftermath of slavery today.
One more cup of coffee I guess.
(Maybe even I can write some this day - so far all I am doing is erasing shit)
Her restraint is uncanny. It would have taken me six valiums to get through the Lindsey Graham part of the hearings alone.
She's been a judge in NY. She's seen it all.
No, Iranian election was June 12, 2009.
I STILL edit my stuff harder than any editor, btw. In fact, during the editing portion of the last book we almost came to blows because they kept ADDING things.
DWD-YDWETAKIT?
Every man his own Hemingway.
so far all I am doing is erasing shit
Isn't that quite messy?
Omission, I think you mean.
And pretentiousness and assumption are always substitutes . . . .
But Moe, the problem is here is in generalizing: my people had NOTHING to do with slavery. Nothing.
My own people had nothing to do with building the interstate highway system.
I still benefit from it.
Same thing with slavery, seems to me; especially in America.
That was a drive-by, evidently. Later.
"Cooties! They've got cooties!
I love the intertubes!"
people that hate cars being mocked by people who hate people who hate cars.
will the circle be unbroken?
Toyota intends to produce a hybrid vehicle in the UK, using an engine assembled in Wales.
On the "crack cocaine" remark, they evidently had a discussion about equalizing penalities for crack and powder cocaine. The current sentencing guidelines tend to penalize minorities with the heavier penalities for crack.
The missing items include two planks of Mr. Obama's campaign platform: allowing cheaper drugs to be imported from Canada and giving the federal government the right to negotiate Medicare drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies.
Why should Canada send us cheap drugs, when we should do what every industrialized country in the world (and some non-industrialized) do? Have the government buy the drugs at reduced prices, and sell them to people via universal health care coverage.
It's the reason drugs are cheap in Europe and fantastically expensive in America. And it might finally get those ads for restless leg syndrome and that drug to make me speak in public off the air (yeah, I know their gone, but the stain remains).
I kind of like my local paper. A columnist there referred to Palin as Sarah "No Mas" Paln which I thought was clever.
Their man-on-the-street interviews are great too.
Why should Canada send us cheap drugs, when we should do what every industrialized country in the world (and some non-industrialized) do? Have the government buy the drugs at reduced prices, and sell them to people via universal health care coverage.
Sounds like a plan to me.
"and that drug to make me speak in public off the air "
alcohol?
that is true, and unfortunate. I wish someone would do a series of photos of her giving measured, intelligent answers to batshit stupid questions, with a thought balloon included showing what should have REALLY been said.
Wow. MTV flashback....
My own people had nothing to do with building the interstate highway system.
I still benefit from it.
Same thing with slavery, seems to me; especially in America.
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist
Strikes me as the best argument I've heard on either side of the argument.
"The Founding Fathers clearly intended every American to own at least one big automobile."
-- wingnut
On the "crack cocaine" remark, they evidently had a discussion about equalizing penalities for crack and powder cocaine. The current sentencing guidelines tend to penalize minorities with the heavier penalities for crack.
apres moi
They don't "tend" to, and it isn't the sentencing guidelines: it's the law.
"Crack" was perceived as a scary "new" drug sweeping the nation a la "Reefer Madness," and was going to consume us all if Congress didn't act to protect us from this scary scourge, the favorite high of brown people everywhere, which turned them into animals no police force could control.
There was an open discussion about this during the hearings, and a basic admission the resulting disparity in punishment was unfair. The fear led to draconian laws about crack (v. powder, favored by whites; remember "Annie Hall"?) which many Senators admitted, in the hearings, was grossly unjust. Of course, this is almost 30 years later, and I don't know that the laws have changed yet, but it's an old, old story.
The whole question of unfairness of punishment goes to the issue of the death penalty, but they didn't quite want to go there.....
well, shit. i guess i overslept. that's what i get for staying up all night watching scifi movies, i guess.
good morning.
Currently, US consumers defray nearly the entire cost of drug development through higher prices. Could we not convene a meeting of health authorities from all countries charged with developing a world-wide cost sharing agreement for drug development?
I recall reading a "love-scene" in one of Clancy's books, and I wondered if he'd ever actually had sex with a living being,
plantsman, mad google skillz
I'll bet whoever had sex with him wondered if they had.
""Crack" was perceived as a scary "new" drug sweeping the nation a la "Reefer Madness," and was going to consume us all if Congress didn't act to protect us from this scary scourge,"
crack *was* a scary drug, and the addiction and violence problems attest to that.
In other developments, Gloria Borger is brain dead:
Borger: Republicans show signs of life
Story Highlights
- Gloria Borger: Since Robert Bork hearings, nominees have avoided specifics
- She says GOP got Sotomayor to break with Obama's view of judicial "empathy"
- Borger: Hearings will make it harder to nominate a more liberal judge next time
What a fucking joke.
I'll bet whoever had sex with him wondered if they had.
"are you done yet?"
"The Founding Fathers clearly intended every American to own at least one big automobile."
-- wingnut
The word "automobile" doesn't appear in the text of the Constitution. So they should be banned.
Wow, I need coffee. I can talk, but I can't spell or use pronouns correctly.
Fortunately I'm so big now I don't have to fuss with an editor cutting out my words or even fixing my grammar.
Wait a minute. That's not fortunate at all!
RMJ - thanks,
my favorite fake drug was the one for "social anxiety syndrome." because being shy and nerdy is a disease? whatever.
"The Founding Fathers clearly intended every American to own at least one big automobile."
-- wingnut
Well, now that slavery is mostly out...
Off for a bit - laundromat and shopping beckon.
Have a good one, 'bats
Peace
I'm glad Jon Stewart's writers found that line about Lindsey Graham being a "Man Who Looks Like An Old Lesbian."
my favorite fake drug was the one for "social anxiety syndrome."
I thought that's what alcohol was for.
"my favorite fake drug was the one for "social anxiety syndrome." because being shy and nerdy is a disease?"
someone once said that's what they thought beer was for.
crack *was* a scary drug, and the addiction and violence problems attest to that.
jdw
Most experts today would argue those two are separable issues. Marijuana was once portrayed as fiercely addictive and a source of violence, too.
Most experts today agree the punishment for crack was related to who was using it, not what it did to the user.
Potter Rulz!
- NPR
Toyota intends to produce a hybrid vehicle in the UK, using an engine assembled in Wales.
Isn't it too wet to assemble an engine inside a whale?
my favorite fake drug was the one for "social anxiety syndrome." because being shy and nerdy is a disease?
Hey, thanks to Negageekasil I now have a semi-social life.
It's pretty damp in Swansea, from what Moon said.
my favorite fake drug was the one for "social anxiety syndrome." because being shy and nerdy is a disease? whatever.
chicago dyke, late nighter
OK, this will probably never, ever happen again. You should read Alex Beam's column today about the ever expanding range of billable psychiatric disorders. Something I've had huge brawls about online.
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/a...ical_disorders/
flame away, with facts and logic even, but i'm a great big CT type when it comes to crack. from start to finish, crack strikes me as a perfectly evil invention of our drug dealing/intel/neofascist govt agencies run by racists who feared the progress that came out of the 60s and 70s. black people were getting jobs, integrated, moving up in society and govt. what better way to put a stop to that than a horrendously addictive drug that just happens to show up in the urban core and creates crime and violence such that draconian laws are enacted which jail an entire generation of black youth and take them out of the political and economic system for good?
sorry, crack was an evil plot to destroy americans of color. it sort of worked.
"Most experts today agree the punishment for crack was related to who was using it, not what it did to the user."
i agree that the sentencing disparities were bullshit, but there's no denying that crack is an *extremely* dangerous drug.
because being shy and nerdy is a disease? whatever.
whereas being a glad-handing, back-slapping, room-working conman is our new national ideal.*
*not a dig at extroverts - but a feeling that this *is* the national ideal, in some circles. aaand - maybe not so new.
my favorite fake drug was the one for "social anxiety syndrome." because being shy and nerdy is a disease? whatever.
chicago dyke, late nighter
That was it! I hated that one. The latest is "TLC" (is that right?), some new male problem that is unrelated to my ability/inability to maintain an erection, but apparently related to my feelings about my manliness, or the fact that I'm no longer 18, or something.
Does nobody understand we are subsidizing the international drug companies with this crap, as well as the outrageous prices we pay for drugs? The rest of the world thinks we're nuts, while we trumpet our "free market" genius!
I'll retire to Bedlam.....
The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.
http://
www.democraticunderground...mesg_id=3973172
It's tough for a whore out there.
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Ahem. jdw owes me a beverage
"Ahem. jdw owes me a beverage"
regular coke, or crack?
i agree that the sentencing disparities were bullshit, but there's no denying that crack is an *extremely* dangerous drug.
jdw
The danger, however, was more related to the user than society at large.
Lots of people get very violent from alcohol, but nobody considers that as scary as crack. It's not the specific effect of the drug I'm concerned with; it's the perception of its effect on society, and the reaction to it that was the problem.
That was it! I hated that one. The latest is "TLC" (is that right?), some new male problem that is unrelated to my ability/inability to maintain an erection, but apparently related to my feelings about my manliness, or the fact that I'm no longer 18, or something.
sorry, crack was an evil plot to destroy americans of color. it sort of worked.
chicago dyke, late nighter
I blame the otherwise estimable Charles Bernard Rangel.
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Alaska Airlines currently has an ad where an asshole on his cellie is tooling around an airport gate, blabbing away obnoxiously. He notices another guy is in his row, and the gate agent tells the quiet guy she has an aisle seat about 10 rows away, for which he thanks her.
slanties, damn it.
That was it! I hated that one. The latest is "TLC" (is that right?), some new male problem that is unrelated to my ability/inability to maintain an erection, but apparently related to my feelings about my manliness, or the fact that I'm no longer 18, or something.
I keep seeing ads on MSNBC for something called "low T", which only strikes men.
Andrew, i'll bookmark that. but i suspect we're likely on the same page with that one. expanding range of "disease" is one of my soapbox issues, and the financial motivation of the players involved. and i too have had some nasty online brawls over that, including here.
i should do yoga now. if Dog is around, tell him to call me. /grumps/ i'm as mad at his phone company as he is, fuckers.
have a good day, bats.
I blame my erection problems on the visual image that Ann Coulter might be female.
Morning, Moonbats! Happy Friday!
I keep seeing ads on MSNBC for something called "low T", which only strikes men.
Karin Hussein
That's it. Wedged between Cialis ads.
MSNBC's target audience at night seems to be men of my age. This is not comforting to me.
more coffee. "anthony" not andrew.
At this hour, the only thing I drink is coffee.
Low T is Low Testosterone. It's "hormone replacement therapy" for men.
Gotta go to work.
At this hour, the only thing I drink is coffee.
Karin Hussein
Well, if I was at Brennan's in New Orleans, I'd have wine with breakfast. They assure me it's a tradition there.
But I'm not, and the coffee isn't going to grind itself....
erm, what's "low T"?
testosterone?
'morning!
oops, got answered before I posted!
Morning, Hecate; what's abloom in the garden?
Low T is Low Testosterone. It's "hormone replacement therapy" for men.
plantsman, mad google skillz
Which obviously sounds like "steroids" and "baseball players & Tour de France bike riders," so they needed a new euphemism.
"It's not the specific effect of the drug I'm concerned with; it's the perception of its effect on society, and the reaction to it that was the problem."
maybe true, but you can't say that 'well, they lied about pot so therefor they also lied about crack.'
if you worked in law enforcement or social services or a morgue during the height of the crack epidemic it was pretty easy to see that it was extremely dangerous.
I got a big stainless steel thermal coffee press yesterday to send to Afghanistan. The one in the field has blown a gasket.
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Maybe if a bunch of men starting taking Low T their pee would offset all the synthetic estrogens women are dumping into the watersheds.
More likely we'd still have hermaphroditic frogs only this time with big balls AND big tits.
(As a former biologist, I do know that's not the herp reproductive system.)
I keep being told I'm at high risk for PAD -- and I'm starting to hate these dopey acronyms for everything.
maybe true, but you can't say that 'well, they lied about pot so therefor they also lied about crack.'
if you worked in law enforcement or social services or a morgue during the height of the crack epidemic it was pretty easy to see that it was extremely dangerous.
jdw
The lie was aimed in the same direction: scaring non-users into supporting draconian law enforcement measures. For all the violence crack may have caused, what did the increased sentences do to restrain it? Not much.
That point is not even up for argument among the Senators on the Judiciary Committee anymore. That, alone, was my point.
As I've said three times now.
"MSNBC's target audience at night seems to be men of my age. This is not comforting to me."
for me, getting together with male friends looks suspiciously like a flowmax commercial.
"MSNBC's target audience at night seems to be men of my age. This is not comforting to me."
for me, getting together with male friends looks suspiciously like a flowmax commercial.
Morning, Hecate; what's abloom in the garden?
Hi, plantsman! I've got morning glories, daisies, black-eyed susans, still some day lilies, Queen Anne's lace, and I've got big buds on the Asiatic lilies.
How bout you?
Hey V, And Hecate too!
How's travels?
Did anybody feed Halofuck this morning?
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Big buds on the Oriental Lilies, and blooming Flowering Maple -- the black-eyed Susans around are all coming into bloom.
If you don't like your car, move to North Korea.
wheeeeeeeee
I keep seeing ads on MSNBC for something called "low T", which only strikes men.
Karin Hussein
A disease that strikes me as right up there in credibility with restless leg syndrome. I think the drug companies are making this shit up.
And speaking of the cialis ads, can somebody please explain the one that ends with the man and woman in separate bathtubs overlooking a Grand Canyon sunrise?
I've been trying to deconstruct that one for months now without success....
"As I've said three times now."
Sorry Rev, I took this sentence to mean you felt that crack wasn't very scary:
"""Crack" was perceived as a scary "new" drug sweeping the nation a la "Reefer Madness," and was going to consume us all if Congress didn't act to protect us from this scary scourge,"
Guess i misinterpreted, and will leave it at that.
It's morning in America!
Speaking of drugs and flowers, on our neighborhood list serve someone offered moonflower plants and someone else wrote back how kids are using them as a drug, to take care who she doles them out to. Which sparked a kerfluffle on helicopter parents and the mythology of drug use. Kind of amusing in a very typical way for this town, the Berkeley of the Midwest.
If you don't like your car, move to North Korea.
Yeah! Wait, what?
DWD was saying he hadn't seen much of Barbara Boxer lately. She's got a blog-post on Clean Energy up at HuffPo.
for me, getting together with male friends looks suspiciously like a flowmax commercial.
Watching Keith could cause high blood pressure, low blood sugar and possible stroke and death?
Feral -- it's gorgeous up here! Really great to see some old friends on the way; here there are baby chicks!
Back in a bit.
TGIF
what's Low T?
Character on Entourage.
You see, when a man and a woman love each other very much during the commercial break of a baseball game, they sit in matching bathtubs outside. And then the stork arrives.
"And speaking of the cialis ads, can somebody please explain the one that ends with the man and woman in separate bathtubs overlooking a Grand Canyon sunrise?"
no.
It doesn't get hot enough most years for Moonflowers ever to flower here.
A disease that strikes me as right up there in credibility with restless leg syndrome. I think the drug companies are making this shit up.
As Bill Maher once said, "We used to have a cure for restless leg syndrome. It was called three shots of whiskey."
My tomato plants are really tall - not sure that's a good thing.
And speaking of the cialis ads, can somebody please explain the one that ends with the man and woman in separate bathtubs overlooking a Grand Canyon sunrise?
I've been trying to deconstruct that one for months now without success....
steve simels
In fifteen minutes or so, he could jump into her tub!
See?
Impotent rage, indeed.
"And speaking of the cialis ads, can somebody please explain the one that ends with the man and woman in separate bathtubs overlooking a Grand Canyon sunrise?"
Well, it's long and deep, so you really need to Big One!
Are they fruiting, Jill?
Restless Cat Syndrome
No flirting.
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See, if the Cialis couple sat in the same bathtub, she could get pregnant from the sperm in the water. Jeesh, I thought everyone knew that.
(Cialis = See Alice---one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small...)
Restless Cat Syndrome
Only until they find a sunny spot.
RLS is a real neurological condition. It's important inasmuch that left untreated, it can cause someone to never enter REM sleep, much like that once-thought-imaginary sleep apnea.
Viva Viagra!
Saw where the 66 year old mother just died. Not a good move to have kids that late.
Are they fruiting, Jill?
A few of them - and they all have flowers. I'm just getting anxious. I hope we get enough sun to red them up.
true, I'm just irritated because Tiger woke me at some ungodly hour.
(Cialis = See Alice---one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small...)
noblejoanie
From Molly, too
(Cialis = See Alice---one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small...)
This scruffy orange tabby has been trying to establish a sunning spot on our building's front deck, but yesterday the cat who lives in our building gave the tabby what-for and whomped it.
RLS is a real neurological condition. It's important inasmuch that left untreated, it can cause someone to never enter REM sleep
I believe most GOP members have a restless leg syndrome.
OOooh, lucky you, V. Give Molly and the 434 children a big hug. But stay out of bath or hot tubs with Thers--he obviously doesn't need any magic pills...
Cut back on watering frequency and amount, too Jill -- that should encourage ripening.
"emphysema is a symptom of freedom"-inqy commenters
Politico and the Washington Post Have Become Virtual "Escort Services" for Moneyed Elites
http://www.alternet.org/media/
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Fluffing the low T clients again?
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And speaking of ads, does anybody remember the great SPY magazine piece (from 1987) deconstructing the blatant S&M subtext in the old full page Newport Cigarettes ads?
Well, let's go get cat food, and get ready for a day's employment at the scooter shoppe.
Emphysema is now called COPD.
Alive With Pleasure!
Cut back on watering frequency and amount
Thanks plantsman! I may need to talk to the weatherman tho - we've had monsoons all "summer".
There's always a bunch of "do the best you can" that comes unspoken with my advice.
Cut back on watering frequency and amount
I'm trying to wean mine.
The 1/4 inch of rain, v. the usual 5", in June, has helped.
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which senator benefits?
You’ve come a long way, baby.
I'd LOVE to say that I gave up driving out of some deep need to save the planet or some such nonsense, but really, that's just a benefit.
Truth is, I'm a lousy driver, I have next to no depth perception, and driving to me looks like one barely-avoided catastrophe after another - and I'm a terrible gambler, too.
On the other hand, no car note, no insurance, and no tickets.
If only I didn't live in a city where the weather wasn't constantly and actively on the lookout for opportunities for mayhem and manslaughter.
Good morning, all and Happy Birthday, to me.
Good morning!
Late to the party, but I love this comment from the linked article:
Countries where nobody has a car, and everybody has government healthcare are countries that have to build walls around themselves to keep citizens in because everyone wants to escape to countries where everyone has a car and nobody has government healthcare. If you don't like your car, move to North Korea.
How can you argue with logic like that!
Happy Birfday, Meander!
"Good morning, all and Happy Birthday, to me."
Yes!!! Happy Birfday!!
Happy birthday, Meander!
Meander's come a long way, baby!
Venice is hell.
steve --
Left a comment over at B.O. that just may -- may, mind you -- inadvertently hint at my all-time favorite Hollywood movie decade.
Countries where nobody has a car, and everybody has government healthcare are countries that have to build walls around themselves to keep citizens in because everyone wants to escape to countries where everyone has a car and nobody has government healthcare. If you don't like your car, move to North Korea.
I was wondering about that one, myself. what countries is this person thinking of? the ones behind the iron curtain?
Countries where nobody has a car, and everybody has government healthcare are countries that have to build walls around themselves to keep citizens in because everyone wants to escape to countries where everyone has a car and nobody has government healthcare. If you don't like your car, move to North Korea.
Assuming this is not parody, it's astounding that the writer's brain generated enough energy to move the fingers to type that.
I was wondering about that one, myself. what countries is this person thinking of? the ones behind the iron curtain?
mingo
I dunno, the Russians love cars, the Cubans love cars... what car-less country is there?
Yeah, I remember when the City of London finally built that new wall around the Congestion zone. No one knows what happened to the people behind the wall, but every now and then you can hear a stray coughing street urchin or chimney sweep.
steve simels : And speaking of ads, does anybody remember the great SPY magazine piece (from 1987) deconstructing the blatant S&M subtext in the old full page Newport Cigarettes ads?
It's been said more than once - someone needs to republish all of those SPY issues, preferably on the Web. That was legendary snark.
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Happy Happy, Meander!
everyone wants to escape to countries where everyone has a car and nobody has government healthcare
If this guy ever finds out about Canada his head will explode...
every now and then you can hear a stray coughing street urchin or chimney sweep.
Jay C.
I like it when they spontaneously break into a song and dance number.
Oh, and Many Happy Meandering Returns!
Allo Govner!
"MSNBC's target audience at night seems to be men of my age. This is not comforting to me."
Wait till it's men younger than your age. Tell us how you feel then.
How can you argue with logic like that!
Oh, but the comment is sooo much richer when accompanied by the comment just beneath it.
He's thinking of the Upper West Side.
He's thinking of the Upper West Side.
C/T, translator
Where the streets are always packed and you can never find parking?
I dunno, the Russians love cars, the Cubans love cars... what car-less country is there?
I suspect "small, energy-efficient car" = "no car" to this person. and and the poor unfortunates in all those walled-off, health-care besieged countries are yup, definitely lined up trying to escape.
It's been said more than once - someone needs to republish all of those SPY issues, preferably on the Web. That was legendary snark.
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Indeed. I consider it a major cultural tragedy that they went out of business just a smidge too early to have been able to digitally archive all their stuff.
The most priceless 80s time capsule of them all...
I suspect "small, energy-efficient car" = "no car" to this person. and and the poor unfortunates in all those walled-off, health-care besieged countries are yup, definitely lined up trying to escape.
Those Scandinavians are just lining up to move to the US...
I like it when they spontaneously break into a song and dance number.
Gummo
The last time I was there, the streets and parks were positively choked with one-man bands!
Countries where nobody has a car, and everybody has government healthcare are countries that have to build walls around themselves to keep citizens in because everyone wants to escape to countries where everyone has a car and nobody has government healthcare. If you don't like your car, move to North Korea.
I love it when someone suggests that maybe, just maybe, owning a car isn't quite All That, and these fools jump up to defend the car lifestyle, probably to cover over the fact that they had to make some severe compromises to live the way they do.
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The last time I was there, the streets and parks were positively choked with one-man bands!
Jay C.
Were the sidewalks littered with dropped aitches?
I love it when someone suggests that maybe, just maybe, owning a car isn't quite All That, and these fools jump up to defend the car lifestyle, probably to cover over the fact that they had to make some severe compromises to live the way they do.
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Meander, I ATE'NT DEAD yet
It's the fury that gets me. "How DARE you suggest that MY lifestyle isn't the BEST FUCKING LIFESTYLE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WOORRRRRRRLLLD!!!"
everyone wants to escape to countries where everyone has a car and nobody has government healthcare
If this guy ever finds out about Canada his head will explode...
FeralL - Blissed
In Canada you have to wait months to buy a car. And then the government tells you what kind you can buy!
I am amazed at the sound qualities of Rockefeller Center. I was watching Today and they had All American Rejects on as part of their summer concert series. I switched over to Good Morning America where they had Third Eye Blind on as part of their summer concert series, but they were at some college in North Carolina.
Needless to say, but Third Eye Blind sounded just like a live band. Outdoor sound quality and you could hear the audience singing.
Not so the band on NBC. They sounded like they were in a recording studio. Perfect sound quality with no transient noise at all.
Happy b'day, Meander!
Also, on the subject of North Korea, Kim Jong Il's possible successor grew up as a rabid NBA fan, sketching picture after picture of Michael Jordan and traveling in state cars to watch exhibition games in Europe.
So any future confrontation can of course be solved by a game of 1-on-1 against Obama.
In Canada you have to wait months to buy a car. And then the government tells you what kind you can buy!
V4V on Lib Mtn
Happy birthday Me-an-der
Happy birthday to you
To make your day turn out good
I bring this present to you
[virtually]
Were the sidewalks littered with dropped aitches?
Gummo
Just like the lucrative trade in dropped "R"s that ships excess consonants from New England to the Midwest.
In Russia car abandons you!
Thanks for all of the birthday greetings, mes amis!
I'm usually quite depressed on my birthday, probably because my father died at 48, and I was dreading the approaching day.
Well, today is the day, and I now stand an excellent chance of being dead before Christmas and I couldn't be happier.
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Happy Birthday, Meander.
Take care of the London sidewalk chalk drawings, though. Never know where you might end up, dancing penguins and such.
Well, today is the day, and I now stand an excellent chance of being dead before Christmas and I couldn't be happier.
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Meander, I ATE'NT DEAD yet
.... um..... yay?
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Those poor people suffering in their urban hellhole.
so sad
Take care of the London sidewalk chalk drawings, though. Never know where you might end up, dancing penguins and such.
noblejoanie
Heh. My little sister wore out a VHS of "Mary Poppins," and would jump off the couch every time they jumped into the chalk drawings. She said it worked one time, but nobody was around to see it.
I am amazed at the sound qualities of Rockefeller Center. I was watching Today and they had All American Rejects on as part of their summer concert series. I switched over to Good Morning America where they had Third Eye Blind on as part of their summer concert series, but they were at some college in North Carolina.
Mornin'.
I caught the All American Rejects when they were just high school dorks Tyson and Nick, playing silly/catchy pop on guitar and synth.
Incidentally, this was at Willie's Saloon in Stillwater, OK. Where Garth Brooks used to be a bouncer.
Watson hanging in there.
En haut
Mr. Biggleworth/Palin '12
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