That's what happens when you index the climate to the stock market.
Roadmaster, Upheavalist |
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03.14.08 - 5:49 pm | #
A friend of mine gave me a fifth of Jameson's for Christmas. I've saved some of it for St. Patrick's Day. Mmmmm...Jameson's.
gonzolib |
03.14.08 - 5:49 pm | #
The Purge is working!
Sir Oolius |
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03.14.08 - 5:51 pm | #
Friends of Tucker? Phrase like they do on Jeopardy. "What is a very small group of people, Alex."
gonzolib |
03.14.08 - 5:51 pm | #
Things I just heard listening to a few minutes of some woman subbing for Ed Schultz on the radio today. Keep in mind, kids, this is "lefty radio":
1. "Tucker, you're the most honorable man on television. No wonder you and John McCain get along so well." That is how she ended an interview with whom I can only assume was Tucker Carlson.
2. "Ann Curry is America's sweetheart."
3. Geraldine Ferraro made a great case for why women shouldn't "rule the world" by acting like a typical, crazy, shouting, out of control female.
I have no idea who this idiot is, subbing for Schultz. Does anyone know? My god.
lisa |
03.14.08 - 5:52 pm | #
How is it possible for Geraldine Ferraro to be called a racist?
Think abt what you're saying.
There must be a lot of young people in here.
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 5:52 pm | #
have never seen this many lows.
More snow in the Siskyous!
Tlazolteotl |
03.14.08 - 5:53 pm | #
I have no idea who this idiot is, subbing for Schultz. Does anyone know? My god.
who's ed schultz?
theodoric, evolutionary dead e |
03.14.08 - 5:53 pm | #
Whom shall we purge now, my leftist, jihadist brethren?
... and ... sistren?
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Grand Moff Texan |
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03.14.08 - 5:53 pm | #
somebody got picked up from day care early.
1Watt, Hermit |
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03.14.08 - 5:54 pm | #
who's ed schultz?
Friend of Klink
Gregor Samsa |
03.14.08 - 5:54 pm | #
(o)(o)
Just look at all those pairs of boobies!
Tlazolteotl |
03.14.08 - 5:54 pm | #
At the rate my retirement fund is disappearing due to Chimpy's robust stock market, I'm extra glad I saved that Jameson's.
gonzolib |
03.14.08 - 5:54 pm | #
OK,
her name is Tammy Haddad. I know the name, but I don't know why.
What a frickin' moron.
lisa |
03.14.08 - 5:54 pm | #
Whom shall we purge now, my leftist, jihadist brethren?
Tim O'Neil's buttboy?
Sir Oolius |
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03.14.08 - 5:55 pm | #
mainstream media:
how can we possibly ignore the nutcase Hagee calling for blood in our streets?
oh lets find a new minister who's even 'worse.'
juan no no nsensical |
03.14.08 - 5:55 pm | #
Had dad? Is that something she really wants to brag about?
Tlazolteotl |
03.14.08 - 5:55 pm | #
Jeebus, I had no idea that the Schlabotnik Correspendence School for Wingnuttery was out on spring break already.
gonzolib |
03.14.08 - 5:56 pm | #
toby pretends to be normal
i read nothing he says
juan no no nsensical |
03.14.08 - 5:56 pm | #
Tim O'Neil's buttboy?
We have no Woduwick.
.
Grand Moff Texan |
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03.14.08 - 5:56 pm | #
Who knew the American Electorate was so immature that it could not legitimately ---and without fear of reprisals--- say that part of BHO's appeal is obviously race?
WTF is wrong with you people? Your psychotic insistence on Multikulturalism uber Alles is finally paying off, innit?
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 5:56 pm | #
nothing from nothing leaves nothing
you gotta have something
if you want to be with me
Richard |
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03.14.08 - 5:56 pm | #
"Friends of Tucker? Huh? Is that like dingle berries?"
--leibniz♘☮
You've gotten so cynical, I think I love you.
mer |
03.14.08 - 5:56 pm | #
My ex-congressman and Atrios' bff is working at liberal news service in Columbus while he finishes out his sentence. Maybe the environment will do him good . . .
Sparkle Plenty |
03.14.08 - 5:57 pm | #
juan...oh yeah, Hagee is all hot to go to war against Iran in order to start the final days.
gonzolib |
03.14.08 - 5:57 pm | #
Cool. I just got a Canadian quarter in my change.
Troutski, my friends. |
03.14.08 - 5:57 pm | #
Buttboy and rubbin'
Richard |
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03.14.08 - 5:57 pm | #
Assuming you're serious, Ed Schultz is a supposed semi-liberal Rush Limbaugh. And he is a semi-liberal. He's not purist enough for a lot of people, but whatever. He appeals to a segment of the population that certainly isn't going to be swayed by the likes of Janeane Garafaolo.
He's on our Air America station every afternoon in Portland.
Who is Tammy Haddad, and why is she on my radio?
lisa |
03.14.08 - 5:57 pm | #
Somebody get a spoon or something to stick between Toby's teeth...he seems to be having a petit mal at the moment....
Tlazolteotl |
03.14.08 - 5:57 pm | #
whatever crap obama's pastor believes i'll bet you can find 1000 official NUTCASE END-TIME PREACHERS
RAPTURE WRINGER-WASHERS
RALPH REED CHILD-MEN SNIFFING THEIR BIBLES
who are worse
juan no no nsensical |
03.14.08 - 5:58 pm | #
Who knew the American Electorate was so immature that it could not legitimately ---and without fear of reprisals--- say that part of BHO's appeal is obviously race?
If that were what Ferraro said, and had left it there, we wouldn't be having this obnoxious discussion.
SteveLG |
03.14.08 - 5:58 pm | #
From zero to stupid in 0.5 nanodildoes:
Who knew the American Electorate was so immature that it could not legitimately ---and without fear of reprisals--- say that part of BHO's appeal is obviously race?
WTF is wrong with you people? Your psychotic insistence on Multikulturalism uber Alles is finally paying off, innit?
Right. "How can you not pay attention to race? This is all due to your dastardly emphasis on racial diversity."
Dude, pick a ringwingism and fucking stick to it, OK? You can't have both.
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Grand Moff Texan |
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03.14.08 - 5:59 pm | #
Sesno, just because you couldn't get laid in a women's prison don't mean you're fit to pass judgment on others.
Lime Rickey |
03.14.08 - 5:59 pm | #
WTF is wrong with you people? Your psychotic insistence on Multikulturalism uber Alles is finally paying off, innit?
OK, having problems parsing this dribble. Any takers on a universal translator to make sense of this crud?
Or is it just not worth the effort?
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
03.14.08 - 5:59 pm | #
Somebody get a spoon or something to stick between Toby's teeth...he seems to be having a petit mal at the moment..
It's like stumbling upon a drunk trying to give himself a blow job.
leibniz♘☮ |
03.14.08 - 5:59 pm | #
Olbermann's so over the fucking top on this that it's an indictment of not only his own intellect but that of anyone who listens to him.
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 6:00 pm | #
Hagee is all hot to go to war against Iran in order to start the final days.
gonzolib | 03.14.08 - 5:57 pm | #
1000 times worse than any crap that obama's pastor might be guilty of
this is how they cover it up
they go after obama's pastor
HAGEE IS THE BONAFIDE BLOODTHIRSTY NUT CASE WEARING A RADIATION PROOF CHASTITY BELT
juan no no nsensical |
03.14.08 - 6:00 pm | #
This Wright thing is a motherfucker. It cannot be perfumed over.
Good bye, BHO.
Obama is going to whup the shit out of McDouche and then he's going to whup him for shittin.
Yo mama.
billy b |
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03.14.08 - 6:00 pm | #
Dog burning is illegal. People who set dogs on fire are some pretty low shit.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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03.14.08 - 6:00 pm | #
Hogs beat Vanderbilt. Whoo-hoo!
LittlePig
Wow. Arkansas could make the NCAA folks have a tough time with bubble teams...
Roadmaster, Upheavalist |
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03.14.08 - 6:00 pm | #
It's like stumbling upon a drunk trying to give himself a blow job.
There was nothing I hated more than to see a filthy old drunkie, a-howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as if it were a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts. I could never stand to see anyone like that, especially when they were old like this one was.
Gregor Samsa |
03.14.08 - 6:01 pm | #
Olbermann's so over the fucking top on this that it's an indictment of not only his own intellect but that of anyone who listens to him.
And you know this because ... you listen to him?
Or because you listened to someone who's intellectually debased enough to listen to Olbermann, in which case, why are you listening to him?
You haven't thought this through, have you?
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Grand Moff Texan |
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03.14.08 - 6:01 pm | #
Olbermann's so over the fucking top on this that it's an indictment of not only his own intellect but that of anyone who listens to him.
Toby Petzold
This from a fan of Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and Hannity.
Not to mention the genocidal Anne the Mann Coulter.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
03.14.08 - 6:01 pm | #
Yep. You're gonna ride this one all the way into a Slim Pickens singularity.
BOOM.
There went the Demokratische Partei.
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 6:01 pm | #
Hagee just figures that since God is slow in bringing on the Rapture, he'll give the Good Lord a hand.
gonzolib |
03.14.08 - 6:01 pm | #
Where was Ali Velshi's cowboy hat today? He was on air without it and I'm concerned. And why was Sara Taylor, serial liar, on my TV today?
FuzzFinger |
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03.14.08 - 6:04 pm | #
There went the Demokratische Partei.
Toby Petzold
Again, McStain has raised a whole $16.25 this quarter.
Mostly from empty beer cans.
Barndog's River Guide Service |
03.14.08 - 6:04 pm | #
hagee wants incineration
(actually he disproves my idea that dna hardwires us for survival)
fricking endtime christian nutcases WANT death
juan no no nsensical |
03.14.08 - 6:04 pm | #
Hey! It's pi day! 3.14.
Time to drink to Euler's identity:
exp( i*pi) +1 =0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Eul...of_the_identity
A reader poll conducted by Mathematical Intelligencer named the identity as the most beautiful theorem in mathematics.[1] Another reader poll conducted by Physics World in 2004 named Euler's identity the "greatest equation ever", together with Maxwell's equations.[2]
The book Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula [2006], by Paul Nahin (Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire), is devoted to Euler's identity; it is 400 pages long. The book states that the identity sets "the gold standard for mathematical beauty."[3]
Constance Reid claimed that Euler's identity was "the most famous formula in all mathematics."[4]
Gauss is reported to have commented that if this formula was not immediately apparent to a student on being told it, the student would never be a first-class mathematician.[5]
After proving the identity in a lecture, Benjamin Peirce, a noted nineteenth century mathematician and Harvard professor, said, "It is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth." [6]
Stanford mathematics professor Keith Devlin says, "Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's equation reaches down into the very depths of existence."[7]
Richard |
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03.14.08 - 6:04 pm | #
If that were what Ferraro said, and had left it there, we wouldn't be having this obnoxious discussion.
SteveLG
At the risk of getting sucked into the nonsense, IMHO, Barack is doing well in spite of being black, not because he's black.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur |
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03.14.08 - 6:04 pm | #
Yeah, Olberman's way worse than the serial loofah abuser O'Lielly.
gonzolib |
03.14.08 - 6:04 pm | #
Tammy Haddad: former veep of MSNBC, former producer of "Hardball", Haddad has a long and storied career of success in cable news, including pioneering "Larry King Live" for CNN, being part of the team to take NBC's "Today Show" to number one, and was called "the most influential woman behind the TV news camera in Washington" last year by U.S. News' Paul Bedard.
All this fails to mention that she's also a blithering idiot. Or maybe that would be redundant.
lisa |
03.14.08 - 6:05 pm | #
The Big Lebowski - free on Hulu
WalterNeff, Thai master |
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03.14.08 - 6:06 pm | #
Tammy Hadad = ex-producer for Chris Matthew's Hardball.
mrstrailerco |
03.14.08 - 6:06 pm | #
speaking of pi
time to fly
got a friends gallery 'group show' thing to attend......
so long
juan no no nsensical |
03.14.08 - 6:06 pm | #
An employee at Haller & Colvin Attorneys at Law called 911 Thursday after opening a U.S. Postal Service box and finding a suspicious gift bag inside, police said.
Officers then called the city's bomb unit, which brought in a robot to carry the package outside to a parking lot. X-rays showed no signs of an explosive, but bomb technicians decided to detonate the package with a water cannon just to be safe, police spokesman Michael Joyner said.
After that, they opened the box and found the turnip, wrapped in lettuce-green tissue paper inside a sandwich bag.
It was unclear who was supposed to receive the vegetable.
1Watt, Hermit |
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03.14.08 - 6:07 pm | #
e to the i*pi = -1
Tlazolteotl |
03.14.08 - 6:07 pm | #
The Big Lebowski - free on Hulu
WalterNeff, Thai master
Until the Man buys Hulu.
MP |
03.14.08 - 6:07 pm | #
Gauss is reported to have commented that if this formula was not immediately apparent to a student on being told it, the student would never be a first-class mathematician.
.
(stands with crestfallen look on face)
elkal |
03.14.08 - 6:08 pm | #
Mulholland Drive - free on hulu
must fast forward . . . .
WalterNeff, Thai master |
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03.14.08 - 6:08 pm | #
Fuck you, Dobbs. Why should a churchgoer have to explain every crackpot thing that a preacher says?
So if you won't register for the Con, will you at least tell me what events you'll be attending? We need to arrange for food.
Molly Ivors, Faux Jihadi |
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03.14.08 - 6:10 pm | #
Jesus F. Christ!!! Now they're planting fake bombs in Lettuce mail!!
My rocket is going to be really, really full.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur
See if you can get Boeing to build a couple prototypes for you. They won't be as busy as they anticipated for at least the next decade.
Roadmaster, Upheavalist |
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03.14.08 - 6:11 pm | #
So if you won't register for the Con, will you at least tell me what events you'll be attending? We need to arrange for food.
I'll register.
I'll be there Friday nite and Saturday day.
billy b |
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03.14.08 - 6:12 pm | #
Fuck you, Dobbs. Why should a churchgoer have to explain every crackpot thing that a preacher says?
People would walk around apologizing all day long.,/i>
Lime Rickey
Well, from what I see though Obama is making himself clear on this - even willing to go on FOX - John Kerry was not half so smart - and ferraro is a closeted old generational racist - there's lots of them everywhere and unfortunately that includes my mother-in-law my mom - humans are not a very bright lot - witness toby
Nuts! just plain |
03.14.08 - 6:12 pm | #
It's already commercialized, and that's understandable. I hope it's making money, because every time you read that a mega corp has just taken over another cool piece of cyberworld, you can bet it's going to get shittier, any moment.
MP |
03.14.08 - 6:12 pm | #
I'm digging on a SXSW band right now. I don't know their name, though.
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 6:12 pm | #
I wonder if Toby will spontaneously combust on Obama's inagural day in 2009?
I hope he does it in public so there will be video.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur |
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03.14.08 - 6:13 pm | #
Is it possible that BHO won't even make it to Pennsylvania?
Obama's the front runner, you stupid bastard.
billy b |
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03.14.08 - 6:13 pm | #
Even Josh Marshall knows there's a problem.
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 6:13 pm | #
somebody is deep into wishful thinking today....
nick carraway |
03.14.08 - 6:13 pm | #
Pestering about Tibet:
Contact info for all US Chinese embassies and consulates -- and, just as importantly, for the organizers of next summer's Beijing Olympics, which depend on China projecting a humane image -- on .
I'm digging on a SXSW band right now. I don't know their name, though.
The Backstreet Boys?
In Sync?
billy b |
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03.14.08 - 6:14 pm | #
Does it even matter how it got started?
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 6:14 pm | #
I hope it's making money, because every time you read that a mega corp has just taken over another cool piece of cyberworld, you can bet it's going to get shittier, any moment.
I don't think Hulu was EVER a "cool piece of cyberworld"... I think it's ALWAYS been a subsidiary of TheManCorp.
The content is "free" because TheManCorp doesn't have to pay the writers, for starters, yet sells advertising.
Is it possible that BHO won't even make it to Pennsylvania?
Toby Petzold
how is it you make it through a day? do you have someone in your basement who reminds you to open your mouth and breathe? you're an ignorant, hate-filled, mentally challenged little boy
Nuts! just plain |
03.14.08 - 6:16 pm | #
Hooray, I can't wait to meet the best dissers of trolls on the internets. Well, you and thor. Will you give lessons?
I'm flattered, mer.
I'll probably get wound up, that's for sure.
billy b |
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03.14.08 - 6:17 pm | #
You can't kiss your sweety with apocalypse.
The Robot Devil |
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03.14.08 - 6:17 pm | #
Is it Colin Powell or Petraeus who's known as that "ass-kissing little chickenshit"?
Or is it both?
Lime Rickey |
03.14.08 - 6:17 pm | #
Some assholes have even had the nerve today to say that this thing with Wright is a mercy to BHO since it innoculates him for the general, but that's insane.
It kills him now. Not later.
Your party is fucking up. Pay attention now, assholes, before you wreck it for a decade to come.
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 6:18 pm | #
you're an ignorant, hate-filled, mentally challenged little boy
Tubby's a green-teef cracker redneck. I've been around dipshits like Tubs all my life.
I like to keep 'em around just for amusement.
billy b |
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03.14.08 - 6:19 pm | #
How is one retiring pastor's final sermon an example of the Party fucking up?
It gave Obama an excuse to make a Farrakhan-style break (and use the opportunity to reaffirm his Christianity at the same time). Good for him.
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:20 pm | #
I've always wondered why rightwing nuts (the people who brought us Iraq, Katrina, and now the Housing Crisis) think we give a shit about their opinions about the Democratic race.
we don't tell Toby which candidate deserves the National Socialist White People's Party nomination, so why would he care who we nominate?
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari |
03.14.08 - 6:21 pm | #
Come on putzold! this is not exactly 10 minutes off the wire and you have nothing better to do than pretend Obama's not going on fox and msnbc to make it clear - I seriously wish Kerry had been ha;f this astute - we wouldn't have had 4 more years of FUBAR - that's a nice country you had there tobes - it's gotta' make you sick inside watching feriners buy it up after the good screwing bush/cheney et al gave her
Nuts! just plain |
03.14.08 - 6:21 pm | #
fourlegs, if you're coming down, can you at least tell me so that I can comb my hair and make up my face?
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 6:22 pm | #
If the principal of your high school boffed every other female student, would that make you responsible?
Lime Rickey |
03.14.08 - 6:22 pm | #
somebody is deep into wishful thinking today....
nick carraway | 03.14.08 - 6:13 pm |
we don't tell Toby which candidate deserves the National Socialist White People's Party nomination, so why would he care who we nominate?
The republics don't need any help, that bunch of einsteins have nominated the best possible candidate.
McDoucheBag is a fucking punching bag.
billy b |
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03.14.08 - 6:23 pm | #
4lg
looks like the Austin Nazi wants a date.
his last boyfriend didn't work out so well.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari |
03.14.08 - 6:23 pm | #
This isn't taking Hagee out to the woodshed, chumps.
This is Obama's mentor we're talking abt.
"God damn, America" isn't going to endear itself to my very Democratic and very religious mother.
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 6:24 pm | #
After 8 years of Chimpy and VP Pork Chop Halliburton, it's time to start learning Chinese. Which is better, Mandarin or Cantonese?
gonzolib |
03.14.08 - 6:24 pm | #
I just learned Tucker is gone. Who is taking its place?
lipreader |
03.14.08 - 6:24 pm | #
And trademark - I have shaken Naomi Watts' hand.
WalterNeff, Thai master |
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03.14.08 - 6:24 pm | #
Bush the Rodney Dangerfield of Pols:
"Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa told US President George W. Bush on Friday to either send US troops to the border with Colombia or "shut up," in response to criticism that Ecuador harbors Colombian rebels.
"Mr Bush, bring over your soldiers, let your soldiers be the ones who get killed at the southern border with Colombia," Correa said two weeks after Bogota raided a Colombian rebel camp inside Ecuador killing a top rebel leader.
"Lets see if American citizens will accept such a tremendous barbarity. Otherwise, shut up and try to understand what's happening in Latin America," the Ecuadoran leader added."
1Watt, Hermit |
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03.14.08 - 6:24 pm | #
his last boyfriend didn't work out so well.
It sprung a hole and deflated. And the cucumber rotted.
Anon |
03.14.08 - 6:24 pm | #
Hey billy, the Hogs beat Vandy! They'll play Tennessee tomorrow afternoon.
LittlePig
Well, it was fun whilst it lasted...
billy b |
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03.14.08 - 6:25 pm | #
"God damn, America" isn't going to endear itself to my very Democratic and very religious mother.
test tubes get to vote in Texas? how liberal.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari |
03.14.08 - 6:25 pm | #
So knuckling under to the wingnuts and groveling on Faux to do so is somehow good for Obama?
he can either stand up and refute it and let the narrative have a life of its own or he could do like Kerry and pretend he's above it and screw himself - how about you carry on and get over yourself salesboy!
Nuts! just plain |
03.14.08 - 6:28 pm | #
Aiight, I gots to go git sum grub.
For all you haute cuisine snobs, I'm taking the boy to the Cracker Barrel.
BTW, I just watched Wright's sermon. All it does is "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable", which is still the best definition of solid, Biblical prophetic (as distinguished from priestly) speech. The only thing disturbing about this sermon is the same thing that's disturbing about Obama's campaign: the comfortable are made uncomfortable by it. This middle aged white guy's got no problem with any of it.
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:32 pm | #
I guess fourlegs is either in the can or on his way down to see me.
I can't wait to meet him and buy him a coffee.
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 6:32 pm | #
Toby is just glad that 4000 Americans have died in Iraq to get the price of gasoline to $3.50 a gallon. Mission Accomplished! It'll keep going up since Bush is on his way out. Of course there will be a dip just before the election so the American public can forget they've been screwed, but it won't help McCain.
That looks like a pint of Guiness as Thers' gravatar.
Barndog's River Guide Service |
03.14.08 - 6:33 pm | #
And you went where?
Ark Tech?
billy b
Exactly. Which is why I have no qualms about switching allegiances to U of A.
And I spent a lot of time up at Fayetteville. Not going to classes by any means, but a lot of time none the less...
LittlePig |
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03.14.08 - 6:33 pm | #
You mean Anthony?
was that Toby's last boyfriend? He seems to burn through them, hard to keep track.
Toby doesn't seem to understand the importance of toothpaste and underarm deodorant, so there tends to be a high turnover.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari |
03.14.08 - 6:33 pm | #
That looks like a pint of Guiness as Thers' gravatar.
It is. And it's mine, keep your paws off it.
Thers |
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03.14.08 - 6:34 pm | #
lipreader, the world oil market has a couple of new players in it who really ween't in it before and it's wrecking our sense of petro-entitlement as Amerikkkans.
Toby Petzold |
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03.14.08 - 6:34 pm | #
The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments. But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.
Let me repeat what I've said earlier. All of the statements that have been the subject of controversy are ones that I vehemently condemn. They in no way reflect my attitudes and directly contradict my profound love for this country.
sorry to defalte your boner there tobes but that's a denial denial and the mention of baptism etc help quash the Muslim narrative as well - this is the kind of thing that's effective in the last week of a campaign - not with 8 months to go
Nuts! just plain |
03.14.08 - 6:34 pm | #
was that Toby's last boyfriend?
It's the one he wrote the poem to, about how he was into some guy named Anthony.
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03.14.08 - 6:35 pm | #
All it does is "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
T.D. Scott (formerly T2)
You mean he actually puts a little Jesus in his Christianity? Yeah, I can see how Republicans would have a big problem with that. All that "loving your neighbor as yourself" and "give all that you have away and follow Me" is quite unpalatable to the Mammon-worship set.
LittlePig |
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03.14.08 - 6:35 pm | #
Who is taking its place?
David Gregory.
theodoric, evolutionary dead e |
03.14.08 - 6:36 pm | #
Yeah, that's the one where I pretended to be Julius Caesar.
As it were.
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03.14.08 - 6:36 pm | #
Hmmmmmmm..... Houses that I've long admired in Albuquerque are suddenly back within reach. Shall I move back to la Tierra Encantada?
Barmpot Shouty-Crackers, PhD |
03.14.08 - 6:36 pm | #
Hmmmmmmm..... Houses that I've long admired in Albuquerque are suddenly back within reach. Shall I move back to la Tierra Encantada?
Barmpot Shouty-Crackers, PhD
Depends. How do you feel about rabbits with poor directional sense?
LittlePig |
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03.14.08 - 6:37 pm | #
Bush's sole reason for running for president was to fill the coffers of Texas oil men by disrupting oil supplies like Poppy did with Gulf War 1.
The hypothesis was put forth at the time and accurately predicted Bush's actions and the resulting wealth accumulation by the likes of Exxon. It is valid.
lipreader |
03.14.08 - 6:37 pm | #
do we have nothing better to do than pile on toby?
I think it's all downhill from "cum gums".
theodoric, evolutionary dead e |
03.14.08 - 6:38 pm | #
Oh, and if I didn't mention it: just send some emails, including to the Beijing Olympics folks, willya? Tiananmen Square is happening all over again in Tibet, and they need to know the world is watching. Just open a new tab, click, write something polite and brief, and send.
It's my "netboots" concept, like we did during Alito-stock: if we don't convert web into real world, then we're all just a bunch of bloggers blogging to other bloggers, which is sorta like whacking off alone in a closet instead of engaging another person.
My $.02, but please send a couple emails. Or I'll come to your house and peel the "Free Tibet" sticker off your VW!
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:38 pm | #
I'm tired of hearing about Obama's pastor. But if they want to play the game of judging the candidates by the company they keep, well, I'm all for it.
Sinfonian, man-o-lantern |
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03.14.08 - 6:38 pm | #
ok, this flu is really kicking my ass. later, bats.
and remember, cockpunching the Austin Nazi is both fun and necessary.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari |
03.14.08 - 6:38 pm | #
If I paint my scrotum yellow, it looks like a pair of those yellow Easter peeps.
You know, some of us are trying to work and can't afford to spit an entire mouthful of spring water at the keyboard.
Who is taking its place?
David Gregory.
theodoric, evolutionary dead e
Ah, that explains the Grecian formula.
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03.14.08 - 6:39 pm | #
I am curious, I don't know all the details but it seems to me that the majority of people who are complaining about this preacher are pissed about his saying "God damn America" more than anything else. Is it that they are afraid he has so much clout that God will indeed stick out his oversized bony white finger and zap the USA? (Because God takes orders to bless and damn as appropriate I guess.)
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03.14.08 - 6:39 pm | #
I'm tired of hearing about Obama's pastor.
Sinfonian, man-o-lantern
Hey, they got nothing. That's the best they can do (at least without going full-on Klan).
LittlePig |
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03.14.08 - 6:39 pm | #
Kudos to the Florida Democratic Party for actually soliciting the input of Democrats in the state before they make a decision on how to proceed with a possible revote.
Sinfonian, man-o-lantern |
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03.14.08 - 6:39 pm | #
Oh, well. Tell fourlegs I made the effort.
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03.14.08 - 6:40 pm | #
Anyway, Toby had this poem where he wanted Anthony to be "gentle" with him -- pretty creepy, I don't think he even got how homoerotic and masochistic it was.
Thers |
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03.14.08 - 6:40 pm | #
Hey, it's the conservatives who said Katrina and 9/11 were, precisely, God damning America.
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:40 pm | #
I no longer resemble Gertrude Stein, BTW. I now resemble David Gregory.
Molly Ivors, Faux Jihadi |
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03.14.08 - 6:40 pm | #
Kudos to the Florida Democratic Party for actually soliciting the input of Democrats in the state before they make a decision on how to proceed with a possible revote.
Sinfonian, man-o-lantern
Slick and well-presented. Good job.
LittlePig |
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03.14.08 - 6:41 pm | #
I loved seeing Ruppert get beaten down at the Orange Satan today.
Sinfonian, man-o-lantern |
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03.14.08 - 6:41 pm | #
MollyI, you ever coming home? I miss you terr'ble sad.
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03.14.08 - 6:41 pm | #
do we have nothing better to do than pile on toby?,/i>
what? why are you looking at me?
Okay... I've had better days but where is it written that I have to suffer fools gladly?
Nuts! just plain |
03.14.08 - 6:41 pm | #
are pissed about his saying "God damn America" more than anything else.
if you've got a bowl of oatmeal where there ought to be a brain, that's about the level of "issue" you can deal with.
as far as I know.
theodoric, evolutionary dead e |
03.14.08 - 6:41 pm | #
Well, I predicted today would have an "OH MY" -
But this wasn't what I thought/hoped:
Indicted Chicago businessman Tony Rezko was a more significant fundraiser for Barack Obama’s earlier political campaigns than previously known, according to an extensive interview Obama gave the Tribune today. http://www.chicagotribune.com/
ne...0,2968927.story
Roadmaster, Upheavalist |
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03.14.08 - 6:41 pm | #
Why did American Hawk write a letter abpout tucker's show
olexicon, Burger King David |
03.14.08 - 6:41 pm | #
Thers, soon.
Should I print my powerpoints three slides to a page? They're fairly text-y.
Molly Ivors, Faux Jihadi |
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03.14.08 - 6:42 pm | #
That's the best they can do (at least without going full-on Klan).
LittlePig
They're saving that for Sept and Oct - it's going to get bizarre on these boards if he's the nominee and leading in the polls late in the race
Nuts! just plain |
03.14.08 - 6:43 pm | #
"creative Story teacher"
is the new "law talking guy"
olexicon, Burger King David |
03.14.08 - 6:43 pm | #
Roadmaster: so what? Rich angle-player makes it a point to ID up-and-comers and curry their friendship in case it proves helpful later. Up-and-comers take their money because we don't have publicly financed elections. When it turns out contributor is crooked, up-and-comer either helps him or doesn't, depending on his ethics. Obama didn't help him.
So: so what?
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:43 pm | #
Do I have a snake picture next to this?
Echidne |
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03.14.08 - 6:44 pm | #
McStain, if Powell wouldn't run for president, why would he accept a VP slot?
Lime Rickey |
03.14.08 - 6:44 pm | #
Anyhow, Toby wrote that love poem to Anthony, and then a month later was teling people he wished their grandparents had died in the Holocaust. He's pretty out there.
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03.14.08 - 6:44 pm | #
Uh, yeah. Call.
Thers
Also, bring bacon.
Oh, that reminds me - a brand new Irish pub just opened up yesterday within walking distance of Chez Sinfonian. It's called, appropriately, "Slainte."
I shall endeavor to try it out this weekend.
Sinfonian, man-o-lantern |
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03.14.08 - 6:44 pm | #
gravatars are working.
theodoric, evolutionary dead e |
03.14.08 - 6:44 pm | #
My gravatar is dirty. Also, fucking.
Sinfonian, man-o-lantern |
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03.14.08 - 6:45 pm | #
Waaaah. Sitemeter says no Atriots love Tibet. Waaaaah.
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:45 pm | #
But Wright was right
Prior Aelred |
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03.14.08 - 6:45 pm | #
Nice snake, Echidne. Of course, they all are.
lipreader |
03.14.08 - 6:45 pm | #
Good grief. I just can't decide the nature of Gary. Brilliant satirist, or deeply-disturbed individual?
The fact is, there are hundreds of Gary Rupperts. It's basically a brand name at this point.
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03.14.08 - 6:46 pm | #
Sinfonian, man-o-lantern
Yes, something like: They call BO a muslim and bitch about this Christian's pastor.[picture of BO and his minister], yet the supposed Christian can worship all the Muslims he wants [pictures of W with all his muslim Saudi prince/oil men] and its OK. Hippocrites.
Reference to what W really worships is money.
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03.14.08 - 6:46 pm | #
Colin Powell is dead to me and should be dead to you.
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03.14.08 - 6:46 pm | #
Ah. It works on IE. So it's something about Mozilla that's keeping me from seeing my own gravatar and some of the others.
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03.14.08 - 6:46 pm | #
Chimpy - 3 days before the event
I send greetings to those celebrating St. Patrick's Day.
On this day, we commemorate the great faith of St. Patrick and celebrate the rich heritage of the Irish people. The Apostle of Ireland was committed to preaching a gospel of peace even in the face of great hardship, and people of all faiths can be inspired by his remarkable example. During St. Patrick's Day, we join together with the many children of Erin who have come to our shores full of hope and purpose, and found success.
Americans are grateful for our country's Irish traditions and the deep friendship that exists between Ireland and the United States. Irish Americans have valiantly defended our Nation, enriched our culture, and contributed to our prosperity. We are reminded, in celebrating, of our history as a Nation of immigrants and of our responsibility to remain a welcoming society.
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03.14.08 - 6:47 pm | #
Powell forever destroyed his credibility when he got up in front of the UN and lied us into war so oil men could afford more expensive hookers.
lipreader |
03.14.08 - 6:47 pm | #
I must have missed all the Colin Powell fluffing....
Molly Ivors, Faux Jihadi |
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03.14.08 - 6:47 pm | #
Anyone else think Powell's speech to the R convention years ago could have been given without a single change at the D convention -- and that if he'd declared himself a D, he'd be the first black President instead of Obama?
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03.14.08 - 6:47 pm | #
Hey, they got nothing. That's the best they can do (at least without going full-on Klan).
Going full-on Klan is what they're just dying to do. It takes every ounce of willpower to prevent themselves from using the N word openly. They want to do it so fucking bad they can taste it.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
03.14.08 - 6:47 pm | #
P O'Neill--gag me already.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
03.14.08 - 6:48 pm | #
How do we upload gravatars, btw?
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:48 pm | #
echidne: your gravatar is coming in loud and clear on firefox, OS X.
dunno what your problem is.
theodoric, evolutionary dead e |
03.14.08 - 6:48 pm | #
Anyway I have him killfiled until he can learn to apologize for telling lies about people online.
Thers |
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03.14.08 - 6:48 pm | #
Colin Powell is dead to me and should be dead to you.
The Dancing Kid
The man had a real chance at being the first black President, and pissed it all away on lies. You would have thought he would have got the lesson of Neuremburg and known that "good soldier" has a limit.
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03.14.08 - 6:48 pm | #
TD, you head on over to gravatar.com, pick one, and pray a lot.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
03.14.08 - 6:48 pm | #
On this day, we commemorate the great faith of St. Patrick and celebrate the rich heritage of the Irish people.
Dumbya no longer sees pink snakes when he gets smashed.
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03.14.08 - 6:49 pm | #
Ah. It works on IE. So it's something about Mozilla that's keeping me from seeing my own gravatar and some of the others.
Works for me on FF...
Thers |
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03.14.08 - 6:49 pm | #
It's against the rules to tell lies about people online? Man, poor Drudge! He'll need to get a job flipping burgers at In 'n Out _urge_.
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:49 pm | #
Sallyh, you always been good to me. Thanks.
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:50 pm | #
Waaaah. Sitemeter says no Atriots love Tibet. Waaaaah.
You can doing a Chimpy who got telco immunity taken away conniption. I gave you a fucking hit.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
03.14.08 - 6:50 pm | #
Depends. How do you feel about rabbits with poor directional sense?
You can STOP doing... etc.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
03.14.08 - 6:51 pm | #
Apprentice: Yeah, but did you email/call a consulate? I'm not really worried about hits. But thanks!
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:51 pm | #
Appr: it got it, though!
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:52 pm | #
Dobbs, stick to bashing Mexicans and leave the Nigras alone.
Lime Rickey |
03.14.08 - 6:52 pm | #
Hey - I'm checking to see if my gravatar is working. (hi sallyh)
alien |
03.14.08 - 6:52 pm | #
peace and humptiness forever
olexicon, Burger King David |
03.14.08 - 6:52 pm | #
I mean I got it, not it got it. I hate editing.
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 6:53 pm | #
Colin Powell is dead to me and should be dead to you.
He was dead to me the instant he accepted a position offered to him by a deserting piece of shit.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
03.14.08 - 6:53 pm | #
Molly I., I gave up some liberal lattes and instead sent some turkee to the Travel Fund. As a long-time quiet reader of Eschaton.... wish I could be there. Let the hilarity ensue!
emma, voting Dem in O.C. |
03.14.08 - 6:54 pm | #
Colin Powell is dead to me and should be dead to you.
He was dead to me the instant he accepted a position offered to him by a deserting piece of shit.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
I never cared for him, but that was the final nail.
lipreader |
03.14.08 - 6:55 pm | #
emma, what a darling.
mer |
03.14.08 - 6:55 pm | #
T2 -- I love Tibet -- just reading about the riots on AP -- but I jumped into the thread late -- I was blessed by a neighboring tulku before I went off to meet with the Commission on Ministry & the Diocesan Standing Committee to be ordained (is that ecumenical or what?)
Prior Aelred |
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03.14.08 - 6:56 pm | #
BTW does anyone know, will there be liveblogging from EschaCon '08?
emma, voting Dem in O.C. |
03.14.08 - 7:00 pm | #
God damn, America
God, damn America
God. Damn America
God damn. America
God. Damn. American. Loonies.
sidhra |
03.14.08 - 7:03 pm | #
Prior Aelred: That rocks!! R.W. Emerson would have loved it (know his Harvard Divinity School address?)
I'm a Presbyterian elder who sits zazen daily, FWIW.
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 7:03 pm | #
Colin Powell is dead to me and should be dead to you.
After Vietnam, when he finally found himself in the position of power to prevent his fellow soldiers from being once again thrown into the wood chipper, he made sure they were, and then he retired.
Colin Powell knew the whole thing was a lie, and still he helped it happen.
Don't give me this "he was a soldier" crap. He was, and is, a coward.
MP |
03.14.08 - 7:04 pm | #
OK, I'm wracked with Presbyterian guilt and can't take it anymore!!!
I sit zazen ALMOST daily.
Sometimes.
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 7:05 pm | #
Oh... sheets.
T.D. Scott (formerly T2) |
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03.14.08 - 7:06 pm | #
Hmmmmmmm..... Houses that I've long admired in Albuquerque are suddenly back within reach. Shall I move back to la Tierra Encantada?
Barmpot Shouty-Crackers, PhD |
Wait about another two months, Doc. Word on the street is, the end of the year will be the best time to buy...
You buy an adobe, and I'll be jealous as all hell!
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