As I drift off to sleep...
Moe Szyslak |
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07.05.08 - 11:38 am | #
no moe?
chicago dyke, dope-free |
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07.05.08 - 11:40 am | #
Condi
``And I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein,'' said Rice, who was Bush's national security adviser at the time of the March 2003 invasion. As of yesterday, 4,107 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq and more than 30,000 were wounded. She said the Iraq war has been ``tougher than any of us really dreamed.''
No moe!
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.05.08 - 11:40 am | #
The combination of capitalism and petroleum products has done more to lift people out of poverty than every liberal idiot and idiotic liberal idea in the history of mankind.
cold drink to CD
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.05.08 - 11:40 am | #
From the link, I'm not sure that was a "real" conservative writing - he completely failed to note either that algoreisfat or michaelmooreisatraitor.
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07.05.08 - 11:40 am | #
i'll give the coke that leibkins owes me to jeff.
chicago dyke, dope-free |
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07.05.08 - 11:40 am | #
Actually if people sitting next to me insist on having a conversation, I prefer that they do so in a language I can't understand.
D2 |
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07.05.08 - 11:40 am | #
No moe war...
Libby, hooked on Atriots |
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07.05.08 - 11:41 am | #
Everyone (including me) has ipods stuck in their ears. Ain't no one talking of the train.
Moe Szyslak |
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07.05.08 - 11:41 am | #
The folks who gave you feedback on the June 25 Free for All page appeared to sincerely care about what happens to The Post. You should contact the remaining editors and get them to heed these people's advice.
To avoid the fate of the WTWP radio station and many other media outlets, get back to basics. Report the news, stop promoting one political party and far-left liberals, treat the military with respect, and don't advocate for far-out lifestyles, terrorists and other people who want to see the downfall of the United States. Simply report the news, keep opinions on the editorial page and maybe publish a dissenting opinion every now and then.
-- Jim Krumke
Piney Point, Md.
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07.05.08 - 11:41 am | #
teaching children the "sacredness" of the sex act.
i just started re-reading twain's 'letters from earth' - satan writes to michael incredulous that men have invented a heaven but left out sexual intercourse.
his description of the difference b/t how long and how often humans can do it compared to angels is pretty amusing, too.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 11:41 am | #
So Pantload is calling himself "bob" now?
P O'Neill |
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07.05.08 - 11:42 am | #
just got off the phone with a friend going on a dig in turkey. bottom line: british airways lies, and is out to fuck you over. if you have skymiles with them, use themm today, or lose them. it seems they have 'changed' the rules of how they can be applied, but failed to tell any travel agents.
chicago dyke, dope-free |
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07.05.08 - 11:42 am | #
Roy Zimmerman, "Is America Ready?" (For another rich white straight male Anglo-Saxon Protestant president.. again?)
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07.05.08 - 11:43 am | #
Going to continental Yurp via Heathrow is rarely a good idea anyway.
P O'Neill |
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07.05.08 - 11:43 am | #
Airlines are going to be something we remember in a very short period of time.
plantsman |
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07.05.08 - 11:44 am | #
The combination of capitalism and petroleum products has done more to lift people out of poverty than every liberal idiot and idiotic liberal idea in the history of mankind.
All hail Vaseline.
sidhra صي ذ& |
07.05.08 - 11:44 am | #
Okay, nap time for real
Moe Szyslak |
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07.05.08 - 11:44 am | #
``And I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein,'' said Rice, who was Bush's national security adviser at the time of the March 2003 invasion. As of yesterday, 4,107 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq and more than 30,000 were wounded. She said the Iraq war has been ``tougher than any of us really dreamed.''
P O'Neill | Homepage | 07.05.08 - 11:40 am | #
BREAKING:
Former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) announces:
I am proud of those letters I wrote to underage House pages.
and
Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) says:
I am proud of my decision to cruise that restroom at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport.
Al H. |
07.05.08 - 11:44 am | #
To avoid the fate of the WTWP radio statio
Last time I heard of WTWP, it was in a PDQ Bach skit. "WTWP. Wall To Wall Pachelbel!"
Gromit |
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07.05.08 - 11:44 am | #
teaching children the "sacredness" of the sex act
i wouldn't use the word 'sacred,' but is there anything wrong with teaching kids that sex is normal and healthy, and as soon as they ask about it? so many of our political problems today stem from parents failing to do that, i think.
chicago dyke, dope-free |
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07.05.08 - 11:44 am | #
I think Ezra is sexy. That smile is wonderful.
Maggie |
07.05.08 - 11:45 am | #
It seems like it's Sunday, but I suspect that it isn't.
MP |
07.05.08 - 11:45 am | #
Wow, that's some interesting crazy right there.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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07.05.08 - 11:45 am | #
Riding the subway is fun.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
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07.05.08 - 11:45 am | #
"I'm proud of those death camps." --A. Hitler
plantsman |
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07.05.08 - 11:46 am | #
Things I learned this morning from NPR: Wesley Clark attacked John McCain's military service; Swift Boat Veterans "changed" the perception of Kerry; liberal Obama's liberal supporters liberal liberal liberal flipflop liberal....
I've concluded the only way for me to start my day without yelling "motherfucker" is to keep all media delivery devices switched to off.
JeffCO |
07.05.08 - 11:46 am | #
Dude has got about 1,000 kinds of fucked up going on.
watertiger |
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07.05.08 - 11:46 am | #
I've concluded the only way for me to start my day without yelling
"motherfucker" is to keep all media delivery devices switched to off.
Stream 101.9RXP. It's made me a much happier camper.
but is there anything wrong with teaching kids that sex is normal and healthy, and as soon as they ask about it? so many of our political problems today stem from parents failing to do that, i think.
chicago dyke, dope-free | Homepage | 07.05.08 - 11:44 am | #
speaking from experience with my own kids, you don't have to wait until they ask and you really don't have to explain much beyond mechanics and consequences. the rest is all atmosphere. but when the parents think its dirty and shameful, the kids pick up on that and won't ask anyway.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 11:47 am | #
Dear Bob:
Yer so perceptive! Hasn't W done wonders straiughtening the country out?
plantsman |
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07.05.08 - 11:47 am | #
Maggie Ezra is indeed a cutie but he's like 12.
At least he looks 12 in real life.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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07.05.08 - 11:47 am | #
It seems like it's Sunday, but I suspect that it isn't.
MP | 07.05.08 - 11:45 am | #
it always seems like thursday to me.
i never did get the hang of thursdays.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 11:48 am | #
I had to turn NPR off this a.m. when they started with the has Obama flip flopped, flopped flip, flip flop crap.
qlª |
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07.05.08 - 11:48 am | #
terrorist fizzy drink to JeffCO...
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 11:50 am | #
You missed CityKid (Nader Troll). Aren't you glad?
plantsman |
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07.05.08 - 11:50 am | #
I had to turn NPR off this a.m. when they started with the has Obama flip flopped, flopped flip, flip flop crap. qlª
I'm pretty pissed off about several of his stances the past couple weeks, but they're only flipflops if you ignore that he's been coming from mushy centrism and choose to pretend he's always been Liberal McLiberal.
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07.05.08 - 11:50 am | #
bbl.
chicago dyke, dope-free |
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07.05.08 - 11:51 am | #
terrorist fizzy drink to JeffCO...
I am awash in carbonated acids! [slow dissolve]
JeffCO |
07.05.08 - 11:51 am | #
I had to turn NPR off this a.m. when they started with the has Obama flip flopped, flopped flip, flip flop crap.
What did it take, 4 days, before the Rove team was able to get that out to the media?
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07.05.08 - 11:51 am | #
I had to turn NPR off this a.m. when they started with the has Obama flip flopped, flopped flip, flip flop crap.
qlª | Homepage | 07.05.08 - 11:48 am | #
it's the game this time. pin all mccain's faults on obama. like, mccain agrees in writing to public financing then reniges - so obama must have broken his promise that he never made. mccain wants to stay in iraq for 100 years, so if obama admits that conditions might arise to slow down the withdrawl process for a month he is embracing mccain's policy.
you see how it works.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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07.05.08 - 11:52 am | #
Things I learned this morning from NPR: Wesley Clark attacked John McCain's military service; Swift Boat Veterans "changed" the perception of Kerry;
I am so going to forage/loot that from you.
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07.05.08 - 11:52 am | #
Essentially what killed Kody was being rolled under a car about 10 years ago.
(she died when she was 12)
Until fairly recently nothing clearly showed up in X-ray pictures of her back end and spine. What did show up last week were needle like bone-spurs/protrusions going into her spinal cord about 1/3rd of it's diameter from arthritic damage due to that auto incident years ago. This time she did not respond to massive steroid shots, and accompanied opiate pain meds. She had begun to refuse water and food and passed away in her sleep early July 3rd. That last treatment was kind of a last chance for her anyway. She'd had a fairly short bout of this about 2.5 years ago, when I was sick myself. Maybe dozing with me for days then, helped her enough to recover.
I still feel blessed to have owned her. She was an amazing shiny bronze-black color almost the same as old bronze statues in the park.
A fearless beast, who'd challenge (if you didn't grab her quickly), bears, coyotes, moose.
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07.05.08 - 11:52 am | #
Libby,
That is incredibly cool.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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07.05.08 - 11:53 am | #
Somebody years ago actually got up in a McDonald's corporate meeting and said "Hamburglar. Get it? Hamburglar."
MP |
07.05.08 - 11:53 am | #
QL! CHIEF! MCCLOUD! watertiger
Hey, you, get offa McCloud!
JeffCO |
07.05.08 - 11:53 am | #
they're only flipflops if you ignore that he's been coming from mushy
centrism and choose to pretend he's always been Liberal McLiberal.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
07.05.08 - 11:55 am | #
QL! CHIEF! MCCLOUD!
Hec?
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 11:55 am | #
Gromit - Still thinking about a late summer mini-gathering in VT?
sidhra صي ذ& |
07.05.08 - 11:55 am | #
Hey, you, get offa McCloud!
watertiger
Or the Scottish version:
"Hey, McLeod, get offa my ewe!
JR, kerosene and a match |
07.05.08 - 11:55 am | #
I still can't believe that dolt Bill O'Reilly put up the name Jack Mehoffer on his TV show.
MP |
07.05.08 - 11:56 am | #
The ulitmate eco-friendly urban environment
Floating cities, no cars allowed.
One of the stupidest ideas I've ever come across.
Has the architect ever heard of a fucking hurricane?
Has he ever heard of rogue waves, which according to the latest research are much more common than once believed?
I also like that he has no idea what such a floating city would cost.
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07.05.08 - 11:56 am | #
Faux Noise today has mentioned the bear market for the first time I've noticed, with the jabber mostly along two lines: (1) it's caused by fear of the taxes and nanny state Obama and the Ds are preparing to impose and (2) is it over yet - don't you see the signs that it's over?
Except for Wayne Rogers and Sam Whatsit, as usual.
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QuentinCompson Downscale Dem |
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07.05.08 - 11:57 am | #
I still can't believe that dolt Bill O'Reilly put up the name Jack Mehoffer on his TV show.
MP
LOOFAH BILL O'REILLY ALONE!!!!!!!!!
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 11:57 am | #
real what? stupid? stubborn? immature?
ronjazz
Just as real as you ronjazz. But both you and Billy strike me as the kind of political slime that rests in the bottom of the barrel. It's your way or the highway - issues be damned. I'd go on, but it would only provide fodder for your immature and, dare I say, adolecent male like remarks. Thanks plantsman, we've had 3 warm days here and my basil is going ballistic (finally).
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CityKid (Nader for Prez) |
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07.05.08 - 11:58 am | #
I so enjoy hearing Mara Liarson refer to "three Democrat Senators." Nope, no bias there, none at all. Straight down the line. Yup.
JeffCO |
07.05.08 - 11:58 am | #
i never did get the hang of thursdays.
dirk gently, sociopathetic | Homepage | 07.05.08 - 11:48 am | #
Hello, Arthur.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.05.08 - 11:58 am | #
Aw, Toonscribe, I thought they looked kinda cool.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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07.05.08 - 11:58 am | #
O'Reilly put up the name Jack Mehoffer
Plays well to his audience of 70 year old men whose emotional development was arrested at age 12.
sidhra صي ذ& |
07.05.08 - 11:58 am | #
Doug Kody is now riding Maxx's comet.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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07.05.08 - 11:58 am | #
LOOFAH BILL O'REILLY ALONE!!!!!!!!!
George Johnston
"Mike Hunt from Tuscon writes in and says...."
MP |
07.05.08 - 11:59 am | #
Hecate!
the hollyhocks have been enjoying ur recent weather....
JR, kerosene and a match |
07.05.08 - 11:59 am | #
never did get the hang of thursdays.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
I am going to need protein and muscle relaxers.
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 11:59 am | #
the hollyhocks have been enjoying ur recent weather....
Oh, good! They may not bloom until next year.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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07.05.08 - 12:00 pm | #
America has a problem and the world has a problem. America has lost its way in recent years; bad habits have weakened our society’s ability and willingness to take on big challenges. The world also has a problem. It’s becoming hot, flat, and crowded. I am convinced that the best way for America to solve its big problem and the best way for America to gets its groove back is for America to take the lead in solving the world’s problem.
Did somebody give Tom the Monty Python DVD set, finally?
While we're at it, we'll get all the world's scientists in a room, and make them bloody well cure all the diseases in the world! Yeah!
I'm Not Here |
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07.05.08 - 12:00 pm | #
Cool. Aimee Mann on the radio.
watertiger |
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07.05.08 - 12:01 pm | #
rmj! Where have you been?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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07.05.08 - 12:01 pm | #
Q: What has your wingnut ever contributed to society.
A: It has detracted from society.
Lime Rickey |
07.05.08 - 12:01 pm | #
I have nothing to say, and I have stairs waiting to be sanded. S'pose I should go.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
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07.05.08 - 12:02 pm | #
Gromit - Still thinking about a late summer mini-gathering in VT?
sidhra
Yes, probably mid-August. We were thinking about hosting it during our vacation in late July, but have decided to skip town and explore some of Quebec that we haven't seen for our vacay.
I'll put it on my list and try to fix a date within the next week.
Gromit |
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07.05.08 - 12:02 pm | #
re: the Laura Nyro thread which I, unfortunately, missed:
There is video of her Monterey Pop performance. If you get the DVD box set, there are two songs on the outtake disc. There's a snippet from Wedding Bell Blues and a fantastic Poverty Train.
The story I heard about the Great Laura Nyro Monterey Train Wreck was that it wasn't her, it was the band that the concert promoters (Lou Adler, and Papa John, I think?) saddled her with. They just didn't know how to play her music, which was fairly ideosyncratic.
Anyway, the critics completely panned her. And given the number of Star Is Born performances at those shows, winding up on the Jeers list was probably pretty devastating. I understand that she was even booed, and left the stage in tears. Too bad, because she is beautiful and brilliant. And her music is one-of-a-kind original. She really moves me.
If you haven't yet, run out and buy Spread Your Wings And Fly. Its a masterfully restored long lost recording of her show from the Fillmore East a few weeks before the place closed for good. Its just Laura, a grand piano, and a few thousand ecstatic fans. When she plays Save The Country the place just goes bananas. I wish I was there. Check it out.
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07.05.08 - 12:03 pm | #
Oh, good! They may not bloom until next year.
Hecate
Probably not, but even so they'll keep the weeds at bay.
I have a bumper crop of calendula if you want seeds for next year.
JR, kerosene and a match |
07.05.08 - 12:03 pm | #
rmj! Where have you been?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
On the garage roof, looking for my lost Frisbee, and caught up in the Sisyphean task of re-roofing the damned garage!
I expect my bleached bones to be found there next summer, one hand curved in a rictus around the wooden shaft of a hammer.
Which is why I'm not here.
Rmj, Roofing Theologist |
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07.05.08 - 12:03 pm | #
While we're at it, we'll get all the world's scientists in a room, and make them bloody well cure all the diseases in the world! Yeah!
There's already a system in place to do this. It's called basic research.
Comparing it with war, and what benefits society gets from research, it is not that expensive.
It just needs to be funded independently from corporations which tend to only do applied research.
There are lots of people willing to do this for fairly small rewards, if they knew they could get their next project funded.
Doug |
07.05.08 - 12:05 pm | #
I expect my bleached bones to be found there next summer, one hand curved in a rictus around the wooden shaft of a hammer.
Like Toby. Except not a hammer. And more like a wet noodle.
Gromit |
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07.05.08 - 12:06 pm | #
We'd like to hire you. You obviously possess superior projection skills.
Loews Theaters |
07.05.08 - 12:07 pm | #
Farewell, Cody. Romp in those meadows.
watertiger |
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07.05.08 - 12:07 pm | #
While we're at it, we'll get all the world's scientists in a room, and make them bloody well cure all the diseases in the world! Yeah!
Yes! Offer them a One Million Dollar prize!
Gromit |
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07.05.08 - 12:07 pm | #
Have some of these nice chocolate chip cookies.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | 07.05.08 - 12:05
May I have some as well?
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.05.08 - 12:07 pm | #
There's already a system in place to do this. It's called basic research.
I am sorry there is no money for that. It is all going to faith basedd initiatives. That and blowing kids up in Iraq.
George Bush |
07.05.08 - 12:07 pm | #
They do look cool, sitting there all pristine near the shore, but do you want to be on one when it's getting whacked by a category 5 hurricane and driven toward the shore by the artificial mountains that are now acting like sails.
The marine environment is one of the harshest on the planet -- the saltwater itself is extremely corrosive to manmade materials.
And the cost.... jeez don't get me started on that, not to mention the availability of materials to replace thousands of square miles of soon to be flooded land with what would have to be thousands of these things to make any appreciable difference to the human population. He might just as well have offered to feed us all with cherry pie from the sky.
Toonscribe |
07.05.08 - 12:08 pm | #
There's already a system in place to do this. It's called basic research.
It's a Monty Ptyhon sketch on "How to do it." The subject is: "Cure the world's diseases." The answer is: "Make 'em find the cures." Another one is about flute playing: "You blow in this end, and move your fingers around here." You get the idea.
IOW, it is as simplistic and asinine as Friedman's "Make America solve the world's problems!" It's the assumption that all problems have solutions that is idiotic, not the idea of basic research. Which, after all, is just based at understanding as much of the world scientifically as possible, not at finding solutions to "problems."
Rmj, Roofing Theologist |
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07.05.08 - 12:09 pm | #
America has a problem and the world has a problem. America has lost its way in recent years; bad habits have weakened our society’s ability and willingness to take on big challenges.
America lost its way in 1980, when it opted to look good rather than to be good, by electing a hack movie star to the Presidency.
It's been all downhill since then.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.05.08 - 12:09 pm | #
Yeah, as Toonscribe notes, they seem to have overlooked some of the practical details but I think the rendering is quite beautiful. Could be the next wave in fancy resorts at the very least.
Libby, hooked on Atriots |
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07.05.08 - 12:12 pm | #
Heh heh heh. Ronnie thought the whole of USA was perched on a shiny hiil.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | 07.05.08 - 12:08 pm |
Thank you! I'm sure they'll help replace the electrolytes lost during this morning's walk.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.05.08 - 12:12 pm | #
wow just read the link
that message from that wingnut drips with stupidity
i mean its scary that there are these types of people out there and yet they get treated as mainstream
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008 |
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07.05.08 - 12:12 pm | #
Could be the next wave in fancy resorts at the very least.
Exactly, it's just a bigger version of a cruise ship.
Toonscribe |
07.05.08 - 12:16 pm | #
heh, this is one of the comedians who is performing at Latitude 08 - Bill Bailey Kraftwerk spoof, i just love him!
if you have watched Black Books Bill Bailey played Manny, he was also in Hot Fuzz
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008 |
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07.05.08 - 12:16 pm | #
actually, she said that I should have brought my ass to bed instead of staying up all night playing that fucking video game with your buddies
FireFox |
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07.05.08 - 12:17 pm | #
is there anything wrong with teaching kids that sex is normal and healthy, and as soon as they ask about it? so many of our political problems today stem from parents failing to do that, i think.
chicago dyke, dope-free
I always loved the rant in Catholic schools about using birth control.
Having sex just for pleasure made us "like animals."
Er, isn't it animals that have sex just for procreative purposes?
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.05.08 - 12:17 pm | #
Freudian slip there. Thomas Jefferson was for Freedom of Speech; Bush is for FreedomSpeak™
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 12:17 pm | #
Toonscribe, you would get along well with my co-blogger Capt. Fogg. He immediately rained on my fantasy with practical considerations too, although I did also immediately seize on the hurricane problem.
I was wondering about drift too. I don't see any anchors on the thing, but it is pretty, you can't deny that.
Libby, hooked on Atriots |
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07.05.08 - 12:18 pm | #
Heh heh heh. Ronnie thought the whole of USA was perched on a shiny hiil.
What stoopidness!
Lime Rickey
Peggy Noonan should be in jail just for coming up with that bullshit.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.05.08 - 12:18 pm | #
Afternoon, all.
First -- the blogwhore!
Over at Box Office, I say Huzzah! to one of Joe Don Baker's slobbiest performances, and render homage to the Greatest Revenge Movies of All Time!!!! http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve...istomania-
1.php
Leave a comment, blah blah blah, buy you a drink.
And now --
hi guys!!!! Anything irksome going on?
steve hüssein® simels |
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07.05.08 - 12:18 pm | #
GeeDub:"We have freedom of speech in America".
While the speakers are hustled off to jail by the cops. Some freedom.
sidhra صي ذ& |
07.05.08 - 12:18 pm | #
you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals...
FireFox |
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07.05.08 - 12:18 pm | #
Er, isn't it animals that have sex just for procreative purposes?
Sometimes animals do it as dominance displays -- but that tends to be called false copulation or teh animal gaii sex.
Toonscribe |
07.05.08 - 12:19 pm | #
Hey -- my new gravatar is up!!!!
steve hüssein® simels |
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07.05.08 - 12:19 pm | #
Something to be said for that. I surely like pussy cats better than pipples and now that you mention it at this point, all the rest of the animal kingdom. (bad mood perhaps)
warondandruff |
07.05.08 - 12:21 pm | #
I was wondering about drift too.
Drift would also create possible problems with the crops and trees planted on the thing. How would they react drifting from one plant zone to another?
Toonscribe |
07.05.08 - 12:21 pm | #
Motorists are facing further pain after a warning yesterday that the latest surge in crude oil prices to record highs could add another 20p to a litre at the pumps within weeks.
The forecast, from the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM), came as new figures showed car sales falling in the face of high fuel prices and collapsing consumer confidence.
Fuel prices set yet another record yesterday at the pumps, rising to an average of 119p for unleaded petrol and 132.4p for diesel, according to the IAM Motoring Trust, which monitors pump prices daily. Further rises are also on their way.
IAM's technical director, Tim Shallcross, said the surge in oil prices in recent days to fresh records above $146 a barrel had yet to feed through to the pumps. "If crude prices stay around their current level, we could well see another 20p on a litre over the coming month," he said.
Crude prices retreated by around a dollar a barrel yesterday but were still just under $145 a barrel, with many predicting they will soon push above $150.
Shallcross said that petrol retailers had not passed on the full cost of the 100% rise in crude prices over the 12 months to the end of June. If they had, he said, unleaded would already be at 140p a litre on average and diesel 150p.
hi guys!!!! Anything irksome going on?
steve hüssein® simels
Probably but we won't hear about it until Pelosi's or Reid's next press conference.
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07.05.08 - 12:22 pm | #
GeeDub:"We have freedom of speech in America".
He said as protestors were escorted from the audience.
Toonscribe |
07.05.08 - 12:23 pm | #
It's a conspiracy I tells ya.. I smell "Pulitzer".
Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fake Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same Daily Kos blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.
The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the diligent detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals such as Polarik in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate The Daily Kos, a "progressive" blog site, and the Obama campaign's "Fight the Smears" website, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance.
Moreover, the blog and the campaign have been negligent in allowing the promotion of obviously forged and fake official documents together with the purported image of Obama's birth certificate.
The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the "birth certificate" he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama "Fight the Smears" website was supposedly generated.
Without a valid birth certificate, the primary record of US birth, Obama cannot prove that he fulfills the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President and throwing the race into turmoil. His presumed Kenyan-born father was foreign-born, and his mother was too young at the time of birth to confer natural born status by virtue of her American citizenship. Thus his citizenship comes down to proving he was born in the USA, and his campaign has staked its credibility on the authenticity of the Daily Kos-derived birth certificate image.
Gimlet |
07.05.08 - 12:24 pm | #
hi guys!!!! Anything irksome going on?
steve hüssein® simels
The "in color" part of your Boxoffice banner reminds me of the "in color" from That Girl.
MP |
07.05.08 - 12:24 pm | #
He said as protestors were escorted from the audience.
Toonscribe
At Monticello no less. TJ must be spinning in his grave...
George Johnston |
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07.05.08 - 12:24 pm | #
As of yesterday, 4,107 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq and more than 30,000 were wounded. She said the Iraq war has been ``tougher than any of us really dreamed.''
Don't you dare try to attribute your incompetence and ineptitude to the rest of us, you worthless sack of shit.
A lot of us correctly predicted just about every turn of this stupid war. Only the most delusional fuckwits ever imagined it would be easy. A "cakewalk." "Greeted as liberators."
Seraphiel |
07.05.08 - 12:25 pm | #
A re-post from last nite for Auntie
In the unlikely event she hasn't seen it...
oh noez its the finale of this season's Doctor Who tonight
my Saturday early evenings will be dull
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008 |
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07.05.08 - 12:27 pm | #
All right - I'm out to errand-land before it's too hot. Here's ur morning receipt.
Aguachile de Camarón Tijuana-style shrimp ceviche. Serves 6-8 1 pound (26/30 count) shrimp, peeled and deveined - 10 limes + more for serving - 2 tablespoons kosher salt - 1 large red onion - 1 chile Guero (also called Caribe), halved and seeded - 1 Serrano chile, halved and seeded - 1 English cucumber, peeled and sliced into 1/4" thick half moons - 1/2 cup Clamato or tomato juice (See note) - 1/4 cup cilantro, minced (optional) To serve-- Lime wedges-- Tostadas (see Note)-- Sliced avocado Instructions: Cut shrimp into bite-size pieces. Juice 6 of the limes. Place shrimp in a bowl, cover with the lime juice and stir in 1 tablespoon of the salt. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 8-12 hours, or until opaque. Slice the red onion as thinly as possible. Juice two more of the limes. Place the onion in a bowl along with the juice, 2 chiles and 1/2 tablespoon of salt. Cover and refrigerate for 8-12 hours. When ready to combine, fish out the chile pepper halves from the bowl and mince finely. Strain the shrimp and add to a large bowl, along with the marinated onions, cucumbers, minced chiles, Clamato (or tomato) juice, the juice from the remaining 2 limes, and the 1/2 tablespoon of salt. Garnish with cilantro. Serve with tostadas (see note), lime wedges and sliced avocado. Note: Tostadas are deep-fried whole corn tortillas; store-bought tortilla chips may be substituted. Mott's Clamato is a juice blend of tomato concentrate and reconstituted clam broth and can be found in the juice aisle of most well-stocked supermarkets. Tomato juice cocktail can be substituted.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
07.05.08 - 12:27 pm | #
At Monticello no less. TJ must be spinning in his grave...We have those freedoms, we just shouldn't use them in an unapproved fashion.
Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fake Hawaii birth certificate images
THIS is all the rightards have.
Pitiful, just pitiful!!
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.05.08 - 12:29 pm | #
We have those freedoms, we just shouldn't use them in an unapproved fashion.
I don't need the "approval" of preznit whistleass or his enablers.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.05.08 - 12:30 pm | #
I was in a grocery store, when I ran into this lady looking at the mangos (rock hard ones). She was wearing a TSA tee shirt, so I threw this out at her just to see what she'd say,
"Where are those ripe Indian mango fruit, we were promised?".
This lead to an angry rant from her about the "idiot son of an asshole".
Also, some surprising praise for Bill Clinton who though he "was sleazy", made the economy rock!.
Necons, GWB, McCain, and all conservatives, if you've lost the TSA people you are sunk!
Doug |
07.05.08 - 12:30 pm | #