John McCain agrees, for sure.
Seingalt |
07.28.07 - 7:03 pm | #
Didn't Novakula say that soon he was going to a place with no blogs? I was astonished to learn that he is 76 years old.
echidne |
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07.28.07 - 7:03 pm | #
OT: BAGHDAD (AP) - A parked car bomb exploded in a busy shopping street in predominantly Shiite eastern Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least four people and wounding 10, police said.
The bomb was the latest in a series of explosions targeting commercial centers.
The blast struck about noon, a peak time for street vendors and nearby stores along the Maaskar al-Rashid street, a popular gathering point for people selling tires and spare parts for automobiles. Police who gave the casualty toll said several stores also were damaged.
Rove's a goddamned genius I tell ya.
bloggus |
07.28.07 - 7:03 pm | #
Can they really bullshit each other like this?
Raoul Paste
I was just thinking, prolly half the candidates and a third of the aides thought "Well, that's a relief". And another third of the aides left thinking, "I wonder if we can sell that crap...."
Jim |
07.28.07 - 7:03 pm | #
"Rove's clear advice to the candidates is to distance themselves from the culture of Washington. Specifically, Republican candidates are urged to make clear they have no connection with disgraced congressmen such as Duke Cunningham and Mark Foley."
Those 12 years we spent together controlling congress? I never met any republicans during that time.
Pietro Vichi Domenici |
07.28.07 - 7:04 pm | #
Former Army Specialist Rodriguez started getting bills for $700 for lost or damaged government property this summer. Although he was discharged some four years ago, bills recently arrived demanding payment, but giving no details on what or why -- nor do they offer a way to dispute the charges.
"For doing my job you're going to bill me?" Rodriguez said.
And he's not alone. A 2006 government report found more than 1,000 soldiers being billed a total of $1.5 million. And while fighting overseas put their lives on the line, this battle on paper could cost them their future by ruining their credit. Rodriguez will be reported to credit agencies next month.
rorschach, infogit |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:06 pm | #
I'm impressed by Rove's fancy title.
rorschach
You should see him in his court robes...
,,,he dances in them
but ya gotta be a pioneering ranger-buckaroo to see that.
Jim |
07.28.07 - 7:06 pm | #
thers, Molly's political lieutenant, told a closed-door meeting of liberal types like res and mer and their aides Tuesday that it was less the wild sex than NTodd's not having a blog that caused their accidentally reading the National Review and projectile vomiting.
spinoza |
07.28.07 - 7:06 pm | #
That's a grand plan.
Wrap yerselves tight around W and the Iraq War, but make sure you condemn the child molesters and felons you've embraced for all these years.
We now know that the source for this is - Rove.
Gomez |
07.28.07 - 7:06 pm | #
Rove has lost it if he thinks not distancing ones self from Bush is important. But, then again, he is Bush's brain, so he's mushy.
mer |
07.28.07 - 7:06 pm | #
OT: Flood-damaged regions of central and southern England were on alert again today, as more heavy rain was forecast to move in from the Atlantic this afternoon.
Up to nine hours of persistent rain will bring a risk of further flooding in saturated areas of the Severn and upper Thames Valley, the Environment Agency said.
Damage to communications could hamper efforts to restore water to 350,000 homes in Gloucestershire, where engineers are working round the clock on the polluted Mythe pumping station. Severn Trent Water and the army said that bottled supplies of water, and those brought in by tanker, now amounted to over 6 million litres a day and were running well, with reports of vandalism stemming from a handful of "stupid" but minor incidents.
A footnote: Republican leaders report that the most enthusiasm among grassroots activists is for Gingrich and libertarian Rep. Ron Paul.
linda |
07.28.07 - 7:07 pm | #
The last time Novak saw 76 was 1476. But he hasn't aged a day since he gave himself over to the Dark Lord
Jim |
07.28.07 - 7:08 pm | #
Fans of losing temas always have a fascination with the second and third string quarterbacks.
Gomez |
07.28.07 - 7:08 pm | #
"but ya gotta be a pioneering ranger-buckaroo to see that"
And while fighting overseas put their lives on the line, this battle on paper could cost them their future by ruining their credit. Rodriguez will be reported to credit agencies next month.
rorschach, infogit
Everytime I turn around, I'm more and more impressed by how our Very Serious Administration supports our troops.
OT: An extreme heatwave continues to rage across southern Europe as firefighters struggle to contain the blazes that have burned thousands of hectares in the region.
In Bulgaria, 23,000 hectares of forest and farmland have burned over the past week.
The country also experienced its hottest temperatures since records began, above 45 degrees Celsius in some places.
Some 7,000 firefighters and 2,500 army troops continued to battle blazes.
Rove's delusiona that the American people have not had it with the endless occupation of Iraq will be, hopefully soon, his epitath.
He's the Peter Petigrew of the maladministration. He needs to be disposed of like the vermin he is.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 7:11 pm | #
Stuff People Are No Longer Impressed By:
KKKarl Rove.
res ipsa loquitur |
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07.28.07 - 7:11 pm | #
Didn't Novakula say that soon he was going to a place with no blogs?
He wishes. I'm pretty confident there are blogs in Hell.
SteveNS |
07.28.07 - 7:11 pm | #
Rain in the north, Heatwaves in the south
Moonbootica, Graduated
Rapture coming. Nothing to do with global warming.
echidne |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:11 pm | #
You're not a grandee until you give yourself three self-important racing stripes on the sleeve.
Just ask William Rehnquist, next time you're in Hell.
Seingalt |
07.28.07 - 7:12 pm | #
I wonder what nickname was for Blair.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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07.28.07 - 7:12 pm | #
So, how are the good little Republicans supposed to distance themselves from President Bush, exactly? They're all doing his bidding, every day, are they not?
Does Karl think that the 67% of the people in this country who want us out of Iraq NOW are going to be all full of love for the people who will be keeping us there for the next three F.U.'s?
Karl's steady hand is very good for the Democrats. It is also unfortunately terrible for the country.
David Derbes |
07.28.07 - 7:12 pm | #
I've had it with that fuck, Maliki. Now, guess who disappears.
Crazy Dave Petraeus |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:12 pm | #
He's a genius. I'm worried, people.
Even a genius would have a hard time putting a positive spin on this burning trainwreck.
bloggus |
07.28.07 - 7:12 pm | #
Karl Rove is grasping at straws. He needs to be in jail.
Dinner is almost ready. Anyone who would like a steamed artichoke with butter, new potatoes with garlic, green onion and parsley, and some french bread, be here in about ten minutes.
mer |
07.28.07 - 7:13 pm | #
But, then again, he is Bush's brain, so he's mushy.
And smells of Jack Daniels.
SteveNS |
07.28.07 - 7:13 pm | #
Dinner is almost ready. Anyone who would like a steamed artichoke with butter, new potatoes with garlic, green onion and parsley, and some french bread, be here in about ten minutes.
Open the worm hole, please.
echidne |
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07.28.07 - 7:13 pm | #
i have been watching Gen. David Grange talk about how wonderful this war is for years now. He's on CNN's This Week in War, saying it's going great in Iraq.
Arwa Damon is saying, "no, it sucks for the Iraqi people, but Grange says no, 'it's working just fine. Give it time."
Hahhahahahahahahahaha
dog-day afternoon |
07.28.07 - 7:15 pm | #
Former Army Specialist Rodriguez started getting bills for $700 for lost or damaged government property this summer. Although he was discharged some four years ago, bills recently arrived demanding payment, but giving no details on what or why -- nor do they offer a way to dispute the charges.
I strongly suspect that a piece of shitty body armor that was blown to smithereeens somewhere in the shit in Iraq didn't get properly "signed off" in the property book office, so the last known signature holder was this poor veteran and the relentless beancounters in the Pentagon's labyrinth of supply need to account for it somehow.
These rules do not apply, of course, to contractors who are close personal friends of Darth Cheney by way of Halliburton.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 7:15 pm | #
Now we know why Bush didn't get religion from the results of 2006, this fuckwad was feeding him this shit.
Gomez |
07.28.07 - 7:15 pm | #
At least three Iraqi soldiers have been killed in an attack by an armed group dressed as women, security officials have said.
Fighting on Saturday began when several gunmen wearing Saudi-style black veils opened fire on an Iraqi army checkpoint west of the northern oil hub of Kirkuk.
Captain Mohammed Abdullah said three soldiers were killed and a fourth was wounded.
In the gunbattle that followed the soldiers killed and wounded several of the attackers, destroying three cars and seizing another, he said, but without specifying how many militants were killed or wounded.
So what's Genius KKKarl's advice for steering clear of the D.C. Madam inbroglio?
res ipsa loquitur |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:16 pm | #
Former Army Specialist Rodriguez started getting bills for $700 for lost or damaged government property this summer. Although he was discharged some four years ago, bills recently arrived demanding payment, but giving no details on what or why -- nor do they offer a way to dispute the charges.
Now we know why Bush didn't get religion from the results of 2006, this fuckwad was feeding him this shit.
Gomez | 07.28.07 - 7:15 pm | #
There's that, and the fact that Bush is too stupid to have more than one idea every eight years or so.
rorschach, infogit |
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07.28.07 - 7:17 pm | #
If things are getting so much better in Iraq, why are they no longer talking about the hour to ninety minutes a day that Baghdad gets electricity? That's ever so much better than the 24 hours a day they had under Saddam, and the five to six hours they got only a few months ago.
Progress is their most important product, as the people from General Electric used to say.
David Derbes |
07.28.07 - 7:17 pm | #
Fighting on Saturday began when several gunmen wearing Saudi-style black veils opened fire on an Iraqi army checkpoint west of the northern oil hub of Kirkuk.
Probably Shia fighters hoping to cast aspersions on the simon pure lackies of the bandit House of Saud and their wholly owned subisiary, Al Qaida.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 7:17 pm | #
So what's Genius KKKarl's advice for steering clear of the D.C. Madam inbroglio?
Not distancing themselves from Dear Leader while running for office is going to require some pretty fancy footwork.
I guess they could ask Tucker Carlson for some dance lessons.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:18 pm | #
A footnote: Republican leaders report that the most enthusiasm among grassroots activists is for Gingrich and libertarian Rep. Ron Paul.
I hope they do run Gingrich. He'd be easy to beat. Just show pictures of someone in a critical care ward, and tell the story about how he divorced his who was in such a ward.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 7:18 pm | #
I mean, these soldiers are volunteer soldiers. They knew what they were getting into. And now they're whining because they have to pay for the privilege of volunteering?
Come on.
rorschach, infogit |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:18 pm | #
I'm looking for a link to the BBC4 documentary detailing Grandpa Bush's involvement in trying to overthrow the americam government. I've already tried google and can't find it. Thanks.
Candymarl |
07.28.07 - 7:18 pm | #
I'm looking for a link to the BBC4 documentary detailing Grandpa Bush's involvement in trying to overthrow the americam government. I've already tried google and can't find it. Thanks.
Candymarl | 07.28.07 - 7:18 pm | #
I mean, these soldiers are volunteer soldiers. They knew what they were getting into. And now they're whining because they have to pay for the privilege of volunteering?
Come on.
rorschach, infogit
Stalin charged the widows of every one he had shot for the bullet.
Gomez |
07.28.07 - 7:20 pm | #
Elections in Japan starting right now
ccokz |
07.28.07 - 7:20 pm | #
"I hope they do run Gingrich. He'd be easy to beat. Just show pictures of someone in a critical care ward, and tell the story about how he divorced his wife who was in such a ward."
Former Army Specialist Rodriguez started getting bills for $700 for lost or damaged government property this summer
Perhaps they would accept payment in the form of car ribbon magnets.
JeffCO |
07.28.07 - 7:22 pm | #
You'll note that the beancounters can find time to dunn a former speedy four, but can't seem to find any time at all to investigate the billions that Halliburton has wisked away to Swiss and Grand Caymans bank accounts.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 7:22 pm | #
Gingrich is such an ugly fucker too
Put him in a dress, and he could be a purty Barbara Bush.
spinoza |
07.28.07 - 7:22 pm | #
Have a cat break.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:23 pm | #
There's a few new posts at Pax, BTW.
NTodd, Fanciest
And what about that other sucky blog you don't have? Any new pitchers of Sam? Or the dogz?
flory |
07.28.07 - 7:23 pm | #
Stalin charged the widows of every one he had shot for the bullet.
This wonderful practice continues to this day in the workers' paradise that is the People's Republic of China, aka Voldemorts' Haven.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 7:24 pm | #
Put him in a dress, and he could be a purty Barbara Bush.
spinoza
Former Army Specialist Rodriguez started getting bills for $700 for lost or damaged government property this summer
Army supply people have always tried to stick the soldier for this. You used to be able to easily shrug them off. I guess under the bush mis-administration, the soldier no longer can.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 7:24 pm | #
where has everyone gone? tap tap tap is this thing on?
therealhellkitty herder of cat |
07.28.07 - 7:27 pm | #
flory, where do you like to go in the sierras?
ErinPDX |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:28 pm | #
John Paul Stevens is on c-span looking good - knock on wood.
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Crazy Dave Petraeus |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:28 pm | #
Army supply people have always tried to stick the soldier for this. You used to be able to easily shrug them off. I guess under the bush mis-administration, the soldier no longer can.
Six months out of college, and I became personally responsible for over a million dollars worth of communications and transport equipment.
Supposedly in a combat zone, the rules of property accountablity are sufficiently relaxec, because, you know, when there are bullets and IEDs flying, shit happens, but this former speedy four was unfortunate to have signed off on something and by gosh the taxpayers demand that he be held accountable!
Custer Battles and similar outfits, not so much.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 7:28 pm | #
Rumors of my death? Greatly exaggerated.
Hell, I haven't even been incarcerated. Yet.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:28 pm | #
Bush misplaced the Constitution.
That's gonna be tough to pay off.
Which reminds me.
Anyone up for an Atriot outing to see Jefferson's handwritten copy of the Declaration?
Culture of TrÜth |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:28 pm | #
And what about that other sucky blog you don't have? Any new pitchers of Sam? Or the dogz?
They are boycotting until everybody writes their damned Nancygrams.
NTodd, Fanciest |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:29 pm | #
flory, where do you like to go in the sierras?
ErinPDX
Mostly I go to Truckee. I have a friend who owns a house up there.
Why? Are you visiting?
flory |
07.28.07 - 7:29 pm | #
One half inch of rain has fallen today. The total for this years monsoon season as measured on my land is 3.5" so far.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 7:29 pm | #
Gingrich is such an ugly fucker too
Put him in a dress, and he could be a purty Barbara Bush.
spinoza | 07.28.07 - 7:22 pm |
Ack!
Didn't you mention that your grandfather work to save Courthouse Square?
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 7:29 pm | #
They are boycotting until everybody writes their damned Nancygrams.
NTodd, Fanciest
Unfair!! I've sent three or four now!
flory |
07.28.07 - 7:30 pm | #
I don't make the rulez, I just enforce them.
NTodd, Fanciest |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:33 pm | #
BILLARY BUSH ÜBER ALLES!!!
BOW, FUCKERS!
THE BUSH-CLINTION DYNASTY OWNS YOUR SORRY ASSES!
GOPDNC, INC. |
07.28.07 - 7:34 pm | #
"The White House Friday called relations with Saudi Arabia in the US war on terror on "very strong" despite a report saying Washington is deeply frustrated with Riyadh over its role in Iraq. The New York Times reported on Friday that Washington believes the Saudis are trying to undermine the Baghdad government and have failed to stem the flow of volunteers joining the insurgency there. The report said the Saudis view Iraq's Shiite Premier Nuri al-Maliki as an agent of Iran and appear to have stepped up efforts to weaken his government, providing funding for Sunni groups, the Times wrote, citing senior US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity."
Arms For Sale |
07.28.07 - 7:34 pm | #
Bush misplaced the Constitution.
That's gonna be tough to pay off.
Dun the entire bush family for the bill, and don't allow them to declare bankruptcy.
If they earn a penny take it!
Doug |
07.28.07 - 7:34 pm | #
I hate this fucking administration with a burning hate that isn't healthy. It's justified, but is going to lead to an ulcer.
trifecta |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:34 pm | #
As an American I want Karl in jail ASAP; Bush impeached ASAP; Cheney impeached ASAP... you get the idea.
If I were a selfish Dem, I would only view Bush as the gift that keeps on giving. If you all think the Boy who would be king is hated now, give it a few more years of books, movies, and investigations, as well as more moronic quotes from the spoiled little king. Anyway, I would only encourage GOPers to hold on to Georgie with all their strength and to listen to Karl as much as they can. Grab that anchor with both hands boys and hold on tight. George is going to take your party for a ride that you'll be talking about longer than we'll ever be talking about George. Hell in a few years, you're going to love to hate dubya more than any of today's liberals hate the boy.
ScrewBush |
07.28.07 - 7:35 pm | #
The New York Times reported on Friday that Washington believes the Saudis are trying to undermine the Baghdad government and have failed to stem the flow of volunteers joining the insurgency there. The report said the Saudis view Iraq's Shiite Premier Nuri al-Maliki as an agent of Iran and appear to have stepped up efforts to weaken his government, providing funding for Sunni groups, the Times wrote, citing senior US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Well, duh.
US policy in the middle east is hopelessly stupid, supporting the Shiites in Iraq, but opposing them overall, allying with the Saudis who feel they are perfectly entitled to intervene in Iraq against the US backed Shia regime.
The maladiminstration is composed of fucktards.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 7:36 pm | #
One half inch of rain has fallen today. The total for this years monsoon season as measured on my land is 3.5" so far.
we had five inches the other day and another three he following afternoon. A little town not far from here called D'Hanis had 17 in 24 hours. It has made getting home in the afternoons a real challenge. We are awash. TX in non-drought years can be really something.
depends on the speed and distance you have to go through the water. I wouldn't have taken on the 25' wide 12 inch deep river that was running across the entrance to my subdivision the other day.
Jenna and NotJenna ran in to Daddy
"Daddy, we felt so bad about the legless guys, so we went down and sold BJs to the boys for a little fun and profit!!!! . . . we made $210.25!!!!
"Good Grief! Who's the cheapskate that gave you the quarter?"
"They all DID!!!"
Jess Wonderin |
07.28.07 - 7:42 pm | #
Well, I think I'm going to pick up some groceries and take myself to The Simpsons Movie.
.7" in the gage now.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 7:44 pm | #
Jenna and NotJenna ran in to Daddy
"Daddy, we felt so bad about the legless guys, so we went down and sold BJs to the boys for a little fun and profit!!!! . . . we made $210.25!!!!
"Good Grief! Who's the cheapskate that gave you the quarter?"
"BILL CLINTON MADE A BANK RUN FOR QUARTER ROLLS!"
Dems=Repubes |
07.28.07 - 7:44 pm | #
... Evidence of gang culture and gang activity in the military is increasing so much an FBI report calls it "a threat to law enforcement and national security." The signs are chilling: Marines in gang attire on Paris Island; paratroopers flashing gang hand signs at a nightclub near Ft. Bragg; infantrymen showing-off gang tattoos at Ft. Hood.
"It's obvious that many of these people do not give up their gang affiliations," said Hunter Glass, a retired police detective in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the home of Ft. Bragg and the 82nd Airborne. He monitors gang activity at the base and across the military.
"If we weren't in the middle of fighting a war, yes, I think the military would have a lot more control over this issue," Glass said. "But with a war going on, I think it's very difficult to do."
I know, but I will persist in liking my honey warm.
and sticky?
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Mine is usually hot and sticky by the time I'm done with him......
flory |
07.28.07 - 7:50 pm | #
Did anyone read the Bonobo thing in the NYer?
res ipsa loquitur |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:50 pm | #
Man, fy is really desperate for attention, isn't he?
Terry C - Wingnuts R WATBs |
07.28.07 - 7:51 pm | #
If we weren't in teh middle of a war they wouldn't BE
in the military doods
Culture of TrÜth |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:51 pm | #
"Rove was rebutting the complaint inside the party that George W. Bush is responsible for Republican miseries by invading Iraq"
Hunsecker: (removing his glasses) What has this boy got that Susie likes?
Sidney: Integrity - acute, like indigestion.
Hunsecker: What does this mean - integrity?
Sidney: A pocket full of firecrackers, waitin' for a match! You know, it's a new wrinkle. To tell you the truth, I never thought I'd make a killing on some guy's integrity.
Hunsecker: I'd hate to take a bite out of you. You're a cookie full of arsenic.
Sweet Smell of Success |
07.28.07 - 7:51 pm | #
Does the warm honey comment thread have anything to do with the special positions in the last post?
atablarasa |
07.28.07 - 7:52 pm | #
"Bonobos in Paradise"?
Culture of TrÜth |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:52 pm | #
At 623 gallons of total water per inch/per/thousand square feet, there are about 27,000 gallons of water that falls on an acre of land per inch of rain fall.
With proper systems in place, (cisterns, water collection drains, etc) I don't think I'd need to be using any water from the local utility system, and still have plenty of water to keep the pool filled, plants watered, and all the household use water you'd ever need. Even if you were Howard Hughes, and had a hand washing fetish.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 7:52 pm | #
my daughter just saw the new lindsey lohan movie and is telling us how awful it was.
"Man, fy is really desperate for attention, isn't he?"
Indeed, which is why I so enjoy that KILL button and mocking fy from time to time.
I've been studying the Firefox plug in protocols.
There doesn't appear to be any roadblock to a keyword based killfile.
If we could get one of those, just think of the extra work fy would have to do in order to beat that one.
Chris Tucker |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 7:54 pm | #
"Evidence of gang culture and gang activity in the military is increasing so much an FBI report calls it "a threat to law enforcement and national security." The signs are chilling: Marines in gang attire on Paris Island; paratroopers flashing gang hand signs at a nightclub near Ft. Bragg; infantrymen showing-off gang tattoos at Ft. Hood."
atablarasa, I live about 20 miles east of Tuscon. Somewhere deep in the desert.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 7:59 pm | #
I've been arguing all along that the correct paradigm in the SCGWOT is the mob. Gangs is what they are in that sense - it's not the army that stops the terrorists, it's the police work.
And the same is true for the War on Drugs. Legalize them the way Prohibition was repealed and cut the profit out from under the gangs. And the Taliban.
atablarasa |
07.28.07 - 7:59 pm | #
This whole country's just like my flock of sheep!
Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers - everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. They don't know it yet, but they're all gonna be 'Fighters for Fuller'. They're mine! I own 'em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em. Marcia, you just wait and see. I'm gonna be the power behind the president - and you'll be the power behind me!
Lonesome Roves |
07.28.07 - 7:59 pm | #
I don't want to go out because it's hot as hell here in my neck of the woods.
Where's Bebe when you need him?
atablarasa |
07.28.07 - 8:02 pm | #
I love when the neighbs decide to stay in and watch action movies with the surround sound cranked up to 14 all day.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 8:02 pm | #
I like their pancakes.
NTodd, Fanciest
I went there with Vicki.
No one could have anticipated that it would be so good.
Gomez |
07.28.07 - 8:03 pm | #
Rove was interviewed by Walter Isaacson at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Featival. Colin Powell essentially asked him how long the Administration could ignore reality in Iraq. Rove said that by '08 Reality would be in tune with the outlook of the Administration.
Well, I guess we all have our priorities...(from the AP via Yahoo)
BAGHDAD - Authorities planned stepped-up patrols in Baghdad Sunday as they intensified security to prevent a repeat of car bombings that killed dozens of revelers celebrating Iraq's progress to the finals of Asia's top soccer tournament last week.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 8:06 pm | #
figs are the sexiest of fruits.
Then why didn't God make the Fig of Knowledge instead of an apple?
NTodd, Fanciest |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 8:06 pm | #
that's right, i said birds and bees. figs are the sexiest of fruits.
....muggers, buggers...AND METHODISTS!
Terry C - Wingnuts R WATBs |
07.28.07 - 8:07 pm | #
Then why didn't God make the Fig of Knowledge instead of an apple?
God doesn't give a fig.
sidhra صيذ |
07.28.07 - 8:08 pm | #
I had a few bushels of white grapes growing, but the birds ate them.
I could have put netting up, but I like the idea of giving the birds a nice treat. The grapes don't require any care, they are mostly watered by the runoff from the AC drainage pipe which outflows almost on top of the plants.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 8:08 pm | #
Then why didn't God make the Fig of Knowledge instead of an apple?
hen why didn't God make the Fig of Knowledge instead of an apple?
NTodd, Fanciest | Homepag
Cause it's not an apple, it's a pomegranate.
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GWPDA, yclept SansDent |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 8:10 pm | #
the apple was evil science knowledge - taught them about gravity and such.
Which inevitably leads to teh gay, to women having babies with other women, to dogs and cats sleeping together, and to the notion of a minumum wage and 40 hour workweek.
All of them satanic dogma.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 8:11 pm | #
Now this would be a hell of a lot of fun.
Waterfall!
And that's in Canadian dollars, yes?
atablarasa |
07.28.07 - 8:12 pm | #
Our figs are still hard. I thought maybe the 3-day spring freeze had killed our 15-year-old tree. Surprizingly, it came back to life three weeks after all the first growth was zapped. We might have fruit this summer--or not. At least the tree survived.
mer |
07.28.07 - 8:12 pm | #
Property includes an 18 Hole miniature golf described by former customers as the absolute nicest they have ever played. The golf course includes a large man-made pond with a waterfall.
I'd be more jazzed if it had one of those windmills...but it's still pretty nice!
Zap Rowsdower, Homebody |
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07.28.07 - 8:13 pm | #
Bring me some figgy pudding and bring it right now!!!!!!!!
Culture of TrÜth |
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07.28.07 - 8:13 pm | #
Stuff I'm No Longer Impressed By
Fancy titles and positions. -Atrios Doubly Exhalted Super-sized Ultra Supreme, All-Knowing, All-Powerful, Magnificent and Wonderous Grand Potentate of Leftian Bloglandia 18:26
bo |
07.28.07 - 8:14 pm | #
Bring me some figgy pudding and bring it right now!!!!!!!!
Or you'll be subjected to this catewauling for the rest of the evening!
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 8:15 pm | #
C$, yes.
So that makes it about the same as an efficiency in downtown Phoenix....
Stuff I'm No Longer Impressed By
Fancy titles and positions. -Atrios Doubly Exhalted Super-sized Ultra Supreme, All-Knowing, All-Powerful, Magnificent and Wonderous Grand Potentate of Leftian Bloglandia 18:26
bo
The Grand Exalted Mystic Ruler
Terry C - Wingnuts R WATBs |
07.28.07 - 8:15 pm | #
Surprizingly, it came back to life three weeks after all the first growth was zapped.
mrs g hates our fig tree, which stands 20' tall and drops ripe figs at ... well, whatever velocity gravatational acceleration produces in 20'. she had hoped that it would have died when we put in our pool and the bulldozer took out a third of its roots.
I love when the neighbs decide to stay in and watch action movies with the surround sound cranked up to 14 all day.
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 07.28.07 - 8:02 pm |
Can you figure out a way to cut their power?
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 8:15 pm | #
Who saw the SpiderPig?
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.28.07 - 8:15 pm | #
Grand Poobah
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
07.28.07 - 8:16 pm | #
Pretty much says is all:
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But the amusing part of the news is this: "The Saudis had requested that Congress be told about the planned sale, the officials said, in an effort to avoid the kind of bruising fight on Capitol Hill that occurred in the 1980s over proposed arms sales to the kingdom."
In other words, what does it take to get the Bush administration to communicate with a Democratic Congress about matters of foreign policy? Directives from the Saudis.
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bo |
07.28.07 - 8:16 pm | #
mrs g hates our fig tree, which stands 20' tall and drops ripe figs at ... well, whatever velocity gravatational acceleration produces in 20'. she had hoped that it would have died when we put in our pool and the bulldozer took out a third of its roots.
Fig-uratively speaking...
Unfor-fig-able....
Got to be a pun in here somewhere...
atablarasa |
07.28.07 - 8:19 pm | #
Yes, ours is so large, even giving away many bowls of figs to friends, the ripe fruit ends up on the ground. Also, it is a yellow jacket attractor. But still, there is nothing better than walking out your back door and biting into a ripe fig plucked from the tree. I love them.
mer |
07.28.07 - 8:20 pm | #
my giant fig tree
is this one of the ones with multiple trunks.
saw a bunch of those at Edison's summer place in Fort Myers last winter. cool.
theodoric |
07.28.07 - 8:21 pm | #
Zapette won't watch Office Space or Raising Arizona until I watch Whale Rider.
And while I know for a fact that she'd enjoy both of those movies, I can't say I'm so sure I'd like the Whale movie...
Zap Rowsdower, Homebody |
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07.28.07 - 8:22 pm | #
btw... only got one death threat last night when i was trolling fuckwad blogs.
going for 3 tonight. it actually doesn't take much logic applied for someone to go apeshitapoplectic.
like talking to robots.
fokowi
What are THEY going to do? Throw Cheetohs at you?
Terry C - Wingnuts R WATBs |
07.28.07 - 8:25 pm | #
Yes, ours is so large, even giving away many bowls of figs to friends, the ripe fruit ends up on the ground. Also, it is a yellow jacket attractor. But still, there is nothing better than walking out your back door and biting into a ripe fig plucked from the tree. I love them.
mer
Quick and easy recipe for Mission figs:
slit them open, place a teaspoon of marscapone or gorgonzola cheese inside, close slices together and wrap with prosciutto. Bake in 350 degree oven for 10 minutes. Take out and sprinkle with good quality balsamic vinegar (or honey). Serve while warm.
unfortunately there is a NASCAR race on in the other room. and, oh boy! another one is on tomorrow!
therealhellkitty herder of cat |
07.28.07 - 8:28 pm | #
Terry C : What are THEY going to do? Throw Cheetohs at you?
Funny about that. It was posted on the Group News Blog just yesterday that there were so many VIABLE threats that they made the collective decision to keep Steve Gilliard's funeral and burial information a secret.
God, I wish that could have pissed people off like that.
Meander, embittered liberal |
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07.28.07 - 8:29 pm | #
Buckeye: Can you figure out a way to cut their power?
Legally? No. I could shut off their air conditioning, though.
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 07.28.07 - 8:17 pm
The laws don't apply to you.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 8:29 pm | #
Compromise. Watch The Big Night.
SteveLG
I actually made the timbale the brothers make in that movie.
dirk, did you send lightning our way? I am hearing thunderboomers outside.
therealhellkitty herder of cat |
07.28.07 - 8:29 pm | #
Compromise. Watch The Big Night.
The restaurant movie? Oh, I really liked that one.
When I worked at a video store in my younger days, that was one of "Zap's Picks".
Zap Rowsdower, Homebody |
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07.28.07 - 8:29 pm | #
Zapette won't watch Office Space or Raising Arizona until I watch Whale Rider.
And while I know for a fact that she'd enjoy both of those movies, I can't say I'm so sure I'd like the Whale movie...
Zap Rowsdower, Homebody | Homepage | 07.28.07 - 8:22 pm |
I loved Whale Rider.
It's also not that long of a movie to sit through. And you can look at the New Zealand scenery.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 8:30 pm | #
I'm thinking either Bread or Willie Nelson.
well, I wouldn't be a worthy alabamian if I didn't raise a lighter and shout PLAY WHIPPING POST!!!
theodoric |
07.28.07 - 8:31 pm | #
I actually made the timbale the brothers make in that movie.
Shaw Kenawe
Dang!
I don't suppose you do spaghetti and meatballs?
SteveLG |
07.28.07 - 8:31 pm | #
Okay. This one or the miniature golf course?
GWPDA, yclept SansDent
I like the stove pipe going through the ceiling.
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Agent Orange |
07.28.07 - 8:31 pm | #
yada yada, we can find you... we're connected... best veiled threat was about coming up the mississippi along with a pretty good hint about knowing my location...
awile back i felt compelled to contact a certain agency with the details of one particular threat.
that time, all i had done was voice my opinion about something. not someone.
fokowi |
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07.28.07 - 8:32 pm | #
Buckeye: The laws don't apply to you.
If that were true, I'd have over a 1000km on the new scooter. I'd be all over Gnashvegas on that thang!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.28.07 - 8:32 pm | #
"To. Die. For."
--Shaw Kenawe
Oh my. In my recipe file as of 15 seconds ago. Thank you.
mer |
07.28.07 - 8:32 pm | #
*Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment*
Gomez |
07.28.07 - 8:32 pm | #
I like ten acres, completely fenced, with timbering rights and a working well.
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GWPDA, yclept SansDent |
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07.28.07 - 8:32 pm | #
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEW RIVER...
* UNTIL 615 PM MST
* AT 412 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG AND TO THE EAST OF INTERSTATE 17...OVER FAR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE PHOENIX METRO AREA. RAIN GAGES JUST NORTHEAST OF NEW RIVER INDICATED OVER 1.6 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 315 PM. COMMUNITIES AFFECTED INCLUDE NEW RIVER ...ANTHEM AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF LAKE PLEASANT.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE.
atablarasa |
07.28.07 - 8:34 pm | #
Okay. This one or the miniature golf course?
GWPDA, yclept SansDent | Homepage | 07.28.07 - 8:27 pm |
Land is good, you'll need room for the Atriots Compound.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 8:34 pm | #
Okay. This one or the miniature golf course?
Would that $425,000 difference in price allow you to build a more suitable house for you? And do this while living in the manufactured home till the nicer house was built? If so, the less expensive one.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 8:34 pm | #
good evening, 66 visiting people. re: the fig tree- perhaps there is a charitable organization in your area which would come out and harvest what you don't want. a church group or suchlike, who could then use them in soup kitchens.
is anyone going to be in chicago next week for the satanic orange crush?
chicago dyke |
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07.28.07 - 8:35 pm | #
I do like the idea of a neat little house in a lot of forest - with a miniature golf course included. I could build a windmill....
Arthur could kibbitz!
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GWPDA, yclept SansDent |
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07.28.07 - 8:36 pm | #
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
i remember when we first moved to tucson, there is a street leading into the city that goes under a train track (iirc). we thought the 10' high water mark sign was pretty funny.
That fig tree was exhibiting Newtonian physics!
atablarasa |
07.28.07 - 8:37 pm | #
Buckeye: The laws don't apply to you.
If that were true, I'd have over a 1000km on the new scooter. I'd be all over Gnashvegas on that thang!
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 07.28.07 - 8:32 pm | #
So, that really only applies to Republicans?
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 8:37 pm | #
chicago dyke: is anyone going to be in chicago next week for the satanic orange crush?
Of course not -- Bill O'Really says it's evil hate on a stick.
What treats did you have at la festa?
res ipsa loquitur |
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07.28.07 - 8:38 pm | #
he's ahead of his time.
Gomez and the Technicolor Dreamcoat?
NTodd, Fanciest |
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07.28.07 - 8:38 pm | #
voting in the affirmative for Whale Rider. i cried, and felt so uplifted by the end.
too bad the girl who is the lead character is now, at 16 or something, a mother. without a husband, iirc. but that's all ok- the vatican said so after she played baby jeebus mommy in that movie last year. sigh.
chicago dyke |
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07.28.07 - 8:38 pm | #
"And... there'll be Macs there."
Land of the Orange Arches?
EkCenTriK |
07.28.07 - 8:39 pm | #
What do you think re Spitzer?
res ipsa loquitur
Oh heh heh heh....
Yeah, it's pretty bad, but it's not THAT bad...
Yeah even his friends are pretty pissed at him, for all kinds of reasons, which are complicated.
State politics is a bit of a hobby of mine.
It's a bit of Kabuki, at this point.
At risk of using a cliche, I think, while Spizter is the clear looser at this point, Bruno may be overplaying his hand.
Did you know he was 78 years old?
Jeez, Eliot should have waited him out.
Culture of TrÜth |
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07.28.07 - 8:39 pm | #
A waterfall means there is flowing water with a nice drop, on the property.
Can they really bullshit each other like this?
Raoul Paste
Sure, they love it! It's called the Cuckold Republican Syndrome.
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Agent Orange |
07.28.07 - 8:40 pm | #
too bad the girl who is the lead character is now, at 16 or something, a mother. without a husband, iirc. but that's all ok- the vatican said so after she played baby jeebus mommy in that movie last year. sigh.
Um, should I tell Zapette about that?
Zap Rowsdower, Homebody |
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07.28.07 - 8:40 pm | #
In the last two weeks, we've had are first real rain since early spring. We're probably about 16'' short of normal, but I think it rained about two inches last night, and it was very welcome.
mer |
07.28.07 - 8:40 pm | #
LONDON - When Prime Minister Gordon Brown stepped into Tony Blair's shoes a month ago, his government signaled that the relationship with the Bush administration would be different — notably by appointing an outspoken critic of the Iraq war to his Cabinet.
dirk, i'm going to beat NTodd extra hard tonight, for the sassiness of your reply to my fig charity post. hmph. fig soup is great, if only you're open minded enough to enjoy it.
chicago dyke |
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07.28.07 - 8:42 pm | #
"In the last two weeks, we've had are first real rain since early spring. "
On the other hand, we are so water logged we welcome high 90's, dry and copious amounts of what should have been normal weather.
EkCenTriK |
07.28.07 - 8:42 pm | #
Twice!
A dead fly in my mouth, that's been in my frickin' coffee!
fourlegsrgood : Don't tell the rethugs that Karl isn't god.
Someone said once that it wasn't so much that Karl was smart, as that he was missing that part that keeps the rest of us from knocking little old ladies down flights of stairs.
Meander, embittered liberal |
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07.28.07 - 8:43 pm | #
dirk, i'm going to beat NTodd extra hard tonight, for the sassiness of your reply to my fig charity post.
there is a street leading into the city that goes under a train track (iirc)
Three at least I can think of Stone, 4th and Broadway. Why Tucson's forever plans on revitalization of the downtown will probably never work, till they fix it somehow Those street run under a train track.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 8:43 pm | #
"as that he was missing that part"
A human genome?
EkCenTriK |
07.28.07 - 8:43 pm | #
Okay. This one or the miniature golf course?
I like the second one, though I'd ditch the carpeting.
WHat a lovely area.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 8:44 pm | #
mer, all of your rain is here in TX. I'll be happy to send some of it your way.
therealhellkitty herder of cat |
07.28.07 - 8:44 pm | #
"As it considers the contempt resolutions, we think it is important that the Committee appreciate fully the longstanding Department of Justice position, articulated during Administrations of both parties, that "the criminal contempt of Congress statute does not apply to the President or presidential subordinates who assert executive privilege."
hey ma, is it coup yet?
gary in fl |
07.28.07 - 8:45 pm | #
JP,
There's sharing, and then there's sharing.
Yucky!
Here, have some Rosie Greer.
Zap Rowsdower, Homebody |
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07.28.07 - 8:45 pm | #
Someone said once that it wasn't so much that Karl was smart, as that he was missing that part that keeps the rest of us from knocking little old ladies down flights of stairs.
I think that's right.
He is a sociopath.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 8:45 pm | #
"mer, all of your rain is here in TX. I'll be happy to send some of it your way."
'Level grade' crossings are death traps. Only way to do it is the raise the tracks, then the street.
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Agent Orange |
07.28.07 - 8:46 pm | #
Hydro power and timber and juice to the joint as well. Awfully nice. Whatdya think, $5 a round? Butter and egg money, maybe.
GWPDA, yclept SansDent |
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07.28.07 - 8:46 pm | #
hey, gary, done anything useful and active yet?
NTodd, Fanciest |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 8:46 pm | #
Bush's ratings rove below 30% but he's not the problem. Oh, I see.
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Sparkle Plenty |
07.28.07 - 8:46 pm | #
Walter Mondale is still alive? Where's he been the last six years?
mer |
07.28.07 - 8:46 pm | #
Harriet Meyer's name on an empty table and the Dems do nothing?
Gilly Gonzylon |
07.28.07 - 8:46 pm | #
er, why are there fireworks over the harbour tonight? Is this some sorta holiday?
Moe Szyslak, hating coal |
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07.28.07 - 8:47 pm | #
gotta go. i hear mrs g doing the dishes, which is my job tonight.
too bad the girl who is the lead character is now, at 16 or something, a mother. without a husband, iirc. but that's all ok- the vatican said so after she played baby jeebus mommy in that movie last year. sigh.
chicago dyke | Homepage | 07.28.07 - 8:38 pm
Keisha Castle-Hughes. And she got hell for becoming a mom at 17, strangers apparently were coming up to her in public and chastising her.
And while unmarried, she's still with the child's father and not going around drunk driving, so there's that.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 8:47 pm | #
Moe Szyslak: er, why are there fireworks over the harbour tonight? Is this some sorta holiday?
Walter Mondale has an anti Cheney column in tomorrow's WP.
Fritz has been on my shit list ever since he advocating bombing North Korea.
But good on him for writing that...
Zap Rowsdower, Homebody |
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07.28.07 - 8:48 pm | #
*I don't like talking about my flair*
Gomez |
07.28.07 - 8:48 pm | #
Walter Mondale is still alive? Where's he been the last six years?
Somebody left him at Wellstone's funeral and he's been stuck there ever since. Can't figure out the MSP bus schedule.
NTodd, Fanciest |
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07.28.07 - 8:48 pm | #
Hydro power and timber and juice to the joint as well. Awfully nice. Whatdya think, $5 a round? Butter and egg money, maybe.
Rove's MO has shifted from winning elections for Republicans to covering his own ass and deflecting blame for Bush's failures. So much for the Boy Genius.
Buzz Bomb |
07.28.07 - 8:48 pm | #
Financially it's not worth much, it's the idea of having your own power source. Just in case the there is a disruption due to what ever reason, in the grid.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 8:49 pm | #
Seriously, this is better than Canada Day.
Moe Szyslak, hating coal |
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07.28.07 - 8:49 pm | #
Financially it's not worth much, it's the idea of having your own power
source. Just in case the there is a disruption due to what ever reason,
in the grid.
"Rove's MO has shifted from winning elections for Republicans to covering his own ass and deflecting blame for Bush's failures. So much for the Boy Genius."
--Buzz Bomb
Exactly. I've been thinking that, but you said it.
mer |
07.28.07 - 8:50 pm | #
Financially it's not worth much, it's the idea of having your own power source. Just in case the there is a disruption due to what ever reason, in the grid.
Would solar panels work up there?
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 8:50 pm | #
I wish I could afford to buy me a nice place in the mountains.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 8:51 pm | #
EkCenTriK : A human genome?
Something like that, indeed. This...man made his career, not on the strength of his beliefs, but on his ability to go lower than anyone in the 200 year history of the Republic. That's neutron-star density rottenness and it's sucking the rest of us into its vortex.
Meander, embittered liberal |
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07.28.07 - 8:52 pm | #
drive by
ahem,
Kark could you mention Delay in there please - he is gaining an untoward foothold back into the GOPersphere limelight.
Nancy Willing |
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07.28.07 - 8:52 pm | #
A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according to current and former officials briefed on the program.
It is not known precisely why searching the databases, or data mining, raised such a furious legal debate. But such databases contain records of the phone calls and e-mail messages of millions of Americans, and their examination by the government would raise privacy issues.
I have a few guesses why mass automated surveillance and data gathering, all without warrants, might raise a few legal issues.
TIA. Or, as Risen's State of War described it, 'The Program'.
pseudonymous in nc |
07.28.07 - 8:53 pm | #
buckeye, i suppose. but i am never happy when teen girls become mothers. nor do i believe that 99% of the fathers of their children will stay with them for the 18+ years of raising the child. it broke my heart a little to read about her, and although i'd never harrass her on the street, i do mourn for her loss of a promising career. too many young women of color go down that road, with unhappy results for themselves and their children.
er, why are there fireworks over the harbour tonight? Is this some sorta holiday?
Moe Szyslak, hating coal
In honour of my resignation, Monday!
And the butter and egg money would come from letting people play the miniature golf course. Clearly the place has enough power to run appliances - and I happen to know the entire area is in the Provincial implementation of broadband. So, you've got water, power, possible hydro, butter and egg money and broadband service. And Arthur gets to run around wherever without a bit of fear. The katz too.
GWPDA, yclept SansDent |
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07.28.07 - 8:54 pm | #
Yes, the feds are going to indict him and Spitzy could have come out smelling like a rose.
res ipsa loquitur |
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07.28.07 - 8:54 pm | #
yes, one can have solar in Canada...its a good idea to combine it with wind too.
therealhellkitty
Even here in cloudy and foggy Nova Scotia, solar water heating works for most of the year. It can also, obviously, work pretty much anywhere in the US.
Moe Szyslak, hating coal |
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07.28.07 - 8:54 pm | #
I think we need to hook generators up to exercise bikes before people can use their electrical appliances.
And the butter and egg money would come from letting people play the miniature golf course. Clearly the place has enough power to run appliances - and I happen to know the entire area is in the Provincial implementation of broadband. So, you've got water, power, possible hydro, butter and egg money and broadband service. And Arthur gets to run around wherever without a bit of fear. The katz too.
buckeye, i suppose. but i am never happy when teen girls become mothers. nor do i believe that 99% of the fathers of their children will stay with them for the 18+ years of raising the child. it broke my heart a little to read about her, and although i'd never harrass her on the street, i do mourn for her loss of a promising career. too many young women of color go down that road, with unhappy results for themselves and their children.
brb.
chicago dyke | Homepage | 07.28.07 - 8:53 pm
I wasn't thrilled with it, and I got the impression that her grandma wasn't either, initially.
But it's a bit early to say that her career is lost.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 8:55 pm | #
if you think of the excess heat that a building full of people generates..it could possibly be used to genreate electricity
Use the sweat to drive a dam generator?
Gilly Gonzylon |
07.28.07 - 8:56 pm | #
Kark could you mention Delay in there please - he is gaining an untoward foothold back into the GOPersphere limelight.
He can still get his ugly mug on teevee and his name in the papers, but there are no second acts in national politics (someone needs to tell Newtie). He will never wield political power again, IMHO.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 8:56 pm | #
Even here in cloudy and foggy Nova Scotia, solar water heating works for most of the year. It can also, obviously, work pretty much anywhere in the US.
I wish I could afford to buy me a nice place in the mountains.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork?
Me too, cookie. I'll have to sell down here to live up there. Unless I hit the lottery, again.
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GWPDA, yclept SansDent |
Homepage |
07.28.07 - 8:57 pm | #
but how will we run 40 computers at once?
LARTs, VIA x86 mobos, ARM computers Intel and AMD laptop based computers all don't burn much juice.
Doug |
07.28.07 - 8:57 pm | #
Hey KKKarl! Read this and piss your pants. Genius? Ha!
4LGS, which mountains do you want to live in?
therealhellkitty herder of cat |
07.28.07 - 8:59 pm | #
Hey KKKarl! Read this and piss your pants. Genius? Ha!
They're entitled to their math. Karl has the math.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 8:59 pm | #
NPR recently reported on harnessing playground equipment for mechanical work - why not hook them up to generators?
atablarasa |
07.28.07 - 9:00 pm | #
I take it this means over the next year and a half we should expect an escalation of the color-coded 'terra threat' scam.
nick carraway |
07.28.07 - 9:00 pm | #
Isn't it time for the A-man to post a Golgi Mondello video or something?
Tralfaz |
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07.28.07 - 9:01 pm | #
4LGS, which mountains do you want to live in?
He (she?) wants to live in the Davis Mountains of west Texas, where the independent Republic of Texas flourishes in double-wides and dusty hovels.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:01 pm | #
When Dayton is in the headlines on CNN, it's not a good thing:
A biplane stunt pilot died after he crashed in front of thousands of spectators during a Dayton, Ohio, air show Saturday, a day after another pilot was killed during an air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
*Yeah, mmmmm, I going to go ahead and disagree with you there*
Gomez |
07.28.07 - 9:01 pm | #
back in a few. time to have the first smoke of the day.
therealhellkitty |
07.28.07 - 9:02 pm | #
Everything that has ever happened was a part of Rove's master plan.
Irving R. Feldman |
07.28.07 - 9:02 pm | #
pseudonymous in nc
Yeah I blogged about that. I had a feeling that Abu was talking about another program like that. Eschelon etc.
Culture of TrÜth |
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07.28.07 - 9:02 pm | #
Everything that has ever happened was a part of Rove's master plan.
O Parvardigar! The Preserver and Protector of All,
You are without beginning and without end.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:03 pm | #
Robert Novak is a registered Democrat.
lick |
07.28.07 - 9:03 pm | #
Robert Novak is a registered Democrat.
And Barnabas Collins trod the Earth by day in human form.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:04 pm | #
4LGS, which mountains do you want to live in?
I like the Rockies.
But the Alps would work too.
West Texas? not in this fucking lifetime.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 9:05 pm | #
Also, some people say that Congress is unpopular because the kkkrazy moonbats took over and they're too liberal.
It's not because they keep writing checks for the war. Seriously.
Nim, ham hock of liberty |
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07.28.07 - 9:05 pm | #
Everything that has ever happened was a part of Rove's master plan.
Irving R. Feldman
Yes. Losing a generation of voters sounds like a plan. His dream of a 30-year Republican hegemony is looking more like a Marx Brothers script.
Delay closed by saying, "we have to be connected to Israel to enjoy the second coming."
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bo |
07.28.07 - 9:07 pm | #
Delay closed by saying, "we have to be connected to Israel to enjoy the second coming."
I thought the second coming preceded the birth of his second child by approximately nine months.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:07 pm | #
Even here in cloudy and foggy Nova Scotia
where in NS?
spent a week and a half there in May.
Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales on Cspan says he changed the fuckin' world and nobody can touch him.
It must be true because I read it on Wikipedia.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:09 pm | #
I thought the second coming preceded the birth of his second child by approximately nine months.
I doubt the Bugman could come twice if his life depended on it.
theodoric |
07.28.07 - 9:09 pm | #
Jimbo says the Chinese have banned his Wikipedia and started their own.
lionel |
07.28.07 - 9:09 pm | #
In other news, Maddie continues to grow.
NTodd's Pa's bengals are still growing, too. They're at 12+ lbs already, and the vet just said they both (well, the 2 youngsters) have another year to go. Jeebus fucking cat christ.
NTodd, Fanciest |
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07.28.07 - 9:10 pm | #
In other news, Maddie continues to grow.
I'm becoming concerned. - fourlegsrgood
You don't have a plant named Audrey as well, do you?
bo |
07.28.07 - 9:10 pm | #
NZ looks jsut like chile...
::matthew, 52 pcs of flair |
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07.28.07 - 9:10 pm | #
fourlegsrgood: In other news, Maddie continues to grow.
Did you not do the banzai kitty jar on her?
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.28.07 - 9:10 pm | #
New Zealand would be nice.
But the Swiss Alps would be better. Closer to Paris.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 9:10 pm | #
Democratic lawmakers are asking for a special prosecutor to look into Mr. Gonzales’s words and deeds. Solicitor General Paul Clement has a last chance to show that the Justice Department is still minimally functional by fulfilling that request.
If that does not happen, Congress should impeach Mr. Gonzales.
res ipsa loquitur |
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07.28.07 - 9:10 pm | #
minimally functional
Someone needs to print that on a red, white and blue banner and hang it on the front of the White House.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:11 pm | #
Firewall Faerie:
Frank Rich is up.
Somebody better fuck me, er...the FF for all this someday.
NTodd, Fanciest |
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07.28.07 - 9:11 pm | #
NTodd's Pa's bengals are still growing, too. They're at 12+ lbs already, and the vet just said they both (well, the 2 youngsters) have another year to go. Jeebus fucking cat christ.
I don't have a scale, but I think that Maddie is already over 10 lbs at fucking 7 months.
Maine coons don't hit their full size until 3 years old.
If this country goes to Hell, look for me in Puerto Montt.
bo |
07.28.07 - 9:12 pm | #
In other news, Maddie continues to grow.
And Franny's still stunted, like the cute, cute runt that she is...
Zap Rowsdower, Homebody |
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07.28.07 - 9:13 pm | #
I agree with the Chinese, Wikipedia isn't an original idea. Only in the West are creative ideas attributed to individuals alone.
lionel |
07.28.07 - 9:13 pm | #
"If that does not happen, Congress should impeach Mr. Gonzales.
res ipsa loquitur"
Much too divisive. Teh pundits would cluck their tongues disapprovingly at the unseemly partisan witch-hunt of it all. Congress should be "solving our problems" instead, you know.
Removing incompetent and lawless AGs doesn't count.
Nim, ham hock of liberty |
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07.28.07 - 9:13 pm | #
I lived in teh Swiss Alps.
They're not overrated.
Poor Eliot.
It was Bruno what prevented Mario from ruling the free world in 1992.
Culture of TrÜth |
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07.28.07 - 9:13 pm | #
Jimbo Wales says the Germans are very uptight about sources.
lionel |
07.28.07 - 9:14 pm | #
halifax is a great place to be.
awful lot of real estate on the market up there, but then I was never able to figure out where all those people up on Cape Breton got their groceries and gasoline.
theodoric |
07.28.07 - 9:14 pm | #
If that does not happen, Congress should impeach Mr. Gonzales. -res ipsa loquitur
Send over the Sargent-at-Arms to clamp in irons and bring him back to that cell in Capitol basement.
bo |
07.28.07 - 9:14 pm | #
You know what? I'll bet that the reason everyone wuz gonna quit over the data mining is because they had evidence that the admin was spying on democratic candidates.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 9:14 pm | #
the Chinese have banned his Wikipedia and started their own.
so has andy schlafly. yawn.
theodoric |
07.28.07 - 9:15 pm | #
The Kootenays are pretty close to Banff. And Spokane. Otherwise, not.
Winds are coming up pretty good here - seems to be moving off to the southwest tho, which is weird for a monsoon storm.
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GWPDA, yclept SansDent |
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07.28.07 - 9:15 pm | #
...they had evidence that the admin was spying on democratic candidates
Watergate II: Electric Boogaloo
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:15 pm | #
I lived in teh Swiss Alps.
They're not overrated.
And think of all the chocolate!
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 9:16 pm | #
New Zealand would be nice.
But the Swiss Alps would be better. Closer to Paris.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 07.28.07 - 9:10 pm
Well, you could spend the northern hemisphere's summer months in Switzerland, and the winter months in New Zealand.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 9:16 pm | #
The chinese don't seem to understand an economy is not sustainable without an enforceable distribution of property rights.
lionel |
07.28.07 - 9:16 pm | #
I was never able to figure out where all those people up on Cape Breton got their groceries and gasoline.
theodoric
That's so fucking funny (er, sad) I don't know where to start.
They have these quaint things called "gardens", it's a long story. Ask me about it when I'm not eight beers in...
Moe Szyslak, hating coal |
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07.28.07 - 9:16 pm | #
I'm not so sure everybody would have freaked over spying on Dems.
I'm guessing the problem was they were spying on Repugs.
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie |
07.28.07 - 9:16 pm | #
Well, you could spend the northern hemisphere's summer months in Switzerland, and the winter months in New Zealand.
If I could afford to do that I'd start my own sucky blog instead of spending time on this one.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:16 pm | #
In other news, Maddie continues to grow.
And Franny's still stunted, like the cute, cute runt that she is...
Thank god Ripley is going to be an ordinary sized kitteh.
She's a handful. I can't imagine her at 20 lbs.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 9:17 pm | #
Well, you could spend the northern hemisphere's summer months in Switzerland, and the winter months in New Zealand.
= end of the world.
Moe Szyslak, hating coal |
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07.28.07 - 9:17 pm | #
Or near Torres del Paine in Chile? - Buckeye
If this country goes to Hell, look for me in Puerto Montt.
bo | 07.28.07 - 9:12 pm |
Well, you could spend the northern hemisphere's summer months in Switzerland, and the winter months in New Zealand.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 07.28.07 - 9:16 pm |
If I could afford that, I'd be there now.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 9:18 pm | #
It doesn't matter who the owners are, or even how that ownership is distributed. What matters is that the law enforces a regime of property rights.
lionel |
07.28.07 - 9:18 pm | #
More killfile fodder consumed.
bo |
07.28.07 - 9:18 pm | #
4LG,
And the media. They were spying on the NYT, WaPo, all of 'em.
In effect, Rove was rebutting the complaint inside the party that George W. Bush is responsible for Republican miseries by invading Iraq.
And, with our $20 Billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, it would appear we’ve picked a side. The fun is only starting, folks.
Maybe Rove is hoping a war with Iran will ensure Republican victories in '08. Dream on.
Southern Beale |
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07.28.07 - 9:20 pm | #
Josh Marshall:
To put this into perspective, remember that the White House been willing to go to the public and make a positive argument for certain surveillance procedures (notably evasion of the FISA Court strictures) which appear to be illegal on their face. This must be much more serious and apparently something all but the most ravenous Bush authoritarians would never accept. It is supposedly no longer even happening and hasn't been for a few years. So disclosing it could not jeopardize a program. The only reason that suggests itself is that the political and legal consequences of disclosure are too grave to allow.
res ipsa loquitur |
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07.28.07 - 9:20 pm | #
You know, if O Rly wants to blow forehead veins about uncouth blog comments, he should quit digging into obscure diary responses on dKos. Someone give him a link to the comments here plz. I think we might get him to have an actual cardiac event on-air.
Nim, ham hock of liberty |
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07.28.07 - 9:20 pm | #
I just started cleaning up the clutter in my place and I'm overwhelmed.
Gilly Gonzylon |
07.28.07 - 9:21 pm | #
And, with our $20 Billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, it would appear we’ve picked a side. The fun is only starting, folks.
Sands of Oblivion on SCI FI channel. Plot so far: Lotsa sand, ancient Egyptians, Grandpa who cackles wildly and should be killed. That is all.
Candymarl |
07.28.07 - 9:22 pm | #
President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
Sands of Oblivion on SCI FI channel. Plot so far: Lotsa sand, ancient Egyptians, Grandpa who cackles wildly and should be killed. That is all.
Candymarl
You're watching it so we don't have to.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:22 pm | #
One more time and I will see if I cannot open every bookmark I have by accident.
Before the wife heads off to bed, we have to do the cat tour...
DailyKitten
I Can Haz Cheezburger
Plush Life
Presto Change-0
Dohiyi Mir
Dependable Renegade
EkCenTriK |
07.28.07 - 9:22 pm | #
But seriously, everyone drives to Sydney every weekend, stops at Costco, fills the tank. Just like the rest of North America.
Moe Szyslak, hating coal |
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07.28.07 - 9:22 pm | #
Well, you could spend the northern hemisphere's summer months in Switzerland, and the winter months in New Zealand.
= end of the world.
Moe Szyslak, hating coal | Homepage | 07.28.07 - 9:17 pm
One of the appealing things about New Zealand is that it's out of the way.
And that's just the south island.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 9:23 pm | #
the White House been willing to go to the public and make a positive argument for certain surveillance procedures (notably evasion of the FISA Court strictures) which appear to be illegal on their face
And, with our $20 Billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, it would appear we’ve picked a side. The fun is only starting, folks.
Could this be an admission that Iraq is falling apart and that the Shia will be in complete control soon?
Irving R. Feldman |
07.28.07 - 9:23 pm | #
Dehydration can cause serious fatigue.
bo |
07.28.07 - 9:24 pm | #
Enough bad things can't happen to Frank Bruno but Spitzer was unwise in his methods.
(I've been watching Star Wars all day.)
HoneyBearKelly |
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07.28.07 - 9:24 pm | #
Thanks, Firewall Fairy!
res ipsa loquitur |
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07.28.07 - 9:24 pm | #
awful lot of real estate on the market up there, but then I was never able to figure out where all those people up on Cape Breton got their groceries and gasoline.
theodoric
I remember a very nice lady saying much the same thing to the head of the Hopi Agricultural Division, wondering where people in Oraibi or 2nd Mesa got their food. She seemed surprised somehow when he told her "Safeway."
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GWPDA, yclept SansDent |
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07.28.07 - 9:24 pm | #
pony blow said there was no disagreement about the program
That's the chemo talking.
And that is officially the most tasteless snark I've ever published.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:24 pm | #
Rich's column is great- and everyone needs to remember that Petraeus is being advised by retired general Keane, who is a big muckety muck at AEI now, and one of the architects of the surge.
We are completely fucked.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 9:24 pm | #
sALt PEanutS
salt Peanutz
SAlPeanuts salt Peanuts.
bo |
07.28.07 - 9:24 pm | #
*Things go right...I might be showin her mah O-Face...O.....O....*
Gomez |
07.28.07 - 9:24 pm | #
Well, you could spend the northern hemisphere's summer months in Switzerland, and the winter months in New Zealand.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 07.28.07 - 9:16 pm |
If I could afford that, I'd be there now.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? | Homepage | 07.28.07 - 9:18 pm | #
If I won the lottery, a big one, I'd do something like that.
Buy land in NZ, in Europe. And when I'm not there, set up a waiting list for friends/relatives/Atriots.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.28.07 - 9:25 pm | #
Um, Buckeye, what I'm saying is that flying to New Zealand and back twice a year pretty much ends any chance that we'll get climate change under control.
Moe Szyslak, hating coal |
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07.28.07 - 9:25 pm | #
Is this one of those "far left hate sites" O'Reilly told me about?
Buzz Bomb |
07.28.07 - 9:26 pm | #
Is this one of those "far left hate sites" O'Reilly told me about?
If the foo shits.
Harry Doghiney fka ScroolTrool |
07.28.07 - 9:26 pm | #
Dehydration can cause serious fatigue.
So can lots of fucking in the hot summer sun.
NTodd, Fanciest |
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07.28.07 - 9:27 pm | #
Anyone seen the Simpsons movie yet?
Buzz Bomb |
07.28.07 - 9:27 pm | #
"Is this one of those "far left hate sites" O'Reilly told me about?"
Yes. And since you are late, you have a lot of hating to catch up on. Here is the file on Dryer Lint Hate. When you are done, contact us.
EkCenTriK |
07.28.07 - 9:27 pm | #
The shits will kill us.
bo |
07.28.07 - 9:28 pm | #
Sands of Oblivion on SCI FI channel. Plot so far: Lotsa sand, ancient Egyptians, Grandpa who cackles wildly and should be killed. That is all.
Candymarl | 07.28.07 - 9:22 pm | #
And the problem is?
There appears to be an Anubis haided monster, what more can ya want?
Also several hot science babes.
fourlegsrgood, got pitchfork? |
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07.28.07 - 9:28 pm | #
Um, Buckeye, what I'm saying is that flying to New Zealand and back twice a year pretty much ends any chance that we'll get climate change under control.
I'm working on teleportation in my spare time.
NTodd, Fanciest |
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07.28.07 - 9:30 pm | #
Update: George Kennedy is the grandpa. Think he was killed by ancient sand monster for digging up something really old. Advice: do not piss off ancient sand monsters. That is all.
Candymarl |
07.28.07 - 9:33 pm | #
Aiiight, kiddos. I'm off to Nordeast Minneapolis.
Later! And feel free to check out some guy's new post up at Pax Americana...
*well at least I never slept with LUMBERGH!!!*
Gomez |
07.28.07 - 9:37 pm | #
and the winter months in New Zealand.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
Gettin' such a ration of shit here, I've emailed my brother in NZ, asking...
under the radar |
07.28.07 - 9:39 pm | #
Anyone seen the Simpsons movie yet?
I just got back from it. If not up to the level of classic individual Simpsons episodes like "Marge vs. the Monorail" or "Homer's Enemy," it was still very funny. I can't wait for the DVD!
Andrew |
07.28.07 - 9:50 pm | #
been wondering about the hillary/obama flap regarding engaging dialogue with foreign leaders in the first year of new dem administration.
hoping that there will be more blogopinions being thrown out for consumption.
fokowi
My contention is, anybody who wants to position themselves as the Grand Poobah of Anything at All sure as hell had better set ground rules of Dialogue Based on Mutual Respect. Failing that, yer outa here.
Whole new ball game, from here on out...
under the radar |
07.28.07 - 10:09 pm | #
who weighs more John Hagee or Roven?
jr |
07.28.07 - 11:08 pm | #
No, I think it's good, because one of their big boys is admitted how corrupt they are (folks, try more thinking outside the box...)
Neil'' |
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07.29.07 - 12:25 pm | #