HULK SMASH
fast
http://www.correntewire.com/
obam..._predicted_9_11
Oh, no, BO!!!
Say it isn't so!
I wonder where are these folks going ... any tracking data
squat
"The economy's great, it's the liberal media!"-Neil Cavuto
CURLY!
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MATTHEWS: Let me give you a scene that may face you in the next year or two, where the national security adviser calls you at 3:00 in the morning and tells that you a couple of jet — commercial jets have been hijacked. And they believe it is al Qaeda. And, as we know, al Qaeda always tries a second time. They tried for the World Trade Center after ‘93. They came back in ‘01. They’re heading for the Capitol. What do you do?
OBAMA: Well, look, I am hesitant to engage in hypotheticals like that, because…
MATTHEWS: But it has been predictable.
OBAMA: Oh, well, the — I don’t think anybody predicted 9/11. And, so, we don’t know what kinds of circumstances are going to come up.
Oh, no, BO! Please say it you didn't mean that!
From the corrente link just above.
The headline in the Strib's Homes section today:
McCain proposal calls for higher down payments on homes
That's...............bold.
We need more cats up in heah.
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During the Dem convention, let's find a vacant, get a rave going... I wanna see a superdelegate on ecstacy freaking out while watching the RudePundit play with inflatable dolls!
John McCain insists the borrowers are to blame, and the GOP insists only lenders be bailed out.
This is all good news for Republicans. I'm worried, people.
*SPROING*
(I'm a bankruptcy lawyer)
I had no idea there was even a neighborhood there - it's practically at the airport, which is miles from anything else.
Gomez is getting all tumescent...
A lot of these neighborhoods were sorely deficient in the number of crack-houses situated within them, so this is actually good news for some sectors of the economy.
OBAMA: Oh, well, the — I don’t think anybody predicted 9/11. And, so, we don’t know what kinds of circumstances are going to come up.
That's not going to be good for anyone.
Well, 11% foreclosures equals 89% people doing well. And in baseball, half of that is a pretty good hitting average. There is no problem here!
-George Will bot
McCain proposal calls for higher down payments on homes
George Will is today praising McCain's "policy minimalism."
McCain's only solecism is his loopy idea that mortgage lenders should make a "response" that is "similar" to General Motors' policy of interest-free financing immediately after Sept. 11. Patting himself on the back, as is his wont, McCain said he is too honorable to "play election-year politics" or "allow dogma to override common sense." Then he cast this issue as he casts too many issues, as a matter of patriotism, saying of lenders: "They've been asking the government to help them out. I'm now calling on them to help their customers and their nation out."
McCain's so dreamy ...
You know, we didn't put anything down on the house. We got the previous owner to pay all of our closing and put new windows on. We were at an advantage in the sense he'd already left the state and was getting anxious to get rid of the place.
Should have held out for a new fence, though.
McCain practices the politics of honor: He thinks that whatever his instincts tell him is honorable must be so and that those who think otherwise are dishonorable. This makes him difficult to deal with but does no other harm, as long as it is kept separate from governing.
Bygones!
The crash is an opportunity to expand affordable housing for the more clueful localities.
Trying not to spy on the new neighbors in the rental across the street, but kitchen faces out that way. Men constantly going in and out with luggage, duffel bags, big black garbage bags. Nothing to see here, move along.
They've been asking the government to help them out. I'm now calling on them to help their customers and their nation out."
Pretty please with sugar on top?
Deadthreaded:
JeffCO:
If your idea of dating is racing to see who finishes first so that you can gloat about it, you may be a conservative.
Sound better?
aangus: Waiting for mud! | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 2:10 pm | #
Zap, shoulda went for the fence, siding, new furnace...
I had heard that vacancy rates for apartments around here was very low lately, primarily due to people losing their homes.
Well, 11% foreclosures equals 89% people doing well. And in baseball, half of that is a pretty good hitting average. There is no problem here!
-George Will bot
There wasn't a problem till they started giving mortgages to people who look like Jackie Robinson.
-Pat Buchanan bot
"This stuff really is fascinating."
You forgot the WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Fuck You!
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Both my kittehs in one photograph -- NOT Photoshopped!
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Dog Days In Denver
Attica! Attica! Attica!
Gee, I can't possibly imagine any possible way to tie the mcCranky (R- crAZy) keating 5 thing to his rimming the bankers here.
"Fascinating" as in rubbernecking past a bad automobile accident?
It's not just stupid mortgages drowning people but also lost jobs.
Fucking Bronco fans.
F THEM!!!!
F THEM!!!!
Is there a fucking cussing ban on or something?
Apparently there are a lot of houses (mostly burndowns) in Detroit listed for $1. Prospective buyers can arrange showings if they pay to have the utilities reconnected.
Is there a fucking cussing ban on or something?
H, naw.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. private security firm Blackwater's deal to protect American diplomats in Baghdad will be extended for a year while the FBI investigates a 2007 incident in which the company's guards are accused of killing 17 Iraqis, the State Department said on Friday.
"Heckuva job, Blackwater."
For hundreds of homeowners in this mostly middle-class corner of Denver — and an estimated 1.2 million more nationwide — the wave of foreclosures battering U.S. financial markets is quickly unraveling the American dream.
I always thought the American dream was to stockpile as many weapons as possible.
I suppose the house thing is necessary, though, if only to prevent rust.
OBAMA: Well, look, I am hesitant to engage in hypotheticals like that, because… I don't have a freaking clue, what to do!
Hillary 2008
H, naw.
Good thing I got kin from Kentucky, or I would have never understood.
Is there a fucking cussing ban on or something?
F YEAH!!!
Unless municipalities are prepared to take elaborate and sustained measures, some of these neighborhoods are going to be destroyed.
And a lot of municipalities are running out of money because they rely on property taxes, and valuations are going into the shitter as expenses rise. The city manager of Portland Maine just announce plans to lay off 98 employees, including eliminating some department heads.
Twenty-seven of the 98 jobs are vacant, and 22 of them would be replaced by grant-funded positions, resulting in a total reduction of 76 jobs in the budget that would take effect on July 1. That's 5.3 percent of the city's 1,400 workers.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.co...179802&
ac=PHnws
The waterfront and transportation director is being let go just when big changes are taking place on the waterfront. I really blanch when I think of what may be coming since the Federal Government seems only to care about bailing out the wealthy and State and local governments fail to pick up the slack in real public expenditures.
Shit, I hate fucking profanity.
Is there a fucking cussing ban on or something?
It's some dumb shit asshole fuck of idea to make us more fucking civil when we fucking post things that other fuckers here don't fucking agree with.
Unless municipalities are prepared to take elaborate and sustained measures, some of these neighborhoods are going to be destroyed.
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Pardon my distressing cynicism, but they're not. The municipalities, that is. They're OK at dipsy-doodling around and stumbling backwards into allowing casinos to be built with minimal consideration for local residents; they're good at banning trans-fats; they don't miss a trick when it comes to including themselves in an early retirement incentive program intended to reduce payroll in city agencies through attrition.
But formulating elaborate and sustained measures to preserve non upper-class neighborhoods just isn't on any more.
Now we do things New Orleans style. They'll just have to wave in the buzzards and jackals who are still surviving, even prospering, in these troubled economic times, to work their depredations... er, I meant "magic".
And some fix favoring business investment and interests will be instituted that leaves neighborhood residents twisting in the wind. Maybe they'll level the neighborhoods and build mega-casinos with plenty of klass, parking, and retail space to boot.
And as Adam Smith once said, let the Devil take the hindmost.
Jeremy Waldron has a great piece in the latest LRB reviewing a recent book by Cass Sunstein. He has a nice discussion of the Cheney doctrine that even a one-percent probability of a catastrophic event should be treated as a certainty for policy purposes, where the class of catastrophic events is limited to those with a military, security or terrorist dimension.
Waldron is also pretty acid about Sunstein’s treatment of global warming and distributive justice, noting some of the shortcomings of the idea that poor people’s lives should be valued according to what they’re prepared to pay to avoid the risk of death.
Cheney doctrine: Go fuck yourself!
I keep asking myself: self, why the hell aren't you outside where it's currently 65f?
During the Dem convention, let's find a vacant, get a rave going...
I'm applying for credentials myself.
Is there a fucking cussing ban on or something?
What the frak is up with BSG?
Gee, I can't possibly imagine any possible way to tie the mcCranky (R- crAZy) keating 5 thing to his rimming the bankers here.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
Funny you should mention that. Over at Calculated Risk, they're reviewing Congressional testimony from the S&L crisis:
That will happen, not might happen but will happen, and when it does these too-big-to-fail banks will have to be propped up with Federal money. In the smoking aftermath, Congress can stand around and wring its hands and give speeches about how awful it is that these bankers violated the spirit of the law, but once again, the money will be gone, the bill will have come due, and taxpayers will again be required to cough it up.
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.c...m-s-
crisis.html
Rest assured, though, that our wonderful MSM won't trouble their beautiful minds with news of foreclosures and taxpayer bailouts of large corporations!
It's some dumb shit asshole fuck of idea to make us more fucking civil when we fucking post things that other fuckers here don't fucking agree with.
At least try to make sense, for fucks sake.
This is the factor everyone is ignoring in the mortgage crisis. Even if your mortgage is not in trouble your neighborhood may be. If your house is surrounded by trashouts your house may become either worthless or your neighborhood unlivable.
The American economy is in recession and according to Larry Kudlow, that is a cause for celebration. On Friday, the National Review regular and CNBC host praised three months of job losses as "an economic cleansing" and beamed that "recessions are therapeutic." And by all indications, Kudlow's prescription of an economic enema for the American people is one shared by John McCain.
For the details, see:
"Kudlow to McCain: Americans Need an Economic Enema."
Should have held out for a new fence, though.
Fences are for weenies.
Dig a moat, stock it with crocodiles. That's what's cool, nowadays.
These suburban neighborhoods are going to become the new inner cities.
There was an article in one of the dailies here yesterday about folks trying to rent out their houses to journalists during the RNC.
Someone suggested the cities rent out the vacant, foreclosed houses.
And locally they're about to open up a new development in downtown St Pete for sale. High rise condos and homes. Units start at 1.25 million a pop. Good luck on that.
I keep asking myself: self, why the hell aren't you outside where it's currently 65f?
I was outside earlier. Temp in the 50s, and the sun is out. So great!
can we have more pics of fancy food, from Spain even, before you beg for $$ again?
Asshole!
The Blessed Mother is crying now.
I hope you're all happy.
I'm applying for credentials myself. Thers
Should be fine - not too many louts out here.
Dig a moat, stock it with crocodiles. That's what's cool, nowadays.
Martha Stewart, is that you???
And much contemporary suburban construction isn't exactly especially high quality.
A lot of it is especially horrible. They are noot homes anymore, they are product. A lot of developments stand open to casual inspection while they're going up, and I swear, if people would go through them, and actually look at what's behind the sheetrock, they'd stay in the apartment...
I'm applying for credentials myself. Thers
I would apply for credentials, but Atrios deleted my account this morning.
I thought Kudlow said that Bush's economy was the "greatest story never told" and that Goldilocks was alive and well. WTF?
Should be fine - not too many louts out here.
I look forward to sleeping on your couch. You can watch the kids.
"I Want Hilary to Win"
Why?? She fights.
She's tenacious.
She wouldn't throw her grandma or minister under a bus.
She doesn't give Ronald Reagan hand jobs.
She doesn't refuse to discuss race, until she gets in trouble and needs to play that hand.
Did I mention she fights?
Case in point: Right now I'm watching Tim Russert, Andrew Sullivan and Chris Hitchens on 'Tim Russert.' They're all outraged that she is, "playing the gender card." Did I mention also that AS USUAL they are ferociously kicking her in the head in unison. I guess they heard she was ahead in recent polls - or 'GE' did, take your pic...that means she gets a full dozen kicks this weekend instead of the usual 10 delivered every week on Timmeh's show. What led them to attack her for supposedly using 'gender,' and open herself up to and even worse beat down this week?
Welllll, according to them, Hilary purportedly said in a backroom somewhere...'I'm not going to be bullied by a bunch of guys.'
Hahahahahahaha.
Yeah, like I said - she fights.
Foreign concept to us Dems, I know.
I like winners - there's a reason why the Clintons were the first Dems since the stone age to get two terms.
Someone suggested the cities rent out the vacant, foreclosed houses.
Preferably the ones surrounded by the crocodile-infested moats.
I look forward to sleeping on your couch. You can watch the kids. Thers
I'm not bailing NTodd out of jail.
can we have more pics of fancy food, from Spain even, before you beg for $$ again?
Asshole!
Really dislike Atrios, eh?
I keep asking myself: self, why the hell aren't you outside where it's currently 65f?
Barndog, almost fishing
Stuck in a roomful of computer geeks where it IS 65! Maybe closer to 60!
I can't wait to get outside where the temperature is closer to 80.
The Blessed Mother is crying now.
How come no one ever sees statues of her laughing?
Do you know who hates our old friend Eli?
Jay Rosen.
did you know that it costs no money to hunt for pictures of spanish food on the internets and post them on my blog?
Finding something fascinating is not the same as finding it desirable or cheering it on.
How come no one ever sees statues of her laughing?
She has bad teeth.
Someone suggested the cities rent out the vacant, foreclosed houses.
the banks are starting to pay off foreclosed borrowers, to the tune of $1000 or so, not to trash the place before they move out.
Lots of hoopenpoopen, nao. I will go write about the Vino, and bbl.
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It's some dumb shit asshole fuck of idea to make us more fucking civil when we fucking post things that other fuckers here don't fucking agree with. -leibniz♘☮
see, this is just why you don't get the conservative blogger chicks:
They (liberals)don't have the manners that conservatives do. I think that's because conservative men buy into this feminist orthodoxy less. They don't have a thing about paying for you on a date, holding a door open, being a gentleman. Conservatives do that more than liberals do. ...just the old fashioned gentleman type that women really want, but there aren't that many of them out there any more. -Cassy Fiano
The Blessed Mother is crying now.
How come no one ever sees statues of her laughing?
I once saw a waffle that looked just like the BVM with a bong.
did you know that it costs no money to hunt for pictures of spanish food on the internets and post them on my blog?
Whaaaa? So what did you do with the money you *said* you were spending on beer???
Michael Kinsley talks about his Parkinson's, including the brain surgery.
Finding something fascinating is not the same as finding it desirable or cheering it on.
Point well taken. For example, NTodd.
It’s not hard to see how Cheney’s methodology can run out of control and become the basis of an undifferentiated paranoia.
Ha!
I'm not bailing NTodd out of jail.
He can dig his own damn escape tunnel with a dildo.
Wow, people losing their houses in droves, the middle class being shoved down to poverty and the main concern of the non-house-loser is, well unless big brother steps in, there goes the neighborhood!
And as Adam Smith once said, let the Devil take the hindmost.
I think Adam Smith stole that from Larry Kudlow. Therapeutic cleansing, my ass. What needs cleansing is Kudlow's presence from all forms of media.
Wasn't the reason given for bailing out Bear Stearns that they were too connected to fail. If Bear went under others would too. That is no different from these neighborhoods in Denver.
I once saw a waffle that looked just like the BVM with a bong.
I once saw a bong that looked just like Jesus with a waffle.
He can dig his own damn escape tunnel with a dildo.
Thers
Once we find my truck we can drive the hell out of here.
He can dig his own damn escape tunnel with a dildo.
Yeah, but you have to go to the jail to give him the dildo inside a loaf of bread.
Do you know who hates our old friend Eli? Jay Rosen. Thers
Jesus fucking christ on a pogo stick - it's a good thing I still have my clutching pearls.
Ban on profanity? Fuck that shit!
If there's one thing that pisses me the fuck off, it's some milquetoast or delicate genius or Dudley Doright type swooping down to protest, clutching their pearls and calling for the smelling salts over the everyday expression of free fucking speech, goddamnit!
I have no fucking patience with these assholes, even the well-meaning variety programmed from birth to regard the slightest motherfucking profanity as barbaric, unnecessary, and reprehensible. They may be genuinely and sincerely pained when encountering even a single goddamned swear word, but fuck 'em anyway. Grow the fuck up.
And the supercilious simple-asses who feel empowered to lecture and scold for "practical" reasons can kiss my ass. Maybe one can catch more flies with honey than shit, but why the fuck are you catching fucking flies in the first place, dick?
Not to infringe on another's shtick, but they can all fucking blow me. And that's all the fuck I have to say about this lame shit... for the fucking moment. 
Yeah, but you have to go to the jail to give him the dildo inside a loaf of bread.
Oh, I'm sure he can sneak it in himself the old-fashioned way.
Bottom line: Rosen is wrong. The news media will collaborate with right-wing propaganda, as they have consistently done since Clinton’s first term. You can’t use reason to counter slander. The only thing that works to stop it is deterrence.
I'm in the crowd that doesn't understand how this deterrence works logistically.
Oh, I'm sure he can sneak it in himself the old-fashioned way.
Oh lordie!
If there's one thing that pisses me the fuck off, it's some milquetoast or delicate genius or Dudley Doright type swooping down to protest, clutching their pearls and calling for the smelling salts over the everyday expression of free fucking speech, goddamnit!
All righty, then!
Wow, visitor said fuck. I'm so impressed.
If there's one thing that pisses me the fuck off, it's some milquetoast or delicate genius or Dudley Doright type swooping down to protest, clutching their pearls and calling for the smelling salts over the everyday expression of free fucking speech, goddamnit!
Why is it so annoying to you? I mean, public scolds have been around as long as there has been a public.
I once saw a waffle that looked just like the BVM with a bong.
Thers
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"[B]ong", or "dong"?
(It changes the market value.)
I'm in the crowd that doesn't understand how this deterrence works logistically.
Homosexual Activist
Moats. Crocodiles. Cursing.
"Usually the handwriting on the wall has already dried by the time they realize they have to find another living arrangement," says Lou Tisler...
What riches some people bring to our language, eh?
Kudlow, arguing that no pain is no gain for the American people, predictably calls for more tax cuts for the wealthy and slashing corporate taxes. And to be sure, under no circumstances should government intervene to help the millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes. As Kudlow declared on March 31:
"It seems like nowadays in Washington nobody is allowed to fail at anything.
Uh, there is that little Iraq thing.
I once saw a dildo in the BVMs waffle.
Moats. Crocodiles. Cursing.
I draw the line at building a moat.
Today is the 25th anniversary of the day on April 5, 1983 when I did whatever it was I did that day.
I draw the line at building a moat.
Homosexual Activist
F YOU!!!!!
F YOU!!!!!
NO "F"ing!
Moats. Crocodiles. Cursing.
Voodoo dolls. Ancient spells. Sacrifices to Chutlu.
"Usually the paint covering the handwriting on the wall has already dried by the time they realize they have to find another living arrangement," says Lou Tisler...
could be.
F YOU!!!!!
Release the crocodiles!
My clutching pearls that Thers gave me last weekend were confiscated by TSA.
Do not invoke the Incog!
I draw the line at building a moat.
Homosexual Activist
F YOU!!!!!
Rmj, Unfashionable Theologist
I should think you, of all people, would be tolerant of the moat in your neighbor's eye.
I was just trying to get into the spirit of the thing.
Actually, I believe that the profanophobic are more to be pitied than censured. As noted, they have been present far longer than mankind itself-- like their cousins, the mosquitoes.
I only ever slap at them in self-defense.
I don't think that was really glasses guy. He told me he was running off to Aregentina with Mike.
I should think you, of all people, would be tolerant of the moat in your neighbor's eye.
I thought it was a moop.
Not much going on here. We just sit around watching the handwriting on the wall dry...
Senator Obama, quoted by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, admitted, "I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."
I think this is the very important reason obama is not ready for big time politics. Dems stay away from gun control issues!
I heard a rumor that John McCain invented the abacus,and that he was the role model for Shakespeares' "Romeo And Julliette".
He's really not too old to be president,because he is a maverick and a straight talker and drinks a gallon of Maloxx a day.
Well, if there is one good thing out of all this, it's times like these that you get to see who still has a soul, who sold theirs long long ago. Knowledge is power.
As to the word choice, it's hard not to look at a bad accident. I wasn't being critical so much as pointing out what is "fascinating" involves someone else's very real pain.
I should think you, of all people, would be tolerant of the moat in your neighbor's eye.
Thers, Civility Master
His eye, yes. His yard? No.
I draw the line at building a moat.
Homosexual Activist
You's probably default on it anyway, and I hear there is already a glut of moats in the real estate market.
John McCain shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
You'd...
I should think you, of all people, would be tolerant of the moat in your neighbor's eye.
Fucking muscae volitantes!
Speaking of crashes, there was a nasty one out by the outlet mall. One dead, dozens injured. Charter bus bringing a marching band to Chicago.
I think this is the very important reason obama is not ready for big time politics. Dems stay away from gun control issues!
maybe he just understands that fucking morons like you already have their minds made up and are not going to reconsider.
Happy New Moon.
April 5 New Moon
The new moon at the start of the third month of the Chinese lunar calendar is known as the Sleepy Moon. On the first three days of this month, the Chinese honor the Mother of the Western Heaven.
This is also the start of the Greek month of Mounichion and the second month of Adar in the Jewish lunar calendar.
I don't know why it's called the Sleepy Moon. Something to do with EschaCon, perhaps.
I wish we operated on a lunar calendar.
BagNewsNotes had a picture of McCain reading a teleprompter during his "High School Memories" speech.
I draw a line in the sands of time at building a moat in my neighbor's eye.
His eye, yes. His yard? No.
Anti-moat arguments are a total croc.
fuck, fuck, fuck....
Scarface - The Short Version
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KANukZsWD9Q
http://wnd.com/images/absolut.jpg
Proof that illegals are really just an advance force.
The Minnesota Air National Guard must be preparing to invade St. Paul. Their got-damn helicopters keep flying overhead.
The other problem with building a moat is many areas prohibit water features deeper than 18 inches in the front yard which reduces the effectiveness of the moat considerably.
Proof that illegals are really just an advance force.
yeah, the swedes are on their way over to help the mexicans invade us.
take your meds, darling.
I hear there is already a glut of moats in the real estate market.
Nothing is quite so sad as a moat glut.
Incidentally, I do think that the breaking news that Atrios' Spanish Delights photos are "borrowed" images, rather than actual photos of foodstuffs that Atrios has himself prepared or consumed, has legs.
Little teeny millipede legs, slithering out from under damp rocks: Toby, Ruppert, Brian Hardig, Allen whoever, even Zod. Thence to Instapundit and Malkin-- and finally, Drudge will propel it into the blogosphere at large, where even corporate newsmongers like the AP, and sites like Politico, may report it.
Tragically, this scandal is bound to be good for the Republics. 
having bles't you all with my unnatural wisdom, I'm off to record some guitar.
fare well.
http://download-v5.streamload.co...oast%
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Our houses are pretty close together.
Would a moat of electric eels work?
Is there a fucking cussing ban on or something?
Barndog, almost fishing
We don't want Randi Rhoaes to ban us.
Would a moat of electric eels work?
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
Can they generate enough electricity to flower a large flat screen TV?
Say, how are you Randi Rhodes impersonators doing?
The Minnesota Air National Guard must be preparing to invade St. Paul. Their got-damn helicopters keep flying overhead.
Zap Rowsdower
Hopefully not "flight for life" helicopters going out to that bus crash you mentioned.
Don't look
Is this thing on?
McCain likes to say he uses humor, but everything "funny" he says is usually some sort of insult.
Don't look
/ducks and covers
Can they generate enough electricity to flower a large flat screen TV?
Or deflower one?
Would a moat of electric eels work?
Yeah, but wouldn't it be a pain to have to plug them in every night?
We're facing the distinct possibility that Atrios may wind up standing in the dock at a blogger ethics panel proceeding chaired by Joke Line.
At the risk of being tangentially on-topic, I'm gonna post a link to a series of posts about community organizing.
educationaction at openleft
Yeah, but wouldn't it be a pain to have to plug them in every night?
That's where my trained cats come in...
How in the hell did power become flower?