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Al Gore
"Obama takes Agana Hts. by only 3 votes
Pacific News Center Staff Reporter 04.MAY.08
3:30 a.m. Guam - Despite being the home of Senator Barack Obama’s arguably most outspoken supporter, former Governor Carl Gutierrez, Agana Height’s vote was split nearly 50-50. [more]"
http://www.pacificnewscenter.com...scenter&
he=.com
Hiatt also recommended staying with New Coke until all resistence was worn down.
Ooops...
"At Halfway Point In Guam Vote Tabulation, Obama Leads By 6 Percentage Points
Pacific News Center Staff Reporter 04.MAY.08
1:45 a.m. Guam – With 11 out of 19 precincts reporting, Senator Barack Obama is leading Senator Hillary Clinton by 6 percentage points. [more]"
http://www.pacificnewscenter.com...scenter&
he=.com
GravatarWhy would you spend all that money to have a view of a highway in N Va?
I once lived in an apartment right next to a highway. I remember the sound of trucks roaring by at night. i didn't like that and I moved pretty soon. I can't imagine wanting to purchase a house with the same background sound track.
However, I've been making aeolian pipes lately, and this is the sound around my house.
http://members.aol.com/woinem6/s...ds/
teltshi3.mp3
Doug | 05.03.08 - 2:26 pm | #
Did he write this penis dribble puss in 1993 or just now?
Well, anyway, reading over in the NY Times, comparing Dukakis to Obama (you knew it was coming, right?), it occurs to me that since it was established four years ago by the media, as directed by the Architect™, Karl Rove, that decorated Viet Nam veterans running for President were cowards and liars, it is a given that McCain is a coward and a liar.
What's that? The Viet vet = coward/liar only for Democratic nominees?
Sorry, I forgot the First Law of Political Journalism: Slime attaches only to Democratic politicians.
So who does everyone like in the Derby?
Wanker is really too gentle a word for Hiatt.
In Lou Reed's phrase, Hiatt has gone beyond assholishness and into some kind of urinary tract.
Isn't it about time to just name the whole thing, "The Fred Hiatt Wanker of the Day?" I mean, just name the whole thing after him....It would be quite fitting, you'd have to agree...
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So who does everyone like in the Derby?
Tubby Peehole by a furlong.
Oh wait, Tubby's a jackanape, not a thoroughbred.
Sorry, I forgot the First Law of Political Journalism: Slime attaches only to Democratic politicians.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. | 05.03.08 - 2:28 pm | #
We don't lower ourselves to the level of garden slugs, so our ability to create slime is somewhat limited.
I got about 2 sentences into Hiatt's drivel and my eyes glazed over.
We don't lower ourselves to the level of garden slugs, so our ability to create slime is somewhat limited.
Brooklyn Girl, flittermouse
There's that.
Still, if gas hits $5 a gallon, and other lovely things come to pass, even Ms. McCain won't be able to buy her hubby the White House.
Oh wait, Tubby's a jackass, not a thoroughbred.
billy b | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 2:30 pm | #
FYT
Here's how it works:
Dead Iraqis = Turrists.
Live Iraqis = Civilians until they become dead.
Still, if gas hits $5 a gallon, and other lovely things come to pass, even Ms. McCain won't be able to buy her hubby the White House.
I really hope it does hit $5/gallon.
Maybe that'll wake people the fuck up.
So who does everyone like in the Derby?
dave™© | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 2:28 pm | #
Fuck 'em all. Oh, and by the way, have I told you what a nightmare Animal Heaven is?
Seriously -- gayest place ever. Just met Asta, the dog from the Thin Man movies. Fucking idiot tried to lick my nuts. Thank god he couldn't reach them, but he still was jumping around like a complete pansy for five fricking minutes.
Maybe that'll wake people the fuck up.
watertiger | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 2:37 pm | #
We want that federal gas tax rebate
/Awake People
Moyers' chinese "threat" from the 1800s on NYC channel 13 now. I think Lou Dobbs is Dennis Kearney redux
"Successful counterterrorism requires providing security for the civilian population, economic reconstruction and the brokering of political accords -- in other words, nation-building. "
- Fred Hiatt
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"I don't believe in nation-building."
- George W. Bush
So who does everyone like in the Derby?
Huggybear will finish last.
Glenn Greenwald knows the cheering Hyatt's done -
From early in the war to just this day
He's chronicled his missteps one by one;
And though I have no problem with this, may
I please suggest one thing, if it's OK:
With way too many helpings of Fred Hyatt
We need to all go on a wanker diet.
"I don't believe in nation-building."
- George W. Bush
Culture Of Truth
That's apparent from looking at Iraq.
Brooklyn Girl,
Just the usual. i hear simels is nao media star.
Would someone get this cat off my chest?
I really hope it does hit $5/gallon.
Maybe that'll wake people the fuck up.
Spoken like someone who lives in the midst of a functioning transit system.
Being on the outskirts of such a system has proven to be a definite bummer, lemme tell ya...
It has always been easier to destroy, than to create.
Mister Spock
Just the usual. i hear simels is nao media star.
Culture Of Truth | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 2:42 pm | #
He wears many hats. Well, maybe just one in meatspace, but you know what I mean ...
He wears many hats.
Brooklyn Girl
Simels is Bartholomew Cubbins?
I am so grateful not to either be or live anywhere that might be described as 'trendy'.
11.43am - everybody else is gone for the weekend. The only sounds are the damned mourning doves, going on as tho anyone was there to listen. Not a sound of traffic, or people or cows or anything. You can just about hear the hummingbirds tho.
simels is the guy who says "come on down!" on the Price is Right. He also sells popcorn at movie theaters, and collects manhole covers.
Getting ready to head off to NYC for the de rigeur elitist chardonnay swilling, so I won't be online for a while.
But I would just like to go on record here as saying that Walter Neff is a prince among men.
And if he shows up while I'm gone, please tell him I said so.
The remedy to high food prices is to increase food supply, something that is entirely feasible. The most realistic way to raise global supply is to replicate the Brazilian model of large, technologically sophisticated agro-companies supplying for the world market.... There are still many areas of the world that have good land which could be used far more productively if it was properly managed by large companies...
Unfortunately, large-scale commercial agriculture is unromantic. We laud the production style of the peasant: environmentally sustainable and human in scale. In respect of manufacturing and services we grew out of this fantasy years ago, but in agriculture it continues to contaminate our policies. In Europe and Japan huge public resources have been devoted to propping up small farms. The best that can be said for these policies is that we can afford them. In Africa, which cannot afford them, development agencies have oriented their entire efforts on agricultural development to peasant style production. As a result, Africa has less large-scale commercial agriculture than it had fifty years ago. Unfortunately, peasant farming is generally not well-suited to innovation and investment: the result has been that African agriculture has fallen further and further behind the advancing productivity frontier of the globalized commercial model.
Fred Hiatt - fish in a barrel.
Or was it jock in a dumpster?
"It's a circle!"
"No, it's an argument!"
He wears many hats. Well, maybe just one in meatspace, but you know what I mean ...
Surprisingly, he's hatless here.
Being on the outskirts of such a system has proven to be a definite bummer, lemme tell ya...
dave™© | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 2:46 pm | #
NJ Transit isn't half bad, if your profession allows you to take advantage of it.
I put 500 miles a week on my car, and there's no other way to do it.
Um, greg? "
Unfortunately, large-scale commercial agriculture is unromantic. We laud the production style of the peasant:"
Food production is just fine. Moving it to where it needs to be is the current issue.
Surprisingly, he's hatless here.
I know! Isn't that great? Couldn't happen to a more special person than Mr. Simels.
simels is "the Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The..._Wife_for_a_Hat
Still, if gas hits $5 a gallon, and other lovely things come to pass, even Ms. McCain won't be able to buy her hubby the White House.
Because there's no way that, after a summer of $5 gas, the price wouldn't be cut back to a reasonable, relatively cheap $3.75 per gallon or so, coincidentally just before the November election...
May I suggest Masanobu Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution for answers agricultural? The most successful farm in the richest prefecture in Japan. And peasant all the way.
i'm beginning to wonder if there is a biological component to republicanism - some instinct to self-destruction. ken livingstone, the semi-lefty mayor of london appears to have lost re-election to a guy who could have starred in the monty-python upper-class twit olympics. an interview with voter gets "ken did a good job, but change is good."
NJ Transit isn't half bad, if your profession allows you to take advantage of it.
I put 500 miles a week on my car, and there's no other way to do it.
geor3ge
I'd wholeheartedly support a mass transit system here, or anywhere, if it, you know, actually had a route by my job.
Unfortunately, we don't get that here. I put about 125 miles a week on my car just going back and forth to work. I don't often stray far from home, so...
and, for example, I just went on a 3.5 mile walk, and stopped at the local grocery to pick up a couple of small things.
Steve's Weekend Video Pick:
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/sp...s/review/
134892
A real hoot...
Isn't that great? Couldn't happen to a more special person than Mr. Simels.
Indeed!
Later, taters.
I know! Isn't that great? Couldn't happen to a more special person than Mr. Simels.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 2:56 pm | #
Indeed. Best to ya, man.
Steve's Weekend Video Pick...
Man, you're everywhere!
is there a limit on how may times one can be wanker of the day? i have to believe fred is winning this contest running away.
The combination of falling reserves and $100-plus oil is sparking a frenzy of oil and gas activity in Alaska the likes of which hasn't been seen since the state's initial oil boom more than three decades ago, fortune.com reports
Nation of Retards.
The Bay Area, in general, has great transit systems - certainly better than most places in the country. If you work in Oakland or SF, and anywhere near the main concentration of offices, it's really good.
But the problem can be in connecting with that system. We're beyond the "last stop" for BART and getting there is becoming a pain, and more costly.
Long term, we're definitely gonna have to bite the bullet and move closer, but short-term, we're just trying to survive...
GravatarWhy would you spend all that money to have a view of a highway in N Va?
I once lived in an apartment right next to a highway. I remember the sound of trucks roaring by at night. i didn't like that and I moved pretty soon. I can't imagine wanting to purchase a house with the same background sound track.
However, I've been making aeolian pipes lately, and this is the sound around my house.
http://members.aol.com/woinem6/s...ds/ teltshi3.mp3
Doug | 05.03.08 - 2:26 pm | #
Doug | 05.03.08 - 2:27 pm |
That's what I don't understand. Living in view of, and hearing of, a busy highway is usually considered to be financial choice, in that you don't have money to live anywhere else.
Even though I do see a lot of 'high end' condo/townhouse developments around I675 and even I75 now. While I'm presuming they have better soundproofing, I'm still not sure why you'd spend all that money to sit on your patio and watch the highway down below.
Corporate jollies to oust 'cultural fuddy-duddies' from Pompeii ruins
It is perhaps the most remarkable archaeological site in the world and more than 3 million visitors stampede through it every year. But if the new tourism councillor for Campania has his way, the numbers visiting Pompeii will be drastically cut, and the site will be thrown open to multinationals for private events to rake in the money needed to maintain the ruins.
www.independent.co.uk
Watched "Becket" last night. No where near historically accurate. They missed by a generation. It portrayed Henry II as a bit of a dimwitted lush. That was John, his son.
But Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, and John Gielgud cast in the same flick. WTF? The dialogue was quite enjoyable. Beats the crap out of "Dude, Where's My Car?"
HYDERABAD, India - A fire has broken out at one of India's largest chili markets, burning hundreds of thousands of pounds of chili peppers.
Residents and officials say the burning chili smoke is stinging the eyes and throats of people in Guntur in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
One local official says 150,000 bags of chilies have been destroyed across a 20-hectare area in Saturday's blaze.
Officials have evacuated nearby residents, and firefighters are still trying to control the flames.
No causalities have been reported. It remains unclear what started the fire.
I just bought some bread at the Circle K. Behind the counter? simels.
Long term, we're definitely gonna have to bite the bullet and move closer, but short-term, we're just trying to survive...
dave™©
Long term for me means putting a viable teaching studio in my house, which requires, well, a house.
Of course, this means my students travel to me, which doesn't solve their gas problems any.
NYT:
Children Hurt and Hospital Is Hit in Baghdad Clashes
BAGHDAD — The ugly daily fight for ground in the poor Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City unfolded Saturday at a small mosque next door to a hospital, damaging the hospital and all its ambulances, and near a group of children who were injured by the violence as they gathered tin cans to sell for salvage.
The first hit came after a night of clashes in the neighborhood, when the Americans fired at least three “precision-guided munitions” in the area of the Sadr General Hospital at 10 a.m. The target was a small building next door to the hospital that neighbors said was used as a rest house and place of prayer for hospital employees, pilgrims and neighborhood residents.
snip
Next door, in an area used as a parking lot for the hospital’s ambulances, a second missile hit, damaging a water line and creating a small pond, destroying three ambulances and shattering the windows in about 10 others. A third missile hit a generator nearby that supplied the neighborhood. The hospital’s generator was not damaged.
Twenty eight people were wounded in the attacks, said Abdul Hussain Qassim, the hospital’s official record keeper of admissions.
5 years after "Mission Accomplished" and we're still bombing Baghdad!!
We need to end the combat mission now and bring home ALL the troops!! that's the only way we'll end the war in Iraq!
dave-
Where you at on the great transit map? I'm in Richmond. Can BART to within 1/2 mile of work in Pleasanton. But it takes twice as long as driving, and costs more (even at $4/gallon). Makes no sense.
The young bjorn-ette just did a choral performance at a large veteran's rehab center.
Think starship troopers.
My head is exploding.
Going outside into the sunshine. Winter made a tactical retreat - it's predicted to come back with snow fall at temps. in the 30's next week. The robins are looking apprehensive, but the red tail hawks are soaring way above us, mating, I guess. I think that they do it in the air.
The young bjorn-ette just did a choral performance at a large veteran's rehab center.
Think starship troopers.
Did they shoot the conductor to spare him an agonizing death-by-raptor?
Did they shoot the conductor to spare him an agonizing death-by-raptor?
geor3ge | 05.03.08 - 3:09 pm | #
No but they may want to shoot me.
Oooooh - with these amenities, I may have to consider moving!
"Huge family room/fireplace, large windows, mega storage. Private deck and yard. Mature trees. Low
maintenance. RV parking. This home offers solid comfort, close to park, curling. Quiet desired area."
mimi (although we both know who you really are),
Something you said earlier cannot go without a response from me.
As part of your obsession with drawing attention to yourself and acting out your perverse fantasies, you made it obvious, in the stupidest way possible, that you think my personal life is your business.
It isn’t.
This is a public forum. There are certain unspoken rules here and you violated one of the most sacred.
I cannot make this clearer: do not, I repeat, do not bring up my personal life again.
oops - apologies for the bold print.
from the same article:
About an hour later, at the front line between the southern part of the neighborhood that is held by the American and Iraqi military and the northern section that is held by Shiite militias, the group of children was hit, according to a child and one adult who was injured there and brought to the Sadr hospital.
Haider Abbas, 10, was brought to the hospital with what appeared to be a hole in his chest and shrapnel injuries across his stomach. The boy alternately screamed and whimpered in pain, barely able to answer a doctor’s questions.
“My friend brought me to the hospital, but we had to leave the other wounded kids behind,” he said. “The Iraqi Army refused to allow them to be evacuated but my friend took me anyway.”
The doctor, Abdul Rahman Hadi, said the boy was bleeding internally. “He needs surgery quickly. The irony is that not one of his relatives has come because he is an orphan,” Dr. Hadi said.
The most realistic way to raise global supply is to replicate the Brazilian model
Let's replicate this Brazilian model so i can haz one.
Beats the crap out of "Dude, Where's My Car?"
MP
I liked "Dude Where's My Car".
precision-guided munitions
The only thing that has ever approximated that description is called a coup de gras.
A M E R I C A N S H E E T S
Hiatt needs to sign up all his relatives of military age for service over there.
About an hour later, at the front line between the southern part of the neighborhood that is held by the American and Iraqi military and the northern section that is held by Shiite militias, the group of children was hit, according to a child and one adult who was injured there and brought to the Sadr hospital.
How is this not a war crime?
Beats the crap out of "Dude, Where's My Car?"
MP | 05.03.08 - 3:05 pm |
Maybe, but "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" is another story.
The young bjorn-ette just did a choral performance at a large veteran's rehab center.
Think starship troopers.
My head is exploding.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
Somebody got a knife through the hand?
Where you at on the great transit map?
We're just over the Carquinez Bridge and both work in SF. Getting to El Cerrito (or Pleasant Hill) BART is the pisser.
But yeah, that commute all the way out to Pleasanton would be a bitch...
Here's the Colbert video on Guam
"I don't believe in nation-building."
- George W. Bush
Culture Of Truth
That's apparent from looking at Iraq.
jac
or from looking at NYC
or New Orleans
or the economy
or the school system
or the health care system...
"the Iraqi people need to enjoy the freedom of me taping them in public bathrooms"-Fred Hiatt
Maybe, but "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" is another story.
R. McGeddon
I'd love to go to a White Castle, unfortunately my dinner budget doesn't include air fare...
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