Much better to spend it on booze and trash her liver instead.
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 2:46 pm | #
ErinPDX should comp me a free drink at the nearest casino
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 2:46 pm | #
Making Bill Bennett proud
Perhaps he could start a fund to help fixed income seniors get to casinos. This would be an expression of Christian charity.
Thers |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:46 pm | #
So I guess they don't have a special low rate for Seniors.
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:47 pm | #
Get ready for the government bailout of casinos!
Cookie Fleck `08 |
07.12.08 - 2:47 pm | #
Remember the Bushpilot video?
Oh, I love that video. It's one of my favorites.
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:48 pm | #
Not to jinx this one, but the last thread was really nice without one trollish comment, at least so far as I saw...
atablarasa |
07.12.08 - 2:48 pm | #
I don't know where the rest of you live, but it's a gorgeous day outside here.
I'm going to wander outside and maybe have a steak on the grille later on.
Life is being berry good to me today.
MP |
07.12.08 - 2:48 pm | #
I will say this: my Senator told me he's not wild about John McCain, and he's a Republican. Well, join the club. This is one unhappy Republican party these days.
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:49 pm | #
Life is being berry good to me today.
MP
speaking of which, getting ready to head back out to a baseball tourney
ErinPDX |
07.12.08 - 2:50 pm | #
you had to be stopped
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 2:50 pm | #
I don't know where the rest of you live, but it's a gorgeous day outside here.
I'm jealous. Enjoy it, MP. It's hot and muggy here in the South.
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:50 pm | #
When I lived in Philly one could take the bus to AC for $8, and on arrival be handed $10 in quarters plus a coupon for $5 more next time plus a meal voucher. It was pretty much entirely college students and chainsmoking senior citizens.
JeffCO |
07.12.08 - 2:51 pm | #
Life is being berry good to me today.
MP | 07.12.08 - 2:48 pm | #
Here too. Wife and I went to watch my sons band at a neighborhood tavern last night. They packed the place. Rained for a good part of the night...nice sleeping weather. Got some clothes today to wear to a job interview I have this Friday.
Shared Humanity |
07.12.08 - 2:51 pm | #
But if one is of limited means then those who are blessed in that regard are entitled, nay, required to speak in a gently scolding manner about choices and priorities.
catalexis |
07.12.08 - 2:51 pm | #
I'm jealous. Enjoy it, MP. It's hot and muggy here in the South.
Southern Beale | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 2:50 pm | #
come hop in my pool.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:52 pm | #
It's just mentioned in passing,
Why are you so mean to Tony Snow? He's only been dead a few hours! Leave Tony Alone!!!!!!!!!!
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 2:52 pm | #
come hop in my pool.
Ohhh what a delightful proposition! That sounds loverly!
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:52 pm | #
"my bathroom camsite business is down"-Fred Hiatt
jr |
07.12.08 - 2:53 pm | #
When I lived in Philly one could take the bus to AC for $8, and on arrival be handed $10 in quarters plus a coupon for $5 more next time plus a meal voucher. It was pretty much entirely college students and chainsmoking senior citizens.
JeffCO
I take it the hookers starved there.
Gomez |
07.12.08 - 2:53 pm | #
actually, the weather in atlanta has been embarrassingly gorgeous all summer. we even got some rain last week.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:53 pm | #
I'm jealous. Enjoy it, MP. It's hot and muggy here in the South.
It's not hot yet in Seattle(only 69°F) but it's supposed to be hot later. 85°F, humidity about 30%.
MikeJ |
07.12.08 - 2:53 pm | #
Gas prices have totally stopped my trolling for hookers. It sux.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:54 pm | #
BREAKING: TONY SNOW HAS DENIED BEING DEAD.
Gomez |
07.12.08 - 2:54 pm | #
Ohhh what a delightful proposition! That sounds loverly!
Southern Beale | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 2:52 pm | #
it's only a five hour drive i bet.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:54 pm | #
It's hot and muggy here
And here in the Valley, comparatively.
89 degrees, heading toward a mere 93, but the dew point's up to 67 and 50% chance of more rain, which the radar says is already happening east of here.
atablarasa |
07.12.08 - 2:54 pm | #
She is 69, still working every day as a fucking secretary earning money for gambling trips. That is fucking depressing.
trifecta |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:54 pm | #
come and hop in my pool.
♪ We've been waiting for youuuuu....
JeffCO |
07.12.08 - 2:54 pm | #
Top GOPer Concedes That Party Has No Safe Senate Seats
"We have no safe seats right now," NRSC spokesman Scott Bensing told the Kansas City Star. "In a normal election year, we would not be concerned at all. But those are the cards we're dealt. We're not taking any states for granted."
So has anyone mentioned the John McCain panders to Pittsburgh voters by embroidering a tale about his Vietnam captivity thing yet?
No?
I'm so shocked.
CNN was on in the restaurant where we had breakfast and the big stories they mentioned from the week were: Jesse Jackson wants to bite Obama's nuts, Whinter-gate, and McCain's discomfort discussing Viagra.
I'm jealous. Enjoy it, MP. It's hot and muggy here in the South.
Southern Beale
I'm in southern Virginia, and for the first weekend in five, we're not inhaling the smoke of the Great Dismal Swamp being on fire.
MP |
07.12.08 - 2:56 pm | #
BREAKING: TONY SNOW HAS DENIED BEING DEAD.
Dana Perino: "I haven't heard anything about that. You should check directly with the Saint Peter."
Gromit, crankypants |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:56 pm | #
"We have no safe seats right now," NRSC spokesman Scott Bensing told the Kansas City Star.
Eh, I'd say Lamar Alexander is pretty safe here in Tennessee. Much as I like Bob Tuke, I just don't see him having much of a chance. But what do I know.
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:56 pm | #
Top GOPer Concedes That Party Has No Safe Senate Seats
Yes they do. Lindsey Graham's seat is 100% safe. I saw to that personally to my eternal shame.
Snow (D-SC) |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:57 pm | #
She is 69, still working every day as a fucking secretary earning money for gambling trips. That is fucking depressing.
trifecta | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 2:54 pm | #
my grandmother used to go to atlantic city with her sisters or her friends. it wasn't depressing. they spent about $20-$50 a piece (except when they won) plus travel and had a great time. they didn't have many other things to do - once they got in their 70s, hiking around manhatten and swimming at the shore stopped being big draws.
sure, there were the sex parties. but they were all consenting adults.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:57 pm | #
for the first weekend in five, we're not inhaling the smoke of the Great Dismal Swamp being on fire.
Ach.
Virginia is so pretty. Enjoy your Saturday.
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:57 pm | #
So has anyone mentioned the John McCain panders to Pittsburgh voters by embroidering a tale about his Vietnam captivity thing yet?
I'm waiting for him to claim that he memorized the starting lineup of the 1968 Seattle Seahawks.
MikeJ |
07.12.08 - 2:58 pm | #
"We have no safe seats right now," NRSC spokesman Scott Bensing told the Kansas City Star.
So the Republicans have the Dems right where they want them?
atablarasa |
07.12.08 - 2:58 pm | #
By the way, the Beatles kicked major ass.
MP |
07.12.08 - 2:59 pm | #
Eh, I'd say Lamar Alexander is pretty safe here in Tennessee. Much as I like Bob Tuke, I just don't see him having much of a chance. But what do I know.
I think it's an exaggeration, but it gives me some satisfaction to watch them piss their pants.
Thumper Johnson |
07.12.08 - 2:59 pm | #
TONY SNOW HAS DENIED BEING DEAD.
Fucking liar. I should know.
Gen Francisco Franco |
07.12.08 - 2:59 pm | #
"We have no safe stall seats right now," NRSC spokesman Larry Craig told the Kansas City Star. "In a normal election year, we would not be concerned at all. But those are the cards we're dealt. We're not taking any stall seats for granted."
He'll be a friendly ghost. Oh jah.
War On War Off |
07.12.08 - 2:59 pm | #
One of the commissioners at the city where my husband works regularly goes on gambling trips to Metropolis and Tunica... she's in her 70s, chain smokes, drinks like a fish, and hits the gambling boats at least once a month.
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 2:59 pm | #
She is 69, still working every day as a fucking secretary earning money for gambling trips. That is fucking depressing.
Right. She should sit at home and watch soap operas all day. She's earned it!
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 2:59 pm | #
it's 88 and sunny (except in the shallow end, under the fig tree) and the water is 82.
Who are Chuck Hinton, Ken Kortas, Ben McGee and Lloyd Voss?
Gomez |
07.12.08 - 2:59 pm | #
I think I will start drinking now.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:00 pm | #
I think I will start drinking now.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian
know what my lovely daughter bought me for father's day?
a floating lounge chair with built in beer insulated can holders.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:01 pm | #
Right. She should sit at home and watch soap operas all day. She's earned it!
The Internet
If I am fetching somebody's coffee and answering their phones forty hours a week at 69, by choice, you may shoot me.
trifecta |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:01 pm | #
Who are Chuck Hinton, Ken Kortas, Ben McGee and Lloyd Voss?
The Four Horsemen?
The starting four for the Steelers?
The last four people to die in Las Vegas?
atablarasa |
07.12.08 - 3:01 pm | #
dirk gently: know what my lovely daughter bought me for father's day?
a floating lounge chair with built in beer insulated can holders.
That's it! Back in the will, with her!
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:02 pm | #
a floating lounge chair with built in beer insulated can holders.
Beer is an insulator? Who knew!
atablarasa |
07.12.08 - 3:02 pm | #
Who are Chuck Hinton, Ken Kortas, Ben McGee and Lloyd Voss?
Nick names for your penis?
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 3:03 pm | #
The Four Horsemen?
The starting four for the Steelers?
The last four people to die in Las Vegas?
atablarasa
Either that or they served with McCain.
Gomez |
07.12.08 - 3:03 pm | #
If I am fetching somebody's coffee and answering their phones forty hours a week at 69, by choice, you may shoot me.
trifecta | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 3:01 pm | #
eh - there are worse jobs. better than standing at the entrance of wal-mart and pretending to be happy to see everyone.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:03 pm | #
They just did away with tokens on my local bridge, and want everyone to move over to EZ-Pass. I'll be damned if I'm going to let them track my vehicle, so I get in line and pay the toll, holding up traffic more than when they had tokens.
Moe Szyslak |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:03 pm | #
Yes they do. Lindsey Graham's seat is 100% safe. I saw to that personally to my eternal shame.
Don't be so hard on yourself, you did your best and didn't miss by much.
Thumper Johnson |
07.12.08 - 3:03 pm | #
Great. I don't see this going anywhere, what with polls showing over 70% of Democrats being happy with their choice for president. But FWIW:
Good luck with that. Don't plan on Hillary actually supporting you in this endeavor, either.
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:03 pm | #
Beer is an insulator? Who knew!
atablarasa | 07.12.08 - 3:02 pm | #
it insulates me from the world.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:03 pm | #
Who are Chuck Hinton, Ken Kortas, Ben McGee and Lloyd Voss?
The folks whose names McCain didn't actually memorize.
Richard |
07.12.08 - 3:04 pm | #
my grandmother used to go to atlantic city with her sisters or her friends. it wasn't depressing. they spent about $20-$50 a piece (except when they won)
I read something the other day that gambling revenue in Vegas was way down for every casino game -- except penny slots, which was up something like 18 percent IIRC.
Toonscribe |
07.12.08 - 3:04 pm | #
And, this is entirely off topic, but I'd appreciate it if some of you kind folks can go over to this web site and vote for my co-worker, the one on the left: It's a silly contest, but if she wins she gets a bit more work, a little extra money, and maybe she'll buy me a drink for shilling her.
Moe Szyslak |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:05 pm | #
2scant dirk gently: it insulates me from the world.
It makes me snarky, according to 1watt, and I think that's a feature, not a bug!
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:05 pm | #
Determined group of Hillary voters will try to overthrow Obama at the convention.
They so sneaky!
War On War Off |
07.12.08 - 3:06 pm | #
Moe Szyslak -- Did that yesterdiddy, I did, I did.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:06 pm | #
88 and sunny (except in the shallow end, under the fig tree) and the water is 82.
perfect, really.
dirk gently,melancoholic
(races to find towel and swimsuit)
Ali, spiritual advisor |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:06 pm | #
i think it's way too early to count kucinich out.
rootless-e, equivalent doctrin |
07.12.08 - 3:06 pm | #
Ah, but you can vote every 24 hours, see, and she's falling slightly behind...
Moe Szyslak |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:07 pm | #
(races to find towel and swimsuit)
Ali, spiritual advisor
towel's all you need.
for that matter, the sun will dry you pretty quickly.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:07 pm | #
OK I'm out for the afternoon ... later, kids ....
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:07 pm | #
I'm jealous. Enjoy it, MP. It's hot and muggy here in the South
why on earth does the babe ruth league schedule their world series at the end of july in Van Buren, Arkansas? whoo hoo...just where we wanted to go for summer vaca
ErinPDX |
07.12.08 - 3:07 pm | #
If I am fetching somebody's coffee and answering their phones forty hours a week at 69, by choice, you may shoot me.
This is a 69 year old woman. That means she was born before WWII, before the pill, before the ACLU Women's project. Her expectations for employment were most probably considerably lower than a woman born in 1980 or 1990. In fact, she may be quite satisfied with her life as it is right now.
I am not saying she is, I am not saying she isn't. I'm just saying she probably doesn't think like a younger woman might.
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 3:07 pm | #
you know, when I was a prisoner, I told my jailers that the 2007-2008 New York Knicks backcourt were my wingmen and they felt so sorry for me that they let me go.
/Huggy
rootless-e, equivalent doctrin |
07.12.08 - 3:07 pm | #
I read something the other day that gambling revenue in Vegas was way down for every casino game -- except penny slots, which was up something like 18 percent IIRC.
Toonscribe | 07.12.08 - 3:04 pm | #
More tragic is that Nevada's brothels are suffering horribly due to high gas prices, since most of their customers are truckers.
rorschach |
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07.12.08 - 3:08 pm | #
i think it's way too early to count kucinich out.
rootless-e,
Remember that email that was spammed to everyone and his brother back in 2004, which demonstrated beyond any shade of doubt that Kuchinich would first win the nomination and then the election? I'm still laughing at that one.
Moe Szyslak |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:08 pm | #
no offense to arkansas, but that seems nutty!
/enter billy b and LittlePig to set me straight
ErinPDX |
07.12.08 - 3:08 pm | #
for that matter, the sun will dry you pretty quickly.
dirk gently,melancoholic
I knew as soon as I hit "publish" that I'd lobbed one over the plate.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:08 pm | #
Much better to spend it on booze and trash her liver instead.
The Internet
Neither habit is healthy.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:08 pm | #
Moe Szyslak: Ah, but you can vote every 24 hours, see, and she's falling slightly behind...
Oops! I did it again... then.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:08 pm | #
One more for Sue, good luck!
jc in ky |
07.12.08 - 3:08 pm | #
Voted, Moe, and I even looked at both offerings before I did. I liked her style better.
atablarasa |
07.12.08 - 3:08 pm | #
We're up to 95 and it's supposed to be well over 100 today. Thank Ceiling Cat for cold beer and air conditioning.
War On War Off |
07.12.08 - 3:09 pm | #
Isn't EZ Pass cheaper than cash?
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
Depends on how much you use it.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:09 pm | #
Thanks, all of you. She's a really decent person, and she does incredibly good work for local artists. A real asset to the community, she is.
Moe Szyslak |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:10 pm | #
vote for my co-worker
How many more days of voting?
Thumper Johnson |
07.12.08 - 3:10 pm | #
More tragic is that Nevada's brothels are suffering horribly due to high gas prices, since most of their customers are truckers.
I also saw a news story that Nevada brothels were starting to give away gas cards as an incentive. Interesting times we live in.
Toonscribe |
07.12.08 - 3:10 pm | #
Moe,
I voted for her. Can I haz Canadian Loonie?
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 3:10 pm | #
We're up to 95 and it's supposed to be well over 100 today. Thank Ceiling Cat for cold beer and air conditioning.
War On War Off
Ceiling Cat is one powerful kitteh.
Gomez |
07.12.08 - 3:10 pm | #
Gas prices are cutting into my catfood diet. Not that I'm whining.
stencil |
07.12.08 - 3:11 pm | #
no offense to arkansas, but that seems nutty!
/enter billy b and LittlePig to set me straight
ErinPDX | 07.12.08 - 3:08 pm | #
moe, i voted for your co-worker. but lousy idealist that i am, i had to read the fashion blogs first to make sure she deserved it. don't ever make me do that again.
honestly, was it even a contest? skull and wing vs pink pleats? sheesh.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:13 pm | #
I sure hope that's not one of those brown recluse spiders.
lil 'ol lady |
07.12.08 - 3:13 pm | #
Love these Sealy Postur-pedic commercials that are portraying the rich as buffoons!
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:14 pm | #
In no way was this great theater, but it really was a good way to blow off after a crappy week at work.
atablarasa | 07.12.08 - 3:11 pm | #
I'm sorry, but who exactly did you blow off in 3D?
rorschach |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:14 pm | #
And SteveNS, and JR.
Moe Szyslak |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:14 pm | #
Gas prices are cutting into my catfood diet. Not that I'm whining.
stencil | 07.12.08 - 3:11 pm | #
I don't like to talk about it, but when I was in Vietnamese prison, suffering heroically for bombing unarmed civilians in their homes and schools, I dreamed of cat food. But instead of whining I told my captors that Jeff, Steve, and Jack Hanson were my wingmates.
/Senator Maverik
rootless-e, equivalent doctrin |
07.12.08 - 3:14 pm | #
terry c = such a sensitive twat
Lubyanka |
07.12.08 - 3:16 pm | #
Gas prices are trending down in my area.
puff |
07.12.08 - 3:16 pm | #
I don't think it was just that we cured polio, or split the atom, or landed on the Moon, that impressed the other Nations. It was that we did those things in such a compressed timeframe, once we decided to get serious about those tasks, that really astonished the rest of the world.
MP |
07.12.08 - 3:16 pm | #
Country's too big. It's easier to go to Portland than Halifax for me.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:17 pm | #
Sigh. August 11.
I'll save the link then.
Thumper Johnson |
07.12.08 - 3:17 pm | #
bombing unarmed civilians in their homes and schools
does NOT a hero make.
And why isn't brian in front of the TV watching Faux News' canonization of Pony Blow?
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:17 pm | #
John McCain's nads are trending down in my pubic area.
puff |
07.12.08 - 3:18 pm | #
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Whatever, brian.
You fucking loser.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:18 pm | #
I don't like to brag about, except perhaps when that c**t over there strap on the accessory and stimulates my prostate like I want to bomb Iran. But when I was a prisoner of war I liked to masturbate to the Steelers' lineup. After all, I was in the navy and thought of as a semen.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 3:18 pm | #
There are highland games going on in the park across the street. The bagpipes have been going non-stop since 7 this morning, driving me fucking insane.
Moe Szyslak |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:18 pm | #
The bagpipes have been going non-stop since 7 this morning, driving me fucking insane.
Moe Szyslak
7 in the morning? That's reckless endangerment of the ears.
Ali, spiritual advisor |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:19 pm | #
You left out
Just trying to not jerk the chains of people in absentia.
Gromit |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:19 pm | #
General Hackworth on McSame's service:
Hackworth is dead (cancer IIRC) and I think he was a colonel.
Toonscribe |
07.12.08 - 3:20 pm | #
I'm sorry, but who exactly did you blow off in 3D?
That came later... And it's better to receive than to give, in some ways...
atablarasa |
07.12.08 - 3:20 pm | #
There are highland games going on in the park across the street. The bagpipes have been going non-stop since 7 this morning, driving me fucking insane.
Heard the Scots banned them in some urban areas. Will wear on ya.
jc in ky |
07.12.08 - 3:20 pm | #
There are highland games going on in the park across the street. The bagpipes have been going non-stop since 7 this morning, driving me fucking insane.
Just go toss a caber at 'em.
(I have circular saws and hammers next door. Wanna trade for a bit?)
Gromit |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:21 pm | #
Hackworth is dead (cancer IIRC) and I think he was a colonel.
Tony Snow is dead (cancer) and I think he was an asshole.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 3:21 pm | #
There are highland games going on in the park across the street. The bagpipes have been going non-stop since 7 this morning, driving me fucking insane.
Moe Szyslak
But I bet they have haggis. Delicious, delicious haggis. Oh and meat pies too.
trifecta |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:21 pm | #
After all, I was in the navy and thought of as a semen.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
I don't think it was just that we cured polio, or split the atom, or landed on the Moon, that impressed the other Nations. It was that we did those things in such a compressed timeframe, once we decided to get serious about those tasks, that really astonished the rest of the world.
rorschach |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:21 pm | #
Tony Snow is dead (cancer) and I think he was an asshole.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
You share the opinion of many.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:22 pm | #
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Oh, hello again, Junior.
Have you thought about seeing a shrink? It can't change the past, but it can give you some peace in the present.
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 3:22 pm | #
That came later... And it's better to receive than to give, in some ways...
atablarasa | 07.12.08 - 3:20 pm | #
this conversation has the potential to become far too detailed.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:22 pm | #
Terry C,
I can't touch merkin makings, but thanks.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 3:22 pm | #
Oh, hello again, Junior.
Have you thought about seeing a shrink? It can't change the past, but it can give you some peace in the present.
The Internet
HIM seeing a shrink?
There's enough material there for a conference.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:23 pm | #
On the plus side, they have a beer tent and Dave MacIsaac is playing tonight, so I'll head over after a while.
Moe Szyslak |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:23 pm | #
with FISA vote, Messiah Hussein Obama drops trou and shows his shiny black ass to the gaggle of nutroot-fringers looking haplessly, helplesly on.
And it's better to receive than to give, in some ways...
atablarasa | 07.12.08 - 3:20 pm | #
What goes around, one would hope, comes around.
rorschach |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:24 pm | #
I don't think it was just that we cured polio, or split the atom, or landed on the Moon, that impressed the other Nations. It was that we did those things in such a compressed timeframe, once we decided to get serious about those tasks, that really astonished the rest of the world.
A large part of it is because of the Germans who emigrated here before and after the war. Germany was the scientific powerhouse until they started kicking out undesirables. And then after the war we just stole a lot of talent.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 3:24 pm | #
There's enough material there for a conference.
Ain't it da truff?
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 3:26 pm | #
Pipes only banned on Edinburghs Royal Mile, it appears.
jc in ky |
07.12.08 - 3:26 pm | #
Comment by Lubyanka blocked.
"His analyst told him
that he was right out of his head
The way he described it he said he'd be better dead"
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 3:26 pm | #
Damn!
We just had a helicopter fly over.
Really low.
Shook the whole house.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:27 pm | #
You'll have as much luck banning pipes here as you would banning hockey. Which is to say, none at all.
Moe Szyslak |
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07.12.08 - 3:27 pm | #
We just had a helicopter fly over.
Really low.
Shook the whole house.
It's that damn woman who refused to pay for EZ pass!
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 3:28 pm | #
What's really my crimping my catfood budget is the damn Civic's in the shop and I'm driving the Toyota pickup. Getting a new timing belt, CV joints. My stimulus check and more. Figure I keep it on the road for two or three more years to see the Japanese give us (Detroit's hopeless).
My one hope is that oil price surge will kill off NASCAR because the conceit that what Dale Jr. is running the track is more or less the family car on steroids will no longer by tenable.
stencil |
07.12.08 - 3:29 pm | #
It's that damn woman who refused to pay for EZ pass!
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
"So why should he feel sorry
If they just couldn't understand
The idiomatic logic
That went on in his head.
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 3:29 pm | #
You'll have as much luck banning pipes here as you would banning hockey. Which is to say, none at all.
When I was a small Toonscribe, about 10 or 11, my family drove to Nova Scotia on vacation. There was a live piper playing at the Nova Scotia welcome center.
Toonscribe |
07.12.08 - 3:30 pm | #
The town I live in is real close to Philadelphia International so we have planes flying over all the time.
But this.......damn. My son was upstairs and he said you could hear the chopper blades.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 3:30 pm | #
Yea, that sounds about right, Toonscribe. I have friends who play the pipes.
Moe Szyslak |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:31 pm | #
There's enough material there for a conference.
Ain't it da truff?
The Internet
They could spend a whole week on just the sexual problems.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:31 pm | #
Nothing will kill off NASCAR. At the limit, congress will vote them a subsidy or the pentagon will decide they are needed for national defense. Old people and infants will starve and freeze to death. But god forbid that a lot of trailer park trash can't watch high-porn cars making left turns for all afternoon
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 3:32 pm | #
One of my friends had his bag pipes in the back seat of his car as he went downtown to run errands. At one stop he forgot to lock the back door and, yep, you guessed it, when he came back there were three more sets of pipes back there.
Moe Szyslak |
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07.12.08 - 3:34 pm | #
But this.......damn. My son was upstairs and he said you could hear the chopper blades.
Our new neighbor the jet jockey flew his F16 over (mostly upside down) a couple of weeks ago to get a pic of his new house. I'm beginning to wonder about him.
Gromit |
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07.12.08 - 3:35 pm | #
They could spend a whole week on just the sexual problems.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 3:31 pm | #
nah, they'd get that out of the way quickly.
"no one will have sex with me"
"that's not surprising. next topic?"
dirk gently,melancoholic |
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07.12.08 - 3:35 pm | #
Timed ya, about my rate for a first of the day. Which is soon to be!
jc in ky |
07.12.08 - 3:35 pm | #
What's the difference between bagpipes and onions?
No one cries when you chop up bagpipes.
Gromit |
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07.12.08 - 3:36 pm | #
Timed ya, about my rate for a first of the day. Which is soon to be!
I didn't mean to, but yesterday's plan didn't get my sleep cycle fixed. Hoping today will. Pass out around 8p, get up tomorrow by 6:00, is the plan.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 3:37 pm | #
Difference between a pizza and a musician?
A pizza can feed a family of four.
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 3:37 pm | #
Who do you beat up first? The concertmaster or the conductor?
The conductor. Business before pleasure.
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 3:39 pm | #
i love you hunny bunny
dirk gently,melancoholic |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:40 pm | #
What's the difference between a Scotsman and the Rolling Stones?
A Rolling Stones say "hey you, get off of my cloud!", while a Scotsman says "Hey MacLeod, get off of my ewe!"
Gromit |
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07.12.08 - 3:40 pm | #
god forbid that a lot of trailer park trash can't watch high-porn cars making left turns for all afternoon
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
There's no rules for them to remember.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:41 pm | #
How do you know if the stage is level when the bluegrass band plays?
The banjo player drools out of both sides of his mouth.
Moe Szyslak |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 3:41 pm | #
Afternoon peeps.
My hands smell like garlic. Preparing a roast port. Mmmmm.
qlª |
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07.12.08 - 3:41 pm | #
Beat me to it Moe
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 3:41 pm | #
Last one
Man walks into a pub session with an octopus, declares that his critter can play any instrument in the room and $50 backs up his outrageous claim.
So the fiddler hands over the fiddle, the octopus picks it up and plays beautifully, $50 to the octopus. Same for the drums, the guitar and banjo....
Then the bagpiper hands over his pipes. The octopus turns them first one way then the other, and nary a sound comes out of it. The owner looks little nervous and asks the octopus whats wrong.
"Play it? I'm still trying to get her out of these pajamas."
Gromit |
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07.12.08 - 3:43 pm | #
this is from the "if I had a rocket launcher" department
rootless-e: this is from the "if I had a rocket launcher" department
I picked that up from one of my locals. Infuriating.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 3:44 pm | #
"My hands smell like garlic. Preparing a roast port. Mmmmm."
--qlª
I've read (never tried it) that if you have a stainless steel sink and rub your hands on the surface, it will take the smell away. Then again, I love the smell of garlic.
mer |
07.12.08 - 3:44 pm | #
Driven single-file in groups of 10, shackled at the wrists, waist and ankles, chains dragging as they shuffled through, the slaughterhouse workers were brought in for arraignment, sat and listened through headsets to the interpreted initial appearance, before marching out again to be bused to different county jails, only to make room for the next row of 10.
Can we keep the immigrants and get rid of all the wingnuts and fundies?
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 3:44 pm | #
I apologize. But Moe started it.
Gromit |
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07.12.08 - 3:45 pm | #
Afternoon, all.
Just had a spiritual experience in - of all places - a low-rent thrift clothing store.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
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07.12.08 - 3:47 pm | #
Okay, I've go stuff to do. Thanks for voting, all, and I'll see ya later.
Moe Szyslak |
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07.12.08 - 3:47 pm | #
I've read (never tried it) that if you have a stainless steel sink and rub your hands on the surface, it will take the smell away. Then again, I love the smell of garlic.
mer | 07.12.08 - 3:44 pm | #
It's true. In fact, you can buy oval-shaped "garlic soap" made of steel for just such a purpose. We have one.
rorschach |
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07.12.08 - 3:48 pm | #
Then again, I love the smell of garlic.
mer
Me, too.
I could never understand how people bitch and complain about onions and garlics being bad smells.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 3:48 pm | #
rorschach: It's true. In fact, you can buy oval-shaped "garlic soap" made of steel for just such a purpose. We have one.
The magic of ions!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 3:49 pm | #
"Just had a spiritual experience in - of all places - a low-rent thrift clothing store."
Did it involve a wide stance?
stencil |
07.12.08 - 3:51 pm | #
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
rootless-e, equivalent doctrin |
07.12.08 - 3:51 pm | #
that was easy.
equal parts rice, corn, peas.
splash of soy sauce
sprinkle of cummin
sprinkle of ginger
dash of lemon juice
3 very hot peppers
handful of shredded cheese
"Just had a spiritual experience in - of all places - a low-rent thrift clothing store."
Epifannie's Resale Shoppe? Runs mostly to robes and sandals...
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person |
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07.12.08 - 3:55 pm | #
Epifannie's Resale Shoppe? Runs mostly to robes and sandals...
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 3:55 pm | #
the customers are rapturous.
rootless-e, equivalent doctrin |
07.12.08 - 3:57 pm | #
Just watered the poor tomato plants for the second time today (they're in containers on my sizzling stairway). Actually got some to set fruit last week when it was "cooler" (i.e., in the 80s and 90s), so I need to make sure these babies are well pampered now, else the dreaded blossom end rot!
War On War Off |
07.12.08 - 3:57 pm | #
Did it involve a wide stance?
stencil
Not really.
Background: My mom died last December 30 - got most of her stuff back from the nursing home, but not all.
Got the $600 bribe yesterday and let loose some pent-up shopping desires - garage sales, a thrift store - and then decided to grab lunch at the restaurant I always used to take my mom to. Ordered the omelet, just as she did.
Then went to another thrift store near my place. Found very little - checked out, then turned around to see two big bins of 50 cent items.
Looked on top of one pile - saw a fleece jacket that looked just like the one mom favored to keep her warm at the home.
Her name was still on the tag.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
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07.12.08 - 3:58 pm | #
Roadmaster: Her name was still on the tag.
Whoa.
With your permission, I'd like to spark a bowl in Mom's honor.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 3:59 pm | #
Then went to another thrift store near my place. Found very little - checked out, then turned around to see two big bins of 50 cent items.
Looked on top of one pile - saw a fleece jacket that looked just like the one mom favored to keep her warm at the home.
Her name was still on the tag.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 3:58 pm | #
Holy shit.
That is truly amazing, Roadmaster.
rorschach |
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07.12.08 - 4:00 pm | #
Well, I feel like an ass.
stencil |
07.12.08 - 4:00 pm | #
With your permission, I'd like to spark a bowl in Mom's honor.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Do what you need to to celebrate life - and what may well go afterwards.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
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07.12.08 - 4:00 pm | #
Roadmaster: Do what you need to to celebrate life - and what may well go afterwards.
Thank you. And also, what ror said... x1000.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 4:01 pm | #
Just wow, Roadmaster.
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 4:02 pm | #
Rors - did I tell you the story of the hawk when we hung out in Oshkosh?
If not, I'll relate it tomorrow in Madison - still coming, right?
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 4:03 pm | #
Why do most bagpipers walk when playing?
To get away from the music.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 4:04 pm | #
Rors - did I tell you the story of the hawk when we hung out in Oshkosh?
If not, I'll relate it tomorrow in Madison - still coming, right?
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 4:03 pm | #
I don't believe you did tell that particular tale.
We are still planning to come.
And we can raise a pint in honor of your mother. And in hopes for my father.
rorschach |
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07.12.08 - 4:05 pm | #
Why do most bagpipers walk when playing?
To get away from the music.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ | 07.12.08 - 4:04 pm | #
Should the question not then be: Why don't they run?
rorschach |
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07.12.08 - 4:06 pm | #
And we can raise a pint in honor of your mother. And in hopes for my father.
rorschach
home of Phil Gramm.
Ruth |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 4:10 pm | #
Another photo of prettyboy, L.E.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
What a little purr cat! I can hear him from here!
ellroon |
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07.12.08 - 4:10 pm | #
Hey Roadmaster,
Any advice how to get to the meetup place tomorrow? Like an address I can mapquest? Also, suggestions about parking?
rorschach |
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07.12.08 - 4:11 pm | #
ellroon: What a little purr cat! I can hear him from here!
He purrs loudest when we play. He loves to play.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 4:11 pm | #
pope Ratzi the Nazi "is praying" for the anglican church because they are going to ordain women as bishops.
trifecta |
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07.12.08 - 4:11 pm | #
any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells;
Wastewater containing bodily or other biological wastes, as from toilets, dishwashers, or kitchen drains. Compare graywater.
Richard |
07.12.08 - 4:15 pm | #
Rors -
The address is 50 S. Baldwin Street.
It's a half-block to the left off of East Washington St. (Hwy 151) about a mile before you get to the Capitol.
Plenty of on-street parking within a few blocks.
Weather is supposed to be spot-on perfect.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 4:16 pm | #
Since "reporters" usually just spew Republican talking points couldn't they be replaced by a Perl script bot?
George Johnston |
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07.12.08 - 4:16 pm | #
We've had two ripe tomatoes so far. Makes you remember what a tomato is suppose to taste like. Meaty, succulent and the best favor ever.
mer |
07.12.08 - 4:16 pm | #
Years ago, a brother went into a Goodwill store to buy a picture frame. He found one with our mother's picture in it.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 4:17 pm | #
Since "reporters" usually just spew Republican talking points couldn't they be replaced by a Perl script bot?
As soon as our trolls finish with the last beta version.
Gromit |
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07.12.08 - 4:18 pm | #
Roadmaster, what a touching story.
mer
Thanks, mer/Rors/JP/et al.
I needed to share it with y'all - lord knows it's been a tough year for many of us. If a simple fleece jacket can offer a bit of hope, then so be it.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
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07.12.08 - 4:19 pm | #
Went to an antique store in Madison once and found a photo of my beloved grandmother in the UW yearbook, class of 1918. She was ahead of her time.
Bill in Chicago |
07.12.08 - 4:19 pm | #
Thanks, Roadmaster.
And the weather is damn lucky, given how things've been the past couple days.
I'm so glad you planned this for the "Louisiane" day. So very much looking forward to some zydeco.
rorschach |
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07.12.08 - 4:19 pm | #
Blackwater chose their company name well...
Richard
Gimlet: Probably more like the old Doobie Brothers Song.
Don't say that! It's one of the few tunes of theirs that I love!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 4:21 pm | #
Years ago, a brother went into a Goodwill store to buy a picture frame. He found one with our mother's picture in it.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
Wow - was your mom still alive at that point? Was it a frame or photo you recognized from years past?
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
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07.12.08 - 4:22 pm | #
Roadmaster, it was a great reminder of connections in the lives we live and the people we know.
mer |
07.12.08 - 4:23 pm | #
Just passing thru.
Lady D. says I can't write anything about Tony Snow.
Harry Doghiney (D-TX) |
07.12.08 - 4:24 pm | #
mer: Roadmaster, it was a great reminder of connections in the lives we live and the people we know.
Also that some things defy explanation.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 4:24 pm | #
Roadmaster,
I think she was dead by then. The brother recognized her, not the frame. She was about 18 and wearing one of her brother's white shirts. I have a copy of it here.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 4:25 pm | #
Harry Doghiney: Lady D. says I can't write anything about Tony Snow.
Gromit had the last word:
"BREAKING: TONY SNOW HAS DENIED BEING DEAD."
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 4:26 pm | #
If I ran across a photo of my mother at age 18, I doubt I'd even know it was her.
rorschach |
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07.12.08 - 4:26 pm | #
SORRY!
That was Gomez!!!!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 4:26 pm | #
She was about 18 and wearing one of her brother's white shirts. I have a copy of it here.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
Wow - that photo had far more untold stories of its travels than my mom's jacket.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 4:27 pm | #
Correction: Stolen from Gomez: "BREAKING: TONY SNOW HAS DENIED BEING DEAD."
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 4:27 pm | #
Years ago, a brother went into a Goodwill store to buy a picture frame. He found one with our mother's picture in it.
Wonder if he will be buried with that annoying SMIRK on his face.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 4:31 pm | #
Gromit: My snark does not have the bite of Gomez'.
Forgive me, both of you. I'm just started my 3rd beer (which is fast, for me).
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 4:31 pm | #
pope Ratzi the Nazi "is praying" for the anglican church because they are going to ordain women as bishops.
trifecta
Amazing how a church that has made a cult of the Virgin Mary has such fear and loathing for women.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
Homepage |
07.12.08 - 4:33 pm | #
Actually, it's rare that I have more than one beer/hour. Probably will be at that rate from here on out.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 4:33 pm | #
All right, I've gotta go hit the bar with some friends so I can get home at a reasonable hour so I can drive to Madison tomorrow and drink with Roadmaster et al.
So complicated.
Good evening, all.
rorschach |
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07.12.08 - 4:33 pm | #
My best friend came back from an auction and gave a an old JollyTime popcorn can. It had an old railroad freight label with my home town on it. When I cleaned it up I found it had ben shipped to my grandfather in 1943.
dmark |
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07.12.08 - 4:33 pm | #
Hullo.
I'm off to a wedding in Minneapolis...been running ragged all day.
Zap Rowsdower |
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07.12.08 - 4:35 pm | #
My best friend came back from an auction and gave a an old JollyTime popcorn can. It had an old railroad freight label with my home town on it. When I cleaned it up I found it had ben shipped to my grandfather in 1943.
dmark
leibniz -- Your mom was lovely!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 4:39 pm | #
I just this moment received an envelope of pictures in the mail. The pics are of my kids when they were small - twenty + years ago. The envelope came from my grandmother, who is 98 1/2 years old.
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 4:39 pm | #
Scroll up for my spiritual experience of the day...
Wow...that's great, buddy. Gave me chills!
Zap Rowsdower |
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07.12.08 - 4:39 pm | #
Anyone here a fan of Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?
I did a budget site for this lady...
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Loved that story when I was younger. Still have it on my bookshelf.
ellroon |
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07.12.08 - 4:39 pm | #
That hair on the photo above her left eye is from a very evil recent pet cat that has taken to the printer as a perch.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 4:40 pm | #
U.S. District Judge David Lawson of Detroit ruled Thursday the agency had acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in 2005 by giving Savoy Energy LP of Traverse City a permit to drill an exploratory well near the Au Sable River's south branch.
The proposed wellhead would be located in the Huron-Manistee National Forest about three-tenths of a mile from the Mason Tract, a 4,679-acre wilderness area prized by anglers and other outdoor recreationists.
Man, Mrs DWD and I were canoing down the AuSauble River when I saw her get spontaneously randy. We parked the canoe and had a fine time. (I am thinking that was a) a long time ago and b) something that an oil well with its noises and smells would definitely have an impact on for the young couples of today and tomorrow.
From my POV, spontaneous sex by a pristine river trumps oil every fucking time. (And the language was intended)
DWD - S☮S |
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07.12.08 - 4:40 pm | #
Gimlet: Probably more like the old Doobie Brothers Song.
Or Frank Zappa. "Let's Make the Water Turn Black"...
Ridnik Chrome |
07.12.08 - 4:41 pm | #
ellroon: Loved that story when I was younger. Still have it on my bookshelf.
The author of the bio, Valerie Raliegh Yow, was a friend of a Peabody co-worker, and that's how I got tasked with updating her very simple site.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 4:41 pm | #
I've had several inexplicable experiences. One of the strangest ones was when a friend and I were out buying props for a photo shoot many years ago. We were eating lunch and a shudder went through my body. I felt a sudden urge to call the Montessori school where my two children went to school at the time. Evidently, Karen, one of the teachers, had just moved a stool and caught my son's foot under one of the legs. He wasn't harmed badly, but it freaked me out.
mer |
07.12.08 - 4:42 pm | #
That hair on the photo above her left eye is from a very evil recent pet cat that has taken to the printer as a perch.
leibniz leibkins
Roadmaster, I just read your story above. Very cool.
By the way I went to see the Iguanas last night and had a great time. I was worried about parking but got a spot right across from the CrystalCorner.
dmark |
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07.12.08 - 4:43 pm | #
Evidently, Karen, one of the teachers, had just moved a stool and caught my son's foot under one of the legs. He wasn't harmed badly, but it freaked me out.
mer
I've had a few of those. Amazing how we are so interconnected, communicating in really inexplicable ways.
ellroon |
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07.12.08 - 4:44 pm | #
Your mom was lovely!
Yep, and as far as I know she never said a mean thing about anyone in the world. She was also a very good pianist. We spent hours doing four-hand pieces and two piano arrangements. She would be sitting across from me on the Chickering and me on the Steinway, and she would just dip her head and I knew when to come in. I miss her tremendously even though she has been dead for years. She had the most beautiful touch of any pianist I have ever known.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 4:46 pm | #
By the way I went to see the Iguanas last night and had a great time. I was worried about parking but got a spot right across from the CrystalCorner.
dmark
Alright kids...Zapette's all dolled up and looking teh hawt (I was looking handsome, she was looking like an erotic vulture). I think that we're off to the Sheraton.
If I don't come home in a wheel barrel, maybe I'll stop in later.
Zap Rowsdower |
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07.12.08 - 4:48 pm | #
She had the most beautiful touch of any pianist I have ever known.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
Where was she from? Did you ever run a cassette or reel-to-reel to capture her talent?
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
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07.12.08 - 4:48 pm | #
BREAKING: TONY SNOW HAS DENIED BEING DEAD.
Dana Perino: "I haven't heard anything about that. You should check directly with the Saint Peter."
Gromit, crankypants
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Is it wrong for someone to laugh out loud at this?
Spocko |
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07.12.08 - 4:49 pm | #
Is it wrong for someone to laugh out loud at this?
Spocko
not in this day and age....
ellroon |
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07.12.08 - 4:50 pm | #
Spocko: Is it wrong for someone to laugh out loud at this?
See!
Gromit had the best follow-up!
Now I see how I got that farked up the first time...!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 4:52 pm | #
I am very concerned that people are not taking blogging seriously enough.
And that bloggers are getting played. Bloggers are supposed to be better than that. They are supposed to be the angels of our better nature. They are supposed to be above mere mortal concerns, and dwell in a Platonic realm where all things posted are Truth and can be Trusted.
So I am very concerned....and a thread or so late.
Rmj, Itinerant Theologist |
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07.12.08 - 4:53 pm | #
Is Obama's lead melting? Not in Missouri, where a Research 2000 poll for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shows Barack Obama with a 48-43 lead. Obama had also led Research 2000's only previous poll of the state, taken in January, by a 5-point margin.
portia |
07.12.08 - 4:53 pm | #
Roadmaster,
She made some tapes in the 1950s. My dad recorded over them for some obscure reason. Nothing left.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
07.12.08 - 4:53 pm | #
OK, I have a radio show to prep for...
So safe travels to all - and across all dimensions.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
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07.12.08 - 4:53 pm | #
She made some tapes in the 1950s. My dad recorded over them for some obscure reason. Nothing left.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
I see. If you stand up for the Rule of Law - you're "far Left".
portia |
07.12.08 - 4:58 pm | #
So I am very concerned....
I am concerned by your concern.
Richard |
07.12.08 - 4:58 pm | #
Speaking of fixed incomes and increases - mer? insurance rate just went up $31/month for Josh. $43/month for me..... It'll stay there for the next year however.
GWPDA, yclept Damaged Historia |
07.12.08 - 4:59 pm | #
NYT: July 13, 2008
Obama Supporters on Far Left Cry Foul
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
PORTLAND, Ore. — In the breathless weeks before the Oregon presidential primary in May, Martha Shade did what thousands of other people here did: she registered as a Democrat so she could vote for Senator Barack Obama.
Now, however, after critics have accused Mr. Obama of shifting positions on issues like the war in Iraq, the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants, gun control and the death penalty — all in what some view as a shameless play to a general election audience — Ms. Shade said she planned to switch back to the Green Party.
“I’m disgusted with him,” said Ms. Shade, an artist. “I can’t even listen to him anymore. He had such an opportunity, but all this ‘audacity of hope’ stuff, it’s blah, blah, blah. For all the independents he’s going to gain, he’s going to lose a lot of progressives.” ...
So, basically, what we have is OB getting the story he wants out in the press; that he is not too radical, that he is not owned by the left, that he can dance with the mainstream.
So, this is his sister souljah moment.
I get it.
I can dig it.
Too bad that his sister souljah aint some obscure hip hop artist but the fourth amendment.
Maybe it is OK.
But it doesnt look good when I write it down and think about it.
peterboy |
07.12.08 - 5:01 pm | #
Back in the 1970's, my father, when he was away (he was in the Canadian military and went off for training quite often), would send my mother cassette tape "letters".
She kept them for a while after he died in 1983, but they eventually disappeared (I think she found them too painful to listen to and threw them way).
I'd do anything to be able to hear them again.
Richard |
07.12.08 - 5:03 pm | #
Getting Played
The TRUTH has finally been revealed. -Atrios 13:51
Gosh, that Kos piece sure was impressive in the detail it presented and the depth of its analysis. And the credentials presented, zowie.
bo |
07.12.08 - 5:07 pm | #
Ms. Shade said she planned to switch back to the Green Party.
Bet you've been hearing an earful about me, lately!
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 5:07 pm | #
BREAKING SPORTS NEWS -- FORMER NEW YORK YANKEE OUTFIELDER BOBBY MURCER HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 62.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 5:09 pm | #
Jeffraham, , yeah, but I'm trying to stay neutral, if you know what I mean.
mer |
07.12.08 - 5:09 pm | #
Is it wrong for someone to laugh out loud at this?
Spocko
((((((((leibniz leibkins )))))))
The Internet |
07.12.08 - 5:10 pm | #
Years ago, a brother went into a Goodwill store to buy a picture frame. He found one with our mother's picture in it.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
When my moms parents died during the depression, an aunt and uncle relutanlty took them. Mom later discovered they sold the almost all the pictures of her parents for the cost of the frames.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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07.12.08 - 5:11 pm | #
A guy called me from the Democratic Senatorial etc etc. And he thanked me for supporting the Democratic Senate. So I said, They didn't support me last Wednesday. And he knew exactly what I was talking about. We bandied bull about for a while, and he used the magic word "compromise", and I said, Compromise this: I'm sending the money to Darcy Burner. Good day.
NASCAR's BAM Racing team has presented Barack Obama's presidential campaign with a potential sponsorship deal in the Sprint Cup series later this year, but it doesn't look like an Obama car will be burning rubber on the track anytime soon. BAM team spokesman Rhett Vandiver told The Associated Press on Friday that the team made a sponsorship proposal to the Democratic presidential hopeful's campaign, and has made similar proposals to the campaign of Republican John McCain and at least one third-party candidate.
NASCAR has been playing an increasing role in politics, as so-called ``NASCAR dads'' were considered a key constituency in recent elections.
A Cup series car carried a George W. Bush logo in 2004 but wasn't officially associated with the campaign. And Democratic presidential hopeful Bob Graham sponsored a truck in the Craftsman Truck Series in 2003.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:13 pm | #
good work, David D.
those phoners deserve some courtesy and the DSCC deserves to fish somewhere else.
I tell them I can find ACT BLUE without their help.
peterboy |
07.12.08 - 5:13 pm | #
BAM team spokesman Rhett Vandiver told The Associated Press on Friday that the team made a sponsorship proposal to the Democratic presidential hopeful's campaign, and has made similar proposals to the campaign of Republican John McCain and at least one third-party candidate.
Wrote about this yesterday. The chances are good that the car won't make the race, but the owners are lookin' for the exposure this is bringing them now.
Supreme Commander Thor |
07.12.08 - 5:15 pm | #
When my mom's parents died during the depression, an aunt and uncle reluctantly took them. Mom later discovered they sold the almost all the pictures of her parents for the cost of the frames.
Lumpenprolitariot
How sad.
Some people's insensitivity amazes me.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:16 pm | #
nyt has nothing up on murcer yet
peterboy |
07.12.08 - 5:17 pm | #
On her living room walls, my mother has some lovely photographs of her parents, her wedding and her siblings taken about 60-70 years ago. Most are of the sepia kind. Every time I visit, I go and look at them. They are beautiful.
mer |
07.12.08 - 5:17 pm | #
On her living room walls, my mother has some lovely photographs of her parents, her wedding and her siblings taken about 60-70 years ago. Most are of the sepia kind. Every time I visit, I go and look at them. They are beautiful.
mer
I LOVE that kind of stuff.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:19 pm | #
"I'm sending the money to Darcy Burner. Good day.
Click."
--David Derbes,
:hand clapping smiley face here:
Last two phone calls I've received, I've said the same thing.
mer |
07.12.08 - 5:21 pm | #
I’m disgusted with him,” said Ms. Shade, an artist. “I can’t even listen to him anymore. He had such an opportunity, but all this ‘audacity of hope’ stuff, it’s blah, blah, blah. For all the independents he’s going to gain, he’s going to lose a lot of progressives.” ...
And considering the record of the Oregon Green party in bringing its massive supporter base to the polls, he's really going to regret it.
rootless-e, equivalent doctrin |
07.12.08 - 5:21 pm | #
Breaking News!
Tony Snow questions the purpose of the fast train he's on, as well as the smell of sulfur in the air.
The Depression was rough. I can understand the frames, but the pictures?
stencil |
07.12.08 - 5:21 pm | #
Don't be an asshole Atrios. This is how she socializes. This is how she experiences the world. This is her entertainment. And frankly, this is her life and her own choices in her pursuit of happiness.
It is a perfectly FINE example, and you should be railing against the people that would think it's not a good example.
Other "bad" examples: it's going to take away from my condom budget, it's going to take away from my birth control budget, it's going to take away from my ability to buy censored books, it's going to take away from my ability to buy newspapers published outside the United States.
jerry |
07.12.08 - 5:23 pm | #
"... nothing up on murcer yet"
--peterboy |
What or who is murcer? Not familiar.
mer |
07.12.08 - 5:23 pm | #
Is it wrong for someone to laugh out loud at this?
The last hour's cat pixels, for you joining in, now.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 5:24 pm | #
Q: What do you think of the fact that the number of Beltway media types that have died recently today went to 2.
Ghost of Tony Snow: It's just a number.
Florida |
07.12.08 - 5:24 pm | #
All attempts at spinal transplants for congressional Democrats have failed. These unfortunate individuals should be retired and monitored 24/7 for their own safety of course.
catalexis |
07.12.08 - 5:24 pm | #
She's 69 fucking years old, I am glad she is mobile enough to get to the casino on her own and enjoy life.
My mom had to rot on her couch and watch TV. I would have loved it if she had been able to go to the casino as much as she wanted.
jerry |
07.12.08 - 5:25 pm | #
hey jerry, Did you read Atrios' last sentence?
"Don't care what she does with her money."
So, what are you talking about? On the other hand, I don't really care.
mer |
07.12.08 - 5:25 pm | #
Well, he does care about what she does with her money. Or he cares about what other people think she does with her money. That's specifically why he claims it's a bad example, because he is worried about what people think she does with her money.
Fuck that noise, he should be defending what she does with her money and making it public and right and out for her to do so.
jerry |
07.12.08 - 5:27 pm | #
Q: What do you think of the fact that the number of Beltway media types that have died recently today went to 2.
Ghost of Tony Snow: We're making progress and Democrats are unhappy about that. In other 6 months, we'll see whether the new "don't die" plan is working or if we need to tweak it.
rootless-e, equivalent doctrin |
07.12.08 - 5:27 pm | #
I loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Must have read it a dozen times.
Did you get to speak with Ms. Smith?
qlª |
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07.12.08 - 5:28 pm | #
jerry | 07.12.08 - 5:25 pm
Atrios didn't criticize her.
Please go back and read the article again.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:28 pm | #
Well, he does care about what she does with her money. Or he cares about what other people think she does with her money. That's specifically why--
Well, he does care about what she does with her money. Or he cares about what other people think she does with her money. That's specifically why he claims it's a bad example, because he is worried about what people think she does with her money.
He doesn't care, merely noting that somebody bitching about a discretionary expenditure preventing her from buying a more "necessary" one is probably not the best argument against a price increase to pay for services.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 5:29 pm | #
His statement, "This is a bad example, of course, I don't really care what she does with her money" is a bullshit piece of copout wankery. And he really deserves his own wanker of the day award for it.
jerry |
07.12.08 - 5:29 pm | #
BTW, hello from I-90E in Indiana.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 5:30 pm | #
The Depression was rough. I can understand the frames, but the pictures?
stencil
It wasn't the worse thing they did to them. I put flowers on those graves for years but mom never metioned the bad stuff until she was in her 70's.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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07.12.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Q: What do you think of the fact that the number of Beltway media types that have died recently today went to 2.
Ghost of Tony Snow: Thank you for the Hezbollah point of view, Helen Thomas.
Florida |
07.12.08 - 5:30 pm | #
FReeper finds "Moonbat Rule Book":
A Moonbat "Rule Book" was found left behind at a Starbucks coffee shop in Portland Oregon. Here are a few of the rules that moonbats are attempting to place on the rest of society.
Rule 1.0 - If you don't agree with our unfair stereotype of conservatism, you will be guilty of conforming to our unfair stereotype of conservatism.
Rule 2.0 - All Republicans are guilty of something and it is usually mass murder. Rule 2.1 - If Republicans have not been found guilty of something just give us time and pay for the investigation. We will find something.
Rule 3.0 - Democrats are NEVER guilty of anything. Ever. Rule 3.1 - If a Democrat ever makes a mistake or is accidentally found guilty of something; BLAME THE REPUBLICANS.
Rule 4.0 - It is not who VOTES that matter. Rather it is who COUNTS the votes that matter. Please refer to Washington State and Oregon State elections offices. Rule 4.1 - It is OK for Democrats to fix elections and find votes for dead people. It is NOT ok for Republicans to find fault with that.
Rule 5.0 - Americans share our moonbat values. However never, ever campaign on Moonbat values because Americans are stupid and will never actually vote for Democrats if they really KNEW they shared our moonbat values. Rule 5.1 - Never, ever under any circumstances admit rule 5.0.
Rule 6.0 - Bush did it. Unless it is good.
Rule 7.0 - Make sure we always attack the military. However, ALWAYS say we are defending the military when we are attaking them. The mainstream press will never know the difference.
Rule 8.0 - Do not ever speak in public or post to a conservative blog the way we normally speak amongst ourselves. We know we have potty mouths but we really really don't want everyone else to know it.
Rule 9.0 - It is OK to hate. Just so long as you hate conservative Republicans Rule 9.1 - Remember all Republicans are Nazis so it is OK to hate them and if anyone backs you into a corner you can always yell "NAZI!" and that will usually fix things.
Rule 10.0 - Confusion is our ally. Any fallacious argument that can be made will help advance the cause and mire the opposition in refutation of our logical inconsistencies.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You wuz fooled.
There's actually 11 Rules, the last of which would turn you into a newt if you ever read it.
Lime Rickey |
07.12.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Looks like Elias has a new nym.
And is just as whiney as ever.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Um, I think Atrios was talking about the cost of a ticket, not the end destination of where that ticket would take them.
mer |
07.12.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Why do we need to drill in protected areas? Do we not control the world's second largest oil reserves in Iraq?
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Saturday tried to pin the blame on Congress for soaring energy prices and said lawmakers need to lift long-standing restrictions on drilling for oil in pristine lands and offshore tracts believed to hold huge reserves of fuel.
Bush said that Democrats are at fault and that "Americans are increasingly frustrated with Congress' failure to take action.
"One of the factors driving up high gas prices is that many of our oil deposits here in the United States have been put off-limits for exploration and production. Past efforts to meet the demand for oil by expanding domestic resources have been repeatedly rejected by Democrats in Congress."
Bush repeated his call for Congress to lift the restrictions, including a ban on offshore drilling. A succession of presidents from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton to the current president have sided against drilling in these waters as has Congress each year for 27 years, seeking to protect beaches and coastal states' tourism economies.
Gimlet |
07.12.08 - 5:30 pm | #
he really deserves his own wanker of the day award for it.
I look forward to the WOTD post on your blog.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 5:31 pm | #
"who uses the senior discount for trips across the Walt Whitman Bridge to visit friends in South Jersey and to go to Atlantic City casinos."
these tolls really fuck with my booze and cig budget.
jdw |
07.12.08 - 5:33 pm | #
What a whiner.
R. McGeddon |
07.12.08 - 5:33 pm | #
jerry, sit down and get your inhaler.
Number one. No one tells the good doctor what he should or should not be defending.
Number two. Public perceptions are a driving point behind policy decisions. It is a fact that there are rather a hell of a lot of people who view those with fewer means as having fewer rights to engage in discretionary behavior. Atrios explicitly disagrees with that view but sagely acknowledges that it has weight even if no merit in his eyes.
Number three. You seem awfully pushy toward our host for someone whose name I don't recall seeing around these parts much.
catalexis |
07.12.08 - 5:33 pm | #
Rule 9.0 - It is OK to hate.
They have brass balls.
That's all THEY have is hate.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:34 pm | #
When is the next payment due? Sorry, I don't keep track.
I dunt remember! Next month? Started in September - six months, then March? - six months?
That's right Terry, anyone who disagrees with you or the Party Line is a troll.
You should listen to Dave(TM) more. Anyone who disagrees is a brownshirt who should be killfiled. I'll let you ponder the irony of someone calling everyone Nazis and then using a killing metaphor to discuss what should be done with them.
catalexis, I was probably here long before you ever got here. But I didn't realize the price for speaking anything in disagreement was that I had to suck your cock in every thread for the past six years.
jerry |
07.12.08 - 5:35 pm | #
BTW, hello from I-90E in Indiana.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba
Typical sociopath - it's everyone else's fault that he's failed at everything he's ever done.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:36 pm | #
Here is the picture of my mom my brother found:
Gorgeous
What a great story
We frequently will by odd books and diaries from junk shops. Fascinating glimpse into people's lives.
qlª |
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07.12.08 - 5:37 pm | #
That's right Terry, anyone who disagrees with you or the Party Line is a troll.
Nope. But people who appear ex nihilo, bitching about the proprietor whilst demonstrating reading comp problems, then chafes at being called a troll? Get yer EZ Pass now because the next exit is Trollville.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 5:37 pm | #
jerry
We're all looking forward to your next Associated Content article, Allen.
I'm surprised you haven't taken up the topic of fat aggie transvestitism, considering how well you know the subject. It would be an easy $3 for you, I'm sure.
Richard |
07.12.08 - 5:37 pm | #
That's right Terry, anyone who disagrees with you or the Party Line is a troll.
I trust Terry more than you, fuckwit, and as such:
GWPDA, how are you doing today. I took a trek into Tucson and it's HOT there.
94 according to the dashboard outside temp gauge, and as humid as Georgia. I was glad to get back to my desert abode, where it's only 81F outside.
Doug |
07.12.08 - 5:39 pm | #
Don't even try to pull precedence rank on me you little prick. And I'm calling you out for way more than fucking disagreeing and you well know it you malodorous agit prop piece of freeper sputum.
catalexis |
07.12.08 - 5:39 pm | #
Rule 2.0 - All Republicans are guilty of something and it is usually mass murder. Rule 2.1 - If Republicans have not been found guilty of something just give us time and pay for the investigation. We will find something.
Can't disagree with this.
All Repukkklicans ARE guilty of something.
Endemic stoopidity if nothing else.
flory |
07.12.08 - 5:39 pm | #
That's right Terry, anyone who disagrees with you or the Party Line is a troll.
Aw, fuck you, bitch!
I killfiled your ass about five posts back.
Whiney little pissant.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:39 pm | #
Number three. You seem awfully pushy toward our host for someone whose name I don't recall seeing around these parts much.
catalexis
It's mimi
qlª
Speaking from Brandenburg Gate.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 5:39 pm | #
The wingers have a rule book, too. It's all blank pages with a few cock drawings thrown in.
Lime Rickey |
07.12.08 - 5:40 pm | #
All Republicans are guilty of something and it is usually mass murder.
See: Bush, George W.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:40 pm | #
mimi? Ah shit, get the bug spray.
catalexis |
07.12.08 - 5:40 pm | #
I'm on a fixed income, and had some busybody get very indignant that I had both cable TV AND DSL service. I shouldn't waste money like that.
Also wanted to know how I could afford the huge Apple CRT monitor I have.
"I picked that 77 pound monster off the curb in the South End (of Boston) lugged it over half a mile to Back Bay station, where I caught the subway to Forest Hills T station, and from Forest Hills, the bus to Mattapan (the Boston neighborhood where I live) and from the Mattapan Bus terminal, I then caught another bus to the corner nearest my apartment building."
Want proof? I designed a new skyscraper in Dubai this morning, before headlining a fashion show in Prague. Just taking a small break here before i teach Mario Batalli some new Italian recipes.
trifecta |
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07.12.08 - 5:42 pm | #
So I am very concerned....and a thread or so late.
I went over and read that 'diary'.
Well, scanned it.
This passage sums it up well:
"A savvy staffer for Congressman Y might take advantage of that and leak false or misleading information about what's going on to one of the major bloggers who in turn, writes about it, and then, presto, all of you are believing that Congressman X is to blame when in fact Congressman X was actually better on that legislation than Congressman Y. And the reason why the staffer for Congressman Y pushed the blame to Congressman X, is because Congressman X has already been a frequent target for netroots criticism, so the staffer for Congressman Y knows that you're more likely to believe it was Congressman X's fault."
A helluva lot of meat in that one, huh?
billy b |
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07.12.08 - 5:42 pm | #
anyone who disagrees with you or the Party Line is a troll.
i disagreed at the beginning of the thread. i still do.
but i wasn't an asshole about it.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
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07.12.08 - 5:42 pm | #
GWPDA, do you still have my email address? Email me the amount for six months. If I don't hear from you I'll email you.
Hope you are doing well. And thanks.
mer |
07.12.08 - 5:43 pm | #
Did I miss an obit?
The last I heard he was alive and well, living somewhere in the Phoenix area.
Doug |
07.12.08 - 5:43 pm | #
Want proof? I designed a new skyscraper in Dubai this morning, before headlining a fashion show in Prague. Just taking a small break here before i teach Mario Batalli some new Italian recipes.
If you were really mimi you'd be giving the Pope fashion tips as well.
Supreme Commander Thor |
07.12.08 - 5:45 pm | #
I am Mimi!
Want proof? I designed a new skyscraper in Dubai this morning, before headlining a fashion show in Prague. Just taking a small break here before i teach Mario Batalli some new Italian recipes.
trifecta
And fucking half the men in Europe.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:45 pm | #
One more thing Jerry, if your mom rotted in front of the tv, it was her choice. That's all I have to say to you.
mer |
07.12.08 - 5:46 pm | #
And fucking half the men in Europe.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08
Have you seen Laurent? He's missing.
trifecta |
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07.12.08 - 5:46 pm | #
Want proof? I designed a new skyscraper in Dubai this morning, before headlining a fashion show in Prague. Just taking a small break here before i teach Mario Batalli some new Italian recipes.
trifecta
In between I gave my boyfriend the bestest blow job ever. He told me so. And he is an expert so I'll take his word for it.
qlª |
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07.12.08 - 5:46 pm | #
You've got to go to the Dan Quayle memorial museum...
If it were mimi, she'd be bragging about the amazing sex she just had with Laurent. Which she really did once. Not the sex; the bragging on a blog about supposedly just having sex.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 5:47 pm | #
But where is it? We just got through South Bend a little while ago.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba
I guess Indiana doesn't have any laws against posting while driving?
I bet Poppy thinks better of Dan Quayle, than he does his own son.
MP |
07.12.08 - 5:47 pm | #
Dan Quayle works for the company that bought Chrysler. He still has teh great ideas.
trifecta |
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07.12.08 - 5:47 pm | #
Barack obama is taking heat for hinting that he might refine his 16-month timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. But a forthcoming Pentagon-sponsored report will recommend an even steeper drawdown in less time, newsweek has learned. If adopted, the 300-page report by a defense analysis group at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., could trans-form the debate about Iraq in the presidential election. Expected to be completed in about a month, it will recommend that U.S. forces be reduced to as few as 50,000 by the spring of 2009, down from about 150,000 now. The strategy is based on a major handoff to the increasingly successful Iraqi Army, with platoon-size U.S. detachments backing the Iraqis from small outposts, with air support. The large U.S. forward operating bases that house the bulk of U.S. troops would be mostly abandoned, and the role of Special Forces would increase.
Too far south from our current pos--about 90 minutes. Nice job, Julie.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 5:49 pm | #
The old folks I know who go to gamble go on these discounted trips that offer a meal, often entertainment, ten or twenty dollars in quarters. They go with their friends and never spend more than the money that is given them. They have a good time.--for some of them it is their only enjoyment.
Jeebus! Let's pick on the people who deserve it and do the damage for dawg's sake.
Who Knows? |
07.12.08 - 5:49 pm | #
Jeebus! Let's pick on the people who deserve it and do the damage for dawg's sake.
Who Knows?
Er, who's "picking" on the folks who gamble?
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:50 pm | #
Take a detour to the Creation Museum. Take lots of pictures. Interview the patrons for your podcast.
Damn, that would've been cool. But fuck Kentucky.
I guess Indiana doesn't have any laws against posting while driving?
E's driving for a spell before we get to Toledo. So I broke out the laptop and the EVDO!
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 5:50 pm | #
"In between I gave my boyfriend the bestest blow job ever. He told me so. And he is an expert so I'll take his word for it."
--qlª
Was that the one that was 70 years old or someone else?
mer |
07.12.08 - 5:50 pm | #
If adopted, the 300-page report by a defense analysis group at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., could trans-form the debate about Iraq in the presidential election. Expected to be completed in about a month, it will recommend that U.S. forces be reduced to as few as 50,000 by the spring of 2009, down from about 150,000 now.
The boldface is of course the key phrase.
What do you suppose the chances are of the report actually even being published, much less 'adopted'....whatever that means?
flory |
07.12.08 - 5:50 pm | #
Catalexis, the video mimi put up on Youtube is funny. In a disturbing way.
trifecta |
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07.12.08 - 5:51 pm | #
Ugh, looks like I'm even moving into an EVDO dead zone.
puppethead |
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07.12.08 - 5:55 pm | #
I guess Indiana doesn't have any laws against posting while driving?
Fuck, man, I don't want to tell you some of the shit I've seen on the highway while going to and from work. Passed a guy on I-94 once who was reading the paper while making a call. Damn good thing he noticed me when I cut his ass off to wake him up.
Supreme Commander Thor |
07.12.08 - 5:56 pm | #
flory, lack of accountability. It's the new black.
Ug, now I'm all depressed again.
qlª |
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07.12.08 - 5:56 pm | #
Ugh, looks like I'm even moving into an EVDO dead zone.
Not having TV, I was surprised to see those Verizon ads. I think they're kinda fun.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 5:57 pm | #
FReeper finds "Moonbat Rule Book"
I don't know what's a bigger bunch of bullshit:
(a) that such a "book" exists; or
(b) that a FReeper can read.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 5:57 pm | #
You have a strange definition of "picking on"...
A guy who likes pretending to be his own girlfriend is pretty strange all around, I'd say.
Allen, have you considered therapy for your psychological problems?
Richard |
07.12.08 - 5:57 pm | #
k.
hope everyone is ahaving a nice weekend!
*hugs* im gonna go play games.
euphronius |
07.12.08 - 5:57 pm | #
"For some reason, whenever I see your gravatar, I think of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers original logo..."
The foreign press gives us this: “It’s really all down to the Israelis,” the Pentagon official added. “This administration will not attack Iran. This has already been decided. But the president is really preoccupied with the nuclear threat against Israel and I know he doesn’t believe that anything but force will deter Iran.”
The official added that Israel had not so far presented Bush with a convincing military proposal. “If there is no solid plan, the amber will never turn to green,” he said.
There was also resistance inside the Pentagon from officers concerned about Iranian retaliation. “The uniform people are opposed to the attack plans, mainly because they think it will endanger our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the source said.
i try an improve my life a little everyday and then i read stuff like that and i wonder why i bother.
euphronius |
07.12.08 - 6:02 pm | #
Say that Bush lost his mind and wanted to do Iran.
With what army? He broke it.
Sure, we could bomb 'em a bit. And then the Iranian Army would pour into Iraq, and we'd have ourselves quite a problem.
Bush may be this crazy, Cheney is definitely this crazy, but I don't think anyone in the Joint Chiefs is that crazy.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. |
07.12.08 - 6:02 pm | #
flory,
That Whiskeyfire post is terribly insensitive with respect to the feelings of executive types. [/snark
Once again I say, EAT THE RICH!
bo |
07.12.08 - 6:03 pm | #
Speaking of museums, we did have fun at the Deke Slayton museum yesterday in Sparta, WI.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 6:01 pm |
Where in Northern Indiana are you?
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.12.08 - 6:03 pm | #
flory, lack of accountability. It's the new black.
Ug, now I'm all depressed again.
qlª
It seems to be. And I'm still depressed that Obama bought into it.
flory |
07.12.08 - 6:04 pm | #
flory,
That Whiskeyfire post is terribly insensitive with respect to the feelings of executive types. [/snark
I know.
I thought about trying to be all civil and shit.
Then I decided sometimes you just have to say the tough stuff.....
flory |
07.12.08 - 6:05 pm | #
I don't know what's a bigger bunch of bullshit: (a) that such a "book" exists; or (b) that a FReeper can read.
That sounds vaguely familiar, but I think it used to be directed at Clinton, not Bush, and was written (such as it is) by li'l goopers. The tell is that while it is true that you can never get one of the wingers to admit any Republican has ever done anything wrong let alone illegal, the idea that the moonbats feel that way about the Democratic party is alternately stupid and hilarious, as even the slightest perusal of any given thread here will demonstrate.
Most moonbats I know are only slightly less appalled by most Democrats than they are by most Republics.
JeffCO |
07.12.08 - 6:05 pm | #
Where in Northern Indiana are you?
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins
Sounds like over by Fort Wayne
Supreme Commander Thor |
07.12.08 - 6:05 pm | #
Buckeye - North of Angola, west of Fremont. 14 miles from OH.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 6:05 pm | #
Via Twitter:
BreakingNewsOn BREAKING NEWS -- AUTHORITIES ORDER 10 MILE EVACUATION AFTER TANKER CARRYING HAZARDOUS MATERIAL CRASHES ON I-40 IN TENNESSEE. DETAILS SOON.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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07.12.08 - 6:06 pm | #
Jeff, anywhere near you?
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07.12.08 - 6:08 pm | #
A guy who likes pretending to be his own girlfriend is pretty strange all around, I'd say.
Richard
His female "characters" are absolute dipshits.
Because that's his ideal woman....an empty-headed twit.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 6:09 pm | #
Nobody is picking on anybody who gambles, Terry. The people who have raised prices for the elderly are picking on the elderly.
I am always enamored of your definitions, too, NTodd, even though I didn't define anything.
Richard, you have a problem but that's allowed.
Who Knows? |
07.12.08 - 6:09 pm | #
Jeffraham Prestonian:
Did twitter say WHERE on I-40? That's kinda important, since 40 runs through the ENTIRE FUCKING STATE!!!!
Southern Beale |
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07.12.08 - 6:10 pm | #
Because that's his ideal woman....an empty-headed twit.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08
I think you've nailed it.
flory |
07.12.08 - 6:10 pm | #
Buckeye - North of Angola, west of Fremont. 14 miles from OH.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 6:05 pm
Not the world's most exciting stretch of highway in the world.
Are you stopping overnight in Toledo?
I have lots of distant relatives in the Toledo/Fremont/Defiance area.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
07.12.08 - 6:10 pm | #
I am always enamored of your definitions, too, NTodd, even though I didn't define anything.
Sure you did. Implicitly. So go blow a goat.
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 6:11 pm | #
Comment by Who Knows? blocked.
Enjoy the buffet.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 6:11 pm | #
Speaking of museums, we did have fun at the Deke Slayton museum yesterday in Sparta, WI.
This past week, the Science channel had a series of very interesting documentaries on the Apollo moon missions, specifically, on the efforts made to develop the various components (the navigational computers, the LEM, the lunar rover, etc.).
Richard |
07.12.08 - 6:11 pm | #
Today's blogwhore: My breakfast with the senator
Southern Beale
You surely love bestiality, Boy.
Who Knows? |
07.12.08 - 6:12 pm | #
Because that's his ideal woman....an empty-headed twit.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08
I think you've nailed it.
flory
I know I have - "annie" and "mimi" are both flighty dipshits.
Butler has no respect for women whatsoever, so flighty and self-centered twits are the way he thinks we all are.......or supposed to be.
Terry C, Obama/Clinton 08 |
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07.12.08 - 6:13 pm | #
Butler,
You troll 18 hours a day, while pretending to be woman half the time, and I have the problem?
Honestly, you should be seeing a psychotherapist.
Richard |
07.12.08 - 6:13 pm | #
Are you stopping overnight in Toledo?
Actually, in Hated Maumee. The La Quinta in Perrysburg was full, so we made a res at a Comfort Inn across the river. Bah.
But it's on Reynolds Rd, not too far from Southwyck Mall, which just closed down. I'll take E there so she can see where I used to hang out. How fun!
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 6:14 pm | #
I worked all day and my neighbor, Bob the Builder, has rented a jackhammer. It's hot and I can't open the windows. How's everybody here?
brewing liberally |
07.12.08 - 6:18 pm | #
OHIO!
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba |
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07.12.08 - 6:19 pm | #
OHIO!
NTodd, Super Grand Poomba | Homepage | 07.12.08 - 6:19 pm |
I'd say that nonstop trolling, year after year, is pretty much absolute proof of major psychological problems.
Our friend has more than a few loose screws in that demented brain of his.
There is no question of that.
Richard |
07.12.08 - 6:24 pm | #
Those little hummingbirds at the feeder outside my window are so funny when a storm is brewing. Won't sit on the rim, merely spin their wings and drink from the air.
mer |
07.12.08 - 6:27 pm | #