I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Yearrghh!
me m me m m me meeeeee
arg! so much for being back from the wild.
cheers ya'll.
I was just wanting fresh thread!
If you write three-word articles, it's easy! Especially if you repeat yourself.
You should post something about Biofuels.
Out of material? Just make shit up. It works for all the ABC folks.
WOOOOOOOOooooooooooossssSSH
The tragedies seem to just write themselves, don't they.
Butler has no trouble.
German 'Nazi' youth camp raided
A youth camp run by a neo-Nazi group has been broken up by police near Rostock in northern Germany.
Thirty-nine teenagers and children who were attending the camp have been returned to their homes, police said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europ...ope/
7553978.stm
Should have broken up their homes instead.
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I missed.
Biofuels!
Open thread, be excellent to each other!
There, I wrote your next article.
Beat Primer: part 3 - Ginsberg
Transit!
I don't really care who Obama's VP pick is!
no one would have expected a bunch of federal russian troops to be next to Checnya
Boxcars will arrive soon to take you all to Manhattan, where you will ride the subway and buses.
Rostock is a "bad" part of Germany.
McShame's debate coach, Brett O'Donnell, was the debate director at Liberty University.
I'd bet members if his crack research team are the Wiki link
Fox is asking the question: How does the Edwards adultery make John McCain's own record look bad?
You wish, right?
Labour leadership: unions 'want Johnson-Cruddas ticket'
The glibertarian solution to high gas prices:
Get rich, morans!!!!1
Rostock is on the Baltic Coast in what was East Germany.
Time to make the buffalo chicken meatballs.
Boxcars will arrive soon to take you all to Manhattan, where you will ride the subway and buses.
I hate my energy-wasting exurban McMansion!
When do I get to live in a Soviet-style apartment block?
In all seriousness, how do right wingers allow themselves to defend the Iraq war, gleefully talk about turning "Tehran into glass", and then brim over with moral indignation at Russia's aggressive actions?
Really, I think I'd be much more successful if I could think like this.
What's a buffalo chicken look like?
Yeesh...the girl in this t-shirt ad looks kinda like an ex of mine. Unsettling.
Hanseatic League, woo!
no one suspects teh Hanseatic League!
Luft-Hansa!
no Coke will be awarded. simultaneously simulacrum. simels.
I got a Snorg girl!!!
From down below:
Just got a call from a woman working on a military base in New Brunswick. She asked me to email her the text of something I wrote last week, because my newspaper's web site is blocked by the base computers. This is the second report I've heard about this-- I was talking to some local military people at a bar one night, and they said that my paper is banned from base.
The glibertarian solution to high gas prices:
Get rich, morans!!!!1
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
Make the pie higher!
A rising tide raises all multi-million dollar well maintained pleasure craft!
What's a buffalo chicken look like?
Cousin to teh jackalope.
Teutonic Knights!
this is the best of all possible worlds.
Hanseatic League, woo!
The big question is: will Lubeck go along with the Designated Hitter Rule?
The Amber must flow!
You're a dangerous radical, Moe.
Because sometimes it's just too hard to come up with something to write about every 90 minutes.
I can't even come up with something every week.
update your bookmarks Matthew Yglesias is at Think Progress now
Maybe some of the nuke porn junkies are actual psychos, but most are just idiotic blowhards. They don't think about anything other than pretending to have enormous penises.
Phila.
Sherrod Brown on Adam Smith
http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWe...px?
StoryId=4677
and then brim over with moral indignation at Russia's aggressive actions?
After Saddam Barack Hussein flew them planes into the WTC we had to attack. /wingnut
Seriously. They still think was Iraq supporting AQ, not one of its biggest enemies.
this is the best of all possible worlds.
Shaddup, ya Panglossian poopy-head!
Atrios should write about biofuels.
No one gets tired of threads about biofuels.
I want to know WTF Feingold is thinking.
"I think the guy calls 'em as he sees 'em, and as president would call 'em as he sees 'em, and would make people mad all over the place because it wouldn't fit anybody's playbook," said Feingold, who teamed up with McCain to rewrite federal campaign laws.
"He would be very original," Feingold said.
Feingold even went on to describe McCain as a "maverick by nature."
Is that like the Designated Hitler Rule?
So CNN uses yellow banner for "developing" stories and red for "breaking."
Can developing stories become breaking news and vice versa?
Now that Königsberg is Kallingrad, it throws the whole balance of the League in favor of the Hamburgers.
Afternoon, all.
Sorry for the blogwhores, but over at the homepage I sing the praises of the new Patti Smith documentary, complete with video clip.
While at Box Office, I enthuse about the collected works of Wayne's World director Penelope Spheeris, who's not only a unique American artist, but also -- as I provide photographic evidence -- quite babe-alicious, as Garth might say.
http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve...at-we-do-
is.php
As always, if you could see your way to leaving a comment, I promise to ring Butler's doorbell and run.
in 1410 at the Battle of Grunwald (also known as the Battle of Tannenberg), a combined Polish-Lithuanian army, led by Władysław II Jagiełło and Vytautas, decisively defeated the Teutonic Knights, in the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War.
Is that like the Designated Hitler Rule?
That's for the Busch Bavarian League.
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
Here's how it works: when one country wants to get a free excuse to start a war, they may be permitted to designate a Hitler. It can be anybody.
SurveyUSA: Virginia Still Deadlocked
A new SurveyUSA poll in Virginia shows Sen. John McCain barely edging Sen. Barack Obama, 48% to 47%.
Key findings: McCain holds 89% of the GOP base. Obama holds 86% of the Democrat base. Independents break 5:4 for McCain. Moderates break 3:2 for Obama. Obama leads slightly among those who have graduated college. McCain leads slightly among those who have not. McCain leads among those who attend religious services regularly. Obama leads among those who rarely go to church. McCain leads 2:1 among Pro-Life voters. Obama leads 2:1 among Pro-Choice voters.
Meanwhile, in the U.S. Senate race, Mark Warner (D) crushes Jim Gilmore (R), 58% to 34%.
Here Atrios. Write a "Wheeee!" post...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/ne...5AqA&
refer=home
Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The failure of IndyMac Bancorp Inc. and seven other banks this year may erase as much as 17 percent of a government insurance fund and raise premiums for all banks, from Franklin National of Minneapolis to Bank of America Corp.
The closing of IndyMac in July, the third-biggest U.S. bank failure, may cost the fund $4 billion to $8 billion, in addition to an estimated $1.16 billion for seven closures through Aug. 1. Premiums for deposit insurance will likely rise, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said in a July 30 interview. A decision on the increase is due by the fourth quarter.
``It's going to be a bloody, expensive mess for the banking industry,'' said Bert Ely, president of Ely & Co. Inc., a bank consulting firm based in Alexandria, Virginia. ``Healthy banks are paying for the mistakes made by failed banks.''
The pace of bank closings is accelerating as financial firms have reported almost $495 billion in writedowns and credit losses since 2007. The FDIC's ``problem'' bank list grew by 18 percent in the first quarter from the fourth, to 90 banks with combined assets of $26.3 billion. A revised list is due this month. The insurance fund had $52.8 billion as of March 31.
The FDIC estimated its shutdown of California-based mortgage lender IndyMac might drain as much as 15 percent from the fund. Seven other banks will take about $1.16 billion, or about 2 percent.
The potential $9.16 billion in withdrawals would be the highest since the insurance account was created in 1933, Diane Ellis, the FDIC's associate director of financial-risk management, said in a telephone interview. Bank failures pulled a record $6.9 billion from the fund in 1988 during the savings- and-loan collapse, Ellis said.
Designated Hitler.
Twisted.
Dead-threaded:
The Georgians have been "settling" their people there to create a phony population.
The region that we now call South Ossetia has been within the historical borders of Georgia for at least a thousand years. South Ossetia has existed as a political entity for less than a century.
There is no way on earth anyone can make the claim that Georgia colonized or imperialized the area. If anything, it's Russia that's been doing that by issuing passports to the South Ossetians (and only the South Ossetians) who live there.
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
Very carefully.
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
euphronius
Imagine Popeye asking Olive Oil to the prom.
my last name is Frisian. which is hanseaticin.
Eupronius, it's pronounced "Smith."
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
Gid dance as in dance with a sk like ask
G'dansk.
And in 1914 the German 8th Army encircled and largely destroyed the Russian 2nd Army in roughly the same area, the Germans named the battle Tannenburg to wipe out the shame of the defeat in 1410.
What douche bags people can be sometimes.
Russia knew what was coming and from where, they were ready! that should tell us something.
Hell, Russia knew all of this since Patton for goodness sake.
But,it's here now. We will see what happens nextl
Gdansk makes some nice kitchenware.
I know Cokie Roberts is an American, but she speaks like someone idiotic and stupid.
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
Danzig.
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
Just like its spelled
Stupid people news of the day
GPS navigation steers Utah tourists into trouble
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/
n...avigation_N.htm
GPS device led a convoy of tourists astray, finally stranding them on the edge of a sheer cliff.
With little food or water, the group of 10 children and 16 adults from California had to spend a night in their cars deep inside the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
I know Cokie Roberts is an American, but she speaks like someone idiotic and stupid.
Cokie's from Louisiana, which is pretty exotic if you ask me.
The glibertarian solution to high gas prices:
Get rich, morans!!!!1
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
Even now, incomes are growing three times faster than the gas bill.
Hunh? [goes to look at latest paycheck]
Mine isn't! Clearly, my Borg is not aware of this new policy. This must be an oversight.
Today's trivia: What are the six most irrelevant words in the English language?
Answer: That’s Tom Friedman’s reading from Denmark
Vulgar glibertarian tossers.
"A new SurveyUSA poll in Virginia shows Sen. John McCain barely edging Sen. Barack Obama, 48% to 47%."
In that poll, 14% of blacks are voting for McCain.
OK, where's this McCain speech that was cribbed from wikipedia?
.
Imagine Popeye asking Olive Oil to the prom.
Maldenado
Bluto would never ask. He'd just grab her.
Quote of the Day::
"There could be a significant downside to Obama getting down in the trenches..."
-- Howard Kurtz, advising Obama to stay above the fray, the way Gore and Kerry did.
Yeah, How did that work out?
but seriously . . . the Hanseatic leauge is a vry important precursor/building block of "western civilization"
Apparently the Edwenis has been sighted in Loch Ness.
Cokie is a dim bulb
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
Danzig.
Not any more. Not since 1945 anyway.
mcpain/kerrey 08
lieberman as secretary of pain & torture
let the st. paul republican kabufuki show begin
Honestly, do you really need a vowel between the G and the D? What are you, Hawaiian? You exotic bastard.
OK, where's this McCain speech that was cribbed from wikipedia?
You can see it in the McCain Section at HuffPo.
So, have the liberal hawks like Josh Marshall and Kevin Drum called for war in Georgia yet? Or are they being sensible this time?
K&y the most helpful posters again. as usual.
Cokie's from Louisiana, which is pretty exotic if you ask me.
Sufferin' Succotash
Originally from Alaska, I thought. Her father was one of those two pols that went missing in a presumed plane crash there in the 70's. Fuel for conspiracy buffs ever since.
Quotes:
"Bill Clinton has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter.
It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen."
-- John Edwards, 1999
my last name is Frisian.
In Frisian, people eat, while animals "freet."
Has LFL ever appeared hereabouts before?
Why is through not pronounced thruff? Who knows these things? It's all part of the illuminati plan.
the Hanseatic leauge is a vry important precursor/building block of "western civilization"
Having a European-wide captive market for salt herring didn't hurt, thanks to the Church's ban on eating meat on Fridays.
Millionaires and Hollywood stars visiting Italy have been put on notice that they no longer own the beach after a group of celebrities led by Flavio Briatore, co-owner of QPR football club, were pelted with wet sand and showered with water as they tried to land dinghies on a crowded Sardinian beach.
Already victims of shrinking spending power and sky-rocketing rates for renting deckchairs, Italians have descended on their beaches this August in a surly mood, and the sight of the Briatore-led flotilla as it carved a swath through alarmed swimmers was enough to spark a near riot on Friday at the packed Capriccioli beach.
The Italian newspaper La Stampa seized on the episode as the start of a fightback against celebrities flaunting their wealth on the country's top beaches, stating: "From north to south, the rebellion against those who show off their money and power is growing."
The authorities also appear to be clamping down. Last week, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones came ashore from their yacht at the Italian resort of Santa Margherita Ligure, the same spot where locals were kept awake in June by thumping music from Wayne Rooney's rented yacht. After failing to notify the coastguard of the names of all the members of the landing group, the captain of Douglas's yacht was fined £1,600 under immigration and anti-terrorism legislation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/...08/aug/11/
italy
Why are wingnuts so concerned where a Dem guy sticks his johnson?
I mean, generally, they don't give a crap where their boys play.
OK, where's this McCain speech that was cribbed from wikipedia?
Hey, Butler ...
did McCain hire you to write speeches for him?
Ah, the Edwenis claims another victim.
Fox News is hitting hard on the Edward's affair and scandal all day today. "Will the Edwards affair hurt the Democrat Party?" This is not going away, not by a long shot. This is a gift from the Gods. Should be wall to wall coverage tonight on Billo and Sean. Billo particularly despises Edwards and will flail him mercilessly, will take the bark off Edwards.
Zack
Well, because our culture is fucking retarded, there are certain lies which politicians have to say in public. Everyone knows this and that's why we were against a lot of the Edwards attacks the other day.
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
euphronius
"Throatwarbler Mangrove."
I find it interesting that McCain official website doesn't mention his first marriage at all.
Her father was one of those two pols that went missing in a presumed plane crash there in the 70's
Her old man was then-House Majority Leader Hale Boggs(D-LA). Who was also on the Warren Commision.
Ho hum.
German retains "fressen" and "essen" as seperate words for animal and human eating.
I don't think the "plagiarism" thing is a big deal. I mean, it shows his staff is full of dipshits, but it's nothing to make a stink about, imo.
John McCain continued today to strongly condemn Russia's military action in Georgia, highlighting his warnings about Russian aggressiveness and his foreign policy experience.
"Americans wishing to spend August vacationing with their families or watching the Olympics may wonder why their newspapers and television screens are filled with images of war in the small country of Georgia," he said while campaigning in Erie, Pa. "Concerns about what occurs there might seem distant and unrelated to the many other interests America has around the world. And yet Russian aggression against Georgia is both a matter of urgent moral and strategic importance to the United States of America."
Americans don't pay attention to images of war until after Labor Day, McStain.
Why don't you join Dumbya in China and squeeze some volleyball ass?
"Bill Frist" is the animal form of "Bill Ist"
oh dear - The credit crunch, which has dragged the UK economy to the brink of recession, has wiped £600bn from the wealth of the UK - more than £1m a minute - since the crisis began a year ago, accountants said today.
A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers showed that housing wealth has plummeted by £400bn while sharp falls in the share prices ofbanks and financial institutions have wiped out another £200bn.
With house prices suffering a record double-digit fall last month, households are tightening their purse-strings and cutting back on shopping.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
busine...onsumerspending
We wish we were in Italy, non-photographically harassing celebrities.
Cokie Roberts:
I know that he is from Hawaii, he grew up there, his grandmother lives there, but he has made such a point about how he is from Kansas, you know, the boy from Kansas and Kenya, and it makes him seem a little bit more exotic than perhaps he would want to come across as at this stage in the presidential campaign.
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Others, like Michael Crowley, have said the same thing. I do not think they arrived at this incredibly stupid insight independently. She should be asked if she really came up with this herself or if it was first suggested to her by someone else.
There is no way on earth anyone can make the claim that Georgia colonized or imperialized the area. If anything, it's Russia that's been doing that by issuing passports to the South Ossetians (and only the South Ossetians) who live there.
The Russians want their empire back. It's that fucking simple.
Russian aggression against Georgia is both a matter of urgent moral and strategic importance to the United States of America."
Sure, tell us all about that "strategic importance", McGoo.
Her old man was then-House Majority Leader Hale Boggs(D-LA). Who was also on the Warren Commision.
Ho hum.
Sufferin' Succotash
That's the guy. So she's really from the exotic state of Alaska.
John McCain is an adulturer.
Yeah, Wayne Rooney, turn your stereo down, you Shrek-looking s.o.b.
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
euphronius
"Throatwarbler Mangrove."
jac | 08.11.08 - 2:05 pm | #
But it's spelled "Smythe".
I find it interesting that McCain official website doesn't mention his first marriage at all.
sekmet
What happens in Hanoi...
but he has made such a point about how he is from Kansas
Did Obama ever claim that? Because according to his bio on wikipedia he never lived in Kansas. His mother was from Kansas, not him.
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
euphronius
"Throatwarbler Mangrove."
jac | 08.11.08 - 2:05 pm | #
But it's spelled "Smythe".
Revenant, Proud New Grandpa
I understand it tastes like chicken
What happens in Hanoi...
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan
... gets endlessly recited on the campaign trail.
No, it crashed in Alaska, he was from Louisiana.
I regurgitate the error.
Still, both quite exotic states.
Bob Hope's signature song:
Gdansk For The Memories.
But it's spelled "Smythe".
Revenant, Proud New Grandpa | 08.11.08 - 2:08 pm | #
And everyone knows it as "Nancy".
No, Cokie's dad died in a plane crash in Alaska.
She's from Louisiana.
getting dumber - The quality of school education has declined over the past decade despite Labour's £28bn increase in education investment, employers have said.
Following "very disappointing" national test results achieved by 11-year olds in English and maths last week, the Institute of Directors, a professional body, today warned that industry's confidence in education standards is dropping.
The IoD called into question the credibility of government statistics that show improvements in education performance.
In a survey of business leaders, the IoD found that nearly half its members thought the quality of school education has declined, and the literacy and numeracy skills of young people has fallen over the past ten years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
educat...lling.standards
If anything, it's Russia that's been doing that by issuing passports to the South Ossetians (and only the South Ossetians) who live there.
That was a cute trick.
Pretty soon we'll be doing strategic drops of US passports in Iran.
Others, like Michael Crowley, have said the same thing. I do not think they arrived at this incredibly stupid insight independently. She should be asked if she really came up with this herself or if it was first suggested to her by someone else.
Newton Minnow | 08.11.08 - 2:07 pm
Family Values Cultural Warriors saying it's improper for a guy, both of whose parents are dead, to spend time with his grandmother.
Calling these people scumbags denigrates a useful product.
That's right Senator McCain -- only the US can invade counties at will for no other reason that to "look tough".
Looks like the neocons are tasting blood again.
So... what have I missed, as I sought affordable GPS-enabled cell phones?
.
Wonderbra has launched a new billboard campaign featuring cleavage shots of thousands of women merged into a mosaic to promote a new range of D to G cup-sized bras.
The mosaic, which features shots of around 8,000 images of women in their bras, forms the overall image of a close up shot of the bust of Wonderbra model Katie Green.
Wonderbra's new campaign, developed by ad agency Iris, uses the strapline "D to G, because we're more than a handful".
The underwear brand - which a decade ago launched the famous "Hello Boys" poster ad featuring Eva Herzigova - said that the campaign has been developed to "answer the demands of the 'dress to impress myself' generation".
Wonderbra's website has an interactive version of the billboard, which is being put up at Tottenham Court Road in central London today, that allows the women involved in the shoot to zoom in on their image to have an "Eva moment".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/
...ng.digitalmedia
I don't think the "plagiarism" thing is a big deal. I mean, it shows his staff is full of dipshits, but it's nothing to make a stink about, imo.
Moe Szyslak
Well, no, it's not the worst thing a politician can do.
But foreign policy based on Wiki? Lordy, this is the guy who's supposed to be 'experienced'! Heaven help us all if his first response is to go to Wiki.
I mean, really.....
The average American, of course, likes to vacation at their family plantation in Louisiana, like Cokie Roberts.
She's from Louisiana.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
I was in error.
Still, Louisiana has parishes. I find that quite exoctic.
Looks like the neocons are tasting blood again.
Stew
Never their own....unfortunately
German retains "fressen" and "essen" as seperate words for animal and human eating.
English sort of does the same thing: Animals feed on things but humans eat unless you want to imply a comparison.
Deep Thought:
In Jonathan Martin's world, many Americans have weekend cabins.
http://tiny.cc/4iCfo
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
It's all Bill Clinton's fault!
Why don't you join Dumbya in China and squeeze some volleyball ass?
Lime Rickey
I've never felt as much respect for the members of the WNBA as when they openly laughed at Bush when he was waving to them during the US-China game. I wish I could have heard what they were saying.
I don't think the "plagiarism" thing is a big deal. I mean, it shows his staff is full of dipshits, but it's nothing to make a stink about, imo.
Moe Szyslak
I think it's awesome that we unilaterally disarm in the face of an issue that's "no big deal."
God knows republicans would be similarly circumspect.
Adulturer John McCain votes to impeach President Clinton.
Apprentice to Darth Holden,
That link to the pranked (re: Marx, Smith) glibertarian, in case you missed it last nite,
http://world.std.com/~mhuben/ostrum.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...g_n_118181.html
In a statement released to reporters, McCain not only recapitulates points he made over the weekend, but goes into full-blown professor mode, educating Americans about the history of Georgia and its importance to America's interests.
hahaha!
The average American, of course, likes to vacation at their family plantation in Louisiana, like Cokie Roberts.
Tralfaz
Cokie's mom lives in the French Quarter. Which is not exotic at all.
From Grosvenor Arch, where the travelers stopped, they should have taken the better-traveled Cottonwood Canyon Road. Instead, they took Four Mile Bench Road, which takes a meandering southeasterly path. Chief Deputy Tracy Glover said the convoy took one wrong turn after another onto a succession of lesser dirt paths that are barely passable in the best of weather. They finally ended so some 25 miles from Grosvenor Arch near Tibbet Canyon.
"They just kept driving and driving and driving," Glover told the AP.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/
n...avigation_N.htm
Dear Californians,
Please do not trust GPS devices when you are in the boonies. Please stop at the ranger station and pick up this thing we call a map. A road is not always a road.
I'm glad y'all are talking about the horrid Cokie Roberts report this a.m.
I woke up spitting mad with Cokie screeching Republican talking points in my ear.
Lady D. has asked me to reprogram the clock radio to KGSR so that I may never have to hear Cokie again. From now on I will wake up to Lyle Lovett or Carolyn Wonderland.
Wonderbra has launched a new billboard campaign featuring cleavage shots of thousands of women merged into a mosaic to promote a new range of D to G cup-sized bras.
Sadly, no boobies though. They missed their big chance 
how do you pronounce "Gdansk"?
euphronius
"Throatwarbler Mangrove."
jac | 08.11.08 - 2:05 pm | #
But it's spelled "Smythe".
Revenant, Proud New Grandpa
I understand it tastes like chicken
bill |
It's not heavy, it's just awkward.
educating Americans about the history of Georgia and its importance to America's interests.
Isn't that where pepsi's from?
heh my dad just said 'I remember when GB won their last gold medal in the Women's swimming, at the 1960 Olympics in Rome'
48 years
Cokie's mom lives in the French Quarter. Which is not exotic at all.
Rmj, Edouard Theologist | Homepage | 08.11.08 - 2:14 pm | #
You're talking crazy. The Quarter even has a funky pirate and everything!
All I'm saying, is there are lots of dipshits that go to Wiki. McCain's got 'em, but so do *I*-- first time writers bring that stuff to me all the time. Of course, I catch it, and don't let it appear in print...
The GOP approach to foreign policy is to run around screaming and slapping your chest like an alpha-male chimpanzee.
If I am reading the following correctly, I have no sympathies.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2....fsb/
index.html
A road is not always a road.
ErinPDX, Obama/Kulongoski
Sometimes it's a bridge to nowhere.
Francly, I don't give a sou about a French Quarter.
That link to the pranked (re: Marx, Smith) glibertarian, in case you missed it last nite
Clancy, thanks. I did catch it last night.
It was sweet. The asstard behaved precisely as you'd expect when caught demonstrating his ignorance and stupidity.
i dont understand why the Olympics is so focused on nations. shouldn't the best athletes compete regardless of their political affiliation? so silly.
Sometimes it's a bridge to nowhere.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan
That will still be on the latest map.
"Wiki" is a bad shorthand for wikipedia. It's like calling this blog "blogger". Wiki is the technology wikipedia uses. There are thousands of wiki-based sites.
Gdansk
g-deyensk
Lovely city.
so sue me I'm enjoying watching the Olympics
Because sometimes it's just too hard to come up with something to write about every 90 minutes.
-Atrios 13:39
do an internal dfh/moonbat poll on who obama should pick for vp, however only allow that rat bastard simels to vote once.
in the meantime, it still wouldn't kill you to post on the +/-'s of a declining dollar...
"shouldn't the best athletes compete regardless of their political affiliation? so silly."
Maybe our media can focuses on all of the athletes in general in lieu of seemingly forgetting there are other nations and competitors there.
The GOP approach to foreign policy is to run around screaming and slapping your chest like an alpha-male chimpanzee.
Ie Nixon's Madman Theory. They actually have a word for running around screaming and slapping your chest like an alpha-male chimpanzee.
i dont understand why the Olympics is so focused on nations. shouldn't the best athletes compete regardless of their political affiliation? so silly.
euphronius | 08.11.08 - 2:17 pm | #
Yeah, I think it should be Labor vs. Management vs. Owners.
K&Y--yes I've posted before--I'm not a troll.
n. Billo particularly despises Edwards and will flail him mercilessly, will take the bark off Edwards.
jack
Bill "Loofa" O"rreilly has no right to lecture other sexual proclivities, and Andrea Mackris agrees
shouldn't the best athletes compete regardless of their political affiliation?
Yes. Nekkid.
The Obama campaign has retaliated by portraying McCain, who has insisted that he's still a political maverick, as running for the Bush administration's third term.
The latest advertisement by the Obama campaign shows footage of McCain hugging President Bush.
"As Washington embraced him, John McCain hugged right back," the announcer says, showing footage of McCain with lobbyists, aides and Bush.
It was more than a "hug." McStain looked like a famished infant, searching for its mother's nipple.
Has the McCain stream media asked Bush whether he was informed of Georgia's plan to provoke the Russians into a war?
You're talking crazy. The Quarter even has a funky pirate and everything!
rorschach | Homepage | 08.11.08 - 2:16 pm | #
i dont understand why the Olympics is so focused on nations.
I think it's to try to advance the idea that nations can put aside their differences and live and compete peacefully with each other, which is pretty hard to do when certain countries are using the games as cover for their military endeavors.
Yeah, I think it should be Labor vs. Management vs. Owners.
I'd watch it if they threw in the dubs from MXC.
They actually have a word for running around screaming and slapping your chest like an alpha-male chimpanzee.
k&y, nyarlathotep | Homepage | 08.11.08 - 2:19 pm | #
Oook?
K&Y--yes I've posted before--I'm not a troll.
We never said you were, we just had not seen you here before.
You GDansk
You Gdnask
everybody look at your pants
What did Chaney, McStain and Bushy do or cook up on their respective Georgia visits?...jus wunnerin'.
i dont understand why the Olympics is so focused on nations. shouldn't the best athletes compete regardless of their political affiliation? so silly.
euphronius | 08.11.08 - 2:17 pm | #
They do, in all other athletic competitions. The Olympics is about nations and always has been.
If I am reading the following correctly, I have no sympathies.
" Beijing's initiatives to curb pollution have resulted in the closure of many dirty factories, while remaining manufacturing plants face stricter environmental regulations. New, clean technologies, water management and recycling efforts aren't cheap, and small-business owners who outsource to China see the changes are in their bottom lines. Corpstein's Phoenix firm, which manufactures toys and clothing, has seen her profit margins for her line of dolls shrink since she began manufacturing them in China in 2003. "
My. What a crying shame.
Better for Chinese folks to get cancer and birth defects than to hurt the bottom line.
If Kristol et. al. think "our NATO allies" are going to help us out with another war given how bably we fucked up Iraq, then they're smoking something mighty potent in the Weekly Standard break rooom.
They closed two blocks on campus and it is now a pedestrian mall but it is still shown as open on Yahoo maps. And nearly every day during freshman dis-orientation, confused parents try to drive through it.
in the meantime, it still wouldn't kill you to post on the +/-'s of a declining dollar...
fokowi
Heh.
i refrain from giving Atrios advice on what he should post. I figure he's one of very few bloggers who actually can make living at it so he must kinda know what he's doing.
Kind of like everyone giving Obama political advice. I suggest he's been doing quite well on his own.
I think it's to try to advance the idea that nations can put aside their differences and live and compete peacefully with each other, which is pretty hard to do when certain countries are using the games as cover for their military endeavors.
The modern Olympics are very much a product of a 19th Century view of the world.
Because sometimes it's just too hard to come up with a bad but pure white band to link to every 90 minutes.
"Wiki" is a bad shorthand for wikipedia.
puppethead
Umm, no. You can look it up on Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
New study: Actually taking your time to think about a decision is better than either making a snap judgment or "sleeping on it."
Well....there's a shocker.
They do, in all other athletic competitions. The Olympics is about nations and always has been.
Brooklyn Girl, sentient mammal | 08.11.08 - 2:22 pm | #
Not always.
I yearn for the simpler times, when it was all about the city-state.
Optical Owls
The Olympics is about nations and always has been.
The first Olympics was North Greek vs. South Greek.
If Kristol et. al. think "our NATO allies" are going to help us out with another war given how bably we fucked up Iraq, then they're smoking something mighty potent in the Weekly Standard break rooom.
"Our NATO allies" are going to tell Kristol and the other cowardly chickenhawk garbage to STFU and go back to pretending they have dicks.
It was sweet. The asstard behaved precisely as you'd expect when caught demonstrating his ignorance and stupidity.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
A thing of beauty I never tire of seeing, and likely never will.
Georgia is Bush's problem until January. What is he doing about it?
I suggest he's been doing quite well on his own.
qlª - | Homepage | 08.11.08 - 2:22 pm | #
i wouldn't take that last comment of mine too seriously. or any of them actually for that matter.
My. What a crying shame.
It is prohibitively expensive to ship stuff across the Pacific. The only thing making them do it was slave labor and environmental dereg (or really noreg). Maybe an unexpected consequence of Chinese progress will be employed Americans!
Associated Press
Published: Sunday August 10, 2008
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney says Russia's military actions in Georgia "must not go unanswered."
Heh
Wow. Tragic....
Managing director of Asia operations, Richco
Replaced 20 employees with an $85,000 machine that must be replaced several times a year.
A tough new Chinese labor law went into effect on Jan. 1, requiring employers to offer employment contracts, a social security program and overtime pay. In addition, wages in China are rising by 10% to 15% annually.
Those costs forced major staffing changes for Richco, a Chicago firm that manufactures plastic fasteners, wire management devices and circuit-board hardware.
"We were running two, 12-hour shifts every day, but the new labor law restricted how long the temp workers could be on the job," says Hornbein. "It was difficult to find enough workers to cover six, four-hour shifts. Now I have a machine to do the work, which has increased my capital expenditure."
Fucking boo-hoo.
There is a point, Normal, Kansas. From this point the distance, and thus the exoticness of any other point is determined.
Gutless Americans...they talky talky, no action. Need reasonable negotiations..as I get older it's not that hard.
Umm, no. You can look it up on Wiki
From that page, and I quote:
"The collaborative encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is one of the best-known wikis."
It is not the Wiki, it is one of many wikis. I stand by my rebuke.
The first Olympics was North Greek vs. South Greek.
Lime Rickey | 08.11.08 - 2:24 pm | #
Which, in effect, is the same thing as being about nations (i.e., geographical boundaries) instead being about individuals.
On Chewbacca's planet, they have Wookiepedia! Get it? WOOKIEpedia?
God damn, I'm funny.
Wookieepedia exists.
puppethead | Homepage | 08.11.08 - 2:35 pm | #
Bastages! Man, they registered that domain quickly after reading my post.
Then there's Winkipedia for people with eye tics, Wonkipedia for political junkies, Nookiepedia for sex addicts, Wimpipedia for, well, wimps ...
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