HULK SMASH
Frist!
Second.
Third?
Heeeere's the throw at the plate...
Home Run!
McCain helped Donald Diamond, one of his biggest fundraisers, purchase a stretch of California coastal land from the Pentagon -- a purchase that netted Diamond a $20 million profit. Diamond explained: "I think that is what Congress people are supposed to do for constituents. ... When you have a big, significant businessman like myself, why wouldn't you want to help move things along? What else would they do? They waste so much time with legislation."
C'mon, Screech was hilarious.
Morning, Atrios. You're up early.
When you have a big, significant businessman like myself, why wouldn't you want to help move things along? What else would they do? They waste so much time with legislation.
Umm, yeah.
Did someone mention snow? Had plenty this last winter. Don't want anymore.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/b8my6SNF.jpg
Maverick!
Morning, rational people.
Yard Cream!
Molly, they have already planned a sequel called "My Mommy's New Huge Funbags".
"My Mommy's Tighter Vagina" was a sales disappointment, however.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 7:44 am | #
Homeownership causes early rising. You wouldn't believe all the shit I gotta do this weekend on the house.
HULK SMASH!!
They waste so much time with legislation.
Stupid legislators, legislating all the time.
"Homeownership causes early rising."
HULK just closed on house.
Now HULK have to get up early?
HULK PISSED!!
Stupid legislators, legislating all the time.
NTodd, TKPD
Instead of doing their real jobs: welfare payments to big, significant businessmen.
Legislators legislating, presidents presiding, judges judging...what a waste of time...gimme some money!
"My Mommy's Tighter Vagina" was a sales disappointment, however.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 7:44 am | #
Molly Ivors
"Daddy's Testicles No Longer Splash When He Sits" is probably the most heartwarming book in the series.
Why buy the cow when you can NBC for free?
HULK SMASH!
BUT FIRST, HULK MAKE COFFEE
gimme some money!
And yet later it went to "11".
.
"My Mommy's Tighter Vagina" was a sales disappointment, however."
I bet Daddy wasn't complaining.
Drive-by greetings to the morning shift!
Now we'll see dolls with noses and tummies that you can "make prettier."
"Drive-by greetings to the morning shift!"
Ditto, as it were.
Just bought my little house on the prairie. Over 100 miles from Denver so fallout shouldn't be a problem.
When the shit hits the fan, I do NOT want to bear anywhere near a million other people.
I paid cash. Half of what my condo in the big city cost.
The town is so small, it doesn't even have a Tastee-Freez.
The town is so small, it doesn't even have a Tastee-Freez.
HULK
I guess that means that NTodd won't be visiting, nuclear holocaust or no.
The town is so small, it doesn't even have a Tastee-Freez.
What are you going to do with NTodd?
So long as you can grow all your own food, HULK, it might be a good move. Otherwise, you're screwed.
McCain helped Donald Diamond, one of his biggest fundraisers, purchase a stretch of California coastal land from the Pentagon -- a purchase that netted Diamond a $20 million profit. Diamond explained: "I think that is what Congress people are supposed to do for constituents. ... When you have a big, significant businessman like myself, why wouldn't you want to help move things along? What else would they do? They waste so much time with legislation."
thank god the democratic party is sticking up for the little guy and not the corporations every inch of the way.
oh wait...
We have one of the remaining Tastee Freez places in the world here in Asheville. Inspired by NTodd and the Mellencamp song, I bought a chili dog there.
Sadly, it sucked.
Coke to Diane.
"The town is so small, it doesn't even have a Tastee-Freez."
bet not one person saw this and didn't go right to an Ntodd joke.
we've been conditioned I say
I was going to make a Jack and Diane joke.
I inspire a lot of things that suck.
bet not one person saw this and didn't go right to an Ntodd joke.
we've been conditioned I say
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
At my age, going for the obvious is sometimes the only option.
And thanks for the coke, Molly. Btw, do we have chicks yet?
The house is on three lots so I can put in a huge garden.
I'm looking at heirloom seeds.
And we're going to stock up on food.... in Mormon amounts.
Back the van up to Costco and load 'er up.
And if the shit doesn't hit the fan?
HULK have nice place to retire.
With plenty of things to SMASH!!
I do have other talents, people.
Well, if the media can't prop up such a rickety fossil of addlepated warmongery, how are we going to have a good contest?
¿ How can the broadcast networks expect to make any money if it's revealed early on what a weak and dusty specimen McCain actually is?
well, great. our transit workers walked off the job at midnight after rejecting the contract and ignoring the agreed-upon 48 hours advance notice.
by the looks of it it was a good contract with 3% pay increase over the next 3 years.
but the fine print apparently includes warrenty-repairs to new buses done NOT by ttc mechanics.
oh and the cleaners apparently think the drivers got more than them.
I do have other talents, people.
NTodd, TKPD
Dildo waving?
You got water out there, HULK?
nothing however compared to that labour dispute in Detroit where the CEOs are garnering huge bonuses and the workers losing up to 50% of pay and benefits.
Police treating the legal demonstrations like a bolshevik uprising with arrests and riot squads.
Dildo waving?
I can lead a parade...
I think I'll start collecting blog descriptors of John McCain.
So far I have
--Mr. Matlock J. Depends
--rickety fossil of addlepated warmongery
Any more out there I've missed today?
"I do have other talents, people.
NTodd, TKPD
Dildo waving?"
maybe but your brand identification is a little off center.
later folks.
No chicks yet, Diane. Next week, we think.
--Mr. Matlock J. Depends
Hey! That one's mine! I'm famous!
Amigos, it's the 70th Anniversary of Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
"[...]all the usual war-stuff, the tub-thumping, the heroics, the vilification of the enemy --all these were done, as usual, by people who were not fighting and who in many cases would have run a hundred miles sooner than fight."
Now tell me that doesn't sound familiar, eh?
So the news media are running John McCain's campaign. What can you do about it? Nothing. They have chosen their god king, and they will do what they can to get his republican old white man ass in the White House, because he is their corporate pal. He's not black, he isn't a woman, and he doesn't threaten their "white male dominated system". He is "one of them".
And I don't see how anyone is going to do anything about it. The news media no longer report the news, they pick and choose which rumors they will report on. But we no longer have "NEWS".
Well, time for my breakfast. Have a good Saturday morning, folks, and don't worry about the people staying in that Caribbean paradise in Cuba built by the US. They have cruise ship-like accommodations
The McCain camp has just blasted out a statement saying that Obama's alleged "endorsement" by Hamas will "definitely be an issue in the election." A McCain spokesman says the supposed endorsement by Hamas is "a legitimate issue for the American people to think about."
talkingpointsmemo
amazing.
media + mccain = lies galore with no checks and balances.
this is 19th century style 'yellow journalism.'
I don't know how the average American can afford to use the legal system.
Add this to the list of indignities Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has suffered since getting busted in an airport restroom last June: He now has to pay his legal dream team out of his own pocket.
Per the Senate ethics committee's Feb. 13 "admonition" of him for his guilty plea to disorderly conduct charges, Craig has not paid any of his top-flight lawyers from his campaign committee since early February. The last legal payment from Craig for U.S. Senate, in the form of an $80,695 check, went out on Feb. 3 to Billy Martin's firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan.
According to reports his campaign committee filed with the Federal Election Commission, that put Craig's total legal tab at more than $407,000 since he was arrested June 11 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in an undercover sting designed to root out lewd behavior.
But Craig never sought permission from the ethics committee to use his campaign funds to pay Martin and Stan Brand, the lawyer who helped him handle the matter before the committee.
The panel's three-page letter concluded that Craig had engaged in "improper conduct which has reflected discreditably on the Senate." It warned him against any future legal expenses because the senator's arrest may not have "occurred in connection with your official duties."
"I think I'll start collecting blog descriptors of John McCain.
Any more out there I've missed today?"
Of course, you have to collect all the plays on his name.
McSame, McLame, McInsane...
the senator's arrest may not have "occurred in connection with your official duties."
Where do they want him meet his constituents????
I've been to Weed many times...
Brewer ordered not to use ‘Legal Weed’ caps
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Vaune Dillmann thought the wording on his bottle caps was just a clever play on the name of the Northern California town where he brews his beer — Weed.
Federal alcohol regulators thought differently. They have ordered Dillmann to stop selling beer bottles with caps that say "Try Legal Weed."
While reviewing the proposed label for Dillmann's latest beer, Lemurian Lager, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau said the message on the caps he has been using for his five current beers amounts to a drug reference.
In a letter explaining its decision, the agency, which regulates the brewing industry, said the wording could "mislead consumers about the characteristics of the alcoholic beverage."...
The town of 3,000, sitting beneath Mount Shasta about 230 miles north of the state capital, takes its name from Abner Weed, a timber baron who opened a lumber mill there in 1901 and eventually was elected to the state Senate.
Dillmann, 61, started the Mount Shasta Brewing Co. in 2004. He said he has always used the town's name on his beers and named the company's first official brew Abner Weed's Pale Ale.
His bottle labels follow a long tradition of exploiting the town's name. Even city officials do it.
A sign posted on the way out of town reads, "Temporarily Out of Weed," while another says "100 Percent Pure Weed." Dillmann noted those examples in an appeal letter he sent to the alcohol bureau.
Once, Dillmann said, his wife, a former teacher, was delayed on a field trip to San Francisco as tourists clamored to pose next to the school bus, which said "Weed High."
I don't know how the average American can afford to use the legal system.
Yet another mission accomplished.
Well, almost. There is a piece of Tort Reform propaganda in heavy rotation on my teevee, about how lawsuits are just destroying individuals.
Of course, you have to collect all the plays on his name.
McSame, McLame, McInsane...
McCain't
More McCain't
While reviewing the proposed label for Dillmann's latest beer, Lemurian Lager, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau said the message on the caps he has been using for his five current beers amounts to a drug reference.
Back in the late 80's, a company tried to market a cinammon schnapps in Texas called "Hot Damn." The Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commision wouldn't allow the name.
I wonder what the Weed High team mascot is?
Back in the late 80's, a company tried to market a cinammon schnapps in Texas called "Hot Damn." The Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commision wouldn't allow the name.
Oddly, a beer named Five Dildo Limit was okayed...
I wonder what the Weed High team mascot is?
HULK
DFH?
Weed's a nice little place, in the shadow of Mt. Shasta.
Mrs Moe gets a sabattical in a couple of years, and we've discussed spending six months or so in the area. I could write a book. Probably, tho, I won't be able to get the time off from work.
For the recently logged-on, I've got Weekend Rooftop Blogging: Garden Edition.
I hope it last forever. A music match made in the heavens.
Lou Reed marries Laurie Anderson
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/
Lou...e_04252008.html
Another reason to hate RAW STORY: pop-up city.
My son ran talked with a white south african working at a seed mill in northcentral Kansas.
He asked why a white south african would come to a remote Kansas town to work.
There are few jobs for white south africans in south africa, he was told.
Imagine what that would do to Obama's campaign were that "street story" played on MSNBC.
Immigrants and racists unite!
Marcellina, good post on Europeans supporting the arts & culture. Would be nice if we did more of that here. But, shit, we hardly feed the hungry, cure the sick, or educate the poor.
They take white people in the gold mines, believe me.
tribe beats the evil jankees, sixers win. good night last night...
Needless to say, when McCain travels to Selma for a photo-op, the media don't point out that he is likely breaking campaign finance law by doing so.
neither is the media showing how only WHITE PEOPLE came out to see him (ht TDS)
Thanks, ql. I try to do my best.
A South African gets a U.S. work permit to work at a seed mill? I mean, Austrian immigration laws are pretty open and I would never be able to swing that.
Damn, that was depressing. It just kept going and going. You get the feeling that if McStain dropped dead in August, they'd still manage to get his corpse elected in November.
HULK,
Don't forget Sinfonian's coinage: Huggy Bear.
Yeah white people in SA can't get a break.
if McStain dropped dead in August
I'm betting he does.
White House hopeful Barack Obama tried to get mileage out of his complaints about high gas prices Friday, but instead faced questions about his former pastor and about whether he is perceived as an elitist.
"I understand that he might not agree with me on my assessment on his comments," Obama said Friday at an Indianapolis gas station when asked about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who appeared on "Bill Moyers' Journal'' on PBS Friday night and has national speeches scheduled Sunday and Monday.
"He is obviously free to express his opinions on these issues. You know, I've expressed mine very clearly. I think what he said in several instances were objectionable, and I understand why the American people took offense. And you know, as I indicated before, I took offense."
meanwhile we raise generations of idiots who cannot appreciate art, cannot grow a fucking sprig of parsley, yet USA is #1!
if McStain dropped dead in August
I'm betting he does.
Moe Szyslak, cold
Now, now. Everyone knows you don't bring out a new product in August.
I'm betting on October. SURPRISE.
ql: the rich her support the arts rich people use. And, since they do so with tax-deductible contributions, you and I and every other taxpayer in the country match their contribution, dollar for dollar.
No social contract in this country anymore, if indeed there ever was one. Every man for himself. It's a disgrace.
Thing is, I don't think there are any actual Republicans who could fare better than him if he did vanish. His very strength is that he can be branded as a pseudo-Republican. Unless they could get Ahhhhnuld. But there are only so many rules you can ignore.
we hardly feed the hungry, cure the sick, or educate the poor.
Well Duh, there's no profit in that.
/wingnut
No social contract in this country anymore, if indeed there ever was one. Every man for himself. It's a disgrace.
ProfWombat |
This is what I wonder: was there ever one? It seems like there once was.
Ahhhnold would probably get elected president in a landslide. Heaven forfend.
As heavy equipment tore wreckage from a CTA station Friday, police began scouring surveillance video to figure out why a semitrailer truck sped through a crowd of pedestrians and slammed into the station's entryway.
The horrifying crash at the base of the Cermak-Chinatown Red Line elevated train stop, at the height of rush hour, killed two pedestrians and injured at least 21 more.
The truck driver limped out of the hospital in police custody late Friday. A Stroger Hospital spokesman identified him as Don Wells, 51. A police source confirmed the name of the driver. Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said he had not been charged.
eh-uh? not charged? 2 people are dead, i get fucking charged for driving 8 miles over the speed limit and that fucker is 'not charged'?
Marcellina, Lovely photo of the alps and cafe from your theater. Look like an amazing place to step outside and take a break.
Good morning, all
Even when the media is critical of McSame, they are nice about it: see Collins, Gail - New York Times.
Damn! I would not be so friendly to a hypocrite and fool
Art circles can be truly bizarre, where filthy rich donors rub elbows with starving artists, each needing the other, after a fashion. But of course all the cards are held by the rich.
Thanks, Gromit. As I've said before, when you live somewhere like this, the pictures just take themselves.
This is what I wonder: was there ever one? It seems like there once was.
alcyone
I grew up in poor neighborhood of NYC. Received a first class education in the public schools back in the 50s and 60s. Same cannot be said now.
Art circles can be truly bizarre, where filthy rich donors rub elbows with starving artists, each needing the other, after a fashion. But of course all the cards are held by the rich.
Moe Szyslak, cold
I found them to be very uncomfortable, as I was on the starving artist side of the equation. One of the reasons I left New York.
Art circles can be truly bizarre, where filthy rich donors rub elbows with starving artists, each needing the other, after a fashion. But of course all the cards are held by the rich.
True, that. We try to support local arts by buying tickets to everything and giving them away when we can't go. And annual contributions in the $50-100 range. But nothing is less appealing than going to the receptions for the special patrons and artists. Much more fun to chat with the musicians when you run into them at the gym or a coffee shop.
I went to public schools in a suburb that was a mix of middle class and working class. Also received a superb education, back in the late 50s-early 60s.
But that was when industries paid taxes.
Blech. Sounds like a slave market. I never really thought of it that way.
iirc cultural support started going out the window in the 80s, at the same time as the conservatives began pushing for basic 3R's education without all that extra stuff. (Any money the school had would go to sports.)
I grew up in poor neighborhood of NYC. Received a first class education in the public schools back in the 50s and 60s. Same cannot be said now.
qlª |
Yes, this was one of the things I was thinking of.
Also, I don't know if it was a better life, but I romanticize it into one, that even though your job might not've been fulfilling, you could expect to earn a wage to support your family and be rewarded for staying with a company. That obviously the overlords were most interested in profit, but they had to return a bit of it to their employees if they expected to prosper.
Mocktober Surprise
Matthews: omg john McCain is older than dirt!!!
Sullivan: Obama represents the 21st Century and McCain represents the 18th century
Kay: if Iraq is a total disaster that is good news for its chief booster
Allen: if McCain dies this summer it could help him politically
Borger: McCain / Heston 2008!!!
Art circles can be truly bizarre, where filthy rich donors rub elbows with starving artists, each needing the other, after a fashion.
always has been always will (see: renaissance)...but that doesn't mean we need kids to 'groan' when they are taken to the art museum, that art appreciation and aesthetics is hardly known outside those cliques (in the USA)
alcyone: During the New Deal, certainly, for all its imperfections, government recognized its obligation to all its citizens (racism and sexism, alas, aside, and gays? Fuggedaboudit). And that's how the people saw the government. We wound up with a dictatorship neither of the right, nor the left, in response to economic and environmental catastrophe, followed by the worst war in the history of man.
Reagan's trope that government help was generally feared rather than welcomed put an end to the notion that government was there to help. And historically, the New Deal proved rather more of a success in meeting the challenges of its time than Reagan and the Bushes.
Allen: if McCain dies this summer it could help him politically
Ptangggg!
always has been always will (see: renaissance)
Yes and no. Hasn't been that way over here for a while, although slowly, slowly we are slouching toward the more American way. Arts still supported.
I do not rely directly on patrons but my theater does, in part, and so every so often it sends us out to schmooze with the "Friends Of" organization after a performance. It's not unpleasant but I would hate to have to do it all the time.
G.O.P. Now Sees Obama as Liability for Ticket
WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama is starring in a growing number of campaign commercials, but the latest batch is being underwritten by Republicans.
In a sign that the racial, class and values issues simmering in the presidential campaign could spread into the larger political arena, Republican groups are turning recent bumps in Mr. Obama’s road — notably his comment that small-town Americans “cling” to guns and religion out of bitterness and a fiery speech by his former minister in which he condemned the United States — into attacks against Democrats down the ticket.
“The public, week by week, is becoming more familiar with his big-government, far-left vision for America,” said Ed Patru, a spokesman for Freedom’s Watch, an advocacy organization that is portraying Mr. Obama as ultraliberal in an advertisement running in Louisiana before a special election for a House seat.
as teh smashing pumpkins so eloquently opined in the early 90's: "LET ME OUT!"
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Art circles can be truly bizarre, where filthy rich donors rub elbows with starving artists, each needing the other, after a fashion. But of course all the cards are held by the rich.
Moe Szyslak, cold | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 9:01 am | #
Add the bureaucrats who run the art councils, the academics who teach at art schools and universities (who assist in creating the officially sanctioned 'scenes'), the 'senior' artists, etc... it's quite fascinating ----the opportunities for pandering are.............legion
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"daddy created the heaven and the earth. he loves the environment"-cable news on mccain
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