It sure does make me want to support your candidate when folks tell me that mine sucks!
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04.05.08 - 6:13 pm | #
The earliest use of a memorial armband occurred following the death of National League President Harry Pulliam on July 29, 1909. Pulliam, who had battled with mental illness and was despondent over the stresses of his job, shot himself on July 25, though he did not pass away until four days later. On August 2, the day of Pulliam’s funeral, all major league games were postponed (a first in the history of the game). In memory of the former league president, each National League club donned black armbands on their left sleeve for the remainder of the season.
1909 was before 1968 I think.
trifecta |
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04.05.08 - 6:14 pm | #
But what if the person, say...Atrios, is a fucktard?
NTodd, Part Of The Pile |
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04.05.08 - 6:15 pm | #
McCain insults people with dismissive cruelty and claims he's being funny. Listen too him; he's not self-deprecating at all.
WalterNeff, kingpin |
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04.05.08 - 6:15 pm | #
Actually if you already know the person insulting them is a technique of persuasion.
bbo |
04.05.08 - 6:15 pm | #
I mock your value system.
Jay C. |
04.05.08 - 6:15 pm | #
Insults? Like when "it" who shall not be mentioned calls me "Yicki" or another "it" who shall not be mentioned calls NTodd "Prickstein"?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:18 pm | #
bye for now fablous moonbats
Moonbootica |
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04.05.08 - 6:18 pm | #
Echidne,
You got a great shout-out from Twisty!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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04.05.08 - 6:19 pm | #
fagboy? What are you, five?
Repost:
Is Greg Sargent no longer doing the Horse's Mouth blog at TPM? That blog has been silent since early March.
Homosexual Activist |
04.05.08 - 6:19 pm | #
you mean like when randi rhodes called hillary a "fucking whore?"
notaboomer |
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04.05.08 - 6:19 pm | #
Take the idea that what I write proves that Ann Coulter was right about dfhs.
Reading that made me immediately go out to buy an Ann Coulter mask and to apply for a job at Townhall.
Echidne |
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04.05.08 - 6:19 pm | #
Not only is it an awesome way to persuade people; it also makes their opinions more fixed! Yup.
Echidne
Some people cannot be reached by reason.
At which point insults and mockery won't reach them, but it will entertain the onlookers.
And everybody likes the guy that made you laugh.
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04.05.08 - 6:19 pm | #
Echidne,
You got a great shout-out from Twisty!
I know. I am honored.
Echidne |
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04.05.08 - 6:19 pm | #
or another "it" who shall not be mentioned calls NTodd "Prickstein"?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
NTodd is a prickstein. Come on, he's got us there.
trifecta |
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04.05.08 - 6:20 pm | #
I would have been a shitty turn of the century (1900's) man. Those cardboard collars, and those crappy bathing suits. No wonder they all looked pissed off in the photographs.
MP |
04.05.08 - 6:20 pm | #
Hey, Jr, how do you like Ottawa Street with all the flags everywhere?
annie |
04.05.08 - 6:20 pm | #
Insulting people is an awesome way to persuade them."
that last thread was getting really heavy. so nice to have light clean sheets.
therealhellkitty O Delegate |
04.05.08 - 6:21 pm | #
All candidates suck.
No, just yours.
ThinlyVeiled |
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04.05.08 - 6:21 pm | #
No wonder they all looked pissed off in the photographs.
I thought that they were pissed because they had to pose for like twenty minutes.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.05.08 - 6:21 pm | #
Bob And Doug (22x26') will air in January 2009 on Canada's Global TV, following the lives and adventures of two zany brothers living in the Canadian town of Maple Lake.
The cartoon's stars, Bob and Doug McKenzie, made their debut in 1980 on sketch comedy show SCTV, which ran on Canada's CBC and NBC in the US. The duo have since appeared on several television commercials in Canada and the US, and made their action figure debut in 2000.
Moranis and Thomas exec produce the series as well as providing the starring voices of the show, with Thomas heading the writing team.
"The Simpsons, South Park and Family Guy are famous and successful because of the clever writing. We have a team of 12 writers working on Bob And Doug and I think this writing is as good as anything on TV," said Thomas.
Hecate - ur dill's on its way.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
04.05.08 - 6:21 pm | #
I would have been a shitty turn of the century (1900's) man. Those cardboard collars, and those crappy bathing suits. No wonder they all looked pissed off in the photographs.
Insulting people is an awesome way to persuade them
Worked wonders for Chimpy. He thinks it's fabulous to have to manage two jobs in order to pay the bills.
MP |
04.05.08 - 6:22 pm | #
ur dill's on its way.
U R teh best! Would you like some datura seeds or black hollyhock seeds in return?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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04.05.08 - 6:22 pm | #
My shoe is ringing.
When does the new Get Smart movie come out? I must see it.
Gromit |
04.05.08 - 6:22 pm | #
Hey, Trademark Dave, was it you I remember talking about some apprenticeship program in the SF area that was having a hard time finding people?
ThinlyVeiled |
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04.05.08 - 6:23 pm | #
William Sloane Coffin:
Children are innocent and their innocence is beautiful, but adults should not be innocents. They should know that in the stream of human life it is not innocence but holiness that is our only option.
Nobody can doubt that the world would be a safer and saner place if somehow we Americans got over our self-righteousness in our foreign relations.
One more final thing, it is our pride-swollen faces that have closed up our eyes here at home to an almost unimaginable neglect of the poor, the bloat of the military, the size of the deficit, the sorrow of the aged and infirm among us. There are lots of implications to this and I find this tough text, "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword," is a wonderfully honest statement about the need for the sword of truth, Christ's sword of truth, that heals the wounds it inflicts.
When does the new Get Smart movie come out? I must see it.
Anne Hathaway just isn't 99. But IMDB says 20 June.
MikeJ |
04.05.08 - 6:24 pm | #
My candidate sucks but I' m feeling ok with it.
HoneyPalmKelly |
04.05.08 - 6:24 pm | #
Pssst, JR -- Your omepage-hay still says you're Odd-NTay.
SteveNS |
04.05.08 - 6:24 pm | #
John McSame was just on mah teevee saying he knows more about economics than anyone. Um, okay, Mr I Don't Know Anything About Economics.
Florida, Drinking Bleach |
04.05.08 - 6:24 pm | #
I used to love Get Smart when I was 11 or 12. I watched it once as an adult & it didn't seem funny anymore.
Sob. I am old.
Willendorf Hussein Venus |
04.05.08 - 6:24 pm | #
black hollyhock seeds in return?
Hecate
Black hollyhocks?
How do I get me some of them?
JR, kerosene and a match |
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04.05.08 - 6:24 pm | #
You didn't argue that very well.
How about, "Insulting people is an awesome way to persuade them you stupid doodie-heads, why is that so hard for you to understand?"
Rick Taylor |
04.05.08 - 6:24 pm | #
Pssst, JR -- Your omepage-hay still says you're Odd-NTay.
SteveNS
ohay itshay
JR, kerosene and a match |
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04.05.08 - 6:25 pm | #
I would pay a lot for a Cone of Silence.
Gromit |
04.05.08 - 6:25 pm | #
"If you assholes were smarter you would agree with me about everything!"
Still waiting for (former) college roommate's wife to get ready -- I would not "do" marriage well ...
Prior Aelred |
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04.05.08 - 6:25 pm | #
You shit-eating motherfuckers ought to all send me money.
SteveNS | 04.05.08 - 6:16 pm | #
aangus is still my hero; you are a false idol.
Shared Humanity |
04.05.08 - 6:25 pm | #
Anne Hathaway just isn't 99. But IMDB says 20 June.
MikeJ
Tea Leoni?
res ipsa loquitur |
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04.05.08 - 6:25 pm | #
Hitchens on Russert says you can't use the pulpit to say god damn....
wake |
04.05.08 - 6:25 pm | #
How about, "Insulting people is an awesome way to persuade them you stupid doodie-heads, why is that so hard for you to understand?"
McCain's about an, oh, four or five on the smart scale. I don't think things needs to be explained to him seven times, like Chimpy, but probably three or four times.
MP |
04.05.08 - 6:26 pm | #
aangus is still my hero; you are a false idol.
Shared Humanity
Don't make me break out the < smite > tags.
SteveNS |
04.05.08 - 6:26 pm | #
Colombia fired Mark Penn. They didn't like him saying that working for them was an "error in judgment." Penn is a clown.
res ipsa loquitur |
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04.05.08 - 6:27 pm | #
McCain was 7 places from rock bottom in his class at the Naval Academy. None too smart. And, after 7 years of Chimpy, we need smart.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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04.05.08 - 6:28 pm | #
I have a deep thought:
Darling, if you want me to be, closer to you, get closer to me.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.05.08 - 6:28 pm | #
Talk me out of cheating on the no-smoking thang, okay?
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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04.05.08 - 6:28 pm | #
res ipsa --
Penn is not my favorite person in the world -- just sayin'
Prior Aelred |
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04.05.08 - 6:28 pm | #
JP - I promise you, if you wait five minutes the urge will pass. Deep breaths. It's worth it.
qlª |
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04.05.08 - 6:28 pm | #
Talk me out of cheating on the no-smoking thang, okay?
Winners never cheat and cheaters never win!
ThinlyVeiled |
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04.05.08 - 6:29 pm | #
McCain practices the politics of honor: He thinks that whatever his instincts tell him is honorable must be so and that those who think otherwise are dishonorable. This makes him difficult to deal with but does no other harm, as long as it is kept separate from governing.
George Fucking Will
Homosexual Activist |
04.05.08 - 6:29 pm | #
...was it you I remember talking about some apprenticeship program in the SF area that was having a hard time finding people?
Tobacco will kill you -- your choice
Prior Aelred |
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04.05.08 - 6:29 pm | #
The title of this post could have been "The Glenn Quagmire Theory On Scoring Naked Sluts."
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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04.05.08 - 6:29 pm | #
Penn is a dickhead and should have been fired months ago. And I'm a Hillary supporter.
qlª |
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04.05.08 - 6:29 pm | #
McCain was 7 places from rock bottom in his class at the Naval Academy. None too smart.
I'm not arguing that McCain is smart. He may very well be dumb. But finishing at the Naval Academy, even near the bottom, means he's not *too* stupid. I'd really guess lazy.
MikeJ |
04.05.08 - 6:30 pm | #
hecate demetersdatter
All one word, or seperated?
JR, kerosene and a match |
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04.05.08 - 6:30 pm | #
The Plumbers and Steamfitters Union would be the place to start.
Thx, I'll do the legwork. Son is thinking of moving out there with his sister.
ThinlyVeiled |
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04.05.08 - 6:30 pm | #
Okay, dinner's ready. thanks for a lovely afternoon bats.
qlª |
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04.05.08 - 6:30 pm | #
You shit-eating motherfuckers ought to all send me money.
I will send you fives of pennies.
Homosexual Activist |
04.05.08 - 6:30 pm | #
Let's face it, McCain was the Navy's Gilligan, honorable or otherwise. Dude was constantly getting mixed up in some sort of mishap.
MP |
04.05.08 - 6:30 pm | #
qlª: JP - I promise you, if you wait five minutes the urge will pass. Deep breaths. It's worth it.
You're right -- and besides, I can have one in 0:35.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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04.05.08 - 6:30 pm | #
Penn is a clown.
res ipsa loquitur
ANd yet -- the clown is still working for Hillary.
Even if Columbia was smart enough to fire his ass.
flory |
04.05.08 - 6:30 pm | #
Insulting people is an easy way to control people, manipulate them, or weaken them. Control is a good substitute for persuasion.
oak |
04.05.08 - 6:31 pm | #
But finishing at the Naval Academy, even near the bottom, means he's not *too* stupid.
Unless someone pulled a few strings to get him through. But that couldn't happen.
SteveNS |
04.05.08 - 6:31 pm | #
My father's favorite episode of "Get Smart" was the one where everyone was after a certain statuette that looked like a bird.
In looking for information about Greg Sargent of Horse's Mouth (at TPM), I found a post about him, Krugman, and Clive Crook all pointing out that whatever was being called "racially insensitive" or "racist" about things said by Hillary and Bill were simply not either.
I hadn't read this piece by Crook when it came out. Still relevant.
All three blame the MCM.
Interesting to look at the mid-February comments at The Atlantic.
jawbone |
04.05.08 - 6:31 pm | #
QL,
Doing any work today? Or sitting on your ass like you and I have been doing our entire lives?
res ipsa loquitur |
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04.05.08 - 6:31 pm | #
Tobacco will kill you -- your choice
And if tobacco doesn't, something else will. That's really not much of an argument.
The whole not being able to breathe while you're still alive worked better on me. 12 days short of one year.
MikeJ |
04.05.08 - 6:31 pm | #
Your Admiral grandpa went to Annapolis, your Admiral pa went to Annapolis and you go to Annapolis and graduate at the bottom of your class. The definition of moron.
WalterNeff, kingpin |
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04.05.08 - 6:32 pm | #
Am I the only one who thinks the McCain ad that Digby posted the other day is the strangest, stupidest thing in the whole world? Jebuz, war as a defining experience as shot through a blurry lens with odd reflections that keep shifting. Makes me want to vote for McCain almost as much as if someone insults my candidate!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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04.05.08 - 6:32 pm | #
Okay...a headline I thought I'd never have to see:
Zamfir, master of pan flute, serenades White House press
What the hell?
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.05.08 - 6:32 pm | #
Control is a good substitute for persuasion.
One of Janet Jackson's greatest.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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04.05.08 - 6:32 pm | #
U R teh best! Would you like some datura seeds or black hollyhock seeds in return?
No, thank you tho. Why not guerilla seed ur neighborhood with them?
I'm killing this damned Kentia palm I just got. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The ends of the fronds got yellow and then brown. This thing was healthy when I got it here six days ago.
Any ideas?
res ipsa loquitur |
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04.05.08 - 6:32 pm | #
Let's face it, McCain was the Navy's Gilligan, honorable or otherwise. Dude was constantly getting mixed up in some sort of mishap.
That's unjust. Gilligan was pure-hearted, just not intelligent.
Homosexual Activist |
04.05.08 - 6:32 pm | #
"Darling, if you want me to be, closer to you, get closer to me."
OK JP, I quit smoking (Dunhills) after 7 years of the things. Got a bad case of bronchitis at Easter and just decided that I had to quit. It is nice not to wheeze every morning. I guess guilt from taking a week off from work and not having my vacation time docked has also been a factor.
I just couldn't go back to work and smoke and feel my ethics were in the right place. Our CFO was so pleased to hear it (he used to smoke 5 packs a day) that he took all of the corporate office out to lunch to celebrate.
therealhellkitty O Delegate |
04.05.08 - 6:34 pm | #
All in one word. I'll put them in the mail Monday!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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04.05.08 - 6:34 pm | #
I'm killing this damned Kentia palm I just got. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The ends of the fronds got yellow and then brown. This thing was healthy when I got it here six days ago.
Any ideas?
res ipsa loquitur
How much light is it getting?
Are you over-watering it?
jac |
04.05.08 - 6:34 pm | #
But finishing at the Naval Academy, even near the bottom, means he's not *too* stupid. I'd really guess lazy.
Don't forget there was a war on, so I'm sure they wanted everyone they could get. And oh yeah, he was a legacy student so he probably got a free pass. Just like Dubya got from Harvard.
Everything from McCain's adult life show's he's as thick as a brick and dumb as an ox.
puppethead |
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04.05.08 - 6:35 pm | #
Why not guerilla seed ur neighborhood with them?
That is a great idea!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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04.05.08 - 6:35 pm | #
How much light is it getting?
I have a northern exposure. It is not getting direct sunlight, but it's getting indirect light for about 5 hours/day.
Are you over-watering it?
When I got it on Sunday it was wet, so I let it alone. On Wednesday I gave it 2 cups of water. Today I felt it and it was dry to the bottom. I gave it another cup of water.
res ipsa loquitur |
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04.05.08 - 6:35 pm | #
he'd be worse than Bush, unbelieveably.
But not as bad as Giuliani. So, once again he escapes the ignominy of being the worst in his class.
SteveNS |
04.05.08 - 6:36 pm | #
You put da lime in the curry coconut.
Ô¿Ô |
04.05.08 - 6:36 pm | #
I planted cedar trees last year and they are all dead. Well, one has a little bit of green on it, but mostly they are dried up and brown.
What did I do wrong?
annie |
04.05.08 - 6:36 pm | #
Chris Hitchens, 'Reverend Wright went on a plane with Farrakhan to vist Khaddafi.'
pin | 04.05.08 - 6:33 pm | #
"Insulting people is an awesome way to persuade them."
Atrios, you have GREAT TASTE in music!!
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.05.08 - 6:36 pm | #
My dad graduated from Annapolis, won WWII, then yelled at me for a twenty years before retiring.
WalterNeff, kingpin |
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04.05.08 - 6:36 pm | #
All in one word. I'll put them in the mail Monday!
Hecate
YGM
JR, kerosene and a match |
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04.05.08 - 6:37 pm | #
Don't forget there was a war on, so I'm sure they wanted everyone they could get.
A Cold War, maybe. Senator McCain's so old, he went to Annapolis in the 50's.
MP |
04.05.08 - 6:37 pm | #
res, sounds like you may be over-watering.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:37 pm | #
Any ideas?
res ipsa loquitur |
too much water.
1Watt, Hermit |
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04.05.08 - 6:37 pm | #
And oh yeah, he was a legacy student so he probably got a free pass.
I have no doubt that helped him get in, but I'd bet he's smart enough to squeak by seventh from the bottom. I don't think he's a super genius, but I don't think he's just out and out stupid either.
And believe it or not, there's worse things in the world than being stupid.
MikeJ |
04.05.08 - 6:37 pm | #
Hillybot are also some of the most hateful people. I had one curse me to filth this morning right here on this blog.
Ô¿Ô |
04.05.08 - 6:37 pm | #
Everything from McCain's adult life show's he's as thick as a brick and dumb as an ox.
Well, he was smart enough to ditch that fat, deformed cripple and marry himself a bleach-blonde heiress...
ThinlyVeiled |
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04.05.08 - 6:37 pm | #
I got called a socialist today. Ha! I just had to brag.
Jubilation T. Cornpone |
04.05.08 - 6:37 pm | #
That is a great idea!
Hecate
I did that with Calendula.
JR, kerosene and a match |
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04.05.08 - 6:38 pm | #
I have a northern exposure. It is not getting direct sunlight, but it's getting indirect light for about 5 hours/day.
That might be part of it - I would think a palm wants a lot of direct sun.
A lot of plants will drop leaves if light levels change until they're back in equilibrium.
jac |
04.05.08 - 6:38 pm | #
too much water.
1Watt, Hermit
How much then -- and how often? I don't want this thing to die!
res ipsa loquitur |
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04.05.08 - 6:38 pm | #
When Mark Green stoops to promoting John McCain on his radio show, with the many good reasons why democrats may be persuaded to support him, it truly puts his suspension of Randi Rhoads in perspective...
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.05.08 - 6:38 pm | #
Coke to Jac.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:38 pm | #
Deep Thought
Insulting people is an awesome way to persuade them.
Franklin said the same thing to Adams in the HBO series, but he was talking about publicly. He told Adams they might thank you for it in private.
shallow mind |
04.05.08 - 6:38 pm | #
How do you kill cedars?
JR, kerosene and a match |
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04.05.08 - 6:38 pm | #
Rick Sanchez is on CNN. TAZE HIM!!
WalterNeff, kingpin |
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04.05.08 - 6:38 pm | #
I planted cedar trees last year and they are all dead. Well, one has a little bit of green on it, but mostly they are dried up and brown.
What did I do wrong?
Do they get salt spray from the road? That seems to kill them here pretty fast. The only other thing I can think of is that young trees freshly planted really need extra watering for the first few years because their root systems were trimmed into that small ball.
Echidne |
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04.05.08 - 6:38 pm | #
Anybody have a website on who ranked where at military academies?
A Cold War, maybe. Senator McCain's so old, he went to Annapolis in the 50's.
MP
Oops, he graduated in 1958. So I'll go with the family connections.
puppethead |
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04.05.08 - 6:39 pm | #
A lot of plants will drop leaves if light levels change until they're back in equilibrium.
Do you think it could be in shock from being moved?
How long to reach equilibrium?
res ipsa loquitur |
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04.05.08 - 6:39 pm | #
McCain's so old, he went to Annapolis in the 50's.
MP
He's so old he graduated from Annapolis Royal.
SteveNS |
04.05.08 - 6:39 pm | #
How do you kill cedars?
Shotgun to the face?
Homosexual Activist |
04.05.08 - 6:39 pm | #
Even Arianna Huffington is telling Mark Green to disregard the old pseudo - "maverick" version of McCain, and to accept his new McBush persona..
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.05.08 - 6:40 pm | #
Plants can sense things about people.
Ô¿Ô |
04.05.08 - 6:40 pm | #
Depending on how big it is and how big the planter is...if it's relatively small to medium, I wouldn't give it more than a cup a week of water. Larger pot, 2 - 3 cups.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:40 pm | #
Talk me out of cheating on the no-smoking thang, okay?
After celebrating with me on my 50th birthday (12/23/2005) two years ago, my 52 year old brother decided to continue the fun by having a massive coronary later that evening, followed by an emergency quadruple bypass on 12/26/2005.
Merry fuckin Christmas. A smoker for more than 30 years, he has not smoked since.
Shared Humanity |
04.05.08 - 6:40 pm | #
How do you kill cedars?
I hear a wooden stake through the heart will kill just about anything.
Jubilation T. Cornpone, Social |
04.05.08 - 6:40 pm | #
Anybody have a website on who ranked where at military academies?
Ollie North? Carter?
Carter finished 59th out of his Academy class of 820. [wikipedia]
MikeJ |
04.05.08 - 6:41 pm | #
How do you kill cedars?
What are you, in Air America Management or something?
I've got a rather large palm that's pretty sensitive to water levels. If I don't water it right on time each week, like clockwork, it will drop some fronds.
I just watered and trimmed my plants - all of them, save one, are left over from my dad's funeral. I bet I have 18 different plants in the front window.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:43 pm | #
Echidne,
I watered them like the lady at the nursery told me, quite a bit, used the sprinkler to do it. They are in the back, away from the road.
Could the dog have killed them by peeing on them? I also have one of those big black walnuts about 30 feet from it.
annie |
04.05.08 - 6:43 pm | #
Even Arianna Huffington is telling Mark Green to disregard the old pseudo - "maverick" version of McCain, and to accept his new McBush persona..
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior
If Green thinks otherwise, he's either pulling a Rove or is thicker than pigshit.
JT |
04.05.08 - 6:44 pm | #
It's a pretty big pot, Vicki: about 18" in diameter. The plant is 5' tall.
res ipsa loquitur
Then it sounds like you may need more water, not less.
jac |
04.05.08 - 6:44 pm | #
How do you kill cedars?
Forget to ask why this night is different from all other nights.
Gomez |
04.05.08 - 6:44 pm | #
McCain's wikipedia entry says he survived the Forrestal fire, but doesn't mention how McCain was part of starting it...
puppethead |
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04.05.08 - 6:44 pm | #
How do you kill cedars?
Girdle them with copper wire. Does the trick every time!
It's a pretty big pot, Vicki: about 18" in diameter. The plant is 5' tall.
Oh, yeah. I'd say about 3 cups of water a week. Maybe a little more - test it for dryness. Trim the dead stuff off, too...in most cases, plants love that.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:45 pm | #
How much then -- and how often? I don't want this thing to die!
res ipsa loquitur
depends on type of soil, drainage etc.
dig down 3-4 inches, is soil is moist it will clump when squeezed. Just have to watch the leaves, they will tell you when they're thirsty. Yellow=too wet, green & dry too dry.
1Watt, Hermit |
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04.05.08 - 6:45 pm | #
McCain wasn't culpable in the Forrestal disaster. I'm not going to pin that shit on him.
MP |
04.05.08 - 6:45 pm | #
I don't know what my dad's ranking was - he graduated with Elmo Zumwalt which is sorta cool.
WalterNeff, kingpin |
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04.05.08 - 6:45 pm | #
If Green thinks otherwise
Mark Green has long been a renowned jerk. He and Air America deserve each other. Maybe Maddow and Seder will move to a real network.
Homosexual Activist |
04.05.08 - 6:46 pm | #
Getting hit by a missile is part of starting a fire?
MikeJ
Yes. I didn't say he caused it.
puppethead |
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04.05.08 - 6:46 pm | #
Some plants have light sensors and others have temperature sensors.
olive |
04.05.08 - 6:46 pm | #
William Sloane Coffin graduated from the Phillips Academy, which geve Coffin a distinguished award, recognising a life's work for peace. From the citation:
A 1942 graduate of Phillips Academy, Coffin has led a varied and accomplished career often taking controversial stands on civil rights and peace issues. Coffin served as a World War II infantry officer and liaison to the French and Russian armies and later served as a CIA operative, training anti-Soviet Russians for operation within the Soviet Union. He graduated from Yale University in 1949 and later entered Yale Divinity School and received a bachelor of divinity degree in 1956. He was chaplain of Yale University (1957-1975), senior minister of the Riverside Church in New York City (1977-1987), and president of the nuclear disarmament advocacy group SANE FREEZE (1987-1990).
Coffin gained national prominence in the early 1960s as a Freedom Rider, one of a group of activists, black and white, who rode interstate buses in the South to protest segregation laws. He was arrested, but the conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. During the Vietnam War, he gained national attention after his arrest (along with Dr. Benjamin Spock, graduate of the Phillips Academy Class of 1921), on charges of conspiracy to aid military draft resisters. The charges were dropped on appeal.
Coffin continues to lecture widely on the imperative of ending the global arms race and routinely calls on citizens to be what he calls “true patriots . . . those who love their country enough to address its flaws.”
George Bush is also a graduate of Phillips. One of these men is more distinguished than the other.
ProfWombat |
04.05.08 - 6:46 pm | #
Echidne,
I watered them like the lady at the nursery told me, quite a bit, used the sprinkler to do it. They are in the back, away from the road.
Could the dog have killed them by peeing on them? I also have one of those big black walnuts about 30 feet from it.
I don't think the dog could have killed them all. There would be brown patches at the level where he could pee on them. The black walnut is a possibility, at least based on what I have read. You could ask the nursery people in your area. They know more about the local conditions.
Echidne |
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04.05.08 - 6:46 pm | #
Could the dog have killed them by peeing on them? I also have one of those big black walnuts about 30 feet from it.
The smell of desperate people fairly begging to be attacked is pungent tonight.
SteveNS |
04.05.08 - 6:46 pm | #
When Mark Green stoops to promoting John McCain on his radio show, with the many good reasons why democrats may be persuaded to support him, it truly puts his suspension of Randi Rhoads in perspective...
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior | 04.05.08 - 6:38 pm | #
Don't forget Magic Mark is the guy who suggested Rudy could go on being mayor after the election, just to reassure the poor citizens of nyc, and he also made some stupid racist remark during the campaign.
Another legacy of Nader, if I recall right.
rootless-e |
04.05.08 - 6:47 pm | #
My plants love me. Everytime I walk by, they lean in my direction.
Ô¿Ô |
04.05.08 - 6:47 pm | #
green & dry too dry.
And then there's brown and black....
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:47 pm | #
I'm just saying McCain's wikipedia page should say his plan was the one that exploded in flames after getting hit by the misfired missile. McCain wasn't just some faceless survivor.
puppethead |
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04.05.08 - 6:47 pm | #
Yes. I didn't say he caused it.
I started to respond to this and remembered the post this is connected to.
Being the victim of a fire is totally unrelated to being involved in starting it.
MikeJ |
04.05.08 - 6:47 pm | #
NBC Evening News starting with three airlines going under (ATA, Aloha (United wouldn't take the line for $1, according to friend in HA), and Skybus, north of NYC. Sky high fuel prices. Mentioned truckers being ruined by high diesel prices.
Over at ABC, covering healthcare story Hillary has been using in her speeches, a story told her by an Ohio county sheriff (or was it deputy sheriff?). Anyway, the hospital, unnamed in the anecdote now says the facts of the story are incorrect (Hillary was told woman had not insurance, couldn't come up with $100 bucks to get into the hospital, she and the baby died (stillborn)--hospital says the woman had insurance, was followed by a hospital affiliated OB group, was admitted, but both mother and baby did die.
Intro'd as story about Hillary not being honest with voters! Shades of Al Gore and the story about a girl not having a seat in her too large class, a story reported incorrectly apparently in the local paper, but the father gave Gore a note about the situation along with a newspaper clipping and photo. The MCM decided this was additional proof Gore was a "serial exaggerator" and "liar."
Then, ABC went on discussing how voters can trust anecdotes "told to politicians."
Well, yeah, how can anyone trust anyone else--without full vetting?
Hhhhmmmm....
Now, NBC up with new revelations about trans-Atlantic terror plot (the carry on liquids plot in 2006).
He and Air America deserve each other. Maybe Maddow and Seder will move to a real network.
Homosexual Activist
By systematically marginalizing and firing all the true on - air talent, he's destroying every hope I had for Air America Radio.. It's fucking sad.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.05.08 - 6:48 pm | #
Girdle them with copper wire. Does the trick every time!
GWPDA
I've "rabbitted" skyrocket junipers (nasty things)... no evidence.
JR, kerosene and a match |
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04.05.08 - 6:48 pm | #
Talk me out of cheating on the no-smoking thang, okay?
My mom just turned 75 on April 1st. (She is nobody's fool; it's where we got our smarts.)
You would not know this since she was a two pack a day L&M smoker for 45 years and now suffers daily from emphesema. She is hospitalized at least 4 times a year and every cold or flu may be her last.
How am I doing?
Shared Humanity |
04.05.08 - 6:48 pm | #
The Hillary hospital story is apparently not true.
Gomez |
04.05.08 - 6:49 pm | #
res ~
Kentia plants do pretty well in indirect light. You want to make sure you don't overwater them - they don't like that.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:49 pm | #
Another legacy of Nader, if I recall right.
rootless-e
Will anything tall enough to form a visual barrier grow near a stupid Black Walnut?
I also have this ivy stuff near it, it grows great for half the season, then turns brown and shrivels up.
annie |
04.05.08 - 6:50 pm | #
The Hillybots have really made me cynical and dissillusioned with it all.
Ô¿Ô | 04.05.08 - 6:45 pm | #
You had a head start with your mental illness anyway. You're a sick fuck, and you label people without knowing anything about them. And you're always wrong.
it must really suck to be you.
ronjazz |
04.05.08 - 6:50 pm | #
The thought of watching the new HBO movie about the Florida recount makes me want to put my head through drywall.
Jay C. |
04.05.08 - 6:50 pm | #
Yup. Nader's Raiders..
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior
Just as dirty as their silver & black namesakes in Oakland.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
04.05.08 - 6:50 pm | #
Russert says Hillary paid a huge price for her Bosnia lies whereas Obama has paid a very small price for Reverend Wright.
Sullivan says that's because people remember the Clinton equivocations of the 90's and because Obama took immediate control of the damage with his historic race speech.
pin |
04.05.08 - 6:50 pm | #
I was going to go out for smokes just now then I remembered that I've never smoked a cigarette in my life so I didn't need to go which is good because I don't think I have enough gas.
WalterNeff, kingpin |
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04.05.08 - 6:50 pm | #
By systematically marginalizing and firing all the true on - air talent, he's destroying every hope I had for Air America Radio.. It's fucking sad.
Many of the firings and poor management decisions at AAR preceded Green's regime. He has carried on that craptacular legacy, though. I gave up on AAR long before Green got there. Buncha idiots managing that joint from the git-go.
Homosexual Activist |
04.05.08 - 6:50 pm | #
Elmo Zumwalt which is sorta cool.
WalterNeff, kingpin
yes, Zumwalt let us navy types grow beards in '70.
1Watt, Hermit |
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04.05.08 - 6:50 pm | #
Re: smoking
Dad had a stroke. Almost, but not quite, died; my mother cared for him at home, wiping his ass and spoon feeding him, for 6 years before he died. She couldn't walk for more than 100 yards after a while because of leg artery disease, and died of a ruptured aneurysm of the abdominal aorta.
ProfWombat |
04.05.08 - 6:50 pm | #
The thought of watching the new HBO movie about the Florida recount makes me want to put my head through drywall.
Would that the truth come out...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:51 pm | #
The Hillybots have really made me cynical and dissillusioned with it all.
Ô¿Ô
They're actually less offensive than the Obamabots.
Gomez |
04.05.08 - 6:51 pm | #
The thought of watching the new HBO movie about the Florida recount makes me want to put my head through drywall.
Jay C.
I can think of five other heads I'd rather see introduced to drywall.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
04.05.08 - 6:51 pm | #
Will anything tall enough to form a visual barrier grow near a stupid Black Walnut?
A fence if your area allows them over six feet tall. Sometimes you can add a lattice to the top of a lower fence and that gives some privacy.
Echidne |
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04.05.08 - 6:51 pm | #
I can think of five other heads I'd rather see introduced to drywall.
It's really sad what the Hillybots have deteroiated into.
Ô¿Ô |
04.05.08 - 6:52 pm | #
It's really sad what the Hillybots have deteroiated into.
Ô¿Ô | 04.05.08 - 6:52 pm | #
yeah, they're almost as fucked up as you are.
ronjazz |
04.05.08 - 6:52 pm | #
It's really sad what the Hillybots have deteroiated into.
Ô¿Ô
I had no idea a gay man could be a misogynist.
Gomez |
04.05.08 - 6:53 pm | #
Green: "Who does the media love more, John McCain or Barack Obama?"
Spoken like a true Hillary partisan.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.05.08 - 6:53 pm | #
Just as dirty as their silver & black namesakes in Oakland.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | 04.05.08 - 6:50 pm | #
I remember when Ken Stabler fired the long bomb into the corvair.
rootless-e |
04.05.08 - 6:53 pm | #
I can think of five other heads I'd rather see introduced to drywall.
Bush, Cheney, Jim Baker and two troll personalities to be named later?
Jay C. |
04.05.08 - 6:53 pm | #
The thought of watching the new HBO movie about the Florida recount makes me want to put my head through drywall.
Is that on tonight?
Sosa just gave up a grand-slam. Dang.
Homosexual Activist |
04.05.08 - 6:53 pm | #
Would that the truth come out...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
It's sickening that one of the people who stole the 2000 election for Bush now is the Chief Supreme Justice.
puppethead |
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04.05.08 - 6:53 pm | #
They've hooked up very sensitive sensors to plants and they actually will scream if certain people come near them.
Ô¿Ô
A fence if your area allows them over six feet tall. Sometimes you can add a lattice to the top of a lower fence and that gives some privacy.
In Arlington, as my landscaper recently explained to me, you can have a six foot fence w/ a one foot lattice on top of that. I am sooooooo not going to be looking at my backyard neighbors' yucky yard much longer.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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04.05.08 - 6:53 pm | #
It sure does make me want to support your candidate when folks tell me that mine sucks!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
I had a run-in with a guy I work with about musical artists during a conversation one day - my taste was apparently far too plebian, according to his smirking commentary.
While he likely wanted my reaction to be "Wow, you're so cool, you're such a musical expert, I can only hope to be so sophisticated!" it was instead, "Wow, you're really a stuck-up dick."
Stinky |
04.05.08 - 6:53 pm | #
Shared Humanity: Merry fuckin Christmas. A smoker for more than 30 years, he has not smoked since.
This wins -- thanks.
It's too close to my brother's story -- who, at 53, went through much of what your brother did. He was on his honeymoon, with wife #5!
He's 12 years older than me, though. Maybe I have time to reset or reverse some thangs.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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04.05.08 - 6:53 pm | #
It's really sad what the Hillybots have deteroiated into.
Ô¿Ô | 04.05.08 - 6:52 pm | #
Getting a bit tedious again....why don't you go out and get some smokes?
Shared Humanity |
04.05.08 - 6:54 pm | #
They're actually less offensive than the Obamabots.
Gomez | 04.05.08 - 6:51 pm | #
That's 'cause we're all hopped up on important ham, anxious in case the imam finds out, and exhausted from the chanting we do at the commune.
rootless-e |
04.05.08 - 6:55 pm | #
Question for today: How long will it be before Hitchens turns into a bottle of scotch?
JT |
He's going to be buried in a paper bag.
Jay C. |
04.05.08 - 6:55 pm | #
Gonna check the soil 3-4" down now ... BRB.
res ipsa loquitur |
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04.05.08 - 6:55 pm | #
Jeffraham,
Keep this in mind, too: Food tastes better when you don't smoke. Everything tastes and smells better, in fact.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:55 pm | #
It's sickening that one of the people who stole the 2000 election for Bush now is the Chief Supreme Justice.
puppethead
But emblematic of the Bush crime era.
JT |
04.05.08 - 6:55 pm | #
Hitchens says Hillary displays terrible self-pity and self-righteousness.
Years ago, Karl Jung explained a concept called "projection."
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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04.05.08 - 6:56 pm | #
It's quite depressing that Obama can't bring himself to talk to the gay press.
CJD>T | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 6:54 pm | #
It's depressing that you probably aren't even paid to circulate these lies.
rootless-e |
04.05.08 - 6:56 pm | #
Lattice...
makes me hungry for a nice salad
virgotex |
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04.05.08 - 6:56 pm | #
Hitchens and Sullivan say you never would have seen Golda Meir or Margeret Thatcher play the 'self-pity' card like Hillary.
pin |
04.05.08 - 6:56 pm | #
Think of five unelected folks that had the final vote in 2000.
Roadmaster,
Hah!
You may now make the "whoosh" over-my-head gesture on that one. I was up late last night...
Jay C. |
04.05.08 - 6:57 pm | #
Sullivan says that's because people remember the Clinton equivocations of the 90's and because Obama took immediate control of the damage with his historic race speech.
pin
Or maybe its because people hold Hillary responsible for the things she says and don't hold Obama responsible for the things other people say?
Could it possibly be so simple?
flory |
04.05.08 - 6:57 pm | #
What is the gay press anyway?
Gomez |
04.05.08 - 6:57 pm | #
Yellow, too much water, but brown and dry is d-e-a-d. However, you can rejuvenate by trimming off the dead stuff.
I have one of those plants - it's about 4' tall (started it from a small shoot in a basket), and I just trimmed off some deadage. It'll be fine.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 6:57 pm | #
Hitchens and Sullivan say you never would have seen Golda Meir or Margeret Thatcher play the 'self-pity' card like Hillary.
pin | 04.05.08 - 6:56 pm | #
Hitchins is a nasty drunk, upper class British twit.
rootless-e |
04.05.08 - 6:57 pm | #
Lies? Really? Find me an interview he's done with the gay press and get back to me.
CJD>T |
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04.05.08 - 6:57 pm | #
I would like to smoke.
NTodd, Part Of The Pile | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 6:54 pm | #
You're a whole lot of things, tedious is not one of them.
Shared Humanity |
04.05.08 - 6:57 pm | #
Hillary acts mistreated but she's a cold and calculating politician. She actually does believe she's being mistreated, though. And you notice how the Hillybots pick up on that and act wronged, too?
Ô¿Ô |
04.05.08 - 6:59 pm | #
I watch Hitchens on TV from a safe distance so the alcohol fumes don't get me.
Gomez |
04.05.08 - 6:59 pm | #
And the leaves are green near the stem, then turn yellow, then are brown at the ends. Shit.
It's damp now. I watered it earlier. About 8 oz. There's no water in the dish.
res ipsa loquitur |
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04.05.08 - 6:59 pm | #
He's 12 years older than me, though. Maybe I have time to reset or reverse some thangs.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian
You have plenty of time to reverse everything.
I quit smoking at 40. Two packs a day for over 20 years.
I've got all my lung capacity back since then and my blood pressure is lower than it ever was....
flory |
04.05.08 - 6:59 pm | #
Hitchens and Sullivan would be a great Tv show. Like the modern William Buckley and Gore Vidal.
pin |
04.05.08 - 6:59 pm | #
What is the gay press anyway?
Gomez
it's a dance, like the Cuban-Slide only gayer ...
focus, hurling to heavens |
04.05.08 - 6:59 pm | #
Will anything tall enough to form a visual barrier grow near a stupid Black Walnut?
good luck with that. I can't grow peppers or herbs around here. I am having very good luck with elderberry.
1Watt, Hermit |
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04.05.08 - 6:59 pm | #
If Hillary gave a shit about this country, which she doesn't because she can't see it for herself, she would get out of the goodamn race like the other losers did.
Ô¿Ô |
04.05.08 - 7:00 pm | #
It's quite depressing that Obama can't bring himself to talk to the gay press.
CJD>T
Saw Andrew Sullivan on Tim Russert's show (with Christopher Hitchens) and he said Obama's (and Rev. Wright's) church was very accepting of gay folks.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.05.08 - 7:00 pm | #
Is that 3am economic crisis commercial really a Hillary ad? It's so ludicrous I thought it was from McCain. Like bankers are going to call at 3am in a panic.
puppethead |
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04.05.08 - 7:00 pm | #
Please ignore ALL trolls.
Thanking you in advance,
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 7:00 pm | #
Hitchens says Hillary displays terrible self-pity and self-righteousness.
Years ago, Karl Jung explained a concept called "projection."
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Hitch is becoming a case study.
Too bad she isn't a drunk, Hitch could rip into himself for that, too.
Stinky |
04.05.08 - 7:00 pm | #
It's damp now. I watered it earlier. About 8 oz. There's no water in the dish.
This sounds like the opening to a great pulpy crime novel.
SteveNS |
04.05.08 - 7:01 pm | #
Will anything tall enough to form a visual barrier grow near a stupid Black Walnut?
check the link I posted. there is a list of tolerant plants at the end.
therealhellkitty O Delegate |
04.05.08 - 7:01 pm | #
Years ago, Karl Jung explained a concept called "projection."
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Wasn't he in "Logjammin?"
Gomez |
04.05.08 - 7:01 pm | #
you're so cool, you're such a musical expert
Point him to the musical threads at Crooks & Liars. There are people on those threads who diss Billie Holiday, they know so much about jazz. There'll be lots of little friends for him.
Finny |
04.05.08 - 7:01 pm | #
Tolerant plants don't care what color your walnut is.
Jay C. |
04.05.08 - 7:01 pm | #
It's damp now. I watered it earlier. About 8 oz. There's no water in the dish.
This sounds like the opening to a great pulpy crime novel.
SteveNS
Or a Cthulhu mythos story.
puppethead |
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04.05.08 - 7:02 pm | #
And the leaves are green near the stem, then turn yellow, then are brown at the ends. Shit.
It's damp now. I watered it earlier. About 8 oz. There's no water in the dish.
res ipsa loquitur
Overwatering will kill plants faster than not watering.
Sounds like you need to neglect your friend for a week or even two.
Stinky |
04.05.08 - 7:02 pm | #
He's going to be buried in a paper bag.
Jay C. | 04.05.08 - 6:55 pm | #
Hitchens and Sullivan would be a great Tv show. Like the modern William Buckley and Gore Vidal.
Only the opposing sexualities would be similar.
JT |
04.05.08 - 7:02 pm | #
Tolerant plants don't care what color your walnut is.
Photosynthesis sees no color.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.05.08 - 7:03 pm | #
Incog,
Please put down the stick of indignation and direct your anger mojo towards W, Cheney, McCain, and their ilk.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
04.05.08 - 7:03 pm | #
Wasn't he in "Logjammin?"
He fixes the cable?
NTodd, Part Of The Pile |
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04.05.08 - 7:03 pm | #
I like Hitchens and Sullivan.
Ô¿Ô |
04.05.08 - 7:03 pm | #
Don't give it any plant food for a while, either. As Jay C. said, let it regain its equilibrium.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.05.08 - 7:03 pm | #
ABC doing sad piece on decimation of wild cheetahs. Only 1000 remain in the wild in SA. Refuge is trying to breed and release into wild--high loss of the animals.
Cheetahs are the least aggressive of the big cats.
So beautiful--and purrs like lawn mowers!
jawbone |
04.05.08 - 7:03 pm | #
Hitchens and Sullivan would be a great Tv show. Like the modern William Buckley and Gore Vidal.
Hitch can play the drunk reactionary with a snotty accent, but Vidal is brilliant and accomplished and well educated, so Sully is sadly out of his league.
rootless-e |
04.05.08 - 7:04 pm | #
Tolerant plants don't care what color your walnut is.
I'm going to use that at the nursery.
annie |
04.05.08 - 7:05 pm | #
Find me an interview he's done with the gay press and get back to me.
Here. And look here, too, for Bilerico Project post.
Now, don't go moving those goalposts, rosebud.
Homosexual Activist |
04.05.08 - 7:05 pm | #
Please put down the stick of indignation and direct your anger mojo towards W, Cheney, McCain, and their ilk.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | 04.05.08 - 7:03 pm | #
Plenty of others have been doing that since Katrina. That's why he's in the shape he's in. I'm not doing anything outta anger, though.
Ô¿Ô |
04.05.08 - 7:05 pm | #
Or maybe its because people hold Hillary responsible for the things she says and don't hold Obama responsible for the things other people say?
Could it possibly be so simple?
flory
True, but I don't understand why we need to belabor the obvious. People beat up on Hillary in order to exacerbate what they perceive to be a rift in the democratic party, and Hillary supporters call them misogynists..Of course they are, they're republicans! dems need to accept opportunism for what it is and ignore it. On both sides.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.05.08 - 7:05 pm | #
It's quite depressing that Obama can't bring himself to talk to the gay press.
CJD>T
Saw Andrew Sullivan on Tim Russert's show (with Christopher Hitchens) and he said Obama's (and Rev. Wright's) church was very accepting of gay folks.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior
I believe the reference is to Obama's not giving an interview to Philadelphia Gay News.
JT |
04.05.08 - 7:05 pm | #
you're so cool, you're such a musical expert
Point him to the musical threads at Crooks & Liars. There are people on those threads who diss Billie Holiday, they know so much about jazz. There'll be lots of little friends for him.
Finny
Perfect, the guy hates Billie Holiday. (rolling eyes to the point of spasms)
Stinky |
04.05.08 - 7:05 pm | #
I can't believe that in my lifetime I'll witness the demise of most of the world's big mammals. It is a source of deep grief.
OTH, I would have also grieved the passing of the saber-toothed tiger and the mastadon, along with all the other big mammals now gone from the North American continent.
Change is the only constant I guess.
noblejoanie |
04.05.08 - 7:05 pm | #
...sure enough an aphid knocked on my office door, said he knew a dame with a watering can.
nj: odd, but I always, even as a little kid, thought wistfully about the North American megafauna...
ProfWombat
Please tell me your parents realized what an amazing kid they had.
noblejoanie |
04.05.08 - 7:10 pm | #
j: odd, but I always, even as a little kid, thought wistfully about the North American megafauna...
I read the other day that there were once camels living in North America. What I kind of "miss" are all the wild swans that once lived along the Potomac. Never seen one ever, but they were so thick when the Europeans got here that they sometimes covered whole parts of the river, I've read.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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04.05.08 - 7:11 pm | #
annie, we have "cedars" here in TX that are really ash junipers.
be sure that what you buy to replace them is botanically correct. Plants for a Future is a good website for reference on classifications.
therealhellkitty O Delegate |
04.05.08 - 7:11 pm | #
Obama refuses to "interview" NTodd's gay cock but he wants it to be known that it's nothing personal.
JT |
04.05.08 - 7:11 pm | #
Rick Sanchez is on CNN. TAZE HIM!!
WalterNeff, kingpin
He's their crash test dummy. I think they must have a bet going on about when he's gonna finally say no.
Lumpenprolitariot |
04.05.08 - 7:13 pm | #
What does s h e e t s mean?
Elias: Un-American Idol. |
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04.05.08 - 7:13 pm | #
What I kind of "miss" are all the wild swans that once lived along the Potomac. Never seen one ever, but they were so thick when the Europeans got here that they sometimes covered whole parts of the river, I've read.
Some parts of David Quammen's "The Song of the Dodo" made me cry.
SteveNS |
04.05.08 - 7:14 pm | #
I chÔ¿Ôse Ô¿Ô as my VP and running mate. If I keel over before the elction he can reanimate me with his voodoo histrionics and turn me into a zombie.
John McCain |
04.05.08 - 7:15 pm | #
Thank, Hellkitty. I'm in Onario, but who knows where the cedars came from.
annie |
04.05.08 - 7:15 pm | #
Homosexual Activist
Can't win 'em all, can we (goddamn it, I hate the friggin' Braves...)?
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.05.08 - 7:16 pm | #
I had to use extra visine and caffeine to regain my equilibrium this morning.
I swear I don't recal typing that.
MP |
04.05.08 - 7:21 pm | #
Your blog sucks, Atrios. Buy me a sandwich!
expert |
04.05.08 - 8:06 pm | #
Would if you have tried and tried "pursuading" them the regular way and they still don't listen?
Matt Neffer |
04.05.08 - 8:19 pm | #
"Insulting people is an awesome way to persuade them."
You should know.
HieronymusTheTrollBraintree |
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04.05.08 - 9:11 pm | #
I can't believe that in my lifetime I'll witness the demise of most of the world's big mammals. It is a source of deep grief.
Well you can add to that many species of magestic trees and other plants which are endangered by invasive species and disease.
tim |
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04.05.08 - 9:21 pm | #