I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Salsa English Muffins!
And Eggs!
Very good for Stella hangover!
Coffee!
Can you tell how happy I am?
I pity the man who doesn't drink. When he wakes up, that's as good as he's going to feel all day.
Wow,
quite a run!
Thanks Molly!
just made a batch of butter cookies with little sprinklies last nite.
ah, breakfast! morning all...
cookies!
My sister made hers last week.
And did she mail me any? No!
But we decided I need to come up to Chicago for next Christmas.
And from below;
How can you expect these Exxon-Mobil leaders to get by on gross incomes of less than $50 million/year?
Rudy
hard candy Christmas
Some things are meant to be.
So everyone's going shopping today?
Oatmeal scotchies and peanut blossoms.
Tomato soup mini cupcakes and some sort of holiday funfetti mini cupcakes.
Buckeye, you reminded me of one xmas I made tollhouse cookies, mailed them to my son, he made some mailed them to me, we went back and forth about six times before the 25th. a real giggle.
Cookies!!!
Yeah I'm making me some cookies today.
Chocolate chip, bay-beeeee!!!!
I bought sugar cookies & gingerbread.
I'm going to walk to the mail depot at the grocery store to pick up a couple of packages that I wasn't home to receive.
Wanna bet it's a couple of really heavy boxes of books?
Since I'm going on foot, I can pretty much guarantee it.
Project Cookies
Your mission, should you decide to accept it...
This post will self-destruct...
I am, dear Molly, available for taste-testing.
Last week I made my world famous pepper spice cookies except my mixer died halfway through the process and I forget the ground almonds.
They looked funny and they tasted different but they were still OK.
SB!
I was just thinking about you!
Is your nym based on Grey Gardens? My bro has been showing me clips of it all morning.
Oh wait- it's men only day at the malls today.
SteveNS,
What is a mail depot and where do you live? That sounds like the kind of thing you'd find in the Yukon or something.
Molly, I had this idea about a gingerbread cookie manger scene. With a bite out of baby Jesus, you know, 'this is my body given for you' - wonder if Watertiger... naaaaah
Heh. Even conservatives think Rudy!'s a fascist.
SteveNS,
I thought you *wanted* an anvil for Christmas!
Molly,
No! Not Grey Gardens! It's a combination of Howard Beale and the fact that I'm in the South and femaled ("Southern Beale = Southern Belle").
On my blog it says: "Mad as y'all, not taking it anymore"
female not female
Discovered downstairs...
SteveNS is really Stevie Nix (Don't Tell)
Woot likes Unix porn.
Heh. Even conservatives think Rudy!'s a fascist.
They mean it as a compliment.
OK I'm giving up trying to correct the typos. Y'all know what I meant.
What is a mail depot and where do you live? That sounds like the kind of thing you'd find in the Yukon or something.
SB -- Just a mini-post office kind of them. Mostly used as a drop point to ship and receive parcels. More convenient than having to go into town to the real post office.
And not the Yukon, thank Jeebus! Way over on the other side of the country, Nova Scotia.
Molly, are you watching the original Grey Gardens documentary or the Broadway musical?
We have a mail depot at a gas station here, for other than post office hours.
and your stores are open already! what is everyone doing here?
femaled
female not female.
May I offer some coffee? It's fresh and Sumatran.
Ah, I see.
You should definitely see Grey Gardens, though. They're the impoverished and krazeee relations of Jackie Kennedy. Truly bizarre.
SteveNS,
I thought you *wanted* an anvil for Christmas!
If it's from you lovely folks, I'll happily accept it.
And the collapsed femurs.
It's the thought that really counts, after all.
And not the Yukon, thank Jeebus! Way over on the other side of the country, Nova Scotia.
OH! Same thing ... East Jesus vs West Jesus.
Just think of all the great things I'll be able to do with my new anvil!
SB, the original, plus some scenes from the musical.
It's all on the youtubes.
Molly,
We saw the documentary. Haven't seen the Broadway show. I want to see it but I don't know if it's still on.
I made french toast this morning. done cooking for the day.
Mittster becoming Bushboy's sub-rosa favorite in the Gooper presidential nomination sweepstakes.
Mittster vigorously defends Bushboy at every turn and claims that "Since 9/11, Bushboy has kept us safe!"
I paraphrase of course (he doesn't say "Bushboy"), but it's still bullshit!
I love whacked out eccentric super rich American dynasty people. They're hilarious.
They're making a movie. Jeanne Tripplehorn plays Jackie O, Drew Barrymore is Little Edie, and Jessica Lange is Big Edie.
Congressional Ethics Board proposed on C-SPAN now.
I made french toast this morning. done cooking for the day.
Off to the mall, you!
This is not a snarky question, but is there anything that Mitt won't flip flop on if it would be too his advantage?
If he thought becoming a Southern Baptist during the South Carolina primary wouldn't appear to craven, would he do that too?
Congressional Ethics Board proposed on C-SPAN now.
Nancy Willing,
Congressional Ethics...
Now there's an oxymoron.
SteveNS:
Here's something you can do with your new anvil:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c3x-pwJGsgU
Grey Garden:There was something in the New Yorker a while back about the (then)young man who was the Faun (?), who's still kicking around the NY area, and what he thinks of his cult-celebrity status.
Romney would flip flop on the circumstances surrounding his birth, if he thought it could make him president and satisfy his all-consuming egomania.
Another edition of simple answers...
If he thought becoming a Southern Baptist during the South Carolina primary wouldn't appear to craven, would he do that too?
trifecta
but can he be dunked while wearing his secret underwear?
Those investigations of Heather Wilson and Pete Domenici are being thoroughly examined by the ethics committees I tells ya!
This is not a snarky question, but is there anything that Mitt won't flip flop on if it would be too his advantage?
Rush Limpballs asked him to bring a 10-year-old boy to his home and flip-flop together on top of him, but Mitt turned him down, citing "scheduling difficulties."
Congressional Ethics Board proposed on C-SPAN now.
Oh cripes. We don't NEED another freaking legislative committee or board. We need people already empowered with these oversight tasks to do their fucking jobs.
Off to make raisin toast.
So.
Emacs or vi?
I'm taking impeachment off the table.
Just so you know.
Okay I've got a couple things to do, so must run off, but do visit Diane popping that 'Christian nation' myth running about the candidates' fantasies at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
My mom used to make mountains of assorted cutout iced cookies for us to decorate. The kitchen table got loaded with every imaginable kind of adornments and we'd go wild. I keep the tradition going for my neices and nephews.
Is there anything more fun than cookie decorating?
I'm taking impeachment off the table.
Just so you know.
Just to make room for the egg nog, right?
Morning, all.
Anything irksome going on I should know about?
We have dry powder though. Why do people always knock our strategic dry powder reserve?
Here's something you can do with your new anvil
That's ...um, one option.
But where am I going to find three shirtless gay men this close to Christmas? You know they'll be sold out everywhere by now.
steve,
Give it to me straight-- how bad was Walk Hard?
Why do people always knock our strategic dry powder reserve?
Jealousy.
Doctors treating Nataline told the family and Cigna in a letter that patients in similar situations have a 65% chance of living six months if they receive a liver transplant. Doctors had qualified Nataline for a transplant Dec. 6 and a liver became available four days later, the family said. But the transplant was not performed because Cigna had refused to approve and pay for the procedure, they said.
Cigna turned down the transplant, calling the procedure experimental because it was not supported by enough medical literature as safe or effective in such cases. The family's benefit plan does not cover experimental treatments. But this week, after receiving an appeal from the family and UCLA doctors, the company reconsidered.
Arlys Stadum, a Cigna spokeswoman, said the insurer submits all transplant requests to physicians with transplant expertise for review. Every request that is refused has been seen by at least one expert physician, she said.
it was in plain sight in SiCKO, yet the asshole companies still do the evil - let's give them more money and power to fuck us over!
Buckeye, you reminded me of one xmas I made tollhouse cookies, mailed them to my son, he made some mailed them to me, we went back and forth about six times before the 25th. a real giggle.
Ruth | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 8:07 am
One Christmas I sent her the magic bars.
Except that, despite being wrapped in plastic, wax paper and foil, and in a box, some rodent in the shipping facility was able to eat a lot of them.
Somehow UPS never noticed this.
Give it to me straight-- how bad was Walk Hard?
I'm going to say "good, not great".
The big laughs all came early in the show, but the cast was terrific.
John c. Reilly can really sing!
I am irked now that I think about it about the dissapearing scandals Steve.
We STILL don't know who put the names on the list of fired attorneys.
It has been over 9 months since Pete Domenici and Heather Wilson were accused of trying to influence a federal prosecution, nothing has been done.
There are so many scandals that have just been dropped and ignored, with more coming that we too stop thinking about em.
it was in plain sight in SiCKO, yet the asshole companies still do the evil - let's give them more money and power to fuck us over!
You're forgetting that Michael Moore is fat.
I truly hope there is never another terrorist attack inside or outside of the USA but if there is one again in America before Bushboy leaves office, he will claim that his war in Iraq needs to be waged with even greater fervor and he will pour even more money into the bottomless pit known as "homeland security."
If a terrorist attack occurs in America after Bushboy leaves office, he will claim that his "actions" prevented it from occurring after 9/11.
Regardless of when another terrorist attack occurs, you can be sure the rightwingnut media is primed to declare Bushboy triumphant and blame anyone who was against the wars, the spying on US citizens, the torture, etc.
You can count on it!
Johnny Depp does not appear to be able to sing, but that hardly matters.
I wrote a post on the new parenting blog last night.
steve,
Give it to me straight-- how bad was Walk Hard?
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 8:24 am | #
It was actually moderately amusing. Some of the music is even better than that, and Tim Meadows as the guy who keeps introducing Dewey to drugs by telling them how horrible they are is pretty funny. As is the scene where rockabilly Dewey gets hopped up on cocaine and invents punk rock.
Also, the Jews run showbiz (Harold Ramis as a Hasid....)
SWEENEY TODD, on the other hand, is fricking brilliant from stem to stern. And I don't even like the show...
We have dry powder though. Why do people always knock our strategic dry powder reserve?
trifecta
There will never be a dry powder gap on the Dems watch.
Johnny Depp does not appear to be able to sing, but that hardly matters.
What does it say about my mentality that I've been looking forward to "Walk Hard" more than "Sweeney Todd"?
I still resent Helena Bonham Carter for breaking up Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branaugh's marriage. But I hold obscure grudges.
How do you get to the bottom of the page in IE?
I'm inviting my friend in Montreal to visit the crack den.
John c. Reilly can really sing!
SteveNS | 12.22.07 - 8:26 am | #
Indeed -- a surprisingly credible Roy Orbison when called on...
Just to make room for the egg nog, right?
Damn skippy ...
I have to say, trifecta and Molly, that even though I've never been a parent I've been enjoying your new blog.
They're making a movie. Jeanne Tripplehorn plays Jackie O, Drew Barrymore is Little Edie, and Jessica Lange is Big Edie.
Molly Ivors
Oh great another movie-made-into-a-Broadway-show-made-into-a-movie. Like Hairspray and The Producers.
I saw the movie "Sweeney Todd" the non-musical with the brilliant Ben Kingsley some time ago.
It was grisly but fascinating. It was like watching a multiple car accident as the EMTs pulled bodies from wreckage.
Oh, trifecta, Ken was a tomcat, but you know that.
Anyway, I think she's with Tim Burton now.
It was actually moderately amusing. Some of the music is even better than that
I can't recall the name, but one of the early songs in particular was pretty terrific!
Apatow had some good talent write the songs, IIRC -- I think Mike Viola was one of the parties involved.
Every request that is refused has been seen by at least one expert physician, she said.
They call this protocol "Fristing."
What does it say about my mentality that I've been looking forward to "Walk Hard" more than "Sweeney Todd"?
I want to see both this weekend.
John c. Reilly
His song was one of the high points in the film "Chicago," imho.
simels,
We saw the show on Broadway with Patti Lupone. I fell asleep in it.
But if you say the movie is better we'll give it a shot ...
Hi-ho, Steverino!
I just noticed iTunes has posted Keef's excellent late 70s remake of "Run Rudolph Run"! It's been out of print for years!
Yeah, she is with Tim Burton. I just thought Thompson & Branaugh were a great couple. Educated, doing quality work. It bummed me when they split.
Hello, Mo!
We were just talking politics and I mentioned that I know somewhere where she can get her fill, if she's inclined.
(American citizen pretending to be a Canadian ).
Okay, I'm off to be productive.
Besos!!
BTW, I'm still a couple of days behind on my Xmas calendar, but check it out anyway...
It bummed me when they split.
Not me ... I thought it gave me a shot with Emma.
Is there anything more fun than cookie decorating?
Nancy Willing, Despotin
Fucking?
The British produce some great and beautiful actresses. Kate Blanchette, Helen Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, to name a few.
John c. Reilly can really sing!
Yeah I loved him in Chicago. But I love that musical, I'd seen it three times in the theater, twice on Broadway. And that number is a stand-out no matter who is performing it.
It always bugged me that Catherine Zeta Jones got that role. She can't dance. Clever camera work can disguise her clutziness but she's no dancer.
Ah -- just checked the soundtrack. The song I was thinking of is "A Life Without You (Is No Life At All)".
They played that one pretty straight.
Kate Blanchette ...
Why did I always think she was Australian?
another movie-made-into-a-Broadway-show-made-into-a-movie. Like Hairspray and The Producers.
let's hire less-creative people and let's rehash the same tired bullshit - the rubes will eat it up like christmas candy...gotta have my movie-fix, i mean got to have a tiny bit of comfort in my life even if that comfort is simply a fantasy for a few hours
when the pubic demand a new blockbuster every weekend for their meaningless lives, making movies gets tough.
she is australian
Ken Branagh always struck me as a pompous ass.
steve -- are you at all in fear of your life from a certain pink toddler since you got a front page link?
You could be on the list right after Thers.
I generally don't go to see musicals because they make me want to have sex with other men. The last one I saw was Rent and I ended up with Hep C.
I did see Shoot 'em Up, though. It has a very strong pro-gun control message. And the great Paul Giamatti.
Kate Blanchette: citizen of the British Commonwealth from Australia.
My bad.
The British produce some great and beautiful actresses. Kate Blanchette, Helen Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, to name a few.
Rudy
This is one reason why I enjoy the Harry Potter films: so many British actors in one place, lots of good artists like Timothy Spall, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman...
BTW, I'm still a couple of days behind on my Xmas calendar, but check it out anyway...
dave™©
Hey, Trademark Dave. It's been a while since I've seen you.
I'm sorry. One of my Xmas visitors trying to be funny with my computer.
Speaking of Xmas music, the version of "All I Want for Christmas" Mariah Carey does on the "Love Actually" soundtrack is a million times better than the "official" version clogging the airwaves.
The difference is, the "Love Actually" version came from a producer who didn't give a shit about her "singing" and was more interested in the fucking SONG.
What does it say about my mentality that I've been looking forward to "Walk Hard" more than "Sweeney Todd"?
SteveNS
I would love to see Sweeney Todd but I'm a little put off by the descriptions of all the gore.
I'm pretty sure I can handle Walk Hard, though. Maybe we can use some of our vacay time to go to a movie! Right in the middle of the day!
That's be sweet.
Since we're talking music, some folks might get a kick out of this amusing holiday offering from the Indiana University Men's A Cappella Group.
(blogwhore alert)
bwt it's Cate with a C.
bwt= btw. Too much coffee today.
I believe "Sweeney Todd" was based on a real serial killer in Britain during the 19th century. Does anyone know if this is true?
Isn't Sweeney Todd based on a true story?
That show has been knocking around forever, I swear I saw it with my parents back in the '80s. But Mr. Beale and I saw it in New York last year, too. I thought I read somewhere that it's based on a true story.
The Brits do love their gore. Just like Vicki!
heh...let teh GOPer fucks fight with ah-nold on clean air, this is a beautiful fight to behold
uh-merica: teh american congress passes laws that force states to pollute more?!? only in dumbfuckistan can this shit get passed....well maybe africa
It's been a while since I've seen you.
It's been a wild month. Busy busy busy, as the Bokononists say...
Rudy, I owe you a beverage!!!!!
Better head out myself. That anvil's not going to walk home on its own.
Later, folks!
Well, gonna get dressed and take the dogs for a walk. Have a great day, kids.
BTW, I'm still a couple of days behind on my Xmas calendar, but check it out anyway...
dave™© |
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wonderful! I just sent it to a few friends
If you don't have anything else to do today, you might consider making an origami pig.
Just sayin'...
Ken Branagh always struck me as a pompous ass.
Southern Beale
Always thought he was miscast as Gilderoy Lockhart. They needed a man capable of pompous hyperbole, a real scenery chewer for that role.
But I was disappointed with the casting of Lupin too.
Kate Blanchette ...
Why did I always think she was Australian?
Southern Beale
She is--half. Her dad was from Texas.
Rudy, I owe you a beverage!!!!!
Southern Beale
Thanks!
I'll collect in Philadelphia. Assuming you are there in March.
Wiki on ST:
Sweeney Todd is a fictional villain/antihero appearing in various English language works starting in the mid-19th century as a barber and an early example of a fictional serial killer. His weapon of choice is a straight razor, with which he cuts his victim's throats and drinks their blood; in some versions of the story Mrs. Lovett, who is variously his lover, friend, and/or accomplice—and who is variously Marjorie, Sarah, Nellie, Shirley or Claudetta—bakes the corpses of his victims into meat pies, and serves them to friends and family. He is also assisted by an unwitting servant lad named Tobias Ragg, who later aids in unmasking his crimes. In most versions of the story, Sweeney either helps or hinders (sometimes both) the love affair of a young woman, Johanna, and a sailor named Mark Ingesterie or, later, Anthony Hope.
In two books[1][2], the horror and crime story writer Peter Haining argues that Sweeney Todd was a historical figure who committed his crimes around 1800. However, other researchers who have tried to verify his citations find nothing in these sources to back Haining's claims.[3][4][5]
Hillary Hitches Her Wagon To The. Greatest. President. Ever
wonderful! I just sent it to a few friends
Hey, great!
BTW, I feel obliged to point out that you can click on the various dates. Several people have told me they didn't realize that...
I can understand that, Trademark Dave, but it is good to see you.
Now, it's time for some breakfast. Have a good Saturday Morning, bats.
Oh, and just to let you know: I've moved on from the War On Christmas to the war on Christian America.
Be afraid, Bill O'Reilly. Be very afraid.
My BIL has been saying Sweeney Todd is his favorite movie since the 70's.
Since we're talking music, some folks might get a kick out of this amusing holiday offering from the Indiana University Men's A Cappella Group.
(blogwhore alert)
Southern Beale
That was so good it gave me chills.
dave™©
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I just enjoyed the Lennon spot very much, didn't note if it was on the 8th or not.
Gotta' go folks. Cyall anon...
ohh so now we find out that the CIA was asked about tapes from the 9/11 commission and yet it never provided the tapes....
this one issue would have sunk ANY dem president, yet for the thuglican party of asshole criminals, we accept their crimes like they were our uncle 'louie' the consigliere...thanks asshole 'free press' can't get a fascists state without you
BTW, make sure to check out Day 18 on the Xmas calendar.
From left to right, that's Oski, Moon, Fiona and Rex!
I just enjoyed the Lennon spot very much, didn't note if it was on the 8th or not.
Yeah, that's the permanent Day 8 spot...
I just noticed iTunes has posted Keef's excellent late 70s remake of "Run Rudolph Run"! It's been out of print for years!
dave™© | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 8:33 am | #
Good! Now if they'll just post Bob Clearmountain's fantastic remix of "Before They Make Me Run" from the same time.
Although they probably won't -- I once asked Clearmountain about it and he didn't even remember doing it...
And now I'm outta here for the day -- love you all more than food, and I'll talk to you later tonight, j'espere...
Gromit -- I saw your reply downstairs -- thanks.
Every request that is refused has been seen by at least one expert physician, she said.
OK, but who actually makes the decision? The physician? I doubt it. Medical decisions are now made by MBAs
The culmination of the wild month of December came Thursday, when I arrived at work at 9:30 am and finally left at 1:30 am the next day.
Now I think I'm going back to bed...
dave™©, are you a tax attorney? These are the only people I know who put in hours like these at this time of year...
Michael Tearson played the original "Run Rudolf Run" (C. Berry) this morning on WMGK (Saturday Morning Sixties) Webcast. Great stuff.
OK, but who actually makes the decision? The physician? I doubt it. Medical decisions are now made by MBAs
nah - they have asshole physicians who have NOTHING to do with the patient, the physician has no contact to allow any subjective feelings, it's all automated, rule-based actuarial assholisms...welcome to an asshole free market medical system!
cigna only relented after lots of people tried to make them change their mind - yet another example of assholiness, in a fair world the company would be liquidated for such an asshole decision
Headline on CNN just now...
....Jamie Lynn Spears' fetus has announced that,it too, is pregnant.
http://www.cepr.net/content/view/1401/
A new study has found that C-SPAN overwhelmingly favors conservative think tanks in its coverage by a three-to-one margin over all left-of-center think tanks.
...conservatives received 44 percent of total think tank coverage, while conservative/libertarian received another 7 percent, for a right-wing majority of 51 percent. Everything left of center received only 18 percent, with center-left and progressive think tanks garnering 13 percent and 5 percent, respectively. Centrist think tanks got the rest of the coverage.
While we're not in it for the money, I was royally pissed to see that the average salary for male MBAs in the US is now $175k. Dr Mrs Gromit, with seven years of intense post-college training and 26 years of experience, works her ass off for less than half of that.
She does geriatrics and pisses off her bosses by spending adequate time with each patient, and with their family members. And lots of teaching of med students and residents, which is entirely uncompensated.
/rant
Centrist think tanks got the rest of the coverage.
Gimlet
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most of the hosts are palpably conservative too
...conservatives received 44 percent of total think tank coverage, while conservative/libertarian received another 7 percent, for a right-wing majority of 51 percent. Everything left of center received only 18 percent, with center-left and progressive think tanks garnering 13 percent and 5 percent,
hahahahahahaahahahaahahaaha
too many lieberals on teevee, let's get some conservatard opinions of liberals on teevee for balance...hahahahahahahaah
But it's not the money that ticks her off. It's the fact that MD's aren't permitted to make decisions about medical treatment any more, unless the patients are wealthy enough to pay privately.
So how exactly is this different from the wingnuts' dreaded scenario where "socialized" medicine reduces your treatment options?
/more rant
So.
Emacs or vi?
wÒÓ†
If wÒÓ† will consider running Mac OS X, he may have the best of all possible editor worlds with TextMate.
Think a friendly emacs with a very shiny chassis. Built by a unix fanatic.
So how exactly is this different from the wingnuts' dreaded scenario where "socialized" medicine reduces your treatment options?
the difference is that in socialized medicine there aren't crony partner companies raking profit off the weakest and poorest.
most of the hosts are demonstrably ignorant too
Nancy Willing, Despotin
(fixed that for you. NC)
Cookies! You sugar addicts!
Quel surprise. Soldier suicides up 5% this year.
Merry Fucking Christmas, George Bush, you heinous douchebag.
WT, I'm surprised it's only 5%. Suspect the true figure is higher. Suicide is notoriously underreported.
So, manana, Ron Paul self-destructs with Timmeh.
Did someone mention cookies?
SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS BUT IT IS NOT EVEN THE NEWS ON TV THAT IS THE PROBLEM IS THE NEWS THAT IS ****NOT**** ON TV THAT IS.
THE IRAQ WAR
THE DEATH OF SOLDIERS IN THEIR HOME TOWNS
THE ECONOMY (for normal people)
THE DECADENT RICH and their indifference to suffering
THE CORRUPTION OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
THE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
THESE (and others) SHOULD BE ON THE NEWS CONSTANTLY BUT ARE NOT.
Yeh, I'd eat sugar if I could; it's just jealousy talking.
It wasn't long ago that Rep. Ron Paul was an anti-war asterisk in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Then his campaign raised a record $6 million in a single day.
Now the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman is looking like a possible spoiler, with an eclectic, tech-savvy following and an astounding $18 million in donations raised in less than three months.
tech-savvy...bahahahahahahahaha...you mean his deluded retard followers can type on a keyboard and punch their credit card number into a web site? fucking joker and his followers and the media assholes who prop him
when the pubic demand a new blockbuster every weekend for their meaningless lives, making movies gets tough.
mogwai,
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I love you but I don't agree that arts' escapism is what ails us.
Tech-Savvy = can get online.
Escapist films helped people live through The Depression.
Hang in there, DWD, illegitimi non carborundum, don't let the bastards grind you down.
The best weapon against these fascists is satire and a great belly laugh.
We're going to see Charlie Wilson's War in the next day or two. The kid is a minor expert on central Asia, and read the book years ago, so she'll explain it all in words of small syllables to her thick parents.
If Iowa is the heartland of the country, and Florida is its wang. does that make New Jersey the upper or lower intestines?
So how exactly is this different from the wingnuts' dreaded scenario where "socialized" medicine reduces your treatment options?
/more rant
Gromit
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wingnuts always project so
the difference is that in socialized medicine there aren't crony partner companies raking profit off the weakest and poorest.
mogwai, cloud 9 dweller
Depends on how it's organized and funded.
It could be set up like the VA and funded on the cheap. According to the medical community, even Medicare is set up on the cheap.
So how exactly is this different from the wingnuts' dreaded scenario where "socialized" medicine reduces your treatment options?
/more rant
Gromit
It's the same, but with profit, which makes it OK.
See?
to be added to ril's list of words never to be used again:
horse race (with regard to politics)
I love you but I don't agree that arts' escapism is what ails us.
Symptom.
Honest to pete, some people are actually convinced that access to health care makes people get too much of it.
One of our very own trolls has made this argument quite recently.
It's fucktarded.
Dan Schorr needs to be put out to pasture, as well.
"We won't know until it's all over."
Thanks, Dan.
to be added to ril's list of words never to be used again:
horse race (with regard to politics)
And vajayjay.
We're going to see Charlie Wilson's War in the next day or two.
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I am getting treated to a birthday night out tonight. Dinner out and a movie, either Charlie Wilson or Hard Walk.
I don't agree that arts' escapism is what ails us.
Nancy Willing
if you call movies 'arts', then yes i agree...i call most movies: propaganda pieces for the masses
Nonsense. If I could go to my doctor and see what has transpired since being diagnosed a diabetic, I would. But I can't afford to find out how I'm managing.
Music tonight movies later in the holiday, But now Irish Soda Bread.
Honest to pete, some people are actually convinced that access to health care makes people get too much of it.
Hell no, even with routine checkup they like to stick needles and objects in you. Only the insane get more medical than they need.
Does the air ever get thin up there in better-than-everybody-land?
Dad's up.
Sorry for the rant, folks.
But my award for the Week's Best Rant goes to...(opens envelope)...Res Ipsa Loquitor for her firely and eloquent (yet concise) going off on a troll who was justifying middle-aged men dumping their middle-aged wives.
It was classic. To find it, search Thursday afternoon's threads for multiple uses of the word 'fuck' and the number '18'
i call most movies: propaganda pieces for the masses
mogwai,
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yeah, I caught that!
One good reason to watch and support the Independent Movie Channel and Sundance ~
I caught a bit of Ron Paul on C-SPAN last nite. I don't agree with his positions, but he was talking the history of monetry policy, the income tax, the Fed, abandoning the gold standard for fiat money, etc., in ways I wish more people would.
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If Iowa is the heartland of the country, and Florida is its wang. does that make New Jersey the upper or lower intestines?
Lime Rickey
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I don't know about that but Missippi is the asshole.
"you'll never guess what these Toll House Morsels are made of"-Larry Kudlow to Arthur Laffer
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