I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb (fill in the blank)
no words.
more commas
CNN just told me that a year-old mass grave with 45 bodies in it was found in Iraq.
... but we now cut to breaking news on Juicegate...
Obscene..
Who said "what new fresh hell is this?"
I've found myself saying that a lot the last 5 years.
Johm McCain is old enough to remember when there were no cities in the state of Florida. And we have America's oldest city here (regardless of what the residents of Ohio haz told me about not having any history)!
From below:
It always freaks me out when they tear up the streets to put in the latest, whatever-- cable lines, new sewer pipes, natural gas, something every few years. Why not build the streets with utility tunnels, so you don't have to dig up the street all the time?
I feel the same way about houses: obviously, new technologies will be developed, but it seems pretty short focused to just put in one kind of outlet, or whatever. Why not have whatever the equivalent of utility tunnels are, so you don't have break open the wall every time you've got something new?
P.S. Commas are for elitists.
Horrific.
God have mercy on their souls...and ours.
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You know I am really starting to despise someone whom I will refrain from naming.
CNN just told me that a year-old mass grave with 45 bodies in it was found in Iraq.
But the adjoining raperoom was all Saddam's doing.
i still remember having a bitter argument during the vietnam war with a fellow teenager who explained that despite the blood spattered reality of the sausage factory we had made in Vietnam, the idea was worthwhile. 35 years later, i'm still horrified.
You know I am really starting to despise someone whom I will refrain from naming.
Halfdan
It's not Duncan, is it? ZOMG!
Who said "what new fresh hell is this?"
Dorothy Parker?
It's not Duncan, is it? ZOMG!
No although his A-list blog is sucky and he hates me.
McStain is no old he remembers jerking off to the Sears Roebuck catalog's corset ads.
Did the mass grave have enough cables and outlets? Because the Philadelphia mass graves, those that are discovered every week, don't. And BTW William F Fuckley is still dead.
A year-old mass grave. Sheesh.
And BTW William F Fuckley is still dead.
leibniz♘☮ | 04.12.08 - 9:25 am | #
One crypto nazi down.
McStain is no old he remembers jerking off to the Sears Roebuck catalog's corset ads.
Think Ben Stiller with a gob o' splooge hanging off of one ear.
McStain is no old he remembers jerking off to the Sears Roebuck catalog's corset ads.
There is that infamous Sears catalog ad for men's underwear in which a guy's appendage is hanging out.
Think Ben Stiller with a gob o' splooge hanging off of one ear.
Sufferin' Succotash
I could easily have survived the remainder of my days without that visual.
You are right Kenosha Kid - it was Dorothy Parker. But I misquoted her
she said "what fresh hell is this?"
close enough I suppose.
OT but the G-7 sez we're kinda fucked with W. in office:
April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven nations signaled concern on the dollar's slide and said the global economic slowdown may worsen amid an ``entrenched'' credit squeeze.
``Since our last meeting, there have been at times sharp fluctuations in major currencies, and we are concerned about their possible implications for economic and financial stability,'' the G-7's finance ministers and central bankers said in a statement after talks in Washington yesterday.
The officials downgraded their outlook for the world economy from that of two months ago, blaming the U.S. housing recession, credit-market turmoil, commodity prices and inflation pressures. The dollar has lost 8 percent against the euro and 6 percent versus the yen since the G-7 last met in Tokyo in February.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/ne...L1W8&
refer=home
McStain is no old he remembers jerking off to the Sears Roebuck catalog's corset ads.
Yeah, but his first wank was to the Willendorf Venus - right ater he carved it.
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Who said "what new fresh hell is this?"
Dorothy Parker?
The Kenosha Kid
Yep, Dorothy Parker.
I have adopted it as my own.
I bet Johm McCain wears those old man garters to keep his socks up.
That's how toweringly awesome he is.
Any Boston Globe readers here?
I've decided that Alex Beam is a dick.
That is all.
Do I have to, you know, do anything today? Or can I just lie around listening to the crickets?
Do I have to, you know, do anything today? Or can I just lie around listening to the crickets?
If the crickets are in your apartment, you must banish them before they drive you batshit insane.
Otherwise, lie around, baby.
Nah, they're not inside the apartment.
This is the first time I've ever heard crickets here, though.
Maybe it's actually a plague of locusts?
res ipsa I'm not doing anything today.
I just refuse.
You can create a Muxtape.
Do I have to, you know, do anything today? Or can I just lie around listening to the crickets?
I can't think of a better thing to do than listening to crickets.
I'm watching Tyler Florence make chicken under a brick and then maybe I'll go to the gym.
McStain is so old he remembers when you couldn't get elected president without a beard.
I'm putting off chipping vegetables. To go with the spinach sour cream dip.
Did anyone read this NYT thing about Ickes' databank?
Is there anything there? Or is this just "Oooo, there's a vast left-wing conspiracy" bullshit?
I'd have issues with him working for BHO if I was HRC, but that's just me. I have bigger issues with him giving the big "Fuck Yoo" to Howard Dean.
Well, I used to have a copy of the Sears ad, but as with everything now, it's on the web:
http://www.straightdope.com/colu.../art/
brief2.jpg
"it's only important when white women die"-Greta Van Susteren
I actually already went to the P.O., did the grocery shopping, and yelled at American Express, so it's not like the day will be a complete wipeout.
I always think of Mazen Dana, that camera man killed by a tank outside Abu Ghraib. That was way back in 2003. He was trying to track down mass grave rumors way back then. Nobody wanted to report on what he was looking for; now discovering mass graves is reported like an ordinary thing.
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Actually, he's not working for BHO...just selling him data.
HRC surrounded herself with a bunch of losers.
My sibling just sent me a bit of a rant that ended thusly:
The whole world is a bloated consumerist pigpen, except Haiti where they are eating mud cookies to survive. Please kill me.
Maybe it's actually a plague of locusts?
Given the current state of the world I might not be surprised, but let's think happy thoughts and go with crickets.
I'm planning a lazy day myself. Might roll out to buy my first stand mixer, then celebrate with cookies and/or biscuits. Maybe get fixins for a nice lasagna for dinner. That's about it.
Actually, he's not working for BHO...just selling him data.
res ipsa loquitur
And Mary Matalin is married to James Carville and Alan Greenspan is married to Andrea Mitchell and Justice Ginsberg married them.
What was the question? Oh yeah.
RIL, this sort of stuff only matters to people who don't matter. K?
the ickes database is good. It was ultra depressing in 2004 to see Kerry's 1940's level generic literature compared to the way that ken mehlman was targetting specific groups with tailored messages.
HRC surrounded herself with a bunch of losers.
Hubby was seated next to one of her staffers on a flight last week. They know they're done. Last ditch effort is to win PA big enough to say that they won the popular vote, and try to use that to get the superdelegates. They know it's not going to happen.
Okay, I still have to install the pop up doo-dad (it's taking a bit to remember how to do this, but I'm getting there...), but lookee! The garden is stirring.
It's just so fucking typical that he'd build is own databank and not work with the DNC at all. These people are spiteful assholes. Dean -- the temerity of him -- to try to get elected president when it wasn't "his turn."
jezebel it's a shame too.
She's a smart woman and this is what it comes to.
I hope she can find a graceful way to bow out soon.
The garden is stirring.
Hooray! I love this time of year. We have daffodils, and the forsythia is FINALLY blooming. Gorgeous yellow profusion outside my kitchen window. Such a beautiful shot of color on a grey morning.
And the cherry trees are blooming all over.
HRC surrounded herself with a bunch of losers.
STOP PICKING ON THE DLC!!!
*sob*
Assholes who will never give Dean credit for the 50 State Strategy that is fucking genius.
BTW fuck Rahm Emmanuel too.
HBK -- I couldn't agree more.
but lookee! The garden is stirring.
Nice. Mine, too. All the perennials are shooting up.
It's just so fucking typical that he'd build is own databank and not work with the DNC at all. These people are spiteful assholes. Dean -- the temerity of him -- to try to get elected president when it wasn't "his turn."
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 9:47 am | #
I like all the usual suspects getting indignant about this endrun around election laws as if the vast republican privately funded propaganda apparatus didn't exist.
I keep thinking of HRC as someone who doesn't realize that a lot of shit changed since 1992. I keep analogizing her to people I've met throughout the years in borgs. They are loyal deputies who everyone assumes will get The Big Gig when The Boss retires/moves on. But in the interim, someone new comes along and everything changes. And when The Boss does leave the BOD looks around and says, "Whoa. We need someone new."
I think she has loosers on her team, but I think this is also an issue of timing.
They know it's not going to happen.
jezebel
FWIW, I keep remembering the stumbling, bumbling Kerry letting the attacks on his character go unanswered for WEEKS and then I compare them to Obama who responded within HOURS with a counterattack that was strong but not strident or petulant but spot-on and made the attackers look ridiculous.
That is the difference. And what is setting him apart.
(And I agree about Hillary. She would have been fine but she ran into this person who is a natural politician of immense talent)
McStain is so old he remembers when you had to squeeze an orange if you wanted orange juice.
Once I get all the pop up features going, I'll start taking lots of pictures. I know I'm supposed to put some sort of code on the referring page, but I forget what it is...
Meet the new war.
Same as the old war.
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Assholes who will never give Dean credit for the 50 State Strategy that is fucking genius.
Motherfucking werd to that.
I like all the usual suspects getting indignant about this endrun around election laws as if the vast republican privately funded propaganda apparatus didn't exist.
I know, they don't mention it at all, do they?
They could at least say something along the lines of, "This is interesting b/c Democrats getting their shit together to this degree is unprecedented."
FWIW, I keep remembering the stumbling, bumbling Kerry letting the attacks on his character go unanswered for WEEKS and then I compare them to Obama who responded within HOURS with a counterattack that was strong but not strident or petulant but spot-on and made the attackers look ridiculous.
Kerry - attacks unanswered for weeks while various "aides" are leaking information about confused debates in the campaign.
Hooray! I love this time of year. We have daffodils, and the forsythia is FINALLY blooming. Gorgeous yellow profusion outside my kitchen window. Such a beautiful shot of color on a grey morning.
And the cherry trees are blooming all over.
jezebel
Not here. Just seeing the first shoots popping up now. Still some snow in the huge piles in parking lots and such. But it is coming and that is good.
As an aside, fuck Pat Buchanan.
Still some snow in the huge piles in parking lots and such.
I'm going to the beach today. Just sayin'.
Him too Florida.
What passes for political discourse in this country is an insult to any sentient being.
I'm going to the beach today. Just sayin'.
Florida, Drinking Bleach
Made a note of that: will talk to you in May, June, July, August, September, and October when it is so beautiful here: K?
Gore also did not respond to attacks. At the time I figured it was his Southern-Gentleman politeness, trying to remain above the fray. But it did him in , in the end, in that he didn't win in a landslide.
Ack - have to scoot to go pick up the kid. We've added a trip to the flea market, and maybe a movie, to today's activities. Enjoy the crickets and lazy Saturday morning, all!
Made a note of that: will talk to you in May, June, July, August, September, and October when it is so beautiful here: K?
DWD
And I will respond in July and August by complaining about how humid it is and you shall laugh yourself silly at me. I know it's coming.
Even scarier than O'Neill, Res: the Taxman Cometh.
He's even worse than Hickey.
(But you're probably already done...)
My accountant, with whom I sleep, is at some intergalactic quilt thingie at O'Hare, and God only knows if we'll be done by Tuesday night. I'd bet agin' it. That's why God made extensions.
(and no, NTodd, not those kind o' extensions. Sheesh...)
And I will respond in July and August by complaining about how humid it is
I remember thinking last July, "Get the hell out of NYC in July next year if you can." July is the worst here, I think. August can be uneven. You can actually get a couple of decent days, but July is the pits.
HBK, what say you?
another unique for democrats feature of the obama campaign: no public sniping from campaign staff.
FWIW, I keep remembering the stumbling, bumbling Kerry letting the attacks on his character go unanswered for WEEKS and then I compare them to Obama who responded within HOURS with a counterattack that was strong but not strident or petulant but spot-on and made the attackers look ridiculous.
Oh, I like John Kerry so. It still hurts to read him called bumbling, but I know what you mean.
I bet he's watching Obama's quick reflexes and perfect pitch and thinkin' "wish I could have done that."
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Dr. Derbes, Yeah, I was done at the end of February. My returns are wicked simple.
another unique for democrats feature of the obama campaign: no public sniping from campaign staff.
I've wondered about that. I don't know much about his staff. Is it because they are political neophytes -- or is it because they've been told that they'll be kneecapped if that stuff starts happening -- or is it because it only happens when you think your guy/gal is losing?
Oh, I like John Kerry so. It still hurts to read him called bumbling, but I know what you mean.
I bet he's watching Obama's quick reflexes and perfect pitch and thinkin' "wish I could have done that."
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Sparkle Plenty
I liked Kerry too. I think he would have made an excellent president but damn it! He SHOULD have responded. I screamed for him to do it. He did not.
It was stupid not to. It cost him the election.
I believed in the early 1970s Kerry. He never showed that spirit and courage in 2004. And I do not understand why.
Res: I like this for a IRS form:
A. What did you make last year?
B. Send it to us.
Saves time.
RIL,
Would that I had your siblings. I'm working with an Ed.D, two J.D.s, and an M.A. who are happily unaware that "Democratic" is the correct adjective used to describe friends that are registered Democrats.
I can't wait unitl that sunny day in August!
Dammit! I have no truck!
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I'm going to the beach today. Just sayin'.
Florida, Drinking Bleach
Cool.
Good article in the NYT today, explaining the difference between the unemployment rate and the jobless rate. Key quote:
In the latest report, for March, the Labor Department reported the jobless rate — also called the “not employed rate” by some — at 13.1 percent for men in the prime age group. Only once during a post-World War II recession did the rate ever get that high. It hit 13.3 percent in June 1982, the 12th month of the brutal 1981-82 recession, and continued to rise from there.
Don't call them bitter, though. That would make you an elitist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/1...s/
12charts.html
NCC-1701 gave my gotdamned truck away!
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or is it because it only happens when you think your guy/gal is losing?
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 10:01 am | #
The Hillary's were trying to kneecap each other before Iowa. Even after NH or super tuesday, the obama people kept in tune.
the clinton white house itself was a mass of second guessing little weasels and self-aggrandizing pipsqueaks - and I am looking at you George.
I reckon I won't be retrieving the Agility 125 this weekend, after all.
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dms,
The sibling that sent that to me actually has some Randian tendencies that disturb me. But she knows bad when she sees it and she ain't voting Republican this November, that's for sure.
Can anyone here help me out with the pop-up thing? I've got the code right where the thumbnails are, but they don't open. I'm positive I'm supposed to place some code up in the header, but I can't remember what it is, and I've been looking all around, can't find it.
Gone Harvey [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Mitt Romney filled in for Paul Harvey yesterday — talking about Iraq, the Olympics, and airline jams.
Did he talk about the compound he set up in Texas to enable 50-year-old men to schtup 10-year-old girls?
Derbes,
When I did mine I kept saying over and over, "I am a wage slave. This is so fucked." I got modest refunds from both the feds and the state. I changed my withholding, though. I don't care if I have to write a check next year. I don't want to lend those fuckheads my money.
Oh no, Jeffraham. Can you get another one?
I can't wait unitl that sunny day in August!
Moe Szyslak, cold
Someone posted a photo of a field in a snowstorm the other day, with the words "Moe's got his garden pics up!"
Did you see that?
mer: Oh no, Jeffraham. Can you get another one?
I could probably get a U-Haul, but that's overkill (and $$$$). 
They said they'd *definitely* give me a deal on one next weekend.
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I can't wait unitl that sunny day in August!
Moe Szyslak, cold
Cancelled, I think, this year..?
Are you trying to show photos with thumbsnap? Thumbsnap doesn't always work for me, although it did for a while. I think the problem lies with them.
IS CNN sure it was a year old?
I mean, the number of dying Iraqis never diminished in Bush’s surge build up program, nope, just the amount of US deaths where the only thing that slightly declined. This is because it was never Bush's intention to help Iraqis, only to pretend the war is a success because less US military people are dying but Iraq is still the same old hell hole it's always been. No electrictiy, no security, no drinking water or sewage system for Iraqis. That is why talk of success is so superficial. I think Bush genuinely wish most Iraqis were dead, so there is no dispute over the vast oil wealth of Iraq being pumping out by force. Terrorized citizens of Iraq, who are hiding in their homes, worrying about their lives, are not going to be able to do anything about Big Oil's theft of their countries oil resources. Bush never wanted the Iraqis to have anything, least of all, any profit, any electricity, any fuel at all from their countries vast oil resources, and thus not any freedom to decided what is best for their future because then Iraqis would know that occupation isn’t freedom. What is going in Iraq is nothing short of pure encouragement of genocide.
It was all spelled out the day Bush ONLY protected the oil Ministry building, but not the schools, not the universities, not the art history museum, no other government building and looting was encourged, so that Iraqis never would have any real freedom. This is something the Bush administration tried hard to keep from actually happing. A free people would never agree to Bush Hydrocarbon Framework Law whereby Western oil contractors keep 80% of all profits, because, of course, a terrorized community would never be able to do anything about it, or at least the Bush/Cheney adminsitration has been banking on Iraqis not be able to do anything about it.
Mitt Romney filled in for Paul Harvey yesterday — talking about Iraq, the Olympics, and airline jams.
Did he talk about the compound he set up in Texas to enable 50-year-old men to schtup 10-year-old girls?
Maybe they can have pope ratzo on so they can share tid bits on how best to commit statutory rape.
It's a disappointment, but not a complete buzzkill... I'd like to get it back here so I can do the work on it, and get it sold. sitten had a project she wanted my help with, though... she'll be hatin' it.
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Marcellina, How old is your building. My friend in Rome lives in a building that dates from 12-something. It blows my mind when I go there.
Did you see that?
Marcellina
uurrgg.,
Are you trying to show photos with thumbsnap?
No, thumbnails, with Javascript PopUps. Sorry, had that wrong. I also had some of the code wrong, but I just corrected it. You're supposed to be able to click on the thunbnails, and get bigger versions. But I'm supposed to stick something in there, on top of the page (or maybe a file in the director?).
I have a cat (don't click, Moe!).
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"...she'll be hatin' it."
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--Jeffraham
I know. Although I'm sure she'll understand.
I never click on the cat photos.
res, my current one is not so old, built in the 50s after the one that had previously stood there had been bombed away in the war. But this particular apartment has never been decently renovated (original owner for decades, then his grandson, who is my landlord) so it's not really up to code.
But I know, it's cool to see buildings from medieval times, eh?
Mitt Romney filled in for Paul Harvey yesterday — talking about Iraq, the Olympics, and airline jams.
About all those grounded planes. I don't fly, but am I the only one who thinks we aren't getting the whole story there? It seems so strange . . .
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Marcellina,
His building is very cool, but his BF lives in an even cooler one near the Colosseum. It's sort of an indoor/outdoor apartment in that rooms flow onto little terraces and then into other rooms, with no interior hallway connecting them. You've got to walk up this stairway that winds around an interior courtyard to reach it. That building is also from 11- or 12-something.
Why doesn't my black opponent respect middle class Pennsylvanians like my friend John McCain and I do?
About all those grounded planes. I don't fly, but am I the only one who thinks we aren't getting the whole story there? It seems so strange . .
You mean three airlines going out of business in a week and then AA grounding 1000 flights in one day? That kind of strange?
IS CNN sure it was a year old?
The checked the born-on date. Sure 'nuff.
Bitter battle Saturday.
You mean three airlines going out of business in a week and then AA grounding 1000 flights in one day? That kind of strange?
leibniz♘☮
No, nothing strange at all . . . why do you ask?
res,
EschaRome 2009!
res ipsa I totally agree.
July was hellish here last year.
Those rain storms were awful and left the city feeling like a big sauna.
Blech!
You mean three airlines going out of business in a week and then AA grounding 1000 flights in one day? That kind of strange?
leibniz♘☮
Yeah. And it's four now. I heard on the news last night that another budget airline bit the dust.
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There is a political reason for grounding all of the airplanes because everything is political to the Bush administration.
Remember when I was telling you how great things were back in 2006? Well, it was actually a Hobbesian genocidal hell, but things are much better now.
-The War Criminal in Chief
EschaRome 2009!
Hey, I was in Rome in fall of 2006. I had been there a few times before, but it had been a while. I have to say that I hated -- and I mean hated -- Rome during the daytime on that trip. It was the loudest damn city I'd ever been to, there were WAY too many people and cars, and everything was just thronged and seething and insane. I would actually get headaches and be miserable.
But when the sun went down ... mamma mia, it was glorious, everything Rome was supposed to be.
I don't know if Rome was always like that?
What are the reasons given for the budget airlines going out of business?
i wandered around in an apartment building in Split in the old yugoslavia that was once the emperor diocletian's palace.
HBK,
I don't remember those storms. I just remember it being overall very nasty and hot and humid and thinking that July in NY sucks ass in every way possible.
Did it rain for days and days -- or was it just the usual evening thunderstorms?
The FAA was not doing it's due diligence wrt inspections then decided to do them all at one time so that we can all say "regulations suck".
That's what happens when you hand over your government to people that hate it.
RIL-
Imagine NTodd running around Rome with two meat balls and a dildo. I vote for Dubrovnik.
What are the reasons given for the budget airlines going out of business?
Marcellina
Fuel prices through the roof. Although I'm sure pointing that out makes me an elitist now.
What are the reasons given for the budget airlines going out of business?
I think they are saying they can't make any margin b/c of fuel cost.
res ipsa there was 1 in particular that closed down the subways.
Remember they blamed it on the free newspapers.
Bobo:
They say the 21st century is going to be the Asian Century, but, of course, it’s going to be the Bad Memory Century. Already, you go to dinner parties and the middle-aged high achievers talk more about how bad their memories are than about real estate. Already, the information acceleration syndrome means that more data is coursing through everybody’s brains, but less of it actually sticks. It’s become like a badge of a frenetic, stressful life — to have forgotten what you did last Saturday night, and through all of junior high.
So is this, like, supposed to excuse McStain's senility?
Want to laugh? My Gentleman Caller was supposed to fly to CHicago on Wednesday...on American. Got re-booked to Thursday. He actually made it there, but it wasn't without pain. He's wondering if he'll make it back.
res ipsa I totally agree.
July was hellish here last year.
When you talk about hellish summers in the city I think about all those New Yorkers escaping to resorts in the mountains back in the day.
We took a blue highway trip in the early 80s through the Catskills, Adirondacks Green and White mountains and there were old, falling-down, boarded-up resorts around turn after turn.
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Well, I'm kinda figuring it out, but I have to go to the farmers market before it starts raining again.
I'll see ya'll later.
res ipsa there was 1 in particular that closed down the subways.
Oh shit, yes! I think I lost 10 lbs. that day wandering around trying to find a train. That was awful!
I'm buzzed on DM and infected.
Amuse me, or at least keep me from going crazy (-er) between bouts of hacking up a lung.
EschaTuva.
There is a political reason for grounding all of the airplanes because everything is political to the Bush administration.
Troutski
I, honestly, heard that it was teh Democrats fault because they were holding hearings on airplane safety . . . .
(And yes, Americans are that fucking stoopit)
I always assume those free newspapers are some wingnut initiative. I've never looked at one. Are they awful?
Gentleman Caller.
That's so awesome. I love it.
Columbia graduate, draft dodger, Beltway insider Pat Buchanan is on mah teevee right now, talking about what it's like being an average American.
Shoot me now.
RIL: Aha.
Good luck with Chicago, and let me know if I can be of help.
(* checks bow, quiver, small wings at heels, cherub mask *)
Want to laugh? My Gentleman Caller was supposed to fly to CHicago on Wednesday...on American. Got re-booked to Thursday. He actually made it there, but it wasn't without pain. He's wondering if he'll make it back.
God know how many wedding, engagement, funeral and business plans have been fucked over in the passed week due to the mass grounding of airplanes. Seven years ago it took 9/11 to do the equivalent. Now it's standard practice in Bush's fucked over state of affairs. I am sure no Arab sheiks were disadvantaged.
I always assume those free newspapers are some wingnut initiative. I've never looked at one. Are they awful?
res ipsa loquitur ,?i.
Most of the "alternative weeklies" here are more leftish.
EschaTuva.
Troutski
Aha, another Feynman fiend!
I always assume those free newspapers are some wingnut initiative. I've never looked at one. Are they awful?
I use to. But they run editorials by people like Doughy so I don't anymore.
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Who can afford to give away newspapers? It's gotta be people with an agenda.
Well, remember who made the phrase famous. She was as deluded as my favorite cross-eyed black gay wingnut, Ron Christie.
Who can afford to give away newspapers? It's gotta be people with an agenda.
HoneyBearKelly
Um... advertising...
The alternative weeklies here run on advertising.
Hence all the ads for hookers and phone sex in the classifieds
Most of the "alternative weeklies" here are more leftish.
These aren't those kind of "alternative weeklies." These are free eight-page things they give away at the subway stop. I just assumed they were being fudned by the Heritage Foundation or something.
Hey, I tried all this scotch with CoT last night. Of course, the oldest stuff was my favorite. I think I could drink scotch in the winter.
An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.
The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the city of Gebze on Friday.
She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europ...ope/
7344381.stm
I just assumed they were being fudned by the Heritage Foundation or something.
res ipsa loquitur
Oh, those.
Here it's more likely to be the Marxist-Leninists or some little old lady running a community newsletter, but we have the wingnuts, too.
Roma č una vecchia cittŕ
Now it's standard practice in Bush's fucked over state of affairs.
I keep saying this ... we're like the Soviet Union. Mass groundings of airplanes. Months and months to get a passport. Third-rate hacks peppered throughout the gov't in no-show or no-work jobs. Massive kickbacks, no-bid Ks, broken military, rampant inflation, frumpy first ladies, decadent first daughters ...
She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.
no.
Pat Buchanan went to Columbia? YOu have got to be kidding me.
frumpy first ladies
Unfair to the Soviet Union! Raisa Gorbachev was very fashionable!
pat's a columbia grad
along with mark penn
Unfair to the Soviet Union! Raisa Gorbachev was very fashionable!
What are you, some kinda Communiss? I bet you drink orange juice, too.
She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.
her story is a microcosm of the human condition - told by each other that we need and love each other, then stabbed in the back whenever there is a chance
JR those aren't the kind of newspapers I'm talking about.
These have very little or no advertising and they just run things from the AP or Reuters.
Plus editorials by right wing nutjobs.
Throat singing with nTodd would make it all worth the trip.
Pat Buchanan went to Columbia? YOu have got to be kidding me.
res ipsa loquitur
Post-grad. Undergrad at Georgetown. He's an everyday working class guy, y'know.
What are you, some kinda Communiss? I bet you drink orange juice, too.
Guilty! But don't you remember how frumpy Nancy Reagan looked next to Raisa, and how Nancy couldn't stand her?
I should go to the plant shop on Atlantic Ave. but that would mean a trip on the subway.
Not.
In.
Mood.
So those papers are wingnut initiatives. I hope the city billed them for the drains getting clogged in that rainstorm.
But I doubt they did.
Plus editorials by right wing nutjobs.
HoneyBearKelly
We generally get left wing loons in print.
The right wing loons are on streetcorners, with signs.
JR, where are you again?
We're winning in Iraq, but we could win faster with more troops. Michael Yon, WSJ
So round up your fellow chickenhawks and enlist as a group.
The editorials are by Doughy, Kathleen Parker, Thomas Sowell, Krauthammer and their ilk.
Blech.
I keep saying this ... we're like the Soviet Union.
moyers journal last night on 2 issues: 35 Million americans go hungry almost EVREYDAY....american farmers (megalo-farms) are given BILLIONS in subsidies in good times and bad
there was a preacher-man on who said that just increasing food stamp rations would eliminate half the starvation in the US, but W said he'd veto an increase in spending and congress does not want to cut farm subsidies
USA! USA! USA!
Oh, I forgot that re Soviet Union:
9+% of U.S. population on food stamps!
Oh, it's good, good, good ... like ... Brigett Bardot!
JR, where are you again?
res ipsa loquitur
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
I know one of the guys that is a regular writer for the Marxist Leninist paper... old skool UK unionist.
fricking hilarious guy.
The "men's rights" groups like to wave banners every once in a while across the road from the Family Courthouse.
Well, that's great!
The dead count in the 2007 stats - provided, that is, that *they* get around to revising the numbers...
And that means 2008's death toll can absorb another 45 ticks to the body count and still be comparable to the '07 tally.
Pure serendipity! Maybe there are still more '05, '06, and '07 mass graves out there waiting to be discovered - just so the '08 metrics look that much better! Be optimistic!
/dark snark
Hey, I was in Rome in fall of 2006. I had been there a few times before, but it had been a while.
Didn't I read something in the paper about you and a fountain?
on moyers also:
food banks with the least amount of inventory in their history to give away....because of need increasing
we're #1!
we're #1!
Ha! Ha! Suck IT, Ari!
Great Expectations for Conservative Group Seem All But Dashed
The conservative group Freedom’s Watch, headlined by two former senior White House officials, had been expected to be a deep-pocketed juggernaut in this year’s presidential election, heralded by supporters on the right as an aggressive counterweight to MoveOn.org, George Soros and the like.
But after a splashy debut last summer, in which it spent $15 million in a nationwide advertising blitz supporting President Bush’s troop escalation in Iraq, the group has been mostly quiet, beset by internal problems that have paralyzed it and raised questions about what kind of role, if any, it will actually play this fall.
it could almost make you bitter
make you want some orange juice
We have a heavily subsidized wingnut rag... it's called the National Post.
Or, as I prefer, the National ComPost.
(Oh fuck Haloscan, sideways)
Grrrrrrrrr. Took me an hour to get into work. Why can't the goddamn IMF and World Bank meet at a resort somewhere so they don't have to completely tie up city traffic, shutting down block after block for "security"?????????????/
But after a splashy debut last summer, in which it spent $15 million in a nationwide advertising blitz supporting President Bush’s troop escalation in Iraq, the group has been mostly quiet, beset by internal problems that have paralyzed it and raised questions about what kind of role, if any, it will actually play this fall.
Russert and Matthews and Blitzer can wave around any poll numbers they want. Stuff like this is not good news for republicans.
In Moyers report on the run-up to war, he gave his opinion of failed journalism: The internet has knocked out so many newspaper subscriptions that even large papers can no longer spend $ to track down a story. They almost exclusively go with a "source", usually in gov't.
When Chalabi was the source he worked both sides of the fence, journos and pols, so they corroborated each other.
Sad when a non-merkin knows more about our system than we do.
Grrrrrrrrr. Took me an hour to get into work. Why can't the goddamn IMF and World Bank meet at a resort somewhere so they don't have to completely tie up city traffic, shutting down block after block for "security"?????????????/
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
They have a "G*d" given- right to see the cherry blossoms on corporate/state expense accounts.
Hecate, thanks for having me on your blogroll. I get people who click to me from your site from all sorts of exotic locales — Japan, Iran, India...
When Chalabi was the source he worked both sides of the fence, journos and pols, so they corroborated each other.
on TDS the other night: chalabi is buddies with iran...the guy who brought us to war in eye-rack was working for eye-ran
woohoo! USA!
Jeebus, Hecate. They paid for DC, they might as well enjoy it.
(I think you'll like the rant at my homepage, BTW.)
Grrrrrrrrr. Took me an hour to get into work.
guess what, I just got a Nissan Altima hybrid. At low speeds and idling in traffic, it pretty much runs on electric only. I'm in love with it.
The GOP is like the wizard and once the curtain has been pulled back, they aint got dooky.
The Freedom's Watch was the biggest sam ever.
I knew that they were full of shit. If they could dredge up 250 million for lame ads they'd have dredged up that money for their presidential campaigns too.
No one buys their shtick anymore.
Bad product, no ad revenues.
Funny stuff.
-GSD
sam=scam.
Chimpy makes a subtle change to his Iraq spin in the radio address today.
I knew that they were full of shit. If they could dredge up 250 million for lame ads they'd have dredged up that money for their presidential campaigns too.
Wingnut Welfare.
Same as it ever was (not was)...
this is very surprisingly good press coverage for obama
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20.../410/205/
494075
guess what, I just got a Nissan Altima hybrid. At low speeds and idling in traffic, it pretty much runs on electric only. I'm in love with it.
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I drive a Honda Element because it's small, economical, incredibly versatile, and parks in minute spaces. I can't wait for Honda to drop their hybrid technology into one of these.
so teh US news tells MANY (fucking!) stories about law and order: the marine was caught who killed that pregnant marine, blah FUCKING blah....
but are the stories of MILLIONS of STARVING americans even told outside of DFH reports?
fuck law and order news, that shit is propaganda to instill fear...since people are hopeless against a crime once it happened, the report of it continue with no resolution except 'capture'.....
/Running Man society
Wisconsin surface map for today - more typical of February. At least half the stations are at or below freezing.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/g...maps/
wi_sfc.gif
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20.../410/205/ 494075
I'm sure the people in a decaying blue-collar town like Morton who've been selling pizza to each other and doing each other's nails to make a living are really going to feel put down by Obama's speech.
Not.
AM: "yeah i want you to come to Yale, we need to sell them some shit"
ME: "don't they have smart people there?"
AM: "nope, they got people who have been sitting at their jobs for decades"
ME: "NICE, good world-class institution, they got there"
fuck law and order news, that shit is propaganda to instill fear...since people are hopeless against a crime once it happened, the report of it continue with no resolution except 'capture'.....
/Running Man society
mogwai
But if you serve on a jury and don't deliver a conviction, you sure as heck can expect a courtesy call from the FBI.
Nudibranches and Craftsman housing and other things too. Speaking of houses.
Just a note...
I just found out that Janet Kagan died the end of February. Proof yet again that there is no god, if she's gone and those bastards in the White House are still breathing.
If you haven't had the pleasure of reading about the Lock Moose Monster, or learned how to pronounce Hellspark, please find her books....
RIP...
Zeffirelli, it's not:
Giuseppe Verdi, one might think, is hard to mess up. But a theater in the eastern German city of Erfurt seems to be doing its best. In a re-interpretation of the opera "A Masked Ball," which opens on Saturday, director Johann Kresnik has hit upon a dramatic novelty: His staging has naked pensioners wearing Mickey Mouse masks, wandering around the ruins of New York's World Trade Center.
http://www.spiegel.de/
internatio...,546635,00.html
this is very surprisingly good press coverage for obama
That was great, not just for Obama but in general. The bobbleheads trashed Wolf's narrative - I have been waiting for this since 2000.
this is very surprisingly good press coverage for obama
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20.../20.../410/205/
494075
Cafferty: They call it the Rust Belt for a reason.
Good point.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/g...maps/ wi_sfc.gif
This just proves that NOAA doesn't work.
you sure as heck can expect a courtesy call from the FBI.
Roadmaster,
Bring 'em on!
In the movie Clear and Present Danger, the President's friend is found to be a drug runner. All his advisers urge him to deny knowing the dude. But Jack Ryan suggests he admit they were good friends, and leave the press nowhere to go. Bush is taking the same approach with the revelation that Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Tenet and Powell met, discussed, and approved torture such as waterboarding:
"Well, we started to connect the dots in order to protect the American people." Bush told ABC News White House correspondent Martha Raddatz. "And yes, I'm aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved."
Well, alrighty, then. There can't possibly be a story here, because the President doesn't seem bothered by this at all.
His staging has naked pensioners wearing Mickey Mouse masks, wandering around the ruins of New York's World Trade Center.
THAT is art
Nudibranches and Craftsman housing and other things too. Speaking of houses.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
And dig how they actually did contextually-sensitive construction around the ancient oak! What pioneers!
(Grits teeth at the new subdivisions that scour the soil to death and crush the roots of trees older than the USA...)
this is very surprisingly good press coverage for obama
Considering all the trivial shit that's been thrown at him and the way he's handled it so far, Obama's starting to look like Mister Teflon.
THAT is art
mogwai
Click on that link, Spiegel.de has press photos.
thanks for CNN clip.
On McLaughlin group last night, they displayed poll results on the tickets:
McCain/Condi 49%
Hilary/Obama 46%
What an insult, each entrenched "pres" contender with their black veeps. Oh and, I'll bet the 46% had more to do with Hilary than Obama.
Wonder whose idea the "poll" was, very insulting and demeaning. Hmm
That was great, not just for Obama but in general. The bobbleheads trashed Wolf's narrative - I have been waiting for this since 2000.
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 11:07 am | #
The claim that people in the dead mill towns of the north are "not bitter" makes the claim that the war in Iraq is going well look solid by comparison.
Hey, Molly - great piece!
His staging has naked pensioners wearing Mickey Mouse masks, wandering around the ruins of New York's World Trade Center.
But is there Senssurround? I won't see it if there's no Senssurround.
this is very surprisingly good press coverage for obama
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20.../20.../410/205/
494075
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I voted for Hillary, but this attempt to paint Obama as some out of touch elitest because he recognizes that some voters are bitter is a disgrace. How appropriate that she and McCain took exactly the same tack.
(Grits teeth at the new subdivisions that scour the soil to death and crush the roots of trees older than the USA...)
Amen. There's a new walled subdivision tearing out the desert scrub north of us and putting in row after row of faux adobe, tan, tiled-roof ticky-tacky boxes. Absolutely soulless.
Hey kids - time for the Saturday 10@10 marathon!
Right now, it's 1980...
How appropriate that she and McCain took exactly the same tack.
Yes indeedy. Does not reflect well on Hill.
Where was I when Atrios broke the story of Brazillian waxing being done to 8-year-olds in the tony Philly suburbs?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
ar...notes041108.DTL
Click on that link, Spiegel.de has press photos.
Marcellina
the hitler chick is awesome...let's open it in nowhere, kansas. think it will get rave reviews there?
MSNBC reporting that Johm McCain has millionaire Mittens Romney out campaigning for him today. That's cuz he's an everyday average American.
Well, alrighty, then. There can't possibly be a story here, because the President doesn't seem bothered by this at all.
you sound as if you're surprised to hear Chimpy routinely contradicting himself.
Considering all the trivial shit that's been thrown at him and the way he's handled it so far, Obama's starting to look like Mister Teflon.
Sufferin' Succotash | 04.12.08 - 11:11 am | #
As DWD points out, a calm and clear response in a matter of hours that turns the attack back on the attackers is something new for democratic candidates.
Right now, it's 1980...
Christopher Cross.
Projectile Vomiting.
That was great, not just for Obama but in general.
There's another reason it's great ... HRC is sort of deploying the Republican "personal responsibility" shit here, i.e., "Yes, things suck, but people are just WORKING HARDER! THey're not bitter. They are happy in their work" and Toobin and Cafferty call bullshit on her. What's wrong with saying that stuff sucks and people are mad about it?
Roof top gardening in an urban environment. Who knows - maybe Philly's got a similar grant programme?
...this attempt to paint Obama as some out of touch elitest because he recognizes that some voters are bitter is a disgrace.
Hokey smokes - a politician jumping on a rival's perceived faux pas!
She truly is history's greatest monster!!!
(Grits teeth at the new subdivisions that scour the soil to death and crush the roots of trees older than the USA...)
reminder to hug my 300 year old oak out front
/big seller for me: "ohh there is a house there too, that's nice"
Coffee?
They drink Mofo Iced Tea.
Another McLaughlin goodie was the scenario of Bush setting up the war to surprisingly wind down right before the election, the "pause" a time for Iraqis to try out a few moves before the charade.
Gives new meaning to the McCain assertion that unless we "win" in Iraq, he's dead.
"Yes, things suck, but people are just WORKING HARDER! THey're not bitter. They are happy in their work"
Reminiscent of Col. Saito: "be happy in your work!"
*Yawn.*
Morning. Just rolled out...
Donde esta Dr. Turk?
Hammel on Trial is going to be in Des Moines on the 25th.
Hokey smokes - a politician jumping on a rival's perceived faux pas!
She truly is history's greatest monster!!!
dave™© | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 11:15 am | #
She just is peddling a very tired line of bullshit.
Morning. Just rolled out...
I remember the days when that would have read "just rolled one..."
"this is very surprisingly good press coverage for obama
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20.../20.../410/205/
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rootless-e"
That is funny. "very surprisingly good press" Hilarious. You really are too much.
Meanwhile health care horror stories aren't being talked about because of the "very surprisingly good press" throughout this campaign. While the "very surprisingly good press" is busy making the dem primary in to a grammar school pissing contest mom and pa kettle and joe and jane sixpack [The people that elect presidents] are tuning out the same stupid crap we've seen election after election.
Well, it's not much yet, but the garden is starting to wake up. I better figure out that pop-up thing before the arugula comes up (got it planted the other day, along with some lettuce and spinach).
I remember the days when that would have read "just rolled one..."
I'm more mature now. I have given up my wicked, whimsical ways.
Hokey smokes - a politician jumping on a rival's perceived faux pas!
I don't think that's the point, which is that Hill could have criticized Obama without sounding like a GOP Cylon.
There will be no troop drawdown on this President's watch which means there is zero chance of Iraq being lost on this Presiodent's watch. He can go out with his head held high. If Barry Obama wins next November , his first order of business will be to lose Iraq and make the Middle East a conflagration.
hadenough | 04.12.08 - 11:19 am |
Take your fucking ball and go home already.
I have given up my wicked, whimsical ways.
Now that's a damn shame.
If Barry Obama wins next November , his first order of business will be to lose Iraq and make the Middle East a conflagration.
"make"?
I better figure out that pop-up thing before the arugula comes up
Elitist.
You know what they're selling that shit for at Whole Foods?
BTW, wasn't that comment, to a farmer last year in Iowa, supposed to smother Obama's candidacy in its cradle before it even got started? What a buffoon that guy is.
As DWD points out, a calm and clear response in a matter of hours that turns the attack back on the attackers is something new for democratic candidates.
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He came right out with the truth: politicians of both parties have stood by for years as your jobs disappeared, while they've distracted you with gods, guns and gays. And now they're trying to do it again with this bullshit.
His response was so on the money it makes you wonder why nobody tried this approach before.
Does we haz Iraq?
"Yes, things suck, but people are just WORKING HARDER! THey're not bitter. They are happy in their work"
__
That's what the gov of Alabama said last night on a NOW story about state income taxes being higher than fed in that state. Especially the 10% tax on food.
He basically said the poor would complain about anything and needed to suck it up.
Grrr
I have given up my wicked, whimsical ways.
That's funny, I'm thinking of resuming mine in a serious way.
"make"?
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
You can't break an egg twice.
Now that's a damn shame.
Blame it on Scrabulous. Hey, I encouraged Jen to join Facebook - I bet you would love to play a game of Scrabble with her. She's anexcellent player.
(She bitches that they don't use the official Scrabble word book, though, but she's a baby like that.)
There will be no troop drawdown on this President's watch which means there is zero chance of Iraq being lost on this Presiodent's watch. He can go out with his head held high. If Barry Obama wins next November , his first order of business will be to lose Iraq and make the Middle East a conflagration.
LGF Forever
And yet, stil, somehow, this is Bill Clinton's recession. Go figure.
LGF Forever is stupid. It needed saying.
We haz Iraqs, but we wantz Iran.
That's funny, I'm thinking of resuming mine in a serious way.
"thinking of"?
which means there is zero chance of Iraq being lost on this Presiodent's watch.
Johnson WON vietnam! Awesome...it was fucking Nixon that lost it!
argula is elitist?
Better tell all the old Portugese peasants in my neighbourhood that.
We haz Iraqs, but we wantz Iran.
marmoset
Be the first in your neighborhood to collect the whole set.
I'm more mature now. I have given up my wicked, whimsical ways.
You make me sad...
(She bitches that they don't use the official Scrabble word book, though, but she's a baby like that.)
Well you have to rethink a bit, but there's a dictionary right in the program, plus a list of 2 letter words.
He basically said the poor would complain about anything and needed to suck it up.
Grrr
el
Food riots - coming to a gated community somewhere in the US of Eh.
"thinking of"?
Molly Ivors
I mean, even apart from the pernicious influence of dubious companions.
wasn't that comment, to a farmer last year in Iowa, supposed to smother Obama's candidacy in its cradle before it even got started?
...Losing count of the myriad gaffes and shortcomings that were supposed to flatten Obama, put him down for the count, drop him like a sack of potatoes, etc., etc..
You know what they're selling that shit for at Whole Foods?
Why would I go buy something I can grow in my yard?
Apropos of nothing, there is a wasp in my office freaking me the fuck out.
http://allintense.blogspot.com/
the gov of Alabama said last night on a NOW story about state income taxes being higher than fed in that state. Especially the 10% tax on food.
He basically said the poor would complain about anything and needed to suck it up.
alabama: bastion of democratic fairness....bAHAHAAHAHAHhahahaahahahaha
when those asshole states aren't greeted with derision, no one is served; NOW, come on...brancaccio, how much you make?
I blame Molly.
As Pope Benedict XVI next week makes his first trip to the U.S. as pontiff, Catholic schools across the country, long a force in educating the underprivileged regardless of their faith, face the same fate as St. Monica.
About 1,267 Catholic schools have closed since 2000 and enrollment nationwide has dropped by 382,125 students, or 14 percent, according to the National Catholic Education Association. The problem is most apparent in inner cities, in schools like St. Monica with large concentrations of minorities whose parents often struggle to pay tuition rather than send them to failing public schools.
"We lose the kids. They can't afford it. And then as the school gets smaller, you have to raise the tuition to pay the costs and it's a vicious cycle," said Sister Dale McDonald, the association's director of public policy and education research.
The pope will gather with Catholic educators during his visit, but not those who run elementary schools — the meeting is with college presidents.
I mean, even apart from the pernicious influence of dubious companions.
That arm healed from all the twisting yet?
The "real" Scrabble uses a "real" dictionary (Merriam-Webster). Scrabulous, not so much.
Nixon didn't lose Vietnam. It was the liberal leftist Democrats in Congress that cut off the funding for the war. Just like Reid and Pelosi have tried. That's when Americans realized Democrats know only one road....defeat.
Apropos of nothing, there is a wasp in my office freaking me the fuck out.
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
It's telling you to go the fuck home.
We haz Iraqs, but we wantz Iran.
marmoset
"People in Hell want ice water. Heh."
- future quote from Satan to W
(She bitches that they don't use the official Scrabble word book, though, but she's a baby like that.)
I remember once playing scrabble in Berlin, and we let people use any language they wanted. Plus we had a bottle of Polish vodka. The last thing I remember saying is "I need to lie down".
If I go home, will the wasp grade my papers?
Well you have to rethink a bit, but there's a dictionary right in the program, plus a list of 2 letter words.
Yeah, that's my problem, too. I haven't been using the dictionary, but I probably should.
That arm healed from all the twisting yet?
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
Oh, hell no... it's so bad I can open doors from the other side.
Apropos of nothing, there is a wasp in my office freaking me the fuck out
Must be some kind of elitist.
If I go home, will the wasp grade my papers?
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
Yes, they'll all get B's.
Newton, I checked out the Civic & Accord, but Honda's cars are not true hybrids. They use the small electric motor to boost power, but they CANNOT run on electric alone. They also have a key starter, Nissan & Toyota have the push button.
Apropos of nothing, there is a wasp in my office freaking me the fuck out.
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
Buy a can of Mountain Dew - open it and leave it on the other side of the room.
Obama's starting to look like Mister Teflon.
Sufferin' Succotash
He'd better, because the entire national press corps, aka the Swift Boat Media for McCain, will be spraying him with shit for the next six months.
"If I go home, will the wasp grade my papers?"
ah just make the shit up based on how much you like them.
it's temping cause grading sucks
Why would I go buy something I can grow in my yard?
Moe Szyslak, cold
Is it true that arugula saps the soil?
If I go home, will the wasp grade my papers?
No, but it will play golf.
Hokey smokes - a politician jumping on a rival's perceived faux pas!
She truly is history's greatest monster!!!
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I didn't call her a monster. I said her line of attack was a disgrace. It deliberately distorts his point in an effort to distract voters from the real issue he was talking about while making a baseless personal attack on him. Is this what you want in a president? I prefer one who will treat me like an adult and speak honestly, as Obama did in his response.
http://allintense.blogspot.com/ --
Yes, they'll all get B's.
The Vietnam War was a civil War we took the wrong side of. Not that Vietnam is comfortably socialist, we have normal relations. The "Iraq War" was started by W and Dick Cheney on false pretenses.
Is it true that arugula saps the soil?
whiskeyina
This is why we have crop rotation. And compost. And manure.
I remember once playing scrabble in Berlin, and we let people use any language they wanted. Plus we had a bottle of Polish vodka. The last thing I remember saying is "I need to lie down".
leibniz♘☮
AWESOME times...
Molly, if you put a sugary drink out on the windowsill, that may draw the wasp outside. Or maybe I'm thinking of yellow jackets, but I think wasps like sugar too.
Nixon didn't lose Vietnam. It was the liberal leftist Democrats in Congress that cut off the funding for the war.
i always forget:
"don't argue with stupid online, they bring you down to their level and beat you with experience!"
That wasp is there to give you bad news that our game is over.
Start another one anytime you want.
Yes, they'll all get B's.
Just Another Zero
Since I'm unlikely to say anything that funny even if I stay here all day, I think I'll go get on with things.
Arugula grows quickly. It enjoys fertile soil, but does not unduly deplete the soil of nutrients.
I took Audrey to work this morning (8:00 AM), and I drove by this dilapidated home with four yard signs screaming at me.
Two said, "John McCain."
The other two said, "Support the troops. Win the war."
Nice way to wake up on a cold and rainy morning in Bland Rapids.
That wasp is there to give you bad news that your ass has been handed to you.
Fried your tangerine.
Vicki,
I blogged about Grand Rapids this morning.
The great thing about that "Obama is out of touch with..." bullshit surrounding his comment on arugula was, it came after he had spoken with a bunch of arugula farmers in Iowa, where the crop is actually making money for regular people.
This is why we have crop rotation. And compost. And manure.
Moe Szyslak, cold |
Yes, well, I'm lazy. I have compost. i could get manure.
Can I just have two plots, one with arugula one with something else and switch them back and forth from year to year? If yes, what should the other crop be?
argula is elitist?
So is tarragon. Much less used in hand made mayonnaise alongside some nice grilled asparagus.
Nixon didn't lose Vietnam. It was the liberal leftist Democrats in Congress that cut off the funding for the war.
The above is the most idiotic statement since Auggy's last post.
I owe Roadmaster a Mountain Dew.
"Win the war." What would that even mean?
So is tarragon. Much less used in hand made mayonnaise alongside some nice grilled asparagus.
GWPDA
Can I have a list of what is't elitist, it would be much easier.
If yes, what should the other crop be?
Something with a root structure different from arugula.
This is why we have crop rotation. And compost. And manure.
And charcoal...
“Black Gold Agriculture” May Revolutionize Farming, Curb Global Warming
http://www.newswise.com/articles...es/view/539092/
Here's a good one. My neighbor came asking for a favor, could I let her tree guy take down 4 of my trees that contributed to a cluster making her grass sparse.
I asked "are you planning to take down the trees on your side of the fence?"
"No, I like my trees".
uh...
My old house, I kept lots of cans of wasp spray around. They came out of the woodwork like Pat Buchanan popping up on MSNBC.
If salad greens grow well in your location, fresh greens are nice to have. Fresh Herbs, too.
I owe Roadmaster a Mountain Dew.
Karin Hussein
Only good for attracting wasps/yellow jackets, or keeping cramming college students and truck drivers awake.
That shit rots yer teef.
"Win the war." What would that even mean?
This question freezes supporters solid.
I point out that our soldiers have done everything we've asked of them, and more. What else do they want?
Source: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Consider the source.
I prefer one who will treat me like an adult...
Step one in "being treated like an adult" is to stop believing in the Tooth Fairy.
It makes all that follows much easier...
If Pope Ratzi sold some of his bling he could keep some of those elementary schools running just fine.
Even the inner city ones.
My old house, I kept lots of cans of wasp spray around. They came out of the woodwork like Pat Buchanan popping up on MSNBC.
leibniz♘☮
Wasp traps.
Lee Valley sells hand blown ones made from recycled glass.
Can I just have two plots, one with arugula one with something else and switch them back and forth from year to year? If yes, what should the other crop be?
whiskeyina
You're better off with three, or even four, if you can let one go fallow each year. But yea, two would work. You could switch tomatoes and arugula back and forth, for example.
You can also plant a green manure, over winter, if you're in a warm enough place.
But I wouldn't stress about it. Just get a back of cow manure and feed the soil before you plant. You wouldn't even need to rotate.
Can I have a list of what is't elitist, it would be much easier.
Coffee and pork rinds. Oh, and beer, so long as you chug it. (MoDo called Obama "effete" a couple of weeks ago for sipping it.
Can I have a list of what is't elitist, it would be much easier.
Sau-Sea Shrimp Cocktail(the jars also make kewl orange juice glasses if you want a touch of class).
Hungry Man Soups(only slightly higher saline content than the Dead Sea).
So is tarragon. Much less used in hand made mayonnaise alongside some nice grilled asparagus.
How about some Miracle Whip on that lime and banananananana jello?
"Win the war." What would that even mean?
plantsman, |
Um, for me, send all the criminals and 'architects' responsible over to Iraq and let the Iraqis sort 'em out.
Obama back-tracking on guns/religion comment
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080...zQRexNaMh.s0NUE
"Win the war" means the same as "mission accomplished"?
How about some Miracle Whip on that lime and banananananana jello?
(barf)
Here's a good one. My neighbor came asking for a favor, could I let her tree guy take down 4 of my trees that contributed to a cluster making her grass sparse.
I asked "are you planning to take down the trees on your side of the fence?"
"No, I like my trees".
uh...
el | 04.12.08 - 11:34 am | #
Well, I think this means you must kill her.
How about some Miracle Whip on that lime and banananananana jello?
leibniz♘☮
I kinda have a craving for an old school jello delight.
Sau-Sea Shrimp Cocktail(the jars also make kewl orange juice glasses if you want a touch of class).
Is that stuff still around?
I asked "are you planning to take down the trees on your side of the fence?"
"No, I like my trees".
Huh.
Oh, Molly, the Aquinas College melt-down.
Most excellent!
I have another one for you. Each month, I get a magazine from the diocese, and this month, the "Ask The Priest" question was about whether or not serving in the military during an "unjust" war was a sin.
Very intersting, nuanced answer the priest gave.
In fact, I was thinking of doing something at my piece of shit blog about it.
I point out that our soldiers have done everything we've asked of them, and more. What else do they want?
tickertape parades.
I had a VERY brief conversation about Iraq with my father a couple of weeks ago. He started trying to tell me that the casualty rate in Iraq was (a) not as high as was being reported in the press and (b) not all that high when compared to traffic accident fatalities or other common domestic causes of death.
HRC's trying to spin Obama's comments to hurt him didn't even make sense.
Oh, and beer
But only crap beer. Not any of those fancy smancy "mircobrews".
Well, I think this means you must kill her.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins
Noes!
Plant another 5 trees!
Obama back-tracking on guns/religion comment.
Nice.
Going on Faux to roll over and play dead in 4... 3... 2...
Never mind the wasp, I've got termites in my house and moles in my lawn. Does anyone know how to get rid of the moles?
I asked "are you planning to take down the trees on your side of the fence?"
"No, I like my trees".
This it he point where you go back into the house, grab and axe and a goalie mask, and ask her if she'd like to rephrase that.
Can I have a list of what is't elitist, it would be much easier.
Irish potatoes.
Iceberg lettuce
Kraft French dressing
Big Red & RC Cola
Rutabagas.
Coal.
Does anyone know how to get rid of the moles?
Karin Hussein
A cat.
whether or not serving in the military during an "unjust" war was a sin.
Well, as they went to all the trouble of defining just and unjust wars, I guess the answer's pretty clear.
But probably not too comforting for people whose kids are in the line of fire.
morning from the west coast. coffee, no thanks, i'll take the oj 
Purple Dinosaur Frank(D) on CSPAN
Sorry Karin.
I only know molé.
(Thanks for the cookbook Dr. J.)
I owe Roadmaster a Mountain Dew.
Karin Hussein
Only good for attracting wasps/yellow jackets, or keeping cramming college students and truck drivers awake.
That shit rots yer teef.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | 04.12.08 - 11:34 am | #
My friend is addicted to it. 6 years ago, when she had her bariatric surgery, she was able to wean herself from it. 3 years later, she was back to something like 6-8 cans a day.
"I asked "are you planning to take down the trees on your side of the fence?"
"No, I like my trees"."
Republican fer sure.
Irish potatoes.
Iceberg lettuce
Kraft French dressing
Big Red & RC Cola
Rutabagas.
Coal.
GWPDA
Can you define "rutabagas"?
Are we talking the big yellow ones, or the little white ones?
Yeah, we're only supposed to drink crappy beer that comes in widemouth cans, now with shotgun vent for added awesomeness! None o'that local flavor, you effete monsters you.
Can I have a list of what isn't elitist, it would be much easier.
Well, quail, definitely...
But only crap beer. Not any of those fancy smancy "mircobrews".
Heineken?!? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!
Never mind the wasp, I've got termites in my house and moles in my lawn. Does anyone know how to get rid of the moles?
Karin Hussein
Um....Kerosene and a match?
Irish potatoes.
Iceberg lettuce
Kraft French dressing
Big Red & RC Cola
Rutabagas.
Coal.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | 04.12.08 - 11:38 am
Faygo pop.
Does anyone know how to get rid of the moles?
Moles are attracted to moist, soft soil. They can be the devil to get rid of. If you can afford a professional who garauntees his/her work -- that's the way to go.
Does anyone know how to get rid of the moles?
Karin Hussein
A cat.
Yep. Our cat Sam specializes in getting medieval on moles.
Not only that, he brings them into the kitchen to show us what a heckuva job he's doing.
The priest quotes Thomas Aquinas (ironic, since we just mentioned Aquinas College) in his response, and from all indications, without saying that he believes the war is immoral, his supporting rationale leads me to believe that is his answer.
Obama back-tracking on guns/religion comment
No, he isn't:
Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that that comments he made about bitter working class voters who "cling to guns or religion" were ill chosen.
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"I didn't say it as well as I should have," he said.
That's not "I didn't mean that." That's "I'm still working on it."
It's only a "gaffe" to the media and political elite, because it's not part of their establishment narrative.
But fuck them anyway.
Here's Obama "backtracking" on his comments:
video
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That shit rots yer teef.
Roadmaster
I've been clean for about 3 years now. Not that coffee with extra sugar is any better, but at least there are less weird ingredients I can't pronounce.
tell your neighbour with the sparse grass to use lime on that part of her soil. it will help the grass grow. it's a pretty well known fact and prevents trees from getting cut down for stupid reasons
Aren't the little white ones turnips?
It is time for a Socialist revolution. But, unlike the revolutions of the past, this one must not be brought about at gunpoint. I don't expect it will actually happen though, I think a few more years of bullshit denial are more likely in the short run at least. America doesn't stand a chance of actually changing anything fundamentally until such time as they can no longer pretend to be king of the hill.
bloggus-- you don't need a bunch of letters behind your name to know that it makes sense to feed your soil. I throw my fireplace ashes out on the raspberries and asparagus, for example.
Well, I think this means you must kill her.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins
Noes!
Plant another 5 trees!
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | 04.12.08 - 11:38 am
Why not both?
Can I have a list of what is't elitist, it would be much easier.
i hear the commoners are eating dirt in haiti
Rutabagas are the big yellow/purple ones, also called "Swedes."
Heineken?!? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!
Busch Bavarian...finest swill ever brewed.
Oh, Molly, the Aquinas College melt-down.
This concerns the cancelled philosophy lecture? I find it deeply troubling that so many liberal arts colleges have become hotbeds of this type of fascism.
Heineken?!? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!
My friends and I used to go into a bar in the Marina in SF that had Pabst on tap. They also used to keep a sixer in the fridge at all times in case Joe DiMaggio came in and wanted a cold one (and he did once when we were there!)...
Yeah, we're only supposed to drink crappy beer that comes in widemouth cans, now with shotgun vent for added awesomeness! None o'that local flavor, you effete monsters you.
Jay C.
I was thinking of giving up my Dam Ale 'cause I only seem to get around to returning the empties about once a year.
Are we talking the big yellow ones, or the little white ones?
Little white & purple ones, which, with parsnips (also non- elitist) go into vegetable soup.
I think the funniest part of that article was Hillary's response:
"I was raised with Midwestern values and an unshakable faith in America and its policies," she said. "Now, Americans who believe in the Second Amendment believe it's a matter of constitutional right. Americans who believe in God believe it's a matter of personal faith.
"I grew up in a church-going family, a family that believed in the importance of living out and expressing our faith. The people of faith I know don't 'cling' to religion because they're bitter. People embrace faith not because they are materially poor, but because they are spiritually rich.
"Our faith is the faith of our parents and our grandparents. It is a fundamental expression of who we are and what we believe."
As if anyone in this country seriously believes that Hillary is a Christian.
She'll blow smoke up the ass of the "heartland," then she'll vote against their interests. Yeah, we knew that.
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asia times has some good articles on how rumours were going around the ME last week about a new war - except you didn't hear it here
A-man was too busy talking about how many electrical outlets there are in his living room
Does anyone know how to get rid of the moles?
Move to a frozen wasteland with granit "soil."
Never mind the wasp, I've got termites in my house and moles in my lawn. Does anyone know how to get rid of the moles?
Get rid of the grubs and such the moles eat. Or go to the local seed store and see if they have 'poison peanuts'. Put a couple in the mole runs.
The need for lime is most directly tied to annual rainfall, and has nothing to do with shade. Fescue-type grasses are shade-tolerant.
Also not elitist:
Cheese Whiz
Kool Aid
Cheetos
Wonder bread
Well, it's a Catholic college, and Benedict's not too impressed that they're actually having open inquiry and such.
Plus, he has issues with Teh Gay, as I note at my homepage.
"hadenough | 04.12.08 - 11:19 am |
Take your fucking ball and go home already.
Feh "
I annoy you. Good.
bloggus-- you don't need a bunch of letters behind your name to know that it makes sense to feed your soil. I throw my fireplace ashes out on the raspberries and asparagus, for example.
Moe Szyslak, cold | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 11:41 am |
We moved to our 'real' house in Ohio in October. Soil not so good. Dad was very happy to have a fireplace, he started put the ash on the garden area ASAP. By the time we left, we had wonderful soil (we used other compost, but ashe was the main ingredient).
Aren't the little white ones turnips?
Molly Ivors
They are both turnips.
Many years ago I was trying to explain turnips (large, yellow) to a grocer in rural Pennsylvania. I used the words "swede" and "rutabaga" to no avail.
Maybe he was just dumber than a houseplant, but it was very odd, him being a grocer, and it being farming country.
owls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why not both?
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins
Bully idea! Kill her and then bury her body under the five new trees!
EXCELLENT soil nourishment for newly-planted trees.
"Well, we started to connect the dots in order to protect the American people." Bush told ABC News White House correspondent Martha Raddatz. "And yes, I'm aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved."
Well, alrighty, then. There can't possibly be a story here, because the President doesn't seem bothered by this at all.
Newton Minnow | 04.12.08 - 11:07 a
Its hard to believe,but in the past, this was called confessing to a crime.
Ratzi has issues with transvestism, too.
I was thinking of giving up my Dam Ale 'cause I only seem to get around to returning the empties about once a year.
whiskeyina
The Commonwealth is considering switching to Maine's can-redemption program. You join up (with your supermarket card, or whatever), and the system knows how many cans you've purchased. When you redeem, you just chuck a bag of cans back at the store, with your ID info stapled to the bag.
A 3rd-party company sorts it all and credits you the appropriate amount, without any can-counting or beer-juice-spilling.
lime for shaded areas worked so well on our lawn back in Montreal.
I'm kinda in consumer heaven right now. Mrs. Moe got suckered into buying a $600 vacuum cleaner-- $600!-- so I'm justified in buying whatever the hell I want right now, a list that consists of a new brewing kit and a wood chipper (finally!).
Microbrews are elitist ... 'cause they're made by traditional methods.
Organic produce is elitist ... 'cause it's grown with traditional methods.
100% arabica coffee is elitist ... 'cause it's made without industrial robusto crap.
Apparently, "elitist" means "someone who won't bend over and take it from an industrial behemoth that markets itself with a cargo-cult version of a culture you don't know anything about anyway."
I can see why. It's shorter.
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Get rid of the grubs and such the moles eat. Or go to the local seed store and see if they have 'poison peanuts'. Put a couple in the mole runs.
I've never used insecticides on my lawn, which is probably why the moles are having a field day.
Ratzi has issues with transvestism, too.
As a Nazi who prefers boys who look like boys, I can understand that.
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Shade in Arizona is not shade in Montreal.
Hmmm. Just to be clear, I was not referring to myself.
I prefer my nazis dead and my sexual partners to look like women.
OK, that came out wrong too.
Aw, fuck it.
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Does anyone know how to get rid of the moles?
Moles are attracted to moist, soft soil. They can be the devil to get rid of. If you can afford a professional who garauntees his/her work -- that's the way to go.
county extension agent in Seattle used to conduct seminars on mole control. basically the only way to deal with the little fuckers is to trap them.
the agent recommended scissor traps, not the bayonet kind that are so common in hardware stores. basically, you set the trap, put a bucket over it, put a stone on the bucket, go back and check it every couple of days.
agent says moles are territorial, and chances are you only have one, so if you can trap that one, you should be good.
worked for me.
I've never used insecticides on my lawn, which is probably why the moles are having a field day.
Try milky spore. That'll take care of all sorts of grubs for years.
Apparently, "elitist" means "someone who won't bend over and take it from an industrial behemoth that markets itself with a cargo-cult version of a culture you don't know anything about anyway."
That sounds kinda shrill to me.
Moles are attracted to moist, soft soil. They can be the devil to get rid of. If you can afford a professional who guarantees his/her work -- that's the way to go.
Thanks for the advice. I need a professional anyway, for the termites, so maybe I can get a package deal.
OK, time to deal with varmints and do my income tax returns.
Newton, I checked out the Civic & Accord, but Honda's cars are not true hybrids. They use the small electric motor to boost power, but they CANNOT run on electric alone. They also have a key starter, Nissan & Toyota have the push button.
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Thanks for the info. Nissan also has some fine 4wd platformss to put their hybrid in and I'll definitely take a look when the Element needs replacing. Have I told you how great the Element is? Now, if it only didn't look like the box it came in...
the other mole control method that worked for me was getting a cat. Up in Tennessee I didn't even know I had a mole until it showed up one day on the carpet in the den.
Karin, I wouldn't worry about the mole, if it's just the unsightly mounds that you don't like. They are very useful in controlling insects via their larvae, including termites.
I would worry about the termites, and you might have to tent your house, which is expensive.
In Miami we had fire ant nests all around our house and never had a problem with termites. The fire ants were a pain, but very effective in keeping termites away.
sockpuppet owls.
We must be winning!
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