I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
!!!HILLMENTUM™!!!!
"My friends, I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of Waziristan, and sample some poppies along the way."
Stonybrooke Farms!
.
poppies!
Here's a petroglyph I took a picture of today.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/ITaYfTlo.jpg
Does anyone want to see a few more?
So he's choose either Churchill or Teddy Roosevelt as his running mate?
(Only watched half of it, then threw up a little bit in my mouth.)
"In what galaxy is this relevant? Why, this one, right over here!"
.
he'll choose.
[in a whiny voice:]
" I Won't Give Up
I Won't Give Up
Fight Fight Fight"
YAY enless War!!
...and what's with the flashing lights?
too much time in a disco?
Thanks for the warning Shaw, I'll not even try.
He's appealing to that pathetic group of Americans who believe in their exceptionalism and believe that we achieve it through invading countries with brown people living in them.
Is this the new Vangelis video? Cool!
Itake it we're going to bomb Pearl Harbor. Again.
Stinking Germans.
Man in a straight jacket.
Dead threaded
"If Hillary Clinton and John McCain become their party's presidential nominees, the general election race is likely to be a love-fest.
At least according to Bill Clinton."
Either that or keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
"My fellow americans,we will leave no cinematic technique unused, no historic speech unpoached, and WE WILL FIND A USE for all the extra footage that's been collected from the Hubble Space Telescope for the past 10 years!"
they know he won't win. they're only trying to shore up support in the only group that loves him, old folks. TR pr0n draws blank stares from about 99% of the american population under 60. ditto the churchill stuff.
i loved the blurred-to-focus "maccain2008" at the end. having dealt with the eldery and blindness a lot recently, i can understand how that works as a 'end on a positive note' for the older audience this is directed at. hopefully, the GG is mostly too cheap to waste money on this guy through his long, dry summer. mitt to the rescue!
Itake it we're going to bomb Pearl Harbor. Again.
Stinking Germans.
shawk | 03.08.08 - 5:26 pm | #
I think he's saying he wants to refight the spanish american war. Which he was in.
i can understand how that works as a 'end on a positive note' for the older audience this is directed at. hopefully, the GG is mostly too cheap to waste money on this guy through his long, dry summer. mitt to the rescue!
chicago dyke | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 5:28 pm | #
His target demographic can't even spell you tube and would have fallen asleep at 47 seconds.
well we've been conditioned to "support the troops".
I've been trying to come up with words to describe this...
For starters: overreaching, overcompensating, delusions of grandeur, warmongering, romantic self-indulgence.
let's be cruel: funny how mcstain wants to remind the geezer vote about their beautiful (all white) grandkids, but not one shot of the heroic son or younger adult in uniform. mccain has come full circle: "the uniform" is best heard about, but not actually seen.
I have to go jet about on my Taiwanese thrill thang.
bbl
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I still don't understand how John McCain't became the nominee. The "base" had a real conservative, Mittens, and they turned their nose up at him, believing Grandpa Fred would be their next Ronnie Raygun.
Now they've got a guy they detest, a guy they believe is a liberal (ha!) and now apparently he wants to exhume Teddy Roosevelt so he can be his running mate and make McCain't look young.
I can haz stoopid politicks?
Chruchill envy
This part comes next...
“Hey, man, you don’t talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The
man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet-warrior in the classic
sense. I mean sometimes he’ll, uh, well, you’ll say hello to
him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you, and he won’t even
notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in
a corner, and he’ll say do you know that ‘if’ is the middle
word in ‘life’? If you can keep your head when all about you are
losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when
all men doubt you — I mean I’m no, I can’t — I’m a little man, I’m a little
man, he’s, he’s a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas — I mean –”
Yes, Churchill rallied Great Britain at its lowest ebb.
But it was a crippled old Democrat and a paranoid Communist to defeat the Axis powers, along with the fat old drunkard.
Which is why you won't see McBush quoting either Roosevelt or Stalin in his campaign ads.
Old and senile.
His demo, BTW.
I think the exploding nebula at :42 is from 2001.
My god . . . it's full of wingnuts!
What's with this comment moderation thing? Or just Hellscum being extra pissy?
We shall never surrender! To what, exactly?
I'd get stoned right about now.
I really hate snow. Why do I live i this frigid bitch of a country????
Heidi is pushing me out of the chair
It's not bad, it just isn't very good either.
And the idea that we won't give up because we're Americans and they will because they aren't...mind numbingly stupid.
I think the exploding nebula at :42 is from 2001.
In space
No one can hear you bloviate.
Why do you have to go and ruin my Saturday buzz?
Tweedy was talking about McCain as Chruchhill last week ...
But seriously, BUZZ KILL.
http://mediamatters.org/items/20...ms/
200803070009
Trying again: Looks like Imus is back to his old sexist tricks.
He does not change.
How about "bullshit"?
So besides comparing McStain to a bunch of dead guys approximately his age....what's the point?
We shall never surrender! To what, exactly?
Ali, now with ADHD
Obviously, to the peaceniks who want to end an illegal and unjust war.
Heidi is pushing me out of the chair
But of course! What are you doing in her chair in the first place?
I've been trying to come up with words to describe this...
How about fucking delusional????????
McCain would make a great British prime Minister. he should run for it.
There was not one single positive image in that.
McCain is appealing to the WWII survivors and military nuts--not a strong demographic in this race.
It seems oddly... evangelical.
We shall never surrender! To what, exactly?
To the beryllium beings of the swirling galaxy at :55.
And "in space no one can hear you scream" is actually Alien. As in, "in space no one can hear you scream at a reporter who asked you about whether you talked to John Kerry about being his running mate in 2004."
McStain, you forgot to throw Ronnie into the mix. That's unforgivable.
Chruchill envy
enslaved
Jowel envy? Unpossible.
"We're nutroots and we can hardly wait to submit to the jihadists. In fact every Tuesday is 'bend-over for peace day' at the bathhouse..."
Trying again: Looks like Imus is back to his old sexist tricks.
He does not change.
jawbone
Oh, but if you complain, that means you think women are superior to men.
McCain is appealing to the WWII survivors and military nuts--not a strong demographic in this race.
cosmic tumbler, scruffy
Really does show how fucking old and out of touch he is.
The electorate at large probably doesn't recognize any of those old dead white guys.
And "in space no one can hear you scream" is actually Alien. As in, "in space no one can hear you scream at a reporter who asked you about whether you talked to John Kerry about being his running mate in 2004."
Michael Bérubé | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 5:36 pm | #
Which will be popping out of his goiter any time now.
the way wingnuts talk about WW2 its like the US jumped in and beat Hitler singlehanded
and they way they treat it like a game, a fantasy
ignoring the history, background, context and boiling everything down to its simplest form
Here's a petroglyph I took a picture of today.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/ITaYfTlo.jpg
Does anyone want to see a few more?
Doug | 03.08.08 - 5:24 pm |
I took pictures of this:
http://good-times.webshots.com/
p...096501088iRqpzg
Comment by Lubyanka blocked.
Ah, what a wonderful thing killfile is.
Oh, but if you complain, that means you think women are superior to men.
And this is a problem because...?
McStain, you forgot to throw Ronnie into the mix. That's unforgivable.
Lime Rickey
Too young.
Though he is dead......
This guy is no Churchill. What nerve.
This is an appeal to the lizard brain.
And as usual, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I love the fine print disclaimer at the very end... if you read closely it says "May Cause Some Softening of Stool".
Old men send young men and women to war with a wave and a grin and stirring words. They seem unhaunted by the death they cause and the bloody cycle of vengeance their rhetorical spinning inspires. I am sick to death of John McCain and Joe Lieberman and every other pasty doughy lifeless old prune who has needlessly sent our military to fight a needless and meaningless war. Young men and women are dying for these megalomaniacal bastards, as are innocent people who never held a grudge against this country until we so incompetently threw theirs into chaos.
Fuck John fucking McCain and his dusty words. We need something better than blood toil tears and sweat for the bloody hell of it.
Ok, I'm out.
The electorate at large probably doesn't recognize any of those old dead white guys.
flory | 03.08.08 - 5:37 pm | #
Mccaunus is dead? I thought he just smelled funny.
OMG this video is obscene.
Oh, but if you complain, that means you think women are superior to men.
And this is a problem because...?
catalexis
Apparently, some people think that IS a problem.
As demonstrated on the last thread.
Moonbootica Johnson is right! It was actually the Russians who fought the Germans the most.
brian "lube and yank it" hardig envies us for our bath houses.
makes sense, if you think about it. last night he was telling us how badly janet has pussy whipped him. his rare snatches of honesty are quite revealing.
Poetry for an evening in early, early spring.
Did you see that in the video there was a brief shot of Huggy Bear on the bed ... holding a cigarette?
I wonder if I can screen cap that ...
Churchill and TR. But no FDR. Hhhmmmm.
And that music! Wow.
Plus the lights--are those supposed to look like carrier landing lights at night...or what? WTF?
The end shots a little children in fields somehow don't fit in very well.
But, as a hodgepodge, I guess it works.
Doug, where do you live that you see impressive petroglyphs like that?
I feel (almost) like giving him some $ so he can show this fecal monstrosity over and over again.
The McStain ad is good propaganda.
It presents a poison pill but coats it in patriotism so the Americans people will swallow it.
"We will never surrender!" sounds great but what does it mean?
Never surrender to who? Osama bin laden? Give me a break!
And while we continue with Bushboy's unnecessary and unending war, what about educating America's children? What about rebuilding it's infrastructure? What about getting off the addiction to $100/barrel (soon to be $200/barrel) oil?
There are 1.5 billion members of the Islamic faith. If we continue to invade Islamic countries we will not only be in for a "hundred year war," it will last forever.
We don't need war. We need peace and prosperity.
McStain thinks the solution for everything is a military solution.
He needs to fuck off and die.
John McCain reminds me ever more of a minor character from The King of Hearts who was left lying on the cutting room floor.
I love the fine print disclaimer at the very end... if you read closely it says "May Cause Some Softening of Stool".
melior
All I got out of that ad was that McCain speaks with a really high soprano voice. Compared to Churchill (not that there's anything wrong with that).
makes sense, if you think about it. last night he was telling us how badly janet has pussy whipped him. his rare snatches of honesty are quite revealing.
How do you pussy whip someone? Do you cut out your vulva, attach it to a piece of string, and let whip?
I don't think men or women are superior as a whole kind of deal.
I think I am superior to everyone else though. It's normal.
Pathetic. If this guy wins even one state I'm moving to Canada. I never knew that GOPers thought Winston and TR were their guiding lights. No reference to JC or God in general or a burning cross somewhere in the backgroud, what will his base say? Most of all, who were the idiots who put this piece together? It really is weird.
that's a fucking brilliant video.
the production qualities are topnotch and its totally visually arresting.
this guys selling himself as a great leader.
NO WONDER HILLARY LOVES HIM SO MUCH
We shall never surrender! To what, exactly?
To the beryllium beings of the swirling galaxy at :55.
And "in space no one can hear you scream" is actually Alien. As in, "in space no one can hear you scream at a reporter who asked you about whether you talked to John Kerry about being his running mate in 2004."
Michael Bérubé | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 5:36 pm
How do you pussy whip someone? Do you cut out your vulva, attach it to a piece of string, and let whip?
Echidne
I've always wondered. I figured you had to somehow stand on your hands and flail your crotch in their general direction.
That vid could easily be mocked. Use the audio and play it back with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I...h?
v=Iys86OcXPY8
echidne
damn good question. brian was insistent that he was pussywhipped by both Clinton and by Janet.
brian, how does that work, exactly?
We need to use the photo of the little girl in Vietnam running up the road naked because she got burned by napalm.
"Does America need to be hated anymore than it already is? Do we really want more of this?"
Probably should have chosen music less reminiscent of Tubular Bells.
It was very effective in The Exorcist, though.
ScrewBush | 03.08.08 - 5:41 pm | #
Don't do it. It is really cold and snowy and in the summer you can't breathe.
Plus, Canadians will hate you if you try to make it like the US here, that means talking politics as if it's as important as hockey.
OMG this video is obscene.
Sinfonian, unfair & imbalanced | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 5:39 pm | #
yeah but its like the 'bladerunneer' of campaign ads.......
its brilliant.
leni reifenstahl was also brilliant creating 'Triumph of the Will'.....
The part that pisses me off is the patented fake smile with the "We'll never surrender, and they will."
"They" meaning we DFHs, who of course have been fucking right every step of the way.
Cue sound track, "Knee deep in the big muddy, but the big fool says to push on."
This is the one.
Talk about obscene!
http://www.lewrockwell.com/
latul...apalm_19721.jpg
Pathetic. If this guy wins even one state I'm moving to Canada. I never knew that GOPers thought Winston and TR were their guiding lights. No reference to JC or God in general or a burning cross somewhere in the backgroud, what will his base say? Most of all, who were the idiots who put this piece together? It really is weird.
ScrewBush | 03.08.08 - 5:41 pm | #
no shit it's weird.
it's like science fiction.
but it's totally a brilliant piece or propaganda.
"and they will"
how's that working out for the GOP, seven years after they let Osama waltz out of Tora Bora?
McCain should go to a bar in Perth, or visit Amritsar, and celebrate Churchill. He should go just about anywhere in Latin America and celebrate TR. That both were racists, imperialists and had distinctly mixed legacies probably doesn't enter into McCain's thinking.
And the Soviet Union, of course, bore by far the brunt of the European war, and was by far the most responsible for Germany's defeat. McCain won't, odds are, celebrate Stalin's wartime leadership as part of his campaign.
Note that I haven't even started in on McCain himself...
It's like a cross between the Van Halen "Right Now" video and that song by Moby that was in the commercials for "Heat."
Cue sound track, "Knee deep in the big muddy, but the big fool says to push on."
melior
That's what happens when a fly boy plans a war. It all looks so much easier from the air.
leni reifenstahl was also brilliant creating 'Triumph of the Will'.....
Very rousing.
Notice that McStain didn't use the word "Iraq" in his faux patriotic piece.
He knows the American people hate the Iraq war and know they were duped into it.
McStain and the Goopers will speak of "terrorism" and "al Qaeda" and the "threat to America," but they won't talk about the the bloodsucking war.
They know we hate it.
God, I just can't fucking stand it:
One Clinton aide yesterday derided Mr Obama’s victories in “boutique” caucus states rather than the hardscrabble terrain of the rustbelt, saying: “Obama has won the small caucus states with the latte-sipping crowd. They don’t need a president, they need a feeling.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...=null&
offset=12
It takes a village, alright.
It's Wizard of Oz
from black and white to color!!!!!
you guys are missing how smart savvy probably amoral graphic whiz kids put this out for mccain ======
McStain is going to get trounced so bad he wouldn't even have won Jericho.
"I know who I am. I know what I want to do. Kill brown people!"
"I love the fine print disclaimer at the very end... if you read closely it says "May Cause Some Softening of Stool"."
from black and white to color!!!!!
Life was all in B&W back in those days.
This video proves he's ready to be CIC.
leni reifenstahl was also brilliant creating 'Triumph of the Will'
She was. Her subject matter sucked, however.
If the Nazi had TV, this is kind of ad Hitler would run with his German Shepherd dog.
"Better Living Through Killing."
Very rousing.
NTodd, McGuffin Hitler | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 5:45 pm | #
a powerful piece of political propaganda. very primal.
she was a great artist totally in the service of evil.
mixed legacies pass the wingnuts by
to them its black or white
With those kids in the flowers, I was waiting for one of them to start picking the petals off and counting down.
What? No Scarlett Johansenn?
They will 'eh? Ask the Israelis how squeezing the Palestinians and knocking down their houses and stealing their water and just giving them one fucking decade of iron fist after another has worked out for them so far? If I hear one more shocked Israeli whining about how the Palestinians teach their children bad things about Jews I'm going to snap.
Life was all in B&W back in those days.
NTodd
I used to think that when I was little.
Before I called it Culture of Truth, I was going to call my blog "Nationalism and Constitutionalism."
You can see which side this falls on.
no shit it's weird.
it's like science fiction.
but it's totally a brilliant piece or propaganda.
juan no no cheerful
If he's trying to mobilize the Depends vote, maybe. Otherwise, I don't see it.
God, I just can't fucking stand it:
Bjorn, needs a president
then start a fucking Anti-Clinton blog already or get another less obsessive hobby.
With those kids in the flowers, I was waiting for one of them to start picking the petals off and counting down.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office
funny how that 8 yr. old is actually 18 now and she supports obama.
"Ah, what a wonderful thing killfile is."
It is indeed, dear lady! It is indeed!
The republicans have become fascists. Anyone who denies this is a liar.
With those kids in the flowers, I was waiting for one of them to start picking the petals off and counting down.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | 03.08.08 - 5:47 pm | #
totally a play on the LBJ ad against Goldwater/ the girl with the daisy.....
he's arguing that he's strong/like teddy roosevelt and churchill and totally RESPONSIBLE
and of course that Hillary has just given him a million bucks worth of free publicity in that department herself
Maybe they do one of hrc laying waste to a starbucks in Utah.
NO WONDER HILLARY LO--
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzz...
Here it is, Huggy Bear ... *gasp* ... SMOKING!
If McStain really wants to improve his chances in November he should run that ad and at the end show a picture of Hillary saying, "I approve this message."
I'll bet she would, if he asked her...
triumph of the swill.
This kind of manipulation will absolutely get him elected. If he's not swiftboated into another Kerry, we're toast.
Okay - grass is cut, garden is watered (did I mention the grape vine is coming back? This year - grapes!), the chicken is cooked and the house is dusted. Meanwhile, the bees are in an absolute tizzy over the apricot blossoms, so it looks gud in about a month for lots of apricot jam. Couple more cooking-related activities and then I get to finish shredding all the stupid bits and pieces of paper I've been hanging onto for 10 years (the IRS does not care about the bill to re-upholster the sofa). Monday, I'll find somebody to take all the shredding and recycle it.
And my much beloved Burgie, formerly of the sole surviving service station on my side of town (which closed abruptly) has made his whereabouts known - Jeep can haz oil change now!
Finally, NTodd - the term 'water rights' is quite a bit different from mere 'rights', at least out west. I'd no more give up or turn off my water rights than I would move to Vermont and teach at that silly school where they make all the faculty wear Park Ranger hats. Having water rights attached to my property means that I can thriftily grow enough green to lower the ambient temperature during the summer enough to allow me not to have to use much a/c or power to cool the house. Having water rights means that I can keep a green cover on the land so that it doesn't dry out and blow away, losing top soil and productive, fertile ground and ultimately poisoning the ground water. It isn't always the best idea to 'turn off the water'. Sometimes it's far more reasonable to use it intelligently.
Laterz!
Nothing brings out the youth vote like Winston Churchill clips from WWII newsreels.
Yep, I much prefer to trash McCain.
HE'S the guy who wants to turn the entire world into one big graveyard.
Quick work, Sinfonian!
catalexis
agree 1000%, but what brought that tirade on? more propaganda from Our Glorious Allies in today's Times?
what?
If he's trying to mobilize the Depends vote, maybe. Otherwise, I don't see it.
flory | 03.08.08 - 5:49 pm | #
the Depends vote sees the flag and his pow status and roosevelt and churchill.
the young see the trailed lines of colour/ the production values/ and the powerful visuals.
A few great men interspersed with a really, really bad McCain commercial.
jdw | 03.08.08 - 5:46 pm | #
So, how's your weather?
The sun is finally shining, but it's still snowing.
Interesting.
I think the mornings are about the best time around here... the hard-core Obamaites and Hitlery-bashers have other things to do then.
The rest of the time... feh!
High flying Jack McBaur is racing against time. He's driving a load of highjacked nuclear-tipped warheads to the rendezvous point in his GMCSUV. Will the filthy Arabs get there first? Stayed tuned...
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
With seconds to spare, the dashing flyboy negotiates a hairpin "flip-flop" maneuver. He touches down on the flight deck of the Oval Office with orders to Save The World.
Here it is, Huggy Bear ... *gasp* ... SMOKING!
It's probably an unfiltered cigarette, too.
The republicans have become fascists. Anyone who denies this is a liar.
Tralfaz
I think they morphed into fascists right after Lincoln died.
The fascist imagery and fear the republicans are increasingly relying on is profoundly unAmerican. Their psychosis has made them lose any idea of what it means to be American.
that's a police state style ad.
very frightening.
High flying Jack McBaur is racing against time. He's driving a load of highjacked nuclear-tipped warheads to the rendezvous point in his GMCSUV. Will the filthy Arabs get there first? Stayed tuned...
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
With seconds to spare, the dashing flyboy negotiates a hairpin "flip-flop" maneuver. He touches down on the flight deck of the Oval Office with orders to Save The World.
ok
The Pantload ejaculates
we're toast.
I am not a member of the Amlgamated Trolls, so please be careful with the "we" buster brownpants
If he's trying to mobilize the Depends vote, maybe. Otherwise, I don't see it.
No shit. A bunch of jerky black-and-white film isn't gonna "inspire" a generation that thinks McCartney's only band was Wings.
OMG annie, you're right. I totally forgot about hockey because I think hockey sucks. I'll never fit in.
Perhaps some YouTube video vigallante can put something like this together.
Fade in to a picture of John Kerry circa 1968 voice over "Four years ago the Democrats ran a Vietnam vet for the highest office in the land and he lost."
Fade out Kerry and Fade in a picture of McWar -- I mean McCain -- also circa 1968, voice over "This time the Republican party is running a Vietnam vet for President." Screen goes black. Voice over, "What's different?" Now splash up a picture of Cindy McCain "This vet's got a Hot Wife."
you got it tralfaz
yeah but its like the 'bladerunneer' of campaign ads.......
Mr. McCain, you find yourself in a desert. There's a turtle on its back. Its struggling to right itself. Why aren't you help it?
Rep. King proposed surrendering earlier today.
McCain should take it up with him.
funny how that 8 yr. old is actually 18 now and she supports obama.
smarty jones
Actually, that 8 yr. old would now be - gasp! FIFTY-ONE or FIFTY-TWO!
The fascist imagery and fear the republicans are increasingly relying on is profoundly unAmerican. Their psychosis has made them lose any idea of what it means to be American
That is why I'm so happy the Dems are going to repeal th Patriot Act and disband Homeland. I cna't wait to take water on a plane again.
"Four years ago the Democrats ran a Vietnam vet for the highest office in the land and he lost."
Fade out Kerry and Fade in a picture of McWar -- I mean McCain -- also circa 1968, voice over "This time the Republican party is running a Vietnam vet for President." Screen goes black. Voice over, "What's different?"
"This vet yakked his head off. He really IS a traitor!"
funny how that 8 yr. old is actually 18 now and she supports obama.
smarty jones
Actually, that 8 yr. old would now be - gasp! FIFTY-ONE or FIFTY-TWO!
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | 03.08.08 - 5:54 pm | #
2 different 8 year olds.
I think they morphed into fascists right after Lincoln died.
Rudy
They don't even try to hide it any more. To them, it's only about raw, barbaric, "us or them" fear and hatred.
Al Qaeda has utterly defeated them by reducing the republicans to their level.
This is a surprising ad, and easily parodied. It's really a mistake.
1. What's with all the nebulae? Is McCain heading us into outer space?
2. Teddy Roosevelt? Winston Churchill? Stubborn, bull-headedness that will keep us in Iraq for ten thousand years? That's what this country wants, no doubt!
3. Little kids in meadows, like LBJ's infamous nuclear war ad?
And where does McCain talk about stuff that most of us are worried about: the economy, health plans, the future apart from possible wars? He doesn't.
We've been fighting a war in Iraq for longer than we fought World War II. Some of us are getting a little fed up.
Hey, I hope they run this ad forever. It's terrible.
OMG annie, you're right. I totally forgot about hockey because I think hockey sucks. I'll never fit in.
Never say that out loud at Tim Horton's!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's a great line that fits the commercial:
"I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker."
No, that can't be it. That's an Adolf Hitler line and we all know that's over the edge. Maybe this one:
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
Darn, another Hitler. Okay, this one for sure:
"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. "
Yep, that's the one.
The fascist imagery and fear the republicans are increasingly relying on is profoundly unAmerican. Their psychosis has made them lose any idea of what it means to be American.
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It's Naziesque, and I don't care who screams that we just can't go comparing these monsters to those monsters!!!!
This is how Hitler did it. Don't forget that Hitler didn't take over Germany. He won the popular vote!!!!
funny how that 8 yr. old is actually 18 now and she supports obama.
smarty jones
Actually, that 8 yr. old would now be - gasp! FIFTY-ONE or FIFTY-TWO!
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office
sorry, I switched gears and was speaking of the Clinton 3 a.m. phone call ad. the footage of the girl was stock and she is actually 18 now and an obama voter.
Well son, some men choose to have a loving relationship with a woman and others decide to have alternate lifestyles where they go to Interstate restrooms to have anonymous men shit on them, by the laws PC we are not allowed to judge anyone else's lifestyle unless they are white fundies.
the young see the trailed lines of colour/ the production values/ and the powerful visuals.
juan no no cheerful
And the point of that is what? There really isn't much message to pretty production values.
The young spend 7.2 seconds looking at a commercial with a couple old guys they don't recognize and hit the fast forward on their tivo.
There isn't anything here to capture anybody who isn't as enamored of TR and Churchill as McStain apparently is.
What's with all the nebulae? Is McCain heading us into outer space?
Whitley Streiber is McCain's voter outreach coordinator.
david i respectfully disagree with you.
but if focus groups tell them it's terrible they'll retool.
it's a very very early general election ad.
i find it quite visually arresting.
and shockingly 'contemporary' considering the old geezer (is 71 an old geezer?) running///////
McCain should campaign in graveyards
The young spend 7.2 seconds looking at a commercial with a couple old guys they don't recognize and hit the fast forward on their tivo.
There isn't anything here to capture anybody who isn't as enamored of TR and Churchill as McStain apparently is.
flory | 03.08.08 - 5:56 pm | #
Ah, but aren't most voters silver haired?
The republicans have become fascists. Anyone who denies this is a liar.
Tralfaz
I think they morphed into fascists right after Lincoln died.
Rudy
Every country has this element, and you are correct in identifying the GOP as the fascists in this country.
Just go here and see how perfectly the GOPs ideology fits the definition of fascism.
http://www.mvp-seattle.com/
pages...pageFascism.htm
There isn't anything here to capture anybody who isn't as enamored of TR and Churchill as McStain apparently is.
Run this ad next to the Will.I.Am spoof and the McCain ad will be instantly forgotten.
Methinks McStain was aiming this ad at the American Ejaculate, not the American Electorate.
According to McStain's exhortation, "WE should never surrender!"
Does that apply retroactively to Vietnam? Because if it did, he might still be a resident of the Hanoi Hilton.
And since we left Vietnam, what great evil or catastrophe has befallen the US? Except for Raygun, Bushdaddy and Bushboy - I mean.
We are a mass society injesting mass amounts of corporate media-produced virtual reality. A lot of people - maybe a majority - have no idea what's up and what's down anymore. Hell, the Constitution is now considered "quaint" if its considered at all.
AND the fascists are lining up behind McCain. I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of media is ultimately successful, especially if there were some "incident" between now and November.
Obama is not the last best hope, but he is the strongest alternative to this crap, if he can weather the storm. Tough assignment. As for Clinton, she's in McCain's camp, IMHO.
Whitley Streiber is McCain's voter outreach coordinator.
SteveNS
Very funny!
Was there an FDR clip or was I spacing?
McCain could dig up corpses and pose with them as they are his demographic
It just bothers me that right wingers have developed the situational ethics blinders that ask "Who is doing it to whom" before they can answer if something is right or wrong. (As to the earlier 'dissing men' discussion, my feeling is that it's a more of a "how do you like it?" instructional payback than it is a genuine systemic problem for men.) Torture is always bad, not just when it's our guys getting tortured...blowing up people who never harmed you is always bad even if you are wearing a uniform when you do it.
The rest of the time... feh!
dave
well someone seems to be doing their best to ruin that.
Doug,
Here're some glyphs from Utah
http://thumbsnap.com/v/adx95PaE.jpg
Whitley Streiber is McCain's voter outreach coordinator.
SteveNS
He's so full of shit.
Of course he's running out of a sense of entitlement.
"I was a POW for 5 fucking years!! White House please!!!!!"
you have to approach the video thinking unlike the way you think.
it's easy to ridicule because it's 'theirs.'
I think it's an effective piece of fascist personality cult propaganda.
Yes, but he was smoking.
SMOKING!!
[faints]
I for one am willing to fight al qaeda on the beaches.
woman on cnn: "denny hastert stepped down as speaker of the house"
errr...wrong! he and his party were fired. by the people.
preferably the beach with penelope cruz and her sister having a picnic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6...h?
v=6An0LQ8HdNs
UNICEF wants to teach kids about war with this.
DIE SMURFS DIE!!!!!!
"I was a POW for 5 fucking years!! White House please!!!!!"
I was in the lineup at the grocery store for 20 minutes so they made me the produce manager.
Blood, sweat, and tears, bitches!
The young spend 7.2 seconds looking at a commercial with a couple old guys they don't recognize and hit the fast forward on their tivo.
------------------------------
Are you kidding????? 7.2 seconds is an eternity to video game youth! The nano second that this thing comes on the screen the kids are gone! He's gets less than a second to capture the attention of the young voters who spend their days playing video games at lightening speed. This ain't going to do it.
I for one am willing to fight al qaeda on the beaches.
Culture of TrÜth
How 'bout the hedgerows?
Ah, but aren't most voters silver haired?
Gilly Gonzylon
Generally, yes. But not this go round by all accounts.
And I think that's McStain's strategic error. He's going after a demographic that isn't terribly excited about him while Obama, and to some extent Hilary, are going after the demographic of the future...and getting them excited.
Hey mer --
If U R still around -- I checked on Facebook -- we're good!
greenwald's new book says that, more than anything, americans hate 'losing' a war.
How about 30 seconds of the "Different Strokes" theme song with this image:
http://www.hola.com/hola/2000/_r...s/
ho2900s11.jpg
I for one am willing to fight al qaeda on the beaches.
southern France, the western Carribean, Polynesia, I am so there with you.
This message brought to you by The Parallax Corportaion.
blood, sweat and final cut pro editing suite
This is a surprising ad, and easily parodied. It's really a mistake.
1. What's with all the nebulae? Is McCain heading us into outer space?
Alpha Centuri, bitches!
Syriana, Munich, or Night at The Museum. Which should I watch tonight?
I for one am willing to fight al qaeda on the beaches.
The ski resorts in wintertime.
I will fight them at the Four Seasons!
I will fight them at the French Laundry!
I will fight them at the summer house in Boca!
That ad was stolen from somewhere. The music, the clouds. I just can't remember where.
I for one am willing to fight al qaeda on the beaches.
The Sneeches are a bigger threat to our beaches...
"I don't seek the office out of a sense of entitlement."
Guarantee: the word "entitlement" will be thrown around a lot by Republicans in the GE, with the implication that the female/black candidate is seeking office as an "entitlement."
The subtext of all that "entitlement" talk? How uncomfortable it makes entitled white men to see non-white-men acting like they're just as entitled...
Syriana, Munich, or Night at The Museum. Which should I watch tonight?
trifecta | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 6:03 pm | #
Syriana is good, but you need to watch twice.
Those petroglyph pictures were taken west of Tucson. There are more Indian cultural artifacts than most people think, and in more places. You just have to know what to look for, and who to ask.
"I was a POW for 5 fucking years!! White House please!!!!!"
Culture of TrÜth
----------------------------
He had 3 airplanes shot out from under him and he got caught the last time. Perhaps he should have learned to fly the damned things.
I don't think he can run the White House any better than he could fly those damned bombers. We'll all end up dead with his incompetence.
hillarys demographic is primarily women 50+ and white voters 65+
unless I am mistaken.
primarily i said.
Sinfonian, it looks like Contact, with Jodie Foster. But maybe it's something else...
In any case, it's ridiculous.
Why do you think you can beat Mccain when you couldn't beat Bush and everyone hates Bush???
"Americans LOVE a winner and HATE a loser! That is why America has never and will never lose a war!"
(George C. Scott as "Patton" -- great flic -- gotta go serve supper)
Syriana, Munich, or Night at The Museum
Syriana if want to be confused.
Munich if you want a point beaten over your head.
Night at the Museum if you want a movie to go on 20 minutes longer than it should.
Maybe that fecal monstrosity was aimed more at his base - the media. Like, don't fuck with me I'll hurt you.
hedgerows, no way.
I've seen those mothersfuckers
That ad was stolen from somewhere. The music, the clouds. I just can't remember where.
leibniz♘☮ | 03.08.08 - 6:03 pm | #
koyanisquattski?
thinking of that?
Now they've got a guy they detest, a guy they believe is a liberal (ha!) and now apparently he wants to exhume Teddy Roosevelt so he can be his running mate and make McCain't look young.
Seriously...do they really expect anyone to vote for this guy. I think the Dems could nominate a jar of olives and it would win in a landslide.
Syriana, Munich, or Night at The Museum. Which should I watch tonight?
trifecta | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 6:03 pm | #
Syriana is an excellent movie, Munich is alright and i haven't seen the third
As Hussein Obama and Billary eviscerate each other and the Dimocrat Party, McCain and the GOP look on in gleeful fascination...
are we having fun yet?
hillarys demographic is primarily women 50+ and white voters 65+
unless I am mistaken.
primarily i said.
juan no no cheerful | 03.08.08 - 6:04 pm | #
And sanka drinkers, apparently.
Seriously...do they really expect anyone to vote for this guy. I think the Dems could nominate a jar of olives and it would win in a landslide.
Cranky Bob | 03.08.08 - 6:05 pm | #
Yes. Honestly, I think he'll probably win.
So that's the little bastard he sired off that nigger whore!
(South Carolina racist GOP voter)
Cokes to everyone who said this before I did, but doesn't that commercial just remind everyone how John McCain is SO FUCKING OLD?
He fits right in with the 100-year old hyperactive film of Teddy Roosevelt.
That ad was stolen from somewhere. The music, the clouds. I just can't remember where.
Infomercial for John Edward, the man who can see through the veil that separates the living and the dead?
America can no longer afford mental defectives and gross incompetents in the WH.
McStain's priorities have nothing to do with the welfare of the American people.
It has everything to do with his ego driven delusions of grandeur and his predilection for war.
Why do you think you can beat Mccain when you couldn't beat Bush and everyone hates Bush???
annie
Err... Annie, W lost 2000 by more than half a million votes. But for five Supremes, he would never have sat in the Oval Office.
In 2004, he had a war to help him, and Kenneth Blackwell who effectively stole Ohio. Granted, it shouldn't have been that close.
And sanka drinkers, apparently.
Bjorn, needs a president | 03.08.08 - 6:05 pm | #
Good one.
That video won't load. 
i iz currently watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
not as bad as i thought it would be
heh they have Summer Glau from Firefly and that kid from Heroes
geekniess!
McCain should campaign in graveyards
Moonbootica, Employed | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 5:57 pm | #
Well, in Chicago graveyards are reliable Democratic bastions.
McStain is going to appeal to the young folks by playing Cory Hart at campaign rallies.
are we having fun yet?
Lubyanka
Well, we are.
You, on the other hand, are sounding pretty damn desperate lately.
"thousands of LGBT Wyomingoids deliver caucuses for Hussein Obama..."
heh.
in rome i asked for 'american coffee' instead of espresso and got sanka.
So, I know people who make fanvids, like for TV shows and movies and such. I've watched a lot of them. A lot of them are amateurish. A lot of them suck.
And next to this trippy, Twilight-Zone thing, a lot of them could win motherfucking Oscars.
Is John McCain saying he's in favor of time travel? Is that what the creepy music is about? He's going to take us into space until we find a portal to the planet of the Cylon gods?
Seriously, my cokehead poet boyfriend freshman year of college made more sense than this when he was high.
A.
heh they have Summer Glau from Firefly and that kid from Heroes
geekniess!
Moonbootica, Employed
I watched all the episodes. Really got into it.
And as for Summer Glau, well, I'd hit it™, of course.
Infomercial for John Edward, the man who can see through the veil that separates the living and the dead?
SteveNS
How do you make the snickering icon show up, again?
Is he trying to compare himself to Churchill? Obviously I haven't had my full allotment of vodka this evening. Oy vey!
koyanisquattski?
thinking of that?
Well,that would be ironic.
Moonbootica, Employed
And David from 90210.
that ad was cold like an airport.
cold like a metal detector.
cold like mental repitition.
cold like unfeeling slaughter.
perfect for america.
heh they have Summer Glau from Firefly and that kid from Heroes
She is teh hottest Terminator evah.
McCain should campaign in graveyards
[McCain, to graveyard:] My friends, you are my base.
"thousands of LGBT Wyomingoids deliver caucuses for Hussein Obama..."
So THAT's what Lynne Cheney's been up to.
Nice touch with the little girl running through the field at the end.
What do the local experts Walter Neff and Simels think of it?
Is John McCain saying he's in favor of time travel? Is that what the creepy music is about? He's going to take us into space until we find a portal to the planet of the Cylon gods?
Well, if he wins, McCain will be the president on Dec. 22, 2012.
in rome i asked for 'american coffee' instead of espresso and got sanka.
My favorite thing about rome was that even the break room coffee machine at the bank I was working for served espresso. And the IT guys had an ashtray sitting on top of a $400,000 server.
McStain is going to appeal to the young folks by playing Paul Anka at campaign rallies.
smarty jones
Frayed Your Tapestry.
It has everything to do with his ego driven delusions of grandeur and his predilection for war.
Rudy
Gotta make Viet Nam right...
He's going to take us into space until we find a portal to the planet of the Cylon gods?
Oh, fuck!
He's the final Cylon, isn't he?
Afternoon/evening, rational people.
Well,that would be ironic.
leibniz♘☮ | 03.08.08 - 6:09 pm | #
wouldnt it be?
of course the clouds weren't slowed down or speeded up!
anyway have a good night all.
i'm off to the fricking races/ or 'something'
William F. Buckley: I stand athwart history
Senator Larry Craig: I have a wide stance
Yes. Honestly, I think he'll probably win.
Gilly Gonzylon
Clutching Bush so tightly? Not a snowball's chance in Texas.
Well, if he wins, McCain will be the president on Dec. 22, 2012.
I think the Grim Reaper will be in touch with Grouchy McPouchy prior to that.
.
And as for Summer Glau, well, I'd hit it™, of course.
Actually, she'd hit you. And kick you.
Cylons vs Terminators
Psychoderelict.
With apologies to Pete Townshend...
Those petroglyph pictures were taken west of Tucson. There are more Indian cultural artifacts than most people think, and in more places. You just have to know what to look for, and who to ask.
Doug | 03.08.08 - 6:04 pm
Did simels help draw those?
David Derbes, algebratin' |
But you still lost and it never should have happened. I'm worried that all the candidates right now will screw us HARD.
No one will gt rid of the Patriot Act. Homeland. And that scares me.
What happens if the dems are just as bad???? They are all the same.
We are screwed.
Infomercial for John Edward, the man who can see through the veil that separates the living and the dead?
SteveNS
He'll be perfect to moderate the upcoming Presidential Debates...
Someone ought to show those pictures of McCain as a POW next to the pictures out of Abu Ghraib.
That video won't load.
Summary: Delusional old man trying to compare himself to great leaders. It would be laughable if he wasn't serious.
What the hell was that clip? A trailer for his 100-year war?
Is he trying to compare himself to Churchill?
If only it made that much sense ...
Is he trying to say that history and the aliens who colonize the planet after humanity is extinct will look back on him fondly? Honestly, this is like a spec script for the last, gasping days of the Star Trek franchise, but for the abscence of tinfoil bikinis.
A.
Its clearly aimed at the media - look I got the CIC goods, not ms. threshold. And I'll hurt you bad. It's 2 minutes long, so its not a campaign commercial, and his arteriosclerosic base would not understand it.
Frayed Your Tapestry.
Sinfonian, unfair & imbalanced
Hey, I'll never surrender!
Athenae, you used to like my stuff ...
McStain is going to appeal to the young folks by playing Paul Anka at campaign rallies.
"She's Having My Baby", fundie theme song?
He's the final Cylon, isn't he?
Jacob is gonna be pissed.
A.
caption competition
A temporary urinal in Bristol
Clutching Bush so tightly? Not a snowball's chance in Texas.
Rmj, Eminence Front
Rachel Maddow thinks tying Bush around his neck won't work precisely because he happily accepts the comparison. Somehow I don't think it's quite the jujitsu move she thinks it is.
Sinf!
Whitmoyer says hi. Saw him in NYC yesterday.
Athenae, you used to like my stuff ...
I used to like margaritas. You cured me of that, too, you feckless, unfaithful hack.
A.
I kan haz 10,000 year woar?
Jacob is gonna be pissed.
A.
Athenae
Yeah.
But it explains a lot.
I'd hit it™, of course.
Sinfonian
How 'bout you tell us about what you wouldn't hit? It would save a lot of typing. 
We are screwed.
let's be clear, we Democrats are gonna do just fine, but yes, you Republicans are screwed. really fucking screwed.
Not a snowball's chance in Texas
It snowed there yesterday.
What the hell was that clip? A trailer for his 100-year war?
Closer than you think. The republican mindset is one of victimization. They believe that they personally have been under attack since Teddy Roosevelt. 100 years of people blowing each other up means nothing to them if it means they get a .25% tax cut and get to punish sluts for having sex.
What happens if the dems are just as bad???? They are all the same.
We are screwed.
annie
That's right, Annie. They are all the same. Gore = Bush. Obama = McCain.
And the last person who voiced this brilliant insight was named Ralph Nader.
And since it matters not at all who is the President, why don't we just repeal the 22nd Amendment and make W president for life?
There's an idea that America will welcome!
Are you out of your mind?
Clutching Bush so tightly? Not a snowball's chance in Texas.
Rmj, Eminence Front
I can't wait to see them stumping together. It will be a fun-filled contest to see who can make the least sense.
Rachel Maddow thinks tying Bush around his neck won't work precisely because he happily accepts the comparison.
I think six months of him "saying what he means" is gonna outweigh any disadvantage he may have. Remember, no matter how muddled, Republicans always know what they stand for, and no matter how clear, Democrats always have no idea.
A.
The dems are gonna repeal the Patriot Act? Any of the things Bush did? They want MORE change.
LOL. Not more repealing.
100 years of people blowing each other
The Larry Craig platform.
And as for Summer Glau, well, I'd hit it™, of course.
Actually, she'd hit you. And kick you.
NTodd, McGuffin Hitler
Well, okay, if she insists.
Rachel Maddow thinks tying Bush around his neck won't work precisely because he happily accepts the comparison. Somehow I don't think it's quite the jujitsu move she thinks it is.
geor3ge
that doesn't even make sense. who cares if he accepts the comparison? it's whether the voters accept it that matters. and if they do, he's fucked.
The high income, African-American state of Wyoming went for Obama as expected. Jesse Jackson won the state 17 times.
let's be clear, we Democrats are gonna do just fine, but yes, you Republicans are screwed. really fucking screwed.let's be clear, we Democrats are gonna do just fine, but yes, you Republicans are screwed. really fucking screwed.
We have two inspiring candidates, who have so captivated the electorate that it is difficult to pick one. Republicans, on the other hand, have a candidate that is the nominee by default. Good luck with that!
You DhimmoRats will never understand the joy this American gets when sleeping with mommy.
The high income, African-American state of Wyoming went for Obama as expected. Jesse Jackson won the state 17 times.
WalterNeff, Thai master | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 6:15 pm | #
Goddam latte sippers.
Well, okay, if she insists.
Especially if you sing the Fruity Oat Bar song
I kan haz 10,000 year woar?
Culture of TrÜth
If McCain is elected, why yes, yes you can!
BTW, I enjoyed the footage of Bush (with McCain standing beside him) asserting that "everyone who runs for president says they want 'change.'"
In other words, per Bush, McCain doesn't really plan to change anything and is just saying what he has to say to get elected.
The dems are gonna repeal the Patriot Act? Any of the things Bush did? They want MORE change.
Wha?
I still wanna hear Obama start every sentence with "Senator Clinton and Senator McCain . . ." like they're a ticket.
i approve of the google images of this summer glau you speak of.
Sinf!
Whitmoyer says hi. Saw him in NYC yesterday.
geor3ge
Awesome. It's been a while. Thanks.
What the hell was that clip? A trailer for his 100-year war?
Cranky Bob
More like something off the Starship Troopers cutting-room floor...
It doesn't matter who is Presidnet because we don't hold them to doing our will. They just say OUT OF IRAQ and that is good enough. Cleans up America. Gives us back our freedoms.
They do what they want for their own reasons. And those reasons have nothing to do with us.
TR? We've gone from gunboat diplomacy to gummed diplomacy.
The invocation of Teddy Roosevelt is wonderful since he is the once who instituted the "death tax"!
I am supposed to be doing the dishes now ...
Wha?
Monica_A:Problematic Negro
Ah, Monica, have you met the moppet?
Si se puede!!!!!!!!!!!!
It doesn't count because it's a small state and a caucus.
You DhimmoRats will never understand the joy this American gets when sleeping with mommy.
I think you may have a carbon monoxide leak in your house. Please evacuate and call the proper authorities.
My daughter got sick watching Starship Troopers
Kids in the fields and flowers?
I was waiting for the sneezes and then the Zyrtec spokesperson.
More like something off the Starship Troopers cutting-room floor...
Elmer, PHD (horrible) | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 6:17 pm | #
A big ugly bug-thing snipping off his head would be pretty funny.
Not a snowball's chance in Texas
It snowed there yesterday.
Ice here today.
i approve of the google images of this summer glau you speak of.
She is unearthly in her beauty.
Though if we're talking the girls of Firefly, my own personal list goes 1. Kaylee 2. Zoe 3. River.
Jewel Staite is just so very pretty with her pretty pretty hair.
A.
"thousands of LGBT Wyomingoids
Brian
echiden brought up a question for you earlier. what, or how, does one get pussy whipped? you were talking last night about your fears opf being pussy whipped by Clinton and by your wife, Janet, and echidne wonders what are the mechanics of such an act? does the vulva get attached to a rope or what.
how does that work, Brian?
Seriously Jr. Which candidate is going to fix the mess Bush made of America??
Or is Iraq all that matters??
My daughter got sick watching Starship Troopers
WalterNeff
I sometimes feel that way about Heinlein, too.
I think you may have a carbon monoxide leak in your house. Please evacuate and call the proper authorities.
Monica_A:Problematic Negro
Or he could just stay there and breathe....deeply.
Summer Glau has an ethereal beauty
Zoe is No. 1.
Or, maybe those clips of kids in open fields were from the Soylent Green final scenes?
This ad proves that Obama is too naive and inexperienced to be CIC.
That is one disturbing ad on so many levels. But I think the shots of the universe are the most disturbing, as if he i heaven sent. Wow. I'm speechless.
Y'know, if I think about it, I can't even get past the notion of a man singing a song titled 'She's Having My Baby'.
Whose baby, again?
It doesn't count because it's a small state and a caucus.
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 6:17 pm | #
And they sip latte and the state goes puke in the GE and its not a rust belt state and...Zzzzzzz.
Especially if you sing the Fruity Oat Bar song
Make a man out of a mouse!
This ad proves that Obama is too naive and inexperienced to be CIC.
Clearly.
Since he can't fly the TARDIS for shit.
A.
This ad proves that Obama is too naive and inexperienced to be CIC.
ErinPDX
Huh?
'splain, Lucy...
The use of restraints in youth custody to enforce discipline should be banned, MPs and peers have said.
The mother of the youngest person to die in British custody knows only too well the potential consequences of such techniques. "They took a little boy and gave me back a body," says Carol Pounder.
Her son, Adam Rickwood, was only 14 when he hanged himself just hours after being restrained at the Hassockfield Secure Training centre in County Durham.
His mother is fighting for a public inquiry to discover what happened and push the government to ban the practices.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...ews/
7283322.stm
OMG! That's it!
McBush is telling us the solution to SocSec problems and Medicare costs is...Soylet Green!
Let's see: Protein. Carbs? Fats for biofuels?
How 'bout you tell us about what you wouldn't hit? It would save a lot of typing.
Willendorf Venus
Hmmm ... good point.
How 'bout Candy Crowley, for starters?
Seriously Jr. Which candidate is going to fix the mess Bush made of America??
Guess what, moppet... it will never be like it was. The reich-wing have seen to that.
Obama is from *this* galaxy.
Totally unqualified.
This ad proves that Obama is too naive and inexperienced to be CIC.
Clearly.
Its more of a shot at hrc.
The high income, African-American state of Wyoming went for Obama as expected. Jesse Jackson won the state 17 times.
It doesn't count because its a red state.
This ad proves that Obama is too naive and inexperienced to be CIC.
Clearly.
Since he can't fly the TARDIS for shit.
A.
Athenae
And McStain is older than the TARDIS.
That is one disturbing ad on so many levels. But I think the shots of the universe are the most disturbing, as if he i heaven sent. Wow. I'm speechless.
I actually interpreted the heaven scenes as to where he hopes he'll soon be heading.
Seriously Jr. Which candidate is going to fix the mess Bush made of America??
Or is Iraq all that matters??
annie
(sigh...)
We are spending upwards of $100 billion a year in Iraq, 2 billion a week. That does not begin to count the money that will be spent on rehabilitating the wounded and paying the widows and widowers. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobelist in economics, believes that if the war were ended now, it would still cost us $3 trillion.
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money. (With apologies to Sam Rayburn.)
Iraq is certainly not the only problem. But the money wasted on Iraq would go some ways on fixing the rest of the country.
Well, Moonboo, I'm sure BushBoy would be glad to suggest some alternate persuasion techniques for youth custody....
He just talked about a whole bunch of good "persuaders."
Sorry, still aghast about McCain smoking.
[fans self, scratches balls]
His mother is fighting for a public inquiry to discover what happened and push the government to ban the practices.
Perhaps this is a more important inquiry than who or what caused the death of Princess Diana. For goodness sake, people. It was the driver! He was drunk! Why would the royal family want the mother of the heir apparent dead?
that story shoes the price of NuLab talk-tough, shitty, daily-mail arse-licking, blunkettism is expendable kids
Perhaps this is a more important inquiry than who or what caused the death of Princess Diana.
The Princess Di crowd are the UK equivalent of troofers.
And McStain is older than the TARDIS.
flory
Hell, he's almost older than Simels.
Kids in the fields and flowers?
I was waiting for the sneezes and then the Zyrtec spokesperson.
jawbone
I think the clip was cut just before the mushroom cloud.
How 'bout Candy Crowley, for starters?
Sinfonian, unfair & imbalanced
KLo?
How about this woman?
In what many in the GOP came to view as the 11th Commandment, Ronald Reagan famously said," Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." Hillary Clinton, it would now appear, is taking his advice to heart. Not content to merely lambast the supposed inexperience of Barack Obama, Clinton's scorched-earth campaign has lavished praise on John McCain as the embodiment of a commander-in-chief. Desperate to resurrect her once-fading candidacy, it is Hillary Clinton who has sadly emerged as the embodiment of Reagan's Law.
For details, see:
"Hillary Clinton Follows Reagan's 11th Commandment."
The word you're looking for is . . .
"Delusional"
These people really need to join a bridge club, or a bowling league, or something to give their lives purpose other than the great epic struggle against the brown people.
the troll's question about who is gonna clean up the mess the Republicans made makes me laugh. assholes like Allen Butler give us 8 years of the most fucked up shit, then have the gall to ask who is gonna clean up the mess?
but the trolls must sense the turning tide. note their overt use of "we" and "us" in their screeds.
bill clinton can fucking blow me.
Next ad:
McCain going down on the Statue of Liberty, and Liberty saying, "You know who I would call at 3 am".
...picture of clouds
Then McCain saying,"I am her gummy bear" while removing his dentures.
Guess what, moppet... it will never be like it was. The reich-wing have seen to that.
That is an excuse so the dems can just take over this fucking mess and use it too.
All is lost. I'm staying here.
How 'bout Candy Crowley, for starters?
Sinfonian, unfair & imbalanced
KLo?
How about this woman?
Are we discussing women we would have no problem sending to the front-line in the war? I'm cool with all three.
Try Soylent Green Moss, 99% less fat than Soylent Green Hastert
Huh?
'splain, Lucy...
Cranky Bob
sarcasm
/
McCain going down on the Statue of Liberty, and Liberty saying, "You know who I would call at 3 am".
...picture of clouds
Then McCain saying,"I am her gummy bear" while removing his dentures.
David Lynch weeps with envy.
but the trolls must sense the turning tide. note their overt use of "we" and "us" in their screeds.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
That did strike me as curious.
I think the whole point of this Di inquiry is for the Phony Pharaoh (Mohamed 'Fugging' Al Fayed to say wild crazy things and not get sued for it
as in court you cannot be held for liable or something like that
it depresses me how much airtime the Beeb has given this and the whole Prince Harry thing
jeez I don't give a fuck about a bunch of inbreads or airheads
53 and partly cloudy here
There are occasional stories in the USA about a kid dying while in a 'tough-love' boot-camp setting.
They always cite the fact that there's no evidence such places work in deterring crime amongst their graduates.
jeez I don't give a fuck about a bunch of inbreads or airheads
Moonbootica
And yet you discuss NuLab....
I'm 53 and partly cloudy
Hillary Clinton, it would now appear, is taking his advice to heart. Not content to merely lambast the supposed inexperience of Barack Obama, Clinton's scorched-earth campaign has lavished praise on John McCain as the embodiment of a commander-in-chief.
Well, all those Republican voters did help her out in the Texas primary, after all.
We. Us. America.
E pluribus unum and all that.
KLo?
How about this woman?
flory
Nope, I wouldn't hit those™, either.
See, there are, well, at least three!
Later, folks. And if John McCain offers you a ride on a visiting UFO, tell him no thanks. We're in the reality-based community, after all.
Some more rain here, then high winds.
Does the UFO smell like roses???
We. Us. America.
They. Them. UnAmerican. Democrats.
/Wingers
I'm staying here.
annie
Moppet, you should go home and lend a hand to the clean-up.
I'm off to dinner and maybe to buy a KitchenAid mixer with attachable pasta/ice cream maker. Be good to each other.
All is lost. I'm staying here.
Bearded Texas Aggies, Please Report to Re-Education Camp 26, per order of Attorney General Mumia
now do you see why i rant about the institution of the monarchy?
David: that would have been Everett Dirkson. Unforgettable voice...
Then McCain saying,"I am her gummy bear" while removing his dentures.
leibniz♘☮
Aw, jeez, Leibniz, I was just thinking about an early supper.
So much for that plan.
Oh, I have Bonus Critter Blogging up.
God, the markets have been terrible for so long but I fear that Thursday and Friday are marking a new downturn in the economy--job reports are terrible; bonds in Europe going crazy because of hedge funds inability to get credit; increased hunger due to high oil prices and the US misguided, environmentally damaging ethanol subsidy program; people walking away from their homes even before the resets because they overextended themselves; whole housing development turning into abandoned villages; the dollar falling to 1.54 to the euro.
Very interesting.
aiight...I gotta get to teh store if I wanna eat tonite.
Laterz...
You see, you had to go back to TR to get a Republican President who didn't cut and run...
(Eisenhower in Korea, Nixon in Vetnam, Reagan in Lebanon}
I was waiting for the Baaritones to start singing "Koyaaniqatsi..."
Well I better get my ass down to the strip, this new fake vagina isn't going to pay for itself!
now do you see why i rant about the institution of the monarchy?
Moonbootica
Moon, that's the institution of paparazzi.
I'm staying here.
annie
Sang it, Effie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=s...feature=related
David: that would have been Everett Dirkson. Unforgettable voice...
ProfWombat
You're right, of course. Early onset Alzheimer's, sorry.
Good old Churchill, who used poisoned gas against the Iraqis, particularly the Kurds--just like they hanged Saddam for doing . . .
Obama has really lost his mojo this past week. He needs to get it back. I cannot and will not vote for Hillary. The Dynasty alone issues make it impossible. But I don't think I can vote John McCain. I don't know if Obama has what it takes, but he's the only one I can support.
So McCain is all about the past where Obama is all about the future.
I'm staying here, Jr. Watching all this shit for the past 8 years from up here has taught me a lesson.
Most Americans are too easily led and don't understand that politicians are no t celebrities.
Can you imagine Canadians giving a shit about whatever Harpers wife's name is looks like??
You DhimmoRats will never understand the joy this American gets when sleeping with mommy.
THIS idiot projects enough for a metroplex, doesn't he?
What's your problem with women, loser?
Google
vietnamese hooker prison mccain.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
So McCain is all about the past where Obama is all about the future.
But if time is a closed loop, that could mean they're... the same guy!
I can vote for Hillary Clinton quite easily, if it's a choice between that and John McCain.
Hundred Years' War. Supreme Court. Period.
Then McCain saying,"I am her gummy bear" while removing his dentures.
leibniz
Do0d, you caused me to cackle in a most unseemly manner.
I'm staying here.
Why do trolls stay where they're not wanted?
I loved all the women of Firefly, but Kaylie was just wonderful!
BTW -- those of you who have taken the "which Firefly character are you?" test will not be surprised to learn that I am Shepherd Book ...
Comment at Youtube just now:
Note how the recession took place under a democratic leadership in congress...a factor of our government much more influential upon the economy than a president...
That's a whole lot of stupid right there.
So McCain is all about the past where Obama is all about the future.
Maybe thats why they intercut those space scenes in there, to have something with some color and modernity about them so its not all old, grainy blacks and white ancient history.
OT, but I need a smile: AO Scott seems to have enjoyed letting the wind fill his sails as he reviewed '10,000 BC':
...even as the story begins, the old ways seem to be dying out, as the Yagahl, a tribe of snuffleupagus hunters who favor extensions in their hair and eschew contractions in their speech, prepare for their last hunt. In fulfillment of an old prophecy, raiders on horseback (“four-legged demons”) arrive to sack the Yagahl encampment and take a bunch of the tribespeople as slaves. Among them is the blue-eyed Evolet (Camilla Belle), whose beloved, D’Leh (Steven Strait), sets out with his mentor, Tic’Tic (Cliff Curtis), to rescue her.
Along the way D’Leh and Tic’Tic have many adventures, involving bizarrely costumed humans and computer-generated creatures, among them a scary race of flesh-eating swamp ostriches. These reminded me of nothing so much as the angry chicken, designed by the stop-action maestro Ray Harryhausen, that menaces some castaways in Cy Endfield’s 1961 curio “Mysterious Island.” And at its best — which may also be to say at its worst — “10,000 BC” feels like a throwback to an ancient, if not exactly prehistoric, style of filmmaking. The wooden acting, the bad dialogue, the extravagantly illogical special effects may well, in time, look pleasingly cheap and hokey, at which point the true entertainment value of the film will at last be realized.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/0...vies/
07ten.html
Simels said it with far more economy and lese-majeste...
Big Red UGLY in MOTION!
Lissen to that noise!
.
The initial polls give this ad the highest marks ever reported for a political ad, according to the post.
Why do trolls stay where they're not wanted?
It's kinda what makes them trolls.
i think this video demonstrates perfectly McCain's readiness to be a better commander-in-chief than that black, muslim baby, barrack hussain obama
I'm wanted. I've been described as an "upstanding citizen" and I'm not even a citizen.
Well, you don't have to go far to find Huggy Bear hanging out with a convicted felon.
But since that's "old news," I guess it's off limits ...
Angry Boeing supporters target McCain
"I hope the voters of this state remember what John McCain has done to them and their jobs," said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., whose state would have been home to the tanker program and gained about 9,000 jobs.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080...Se8Ol379X6s0NUE
I know they didb't deserve the contract, but this is funny.
A blast of wind-gusted rain woke me up from my unplanned nap. Too bleary to read comments.
The Kid Shelleen ad is close to perfect! The only thing it's missing is the mushroom-cloud video at the very end.
Comment by Hillary Bot blocked.
Bye, jerkoff!
I'm 53 and partly cloudy
Get laser surgery.
Hey, any candiate that can win Vermont AND Wyoming can represent me in November.
Also, CNN just called it for Schmidt.
Remember it's not too early to order your Queen of Diamonds or Flaming Fighter Plane lapel pins for the convention.
The initial polls give this ad the highest marks ever reported for a political ad, according to the post.
I got 20,000 hits and four stars for this.
Just sayin'...
Holy shit the Skyway looks like a ski hill!!!!!
Why do trolls stay where they're not wanted?
It's kinda what makes them trolls.
[sobs]
BTW -- those of you who have taken the "which Firefly character are you?" test will not be surprised to learn that I am Shepherd Book ...
Prior Aelred
I was mildly surprised to find that I was Wash.
Ah, to be 53 again (if only I could remember what it was like ...)
I'm trolling Canada?
You people make no sense.
Lawdy. Summer Glau is T3H HAWT!
.
Holy shit the Skyway looks like a ski hill!!!!!
annie
Watching CHCH?
[sobs]
NTodd, McGuffin Hitler
Don't sweat it, dude -- as long as someone here can scrape two quarters together, you'll be wanted.
Why do trolls stay where they're not wanted?
sometimes, love just aint enough ...
53 was five years ago. It wasn't so hot.
McCain/Flintstone 08
SteveNS: Don't sweat it, dude -- as long as someone here can scrape two quarters together, you'll be wanted.
Or, $1.41, which is the postage for a CD mailer SASE!
.
I missed 'Firefly'. Should I go looking for it?
CP24.
This is insane.
Will zealots attending the Democratic National Convention be sporting POW/MIA flag band-aids? 
Did Hitler ever call Berlin the city of Satan?
Why was Mr. Belvedere escorting McCain home frfom Vietnam?
I missed 'Firefly'. Should I go looking for it?
ProfWombat
That depends on whether you remember the original Reconstruction or not.
Bom Bom McSame is a silly name.
I missed 'Firefly'. Should I go looking for it?
ProfWombat
yes
Firefly is a great TV show
Will zealots attending the Democratic National Convention be sporting POW/MIA flag band-aids?
Visitor Online
I would hope not.
OT: A rally has taken place in Jersey to highlight concerns at the way authorities have handled claims of abuse at a former children's home.
Police say 100 people claim to have been abused at Haut de la Garenne, where a child's remains were found.
The States of Jersey's chief minister, Frank Walker, has denied any cover-up in tackling the allegations.
Meanwhile, police are expected to break through to a second underground chamber at the former home this weekend.
The rally, which was also billed as a vigil for the alleged victims, was organised by a group calling itself Time for Change.
It comes after revelations about historic child abuse at Haut de la Garenne and other care institutions in Jersey.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sey/
7284717.stm
such a creepy story
I'm not sure the Churchille comparison works. Churchill escaped his POW camp during the Boer War.
The first part of this makes a better McCain ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F...h?
v=Fu9ibUWIq8A
BTW -- Facebook friends -- I sent a form trying to hookup my Facebook Atriots with mer, but I'm not sure who gets what notification, but if you are one of my Atriot Entourage & you get an announcement from me that someone you've never heard of is on Facebook & should be your friend, it's mer
Oh, hell.
My crazy friend with whom I happened to fall in love (against my will) is acting up again on e-mail and now we're going to have troll wars here plus the sight of two close friends in conflict. I can't deal right now.
Catch you patriotz laterz.
Will zealots attending the Democratic National Convention be sporting POW/MIA flag band-aids?
I don't think they're going to let any Republicans in.
such a creepy story
Moonbootica
Google "butterbox babies"
Here's a unique idea: a charter school principal wh believes in attracting good teachers by offering them a decent salary.
The school’s creator and first principal, Zeke M. Vanderhoek, contends that high salaries will lure the best teachers. He says he wants to put into practice the conclusion reached by a growing body of research: that teacher quality — not star principals, laptop computers or abundant electives — is the crucial ingredient for success.
“I would much rather put a phenomenal, great teacher in a field with 30 kids and nothing else than take the mediocre teacher and give them half the number of students and give them all the technology in the world,” said Mr. Vanderhoek, 31, a Yale graduate and former middle school teacher who built a test preparation company that pays its tutors far more than the competition.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/0...7f29&ei=5087%
0A
Jeez. If the word gets around that teachers are important to education, why, the consequences would be frightful. Fortunately, it's such a counterintuitive concept to so many people that this isn't likely...
Summer Glau is OK looking.
http://www.thebeefboy.com/
images..._dominatrix.jpg
That video was a joke right?
Because it was funny.
-
The first part of this makes a better McCain ad:
Before I clicked I guessed it would be the Benny Hill Show. McCain's ad really needs some Yakkety Sax.
Wooo Hooo!! , so long suckers ...hello Burkino faso!
URGENT PARTNERSHIP NEEDED
sam. 8 mars 2008
(Fuseau horaire : Ouagadougou)
Agenda :
FROM DR CANDY WILLIAMS
BANK OF AFRICA.(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU -BURKINAFASO.
URGENT PARTNERSHIP NEEDED
Dear Friend,
This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however, it's just my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction.I am a banker by profession from Burkina faso in west Africa and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds ($11.5million) of one of my bank clients who died along with his entire family ...
McCain's campaign must believe that Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt are sufficiently iconic in our contemporary culture to cause a wide range of voters to identify with them and thereby with McCain.
This is a big assumption and will not be supported by the results.
I would guess that voters whose grandparents fought in WWII might get the connection. Some born later may even remember Churchill's Iron Curtain speech from 1950.
Although people in Obama's demographic (under 45) may have a textbook awareness of Churchill much as they have of George Washington, they won't have any emotional hooks that will cause them to relate McCain to Churchill.
This is even more self-evident when you look at Teddy Roosevelt. San Juan Hill and the Maine are just not there for the Pepsi Generation.
Even McCain's images of himself as a prisoner of war will have little relevance to those outside of the Vietnam era.
Finally, the little girl running through the flowers reminds me more of Johnson's "Nuclear Bomb" ad against Goldwater. The negative feelings that that image arouses don't bode well for McCain either.
The only people who might be attracted by this ad will be older veterans and their immediate families; a number that is getting smaller by the minute.
Burkina Faso?
Not Malawi?
Summer Glau is OK looking.
http://www.thebeefboy.com/ images..._dominatrix.jpg
bloggus
Sorry, Summer Glau beats her hands down
ProfWombat (with whom I agree about penal reform) -- I went to see the movie "Serenity" because watertiger & Tena were such great fans of the TV show "Firefly" so I saw things in the wrong order -- the entire TV series is not that long -- I recommend the DVDs in the order that they recommend (not the order in which they were broadcast) & then the movie -- but they are all great!
Westerns in space! A fantastic concept! Only Fox could have ruined it!
Prior Aelred: BTW -- Facebook friends -- I sent a form trying to hookup my Facebook Atriots with mer, but I'm not sure who gets what notification, but if you are one of my Atriot Entourage & you get an announcement from me that someone you've never heard of is on Facebook & should be your friend, it's mer
I got it, and added her, but I do not use Facebook.
.
Thanks all--I'll check it out.
I did like 'Outland', which is nothing if not a space Western...
Well, all those Republican voters did help her out in the Texas primary, after all.
Cranky Bob
The exit polling said they leaned toward Obama.
Westerns in space!
Don't let that description put you off. Its actually very good
"If you loved the absolute stupidity of the past 7 years, you'll love McBush"
McCain's ad is totally batshit. What's up with the images of outer space, and galaxies, and such?
Very strange man, that McCain.
Well, I should probably go. I wanted to play around here, but I feel like shit (cramps), and I'm supposed to go to a party in 15 minutes.
Don't feel like going.
Maybe I should just go lay down and chill. Flip the clocks ahead, and call the day good.
FROM DR CANDY WILLIAMS
BANK OF AFRICA.(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU -BURKINAFASO.
mimi's claiming to be from Africa now?
Speaking of conventions, Kid Shelleen could rip off Kerry's unfortunate "reporting for duty" shtick-- which was in the same class of high-concept jingo hokum as this ad-- and probably only some irksome hussy Scots journalist would notice.
And the corporate media and the infotainwhore class would spin it as pure genius, stealing a march on the hapless opponent one more time. Tweety would have to have his condom secured with duct tape.
Prior, thanks for the Facebook info. Just connected.
BTW -- Facebook friends -- I sent a form trying to hookup my Facebook Atriots with mer
I just added her.
People with snowmobiles drove on my lawn again.
I think I should be legally allowed to shoot them.
Firefly also has no aliens
just really scary humans
Its actually very good
The Old Man From Scene 24
It was kinda OK. TV SF usually sucks donkey dong, so that makes it seem "very good".
Westerns in space! A fantastic concept! Only Fox could have ruined it!
Fucking awesome show. I can say I loved it more than BSG, which I adored.
Isn't this the commercial equivolent of saying "back in my day.....young man"
Is that really a good selling point outside of most nursing homes?
Took Firefly test.
I'm the Operative. Is this good or bad?
JR, you are nothing if not very opinionated.
The only people who might be attracted by this ad will be older veterans and their immediate families; a number that is getting smaller by the minute.
alnval
I've talked to a good many Vietnam vets who cannot stand McStain.
That actually wasn't that bad.
One question though.
Did they fake Teddy Roosevelt's voice? I thought he was much higher pitched.
Maybe they put those galaxies in there so that the viewer sees something older than Methuselah McCain...
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I think I should be legally allowed to shoot them.
annie
Caltrops are funnier.
Drifts on the QEW.
And yet people are driving on it.
Lots of them.
My IQ is seven points lower for having watched that video.
JR, you are nothing if not very opinionated.
Vicki
Fucking straight.
What's a caltrop?
About three pounds?
Did they fake Teddy Roosevelt's voice? I thought he was much higher pitched.
bad dad
------------------------
They probably got the idea from the Hillary campaign that darkened down Obama, so we would all be sure that he is (heavens forbid) a NEGRO.
Took Firefly test.
I'm the Operative. Is this good or bad?
Means you're a cool motherfucker.
Does this McCain ad count as elder abuse?
I'm sure something that JR thought was "very good" would be too much for a mere mortal like myself to comprehend.
NO SWEARING!
NO SWEARING!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
oh, fuck. i came to the wrong goddamn place.
shit.
which firefly test is this?
What's a caltrop?
Google is your friend
about 10 inches high and it will peg the snowmobile treads.
"this is a long way of saying that you don't even need to leave your house to die from our product, we'll pipe it right into your house"
"Outland" is "High Noon" in space; I also enjoy it.
And enough people here are sufficiently steeped in Star Trek lore to know that the concept Gene Roddenberry originally pitched was a show about "a 'Wagon Train' to the stars"...
Does this McCain ad count as elder abuse?
I hear that the CIA shows it during "enhanced interrogation techniques". Hence, the veto today.
I'm sure something that JR thought was "very good" would be too much for a mere mortal like myself to comprehend.
The Old Man From Scene 24
I think you could handle it.
I'm staying here.
annie
Moppet, you should go home and lend a hand to the clean-up.
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 6:28 pm |
Whenever you use 'moppet', you remind of those two pirates from the PotC movie, who refer to Elizabeth as moppet.
I think I shall take my cranky ass to the fainting couch.
"A caltrop (calthrop, jack rock, star nail or crow's foot) is a weapon made up of two (or more) sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base (for example, a tetrahedron). Caltrops serve to slow down the advance of horses, war elephants, and human troops. It was said to be particularly effective against the soft feet of camels.[1] In more modern times, caltrops are used against wheeled vehicles with pneumatic tires. In Japan such devices were known as makibishi."
Dunno, they dont have tires.
I think a shotgun would be very satisfying to shoot them with. Like a video game.
which firefly test is this?
http://www.quizilla.com/users/Ja...ter%20are%
20you
I like when he calls me moppet.
Does this McCain ad count as elder abuse?
No, I think he made it willingly.
"a 'Wagon Train' to the stars"...
Visitor Online
IIRC, Harlan described the original BSG as "Wagon Train across the cheap interstellar sets"
which firefly test is this?
Moonbootica
I just Googled Firefly test and clicked on a random link.
What the rhubarb is Firefly? Some show on Sci-Fi, no doubt.
You kids.
Geez, I tested out as Inara. I think I'll go to bed early tonight.
which firefly test is this?
I think I answered the questions wrong or the creator has a sense of humor.
I finished as Mel.
I took the test and am Inara,
You are Inara, the registerred Companion. you are sexy, sensual and skilled, yet have trouble admitting to your emotions. You swing both ways.
Heh heh heh
I finished as Mel.
"Mal"
Dunno, they dont have tires.
A piece of sharp metal meeting the treads leads to catastrophic failure of same.
It is a lovely sight, especially them trying to drag the sorry carcass away.
Been there, watched that.
Moonbootica:
There's this:
http://www.quizilla.com/users/Ja...ter%20are%
20you
I used this:
http://www.seabreezecomputers.co...s.com/serenity/
Then there's this:
http://www.seabreezecomputers.co...s.com/serenity/
And this:
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/
tak...259455523967600
(Google is your friend)
Geez, I tested out as Inara. I think I'll go to bed early tonight.
Whatcha doin aftah, bill?
Senator Barack Obama beat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by a wide margin, continuing a string of victories in caucus states. Above, caucusgoers in Casper, Wyo.
I wore an onion on my belt, because it was the style at the time. It was the dickities. We called it the dickities, becuase the Kaiser took our word for thirty.
firefly: i am wash. but that might not be 100% accurate, the clothing question threw me.
I'm Wash. Now I have to meet the guy.
Whenever you use 'moppet', you remind of those two pirates from the PotC movie, who refer to Elizabeth as moppet.
Buckeye
There's another, original, meaning for "moppet".
Heh, heh, heh.
I sometimes feel that way about Heinlein, too.
JR, kerosene and a match
Grrrrrr....
I meant the totally fucked-up movie.
And believe it or else, there was a direct-to-DVD abomination of a sequel that was even worse. Gak.
"You are Wash. Not only are you a great pilot, you are also the joker of the group. Your devotion to your wife is admirable, though you sometimes feel insecure. Thank god you shaved off your moustache."
not far off.
Whatcha doin aftah, bill?
NTodd, McGuffin Hitler
Hot bath? I don't really know. This is all so new
I'm currently purchasing the Hedwig soundtrack. Zapette lost her copy, so I'm replacing it for her birthday.
Thanks all--I'll check it out.
I did like 'Outland', which is nothing if not a space Western...
ProfWombat | 03.08.08 - 6:48 pm |
For some reason I've not yet watched Firefly, though I loved Serenity.
"Mal! He killed me with a sword! How weird is that?"
I am Simon, the brilliant young doctor.
Obama sheets
Aside from the foolishness of the comparison--I got shot down, he merely saved his country!--can the McCain people not hear how short he falls in the vocabulary, tone and cadence department?
Do they get tossed over the bars and land on their heads with "a satisfying thump"?
Is this the worst storm you've been through?
not far off.
dirk gently
The bit with the dinosaur toys, using the radar screen as an oasis?
That's me.
Jr calls me moppet because he thinks I'm stupid.
Senator Barack Obama beat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by a wide margin, continuing a string of victories in caucus states. Above, caucusgoers in Casper, Wyo.
It doesn't count because:
a) it was a Caucus
b) its a Red State
c) it has a low population
d) Clinton didn't win it
e) all of the above
Hmm, I'm Simon.
Do they get tossed over the bars and land on their heads with "a satisfying thump"?
Snow doesn't "thump", it's more like "pluUhwumfFFF"
firefly: i am wash. but that might not be 100% accurate, the clothing question threw me.
I'm Wash, too.
"You are Wash. Not only are you a great pilot, you are also the joker of the group. Your devotion to your wife is admirable, though you sometimes feel insecure. Thank god you shaved off your moustache."
not far off.
dirk gently, sociopathetic | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 7:02 pm
Link? (I'm too lazy to scoll up).
Leni is not just spinning. She's shitting.
I am Wash. Who the fuck is Wash ?
I believe that "Lost in Space" was conceived as a "'Make Room for Daddy' to the stars".
IIRC, in the pilot episode, Hans Conried played Dr. Zachary Smith.
Jr calls me moppet because he thinks I'm stupid.
annie
That's not the direct meaning, moppet.
Looks like it's all coming out in the Wash.
Does this McCain ad count as elder abuse?
No, I think he made it willingly.
SteveNS
Truly, I suspect a Dem mole in the McCain campaign. No sane person(s) could have made that thing with a straight face.
May I reiterate what a total horse's ass Charlotte Allen is?
http://mediamatters.org/items/20...ms/
200803070013
Who the fuck is Wash ?
Gilly Gonzylon
Pilot.
i don't know anything about firefly. which makes the results even creepier.
I turned out as Inara, the registerred Companion. you are sexy, sensual and skilled, yet have trouble admitting to your emotions. You swing both ways.
yeah thats me
/not
Wash is the pilot -- married to Zoe -- the XO (she's hot)
FWIW, Simon was my #2 -- not good with girls ...
I got Zoey as "runner-up"
My SO thought I'd be Jane.
So tell everyone why you call me it. It's not a nice reason, right?
I still like it. It's endeared me to you and you don't even realise it.
Wash: I don't like Science Fiction
Zoe: You live in a spaceship.
Wash: so?
Leni is not just spinning. She's shitting.
gastropoda
I imagine more than a few of us have been thinking that very thing...
So tell everyone why you call me it. It's not a nice reason, right?
It's neutral, you can take it how you want to.
However, I assure you that the meaning in this use is not "young female child".
My SO thought I'd be Jane.
Jayne.
Pilot.
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Ponchos ?
'i'll be in my bunk'
So tell everyone why you call me it. It's not a nice reason, right?
It's another way of saying "sockpuppet".
Jayne.
NTodd
Whatever, Kwizditch Hazerackkkkkk.
'i'll be in my bunk'
heh heh heh heh
I didn't even GET a runner-up choice.
I must reeeeeally be Simon.
Eep.
May I reiterate what a total horse's ass Charlotte Allen is?
No need to, she does that herself on a daily basis.
The WaPo loves her ass...
And enough people here are sufficiently steeped in Star Trek lore to know that the concept Gene Roddenberry originally pitched was a show about "a 'Wagon Train' to the stars"...
Roddenberry did this because TV execs, then and now, are serious fucktards.
Main Entry: mop·pet
Pronunciation: ˈmä-pət
Function: noun
Etymology: obsolete English mop fool, child
Date: 1601
1archaic : baby, darling
2: child
You use it because you think I'm stupid. I told you that.
Responsibility for the medical examination of rape victims may be taken away from police and handed over to the NHS, amid concerns that services in some parts of the country are short-changing victims and contributing to the low conviction rate for rape.
A working party of police, civil servants, doctors and nurses, set up by the Department of Health, is expected to recommend the creation of regional centres of excellence run by the health service.
Highly-qualified doctors and nurses would provide forensic examinations, the morning-after pill, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, and psychological support and aftercare. Around the regional centres, there would be a network of local referral centres.
Most sexual assault services are funded and provided by police forces, although often contracted out to private companies. Under the proposed new model, police would purchase the services of specially-trained doctors and nurses from the NHS to carry out forensic examinations.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/200.../
ukcrime.gender
You use it because you think I'm stupid. I told you that.
annie
Wrong definition, moppet.
Ever read/seen "The Crucible"?
You use it because you think I'm stupid. I told you that.
Oh, we don't think you're stupid...
Whatever, Kwizditch Hazerackkkkkk.
Don't make me break out Vera.
No, I haven't. Should I?
When you call me moppet I always think of Dame Edna and her poppet thing.
It's another way of saying "sockpuppet".
Terry C
Anything from the top shelf, sport...
Don't make me break out Vera.
NTodd
Some pacifist you are.
*warms up meson canon*
Doesn't anyone call sheets?
He's building a coalition of the dead? Whoa... maybe I'm high already.
Uh, but didn't McCain "give in" when he was captured? Whatever. I'm sure that's central to his point.
Sheets.
I've been trying to come up with words to describe this...
Plagarism?
Took the Firefly test.
I'm Wash. Is that good or bad?
pax
Yes, but does he have any plans? I don't see any policy there, no experience. How does he intend to accomplish whatever it is that made those flashing lights?
Shorter McCain: Kill them all, and let God sort them out.
"The time has come for a man in the arena?"
The ARENA?
Politically he's a craven opportunist -- so of course I think of Winston and Teddy whenever I think of him. Except ever.
I think the statement this video is making is that McCain was friends with Teddy Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Isn't it?
First We'll Get Really Stoned
Does self-stoning count?
Generally, a video like this would drive me to exclaim, "Just shoot me!" -- but, perhaps, "Just stone me!" might be a lot more fun.
Actually, you could "Cuervo Gold" and "fine Columbian" me, too -- but only if you're feeling generous and feeling nostalgic for Steely Dan.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cBD23rTqVRk
Sweet dreams of Boston....
Please take me along when you slide on down....
Make tonight a wonderful thing....
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E...h?
v=EHT6eioxXJQ
What were the skies like when you were young?
They went on forever And they -- when I
We lived in Arizona
And the skies always had little fluffy clouds And they were long and clear And there were lots of stars, at night And when it rained it would all turn It -- they were beautiful The most beautiful skies as a matter of fact The sunsets were purple and red And yellow and on fire And the clouds would catch the colors everywhere That's -- it's neat Because I used to look at them all the time
When I was little You don't see that Layering different sounds on top of each other Layering different sounds on top of each other Little fluffy clouds Little fluffy clouds and Little fluffy clouds and Little fluffy clouds and You don't see that
You might still see them in the desert The most beautiful skies as a matter of fact Purple and red Purple and red and yellow and on fire
Jurassic Bong
My Friends...
The Underworld has agreed to keep this party going until sunrise Cindy's got the scooby snacks and the glow sticks. I don't know about you my friends, but I'm rolling all night my friends.
Never give up! Never surrender!
24 million (oops, a few million missing, exiled, dead) 20 million Iraqis against about 250,000 US soldiers and blood money mercenaries. That's the definition of a suicider's (thanks for the new word, Dubya) mission.
But not to McCain, to him it is stay the course. Never give up, American always wins (well, almost always).
What an As*hole.
Well, it is the party of slick advertising, and to those of us who don't find it terminally silly it may have some appeal. But I don't think the buzz bombs are coming in nightly over Washington, and I guess I don't know enough about Teddy Roosevelt to even understand why he's in there -- come to think of it, that applies to the Andromeda Nebula as well.
FAUGHHH! I say it's dreck and I say the hell with it.
OhMFG. And he was making fun of Clinton for the Woodstock thing? Jeez.
Well, I'm not going to point any moral;
I'll leave that for yourself
Maybe you're still walking, you're still talking
You'd like to keep your health.
But every time I read the papers
That old feeling comes on;
We're -- waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
--Pete Seeger, 1967
Pure neocon pap. Leo Strauss would have cum in his pants over this one.
I thought it was an anti-McCain ad.
I have words to describe it.
It's a pretty fucking well done ad and if we take this guy lightly he's going to kick our ass.
Where does McCain get off comparing himself with two of the world's greatest leaders? I admire his survival through the gates of hell in Vietnam, but he is not a good leader, and would not be a good president. Just like Bush, the balls of this man to compare himself to people he can't hold a candle to.
Disgusting.
Will somebody just tack a mushroom cloud on the end of that thing and be done with it?
Is that Philip Glass? It reminded me of A Brief History of Time, though I haven't seen that in years.
McCain with some of his contemporaries,huh?
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