HULK SMASHED
Me?
aha
And me!
Glenn's a fool.
Now you!
Glenn's a lineman for the county.
McCain: No appeasement on gays!
Next?
Or maybe he's trying to keep morale up during these dismal times for conservatives.
We're here! We're Queer! We've hired a caterer!
Appeasiotomy: Any procedure performed by the partner during labour (ice chips, massage, profuse apology), to attempt to make up for the fact that you’re the one doing the birthin’.
http://www.magma.ca/~jonas/lexicon.htm
Great one-line letter in the Times today: Appeasement is letting Al Qaeda hide out in Pakistan.
How the Saudis made fools of the White House
he Saudi move is a triumph for Mr Bush, who is under intense pressure at home to provide relief from soaring petrol prices ahead of the summer driving season.
However, Riyadh pointedly waited until Mr Bush had left the meeting before it made the announcement – leaving US officials in the embarrassing position of having already briefed reporters not to expect any movement from the Saudis.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/
be0d6d...0077b07658.html
Aw, but he's a wanker every day!
Downblog: thanks Jay Ackroyd for Gang of 4!
Brought this up from below regarding my confusion between Toyota profits and sales:
Though its overall performance last year would be considered a stellar achievement for any other automaker, Toyota's 28% profit plunge in the fourth quarter of 2007 points to an expected 27% drop in annual profits in 2008. If Toyota's revised forecast proves accurate, 2008 would break a nine-year stretch of profit growth. In addition to the slowing U.S. market, Toyota also cites high material prices, the worldwide credit crunch and a strong yen as contributing factors in its mild downturn.
and from another site:
"Earnings growth in Asia has become a key driver for our company," said Toyota senior managing director Takeshi Suzuki.
Sales in North America gained just 0.5 percent to 2.96 million vehicles, led by the new Camry and Prius cars. Other markets, including the Middle East, South Africa and Australia, saw an increase of 17.9 percent.
The stupid doesn't just burn. It's gone nuclear. Or is that nukular?
thanks McCain for Gang of 14!
swag
FyT
No picture of the Pope or W on the wall here, but I pass my framed picture of FDR (grandmother's)every morning on the way downstairs to start my day.
I should move it to the entry and watch all the neighborhood neo-con's heads explode.
camelot
Were you here the other day when I was saying I have my grandmother's picture of FDR?
Mazel Tov, David!
The Arabs noticed that Chimpy barely mentioned the Palestinians in his McCain '08 Knesset speech
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080...qbvuivye5us0NUE
I think some of your ex-profs at Swansea might be on a BBC site, Moon. The BBC site for history. I can't reach it now, as the servers seem to be down.
Also, you should check out www.eurotrib.com and contact In Wales, who is a PhD student at Swansea.
She is a very nice person (unlike me). Maybe you two could become cyber friends. She's very much into politics and photography.
Wingnuts: "We wanna 'nother Wonnie! We wanna 'nother Wonnie! Waaaahhhh!"
Fucking thumbsucking bastids.
Actually, considering the age and lack of hatred of teh gaii amongst the vast majority of Obama supporters, it sure would be nice to tie the two issues together into a massive "get out the vote" campaign in November.
But that would require Obama actually, you know, take a stand in favor of gay marriage. Well, it was a nice idea...
Sorry for the blogwhore, but my tribute to The Genius That Is Allen Butler is up at the homepage.
Also, there's a Giant John Wayne over at Box Office.
http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve...ania-spec-
2.php
If you'd like to leave a comment, thus getting me in good with management, I wouldn't be upset.
Good morning all.
I've been busy leaving posts at OH NOES! and Boxoffice.com
It actually worked, btw.
NPR reported in the wake of the CA SCt ruling on the unconstitutionality of the referendum that there were a million signatures to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot, something the court couldn't rule on, IOW.
Again, is this the Rovian technique to bring out McCain voters in November (who might otherwise have stayed home lighting candles to Reagan in their basements)?
Yesterday I read in the local newspaper an article where a Bush spokesperson atated that Bush will use his presidency in any way to help the McCain campaign. That very same day a audio tape was released supposedly by Osama Bin Laden.
It is obvious that Bush will do what Bush does best. He will lie, distort the truth and use fear, fear, fear to help war mongering McCain get elected.
So if Bush is going to use his presidency to help McCains campaign then it is obvious that he will also use the military and pentagon to help McCain, by having them report how successful the war is going and report on the growing threat of Iran.
Wasn't it a week or so ago that weapons experts had a cache of over 40,000 weapons found in Iraq, thought to be used by the insurgents?
Not one of the weapons could be traced back to Iran. But of course the reichwing controlled media didn't cover this story because it goes against what the Bushites and McCain have been spewing about Iran for months and could hurt McCains chances of becoming the next war mongering president who could protect us from those scary brown skinned people.
But the real story is where did all of those weapons they found really come from? Could they have come from the black market via Israel via all of the aid we give them? Could they have come from China, Russia or Germany? We the people will never be told because according to the government we the people can't handle the truth.
Were you here the other day when I was saying I have my grandmother's picture of FDR?
Karin Hussein | 05.17.08 - 10:43 am | #
No. Tell me. Is their anyone you can aggravate the hell out of with it?
I get students (middle school) who want to use it for projects. Lord knows that my sleepy neo-con hamlet would not have let any pictures of FDR in.
Hey steve!
It worked, but i forgot to use my name, and use the italics.
Not Fred Hiatt for publishing Kathleen Parker with a brilliant column about how Obama and Edwards are gay? See Glennzilla and Sadly, No.
Glenn's a fool.
bloggus | 05.17.08 - 10:37 am
But he's not a conservative, cuz the InstaParrot claims to support gay rights and stuff.
with support like the InstaParrot's who else do gays need, huh?
This year’s severe drought is forecast to lower wheat and barely yields in Iraq by up to 35 percent, the Ministry of Planning said.
The ministry, in a statement, added that Iraq has been subjected to one of its worst droughts in recent history this year.
Wheat and barley yields may not exceed one million tons, the ministry added.
Iraq needs up to four million tons of wheat to meet domestic produce and at least two million tons of barley used mainly as animal feed.
Last year Iraq harvested more than 1.5 million tons of both crops and the rest it imported from abroad.
Iraq’s food import bill has been ballooning and is estimated at more than five billion dollars.
Worst hit area is the wheat and barley growing belt to the east of Mosul traditionally know as Iraq’s 'bread basket.’
But the area relies almost wholly on rainfall which has been very scarce this year.
The ministry forecast yields of wheat at 590,000 tons and barley at 483,000 tons this year.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4408...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
Again, it's really unfair to knock out other contenders for Wanker of the Day with Glenn Reynolds. Like Jonah Goldberg, he's in the Wanker Hall of Fame. He's always an idiot.
And do they realize how stupid is looks to assume voters are this stupid? OK, I know the answer to that - no. Never.
Famine and hunger will be sweeping the globe this year, Moon--Iraq, the Horn of Africa, Burma. And we'll be growing fuel.
Breaking News: John McCain admits that he is really dead. (Just like Ronny Raygun)
Glenn hasn't figured out that people just don't give a shit anymore.
Not when they're trying to keep food on their families, a roof over their heads and a job.
Yemen is also suffering from a drought, Moonbootica.
The British government is deeply divided over its policy on cluster bombs on the eve of international negotiations about a ban, the Guardian has learned.
The split sets the Ministry of Defence, which wants to retain two types of cluster munitions in the British armoury, against Downing Street and the Foreign Office, which want to honour Gordon Brown's pledge last year "to work internationally for a ban" on those weapons that cause unacceptable harm to civilians.
An international conference on cluster munitions - shells or rockets which contain several smaller bombs - begins on Monday in Dublin. Officials said it was unlikely British divisions would be resolved by then. Instead, they hope the position taken by European allies could throw up a workable compromise.
Lord Malloch-Brown, the Foreign Office minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, told the Guardian: "There is an internal discussion going on in the UK as we try to maximize our offer for the [Dublin] negotiation." However, the former UN deputy secretary-general admitted being "uncomfortable" about a compromise that would leave some cluster bombs in the UK arsenal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/
200...ilitary.defence
while the historical understanding of marriage as a union between one man and one woman goes back for millennia.
Dear Mr. Blatt, I respectfully say that you do not know shit about the history of marriage.
BTW, your great hero King David had eight wives and ten concubines, it sez so in your holy book, bro.
Hey steve!
It worked, but i forgot to use my name, and use the italics.
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 10:47 am | #
Cool -- bless you, my son.
Obviously, you got home safely....
Note the hypocrisy of Dublin hosting the cluster bomb conference when Shannon was probably used to resupply Israel with cluster bombs during the Lebanon war.
Yemen is also suffering from a drought, Moonbootica.
Karin Hussein | 05.17.08 - 10:51 am | #
apparently it even beats Saudi for the worst place to be female -
Is this the worst place on earth to be a woman?
In Yemen, women belong to men. Most are illiterate. They are arrested in the street. They die in childbirth. In this special report, Rachel Cooke meets the brave few who are campaigning for midwives and against early marriage
IMH and overlegalistic O, I suggest all unions be made civil unions, that the state stops calling it marriage. You want a "marriage", a sacrament, if you will, go to your local religious institution and see if they'll bless it.
This way everyone has the same rights and responsibilities under the law.
HICA!
I have cats, as you may recall.
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Labour rebels yesterday stepped up their campaign against government plans to allow terrorist suspects to be detained without charge for 42 days by tabling an amendment to a Commons bill to block the change.
As Downing Street pledged to press ahead with its counter-terrorism bill, the rebels said they hoped to defeat the government after signing up MPs who voted in favour of Tony Blair's unsuccessful bid to extend to 90 days the period terror suspects could be detained without charge.
David Winnick, one of the main rebels, said: "I believe there is a reasonable chance that the government will be defeated, but I do accept that the government will do everything in its power to try to persuade some of my colleagues to agree on the basis of various concessions."
The rebel amendment was tabled as Downing Street made clear that Gordon Brown was determined to press ahead with his plans.
The prime minister's spokesman said: "It is the prime minister's view and the home secretary's view that there can be no question of any compromise over 42 days. They are both strongly of the view that it is necessary to put in place legislation on a precautionary basis to enable terror suspects to be held for more than the current 28-day limit."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
politi...rism.uksecurity
I agree with noblejoanie. Get the government out of the marriage business.
Oh, joy -- it's supposed to be 106 here in the beautiful west SFV today. 
the boss of Tesco is apparently quite paranoid and believes that people are out to get him - The Guardian yesterday made a formal offer of amends to the supermarket chain Tesco over reports which had claimed that the company had set up an elaborate complex of offshore companies to avoid paying up to £1bn of corporation tax on a series of property deals. But the newspaper made it clear that it would strenuously defend a malicious falsehood claim by the company.
The libel admission, which follows a correction and an apology published in the edition of May 3, came in defence papers filed to the high court in response to an action started by Tesco last month.
Tesco is seeking special damages for libel and malicious falsehood against the paper and its editor, Alan Rusbridger.
In its defence, filed yesterday, the newspaper again admitted its errors, but denied that the allegations were, as Tesco claim, a "devastating attack on its integrity and ethics".
The defence says Tesco continues to avoid stamp duty land tax (SDLT) - a 4% mandatory levy on property deals, usually paid by the buyer but in common practice split between seller and purchaser.
The defence papers claim that Tesco's "ethical stance" in terms of tax avoidance "is in fact ... a sham".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
busine...co.supermarkets
beside this, Tesco's are trying to sue three Thai's, two businessmen and an activist who have voiced objection to them building stores in Thailand.
Tesco is one big bully
Glenn hasn't figured out that people just don't give a shit anymore.
Not when they're trying to keep food on their families, a roof over their heads and a job.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 10:51 am
oh but they do care, which is why the Malkintents and the Melanie Morgans are being fired while equality of humans, straight and gay, are being upheld by courts from sea to shining sea.
"IMH and overlegalistic O, I suggest all unions be made civil unions, that the state stops calling it marriage."
Who really profits from marriage or civil unions? I think the entire idea should be tossed. A church should not require marriage, and a state should not require civil unions. Why pay someone (marriage license) to say you want to be in a committed relationship? Do I really need the government to have one more way to track me down?
of course Tesco must realize that pursuing these three Thai individuals will create a backlash
big company attacking three ordinary people, makes them look like monsters
IMH and overlegalistic O, I suggest all unions be made civil unions, that the state stops calling it marriage. You want a "marriage", a sacrament, if you will, go to your local religious institution and see if they'll bless it.
Well, they already are. You can't get hitched without a license from the State, no matter if the official performing the hitching is a judge, a j.p., or a member of the clergy.
Does it really matter if the State calls a civil union a "marriage"? As long as anyone who gets hitched has the same rights, no matter their gender, what does a word matter?
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Who really profits from marriage or civil unions?
You need at a minimum civil unions to, e.g., guarantee benefits such as SS to your partner.
"I suggest all unions be made civil unions,"
That is going to really weird out the shop stewards.
Do I really need the government to have one more way to track me down?
camelot
All sorts of legal rights and responsibilities flow from a formal union--inheritance, child custody, property ownership, health insurance and survivorship benefits, to name a few.
How does a blogger who's so obviously phoning it in get so much attention? Predicting a Rep victory in CA on the basis of this SC decision is the kind of crap the Titey Whiteys like to hear, so that's what he says. In as few words as possible. Wonder he doesn't do it in Gregg shorthand...
Who really profits from marriage or civil unions? I think the entire idea should be tossed. A church should not require marriage, and a state should not require civil unions. Why pay someone (marriage license) to say you want to be in a committed relationship? Do I really need the government to have one more way to track me down?
camelot | 05.17.08 - 10:58 am | #
Legally, marriage is a contract. The State has interest in seeing that contracts are executed faithfully and correctly.
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While much of the Congressional political focus has been on the declining fortunes and numbers of House Republicans, House Democrats have their own problem – they are winning too many elections.
By prevailing in conservative locales where they ordinarily would not have a chance, Democrats are widening the ideological divide in their own ranks and complicating their ability to find internal consensus.
It is a nice problem to have, but it is one that can bedevil party leaders.
Carl Hulse and the New York Times editors go for the reacharound.
Calling all such relationships civil unions takes the religious piece out of the discussion. At least that's the hope!
there has been a trend of long time unmarried couples getting married in order to secure certain legal rights and responsibilities
they still don't believe in it but they do it if they have children or it one of them dies
more about security than anything else
"I suggest all unions be made civil unions,"
That is going to really weird out the shop stewards.
EkCenTriK
And put the Grievers outta work...
A three-year-old boy undergoing a medical crisis caused by sickle cell disease is to be deported by the Home Office today in spite of protests from asylum rights campaigners about his fragile medical condition.
Cyril N'deh was born in Britain after his family fled from west Africa. His father Claude, a teacher, said he was tortured and imprisoned in Cameroon for protesting against the illegal executions of nine boys, but his application for asylum in Britain was rejected.
The family was arrested in Sheffield on Sunday and taken to Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire.
The father, mother and three children have been told they will be put on a British Airways flight to Paris soon after dawn, from where they will be removed to Cameroon.
The Campaign Against the Deportation of Asylum Seekers said Cyril is running a high temperature and has lost weight since being removed from Sheffield.
Kath Swinney, a campaign coordinator, said: "He is now unable to support his body, flopping over and not standing unsupported. He is not talking at all or making any sounds.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
politi...icy.immigration
do marriage like in France - everyone has to have a civil union for it to be legal, but then they can choose to have a religious ceremony in the church of their choice.
this is truly a separation of church and state.
Kath Swinney, a campaign coordinator, said: "He is now unable to support his body, flopping over and not standing unsupported. He is not talking at all or making any sounds.
The shame never sets on the British empire.
You need at a minimum civil unions to, e.g., guarantee benefits such as SS to your partner.
I understand. I guess I am saying that attaching those rights to a marriage license was a practical fix that didn't have to happen since it has caused many huge problems.
My hangover may have me thinking too far outside of the box, and I apologize to any divorce lawyers, but the idea of a legal document connecting two people is, well, ridiculus in many ways.
After expelling four advisers in the last week over concerns about their outside entanglements, Senator John McCain said Friday that his presidential campaign was beginning a new “vetting process” intended to end the embarrassments over staff ties to private interests, foreign governments or independent political groups.
McCain: My friends, I have closed the barn door.
apparently it even beats Saudi for the worst place to be female
Knowing something about Yemen, I would have to disagree. I don't know about all her facts, but some are definitely wrong. It is incorrect that women cannot travel freely, unaccompanied by a man. The government does promote birth control, very strongly because they are concerned about the population explosion.
Morning, Moonbats!
oh my, the Duggars might have some competition - Chloe, Jade, Lewis, Ben, Kimberley, Cameron, Orlando, Amee, Natalie, Chris, Nathan, Celeste, Olias - meet the Simpson kids
Deborah and Derek have 13 children - and they want more. Decca Aitkenhead meets them
extract: Were you to put all the kids from six average families in one house, you still wouldn't have as many as Derek and Deborah Simpson. With 13, aged from two to 21, Deborah has now been pregnant for 117 months - almost 10 years of her life. They spend between £600 and £700 at the supermarket every week, and pocket money alone works out at £240 a month. When the whole family goes on holiday together, they have to hire a bus, and if Deborah and Derek ever get a whole uninterrupted hour together in the evening, they laugh that it's the equivalent of most people's two-week summer holiday.
"A lot of women have come up to me and said, 'I've got two and I can't wait for them to be grown up and out my hair,'" Deborah marvels, wide-eyed. "I just think that's sad. I can't even imagine feeling that because I enjoy every single minute of them. We just love babies."
Deborah and Derek love them so much, in fact, that they are now trying for their 14th.
this is truly a separation of church and state.
mimi | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 11:03 am | #
Fuck that shit -- where does Texas A&M stand on the whole fat bearded transvestite thing?
"BTW, your great hero King David had eight wives and ten concubines"
And Jonathan on the Down Low.
Yahoo headline: Tinkerbell sticker helps man track down stolen car.
That's one of my goals with Sinfonian's DFH bumpersticker, theft recovery. I do field alot of questions about it, I must say.
It is a nice problem to have, but it is one that can bedevil party leaders.
Carl Hulse and the New York Times editors go for the reacharound.
Apostate
There something to that, really. These new Ds in the red districts were elected by disgruntled Republican voters who are still going to want to see some conservatism out of their new Representatives and Senators, and you have to wonder how long the honeymoon is gonna last...
Even a DINO is more progressive than a RINO -- or so I've been told.
“Obviously, I didn’t like it,” Mr. McCain told reporters Friday when asked about the two aides’ ties to Myanmar. “Saw a problem, fixed it.”
McCain is a mcmavericky hero.
Hi comedy in the comments section of
Wapo's & Kathleen Parker
The Democrats Hug It Out
Obama and Edwards look and talk pretty, but their message of unity won't work.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...5_Comments.html
gh.
if Deborah and Derek ever get a whole uninterrupted hour together in the evening, they laugh that it's the equivalent of most people's two-week summer holiday.
Sounds like they've gotten plenty of time alone together. At least, I hope they were alone.
owls!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW, your great hero King David had eight wives and ten concubines, it sez so in your holy book, bro.
Frankly, Troutski, yer friend. | 05.17.08 - 10:52 am | #
David was nothing compared to Solomon.
Robert Kagan, in a brief and wonderfully argued volume on how the world has a nasty habit of spinning off in its own directions, has a message for Americans of all political stripes: Good luck with that one. The cold war may be over, he declares in “The Return of History and the End of Dreams,” but anyone who thinks the result was really “the end of history” — a consensus that liberal democracy is the future — should take another look. “The world has become normal again,” Kagan says in the first sentence of what is less a book than an extended essay. Deeper in, he puts his argument more plainly: “Autocracy is making a comeback.”
Kagan lives!
even their fantasies are putrid - the hope is that a bunch of intolerant people will organize and seek out other intolerant people and make intolerance the law of the land
there's that 3rd law of Stupid-Dynamics kicking in again: No matter how hard you try or how long you wait you can never get rid of all the stupid -
the 4th law should be: Stupid is the essential ingredient in Conservatism - without stupid, conservatives would either starve or choke on their own bile
Senator John McCain said Friday that his presidential campaign was beginning a new “vetting process” intended to end the embarrassments over staff ties to private interests, foreign governments or independent political groups.
Without corrupt staff members, McStain, you'd have no staff members at all.
How many do you figure are tapping Cindy on the side?
Kagan = A Kang.
Go Kodos!!!!
On Obama's "ptoblems" in California:
1) A poll last week showed that if the primary were held now, Obama would beat Clinton by 6 points
2) Polls have shown Obama beating McCain by an even bigger margin than Clinton.
No, he is not in trouble here. The silly idea that because someone lost a Dem primary in Dem state means he or she would lose in November really needs to be stomped out.
The one effect Obama might have is that a larger than usual black and possibly Latino turnout might actually make it easier for the anti-marriage amendment to pass. The vote will likely be close, but among white voters only, it would easily be defeated. Black and Latino voters are more problematic.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds loves him some rapture bunny pander
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty loves to toe the repiglican line of not raising taxes as our States infrastructure collapses and deteriorates and yet he raises a .40 cent "smokers/health fee" on tobacco and now has approved of a temporary bill to allow bars in the seven county area surrounding the Twin Cities to stay open until 4:00 am while the repiglican national convention is in St.Paul.
Of course any bar that wants to stay open until 4:00 am must pay their city a $2,500.00 "fee" which smaller bars will have a tough time coming up with but not the bigger bars.
Great, Minnesota can now look forward to a bunch of drunk repiglicans tapping their toes in public restrooms or looking for hookers who supply diapers.
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