I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Anyone home?
Anyone gatch Maher last night? Fantastic.
Not yet, go call sheets.
In case people missed it yesterday, PaxLive archive is up.
Has Sarah Palin ever even been to Alaska?
I saw Maher. One of the better ones. Watching Roseanne Barr and Janeane Garofalo gang-slap John Fund was pretty damned cool. And Rushdie is always an excellent guest.
I gotta go get somethin' to eet.
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Sarah Palin is a work of fiction.
I have BOGO coupons... just not sure I want two Whoppers. 
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Okay... bbl
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Amy Winehouse is dying.
JOHN MCCAIN IS A BIG FAT LIAR.
Sorry, Molly.
So, anyone see Burn After Reading yet?
U CAN'T MAKE ME.
I got high last night and realized that I WILL leave this country if McCain wins.
Not bullshit.
For real.
This morning in the sober light of day, I confirmed that I must leave if McCain wins.
Now I feel free and at ease. What will happen, will happen.
Terrorist fist-bump.
Jesus Roosevelt Christ on ice skates.
TAKE THE FUCKING PROZAC
Potato chips>>>>>Keyboard
Raining on the east side of the county like there's no tomorrow. But on the west side it's barely drizzling.
U CAN'T MAKE ME.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 09.13.08 - 3:27 pm |
Pomegranates?
OT: Humanists are suing the government's exam agency over its decision to prevent a board giving humanism equal status to faiths in a religious education GCSE.
The OCR board had proposed allowing children to study humanism in as much depth as Christianity, Islam and Judaism in the GCSE but the move was barred by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority's regulator Ofqual. It said the syllabus put forward meant students would be able to study only humanism, rather than any of the major religions, which meant it did not fulfil their regulatory criteria.
The British Humanist Association (BHA), backed by supporters including Philip Pullman and AC Grayling, this week issued proceedings for a judicial review, claiming it was discriminatory and in breach of the QCA's own criteria and the European convention on human rights, which gives non-religious beliefs equal status. Andrew Copson, BHA director of education, said: "It threatens to turn back the progress of recent decades towards a more inclusive, educationally valid and objective subject of RE."
Humanism has been included in RE for more than 30 years. The OCR curriculum would have been the first time it was given equal weighting to religions in a GCSE.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/educat.../
gcses.religion
There's a different ratio of trolls and others here. Also more comments which punch my buttons.
Echidne | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:26 pm | #
Too true. I feel almost fortunate that this should happen just when I tend to be swamped with start of the semester work, and so come here much less often.
Raining on the east side of the county like there's no tomorrow. But on the west side it's barely drizzling.
smalfish
is it elite rain?
How about scimitars at midnight?
rorschach
or samovars at tea?
According to the morning fishwrap (SF Chron) weather page, it hit 120 in North Carolina yesterday. Can anyone confirm that?
Just checked Raleigh, and NOAA says 90. - montag
Further proof the McBusch campaign has infiltrated the SF Chron, or, more likely, been given carte blanche by the owners.
This morning in the sober light of day, I confirmed that I must leave if McCain wins.
Whither shall you go?
rapiers at dawn
Even today, after nearly 2 years without fast food; the IDEA of a double Quarterpounder with cheese sounds good.
is it elite rain?
Good question. I shall endeavor to find out.
or samovars at tea?
ina, holiday spirit | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:30 pm | #
Now that is a fine idea.
I'll bring the hookah, to help us resolve our differences.
Anyone gatch Maher last night? Fantastic. - jeremy
That's still technically a felony in 4 souther states, and no flirting.
I got high last night
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Brian?
rapiers at dawn
Moonbootica, Brit Lefty | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:31 pm | #
You'll have to pay for the kit
/SheBush of the Artic
rapiers at dawn
Moonbootica, Brit Lefty | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:31 pm | #
cheeseblocks at midnight
Ike wasn't shit, was it?!#%$*
Even today, after nearly 2 years without fast food; the IDEA of a double Quarterpounder with cheese sounds good.
plantsman | 09.13.08 - 3:32 pm | #
About every 6 months I give in to that idea. And always regret it quite rapidly.
There's a different ratio of trolls and others here. Also more comments which punch my buttons.
Echidne
It's like this has become their very favorite playground. And they get plenty of encouragement.
Whither shall you go?
rorschach
Therein lies the rub.
It won't be easy.
I'm thinking Slovenia to start. It's a sane, beautiful little country.
I can consult via the internet, do writing and other things for money.
But the thing that scares me is: no health care.
20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth,
and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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Some weirdass shit, n'est-ce pas?
butchers knife at noon
That Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator is a riot!
I'm Cuppa Invader Palin.
Ike wasn't shit, was it?!#%$*
I think it depends on who you ask.
You'd think with modern computer technology, they'd have made mistakes like this virtually impossible to make...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
train...train_collision
LOS ANGELES - A spokeswoman for the Metrolink commuter rail service says the probable cause of the collision that killed at least 18 people was the failure of a Metrolink engineer to stop his train at a red signal.
Metrolink spokeswoman Denise Tyrrell said Saturday the engineer worked for a subcontractor that has been used by Metrolink since 1998.
She said she had no further details about the signal's location and wouldn't say if the engineer had survived Friday's crash.
The commuter train collided head-on with a freight train in the Los Angeles suburb of Chatsworth.
I love that Penguin-Batman debate! Love it.
cheeseblocks at midnight
Gouda idea.
About every 6 months I give in to that idea. And always regret it quite rapidly
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srsly. sometimes a lil 'good grease' ain't sa good
I just spent too much money at the ShopRite.
But the thing that scares me is: no health care.
Bob Barretta | 09.13.08 - 3:33 pm | #
So, just like home.
Meat Cleavers at dusk
rapiers at dawn
Moonbootica, Brit Lefty | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:31 pm | #
cheeseblocks at midnight
therealhellkitty
Carburetors at 850 cfm
(gearhead quip)
cheeseblocks at midnight
therealhellkitty | 09.13.08 - 3:33 pm | #
As a resident of Wisconsin, that'd give me an unfair advantage.
cheeseblocks at midnight
Gouda idea.
NTodd aka Snowshoe Man Palin
Sounds muensterous to me.
Anton Inbedkov: Shall we say pistols at dawn?
Boris Grushenko: Well, we can say it. I don't know what it means, but we can say it.
For me, portions are really smaller now -- a Lean Cuisine is an acceptably-sized meal unit. Gorging has lost its sparkle.
I'm Icepick Motor Palin.
Why would dad (Noah) be pissed that he got his nakedness covered up? Was he trying to turn someone on and the plan failed?
Even today, after nearly 2 years without fast food; the IDEA of a double Quarterpounder with cheese sounds good.
plantsman
if by idea you mean platonic ideal, i understand. if you mean the one's from mcd's, it has probably been more than 30 years since i've had one, and just the mention of the word makes my anal sphincter clench in anticipation of the squirts.
tmi, i know. plus my mom always taught me not to say bad things about food that other people like. i apologize.
That Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator is a riot!
I'm Cuppa Invader Palin.
Brooklyn Girl, sockpuppet | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:34 pm |
I'm Bash Budweiser Palin.
I'm thinking Slovenia to start. It's a sane, beautiful little country.
I can consult via the internet, do writing and other things for money.
But the thing that scares me is: no health care.
Bob Barretta | 09.13.08 - 3:33 pm | #
Whenever I think of fleeing, I always think first of New Zealand. It's my idea of paradise.
Good heavens, I left a dt'd thread on a dt.
Once more, con brio,
Jennifer Granholm is easily twelve times more attractive than Sarah Palin.
Come to think of it, road kill is four times more attractive than Sarah Palin.
Ike smashed to *bits* the memorial made to honor the victiims of the 1900 Galveston storm.
oink!
unnecessary apostrophe. oops.
not good - Five bombs have ripped through busy shopping areas of India's capital, Delhi, within minutes of each other, killing at least 18 people, police say.
The explosions, which also injured about 80 people, are not thought to have been very powerful but happened in crowded areas.
Two unexploded bombs were also found and defused, police said.
More than 400 people have died since October 2005 in bomb attacks on Indian cities such as Ahmedabad and Bangalore.
India has blamed Islamist militant groups for these previous bombings.
CNN-IBN, a local TV news channel, said it had received an e-mail before the blasts from a group calling itself the "Indian Mujahideen".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
7614280.stm
It was meant as a joke, "Alvin", because certain individuals (ahem) kept saying that Brooklyn Girl and others were just his sockpuppets. Just a joke, dear.
Marcellina | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:26 pm | #
So you guys talked about it. Isn't that special. Atriots meeting another Atroit who is a singer living in Innsbruck and you talked about sock puppets. Unbelievable, tell us more.
I can consult via the internet, do writing and other things for money.
Can you get yourself some training to teach English? Berlitz trains native-speakers, and with that you could go almost anywhere. They've got schools all over the world.
If you end up in the EU and land a full-time job, health insurance you will have.
a Lean Cuisine is an acceptably-sized meal unit. Gorging has lost its sparkle.
plantsman
If you just eat breakfast, lunch, and supper all at once, one Lean Cuisine per meal works, I guess.
I'd be about 10 years ahead if I tried that.
just the mention of the word makes my anal sphincter clench in anticipation of the squirts.
Things have indeed gotten weirder around here.
Boris: Who is that?
Boris' Uncle: The Countess Alexandrovna, the most enticing woman in St. Petersburg. Ample bosoms, no?
Boris: Ample for a regiment.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Say whaaa?
Hitler was a community organizer
FDR was a governor...
GravatarIke smashed to *bits* the memorial made to honor the victiims of the 1900 Galveston storm.
War On War Off
Wonder why that bothers me so much?
It does, anyway.
I'm Cuppa Invader Palin.
Brooklyn Girl, sockpuppet | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:34 pm |
I'm Bash Budweiser Palin.
Buckeye, Oregon!
ladel torque palin, here.
With greater utilization of rail, perhaps dual-direction tracks can be eliminated. Oh, BTW, a fire in the northbound Channel Tunnel really messed it up.
This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Larry!
Ike wasn't shit, was it?!#%$*
abby | 09.13.08 - 3:33 pm | #
It was a good excuse for a hurricane party. We sat on the deck and enjoyed the breeze. Neighbors jammed on their guitars...babies played in the grass.
Someone lit a chiminea and the cedar smoke rose into the night. We met some really nice folks sheltering from the storm.
- A spokeswoman for the Metrolink commuter rail service says the probable cause of the collision that killed at least 18 people was the failure of a Metrolink engineer to stop his train at a red signal.
Why does it have to be somebody's fault? When, in other times, it's gods fault.
Hypocrisy?
It's like this has become their very favorite playground. And they get plenty of encouragement.
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One of em was in here the other day, trying to start a whisper campaign about a D-list celebrity supposedly having a meth addiction.
I just called him a liar and told him to fekk off.
and you talked about sock puppets.
No, actually we didn't, not at all.
Fuck these fucking hypocritic racist racist whores...
http://thumbsnap.com/v/puk1vzrq.jpg
"Some values there guys. Why is it everytime you get two or more off these asswipes together they have to be demeaning? Imagine if at a Dem summit we sold, oh, I dunno, Moose Mom Shake N' Bake? Oops, almost forgot, IOKIYAR.
WASHINGTON—A conservative political forum on Saturday sold boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap....
While Obama Waffles takes aim at Obama's politics by poking fun at his public remarks and positions on issues, it also plays off the image of the classic pancake-mix icon Aunt Jemima, which has been widely criticized as a demeaning stereotype. Obama is portrayed with popping eyes and big, thick lips as he stares at a plate of waffles and smiles broadly."
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...l.blogspot.com/
Things have indeed gotten weirder around here.
rorschach |
i love you.
I just spent too much money at the ShopRite.
HoneyBearKelly
Groceries are running us about $75-100/week. Exclusive of meat and most fresh veggies & fruit. I would be having troubles putting food on my family at these rates.
cheeseblocks at midnight
Gouda idea.
NTodd aka Snowshoe Man Palin
Sounds muensterous to me.
Doc
Sends chevres down my spine.
And Marccellina, you said and others. What others? This is great, you are our best source to simels and his sock puppets. Please dear, tell us more.
after late night drinking when I wuz at Uni we'd usually eat a Burger and fries and sometimes cheese on chips
since booze kills off tastebuds it just felt good to eat something warm
Well, with diabetes without insulin, you really gotta stick to the script.
i love you.
ina, holiday spirit | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:38 pm | #
love you too, dear.
Weird.
rapiers at dawn
Moonbootica, Brit Lefty | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:31 pm | #
Careful, you might have to pay for your own rapier investigation kit.
I've been baking hard tack to use in my social studies methods class Wednesday.
If anyone is jonesing for a 3-inch square of flour, water, and salt about the consistency of a floor tile, I've got your stuff right here.
after late night drinking when I wuz at Uni we'd usually eat a Burger and fries and sometimes cheese on chips
It was corn flakes for me. The only time I ever liked them. Probably mopped up all the alcohol.
I'm ready to start paying people to ignore this EXTREMELY INSANE AND VERY IRRITATING "PERSON."
since booze kills off tastebuds it just felt good to eat something warm
Moonbootica, Brit Lefty | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:39 pm | #
This is the ultimate explanation of doner kebabs.
What's the frequency kenneth?
In what respect Charlie?
meanwhile Pontius Pilate, like Messiah Hussein Obama-Flator, voted "present"
WASHINGTON—A conservative political forum on Saturday sold boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap....
While Obama Waffles takes aim at Obama's politics by poking fun at his public remarks and positions on issues, it also plays off the image of the classic pancake-mix icon Aunt Jemima, which has been widely criticized as a demeaning stereotype. Obama is portrayed with popping eyes and big, thick lips as he stares at a plate of waffles and smiles broadly."
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...l.blogspot.com/
pigboy
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Too bad there isn't anything called BIG FAT LIAR mix. McCain's face could be plastered all over that, to poke fun at the fact that he's killed the "straight talk express".
JOHN MCCAIN IS A BIG FAT LIAR.
I'm ready to start paying people to ignore this EXTREMELY INSANE AND VERY IRRITATING "PERSON."
V for Virginia, fatigued | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:40 pm | #
Everybody is, except Marcellina, who's too damn nice.
I've been baking hard tack to use in my social studies methods class Wednesday.
How does hard tack = social studies?
Well, it COULDN'T be Union Pacific's fault -- they own the tracks.
It was corn flakes for me. The only time I ever liked them. Probably mopped up all the alcohol.
Echidne | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:40 pm | #
The best food in the world for coming down off acid: cheese bread.
Best food while tripping: pomegranates.
my cousin works for British Rail and for rail staff if there is any whiff of alcohol on their breath it is grounds for instant dismissal
their breathalyzers are apparently more powerful than what the police use
GravatarIke smashed to *bits* the memorial made to honor the victiims of the 1900 Galveston storm.
War On War Off
The statue itself is intact. Only the base has been smashed. I saw it in the nooz a little while ago. Galveston Island itself is pretty fucked up though.
Whenever I think of fleeing, I always think first of New Zealand. It's my idea of paradise.
rorschach | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:36 pm |
New Zealand for me as well. I'm too old to learn Swedish, which would be my top choice, if I had linguistic talents.
OK, ronjazz!
the hardtack has to have worms in it to be authentic
If anyone is jonesing for a 3-inch square of flour, water, and salt about the consistency of a floor tile, I've got your stuff right here.
Doc
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I'm guessing you're going to have leftovers on that. However I do think that's where Poptarts got their start.
Posted from above.
Simels Porn:
Steve wandered sprightly into the Irish bar where he presumed the Drinking Liberally event was to be held. Sadly he was misinformed. Nonetheless, Steve stood there at the bar, friendly to a fault.
The half-Irish, half-English barkeep launched into a long joke the point of which was the inferiority of non-Irish Catholics. As the barkeeps arms flailed an aged Dago hooker came up to Steve.
"Hey, Handsome," she purred. She subsequently began hacking violently and ended up spitting her dentures into her half-finished glass of Irish whiskey.
When she finished, she rolled a billous eye at Steve.
"Wanna, good-time, Handsome?"
Yes, in fact Steve wanted a good-time.
've been baking hard tack to use in my social studies methods class Wednesday.
You could just buy it and save yourself the trouble, you know.
http://www.tidespoint.com/food/
h...ard_bread.shtml
Sweet bread is actually kind of tasty.
Tough night last night.
hard to explain why at 1 in the morning there is a craving for something meaty and greasy after a nights boozefest
i never tripped. probably a good thing.
Todd Palin supoena!
Troopergate continues!
McCain lies his ass off!
The Humanity!
New Zealand for me as well. I'm too old to learn Swedish, which would be my top choice, if I had linguistic talents.
Buckeye, Oregon! | 09.13.08 - 3:41 pm | #
My wife lived in Sweden as a child, and is quite fond of it as well.
And most Swedes can speak English, as she recalls.
I'm ready to start paying people to ignore this EXTREMELY INSANE AND VERY IRRITATING "PERSON."
V for Virginia, fatigued
Agree.
Then this one tr00lie can't even agree with itself.
It says things like Truth gets you kicked out of the boat YET people who've jumped ship are lying.
Wiskee Tangoe Fockstrott???
In what respect Charlie?
Here's hoping Frances McDormand plays her in the movie version.
Ba'al | 09.13.08 - 3:42 pm | #
Are you OK?
Don't tell anyone, but I'm making chicken & rice with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup. I'm bad.
your welcome to kip round my house on your way to your chosen destination
Obama is portrayed with popping eyes and big, thick lips as he stares at a plate of waffles and smiles broadly."
Time to start working on the cover art for a box of Mooseburger Helper....
and you talked about sock puppets.
No, actually we didn't, not at all.
Marcellina | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:38 pm | #
Read back Marcellina and see what you wrote. You words contridict you.
So you are the only real person who has seen the gang up close and personal. Where did simels have ronjazz? Seriously girl, you blow big time. But I am happy that you found a friend in simels. That says everything about you.
Sorry, I forget why I was ever a giant flying pig, but I forgot to change back. Probably commenting on a theological controversy.
I guess mimsi's gotten into the Schnapps again...
Too bad there isn't anything called BIG FAT LIAR mix. McCain's face could be plastered all over that, to poke fun at the fact that he's killed the "straight talk express".
JOHN MCCAIN IS A BIG FAT LIAR.
foolme1ns | 09.13.08 - 3:40 pm | #
"“The McCain-Palin ticket, they don’t want to debate the Obama-Biden ticket on issues because they are running on eight more years of what we’ve just seen. And they know it,” Obama said. “As a consequence what they’re going to spend the next seven, eight weeks doing is trying to distract you.
“They’re going to talk about pigs and they’re going to talk about lipstick, they’re going to talk about Paris Hilton, they’re going to talk about Britney Spears. They will try to distort my record and they will try to undermine your trust in what the Democrats intend to do.” [...]
The McCain campaign criticized Obama for showing “zero restraint” given the storm and said “today’s attacks mark a new low from Barack Obama.”
The Obama camp’s response was even tougher. “We will take no lectures from John McCain who is cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. “His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office his is seeking.” "
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...ly-
running.html
New Zealand sounds wonderful, but it's just too far for this old milk-cart horse. I've gotta stay on the Eastern seaboard of this continent, I'm afraid.
hard to explain why at 1 in the morning there is a craving for something meaty and greasy after a nights boozefest
Those things go together, for sure. The genuine country Biergartens here all serve fatty stuff like pork knuckle.
Whenever I think of fleeing, I always think first of New Zealand. It's my idea of paradise.
rorschach
A friend spent some time in NZ and said the racial tensions between whites and Maoris there is almost unbearable.
Obama is portrayed with popping eyes and big, thick lips as he stares at a plate of waffles and smiles broadly."
that's good, it will rile the base.
Obama's base.
GOP doesn't know when to quit digging its grave.
Well, it COULDN'T be Union Pacific's fault -- they own the tracks.
plantsman | 09.13.08 - 3:41 pm | #
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Of course trying to prove otherwise would would immediately be ruled frivolous by the protectors of the corporations in the supreme court.
Tough night last night.
Ba'al
Hope your cable is restored by tonight so you can see your movie on SciFi
Alvin is what Butler is calling himself now?
Must we wait until we are infested with the rest of the chipmunks?
I just spent too much money at the ShopRite.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:34 pm |
Back to work on Monday?
i never tripped. probably a good thing
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In what regaaaard, Chaaarlie?
Here's hoping Frances McDormand plays her in the movie version.
Oh yeah, you betcha!
Don't tell anyone, but I'm making chicken & rice with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup. I'm bad.
Oh hell, that's a great homemade meal.
Fuck the food snobs.
I'm a great cook, but guess what? Sometimes, I make casseroles. And they are always, reliably delicious.
Fried egg on toast with bacon is also good the morning after or just a bacon sandwich
I can't go back to Finland because I can no longer drive. They all blow their horns at me, just because I crossed a solid white line.
Galveston Island itself is pretty fucked up though.
Inhabiting barrier islands is pretty damned foolish. Nature has those things there for a purpose. And villages are not one of them.
It's like this has become their very favorite playground
It's not as if the current infestation is new.
There have been a lot of peaks and valleys of troll psychosis in the years that I've been posting here.
An uptick in troll activity isn't surprising during election time, since there is just more news fodder providing trolling opportunities. You can bet any media story that's not positive for Obama will trigger a troll assault here.
That's said, for me, I think the worst infestation was when Allen Butler was using his annieangel sockpuppet to verbally assault the female posters here around the end of 2005. The true depths of his depravity were in full display.
Do schnapps go bad?
Tough night last night.
Ba'al | 09.13.08 - 3:42 pm | #
Did you make it through ok? I understand that the bayous are still pretty full and some places will be w/o power for up to 2 weeks.
pork knuckle is mostly cartidge
A friend spent some time in NZ and said the racial tensions between whites and Maoris there is almost unbearable.
Bob Barretta | 09.13.08 - 3:44 pm | #
I found that there were tensions, but the government is actually responding to them, much more actively than the US is responding to Native Americans, and much more actively than Australia is responding to its aboriginal peoples.
It seemed much more just, equitable, and respectful than most places I've been.
Galveston Island itself is pretty fucked up though.
Seeing the blown-out office skyscrapers made me pause.
Campbell's cream of mushroom soup. I'm bad.
It's a bit high sodium, but it makes a great comfort food sauce for pork chops or meat loaf, too.
Oh yeah, you betcha!
NTodd aka Snowshoe Man Palin
Now you stop that! People from Minnesota say you betcha. People from Vermont have to satisfy themselves with ayup.
Don't tell anyone, but I'm making chicken & rice with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup. I'm bad.
qlª - Obama/Biden | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:44 pm | #
Mmmmmm ... I love that.
Don't tell anyone, but I'm making chicken & rice with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup. I'm bad.
I use that for my stroganoff. Mmmm, mmmm good!
Here's hoping Frances McDormand plays her in the movie version
The Movie To Nowhere
"“The McCain-Palin ticket, they don’t want to debate the Obama-Biden ticket on issues because they are running on eight more years of what we’ve just seen. And they know it,” Obama said. “As a consequence what they’re going to spend the next seven, eight weeks doing is trying to distract you.
“They’re going to talk about pigs and they’re going to talk about lipstick, they’re going to talk about Paris Hilton, they’re going to talk about Britney Spears. They will try to distort my record and they will try to undermine your trust in what the Democrats intend to do.” [...]
The McCain campaign criticized Obama for showing “zero restraint” given the storm and said “today’s attacks mark a new low from Barack Obama.”
The Obama camp’s response was even tougher. “We will take no lectures from John McCain who is cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. “His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office his is seeking.” "
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...ly- running.html
pigboy
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You're right.
But still.....JOHN MCCAIN IS A BIG FAT LIAR.
He needs to rename that bus the BIG FAT LIAR EXPRESS.
New Zealand for me as well. I'm too old to learn Swedish, which would be my top choice, if I had linguistic talents.
Buckeye, Oregon! | 09.13.08 - 3:41 pm | #
My wife lived in Sweden as a child, and is quite fond of it as well.
And most Swedes can speak English, as she recalls.
rorschach | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:43 pm | #
Oh, they do, and better than most Daytonians. I spent part of the summer of 1988 there. But if I were to actually live there, it might be helpful to learn the language, at least a little bit.
It seemed much more just, equitable, and respectful than most places I've been.
rorschach
Sounds cool.
I'm thinking though all the options. I won't live in a country where Sarah Palin could easily be president. This place is a fucking nuthouse.
Do schnapps go bad?
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants
I seriously doubt it.
The Lower Sodium Sea Salt Campbell's soups aren't bad at all.
Don't tell anyone, but I'm making chicken & rice with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup. I'm bad.
Rice-a-Roni with white chicken meat.
Not as good as the Arroz con Pollo down at one of our authentic Mexican restaurants here in Track Town USA, but still tasty to me.
Don't tell anyone, but I'm making chicken & rice with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup. I'm bad.
That's some good stuff. We throw in Cream of Chicken for extra "goop" to soak up the rice.
Obviously y'all camembert the cheese puns.
But if I were to actually live there, it might be helpful to learn the language, at least a little bit.
Buckeye, Oregon! | 09.13.08 - 3:48 pm | #
Well, my wife could at least teach you some curse words, but I think that's all she remembers.
pork knuckle is mostly cartidge
In a thick layer of fat and roasted skin.
can you believe they built a biohazard level 4 research facility on galveston. i can't.
Alvin is what Butler is calling himself now?
Adam Hominem | 09.13.08 - 3:45 pm | #
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You may want to ad number 1 troll, Heath Barr and a growing number of other new names that magically show up with the same whiny crap to the list.
Thanks Duncan, there will be plenty of ejaculating here at Obama's HQ!
One of my favorite soup recipes consists of just a frozen bag of squash and another of frozen corn. Fry a few garlic cloves, add to the heated veggies, season and add some milk. It's good with rye bread and cheese.
This place is a fucking nuthouse.
Bob Barretta
What you said.
Dammit, I missed my opportunity.
"They're already bad".
It seemed much more just, equitable, and respectful than most places I've been.
--
There have been volumes written about this.
It really is complex and multi-sided, huh?
But I am happy that you found a friend in simels.
Alvin
You may now open your hymnals to page 526 and sing What a Friend We Have in Simels.
He needs to rename that bus the BIG FAT LIAR EXPRESS.
foolme1ns | 09.13.08 - 3:47 pm | #
You betcha.... because that is exactly what it is.
I use that for my stroganoff. Mmmm, mmmm good!
You bastard! You just made me drool on my keyboard!
Don't tell anyone, but I'm making chicken & rice with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup. I'm bad.
Oh hell, that's a great homemade meal.
Fuck the food snobs.
I'm a great cook, but guess what? Sometimes, I make casseroles. And they are always, reliably delicious.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
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I use the store brand mushroom soup and a package of dried onion soup mix. It's very good. My family's favorite.
Best food while tripping: pomegranates.
rorschach
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Once, when on an acid trip, my friend and I ordered a pizza with everything. They put the toppings on in a circular fashion, making the pizza look like it was spinning - at least to me, anyway. Not only was it hard to grab one of the slices from the "spinning" pizza, it was even harder to eat the slice.
Ahh, those were the days!
can you believe they built a biohazard level 4 research facility on galveston. i can't.
They built the NYC disaster command center at the World Trade Center, once a site of a terrorist attack.
Bottom line is, nobody wins the culture war.
Nobody.
Sounds cool.
I'm thinking though all the options. I won't live in a country where Sarah Palin could easily be president. This place is a fucking nuthouse.
Bob Barretta | 09.13.08 - 3:48 pm | #
It is cool, though I don't mean to say all is well. The Maori are screwed just like any indigenous people these days.
But you have to respect a country that was the first to have a transgendered ex-prostitute as a member of Parliament.
People from Vermont have to satisfy themselves with ayup.
Actually, the Vermont accent is more like Minnesota than Maine! More clipped and staccato than the languorous Mainer accent.
My favorite part is the how tight the 'i' is in Vermont: a very short 'oy' sound. And it's a little "sing songy" overall, kinda like an Irish sound.
Rice-a-Roni with white chicken meat.
My housemates and I got through grad school on that.
Marcellina, did the crazy simels promise you something? Or did you just jump in because you are a psychopath too? But whatever, maybe if you play your cards right you can be his 5th wife. By the way, 3 of the 5 were hookers. Fat hairy ones too.
American cheese melted with just a little bit of milk makes a yummy sauce (okay, I know it's not gourmet). Put scrambled eggs on an English muffin and pour the sauce all over.
My favorite breakfast when I was a kid.
Phila, SNAP!
this group will cheese pun tilsit drops
But I am happy that you found a friend in simels.
Alvin
How's that LOLsuit coming, by the way?
I think Caribou Barbies' handlers told her to keep saying Charlies' name so that it would seem like she was paying attention to him.
What would have worked better would have been if she would have actually answered the questions.
that's cause vermont is full of irish. they tend to pick remote places with crap soil.
Look at me! LLLOOOKKK AAATTT MMMEEE!
Heh.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:49 pm | #
I think Caribou Barbies' handlers told her to keep saying Charlies' name so that it would seem like she was paying attention to him.
Age old sales technique, actually.
not good either - The Pakistan Army has been ordered to retaliate against any action by foreign troops inside the country, army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said on Friday.
General Abbas' statement came as top brass of the Pakistan Army in their meeting on second day fully endorsed their chief's warning that no country would be allowed to violate Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
A press release issued after the 111th Corps Commanders Conference quoted General Ashfaq Kayani as saying that "all elements of the National Power under the new democratic leadership will safeguard the territorial integrity of Pakistan with full support and backing of the people of Pakistan."
General Kayani's statement on Wednesday regarding army's resolve to defend borders at all costs against the backdrop of repeated US threats of cross-border raids inside Pakistan territory bordering Afghanistan has been widely acclaimed in the country. It has refurbished army's image that had touched rock bottom because of its involvement in internal politics under Pervez Musharraf.
Political leaders and the media, while welcoming Kayani's bold stand, made an embarrassing comparison to relatively feeble response from democratic government. Officials here said Kayani's expression," under the new democratic leadership" was designed to dispel the impression that the army was competing with the government in winning popular acclaim.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4720...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
transgendered ex-prostitute
*ear prick up*
Marcellina and simels sitting in a tree.
Sing for Simels or suffer the Hellfire of Eternal Edamnation.
But if I were to actually live there, it might be helpful to learn the language, at least a little bit.
It's not so hard. There are two conjugations for verbs (same for every person) and no declensions for nouns, and unlike Danes they actually pronounce their consonants. The syntax is pretty much the same, too, so all you need to do is learn the vocabulary and the idioms and you're good to go!
They built the NYC disaster command center at the World Trade Center, once a site of a terrorist attack.
Yet another bit of good news for Ill Douche.
Once, when on an acid trip, my friend and I ordered a pizza with everything. They put the toppings on in a circular fashion, making the pizza look like it was spinning - at least to me, anyway. Not only was it hard to grab one of the slices from the "spinning" pizza, it was even harder to eat the slice.
After seeing the Grateful Dead in London, my friend and I wandered tripping in London.
We sat for a bit by the Eros statue in Piccadilly Circus, with its fountain and all.
I said, "I didn't know the statue rotated."
He looked, for a long, long time, and said, "It looks like it is, but you never see the other side."
The powers of deductive reasoning are impressive.
Not only was it hard to grab one of the slices from the "spinning" pizza, it was even harder to eat the slice.
Ahh, those were the days!
Caepan, on the c-minus list | 09.13.08 - 3:50 pm | #
Pizza on acid???? No fucking way.
My favorite part is the how tight the 'i' is in Vermont
There's no I in Vermont!
this group will cheese pun tilsit drops
therealhellkitty | 09.13.08 - 3:51 pm | #
It's the American whey.
that's cause vermont is full of irish. they tend to pick remote places with crap soil.
And rocks! Don't forget the rocks!
But yeah, lots of the Irish here I know settled because the hills reminded them of home. Same goes for the von Trapps, actually.
There's also the obvious Francophone and Quebec English influence. Our friends at the Fortress are prime examples of that.
It's not so hard. There are two conjugations for verbs (same for every person) and no declensions for nouns, and unlike Danes they actually pronounce their consonants. The syntax is pretty much the same, too, so all you need to do is learn the vocabulary and the idioms and you're good to go!
Swedish is a lot like English and German, coming from the same family. For example, "Good Day" is "God Dag". I'd think it would be fairly easy to learn for English speakers.
The Pakistan Army has been ordered to retaliate against any action by foreign troops inside the country, army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said on Friday.
Oh, great. This is such wonderful news.
The deserter can't be satisfied with just two ongoing conflicts. He needs to expand one of them to antagonize a nominal ally.
My favorite part is the how tight the 'i' is in Vermont:
NTodd
No FLIRTING!
yeah the fucking rocks. forgot about them.
There's no I in Vermont!
But there is 'me'!
Glad to see you got thru OK, Ba'al.
There's no I in Vermont!
smalfish
There's no I in Vermont!
But there is 'me'!
NTodd aka Snowshoe Man Palin | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:56 pm | #
erm...
Same goes for the von Trapps, actually.
It does indeed look a lot like the area around Salzburg. I was thinking that while I was driving down 93, veering around all those moose.
But if I were to actually live there, it might be helpful to learn the language, at least a little bit.
Buckeye, Oregon! | 09.13.08 - 3:48 pm | #
Well, my wife could at least teach you some curse words, but I think that's all she remembers.
rorschach | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:49 pm | #
I don't even remember those.
Something I had to throw (literally) together at the last minute when I was sheltering a friend and her child.
A cup of rice and a can of corn (drained and rinsed) in the pot to cook, along with a small chopped onion. Two skinless boneless chicken breasts in the George Foreman grill.
Once the rice had cooked, it was "fluffed" with a fork, the chicken breasts were sliced into small pieces, added to the pot, along with a can of sliced white potatoes (drained and rinsed). Let it sit for 10 minutes to warm the potatoes. And finally, a jar of mild salsa was added to the pot and everything was well mixed together, and served with warmed sourdough bread.
Really, it was so much better tasting than it had any right to be.
What a mess... death toll in the CA rail crash is now up to 23.
Sheriff's department says at least 135 critically injured.
The Rutles or Spinal Tap?
Really, it was so much better tasting than it had any right to be.
Damn. We really need a "Recipes from Eschaton" volume.
But yeah, lots of the Irish here I know settled because the hills reminded them of home.
NTodd aka Snowshoe Man Palin
I think that's probably a romaticized way of looking at why Irish immigrants ended up where they did.
They probably went where land was cheap.
going from bad to worse - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The furor intensified Friday over Washington's decision to pursue Islamic militant targets inside Pakistan, with opposition lawmakers threatening the country could pull out of the war on terror if the U.S. refuses to respect its borders.
About 100 protesters burned American flags after the latest missile attack left at least 12 people dead in the North Waziristan region of the troubled northwest. Residents said they heard the sound of propeller-driven U.S. Predator drones circling overhead before the explosions.
President Bush secretly approved more aggressive cross-border operations in July, current and former American officials have told The Associated Press.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4720...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
its all going a bit pear shaped doncha think?
is all gone a bit Pete Tong
Look at me! LLLOOOKKK AAATTT MMMEEE!
Alvin | 09.13.08 - 3:53 pm | #
This is their best. Now who do you think this namestealer is? Why Simels of course.
Simels, keep playing, I just love bringing you down. But please, don't forget, we are so looking forward to your romantic trip to Paris. You
re going down dude!
See you all tomorrow, don't worry, I won't give simels a break. It's me and him.
Don't be a wussy
and vote for the pussy
Go tell yo mama
No way bitch, I'm voting Obama
What a mess... death toll in the CA rail crash is now up to 23.
Any word on how many died in Ike yet?
It's not so hard. There are two conjugations for verbs (same for every person) and no declensions for nouns, and unlike Danes they actually pronounce their consonants. The syntax is pretty much the same, too, so all you need to do is learn the vocabulary and the idioms and you're good to go!
Swedish is a lot like English and German, coming from the same family. For example, "Good Day" is "God Dag". I'd think it would be fairly easy to learn for English speakers.
Echidne | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 3:55 pm | #
Easier than Finnish. That was easier to pronounce, but learning the grammar, oh my.
Sheriff's department says at least 135 critically injured.
montag
Jaysus. How fast was that fucker going??
transgendered ex-prostitute
*ear prick up*
Lubyanka
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We always knew you are a prick with ears.
Gallup Daily now down to a 2% McCain lead. Looks like it's headed for a dead-even tie again. I wonder what the next stunt from the McCain campaign or the Bushistas will be. Do you suppose they're trading OBL capture shares?
That's some good stuff. We throw in Cream of Chicken for extra "goop" to soak up the rice.
Anon, anti-waffle | 09.13.08 - 3:49 pm | #
I'm flipping off my South Beach diet with pesto and white pasta.
I'll be craving sugary sweets for the next week thanks to the glycemic bomb this leaves in my bloodstream, but damn this is good stuff.
Damn. We really need a "Recipes from Eschaton" volume.
Anon, anti-waffle | 09.13.08 - 3:58 pm | #
Sallyh was selling a cookbook a year or so ago that was recipes from Atriots.
She may still be. I think it was $12.00 per copy.
Really, it was so much better tasting than it had any right to be.
Chris Tucker |
nothin' like food when you're hungry.
once after a 100 mile bike ride with a friend, we arrived at another friend's house. hungry. she had tortilla chips but her salsa had fermented. we dipped the chips in a ketchup & mustard blend and it was the most delicious thing i'd ever tasted.
There are two conjugations for verbs
Wow. I gave up on Italian after about the tenth.
Gallup Daily now down to a 2% McCain lead
What's the MOE, 10?
Do you suppose they're trading OBL capture shares?
blerb
Didn't Dana Perrino say he wasn't important any more?
Of course, consistency is for other people; I'm sure were they to capture him they'd trumpet it to the high heavens.
They sell canned potatoes? Wow. They keep so well fresh.
the first thing my irish progenitors built in the crappy soil of venango co pa was a log church. they went to the ends of the woods to be left alone. there were blacks there too btw. maybe my peeps knew atrioses peeps.
Here's your first assignment in learning Swedish: translate this postcard for me.
Hoppas du har hade en trävligt semester. Fore mig allt var perfekt. Iag hade ell hus bara fore mig och allt folket lämna mig i fred v. ses.
I think that's probably a romaticized way of looking at why Irish immigrants ended up where they did.
They probably went where land was cheap.
Oh yes, certainly, depending on the time--I know more recent immigrants who did it for nostalgiac reasons rather than pragmatic ones.. My peeps did that, but across the Appalachians. Why they ended up intermarrying with the Tsalagi.
My dad used to fry little cubes of sour rye bread (dry) in butter and add chopped up pickles and some cheese over it all. Heaven.
fivethirtyeight shows McCain up by 16 electoral votes (277 / 261).
Here's my advice...
Instead of talking aimlessly all the time, trying to be witty and cool, and then of course, griping with little positive consequences or any relevance, other than the fact you might entertain somebody else momentarily with a chuckle here and there...
...because, and let's face it folks.
Nobody else cares what you think, unless you've got clout somehow.
Don't feel bad about that.
Why not ENERGIZE your conversation with intellectualism HERE at Eschaton?
Run these problematic right wing disinformation specialist propagandists out of here!
Any word on how many died in Ike yet?
smalfish | 09.13.08 - 3:58 pm | #
Spouse just told me that 20,000 people didn't evacuate the west end of Galveston Island. There are currently 1,000 search and rescue personnel out trying to find the missing.
What is so hard about heeding the weather service when they say that it is "certain death" to remain?
Pizza on acid???? No fucking way.
Brooklyn Girl, sockpuppet
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Yes, 'tis true. Kept me from eating during subsequent trips for years.
Did I mention we also tried watching "The Killing Fields" on a black & white TV set that night? It wasn't a bad trip, but it had the potential for one.
Gonna excuse myself.
Have a good afternoon, all.
Any word on how many died in Ike yet?
I only see a Reuters report quoting Chertoff saying "a few" from storm surge. But, since I wouldn't trust Chertoff to tell the truth about anything, dunno.
That's here, of course. At least 70 or 80 in Haiti, and half-a-dozen or so in Cuba.
Bach!
.
fivethirtyeight shows McCain up by 16 electoral votes (277 / 261).
Brooklyn Girl, sockpuppet
YEs, but he has colorado red which it's not going to be.
That's a 9 ev swing.
Hoppas du har hade en trävligt semester. Fore mig allt var perfekt. Iag hade ell hus bara fore mig och allt folket lämna mig i fred v. ses.
I hope you had a fun semester/season. For me it was perfect. I had the whole house just for myself and all people left me in peace with respect to ses whatever that might be.
Gallup Daily now down to a 2% McCain lead
Which likely translates to about a 3% Obama lead, after accounting for Gallup's oversampling of Republicans.
There's a fast and cheap Jewish meal consisting of cinnamon, sugar, cottage cheese, and macaroni noodles. I don't remember the name of it.
Fast and cheap, and kids love it.
Not very good for ya, though, on a regular basis.
Use your patriotism and pride to bring change, solutions maker, and (the audacity of) hope into others lives!
A big part to being an effective progressive, liberal, or otherwise Democrat activist...is to follow the lead of like minded people. Understand?
Since Eschaton is a blog, this naturally means you should review the other blogs in order to ENGAGE in a more cohesive communication here.
This means you need to be INFORMED, and I'm not just talking about reading the Drudge Report to see what the enemy is up to.
You have to look at all facets of the media.
Let me give you an example of organizing skills and time management.
This should be the first thing you do when you turn on your computer every day, until November 4th.
Yes, 'tis true. Kept me from eating during subsequent trips for years.
Did I mention we also tried watching "The Killing Fields" on a black & white TV set that night? It wasn't a bad trip, but it had the potential for one.
Caepan, on the c-minus list | 09.13.08 - 4:03 pm | #
You are either brave or a masochist.
I could barely tolerate grape juice and music.
Four quarts of pickled banana peppers just put up. Waiting for the lids to seal. This goes with the four quarts I pickled several weeks ago.
They are great on salads and sandwiches.
I get these Chinese Lap Xiang sausages, saute them briefly with an onion, then put them in my rice cooker with sushi rice made with sake, sugar, salt, and a splash of rice vinegar, adding a can of bamboo shoots, a can of baby corn, a couple dried shiitake mushrooms, and a sprig of basil if I have one. That's one of my wife's favorites, and it's very quick and easy to make.
with respect to ses whatever that might be.
My guess is it says "vi ses" which in Danish at least means "we will see each other soon."
Uhhh. What's this thread about?
YEs, but he has colorado red which it's not going to be.
I'm inclined to agree.
Westerners are different.
I feel so sexy in these slippery ice blue satin panties!
Uhhh. What's this thread about?
Shared Humanity
What an asshole Brian is.
Fast and cheap, and kids love it.
Not very good for ya, though, on a regular basis.
Adam Hominem
Sounds like Noodle Kugel to me.
Westerners are different.
*fist bump*
Echidne porn:
She wept into the evening, those long endless gloamings. The wild blue grass consoled her, caressed her tumbled hair and long limbs. So much was lost and so much was to be remembered. From her tears a deep meadow drank. At last her sobs lessened to a sigh. Echidne layed herself, inconsolably beneath a red-berry bush and slept.
In the night, a cold wind stirred. Echidne woke but clenched her eyes.
A deep voice spoke from the gloom, "I am the Waning Moon Echidne, I am come."
There's a fast and cheap Jewish meal consisting of cinnamon, sugar, cottage cheese, and macaroni noodles. I don't remember the name of it.
Fast and cheap, and kids love it.
Not very good for ya, though, on a regular basis.
Adam Hominem | 09.13.08 - 4:04 pm | #
Noodle kugel. it may have eggs in it, too.
My guess is it says "vi ses" which in Danish at least means "we will see each other soon."
You are probably right. Also I remembered "kuk"!
Halfdan, I think you are right. "v. ses" starts a new line, and there may be a period preceding it (I took it for an ink smudge.)
Thanks Halfdan and Echindne!
This should be the first thing you do when you turn on your computer every day, until November 4th.
Brian | 09.13.08 - 4:04 pm | #
Geez, bossy boots.
Coke to blerb.
I'm hoping beyond hope that we finally scored some delicious corn at the store today.
The cob corn this season has been sub par around here.
Getting to be where I can read the first sentence of a Brian post, recognize it is him, and scroll on by.
My dad used to fry little cubes of sour rye bread (dry) in butter and add chopped up pickles and some cheese over it all. Heaven.
Echidne
after reading memoirs of a geisha, where she kept referring to a pickle salad, i made this up:
hot rice dumped on top of chopped greens (spinach, chard), chopped garlic, fresh ginger, pickles, red peppers. steep until greens are wilted. toss with olive oil & balsamic (add gorgonzola if you're feeling cheesy).
A deep voice spoke from the gloom, "I am the Waning Moon Echidne, I am come."
Then Echidne bared her fangs, gulped down the Waning Moon and burped.
What an asshole Brian is.
For those of us who like a stern lecture, he can be comforting.
The cob corn this season has been sub par around here.
MP | 09.13.08 - 4:07 pm | #
GM corn sucks. Pretty but utterly tasteless.
A big part to being an effective progressive, liberal, or otherwise Democrat activist...is to follow the lead of like minded people. Understand?
Take me to your leader.
Uhhh. What's this thread about?
Shared Humanity
STAY ON TOPIC DAMMIT!
Step 1. Immediately Review News
CNN http://www.cnn.com
MSNBC (also scroll to bottom, then follow link to video podcast for Olbermann’s Countdown show, after 10:30pm (est)) http://www.msnbc.msn.com
Slate (see Today’s Papers section after 6am) http://www.slate.com
Next one is very important...speed read all the News sections/tabs continuously throughout day. Yahoo Newswire (see Reuters tab under World News) http://news.yahoo.com
*also review your local newspaper's website
Did I mention we also tried watching "The Killing Fields" on a black & white TV set that night? It wasn't a bad trip, but it had the potential for one.
Caepan, on the c-minus list | 09.13.08 - 4:03 pm | #
I watched Blue Velvet in a theatre tripping in Oxford, after having been up for three days.
Also, I watched Evil Dead III in a theatre in New Orleans, tripping, during Mardi Gras. The room was empty when it began, but more and more people kept trickling in.
Because the theatre was on a parade route, and cops working the route had free entry. So at the end, when the lights came up, it was the 3 of us tripping hard, and about 50 or 60 cops.
"Humanism has been included in RE for more than 30 years. The OCR curriculum would have been the first time it was given equal weighting to religions in a GCSE."
Moon, the practice of the Buddhism of Nichiren, as practiced and spreading now in 192 countries under the banner of the SGI (Soka Gakkai International), is pure Humanism.
http://www.sgi.org.
Sorry, 24,000 people are missing on Galveston Island. They have 50 aircraft up looking for them in addition to the 1,000 rescue people.
Chertoff is lying
What an asshole Brian is.
For those of us who like a stern lecture, he can be comforting.
Shared Humanity
For those of us who have Killfile, he can be invisible.
Sorry, 24,000 people are missing on Galveston Island.
I thought they dodged a bullet.
I made killer shitake/roasted pepper quinoa for myself and Future Mr. Vespa.
He's a veggie and I'm an unrepentant carnivore, so the food thing's been a challenge.
I think we should have a Bourdain-style travel show where we go all over the world, judging veggie food and meaty food. But the vegetarian is the big, hairy guy, not the petite girl.
You are either brave or a masochist.
I could barely tolerate grape juice and music.
Brooklyn Girl, sockpuppet
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In retrospect, more of the latter than the former. But I never regret a paisley-covered moment. Oh, the stories I could tell...
Which likely translates to about a 3% Obama lead, after accounting for Gallup's oversampling of Republicans.
Richard
One hopes. The daily numbers for yesterday had to be at least tied anyway to shave another point off the McCain lead. And curiously, the Palin redneck tsunami has completely changed the shading of the map. It used to be that a significant Obama popular advantage while losing the EC was a distinct possibility. Now it's the other way around because all the cracker states have gone so deep red again. No big loss.
Sorry, 24,000 people are missing on Galveston Island.
No fucking way!
For those of us who have Killfile, he can be invisible.
jac | 09.13.08 - 4:10 pm | #
How does killfile work? Can anyone do it?
Just out of curiousity. No special reason, or anything.
In retrospect, more of the latter than the former. But I never regret a paisley-covered moment. Oh, the stories I could tell...
Caepan, on the c-minus list | 09.13.08 - 4:11 pm | #
Paisley rubber walls.
Sorry, 24,000 people are missing on Galveston Island
Link to an actual story please.
Well hell, don't all fairy tales end that way? John McCain, Sarah Palin, I'd looking at you.
Barack in Manchester NH this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m...h?
v=mzYHcT2n_U4
How does killfile work? Can anyone do it?
Just out of curiousity. No special reason, or anything.
Aurora Erratic
1. Open Firefox.
2. In the Add-ons section, install the GreaseMonkey add-on.
3. Once GreaseMonkey is enabled, install the Killfile script.
Link to an actual story please.
Not missing, based on this:
Rescuers in Galveston, Texas, were going door-to-door Saturday to check on the estimated 20,000 people who failed to flee Hurricane Ike, which has slowed to tropical storm status.
Downtown Houston.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-85234
I'm taking Halfdan's advice and ignoring all polls until 10/1.
me and mum had an Indian takeaway for our dinner
Pilau Rice
Peshwari Naan
Chicken Tandoori Massala
Chicken Kasmiri (This dish is cooked with fresh Bananas, Lychees, Cream Almonds & Coconut.
A very tasty dish suitable for a non-curry eater)
Onion Bahjee
Smallfish, my husband is watching the Weather Channel. That's where the report comes from.
24,000 people stayed on West Galveston.
They recorded 911 calls from many of then but couldn't get to them.
I'm taking Halfdan's advice and ignoring all polls until 10/1.
qlª
QL Johnson is right about Halfdan Johnson being right!
from the Taste of Bengal, best curry house in Devizes
My daughter's veggie friend made hamburgers out of simple chopped fine regular mushrooms, onions, and an egg. She, carnivore, said they were delicious. Fried in butter.
step 2. Review Progressive/Liberal Blogs for Common Topics
Air America Radio http://airamerica.com
Duncan Black – Eschaton (here, of course)
Juan Cole http://www.juancole.com
David Corn http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/davidcorn
Crooks and Liars http://www.crooksandliars.com
Fire Dog Lake http://firedoglake.com
Brad Friedman http://www.bradblog.com
Salon (see Glenn Greenwald) http://www.salon.com
Center for American Progress (Christy Harvey) http://www.americanprogress.org
me and mum had an Indian takeaway for our dinner
Yum.
Now I could go for some Saag Chicken and Pesto Naan.
from the Taste of Bengal, best curry house in Devizes
Moonbootica, Brit Lefty | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 4:15 pm | #
Alas, the best curry house in Derbyshire (where the owner felt it necessary to come out and check when I ordered spicy vindaloo) has closed since I last was there.
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Matthew Yglesias http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org
fucked up the link
its the Taste of Bengal, friendly staff and great food
I'm taking Halfdan's advice and ignoring all polls until 10/1.
qlª
I am constitutionally incapable of ignoring them, but I will try not to get my panties in a twist about them until October. Besides, it's clear things are settling abck into a near-tie at the moment, and it's hard to see what else they can pull to match their convention/Palin bounce now.
The kosher supermarket down the street sells all kinds of kugel.
But that place is too damn expensive.
I'm taking Halfdan's advice and ignoring all polls until 10/1.
I don't think you'll regret it.
"Ike wasn't shit, was it?!#%$*
abby"
Nature's way of sending a message to the idiot conservative utilities, to stop putting the weather out-of-balance any more. Pretty direct, wouldn't you say? An omen for the Oil Boys.
What we want instead is an all- electric infrastructure, including vehicles. Here's one non-burning-anything way how:
http://www.stirlingenergy.com
Wife makes a mean kugel. Also can ke a meal out of potato panckaes.
So 24,000 is unconfirmed. I wonder where all those people are though. Surely when the NG came a lookin, they would have seen a pretty big crowd.
step 3. Study Your Unbiased News Organizations
C-SPAN http://www.c-span.org
National Public Radio http://www.npr.org
PBS Lehrer NewsHour http://www.pbs.org/newshour
Media Matters http://mediamatters.org
Politico http://www.politico.com
All the Indian groceries around here have these yummy frozen Indian entrees now, anlong with all kinds of frozen naan, samosa, chapati, etc. A couple of those with some rice and a few jars of pickles and chutneys, and maybe some yogurt with a tomato or cuke copped in it makes a really dandy and super-easy meal.
Around 250,000 worshippers have turned out to hear Pope Benedict XVI celebrate an open-air mass in Paris.
Many people spent the night at the Invalides complex, south of the river Seine in the French capital, waiting to hear him speak.
It is the pontiff's first visit to France since his election in 2005.
Later, the Pope will fly to the pilgrimage site of Lourdes, where the faithful believe the Virgin Mary appeared to a young girl 150 years ago.
France is a Roman Catholic country, but Sunday Mass attendance is now below 10% and strict laws separate church and state.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ope/
7613644.stm
Getting back to food (and stepping away from the LSD for now)...
My wife and I ate in an Indian restaurant in Canada where they had beef on the menu. My assumption is that the owners were Muslim. Or am I that truly iggorant of food that doesn't come in a paper wrapper?
24,000 people stayed on West Galveston.
They recorded 911 calls from many of then but couldn't get to them.
That's a hell of lot different than saying they are ALL missing.
blerb, just the person I'm looking for!
A friend asked me today how one says "Zwetchgen" in English. We think they are different than plums (or a variant of a plum) but I have never seen them in North America, nor do I know what to call them.
Sure, muslims eat beef.
I could barely tolerate grape juice and music.
Brooklyn Girl, sockpuppet
I don't think it even occurred to me to eat. Maybe I drank some sort of beverage . . . for some reason I don't remember all that clearly.
Maybe I drank some sort of beverage . . . for some reason I don't remember all that clearly.
V for Virginia, fatigued | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 4:21 pm | #
Indian restaurants here serve meat, notably lamb.
Gah. Anyone want to finish my work for me?
Or failing that, kick "Brian" in the 'nads?
We have an enormous spider outside out kitchen bay window. Maybe four inches across including legs.
Fascinating to watch.
She sits completely still, until an insect gets caught up, sprints over there, wraps it up tightly for a snack later, then goes right back to her resting spot, motionless again.
step 4: Review and Memorize The Democrat Leadership’s Platform, Read Their Speeches
C-SPAN http://www.c-span.org
Congressional Quarterly Politics http://www.cqpolitics.com
DNC http://www.democrats.org
DLC http://www.dlc.org
Senate Schedule http://www.senate.gov/index.htm
Democrat Senate Agenda http://democrats.senate.gov
Congressional Record http://thomas.loc.gov/home/r110q.../
r110query.html
My wife and I ate in an Indian restaurant in Canada where they had beef on the menu. My assumption is that the owners were Muslim.
Caepan
Or they may simply have been non-observant Hindus who realized that serving beef in Canada is good business.
Eating beef is not unknown in India by any means. Even Ghandi tried it as a young boy.
Stephen Hawking, despite his disabilities, can use a computer...
from the Taste of Bengal, best curry house in Devizes
Moonbootica, Brit Lefty | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 4:15 pm |
Mmm. I love that the Brit Pubs here serve curries. The British were wise to adopt the food of other cultures... one can only throw so much pepper onto entrails and hope for the best.
The British Bulldog here makes the most killer Paki food I've ever had.
My wife and I ate in an Indian restaurant in Canada where they had beef on the menu. My assumption is that the owners were Muslim. Or am I that truly iggorant of food that doesn't come in a paper wrapper?
Caepan, on the c-minus list | 09.13.08 - 4:20 pm | #
they don't eat pork and the beef was probably Halal
southern Indian curry dishes lean towards vegetarianism while the northern types are meaty
My wife and I ate in an Indian restaurant in Canada where they had beef on the menu.
I've been to several Indian restaurants that do that, in Canada and elsewhere.
They tend to be lousy, I've found.
Or failing that, kick "Brian" in the 'nads?
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 4:22 pm | #
You mean that isn't your work?
I'm taking care of Alvin. Simels said nothing about Brian.
So 24,000 is unconfirmed. I wonder where all those people are though. Surely when the NG came a lookin, they would have seen a pretty big crowd.
smalfish | 09.13.08 - 4:19 pm | #
Don't know. Did the NG have a chance to check before the storm? 2005 population of the island was over 57,000.
How about some music?
Patrick Watson.
Close To Paradise.
A friend asked me today how one says "Zwetchgen" in English. We think they are different than plums (or a variant of a plum) but I have never seen them in North America, nor do I know what to call them.
Marcellina
I have seen them in the produce section at Berkeley bowl, and they call them "prunes", or sometimes sugar plums. So is "Pflaumen" just Hochdeutsch for "zwetschken?" Or are those something different too?
Or failing that, kick "Brian" in the 'nads?
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
We're holding a raffle for that privilege. $5 a ticket, goes to the Poor Atriots Travel Fund for the next Con.
How many you want?
Dad gummit, gotta go to work. I'll try to catch up with the Eschaton Revolution later.
(Gives everyone the Secret Simels Gang Handshake ®)
How many you want?
V for Virginia
I'll take ten; it'll take at least that many tries because the targets are so small.
Checking out all of those internet sources can be entertaining but seeing the seal form on some just canned banana peppers is rewarding too.
Just saying.
The Sikhs have no problem with beef, either, and they seem to run a lot of restaurants. Lots of Sikhs in Canada, too.
Okay. Need to head out. Have a good day everyone.
when my mother's Tunisian friend was staying with us we brought Halal meat, i remeber sitting on the bus back from Swindon with this bag of meat, we must of looked like murderers lol
made a nice Spaghetti Bolognese
"She sits completely still, until an insect gets caught up, sprints over there, wraps it up tightly for a snack later, then goes right back to her resting spot, motionless again."
--MP
We have those on every window and doorway right now. The other morning I looked over at my lamp and one had woven a beautiful web between the lamp and my desk. Alas, I removed her to outside. Those webs are absolutely beautiful.
.but seeing the seal form on some just canned banana peppers is rewarding too
What did you process them with?
She sits completely still, until an insect gets caught up, sprints over there, wraps it up tightly for a snack later, then goes right back to her resting spot, motionless again.
MP
Too cool!
(No, seriously!)
All right. Had a shitty night last night, a shitty day today.
I'm heading to the bar, to talk nonsense and forget about everything for a while.
Later, all.
Wow. We have wicked rain here, and right now, the teeveeis telling me that Prior is smack dab in the middle of a tornado warning.
Godspeed, Prior Aelred.
She sits completely still, until an insect gets caught up, sprints over there, wraps it up tightly for a snack later, then goes right back to her resting spot, motionless again.
MP | 09.13.08 - 4:22 pm | #
is it a golden agirope? those are wonderful spiders.
Vinegar laced with Peppercorns, salt, and diced chives.
Five civilians and seven militants have been killed in north-west Pakistan in a suspected US missile attack, local officials say.
Missiles hit two buildings near Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border.
It has emerged that President Bush recently authorised US raids against militants in Pakistan without prior approval from Islamabad.
There is growing concern in Pakistan over unilateral US military action.
Early reports said all, or nearly all, of the dead were Taleban fighters killed by one missile.
But later reports from the scene said missiles hit two buildings - in one three women and two children were killed, and in the other seven Taleban militants died.
The missiles were fired from a drone - an unmanned US plane - local people said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/
7611721.stm
Why am I not surprised:
Forum sells 'Obama Waffles' with racial stereotype
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/...ma-
Waffles.html
Barack Obama: Too Good For America
You may not have thought about it, but the military plays a significant role in politics during war-time. Stay in-tune to their concerns and issues.
step 5: Pay Attention to Pentagon Leadership
DefenseLink (see daily podcast Round The Services) http://www.defenselink.mil/news
RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org
White House (as a matter of continuity) http://www.whitehouse.gov
There are many others...like Jane's, FAS, AFIO, Armed Forces Times, GlobalSecurity...too.
Bookmark these.
afternoon 
Last week I canned four quarts with a diced jalapeno in each quart.
Wow. We have wicked rain here, and right now, the teeveeis telling me that Prior is smack dab in the middle of a tornado warning.
We're sitting right next to a tropical storm and it's only pissing rain here. I've seen worse rain from a flat rock under a cow.
‘Obama Waffles’ featuring racist, stereotyped images sold at Values Voter Summit.
At the Values Voter Summit this weekend, vendors sold an item called “Obama Waffles” featuring a racist cartoon of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on the box front — with “popping eyes and big, thick lips” — and another image of him wearing an Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Its creators, Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, said it was meant as “political satire,” and sold the box for $10 from a booth at the Family Research Council event. CNN’s Lou Dobbs stopped by the booth and exclaimed, “My wife will love this!” A photo shows Dobbs with a box of the mix in his hand.
I hope there is a very hot chair in hell waiting for Dobbs.
Vinegar laced with Peppercorns, salt, and diced chives.
Shared Humanity
Sounds good. I'm getting a big harvest of Thai chilies right now, and I think perhaps I ought to pickle some of them.
Forum sells 'Obama Waffles' with racial stereotype
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/...ma- Waffles.html
Barack Obama: Too Good For America
Monica_A: Axe Diesel
I'm waiting for Mr. V's resume so I can get our immigration application for Canada in.
Thanks for the reminder.
step 6: Stay Current with Judicial Rulings and Revised Federal Regulations, Executive Orders
ACLU http://www.aclu.org
The Center for Public Integrity http://www.publicintegrity.org
blerb,
as I understand it, Pflaumen are rounder, and Zwetchgen are longer — kind of egg-shaped.
Sugar plums, I have to look that up.
We have writing spiders that weave a web on our front porch every fall. Reminds me of Charlotte every time.
"People calling 911 during the storm saying they were afraid, they were in dangerous situations . . . "
Huh! No one could have seen that coming!
We found a black widow on our doorstep last week. First one I've ever seen in the wild. Fascinated my son hugely and then gave him nightmares. I will never poke around in the crawlspace under our house again.
Seems Galveston is still standing, the 25 foot storm surge turned out to be 13 ft., etc...
Now, to all those who called me, my family, and my friends a bunch of stupid fucks and idiots..
you may all line up, pair off, and kiss my furry, red and white ass.
You may use my bushy tail to hide your faces if u getz bembarist
with that said, I ain't mad at ya
We have writing spiders that weave a web on our front porch every fall. Reminds me of Charlotte every time.
mer
Wait until the McCain campaign kills them for calling Sarah Palin "some pig"
The great thing about pickling is it is almost imposible to screw it up and accidently kill yourself.
Voting for President....not so much.
step 7: Search Effectively (use ‘boolean’ logic where necessary)
Yahoo (ignore company’s wonky newsbox when you can, but look at the difference between a quick news type search and a quick web type search) http://www.yahoo.com
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Metacrawler; the Yahoo backup when your first search yields unsatisfactory results http://www.metacrawler.com
Yahoo Advanced Search backup plan http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced
MapQuest (when you have a geography related question) http://www.mapquest.com
These are all good 'quick on the draw' bookmarks.
Loooong article just posted in NYT
In Office, Palin Hired Friends and Hit Critics
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/1...14palin.html?
hp
.The great thing about pickling is it is almost imposible to screw it up and accidently kill yourself.
Luckily, those nasty Clostridia don't fare so well in a highly acid environment.
Hey, who's the spam bot?
"Wait until the McCain campaign kills them for calling Sarah Palin 'some pig'"
--Attaturk
I knew we could get back to talking about Palin somehow.
Well, FireFox, I'm glad you brought it up, because I wouldn't have.
No disrespect intended to your family and friends, but they didn't know in advance what the results would be, and it's ridiculous to take chances like that with your life. The fact that everyone is fine is a matter of chance, not of their superior figuring-out-the-weather skills.
And a fair amount of Galveston? Really not so much "standing."
"Wait until the McCain campaign kills them for calling Sarah Palin 'some pig'"
--Attaturk
Nicely played, attaturk.
Does this sound like anyone we know?
Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.
Rick Steiner, a University of Alaska professor, sought the e-mail messages of state scientists who had examined the effect of global warming on polar bears. (Ms. Palin said the scientists had found no ill effects, and she has sued the federal government to block the listing of the bears as endangered.) An administration official told Mr. Steiner that it would cost $468,784 to process his request.
When Mr. Steiner finally obtained the e-mail messages — through a federal records request — he discovered that state scientists had in fact agreed that the bears were in danger, records show.
(From NYT article cited above)
OK....you're now beginning to bore me.
In Office, Palin Hired Friends and Hit Critics
Who could have ever predicted....?
Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.
Ahhhh, now I see. The McCain camp didn't *have* to vet her; the Vader camp had already done it.
step 8: Write Effectively, Spell Correctly, When Copying/Pasting Use Cited Sources...
Learn Basic BBCode for effective communication, possibly FTP processing for image support in your posts where equipped. not really applicable here, but can be very effective elsewhere.
All-In-One-Stop-Shopping-->Matt Drudge's father's website
www.refdesk.com/
Brooklyn Girl, we are so happy for you and Steve. What day are you leaving for Paris? Where are you staying? I have always wanted some man to take me to Paris.
Rick Steiner, a University of Alaska professor, sought the e-mail messages of state scientists who had examined the effect of global warming on polar bears. (Ms. Palin said the scientists had found no ill effects, and she has sued the federal government to block the listing of the bears as endangered.)
Endangered? Well no wonder, they're such easy targets! BLAM! I just gone one, see that?
/palin
Here at the cat wards, we have a feral male with a possible broken foot who has learned to run fast on 3 legs. He is living on the table next to his food. We are eating in the dining room.
In the upstairs bathroom we have yowling femme in heat.
I can hardly wait for the vet to open on Monday.
This is funny:
Oh, the irony. Just before the Department of Interior's inspector general released reports that laid bare the oil-and-sex scandal in the department's oil royalties office this week, Interior won an annual award from the federal Office of Government Ethics, The Post's Mary Pat Flaherty and Derek Kravitz report.
WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Well, I'm gonna sue the weatherman. Ike was supposed to give us about 1-2 inches of rain here in Austin, and we got nothing. The prediction they gave last night was 100% chance of heavy rain today. That 100% turned into some moderate winds and cloudiness but not a single drop of water from the sky. It IS oppressively hot and humid today, though. Dang it, we need some rain.
step 9: Utilize Good Software
a) FTP program for uploading to IPS network server of personal images. Do not illegally hot link images.
b) Google Earth
c) Security (more info coming soon, incl. Windows backup instructions)
d) E-mail (do not use webmail)
e) Desktop Publishing Image Manipulation (file size and dimensions)
f) Quick and Stable Audio Streaming http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2007...rica-
radio.html
g) Computer Monitor Image Snapshot
h) Flash Video Download and File Converter for your favorite vids, YouTube archives (storage of files on your hard-drive before they are removed for protected content or copyright infringement by YouTube)
Brooklyn Girl, we are so happy for you and Steve. What day are you leaving for Paris?
wait, I thought Simels was in Paris
"Like Mr. Bailey, she is an effusive cheerleader for her boss.
“YOU ARE SO AWESOME!” Ms. Frye typed in an e-mail message to Ms. Palin in March."
The flagship of the SCLM, the NYT, is taking notice that Grampy is talking out his ass and that Trampy is dangerously unqualified, in addition to being dangerous.
Is the apocalypse at hand?
Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.
It's a strange year for qualifications
Does this sound like anyone we know?
Really. I guess we understand now why Huggy calls her his soulmate. He was missing his old one since he had to distance himself for election reasons.
McSame and Slick Sarah. You can't make this stuff up. God save us all.
Really. I guess we understand now why Huggy calls her his soulmate. He was missing his old one since he had to distance himself for election reasons.
Which reminds me: While we are all looking into the future the Bush administration is sneaking in all sorts of nasty policies.
Is the apocalypse at hand?
Professor Wagstaff
first, we must have teh rapture
wait, I thought Simels was in Paris
el
No, simels is a French astrophysicist supermodel who lives in Moscow.
Wait, now I'm confused . . .
Galveston dodged a bullet in more ways than one...
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com...l/index.html?
hp
An Observation | 2:26 p.m. Obviously, there is a pressing need to learn more about the state of Galveston following the storm, and many officials and reporters are rushing to provide answers. In the meantime, Dr. Jeff Masters, a leading meteorologist-blogger, has a simple observation today that sets an important baseline, at least:
Galveston is not destroyed
Although Ike caused heavy damage by flooding Galveston with a 12-foot storm surge, the city escaped destruction thanks to its 15.6-foot sea wall (the wall was built 17 feet high, but has since subsided about 2 feet). The surge was able to flow into Galveston Bay and flood the city from behind, but the wall prevented a head-on battering by the surge from the ocean side. Galveston was fortunate that Ike hit the city head-on, rather than just to the south. Ike’s highest storm surge occurred about 50 miles to the northeast of Galveston, over a lightly-populated stretch of coast. Galveston was also lucky that Ike did not have another 12-24 hours over water. In the 12 hours prior to landfall, Ike’s central pressure dropped 6 mb, and the storm began to rapidly organize and form a new eyewall. If Ike had had another 12-24 hours to complete this process, it would have been a Category 4 hurricane with 135-145 mph winds that likely would have destroyed Galveston. The GFDL model was consistently advertising this possibility, and it wasn’t far off the mark. It was not clear to me until late last night that Ike would not destroy Galveston and kill thousands of people. Other hurricane scientists I conversed with yesterday were of the same opinion.
It's fall - time to put up.
wait, I thought Simels was in Paris
el
Simels IS Brooklyn Girl.
At least according to the supermodel / brain surgeon / fry cook / double nought spy.
wait, I thought Simels was in Paris
el | 09.13.08 - 4:42 pm | #
Simels has never been more than 40 miles from the city. That's why this is so exciting. Why he had to get a passport, shots and everything.
I am so happy for them.
Is the apocalypse at hand?
Time to go nookleer!
See ya later. The ivy is growing while I type here.
It's fall - time to put up.
GWPDA
Or shut up?
Here at the cat wards, we have a feral male with a possible broken foot who has learned to run fast on 3 legs. He is living on the table next to his food. We are eating in the dining room.
In the upstairs bathroom we have yowling femme in heat.
I can hardly wait for the vet to open on Monday.
el
Having lived with a female in estrus, my heart goes out to you.
Last time I went through this, there was no place I could put her where I couldn't hear her. Clearly.
Finally about the third morning, about 3 am, I went and grabbed her by the scruff of the neck, looked her in the eye with murder in mind; she looked at me and went
"mew?"
I put her down, tried to go back to sleep. Finally got the check from the Humane Society to fix her the next day.
I thought it nookyalur...the president has been lying to me?!
Is the apocalypse at hand?
quite possibly
the Pakistan army has threatened to defend their borders against foreign invaders
while Palin wants to start a war with Russia
Wait, is this a joke or something. Steve and Brooklyn Girl are going to Paris aren't they?
Mme. Wagstaff and I agree that Skanky's wardrobe is from Eddie Izzard"s Executive Transvestite line.
Yes, you could really see how the inner core of Ike was starting to fire up in a big way right before it was snuffed out by landfall. And they really were lucky that the path of the eye wasn't a like 30 miles to the left of where it went. If all that had been blowing directly onshore, the seawall probably wouldn't have held.
Interior won an annual award from the federal Office of Government Ethics,
The "Department Most Likely To" Alward.
Which reminds me: While we are all looking into the future the Bush administration is sneaking in all sorts of nasty policies.
Echidne
Which they have been doing for more than seven years.
Watch for the pardons the last day in office.
Well, I FORCED down a bowl of tomato soup. I guess that is something.
At least according to the supermodel / brain surgeon / fry cook / double nought spy.
jac
Buy me a drink, sailor.
There's being smart, and there's being lucky. The two aren't entirely independent, but neither are they identical. And good outcomes aren't always evidence for the former over the latter.
Just sayin'
And it's great that folk are mostly OK.
Forum sells 'Obama Waffles' with racial stereotype
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/...ma- Waffles.html
Barack Obama: Too Good For America
Monica_A: Axe Diesel
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Cuz racism is funny and it sells? Especially to the elites like Dobbs who fear Obama ending their tax cuts.
I wonder if this wasn't a Rovian stunt in an attempt to get the Obama campaign to cry racism which would of course favor the racist pigs on the reich.
We have an industrious spider that weaves between a mimosa tree off our back deck, and our sliding glass door.
Easily six or seven feet.
WTF?! And she takes it down during the day, and puts it back up at sunset.
From Digby.......
My reader JN from Wisconsin writes in with news of the latest vote suppression effort:
The state elections agency is investigating complaints about a massive campaign mailing Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has directed toward Wisconsin Democrats and other voters.
Each mailing includes at least one copy of the state application for an absentee ballot that has the address of a local clerk and a box for postage printed on the other side. But in some cases, the incorrect clerk's address is printed on the application, leading some Democrats to wonder if the Arizona senator's campaign is deliberately trying to get them to apply for absentee ballots in places where they aren't eligible to vote.
"They're trying to knock me off the rolls," said Democrat Beverly Jambois, of Middleton. "I can't tell you how upsetting it is to me. This is how you win elections? By disenfranchising other voters?"
Her household received the flier this week addressed to her husband, Robert, a lawyer for the state Department of Transportation. The couple are registered to vote in Middleton, but the absentee ballot application was addressed to the city clerk's office in Madison. A McCain campaign spokeswoman said in a statement the mailing mistakes are "certainly not intentional" but she wouldn't answer questions. The statement also said the mailing went to "potential supporters across the spectrum."
Mark Jefferson, executive director of the state GOP, said the mailing is not intended to keep people from the polls and that the wrong absentee ballot applications resulted from incorrect information in databases used for the mailing.
"You do the best with the lists you have, and no list is perfect," Jefferson said. "There is certainly no type of suppression effort going on." Jefferson said the mailing was directed to hundreds of thousands of voters.
Buy me a drink, sailor.
V for Virginia
I'm sorry, you implied that Simels is Mimi.
Completely different impersonation.
NO COKE FOR YOU!
She sat in a crowded Chinese restaurant, a velvet toff's hat on her head. She smiled to herself in that way, the way young women on the cusp of life smile to themselves. Endless mirth curled her lips. This was the world and she drank deeply of it. The poor Kowloon peasants who waited on her gazed absently and hurried with her green tea.
Brooklyn Girl, are you excited? You and steve are going to Paris together. So romantic. I am happy for you and sad for me.
Step 10
Don't forget to visit your library! Keep yourself INFORMED. The exercise and fresh air will do you good.
Mother Jones (Canadian publication)
The Economist (pro-NAFTA, but excellent source on foreign affairs)
Newsweek (becuase they aren't Time-Warner)
If all that had been blowing directly onshore, the seawall probably wouldn't have held.
blerb
And here is what makes me positively angry about all this "neener, neener, see? We're just fine!" talk afterwards:
Next time, it does intensify/move 50 miles to the left, and everyone ends up dead.
We fight this complacency every. fucking. year.
Rolling Stone (This one is a mixed bag. They come on too strong when it's unwanted, and don't get the job done when you need them. As a musicician, it's like being married to a Republican or a bad zodiac sign or something. Otherwise buy it on demand, if you catch my drift.)
The Progressive (This is The Nation's twin sister. Thin, not content heavy, but in your corner every step of the way.)
The New Yorker (Brave publisher. Will give you the story no-one else dares. Mother Jones archetype, but American.)
Fannie, Freddie and the demise of bourgeois triumphalism
Nothing funnier than racism or sexism. Great subjects for comedy. Hate those elitist liberal tree-hugging kumbaya-singing faggy types who think real people still get killed, every day, because of them. Takes all the fun out of life, that sort of thing...
Umm. ProfWombat, I hate to be a boor and all but I have stupid qweshton.
When someone is like me - I have not been able to eat for more than a week now. They have tried the obvious thing (laxatives) and it only helped in the most minor way. Why haven't they put me in the damned hospital and figured out what is wrong with me before I fucking DIE?
WTF? Do I have to become comatose before someone notices?
High Times, Playboy, and Hustler (Best bought at the newstand. Were the first to bring alternative 'conspiracy' website information into the public's hands. This is where our civil liberties 1st amendment people checked their CIA's rubicon for decades. Now they data mine and openly disregard a search warrant's 'proof of intent'. Barack will help place the 'burden' back on them. Here's by the way...where you used to find your conspiracy nut 'search' terms before there was computers, so go to these mainstream alternative publications for your fine print once again.)
Washington Quarterly (This small book is sorta like the scientific peer review pub for PoliSci people. Congressional Quarterly magazine is closely related. A web subscription to CQ, gives you an edge on the legislative agenda at Capitol Hill. These are the C-SPAN guys, y'know.)
Washington Report on Middle-Eastern Affairs (Definitely NOT a zionist publication. Very meddlesome and the go to place for second opinions on the minority of paranoid maniac Jewish-Americans in their community and especially the BUSH NEOCON...PNAC policy.)
Has Brian noticed yet that he is leading absolutely no one?
Mme. Wagstaff and I agree that Skanky's wardrobe is from Eddie Izzard"s Executive Transvestite line.
Professor Wagstaff | 09.13.08 - 4:49 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Running, jumping, climbing trees, shooting wolves from planes.
while Palin wants to start a war with Russia
You can see it, but too far away to get a pipeline there, might as well shoot it.
I say we ignore him right in the balls.
WTF? Do I have to become comatose before someone notices?
DWD - S☮S
No, but being rich sure wouldn't hurt.
Simels has never been more than 40 miles from the city.
He said he once drove to iirc Pittsburgh to get laid.
He said he once drove to iirc Pittsburgh to get laid.
leibniz♘☮
Hell, at this point I'd do that. And I'm in Minneapolis.
But I say too much.
I was sarcastically doing the "neener, neener" thing.
I don't think I deserved to be name-called, so it is what it is.
The seawall ain't going nowhere.
Has Brian noticed yet that he is leading absolutely no one?
Adam Hominem
Brian is Butler merging jack and fy into one personality- a banality/scroll troll.
He said he once drove to iirc Pittsburgh to get laid.
leibniz♘☮
Hell, at this point I'd do that. And I'm in Minneapolis.
But I say too much.
Adam Hominem
If you're willing to spend that much on gas . . . why not find a nice girl there and buy her a nice dinner?
VV,
And she is shooting at the singe in the arbre.
WTF? Do I have to become comatose before someone notices?
DWD - S☮S
Becoming comatose would probably reduce your chances of getting medical attention.
Is it that you can't keep food down, or that you have no appetitie?
! Teh shutters finally are in place - after 50 years of shoulda, they're finally there. One window shoulda had a wider moulding, but I can fix that. It's so exciting.
This is how you win elections? By disenfranchising other voters?"
Why yes. Yes it is.
According to the right.
Brian is Butler merging jack and fy into one personality-
Richard
I've heard that can happen. When one is really really nuts.
I say we ignore him right in the balls.
blerb
He said he once drove to iirc Pittsburgh to get laid.
leibniz♘☮
Get serious, no one that old could possibly drive.
Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials.
Houston has a "boil your water" thing going... I wonder how much water I can cram into my car before I head back.
Is it that you can't keep food down, or that you have no appetitie?
MP
Both
It is fairly amazing that a person can create multiple personas and each is more banal then the previous.
Get serious, no one that old could possibly drive.
V for Virginia, fatigued
That is mean!
But funny!
Brooklyn Girl, if you and steve have lied to us about going to Paris I will really be pissed. After all we heard about it. I even checked in every day and left a comment to the blog he is working for because I thought it would help him to raise the money to go to Paris. So, you and steve better go.
Get serious, no one that old could possibly drive.
He was driving a T Lex
That's just off the top of my head.
I didn't really mention the New Republic, or others...because it's ok for your understanding...but explicitly taken as such on shaky ground. When you go to the Cato Institute for answers, then well...you begin to wonder if these types of spinsters aren't spinning you.
You'll get good information on the enemy, but you want it to be clean too.
That's why it's good to always review Interfax, Jazeera, and especially Reuters.
The big American newspapers are a lot like that. A Double Edge Sword.
You love 'em or you hate 'em.
You just have to watch who's doing the writing, that's all. Witness Maureen "I wanna be another Safire" Dowd, or what Judith Miller did to our country in the NY Times.
The editors can be a little, er um...let's just say they aren't as smart as they think.
The Washington Post is extremely dangerous to Democrat ideals.
He said he once drove to iirc Pittsburgh to get laid.
Funny the stuff we remember about each other.
DWD: I'm not there, haven't examind you, and i no longer practice. But I'd throw you in the brig, start you on an IV and work you up, from the sound of it. And rather aggressively. What you describe is more worrisome, seems to me, than a distant silent heart attack uncomplicated by arrhythmia, congestive failure or major muscle loss.
Probably, it's something easy. You take a lot of pain meds, which slow the GI tract down. Depression will do that. But there are other things to check out, especially as you've been on the pain meds for a while without a new prescription, and been depressed for a while, on and off, and never had such symptoms. You need to be worked up, preferably by that old fashioned sort of person, a thorough general internal medical doc, and expeditiously.
Sorry to sound, perhaps, overly alarmist, but that's my take on what you're saying.
Both
DWD - S☮S
WTF does the doctor say?
You can live a long time w/out eating, but I would worry about your electrolytes and such.
Houston has a "boil your water" thing going... I wonder how much water I can cram into my car before I head back.
racymind
See?
If you had left your car in Houston with the windows open, you'd have all the water you needed, and wouldn't be damaging the environment with all those plastic bottles.
And she is shooting at the singe in the arbre.
Professor Wagstaff | 09.13.08 - 4:56 pm | #
Le singe est disparu!
I actually dreamt in french last night for the first time in a looooong time.
Both
DWD - S☮S
Are you a diabetic? Please keep in mind that I am a trained CPA.
I'm just trying to figure out the cause of your distress.
Teh shutters finally are in place
congratulations!
We fight this complacency every. fucking. year.
V for Virginia, fatigued | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 4:52 pm | #
I was bitching about this yesterday...it's really baffling. You see a lot of it in CA, where the idea of building to withstand earthquakes, or not putting a $5 million house on a fucking sea-level sandspit, routinely gets ridiculed by people whose only argument seems to be "Bad stuff hasn't happened lately, so it never will and anyone who claims otherwise is a pussy."
Who the fuck it's supposed to impress, I have absolutely no idea.
Well, I'm off to Grape Leaves for some Middle Eastern food and then a drive to Swedish Covenant for dinner with wife who is delivering another couple of anchor babies.
Doing our part to make Pat Buchanan irrelevant.
What a blog. The best on the internets. I can not laugh any harder.
I am going to go to the doctors on Monday and DEMAND that something more aggressive be done. This is ridiculous. I cannot get out of bed for more than an hour or two at a time. I can't eat.
Something is wrong. (And I am not a medical person but I am not an idiot either)
We fight this complacency every. fucking. year.
V for Virginia
So what. Who cares?
Well, that's a wrap.
5pm
Time for the evening news.
1-2-3
Engage, Inform, Energize
Build your clout.
God damn it pisses me off that you guys don't have health care. It's so fucking simple, and so fucking civilized.
Why yes. Yes it is.
According to the right.
It worked like a charm in 2000.
Florida scrubbed something like 20000 voters off their lists "mistakenly" (they have an ex-felons can't vote law and people with "similar" names to that of criminals were arbitrarily scrubbed).
Without that, Gore almost certainly would have won the state unambiguously.
My guess is that Canadian bacon, French fries and Spanish peanuts define the whole of Trampy's experience with foreign food.
Credit very much where due:
But an examination of [Palin's] swift rise and record as mayor of Wasilla and then governor finds that her visceral style and penchant for attacking critics — she sometimes calls local opponents “haters” — contrasts with her carefully crafted public image.
Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials.
You have to register your product now before it will be warrantied?
Buyer beware indeed.
FireFox I did not mean to insult you and I hope I didn't actually call you a name; I didn't intend to.
I just hate it when people put themselves in harm's way when it's perfectly possible to be safe instead of butch. And I do a lot of work in the aftermaths of things, fortunately with the survivors. So it worries me so much that it feels like anger, probably.
I humbly apologize if I went over the top.
Jesus Christ is Brian leaving? Be still, my heart.
DWD maybe you should go to the ER?
i work for socialised health care
but the job is quite dull, so I don't plan to stay there forever lol
cannot get out of bed for more than an hour or two at a time. I can't eat.
If you have persistent nausea that overtakes normal appetite, I'd go see an ER doc. You have to eat, to live.
It's nothing to fuck around with.
Jesus Christ is Brian leaving? Be still, my heart.
Adam Hominem
Boy, are you gullible.
Must be why you never get laid.
Allen's my retarded brother! Vote for Trig!
So what. Who cares?
jac |
[fish slap]
Why did Brooklyn run away? I didn't say anything but I was happy for her. Are they going to Paris or not? I am beginning to think they are just playing with our hearts.
God damn it pisses me off that you guys don't have health care. It's so fucking simple, and so fucking civilized.
Moe Szyslak
Yeah, well, that's the problem, isn't it? We're far from civilized. See? We can't even spell it right!
You lose weight, get weak, relatively quickly under such circumstances. If you're drinking enough, your kidneys will almost always keep your salts in balance unless they're diseased, or you get dehydrated, until late in the course. If you go on a starvation diet save sufficient fluids and electrolytes, and aren't malnourished to start with, can take six to eight weeks to die.
What needs to be done, relatively quickly, is to quantitate exactly how much is going in, how much is going out, how well the kidneys are working, exclude a raft of troubles too long to summarize otherwise, and support with adequate nutrition.
God damn it pisses me off that you guys don't have health care
I can't even be covered by private insurance anymore. I can't afford the state sponsored insurance. It's public hospitals for me from now on.
Boy, are you gullible.
Must be why you never get laid.
jac
VV,
Le singe was overheard discussing Track's fondness for cocaine and Oxycontin. Donc, il est disparu!
After reading the posts, I actually had one postive post.
Well...it ain't much, Duncan.
But I'm getting there.
Time to balance my checkbook, then it's gonna be pizza and beer hopefully. Have to check under the couch for quarters, probably.
God damn it pisses me off that you guys don't have health care. It's so fucking simple, and so fucking civilized.
Moe, I've just been calculating - were I to move up to BC, between the covered health insurance at a miniscule amount/month, and the thoughtful provincially sponsored prescription insurance, I'd acquire/re-acquire about an extra 15%/month of income. That's a lot of money. That makes me look at the situation rather more closely.
I ain't mad at ya, got nothing but love for ya
It's not about being "butch", we go through a lot of those storms and we leave when it's time.
Palin-panic spreads in Messiah Hussein Styrofoam-Columns Obama Campaign!
the humanity!
I can't even be covered by private insurance anymore. I can't afford the state sponsored insurance. It's public hospitals for me from now on.
smalfish
I'm getting there, dude, I'm getting there.
Only problem is daughter's diabetes. What am I supposed to do about that?
while Palin wants to start a war with Russia
She's speaking to her base...
odds on Biden quitting up 3x since last week!
eek!
Oh, I am drinking enough and probably getting enough food so I will not starve by Monday. (As I said I did manage a bowl of soup) But I am not getting better. I just don't understand. I have seen the doctor twice this week and still no answer.
It would seem to me that a SERIES of tests is necessary. Why do we have hospitals and laboratories and such?
3 weeks and 3 days ago...
No more hugs as Obama tears into McCain
So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged an embrace during a faith forum at a California megachurch, Obama called the U.S. economy a disaster thanks to "John McCain's president, George W. Bush," and chided his Republican rival's campaign team for trying to make him look unpatriotic and weak.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080...n_el_pr/
obama_3
that last post by Rodney was mine. What happened? Well this happens to simels all the time so no one can blame me. Some these internets are nuts.
If we ignore Luby, let's see how long it takes for it to go away.
while Palin wants to start a war with Russia
She was only describing tough love for Russia.
Lubie, why didn't you go to Galveston?
"Galveston, oh Galveston
I am dumb and washing out to seaaaaaaa--"
DWD, Lots of people go to the ER with very much smaller problems than what you are currently experiencing. And an ER visit can function as a dope-slap to your primary care person that he/she needs to pay urgent attention to your situation. Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery.
why didn't Messiah stop the h-h-h-h-h-h-hurricane?
the horror!
OH Church has a sign in front
"I Kissed a Girl and I Liked it"
"Then I Went to Hell"
So it worries me so much that it feels like anger, probably.
We are an amazingly complacent country,by and large, and very prone to that whole "I know better than teh experts" routine. On the right, it's climate denial and creationism. On the left, it tends to take other forms. But it all boils down to the "Ah knows what ah knows" school of risk assessment.
Brian leaves and lubyanka enters. Coincidence? I think not.
while Palin wants to start a war with Russia
She's a fuckin' End Timer. Should be kicked out just for that shit.
If we ignore Luby, let's see how long it takes for it to go away.
Adam Hominem
[terrorist fist jab]
Actually, I'm going to ignore it while I mix myself a little drinkie and take a nice, relaxing bath.
See you later, h8trs!
It would seem to me that a SERIES of tests is necessary. Why do we have hospitals and laboratories and such?
DWD - S☮S
My friend, this is awkward, but are you sure your doctor believes you? It strikes me that if he does, he is behaving very strangely. If he does not, it might explain the lack of action.
Goddamn it's wet outside.
GWPDA, just 15%? For me, I don't even know how to calculate it... I had a work insurance plan down in the states, but it wasn't great. I suppose I would've had to struggle like everyone else... Now, I feel downright wealthy-- health care, even after I retire, simply won't be an issue. What's that worth? Millions, if you ask me.
She was only describing tough love for Russia.
When abstinence only fails, you either have to get married or go to war. Those are the only two choices. It's in the bible.
McCain caught in Lies!
Sarah doesn't know the Bush doctrine!
I've got a moose in my ass!
The Humanity!
Moe, I've just been calculating - were I to move up to BC, between the covered health insurance at a miniscule amount/month, and the thoughtful provincially sponsored prescription insurance, I'd acquire/re-acquire about an extra 15%/month of income. That's a lot of money. That makes me look at the situation rather more closely.
GWPDA
Didn't Gomez say that he was paying >$2k per month for medical insurance? I wasn't clear whether it was just for him or for his whole office.
Brian leaves and lubyanka enters. Coincidence? I think not.
smalfish | 09.13.08 - 5:09 pm | #
He was on a roll last night...surprised his fingers haven't cramped up.
OH Church has a sign in front
"I Kissed a Girl and I Liked it"
"Then I Went to Hell"
Gilly Gonzylon
Truly?
That's just plain weird.
Lou oBBs speaks out against racism...
"Lou Dobbs: "My wife will love this!"
Lou Dobbs kicked off the Value Voters Forum this morning in Washington, DC. Bob has the opportunity to serve Barackfast, er, Breakfast to Lou as he came off the stage.
Lou smiled and said, "My wife will love this."
If we were liberal journalists playing fast and loose with quotes, we might write that Lou said, "Every woman in America needs a box.""
http://obamawaffles.typepad.com/...obbs-my-
wi.html
It seems that the McCain campaign are going to use everything and the kitchen sink to try and win the election.
1-Blatantly Spread Lies [X]
2-Vote Supression [X]
3-Voter Caging [X]
3-Restart The Cold War [X]
4-Manipulate The Race Card [X]
5-Use The Ageism Card [X]
6-Use The Sexist Card [X]
7-Play Victim To The Media [X]
8-Exagerate Your Past Experience [X]
9-Portray Yourself As More Patriotic [X]
10-Diebold [X]
I'm eligible for Italian citizenship. I should get crackin' on that.
My friend, this is awkward, but are you sure your doctor believes you? It strikes me that if he does, he is behaving very strangely. If he does not, it might explain the lack of action.
Adam Hominem
Oh, that is PART of the problem I am sure. Being overweight and complaining of losing weight is awkward. I am certain that the inherent prejudice comes into play. But I have lost 12 lbs in the last week. Thirty pounds in the last month and the weight loss is accelerating.
We are an amazingly complacent country,by and large
Immensely, and deferring to smart people when facing tough problems has not only become politically passe, it's become kinda subversive.
DWD, Lots of people go to the ER
I've had good luck with CALLING the ER. A brief rundown of symptoms, they generally invite you to attend (lawsuit, bitches).
Armed with that invitation, the PC can be paged and one way or the other, you get seen stat.
But in 1995, Ms. Palin, then a city councilwoman, told colleagues that she had noticed the book "Daddy’s Roommate" on the shelves and that it did not belong there, according to Ms. Chase and Mr. Stein. Ms. Chase read the book, which helps children understand homosexuality, and said it was inoffensive; she suggested that Ms. Palin read it.
"Sarah said she didn’t need to read that stuff," Ms. Chase said. "It was disturbing that someone would be willing to remove a book from the library and she didn’t even read it."
"I’m still proud of Sarah," she added, "but she scares the bejeebers out of me."
I do wish that Butler would tell us how much he has donated to the Cranky/Skanky campaign.
"I Kissed a Girl and I Liked it"
"Then I Went to Hell"
I'd rather my daughter kissed a girl and liked it than end up with the likes of Bristol Palin's soon-to-be shotgun daddy, Levi.
What's that worth? Millions, if you ask me.
Moe Szyslak
It truly is. Especially if you have a kid with a chronic illness, like I do.
I think Levi is going to back out of the shotgun wedding.
"I Kissed a Girl and I Liked it"
"Then I Went to Hell"
Gilly Gonzylon
Truly?
That's just plain weird.
Adam Hominem
Kissing girls is weird?
Dude, we've found your problem.
I do wish that Butler would tell us how much he has donated to the Cranky/Skanky campaign.
I just dropped another $50 in Obama's pocket.
Now, I feel downright wealthy-- health care, even after I retire,
simply won't be an issue. What's that worth? Millions, if you ask me.
It is worth that. I'm merely quantifying the outlay at current monthly costs. And 15% of current income is the amount that I bring in from my tiny little job. That 15% /month investment at as little as 4% is a very nice bit of business....
Sarah doesn't know the Bush doctrine!
It isn't that she didn't know it, she tried to fake her way through the question, and ended up sounding like Miss South Carolina. I would have gained some respect for her if she had said that she didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was, but instead she tried to weasel her way through, pretending she knew what she was saying, and ended up looking like a fool. This is definitely not the kind of person I want anywhere near to making any kind of important decisions.
Truly?
That's just plain weird.
Adam Hominem | 09.13.08 - 5:11 pm | #
Well, it's based on the summer hit by Katie...can't recall her last name
I'm eligible for Italian citizenship. I should get crackin' on that.
So am I, supposedly, but I haven't done the paperwork for it yet.
these doctrines need to be shoved up where the sun don't shine
I can go to Norway to escape Caribou... no wait.
A compliment to Mme. Wagstaff's acumen-- she knew without being told that Levi, the runaway bridegroom, was named after denim trousers, not after the patriarch of Israel's priestly tribe.
"Andover law school convenes Bush War Crimes Conference
Saturday morning, the dean of Massachusetts School of Law at Andover will convene a two day planning session with a single focus: To arrest, put to trial and carry out sentence on criminals in the Bush Administration.
The conference, arranged by Lawrence Vevel, cofounder of the Andover school, will focus on which of Bush's officials and members of Congress could be charged with war crimes. [...]"
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...s-bush-
war.html
'Nuff said. Wouldn't you agree?
I think Levi is going to back out of the shotgun wedding.
linkee?
I mean look, you could be a Chimpy clone, pulling down several million a year, running Bear Stearns, or Freddie Mac, or Lehman Brothers into the ground.
It doesn't fucking matter. The Rethug reviled "gummint" will take care of it.
I'm eligible for Italian citizenship. I should get crackin' on that.
So am I, supposedly, but I haven't done the paperwork for it yet.
Marcellina
Just a warning: The paperwork will break your spirit. Italian love to have documents stamped by obscure government agencies. I started it years ago and I never completed the process because it was such a pain in the ass. Now I'm more motivated, though.
SCT,
Good on you. I maxed out for him this week.
I think Levi is going to back out of the shotgun wedding.
But Wrangler and Diesel are still on !
(Slaps knee, guffaws)
I'd rather my daughter kissed a girl and liked it than end up with the likes of Bristol Palin's soon-to-be shotgun daddy, Levi.
Supreme Commander Thor | 09.13.08 - 5:12 pm | #
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Then there is Track Palin. The oxy contin/cocaine addict. The guy has the makings of a psycho.
I noticed during closeups of him at the repig convention, one second he'd be smiling, the next second he'd have a nervous scowl on his face.
I think Levi is going to back out of the shotgun wedding.
linkee?
el
You don't need a link.
She's almost six months along. Why aren't they already married?
Because it's bullshit. She won't deliver until after the election.
Oh, that is PART of the problem I am sure. Being overweight and complaining of losing weight is awkward. I am certain that the inherent prejudice comes into play. But I have lost 12 lbs in the last week. Thirty pounds in the last month and the weight loss is accelerating.
DWD - S☮S
How is your appetite? (Serious question.) That sort of weight loss can be indicative of a very serious illness.
I agree with the advice offered above: Go to the E.R. of any good hospital. Explain your circumstances.
Immensely, and deferring to smart people when facing tough problems has not only become politically passe, it's become kinda subversive.
MP | 09.13.08 - 5:12 pm | #
It's a mystery to me. I mean, I could come up with a bunch of armchair psychoanalyzing about pretending you have more control than you do, but the whole thing is just way too bizarre.
Which is why I'm not very confident about this election, actually. I think the attitude we're talking about here is a lot more "real," in terms of influencing decisions and defining worldviews, than anything science or logic has to offer. Those of us who live in a world where it's not possible to know in advance how many people a hurricane will kill, or how much heating is "good" for the earth, are in a shrinking minority, I'm afraid.
SCT,
Good on you. I maxed out for him this week.
I would love to, but can't afford it.
I think Levi is going to back out of the shotgun wedding.
Well, duh! Six months into teh pregnancy? That boy's a runner if I ever saw one. Catch up with him in Ketchikan, if you can.
I noticed during closeups of him at the repig convention, one second he'd be smiling, the next second he'd have a nervous scowl on his face.
Uncle Fester Lurks | 09.13.08 - 5:18 pm | #
Those repukes trotted him out like he was a traveling dignitary
Thanks, Cookie. I did read about the long paperwork-filled process.
I am letting my sister the lawyer do that part.
I think Levi is going to back out of the shotgun wedding.
Honestly, I don't think they ever seriously intended for it to happen. They just put out the story that Levi is 'going to do the right thing' and marry the girl he knocked up. They can keep up the pretense until after the election, then they can call it off, since it has already served its purpose.
"community organizer":
radical Saul Alinsky protege, ACORN vote-fraud enabler, neighborhood victimologist, government-dependency promoter, corrupt street-money dispenser, cheap ward heeler, all purpose/meaningless extreme-leftist resume enhancer, etc...
Then there is Track Palin. The oxy contin/cocaine addict. The guy has the makings of a psycho.
Is he the one in the military?
i thought that was a video going around that said it wasn't even Jordache's kid?
Adam: diabetes, in particular, as you doubtless know well, gets far less complicated if managed meticulously. It's furiously cost-effective to do that. But in this country, while the Feds will pay for your dialysis, if your kidneys fail, usually, due to poorly controlled diabetes, they won't pay to keep your daughter out of trouble. Disgusting, stupid, immoral, penny-wise and pound-foolish.
DWD: that's a lot of weight to lose if it's forced upon you. Like I said. I wouldn't mess around. And your on/off depression and opiate intake have been going on a while without much change. He should be looking for something else. And Gromit's right; if you can't get what you need any other way, hit the ER, which, at the very least, will refer you to a new doc after doing, probably, a bunch of blood work and, if you complain of belly pain too, a CAT scan or some such, making sure you don't have something really acute going on that's been missed. Your story is worrisome. It needs to either be put out of its misery by good news, or nailed down to something that can be fixed. Wouldn't mess around.
OK? Hang in there...
"VIDEO: Just add "I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message"
...After listening all the problems currently facing the country, Whitehouse asked the experts whether anyone thought drilling was the “number one issue” right now. Almost nine seconds went by with complete silence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w...bama-and-
i.html "
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...bama-and-
i.html
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 5:18 pm | #
the ruling class fixes the parameters
Jeez
At least these sportsbobbles are openly trashing the Pac10 with graphic and everything, instead of their usual, more subtle, sneering blah blah blah
I just got back from a great lunch. Bib salad with walnuts and raisens with basalmic and olive oil. Here is the kicker, with fried Hungarian fatted goose liver.
Okay, I'm ready to go. Any gang members here?
The CW is that the more "optimistic" candidate wins. See raygun.
So how in the holy hell can SheBush - an endtimer - be defined as optimistic?
if you want to cut and paste, here's the email I just sent to everyone I know:
Dear Friends and Family,
I have a very important link to share. We have just 1 and a half months until the election, and there are a few great ads that need to be shown as often as possible between now and November 4th. Sometimes I feel like there is not a whole lot I can do to make a difference. But today I dug deep to help fund these ads and get them on the air. Even 5 bucks will go a long way. Let's do this thing.
Follow this link to see the ads made by Planned Parenthood, the Defenders of Wildlife, Democracy for America and others. If you like the ad(s), you can go directly to the websites and make a contribution to get these on air.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20...3292/616/
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And email this to your friends... why not to your entire address book? You never know how many people are just itching to have the opportunity to do something.
Much love to you all.
So how in the holy hell can SheBush - an endtimer - be defined as optimistic?
She's optimistic McCain will die, she'll take over and bring about the End Times.
Way to God!
'Nuff said. Wouldn't you agree?
Le Jackel | 09.13.08 - 5:16 pm | #
If possible I would like to hear more.
SCT,
How's tricks in Porter County? I am trying to get Mme. Wagstaff to agree to a couple of weeks n the Dunes next summer instead of the Atlantic beaches, which seem to me inferior, for the most part.
But I have lost 12 lbs in the last week. Thirty pounds in the last month and the weight loss is accelerating.
DWD - S☮S
Um, DWD - some months ago you reported that you had a TSH level that was very, very much elevated. Anybody ever do anything about that?
...After listening all the problems currently facing the country, Whitehouse asked the experts whether anyone thought drilling was the “number one issue” right now. Almost nine seconds went by with complete silence
Did you see the stupid grins on their faces?
If you haven't read this, you must. And send it out like the repukes do about Obama.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/...ral-
emails.html
ProfWombat - my Bro in Canada has been on the maximum dose of Oxycontin for over 5 years now. Aside from the recent Rheumatoid diagnosis, his weight has went from about 210 lbs - to approx 142 lbs in the last 2 years.
Can't eat anything, can't sleep, etc.
I've been on Dilaudid for 3 yrs now, and have experienced no weight loss. But I have gained weight (sure the steroid injection in my spine help).
I just have to wonder to what extent the opiates have an effect on weight loss? Obviously, each pt is different, but it doesn't make alot of sense to me.
off to the tavern...
How's tricks in Porter County? I am trying to get Mme. Wagstaff to agree to a couple of weeks n the Dunes next summer instead of the Atlantic beaches, which seem to me inferior, for the most part.
There's the weed in the Dunes now, which makes things a little better. Remind her that the Michigan dunes are only 50 minutes up the road and right next to some rocking wine country.
Other than that, couldn't be better. And if we can get Obama in, better yet.
Brian Hardig: A butterfly-dicked, mommy-obsessed, particleboard-selling, brother-cuckolded, starwars-action-figure-collecting, kraft-mac-and-cheese eating, white-zinfandel-drinking, AMC Pacer-driving putz.
Then there is Track Palin. The oxy contin/cocaine addict. The guy has the makings of a psycho.
Agreed. Now can we kick the little fucker upstairs? Like commander of the Natioanal Alasken Guard Civil Air Defense Dudes? Or would he have charge of nukes then?
John McCain to appear on Rachel Ray!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/
0913...ling_128852.htm
Jesus heals former POW John McCain's crippled hands, enabling him to cook a miracle feast of barbecued ribs on chef Rachel Ray's popular cooking program.
As the miracle of God freed him of the pain that just days ago prevented him from using his hands to comb his hair or type on a keyboard, McCain vows to install the First Grill at the White House if he's elected.
"We will have a grill, and I guarantee you that no one but me will do the grilling," he told Ray.
That miracle stuff works quick, too - McCain is reported to have used as many as five grills at one time.
bye for now
the ruling class fixes the parameters
Moonbootica, Brit Lefty | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 5:20 pm | #
I don't think it's necessarily that conscious.
SCT,
"Track" is the hero who valiantly volunteered for the military as an alternative to prison.
DWD, listen to ProfWombat
Please take care of yourself.
Adam: diabetes, in particular, as you doubtless know well, gets far less complicated if managed meticulously. It's furiously cost-effective to do that. But in this country, while the Feds will pay for your dialysis, if your kidneys fail, usually, due to poorly controlled diabetes, they won't pay to keep your daughter out of trouble. Disgusting, stupid, immoral, penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Yeah. She's got a pump, but her A1C's are still always in the 9's.
The fundamental problem with a sick teenager is that she does not want to be sick, and finds ignoring it to be not a bad strategy.
It's very worrying.
I think Obama should find someone with Downs syndrome and announce that person for some important cabinet level position.
Then everytime anybody says anything remotely negative about the choice, characterize those statements as "unfair attacks on a person with a hereditary condition." Let's the nominee is named John Smith. ThenpPeople who persist in the "attacks" can be labeled as suffering from "John Smith Derangement Syndrome" and their persistence can be chalked up to their inability to simply address the issues.
andrew sullivan:
STILL hysterical, unhinged, blubbering, twittering, utterly Palinized
the horror!
hello, first time on today.
anybody know what % of houston lost power? i'm watching CNN and haven't seen it addressed, nor can i tell from www.khou.com.
Week 2: Sarah Palin is still a fucking bimbo.
"Track" is the hero who valiantly volunteered for the military as an alternative to prison.
Like the good old days: "Army, Navy or prison." Good to see junkie patriots like him get to carry weapons so they can kill people.
anybody know what % of houston lost power?
TEBB
Weather Channel this am said 4 Million lost power.
Like the good old days: "Army, Navy or prison." Good to see junkie patriots like him get to carry weapons so they can kill people.
Supreme Commander Thor | 09.13.08 - 5:27 pm | #
Any proof of this?
A compliment to Mme. Wagstaff's acumen-- she knew without being told that Levi, the runaway bridegroom, was named after denim trousers, not after the patriarch of Israel's priestly tribe.
Professor Wagstaff
Oh man, tell me it aint true.
Good job, everyone, ignoring Luby.
Keep it up.
I thought more of Rachel Ray, but I don't know why.
Only problem is daughter's diabetes. What am I supposed to do about that?
Adam Hominem | 09.13.08 - 5:07 pm
That sucks, Adam.
Future Mr. Vespa's father has lymphoma. 10k into the chemo right now, and that is WITH some insurance.
Funny thing is, he and future mom-in-law seem more afraid of terrorists and gays than their own mounting medical debts, so will vote R like always.
McCain sign in the yard and everything.
BD: opiates suppress appetite, slow GI movement, cause constipation, slower gastric emptying, prolonging satiety after eating. Impaction is common, weight loss not uncommon. Folk who are doing the drugs as abusers usually are neglecting nutrition for other reasons, too; they're too busy getting or being high. And opiates, unlike alcohol, aren't intrinsically caloric.
anybody know what % of houston lost power?
I saw a blip earlier of over 1 million in Houston w/o power.
sheetite martyrs above
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Weather Channel this am said 4 Million lost power.
jac | 09.13.08 - 5:27 pm | #
Wouldn't have happened if we had drilled, drilled, drilled...
SCT,
"Track" is the hero who valiantly volunteered for the military as an alternative to prison.
Professor Wagstaff
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i think he's more scared of his mom than of IEDs...
Oh, that is PART of the problem I am sure. Being overweight and complaining of losing weight is awkward. I am certain that the inherent prejudice comes into play. But I have lost 12 lbs in the last week. Thirty pounds in the last month and the weight loss is accelerating.
DWD - S☮S
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Have you noticed a change in your vision? Extreme thirst? Fatigue? Frequent urination? If so you have diabetes.
Have them check your blood sugar level just to be safe. I lost thirty pounds before I went in and found out I was diabetic, they told me that my organs were close to shutting down from dehydration.
Simple message:
McOld is a liar, who wants to mess with your Social Security, and voted against medicine for children and health care for veterans.
owls!!!!!!!!!!
I was about to give up because no one in the gang was here. But up popped stunt women. Hey there, you have to be a girl to to stunts. A woman can't do it. What's wrong with you? Are you a Delta Dawn dreaming about days gone by? Is simels going to take you to his place in the sky?
If you haven't read this, you must. And send it out like the repukes do about Obama.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/...ral- emails.html
Gilly Gonzylon
Gilly, that is so awesome I have no words. It's about time we started to fight back against those obnoxious right-wing lies coming in e-mails.
I can't wait to send this one to a few people who think I want to read about how Obama is a liar about something or other.
Thanks.
TEBB, I've read anywhere from 3-4 million households. Downtown had buried cables, so they still have electricity.
I wonder why Lubyanka thinks anyone here will be upset if he insults Andrew Sullivan?
If Sullivan were crawling through the Sahara on bleeding knees and elbows, I might drill a hole in Lubyanka's bladder and insert a crazy straw so that he could suck out out a few drops of bloody bacteria-ridden piss.
But it'd only be 'cause I saw a scorpion a few feet ahead, and wanted him to have the strength to reach it.
Just sayin'.
Hi Alvin, oops I mean Number 13 troll oops I mean Heath Barr, oops I mean asstroll!
David Foster Wallace killed himself. Fuck.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
loca...0,7461856.story
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