I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Bugs included at no charge.
Cowabunga. Top ten
Turn the fucker into a supermax prison.
They can hold the next republican national convention there.
The Democrats should buy it and turn it into a theme park/hotel/museum dedicated to past and present Republican malfeasance.
A wise latina once said that all white repugs are crackers.
The Democrats should buy it and turn it into a theme park/hotel/museum dedicated to past and present Republican malfeasance.
That's good thinking. But think how much it will cost to build the many annexes.
Whatever.
I have a post about healthcare and Original Intent. Come tell me I'm full of shit.
It would be ideal for transitional housing for DCs homeless.
The Democrats should buy it and turn it into a theme park/hotel/museum dedicated to past and present Republican malfeasance.
Odder
I SO agree with that suggestion.
"we could turn it into a Piercing Pagoda"-David Broder
Tom Watson is about to blow the chance to be the oldest dude to ever win anything.
"The Watergate Hotel lost its luster years ago..."
Was that the hotel Laura Bush was staying in while her hubby shagged Condi Rice and Jeff Gannon?
"James McMurty and The Heartless Bastards"
I'm not from here, I just live here...
Ziggy Marley...
Was that the hotel Laura Bush was staying in while her hubby shagged Condi Rice and Jeff Gannon?
Troll in Basement
Story in this week's Globe tabloid is about Bush having Alzheimer's.
Like Reagan, how could anyone TELL?
Ziggy Marley...
Man, I worked security for his concert at Colby 20 years ago. Gave my official security t-shirt to my press prof in Moscow because he was a big fan.
Turn the fucker into a supermax prison.
They can hold the next republican national convention there.
macacawitz
The "marble floors, rich colors and grand interiors" are too GOOD for THEM.
i always thought it was a pretty ugly building, but what do i know.
Liddy, Bob and the gerbils don't live there anymore?
Was that the hotel Laura Bush was staying in while her hubby shagged Condi Rice and Jeff Gannon?
Troll in Basement |
you think he did them both? i always thought she was his fag hag, myself. a lesbian fag hag at that.
bebe, long time no see: hows your friend, dick?
omg. there's a "GothScene" dating service now. goodness.
i am so old.
If it's one of those services where members can view videos of each other, it should be called "VisiGoth."
omg. there's a "GothScene" dating service now. goodness.
i am so old.
chicago dyke, hurtin | Homepage | 07.19.09 - 2:19 pm | #
You?
Please, it is one of the great regrets of my life that at my age I have to come to terms that I will never ever have sex with a goth chick.
:-0
Please, it is one of the great regrets of my life that at my age I have to come to terms that I will never ever have sex with a goth chick.
Didn't you date a Goth chick after Rome fell?
Watson must have English blood in his veins or something, which would explain why he folded in the end.
As Liz Cheyney explained, the land of the stiff upper lip is now the land of the weak, quivering chin.
i always thought she was his fag hag, myself. a lesbian fag hag at that.
chicago dyke, hurtin
Condi? Remember the time she slipped up and called him "my husband?" I never quite worked out the psychology behind that one.
thank goodness for FAILblog. my hangover is finally going away.
simels, you should go there and see if there are any interested gothchix out there for you. i bet there are at least a couple who like to tie you up and spank you. you're pretty cute for your advanced age. 
Condi? Remember the time she slipped up and called him "my husband?" I never quite worked out the psychology behind that one.
Dr. Wu
in my (gaii) Set, we would joke about being each other's husbands and wives sometimes. so i don't take that comment to absolutely rule out her being queer, which i really think she is. which is fine! i just wish she wasn't also stupid and evil.
you're pretty cute for your advanced age.
I'm given to understand that Simel's parents came over on the Ark.
It is 10 degrees below normal today. Al Gore is a fraud!
And fat.
My evil overlord clubhouse.
http://www.mentallandscape.com/
V..._SaturnMSDb.jpg
http://www.mentallandscape.com/V...om/
V_Pluto3.jpg
Actually it's the old Soviet deep space uplink and downlink center.
in my (gaii) Set, we would joke about being each other's husbands and wives sometimes. so i don't take that comment to absolutely rule out her being queer, which i really think she is. which is fine! i just wish she wasn't also stupid and evil.
Gaii or not, there is the possibility that there was a joke to that effect, given the time they spent together. I worked very closely with a woman for some years. We saw each other many more hours a week than either of us did our spouses and joked about being business husband and wife. On that, I can cut some slack.
On her job performance, not a whit.
Please, it is one of the great regrets of my life that at my age I have to come to terms that I will never ever have sex with a goth chick.
Mary Wollstoencraft Shelley doesn't count?
i don't take that comment to absolutely rule out her being queer
I only took it as absolutely ruling out her being not-crazy.
Sasha is 10 weeks old today.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/rrPmY5zh.jpg#
Widget? I'm not sure, maybe 7 months old.
I Think There's A Metaphor Here
What's a metaphor?
Grazin' sheep...
One of those "running through my head" things...
One of those "running through my head" things...
You have things running through your head? You should have a doctor look at it.
it is one of the great regrets of my life that at my age I have to come to terms that I will never ever have sex with a goth chick.
again.
of course, you're the only one here who ever had a chance with an ACTUAL goth.
You have things running through your head? You should have a doctor look at it.
Sadly, they have. It seems to be congenitalia or some such...
I only took it as absolutely ruling out her being not-crazy.
Dr. Wu | 07.19.09 - 2:34 pm | #
well, i'vc certainly mistaken someone verbally for someone else - like calling on of my kids by the other's name.
of course, i actually HAVE kids.
I did have one idle thought this day: one of the reasons that many factories in this country were closed was that they were outdated facilities that did not lend themselves to modernization.
Well, a lot of these have been torn down (or soon will be) why not re-establish manufacturing using the fewest workers possible? When your cost of labor compared to the end cost of the product is the same as somewhere else, why not do it here?
Truth: with modern robotics, computers, computer controlled processes and the like: factories can built now that use few employees. If that is the case, then comparing what an employee makes in China or Vietnam or Mexico is essentially meaningless.
And capital investment is always tax deductible.
of course, you're the only one here who ever had a chance with an ACTUAL goth.
I'm thinkin' we may have beat Steve to death with this....
George Bush Memoirs, page 356
As Condi lay her head my lap my little man sprung to attention. Afterwards he asked me what I wanted to do about the middle east. 'Fuck off bitch" was my reply.
Why not let poor folks live in the Watergate Hotel?
he=she
The Watergate hotel being for sale at 40 million is incredible. Think about it. You cannot build a new hotel for that much these days. Hell, I bet the refurbishment is going to cost more than that.
he=she
bebe rebozo
take a walk on the wild side. i said hey, babe - take a walk on the wild side.
Why not let poor folks live in the Watergate Hotel?
scot
You're new to this country, aren't you? My boy, it just isn't done.
Shit, dirk, you're fast. GMTA and all that...
Maybe build a theme park?
With John and Martha Mitchell robots! Who wouldn't spend a lot of money to see that?
Who wants to go shopping when it's 112? My SO wants me to < SIGH >.
Shit, dirk, you're fast.
that's what she said.
(sorry, couldn't help myself)
If that is the case, then comparing what an employee makes in China or Vietnam or Mexico is essentially meaningless.
Labor at less than or equal to a dollar a day just cannot be beat. Think about it. How better to denigrate the human psyche than to brow beat them with low wages?
Shit, dirk, you're fast.
that's what she said as she reached for the vibrator. . . .
dirk gently
112F? That's balmy weather in Phoenix.
Bring super shooters to use on each other while shopping.
Truth: with modern robotics, computers, computer controlled processes and the like: factories can built now that use few employees. If that is the case, then comparing what an employee makes in China or Vietnam or Mexico is essentially meaningless.
productivity is, at some point we passed long ago, the enemy of the masses.
sure, george jetson had a job where he had to go in for an hour a week and press a button. but what you didn't see was the base of his sky-high apartment, where the bodies of the thousands of starved unemployed were piled.
smalfish,
My point - albeit poorly made - was that when few employees are used, the cost then becomes a less significant factor.
Every tour a brewery? You should shoot a Thompson Sub-Machine gun in there and never hit anyone. The processes are all automated and machine-controlled.
The same can be done. Further, if you do it that way it will enable much more "Stuff" to be built further strengthening the economy.
While labor intensive is nice: a manufactured product has its own special rewards for a country. The more we have, the more we will have.
How better to denigrate the human psyche than to brow beat them with low wages?
I'll bet at all those low wage places, the workers get harrassed with
"you're working too slow,
you are a sloppy craftsman,
no, you cannot use the toilet now,
no talking!"
restaurant FAIL: Poo Ping Thai Food.
curiousity FAIL: "i put my tongue in my father's penis pump and turned it on, and my tongue got stuck and i had to wait four hours before the swelling went down and i could pull it out."
...surely i can't be the only one here to waste serious time over there. gawddamn they have some funny ones.
ABC commentator thanking Tom Watson
'Thank you for reminding us that a codger can play with a kid. You're the same Tom Watson of the 70's, albeit with a little less hair.
Thank you for reminding us this is a gentleman's game(they cut to video of Tiger slamming his club into the ground)'
that's what she said as she reached for the vibrator. . .
A vibrator in hand is worth two in the bush.
the problem is that the workers never seem to share in the benefits of increased automation and productivity.
A vibrator in hand is worth two in the bush.
bebe rebozo | 07.19.09 - 2:51 pm | #
that sounds backwards for some reason...
the problem is that the workers never seem to share in the benefits of increased automation and productivity.
This is rarely mentioned, but the Luddites were right.
the problem is that the workers never seem to share in the benefits of increased automation and productivity.
dirk gently
funny, that. you'd almost be tempted to believe that capitalism is bullshit!
" you'd almost be tempted to believe that capitalism is bullshit!"
Just as GWB didn't get the oil with his evil plans, the current capitalists lost the wealth, instead of win it.
"the duck refused medical treatment"
lolololololol
funny, that. you'd almost be tempted to believe that capitalism is bullshit!
I've read about the Venus project. If only we could really turn into a money-less society!
funny, that. you'd almost be tempted to believe that capitalism is bullshit!
chicago dyke, hurtin | Homepage | 07.19.09 - 2:53 pm | #
i taught courses in the benefits of OOD/OOP some time ago. how you could build re-usable objects to cut down on future coding time and thus increase productivity.
the general response was "are you nuts? we get paid by the hour and evaluated on the number of lines of code produced!"
Who's more to blame? Asshole leaders or stupid followers?
If they weren't following one asshole, the stupid would follow another.
So it behooves decriers to address asshole leaders AND stupid followers.
Instead, all criticism is aimed at those who give illegal, immoral orders and rarely if ever at those who foolishly obey them.
.
back to work.
lest we forget her!
Mary Jo Kopechne--July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969
The "Lion Of The Senate" drove her off the Dyke Road Bridge and left her to drown 40 years ago yesterday!
who knew?
i got no problem with milking the clock, dirk. knowing what we know about how much executives are paid, and for the amount of "work" they do, i say, go for it. this is the everywoman for herself economy, yo. it's all going to crash and burn anyway, so make off with what you can while there's still time.
Cink is lifting his trophy up to god. I may puke.
.
Isn't Tom Watson a conservative.
"We have the most expensive health care system in the world."
McConnell's wattle: That the opinion of one expert. If you look at polls, Americans are satisfied with their high quality health care.
Senator apples and oranges.
McConnell's wattle lies as it wiggles.
We had this long-time full time employee who insisted on having 2 pt assistants....now now longer working for us. We've been doing her work, keeping a log. Turns out it only takes us about 10 hours a week and one of the assistants now begging for stuff to do.
OT:
The house Where the Allman Brothers lived and wrote such songs as Ramblin' Man, in Macon GA, is being converted into an Allman Brothers Museum.
They were evicted in 1973.
There are no atheists on golf courses, apparently.
McConnell's wattle lies as it wiggles
It's toilet talk: wattle-loo
New dance craze?
McConnell Wattle
the general response was "are you nuts? we get paid by the hour and evaluated on the number of lines of code produced!"
dirk gently, sociopathetic | Homepage | 07.19.09 - 2:55 pm | #
the genius of management
OH, you said CLOCK! Whew. I was gonna say....
Michelle Norris: I think too much is made of a rivalry between Hillary Clinton as SOS and the President.
Ya think?
New dance craze?
McConnell Wattle
bill
The McConnell Wattle Waddle
oh, bill. what am i gonna do with you? 
Hey, a GOOD thing I noticed the other day: the attractive (physically) and abhorrent (Mentally) Michelle Bernard (sp?) is no longer on MSNBC.
Someone must have figured out a drunk snail has a bit more intelligence.
i think beer actually kills snails and slugs, DWD.
Since the bankers who got bailouts are now getting windfall profits, shouldn't the taxpayers be getting a piece of this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/1...segal.html?
_r=1
Modern day capitalism,
welfare for the rich!
Starvation for the rest of us.
i think beer actually kills snails and slugs, DWD.
chicago dyke, hurtin | Homepage | 07.19.09 - 3:17 pm | #
They generally stick to suaternes.
sauternes
some of us don't even need to be drunk.
Eccleston/Tennant Dr Who marathon on BBC America.
all i know is that giant slugs are really gross, Anon. my sister had them in her gardens when she lived in CA, and man, ick. she used beer traps to kill them, but there were always more.
CD,
Did you see this earlier?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/1...unselor.html?
hp
(Looks like a scam to me. . .and if it isn't a scam, looks like elitism running wild.)
beer traps to kill them, but there were always more.
Why am I hearing hordes of hurrying slugs yelling "free beer".
Eccleston/Tennant Dr Who marathon on BBC America.
JT
i would almost watch that, but for the commercials. don't have tivo on dad's teevee.
i think eccleston is really sexy. in that brainy kind of way. i was sorry to see him go. he brought such compassion and feeling to the Dr.
(Cannot seem to pull myself out of the doldrums this day. I don't know why: lovely here and everyone is at peace around here. Just seems the world is too much with me. . . .)
$15,000?
egad
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/17/...titude.fortune/
from DWD's link:
While the going national rate for such work is about $185 an hour, a counselor in Vermont and another in New York City are among those who charge some families more than $40,000. Their packages might begin when a child is in eighth grade.
and i'm here to tell you: you can't charge that much in most areas. i know. yes, DWD. these people are the fucking scammers. i hate them, as i try to charge a fair rate and help kids who aren't actually already rich.
parents: never pay this kind of money for admissions advice. never. contact me and i'll help you, but if you see these types, run away. and no: it doesn't really matter what you wear to the interview. that's just fucking ridiculous. i mean, clean clothes and all that, but no: admissions officers don't judge you by your clothes. what utter bunk.
was anonymous
Astronauts deal with clogged toilet in orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The bathroom lines at the already crowded space shuttle and space station complex got a lot longer Sunday because of a flooded toilet. One of two commodes aboard the international space station malfunctioned, right in the middle of complicated robotic work being conducted by the two crews. The pump separator apparently flooded.
just try calling plumber on a Sunday in outer space.
i think eccleston is really sexy. in that brainy kind of way. i was sorry to see him go. he brought such compassion and feeling to the Dr.
chicago dyke, hurtin
This episode also has Captain Jack.
Pictures of my lovely blue hydrangea at the home page.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - if Atrios were to ask me nicely, I'd lend him my secret password for the Maricopa County Property Assessor's 'Parcel Watch' - which shows every single property in the county that's either delinquent or has a tax lien on it. If you zoom out far enough there's so much marked property the whole map is covered....
There have never been so many people - 13 - together in space. The toilet repair work fell to Belgian Frank De Winne, who had to don goggles, gloves and a mask.
Flight director Brian Smith declined to speculate whether overuse caused the toilet trouble.
I'm doing this little "advertorial" for one of my clients that advertising in a local weekly. I found this interesting because if everyone had healthcare, no one would have to steal:
"Medical identity theft is a growing problem in the United States. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), unemployment, lack of health insurance and addiction to prescription pain killers are a few of the reasons why identity thieves steal and sell patient medical information.
People who copy, share or buy medical identities use another patient’s name, Social Security number, health insurance identification, and/or benefits information to obtain medical services or products, or reimbursement from insurers for fake claims. These thefts create financial and administrative headaches for honest patients, as well as for hospitals and insurance providers. Even more troubling, people who receive health care using stolen information create a false medical record for the patient who has been victimized.
To help prevent medical identity theft, U.S. hospitals are required to meet the FTC’s “Red Flag Rules” (see box) by Aug. 1. At Blount Memorial, where protecting patient information is a top priority, a Red Flag Rules-acceptable policy is already in place and in action."
CD,
I kind of figured: but they did get their "Good" publicity courtesy of the New Dork Times, eh?
I suppose they jettison all the shit into space. It's nice to know we are encircled by fecesl
I suppose they jettison all the shit into space. It's nice to know we are encircled by fecesl
leibniz♘☮
Why not? We seem to have a lot of Republicans here as well. . . .
Ok DWD - who said this recently?
America has seen so much economic growth that it was easy to take it as a given. We prospered from the productivity of the information age. But, we started to forget the fundamentals and lost sight of the core competencies of a successful modern economy. Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy – and somehow still expect to prosper.
That idea was flat wrong. And what did we get in the bargain? We've seen a great vanishing of wealth. Our competitive edge has slipped away, and this has hit the middle class hard.
As a nation, we've been consuming more than we earn, saved too little and taken on far too much debt. Growth in research and development has slowed. Our country has made too little progress on some of the defining challenges of our time – like clean energy and affordable health care. Our budget and trade deficits have reached levels that are clearly not sustainable.
While some of America's competitors were throttling up on manufacturing and R&D, we deemphasized technology. Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services
Well, I've been ranting on the morning threads that not only is our insurance company insisting that I submit proof that Mr. ql & I are married, thus making him eligible to be covered under my plan, but I also have to prove that we live together. It's really none of anyone's business. Can't fuck with the insurance companies.
Another clue from this radical:
What has been the impact? Unemployment is at the highest point in 26 years. And, as a percentage of S&P 500 earnings, financial services expanded from 10 to 45 percent over a quarter-century.
Compensation systems have fallen out of balance. You know something is wrong when a mortgage broker is pulling down $5 million a year while a Ph.D. chemist is earning $100,000. Average real weekly wages have declined since 1980, meaning that we have been unable to provide a rising standard of living for the majority.
rootless-e, ahora menos calien
It wasn't me, was it? 
It wasn't me, was it?
DWD-Sordid | Homepage | 07.19.09 - 3:37 pm | #
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB...8881261729.html
covered under my plan, but I also have to prove that we live together
A little late to the party, ain't they?
rootless-e, ahora menos calien,
They just forgot the most basic of all economic principles: the origins of wealth.
Wealth is created in only two ways (that are sometimes combined) Something has intrinsic value (copper for wires, oil for gasoline and other products) or you have to process something to make it more useful.
No where in this construct does the short-selling, program selling, futures market, deriviatives and the rest appear.
A little late to the party, ain't they?
GWPDA
Heh. No proof required if you got married in 2008.
rootless, actually I read that speech too (in the Detroit Newspapers)
(Oh well, my mind is going going going )
Orszag: Some who are advocating delay on health care are just trying to kill it.
No shit Sherlock. Memo to Orszag : We succeeded
To me, the CEO of GE sounding like Seymour Melman is an amazing development. I suspect that there are a lot of people who would like to remove him from his job, but if he sticks there, it's quite a powerful change.
No shit Sherlock. Memo to Orszag : We succeeded
Damn, feefs - you're dumber than dog shit.
And a liar to boot.
How do you prove you're still married to someone in the U.S.? Get a statement from every county in every state that there is no record of divorce there?
my little wild hydrangea look wimpy next to those big blue thingies.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1wa...mit/3642040213/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1wa...mit/3642040205/
all i know is that giant slugs are really gross, Anon. my sister had them in her gardens when she lived in CA, and man, ick. she used beer traps to kill them, but there were always more.
chicago dyke, hurtin | Homepage | 07.19.09 - 3:21 pm | #
Ha - I read that as bear traps - Man those are some giant slugs!
Damn, feefs - you're dumber than dog shit.
And a liar to boot.
billy b | 07.19.09 - 3:43 pm | #
But relentless in hating America and Americans.
augspittle translates McConnell's wattle
How do you prove you're still married to someone in the U.S.? Get a statement from every county in every state that there is no record of divorce there?
DFH i
Moe suggested I submit a video of us eating, sleeping together. Showing his & her's towels hanging side-by-side. Would be fun, but I'll take the easy way and submit a bank statement addressed to the both of us at the same address.
This whole thing is just a bother and an invasion of privacy, but as I said, I can't fuck with the health insurance.
McConnell had a wittle wattle.
Another tidbit:
250,000+
The estimated number of Americans who were victims of medical identity theft in 2007 (the most recent date federal data on the crime was collected).
Source: Federal Trade Commission
when Bush mocked the climate report as something from "bureaucrats" it brought into focus the comprehensive republican hatred of every virtue: work, learning, kindness - you name it.
Even though I hope you are feeling better,
Damn you leibniz----------> 
Giant slugs are ok in forests, not so ok in the garden.
Box turtles will get rid of slugs very well.
And sheets.
While some of America's competitors were throttling up on manufacturing and R&D, we deemphasized technology. Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services
one of the problems, imho, is that new technology has yet to appear on the scene. when you think of the history of technology here, you think of the automobile, the computer, and telecom. building better cars, faster computers, smaller cell phones isn't the answer. that technology is already developed. green energy is an encouraging development, but the technology already exists to build windmills and solar power collectors.
what is needed ( besides bringing manufacturing back here...good luck with that) is a breakthrough in physics, in science, from which the new technology comes.
But relentless in hating America and Americans.
fifi reminds me of a redneck I saw several years back. On the back of his antiquated, beat-up old pickup was a bumper sticker that read "Thank Me for Your Tax Cut - I Voted for Bush".
sheets evidently. ABOVE
But relentless in hating America and Americans.
I only hate stupid ass, clueless right wing Americans.
Like D'Auggy and the rest of the trolls.
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Why isn't D'Auggy in church?
Praying that his "god" strikes down everyone who refuses to see the world as he does?
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