I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
no kidding...
drive by
issues upon issues
an issue torte
Let's all sing like the birdies sing, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet....
Damn, and he couldn't even control his spittle during the non apology. Fucking gross.
an issues parfait
an all you can eat issues buffet
an issuesmeister
issues r us
Comic book issues?
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Amen, E...
back issues
Atrios is jealous at Chris Matthews' repoire with the ladies ...
Chris Matthews is behaving exactly like the guy at the office who truly does not "get" why telling the "girls" what kind of skirts he thinks they look best in might be somewhat offensive to them.
p o o p
.
grieving widow of absurdity issues
Tweety really exemplifies almost everything that's wrong with white males....
Time for me to get a sex and race change, I think.
Ummm...
.
hi rorschach.
Tweety really exemplifies almost everything that's wrong with white males....
Time for me to get a sex and race change, I think.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:32 am | #
To quote a good friend of mine from here in the Quarter: "Oh, please, niggabitch."
Today's nudibranch totally kicks ultimate ass to the max.
Howdy, Doug Watts.
Phila, I was just admiring it. BEEYOOTIFUL!
Gah, sorry A-man, thought you were asleep.
Today's nudibranch totally kicks ultimate ass to the max.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:34 am | #
Penultimate, perhaps.
Seriously, though: Beautiful.
lurk on
Today's nudibranch totally kicks ultimate ass to the max.Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:34 am | #
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Wow. That's like the Danish Modern of shell-less mollusks. I am shocked and awed.
I'm invited to a free screening of Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections on Thursday. Whoo-hoo!
.
Uncounted.
.
There's a filmic study of elections held on Thursdays?
If he has moved up here I just want to thank Gilly for the searched he did to find me some info about possible laptop shanigans with CompUSA and their TAP.
He's funny and good with searches.
Atrios has the dumbest trolls BUT we have some of the nicest people too.
*sigh*
I tucked up my fags.
.
I ate Ron Paul. He tasted....old.
Phila, s/he looks like a My Little Nudibranch. Very beautiful.
Just my sleepy head sticking in the door to say hello. And who can resist piling on the addlepated and slimy Tweety?
Today's nudibranch totally kicks ultimate ass to the max. - Phila
That nudie is totally teh gaii. It's making me think twice.
Um, my post below has SOME merit, even if Atrios showed up and posted on his own blog simultaneously to, uh, me posting on, um, his blog...
Thers, one of mine is running, but McCain is one of the Damned...
Addlepated is the word, alright.
It's not coincidental that Tweety has Mike Barnicle on his show quite a bit. Mike had an .. errr ... problem ... in Boston because he sort of ... well ... fabricated and made up interviews with Boston people instead ... like ... interviewing them and writing down what they said. Some people called it lying and making shit up. Tweety didn't.
Um, my post below has SOME merit, even if Atrios ...
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:40 am | #
Nope. 
Wherein David Axelrod Blows A Gasket
I'll be brief because I'm blogging this from my iPod. Barack Obama finished a good-sized rally where he kind of lost the crowd in the middle but ended well. It was pretty much the same stump speech we've heard; I'll elaborate later. But as we were leaving, we spied Obama campaign manager David Axelrod and asked him about Bill Clinton's very odd comment that he personally saw Culinary Union bosses threatening to stop workers from voting for Hillary.
http://d-day.blogspot.com/2008/0...ows-
gasket.html
Same thing here:
http://calitics.com/showDiary.do...17?
diaryId=4864
Same thing here:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2...-gasket-
by.html
I'm not a blogger but I've been commenting since I was born. Is this usual? Post the samething on 3 different blogs?
Anyway this d-d is pretty worked up over something [not use what and no exact quote] The Big Dog said. Here is the other person that was with d-d:
"He also mentioned that he and Chelsea were approached in a hotel by workers who insisted they were voting for Hillary no matter what the union said. He went on to say that some of these workers were threatened with a new shift that wouldn't allow them to caucus if they indeed were to buck the union's endorsement."
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/1...1/18/222042/
835
Now d-d is sure The Big Dog said something about something. No exact quote but whatever it was was a dozy. The mydd poster says Bill mentioned he was "approached in a hotel by workers." What would make these 2 think Bill saw something first hand? Where did that come from? And we know from the LV sun workers were intimadated. Union reps told workers to vote obama or no caucus. The sun interviewed someone that had her card pulled from her hand after she said she wasn't sure who she'd vote for. But anyway other than a prolific blog poster where did the Bill and first hand come from?
Thers, one of mine is running, but McCain is one of the Damned...
If he wins we'll all be one of the Dicked.
"Let's all sing like the birdies sing, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet...."
Considering the weather and cedar has taken a toll, I choose Grackles.
Nope.
I was warned about you. You do not speak for me.
Rorsch, that's totally warped. The perfect illustration to go along with Hecate's phrase from yesterday: "The Big Shitpile is Wall Street's New Orleans", though to exact, it should probably be "Hurricane Katrina".
Matthews admits that he doesn't actually *think* about what he's saying. You'd think that would be a drawback for a broadcast journalist, but apparently not. Huh. -- Thers.
--
"It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest."
-- the Fugs.
last night I had an unbelievably real-seeming dream, in which John McCain denounced my blog.
Honestly.
Arrests Made in Trashing of Poet's House
NEW HAVEN, Vt. (AP) - Twenty-eight people are accused of attending a birthday party and New Year's celebration that left a farm house where poet Robert Frost once spent his summers in tatters.
The farm house had broken windows, broken antique furniture and tables burned in a fireplace. Vomit and urine stained the carpeting and beer cans, cups and drug paraphernalia were left behind.
I choose Grackles.
Sweet singers. They take french fries out of my hands, with the females being a bit bolder than the males.
hadenough;
Nobody could have anticipated that caucusing at your place of work might cause voter intimidation.
And you're blogging from your iPod? You can do that?
SC and Nevada, do not vote for race-baiters, Hillary and McCain. Hillary is at least subtle about it, John McCain was openly racist in the SC debate, read it here:
John McCain's racism in SC debate
Unfortunately it took segregationist Governor Wallace to reveal the truth that "there's not a dime's worth of difference between" Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, detaining protesters, banning books like America Deceived from Amazon, stealing private lands (Kelo decision), warrant-less wiretapping and refusing to investigate 9/11 properly. They are both guilty of treason.
Support Dr. Ron Paul and save this great nation.
"Honestly.
Thers "
Well, it could have been worse, Joe Lieberman could have shown up nude and you woke up with issues.
Nope.
I was warned about you. You do not speak for me.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:43 am | #
Yet you heeded not the warning.
(And by the by I just got handed a class in Realism and Naturalism!!11!1!)
Rorsch, that's totally warped. The perfect illustration to go along with Hecate's phrase from yesterday: "The Big Shitpile is Wall Street's New Orleans", though to exact, it should probably be "Hurricane Katrina".
bo, somewhat sauced | 01.19.08 - 1:45 am | #
Sadly, yes.
last night I had an unbelievably real-seeming dream, in which John McCain denounced my blog.
if he didn't collaborate with this Vietnamese torturers to sabotage your SAT scores in 1989 and plook an underage Thai hooker, then it was the Fake McCain.
"
Sweet singers. "
Are we talking about the same bird. The ones around here sound like they are Tubercular.
One final advert for my post on Tweety.
Good night, lovely batses.
fabricated and made up interviews with Boston people instead ... like ... interviewing them and writing down what they said. Some people called it lying and making shit up. Tweety didn't.
Doug Watts
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Homer Simpson Quotations
I didn't lie! I was writing fiction with my mouth.
If everyone here agrees that Matthews is a nut, and should be shunned, then my question is, why do you all watch his show?
If no one wathced, he would wither and die.
a farm house where poet Robert Frost once spent his summers in tatters.
Well, if he spent his summers there in tatters, then obviously he didn't care much about it.
last night I had an unbelievably real-seeming dream, in which John McCain denounced my blog.
You have all the fun.
The other night I dreamed I was lactating steaming hot milk that had tiny chunks of cooked potato in it. Posting this on a public forum is a pretty good sign that my night-night meds are kicking in, right?
The farm house had broken windows, broken antique furniture and tables burned in a fireplace. Vomit and urine stained the carpeting and beer cans, cups and drug paraphernalia were left behind.
It was a Ron Paul campaign party.
"And you're blogging from your iPod? You can do that?
Ali"
I'm not. d-d is. You'd have to be a very patient motherfucker to type any more than a few words.
The farm house had broken windows, broken antique furniture and tables burned in a fireplace. Vomit and urine stained the carpeting and beer cans, cups and drug paraphernalia were left behind.
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I'm sorry that doesn't scan.
What is that, a fucking villanelle ?
"Posting this on a public forum is a pretty good sign that my night-night meds are kicking in, right"
And the thread comes to a screeching halt.
Israel Air Force warplanes destroyed the former Interior Ministry building in Gaza City on Friday, killing one woman and wounding at least 30 others nearby, medical officials said.
The four-story building, which was emptied when it ceased to house the Hamas-run ministry several months ago, was flattened by the blast.
The building is located in the heart of a residential neighborhood, and residents said the dead woman was a guest at a wedding party in an adjoining building.
At least seven Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip in three separate IAF strikes Thursday, as Gaza militants pounded southern Israel with Qassam rocket fire for a third straight day, lightly wounding four people.
Meanwhile, militants in the Gaza Strip on Thursday fired more than 40 Qassam rockets and two mortar shells at southern Israel, wounding four people.
According to the IDF, as of Thursday 118 Qassam rockets and 62 mortar shells had been fired at Israel since fighting escalated Tuesday.
Don't Quit, Mitt !!!
If the Mitt Does Not Fit, You Still Cannot Acquit !!!!
Stand With Mitt, He Stands And is Fit !!!
(And by the by I just got handed a class in Realism and Naturalism!!11!1!)
Exactly what a sonofabitch like you has coming to him.
Give 'em Zola till they choke on it.
And the thread comes to a screeching halt.
Damn. When I refreshed, half the thread was gone. Is THAT what did it???
::sits in corner for 5 minutes::
Are we talking about the same bird. The ones around here sound like they are Tubercular.
We have Great Tailed Grackles. They have a huge repertoire, and it's mostly very liquid and melodic, interspersed with clicks and scratches.
If everyone here agrees that Fr. Coughlin, is a nut, and should be shunned, then my question is, why do you all watch his show?
If no one watched, he would wither and die.
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Just ignoring these people won't make them go away. They must be actively challenged.
They are hurting our country.
Ol' Mitter's not a quitter.
(sorry)
(And by the by I just got handed a class in Realism and Naturalism!!11!1!)
Exactly what a sonofabitch like you has coming to him.
Give 'em Zola till they choke on it.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:54 am | #
It's American, so they can just suck on the Dreiser and Hurston and Chopin and Dos Passos and Mike Gold.
If I'm going to stay up this late I expect quality sardonic pompous, aloof-ism.
This was exactly the message that Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman gave in a speech to the "Jewish Republican Coalition" in Boca Raton, Florida. For some time now, Lieberman has stood by McCain's side, or more accurately, has run to lend support when needed at McCain's beckon call. When McCain lost earlier in the week in Michigan and gave his concession speech, Lieberman was there and someone made this joke: Huckabee has mighty Chuck Norris, but McCain has mighty Joe.
Over the next week and a half, Lieberman will address a number of heavily Jewish crowds in Florida in support of the McCain campaign. Will the support of the senior Jewish senator from Connecticut encourage Florida Jews to buck the trend and vote for McCain.
Before the heavily-Jewish crowds, Lieberman emphasized McCain's pro-Israel voting record and his knowledge of the Iranian threat. Lieberman didn't level harsh criticism on the democratic candidates, after all, he is for the most part still a democrat. Nonetheless, Lieberman doesn't seem convinced that the democratic candidates fully understand the Iranian threat.
Fuckitty fuck fuck.
If I'm going to stay up this late I expect quality sardonic pompous, aloof-ism.
Doug Watts | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:56 am | #
Meh.
My blog has voted pro-Israeli in every Canadian election it was invited to in Spain.
anybody know at what point in the show Keith said something about odonnell being on last night? thanks
It's American, so they can just suck on the Dreiser and Hurston and Chopin and Dos Passos and Mike Gold.
Shudder...
What, no Frank Norris?
No motherfucking Frank Norris. In the past I always defended you from the charge of acting like a not-Frank-Norris-assigning jerkoff, but now I am beginning to wonder.
I've got yer McTeague swingin', beeyotch.
Tweety:
Alexander King was a garrulous curmudgeon who appeared on either Jack Parr or Johnny Carson, or both, in the 50's/60's. In one of a couple of books he wrote he has a cartoon of Pat Boone and a great line which applies to Tweety, Punkinhayed, Bobo, Joke Line, or any of our current fatuous pundits who sit in journalistic positions of importance totally disproportionate to their intellectual heft.
"A potato pancake that has fallen, happily, into a puddle of warm buttermilk."
Nonetheless, Lieberman doesn't seem convinced that the democratic candidates fully understand the Iranian threat.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
And yet Hillary stands by him
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonl.../281/162/
439176
Erin, fairly early, end of first or second story I think, and it was a thing of beauty.
It's American, so they can just suck on the Dreiser and Hurston and Chopin and Dos Passos and Mike Gold.
rorschach, meh | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:56 am | # [kill][hide comment]
I always preferred Hurston's nonfiction. "Seraph on the Suwanee" was pretty good, though, IIRC.
It seems that our very own Reverse King Midas Bush has succeeded in delivering the exact opposite of peace on his Middle Eastern jaunt.
Today he worked his magic with the financial markets.
Let's hope he doesn't decide to tackle the issues of race in America and golbal AIDS.
-GSD
Shorter alexander king: "He's sucking hind tit." (Coast Guard vernacular, ca 1966)
Shudder...
Why the shudder?
Am I doing something terribly wrong that I haven't noticed?
I've pretty much gotta go to bed. I wanna watch Moyers, but can't stay up until 2 a.m.
♥
I've got yer McTeague swingin', beeyotch.
WEAK.
The Octopus is the shiznit. McFuckin-teague. Yeah, I could piss on it. IF I CARED.
No Sinclair L I see. Candyass.
Goin' to bed with Jeffraham... so to speak... night, loves.
I've got yer McTeague swingin', beeyotch.
rorschach, meh | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:00 am | # [kill][hide comment]
Fuck that noise. Vandover and the Brute!
Sure, it's not exactly realism, but what the heck....
Silleigh
Thanks
I always preferred Hurston's nonfiction. "Seraph on the Suwanee" was pretty good, though, IIRC.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:01 am | #
That does not ring a bell with me...
But Their Eyes Were Watching God actually fits quite well with a theme that arose rather of its own accord--travel.
Florida has a closed primary, so Senator Avigdor Lieberman is really just rounding up cash for America's favorite Pro-Torture candidate, and winning hearts and minds for the General election.
fucking putz.
The "shudder" is for "American literature," which, as we've argued about before, is not very good.
William Dean Howells leaves me feeling kind of dry and leathery.
The "shudder" is for "American literature," which, as we've argued about before, is not very good.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:04 am | # [kill][hide comment]
Pshaw.
No Sinclair L I see. Candyass.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:03 am | #
And I'll raise you an Upton, motherfucker.
Late 19th century popular songs in the United States are, not surprisingly, pretty bad.
Seraph on the Suwannee, Hurston's sole white protagonist, an apt depiction of north Florida crackers.
fucking love it.
How about Harold Frederic's Gloria Mundi? That one's pretty good.
The "shudder" is for "American literature," which, as we've argued about before, is not very good.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:04 am | #
Why do you hate America and/or literature?
Or the idea of America and/or the idea of literature?
Late 19th century popular songs in the United States are, not surprisingly, pretty bad.
Doug Watts | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:06 am | # [kill][hide comment]
That's utter nonsense. What the fuck is wrong with you people tonight?
Move to Russia, already.
"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonl.../281/162/ 439176
ErinPDX, orange-stained"
That's funny. That's the video townhouse list I mean openleft has posted to. Really devastating. Next thing you know Hillary will be humping reagan's corpse. You ‘people’ are too funny.
How about Harold Frederic's Gloria Mundi? That one's pretty good.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:07 am | #
Don't know it. And coming from you, I need to learn it.
William Dean Howells leaves me feeling kind of dry and leathery.
Doug Watts | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:04 am | # [kill][hide comment]
Unfuckingreadable, in my view.
How Much Would You Pay for Gary Coleman's Pants?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/
...8c_6ffdb450bd1d
Los Angeles (E! Online) - Are Gary Coleman's pants the new Virgin Mary grilled-cheese sandwich? No. They are bigger.
Bidding on eBay reached $400,000 on Thursday for a pair of navy blue, size 12XL-Regular Gap Kids sweatpants signed by the former child star.
Yes, $400,000.
"This is really high," eBay spokeswoman Karen Bard agreed.
And it could get higher still. The auction wasn't set to close until later Thursday.
To say memorabilia dealer Brian Chanes was in disbelief wouldn't properly convey his utter and absolute skepticism.
"If someone pays $400,000," said Chanes, who handles client relations for the Southern California-based Profiles in History, "I would eat my hat."
For those possessing Y chromosomes: Barbarella on TCM 
Jenny Lind was kind of slutty ... in an Olivia Newton John "Get Physical" way ...
William Dean Howells leaves me feeling kind of dry and leathery.
Doug Watts | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:04 am | # [kill][hide comment]
Unfuckingreadable, in my view.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:09 am | #
Yeah, I'm kinda giving him a miss.
Unfuckingreadable, in my view.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:09 am | #
--
Like peeling big scabs right after you fell off a motorcycle.
Thers, I'm horribly worried for my grandbaby.
I played some Irish step dance music for her today.
She loved it. Kept demanding it, over and over and over...
For those possessing Y chromosomes: Barbarella on TCM
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 01.19.08 - 2:09 am | #
Why must you hate on the kitsch-loving lesbians?
The only class I had trouble with in grad school was in American Lit, and that's because of the prejudice against my thesis title: "Nine Times Out of Ten, They Shouldn't Have Bothered."
Rory, are you kidding?
Barbarella makes me LOL
Unfuckingreadable, in my view. - Phila
[Turns around and finds, lo and behold, a copy of "The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham", from his English 1B class in 1964.]
Thers, you make me very glad that I studied something other than lit.
Of course, I wasn't smart enough for lit, but that's another story.
The only class I had trouble with in grad school was in American Lit, and that's because of the prejudice against my thesis title: "Nine Times Out of Ten, They Shouldn't Have Bothered."
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:11 am | #
You just a hater.
Just pissed off because you know, deep down, that Yeats is a fascist.
For those possessing Y chromosomes: Barbarella on TCM
Wow. She's naked.
Why do you hate America and/or literature?
Or the idea of America and/or the idea of literature?
I understand that modern scholarship has conclusively demonstrated that it is Fascist.
Don't know it. And coming from you, I need to learn it.
rorschach, meh | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:08 am | # [kill][hide comment]
It's a weird piece of work. Theron Ware might be a better, more topical book for a class, though.
I was encouraged to go to grad school for American Literature based on a 50 PAGE explication of William Faulkner's "Wild Palms" and WCWilliams' Paterson. Thankfully, I decided to move to a decrepit farm house, grow pot, snort ether and get a real job starting a newspaper.
Jenny Lind was kind of slutty ... in an Olivia Newton John "Get Physical" way ...
Doug Watts | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:09 am | # [kill][hide comment]
Listen to Bert Williams, for fuck's sake. Or Clarice Vance.
What the hell did they call that contrivance that Woody Allen parodied in "Sleeper" as the "orgasmatron"?
I understand that modern scholarship has conclusively demonstrated that it is Fascist.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:13 am | #
"it" is a floating signifier in this sentence; this fact demonstrates that you are fascist. Or a deconstructionist. Either way, you are bad.
I kinda liked "A Hazard of New Fortunes."
You gotta teach at least one Alger book, Ror. Just to set off where all that other shit comes from.
Thankfully, I decided to move to a decrepit farm house, grow pot, snort ether and get a real job starting a newspaper.
Doug Watts | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:14 am | # [kill][hide comment]
Ether is why I got a D in high-school biology. They gave us sponges full of it to use on Drosophila melanogaster. Later, me and my friends stole the canister.
Norah Jones has done a beautiful remake of an old Sarah Vaughan cover of a Lefty Frizell penned tune called "Thers is a Fucking Fascist and the More He Denies It The More That Proves It."
Great bass solo and brush work.
I was encouraged to go to grad school for American Literature based on a 50 PAGE explication of William Faulkner's "Wild Palms" and WCWilliams' Paterson. Thankfully, I decided to move to a decrepit farm house, grow pot, snort ether and get a real job starting a newspaper.
Doug Watts | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:14 am | #
FIFTY PAGES!? No one can live at that speed!
I mean holy shit. 50 whole pages!?
Skulls or Street king?
decisions, decisions. I need to shit, getting off this pot is too hard a decision. the Ape Hanger handlebars might be the deciding factor.
You gotta teach at least one Alger book, Ror. Just to set off where all that other shit comes from.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:16 am | #
I kinda think yeah, but I also kinda think nah...
We shall see.
Thers, are you really gonna try and claim that the late, great Charles Brockdon Brown deserves the contempt of a bibulous lace-curtain Mick like yourself?
Just pissed off because you know, deep down, that Yeats is a fascist.
I hate you because you know that I am tempted to reply with a 6,700 word post to that, when all I really want to do is fuck around.
Prick.
Bobby Fischer for president.
That's funny. That's the video townhouse list I mean openleft has posted to. Really devastating. Next thing you know Hillary will be humping reagan's corpse. You ‘people’ are too funny.
hadenough
No, it isn't devastating. It is just another hole punched into the quickly diminishing swiss cheese. And namecalling doesn't become you.
I hate you because you know that I am tempted to reply with a 6,700 word post to that, when all I really want to do is fuck around.
Prick.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:19 am | #
And I love you because I know that you hate that I know that you would love and hate to reply with a 6701 word post.
I kinda think yeah, but I also kinda think nah...
Dooooo it. Doooooo it.
All the coool kids are doing it.
Bigger Fascist: Yeats or Pound?
(Doughy Pantload skips the real fascists and jumps right to deMan. poseur)
I kinda liked "A Hazard of New Fortunes."
AMERICAN ROCK SUCKS!!!!
'Cept for L.A. Guns. They were cool.
Bigger Fascist: Yeats or Pound?
I'm voting for Pound.
the late, great Charles Brockdon Brown
The meanest man in the whole downtown?
And namecalling doesn't become you.
why are you bothering to engage the Hillary Troll at this late hour?
The meanest man in the whole downtown?
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:21 am | # [kill][hide comment]
No, that was bad, bad LeRoi Jones.
I always liked the Henry Thoreau haiku titled: "Emerson could, like, flush twice after he drops half the night soil in Middlesex County down the glory hole before breakfast."
Bigger Fascist: Yeats or Pound?
I'm voting for Pound.
Pound wrote poems about Yeats. Yeats didn't write poems about Pound.
Pound for pound, Yeats was better than Ezra.
Bigger Fascist: Yeats or Pound?
I'm voting for Pound.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:21 am | #
Pound for pound, yes, it's Pound.
She loved it. Kept demanding it, over and over and over...
I have fabulous blackmail video of my boys at ages 3&4 stepping w/MF in their tap shoes. hee
Ror, teach 'em that X-rated Wharton fragment. And Sarah Orne Jewett's ghost stories, just to confound 'em.
Dude.
Cosmic.
Like a pern in the gyre or whatever the fuck.
I'm voting for Pound.
the radio broadcasts do seem to put him over the top, though william's dance with the blackshirts does give him a formidable runner-up status.
Neocons: The Dorks of Hazard.
why are you bothering to engage the Hillary Troll at this late hour?
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
good point
how are the babies?
Fischer for president. He understood fascism.
Ror, teach 'em that X-rated Wharton fragment.
Impressively, Wharton managed to bore me even with that.
Pound for pound, Yeats was better than Ezra.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:23 am | # [kill][hide comment]
I've been subjected to condescension and worse in my day for claiming that Pound had a tin ear, on top of it. But I stand by it 110%.
though william's dance with the blackshirts does give him a formidable runner-up status
Hmmmm?
Do you mean blueshirts?
Impressively, Wharton managed to bore me even with that.
rorschach, meh | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:26 am | # [kill][hide comment]
Like Jewett and Cather, her ghost stories are her best work, IMO.
All the greek language stuff in Ezra Pound's poems, when translatable, says "sand paper ain't bad for beating off compared to what passes for food in a Corsican prison."
I've been subjected to condescension and worse in my day for claiming that Pound had a tin ear, on top of it. But I stand by it 110%.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:26 am | #
Your math is still better than Pound's sense of rhythm.
Did anyone hear WAL-MART Queen Michelle Obama's speech in Nevada today? She could not pronounce the name of the state correctly.
Fischer was Jewish and a virulent anti-Semite. Read his obit.
I've been subjected to condescension and worse in my day for claiming that Pound had a tin ear, on top of it. But I stand by it 110%.
He could not hear the paycock with the proooooid of its eye.
that's tright, in Eire they wore blue.
erin, Daniel Thomas is teething, so putting him down has been very difficult the last few days. last night Ibrahim and I came this close to divorce.
Well, I have one minor bitch then I am off to bed. My neighbor (Tom who did not have a heart attack and Izzy's son) kid is applying for an MFA program in writing. He asked me to look over a short story he had written as the program needed several samples of his work to examine in his application.
I took the afternoon to do so. The story was 4300 words to start with but there were a lot of rudimentary errors in grammar: things like the incorrect usage of quotation marks, the text was not divided into paragraphs correctly, the lack of the use of contractions in dialogue et al. But what was most disconcerting was his penchant for just tossing in superfluous adjectives and adverbs EVERYWHERE. When I was finished editing, I had removed six hundred of them. SIX HUNDRED. (And the young man is a graduate of an IVY LEAGUE college) The story is better now but he should keep working on it. Too many ideas and not enough detail yet. (But we do not need any more adjectives anyway)
Sorry, my bitch is over.
DWD - Just tired
Sounds like White House material at this time. Condi needs some new help...
She also has the habit of dropping the race card everywhere she speaks.
Like a pern in the gyre or whatever the fuck.
rorschach, meh | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:24 am | # [kill][hide comment]
Don't be dissing the guy who wrote "Kung Fu Fighting."
Come to think of it, that was Carl Douglas. Still, it's a great song!
WAL-MART Queen Michelle Obama has debased this campaign.
Like a pern in the gyre or whatever the fuck.
rorschach, meh | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:24 am | # [kill][hide comment]
Don't be dissing the guy who wrote "Kung Fu Fighting."
Come to think of it, that was Carl Douglas. Still, it's a great song!
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:30 am | #
I really cannot argue with this.
So much depends on
a red wheel barrow
you fascist fucks
die bitch die
Come to think of it, that was Carl Douglas. Still, it's a great song!
those cats were fast as lightning, it was a little bit frightening.
queerrevolution ==> killfile
why won't any of you give me advice on which Nirve model to purchase?
fascists.
I saw the best Therses of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
Anyhoo, Yeats was certainly tempted by Fascism, as was many another -- especially, tellingly, amongst his bitterest enemies among the newly empowered Irish Catholic bourgeoisie after the birth of the Free State. And then the murder of O'Higgins hit him pretty hard.
But O'Duffy was a clown, and Yeats saw that pretty quickly, and he was soon disillusioned with Mussolini, and he always hated Hitler. Yeats was Irish and Fascism proper never had much of a hold there.
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This one actually kind of reminds me of Pound's broadcasts...the weird, chatty pseudo-populist tone he had, like he was leanin' on the pickle barrel down at the general store, 'splainin' to the workin' man 'bout the dodgasted Jew Money System...
Anyhoo, Yeats was certainly tempted by Fascism, as was many another -- especially, tellingly, amongst his bitterest enemies among the newly empowered Irish Catholic bourgeoisie after the birth of the Free State. And then the murder of O'Higgins hit him pretty hard.
But O'Duffy was a clown, and Yeats saw that pretty quickly, and he was soon disillusioned with Mussolini, and he always hated Hitler. Yeats was Irish and Fascism proper never had much of a hold there.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:34 am | #
Too few words, ya wuss.
Hey, is it lit or poetry you're supposed to teach.
Mrs. Ibrahim, I can advise on a Nuvi, but not a Nirve.
last night Ibrahim and I came this close to divorce.
It's your fault for trying to raise kids sober.
lit or poetry?
Yeats was Irish and Fascism proper never had much of a hold there. - Thers
And neither has sanity, not that that's a bad thing.
last night Ibrahim and I came this close to divorce.
This happens a lot with babies. Fortunately, you tend to out grow it
So much depends on
a red wheel barrow
you fascist fucks
die bitch die
This is making me laugh.
It's your fault for trying to raise kids sober.
Thers
and without refreshing pauses
Yeats was Irish and Fascism proper never had much of a hold there. - Thers
They rejected its sunny optimism.
For some odd reason I have trouble seeing the Irish people rallying around the ole fascism flag.
Yes, please more treating us like expendable live stock !!! Could I have another millennium of that ?
"Emerson could, like, flush twice after he drops half the night soil in Middlesex County down the glory hole before breakfast."
That is what's on the other side of the replay visor at Foxboro...
Yeats was Irish and Fascism proper never had much of a hold there. - Thers
They rejected its sunny optimism.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:38 am | #
Hence the sad state of Irish trains.
I saw the best Therses of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked
Then I got a Regnery contract and I was saved.
hadenough descending to smearing Michelle Obama.
how Clintonian of the Clinton troll.
I saw the best Therses of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked
Then I got a Regnery contract and I was saved.
Thers | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 2:39 am | #
You got yer Regno fix?
I just wish Tweety Mathews weren't such a giant intellect. His massive brain powers give me a fright. Without a doubt, him is sharpest balloon in the needle drawer.
I'm not gaii enough to get a Regnery contract.
lit or poetry? - rorschach
Indeed. My bad. Disregard. Lost track of the original post.
Will try to keep it real, though that's unnatural for me.
They rejected its sunny optimism.
Joe Lee says in his very funny and great history of modern Ireland that Fascism was too ideologically coherent for the Blueshirts.
Lee is the snarkiest historian ever. Brilliant, brilliant book.
Ibrahim and I kissed and made up and the babysitter watched the kids tonight while we saw "There Will Be Blood."
fuck, going to the movies is now a $100 affair, 50 for dinner and rinks, 20 for 2 tickets and 30 for the babysitter.
whip inflation now!
Ibrahim and I kissed and made up and the babysitter watched the kids tonight while we saw "There Will Be Blood."
fuck, going to the movies is now a $100 affair, 50 for dinner and rinks, 20 for 2 tickets and 30 for the babysitter.
whip inflation now!
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari | 01.19.08 - 2:43 am | #
Well, here's hoping you got laid!
I'm off to bed.
Mrs I: Cheap night out, take it from an experienced parent. A bottle of Nyquil, a good DVD, a lot of gin.
Thers, what is the title of the Joe Lee book?
The Five Most Horrifying Bugs in the World.
With that, I wish youse larrikins a good night.
And I've gotta drive from NOLA to Lexington tomorrow, so I wish you all good night as well.
last night Ibrahim and I came this close to divorce.
This happens a lot with babies. Fortunately, you tend to out grow it - Sallyh
One of the scarier days of my bachelordom occurred when I went to visit good friends, who I thought of as having worked out as the kinks in their relationship after 7 plus years of living together/marriage, when first kid was about 6 weeks old. The "new" had worn of the kid, and I unexpectedly found myself in the middle of a major explosion. Wasn't entirely sure I, or anyone else, was going to live to tell the tale.
This is really quite poetic:
It's the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison. We really wish we were making that up for, you know, dramatic effect because goddamn, what a terrible thing a three-inch acid-shooting hornet would be, you know? Oh, hey, did we mention it shoots it into your eyes? Or that the poison also has a pheromone cocktail in it that'll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you until you are no longer alive?
Think you can outrun it? It can fly 50 miles in a day. It'd be nice to say something reassuring at this point, like "Don't worry, they only live on top of really tall mountains where nobody wants to live," but no, they live all over the goddamned place, including outside Tokyo.
Forty people die like that every year, each of them horribly.
Out for real. Gggg'night.
With that, I wish youse larrikins a good night.
Most of the original larrikins were transported to Australia during the first half of the 19th century.
Amazing items, Thers.
Safe travels, Rors.
Media Matters deserves a Pulitzer for all the work they've done the last couple years. They are a tremendous asset.
Damn you Phila.
'Alllooo?
hey woot, what's happening?
Media Matters provides a high-value service timely enough to be very high-value.
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G'Bye.
"There's just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is torture," Tom Ridge said Friday in an interview. Ridge had offered the same opinion earlier in the day to members of the American Bar Association at a homeland security conference.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22735168
Leftist troop-hater.
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Thers, what is the title of the Joe Lee book?
I'm going to assume Thers went to bed, so here's my guess at the book title.
Thing is, Media Matters tends not to notice when the horse they're flogging has died.
I've been wondering how self-proclaimed "Christian Leader" Mike Huckabee can permit sleazy groups to push-poll in support of him and against others -- him being such a good Christian and all?
Bob Herbert's sensible take today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/1...tml?
ref=opinion
The truth is, there have been mumblings about Huckabee as Governor of Arkansas: vindictive, repeatedly ethically caught short; etc. He strikes me as very like many other sugar-sweet-on-the-surface members of The Southern Baptist Convention I have been acquainted with who use shunning and peer pressure like blunt instruments to enforce conformity and behavior they approve of.
(No, I don't feel bad about blabbering to myself -- I'm awake anyway.)
Government investment in pure science would be a huge boon as well, plantsman. Out of pure science will come the NEXT BIG THING. We don't need more applied science,more technology , i.e. more and better cell phones with better cameras. We need some kind of a breakthrough in physics. Something the magnitude of Einstein's contribution.
The government needs to be investing in pure scientific research as well as infrastructure and alternative fuels.
My two cents.
Perhaps, lurkon; but with a bevy of anti-scientific GOP candidates in play this very day in SC and NV, our scientific agenda will likely have to wait for a Democratic Administration, don't you think?
Absolutely, plantsman.
It's going to be up to the next Dem president to put this in motion.
The next president takes office one year from tomorrow.
When I was a young lad in NC, The Southern Baptists were a "mainstream", if whacked-out, denomination. My family moved to AZ in 1960, and my mother began to search out a less hysterical, doctrinaire Christianity, settling in the United Presbyterian Church, with its soft-core Calvinism.
At the same time, the churches of our relatives in NC began a movement in the opposite direction --
Southern Baptist Churches were divided into camps, with the "Charismatics" being the fundies of the time.
The next president takes office one year from tomorrow.
It can't come a moment too soon!
Agreed.
It was so refreshing to watch the Dem debate a few evenings ago when those three brilliant, sane, rational people sat at a table and calmly and professionally discussed solutions to the problems we have as a country.
So damn refreshing.
The Charismatics pushed more liberal Xians out of the Southern Baptists with de facto excommunication -- and ran The Convention with an iron hand.
It was, and it makes the non-sensical Republican "debates" all the more jarring for their detachment from reality.
fdl explains exactly why Limpballs is so supportive of the Mittster on the issues that matter to conservatives.
(I hate when HaloScan flips out when almost no one is around!)
pity no-one will give a shit
The conversion of Southern Baptists to totally crazy seemed complete the year my Aunt sent a "Christmas" card that was a photo of her church's sanctuary to our family. Mom's comment was: "Damn Christmas-y, innit?"
Oh, it's old-troll night!
no, plantsman, it's not
It was so refreshing to watch the Dem debate a few evenings ago when those three brilliant, sane, rational people sat at a table and calmly and professionally discussed solutions to the problems we have as a country.
Uhh, yeah.... sure......
Then, in 1995, The Southern Baptist Convention finally decided that slavery in this country has been wrong. Mighty White of them.
(had) D'oh!
ql,
the bottom line drives almost everything anymore.
One night, racing across the Southern tier of States on uncompleted Interstate Highways, the folks were listening to Gospel on the AM radio -- and the announcer intoned that one could receive a "gin-u-wine, synthetic, aw-row-ry bow-ree-alice cross" for a small donation.
Bow-Ree-Alice Cross sounds like a Southern woman's name :D
It's funny how aural memory works -- I doubt the sound of that phrase will ever leave me.
Mama loved "The Old Rugged Cross" in 4-part harmony. I never told her how much it creeped me out.
Funny how sensitive children can be so negatively affected by stimuli that doen't affect adults (or affects them positively).
Speaking of aural memory, I recently heard a remix of Beatles music done by George Martin for a Cirque du Soleil show.
The disc opens with "Because" - but just the vocals. Hearing it without the instrumental...sounded like an entirely different song.
Same for some of the music that they play in the theater lobby before the show - just the instrumentals with no vocals. Completely different music.
"Gimme That Olde-Time Religion" was another favorite of family fundies. Again, (wisely, I thought)
I kept my opinion to myself.
hello
George Martin, to my ear, made the Beatles music transcendent -- and far larger than it might otherwise have been.
Just for the record, the real reason I never cared much for Presley was the stupid Jordanaires.
I feel there was some sort of magic in that grouping (Beatles, Martin)that depended on all of them working together.
No insight there I suppose.
Well, bed time for me.
Good night, good people.
Dad's brother was a student of the shape-note music of the Primitive Baptists and other rare denominations. He taught me more secular tunes like "Froggy went a-courting", which tickled me no end.
Our cold snap persists, but it doesn't hold a candle to what the Northern Plains will be enduring directly.
George Martin, to my ear, made the Beatles music transcendent -- and far larger than it might otherwise have been.
plantsman | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 5:24 am | #
Precisely
plantsman - was your Mom fond on the Tennessee Ernie Ford version of 'The Old Rugged Cross'?
Mine was. I love Ernie's singing myself.
I agree with lurkon about the "once-in-a-lifetime" superlative nature of the pairing of Martin and Beatles, and I'm so glad I got to hear it!
Yes, and there were numerous "-Brothers" versions as well, iirc.
My problem is, to me, venerating a cross is like worshiping an Electric Chair.
I've never had a problem with other people's beliefs and religions.
It's just when they force it down my throat. Then, I get fucking pissed.
Responding to Atrios' earlier plea: I am confident that Senator Ron Wyden will do the right thing on telecom immunity, and just as confident Gordon Smith will do the wrong thing.
That's the thing: when I was little, Mama thought the should be a whole lotta inculcating going on.
And then, when I began to realize my sexual orientation was eternally damned and all, I really soured on it.
I told the wife that I want to go back to Seattle Hempfest in August.
We had a very good friend die last fall from a heart attack, and I am compelled to work the festival at the munchie stand named in his honor.
Any news from the boat owner?
August in Seattle can be right fine!
None. I explained my options to the wife last night.
I'll give it a couple more weeks, before I go and order that kit.
Last we travelled to Seattle (Aug 01') - it was in the 70's the entire time we were there.
Only when we got to Victoria, BC did it rain a little one day. But, I was so high I really didn't care.
I took a boat tour around Victoria once, and the guide proudly motored us up to an Arbutus menzeseii "Madrone" tree about 3 meters tall on shore. I did not mention the 90 foot copses of them that grew in San Mateo County, CA.
OMG, mimi was an absolute freakoid yesterday. I finally got to see the vicious side of that troll. Creepy.
mimi was an absolute freakoid yesterday.
Ding!
In Victoria, we saw the largest junipers I have ever seen. They were at least 10-12' tall, and just beautifully trimmed.
As a hippie in Mendocino County, I smoked Madrone Bark during a dry time and sanfg lead in a band called the .Madronatones.
I honestly don't know what the issue with trolls is.
I just flat ignore them. No goddamm killfile, anything.
Just ignore them.
Shall I compare thee to a Sweeney Todd?
The Parliament and that grand Hotel on the Harbor
and the Anglophile shopping district are quite nice, too.
Speaking of Mendocino county, I need to order me up some Mendocino Mustard.
That shit is divine.
Mendocino County is by and large divine.
BD - Kind of like how I'm pretty much ignoring all the hair pulling for the primaries. At one point I found myself getting really mad and decided it was time to pull back and ignore it. The fact remains that any of the top three would be 1000% better than any of the rethugs.
Tweety gushed his thanks back on David Shuster for his support during the Media Matters onslaught.
It was to plotz.
At one point I found myself getting really mad and decided it was time to pull back and ignore it
QL - I think you're right. You can't totally ignore it, but when it becomes a burden in your everyday life - then you need to move away from it.
In case some of you were wondering:
http://www.mendocinomustard.com/
...alog.html#gifts
Can't remember how I swung it, but rented a vacation house on a perfect cove between Mendocino and Fort Bragg for a week once and got the folks to come out for Thanksgiving. The best family event of my life.
i> What Movie:
> An earthquake in London opened up a large chasm that swallowed up several
> police officers and then closed up without a trace. What film tells the
> story of investigators from Scotland Yard looking for clues in this mystery?
> SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISSURE
The other bobbies are still shaken by the incident.
Bobby: Apine police officer in the UK.
I'm still haunted by Usai Point.
I have been for years now.
The abandoned logging towns north of Fort Bragg, and the coast between there and Eureka ( The "Lost" Coast ) are really awesome, too!
I wuvs Hot Sweet Mustard on sammiches.
The first sinsemilla I ever saw was in that part of Cali, an ounce, on the stems and wrapped in foil like a loaf of french bread, each bud as big as a cat's tail.
It makes an awesome marinade for pork, chicken, etc.
wrapped in foil like a loaf of french bread, each bud as big as a cat's tail.
I've had some that wouldn't fit in a half-gallon jar.
Daid Schuster.... David Gregory..... does it matter who the cum-guzzler is?
They are all a pack of useless whores.
What's wrong with guzzling cum?
Let's go to Fred Dicker. ... [Y]ou covered that campaign, Fred. Was it the Monica mess and her victimhood there ... the key to her success in that campaign?" Dicker also disagreed, and Matthews replied: "I think your memory is faulty -- all you people. Go ahead, Bob Barr. I think she went up there as a sympathetic figure and she's still playing the sympathy card."
oh man. that fucking exchange is a perfect illustration of cherrypicking. fred dicker is among the top political reports in new york state -- even though he's a new york post writer. he knows his shit -- esp with what's going on upstate where hillary really made inroads through sheer determination. (she spent months up there on her much-mocked 'listening tour' and that's how she got their fucking support.) and for tweety to proclaim his memory as faulty because dicker doesn't back-up tweety's opinion -- and tweety goes to bob barr(!) for wisdom on new york state politics. fuck me. tweets should have been fired on the spot for chutzpah. damn.
oh, morning all...
how about illustrating your post with this -- lol:
http://bp0.blogger.com/_t-
EfdceT...isTweetyMad.jpg
Frack! H'Scan would have to get stuck now!
Bob Barr is rather, shall we say, unhinged?
Bob Barr is rather, shall we say, unhinged?
Not quite as badly as when he served in Congress, but yes, he is quite out there.
Grr. I'm certain if I had read tons of crap I should have, I would have known my OS X 10.4 Address Book would not migrate into Leopard -- but I sure didn't expect it.
And as ugly as things are now, they will only get worse as November comes closer. Damn, I'm not looking forward to it.
And as ugly as things are now, they will only get worse as November comes closer. Damn, I'm not looking forward to it.
qlª
At least by then we'll all be pulling in the same direction.
I fucking hope.
Good morning, folks!
I'm honestly expecting a lull after Feb. 5, to marinate in the worsening economy -- but I could surely be wrong.
Not quite as badly as when he served in Congress, but yes, he is quite out there.
Barndog, cold
it's always quite a jolt when someone as loathsome as barr does good -- like his partnering up with the aclu re the bush assault on the constitution. he's been very high profile with that.
Doncha hate when OS "features" you love vanish in the next iteration?
nona (grandma), it doesn't make up for the crap he pulled when Bill was in office.
Fr'instance, in Tiger, I could boot up in either of 2 incarnations of OS X, or in OS 9 if I really wanted.
No longer.
morning, all
I'm with Barndog, just ignore the trolls. I got the impression yesterday that the one going on at us had a need to stay engaged, and it reinforces my impression that it has chosen to blog for the purposes of appearing engaged in a conversation there where it is - like talking on a cellphone when you suspect the other end is the weather report.
it doesn't make up for the crap he pulled when Bill was in office.
Not even. But, I do understand that his knowledge and trust of the law, does work to serving ALL the people - not just some, like the current administration.
I'm going to start making phone calls in the congressional campaign here next week, so I will be up to my ears. But its good to talk to the voters, gives you a good idea how people are reacting to all the mishmash.
I admit it : I fell hook, line, and sinker for ( ) acting "normal", against my better judgement. I swear, after yesterday; there is no doubt to give the benefit of.
I got the impression yesterday that the one going on at us had a need to stay engaged
Really? I got the impression that she was a fat, perimenopausal Swiss cunt.
My bad.
Nothing worse than being fat and menopausal, right?
I wanna start the Society for The Preservation of Archaic Usage and Adverbs.
Fat and andropausal. heh.
yeh, there's worse. I just watched Hota Kobte have a masecthomy. that's worse.
I wanna start the Society for The Preservation of Archaic Usage and Adverbs.
plantsman
Great -- you're in charge!
morning v
I'm afraid to download the scrabble game and start playing because it just may cause me to never leave the computer at all.
Hoda Kotb has assimilated too well for a woman of Turkish descent.
all of last year's gains have been shed by today's stock market- Maria Barfarama
I'm afraid to download the scrabble game and start playing because it just may cause me to never leave the computer at all.
qlª
Depends on who you get into games with. I have one with Molly, racymind and geor3ge that's been going on since last Saturday. Molly and I managed to play one over about 2 days, and tri and I finished one in about 12 hours.
Go ahead!
"I watch her every day, I watch her every night;
She's really out of sight......Maria Bartiromo!"
archaic usage and adverbs afflict our sensibilities here in the miasma.
Morning, kids.
I think Mika and Joe are up in a SC diner at 7 Eastern -- different for a Saturday, anyway.
My head hurts every time I don't hear an adverb on TV, and just once I'd like to hear someone say "get" again.
morning peeps
'morning, Molly!
Good game, and thanks for playing with me.
Thanks, V. Going through my games now.
ql, it's an honest fear, but you set the pace, really.
plantsman -- msnbc is going to be all live coverage today. even ko and tweets are doing time tonite.
Someone said a "cease and desist" order was gonna
shut Squabble on the tubes down. No?
You just don't git it plantsman?
Yay!!! No "Dark Heart, Iron Hand" for a while!
Man. I'm going to be home all alone this weekend. Wife is going to Detroit, kid is at her bf's.
Just me, the dog and the cats.
Aleve Liquid Gels work real Quick -- Git It?
Hang in there, Barndog!
plantsman, it's my understanding the game company (Selchow & Righter?) is challenging the legality, but so far it's a hoot.
Just me, the dog and the cats.
Barndog, cold
And a hundred or so of your closest virtual friends?
I'll be fine. I'll probally go drink some beer with the local loosers. I mean, the regular bar crowd (whom I've known for years).
It's hard to be alone when you're so used to people around 24/7. I find I enjoy it for awhile then the quiet kind of gets to you. I didn't like the apartment in Queens where I knew the downstairs neighbors could hear every time I went to the john.
Ah, that name jogs an eidetic memory of the game box! "Richter", ich denke.
Now there's an angle that needs dealing with. Saturday is the holy day for a lot of religions, so the caucuses in Nevada are essentially shutting them out. Also those serving in the military abroad. hmmm
Just me, the dog and the cats.
Barndog, cold
so you'll play door man all weekend?
that's the reason my dogs keep me around.
How's the DE Lifestyle now, ql?
Ruth, the judge decided the agreement stands; you and Bubba ease off.
so you'll play door man all weekend?
Mostly door man for the cat. It's funny as hell - she'll come yak at me for a couple minutes, but not the wife.
I walk out with her in the lead to open the door. She won't even bother the wife - just me.
ql, how's your weather today? The teen is driving down there to fetch a friend, and I'm a bit worried about it.
I love my privacy, can leave it whenever I want to but am at the end of a long driveway, no one comes to visit without my seeing them coming, and it's kind of reassuring for me.
(Cat must realize wife will not be moved.)
It's very nice plantsman. I keep thinking I should sign up to sub or something, but I 'm really just enjoying sewing, blogging and puttering. I've taken up baking and am cooking a whole bunch more. Still, I'll have to find something outside one of these days.
I walk out with her in the lead to open the door. She won't even bother the wife - just me.
Barndog, cold
She thinks you're the smarter one, in that you've responded to the training better.
Bubba and I have issues.
that you've responded to the training better.
Indeed. But, I'm still the only one whose lap she will sleep in.
Molly, should be okay. Just above freezing, but the roads are clear. Where is she driving to?
We're trained to feel guilty if we're not being "productive", but enjoying our lives is a worthy goal, too.
you've responded to the training better.
V for Virginia, woe is MSW
'xackly. cats have their standards.
Hmmm, I saw her mapquest thing, but I forget the name of the town.
I'm a bit worried--it's her first road trip. I keep thinking I'll panic and go with her, but she really doesn't want me to.
'xackly. cats have their standards.
Ruth
Ours are very specific about all the rules, but we're quite well trained, so the service is generally adequate for them.
Productive is my dr's description for coughs, I prefer to be engaged. But the political scene kind of appreciates my retired state in the best way.
The Clenis' outburst in NV seemed unbecoming, somehow -- and I had the feeling that if allowed to ponder the issue, I might well refute Bill's outraged barrage.
Molly! Can't have a good rendezvous with Mom in the car!
Does the teen seem pretty cautious and responsible around town? If so she'll probably do fine.
I can see that first long trip being pretty nerve-wracking on Mom, though.
I missed Bubba getting upset. Judging by some of the tension people around here feel, I can only imagine the tension people are feeling closer in to the campaigns. Good. The tougher the fight the better.
Molly, it' a tough one, but you do have let them learn to be on their own.
Heh, my daughter took a road trip up to Albany with all her friends in the car. When I noticed the mud she told me they had gone to the beach. One of the few times that daughter lied to me. I didn't learn about it till years later. Thank goodness!
When I managed the Nursery, I had to have everything just so -- driving my blood pressure ever upward until I had a stroke, ending my Nursery
career.
Molly! Can't have a good rendezvous with Mom in the car!
She totally crushed last night on our chef. He was cute and Asian and recognized her t-shirt--some manga thing--and seemed really sweet.
Then her stepmom asked him if he had a girlfriend. Mortifying.
Was the dinner entertaining?
Does the teen seem pretty cautious and responsible around town? If so she'll probably do fine.
Yeah, that's what I keep telling myself.
So the chef juggled knives successfully and no missing parts this a.m.? cute.
Then her stepmom asked him if he had a girlfriend. Mortifying
My kid's mother does ignorant shit like that still.
It was entertaining, more or less. But wow, are we different kinds of people.
Good day, lovely people.
Holunderblüten and other undecipherable meds over at my place. (Yes, this is a blogwhore!)
My mom did not, as a rule, curse. When she popped a beer open, the carbonation alone would cause her to giggle. Then one night out of the blue she admonished me not to turn her car "into No Cunt-Wagon." I nearly died -- she really should have known much better!
My kid's mother does ignorant shit like that still.
I cut her a bit of slack because she's not American. But the teen does not.
Yeah, that's what I keep telling myself.
Molly Ivors
Oh, I'm sure. Among the 9,371 reasons it's a good thing I don't have kids: I'd probably do fine with the roots part; the wings would be another issue, entirely.
When do kids stop being messy?
When do kids stop being messy?
When they open laundrettes.
When do kids stop being messy?
trifecta
I'm 53; I'll keep you posted.
When do kids stop being messy?
trifecta
Uhm, when they leave home was my experience.
When do kids stop being messy?
I'll let you know.
When do kids stop being messy?
trifecta
I'm 53; I'll keep you posted.
V for Virginia
You beat me to it.
Wearing organic herbed chicken and pasta puree this morning.
Nice post Marcellina.
This kid is eating large these days!
I think college dorm living shames a lot of kids into cleaning up their act.
Wearing organic herbed chicken and pasta puree this morning.
Good, because it's your turn.
if ron paul is such an upstanding genuine american how come he still calls himself a republican. when he denounces this shithole party ill take him seriously.
Mine still is messy as hell.
Somebody mentioned Sambucol during an Elder-melee around here, and the extractive does sound to have remarkable anti-viral properties.
I think college dorm living shames a lot of kids into cleaning up their act.
Marcellina
The housemother at boarding school did that for me, but it wore off.
He wore pasta primavera yesterday.
The army made me be clean.
your turn Molly.
"Thing is, Media Matters tends not to notice when the horse they're flogging has died."
Doesn't bother me
Are there any horses in politics that every really die?
I'm not sure why, but I find those "Hundred Calorie Packs" CANDY ads - with the kiddie-carnival music
kind of creepy.
Tweety will expire someday; we diabetics are "more prone" to a slew of awful things.
I am wearing coffee with cream myself. Hey, maybe should improve my outer diet.
trifecta, I got so annoyed with my kid once I up-ended the bowl of oatmeal on his head. Afterwards we went into a tub of warm water and cleaned up. He's very neat now, musta worked out for him.
The army made me be clean
The Marines certainly assisted me. But, I am far from a neat freak.
At least Joe Conoson recognizes Huck-a-Much as a radical Dominionist. I wish the rest of the press would pick up on this.
Yet, Huck-a-buck has no problem with unChristian push-polling in support of him. He's a total fraud, imo.
Watched a bit of Real Time last night. John Fund really, really hates Huckabee.
The press is cowed into not criticizing People of Faith. Undoing that will take some work.
John Fund. Ew.
Fund's smile is among the most insincere I have ever seen.
Course, Mitt's smile is right up there.
Dead horses have come back to haunt me, did a post on MLK's anti-war stand yesterday, the day before that it was the S&L crisis, I guess it seems we've been forgetting things that matter, imho.
Who is John Fund?
Wasn't Fund boinking his girlfriend's daughter and then when the daughter got pregnant didn't arrange for an abortion. Sick.
Fund had an affair with a woman and her daughter. Then the daughter had an abortion.
Fund was screaming about the Clenis at the time.
He was awful.
D.L. Hughley, on the other hand, was pretty good. He said that most Republican talking points boiled down to a promise to protect their constituents from niggers and queers.
The country and western singer was not inclined to respond to this assertion.
coke to ql
The Hucksterbe business about the constitution conforming to the Word of God really frightens me. I think he's dangerous, and hope SC doesn't jump into his pit.
JOhn Fund writes for the paleocon Wall Street Journal OpEd page.
Oh, that guy.
Yikes.
And he's still blabbering away on teevee after that.
I fear they will, Ruth.
I shared living space with some folks where a guy was boinking mother and daughter. Mother handled that somehow, while letting me know she thought I, as a gay person, was morally inferior.
I'm wondering how much the fundie base will react to having their candidate shunned like this. The 'thugs have been using their political muscle since at least 1980; when push comes to shove, they find out that the 'thugs loathe an actual fundamentalist with a shot at the presidency.
I sure hope they figure out how they've been pwned and lose their enthusiasm for doing the heavy lifting that decides close elections.
plantsman, wow! That's some fancy moral footwork!
Lady on CSPAN is bringing it.
Maybe I should write a relationship blog for the fundies: "They're just not that into you."
I had a hard time with it -- Mother and daughter openly competed with one another.
I shared living space with some folks where a guy was boinking mother and daughter. Mother handled that somehow, while letting me know she thought I, as a gay person, was morally inferior.
Because in some cultures, including parts of ours, being a lying, cheating snake is manly, as long as the cheatin' and lyin' are done to women.
I sure hope they figure out how they've been pwned and lose their enthusiasm for doing the heavy lifting that decides close elections.
My fundie brother was gleeful at the thought of a Huckabee candidacy. But they can't do it without the press and the money people.
Upthread I burbled about my experiences with Southern Baptists. Huckabee strikes me as prototypically hypocritical.
I had a hard time with it -- Mother and daughter openly competed with one another.
Ick.
I knew a family in which the mother's husband absconded with the son's girlfriend, but at least they didn't share a bloodline.
Huckabee certainly scares the crap out of me.
In 1997, Huckabee requested an amendment to a state Senate bill stating “that it is Arkansas public policy to prohibit sodomy to protect the traditional family structure.” . That was as Governor of that state. Would he try to take similar actions as governor of the whole country?
Molly, I can hope. At least it seems this campaign in SC hasn't featured whispering about mixed race bastard babies. Not that we have heard about yet.
So far the commenters over at Salon are saying good, bring it on. Let's have the fight and drive these people underground once and for all. I don't know though.
Toles:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...toles_main.html
Fund had an affair with a woman and her daughter.
Ew, really? In addition to being proof that he is a hypocritical lying piece of shit, this is proof that women will go with any man available. Have you gotten a look at this guy?
I saw Huckabee on television (his concession speech in MI) and realized that he looks a bit like Kevin Spacey somehow. Kevin Spacey in one of his roles as an happy, insane person.
Fund had an affair with a woman and her daughter. Then the daughter had an abortion.
Fund was screaming about the Clenis at the time.
trifecta
Sort-of friend's SO fucked his fianceé's daughter (she was an adult).
He's got some pretty serious Clenis issues, himself. (This is the wingnut that sealed the deal wrt my relationship with this person.)
That was as Governor of that state. Would he try to take similar actions as governor of the whole country?
Yes.
This has been another edition....
The SCOTUS rendered sodomy laws unConstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
Of course, in practice, sodomy laws are not enforced against straight people....
Mr. Obama, please do not praise Reagan again anytime soon.
GravatarThe SCOTUS rendered sodomy laws unConstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
Yep. What year was that? Pretty recently, no?
sodomy laws are not enforced against straight people....
they call that 'obedience' I think
That was as Governor of that state. Would he try to take similar actions as governor of the whole country?
Arkenor in 2008
Yes. He thinks we need 2 constitutional amendments: One to outlaw abortion, and another to prohibit gay marriage. This was what he was talking about when he said that it would be easier to bring our law into agreement with god's law than the other way around.
another to prohibit gay marriage.
and interspecies marriages...
As vile and scary as Huck is, surmounting the SCOTUS prohibition of anti-sodomy laws would take quite a bit of work.
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My Fuchsia wants to marry my Vibunum. I'm shocked.
V4VA; This was what he was talking about when he said that it would be easier to bring our law into agreement with god's law than the other way around.
It's inevitable that with any success in that area, he'd push on for more. He's got the bit in his teeth it seems.
Of course, in practice, sodomy laws are not enforced against straight people....
Molly Ivors
There was a case in Georgia a few years ago. As I remember it, the police were executing a no-knock warrant and busted down the wrong door. They found a (hetero) couple in violation of the state's sodomy law and arrested them.
Viburnum. Sheesh!
Thanks, wiki!
My Fuchsia wants to marry my Vibunum. I'm shocked.
There's a lot of loose living in your general vicinity, I see.
There are christianists who consider anything but straight missionary sex with one's official spouse to be "sodomy."
What a world they live in. Sex between two same-sex adults who may love each other is right out, but the mother-daughter thing is OK. That's just creepy.
From what I've seen of Craig's List, there's a lot of loose living everywhere.
Manimal?
Good morning.
Rushbo knows who David Ehrenstein is.
I'm tired of worrying about what's eating Chris Matthews. I'm tired of talking about the people who are nothing more than news readers with over inflated egos.
WHO CARES!!!!
We've made these poppin jays too important for nothing.
My Fuchsia wants to marry my Vibunum. I'm shocked.
plantsman
you need to have them genetically altered.
Morning, folks.
Nah. The cold the next few nights will prolly dispatch the fuchsia, anyway.
Damn. I opened the Jackson & Perkins catalog, after studiously avoiding it for several weeks. Was imagining gifts for GWPDA and FeralL.
Ooh, I remember. For those of you who plant "color pots", there is a wonderful spreading and trailing small plant from seed: Dichondra "Silver Falls" that's eggscellent!
Hi Moe! How's work been?
Huh.
Close calls like the one involving a New Jersey-bound jet from Halifax this week after an air controller mistakenly gave the pilot the radio frequency for the wrong airport are becoming far more common than people might think, experts say.
The error meant Continental Express Flight 2614, an Embraer 145 arriving from Halifax, and Continental Flight 536, a Boeing 737 from Phoenix which was also bound for Newark Liberty International Airport, came too close in the sky.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident, which took place Wednesday at 3:10 p.m.
"It’s really becoming a problem to be quite concerned with," said Joseph Gutheinz, an investigative consultant on FAA cases and a criminal lawyer in Houston.
"What we have now is . . . a situation where we’re going to have more and more of these near air incidents because the skies are too crowded. The pilots are just overwhelmed and the air traffic controllers are overwhelmed."
Experienced air controllers are retiring, "leaving inexperienced air traffic controllers dealing with far more congested airspace than we’ve ever seen before," said Mr. Gutheinz, a former U.S. military helicopter pilot.
He pointed to 16,000 pages of raw data recently released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that show flying may be far riskier than official statistics indicate. The $11-million survey of more than 25,000 pilots from 2001 to 2004 found that things such as engine failures, near collisions and bird strikes occur as much as four times more frequently than thought by the FAA.
Phil Gramm stumping for McCain. Wonder how that fits with his wife's so far escaping indictment for nonfeasance on the Bd at Enron?
Embraer, that's the Brazilian aerospace company I was trying to recall.
Morning, Marcellina. Work is great, actually. I've found just the perfect job for myself. I'm working on interesting projects, using my skills. And how are you? You get over that horrible thing yet?
There's a gorgeous dwarf weeping Canadian Hemlock in The J&P catalog, too!
Morning, rational people.
Moe's new approach to keeping us responsible to our environment, scaring us out of the air. I like it. And it's all true.
Phil Gramm. He's another booger I don't miss at all.
ql, She's going to Wilmington.
I'm so happy Moe is enjoying the job. That's great!
There's a gorgeous dwarf weeping Canadian Hemlock
I misread that. Good morning, all.
It's almost over, I'll go back to the doc on Monday and see if he'll write me up healthy.
Stayed home and played on the computer all week long. It wasn't so bad.
QL,
Did you try that woman in Philly for the brunch? The one who's name I sent you?
I never fly anyway--too broke.
I don't post much of what I write here anymore, because it's so local in nature. I'm working on some large projects, but in the meanwhile I publish a lot of snark, like this:
As of last week, visitors to City Hall are required to sign in at the front door, where they are issued badges that must be worn at all times in the building. Yep, City Hall, the people's building, is now a symbol of irrational fear. I'd give a lecture on democracy and public access, but those ideals evidently went out the window long ago.
There is, though, the pointlessness of the exercise: No one actually checks visitors' IDs, so what's being achieved, other than annoying the citizenry? The scheme just might scare off angry but otherwise upstanding people who are trying to get answers from City Hall. But any terrorists or squeegee kids or whoever it is we're supposed to be afraid of will simply sign a false name and proceed to plug up the toilets, or whatever.
And the unarmed commissionaires guarding the place are fine, worthy gentlemen, but---er, how can I put this?---their considerable wisdom and experience has come at the expense of physical dexterity. A determined disrupter, or my little sister, could make mincemeat of the lot of them.
Clearly, the only solution is to put armed guards, razor wire and suicide barriers around City Hall.
...a guy was boinking mother and daughter.
As Carla once characterized it to Sam, that's "pitching both ends of a double-header."
And Eschaton found out all about the health benefits of Elderflower tea, thanks to Marcelllina.
There's a gorgeous dwarf weeping Canadian Hemlock in The J&P catalog, too!
It's not really Canadian!
/meme
Diane posting about those ominous Super Delegates that may have more say in choosing a Dem candidate than all us voters, at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
dave™©,
You and I and Fez Boy: early risers club. I wake up at 5 AM, go to put up a post, and he's put up three already. And he's an hour behind me.
It's *painfully* slow-growing, so it could occupy a favorite pot for years and years.
Hello peoples.
And more seriously:
Sunday school
Ultimate decision-making at Saint Mary's University---including final say on university budgets, tuition rates and hiring---relies in part on the approval of the Catholic Church. It's a state of affairs that doesn't sit right with Mark Mercer, a professor of philosophy at the school. "This should be a secular institution," he says.
SMU was founded by Catholics and run by the Jesuit order until 1970. In that year, however, SMU became a publicly funded university and lost most of its formal ties to the church. But the University Act of 1970, which governs SMU, kept some historic associations: The Archdiocese of Halifax still appoints three voting members to the Board of Governors and the Jesuit order appoints a fourth.
The Archbishop himself---the Catholic Church prohibits women from holding the position---served as Chancellor of the University until last year, when, citing time constraints and the increasingly public nature of the job, then-Archbishop Terrence Prendergast asked that his role be downsized. The Archbishop now acts as the "Visitor to the University," which is a fifth Catholic-appointed board member, out of 33 total.
There are a handful of other Catholic oddities at SMU---board meetings begin with a prayer, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a university holiday and a wooden magi display (with a pale-faced Balthasar, points out Mercer) appears on the lawn each Christmas season....
Other local universities have similar religious ties. Five board members at Mount Saint Vincent University are appointed by the (Catholic) Sisters of Charity. Six board members at University of King's College are appointed by the Anglican Church. At Dalhousie University, a single seat allocated to the United Church of Canada has sat vacant for at least ten years, by mutual assent....
[more at link]
Watching "Superbad" on demand.
"Vagtastic Voyage?"
It's not really Canadian!
Oy. That incident yesterday was enough to tide us over for the next several...years.
Moe -- that's terrific (both the job news and the city hall snark).
As Carla once characterized it to Sam, that's "pitching both ends of a double-header."
It gets really hard when you do it all in the same day.
It's SuperBad.
Watching "Superbad" on demand.
It's no 40 Year Old Virgin, that's for sure.
res, I'm hesitant to go ahead with a place sight unseen. It looks like we're going to go ahead with the Marathon Grill. It's not too far away from the hotel and the price seems to be okay. The other place I checked can't accommodate us. It should be firmed up today or Monday.
That incident yesterday was enough to tide us over for the next several...years.
By which time you should be out of Turkish prison?
res, I'm hesitant to go ahead with a place sight unseen.
I think they only have brunch at one of their five places and I saw that one. It's fine. But it's up to you.
I'm due for a dose of Irish Drug Mafia in Veronica Guerin this weekend.
I greatly preferred 40YOV to Superbad.
Moe, our local schools are spending about a million to add 'vestibules' to all our schools, for screening visitors.
It's no 40 Year Old Virgin, that's for sure.
I like this kid in the movie -- the one who was in "Juno," too. He's very appealing.
I greatly preferred 40YOV to Superbad.
No comparison.
Though I did like McLovin.
They teach non-football-related courses at St. Mary's?
It gets really hard when you do it all in the same day.
Or really soft
I had to go to the court building yesterday to pull a lawsuit. It's quite amusing: the queen is suing herself.
You and I and Fez Boy: early risers club.
Well, it's the cats - they usually wake me up around now for a little pre-breakfast snack.
I try to go back to bed, but sometimes I don't make it... but I'm gonna do it now!
Hasta la vista, baby!
res,
Michael Cera? The one who was in Arrested Development?
Though I did like McLovin.
Yes -- but my favourite scene was that painful rendition of "These Eyes".
Michael Cera is awesome.
It's fine. But it's up to you.
res ipsa loquitur
Well, if I had known you had seen it, that would have been a whole different kettle of fish.
All this pressure, I don't know if I can take it.
Moe, our local schools are spending about a million to add 'vestibules' to all our schools, for screening visitors.
Ruth
Just think what a million bucks would get you in conflict resolution programs, or breakfast.
They teach non-football-related courses at St. Mary's?
SteveNS
Hey now! Don't be dissing Mrs. Moe's school...
I'm resisting my sleep/wake cycle slipping even farther back. Most days I force myself to stay abed until Midnight.
Molly,
Did you see "Once?" A friend of mine is raving about it. It's on-demand, too.
to ratify any constitutional amendment you need 2/3 of the states approval. there's no way in hell either of the huckster's amendments would ever pass.
res,
I haven't, but it looks interesting. I'll check it out.
Vonage, after nearly being snuffed out in some legal snafu, is back without silly ads.
SteveNS, here's something you might appreciate...
For some reason we're all proud of Ellen Page, even though 99.9 percent of all Haligonians have done exactly nothing to advance her acting career. We may as well be proud of the fog, or of gravity, which we also have nothing to do with. Still, Page is likable enough and Juno is a passable light-hearted comedy. (Except, where did they hide all of Minneapolis's black people? It's 2008. Can't black people be in the movies?)
But after Page appeared on the David Letterman show, forgivable small-town boosterism morphed into excruciatingly painful provincialism, as CBC Information Morning hosts Don Connolly and Elizabeth Logan pestered everyone and their brother---including premier Rodney MacDonald---to draw up "top ten" lists of why Letterman should visit Nova Scotia. The lists themselves have now become international news.
This need for outside validation is embarrassing. It does, however, explain much of the local political scene: Hosting the Commonwealth Games would "put Halifax on the map," a mega-concert on the Common is just the thing to show off Halifax as "a world class city." And on and on.
But here's the thing: Actual grown up cities don't need to be told they're grown up.
Molly,
Yes. I didn't see one episode of "Arrested," so I didn't know he was in it. He must have been a little kid?
QL,
I think the one that serves brunch is called "Loie," right? I saw that one. The only one of their places I didn't see was 'Drinkers."
Just think what a million bucks would get you in conflict resolution programs, or breakfast.
Oy, don't get me started. We know that breakfast programs actually work, yet they come under attack every year. I just don't get it.
res,
He was maybe 13-14 in Arrested Development. He's probably 18 or so now.
As a gay person, you try to tell yourself the Amendments wouldn't be ratified -- but you're still afraid they might be.
Hey now! Don't be dissing Mrs. Moe's school...
Sorry, instinctive reaction. I went to Mount A., which has a legendarily bad sports program.
I think the band could outplay the football team.
res -- Arrested Development is definitely worth checking out. It's hilarious.
The GOP and Hating on Minorities have held sway for several years -- but there's evidence that's fading.
As a gay person, you try to tell yourself the Amendments wouldn't be ratified -- but you're still afraid they might be.
As a straight person with even a shred of empathy, I'm horrified that people can even consider it.
As a gay person, you try to tell yourself the Amendments wouldn't be ratified -- but you're still afraid they might be.
No worries, plantsman. THe next president and congress are gonna be too busy trying to stave off the economic collapse of the country to be fucking around with marriage-related Constitutional amendments.
Sheets, but they're all leibnizzy.
to ratify any constitutional amendment you need 2/3 of the states approval. there's no way in hell either of the huckster's amendments would ever pass.
nona
I'm just afraid they'll call that requirement "quaint" like they did the Geneva Conventions, Forth Amendment, and FISA law and claim they don't really need to do that.
I can hear the arguments. That requirement was when we were only 13 States, now we're 50. It's too cumbersome and expensive. Besides, we know we all agree anyway. Just enough rubes out there to buy it.
In general, the last place the public would want the nominee selected is on the convention floor. In the heyday of the conventions, when the presidential candidates were selected in backrooms and on the floor, there were always rumors of vote buying and corrupt bargains for the nomination. Today, such events could fatally weaken the candidate in the public's eyes. The existence of super delegates would compound the problem.
The elected delegates, though virtually unknown, are at least selected by the voters and pledged to the candidate those voters chose. Most of the super delegates aren't chosen by the general populace, and they are not bound by the votes in their respective states. If they end up making the difference in the nomination -- especially if the winner came into the convention in second place -- there is a strong possibility of disenchanting a good portion of the party's base, potentially costing the party the election.
Exactly. Plus there's the horrid and hateful arguments that get raised in trying to ram the amendments through.
This need for outside validation is embarrassing. It does, however, explain much of the local political scene: Hosting the Commonwealth Games would "put Halifax on the map," a mega-concert on the Common is just the thing to show off Halifax as "a world class city." And on and on.
Totally agree.
It's kind of the way Canada in general tends to be, except moreso.
Canada is losing some of its need for external approval, but it's still there. And I hope Nova Scotia can get away from that mindset in short order. Makes me cringe.
Moe, they're going to be safe from breakfast! with those million dollar vestibules
oops, I screwed up (not enough decaf). I was referring to this quote from plantsman:
As a gay person, you try to tell yourself the Amendments wouldn't be ratified -- but you're still afraid they might be.
Simels regrets the error (but I still blame Eli).
"why aren't I good enough for you"-Kathleen Mathews to Tweety
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