HULK SMASH!!!
Single Arab Girl is my biggest concern.
comparing the polls in the primaries to the actual results, i get an estimate of about a 2-6% win for barack in nc, and a 8-12% win for hillary in indiana
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toid
INFLATE THIS COMMENT!
The other 53% are concerned about Britney Spear's snatch.
Inflation, where have you been so long?
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ifthethunderdontgetya wrote:
Wanker of the Day
Fred Hiatt.
-Atrios 14:17
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Congratulations, Fred. Yet another well-earned WOTD award for you.
You are truly a chickenhawk's chickenhawk. Donald Graham must spank himself each morning when he recalls the day he snatched your cowardly, lying self from the Washington Star.
~
(I despise that fuckwad. I try to just ignore it, but they keep drawing me back in!)
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No, you must be mistaken, Atrios. Americans only care about Rev. Wright. I heard David Gregory "joke" today that they'd get over that story around about August.
Hillary Clinton is on the phone.
No really. I suspect it's a recording.
I's heard that the economy was the most important issue, but not "inflation" ... I am skeptical
But if you strip out food and fuel, we aren't experiencing inflation.
Silly Americans.
Gosh bless all of those poll scientists that CNN employs.
Hillary Clinton is on the phone.
Check out Chelsea these days.
Off to dress for dinner and the symphony.
Which tux shall I wear tonight?
Later, gators
if by "inflation" you mean flagpins - then yes ...
Oh man, I just hate that 'the sky is falling' attitude.
If you don't include food and gas prices everything is just fine...... oh and that pesky mortgage thing too.
The price of wine has gone up...
You should probably strip out the cost of health care and college too.
I thought people want to know who white rural voters in Pennsylvania consider "electable."
I was sure that was still the #1 issue in America.
Would somebody give me a heads-up when the Derby is about to start, please?
That's because we all have to buy food and fuel, and both have skyrocketed.
The price of wine has gone up..
Esp. if you like imported, like, say, oh, French.
Hecate, hope you're having a lovely day 
People care about inflation because they've heard of it before and have a vague idea of what it is.
Talk about dying to take a shower....
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05...kbr-electrical/
fuck kbr
I have to admit that Hillary's chances have improved, both due to the tempest in a pulpit and the increasingly dolorous economy.
Still think Barack gets the top slot. I really hope they do the Dream Ticket thing. I think Barack has earned the top, but I don't care really who is the pres. candidate. Just want 'em to win.
I thought people want to know who white rural voters in Pennsylvania consider "electable."
I was sure that was still the #1 issue in America.
If I were an Obama supporter, I'd be temped to say that we've already, as Churchill noted, established that. All that we're arguing about now is the price. It's my curse to love snarking even more than my own side.
People care about inflation because they've heard of it before and have a vague idea of what it is.
JeffCO
Those of us older than my briefcase (i.e., older than 40) remember inflation real bloody well.
The Bush administration is anti-gun.
Why can't Madhi Army members keep their guns? It's Un-American for our troops to require Iraqi's to give up their guns!
Would somebody give me a heads-up when the Derby is about to start
Watch for Mary Tyler Moore tossing her cap into the air.
Those of us older than my briefcase (i.e., older than 40) remember inflation real bloody well.
Sure you're not thinking of stagflation?
Esp. if you like imported, like, say, oh, French.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Oh my, yes on occasion... they keep the good stuff for themselves. The grocery store French wines I try have been off.
BTW, nice Tarot deck on the Chelsea link
Hecate, hope you're having a lovely day
Sallyh! G/Son is off visiting his other grandparents. They totally deserve a chance cuz they don't get to see him nearly as often as I do, but I still kind of miss him.
Talk about dying to take a shower....
Well, what is more important, to build a functioning aircraft carrier or to protect our soldiers from accidental death?
Ql, I never knew about your experience on 9/11. When did you finally get your ankle treated?
In this picture, Chelsea looks a lot like my daughter, except my kid's even better looking. And no, I'm not linking to her picture, so fuggedaboudit.
I guess that I'm younger than RMJ's briefcase. The things I learn here...
I really do care who is elected and I do not want another Clinton. She would be a disaster. I am tired of all this 'let's us all just get along'
That's what got us here in the first place.
Sure you're not thinking of stagflation?
JeffCO
I remember both.
Which tux shall I wear tonight?
The baby blue with velvet is always nice!
Hello, this is Hillary Clinton and I am calling on behalf of my campaign to ask for your vote in Tuesday's North Carolina primary. The election is extremely close and every vote will count. If you give me the chance to be your president, I will tackle our toughest problems head on, and make America work for everyone again. I will stand up and fight for America's hard working families. If you stand up for me on Tuesday, I will stand up for American families every day.
(the text of the Clinton call I just got).
nice Tarot deck on the Chelsea link
Isn't that gorgeous? If she ever puts that deck on sale again, I'm buying it. I have one of her gorgeous rosaries and I gave DiL a Bridget rosary by her when DiL was expecting. Worry beads.
Sure you're not thinking of stagflation?
I'll bet a buck he is.
So, who cares?
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Hecate, is that story about Churchill or George Bernard Shaw? Hmm... time to ask the Oracle, aka Google...
Bernanke needs to resign
Would somebody give me a heads-up when the Derby is about to start, please?
helena handbasket | 05.03.08 - 5:41 pm | #
Just wait for the whiff of glue...
(the text of the Clinton call I just got).
trifecta | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 5:46 pm | #
That's reasonable.
Does she go on to promise war with Iran?
marcellina
How long did that take you?
Marcellina
A long time.
But I really thought we were under attack, I was in shock from the ankle, and just kept trudging.
Kids & Mr. ql were home in Queens and there was no way for me to get there as traffic was closed off in that area of the city. My mom made me a chicken pot pie in the microwave and served it with Budwiser. My older girl made white russians and linguini al fredo herself, Mr. ql and her sister, figuring WWIII had just started and they might as well live it up while they could.
qlª | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 5:42 pm | #
TOW - Four weeks later. It was just a hair line fracture. Nobody thought it was broken cause I kept walking on it. We figured it was just a bad sprain. Never even got a cast.
David,
I always heard Churchill, but I'd be happy to be corrected if I've been telling it wrong all these years.
Well, what is more important, to build a functioning aircraft carrier or to protect our soldiers from accidental death?
leibniz♘☮ | 05.03.08 - 5:45 pm | #
They told the parents of the dead soldier that his son died when an 'electrical appliance' that he took into the shower shorted out!
Would somebody give me a heads-up when the Derby is about to start, please? - helena handbaske
ok ... now!
Mme. Wagstaff is off to the airport to collect my deranged MIL. I see another magical evening in my future.
The next year will be a contest between the forces of maximum last-minute banditry by the ruling crass versus the forces of boosting, floating and flogging an economy through an election and by some miracle retaining control of the money machine.
Inflation is just the offspring.
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The things I learn here...
Zap Rowsdower
Stagflation was no fun, especially when you had to inform your customers of price increases every few months.
I guess that I'm younger than RMJ's briefcase. The things I learn here...
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
Kindly remove yourself from my lawn lest I release the hounds; who are quite a bit younger than my briefcase, and not nearly so stuffed.
Would somebody give me a heads-up when the Derby is about to start, please? - helena handbaske
Start your engines ..... oh, oops. Wrong race.
MLB Wagstaff,
As someone who's very definitely not your attorney, my advice is to begin drinking LSRW heavily.
(On another note, I'm pleased at your rare weekend appearance here.)
my favorite churchill quote is his answer to an editor who "corrected" one of his speeches because he objected to churchill ending a sentence with a preposition, one of those meaningless "rules" of syntax that linguists deplore. churchill's reply?
"this is arrant pedantry, up with which i shall not put!"
.
The only way to whip inflation is with austerity. We can start by breaking the unions and welfare moms.
I'm rooting for Big Brown because I think it's time a Big Brown one something in this country for chrissakes.
"Hillary Clinton, Fairy Princess
Can we please stop pretending she has a plausible chance to win the nomination?
By Timothy Noah
Posted Friday, May 2, 2008, at 7:21 PM ET
"Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."
—former President Bill Clinton, Jan. 11, 2008. Clinton was criticizing Sen. Barack Obama's claim to have opposed the Iraq war more consistently than Hillary Clinton. This claim was, Clinton said, "the central argument for his campaign. 'It doesn't matter that I started running for president less than a year after I got to the Senate from the Illinois state senate. I am a great speaker, a charismatic figure, and I'm the only one who had the judgment to oppose this war from the beginning, always, always, always.' " (Click here for the video.)
Here's a rule I would like every political reporter, campaign official, TV talking head, and politician in the United States to follow. Go ahead and say, if you like, that Hillary Clinton retains a serious chance of winning the Democratic nomination. If you say this, however, you must describe a set of circumstances whereby this could happen. Try not to make it sound like a fairy tale.'
http://www.slate.com/id/2190556
WON not one.
Crap. I ruined it.
:-(
Ok, I must accomplish something today, so I'm walking away from the computer now. Really, I am.
Now.
Stagflation was no fun, especially when you had to inform your customers of price increases every few months.
jac
I can remember wondering if the price would be higher the next day when I saw something at the store I had no cash for.
Sometimes it was.
"Welfare Moms"? What is it...1985?
The things I learn here...
I had to come here to learn what "MILF" and "teabagging" meant.
I guess I'm more innocent than I thought.
It's 1975, and the next president is going to pay the cost for this. Cater redux.
My older girl made white russians and linguini al fredo herself, Mr. ql and her sister, figuring WWIII had just started and they might as well live it up while they could.
That's a great story.
I know that I've told the story before about how my boss decided no work was getting done anyway so he'd take us all to lunch. Only restaurant in the city open was the Palm, which was his least-favorite steak house. We all went there and, completely contrary to firm culture, ordered drinks with lunch, lots of drinks. The Palm waiters, Goddess bless Tommy, were all in their white jackets and acted as if nothing in the world were going on. Cemented my loyalty forever. I do not care if Sam & Harry's is quieter.
cater= carter
Ok, I must accomplish something today, so I'm walking away from the computer now. Really, I am.
But wait, computers were supposed to make us more productive!
We have turned our weapons on ourselves...
Some horses received flyers saying that the race is tomorrow.
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jac, if only we could give up eating. We'd save a lot.
Some horses received flyers saying that the race is tomorrow.
Y'all make me laugh. That's why I come here!
one of those meaningless "rules" of syntax that linguists deplore.
Rule of grammar. Invented by 19th century British grammarians, who were still so enamored of Roman rule they decided Latin was the perfect language, and since Latin syntax won't allow a sentence to end with a preposition, English syntax shouldn't.
Ergo....
(and why I don't think much of rules of grammar).
I guess I'm more innocent than I thought.
Southern Beale
Bukkake is not a Greek pastry!
What's the word from Guam? Anyone? Anyone????
I'm most worried about Repug election fraud.
MLS RIL,
I was just buying golf balls online, when I thought to see was hanging here.
Your advice for abundant lubrication will be observed strictly. Our table at Le Chat Noir will be ready at 7:00; my scotch will be served at 7:02.
It's 1975, and the next president is going to pay the cost for this. Cater redux.
leibniz
Whip
Inflation
Now
Ah, dinner is being served. Ciao bats.
The best way to tune up a car with loud exhaust is to repeatedly rev the motor past its maximum rpm for at least a half an hour.
At least that is how the moron next door tunes his car up.
If Jac is going to post Booker T & The MG's then I'm reposting my musical blogwhore. I think it's much better.
Am watching the old Moulin Rouge, the Mel Ferrar one.
Gah, Zha Zha Gabor's voice is grating.
OK that clearly did not work...
A musical blogwhore ....
MLB Wagstaff,
I think I am developing a taste for scotch.
You can blame Culture of Truth.
Skoal.
Hi, Hecate.
One site, a woman minister, cites Churchill; another, which seems to know a hell of a lot about Shaw, cites Shaw.
I don't know.
How is it, by the way, that people who think of themselves as "well informed" still deny, in public, the fact that the repigs stole two Presidential elections?
It's cause for must of us who were grownups the last time this happened, inflation was the most awful part. No justification for it, no control over it, just wild and unpredictible.
I first noticed its re-appearance some months back when the price of ordinary yellow mustard went from .59 to $1.19. No co-relating mustard blight of course. Sheer inflation.
OK, the "Single Arabs Online" adgirl should be wearing a burhka.
So no one else will realize what a smoking hot babe she is.
The best way to tune up a car with loud exhaust is to repeatedly rev the motor past its maximum rpm for at least a half an hour.
At least that is how the moron next door tunes his car up.
pigboy
Uh huh. And then he starts working on the "vintage" Harley
BTW, congratulations to Jay C. on his successful completion of the Brooklyn Half Marathon!
Whip
Inflation
Now
trifecta
Hint: lowering interest rates every quarter is NOT the way to do it.
Go Jay C!
Res, try the Lagavulin if you like peaty, smoky whiskeys; Macallen, if not; but my current fave is Highland Park.
The late Michael Jackson (not the singer) wrote several books on whiskey, and Highland Park he thought the best all around single malt. A man of taste.
E-mail subject line of the day:
"Best free pictures of your favorite celebrities"
Umm ... why would I want that?
Whip
Inflation
Now
The pins! Which we naughty highschoolers flipped upside down and it became NIM...
No
Immediate
Miracles
FYI, official post time for the Derby is 6:04 EDT...
Watertiger, I have to confess: I let my 2 year old granddaughter look at your blog. I've taught her to say 'bad people!' at all Republican photos.
I plan to continue to corrupt her.
People here post all the time about the "American People getting the government they deserve", or about how "stupid" Americans are for "electing" Bush two times..How self - defeating and elitist (aside from being factually incorrect) is that?
Uh huh. And then he starts working on the "vintage" Harley
racymind | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 5:58 pm | #
He's not that hip.... he's got a rocket bike he tunes up instead...
Here's a rule I would like every political reporter, campaign official, TV talking head, and politician in the United States to follow. Go ahead and say, if you like, that Hillary Clinton retains a serious chance of winning the Democratic nomination. If you say this, however, you must describe a set of circumstances whereby this could happen. Try not to make it sound like a fairy tale.
pigboy | 05.03.08 - 5:52 pm | #
barack starts consistently polling as losing to mccain in the overall count and state by state in an electoral vote estimate. hillary polling shows the opposite result. this, in fact, is where the polling is right now
in the remaining primaries after pennsylvania, where she ends up behind barack in the popular primary vote (excuding mich and pa) by about 1.8%, she manages to win enough votes to be ahead in the popular vote
if the barack is ahead in the pledged delegates, but hillary ends up ahead in the overall popular vote, how then do you figure out "the will of the democratic electorate"?
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Hi - just dropping in to suggest you click on the link, read the short article, and watch the video.
Thank me later.
http://www.tothepointnews.com/in...=3114&
Itemid=76
BTW, congratulations to Jay C. on his successful completion of the Brooklyn Half Marathon!
Huzzah!
In re grammar, where the hell is my copy of Fowler & Fowler? I haven't seen it in years.
I missed the Tapper idiocy, but I learned something: if you were born abroad, and a citizen by descent, you my be entitled to vote in your parents' last state of residence even if you've never set foot in the US.
Of course, most expatriates ain't brown, like the Guamicans.
How is it, by the way, that people who think of themselves as "well informed" still deny, in public, the fact that the repigs stole two Presidential elections?
That one is easy. If they admit the elections were stolen then their entire worldview crumbles. But if they write it off as "sore losers" and "Democrats whining," then they can cling to the false notion that our democracy still functions and we're not slaves to the corporatocracy.
jac, you sexy thing, I see you''re doing as well staying off the computer as I am.
I'm justifying it by doing some work as well. Or at least convincing myself I am
Hint: lowering interest rates every quarter is NOT the way to do it.
Trying to put toothpaste back into the tube.
Fifteen minutes till Derby, acc to National Pinko Radio...
Uh huh. And then he starts working on the "vintage" Harley
racymind
He's not that hip.... he's got a rocket bike he tunes up instead...
pigboy
Vintage Harleys are cool. "Vintage" Harleys can be the curse of affordable neighborhoods like mine... just every once in a while.
Clydesdale commercials crack me up.
I first noticed its re-appearance some months back when the price of ordinary yellow mustard went from .59 to $1.19. No co-relating mustard blight of course. Sheer inflation.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
IIRC, the basic attitude became: get you $$ now, because when the value goes down, you can offset the loss by having more.
Good times, good times....
As my friend the Kentucky Colonel once pointed out, why would you want to associate your product, a foaming yellow liquid, with draft horses?
Res, try the Lagavulin if you like peaty, smoky whiskeys; Macallen, if not; but my current fave is Highland Park.
The late Michael Jackson (not the singer) wrote several books on whiskey, and Highland Park he thought the best all around single malt. A man of taste.
David Derbes
Oban.
Apprentice to Darth H, brain bleach. Now.
True story: I saw a guy with a LOSE button on during the Ford administration. Told me it stood for "Lousy Officials Screwed up Everything."
"If you say this, however, you must describe a set of circumstances whereby this could happen. Try not to make it sound like a fairy tale."
pigboy |
But they can't because it IS a fairytale..
p.s., amy winehouse is a pop goddess
pls worship her at the pagan temple of your choice today!
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NBC Sports has two Cuban dissidents that worked in concentration camps under Castro who managed to escape and wager 35k on their favored horse.
Res, try the Lagavulin if you like peaty, smoky whiskeys; Macallen, if not; but my current fave is Highland Park.
I don't know what I like, yet. Of the stuff we tasted that night, I liked the smoother sort of creamier stuff.
Is that girly?
BTW, congratulations to Jay C. on his successful completion of the Brooklyn Half Marathon!
Hurrah!
(I've written a completely à propos topic paragraph for this fellowship. Dint think I could. But I did too.)
Leibniz, trying to put toothpaste back into the tube: I had a undergrad lab partner who tried to do it while tripping one time.
Not successful.
I see you''re doing as well staying off the computer as I am.
Sallyh
Been on and off. Clearing out what will become our new office - time to strip the wallpaper, repair the plaster, replace the trim, sand the floors, etc.
Jackson thought Oban was the best? Or, you're plumping for Oban?
(I may have misremembered...)
barack starts consistently polling as losing to mccain in the overall count and state by state in an electoral vote estimate. hillary polling shows the opposite result. this, in fact, is where the polling is right now
in the remaining primaries after pennsylvania, where she ends up behind barack in the popular primary vote (excuding mich and pa) by about 1.8%, she manages to win enough votes to be ahead in the popular vote
if the barack is ahead in the pledged delegates, but hillary ends up ahead in the overall popular vote, how then do you figure out "the will of the democratic electorate"?
.
Tacitus Voltaire
So we're back to 'electability'? This is where I came in.
After all, that premise has worked so well for us for so long....
jac, that sounds too much like work to me.
(round of applause to Jay C)
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MLS RIL,
You should thank CoT. Scotch is a very pleasant adult beverage. I cannot claim expertise-- Dewars or JW Red is just fine by me. Single malts are certainly nice, although Obans tastes to me like someone put out a cigarette in my drink.
BTW, just for the heck of it, here's my tri box:
Court Vision
Pyro
Big Brown
Sadly, no Derby for me this year, but my usual betting pals are up in Reno right now, and hopefully cashed in on at least one of the big exactas earlier...
res, it's only girly if you add an umbrella to it.
Yum Brands just fucked up the Kentucky Derby.
As my friend the Kentucky Colonel once pointed out, why would you want to associate your product, a foaming yellow liquid, with draft horses?
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Because everybody else already does? If you can't lick 'em, join 'em?
So we're back to 'electability'? This is where I came in.
After all, that premise has worked so well for us for so long....
Rmj, Bitter Theologist | 05.03.08 - 6:04 pm | #
what about this part:
if the barack is ahead in the pledged delegates, but hillary ends up ahead in the overall popular vote, how then do you figure out "the will of the democratic electorate"?
.
I missed the Tapper idiocy, but I learned something: if you were born abroad, and a citizen by descent, you my be entitled to vote in your parents' last state of residence even if you've never set foot in the US.
That's really interesting considering a Tennessee legislator wants to force Congress to take away the citizenship rights of the children of illegal aliens born here ....
Jackson thought Oban was the best? Or, you're plumping for Oban?
(I may have misremembered...)
David Derbes
I'm pimping Oban. Damn fine whisky.
dave, I have declined to stay out of the betting pool at work this year, but I hope some of my colleagues don't lose their shirts.
Some of these hats are truly revolting.
trying to put toothpaste back into the tube: I had a undergrad lab partner who tried to do it while tripping one time.
Oddly enough, it doesn't work also with ejaculate.
Why aren't the rich people being heckled at the derby? Why?
I went to Trader Joe's for the first time today. That place is crazy. I think I'm better off making one trip per year there.
What kind of anti-American bullshit is this? They stand for "My Old Kentucky Home"? No National Anthem?
Commies!!! I want flag pins!!!
"If they admit the elections were stolen then their entire worldview crumbles. But if they write it off as "sore losers" and "Democrats whining," then they can cling to the false notion that our democracy still functions"
But Southern Beale, I'm talking about liberals, people who post here on a regular basis, who still fall into the trap of conferring legitimacy on the Bush Administration, while denigrating their fellow Americans, the majority of whom voted against Bush, twice. This just sets the stage for the Repigs to steal it again, this time installing McCrazy.
p.s., electability
...does have its merits, so i have heard. and the superdelegates are, ahem, politicians
.
"Girly" and "scotch" does seem an odd combination.
I am suppressing a vision of my poodle drinking from the toilet though...
Res, try the Lagavulin if you like peaty, smoky whiskeys; Macallen, if not; but my current fave is Highland Park.
Laphroaig is the ONLY single malt.
Though I have something at home that isn't bad (but it's been in the pantry so long I can't remember what it is).
I don't care if it's girly. I just want to know if it is.
Why aren't the rich people being heckled at the derby? Why?
I'm sure they probably are. The po' folk are in the infield. The rich folk are in the boxes.
I've written a completely à propos topic paragraph for this fellowship
That's the difficult part; it'll be easy coasting from here on in.
I don't know what I like, yet. Of the stuff we tasted that night, I liked the smoother sort of creamier stuff.
Probably the Speysides: Glenlivet, Macallan, Glenmorangie. They're excellent. You'll have to try a bunch. Dunno if d.b.a. is still going, but I have heard they have a splendid bunch of whiskeys.
Is that girly?
res ipsa loquitur
In my fairly limited experience, mostly men drink the peaty whiskeys, the Islays and all (Lagavulin, Laphroig, Jura), but everyone drinks the Speysides.
barack starts consistently polling as losing to mccain in the overall count and state by state in an electoral vote estimate. hillary polling shows the opposite result. this, in fact, is where the polling is right now
in the remaining primaries after pennsylvania, where she ends up behind barack in the popular primary vote (excuding mich and pa) by about 1.8%, she manages to win enough votes to be ahead in the popular vote
if the barack is ahead in the pledged delegates, but hillary ends up ahead in the overall popular vote, how then do you figure out "the will of the democratic electorate"?
Multiply 12 apples by 1.558 decibals per second and subdivide using Kahil Gibran's 3rd book page total then add the calories in a Starbucks caramel low-fat latte with whipped cream and subtract the Iraqui deaths to date.
if the barack is ahead in the pledged delegates, but hillary ends up ahead in the overall popular vote, how then do you figure out "the will of the democratic electorate"?
.
Tacitus Voltaire | 05.03.08 - 5:59 pm | #
With so many Repukes coming over to vote just to get Clinton in office and the right wing attack machine running full steam ahead and the 'msm' aiding and abetting the party line. I cannot trust what I am being told anymore. I think Obama has far more support than is being admitted to.
A great bumper sticker:
Bipartisanship:
I hug your elephant.
You kiss my ass.
I think they should change the tradition and replace 'My Old Kentucky Home' with 'Fugue for Tinhorns'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G...h?
v=G6djgavbp7c
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I like Hillary. I could vote for Hillary in November. But I really believe that we will be better served if Barack gains the nomination. I believe (and have absolutely no proof of this) that Barack will have very long coat tails. With an energized electorate we will kick some neocon ass.
But Southern Beale, I'm talking about liberals, people who post here on a regular basis,
Same rule applies. People can cling to the notion that our democracy still functions. Admitting it was stolen means admitting a whole lot more is wrong with our country.
BTW, I am not aware of any liberals, esp. folks on this blog, who contest the notion the election was stolen.
Echidne, I like.
Made your pulla yesterday...OMFG.
Heavenly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=i...feature=related
about the Chinese/Tibetan world-reknown pop singer Dadawa
Southern Beale,
I am surprised they haven't painted flags on the horses' asses.
Made your pulla yesterday...OMFG.
Heavenly.
You did? I'm so glad. It stays good for quite a while and then you can make French toast out of it.
Bipartisanship:
I hug your elephant.
You kiss my ass.
Echidne
WANT!!! WANT NOW!!!!!
ProfWagstaff, that's because the horses' asses are already wearing lapel pins.
I am surprised they haven't painted flags on the horses' asses.
Are any of them Arabians?
Echidne, my house smelled divine for hours on end. Monsieur liked it because the sweetness was very, very subtle.
Professor Derbes,
d.b.a. is still d.b. on First Avenue.
It was Glenlivet. We tried three different ones: 12YO, 15YO, and 16YO. I was too drunk to try the 21YO, although I realize I should have skipped the 12YO and waited for that.
Are any of them Arabians?
"It's Al Kayda by a nose!"
With so many Repukes coming over to vote just to get Clinton in office
Oh, grow up. The "your candidate sucks and is only ahead because Republicans are voting for him/her shit gets just incredibly old.
The only bumper sticker I have reads:
"By this time my lungs were aching for air"
p.s., electability
...does have its merits, so i have heard. and the superdelegates are, ahem, politicians
.
Tacitus Voltaire
Kerry was chosen for that trait. Yeah, "electability" is precisely how we should choose a candidate.
And unless Clinton is seriously leading in the popular vote, why should that outweigh the delegate count? Because the Dems never should have gone to proportional allotments? Because the polls that show McCain leading Obama are meaningless? Just saw a poll where voters were shown the Dem ad on McCain and '100 years in Iraq.' The majority who saw the ad turned against him.
No one is paying attention right now, and as Frank Rich said, with no one attacking him and nothing to do but run unopposed, McCain can't crack 45% (or 47, MOE) in national polls. Hillary was winning by 20% before the first Dem primary. Campaigns change things.
"Electability" is a chimera, an illusion, a mirage. Pursue it at your own risk.
. I was too drunk to try the 21YO
No flirting!!!
SHOOP!
Damn...it wasn't the Salt N' Peppa version.
The fun thing for retailers was double-digit inflation in an era before barcodes. They'd put these little price stickers on everything. With prices rising all the time, everything would have to be reprices by hand. If the stuff stayed on the shelf for long enough it might collect two or three sets of stickers. Then, like an archeologist, a customer could peel away the stickers to see what the price history of the item was. Sometimes you could cheat and peel off the most recent sticker to get the previous price.
Sallyh,
Congratulations. I wondered who would pick up the straight line the quickest,
Addict Online | 05.03.08 - 6:08 pm | #
pigboy | 05.03.08 - 6:08 pm | #
if the barack is ahead in the pledged delegates, but hillary ends up ahead in the overall popular vote, how then do you figure out "the will of the democratic electorate"?
any direct answers?
the popular vote total in all the democratic primaries is something that is yet to be arrived at, and when we get there, the number will be a fact, not an argument or snarky joke
.
Bipartisanship:
I hug your elephant.
You kiss my ass.
I would so put that on my car! Although the ones on watertiger's blog are pretty good, too.
"By this time my lungs were aching for air"
DON'T MOCK LLOYD BRIDGES, MOTHERFLETCHER!
The fun thing for retailers was double-digit inflation in an era before barcodes. They'd put these little price stickers on everything.
Try checking the sticker prices against what you get charged at the register. There are A LOT of errors. And oddly enough, they are always in the store's favor.
INTEGRATE A WASHETERIA!
(Just click the link and it will make sense.)
For most people inflation equals the price of gasoline.
DON'T MOCK LLOYD BRIDGES, MOTHERFLETCHER!
watertiger
I thought that was Peter Graves...
DON'T MOCK LLOYD BRIDGES, MOTHERFLETCHER! watertiger
Heh. Actually, I have a Tibetan flag, a DFH, and an "Enough Is Enough: Vote Democratic!"
Bob Black Jack.
That's the difficult part; it'll be easy coasting from here on in.
'Enkew. I think so too - only three pages are required anyway. Particularly since I fell into the pool this morning, subsequent activities were some deal.
good evening. i have lupines. i am very happy. what's shakin wit U?
The filly
Just finishing up the first season of MST3K - they really did say that a lot.
DON'T MOCK LLOYD BRIDGES, MOTHERFLETCHER
Ever seen a grown man naked? Do you like gladiator movies?
I thought that was Peter Graves...
That was the Prez Bush remake on the aircraft carrier where the banner said "Mission Implausible".
Matlock!
Dammit, that was Peter Graves. Lloyd Bridges was the stoned one. (like I should know this)
I have a Tibetan flag, a DFH, and an "Enough Is Enough: Vote Democratic!"
I have a G/Son who sleeps in a DFH t shirt, a Hillary Clinton for President sign in my yard, and an "Impeach, Convict, Hand Over to the Hague" bumper sticker. And a button that says, "George Bush couldn't manage a laundromat," bought before Sandra Day and her Gang of Four selected him.
i have lupines
Do they make medication for that, CD?
GWPDA,
Did Arthur push you?
The John McCain video on the home page is freaking me out.
For most people inflation equals the price of gasoline.
Alvord
and seeing how this is the Land of Sprawl and Plenty of Driving (Everything), they'd be right. cf: today, i purchase a large supply of organic fertilizer. i checked the "shake n feed" miracle grow type's prices, and they, being made in part from petroleum, are 4 dollars more per container than last year. heckuvajob, chimpy!
The price of wine has gone up...
Like beer is cheaper?
i have lupines
You are lucky, then. They don't do well here because of the heat.
i'm a few posts behind, but when mccain says shit like, '
“No, I was thinking about- it’s not hard to- we will not,” McCain stumbled. “By eliminating our dependency on foreign oil, we will not have to have our national security threatened by a cut off of that oil. Because we will be dependent, because we won’t be dependent, we will no longer be dependent on foreign oil. That’s what my remarks were.”'
i want to puke. if he can show me or anyfuckingbody 1 thing he has done legislatively that promotes (other than some bandaid political fucking cover thing) alternative fuels i'll buy his bullshit.
otherwise, he can blow simels...
Look, I happen to know this is the lupine express.
i have lupines
It's like having a wart on your neck in the shape of Wolf Blitzer.
Dammit, that was Peter Graves. Lloyd Bridges was the stoned one. (like I should know this)
Barndog, not fishing dammit
Looks like Barndog picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue
I have a Tibetan flag, a DFH, and an "Enough Is Enough: Vote Democratic!"
I have "Make Levees Not War," A blue dot in a red square and "What the hell were you thinking?" with the W that looks like the Bush campaign logo.
whoa. In that McCain ad running just below this post, is that McCain or Gomer Pyle, USMC?
GO BIG BROWN!!!!
GO BIG BROWN!!!
Last year I weeded the nettles from the local park and made fertilizer out of them. Worked fantastic, except for the smell.
otherwise, he can blow simels...
By which you mean, of course, again.
The race started.
Isn't "Inflation" one of those words that is banned from use? Never to be whispered again?
Sort of like "Cost of Living Increase" is pretty much banned in modern businesses.
Bob Black is beating Big Brown.
Irony.
You are lucky, then. They don't do well here because of the heat.
Echidne
Depends on the lupine, I guess.
'Cause the state flower of Texas is the bluebonnet, and it's a lupine.
'Course they're gone by now, because of the....er...heat....
is that McCain or Gomer Pyle, USMC?
I believe Jim Nabors died, so it's McStain.
HERE COMES BIG BROWN!!!!!!!!!!!
BD, you go ahead and mock me, when my towering spires of bi-color joy arise from the glade, you will gnash your teeth and pull your long, DFH hair with envy. and i won't make medication from them, but perhaps a perfume or nice cut-flower display for the table.
GO BIG BROWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WINNAH!!!!!!!!
Holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only ads I see are battling nurses.
Last year I weeded the nettles from the local park and made fertilizer out of them.
If you have arthritis and weed them w/out gloves, you'll be sore for a few days and pain-free for a couple of weeks. I also made a tea from nettles.
Paul: Not ready to endorse McCain, likes Obama's foreign policy
(CNN) — Even though Rep. Ron Paul has never officially ended his long shot presidential bid, he’s ready to weigh in on the three remaining major candidates for the White House.
In an interview on The Situation Room, Paul told Wolf Blitzer that endorsing Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, “would really confuse” his supporters “because they know we have a precise program and we have to defend that program.”
(snip)
Instead, Paul favors Sen. Barack Obama because of positions on foreign policy. “But that’s doesn’t mean that’s an endorsement,” Paul quickly added.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn...foreign-policy/
Darn. Missed heads exploding by *that much*.
hi, hecate. [fawning]
indeed...
THE BIG BROWN ONE BY 5 LENGTHS!
Oops - live tv.
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Bob Black is beating Big Brown.
Irony.
Southern Beale
I assume Pasty Old White Guy is in the rear.
Big Brown Wins!!!!!
If you have arthritis and weed them w/out gloves, you'll be sore for a few days and pain-free for a couple of weeks.
The old treatment for nettle sting is to spit on it and then rub sand on the spit. It works.
Looks like a triple crown.
With union membership at an all time low and employee bargaining strength nearly nonexistent, inflation becomes the way Republicans tax the middle class.
It is a race to the bottom.
Hecate - yes, I hate the feel of nettles sticking in my hands and such... but I do feel better afterwards.
Funny, that. Just like hornet stings - hurts for a minute then, the pain goes away.
i'm a few posts behind, but when mccain says shit like, '
Yeah, I'm still trying to figure that out. We're going to mandate all cars run on nuclear generators? Solar cells? Foot power?
And our electricity be generated by burning trees? Coal? Because unless he plans to outright ban the use of petroleum as fuel, that statement makes no sense whatsoever.
'Course, he didn't say we'd fight a war in Irag for 100 years, either; except he did.
THE BIG BROWN ONE BY 5 LENGTHS!
No flirting!
I wonder of Woot will get fined for the boobie?
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Oh no, a horse is down!!!!!!!!
Bob Black is beating Big Brown.
Always bet on Bob Loblaw.
Ah, shit it's te filly.
A horse is down on the field. What the hell happened?
BD, you go ahead and mock me, when my towering spires of bi-color joy arise from the glade, you will gnash your teeth and pull your long, DFH hair with envy
So, I should be glad the wife didn't dig up those blue columbines for you then?
Hecate - yes, I hate the feel of nettles sticking in my hands and such... but I do feel better afterwards.
Funny, that. Just like hornet stings - hurts for a minute then, the pain goes away.
Letting ants sting you is also a folk treatment for arthritis.
And unless Clinton is seriously leading in the popular vote, why should that outweigh the delegate count?
if she is leading in the popular vote, then more democrats will have voted for her than for barack. the delegate count would then not reflect the will of the people.
"Electability" is a chimera, an illusion, a mirage. Pursue it at your own risk.
Rmj, Bitter Theologist | 05.03.08 - 6:12 pm | #
nevertheless, professsional politicians like the superdelegates will definitely take their estimate of electability into account, no matter how we feel about it
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eight Bells is down.
So what do I get for picking one out of three?
Letting ants sting you is also a folk treatment for arthritis
Ants (I assume fire ants or, some variant) - never did that to me.
The fire ant bite I got in South Carolina made my foot swell enough, that I couldn't get my flight boots on over it for 3-4 days.
This was back in circa 1982 A.D.
Yes the filly, she collapsed. They've 'called the equine ambulance.
echidne,
I have heard that about ants. They won't sting me for some odd reason. But the nettles will!
Poor thing. She ran her heart out.
She ran too hard. Bred for speed, no endurance.
I think there are two horses hurt.
So what do I get for picking one out of three?
You've already got the pot to piss in, dave™©.
I think jack squat. Unless, you filed a bet slip.
Ants (I assume fire ants or, some variant) - never did that to me.
The one I heard about was about the usual kinds of ants. You are supposed to stick the sore limb into the cone they build. They will then obligingly sting you all over.
Letting ants sting you is also a folk treatment for arthritis.
The Iceman, that 5,000-yr-old-mummy discovered in the alps, has a number of small tattoos on him. Medical tests done on the body found that he has suffered from arthritis precisely where he had the tattoos — they are believed to have been a kind of treatment.
that philly bucked his jockey now she's down and injured on the track.
She broke two front ankles, they had to euthanize her.
Poor thing.
Euthanized.
Goddess E- that's what i bought today. made from ground up, dried "vetch" and other nitrogen rich plants. my books are tellling me a couple of things about cheap/free ways to have lots of N-P-K in your garden beds, and the bottom line is that there is no better fertilzer than dying plants. grass clippings are another, near as good or better than manure, way to enrich a compost pile or lasagna-bed. i'm also using a lot of leaf material; i took all the leaves from several neighbor's yards and piled them up last fall; now i have boatloads of free mulch and compost. yeah.
I have a Tibetan flag, a DFH, and an "Enough Is Enough: Vote Democratic!"
i am sighing with envy. you all must not be brown/black looking, nor butch-y dykes. i would love to have a rainbow flag, "free mumia" and sundry other DFH stickers on my car, but to me that feels like begging the cops to pull me over. instead, i keep my grandfather's "lifetime VFW member" plate (it was his before he died and left it to me) and a UChicago sticker on the car. so far, it's worked and i've not been pulled over for "driving while black."
dead horse for this garbage race
The filly is dead. Murdered on the track in plain sight.
Yes the filly, she collapsed. They've 'called the equine ambulance.
Southern Beale
They already killed her?
They breed these horses so their hooves are like twigs. She came in second and was immediately euthanzied. Damn, that is so fucked.
Damn.
I had an enlightening and entertaining talk with a drunken Paulista last night.
He said that none of Paul's supporters feel like falling in line behind McCain, and that they were probably all going to vote Bob Barr, or Mike Gravel, or whoever the libertarian candidate happened to be. Also that they would keep making trouble for the McCain campaign.
Not sure what to make of all of it, but if he's correct, Paul could be another Perot.
Broke both ankles.
Bred for speed, not endurance.
She ran too hard. Bred for speed, no endurance
Bad training, bad jockey.
They should shoot them instead of the horse.
dave™© - wife says depends on the way you bet.
I think jack squat. Unless, you filed a bet slip.
Sorry... it's an "in" joke.
What the fuck's with these horses going down like this? The artificial turf? The lack of seasoning? Bad training? Jeez...
Well that's a major buzzkill.
Filly is dead.
Euthanized so quickly? How?
They breed these horses so their hooves are like twigs. She came in second and was immediately euthanzied. Damn, that is so fucked.
I am not going to say it about 2000 because I would be banned.
What the fuck's with these horses going down like this? The artificial turf? The lack of seasoning? Bad training? Jeez...
Breeding. Their legs are spindles. Twigs.
I received this email recently:
We stopped eating a long time ago so inflation doesn't bother us either.
Signed
The People of Darfur and Haiti
Man the trainer is acting like a Grade A retard.
Scalia being interviewed by Timmeh ...
Says the hardest cases he's ever had to deal with had to do with the gov't contractor doctrine and (Hecate) FERC.
Euthanized so quickly? How?
Two front ankles broken. An unrecoverable injury.
Bless her heart.
Barndog, "
They should shoot them instead of the horse."
From the breeders to the owners to the trainers to the jockeys, they should be fined when they use up a horse.
Posted on it at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
Oh, no. How sad for the poor filly.
And why am I on the edge of crying about an animal I'd only heard of this weekend?
Damn. Just so sad.
Is this part of the genetic problem all these horses share from their common ancestor?
Well, now I'm totally bummed. Signing off.
Did Arthur push you?
No - Arthur's a benignant presence, not an old Nag.
Here's Alice Waters' Nettles Frittata
Nettles Frittata
Recipe by Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook
1 pound nettles
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
good extra virgin olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano
1/4 cup young pecorino or Sardo
6 eggs, lightly beaten
salt and pepper
Wash the nettles thoroughly WITH GLOVES ON, they will sting. Saute the onion in olive oil over medium heat (in a pan large enough to hold the nettles) until softened. Add a bit more olive oil, add garlic. Season with salt and cook a minute. Add nettles and turn the heat to high, cooking until nettles are wilted and most of the water they release has evaporated. Drain in a colander and then when cool, chop coarsely. Mix chopped nettles in a bowl with the cheese and about 1/4 cup olive oil. Add the eggs and season well. Warm 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large nonstick skillet, and pour in eggs and nettles mixture, cooking over medium-low until just set and starting to brown. Slide the frittata onto a plate and then invert back into the pan. Cook until done, about 13 minutes.
So is there a lesson we can take from this tragedy?
Man the trainer is acting like a Grade A retard
They usually are. I know some folks that breed and race harness horses.
Oh, grow up. The "your candidate sucks and is only ahead because Republicans are voting for him/her shit gets just incredibly old.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 6:12 pm | #
I didn't say that. You did. She ain't ahead not in delegates. And like it or not our party picks its candidate using elected delegates. Those are our rules. To start dismantling the rules because we are afraid that the candidate does not meet the 'electiblity' standards of a nutcase MSM undermines everything we stand for. Making up rules to select the proper candidates is wrong. Going along with the 'reverend wright is a big unshakeable problem' media is wrong. They create a crisis and if you listen to them you get another Bush in office.
So sad about the filly. Makes me cry.
i've not been pulled over for "driving while black."
I've seen FSM stickers here. Lots of rainbow stickers. Obamas everywhere. Incredibly rare to see anything Bush-related that isn't critical.
Not sure what to make of all of it, but if he's correct, Paul could be another Perot.
¡El Gato Negro!
I was thinking earlier today that there is a certain 1980 vibe to this race. McCain's reprising Carter's "take your medicine" rhetoric, Obama is an obvious corollary to Reagan, Iraq is a much worse version of the hostages . . .
Paul, or Barr, could easily be the John Anderson.
No, I mean, did they give an injection or shoot her or what?
From the breeders to the owners to the trainers to the jockeys, they should be fined when they use up a horse
Amen, Ruth.
Dead horse on the field and pictures of people in hats and strapless dresses whooping it up. Not good.
A horse was killed today at the Kentucky Derby. This is a despicable abuse of an incredibly beautiful and gentle animal.
May those motherfuckers who engage in this barbarity rot in hell.
Big Brown is kind of a short horse.
that mccentury quote made me think that "grandpa didn't take all his medication today." sounds exactly like crap that comes out of some of my aging male relatives mouths on a bad day before coffee.
BD, you know you'll get all the lupine seeds you want when they come in at end of season. and i think for now, until you come get this pine mulch, you all need the columbine for ground cover. i would tease you about your weeds, but i know you'll have more maters than i will, so i'll just ask for some fish leftovers for my roses instead.
So is there a lesson we can take from this tragedy?
Shared Humanity
The breeding is at fault, and so is the run for the money.
Dead horse on the field and pictures of people in hats and strapless dresses whooping it up. Not good.
Neponset
They're bred not to care about anyone else.
(CNN) The veterans administration has requested it be allowed to euthanize veterans with at least two broken limbs, based on this year's Kentucky Derby. Justice Scalia, in speaking with Tim Russert, has said there is nothing in the constitution that would prevent this.
We've got lupine in SoCal. Just about past its bloom, as the weather is warming, but oh so lovely, especially when they contrast with the golden poppies.
And like it or not our party picks its candidate using elected delegates. Those are our rules
not actually, i think. the rule seems to be the candidate who gets (what is the actual number?) 2025 delegates total is the winner.
and barack is not going to get anywhere near that in elected delegates
it's clear that superdelegates are going to make the decision as to who is the winner in june
i would tease you about your weeds, but i know you'll have more maters than i will, so i'll just ask for some fish leftovers for my roses instead.
Some weed cleanup is necessary indeed. By the time they go in, and are mulched with straw - I'll have more tomatos than fucking Heinz.
Cows die every day, too, because of us.
I just warned my cousin this would happen.
Cows die every day, too, because of us.
Echidne
Not me. I just get cheese on my pizza.
I wonder how much insurance money the owner will get.
What the fuck's with these horses going down like this? The artificial turf? The lack of seasoning? Bad training? Jeez...
There was talk about how many of the horses today weren't used to racing on the kind of dirt they have at Churchill Downs.
But yeah, thoroughbreds are tightly-wound, fragile things.
the problem of our dependence on oil isn't something that the markets wil fix. when big oil is making zillions, what is their incentive to invest in alternative fuels?
instead of a windfall profits tax that is punitive in nature, i'd propose legislation which would give them some form of a tax break based on their investment in alternative fuels. the more they invest in them, the more breaks they get. win/win.
overly simplified, yet i suspect most folks in here get the premise...
i remember one time daschle proposing a simple plan of tariff reciprocity. in essence, the us would only tariff other nations equal to the amount they tariff us. in my simple mind i imagine that had it been implemented, the playing field would have equalized rather quickly.
just throwing things out there. be gentle...
Cows die every day, too, because of us
Pigs, chickens, turkeys, lamb, sheep...
Not to mention the ones we don't eat on a regular basis.
Not me. I just get cheese on my pizza.
Nor me, since the early 1980s.
Cows die every day, too, because of us.
Echidne
Not me. I just get cheese on my pizza.
Gomez
Dozens of cows die in auto accidents while delivering pizza every year.
It's just not widely reported.
No, I mean, did they give an injection or shoot her or what?
"They shoot horses, don't they?" really doesn't need the question mark.
Well, fuck, I'm glad I ducked out on the Derby this year...
Gruesome, they're going to run this race footage over and over. The network paid big money for the rights.
I'm off, too.
Not me. I just get cheese on my pizza.
Only way to eat pizza. Occasionally, I'll do vegetarian.
Dozens of cows die in auto accidents while delivering pizza every year.
It's just not widely reported.
jac
I can't tell you how many pizzas I've had to euthanize.
is there really a dead horse on the field?
o is there a lesson we can take from this tragedy?
Shared Humanity | M
ban horse racing? i had horses growing up, and i am appalled at what they racing kind must endure, all so the mob can stay rich and addicts can have their fix. it's disgusting. horses don't deserve the horror they suffer to be "great racers." it's evil
El Gato, i am feeling a moment of bitterness. no one paid any fucking attention to me when i was on my "let's encourage the paulites" crusade so months back. indeed, i recall a couple group emails i got from people in response to that idea, mocking me for thinking that his followers could be significant. /kicks can/ no one ever listens to me, even when i'm right. pout.
A horse
did the course
paid the worst
from the whores
and the scores
mighty dollar
betting parlor
rot in hell
at the bell
human fell
the
death
knell
Dozens of cows die in auto accidents while delivering pizza every year.
I thought the pizza delivery dude was strange looking.
Watertiger, sadly, yes. A filly.
is there really a dead horse on the field?
watertiger
Even worse, a filly.
Ack!
Refreshed the page and I'm stuck with one of those idiotic battling nurses ads, not the hot arab babe.
Thankfully I didn't see it, but euthanization of a horse is usually administered via a shot, in this country at least.
I thought the pizza delivery dude was strange looking.
Sallyh
The land sharks are the worst.
no one ever listens to me, even when i'm right. pout
Bullshit.
Now go have your fucking steaks and burgers, America murders...
I can't believe they'd discharge a firearm around all those people.
The land sharks are the worst.
Does this mean I need to watch myself around you?
no one ever listens to me, even when i'm right. pout.
chicago dyke | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 6:39 pm | #
listens all the time, yes. responds all the time, no...
Churchill Downer.
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I wonder how much insurance money the owner will get.
annie
ZOMG! Britt Hume is posting here now!
I can't believe they'd discharge a firearm around all those people.
Might harsh the mood.
euthanization of a horse is usually administered via a shot, in this country at least
Not like most large livestock slaughterhoses, where they run an air-driven bolt through the skull of cows, and pigs.
A far jump up from hanging them live, and slitting their throats. But, not much.
Does this mean I need to watch myself around you?
Sallyh
d.b.a. is still d.b. on First Avenue.
It was Glenlivet. We tried three different ones: 12YO, 15YO, and 16YO. I was too drunk to try the 21YO, although I realize I should have skipped the 12YO and waited for that.
res ipsa loquitur
Hiya, Res.
If you can find it, you want Gordon and MacPhail's Glenlivet. There is a wonderful essay on whiskey in general and Glenlivet in particular by John McPhee, in "Pieces of the Frame". The essay is called "Josey's Well".
The Gordon and MacPhail Glenlivet is probably the best whiskey I have tasted, and I've had plenty. Typically $65-$70 the bottle (so there are many more expensive.) I have about five fingers left, saving it for election night. One way or another I'll want it.
i remember one time daschle proposing a simple plan of tariff reciprocity. in essence, the us would only tariff other nations equal to the amount they tariff us. in my simple mind i imagine that had it been implemented, the playing field would have equalized rather quickly.
There's an interesting history to this, nicely documented by Weisman in "The Great Tax Wars". Before the government got ahold of the great tit of income tax, a majority of its income was from tariffs. And battles were fought over who got to import what (cotton, rum, etc.) at what cost. A lot of these "free trade" agreements strike me as screwing over consumers while enriching a few multi-national corporations. Free trade my ass!
Not like most large livestock slaughterhoses, where they run an air-driven bolt through the skull of cows, and pigs.
Call it, friendo.
Well, Hillary urged people to bet the filly. Big Belle broke her ankles as a result of the stress of running against "Big Brown," and had to be put down out of her misery.
Very symbolic. I guess Hillary's going down in flames.
Now go have your fucking steaks and burgers
Sure. I help raise, feed and care for the animals I eat. Someone else (hand selected) does the rest.
and barack is not going to get anywhere near that in elected delegates
it's clear that superdelegates are going to make the decision as to who is the winner in june
Tacitus Voltaire | 05.03.08 - 6:35 pm | #
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Here is the current count. Barack is ahead. There is no way that Hillary can get more than Barack at this time.
Barack Obama
Pledged: 1491
Superdelegates: 243
Total: 1,734
Hillary Clinton
Pledged: 1332
Superdelegates: 265
Total: 1,597
My family was watching the race, and stunned by what happened to Eight Belles. Simply awful.
Beautiful animals, horses.
Gruesome, they're going to run this race footage over and over. The network paid big money for the rights.
Derby Day is kind of the St. Patrick's Day of horse racing. All the amateurs come out.
Real horse racing types will at least be subdued by a breakdown after the race. The announcement that a horse was put down usually casts a pall over the proceedings (until the next race, at least).
An on-field euthanization? That's tough.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008...ults/scorecard/
Not like most large livestock slaughterhoses, where they run an air-driven bolt through the skull of cows, and pigs.
"I need you to stand perfectly still."
We're not skinny, little, pale, fucking tree huggers anymore.
http://www.adaptt.org/athletes.html
You can be strong and not because of animals.
Would you kill a man with two broken ankles?
I suspect this might be harshing my mother's KD party mellow. Probably her guests will just drink harder and faster.
Not like most large livestock slaughterhoses, where they r--
Yes, yes, we should all be vegetarians and you're a fucking saint. We get it.
'Bye now...
and i'm really tired from a long day in the garden, so just go ahead and add words to my posts so that they make sense.
Cows die every day, too, because of us.
Echidne
point taken. but my fam has raised cows and horses, and there is most assuredly a difference. cows can love you, if you are raising a show cow and spend time with it all day. but there's a reason why the bovine has long been a sacrificial animal in human cultures. sometimes you look at them and think, "do you even care your about to get your throat cut?" and they look back and chew their cuds as if it mattered not. compassion should be extended to all animals, but i doubt anyone has ever had the relationship a rider has with a work horse with a cow. i could be wrong. my pony was smarter than some people i've dated, i swear he knew exactly when he was going to be asked to do something he didn't want to do, and developed, let's say, very creative ways of refusing.
Not like most large livestock slaughterhoses, where they run an air-driven bolt through the skull of cows, and pigs.
And horses. People eat horse meat.
We're not skinny, little, pale, fucking tree huggers anymore.
Please blow simels. By which, of course, I mean again.
chicago dyke,
jour like cassandra, but with a happy ending!
p.s. I really don't think the Paulistas need any encouraging at this point, if that hombre last night was a typical specimen.
"I need you to stand perfectly still."
They call them "headgates." Locks their heads into a steel harness, and hold their bodies still on the sides with 'gates'.
no one ever listens to me, even when i'm right. pout.
chicago dyke
Au contraire. Us Chicagoans, even if we're transplants from New Orleans, have to stick together.
With so many Repukes coming over to vote just to get Clinton in office and the right wing attack machine running full steam ahead and the 'msm' aiding and abetting the party line. I cannot trust what I am being told anymore. I think Obama has far more support than is being admitted to.
pigboy
He does. Why do you think all those newly registered democratic voters are going to the polls? It ain't because of Hillary, unless it's in the negative sense..I still believe all this talk of electability is meant to inure us to the election results after they steal it for mcCrazy..
Would you kill a man with two broken ankles?
Depends. Is the man a warmongering asshole?
Inflation, that reminds me. Powerball is $179,000,000 tonight, gotta make a beer store run.
Please blow simels. By which, of course, I mean again.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Go have another drink, lush.
That guy with the number 1 looks like a skeleton, Elias.
Would you kill a man with two broken ankles?
I'd let him flip a coin first.
Would you kill a man with two broken ankles?
rose
Depends on whether I liked him or not.
An on-field euthanization? That's tough.
Racing is more a part of British culture -- off-track betting shops everywhere -- so I'm sadly familiar the whole 'up with the screens, out with the gun' thing.
Very very rare to have that happen on the flat (turf) though. I've been to Churchill Downs and I just don't like the slop that they race on.
Would you kill a man with two broken ankles?
1. Is he in Reno and 2. can I watch?
I'd let him flip a coin first
"Pick a card... any card."
Would you kill a man with two broken ankles?
Is he a Republican?
Ntodd shot a man with two broken ankles in Reno once.
Chidy, I wasn't planning to start a vegetarianism war and I quite agree that cows aren't quite as smart as horses. However, pigs are very smart, indeed. I had a pet pig as a child, or my brother had, and that pig sure was incredibly smart. It just seems to me that what happened to that poor filly isn't terribly unusual in the world of domestic animals.
Now go have your fucking steaks and burgers, America murders...
EliasX
Soylent Green is made of people!!!
Very symbolic. I guess Hillary's going down in flames. -Texaschilibean
queen, you chimp choking coward, you took an early break from the drive-thru to come post that? you are a miserable pissant
Here is the current count. Barack is ahead. There is no way that Hillary can get more than Barack at this time.
pigboy | 05.03.08 - 6:43 pm |
most likely. but:
1) if hillary is ahead in the popular vote in the end, she will have been voted for by more democrats than barack, and in that case the elected delegate count will not reflect the will of the majority of democratic primary voters, and
2) the rules of the democratic party do not say that the candidate with the most elected delegates is the winner.
when the voting is over, neither candidate will be officially the winner. the rules of the democratic party state that 2025 delegates votes are needed to nominate
.
Ntodd shot a man with two broken ankles in Reno once.
Just to watch him die.
Now go have your fucking steaks and burgers, America murders...
Thanks, I'm grilling some steak right now. In the midst of life, we are in death. And killing plant is "worse" than killing an another animal because . . . . ???????
You truly are a jerk.
He does. Why do you think all those newly registered democratic voters are going to the polls? It ain't because of Hillary, unless it's in the negative sense..I still believe all this talk of electability is meant to inure us to the election results after they steal it for mcCrazy..
Duane V, 'Nuff Said | 05.03.08 - 6:46 pm | #
Yep, tis the season of theft. Ring of Fire radio show was talking about that very subject. Voter Id, electronic voting machines, voter purges that are being prepaired in advance for the upcoming selection.
Anyway I am off. Everyone have a wonderful day.
Ntodd shot a man with two broken ankles in Reno once.
Just to give Johnny Cash a catchy lyric, too.
Ntodd shot a man with two broken ankles in Reno once.
jac | 05.03.08 - 6:48 pm | #
Just to watch him die?
"Gruesome, they're going to run this race footage over and over. The network paid big money for the rights."
Now the real question is how they will tie Rev. Wright into this?
Ntodd shot a man with two broken ankles in Reno once.
jac | 05.03.08 - 6:48 pm | #
Just to watch him die?
Franklin Furter III, H.D.
I thought it was fer snorin too loud.
Franklin, I do believe you owe me a fizzy beverage of my choice
Someone said Philly was more dangerous than Iraq. Hence the dead Philly. What?
Never mind.
John McCain is worried that Americans might get socialized medicine. That would be bad, seeing that HE has benefitted from SOCIALIZED medicine his entire life. The American people picked up the tab for his birth, since his father was an admiral, we continued to pay for all of his medical needs as a soldier and a veteran, and as a US Senator we are still paying for doctors to look up his butt.
I hope someone will ask him at his next rally, who pays for his medical treatments!!! When was the last time John McCain had to shell out a dime for medical attention???
If anyone in the world should be for SOCIALIZED MEDICINE it should be one of its biggest recipients.
"Gruesome, they're going to run this race footage over and over. The network paid big money for the rights."
Like the endless loop of Joe Theisman's leg adventure.
Now the Hillarites are using the fact that Obama has had to contend with a constant stream of negative propaganda from the MSM, the Repigs, and from Hillary herself (echoing the Repig talking points), in their hand - wringing about "electability". It's a joke.
Just to watch him die?
Franklin Furter III, H.D.
According to Sallyh. But AtDH disagrees.
"NTodd's Reason for Killing: Opinions Differ."
I do believe you owe me a fizzy beverage of my choice...
Actually, I made a very subtle allusion to that song a few posts before you... just saying...
John McCain is worried that Americans might get socialized medicine. That would be bad, seeing that HE has benefitted from SOCIALIZED medicine his entire life.
What if he breaks both ankles?
When was the last time John McCain had to shell out a dime for medical attention???
The usual answer would be - when he pays his taxes.
But, we all should know that they avoid that silly shit. That's for little people like us.
Not like most large livestock slaughterhoses, where they run an air-driven bolt through the skull of cows, and pigs.
Captive bolt pistol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Cap...ive_bolt_pistol
It's a gun, Michael Moore!
What if he breaks both ankles?
Put him down on the track with cameras rolling.
"SANCTIMONY!"
/Quasimodo
Trollminder, when your candidate makes a statement like that, you should expect she'll be hearing about it.
Although, judging by the links to McCain, I'm not sure who Duncan's supporting. I guess whoever pays the bills!
Over and out.
What if he breaks both ankles?
leibniz♘☮
---------------------
we pay for it. We've been paying to keep his pasty butt alive and well for 72 years.
I hope someone will ask him at his next rally, who pays for his medical treatments!!! When was the last time John McCain had to shell out a dime for medical attention???
Come sit over here by me.
"SANCTIMONY!"
/Quasimodo
"SERENITY NOW!!"
/Frank Costanza
Franklin, I do believe you owe me a fizzy beverage of my choice
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 05.03.08 - 6:50 pm | #
Well technically, I asked the question whereas you made a statement. But since you are a female, and I'm very lonely, and I'm about to make a beer store run to get lottery tickets, I'll spring for your fizzy of choice. Technically, technicalicaties aren't that important anyway.
Over and out.
The fucktard continues to demonstrate his ignorance of RTP.
"SANCTIMONY!"
/Quasimodo
"SERENITY NOW!!"
/Frank Costanza
I want patience, and I want it NOW!
What if he breaks both ankles?
Heh.
technicalicaties
I like this word.
Scalia: People that criticize the florida decision don't know what's actually in it.
Russert: What was in it.
Scalia stumbles around for a bit then finally says "get over it"
So, people are pissed because they don't understand the decision and when asked to explain it, he can't.
Finally he says we needed to put an end to it, we were the laughing stock of the world. Which is different from today how exactly? Can we just end W's presidency because the rest of the world is horrified? What an idiot.
Oh, this sucks. The arab babe is NOT coming back...I keep getting pictures of Nader!
I don't eat meat, fish, or fowl, I caucused for Hillary to keep the race going, and my mom had a pet pig. I also enjoy rainy days and long walks on the beach, but that's neither here nor there.
chidy. i've thrown some shit out here before and a couple weeks later someone has responded specifically about it.
in fact, i read a lot of things in here that take me awhile to digest. and by the time i get around to responding to someone, they've said something else profound that derails me and i start the whole thinking journey all over again.
Scalia: People that criticize the final solution don't know what's actually in it.
Russert: What was in it.
Scalia stumbles around for a bit then finally says "get over it"
concentrated your oj
I don't eat meat, fish, or fowl, I caucused for Hillary to keep the race going, and my mom had a pet pig. I also enjoy rainy days and long walks on the beach, but that's neither here nor there.
Whew, I'll take snorg tees over Nader any day of the week.
I also enjoy rainy days and long walks on the beach...
And where do you stand on pina coladas?
I also enjoy rainy days and long walks on the beach, but that's neither here nor there.
If you like pina coladas... I'll throw up.
the far left press is trying to make a big deal out of everything john mccain says . he never said 100 years in iraq and he never said blood for oil but the media doesn't give a damn they parrot everything far left lunes say. its not going to work because jon mccain will beat the terrorist loving hussain obama hands down in the election
At least Atrios doesn't have the ad about the woman who blows up like a balloon, then shrinks back, then blows up again, with a text which says "zap belly fat and raise libido". I dream about that ad now.
I also enjoy rainy days and long walks on the beach, but that's neither here nor there.
Rupert Holmes, you rapscallion!
Oh, this sucks. The arab babe is NOT coming back...I keep getting pictures of Nader!
I just got the Arab babe!
She must like me more...
Allright Dave, here's your effing coke.
Scalia: People that criticize the final solution don't know what's actually in it.
Russert: What was in it.
Scalia stumbles around for a bit then finally says "get over it"
This is why, when The Revolution comes, Fat Tony will be amongst the first to be tossed into the Duck Pit.
far left lunes
sonny ablaza | 05.03.08 - 6:58 pm | #
moran
.
At least Atrios doesn't have the ad about the woman who blows up like a balloon, then shrinks back, then blows up again, with a text which says "zap belly fat and raise libido". I dream about that ad now.
i'm still puzzled by the dancing skeleton selling me auto insurance.
I just got the Arab babe!
She must like me more...
Your dossier has been updated.
I don't eat meat, fish, or fowl, I caucused for Hillary to keep the race going, and my mom had a pet pig. I also enjoy rainy days and long walks on the beach, but that's neither here nor there.
JeffCO
RACIST!
Jeez... "ArabLounge.com"?
I hope Atrios is making a killing...
he never said 100 years in iraq
Dude,
It's on YouTube. Yes, he did. It's a new world. You have to lie a lot better than this now. I am just saying.
i'm still puzzled by the dancing skeleton selling me auto insurance.
All Skate
I have not now, nor have I ever had, a pina colada.
far left press...
bwahahaha
OK, now I'm back to the I Hate CNA ad...
he never said 100 years in iraq
Dude,
It's on YouTube. Yes, he did. It's a new world. You have to lie a lot better than this now. I am just saying.
Sonny has, I'm afraid, all the keen intellectual insight of a puddle of warm vomit.
i'm still puzzled by the dancing skeleton selling me auto insurance.
watertiger
If only I had had insurance, I wouldn't have died after that fender-bender."
I don't eat meat, fish, or fowl, I caucused for Hillary to keep the race going, and my mom had a pet pig. I also enjoy rainy days and long walks on the beach, but that's neither here nor there.
JeffCO
No beaches in Colorado. Duh!!!
he never said 100 years in iraq and he never said blood for oil
He never said anything he said!!
I bet he never called his wife a c**t either!
Hoo-boy. Neighbor pretty drunk from Cinco de Mayo festivities. He offered to paint my house for six bucks and some BBQ.
I'll take The Real McCain over a picture of Ralph any day of the week.
McCain was also in "Wedding Crashers" which had quite a few loose boobies.
Dude,
It's on YouTube. Yes, he did. It's a new world. You have to lie a lot better than this now. I am just wasting my time and energy having a rational, fact-based discussion with a fucking moron when I could be pouring myself a drink.
Hecate
Fixed your typo.
That Mark Green is such a shameless shill for Hillary Clinton, it's just sad..
CNN just showed a poll showing that of economics issues, "inflation" is of most concern for 47%.
fasci-zzzzzzzzzzzz
No Arab babe, but I do have a "SEIU, Say Me" joke I've been saving.
I am just wasting my time and energy having a rational, fact-based discussion with a fucking moron when I could be pouring myself a drink.
Hecate
Fixed your typo.
~Bows in jac's general direction.
I have not now, nor have I ever had, a pina colada.
then explain that collection of paper umbrellas you've got.
I've got an ad for Cliff Schecter's McCain book....
then explain that collection of paper umbrellas you've got.
They are for the GI Joes.
then explain that collection of paper umbrellas you've got.
Singapore Slings.
I like the concept of sweet drinks.
when I could be pouring myself a drink.
What a great suggestion!
No beaches in Colorado. Duh!!!
Not too many rainy days either. Fortunately, I also enjoy sunshine and clear mountain streams.
then explain that collection of paper umbrellas you've got.
watertiger
He likes Pink Ladies.
I like the concept of sweet drinks.
whiskeyina
Is that what you ponder while you sip bourbon?
What a great suggestion!
Marcellina
Thanks - I thought you'd never ask.
Fortunately, I also enjoy sunshine and clear mountain streams.
Rocky mountain hiiiiiiiiiigh in Colorado!
He likes Pink Ladies.
Are they Arab and single?
whiskeyina!
Philip Price says "hi."
Is that what you ponder while you sip bourbon?
racymind
You know me too well.
W/O this fucking war and the constant borrowing to pay for it inflation wouldn't be near as bad.
far left press...
bwahahaha
fokowi
They are patiently waiting for McCrazy to throw them a bone from his last plate of barbecue...
then explain that collection of paper umbrellas you've got. watertiger
Pfft - I am sans parasoleil.
I prefer round to square pizza.
"Good lapdog media! Good doggie!" - McCrazy
I take it everyone is getting drunk tonight?
fokowi
you got mail
They are for the GI Joes.
He likes Pink Ladies. jac
Now see here Shields and/or Yarnell....
far left press...
As long as they're recycling expired memes, why not just start calling Democrats Com-symps?
The fucking war and these insane goddamned radical republican policies have got to come to an end.
he never said 100 years in iraq and he never said blood for oil
He never said anything he said!!
I approve this message.
Philip Price says "hi."
SteveLG
Steve!
I got your email! I'm glad you enjoyed the show. I knew that Kris is pregnant--she played bass on a project that my drummer was a part of. I wonder what Phillip thought of hearing my name in that context. He and I were hang-out friends years ago. Now, in the hierarchy of our musical village, he is at the top. And, me, well, I'm me... So it's pretty much a 'hi' kinda thing!
I take it everyone is getting drunk tonight?
If it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, yes.
Its not Obama...its OGUAMA.
I take it everyone is getting drunk tonight? Gomez
Not me, I'm headed to Denver tonight to enjoy the lovely and talented Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
He likes Pink Ladies.
Not.
Touching.
That.
I'm in a great mood - a teen-ager tried to pick me up then I got asked for ID when buying alcohol
It doesn't get much better than that!
I take it everyone is getting drunk tonight?
Gomez |
Not yet!
I take it everyone is getting drunk tonight?
Not me. Just a nightcap.
/kicks can/ no one ever listens to me, even when i'm right. pout.
ME NEITHER! I toldjyou and toldjyou and toldjyou people that it was all coming down to the convention, that it was all going to come down to teh superdelegates and ultimately Our Al was going to be involved. I told you people that at CHRISTMAS! Did you listen? Noooooooooes!
~~~kicks table legs, snuffles, goes back to teh spa~~~
Harry, there are moments when I wish I still drank. Heavily.
Like everytime McJowls or Chimperor says something.
But, 40 days sober, I'm not interested in fucking that up.
I prefer round to square pizza.
Gomez
Chicago is a wonderful city. It has provided me with a fabulous career, nurtured and educated my daughter, offered my wife ample opportunity for her art, and has not flooded, like the city of my youth.
But why in hell the good citizens of Chicago cut thin, round pizza into squares, defies all understanding. Folks, you have to have a bit o' edge crust to eat the pizza. Otherwise it is simply structurally unstable.
Weird...
Steve Crist at Daily Racing Form:
The 134th Kentucky Derby will be remembered equally for Big Brown's glorious victory and the horror of Eight Belles's sudden death as she was pulling up after finishing second.
The two images are indelible: Big Brown pulling away through the stretch to win by 5 in one of the most dominant Derby victories ever, vastly superior to even the best of his generation, toying with his more experienced rivals in just his fourth career start. Then moments later, after bravely continuing on to finish second, beating every other colt in the race, suddenly collapsing in a heap as she was slowing to a gallop around the far turn. According to Dr. Larry Bramlage, she shattered both front ankles, and had to be immediately euthanized.
It's hard to think beyond those two images...
Time for a cocktail and two toasts -- to Big Brown, and to Eight Belles.
Ahh, CNN.
Breaking News! Rick Sanchez doesn't know what "Pyrrhic victory" means.
Not me, I'm headed to Denver tonight to enjoy the lovely and talented Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
LUCKY!
And I am now going to the theeee-yater.
ciao.
[/Eddie Izzard]
I'm headed to Denver tonight to enjoy the lovely and talented Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
(jealous)
I take it everyone is getting drunk tonight?
Come check my ER in about 8 hours and the percentages wont be that far off...
So it's pretty much a 'hi' kinda thing!
whiskeyina
It was fun just to mention your name and he smiled and said "sure."
It was a very, very good show. Everyone sounded great and it looked like they were having a wonderful time, especially Kris Delmhorst, who is radiantly pregnant.
Philly folk should head over to the Tin Angel tonight to see 'em, and they're in NYC at the Living Room tomorrow.
And I should go through the motions for another hour here at work.
GWPDA, it ain't gonna be Our Al.
I can imagine him as Secretary of the Interior (if he wants it), or many another role, but runnin' for president (or VP) he will not.
Would it were otherwise.
I'm going to go to the bookstore to ogle at the books.
the hockey game is starting.
yeeha!
the emotional roller coaster has just started up. I'm psyched for the ride.
he never said 100 years in iraq and he never said blood for oil but the media doesn't give a damn they parrot everything far left lunes say. its not going to work because jon mccain will beat the terrorist loving hussain obama hands down in the election
sonny ablaza | 05.03.08 - 6:58 pm | #
Heh. John McCain sponsors terrorism, and is part of the world's biggest terrorist network, besides being a recipient of socialized medicine. he is also a liar and at traitor. What kind of a fucking stupid asshole would vote for such a charlatan?
I'm going to go to the bookstore to ogle at the books.
Echidne
Ogle Richard Price.
I take it everyone is getting drunk tonight?
I just opened up a Newton' Folly Draft Cider.
Drinks on me tonight!!
Bedtime. Good night, peeps.
And I am now going to the theeee-yater.
They got those in Noo Yark City?
I'm going to go to the bookstore to ogle at the books.
Echidne
I wonder what you would think of Julie Doucet's 365 Days...
It doesn't get much better than that!
mimi | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 7:12 pm | #
what a sad little world you must inhabit.
HRC now endorses a beer tax holiday. To get the workin' guy vote. And cindy.
he never said 100 years in iraq...
sonny ablaza
You are either misinformed, or a liar.
McCain: 100 years in Iraq "would be fine with me."
I just opened up a Newton' Folly Draft Cider.
Drinks on me tonight!!
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
I had to give up teh cider b/c it was making me teh fat.
I'm sipping a 2004 Gruet Blanc de Blancs by the swimming pool with Mrs. D, watching my gravatar and his twin sister chasing squirrels.
jon mccain will beat the terrorist loving hussain obama hands down in the election
Its jom JOM you asshole.
Derbes - I said 'involved'. That's absolute. Try to follow - I'm fey. This isn't being made up out of whole cloth. I've already seen it.
I wonder what you would think of Julie Doucet's 365 Days...
It looks fascinating. I've always wanted to do a diary-kind book for myself, with drawings, writing and objects added (no herrings). A sort of three-dimensional memory machine.
"...or 10,000 years, or a million..."
I'm going to go to the bookstore to ogle at the books. Echidne
When I first meet a woman I do like to ogle her books.
I'm sipping a 2004 Gruet Blanc de Blancs by the swimming pool with Mrs. D, watching my gravatar and his twin sister chasing squirrels.
Sounds lovely.
If it were a little warmer, and we had a pool, I'd being doing the same.
I take it everyone is getting drunk tonight?
I made a mint julep w/ my fresh mint. Not as good as Son's, but he's an expert w/ a sterling silver muddler and Jefferson cups.
When I first meet a woman I do like to ogle her books.
Jeffco May West?
Don't bother asking me how I would pay for 10,000 years in Iraq. I don't know shit about economics.
When I first meet a woman I do like to ogle her books.
JeffCO
My eyes are over here! Look at me you elite bookist!
ronjazz,
not when you know that I am going to market my facial care secrets and make a gazillion €'s.
A sort of three-dimensional memory machine.
Echidne | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 7:19 pm | #
I've done a bit of it, but with absolutely no discipline. They're still great to look at now. And Julie has inspired me to try again.
not when you know that I am going to market my facial care secrets and make a gazillion €'s.
mimi | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 7:21 pm | #
Lon Chaney's dead.
My eyes are over here! Look at me you elite bookist!
I swear I was just trying to read what it said on the front.
Flyers get a penalty.
Canadiens have the best power play of the league.
Wait, McCain never referred to having his wife keep her cunt for 100 years in Iraq?
I made a mint julep w/ my fresh mint.
Yum. I need to learn to make its Mexican cousin, the mojito.
Derbes - I said 'involved'. That's absolute. Try to follow - I'm fey. This isn't being made up out of whole cloth. I've already seen it.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
OK, I misread you. By "involved" I assumed you meant "on the ticket."
Certainly I think he will be "involved", as will be John Kerry, Charlie Rangel, Chuck Hagel, Howard Dean, Rahm Emanuel (more's the pity), Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid (ditto), and on and on.
Fuck it, I get free beer and a free plane. Now if I could get this gerbil outta my face...
they don't shoot hockey players.
Jeffco May West? Echidne
I would be happy to come up and see you sometime.
I swear I was just trying to read what it said on the front.
I have a blogger t-shirt on, with a 1940's picture of a woman saluting while sitting at the typewriter. The text above says: YOU WRITE WHAT YOU'RE TOLD TO!
I'm going to go to the bookstore to ogle at the books.
Echidne
when we were at a bookstore one day, a friend of mine told me she was going to go run an errand, and would be back in 20 minutes. she then asked me "will you be too bored in the meantime?"
bored??? in a bookstore?????
my idea of hell would be to be sentenced to life in prison...
...but only if i didn't have enough to read
.
I don't know shit about economics.
No problem, Johm. Your top economic adviser, Phil "Fucking" Gramm was busy studying economics and finance, and obtaining student deferments, while you were rotting in a cell in Hanoi. Ask him how to pay for your 100-year war.
Plekanec scores for Montreal!
Yeeha!
When I first meet a woman I do like to ogle her boob
my idea of hell would be to be sentenced to life in prison...
...but only if i didn't have enough to read
.
Tacitus Voltaire
Burgess Meredith episode of the Twilite Zone.
I would be happy to come up and see you sometime.
I was Snow White. But then I melted.
7 out of 10 Americans believe that Barack Obama's last bowel movement was "too curly" with "not enough corn."
there used to be a hockey player called Jimmy Jones.
Everyone thought that was really funny.
Why?
Because a typical hockey player name is Dale Hawerchuk.
McCain: 100 years in Iraq "would be fine with me."
But that's not the same thing as saying he would stay in Iraq for 100 years...
It's gonna be fun watching McGoo fall on his ass trying to tapdance his way out of this one for the next six months.
All haloscaned and wiggly.
Dammit...I just knew those shifty squirrels would find a way into our bird feeder.
Back to the drawing board...
When I first meet a woman I do like to ogle her boob
Monoboob.
CNN also thinks you should be happy with your cheap gasoline.
When I first meet a woman I do like to ogle her boob
Monoboob.
Echidne
I have a lazy eye.
6 out of 10 Americans recently polled were unable to correctly identify a photo of Hillary Clinton's sphincter from a series of photos of the sphincters of the last three Presidents.
I don't eat meat, fish, or fowl, I caucused for Hillary to keep the race going, and my mom had a pet pig. I also enjoy rainy days and long walks on the beach, but that's neither here nor there.
-----------------------------
what was the pigs name?
Dammit...I just knew those shifty squirrels would find a way into our bird feeder.
Back to the drawing board...
Give up and give them the key to your house.
Richard Cranium, I'd be happy with it were I able to find any in the L.A. area. 87 is fast approaching $4, and already has in some of the more remote areas of the state.
I was Snow White. But then I melted.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
So 25% of Poles go hungry because food has gotten so expensive.
They're saying they were better off under the Russians.
JeffCO,
Who's the guy who was in American Music Club? I think he works under the name "Sun Kill Moon", or something now.
Burgess Meredith episode of the Twilite Zone.
trifecta | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 7:25 pm | #
is that the one where the nerdy guy with the thick glasses survives nuclear war because he spends his lunch hour in the bank vault, where he can get peace and quiet to read? and then emerges and is ok because since everybody else is dead he can at least get enough time to read? and then breaks his reading glasses?
saw that episode once when i was 11 and it haunts my nightmares still...
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Only four out of 10 Americans believe that there is "too" much emphasis on feces in American politics. Two out of 10 Americans believe that "much" more feces information is needed before they feel comfortable choosing a President.
"It's not fair!"
Tac. Vol., that's the one.
Me, I always carry a spare set...
Dammit...I just knew those shifty squirrels would find a way into our bird feeder.
Back to the drawing board...
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
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Squirrels are extremely smart. They always have three or more ideas for every situation, which works out really well most times. Not so much when trying to cross a busy street.
"Far left lune". Not sure what it is but I want to be one. Can haz runes?
Sufferin, you grading?
is that the one where the nerdy guy with the thick glasses survives nuclear war because he spends his lunch hour in the bank vault, where he can get peace and quiet to read? and then emerges and is ok because since everybody else is dead he can at least get enough time to read? and then breaks his reading glasses?
There's all those stores full of reading glasses. No problem!
I favor McGoo because he does big manly warrior poops, not little thin elitist dweeb poops like Obama's.
When I first meet a woman I do like to ogle her boob
i have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to do this without the woman noticing, but have concluded that it is impossible
women can tell that you are looking at their butt even if they are looking in the opposite direction
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Squirrels are extremely smart. They always have three or more ideas for every situation, which works out really well most times.
McCain/Squirrel '08
Mark Eitzel. Never mind.
Harry, I was at UCLA for many years, both as a grad student, later as an adjunct instructor. The campus is home to an incredibly aggressive crowd of squirrels. If you don't share your lunch with them, they'll just come and grab it from you.
The mojito is the mint julep's Cuban cousin.
Monoboob.
Echidne | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 7:27 pm | #
On the back, for dancing.
HBK,
that was profound
sorry, phone call there for sec.
McCain/Squirrel '08
Harry Doghiney
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that could be a winning combination. Squirrels like nuts, and maybe the squirrel would bury McCain for the winter.
Squirrels are extremely smart. They always have three or more ideas for every situation, which works out really well most times.
Sounds a lot like bacteria to me.
Okay, off to put the girls to bed. I'll see some of you later. (Unless I do the right thing and practice guitar. Did I mention I have no discipline?)
Who's the guy who was in American Music Club?
They just put out a new album - The Golden Age. I lurve "Decibels and Little Pills."
Don't know about the band though - this lineup is Sean Hoffman, Mark Eitzel, Steve Didelot, & Vudi.
he mojito is the mint julep's Cuban cousin.
Son loves them, but rum gives me a headache.
Two out of 10 Americans believe that "much" more feces information is needed before they feel comfortable choosing a President.
USA MEDIA | 05.03.08 - 7:29 pm | #
That's because of shitty choices. I mean, really, what the fuck am I doing in the race?
Sufferin, you grading?
This morning I graded writing assignments dealing with the Compromise of 1850, The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott Decision.
C's mostly. But no one got Stephen Douglas mixed up with Frederick Douglass, mainly because anyone in my class who's that dumbass winds up turning slowly on a spit over blazing hot coals.
Harry, I was at UCLA for many years, both as a grad student, later as an adjunct instructor. The campus is home to an incredibly aggressive crowd of squirrels.
They pretty much run the UT campus, too. They also torment my poor dogs.
This is true: Squirrels at the University of Chicago have been known to mug the students, and steal their lunches. They leap out of garbage cans, scaring the hell out of the kids, and sometimes the frightened student will drop his or her lunch. This amuses the hell out of the squirrels, and besides, they get lunch.
My wife swears this is true. I haven't seen it, but I believe her.
women can tell that you are looking at their butt even if they are looking in the opposite direction
Well, it does help.
Sufferin, you make me very happy I only grade bad math. It seems much less painful.
Oh, this sucks. The arab babe is NOT coming back...I keep getting pictures of Nader!
Apprentice to Darth Holden
I have what appears to be a 30-40 yo pic of McCain. Apprently we'd have to go back in time to join his team.
UCLA for many years, both as a grad student, later as an adjunct instructor. The campus is home to an incredibly aggressive crowd of squirrels.
Something about university squirrels. When Son was at Princeton, the squirrels used to steal the care package goodies that I'd send him.
Sufferin, you make me very happy I only grade bad math. It seems much less painful.
Having done both, yes, grading math is less painful. Not by much.
Squirrels at the University of Chicago have been known to mug the students, and steal their lunches.
It gets worse. U of C squirrels frequently espouse the political philosophy of Leo Strauss.
The Chicago squirrels are much, much tougher than the Princeton squirrels. I've had to contend with both.
Echidne, Thers was reading some choice passages from his students' work.
I was gritting my teeth from some of the papers I was grading, but what Thers was dealing with requires alcoholism as a lifestyle.
Apprently we'd have to go back in time to join his team.
Lumpenprolitariot
You c**t!
/Johm McCaim
There is no welfare queen like a military-congressional complex lifer with military lifer forebears. Cadillac? Please. Private jet, my droogies.
UCLA squirrels mostly hang out in the science quad. You'd think with the animal labs in that vicinity, they'd find better digs.
if you wanna be happy for the rest of your life...
I totally suck at math so grading me in that subject would be the pedagogical equivalent of root canal work.
Now, it could be that the Princeton squirrels are more intellectual than the Chicago squirrels, but the Chicago squirrels are a lot more resourceful.
And, true to the school's reputation, they're completely pitiless.
A sweatshirt some years ago read, "Chicago: Where the weak are killed and eaten."
Re discussion above about racehorses and genetics (warning, horse geek talk)
...Thoroughbreds have the strictest rules about breeding of any of the racing stock (no artificial insemination for instance...they had to build a little platform for Northern Dancer to stand on to hook up with mares because he was so short) and a very small gene pool.
The entire breed is descendend from just three stallions, all Arabians. As several people noted the breeding solely for speed has been very harmful to the overall health of the animal. Back in the Lasix controversy days an article (I want to say Scientific American) noted that horse lungs and airways basically could not keep up the oxygen supply needed to power the muscles without causing bleeding. And also that the breed would essentially go extinct in the forseeable future unless they got in some new bloodstock.
/horse geek discussion
I feel so horrible.
I accidently stepped on and killed a baby robin today while carrying an armload of gardening stuff into my backyard. Poor mama robin blamed my cat and proceeded to divebomb her repeatedly because she was following right behind me.
The Chicago squirrels are much, much tougher than the Princeton squirrels. I've had to contend with both.
Son keeps making noises about London School of Economics so I guess I'll pay to find out if London squirrels are worst of all soon.
Birds tend to be very family-oriented.
I accidently stepped on and killed a baby robin today while carrying an armload of gardening stuff into my backyard. Poor mama robin blamed my cat and proceeded to divebomb her repeatedly because she was following right behind me.
bloggus | 05.03.08 - 7:38 pm | #
Fuck that. Watch this drive.
Sufferin, I teach stats mostly, and most students do reasonably well. It's my linear algebra class that's agonizing to grade. The worst is yet to come: my grad seminar students hand in their papers the end of next week.
Squirrels are merely a local law enforcement problem. Geese on the other hand are international terrorists.
So 25% of Poles go hungry because food has gotten so expensive.
They're saying they were better off under the Russians.
mimi
Don't pay any mind to Allen, ladies and gentlemen.
We keep telling him to go get help for his multiple personalities, but he insists there is nothing wrong with him!
Son keeps making noises about London School of Economics so I guess I'll pay to find out if London squirrels are worst of all soon.
London squirrels sound vaguely gaii.
Have a wonderful evening. See ya later.
Salieri, no kidding on the geese.
My mother had a goose for years. Fred was huge, and mean as all fuck. He finally disappeared; I'm not sure if he flew off or if one of her neighbors decided that Fred would make a very nice dinner for eight.
2-1 Montreal vs Philly
lots of goals
Harry, I was at UCLA for many years, both as a grad student, later as an adjunct instructor. The campus is home to an incredibly aggressive crowd of squirrels. If you don't share your lunch with them, they'll just come and grab it from you.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 05.03.08 - 7:31 pm |
I wonder if anyone has done a study, scientific of course, of the aggresiveness of campus squirrels vs. all other types of squirrels.
David D is totally correct about Straussian squirrels in Hyde Park. the nerve of those critters! i had one once come up to me and demand that i share my lunch, on the quad in back of Hutch. it was amazing, and i'm country raised and used to kill squirrels for target practice w/grandpa. he had a reason to kill some of them: one kind would compete for resources with another kind by tearing out the latter's genitals and leaving them to die bleeding in pain. he hated them for that, it reminded him of the nazis he won 4 bronze stars defeating.
Squirrels are merely a local law enforcement problem. Geese on the other hand are international terrorists.
Thanks to cuts in LGA and the mortgage crisis, squirrel SWAT teams are now working eviction notices.
Good evening, friends.
Went to the mall today - had gift cards from Xmas I never used, and I needed some summer clothes for the office.
Chripes, am I tired.
The government handout ended up in my checking account overnight, so I guess folks should be getting their checks soon.
I did not often see squirrels in my London travels. They were quite plentiful in the Edinburgh parks, the Meadows, around Arthur's Seat, Holyrood...
London has a great deal of internal greenery (Hyde Park, Regents Park, Green Park, many little pocket parks), but I guess I was too busy bouncing between the bookstores, the pubs and the then cheap Indian and Chinese restaurants. Not to mention the midnight movies like the double feature in Hammersmith, "To the Devil a Daughter" and "Candy Stripe Nurses". I may have been the only non-lesbian in the audience... Valerie and Emily, my best friends in London, bade me drive 'em there, which I did.
A sweatshirt some years ago read, "Chicago: Where the weak are killed and eaten."
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. | 05.03.08 - 7:38 pm | #
A great motto for the 2016 Olympics, should Chicago get them.
Yvan Cournoyer doing a commercial on how he had to get to a hockey game by snowmobile back in '71 after the big snowstorm of that year.
Squirrels are merely a local law enforcement problem. Geese on the other hand are international terrorists.
Salieri, lunar leftist
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Listening to Michael Feldman's What do you know on NPR a couple of weeks ago, there was a fellow on from Clemson who was working on birth control for squirrels. Someone asked if they had tried condoms, but the fellow said it was pretty tough to get the squirrels to cooperate.
(bows deeply in ChiDy's general direction.)
Tomahawk attack on hospital----However, witnesses and an AFP reporter at the scene said the main Al-Sadr hospital had been badly damaged and a fleet of ambulances were destroyed.
See, the surge is working!
/right wing fucktard
The government handout ended up in my checking account overnight, so I guess folks should be getting their checks soon.
Terry C - Anti-War Elitist | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 7:43 pm
I'm hoping mine shows up soon, my vacuum cleaner just died.
(I suspect my cats killed it)
Terry
Put up your feet. Secretaries in my office have taken to emailing each other whenever another store is going bankrupt so they can all go use their gift cards before the store is gone. I just give my secretary a check, but some lawyers think it's "nicer" to give gift cards.
david d: my fav was "uchicago: where fun comes to die." which was utterly not true in my case, but then again i was one of the ones making those poor lil undergrads suffer and cry b/c of the expectation to like, read and study a lot.
Why don't you idiots leave Shoe out of your stupidity?
I had no idea that they broadcast the NHL in Switzerland.
terry c, did your interview make the tv news the other day?
HAGATNA, Guam - Barack Obama has defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in Saturday's Democratic caucuses on Guam by just seven votes.
My mother had a goose for years. Fred was huge, and mean as all fuck. He finally disappeared; I'm not sure if he flew off or if one of her neighbors decided that Fred would make a very nice dinner for eight.
They're worse in groups. Gaggles. I cross the street and don't make eye contact.
Interestingly, all the people I know originally from the ME who live in Canada are hockey fanatics.
I even have a friend whose son Mohammed is a very promising hockey player. His teammates call him "Mo".
While we may have a new war against teh squirrel, we have successfully vanquished the similarly evil box elder bug. Soapy water!
ChiDy: My beautiful and brilliant daughter is at Hopkins. I was talkin' to her the other day, and we decided:
Fun may come to Chicago to die, but it has never even visited Hopkins.
a squirrel bit my sister once.
I bet, however, they broadcast the NHL in Austin, TX.
Why don't you idiots leave Shoe out of your stupidity?
annie | 05.03.08 - 7:45 pm | #
Because real stupidity requires Shoe, and you. For the deep, deep stoopid, add mimi and Elias. Stir until thick, takes about 15 seconds.
gomez,
rds.ca
pay $3.99 for each game for a broadcast on the Internet
I have the Mac connected to the tv.
:wavy emoticon: to xan and terry C.
terry: how could you stand it? malls make me *crazy.* literally everything about them is wrong. seriously, i want to hurl large objects everytime i drive by one, wild horses couldn't drag me in on, even for a gift card. don't most mall stores have websites these days? i have fond memories of being 12 and going to the mall, and they are exactly why i don't go in them at (still, well, just under) 40.
They murdered that girl horse.
McCain/Squirrel '08
Harry Doghiney
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that could be a winning combination. Squirrels like nuts, and maybe the squirrel would bury McCain for the winter.
foolme1ns | 05.03.08 - 7:32 pm
Burgess Meredith episode of the Twilite Zone.
trifecta | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 7:25 pm | #
is that the one where the nerdy guy with the thick glasses survives nuclear war because he spends his lunch hour in the bank vault, where he can get peace and quiet to read? and then emerges and is ok because since everybody else is dead he can at least get enough time to read? and then breaks his reading glasses?
saw that episode once when i was 11 and it haunts my nightmares still...
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Tacitus Voltaire
"Time Enough At Last"
my fav was "uchicago: where fun comes to die." which was utterly not true in my case, but then again i was one of the ones making those poor lil undergrads suffer and cry b/c of the expectation to like, read and study a lot.
My all-time favorite was a sign over a check out counter in Boston:
12 Items. Are you from Harvard and can't count or from MIT and can't read?
CD, you went to UofC? When and what did you study?
terry: how could you stand it? malls make me *crazy.* literally everything about them is wrong. seriously, i want to hurl large objects everytime i drive by one, wild horses couldn't drag me in on, even for a gift card. don't most mall stores have websites these days? i have fond memories of being 12 and going to the mall, and they are exactly why i don't go in them at (still, well, just under) 40.
chicago dyke
Well, when you're given gift cards for that Mall, you don't have a choice.
I prefer to shop on-line.
Gomez,
also, cjad a radio station in Montreal does a play by play on their radio stream.
get with it.
btw, all of Switzerland follows the Canadiens because Mark Streit, a Swiss, plays for the team.
but I'm no longer in Switzerland
David Horowitz is demanding that college campuses hire conservative squirrels. Meanwhile, Jonah has written an essay, "Liberal squirrels"
12 Items. Are you from Harvard and can't count or from MIT and can't read?
Heh!
Man, that single Arab girl is bonerific.
terry c, did your interview make the tv news the other day?
fokowi
You're not going to believe this, but I forgot it was on.
David Horowitz is demanding that college campuses hire conservative squirrels. Meanwhile, Jonah has written an essay, "Liberal squirrels"
leibniz♘☮
gomez,
what does it feel like to be so wrong about everything?
I like squirrels. They have pouchy cheeks and fleas, like me.
My mother had a goose for years. Fred was huge, and mean as all fuck. He finally disappeared; I'm not sure if he flew off or if one of her neighbors decided that Fred would make a very nice dinner for eight.
They're worse in groups. Gaggles. I cross the street and don't make eye contact.
Salieri, lunar leftist | 05.03.08 - 7:46 pm | #
Ages ago my sisters and I were visting Brookfield Zoo. We accidently disturbed a nesting goose, who took out after us. We ran for our lives. Luckily no one else was around to laugh at us.
Bombing hospitals is great. We're winning.
Fun may come to Chicago to die, but it has never even visited Hopkins.
I've collaborated with a number of people at Hopkins. They're pretty fucking intense. Good people, all of them, but it's a pressure cooker there.
david, i honestly don't grok why hopkins seems bleak. i love the town, i love the faculty, i love the students, it's so vibrant and interesting there. hyde park itself is ok, but you know how isolated it can feel to live there, as a chicagoan comparing notes with those who live in boystown or andersonville. but every time i've been to hopkins i've had mounds of fun; i guess it just depends on how you define a 'good city culture,' but that area never failed to offer me good opportunities and good times. also, black and white and brown people didn't seem to hate each other in the way they do in chitown. i'm so glad i don't live there anymore, for that reason alone.
Man, that single Arab girl is bonerific.
Toby Petzold
Just the kind to go for a looser like yourself.
Fun may come to Chicago to die, but it has never even visited Hopkins.
Do they still have that lovely glass building? I used to hang out there and read while Son went to G&T classes there a million years ago.
Laurent can run away if we distract Butler.
I like squirrels. They have pouchy cheeks and fleas, like me.
John The Loser McStain
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Is that acorns he's keeping in his left cheek? Maybe he's saving them for the recession.
full disclosure: although being from sd, i have never ever rode a horse nor have i ever had on a pair of cowboy boots. even out here most folks call them cahBOY' boots...
Laurent has to hire someone and is looking through a whole stack of cv's - that's what he's been doing all week-end.
gomez,
what does it feel like to be so wrong about everything?
mimi
I think I'm right.
You're in Austin, TX and you have a penis, albeit a small one.
:wavy emoti back at CD:
Dear, I have several acres worth of last fall's leaves and l/2 acres worth of just-cut (almost done) just-grown grass. If I stuff layers of each in an old plastic garbage can how soon can I call the resulting conents compost?
(the "official compost can" consists of a winter's worth of coffee grounds and tea bags, that being my winter diet so far as vegetables goes. Oh and some eggshells from lower down before the damn things got so expensive. It will apparently continue to be coffee grounds till the end of time.)
Man, that single Arab girl is bonerific.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The All-American Sexist Loser! Give it up!
Son went to G&T classes there a million years ago.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 05.03.08 - 7:52 pm | #
I never needed no classes for G & Ts.
Is that acorns he's keeping in his left cheek? Maybe he's saving them for the recession.
He keeps Lieberman in there, and Gramm in the right cheek.
Gomez,
you're strangely obsessed with my genitalia. Very weird.
Another peaceful Saturday evening on the West Side. Kids that won't stop yelling, dogs that won't stop barking, and police sirens that won't quit wailing. Jeebus.