I'MMA LET YOU FINISH

Still shakin' the bush boss!


GravatarCompañerros, thees week's Friday Night Hairball Remedy ees dedicated to a certain green-blooded amigo of ours who got mad props from Digby today.

¡Divertirse!


GravatarBritney's bush should be kept confidential.


GravatarMore.
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GravatarThat's why we need Tort reform:

On Jan. 22, a Kentucky woman filed a lawsuit against the surgeon who performed her hysterectomy after discovering that he branded the initials ±UKe on her uterus. Dr. James M. Guiler claims the marking helps keep him oriented while operating and that ±UKe is ±honorablee because it represents his alma mater -- the University of Kentucky. Last week nine other women, including a nurse who used to work for Guiler, asked to join the lawsuit claiming they too had similar branding...
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GravatarLast week nine other women, including a nurse who used to work for Guiler, asked to join the lawsuit claiming they too had similar branding...

Speechless, I am.


GravatarLast week nine other women, including a nurse who used to work for Guiler, asked to join the lawsuit claiming they too had similar branding...

I first heard of this about 2 years ago.


GravatarAnyone wanna take a shot in the dark at what the C in my name stands for?



Actually, it's my surname, trollie.

Now why don't you see about enlisting?
Terry C - aka Hussein | Homepage | 03.14.08 - 11:34 pm | #

I always figured the C was for cunt.


GravatarIT'S THE GHOST OF SHERMAN!!


GravatarSome are stars, some are galaxies. Hard to tell the apparent distance from a flat photograph.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 1:06 am | #


wouldnt reeally far awar - and small in the pic- galaxies be red shifter?


GravatarBritney's bush should be kept confidential.
Mr French

What bush?


GravatarMarch 14, 2008, 10:51 pm
Obama Discloses Rezko Contributions

Nick Timiraos reports on the presidential race.

Antoin Rezko, a former Obama fundraiser who is on trial facing extortion charges, helped raise up to $250,000 for the Illinois senator’s past political campaigns, nearly $90,000 more than the Obama campaign previously acknowledged.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/ 20...=googlenews_wsj

Friday data dump? At least they got one thing right. Otherwise, Obama does not seem to play well against negative press, so far.
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GravatarAnd still no kittehs.


Gravatarok, wrong thread - the sun was gonna be in my eyes ...


GravatarI always figured the C was for...

Hm. Business as usual today.

But they're learning to spell bigger words, and that's encouraging.


GravatarBarndog,
Are you really a river guide?


GravatarBrought up for your reading enjoyment from the last strangled in its cradle thread:

Staff gets fired but doctors keep their jobs... for the same offense.

You know, it really sucks when the higher status people are punished less severely for the same offense. This is PRECISELY the opposite of how it should go.

Higher status usually means greater responsiblity, which implies more severe punishment for breaching that responsiblity.

So, logically, some doctors should LOSE THEIR LICENSES TO PRACTICE MEDICINE for this gross breach of professional ethics.

The problem is high status individuals in this society do not pay for their high status. It's become an entitlement, and one that is absolutely at odds with any pretense of meritocracy, where as your merit purchases you more status, it also raises the stakes if you breach trust.

Unfortunately, we've seen this pattern repeated in the military, where officers should have been boiled alive for Abu Ghraib offenses but were allowed to quietly retire while enlisted were dishonorably discharged.


Gravatarwouldnt reeally far awar - and small in the pic- galaxies be red shifter?

All the Hubble photographs are artificially colored, so U can't really tell from the photograph.

Anyhoo, the red shift doesn't show distance, it shows whether somethings moving toward you or away from you. It shows speed.


GravatarAnd so the minister said, God damn America.

Who hasn't ?

Christ, my brother Tim, who is a retired U.S. Marine, has said lots and lots worse than that about America, and the entire human race.

My wife asked Timmy when she first met him, "What was the best part about being in the Marines?"

Timmy said: "There was no best part."


GravatarThe Air Force's latest new slogan (they change slogans as often as they
wet their pants) is Above All, which appearently came from a currently
popular Christian Rock song. The last one was "Airpower!" which is at
least an acceptable military term relevant to the Air Force.  Somewhere
earlier was

"Aim High" (which is just incorrect -- "aiming high" is an error like failing to correct your dope for wind). We are currently looking for a list of all previous Air Force slogans.


GravatarThink of the sound of a train.


GravatarBut they're learning to spell bigger words, and that's encouraging.
Silleigh

They've moved up to four letters. Still only one syllable, though...


GravatarMy wife asked Timmy when she first met him, "What was the best part about being in the Marines?"

Timmy said: "There was no best part."


I imagine getting out would be the best part.


GravatarWhere all the white girls at?

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Gravatark&y,bloodfeastislandpansies!

UBER ALLES!!


GravatarAnyhoo, the red shift doesn't show distance, it shows whether somethings moving toward you or away from you. It shows speed.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 1:10 am | #

i thouht 99% galaxies moving away from us.


GravatarLong day. Teaching, then lunch with renowned Native American poets, then partying with my mechanic parts-picking friend...

How y'all doing?


Gravatar We are currently looking for a list of all previous Air Force slogans.

Why?

doan U have anything better to do?


GravatarHow about "May the Air Force be with you" as a slogan?

They actually went with that for a while back in the late 70's...


Gravatar"What was the best part about being in the Marines?"

Like your brother - there is no best part.

The only worthwhile part is the lifetime relationships with your brother/sister Marines.


Gravatar


focus Hears Whosseins |



03.15.08 - 1:05 am |

Suddenly those sports fans who just paint their faces don't look so freakish...


GravatarTimmy said: "There was no best part."

I imagine getting out would be the best part.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur

Semper Fi!


GravatarSilleigh,
you alittle grumpy tonight?


Gravatar
Timmy said: "There was no best part."

I imagine getting out would be the best part.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 1:11 am | #


I enjoyed the rappelling, and the shooting of the howitzer.


Gravatari thouht 99% galaxies moving away from us.

Objects, including galaxies can be rotating around other objects, so they can be moving towards us.

At least temporarily.


GravatarI imagine getting out would be the best part

People always ask me why I kept track of the days/hours/minutes I was in the Marines.

It's because, when something sucks that badly, you automatically know such things.


GravatarWhy did Client 9 have to go and mess it up for the rest of us?

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GravatarFriday data dump? At least they got one thing right. Otherwise, Obama does not seem to play well against negative press, so far. -QuentinCompson

he looked a little unstable on even the easiest of cross by Cooper on CNN ... I don't like it. the issue is trumped but people are stupid american idolts - ug


Gravatar4lg that particular picture is visible light - no coloring


GravatarWhere all the white girls at?

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Client 9 | 03.15.08 - 1:11 am | #

Is that you Obama?


GravatarRev Wright was a Marine. He could probably use some sandbags.
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GravatarWe noted that we met some of the best people we will ever meet, but also some of the worst. The decision to go into the military seems always irrational and uninformed and the experience is very different from any impression you can get outside, so at times we doubt there can be an intelligent and totally willful enlistment. But then we're for a sort of universal national service (with non-combatant options of course) as a nationwide deal part of paying for college or career schools.


Gravatarr. James M. Guiler claims the marking helps keep him oriented while operating and that ±UKe is ±honorablee because it represents his alma mater -- the University of Kentucky. Last week nine other women, including a nurse who used to work for Guiler, asked to join the lawsuit claiming they too had similar branding...

Fire the nurses!!!!!


GravatarI enjoyed the rappelling, and the shooting of the howitzer.

Those were fun, but unfortunately after I got out of ROTC advanced training, the shooting of the howitzer part was waaay below my pay grade once I was in an artillery unit where I might have had the opportunity.

I did enjoy supervising my commo sites high atop lofty ridges that I traveled to in my HMMWV, though.


Gravatar4lg that particular picture is visible light - no coloring

Then why did you fucking ask and why do you fucking care?


GravatarI imagine getting out would be the best part.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 1:11 am | #
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That would be correct.

Timothy does not disrespect the Corps. He is very proud of being in it. But that doesn't mean he feels obligated to say he loved every second of it.

And this is what the minister was talking about. There are aspects of this country -- and people from this country -- that I deeply love and respect, but that doesn't mean I must like all of it. How the fuck can I love the Trail of Tears !!!

It's just stoopid shit for dumb asses who don't want to think.


GravatarRev Wright was a Marine

On Jerry Springer?

You gotta be shittin' me?


GravatarTeaching, then lunch with renowned Native American poets, then partying with my mechanic parts-picking friend...

Um... I played Harvest Moon a lot. That compares, right?

The poets I know (and I know several, by a fluke) are nearly all women and damnably rowdy. Last poet-party I attended ended up with people mostly nekkid in the pool, then passing out all over the house.


Gravatardamn. i just was curious.


GravatarNew Air Force Slogan:

Bombing Wedding Parties R Us.


GravatarAnd this is what the minister was talking about. There are aspects of this country -- and people from this country -- that I deeply love and respect, but that doesn't mean I must like all of it. How the fuck can I love the Trail of Tears !!!

It's just stoopid shit for dumb asses who don't want to think.


Grown ups can love their country and still recognize that it has done wrong things and that our history is full of incidents that are rather appalling.


GravatarIt's because, when something sucks that badly, you automatically know such things.
Barndog's River Guide Service | 03.15.08 - 1:13 am | #
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You sound very much like my brother, Barndog.


GravatarAnother new USAF slogan:

"Delivering the wrath of the Almighty from on high"


Gravataryou alittle grumpy tonight?

Um, no, actually... but thanks for asking.

(?????)


GravatarI imagine getting out would be the best part

People always ask me why I kept track of the days/hours/minutes I was in the Marines.

It's because, when something sucks that badly, you automatically know such things.
Barndog's River Guide Service | 03.15.08 - 1:13 am | #

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So we're supposed to beleive you were a Marine? You know there's laws against flase Vet claims.

Just so you know.


GravatarYou sound very much like my brother, Barndog

Ya know Doug - the more Marines you know, the more simularities you'll find.


GravatarGrown ups can love their country and still recognize that it has done wrong things and that our history is full of incidents that are rather appalling.

The bedwetting cowards who constitute the Chimperor's base, not so much.


GravatarLast poet-party I attended ended up with people mostly nekkid in the pool, then passing out all over the house.
Silleigh

What? No orgy?


Gravatardamn. i just was curious.

Simmer down now.

Go to space.com and look at the Hubble gallery. Or to the Cal tech hubble site.

Lots of explanations there for just about every photograph.


GravatarWhat? No orgy?


Some people are no fucking fun at all.


GravatarBig Slug | 03.15.08 - 1:18 am

Oh, don't fret, youngster. I can tell Barndog is a Marine. He's got the verbal cussedness of one when he types in his words.


GravatarSome are stars, some are galaxies. Hard to tell the apparent distance from a flat photograph.

Dunno what pic you are talking about about, but generally things that appear to be stars are stars, not galaxies.


GravatarMy best friend, 47 yo, and his SO had their first child Feb 29th. He's freaking out from the gravity of the situation.

I told him everything would be OK but he's not so sure.


GravatarOh. I see. Barndog's not a Marine, and Big Slug isn't a waste of perfectly good pixels. Nice to have THAT cleared up.

(Has it been like this all day here?)


GravatarTeaching, then lunch with renowned Native American poets, then partying with my mechanic parts-picking friend...

Um... I played Harvest Moon a lot. That compares, right?

The poets I know (and I know several, by a fluke) are nearly all women and damnably rowdy. Last poet-party I attended ended up with people mostly nekkid in the pool, then passing out all over the house.
Silleigh | 03.15.08 - 1:16 am | #


Nothing that risque occurred, but then we didn't have time.

One of the women recently read her works before a huge temple in Indonesia at night, all lit with torches, and shortly before that at a gathering in northern Norway, with the Saami. She is simply fucking incredible.


GravatarYou know there's laws against flase Vet claims.

Just so you know.
Big Slug

there should be a law against your incoherent ramblings.


GravatarThe bedwetting cowards who constitute the Chimperor's base, not so much.

They're morons.

They remind me of the nutty germans from the movies who freak out if someone criticized the "fatherland."

jingoistic fucks, all of them


GravatarDunno what pic you are talking about about, but generally things that appear to be stars are stars, not galaxies.
The Old Man From Scene 24 | Homepage


http://upload.wikimedia.org/ wiki..._deep_field.jpg


GravatarYou sound very much like my brother, Barndog.
Douglas Watts | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 1:17 am | #

your brother is a douche bag?


GravatarGrown ups can love their country and still recognize that it has done wrong things and that our history is full of incidents that are rather appalling

Pretty much what happened, when I first stepped foot into the Hiroshima A-Bomb Museum.


GravatarDunno what pic you are talking about about, but generally things that appear to be stars are stars, not galaxies.

If they're far enough away a galaxy will look like a point of light.


GravatarPretty much what happened, when I first stepped foot into the Hiroshima A-Bomb Museum.

Well, that's one example just from this century.


GravatarPretty much what happened, when I first stepped foot into the Hiroshima A-Bomb Museum.

I haven't done that. I imagine it's something like how a German might feel if they're visiting Auschwitz, though.

Lord knows it was emotionally draining for me when I visited Dachau.


GravatarLast poet-party I attended ended up with people mostly nekkid in the pool, then passing out all over the house.
Silleigh

SHIT. I NEVER get invited to the good parties.


GravatarWell, that's one example just from this century

That would be last century.


GravatarNothing that risque occurred, but then we didn't have time.


You need longer lunch dates.

Sounds like an awfully good day, nonetheless!


Gravatarhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/ wiki..._deep_field.jpg

Ahh yes. The Hubble Deep Field is eye opening to say the least.

Well the ones with the optical artifacts are stars for sure, but yeah its unclear if some of the other objects are stars or elliptical galaxies.


Gravatarthe more Marines you know, the more simularities you'll find.

A recruiting poster targeting teh chix has a girl sitting in a crowd at some kind of instructional period and the caption says that this is a great way to stand out. This invariably provokes one of two responses: one, yeah, everybody wearing the same clothes and being trained not to stand out is a real great way to stand out. And two: it is actually true that there are a lot of girls who go into the marines to be like the only girl for twenty-five square miles and pretend they're prettier than they are. There is a horrible black book like you might find under a brick in an undercellar of the Vatican holding unspoken and unspeakable reasons to join the military. In the sunlight everyone says they love their country, their daddy did it, and IX/XI; in the doorless toilet stalls they say they got caught with a bag of hash, some judge gave them a choice and the marines mean instant credibility.


GravatarYou know there's laws against flase Vet claims.

Just so you know.
Big Slug

there should be a law against your incoherent ramblings.
Duane V | 03.15.08 - 1:19 am | #

The same law applies to you, asshole.


GravatarWell the ones with the optical artifacts are stars for sure, but yeah its unclear if some of the other objects are stars or elliptical galaxies.
The Old Man From Scene 24 | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 1:23 am | #


ty


Gravatar
Teacher under investigation after commenting in class that 13-year-old student had "nice, perky #!#s." GUESS WHICH STATE?


Gravatarunclear to me that is, I'm sure real astronomers know the difference!


GravatarWell, that's one example just from this century

That would be last century.


Ack.

13 hour day for me- brain iz fried.

U NU WUT I MEANT!!!


GravatarGUESS WHICH STATE?

Kansas? Utah?


Gravatar
Teacher under investigation after commenting in class that 13-year-old student had "nice, perky #!#s." GUESS WHICH STATE?
k&y,bloodfeastislandpansies! | 03.15.08 - 1:24 am | #


Rhode Island!


GravatarAnyone got an extra few pounds of salt? We could clean this thread up right quick.


GravatarU NU WUT I MEANT!!!

Yes, I have my stoner decoder ring on and armed.


GravatarThe Hubble Deep Field is eye opening to say the least.

Staring into your past which is your future.


GravatarWhat's a "flase Vet" anyway?


GravatarAlien is on Encore II


GravatarGUESS WHICH STATE?

TEXAS!


GravatarWhat's a "flase Vet" anyway?

I must admit, I was a bit curious about this.


GravatarOh. I see. Barndog's not a Marine, and Big Slug isn't a waste of perfectly good pixels. Nice to have THAT cleared up.

(Has it been like this all day here?)
Silleigh | 03.15.08 - 1:19 am | #


Somebody's on the rag........


Gravatarmaybe caltech or something has a dl class on this pic i could listen to


GravatarTeacher under investigation after commenting in class that 13-year-old student had "nice, perky #!#s." GUESS WHICH STATE?
k&y,bloodfeastislandpansies!

Florida, if only to keep Sinfonian's track record going.


GravatarWhat? It's Florida, the bizarro state, where everything's fucked up!


GravatarBarndog's River Guide Service | 03.15.08 - 1:18 am | #
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I learned from my brother that when they were doing weekend warrior in the Marine Reserves on Cape Cod at Camp Edwards, my brother's friend did a few howitzer rounds wrong and they landed not that far from Route 28, the busiest highway on Cape Cod. Left big craters, apparently. No one was hurt.


Gravatarwell, texas iz known for its nice perky tits.


GravatarGerman Buys 3 Pages of NY Times to Explain War to Americans

http:// www.democraticunderground...mesg_id=3010716

Probably faster than haloscan.
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GravatarStaring into your past which is your future.

its just freaking amazing when you consider how small a portion of the sky that is, and that just about where ever we look thats not blocked by "near by" objects we can see 1,000s of other galaxies in similarly tiny sections of the sky.


GravatarAnyone got an extra few pounds of salt?

Real sea salt, a couple bucks for several pounds, at our local Kreen grocery.


Gravatarmy brother's friend did a few howitzer rounds wrong and they landed not that far from Route 28, the busiest highway on Cape Cod

I seem to recall something of this nature a few years back.


GravatarWhat? It's Florida, the bizarro state, where everything's fucked up!

If this is the correct answer, color me completely unsurprised.

Hey. We have snowbirds. I could just start telling people I'm Canadian.


GravatarSinfonian will be SO happy that Florida retains its title.


Gravatar"well, texas iz known for its nice perky tits.
fourlegsgood"

Um yeah, so many you trip over them out here.

(cough)


GravatarWhat could any German possibly know about warfare?


Gravatarhttp://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/US/ 0...tornado.cnn.jpg

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A tornado ripped through downtown Atlanta on Friday night, rippling the roof of the Georgia Dome during a college basketball game, shattering windows and ripping roofs from buildings before tearing into several residential neighborhoods.


The street outside CNN Center is covered in glass. Inside, water poured through damage in the ceiling.
2 of 3 Officials at two Atlanta hospitals said they'd treated at least 15 people for injuries -- two of them firefighters.

Hospital officials called one of the injuries "life threatening" but said most were superficial cuts and bruises.

The National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for the area, in effect until 10 p.m. The storm came through at about 9:45 p.m.

Inside CNN Center, water poured through damage in the ceiling into the building's atrium. Glass shattered, and parts of the building filled with dust.


Gravatarmaybe caltech or something has a dl class on this pic i could listen to

That's a famous picture. If you look around you'll be able to find a more detailed explanation.

I seem to remember it's very far away in a spot in the sky that looks pretty dark to most earth telescopes.


GravatarThe same law applies to you, asshole.
Big Slug | 03.15.08 - 1:23 am | #

actually, there are separate laws for slimy, crawling, small-brained creatures called slugs. Basically, they are stepped on or salted if they are as useless as you are.


Gravatarwell, texas iz known for its nice perky tits.
fourlegsgood


Here in Pittsburgh all we have is big and floppy.


GravatarOh, don't fret, youngster. I can tell Barndog is a Marine. He's got the verbal cussedness of one when he types in his words.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 03.15.08 - 1:19 am | #

So sounding and acting like a douche bag means you're a Marine?

Barnmutt may have seen time in the Salvation Army, that's about it.


Gravataroh noes

maddie wants to make muffins on me


and bitey mah fingers


GravatarWas that the Duke - GT game?


GravatarGerman Buys 3 Pages of NY Times to Explain War to Americans

http:// www.democraticunderground...mesg_id=3010716

Probably faster than haloscan.
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QuentinCompson

Should have bought 30 seconds on the American Idol finale.


GravatarWe predict that this kraut will find a twisted and confused way of discussing Western interference in the Mid-East at length without mentioning a certain I-word once.


GravatarHey Big Slug, howecome your dumbassed retard of a president thinks serving in Iraq is "so romantic", but when he had his chance to serve, he ran screaming from that stint in the champagne division of the Air National Guard, huh?

Asshole? You there?


GravatarCNN didn't need a tornadi reporter.

The story came to it.


Gravatargn peeps


GravatarThe story came to it

Talk about being on top of the story. Wait...


GravatarSomebody's on the rag........
Big Slug | 03.15.08 - 1:27 am | #

it appears to be you. try some Midol, like maybe 600 of them.


GravatarFor romance you can't beat an IED up your ass.


GravatarI seem to remember it's very far away in a spot in the sky that looks pretty dark to most earth telescopes.

yeah its a famous pic. They looked at a portion of the sky that would be covered by a grain of rice held at arms left (IIRC) but there a few stars within out galaxy even within that region chosen for its relevant lack of obscuring objects.


GravatarOne of the most amazing displays of verbal skills I have seen was that of a Viet Nam era Seal.

The second was a WWI Navy Chief that spent most of his times on carriers.

Why is it that Navy and Marines cuss so much. And with incredible flair.


Gravataractually, there are separate laws for slimy, crawling, small-brained creatures called slugs. Basically, they are stepped on or salted if they are as useless as you are.
ronjazz hussein | 03.15.08 - 1:30 am | #

Good thing Barnfuck has you here to protect him.


Gravatarmy brother's friend did a few howitzer rounds wrong and they landed not that far from Route 28, the busiest highway on Cape Cod

I seem to recall something of this nature a few years back.
Barndog's River Guide Service

I recall a naval training mission in NJ where the bombing runs made impacts at a school playground.


GravatarCNN didn't need a tornadi reporter.

The story came to it.


I've been working on my smiting skillz.


Hazn't quite refined them yet.


GravatarCorrection

"WWII Navy Chief"


Gravatara grain of rice held at arms length

Fixed my typo.


Gravatarmaddie wants to make muffins on me

I am hesitant to ask if this refers to kneading, or... something else.


GravatarI wonder if Jeff Flock will cover this?


GravatarFor romance you can't beat an IED up your ass.



GravatarBreaking news!

After today's stock market plunge American billionaires are willing to give up further tax breaks if Bush promises to quit talking about the economy.


GravatarCNN didn't need a tornadi reporter. The story came to it.

Just to be safe let's send Glenn Beck, Anderson Vanderbilt and Wolf Blitzer out there after it.


GravatarArizona man arrested after stashing a laptop
into his waistband. Police couldn't tell if he had a hard drive in his
pocket or was just happy to see them


GravatarI am hesitant to ask if this refers to kneading, or... something else.

kneading


Gravatarmy brother's friend did a few howitzer rounds wrong and they landed not that far from Route 28, the busiest highway on Cape Cod

I seem to recall something of this nature a few years back.
Barndog's River Guide Service

I recall a naval training mission in NJ where the bombing runs made impacts at a school playground.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | 03.15.08 - 1:33 am | #


Wow. You really have your fingers on the "pulse" don't you?

Idiots.

Well there was this one time my third cousin's neighbor told me that his Unlce in the Army National Guard.....blah blah blah.


GravatarAfter a couple of days of looking at Ashley....

Nah. Not worth the 4K.


GravatarI've been working on my smiting skillz.


Hazn't quite refined them yet.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur

You sure that Hecate DIDN'T have a role in that tornado?


GravatarMexican woman arrested after
strapping 33 pounds of cocaine to children's legs and trying to enter
Britain. Officials became suspicious when they noticed 33 POUNDS of
cocaine strapped to the children's legs


GravatarGod Bless America is a pretty shitty song anyways, when you think about it. If your people have been totally fucked over by America, and enslaved by America, and lynched by America, and burned at the stake for exercising your right to vote in America, if you actually believed in a benevolent God, wouldn't you have to logically conclude that either God Doesn't Bless America, or God is not on your side?

Just saying ...


Gravatarkneading

Whew. In that case, I am happy for you... relatively speaking.


GravatarNah. Not worth the 4K

Not worth the $4 for a beer.


GravatarBarnmutt may have seen time in the Salvation Army, that's about it.
Big Slug | 03.15.08 - 1:30 am | #

Oooh, somebody's jealous.


GravatarFor romance you can't beat an IED up your ass.
Gomez Hussein Gomez

Quick! Someone tell George Bush of this fun yet effective new suppository!


Gravatarronjazz
taught the guys some Moanin this eve
simple,fun


GravatarI knew this marine who had been in for 20 years. He had a quarter that he had turned into a ring by beating it against the railing of a ship during the cuban missile crisis. That's a lot of boredom.


GravatarWhat's a "flase Vet" anyway?

Well, American Chickenhawk for one.


Gravatartold me that his Unlce in the Army National Guard.....blah blah blah.
Big Slug | 03.15.08 - 1:35 am | #

well, I suppose the lobotomy could be blamed for the atrocious spelling, but it's probably always been an idiot.


GravatarHey Big Slug, howecome your dumbassed retard of a president thinks serving in Iraq is "so romantic", but when he had his chance to serve, he ran screaming from that stint in the champagne division of the Air National Guard, huh?

Asshole? You there?
Duane V | 03.15.08 - 1:31 am | #

At least he srved. More than you can say, shit for brains.


Gravatar
Whew. In that case, I am happy for you... relatively speaking.


Well, no, she iz gigantic, so it can be a painful proposition.


Gravatarronjazz
taught the guys some Moanin this eve
simple,fun
ErinPDX | 03.15.08 - 1:37 am | #

one of my all-time faves. I got to play it with Jon Hendricks once.


GravatarOfficials became suspicious when they noticed 33 POUNDS of
cocaine strapped to the children's legs


Norm MacDonald, is that you?


GravatarMexican woman arrested after
strapping 33 pounds of cocaine to children's legs and trying to enter
Britain.


Does the Rio Grande border Great Britain?

Someone should build a really big wall.


GravatarAgainst incredibly shitty competition, Big Slug is the wrost fckign trllo everr.,

Raelyl,.


GravatarHey Big Slug,

how come your dumbassed retard of a president thinks serving in Iraq is "so romantic", but when he had his chance to serve, he ran screaming from that stint in the champagne division of the Air National Guard, huh?

Asshole? You there?


GravatarAnybody here ever fucked a dog? I have.


GravatarWell, since our non-sentient troll seems to demand 'evidence,'

SUCK. ON. THIS.

http://hamptonroads.com/node/376751


Gravatar
After 267 vehicle fires and 17 structure fires, GM recalls every 3.8-liter V6 made after 1997 Oh Oh you damn labor unions why do you ruin a perfectly good car company with your insane obsessive demands for food and medicine?


GravatarAt least he srved. More than you can say, shit for brains.
Big Slug | 03.15.08 - 1:39 am | #

so deserting and serving are the same thing to you cowards? no wonder we lose every war a republican starts.


GravatarI knew this marine who had been in for 20 years. He had a quarter that he had turned into a ring by beating it against the railing of a ship during the cuban missile crisis. That's a lot of boredom.
leibniz♘☮ | 03.15.08 - 1:38 am | #


Riveting story, lesbianitz. Thanks for sharing. Did you know that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Deleware and Honest Abe never told a lie?

Putz.


GravatarAt least he srved. More than you can say, shit for brains.

“I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes."

George W. Bush on why he joined the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, 1990.


GravatarAt least he srved. More than you can say, shit for brains.
Big Slug

Is THAT what you call "serving"? You really ARE a fucking retard, aren't you?


GravatarI got to play it with Jon Hendricks once.

you bastid



Gravatar“I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment.

Too bad he had not met Dick Cheney.


GravatarIs THAT what you call "serving"? You really ARE a fucking retard, aren't you?
Duane V | 03.15.08 - 1:42 am | #

Big Slug never served.


GravatarAt least he srved. More than you can say, shit for brains.
Big Slug | 03.15.08 - 1:39 am | #

so deserting and serving are the same thing to you cowards? no wonder we lose every war a republican starts.
ronjazz hussein | 03.15.08 - 1:41 am | #

Did you serve shitheel?


GravatarWell, no, she iz gigantic, so it can be a painful proposition.

Gotta loooove those rabbit-esque claws shredding your thighs. I suppose picking up "presents" would be fun by comparison. Sorta like an Easter-brownie hunt.


GravatarBig Slug

You'd make good fertilizer. Go to Iraq. You'd last about thirty seconds. Someone as stupid as you never really served. Unless it was your ass on a plate.


GravatarAfter 267 vehicle fires and 17 structure fires, GM recalls every 3.8-liter V6 made after 1997 Oh Oh you damn labor unions why do you ruin a perfectly good car company with your insane obsessive demands for food and medicine?
k&y,bloodfeastislandpansies!

Uh...link? (I have one of these cars...Had issues with fuel pressure regulator...related?)


GravatarThe recruiting commercial we want to see: a handsome young lad washes his face as a narrator narrates: This son ofd a bitch will fuck your girlfriend like she's never been fucked before, and I do mean so as to make her "open-minded," after he kicks your ass, and he can do this because he was in the marines. Marines. The Few. The Proud. The Bastards fucking your mama and your best gal right as you hear this."


GravatarI stopped fucking dogs about a year ago.


GravatarSo, Big Slug, tell us what your MOS was.

C'mon, spill!


Gravatarlink to GM story


GravatarBig Slug never served.
ronjazz hussein

Serviced, yes.
Served, nope.


Gravatar/me reaches for the salt.


GravatarI got to play it with Jon Hendricks once.
***
you bastid


Get outta my head. Guy's amazing.


GravatarAt least he srved. More than you can say, shit for brains.

The fact that he deserted kind of takes the shine off of his service.


GravatarSo many intelligent people engaged in schoolyard taunts.

No wonder Atrios posts little. I heard this site was intellectual instead its nothing more than name calling.

shit for brains, fucking retard etc etc


GravatarI stopped fucking dogs about a year ago.
Big Slug |

Yes, and your mom says she misses you.


GravatarGrown ups can love their country and still recognize that it has done wrong things and that our history is full of incidents that are rather appalling.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur

Yup, we've created a whole lot of bad karma, that inevitably has blowback built-in. Introspect.


GravatarDid you serve shitheel?
Big Slug | 03.15.08 - 1:43 am | #

I only serve shitheel at republican parties. I always run out early. republicans can't eat enough shit, or suck enough flaccid Bush dick, or tap in enough stalls. they jut can't get enough perversion, but they're really happy eating shit.


GravatarIf we PAID the trolls, could we get better quality?

At least two-diamond trolls?


Gravatarshit for brains, fucking retard etc etc

If the shoe fits...


GravatarYes, and your mom says she misses you.
Duane V | 03.15.08 - 1:46 am | #
--


Thanks for making me drool on myself ...


GravatarI used to let Sailors fuck my mouth when I served on ships.

Service on ship really meant lip service.


Gravatar
In a sign that the U.S. dollar
has hit rock-bottom, Chilean strippers are offering to exchange dollars
at the higher 2004 exchange rate to discourage Americans from cutting
back on visits. No word yet on Argentines, Paraguayans, Colombians, Venezuelans or Brazilians. Damn South Americans are hot.


Gravatarone fake book says hendricks lambert etc.
the other?
have Blakey recording but didn't play it for the guys until we worked thru it.


Gravatarshit for brains, fucking retard etc etc
Jet

I've had it with these Trolls.
But you're right, I need to compose myself..


Gravatarfucking dogs, your momma...sad

What are the current bills in congress?


Gravatar
The sweetest economic karma in the no-regulation Bush Administration? His daddy's company has tanked on margin calls

THIS IS WHAT KLF IS ABOUT


GravatarI've arrived. Finally, Namestolen! I'd like to thank the academy..


GravatarJon Hendricks swung harder making his introductions than Michael Buble could ever imagine in his wildest dreams.


GravatarIf we PAID the trolls, could we get better quality?


The "quality" (if that is the correct term) of trools round here has been plummeting since 2005.


GravatarI used to blow sailors too.


GravatarBut you're right, I need to compose myself..
Duane V

Be the bigger person.


GravatarThe trolls are at their lowest when they start the tough guy routine questioning someone's service.


GravatarWhat are the current bills in congress?
Jet | 03.15.08 - 1:48 am |

HR 1245: dog fucking for republican candidates.


GravatarI heard this site was intellectual instead its nothing more than name calling.

Concern: noted.


GravatarWhat are the current bills in congress?
Jet

Oh, get over yourself...


Gravataryikes, wtf?


GravatarBecause I know those here are bigger people.


GravatarAh. Not the Park Ave/Le Sabre/88/Bonneville models - just the smaller Grand Prix & Regal GS models with superchargers (not the basic fuel injected models).

Thanks.


GravatarHR 1245: dog fucking for republican candidates.
ronjazz hussein

HAH!


GravatarDude, namestealing is like so totally 2004.


GravatarWho here can deny me when I say you are the bigger people?


GravatarJet gives me a woody.


GravatarSome people's kids. Jesus.


GravatarSo many intelligent people engaged in schoolyard taunts.

No wonder Atrios posts little. I heard this site was intellectual instead its nothing more than name calling.

shit for brains, fucking retard etc etc
Jet | 03.15.08 - 1:46 am | #

Don't like it here, you can fucking leave, Jet.


GravatarAre you the bigger people?

Hell Yeh!!

Shall simpled words cause me anger?

Hell no!!


GravatarThe sweetest economic karma in the no-regulation Bush Administration? His daddy's company has tanked on margin calls

How sweet it is!

I heard this site was intellectual instead its nothing more than name calling.

This is the night shift on a Friday. We keep ourselves amused by batting trolls around with our paws like a cat does with a field mouse.


GravatarI heard this site was intellectual

*breaking glass*retrieving emergency materials*inflating whoopee cushion*positioning cushion*wait for it*wait*for*it---


Gravatarone fake book says hendricks lambert etc.
the other?
have Blakey recording but didn't play it for the guys until we worked thru it.
ErinPDX | 03.15.08 - 1:47 am | #

Good recordings also by Cannonball Adderly and Wes Montgomery.


GravatarI'm yanking my cock like you wouldn't believe.


GravatarDon't like it here, you can fucking leave, Jet.
Barndog's River Guide Service

Not A GREAT WAY to get customers BD.


GravatarYeah. Don't let the door hit your ass, Jet.


GravatarI'm yanking my cock like you wouldn't believe.
Jet

Well don't just blog - post it to YouTube.


GravatarI'm yanking my cock like you wouldn't believe.

Dude! Me too! Let's see who can splooge first!


GravatarFor about the 150th day in a row, CNBC is reporting that stocks are down on credit fears and weakness in the financial sector


Gravatar3.15.08 isnt me, but this is the childlike posts [by an adult] that diffuse your movement


GravatarThis is the night shift on a Friday. We keep ourselves amused by batting trolls around with our paws like a cat does with a field mouse.

Too bad this one wasn't around for that epic Man-On-Box-Turtle thread a few years back.

His pearls would have dissolved right in his clenched palms.


GravatarI disappeared off the face of the Earth around ten years ago - I fell into a terrible depression after my divorce and felt like dying, living on friends couches until I was no longer welcome, etc. From making good money to being flat broke. The shame of falling so hard has made it very awkward for me to recontact my old friends - some of whom I'd known for 30 years.

So what do I do? It would be weird just to appear out of the blue.


GravatarFor about the 150th day in a row, CNBC is reporting that stocks are down on credit fears and weakness in the financial sector
k&y,bloodfeastislandpansies!

So nice they can save a few cents by recycling headline copy.


Gravatar


k&y,bloodfeastislandpansies! |



03.15.08 - 1:53 am |

This is nametheft, and it's nametheft that explicitly targets Jet, thereby allowing Jet to claim in future that he was viciously attacked. So it almost certainly was by Jet.


Gravatarchildlike posts [by an adult] that diffuse your movement
Jet | 03.15.08 - 1:54 am | #

your movements are diffuse.


Gravatar3.15.08 isnt me, but this is the childlike posts [by an adult] that diffuse your movement
Jet

Oh, I see. A Concern Troll.


GravatarJet,
As we used to say in the Marines - Go fuck yourself.


GravatarSo it almost certainly was by Jet.
k&y,bloodfeastislandpansies!

So transparent, aren't they?


GravatarFor about the 150th day in a row, CNBC is reporting that stocks are down on credit fears and weakness in the financial sector

Of course they are Carlyle and many others practice highly leveraged hedge funds some 32 to 1.


Gravatar
NASA to announce discovery of
organic molecules on distant planet. Planets inhabitants threaten
invasion unless last episode of Single Female Lawyer aired

LRR HAS SPOKEN!!


GravatarSo what do I do? It would be weird just to appear out of the blue.
Jimmy the Geek | 03.15.08 - 1:54 am | # [kill]​[hide comment]


I hate to break this to you, but you died in 1996.


GravatarJimmy,

It would be wierder to never appear again.

Time heals all wounds.

-GSD


GravatarSo it almost certainly was by Jet.
k&y,bloodfeastislandpansies!

lol


Gravatar"Oh, I see. A Concern Troll.
Duane V"

Another rube who would walk into a biker bar and demand everyone be polite and treat one another with respect.


Gravatar
Who'd buy that for a dollar: Robocop latest movie to be "re-imagined" by
Hollywood.
WHY GOD WHY?


Gravatarnight all (except for the dumbfuck trools)


GravatarYes, actually you should
panic
The problem with smart gadgets that hook up to
your computer is that any yeeha on the assembly line can install a
rootkit virus on every one going out the door.


GravatarJet,
As we used to say in the Marines - Go fuck yourself.

Ummm I am not a marine, perhaps you could give a promotional video?


Gravatar"Robocop latest movie to be "re-imagined" by
Hollywood. "

This is going to start Wahlberg isn't it.


GravatarBeware of the Idles of March.

BTW, Jet, don't you have a stall to go tap in?


GravatarAnother rube who would walk into a biker bar and demand everyone be polite and treat one another with respect.
EkCenTriK

Anyone who can't stand the heat, Needs to get the hell out of the kitchen.


GravatarYeah. Don't let the door hit your ass, Jet.

But this is EXACTLY the style and syntax I'm accustomed to seeing from k&y! Wow, this guy is GOOD!


GravatarI don't get why the trolls want to disrupt this particular site so badly ... what is it? there are many other non-registering political sites (even though the host has said this aint one) they could fuck with-yet, they come here why? trolls?


GravatarNite, The Old Man From Scene 24


GravatarYeah. Don't let the door hit your ass, Jet.

Ah yes, more elementary tactics

Genius!


GravatarThe Crawford Caligula thinks that brain damage, missing limbs and PTSD are romantic.

Valentines Day must suck for Pickles.

-GSD


GravatarThat's an alimentary tactic.


Gravataryet, they come here why?

Masochistic fantasies they can't get fulfilled elsewhere?


GravatarI am K&Y

LOL


GravatarApparently there was a good robocop sequel (by the original writers) that was never filmed and its script is floating around somewhere; it's called "The Corporate Wars."


GravatarI hate to break this to you, but you died in 1996.
The Old Man From Scene 24 | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 1:56 am | #

Ouch


GravatarI think you mean AIL mike


GravatarWhew! I shot my load, finally! I'm feeling SO MUCH better now. Not so mean and spiteful.

Thanks, gang. Same time tomorrow night?


Gravatar¡Demonions!

¡Eet's steenky een here, like a gato's fart after a plate of liver!

That ees one well fed trollita...and look at all the leetle piles of sheet she has left all over the thread.

Joo Atriotistas have some funny ways of amusing jourselves, no?

so.


GravatarI have always thought Robocop and Max Headroom should have met up.


Gravatar"ike a gato's fart after a plate of liver!"

Okay, that is hard to even read without holding one's nose.


GravatarI have always thought Robocop and Max Headroom should have met up.

Out of all the bullshit nostalgia for the eighties, none of the really cool stuff from the eighties gets remembered properly.


Gravatarronjazz
taught the guys some Moanin this eve
simple,fun
ErinPDX | 03.15.08 - 1:37 am | #

one of my all-time faves. I got to play it with Jon Hendricks once.
ronjazz hussein | 03.15.08 - 1:39 am | #



Too kewl.

I've always liked the Marty Paich arrangement:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product...5560096&sr=8- 20

Of course, I like all million Marty Paich arrangements.
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GravatarThanks, gang. Same time tomorrow night?

Big Slug

Try Central Park. Could be your break in the lucrative film industry!

“Ladies and Gents,” a noir-ish thriller from Ireland, opens Monday in public bathrooms in New York’s Central Park.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/1...&hp& oref=slogin


GravatarSilleigh =)


Gravatar"
Out of all the bullshit nostalgia for the eighties, none of the really cool stuff from the eighties gets remembered properly."

Eh?


GravatarJoo Atriotistas have some funny ways of amusing jourselves, no?

Late-night. Cats. Mice. Surely you know this dynamic.

Nice to see your nym, btw!


GravatarIt's so wierd that all this great art comes out of Iceland and Ireland.


GravatarThis is why they come here.

We speak the truth, and they can't stand it.


"The Crawford Caligula thinks that brain damage, missing limbs and PTSD are romantic."

Here's something for all you Trolls;

Your President is a deranged treasonous criminal. His administration is run by fascist thieves, and murderers. You make fools of yourselves when you defend him and his criminal regime. I fully expect you to continue.


GravatarOut of all the bullshit nostalgia for the eighties, none of the really cool stuff from the eighties gets remembered properly."

Because its unmemorable?


GravatarIt's so wierd that all this great art comes out of Iceland and Ireland.
k&y,bloodfeastislandpansies!

Seasonal Affective Disorder makes an interesting muse.

Just ask the ballroom dance fans of Finland.


GravatarKeith Haring, Max Headroom, Dead Kennedies, Bad Religion, early Alan Moore, and Phoebe Cates. That's everything that was good about the eighties; it's not much, but it's nothing you find on any eighties show on VH1. Cartoon Network had the Pee Wee Herman Christmas Special and it had Larry Fishburne, Little Richard, Cowgirl KD Laing, and a coupla other people.


GravatarAnd also Bloom County.


Gravatark&y,bloodfeastislandpansies

pixies and sonic youth. otherwise, just about perfect list..


GravatarJeez KY, I am trying to forget that crap.


GravatarBad taste. Doesn't that figure?


GravatarBetter start keying on economcs today than so called music of the past


GravatarBetter start keying on economcs today than so called music of the past
Jet

Why? What could possibly go wrong? George Bush said we weren't having a recession.


Gravatar"Better start keying on economcs today than so called music of the past
Jet"

Oh yes, no joys, no good memories, we must be so serious and purposeful in life.

What an ass. I cracked jokes at my brother's funeral. He would ahve appreciated it. Life is too short to let it be nothing but a regimented exercise of getting from one day to the next.


Gravatar80s. This is surely my bedtime cue. Night, all.


GravatarDa Mastah
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BxjciWRj3kw
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GravatarSilleigh, nighty nite..


Gravatar"ike a gato's fart after a plate of liver!"

Okay, that is hard to even read without holding one's nose.


Or like a Ripley fart after too much ham.

Ay carumba!!


GravatarBad Religion: Sorrow


Gravatar"Or like a Ripley fart after too much ham.

Ay carumba!!
fourlegsgood"

Again, we are cat owners why?


Gravatarhee
most fun me playing tenor


GravatarI admit that cats are intriguing, being energetic little bundles. They are creative in their ways. But god we suffer for their fart.


GravatarI discovered tonight that Paich also arranged this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jHcV1lmxszU
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Gravatarhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-...h?v=- lOcRI37cu0


GravatarJoo said a mouthful, 4LG

Bad religion: 21st century Digital Boy


GravatarAgain, we are cat owners why?

Ekcentrik, I theenk joo have the chain of ownersheep reversed.

Ees okay, I forgeeve joo.


GravatarI discovered tonight that Paich also arranged this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jHcV1lmxszU
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QuentinCompson | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 2:21 am | #

I hope he wasn't responsible for the choreography.

I love the Mel Torme stuff Paich did.


Gravatarhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i...h? v=iva_Y9W3hJ0


Gravatar[Sniff, sniff, sniff. Cough, gasp, cough]

Why does this thread smell like cat farts???


GravatarHey anyone watch Waxman on Moyers?
Great. Then our whistleblower privacy hero Mark Klien was on NOW with David Broncochio. Great interview.


Gravatar"Ees okay, I forgeeve joo.
¡El Gato Negro!"

It is a classic ongoing battle for control.


GravatarBetter start keying on economcs today than so called music of the past
Jet | 03.15.08 - 2:13 am | #

Why don't you just take care of that for us, jut?


GravatarSpocko, you deserves attaboys for your comments as noted by Digby.


Gravatarhttp://www.youtube.com/watch? v=0...feature=related


GravatarAgain, we are cat owners why?


What is life without plush?

I say it iz not worth living.


GravatarI joined the Marines because I wasn't smart enough for the Air Force.


GravatarI think the first Robocop was a great movie. It had so many great parody bits and then it had the sad story of a man being owned by a corporation and regaining his humanity.

Robocop two was okay, tree was a disaster. The TV series had some good moments, but I didn't watch all of them. One thing they did on the TV series is give him nonviolent methods to catch the bad guys. I thought that was a good idea.


Gravatarbo,

gato farts are like pine-scented air freshener compared to the spew of las trollitas.

Hopefully the punk rock weel clear the air a leetle, eh?

Bad Religion: Punk Rock Song

Unfortunamente, YouTube does't have "Hooray for Me!" my personal fave.

Pfui.


GravatarNamestolen again!!


GravatarThe real me is the one with the nifty Galactus gravatar!


GravatarHokay, time to go hunt up some Sangria.

Buenos noches, murcielagos.

¡Congrats Spocko!

Adios.


Gravatarhttp://www.youtube.com/watch? v=N...feature=related


GravatarMy asvab was so low, the Air force wouldn't even interview me.


GravatarGreetings and Salutations Night Shift!

[bows and twirls hand under chin]


GravatarNext Air force slogan:

Arbeit Macht Frei


Gravatarhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h...h? v=h7h7jsqI6OY

Davey Jones, aka David Bowie. Great early Bowie.


Gravatarhttp://www.youtube.com/watch? v=i...feature=related


GravatarDimocrat Death March To Altoona:

Hussein Obama suddenly wearing an albatross named Rev. Jeremiah Wright around his neck...


GravatarGood Night everyone!


GravatarWithin seconds of Felicia shutting that door, so began her reenactment of the battle of Tora Bora. Had al-Qaeda been in our toilet that day, they would have happily handed over bin Laden and become Mormons. That day Felicia's cinnamon ring withstood an egress of wheat grass juice at a velocity I can't begin to comprehend.

As quickly as it began, it stopped. But it was a mere pause, followed by a "cough". Then the blitzkrieg continued. I can only speculate, but I think the cough was a diversionary tactic to save what little grace she didn't already violently shit out.


Gravatarhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G...h?v=GFPF7E- NWac


GravatarAir Force - Closest to God

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GravatarAnybody else tuned in to Night of the Lepus, on TCM?

If not, you're missing the spectacle of giant, carnivorous killer rabbits devouring Arizona, and a bunch of B-list stars.


GravatarAnd they've got a mean streak a mile wide!


GravatarThe rabbits, that is.


GravatarNight, everybody!


Gravatar"It's big as a wolf -- and just as vicious!"


GravatarFlopsy! Peter! Noooooooo!


GravatarIt's Beatrice Potter meets Dean Koontz!


GravatarHussein Obama = Farrakhan+Malcolm X, in flaming drag


GravatarHere are some other past actions and accusations that Barack will have to face before the campaign is over. Better to face them now rather than later so that there will be no surprises and he will be able to run as strong a campaign as possible, now and against McCain:

Barack In The Day

"He was just 35 when in 1996 he won his first bid for political office. Even many of his staunchest supporters, such as Black, still resent the strong-arm tactics Obama employed to win his seat in the Illinois Legislature.

Obama hired fellow Harvard Law alum and election law expert Thomas Johnson to challenge the nominating petitions of four other candidates, including the popular incumbent, Alice Palmer, a liberal activist who had held the seat for several years, according to an April 2007 Chicago Tribune report.
Obama found enough flaws in the petition sheets—to appear on the ballot, candidates needed 757 signatures from registered voters living within the district—to knock off all the other Democratic contenders. He won the seat unopposed."


GravatarLubyanka = flaming idiot asshole


Gravatargood ol McCain a man of the people someone you would just love to have a beer with, a friendly guy, a man of the people........ just like the giggling idiot we already have in the white house.


Gravatarso is Obama too muslim or too christian?


GravatarThe search for anyone who might be trapped in an apartment building that collapsed when a tornado swept through downtown Atlanta Friday evening could last until Sunday, Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran said early Saturday.

The Fulton Cotton Mill Lofts, just east of downtown Atlanta, collapsed in a "pancake fashion," Cochran said.

Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said emergency officials have determined that it was a tornado that ripped through the heart of her city, damaging the roof of the Georgia Dome during a college basketball game, shattering windows and tearing roofs from buildings before continuing into several residential neighborhoods.
The building that collapsed was the Fulton cotton mills lofts. They consist of apts. of condos and rental units.


GravatarUh-oh: The killer rabbits are about to eat the General Store.


GravatarHussein Obama's strange claim: he was somehow unaware of his pastor's ultra-radical anti-American views--for 20 years...

could Hussein be just another rad-lib liar?


GravatarNow, don't get all old-school on me. If you're gonna go bologna, you might as well go german.


GravatarSo the pastor at Obama's church is not politically correct enough for conservative media. He needs to totally agree with everything that shrub has done. Even though what he did was all wrong.


GravatarI think Obamas pastor is right.


GravatarRad-Lib?

Miss Lubyanka Thing is waving a wang-wang from the days long gone by. Grow a calendar!


Gravatar"rad-lib"?

Wow. How very ... retro of you, Loonywanka. Did you find some Bircher pamphlets while you were rooting through your Dad's sock drawer?


Gravatarrepigs:

Great minds, and all that.


GravatarOh Miss Missy Lubyanka, I think Mr. McCain might be Soft On Communism. He was making all kissy butt with the Vietnamese, who might still be allied with Red China.


Gravatar(º)(º)


GravatarMr. Professor Fate man owes me a soda.


GravatarHussein Obama Campaign: a slow sink into the Allegheny River, weighed down by the albatross of the Right Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's mentor and spiritual advisor...


GravatarEeeeeeeek!!!

a booby!!!


GravatarBillary campaign: Rev. Jeremiah Wright on every billboard and milk carton!!!


GravatarDid everbody read the interesting article on Barack's State Senate Days that I quoted?


Gravatar"Obamagasmics Panicked: Silver-Tongued Panderer Torpedoed By Close Affiliation With Radical Anti-American Pastor Of 20 Years.."


Gravatarrepigs out:

Yeah, but how you gonna collect?

As for the article, I just scanned about a third of it. I'll bookmark it for tomorrow, though, 'cause right now I'm having too much fun watching the killer rabbits.


GravatarJust out of curiousity, Loonywanka, are you picking up these headlines from the fillings in those back molars?

If so, you need to start using a heavier grade of tin-foil in your hat.


Gravatar"There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way, and we need your help!"


Gravatarceci n'est pas un comment

.


GravatarLA Jazz Inst. Bill Holman The Man I Love
http://video.google.com/videopla...earch& plindex=2
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GravatarOh no! Now they're after Janet Leigh!


GravatarUntil you've actually been there, few people can appreciate the raw terror of a horde of giant bunnies.


GravatarZOMG! Now they're raping the cattle and stampeding the women!


GravatarBob Herbert, up close and personal with David Paterson in Albany at just the perfect moment:


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/1...=th& oref=slogin


GravatarWabbit Fwicassee, courtesy of electrified railroad tracks.

Man, it just doesn't get any better than this.


GravatarI'm such a douchebag!


GravatarI love dicks.


GravatarDouchebag


GravatarWell, I can't sleep, so I thought I'd say hello to all the insomniacs.
.


GravatarThe other day I linked to a Gail Collins OpEd in the NYT and several people came back and said (basically) "Oh, she's just a third-tier wannabe MoDo."
To me, there's quite a bit less of the "Black Widow dispatching her mate" I find in MoDo. Take this paragraph:

The country that elected George Bush — sort of — because he seemed like he’d be more fun to have a beer with than Al Gore or John Kerry is really getting its comeuppance. Our credit markets are foundering, and all we’ve got is a guy who looks like he’s ready to kick back and start the weekend.

I think she's onto something.


GravatarSaturday's Collins, should anyone care to read it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/1....html?th& emc=th


GravatarWhat a fucking lesson country better fucking learn!


GravatarTo me, there's quite a bit less of the "Black Widow dispatching her mate" I find in MoDo.

Nice one, plantsman.


GravatarI can't even write.
What a fucking lesson this country better fucking learn!!!!


Gravatar12 people.
The Dirty Dozen!
Lowest I've ever seen.


GravatarOh, it gets lower in the next hour generally -- I've seen it down to 3.


GravatarDon't worry, Elias.

Judging from VietNam and Watergate, the shelf life of any lesson learned is less than a decade.


GravatarWe gladly feast on those who would subdue us.


GravatarDown to 3? Bet you can hear an echo.

And prof, you're right about that. This country really learned from Vietnam, didn't it? I listened to the Winter Soldiers today, and a number of them mentioned how sad this was. They had to learn the lesson all over again.


Gravatarcan't hang people. fading fast.
catch you later today.


Gravatar'Night, Elias.

My sleep schedule's completely fucked by this raging head cold. I slept all day, and now I'm buzzing on decongestants.

Might even stay up for the next one on TCM: the Bert I. Gordon epic Attack of the Puppet People. Then again, maybe not: It's hard to beat the over-the-top silliness of Night of the Lepus.


GravatarLearn from Vietnam? First, we had to sit thru decades of Conservative Revisionist History that made the war the fault of the people who never wanted to wage it. When that double-think was firmly bonded to the national psyche, we had to take every thing aspirational the Boomers tried to reach for and failed to grasp onto and make the aspiration itself seem shameful. It's been a long, sad slog into Conservatard Dystopia.


Gravatar13...a baker's dozen


GravatarGood evening, Sarah D; how's by you?


Gravatarhey peeps. briefly read thru comments on obama's pastor troubles on here. i think its a big deal - check that, i don't - but i think that it will play out on fox and shit for a long time


GravatarThe Pastor is not Obama. QED. Who "put this out there" just now?


GravatarHi, Sarah. What's up?


Gravatari did. and it says obama ('S) pastor. unless you were insinuating that i thought obama=his pastor and his shit. not at all


GravatarNo, no, no -- It's my fault I think Mark Penn is devious enough to try some too-clever-by-half gambit to take the focus off of G. Ferraro and put it back on Obama -- and I'll own that suspicion.


Gravataranyone see day zero?


GravatarNow, now, plantsman, just because Hillary was cozying up to Rupert a few months ago, that doesn't mean anything, right?


GravatarNow we've got two Johns on the tv: John Hoyt and John "Poor Man's Wayne" Agar.


Gravatarhey, planstsman, prof. Just cruising by before heading to bed. How's everyone?


Gravatar"Course Not! And just because the campaign has tried using race to diminish Obama numerous times before does not mean they're doing it now.


GravatarG F is kind of a weird blessing for obama i think, since she has come out like: "you should apologize to me." most peeps are insulted by that, i believe. HC's caution about it also shows her big weakness: BO outright slammed anyone who thought he was ambivalent on his pastor's words


GravatarSniffling. Gone through two boxes of tissues in a single day. God, how I hate head colds!

Better than the flu, of course, but still a pain in the ... sinuses.


Gravatarhead colds are utter misery. one is still expected to get up, go to work, etc, but it's like trudging through cold molasses. what we need to do is hang by our feet like bats so we can drain....


GravatarG F gets an Oscar for cluelessness in a supporting role, imho. Has not known when to stop digging, poor thing.


GravatarOh, crap, now Agar and his girlfriend are at the drive-in, watching "The Amazing Colossal Man".

Bert I. Gordon, you are utterly shameless.


GravatarIt's a shame though, all the top you-tube videos are the pastor going off. i hope it doesn't turn off young voters who don't look around, say here...


GravatarOT - I've long had this thought that TV constantly showing us images of people unlike ourselves doing "people-y" things was subliminally healthy at breaking down long-held barriers. Or maybe I'm crazy.


GravatarYor're crazy.

Our times up. I'll bill you.


Gravatarlike: cheaters? what are you watching?


GravatarYor're crazy.

Perhaps. But I spell well.


Gravatarwhat are you watching?

My monitor, and a Scrabulous Game with the robot.


Gravatar'night all, sweet dreams - or, if you're up and it's early morning for you, have a lovely one.


Gravatarالمراره هو سوء التغذيه


Gravatari'm not watching, i'm listening: raveonettes new album. i'm bored, but i like your last question. so... top 5 movies. only asking 'cause we're both bored and i don't think i'll get a "legally blonde" answer.


GravatarSarah Deere has the right idear.

Off to beddy-bye, to read myself to sleep with Moses Isegawa's "Abyssinian Chronicles". One hell of a first novel, about a boy growing up in Idi Amin's Uganda.

Gute Nacht, meine kleinen mondfledermausen.


GravatarSarah, long time no see...


GravatarPerhaps. But I spell well.
plantsman


I'm a doctor. It's my handwriting that's the problem.


Gravatar苦味是營養不良


GravatarHow fortunate CNN is in Atlanta to cover the tornado that may have hit there!


Gravatar如果一方面可以看看有什麼眼睛抓手,與心,可以知道是什麼,舌頭的願望,年輕人將蒙受明智,扔掉他們的刀劍 ,並行使自己的廉潔笑容


GravatarWho "put this out there" just now?
plantsman


Wright has been 'out there' for some time. Remember him being 'uninvited' to Obama's big preznitial kickoff last January? Wingnuts have gone on about him from time to time, Faux did that interview with him a year ago, but with a few exceptions corporate media played him light or ignored him completely. NYT did a Obama 'faith' profile last April and covered Wright, but that's print not video, so no TV.

Then recently ABC got the video/dvds from the church and played some Thursday, and Faux got some and played them after that. IIRC, the church sells the sermons, and Obama listened to/watched them while at Harvard because he said so in his book. Anyone who read the book should know the church had the goods.

Revise the conspiracies as needed.

I just thought 'they' would wait until after he got the nod before 'they' started dragging him down. Premature ejaculation.
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Gravatardo you think he is fucked over this?


GravatarPremature emasculation?
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GravatarThe Repigs are playing us like Punch and Judy. First, build up Clinton into the Wicked Witch of the West and stir up millions of Obama supporters to declare that they will never vote for her, and then unleash the dogs on Obama. We have already been pwned.


GravatarI just thought 'they' would wait until after he got the nod before 'they' started dragging him down. Premature ejaculation.

That's why the slime points to Hillary.


GravatarObama on Rev. Wright and Rezko on Countdown:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/ 2113...640119#23640119


Gravatardo you think he is fucked over this?
idaho dude | 03.15.08 - 4:53 am | #

If Bill Clinton could survive the bimbo eruptions during his first campaign for the White House, Barack can survive this. We must not allow the Repigs to keep us at each other's throats. Who wins when Democrats fight Democrats? We are better than the Repig Party of Hating.


GravatarThe GOP has a very limited playbook of "nuclear" options and they've gone to the same well with them over and over, campaign after campaign.
We all know that repeating the same stimulus provokes less and less of a response over time.
Be watchful, but worry not.


Gravatarwe all know Obama's response, but it's gonna be Rush, O'Reilly, Savage, and Hannity all over his ass.


Gravatarbut it's gonna be Rush, O'Reilly, Savage, and Hannity all over his ass.

Indeed. And we also know that however big their audiences are, they are in significant decline and have been for years.


GravatarWhen Limpdick, Hannity and Bloody Bill tell you to vote for Hillary you might want to rethink your position...


Gravatardo you think he is fucked over this?

It will depend on how he handles it, and he has not handled it well so far, imo. He's backed himself into a corner about what and when did he know it, and his story stinks to this camper. He has been very careful when he 'answers' specific questions about it and does the politician switchoff when answering.

Maybe he can get out of it somehow, but it's late to be learning. Keeping Wright attached in any way was very stupid, there should have been no invitation to have to uninvite, etc. IF one is running for preznit.

Obama obviously is very reluctant to kissoff Wright, and tries to rehabilitate him every appearance, the 'former Marine, respected preacher' and so forth. If he is becoming President then each day carries him away from what his life has been like, and Obama wants to have his past and leave it too. He could fuck it up even more or wake up, seems to me. Obama's chickens have come home to roost.
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GravatarScreaming Conservative Whackjobs confirming their racism scares me not at all.


GravatarWhen Limpdick, Hannity and Bloody Bill tell you to vote for Hillary you might want to rethink your position...

Since I don't listen, what they say has NO effect on me.


GravatarI trust either Obama or Clinton to put Gitmo to good use when the RW fucktards act up.
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GravatarWe can't get past the wingers by emulating their stupidity, imo.


GravatarSince I don't listen, what they say has NO effect on me.

Good for you, the other 50 million, not so sure.


GravatarSam, we have to deal with them somehow - cowering before their imagined "might" ain't gonna work.


GravatarWhen the Repigs really start to campaign, they distort and LIE. The media often calls them on it, but the Repigs have spent years teaching their followers to believe the Repig Party, not their own eyes. It will get much worse, whoever the nominee is.

It's March 15th. This is only the beginning. There will be blood.


GravatarIt will get much worse, whoever the nominee is.

Waahhh! Aint't It Awful? Let's have a Pity Party!


GravatarWhen the eloquent Adlai Stevenson was running for president against Dwight Eisenhower, a woman gushed to the Democratic candidate after a rally, "Every thinking person will be voting for you." Stevenson replied: "Madam, that is not enough. I need a majority."

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GravatarWhen the eloquent Adlai Stevenson was running for president against Dwight Eisenhower, a woman gushed to the Democratic candidate after a rally, "Every thinking person will be voting for you." Stevenson replied: "Madam, that is not enough. I need a majority."

Clever, yes; but he never got one.

/just sayin'


GravatarWhen the eloquent Adlai Stevenson was running for president against Dwight Eisenhower, a woman gushed to the Democratic candidate after a rally, "Every thinking person will be voting for you." Stevenson replied: "Madam, that is not enough. I need a majority."

Priceless, and with that, I bid you goodnight.


Gravatarthat last quote was the point of my question: thinkers will dismiss this shit, but it's the MSM that will eat this up, and the right wing radio - which, like it or not, has a huge following - that will rebroadcast this without BO's thoughts that could hurt him.


GravatarWaahhh! Aint't It Awful? Let's have a Pity Party!
plantsman, | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 5:14 am

I see that your answer is hostile, but I don't know why, and I don't understand the point you are trying to make.


GravatarWe can sit here and whine about the situation and be oh-so-much-smarter than the MSM, or we can play the hand we've been dealt with all the skill we can muster. I prefer the latter.


Gravataror we can play the hand we've been dealt with all the skill we can muster. I prefer the latter.
plantsman, | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 5:23 am

How do you propose we do that? I might suggest that a good strategy would be to unite against the common enemy, instead of fighting amongst ourselves. What do you think?


Gravatar"but it's gonna be Rush, O'Reilly, Savage, and Hannity all over his ass"

No big deal, nobody who can stand watching these guys for more than a couple minutes would ever vote democratic in the first place.


GravatarBy supporting the candidates of our choice in an intelligent, positive way -- no matter who flings mud at us. By not resorting to schoolyard arguments to support our beliefs. By behaving like the sensible adults that we are, in thought and deed.


GravatarThe GOP has for a very long time promoted style over substance; e.g. flag lapel pins over actual patriotism. This is their Achilles Heel.


GravatarBy supporting the candidates of our choice in an intelligent, positive way -- no matter who flings mud at us. By not resorting to schoolyard arguments to support our beliefs. By behaving like the sensible adults that we are, in thought and deed.
plantsman, | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 5:32 am | #

Why be hostile to me, then? I was only reflecting sadly that as ugly as things are now, the Repig Lying Machine has barely got started, and the phenomenon of Democrats vowing to never vote for other Democrats is the work of Satan Jr, Mr. Karl Rove. And why does it say HULK SMASH at the top?


Gravatar"By behaving like the sensible adults that we are, in thought and deed.
plantsman, "



sounds good


GravatarHas Drudge downplayed Pastorgate, and if so, why? Maybe R operatives vs R red meat conservatives.
http:// www.democraticunderground...mesg_id=5084479
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GravatarWhy be hostile to me, then?

I find your choice of nym betrays a fundamental childishness in your outlook and manner of operation. Insulting people will not persuade them to accept or share your point of view, in my experience.

Ask Atrios about "Hulk Smash" -- it's HIS blog.


GravatarYou should try it, too.


GravatarI find your choice of nym betrays a fundamental childishness in your outlook and manner of operation. Insulting people will not persuade them to accept or share your point of view, in my experience.
plantsman, | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 5:40 am

Please tell me who I have insulted. I thought the only insulting things I have said were about Repigs, and I didn't think there were any of them around here.


GravatarGreetings and salutations.


Gravatar"Repigs", by showing that you have no respect for them openly in a public forum, you dehumanize them, often a first step along the path to "justifying" genocide throughout human history.

Who you think might be reading your words has little relationship to who actually might come upon them.


GravatarHas the U.S. dollar now been shrunk enough so it can be safely drowned in someone's bathtub?


GravatarLet's give Grover Norquist's tub a try!


Gravatar“Today’s events are fast moving,” he said, “but the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the secretary of the Treasury are on top of them and will take the appropriate steps to promote stability in our markets.”

So everything's fiiiiiiiine . . .

'morning, cats and kittens! Woke up to thunder and lightning. Not an auspicious beginning to an art show day.


GravatarSherry Jacoby, I think it is, was ridiculing Obama for posting words on The Huffington Post, saying outright that "Arianna's blog" was not a proper place for him to post. How Silly! Posting at HuffPo. gives his words free access to anyone with an ISP who knows how to surf. Who is Jacoby to decide where he should post?


Gravatar"Repigs", by showing that you have no respect for them openly in a public forum, you dehumanize them, often a first step along the path to "justifying" genocide throughout human history.

Who you think might be reading your words has little relationship to who actually might come upon them.
plantsman, | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 5:53 am | #

That's a very sensible theory. I will take care to be more polite to Republicans here in the future, as you suggest. I take it you think that there ought to be no insults to or vile insinuations about anybody, here in this public forum. Is that so?


GravatarMorning peeps.


GravatarHow many delegates did John Edwards win in the first half dozen primaries?


GravatarWho is Jacoby to decide where he should post?

America will not be happy, until nobody says shit about anything anymore.


GravatarI take it you think that there ought to be no insults to or vile insinuations about anybody, here in this public forum. Is that so?
Republicans Kindly Withdraw


You have no idea how funny this is. On several levels.


GravatarI am far from perfect, as anyone who knows me can tell you - but I'm aware a lot of feelings have been hurt here lately by unkind words, some of them my own. I'm trying to stay on my "best behavior."


Gravatar'morning, ql. How's tricks?


GravatarMiss H-- a small number, 35 or so it seems.


GravatarCalling all hummingbird lovers. SE AZ has several species of hummers that venture not much farther north than the Chiracaua Mountains. The link below has some fine pics of hummers and owls.

http://www.hoothollow.com/Trip%2...rds% 202006.html


GravatarYou have no idea how funny this is. On several levels.
V for Virginia | 03.15.08 - 6:05 am

I always like to be funny - I only hope it is not because I am ridiculous. Alas, I often am, but at least that provides amusement as well.


GravatarThirty-five is a pretty big number if it decides the outcome of a coin toss.


GravatarReally interesting being in this tiny pub yesterday and eavesdropping on the conversations about politics.

One woman was absolutely convinced that the popular vote doesn't matter, because the superdelegates will decide the nominee. Another guy thought this Wright thing was the kiss of death for Obama.


GravatarLest we forget who we're up against and replacing:

http://thumbsnap.com/v/r36GbhBS.png


GravatarReally interesting being in this tiny pub yesterday and eavesdropping on the conversations about politics

In my case, it was the usual people watching the Michigan State basketball game - which they won BTW.


GravatarThis has been an elightening discussion. We chinese people often talk in proverbs, so I will leave you with a few:

Pick up a sesame seed but lose sight of a watermelon.

Regular feet can't be affected by irregular shoes.

Paper can't wrap up a fire.

I'm sorry that they are so cryptic, but if I explained them to you, they would just be boring. Good Night!


GravatarAnother guy thought this Wright thing was the kiss of death for Obama.

Precisely what the folks who "put this out there" want -- demoralized Democrats, to give the GOP a chance to do more damage.


GravatarBTW, this was in Flagler County -- highest unemployment rate in the state, and a county whose economy has essentially been based on growth. I got the impression it was kind of a Dem hangout, but at any rate everyone in there HATES WPE. They were mocking his statements about the economy getting better in the fall "when he's leaving office."

I'm in a bar about once a year, so I seldom hear people who are not political obsessives talk about stuff. It was pretty fun.


GravatarBarndog -- go, team!


GravatarYesterday's talk to those NY Economic Folks was comical in it's detachment from reality, sad in every other way I could imagine. This guy.....


GravatarBarndog -- go, team!

They have a 'Go College!' banner which flips during the game to other ad's.

I get those gentle tinges of 'Animal House', rushing through my head.

LOL


GravatarWhat's the record for the most number of ballots needed to determine a nominee at a major party convention?


GravatarAsk.com might have that.


GravatarMiss H -- not sure I understand the question (probably can't answer it, anyway )


GravatarWhen the Repigs really start to campaign, they distort and LIE. The media rarely calls them on it
fixed your typo


GravatarWell, the wife, dog and I are taking a drive today, up towards the ol' fishin' hole(s).

I found out when I went to register the trailer, that I have a couple more numbers to get off the dataplate.

Heh.

I keep trying to tell myself, that pulling the trailer up today is a good idea. But, it's not.


GravatarJust don't put the dog in a carrier tied down to the top of the car, a la Mittens.


GravatarJust don't put the dog in a carrier tied down to the top of the car, a la Mittens

Naaa. She rides in the back seat of the truck. Not the box, the back seat.


GravatarIn comfort and dignity, as any good dog should.


GravatarThis prolonged spate of rain and winds is getting tedious.


GravatarWe have no plans for Easter weekend (no 11:30 a.m. dinner at the folks this year!!) - so maybe Saturday we'll take the trailer up, and spend the night and have Easter dinner there.

Also, with the dog.


Gravatar(Which weekend is Easter?)


GravatarMorning, all.

The dog has its own seat, that's the way it should be, eh, Barndog?

the unreality of the goPervs is cute, itsn't it - they just found out robbing the poor to give to the rich is unsound financial practice. What I love is the "regulate me" plea. hey, look at the laws we have, it's there, but rotten regulators were in office.


Gravatar(Which weekend is Easter?)

Next weekend, man. Tommorrow is Palm Sunday.


GravatarI use the Dashboard Widget calendar on the Mac, mostly -- it does not highlight or denote holidays.


GravatarHmm. I have some eggs, but they're brown.


GravatarThe dog has its own seat, that's the way it should be, eh, Barndog?


It was really fun with all 3 of them back there. Kate usually came up front to sit in the passenger seat.

She had the privledge as eldest dog.


GravatarWe have no plans for Easter weekend (no 11:30 a.m. dinner at the folks this year!!) - so maybe Saturday we'll take the trailer up, and spend the night and have Easter dinner there.

Also, with the dog.
Barndog, not fishing yet


We're camping next weekend, too. Very low-intensity car camping; I'm following suggestions from DFHs around here and making corned beef on the grill, and we might paddle around the lake for a bit.

Gotta get in the camping before the heat bomb goes off.


GravatarAnd I'm gonna see your river someday, Barndog!


GravatarVenturing out on multiple bus rides is less fun in the driving rain, so I miss what the stores are decorated for. Public transit usage is at a 50-year high, MSNBC said yesterday.


GravatarI used to love hiking into a river valley I knew, and setting up camp somewhere in the woods.

However, years of hard work and disease ended that a few years ago, when I started buying campers. Pop-up, then hard side, then the 5th wheel.

I love my 5th wheel.


GravatarV4VA,that's cute. Easter St. Paddy's.

brown eggs just look darker dyed, plantsman. eggs are supposed to be brown. If you have purple onion skins, that makes great dye.


GravatarA closer look at the invisible hand of the free market.

Invoking a little-used provision added to the Federal Reserve Act in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, the US central bank agreed to allow the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to insure an infusion of credit to Bear Stearns by JP Morgan Chase. Under the terms of the “secured loan facility,” to extend for up to 28 days, the risk of a default by Bear Stearns will be borne by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, not JP Morgan Chase. The latter will serve essentially as a conduit for the cash provided by the US central bank.

Carl Lantz, a strategist at Credit Suisse, said the intervention by the New York Fed and JP Morgan showed that Bear “didn’t have enough money to turn the light on this morning.”

With the de facto collapse of Bear Stearns, however, the housing and credit market collapse has claimed one of the titans of Wall Street. Founded in 1923 and employing some 15,500 people worldwide, Bear Stearns was one of the “big five” Wall Street investment banks. In 2005-2007, Bear Stearns was recognized as the “Most Admired” securities firm in Fortune magazine’s “America’s Most Admired Companies” survey.

Indicative of the broader reverberations from the Bear Stearns collapse, the share price of Ambac Financial Group, the world’s second-largest bond insurer, fell 93 percent, on widespread fears that the company will not have sufficient capital to meet claims from its creditors.

The US dollar hit new lows against the euro and other currencies.

The immediate fear motivating the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department and Wall Street banks was the danger that an uncontrolled collapse of Bear Stearns would have a domino effect on already turbulent financial markets. Were Bear Stearns forced to sell off assets at fire-sale prices to raise cash needed to meet creditors’ demands, the value of untold billions in assets held by other financial institutions would drop, leading to more margin calls from creditors, further institutional collapses, more panic selling of debt and securities—a vicious spiral to the bottom with the potential of a breakdown in the entire capitalist financial system.


GravatarTemps are such much of the year around here that the bus windows fog-up something awful, and you can't see a danged thing, anyway.


GravatarV- "my" river is the Little Manistee river. It's about 35-40 miles N and 20 miles west.


GravatarI haven't cared much about Christmas for a long time, so I don't get terribly nostalgic for my mom around then, but Easter is a different story. As long as she lived, she made me an Easter basket because I loved getting one so much. Into my late 30s, even.

It was really sweet. Makes me miss her.


GravatarAsk.com did have it. John Davis of West Virginia secured the 1924 nomination for the Democrats on the 103rd ballot.

Winfield Scott was second for the Whigs securing their nomination in 1852 on the 53rd ballot.

Third place goes to James Garfield in 1880 on the 36th ballot.

Up until 1932 Democrats had to have 2/3 majority of the delegates to secure a nomination.

All nominations since 1952 have been obtained on the first ballot for both major parties.

From the U.S. History Encyclopedia


GravatarUnderstood, Ruth; and I see Paas egg-dyeing kits still exist, so that's a possibility, if it fits into the budget. Had to toss a red onion that was going soft and icky.


GravatarUsed the crimini 'shrooms while they were still prime, though!


GravatarGimlet, dumping those worthless goods onto the market is more the point, it's the same thing Carlyle is facing. They are holding 'vehicles' full of subprime mortgages, and don't want to face devaluing them to their actual worth. it's the money system itself in danger.


GravatarI love my 5th wheel.
Barndog, not fishing yet


Hubby's bro has graduated to the fifth wheel. We were laughing our asses off at him in Virginia year-before-last -- d00d, yer OLD! But it's very nice, and they plan to spend a LOT of time in it.

We'd like to buy an A-liner, but it doesn't look like I'm going to have a job any time soon, so that's on hold. It's small enough to pull behind our 4-cylinder Saturn Vue and with a small a/c and heater we could use it all year, including on Northern Adventures.

Stupid fucking economy. Thanks, Goopers!


GravatarWonder if Dianne found new-crop artichokes in her local market?


Gravataryum, 'shrooms are something I love, tho I don't know that they have a lot of nutritional value.

I always dye eggs, give a couple to my mom - I was always the one who did the tradition things in my family. Guess I'm the mom type.


Gravatara vicious spiral to the bottom with the potential of a breakdown in the entire capitalist financial system.
Gimlet


Shorter: we're fucked.

Also, if I understand correctly, the "security" JPMC is accepting is, you guessed it, a big steaming slice of shitpile.


Gravatar'Shrooms have b-vitamins and are considered great "non-starchy" vegetable carbs for diabetics. That dove-tails beautifully with my love for them.


GravatarV - there's also the new 'Pod' campers. Easily tows behind a 4 cyl, weighs around 1100 lbs dry.

I'll see if I have a linkee for you somewhere.


GravatarWaPo editorializing about how wise the Fed is to be calling for regulations. that is hilarious, the regs are there. the goPervs appointed libertarians who didn't use the regs, and the system collapsed. No regs, no faith. No faith, no value. Simple. they're dodoes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp...8031403485.html


GravatarV4VA, tent camping is fun to me, I never wanted to pull a camper along after me - and I have a puptent in the trunk to this day.


GravatarV- this is the one I have, but it outlines all the stuff you need to know.

http://www.johnweeks.com/stuff/c...pers/ index.html


Gravatarthe regs are there. the goPervs appointed libertarians who didn't use the regs, and the system collapsed.

Once again demonstrating the utter boneheadedness of the Free Market™ ideologues. Fortunately reality is not an obstacle to their theories; when it fails (and it always does), it's because it wasn't instituted in precisely the right way. IOW more of whatever didn't work in the first place is necessary to solve the problem.

They'll be back, but it'll be a while. I loved 4lg asking the 'thug she met while canvassing if he liked camping. "Yes," he said, "why?" She said, "Because you're about to spend 40 years in the wilderness."



GravatarWiki:

Common mushrooms are fairly rich in vitamins and minerals. The mushroom contains high amounts of vitamin B group, sodium, potassium and phosphorus.[7] Raw mushrooms are naturally cholesterol and fat free. The mushrooms also have very low energy levels — five medium-sized common mushrooms added together only have 20 calories.
Common mushrooms have a unique flavor that can be matched by few other mushrooms. No specific flavor can be defined; most people describe the mushroom as "plain", but other people say that the common mushroom tastes slightly sweet or "meaty".


GravatarThese are the model I was talking about V -

http://www.golittleguy.com/cms/


GravatarRuth

It looks more complicated than that.

We are told subprime mortgages are a small amount of the money out there. It looks like most transactions were pumped up in price to get the upfront fees and "points".

If possible new loans are margined or leveraged based on a formula of reserve funds or assets and the value of the assets fall the rules won't let them loan any new money and they must liquidate at firesale prices to have the necessary reserve funds.

If they can hold on long enough inflation via the impact of gas prices on everthing will help them catch up.

Even that isn't the whole story.


GravatarDeal breaker for me and camping. A bathroom.


GravatarDeal breaker for me and camping. A bathroom

That, and a queen sized bed.


GravatarThanks, Barndog; that's very cool.

The A-liner we saw was a tiny pop-up (into an A-frame), weighed about 900 pounds, had two large beds in the wings, a spot for a portopotty, and a small galley. It was really exactly what we need. We're kind of keeping an eye out for a second-hand one.


GravatarHaloScan poopy!


GravatarGimlet; "If possible new loans are margined or leveraged based on a formula of reserve funds or assets " and the formula includes those subprimes which are essentially worthless. they are trying not to take the loss.

yikes, tornado in Atlanta last night, my tebee news is telling me. looks messy.


GravatarMy guess is that the market will get flooded with what were referred to as junk bonds during the Reagan era. They'll be bartered off between the big banking houses at pennies on the dollar. Some will float back up to the surface, others will sink like stones. The trick is to buy enough different kinds of paper so that the risers will offset the sinkers.


GravatarMSNBC has a pic on their home page of debris and insulation chunks in front of CNN Center.


Gravatarbtw, my friday catblogging haz radial highrise, at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
My mechanics gotta see their Lucy on the blog, they'll get a kick out of it.


GravatarBarndog -- those are sweet, maybe a little too small.

ql-- we stay in campgrounds most of the time (FL has the second-best state park system after CA), and there's always a bathroom.

I'm gonna get you down here eventually


GravatarMSNBC has a pic on their home page of debris and insulation chunks in front of CNN Center.
plantsman,


CNN has offended God and incurred "His" wrath.


GravatarHah. V - Not likely. When we had family in Lakeland and Ocala we would visit at least once a year in the summer. My nose would immediately clog up upon stepping off the plane and remain stuffed for the duration.


GravatarThink it was Rick Sanchez getting Tased?


GravatarGeez, Atlanta's a mess.


GravatarI'm glad my daughter is outside Atlanta. Still, think I'll give her a ring today. She frequently parties on a Friday night with a friend in Atlanta.


GravatarWhen we had family in Lakeland and Ocala we would visit at least once a year in the summer.

Well, there's your problem. In the winter it's no more humid here than it is in DE, no doubt. And the weather is gorgeous, especially in October and March.

Plus we gotz oceanic breezes 'n shit.


GravatarRev.Gimlet, hope they got some water in the bargain. Atlanta dun got thirsted in your last plague. Gotz toads?


Gravatarql the damage seems very concentrated in Cabbatetown, on the east side of downtown.

Our friends (the guy who died last year) live just south of there in Grant Park.


GravatarYesterday, I put the plants back out on the porch hooks, it is about time to plant the beans in the garden. haven't covered up for snow in a week! now.


GravatarCabbagetown, dammit.


GravatarFor example, those who feel their civil rights have been violated can seek justice and telecoms who feel they have complied with the law, a judge can review the classified evidence and decide. This means to me that the Constitution and civil rights are protected and telecoms who are asked under pressure to assist in an emergency can know that classified evidence will be seen by a judge... The bill provides telecom companies a way to present their defense in secure proceedings in a district court without the administration using state secrets to block the defense. A company simply doing its duty following the law, this bill ensures they they will not be punished

Why do I sense that with a Bush controlled Justice Department and Court system, the fix is in.


GravatarWhy do I sense that with a Bush controlled Justice Department and Court system, the fix is in.
Gimlet


Probably just paranoia as a consequence of them being out to get us.


Gravatarmorning peeps.


Gravatarwith a Bush controlled Justice Department and Court system, the fix is in.
Gimlet


the rule of law ended Jan 20, 2001. along with decency and order.


GravatarRuth -- dammit, I wish I could have a vegetable garden!


GravatarCool, Ruth; we got our typical hint of Spring, and then plunged back into the wet. All the trees seem intent on leafing-out, though; so Spring may come soon.


Gravatar'morning, trifecta.


Gravatartrifecta, has your drought been much abated of late?


GravatarI lost a good sized branch on my weeping Judas (redbud) last week in the snow, and it had buds on it. snif.

There are big barrel halves for container planting, that you can move on wheels to get the best sunshine, V.


GravatarLooks as if we're settling into the spring pattern & temps. I have flower buds (daffs, tulips, crocus, etc) all over the place.

I'll take it.


GravatarDon't try using those cheap platforms with casters under half-barrels, piano casters maybe.


GravatarMorning, all.

Have any Obamaphiles challenged any Clintonists to pistols at dawn yet today?


Gravatarcrocuses and daffodils were a little nipped by the cold here, altho I covered them. the hyacinths are beginning to peek out now.


GravatarWe made it thru yesterday morning by talking about wind power rather than the candidates.


Gravatarsimels, you're in the morning crew here, we ignore the pugilists, mostly.


GravatarMorning, best beloveds!

I gave you sheets. trifecta was eating Spongebob Cheez-its on these and got crumbs all over them.


GravatarThe daffs here are in high flower, not thrilled about the rain, but bearing up.


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