This merely serves to reinforce my point, that you are a liberal fascist.
I bet you even drink wine from a bottle with a cork in it rather than a screw-top.
r€nato, aka Warren Christmas |
01.11.08 - 7:34 pm | #
The problem is he wants to bomb Auschwitz NOW.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 7:34 pm | #
p o o o o o o o o o p
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:34 pm | #
you can enjoy mah pussy cats
Moonbootica, Employed |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:34 pm | #
...I'm going to get pizza and wine.
Good night, all.
Darryl, Lost in Cubicleland | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 7:32 pm | #
Why, do you hate pizza?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 7:34 pm | #
jesus, bill bennett is a parody of himself. Old, white, bloated, right-wing, and full of shit.
wouldn't that make him a parody of Pat Buchanan?
theodoric |
01.11.08 - 7:35 pm | #
Burning a bridge just leaves one stranded, then one has to raise money to build another bridge.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 7:35 pm | #
A little bit of sunlight leaks into the fucked-over DOJ Civil Rights Division.
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The changes keep on coming in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Less than a month ago, former voting section chief John "minorities don't become elderly the way white people do: They die first" Tanner got canned. And today, his replacement, Christopher Coates, a veteran of the section, demoted Tanner's controversial deputy chiefs, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere and Yvette Rivera. The changes were announced in an email to voting section staff.
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Fuck you and your legacy, Karl Rove. Looking forward to '09 when we get our Supreme Court back.
bo |
01.11.08 - 7:36 pm | #
Pizza night here too, but Mrs. T isn't home from work yet. Also, I don't think she has any cash so yours truly will be getting the pizza. What do ya'll want on your pie?
Tralfaz |
01.11.08 - 7:37 pm | #
I'd enjoy Friday night more if there were Attrikitties. I am just saying.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Perhaps you'd like to meet my potential new puppy, Angel Josefina GWPDA?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
01.11.08 - 7:37 pm | #
has anyone seen Walk Hard?
Charlie Wilson's War?
I have the choice of seeing one of these two tonight.
r€nato, aka Warren Christmas |
01.11.08 - 7:37 pm | #
Alrighty, folks. Time for me to go home. Everyone send good vibes that my new dishwasher is installed...or else we're eating out again tomight. :-(
Tlazolteotl |
01.11.08 - 7:38 pm | #
OMG that is ADORABLE auntie!
r€nato, aka Warren Christmas |
01.11.08 - 7:38 pm | #
CWW was a fabulous book. Haven't seen the film.
theodoric |
01.11.08 - 7:38 pm | #
"That's what Ted Stevens is for, no?"
No, in his case, that's the work for the contractors who are bribing him.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 7:38 pm | #
OMG, GWPDA, she is the cutest thing EVER. Miss Thing is going to have to send her a chew toy!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:39 pm | #
ok, policy, um, what are the relative merits of a BTU energy tax with repect to the lighting of farts?
trypticon |
01.11.08 - 7:39 pm | #
Roseanne Barr launches tirade against Obama, Oprah
She should look in the mirror to see someone playing the "gender" card.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 7:40 pm | #
GWPDA - awwwwwwwwww!
moonchild. i thought you started your new job like a couple of weeks ago...
fokowi | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 7:38 pm | #
well i wuz supposed to start this week, but they managed to lose one of my references, so i handed in a hard copy and now this has all been processed
Moonbootica, Employed |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:40 pm | #
GWPDA,
What will Arthur think of adding to the family?
bo |
01.11.08 - 7:40 pm | #
Conason on AAR with Rachel now.
HoneyBearKelly |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:40 pm | #
Snow,
From this morning: gov't regulates wages all the time. I don't see why they can't regulate executive compensation. Doesn't violate the Constitution, as far as i can tell.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:40 pm | #
Bill Bennett proves that the verb "bloviate" is also useful as a noun.
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TelltaleHeart |
01.11.08 - 7:42 pm | #
I know it's hard to do when it's there in the middle of the thread's coffee table, but please ignore the box of rocks, if you know what I mean.
bo |
01.11.08 - 7:42 pm | #
i wuz supposed to start this week, but they managed to lose one of my references, so i handed in a hard copy and now this has all been processed
Moonbootica, Employed
I said I was sowwy....
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
01.11.08 - 7:43 pm | #
On the NewsHour, David Brooks just went yard for the Huck.
*Mwah*, Brooksie! There's the guy you want! Go Huckabee!
(True Confessions: Ideally, I'd like Romney to win the nomination, as he's the easiest to beat. But Huckabee is completely unelectable. He's not an idiot, but he is unbelievably ignorant, and this will become obvious, it is to be hoped, thirty seconds after he secures the GOP nomination.)
D.Derbes, algebratin' |
01.11.08 - 7:43 pm | #
I believe that you told me that I should wait until Epiphany until offing annoying patrons.
Can I start now?
(Had one today who wanted to use her cell phone. She was told 'no', then she went into study carrell closest to the wall phone and used that to make personal calls. I don't think so.)
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 7:43 pm | #
President George W. Bush today announced that C. Boyden Gray will serve as Special Envoy for European Union Affairs. Gray served with distinction as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from January 2006 until his appointment expired on December 31, 2007. In order that the United States may continue to benefit from his experience and expertise at a time of great importance in U.S.-EU relations, the President has asked him to serve in this new role.
P O'Neill |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:43 pm | #
GWPDA
That puppy needs fattening up, I think! Lots of treats!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:44 pm | #
I'd enjoy Friday night more if there were Attrikitties. I am just saying.
I have kitties at homepage. Also other stuff first but the kitties should still be visible on the screen.
Echidne |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:44 pm | #
How should they regulate it?
Tax policy. You know, the type of thing that prevents deduction of salaries over $1,000,000.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 7:44 pm | #
"Of all the accusations made against the dictator," MacArthur observed, "none had more impact on American public opinion than the one about Iraqi soldiers removing 312 babies from their incubators and leaving them to die on the cold hospital floors of Kuwait City."84
At the Human Rights Caucus, however, Hill & Knowlton and Congressman Lantos had failed to reveal that Nayirah was a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family. Her father, in fact, was Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the US, who sat listening in the hearing room during her testimony. The Caucus also failed to reveal that H&K vice-president Lauri Fitz-Pegado had coached Nayirah in what even the Kuwaitis' own investigators later confirmed was false testimony.
If Nayirah's outrageous lie had been exposed at the time it was told, it might have at least caused some in Congress and the news media to soberly reevaluate the extent to which they were being skillfully manipulated to support military action.
Skillfully manipulated? Give me a fucking break.
Stunt Woman |
01.11.08 - 7:44 pm | #
Wow, Fred Thompson made a great joke AND remained serious...
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 7:44 pm | #
So we are dissecting the joke delivery prowess of Thompson vs. the others on Hardball now.
i wuz supposed to start this week, but they managed to lose one of my references, so i handed in a hard copy and now this has all been processed
Moonbootica, Employed
I'm always stunned that anyone would want a hard copy of a reference letter here. Never would happen in the US. and if they did ask for one and it went missing, the HR would shrug their shoulders and maybe make a phone call.
The paperwork just isn't that important to job performance.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:44 pm | #
From this morning: gov't regulates wages all the time. I don't see why they can't regulate executive compensation. Doesn't violate the Constitution, as far as i can tell.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
If there can be a minimum wage, a maximum wage would make sense too. Windfall profits. When Exxon can make $40B in one quarter, and CEOs get obscene salaries and packages, they should have to pay a good share of that for the public good. A REALLY good share.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:45 pm | #
OMG, GWPDA, she is the cutest thing EVER. Miss Thing is going to have to send her a chew toy!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Well, we don't know if we have her or not yet. And she has to stay in fostercare for awhile yet, in order to heal. And we don't know if Arthur wants a baby sister or not.... But she is a very brave and very sweet little girl and we hope she wants to come live with us.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
01.11.08 - 7:45 pm | #
This GOP debate analysis dude is a fucking waste of air.
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 7:46 pm | #
Skillfully manipulated? Give me a fucking break.
Stunt Woman | 01.11.08 - 7:44 pm
You'd be amazed at what foreign governments hire Hill & Knowlton.
prwatch.org is fun fun fun.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:46 pm | #
I said I was sowwy....
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | 01.11.08 - 7:43 pm | #
don't be, it wasn't your fault
it wuz my future employers I suspect, whoever runs the Personnel department is a bit incompetent. I mean i rang up my future boss yesterday to ask how my contract was progressing and he said he would go see personnel, i mean how long does it take to draw up a contract?
my dad sez this is par the course for big organizations, sometimes not very efficient
Moonbootica, Employed |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:46 pm | #
Skillfully manipulated? Give me a fucking break.
Stunt Woman | 01.11.08 - 7:44 pm | #
The msm can be "skillfully manipulated" by a shiny penny.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 7:46 pm | #
Snow, from this morning: gov't regulates wages all the time. I don't see why
they can't regulate executive compensation. Doesn't violate the
Constitution, as far as i can tell.
In order for this to happen we would need a government. To counter the Laffer Escape we would also need to stop the subhuman execuscum fleeing to Martinique and various other islands.
And GWPDA, that picture of Angel Josefina is wonderful.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:47 pm | #
She was told 'no', then she went into study carrell closest to the wall phone and used that to make personal calls.
This word--"no"--what a curious thing! What does it mean, exactly?
/Patron
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:47 pm | #
GWPDA--what happened to the poor darling?
noblejoanie |
01.11.08 - 7:47 pm | #
Normally, government has regulated wages, not salaries. Except for the tax rule that prevents deductions of salaries over $1,000,000. Filling in the loopholes for bonuses and stock options would go a long way in regulating outrageous executive compensation.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 7:47 pm | #
An idea without a plan is like having no idea.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 7:48 pm | #
The msm can be "skillfully manipulated" by a shiny penny.
The one Rob Corddry sketch we like illustrates this very idea.
Then nobody will be able to afford the finest yachts that money can be. That means the manufactures of the finest yachts will go out of business. Then those people won't be able to shop at the grocery store as much as they used. Then the clerks at the store will get fired, be unable to feed their babies, and will drink too much and their children will grow up weak and brain-damaged.
That is why CEO pay has to remain unregulated.
Donna Itrickles |
01.11.08 - 7:48 pm | #
heh as I am working for the NHS, I had to fill in an Occupational Health Form as well
i.e. have I ever had Hep A, B or C?, Was I allgergic to latex, avocado's and so forth plus put down my doctor (at the moment I have not been assigned one since last year I and my mother switched to another surgery)
Moonbootica, Employed |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:49 pm | #
That puppy needs fattening up, I think! Lots of treats!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
She's only 30lbs - and all skin. Arthur was, at just past a year, only 40lbs - and it was awful - like a deflated balloon. Shar-pei shouldn't be thinnifers.... But she will be a big girl - 30lbs at 4months means 70lbs full grown.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
01.11.08 - 7:49 pm | #
So anybody who says April Glaspie did not lie to Saddam to trap him is either an idiot or a liar working for the other side, or both. Or, they could be simply mistaken.
Duane V |
01.11.08 - 7:50 pm | #
Why did Atrios stop with the cats?
kei & yuri |
01.11.08 - 7:51 pm | #
Foreign corporations will be required to apply for and receive a visa in order to enter the country. Same rules as other foreign "people".
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 7:51 pm | #
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two new reports on the assassination last month of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto suggest that the killing may have been an ambitious plot rather than an isolated act of violence and that the government of President Pervez Musharraf knows far more than it's admitted about the murder.
A police officer who witnessed the assassination said that a mysterious crowd stopped Bhutto's car that day, moving her to emerge through the sunroof. And a document has surfaced in the Pakistani news media that contradicts the government's version of her death and contains details on the pistol and the suicide bomb used in the murder.
Gilly Gonzylon |
01.11.08 - 7:51 pm | #
Then nobody will be able to afford the finest yachts that money can be
The Drew Carey defense.
Ebenezer Le Page |
01.11.08 - 7:51 pm | #
I'd enjoy Friday night more if there were Attrikitties. I am just saying.
I have kitties at homepage. Also other stuff first but the kitties should still be visible on the screen.
Echidne | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 7:44 pm | #
Watching a report on the legal troubles of the schmuck who puts out that "Girls Gone Wild" crap.
Seems a few hate radio commentators are siding with him.
Typical rightard hypocrites.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 7:52 pm | #
Well, If I ever get down to my desired weight, I'm pretty sure my body's gonna look like a shar-pei's, what with this hide being 63 years-old.
bo |
01.11.08 - 7:52 pm | #
So anybody who says April Glaspie did not lie to Saddam to trap him is either an idiot or a liar working for the other side, or both. Or, they could be simply mistaken.
Thank you for courteous words. Read the interview of Tariq Aziz with PBS from 1996. You might see your mistake.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 7:52 pm | #
Foreign corporations will be required to apply for and receive a visa in order to enter the country. Same rules as other foreign "people".
Snow, Liberal | 01.11.08 - 7:51 pm
I want to watch the corporations providing the ten fingerprints now necessary for a tourist visa application.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:53 pm | #
Well, If I ever get down to my desired weight, I'm pretty sure my body's gonna look like a shar-pei's, what with this hide being 63 years-old.
GWPDA--what happened to the poor darling?
noblejoanie
She was found, out on the street, by animal control. Taken into custody, 12 hours to being put down, rescued by one of the Good People.... She's got mange, but not the contagious kind, a couple of other things.... But she's home and safe now. Four months old. And she greets everyone who sees her with a smile and a kiss....
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
01.11.08 - 7:53 pm | #
There are two basic financial mentalities - those who work for money and those who have money work for them.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 7:53 pm | #
Mystery "Iranian" voice threating US may have been local prankster
Does the polling for SC from obama's 4 pollsters look that bad or is this just gonna standard practice.
hadenough |
01.11.08 - 7:55 pm | #
Today's chutzpah award goes to Moody's which warns that the AAA rating of US bonds will be imperiled if we don't cut back on entitlement spending - by which they mean pensions and medicine for citizens, not bailouts for wall street investors who believed that moody's ratings meant anything.
rootless-e |
01.11.08 - 7:55 pm | #
How sad her first months have been. You have to wonder what happened, how she came to be loose. I hope she comes home to you, GWPDA.
noblejoanie |
01.11.08 - 7:56 pm | #
Perhaps you'd like to meet my potential new puppy, Angel Josefina GWPDA?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
Oh, my lord...what happened to that sweet little dog?
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 7:56 pm | #
An idea without a plan is like having no idea.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe | 01.11.08 - 7:48 pm | #
i saw a sloganism like that above and behind a bankers desk once...
i got the loan anyway.
fokowi |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:56 pm | #
I was courteous. I said you could be mistaken. You are. I didn't make a mistake. Tariq Aziz lied.
Duane V | 01.11.08 - 7:54 pm
I want to watch the corporations providing the ten fingerprints now necessary for a tourist visa application.
Rule 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure permits a corporation to designate a responsible employee to give the testimony of the corporation. I do not oppose expanding this concept.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 7:56 pm | #
Rubber bands might work? - Echidne
Cornrowed epidermis? Don't think so, sounds painful. Double wetsuits are out, too. I'm not a rubber kind of guy.
bo |
01.11.08 - 7:57 pm | #
“For 25 years there’s been this mythical guy out there who, hour after hour, shouts obscenities and threats,” he said. “He could be tied up pierside somewhere or he could be on the bridge of a merchant ship.”
Yes, And I thanked you for it. Now tell me about how Joe Wilson lied. Or the Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Or the Iraqi translator for Hussein.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 7:58 pm | #
What does it take to get someone banned around here ?
Econ 102 Hater |
01.11.08 - 7:58 pm | #
if we don't cut back on entitlement spending -
Oy. Perhaps Atrios was too early with his WOTD.
It's those darned pensioners on their fixed incomes that are bankrupting the country.
Not the trillion dollar wars.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:58 pm | #
Um, why?
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
ask him.
Duane V
He was pissed about being mistaken for "Larry Tate"?
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 7:58 pm | #
Mystery "Iranian" voice threating US may have been local prankster
The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the “Filipino Monkey.”...
So, the navy knew this was bs the whole time. Great.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 7:59 pm | #
Did we ever figure out where Hill Street Blues was based? It looked so much like Cleveland to me....
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
01.11.08 - 7:59 pm | #
Oh, and for folks who might have missed it this morning, the phone companies have disconnected a few FBI wire taps because the FBI didn't pay the phone bills.
Welcome to our world, guys!
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 7:59 pm | #
The special today in restaurants all over the country is fish.
hugh |
01.11.08 - 7:59 pm | #
friend wanted me to linkt his up for the front page at NQ:
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 7:59 pm | #
ask him.
Since he is unavailable at the moment, we'll have to rely on the proof provided by you.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 8:00 pm | #
Americans are seeing through the media. They can’t control the narrative any longer, to the extent the media co-opts its message even more to undue influence and Americans grow more cynical of its message.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 8:00 pm | #
Watching a report on the legal troubles of the schmuck who puts out that "Girls Gone Wild" crap.
Seems a few hate radio commentators are siding with him.
Gee, why am I not surprised.
That guy is a fucking scumbag. And why young ladies would show off their wares for free to help make this pig a millionaire, I cannot understand. It's not like you're going to get launched to Hollywood stardom thanks to your appearance in a GGW video.
r€nato, aka Warren Christmas |
01.11.08 - 8:00 pm | #
So, the navy knew this was bs the whole time. Great.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi | 01.11.08 - 7:59 pm
Think of the babies being tossed from their incubators!
Tom - 大肚腩 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:00 pm | #
The racial stuff between HRC and Obama feeds back into the MCM-GOP wished-for narrative that a Clinton nomination will be seen as having exploited racism against Obama, damaging the unity of the Dems for the general election.
I would suspect every single story on this front of being planted not by one of the two camps but by the GOP. This is Rove-ball.
Tralfaz |
01.11.08 - 8:01 pm | #
Terry, GWPDA answered your question earlier in this thread.
Lenore |
01.11.08 - 8:01 pm | #
The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the “Filipino Monkey.”...
So, the navy knew this was bs the whole time. Great.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
Everyone who heard it knew that voice didn't come from someone bouncing across the ocean at high speed.
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 8:01 pm | #
Hey, what's up, folks?
Just thought I'd see what the latest outrage is ...
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:01 pm | #
President George W. Bush today announced that C. Boyden Gray will serve as Special Envoy for European Union Affairs.
Reynolds tobacco, Microsoft and deregulators everywhere win again.
Ebenezer Le Page |
01.11.08 - 8:01 pm | #
Well, one would expect harsh words from political opposition in this day and age.
She couldn’t bake cookies and be nice, the press bus was proof enough of that.
Be who you are, what got you to this point? Being a ball breaker, the backroom bully that gave Bill Clinton the fire in his belly to win tough.
It’s not going to get any easier.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 8:01 pm | #
Did we ever figure out where Hill Street Blues was based? It looked so much like Cleveland to me....
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
Could've been Baghdad.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:01 pm | #
Did we ever figure out where Hill Street Blues was based? It looked so much like Cleveland to me....
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
Remember when your Husband lost as an incumbent Governor in Arkansas after you had an ambitious teacher testing program initiated and the teachers’ union set you back? Frank White took the Governor’s office.
You husband still gets red faced over that.
Members of my household voted against you once for that in unison. Now you’ve got a union buster helping push your agenda?
Step back into the light. Remember the time when you reasserted to connect with those teachers and meet their needs to improve education. People in our state had to learn it the hard way, you left office and the next Gov. stripped education down as best he could. Bill came back and reclaimed higher ground, he was better because of his experiences.
Experience matters.
You addressed reform and did not leave it as an unfunded mandate. Remind people that you met those demands within the framework of a balanced budget, then did the same nationally.
Size matters.
You learned how to take bold new steps on a state level, challenging convention and authority to shape government anew, then you took many of those ideas to a bigger format and made them work for America as a whole.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 8:02 pm | #
ask him.
Since he is unavailable at the moment, we'll have to rely on the proof provided by you.
Snow, Liberal | 01.11.08 - 8:00 pm |
I thought it was LA
Moonbootica, Employed |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:02 pm | #
What other Democrat has the same track record to engineer positive change to the extent you did within Arkansas? None of them do to the level you have done. It’s hard to talk of national success when they have yet to make the same impact at the state level as your husband’s years in office did with your help.
You know how to implement change better than any of the candidates out there, this time you don’t have people like Newt Gingrich in the way with numbers enough to restrict the ability to cultivate positive growth.
You’ve got all the advantages within your political arsenal. Power in and of itself, for power’s sake, is not what makes a great leader. Understanding how to apply power is what makes the difference.
Surgeons have the tasks mastered through knowledge and technology. A tool in their hands can save lives. Their hands are directed by previous experience, as well by a time tested approach that precedes their days, also by new ideas in applied science.
Someone with a balance of these traits is best fit to approach healing America.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 8:02 pm | #
Could've been Baghdad.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 8:01 pm | #
You have the experience, an understanding of working in government at its highest level, and you’ve kept pace with the transformative new century and the new ways to lead America forward.
Be who you are, that won you the race in New Hampshire. You have more traits that can be called upon when facing any challenge.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 8:02 pm | #
Think of the babies being tossed from their incubators!
Somehow babykilling gets dredged up in the selling of every single modern war, and the public always seems to buy it, and it always turns out to be false.
I would suspect every single story on this front of being planted not by one of the two camps but by the GOP. This is Rove-ball.
Tralfaz | 01.11.08 - 8:01 pm
Well, Tweety needs to change the name of his show to Roveball.
jawbone |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:03 pm | #
Just thought I'd see what the latest outrage is ...
Rachel Maddow just said there are 308,000 barrels of oil missing from the strategic oil reserve.
Wonder where they went?
HoneyBearKelly |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:03 pm | #
Everyone who heard it knew that voice didn't come from someone bouncing across the ocean at high speed.
lipreader, Edwards supporter. | 01.11.08 - 8:01 pm | #
If you listen carefully, you can hear the 60 cycle hum of cheney's Jarvis heart.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 8:03 pm | #
Somehow babykilling gets dredged up in the selling of every single modern war, and the public always seems to buy it, and it always turns out to be false.
kei & yuri | 01.11.08 - 8:02 pm
Remember the Maine!
Tom - 大肚腩 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:03 pm | #
Snow, Liberal
Argue with this:
U.S. Ambassador Glaspie - I have direct instructions from President Bush to improve our relations with Iraq. We have considerable sympathy for your quest for higher oil prices, the immediate cause of your confrontation with Kuwait. (pause) As you know, I lived here for years and admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. We know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. (pause) We can see that you have deployed massive numbers of troops in the south. Normally that would be none of our business, but when this happens in the context of your threat s against Kuwait, then it would be reasonable for us to be concerned. For this reason, I have received an instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship - not confrontation - regarding your intentions: Why are your troops massed so very close to Kuwait's borders?
Saddam Hussein - As you know, for years now I have made every effort to reach a settlement on our dispute with Kuwait. There is to be a meeting in two days; I am prepared to give negotiations only this one more brief chance. (pause) When we (the Iraqis) meet (with the Kuwaitis) and we see there is hope, then nothing will happen. But if we are unable to find a solution, then it will be natural that Iraq will not accept death.
U.S. Ambassador Glaspie - What solutions would be acceptable?
Saddam Hussein - If we could keep the whole of the Shatt al Arab - our strategic goal in our war with Iran - we will make concessions (to the Kuwaitis). But, if we are forced to choose between keeping half of the Shatt and the whole of Iraq (i.e., in Saddam s view, including Kuwait ) then we will give up all of the Shatt to defend our claims on Kuwait to keep the whole of Iraq in the shape we wish it to be. (pause) What is the United States' opinion on this?
U.S. Ambassador Glaspie - We have no opinion on your Arab - Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960's, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America. (Saddam smiles)
On August 2, 1990, Saddam's massed troops invade and occupy Kuwait.
Glaspie's ill-chosen comments may have helped convince the dictator that Washington would look the other way if he "annexed" a neighboring kingdom. The invasion of Kuwait, however, crossed a line that the Bush Administration could not tolerate.
It's not like you're going to get launched to Hollywood stardom thanks to your appearance in a GGW video.
You also have to have a POTUS for a daddy.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
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01.11.08 - 8:03 pm | #
Hill Street always seemed Chicago-like to me. NY settings are often more explicitly so.
catalexis |
01.11.08 - 8:03 pm | #
Hill Street Blues was in Pittsburgh wasn't it?
warondandruff |
01.11.08 - 8:03 pm | #
Somehow babykilling gets dredged up in the selling of every single modern war, and the public always seems to buy it, and it always turns out to be false.
doesn't seem to stop the 'abortion is murder' crowd from supporting those same wars, either.
r€nato, aka Warren Christmas |
01.11.08 - 8:03 pm | #
Did we ever figure out where Hill Street Blues was based? It looked so much like Cleveland to me....
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
Los Angeles set, but your vague unnamed 'northern' urban setting, AKA NYC.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 8:04 pm | #
God, Hillary drives me fucking insane. Proposing 40 bn to bailout those in trouble with mortgages. What a stupid idea.
Apu |
01.11.08 - 8:04 pm | #
How sad her first months have been. You have to wonder what happened, how she came to be loose. I hope she comes home to you, GWPDA.
noblejoanie
And Terry - look up... She's being rescued and will be okay.... My best bet is that what happened to this little girl is the same thing that happened to Arthur - they did not meet current 'breed standard' and were discarded. Little girl is said to have both a slightly too long and too soft coat - those are detriments for a shar-pei. Arthur was obviously a throwback to the bonemouth, original issue shar-pei. This is the horror of 'breeders' who puppy mill in order to get maximum bucks. If a puppy does not satisfy the requirements they are thrown out/discarded/let loose/killed. I loathe these people. They aren't actually people. They are scum.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
01.11.08 - 8:04 pm | #
Rachel Maddow just said there are 308,000 barrels of oil missing from the strategic oil reserve.
So fucking true it hurts. Yet few listen.
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 8:04 pm | #
There are two basic financial mentalities - those who work for money and those who have money work for them.
Econ 102
The only people I've ever heard say anything like that are new, virtually penniless real estate agents trying to sign me up for an adjustable rate loan.
Gray |
01.11.08 - 8:04 pm | #
Did we ever figure out where Hill Street Blues was based? It looked so much like Cleveland to me....
I thought it was supposed to be Chicago.
Toonscribe: Cartoon Liberal |
01.11.08 - 8:04 pm | #
Lost Chords: White Musicians and their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945
In his massive and erudite study, trumpeter and Bix Beiderbecke biographer Sudhalter makes the case that white musicians have been unfairly overlooked in the canonical histories of jazz. Sure to stir up controversy among critics, scholars and fans of "American classical music," Sudhalter's history argues that the rise of multiculturalism, for all its positive effects on society at large, has helped foster a popular misconception of jazz as an art form dominated by African-Americans.
hymn |
01.11.08 - 8:04 pm | #
Many background exterior shots were filmed in Chicago — including the station house, which is the old Maxwell Street police station on Chicago's West Side (943 West Maxwell Street), and the current home of the University of Illinois at Chicago Police Department.
Here's the scoop about Hill Street Blues. Buckeye nailed it, basically.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 8:06 pm | #
GWPDA-- The domination can also work the other way. Our female aussie mix puppy (a rescue dog) ended up being dominant over our elderly male aussie. Made his remaining life hell, basically. But you're brilliant and observant, so you'll figure it out.
Gromit |
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01.11.08 - 8:06 pm | #
The producers went to great lengths to avoid specifying where the series took place, even going so far as to obscure whether the call letters of local TV stations began with "W" (the FCC designation for stations east of the Mississippi) or "K" (signifying a station west of the Mississippi). However, Renko stated in the season one episode "Politics As Usual" (to his partner, Officer Hill) "Just drop that 'cowboy' stuff. I was born in New Jersey, (and) never been west of Chicago in my life" was one of many indications that the series took place in the Midwest or Northeast.
Hill Street Blues was a generic Northern city. None in particular. But I got that from wikipedia so I could be an idiot or a liar or mistaken.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 8:06 pm | #
ya seen those photos of Cheney with the bulge in his pants?
No wonder he didn't want to reveal the secret plans discussed by his energy task force. America might not like the new location for the strategic storage facility.
Tom - 大肚腩 |
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01.11.08 - 8:06 pm | #
There are two basic financial mentalities - human beings and the lying financial predators who take their money perfectly legally.
kei & yuri |
01.11.08 - 8:06 pm | #
If we let the enemy know where the missing oil went, the evil doers will know our strategy.
trifecta |
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01.11.08 - 8:06 pm | #
I wish Kerry had possessed enough class to not endorse Obama and so visibly reject Edwards, his own selected running mate.
warondandruff |
01.11.08 - 8:07 pm | #
ya seen those photos of Cheney with the bulge in his pants?
There's no way he had more than about 50,000 barrels in there.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 8:07 pm | #
Don't think that's gonna happen.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
You can lead a horse to water...
Duane V | 01.11.08 - 8:05 p
Bullshit.
You claimed it, you prove it. You provide accurate links.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 8:07 pm | #
Sudhalter's history argues that the rise of multiculturalism, for all its positive effects on society at large, has helped foster a popular misconception of jazz as an art form dominated by African-Americans.
Oh, bullshit. The great majority of people making money playing jazz during that period were in all-white bands.
Gromit |
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01.11.08 - 8:08 pm | #
The mothers of one of my kids friends is having a drink with my wife up in our kitchen. I'm just home from work on Friday night and I don't want to talk to one of the parents from school, so I'm hiding downstairs.
Does that make me a bad person?
tonktonk |
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01.11.08 - 8:08 pm | #
I wish Kerry had possessed enough class to not endorse Obama and so visibly reject Edwards, his own selected running mate.
warondandruff
If that ticket had been flipped Kerry would be Vice President today.
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 8:09 pm | #
Watching Hill Street Blues made me feel like an adult.
kane |
01.11.08 - 8:09 pm | #
Here's the scoop about Hill Street Blues. Buckeye nailed it, basically.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 8:06 pm
Yeah, and forgot the link to wiki, where I'd gotten from.
But I know that Atriots know their wiki and Google.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 8:09 pm | #
Does that make me a bad person?
tonktonk | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 8:08 pm | #
Just the opposite
Gilly Gonzylon |
01.11.08 - 8:10 pm | #
Will someone please make Hillary stop...I just can't stand to hear her anymore...she knows nothing about economics...i wish should would stop acting like she knows anything.
Apu |
01.11.08 - 8:10 pm | #
The mothers of one of my kids friends is having a drink with my wife up in our kitchen. I'm just home from work on Friday night and I don't want to talk to one of the parents from school, so I'm hiding downstairs.
Does that make me a bad person?
tonktonk
No, but it negates any chance of a letter to Penthouse.
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 8:10 pm | #
I wish Kerry had possessed enough class to not endorse Obama and so visibly reject Edwards, his own selected running mate.
warondandruff
I think he wants to be Obama's running mate.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:10 pm | #
"Get back on our plantation, boy. Leave this political stuff to us. Don't you have some cotton to pick?"
Lubyanka |
01.11.08 - 8:11 pm | #
Chimps eat dirt. This has been known for years.
And while chimp cuisine might look more gritty than gourmet to us, it turns out our closest animal relations have a good reason for feasting on soil: It improves their health.
By studying samples of soil eaten by chimpanzees in Kibale National Park in Uganda, a research team led by Sabrina Krief of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris found that eating soil with their meals boosts the anti-malarial properties of plants the chimps eat.
Krief collected the dirt along with leaves from one of the chimps' favorite foods, the Trichilia rubescens plant. She found that when eaten alone, the leaves had no pharmacological effect, but when combined with soil, the mixture had clear anti-malarial properties.
Gilly Gonzylon |
01.11.08 - 8:11 pm | #
I think he wants to be Obama's running mate.
Terry C - Edwards 2008
Everybody has a dream.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
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01.11.08 - 8:11 pm | #
I thought Saddam's taping of the conversation with Glaspie pretty well settled what she had said--and it could be read as a wink and nod, green light about the Kuwait border problem.
She said what she was told to say by her bosses--not little woman problem at all. I don't think so, at least.
jawbone |
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01.11.08 - 8:11 pm | #
D'oh! That was me; Thers is at a hockey game.
Molly Ivors |
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01.11.08 - 8:11 pm | #
hymn | 01.11.08 - 8:04 pm
Shut up and go away, jack.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:12 pm | #
GWPDA-- The domination can also work the other way. Our female aussie mix puppy (a rescue dog) ended up being dominant over our elderly male aussie. Made his remaining life hell, basically. But you're brilliant and observant, so you'll figure it out.
My impression from the doggie park and various other places is that the older dog almost always dominates unless the ages are really close (in which case they might fight it out), but that this is sometimes not so if the older dog is ill. But in any case the domination thing is not very firm with just two dogs. They may take turns in being the boss, even.
Echidne |
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01.11.08 - 8:12 pm | #
Will someone please make Hillary stop...I just can't stand to hear her anymore...she knows nothing about economics...i wish should would stop acting like she knows anything.
Unlike the pukes that got us here.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 8:12 pm | #
Hillary and Obama outed as Edwards ripoffs on Keith!
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 8:12 pm | #
I think he wants to be Obama's running mate.
Oh right. That is really gonna happen.
warondandruff |
01.11.08 - 8:12 pm | #
she knows nothing about economics...i wish should would stop acting like she knows anything.
That statement is inaccurate.
Ebenezer Le Page |
01.11.08 - 8:12 pm | #
Will someone please make Hillary stop...I just can't stand to hear her anymore...she knows nothing about economics...i wish should would stop acting like she knows anything.
Apu
She has the right to campaign.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:12 pm | #
Kerry's afraid of Edwards because Edwards wanted to contest the Ohio vote.
Gilly Gonzylon |
01.11.08 - 8:12 pm | #
Think of the babies being tossed from their incubators!
In the case of the Gulf War, the "hook" was invented by Hill & Knowlton. In style, substance and mode of delivery, it bore an uncanny resemblance to England's World War I hearings that accused German soldiers of killing babies.
... Lying under oath in front of a congressional committee is a crime; lying from under the cover of anonymity to a caucus is merely public relations."82
In fact, the most emotionally moving testimony on October 10 came from a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only by her first name of Nayirah. According to the Caucus, Nayirah's full name was being kept confidential to prevent Iraqi reprisals against her family in occupied Kuwait. Sobbing, she described what she had seen with her own eyes in a hospital in Kuwait City. Her written testimony was passed out in a media kit prepared by Citizens for a Free Kuwait. "I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital," Nayirah said. "While I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where . . . babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die."83
At the Human Rights Caucus, however, Hill & Knowlton and Congressman Lantos had failed to reveal that Nayirah was a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family. Her father, in fact, was Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the US, who sat listening in the hearing room during her testimony. The Caucus also failed to reveal that H&K vice-president Lauri Fitz-Pegado had coached Nayirah in what even the Kuwaitis' own investigators later confirmed was false testimony.
Stop sending our money to that black hole in Iraq.
There is no return on that money.
HoneyBearKelly |
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01.11.08 - 8:13 pm | #
The Politics of Purpose
That is what Sen. John Edwards brings to the discussion in building a better America.
American purpose is what President John Kennedy espoused, when he asked us, to ask ourselves, what we could do to help our country as a member of the world community.
Without purpose there's no passion. John Edwards is ready to renew this commitment to ideals and standards all Americans can share in and be proud of.
Bring back a sense of purpose to our policy abroad, as we ask our peers in the world community to help us address the demands of this changing world.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 8:13 pm | #
if she wants to go on Jeopardy and see what she knows and what I know, I'll take her on,"
Remember Thers,
Matthews has 17 honorary degrees. His brain power is unmatched in this worlds-realm.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
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01.11.08 - 8:13 pm | #
Kerry's afraid of Edwards because Edwards wanted to contest the Ohio vote.
Gilly Gonzylon
Which was entirely too Democratic of him.
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 8:13 pm | #
ooooohhhhh...the scary pumpkinhead.
Kiss my ass Fineman.
HoneyBearKelly |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:13 pm | #
my, my how times have changed
Moonbootica, Employed |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:14 pm | #
Someone shoot either me or Howard Fineman.
attaturk |
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01.11.08 - 8:14 pm | #
oh christ, the buffing of tim russert is puke-inducing.
nona |
01.11.08 - 8:14 pm | #
While George W. Bush may be a recovering drinker, he apparently has now developed a gambling problem. Just 10 days into 2008, the Bush White House has placed big bets on everything from a Middle East peace treaty to the prospects for a U.S. recession, even his own popularity and legacy. Unfortunately, the odds are stacked against him - and us.
But in any case the domination thing is not very firm with just two dogs. They may take turns in being the boss, even.
Echidne
Hee. There is only one Big Dog in this house. That's me....
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
01.11.08 - 8:14 pm | #
The worst thing we can do is to try to prop up housing prices in an effort to prop up stock prices...japan did that in the 90s and are still paying the price. bad policy and bad investment decisions are, sadly, going to be painful...
Apu |
01.11.08 - 8:14 pm | #
Clintonville to Obama:
"Instead of making life hard for us, why don't you go play some of that hip-rap music like a good African American should..."
Lubyanka |
01.11.08 - 8:15 pm | #
"If Barbara Walters wants to debate history, and politics and what's happened in this country the last 50 years, if she wants to go on Jeopardy and see what she knows and what I know, I'll take her on," Matthews promised. "If any of the women on that show want to take me on on historic political information ... let's talk political history. Let's talk facts, not opinions, facts, and I'll take them on."
Why does Chris Matthews hate women?
Ebenezer Le Page |
01.11.08 - 8:15 pm | #
Hillary and Obama outed as Edwards ripoffs on Keith!
lipreader, Edwards supporter. | 01.11.08 - 8:12 pm | #
She said what she was told to say by her bosses--not little woman problem at all. I don't think so, at least.
jawbone
Absolutely. Wonder why anyone here would argue with that?
Duane V |
01.11.08 - 8:15 pm | #
They may take turns in being the boss, even.
Sounds liberal, communist, and definitely gaii.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:15 pm | #
Just the opposite
Gilly Gonzylon
Gilly, your're a saint.
No, but it negates any chance of a letter to Penthouse.
lipreader, Edwards supporter
Well, lipreader, that's a bit ripe.
Damn. The booze is upstairs. I'll sneak upstairs to grab a beer. Prisoner in my own house.
If there is a more pathetic species than we men, I've yet to meet it. Maybe lemurs.
tonktonk |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:16 pm | #
BTW, Hill&Knowlton, source of the baby incubator myth, ran PR for the British the last time they had any kind of diplomatic office in Niger...
the Niger letterhead stamp dates match the time Hill&Knowlton did PR work in that country for the British.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 8:16 pm | #
Glaspie's ill-chosen comments may have helped convince the dictator that Washington would look the other way if he "annexed" a neighboring kingdom.
OK. I am certified uncivil and we are going to have to lose a little civility here. I know what the reported discussion with Hussein was. I said Hussein was not unclear about the US intentions and evidenced Tariq Aziz's words in an interview to that effect. You called him a liar, and suggested I might be one as well. So fucking prove it or shut the fuck up.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 8:16 pm | #
Hillary and Obama outed as Edwards ripoffs on Keith!
lipreader, Edwards supporter
I'm actually glad about this. Please, adopt some positions that are actually good for working people. Please.
Molly Ivors |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:16 pm | #
Modern Human History Short Version: if someone reports an atrocity (presupposing they care about humanity) hoping it will be rectified by the temporary cessation of law allowing maximal destruction (proving they don't care about humanity) not only are they shit but the atrocity itself is probably fake or misrepresented.
kei & yuri |
01.11.08 - 8:16 pm | #
I thought Saddam's taping of the conversation with Glaspie pretty well settled what she had said--and it could be read as a wink and nod, green light about the Kuwait border problem.
She said what she was told to say by her bosses--not little woman problem at all. I don't think so, at least.
jawbone | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 8:11 pm |
if she wants to go on Jeopardy and see what she knows and what I know, I'll take her on,"
a fucking trivia face-off is not the goddamned issue.
yeah, go on that show, tweety, specifically to discuss your ugly comments and utter contempt for hillary clinton and how that likely impacted the new hampshire outcome. i'll put together the video clip compilation.
nona |
01.11.08 - 8:17 pm | #
ooooohhhhh...the scary pumpkinhead.
Kiss my ass Fineman.
HoneyBearKelly
I want to watch that to see Hillary chew him up and spit him out.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:18 pm | #
Iranian speedboats approached US warships in two previously undisclosed incidents in the Strait of Hormuz in December, a US Navy official has said.
The USS Whidbey Island fired warning shots during one of the encounters on 19 December, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
He also described a third stand-off on 6 January - that sparked US protests - as the most serious incident.
Iran has accused the US of faking its video of the most recent encounter.
The only meaning we've seen to the use of the title "hardball" to decribe his ass-kissing show is that he actually notices colossal stupidity so long as the purveyor is female.
The only person who will blow him is Pat Buchanan.
leibniz, monadΩ |
01.11.08 - 8:19 pm | #
She said what she was told to say by her bosses--not little woman problem at all. I don't think so, at least.
jawbone
Absolutely. Wonder why anyone here would argue with that?
Duane V | 01.11.08 - 8:15 pm |
We're not.
You claimed Aziz is a liar in a 1996 interview. You post no links to prove this assertation.
Or are you playing Calvinball?
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 8:19 pm | #
A bit ripe?
I hope that isn't a bad thing.
lipreader, Edwards supporter
Nothing compared to my snivelling fear of social interaction.
tonktonk |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:20 pm | #
How can anyone think the Clintons are RACISTS?????????
The MSM are trying their best to pit women against African-Americans.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:20 pm | #
Since more men are in those positions, they suck more.
Can't deny that logic. Guilty as charged.
Gromit |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:20 pm | #
Oh! Nearly forgot.
On my way up to buy the GWPDA HERITAGE DEEP FRYER FOR JAMMY DOUGHNUTS at Sears, I passed by the Home Deport on Thomas, where some sonofabitch 'Minuteman' aims a camera at me. The location is known as a hiring hall for illegals and under the current insanity, has these crazies taking pictures of people who might hire undocumented workers, in order to rat them out to the Sheriffs office for litigation. Understand, I am actually driving on the street -past- these losers. I realise what has happened, and turn into the lot in order to go beat the hell out of the sonsofbitches - going past a Phoenix PD monitoring vehicle - but by the time I get to the location where the guys had the camera they have disappeared. Now, my vehicle is a bright yellow Jeep Cherokee - not exactly invisible - but this is like a bad re-wind from LA in the '70s when every action resulted in the LAPD taking photos of you for the potential terrorist files. Middle of Phoenix, G-D sons of bitches. I wish I'd have gotten my hands on them.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
01.11.08 - 8:20 pm | #
Glaspie's ill-chosen comments may have helped convince the dictator that Washington would look the other way if he "annexed" a neighboring kingdom.
Yet Kuwait was partitioned from Iraq at the behest of BP, Winston Churchill cut his teeth in the sand of Iraq.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 8:21 pm | #
"It's those darned pensioners on their fixed incomes that are bankrupting the country. Not the trillion dollar wars."
In 2006, spending on national defense was $520.0 billion. Spending on Social Security and Medicare was $936.5 billion. Interest on the debt was $226.6 billion.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 8:21 pm | #
Am I being dense?
If it wouldn't have been for LBJ I'm pretty sure there would have been no civil rights bill.
What's so wrong about what Hillary Clinton said?
MLK did the movement, LBJ did the law.
HoneyBearKelly |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:21 pm | #
Chimps eat dirt. This has been known for years.
And while chimp cuisine might look more gritty than gourmet to us, it turns out our closest animal relations have a good reason for feasting on soil: It improves their health.
In other science news: hyenas shit in the dirt after they eat chimps.
Stunt Woman |
01.11.08 - 8:21 pm | #
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | 01.11.08 - 8:20 pm
Re Minutemen:
Sad people. No lives and all that hate.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:22 pm | #
I hope that isn't a bad thing.
lipreader, Edwards supporter
Nothing compared to my snivelling fear of social interaction.
tonktonk
We are soulmates, I fear.
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 8:22 pm | #
Oh, and Chelsea is absolutely beautiful.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
Yes. Yes, she is.
And I'm not even going to say what you all think I'm going to say. So there.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:24 pm | #
Wait a minute, Tariq Aziz?
Yes. Or to quote Jack Nicholson: is there any other kind?
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 8:24 pm | #
Minutemen on their blog,
"Oh, and then this lady in a yellow jeep drove by and shot us such a look that we decided to get out while the gettin' was good!"
Gromit |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:24 pm | #
GWPDA,
Carry one of those little disposable cameras in your car. Drive down there next week.
Take a flash picture of the dude taking pictures.
Smile and wave.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:25 pm | #
what the fuck is up with redstate? they have had the same thread up since last night and the same idiotic 16 posts. i wanted to get their view of last nights pelicanfest but i guess atrios has screwed up their software or something...
singe |
01.11.08 - 8:25 pm | #
That slacker drunk can't do anything to me!
I thought he was sober now? His muse appears to have been in the bottle.
Now, the Hüskers or Prince, OTOH....
Well, Bob's a solid fellow, but of course he was raised in upstate NY. Prince? Shit, Rosie could take Prince.
Molly Ivors |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:25 pm | #
And I'm not even going to say what you all think I'm going to say. So there.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored
What is a King Cavalier Spaniel?
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 8:25 pm | #
We are soulmates, I fear.
lipreader, Edwards supporter
And this is the perfect medium.
The virtual drum beating will begin at 9 eastern.
tonktonk |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:25 pm | #
If it wouldn't have been for LBJ I'm pretty sure there would have been no civil rights bill.
What's so wrong about what Hillary Clinton said?
MLK did the movement, LBJ did the law.
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 8:21 pm | #
somebody had to strongarm it past the racists and reactionaries in congress, and lbj was the perfect man for the job
I'm sure all these sources are wrong, and you guys are right...
U.S. Ambassador Glaspie - We have no opinion on your Arab - Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960's, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America. (Saddam smiles)
On August 2, 1990, Saddam's massed troops invade and occupy Kuwait.
Baghdad, September 2, 1990, U.S. Embassy
One month later, British journalists obtain the the above tape and transcript of the Saddam - Glaspie meeting of July 29, 1990. Astounded, they confront Ms. Glaspie as she leaves the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Journalist 1 - Are the transcripts (holding them up) correct, Madam Ambassador?(Ambassador Glaspie does not respond)
Journalist 2 - You knew Saddam was going to invade (Kuwait ) but you didn't warn him not to. You didn't tell him America would defend Kuwait. You told him the opposite - that America was not associated with Kuwait.
Journalist 1 - You encouraged this aggression - his invasi on. What were you thinking?
U.S. Ambassador Glaspie - Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take all of Kuwait.
Journalist 1 - You thought he was just going to take some of it? But, how could you? Saddam told you that, if negotiations failed , he would give up his Iran (Shatt al Arab waterway) goal for the Whole of Iraq, in the shape we wish it to be. You know that includes Kuwait, which the Iraqis have always viewed as an historic part of their country!
Journalist 1 - American green-lighted the invasion. At a minimum, you admit signaling Saddam that some aggression was okay - that the U.S. would not oppose a grab of the al-Rumeilah oil field, the disputed border strip and the Gulf Islands (including Bubiyan) - the territories claimed by Iraq?
(Ambassador Glaspie says nothing as a limousine door closed behind her and the car drives off.) http://
www.informationclearingho...rticle11376.htm http://www.whatreallyhappened.co...CLE5/
april.html
Duane V |
01.11.08 - 8:26 pm | #
What is a King Cavalier Spaniel?
lipreader, Edwards supporter
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
Adorable little dogs.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:26 pm | #
Glaspie's ill-chosen comments may have helped convince the dictator that Washington would look the other way if he "annexed" a neighboring kingdom.
Yet Kuwait was partitioned from Iraq at the behest of BP, Winston Churchill cut his teeth in the sand of Iraq.
Mr.Murder | 01.11.08 - 8:21 pm
This is true.
Yet Kuwait was a sovereign nation whose inhabitants/leaders didn't feel any urge to rejoin the 'mother country'
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 8:26 pm | #
I think Tweety challenged Barbara Walter to Jeopardy, Sinf.
You can be the third.
Molly Ivors |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:26 pm | #
Chrissy Matthews is picking a fight with Baba Wawa.
Hera in a hot tub, he is a pathetic excuse for a man.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:26 pm | #
"And cheap at the cost. "
Vegas couldn't run without it.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 8:27 pm | #
"Liberal Fascism" is an oxymoron.
Liberals have been anti-fascist since the get go. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade fought against Franco and Hitler in the Spanish Civil War.
This is just another cheap and shoddy attempt to project the right's own fascistic tendencies onto the left.
Not as ironic as Ann Coulter gay-baiting Gore and Edwards, but a lame attempt to project nevertheless.
Tom3 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:27 pm | #
We are soulmates, I fear.
lipreader, Edwards supporter
Can you imagine the current line-up of hurtin' buckaroos in congress passing any civil rights laws these days?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 8:28 pm | #
I thought he was sober now? His muse appears to have been in the bottle.
Um, I don't think anyone but Paul knows for sure. Here lotsa different things regarding his sobriety.
And Mr. Mould now resides in DC, IIRC. The rest of the band is scattered about the region.
Zap Rowsdower |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:28 pm | #
I'm sure all these sources are wrong, and you guys are right...
Duane V | 01.11.08 - 8:26 pm
Well, considering that I'd already linke to some excerpts of those transcripts, no.
Also, that doesn't prove your claim that Aziz lied in the PBS interview.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 8:28 pm | #
I'm very fond of Clumber Spaniels, myself....
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
01.11.08 - 8:28 pm | #
Goddamn, all the fucking morons are out tonight. Great.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:29 pm | #
"OH HOLY FUCKING SHIT! YOU CAN'T PHOTOSHOP THESE!
watertiger"
Screen capture from a monty python video?
hadenough |
01.11.08 - 8:29 pm | #
"Liberal Fascism" is an oxymoron.
And Doughy Pantload is a moron.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:29 pm | #
In 2006, spending on national defense was $520.0 billion.
That figure excludes the $300 billion in "emergency" appropriations for Iraq.
George Johnston |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:29 pm | #
I'm sure all these sources are wrong, and you guys are right...
I guess given enough time, you might come back around to the idea that you claimed Tariq Aziz lied about thinking the US would respond militarily to an invasion of Kuwait. But I'm a fucking optimist.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 8:29 pm | #
I think Tweety challenged Barbara Walter to Jeopardy, Sinf.
Barbara Walters frenched more Founding Fathers than Simels.
Here's how it works. (Warning: you'll want a shower after.)
1) Stupid idiot racist troll asshole hates Obama.
2) Through the dense fog of stoopit that swirls in SIRTA's head, SIRTA becomes semi-aware that Hillary Clinton opposes Obama for the nomination.
3) SIRTA, brain sparking and smoking in the fog, assumes that anyone who opposes Obama could oppose him only for the one reason SIRTA opposes him: pure filthy knuckle-dragging hatred.
I thought that was chicken a la king.
Echidne |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:29 pm | #
my mother and sister are holidaying in Oman in March, and their plane stops off at Kuwait for refueling
Moonbootica, Employed |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:29 pm | #
Sudhalter's history argues that the rise of multiculturalism, for all its positive effects on society at large, has helped foster a popular misconception of jazz as an art form dominated by African-Americans.
The prep school bands of New England inspired the "scene" in Greenwich and Bronxville where musicians like Biff "Louis" Armstrong, Muffy "Sarah" Vaughan, and especially Charles Parker III created the new art form.
rootless-e |
01.11.08 - 8:30 pm | #
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/arch...ives/
005060.php
The changes keep on coming in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Less than a month ago, former voting section chief John "minorities don't become elderly the way white people do: They die first" Tanner got canned. And today, his replacement, Christopher Coates, a veteran of the section, demoted Tanner's controversial deputy chiefs, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere and Yvette Rivera. The changes were announced in an email to voting section staff.
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating whether Lorenzo-Giguere had filed certain lawsuits in order to get paid while living at her Cape Cod beach house. Tanner was under investigating for approving the arrangement. Both were accused by former section lawyers in complaints to OPR and the inspector general of seeking reimbursement for official travel.
Rivera has been accused of discriminating against African-American employees. She oversaw the important Section Five unit, which has the responsibility of reviewing election laws in parts of the country with a history of discrimination. Encouragingly, her replacement is Tim Mellett, one of the staff attorneys who in 2003, found that Tom DeLay's Texas redistricting plan violated the Voting Rights Act, a finding that was overruled by political appointees.
So it seems that the voting section is truly entering a new era. Whether the voting section will reassume its traditional responsibility of protecting African-American voters from discrimination is another question. Only time will tell.
Richard |
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01.11.08 - 8:30 pm | #
Can you imagine the current line-up of hurtin' buckaroos in congress passing any civil rights laws these days?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi | 01.11.08 - 8:28 pm | #
things have gotten so bad that even richard nixon looks more liberal than most people in congress these days...
And I'm not even going to say what you all think I'm going to say. So there. Sinfonian
All you are saying is give peas a chance.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 8:31 pm | #
I should go eat some soup or something. Presumably the idiots photographing my car aren't going to turn up - I wonder; do they realise that AZ doesn't have a front license plate? So they took a photograph of my AZ Flag plate as an identifier?
I remember once Bill Maher got his ass handed to him on celebrity Jeopardy!. He's bloody ignorant.
Toby Petzold |
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01.11.08 - 8:31 pm | #
Hold on a sec ... am I to understand that Tweety challenged Sen. Clinton to go on Jeopardy!?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored
Actually, not a bad way to select our president.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
Chimpy would have been out of there before the first primary.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:31 pm | #
He's bloody ignorant.
And SPEAKING of projection......
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:32 pm | #
Arkansas’ Constitution of 1874 (Article 19, Section 1): “No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.”
North Carolina’s Constitution of 1971 (Article 6, Section states: “The following persons shall be disqualified for office: First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God….” (This was challenged and overturned by Voswinkel v. Hunt (1979).)
Tennessee’s Constitution/Bill of Rights (Article 9, Section 2): “No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state.”
Maryland’s Bill of Rights: Article 37: “That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God…” (Overturned by SCOTUS in Torcaso v. Watkins)
Also, that doesn't prove your claim that Aziz lied in the PBS interview.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
Yeah, if all the facts conflict with what Saddam's former lieutenant says, I'm absolutely positive I'd take his word over anyone else's, because, you know, why would he lie?
Right!
Are you also afraid to call Bush a liar?
Duane V |
01.11.08 - 8:32 pm | #
Sudhalter's history argues that the rise of multiculturalism, for all its positive effects on society at large, has helped foster a popular misconception of jazz as an art form dominated by African-Americans.
the "african-americans" continued to invent it, and the non african americans made money at what the inventors made
All you are saying is give peas a chance.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant
Ach du lieber. I haven't heard from her, save for two bland emails, since Wednesday night.
I must have fucked it up. Pfft.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:33 pm | #
Chimpy grows more and more delusional.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:33 pm | #
well, I'm speechles.
as was i. hence the speechlessness at my place.
I mean, jesus fuck, where do you start?
watertiger |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:33 pm | #
If Tweety was on Jeopardy they would have to change the rules for him. "Your answer must be in the form of a loaded question."
George Johnston |
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01.11.08 - 8:33 pm | #
GWPDA,
love you, hugs and kisses. They are screwing with the wrong woman in you. Sleep well.
ErinPDX |
01.11.08 - 8:33 pm | #
What is kind of depressing about all that civil rights stuff coming from little personal bigots like Eisenhower, Truman and Johnson is that these people were hardly progressives or liberals. Johnson was the archetypical Texan bastard. Yet these people clearly saw that outdated racial policies no longer made any sense (if they ever did) and were holding the nation back. They could be predicted to an extent, and yet they would still buck a tremendously powerful trend: precisely the kind of thing political advisors exist now to prevent.
kei & yuri |
01.11.08 - 8:33 pm | #
my mother and sister are holidaying in Oman in March, and their plane stops off at Kuwait for refueling
Moonbootica, Employed | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 8:29 pm |
Someday I'll get around to uploading my Dad's photos of Kuwait from 75/76.
I've got them scanned, I just have to get them in some sort of order.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 8:34 pm | #
All I'm saying is, you might not want to rely too heavily on the former deputy prime minister of Iraq....
Duane V |
01.11.08 - 8:34 pm | #
Hillary Clinton said: "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act. It took a president to get it done."
Somebody tell me what's wrong with that statement?
HoneyBearKelly |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:34 pm | #
The... MASTER... would not... approve! [DOOdoodoo DOODOOdoodoo]
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant
I suggest Jane Huckabee & Judy Giuliani rassle in their underwear!
attaturk |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:34 pm | #
I must have fucked it up. Pfft.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored
Too much Old Spice?
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 8:34 pm | #
Also, that doesn't prove your claim that Aziz lied in the PBS interview.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
Yeah, if all the facts conflict with what Saddam's former lieutenant says, I'm absolutely positive I'd take his word over anyone else's, because, you know, why would he lie?
Right!
Are you also afraid to call Bush a liar?
Duane V | 01.11.08 - 8:32 pm |
Dear god, you're being a dolt.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 8:35 pm | #
"It's a fucking Monty Python sketch!
Zap Rowsdower"
As soon as I saw the picture I was trying to remember which skit that was from.
hadenough
Jane Huckabee looks like Graham Chapman's Chinese Ambassador in the Bicycle Tour episode.
If it wouldn't have been for LBJ I'm pretty sure there would have been no civil rights bill.
Its a dumb debate. The the Civil Rights Acts (and voting rights and fair housing) were parts of the entire social movement that was the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement also produced a whole variety of social changes, for which congress bears no direct responsibility. For example, cultural changes in which public displays of overt racism were no longer socially respectable were products of the social movement in which LBJ played a side role compared to the activists.
The Clintons know this as well as anyone. Lots of dumb things get said in the heat of a campaign. This was one of them.
tonktonk |
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01.11.08 - 8:36 pm | #
Bill of Rights of the Texas Constitution (Article I, Section 4): “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.”
Stunt Woman |
01.11.08 - 8:36 pm | #
"That figure excludes the $300 billion in "emergency" appropriations for Iraq."
Since September 2001, lawmakers have provided $602 billion in budget authority specifically for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other regions in support of the war on terrorism, as well as for attendant costs related to veterans’ benefits and services (see Table 2). Of that amount, about 70 percent has been allocated for the war in Iraq, CBO estimates.
That testimony is dated October 24, 2007, and the total in Table 2 is $602 billion. The Iraq War began March 20, 2003.
So take 70% of $602 billion, which comes to $421.4 billion, and divide it by the number of years to that point (4.60), and that comes to an annual average of $91.6 billion in supplemental war spending.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 8:36 pm | #
things and stuff...
A. we'll finally get to know the real hillary.
2. obama will struggle with primetime.
d. edwards keeps on a fightin'...
fokowi |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:36 pm | #
I haven't heard from her, save for two bland emails, since Wednesday night.
I must have fucked it up. Pfft.
Or she's busy, or tired, or not wanting to look too eager. . . ,
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:36 pm | #
Tacitus:
I think if hillary is the nominee the right is going to be looking for left wing reasons to hate her
Okay, I'll bite. What would one of those reasons be?
Toby Petzold |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:36 pm | #
I suggest Jane Huckabee & Judy Giuliani rassle in their underwear!
"Janet" has the reach on Judi.
watertiger |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:37 pm | #
Yeah, if all the facts conflict with what Saddam's former lieutenant says, I'm absolutely positive I'd take his word over anyone else's, because, you know, why would he lie?
The facts don't conflict with Aziz. Glaspie said we had no opinion about a border dispute and that the parties should resolve it peacefully. Hussein said (lied) he would be having a meeting with the Kuwaiti Crown Prince.
Aziz says Hussein did not think the US would remain on the sidelines if Iraq invaded Kuwait. Prove he lied.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 8:37 pm | #
The Bicycle Tour is my favourite Python episode ever.
lipreader, Edwards supporter. |
01.11.08 - 8:37 pm | #
What a depressing thread. I don't even realize this as my country any longer.
mer |
01.11.08 - 8:37 pm | #
OH HOLY FUCKING SHIT! YOU CAN'T PHOTOSHOP THESE!
watertiger
Who's the one on the right?
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:37 pm | #
i guess that doesnt apply to state high school science curriculum directors stuntwoman
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 8:37 pm | #
What is kind of depressing about all that civil rights stuff coming from little personal bigots like Eisenhower, Truman and Johnson is that these people were hardly progressives or liberals. Johnson was the archetypical Texan bastard
it may be depressing, but although LBJ was a goddamn bastard, he was not a racist
he was a complex person who did a lot of very bad and also very good things
manichean philosophies where people are all good or all bad are not realistic
Can you imagine the current line-up of hurtin' buckaroos in congress passing any civil rights laws these days?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi | 01.11.08 - 8:28 pm | #
"We have struck a deal with the republicans to ban lynching except where the President or some random white guy authorizes and we are proud of standing up for our principles" - Pelosi/Reid.
rootless-e |
01.11.08 - 8:37 pm | #
Djever hear the saying we compare our insides to other people's outsides?
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant
Navy now says they fired at the Iranian boats. NOW who is being agressive????
Gulf of Tonkin all over again!!!!
foolme1ns |
01.11.08 - 8:39 pm | #
...and especially Charles Parker III created the new art form.
rootless-e
True, but the whole idea that whites didn't get enough respect in jazz is just bullshit. Dave Brubeck has a good story about going to apologize to Louis Armstrong after Time put Brubeck's face on the cover.
Today, fortunately, jazz is more or less racially-agnostic. A lot of the best new music incorporates traditions from all over the world. And no one except Wynton Marsalis (gag) is making money.
Gromit |
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01.11.08 - 8:40 pm | #
that comes to an annual average of $91.6 billion in supplemental war spending.
You obviously haven't bought those remedial reading lessons yet. I didn't say average. Pelosi gave aWol all $300 billion that he asked for last year no strings attached. None of it is in the "defense" budget.
George Johnston |
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01.11.08 - 8:40 pm | #
Janet Huckabee looks like Graham Chapman's Chinese Ambassador in the Bicycle Tour episode.
"Bingo!"
attaturk
Graham was prettier.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
01.11.08 - 8:40 pm | #
did hussein actually believe he would be able to hang onto kuwait if the us moved against him? i guess such hubris isnt uncommon among leaders--eg bush.
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 8:40 pm | #
wt, You would have been so proud of me today! I've been going back to the gym since you left, and today was feeling much stronger and better.
Molly Ivors |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:40 pm | #
This is really pestering me. If I do not fit in, in the land of misfits, does that mean I am normal? Or just more misfiter?
EkCenTriK |
01.11.08 - 8:40 pm | #
How narcissistic does one have to be to marry someone who looks EXACTLY like you?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 8:41 pm | #
Actually, no ... Sinfonian
Just a reminder that whatever upness may have been fucked was not necessarily by you.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 8:41 pm | #
social issue of the future--can clones marry each other?
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 8:42 pm | #
Didn't Duane do a compare and contrast? Transcripts of tapes of Glaspie conversation compared to what Aziz said several years later?
Perhaps his memory was fuzzy. Perhaps he was instructed to make as nice as possible to the US to try to get the pressure released a bit so Iraq could buy the things necessary to have clean potable water?
did hussein actually believe he would be able to hang onto kuwait if the us moved against him? i guess such hubris isnt uncommon among leaders--eg bush.
No. Aziz says Hussein thought the US would respond immediately with a force that was not large enough and that once he defeated the rapid deployment force, he could negotiate a withdrawal from a stronger position.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 8:43 pm | #
Giving Brady the MVP over Favre is a disgrace.
Curses on the Patriots.
Gomez |
01.11.08 - 8:43 pm | #
GWPDA,
love you, hugs and kisses. They are screwing with the wrong woman in you. Sleep well.
ErinPDX | 01.11.08 - 8:33 pm
She could find them and read treaties to them.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 8:44 pm | #
hmm dunno i think brady is a better qb now.
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 8:44 pm | #
"d. edwards keeps on a fightin'...
fokowi"
Who?
edwards is ignored on purpose. The shit flying around now is on purpose. That's the way the "liberal media" wants it. And people [and I use the term loosely] like marshall are only too glad to help them. And the bottom line is we let them get away with it.
This is the same clowning that put bush in the white house twice. Only now with extra steroids.
hadenough |
01.11.08 - 8:44 pm | #
Hummm...AEI flack on Colbert just kicked Bush in the gut. Rats...sinking ship...
John Gillnitz |
01.11.08 - 8:44 pm | #
Hey rudy, I want my fuckin' money. You got my money?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 8:44 pm | #
Giving Brady the MVP over Favre is a disgrace.
50 TD passes and no sloppy Madden blowjob.
attaturk |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:44 pm | #
"How narcissistic does one have to be to marry someone who looks EXACTLY like you?"
I wuz being snide. But what's the problem with Wyton? His records are dull, but he is a good musician and a tireless popularizer.
rootless-e |
01.11.08 - 8:45 pm | #
Orky-dork overload.
Listening to a MN House debate. Uff-da.
Zap Rowsdower |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:45 pm | #
Sinf, havbe we figured out how to do multi-player games yet? We could team up to kick trifecta's butt.
Molly Ivors
No, I didn't know that was possible - team games, I mean. Kicking trif's butt is a given.
Obviously three- and four-player games are fine, but they are done as individuals. I don't know whether it's possible to do teams.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 8:45 pm | #
Stick a fork in Rudy 9-11.
He's done!
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:46 pm | #
Well, I meant a three or four player game....
Molly Ivors |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:46 pm | #
I don't know whether it's possible to do teams.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 8:45 pm | #
That's what SHE said!
Gilly Gonzylon |
01.11.08 - 8:46 pm | #
How narcissistic does one have to be to marry someone who looks EXACTLY like you?
Are you talking about the identical twins who accidentally married each other?
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 8:46 pm | #
"How narcissistic does one have to be to marry someone who looks EXACTLY like you?"
Shields and Yanell ?
Gilly Gonzylon
Mick Jagger and Bianca Jagger?
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:47 pm | #
My dog's snoring is at "11"
attaturk |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:47 pm | #
How narcissistic does one have to be to marry someone who looks EXACTLY like you?
Are you talking about the identical twins who accidentally married each other?
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant | 01.11.08 - 8:46 pm | #
Janet and Mike.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 8:47 pm | #
Well, I meant a three or four player game....
Molly Ivors
Yeah, I've played a four-player game with NTodd, wt, and geor3ge. I didn't launch it, though.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:48 pm | #
50 TD passes and no sloppy Madden blowjob.
attaturk
He's a weak armed scrub next to the Greatest.
Gomez |
01.11.08 - 8:48 pm | #
Mcainus is so nominated.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 8:48 pm | #
LONDON - Twins who were separated at birth got married without realizing they were brother and sister, a lawmaker said, urging more information be provided on birth certificates for adopted children.
Wynton is a great traditional jazz man, and I respect him for that. But he has been very contemptuous of all sorts of innovative music, and acts like nothing worthwhile has been done by anyone else since, oh, 1965.
Otoh, I love the rest of his family, Branford, Jason (Los Hombres Caliente), and especially his dad, Ellis.
Gromit |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:50 pm | #
"The American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. Inc. (AISLIC) has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four industrial facilities run by a bankrupt insured in a suit in which the Department of Justice intervened on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies."
A previous employer of mine is their client.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 8:50 pm | #
Hey Watertiger: Were the too women in your photo Mrs. Huckabee and Mrs. 9/11?
If so my captions are:
Mrs Huckabee: "Transamerica was my favorite film."
Mrs. 9/11: "The missiles will soon be away praise Belazabub!"
Spoc ko |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:50 pm | #
Janet and Mike.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi
I dunno. I think Janet looks more manly.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored
He looks like a deflated balloon.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 8:50 pm | #
When's Favre's next 'surprise' press conference to plug a casino down in Mississippi?
Zap Rowsdower
After he wins the Super Bowl.
Gomez |
01.11.08 - 8:50 pm | #
LONDON - Twins who were separated at birth got married without realizing they were brother and sister, a lawmaker said, urging more information be provided on birth certificates for adopted children.
wt, play scrabble with me and sinf.
Molly Ivors |
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01.11.08 - 8:51 pm | #
wt, play scrabble with me and sinf.
Molly Ivors
Why me knot plaay me splel gud?
attaturk |
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01.11.08 - 8:51 pm | #
"You obviously haven't bought those remedial reading lessons yet."
I love meaningless insults. It's a clear sign that my argument is about to be shredded. Let's see.
"I didn't say average. Pelosi gave aWol all $300 billion that he asked for last year no strings attached. None of it is in the "defense" budget."
Let's see what you actually said, since we're having a remedial reading lesson.
That figure excludes the $300 billion in "emergency" appropriations for Iraq.
No mention of the time frame, but since I was using annual numbers when you responded to my comment, it is implied that, for sake of making a meaningful comparison, you would be speaking in terms of annual expenditures as well. Let's address your next claim, that Speaker Pelosi gave the president $300 billion in supplementals for Iraq last year.
As passed by the House of Representatives on May 17, 2007
SUMMARY
H.R. 1585 would authorize appropriations totaling $641 billion for fiscal year 2008 for the military functions of the Department of Defense (DoD), for activities of the Department of Energy (DOE), and for other purposes. That total includes $142 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So, $142 billion is the actual number, not $300 billion. Using the prior CBO estimate of the percentage allocated to Iraq specifically - since, again, this is a remedial reading lesson, and you specifically said "Iraq," not both ongoing wars - that comes to $99.4 billion for Iraq from Speaker Pelosi. This is very close to the annual average through October of last year.
I hope this remedial reading lesson was as fruitful for you, the teacher, as it was for me, the student.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 8:52 pm | #
Otoh, I love the rest of his family, Branford, Jason (Los Hombres Caliente), and especially his dad, Ellis.
Gromit
When my fraternity held an event in New Orleans in 1998, I had the privilege of sitting thisclose to Ellis Marsalis (a brother of the fraternity) as he did an hour's performance just for us, a group of about 200.
What are you actually trying to prove, Duane V?
pie |
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01.11.08 - 8:54 pm | #
And by 'identical' of course I meant 'non-identical'.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 8:54 pm | #
I hope this remedial reading lesson was as fruitful for you, the teacher, as it was for me, the student.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe
Arrogant Mother Fucker.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 8:54 pm | #
spocko,
yup. those are two of the culprits.
watertiger |
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01.11.08 - 8:54 pm | #
1) The first lesson of real media analysis is that all foreign leaders
are consistently misrepresented as insane and always turn out to be more reasonable (and to have been lied about) on further research. Qaddafi wasn't cowed into submission by our beating up helpless former states after IX/XI; he'd been actively soliciting rapprochement for years. Kim Jong Il talks all the time about change, engagement and a sort of "glastnost" but you never see this in the American press, where you can read about his height and his movie collection. Right now there is a special experimental DPRK laogai proving they can do XVIII. century capitalism as well as the PRC. 2) Iraqi leaders and candidates going back to the 20s have promised to acquire Kuwayt in stump speeches. This is hardly a unique Saddamite fantasy, except maybe to the famously ignorant American diplomatic corps. 3) The US lets conquests and coups go on all the time and its relation to Saddam himself began with Rummy telling oldboy to go beat up Iran, with whom Iraq has always had a still-unresolved prollem over the Shatt al-Arab (which is effectively their southern border, which keeps moving, and which is essential to gulf access). Improving grasp of the waterway was a major goal for both Iras in the war in the eighties.
kei & yuri |
01.11.08 - 8:54 pm | #
What does it take to get banned?
Econ 102, Douchebag
Not bringing me my goddamned snacks is a sure way.
Gomez |
01.11.08 - 8:55 pm | #
Are you also afraid to call Bush a liar?
Nope.
And there are a lot of other things I'm not afraid to call him, either.
I REFUSE to call him "president."
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 8:55 pm | #
Oh, and by the way, we still don't know how to run elections in south Florida. Just in case you wondered.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 8:55 pm | #
My problem with Scrabble is I like to play for fun and tend not to pay attention to defensive blocking maneuvers.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 8:55 pm | #
nah, you guys are just gonna kick my ass.
watertiger |
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01.11.08 - 8:55 pm | #
MSNBC commercial comes to the sloppy knobjob rescue of Chris Matthews.
Oh yeah. Shorter Tweety: "I love politicians who get out there and talk about their ideals and the issues. Then I go on my show and talk about haircuts, aftershave, and tits."
No one liked you before.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 8:56 pm | #
I presume you've seen this picture of Janet and Mike ...
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 8:53 pm | #
This explains Mike's cold, dead eyes.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 8:56 pm | #
attaturk has not made me a friend, and I don't know him meat-nym.
*sniff!*
I have now idea what that means.
So, just another Friday I guess.
attaturk |
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01.11.08 - 8:56 pm | #
Sinf-- Chin up on the potential girlfriend. She's probably just having a bad week that has nothing to do with you. Give her another day or so, then bring her flowers and chocolate and act all concerned 'n shit. (And you truly are concerned, so it's not an act).
Gromit |
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01.11.08 - 8:57 pm | #
Watertiger: Holy Cr*p!
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored
That photo of Mrs. Huckabee reminds me of a line from the Exorcist.
Linda Blair and a cross:
"Let Jesus f*ck you! Let Jesus f*ck you!Let Jesus f*ck you!"
Spoc ko |
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01.11.08 - 8:57 pm | #
attaturk has not made me a friend, and I don't know him meat-nym.
Sinf-- Chin up on the potential girlfriend. She's probably just having a bad week that has nothing to do with you. Give her another day or so, then bring her flowers and chocolate and act all concerned 'n shit. (And you truly are concerned, so it's not an act).
Gromit
Hmmm. I just gave her flowers on Monday, and she really liked them. Is it possible to do that too much?
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 8:58 pm | #
Hhhmmmm--I was over at AmericaBlog and Aravosis is riding the Bradley Effect theory and in listing reasons by Hillary's win didn't show up in the polls listed "racism" first.
Over at Booman Tribune there are several posts all accusing the Clintons of racism. And a NYTimes editorial accused the Clintons of it as well. Oh, my.
Guess the wedge issue is well and truly getting wedged into the Democratic Party.
jawbone |
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01.11.08 - 8:58 pm | #
If you're on Facebook, you can find me through wt.
Molly Ivors
Oh you crazy kids and your "Facebooks" and your "MySpaces" with your IPODS and your Perry Como records and such.
attaturk |
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01.11.08 - 8:59 pm | #
As far as the Huckabees are concerned, Americans like pretty people.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 8:59 pm | #
I presume you've seen this picture of Janet and Mike ...
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored
"We consider this foreplay."
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 8:59 pm | #
If you're on Facebook, you can find me through wt.
Molly Ivors
Mee two.
And today I posted new pics of the kidz (and a Very Special Guest Star).
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 8:59 pm | #
HG Bergeron | 01.11.08 - 8:55 pm ~~~ I couldn't believe MSNBC would dare to run such a clearly inaccuate commercial for Tweety.
jawbone |
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01.11.08 - 9:00 pm | #
As far as the Huckabees are concerned, Americans like pretty people.
pie | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 8:59 pm | #
i think people like huckabee's looks in a kind of ringo starr sad puppy kind of way
you dont want to give her flower fatigue.
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 9:01 pm | #
My problem with Scrabble is thatI can't spell, I have a limited vocabulary and the people who want to play it with me are really smart, good spellers and have huge vocabularies.
It's not like I hate to lose, it's just that I hate to lose. I don't like being a loser. I know that it's my loss, but I guess I'd rather hang loose in the evening than face the embarrassing truth of my loserhood via Scrabble.
Spoc ko |
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01.11.08 - 9:01 pm | #
Hhhmmmm--I was over at AmericaBlog and Aravosis is riding the Bradley Effect theory
Aravosis is happy with republicans.
Good for him.
There are a lot of happy gay repubs in DC.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:01 pm | #
same sex identical twins are required to get married all the time in Massoftwoshits, where the Mittster presided over coersive gay fraternal twin marriage in his magic underwear while mike hubbahabbabee played base in a diaper and McCain sucked on a pacifier and Gooliani chases them with a meat grinder as Fred Thompson beats his head upon the wall in an imperceptibly synchopated manner. the floor is lubricated with Chris Mathew's spittle. It's a heck of a scene, i tell you what.
trypticon |
01.11.08 - 9:01 pm | #
"Which means the senator from New York and former first lady, like all good Scorpios, can be calculating, jealous, obsessive and secretive. "She keeps a lot of stuff in her head and doesn't let anyone know. And because a Scorpio is characterized by the scorpion, she has to release her poison every now and then."
As a Scorpio, I resent that remark.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:02 pm | #
"Hhhmmmm--I was over at AmericaBlog and Aravosis is riding the Bradley Effect theory"
so, he's pimping for hrc?
jdw |
01.11.08 - 9:02 pm | #
Wynton is a great traditional jazz man, and I respect him for that. But he has been very contemptuous of all sorts of innovative music, and acts like nothing worthwhile has been done by anyone else since, oh, 1965.
Well, most of you know my real name or can find it, so if you do, please look me up if you're on facebook.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:02 pm | #
i think people like huckabee's looks in a kind of ringo starr sad puppy kind of way
Wha a nice thing to say.
pie |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:02 pm | #
Yes.
Elaboration would be appreciated.
you dont want to give her flower fatigue.
Give her one flower at a time.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 9:02 pm | #
Looking at Janet and Mike, I'm starting to doubt evolution too.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 9:03 pm | #
... but you might not be able to pronounce it (my name) ...
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:03 pm | #
If one is afraid of an answer, one shouldn't ask the question.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 9:03 pm | #
My problem with Scrabble is thatI can't spell, I have a limited vocabulary and the people who want to play it with me are really smart, good spellers and have huge vocabularies.
If you play strip scrabble, I bet you'll improve!
Just like how I was never too good at catching a football, but throw me a dinner roll & I'll catch it every time!
ginger |
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01.11.08 - 9:03 pm | #
My problem with Scrabble is thatI can't spell, I have a limited vocabulary and the people who want to play it with me are really smart, good spellers and have huge vocabularies.via Scrabble.
Spocko |
I keep making dirty words.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:03 pm | #
Her lips near my ear,
Aunt Sadie whispers the name
of her friend's disease.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
01.11.08 - 9:03 pm | #
Eating one's underwear does age one.
Shoot - and I used my 'thong has ended but the malady lingers on' joke yesterday.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:03 pm | #
My problem with Scrabble is thatI can't spell, I have a limited vocabulary and the people who want to play it with me are really smart, good spellers and have huge vocabularies.
I was once in Berlin and agreed to play scrabble in which people could use words from any language. And we were all drinking polish vodka. The last thing I remember is saying, "I need to get horizontal".
leibniz, monadΩ |
01.11.08 - 9:04 pm | #
Hmmm. I just gave her flowers on Monday, and she really liked them. Is it possible to do that too much?
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored
depends on the effect you want to acheive - there's a fine interpretive line between interested, uber-interested, and stalker...
a dingo ate the baby |
01.11.08 - 9:04 pm | #
I'm not a big fan of jazz generally
i mean i like Miles Davis and the odd Jazz tune
but much of the music leaves me cold
Moonbootica, Employed |
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01.11.08 - 9:04 pm | #
Oh Christ on a trisket are we giving Sin advise about women again? NOOOOOOO!
Okay, Sin, here is what you do....
Ignore me, I'm a Vulcan. I don't know what you should do with other people's advice.
Spoc ko |
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01.11.08 - 9:04 pm | #
Shoot - and I used my 'thong has ended but the malady lingers on' joke yesterday.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant | 01.11.08 - 9:03 pm | #
The thong remains the same.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 9:04 pm | #
Look, make sure you're more or less on the same page before you deluge a woman with flowers. Otherwise it's just sort of creepy and weird.
Molly Ivors |
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01.11.08 - 9:04 pm | #
"Which means the senator from New York and former first lady, like all good Scorpios, can be calculating, jealous, obsessive and secretive. "She keeps a lot of stuff in her head and doesn't let anyone know. And because a Scorpio is characterized by the scorpion, she has to release her poison every now and then."
As a Scorpio, I resent that remark.
Terry C - Edwards 2008
I'm a Scorpio, too. Thought the "calculating" part was pretty harsh. Which, of course, is why I commented on it.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:04 pm | #
gad... i am on a friends new computer using dial up. searched for Duncan Black on yahoo and got this:
"Cheap Black Duncan Bargain prices. Smart Deals. Save on all black duncan.
ShopBIG.com/findbargains"
pigboy |
01.11.08 - 9:05 pm | #
My problem with Scrabble is thatI can't spell, I have a limited vocabulary and the people who want to play it with me are really smart, good spellers and have huge vocabularies.
I enjoy being as vocabularious as the next pedant, but I'm also not a fan of dragging out *really* obscure and arcane words that are used primarily in the playing of Scrabble.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:05 pm | #
He's a weak armed scrub next to the Greatest.
Gomez |
You are fucking shitting me.
tonktonk |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:05 pm | #
Moyers covering the coverage with Kathleen Hall Jamisons also racism with Shelby Steele.
jawbone |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:06 pm | #
If one is afraid of an answer, one shouldn't ask the question.
Sorry. More reason to ask the question.
pie |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:06 pm | #
Hillary
Rock you like a hurricane
Oh, I thought you said Das Scoprions!
Are you ready to rock?
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 9:06 pm | #
Okay, again, let's just leave the ol' Sinf-love-life thing alone, m'kay? I appreciate the concern, truly I do, but I'm feeling kinda weird about it.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:06 pm | #
Which means the senator from New York and former first lady, like all good Scorpios, can be calculating, jealous, obsessive and secretive.
I enjoy being as vocabularious as the next pedant, but I'm also not a fan of dragging out *really* obscure and arcane words that are used primarily in the playing of Scrabble.
I'd like to add Saturday's NYT crossword to that particular gripe.
Zap Rowsdower |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
the identical twins who accidentally married each other?
That would have to be a same sex marriage. Identical twins are always the same sex since they come from the same fertilized egg that has split.
Toonscribe: Cartoon Liberal |
01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
brady may not have as strong an arm, but i think he is a smarter qb than favre. hes more the joe montana type.
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
hey thanks for the Moyers heads up.
trypticon |
01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
Which means the senator from New York and former first lady, like all good Scorpios, can be calculating, jealous, obsessive and secretive.
You deserve to get whacked with an adze for that remark.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
The entire GDP of the US is spent on the War in Iraq. It's all cleverly hidden in budget bills, back room deals, and between guys shooting dice in the alleyway.
I know the truth.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
Comments requested, as poking broom is close at hand.
rorschach, meh |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
Guess the wedge issue is well and truly getting wedged into the Democratic Party.
jawbone |
Karl Rove's wet dream...
Duane V |
01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 9:04 pm
Okay I apologize for the 9,000 Venus flytraps I sent you. I wanted you to be Bug free AND show my affection for your great writing.
Spoc ko |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
Cnn is breaking that the pregnant marine missing fron camp lejune is dead.
And that the Marine she accused of rape is now sought as a suspect.
Also, water is wet.
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 9:08 pm | #
He's no Joe Monatana.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 9:08 pm | #
"Snakes on a Plane" now starting on HBO.
Culture of TrÜth |
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01.11.08 - 9:08 pm | #
You deserve to get whacked with an adze for that remark.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6
Yeah, she wouldn't have said that to a qi.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:08 pm | #
Wait! Wrong quote!
I'm also not a fan of dragging out *really* obscure and arcane words that are used primarily in the playing of Scrabble.
You deserve to get whacked with an adze for that remark.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6
Look, make sure you're more or less on the same page before you deluge a woman with flowers. Otherwise it's just sort of creepy and weird.
Sinfonian, you have the love of every woman here.
Slow and easy, dude.
pie |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:09 pm | #
VFT require running water, which indoors usually requires electricity.
kei & yuri |
01.11.08 - 9:09 pm | #
not if you start nekkid.
jdw
Then you play 'do me' scrabble...
ginger |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:09 pm | #
i dunno, joe, like brady, had a great team around him. doesnt brady have as many superbowl wins? (after this year)
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 9:09 pm | #
Where is the Goddess? All this talk of Scorpios...
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 9:09 pm | #
I forgot to say what Molly said.
pie |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:09 pm | #
For those wondering, here's the source of the "calculating Scorpio" thing.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:09 pm | #
hey thanks for the Moyers heads up.
trypticon
He always has an interesting, must-see show.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
01.11.08 - 9:09 pm | #
Why yes, I did go to a "One-Hit Wonders of the 1990s" sing-along yesterday, why do you ask?
Ror, I'm totally jealous of Miriam. That'd be, uh...fun!
Zap Rowsdower |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:10 pm | #
the identical twins who accidentally married each other?
That would have to be a same sex marriage. Identical twins are always the same sex since they come from the same fertilized egg that has split.
Toonscribe: Cartoon Liberal | 01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
Joe Montana never needed a tuck call.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 9:10 pm | #
I wish to nuke Mumbai.
the bugs |
01.11.08 - 9:10 pm | #
This is the thong that never ends....
catalexis |
01.11.08 - 9:10 pm | #
"Mutha' f*cking Snakes on a mutha' f*cking Plane" now starting on HBO.
Culture of TrÜth
the unexpurgated version...
a dingo ate the baby |
01.11.08 - 9:10 pm | #
Look, make sure you're more or less on the same page before you deluge a woman with flowers. Otherwise it's just sort of creepy and weird.
OTOH, you could send a tiny gift of little monetary value but meaningful to her with a 'Thinking of You' type note. The kind of thing that demonstrates you were listening to her when she was revealing little personal details and not simply staring at her breasts when you thought she wasn't looking at you.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:10 pm | #
The proliferation of technical jargons and the corporate assault on grammar means that almost anything can be a word now.
kei & yuri |
01.11.08 - 9:11 pm | #
Karl Rove's wet dream...
Duane V
Is that you, JimmyJeff?
pie |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:11 pm | #
thanks, pie. That's sweet, even if I don't necessarily believe you.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:11 pm | #
Okay I apologize for the 9,000 Venus flytraps I sent you. I wanted you to be Bug free AND show my affection for your great writing.
There is a line between "sweet" and "stalker"--it has to do with establishing common ground first.
Gah, I haven't dated since the Reagan administration. And I am soooooo glad.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6 |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:11 pm | #
Why have wine woman and songs when you can have whining women in thongs.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 9:11 pm | #
Embarrassing Friday catblogging!
Comments requested, as poking broom is close at hand.
rorschach, meh | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 9:07 pm | #
not simply staring at her breasts when you thought she wasn't looking at you.
Jeffco you say that like it's a bad thing...
I once when out with a woman who had HUGE
tracts of land.
Spoc ko |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:13 pm | #
I'd like to add Saturday's NYT crossword to that particular gripe.
I'm still two weeks behind. But I'm always very impressed with myself when I finish a Saturday.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:13 pm | #
Gah, I haven't dated since the Reagan administration. And I am soooooo glad.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6
I've been out of the game for so long, I don't even know how it's played.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:13 pm | #
im sure montana benefitted from a refs call at some point in his career. sf was so good then, that it probably didnt matter in some games, though. brady hasnt had a truly superior team around him until this year, imo.
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 9:13 pm | #
you could send a tiny gift of little monetary value but meaningful to her with a 'Thinking of You' type note. The kind of thing that demonstrates you were listening to her when she was revealing little personal details and not simply staring at her breasts when you thought she wasn't looking at you.
oh hell, moyers replaying clips of some of the hillary commentary in discussion with kathleen hall jamison. i'm getting pissed off all over again. i really wanna smack jesse jackson jr.
nona |
01.11.08 - 9:14 pm | #
You deserve to get whacked with an adze for that remark.
I am lathe to argue with you.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:14 pm | #
Why does Chris Mathews hate women?
Because he's married to one.
leg |
01.11.08 - 9:14 pm | #
Three day rule: don't callz.
the bugs |
01.11.08 - 9:14 pm | #
Brady hasn't had a truly superior league around him either.
He did have Barry Bonds' trainer though.
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 9:14 pm | #
Cnn is breaking that the pregnant marine missing fron camp lejune is dead.
The proliferation of technical jargons and the corporate assault on grammar means that almost anything can be a word now.
kei & yuri | 01.11.08 - 9:11 pm | #
linguists assert that the infinite productivity of nouns, adjective, and verbs in english is a good thing
bureaucratese and corporatese, on the other hand, is an abomination
actual document i got at work:
Be a dynamic team that delivers growth and ACE for current offerings while growing individuals and creating leveragable experiences, technology and learning for our future.
I'm still two weeks behind. But I'm always very impressed with myself when I finish a Saturday.
I've been playing for about ten years, and I've finished exactly ONE Saturday puzzle in my, ahem, 'career'.
Shoot...I don't think that I've ever finished a Friday, now that I think about it. Luckily, the Strib has two puzzles a day, along with a kryptoquip!
Zap Rowsdower |
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01.11.08 - 9:15 pm | #
The kind of thing that demonstrates you were listening to her when she was revealing little personal details and not simply staring at her breasts when you thought she wasn't looking at you.
But I was staring at her breasts?
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 9:15 pm | #
Because he's married to one.
leg
pie |
Homepage |
01.11.08 - 9:16 pm | #
You deserve to get whacked with an adze for that remark.
I am lathe to argue with you.
I had hoped we'd heard the last of these.
catalexis |
01.11.08 - 9:16 pm | #
and not simply staring at her breasts when you thought she wasn't looking at you.
Sorry about that, Judi.
/Janet Huckabee
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
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01.11.08 - 9:16 pm | #
Did anyone here vote for Jesse Jackson when he ran for President?
shiv |
01.11.08 - 9:16 pm | #
Joe Montana never needed a tuck call.
Maybe when his underwear was riding up.
Culture of TrÜth |
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01.11.08 - 9:16 pm | #
But I was staring at her breasts?
Ah, yes. I think I get the picture.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6 |
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01.11.08 - 9:16 pm | #
There have been rare reports of male and female "identical twins" (see references below). Truly, none of the twins is genetically identical as they have a different complement of X/Y chromosomes.
So you can have genetically non-identical identical twins?
Toonscribe: Cartoon Liberal |
01.11.08 - 9:16 pm | #
Barack Obama, with his outsider's message of change, looks like a logical second choice for those attracted to Edwards' pledge to fight special interests and corporate greed.
Indeed, Edwards voters in Iowa favored Obama over Clinton as their second choice by a nearly two-to-one margin in caucus-night surveys. And Edwards supporters in New Hampshire reported they had a far more favorable impression of Obama than of Clinton, according election-night surveys there.
Donald Wood, a 52-year-old one-time Edwards supporter from Merrill, Wis., fits that profile. Now that Edwards' presidential prospects look dim, he's leaning toward Obama.
Gilly Gonzylon |
01.11.08 - 9:16 pm | #
Jamison saying both Clinton and McCain dealt one on one with voters, allowing unlimited questions and exchange of ideas. Seen only on C-Span--or by the voters there.
The two large NH papers didn't cover the Hillary misting up episode at all, local TV very little--became national story. Jamison compares coverage of lots of male politicians who have "misted" or even cried--those pols were not questioned as to sincerity. Why was Hillary's moment questioned? Because women are "calculating"?
Jesse Jackson Jr. video where he she came to tears over her appearance, but she didn't have tears over Katrina. Jamison: Moment is a Rorshach read on commenters' relationship to Hillary.
Jamison used to worry about sports metaphors; now that the press has gone into killing or dismembering metaphors she's really worried!
jawbone |
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01.11.08 - 9:16 pm | #
no mower of this, please!
Well, I am trying to cut it back a bit.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:16 pm | #
Tigre's pic of Rudy, it needs sound effects...
Mr.Murder |
01.11.08 - 9:17 pm | #
Because he's married to one.
leg, men get divorced from women and each other, dude.
Don't be stoopid.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:17 pm | #
I just gave her flowers on Monday, and she really liked them. Is it possible to do that too much?
I usually overthink these things, and it usually ends up being nothing at all.
Now, we're supposed to go out tomorrow night, pending child care (hers). She told me today the sitter fell through. But I like JeffCO's idea. If I end up not seeing her tomorrow, I'll try that tactic on Sunday.
Fortunately, she gave them my name at the gate to her community, for permanent access. Otherwise I couldn't deliver a gift ...
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:18 pm | #
Because he's married to one.
leg
jack, we know you have women.
Is it necessary to constantly reiterate that sentiment?
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:18 pm | #
What about the Marines killed in Iraq?
Sorry. Only missing white women warrant an actual story.
Richard |
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01.11.08 - 9:18 pm | #
In cable mentality how many marines killed in Iraq equal one missing pregnant marine?
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
01.11.08 - 9:18 pm | #
Dating sounds a lot like playing the lottery: it costs a lot more than it pays, lots of people say they have it figured out although they haven't won yet, the goal is to get the frack out of the game itself, and nobody seems to be happy with it although they're no leaving it either.
kei & yuri |
01.11.08 - 9:18 pm | #
I am lathe to argue with you.
Saw that one coming.
Culture of TrÜth |
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01.11.08 - 9:18 pm | #
Hhhmmmm--I was over at AmericaBlog and Aravosis is riding the Bradley Effect theory
I'm pretty sure that statisticians have said this wasn't the Bradley effect. I must go and look for the reference.
Echidne |
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01.11.08 - 9:20 pm | #
Just don't go to her house and stand outside and play 'In Your Eyes' on a boombox.
Sinf, as this point, space is still good, for her and you.
You don't need clutter, my friend.
Have fun and enjoy it.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:20 pm | #
i thought dukakis had a chance. silly me.
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 9:20 pm | #
Best not to take car advice from a pedestrian.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 9:20 pm | #
OOps, too much wine.
jack, we know you HATE women.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:20 pm | #
I'm pretty sure that statisticians have said this wasn't the Bradley effect. I must go and look for the reference.
Echidne | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 9:20 pm | #
it couldn't be the bradley effect because pretty much exactly the percentage of people voted for barak as in the poll
it was only that hillary polled about 10 points under what her actual vote percentage was
it was planer than day...
a dingo ate the baby |
01.11.08 - 9:22 pm | #
Sinf,
I think that you should kidnap her from that house across the street and take her skiing.
Sure, Ricky will get a little mad, and sic his mother on you, but it'll end in an epic sword fighting battle with ski poles.
Then, you'll ride off in your Camaro down to Dodger Stadium.
Zap Rowsdower |
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01.11.08 - 9:22 pm | #
Flying saucers are currently blowing up Washington on TCM.
Richard
Have to have some balance to all those monsters destroying Tokyo all the time.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:22 pm | #
Can I take the bottle she left in my fridge from New Year's?
As opposed to what else?
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 9:23 pm | #
OOps, too much wine.
Well, he either loves them or hates them.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:23 pm | #
Geez, I thought I said I didn't want to talk about this!
Oh, well, I know you all are just trying to help. I feel like a 42-year-old high school student ...
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:23 pm | #
Jamison saying both Clinton and McCain dealt one on one with voters, allowing unlimited questions and exchange of ideas. Seen only on C-Span--or by the voters there.
Did anyone request that the pig sing "Bomb Iran?"
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
01.11.08 - 9:23 pm | #
Did anyone here vote for Jesse Jackson when he ran for President?
Yes, actually. We had a caucus here that time, and I picked Jackson at the last minute.
I believe these people who say they don't know who they are going to vote for until they actually have to make that choice. It has happend to me at least that one time.
catalexis |
01.11.08 - 9:23 pm | #
Rev. Jackson as POTUS? That would have been exciting.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 9:23 pm | #
this borders on recidivistic - y'know, REPEAT OFFENDERS!
Be a dynamic team that delivers growth and ACE for current offerings while growing individuals and creating leveragable experiences, technology and learning for our future.
i be that team!
rootless-e |
01.11.08 - 9:24 pm | #
I like Manfred Mann's cover of "The Mighty Quinn" more than Dylan's original
Gilly Gonzylon |
01.11.08 - 9:24 pm | #
Oh, and this goes without saying, but don't tell her you've been following her around for years. Even if you have.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6 |
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01.11.08 - 9:25 pm | #
Geez, I thought I said I didn't want to talk about this
No one else did!
Snow, Liberal |
01.11.08 - 9:25 pm | #
see video:
I'd rather not, thank you.
What Tacitus Voltaire said.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:25 pm | #
Then, you'll ride off in your Camaro down to Dodger Stadium.
Everyone wants to be a writer.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:25 pm | #
great idea! a cigar or maybe a tin of bag balm or dentine always works...
I was thinking maybe a nice Oxo lemon zester b/c she happened to mentioned she needs to get one.
Or so you can note that you find her both zesty and appealing. OTOH, that might just be grating.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:25 pm | #
Dating sounds a lot like playing the lottery: it costs a lot more than it pays, lots of people say they have it figured out although they haven't won yet, the goal is to get the frack out of the game itself, and nobody seems to be happy with it although they're no leaving it either.
Also, although many people start off saying they're going to go for the perpetual payout, most end up just taking the lump sum.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
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01.11.08 - 9:25 pm | #
It is an abiding shame that Dukakis is thought of as such a loser.
kei & yuri |
01.11.08 - 9:25 pm | #
It's the reverse Bradley - people were embarrassed to admit they were voting for hillary.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi | 01.11.08 - 9:23 pm | #
which is why i think the argument that she polls less well against repubs therefore we should nominate someone else argument is not correct
better yet: roadkill. shoes yer a waste not, want not kinda guy.
jdw |
01.11.08 - 9:26 pm | #
In December of 2005, the private detective proved Ritchie’s fears to have been well founded: he took pictures showing the reclusive 75-year-old billionaire with a woman named Tammy Vasco, a tall, blonde 43-year-old whose criminal history includes two arrests for prostitution. The pair was photographed at Doug’s Motel, a roadside establishment near Pittsburgh, where rooms rent for $49 a night, or $31 for three hours.
Poring over them, Dennis Roddy, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—the city’s oldest newspaper, and the liberal rival to Scaife’s conservative Tribune-Review—disclosed previously unknown financial details about Richard Scaife’s $1.4 billion fortune and about Ritchie’s jaw-dropping, court-ordered interim support payments of $725,000 a month. (This stream of income, Scaife’s lawyers noted, “produces an amount so large that just the income from it, invested at 5%, is greater each year than the salary of the President of the United States.” Unconfirmed reports suggest that Ritchie’s interim monthly payments have since increased, to more than $1 million.) The Post-Gazette posted the court documents on its own Web site; locals took rooting interest in the story’s many subplots (alleged hair-pulling fights with the help, dognapping, and battles royal over a 94-page itemized list of art and objets, from a million-dollar Magritte to an $1,800 set of asparagus tongs)
I hope the prostitute gets everything.
Ebenezer Le Page |
01.11.08 - 9:26 pm | #
Oh, and this goes without saying, but don't tell her you've been following her around for years. Even if you have.
And then Annie Potts will let slip that you've been riding your bike past her house every day but won't anymore.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:27 pm | #
Moyers saying economic issues as pertaining to everyday people not being discussed in this campaign.
Edwards, I shout. Edwards!!! Please remember Edwards!! Crickets from Bill and Kathleen. Another week with no mention of John Edwards on Moyers' Journal? Whassup?
Next week looking for whether MCM will cover substance of candidates' views and policie, compare/contrast stuff--on several issues. She's not going to get that from the MCM--not even Politico after their big mia culpa.
If MCM doesn't give to the public, asks Bill--what does it mean? (Edwards just mentioned! About patients' bill of rights!!!)
Bill saying MCM disparaging Edwards' stands. She sees his message about corporate greed linking with Ron Paul and Kucinich (did she say Huck?)--but he's been written off.
If she keeps up this racist nonsense against Obama, how can she expect the african-american vote in the general?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 9:27 pm | #
Ever heard of a keyboard having all the letters wear away and you can't tell one fucking key from another?
I hate to have to buy another keyboard when this one works okay.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:27 pm | #
I was thinking maybe a nice Oxo lemon zester b/c she happened to mentioned she needs to get one.
I made ham for New Year's Eve and had to use a dinner knife to cut it (it was one of those mini-hams) because I didn't have any sharp knives.
So when she came over a few nights later, she brought me a set of knives. Turns out her folks keep getting her Omaha Steaks and they always come with free knives, so she was hoarding them.
(BTW, I have pics of her with kidz on my facebook profile now)
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:28 pm | #
Now y'all are getting silly. We just want to wish you good luck Sinf.
Good evening all.
A magazine called "Movies Rock" has shown up at my house. One of the articles talks about listening to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon while watching the Wizard of Oz (sound turned down). Very strange.
you folks are plane talkers.
trypticon |
01.11.08 - 9:30 pm | #
Oh, well, I know you all are just trying to help. I feel like a 42-year-old high school student ...
There's nothing wrong with that. It's lovely and fun.
Finding someone you can stay with for a long time is much harder and not so much fun at certain stages.
Depends what you're looking for, I guess.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:30 pm | #
If she keeps up this racist nonsense against Obama, how can she expect the african-american vote in the general?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi | 01.11.08 - 9:27 pm | #
Edwards is not going to get picked as a VP.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:31 pm | #
i used "adze" the other day, actually.
I can adze and subtracts.
Toonscribe: Cartoon Liberal |
01.11.08 - 9:31 pm | #
Finding someone you can stay with for a long time is much harder and not so much fun at certain stages.
Well, let's keep in mind that I'm a two-time loser, so, you know, maybe I'm a little weird.
Then again, she's been divorced twice, too ...
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:31 pm | #
One of the articles talks about listening to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon while watching the Wizard of Oz (sound turned down).
Very strange.
GeorgeM
There was a story about that a couple of years back.
So my son and his friends tried it.
It was strange.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:31 pm | #
Oh, well, I know you all are just trying to help. I feel like a 42-year-old high school student ...
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored
yes, but you're reading at a 43-year old level ... so there's that
focus |
01.11.08 - 9:31 pm | #
Hillary can't find a stable tone of voice, no matter how hard she tries.
back |
01.11.08 - 9:32 pm | #
Did anyone here vote for Jesse Jackson when he ran for President?
I would have liked to. Saw him give an outdoor speech that year at B'dway and 72nd St. while I was visiting NYC. I didn't know at the time, however, that I could do an overseas voting thing from B.C.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
01.11.08 - 9:32 pm | #
Good evening all.
A magazine called "Movies Rock" has shown up at my house.
One of the articles talks about listening to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon while watching the Wizard of Oz (sound turned down).
Very strange.
GeorgeM
was there a part about "first, score several grams of hydroponic", or something along those lines?
a dingo ate the baby |
01.11.08 - 9:32 pm | #
Moyers now getting into the discrepancy between poll numbers in NH and race being possible cause.
Shelby Steele--someone said he tends rightward politically? I don't know. Has ne book, A Bound Man, Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Won't Win. Ah, just said his politics are different from Obama's.
Does not think he will win--bcz we don't yet know him. Seems to keep his essence and thinking aboug issues concealed. Makes himself a mirror for whatever his supporters want him to be. They want his black skin in the office of the president to be redemptive for America, to show we've moved away from our racist past.
Steele says white people like Obama a little too much for the comfort of blacks.
jawbone |
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01.11.08 - 9:32 pm | #
Great. Now she's 90 feet tall with nuclear fingernails.
One of the articles talks about listening to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of
the Moon while watching the Wizard of Oz (sound turned down).
Wow. Amid all the nasal whining about free writing content online ruining the industry, nepotist goldenmorons who can barely speak English, graduated Ivy League and take employment for granted are still treading water with other poeople's work in the typically horrible American market, and new, fake magazines continue to proliferate. Our kaulej has this phony magazine that is nothing but advertisements andcelebrity interviews; nothig whatsoever helpful to actual students. When was the first time we heard this thing about Pink Floyd? Was it 1992? We're pretty sure Goth was still cutting edge.
Good evening all.
A magazine called "Movies Rock" has shown up at my house.
One of the articles talks about listening to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon while watching the Wizard of Oz (sound turned down).
Very strange.
GeorgeM | 01.11.08 - 9:28 pm
Was it TNT/TBS/TCM that got the rights in the late 90's. And when they had a marathon showing, one of the options was having DSOTM on the SAP channel.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 9:34 pm | #
Slight alteration: he may not *take* VP, but I'll bet both HRC and BO offer it to him.
Yeah.
I'd be willing to bet that they'd offer to Richardson, too. But I have this sneaking suspicion that he's becoming, well, you know....
Zap Rowsdower |
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01.11.08 - 9:34 pm | #
They want his black skin in the office of the president to be redemptive for America, to show we've moved away from our racist past.
We moved backwards.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:34 pm | #
jeesus if this snake don't show up soon i'm giving up
Culture of TrÜth
That's what Mary said.
ginger |
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01.11.08 - 9:34 pm | #
Shelby Steele--someone said he tends rightward politically?
I've seen that douchebag on CSpan.
Another self-hater in the Condi Rice/Alan Keyes/Clarence Thomas/JC Watts mold.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:34 pm | #
maybe edwards will get chosen as vice on a hillary ticket. then he can whisper in her ear what a more progressive point of view would be
Obama and Huckabee register largely as unknown quantities among business owners, both large and small, say lobbyists.
"My sense is that Obama would govern as a reasonably pragmatic Democrat ... I think Hillary is approachable. She knows where a lot of her funding has come from, to be blunt," said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Group Co., a market and policy analysis group.
But Edwards, Valliere said, is seen as "an anti-business populist" and "a trade protectionist who is quite unabashed about raising taxes." "I think his regulatory policies, as well as his tax policies, would be viewed as a threat to business," he said.
portia |
01.11.08 - 9:35 pm | #
Shelby Steele is a racial concern troll.
His famous quote is "Clarence Thomas is the freest man in America."
HoneyBearKelly |
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01.11.08 - 9:35 pm | #
steele used to be a conservative, dont know what his politics are now.
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 9:35 pm | #
Nice adze!
Need some wood?
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:36 pm | #
Well, let's keep in mind that I'm a two-time loser, so, you know, maybe I'm a little weird.
Well, Thers is a do-over for me. I think it's all about asking yourself what it is you really want. Because lots of times people mate for things they thought they *ought* to want, but had nothing, really, to do with them.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6 |
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01.11.08 - 9:36 pm | #
Hillary says she'll issue an executive order making all federal buildings energy efficient. She says this would put thousands of people to work. She says it's already been tried in Germany, where they put 300k people to work.
back |
01.11.08 - 9:36 pm | #
teh snakes haf arrived!
camera sees thru their eyes
so artsy
Culture of TrÜth |
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01.11.08 - 9:36 pm | #
steele used to be a conservative, dont know what his politics are now.
pretzelattack
Fascist.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:36 pm | #
FUCK!
The Blue Jackets just took a 5-3 lead against my Blues. Fuck.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:36 pm | #
I would have liked to. Saw him give an outdoor speech that year at B'dway and 72nd St. while I was visiting NYC
I remember his speeches. They were inspirational.
I was young and naive.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:37 pm | #
I remember having to explain to some people that these "competing" narratives are not always mutually exclusive. For instance, I happen to think that OJ did it AND Furhman planted the glove. Just because he was a racist asshole doesn't mean he was inaccurate in his assumption.
catalexis |
01.11.08 - 9:37 pm | #
Edwards is not going to get picked as a VP.
pie
I've said this here before, but at one point in a recent debate, I got the distinct feeling that Barack and Edwards had come to a handshake agreement about prez/vp.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
01.11.08 - 9:37 pm | #
FUCK!
The Blue Jackets just took a 5-3 lead against my Blues. Fuck.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 9:36 pm |
You're only what, 3 months into a 12 month season? Don't worry about it.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
01.11.08 - 9:37 pm | #
"dammit when do the fucking snakes show up?"'
that's IT!! buy her a snake or an ashtray shaped like a skull.
shows yer dark and mysterious.
jdw |
01.11.08 - 9:37 pm | #
I happen to think that OJ did it AND Furhman planted the glove. Just because he was a racist asshole doesn't mean he was inaccurate in his assumption.
catalexis
My sentiments exactly.
And I am glad that OJ is having so many legal problems now.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 |
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01.11.08 - 9:38 pm | #
Blue is my favorite color of MSMs.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe |
01.11.08 - 9:38 pm | #
-- Start Copy Here --
The Big Dog is a racist
-- End Copy Here --
hadenough |
01.11.08 - 9:38 pm | #
Shelby Steele--someone said he tends rightward politically?
It's weird, there is maybe his brother at Stanford,Claude Steele, who has some of the best thinking out there to beat down Herrnstein, Murray and other racists.
leibniz, monadΩ |
01.11.08 - 9:40 pm | #
I think it's all about asking yourself what it is you really want. Because lots of times people mate for things they thought they *ought* to want, but had nothing, really, to do with them.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:40 pm | #
was there a part about "first, score several grams of hydroponic", or something along those lines?No. But they did say stoners probably came up with it. The article describes matching Gone With The Wind and James Brown's Revolution of the Mind.
Idiocracy and Britney Spears' Oops I Did It Again. Last Tango In Paris with Barry White's All Time Greatest Hits. Heh
So far the snakes have bitten one breast and one penis.
Culture of TrÜth |
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01.11.08 - 9:42 pm | #
I had an interesting facebook moment today.
A college friend of mine who was born on the same day I was wrote me to say that she noticed she and I have the same couch. It's a very distinctive pattern.
Fuhrman implied in his carefully forgotten rant that the basis of racist corruption in the LAPD was the classic cowboy movie sense that somebody was guilty as hell but would get off scot free, so justice had to be helped out.
He also said everyone knew at least one asshole on his beat that he just wanted to take to some alley and blow the guy's head off, which is, you know, great in a cop.
I think it's all about asking yourself what it is you really want. Because lots of times people mate for things they thought they *ought* to want, but had nothing, really, to do with them.
Molly, you are smart and wise.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:42 pm | #
A college friend of mine who was born on the same day I was wrote me to say that she noticed she and I have the same couch. It's a very distinctive pattern.
How odd.
Sinfonian
Careful, this is how those twins ended up together.
Culture of TrÜth |
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01.11.08 - 9:43 pm | #
For one thing, the wiz is like 2 hours long and DSOTM is about 40 minutes.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 9:43 pm | #
yeah i think cops do that a lot, decide someobody is guilty and frame them. i just think, in this case, oj is in fact guilty.
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 9:43 pm | #
"To say he was misquoted is a huge understatement.
Terry C - Edwards 2008"
Just crazy. More crazy is the 'liberal' blogs that copied and pasted that. Then wasted a lot letters and white space treating it like fact.
hadenough |
01.11.08 - 9:43 pm | #
A college friend of mine who was born on the same day I was wrote me to say that she noticed she and I have the same couch. It's a very distinctive pattern.
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)?
leibniz, monadΩ |
01.11.08 - 9:44 pm | #
They framed a guilty man.
gullycat |
01.11.08 - 9:44 pm | #
Steele calls Obama a "bargainer': A black who enters the white mainstream saying I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt--if you will not hold my black skin against me. Whites then are very welcoming and black bargainers tend to be very successful.
Black "challengers": Feel the society is racist until proven otherwise. They go to institutions and demand changes, which when given, results in absolution. In our society now, once labeled racist, there is barely any absolution. Says the lesson of Imus was whites must never say what they really thing about blacks.
(Which may be why Tweety/Rove is working so hard to label Democratic voters racist? Along with Bill and Hillary! There will be no acceptance by blacks if labeled racist.)
Obama is seen as giving the desired absolution if whites support him. Oprah is a bargainer also, Steele says. Bill Cosby was seen as a bargainer--until the last few years when he began saying things he felt, like affirmative action was a good thing. Once the black bargainer is filled in with some actual stands and thoughts, then, like Bill Cosby, he becomes too challenging and can't be whatever the the viewer/listener wants him to be!
Thus, what drives me crazy about Obama--no specificity from bargainers. Obama's speeches are full of hope, change, other non-precise words. Hillary and Edwards are more concrete; the voters really know what they want to do--don't have that about Obama, which makes him popular.
Steele says Obama giving benefit of doubt to whites undermines the power blacks have accrued.
I'm probably not doing justice to the nuance--watch Moyer's Journal, either on rebroadcast or on the web.
jawbone |
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01.11.08 - 9:45 pm | #
sofa, so good.
Culture of TrÜth |
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01.11.08 - 9:45 pm | #
A college friend of mine who was born on the same day I was wrote me to say that she noticed she and I have the same couch. It's a very distinctive pattern. How odd.
The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:45 pm | #
and sometimes, the cops cant get them on one thing, so they cook up something else.
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 9:45 pm | #
Shelby Steele is an idiot. His analysis of Obama is as valuable as Bill Kristol's plans for victory in Iraq.
rootless-e |
01.11.08 - 9:46 pm | #
Re: college friend.
I'd hit it™. Definitely.
But she's all married and shit.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:46 pm | #
Cosby? Doesn't he spend his time attacking other blacks these days?
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01.11.08 - 9:46 pm | #
Do you have the same couch as me?
How much change and old poker chips are buried in the cushion?
leibniz, monadΩ |
01.11.08 - 9:47 pm | #
tom tomorrow has a good cartoon about bill kristol working as a nyt columnist.
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 9:47 pm | #
Thanks, pie.
I realized a few things when I split with my first: he was a nice guy, great, handsome. But the things which mattered to him didn't matter to me, and it all spun out from there. We never fought, because I never got excited about anything that he did, and he never got excited about anything that I did.
Thers and I argue all the time. The teen comes downstairs to find books scattered all over the living room. "You guys have another fight?"
It's all about finding someone that "gets" you.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6 |
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01.11.08 - 9:47 pm | #
Younger people also may marry under the assumption what they want and need remains constant.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:48 pm | #
Shelby Steele is an idiot. His analysis of Obama is as valuable as Bill Kristol's plans for victory in Iraq.
I agree. Get used to it.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:48 pm | #
AOL news teaser has header:
They All Escape
'Jaws' of Defeat
'Comeback Kids' Beat the Odds
See What They Did in News Quiz
And shows pics of polar bear with mouth wide open, a turtle? and Hillary with her mouth wide open.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan |
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01.11.08 - 9:48 pm | #
i just think, in this case, oj is in fact guilty.
pretzelattack
OJ is certainly guilty.
The dog, peeps, the dog.
JR, kerosene and a match |
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01.11.08 - 9:49 pm | #
buy her a snake or an ashtray shaped like a skull
Put them in your house made out of rattlesnake hide.
Right, Tacitus. It wasn't the Bradley effect, but the Pew Research guy argued that it could've been a different kind of a Bradley effect: low-income whites are more likely to refuse to be polled and if they're also more racist then their vote wasn't in the predictions but was in the final vote.
I have trouble with this scenario, because I suspect that the group he had in mind would be at least as likely to refuse to vote for a woman as for a black man, and wouldn't go to Hillary Clinton in the elections but to one of the white men.
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01.11.08 - 9:49 pm | #
jeesus if this snake don't show up soon i'm giving up
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That's what Mary said.
I was thinking Adam.
Speak of the bevel!
Sinfonian, here's a suggestion. Chicks dig handmade gifts, or little goofy things torn out of colored paper.
Get 6 or 8 pieces of construction paper and tear out some seductive words, like
hEy BaBe didja knOw I wuZ on JEoPArdy?
Speedy |
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01.11.08 - 9:50 pm | #
This nonsense that Obama is allhot air with no specifics is a bunch of shit. His website drips with wonkery.
His speeches are designed to be exciting and inspirational, like there's something wrong with that. Hm, what previous dem nominee and now non-president was death on the stump?
Hillary's persona is just not inspirational.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
01.11.08 - 9:51 pm | #
Younger people also may marry under the assumption what they want and need remains constant.
Moyers has some fucking evil individuals on. Not saying steele is fucking evil maybe just evil. I like to see what Moyers says and the questions he asks as much or more than what he gets them to say.
hadenough |
01.11.08 - 9:51 pm | #
sinfonian are u talking about the lady you gave flowers to?
pretzelattack |
01.11.08 - 9:51 pm | #
jeesus if this snake don't show up soon i'm giving up
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I go though that everytime mine sheds.
He's looking all handsome and shit tonight, though. Fresh skin.
JR, kerosene and a match |
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01.11.08 - 9:51 pm | #
Younger people also may marry under the assumption what they want and need remains constant.
That's been true for us to enough of a degree that we're still together after 32 years.
But I can see why it doesn't work.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:52 pm | #
Oh shit, Sinf. I was too late.
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01.11.08 - 9:52 pm | #
Well, Thers is a do-over for me. I think it's all about asking yourself what it is you really want. Because lots of times people mate for things they thought they *ought* to want, but had nothing, really, to do with them.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6 | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 9:36 pm | #
wish women wouldn't do that. It just makes it worse.
you have to ask yourself, how come men have such trouble having female friends that they regard as siters..
JR, kerosene and a match |
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01.11.08 - 9:55 pm | #
So sorry sinfonian. I don't know what else to say.
leibniz, monadΩ |
01.11.08 - 9:55 pm | #
She thinks of me as a brother, she said, and she can't get past that.
btw, i worked for the pollster doing the California Poll and was one of the people on the phone gathering that bogus information!
here's a story from that poll:
the question read like this
"will you vote for DUKE-MAY-GIN, the republican, or BRAD-LEE, the democrat?"
so i get somebody that sounds like the little white haired old lady from central casting on the phone and ask her that question. she sez "duke?... duke?..." I say "DUKE-MAY-GIN - it's an armenian name." she sez "oh dear, oh my... well, i usually vote for the republican, but i never vote for anybody with a foreign name"
i was not allowed to get into a 'discussion' with people on the phone...
Despite embracing Michigan as the heart of his bid to revive his campaign, Republican Mitt Romney was greeted by an anemic crowd Friday as he began his final push for votes in the crucial primary.
No more than 150 people were on hand for his appearance at Macomb Community College's Center for Alternative Fuels, in a space set up for an audience twice that size. Romney delivered an unusually short, 13-minute address, breaking with recent practice and taking no questions from his audience.
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01.11.08 - 9:56 pm | #
Marry the person who cracks you up cause life is a joke and we all know the punchline.
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01.11.08 - 9:56 pm | #
Not that I don't sympathize with Sinfonian, but it does seem to be an issue.
JR, kerosene and a match |
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01.11.08 - 9:56 pm | #
I, too, am now on FaceFace.
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01.11.08 - 9:57 pm | #
Sinf, did you have a good time?
Then take from it and move on.
Your kids need you, and you need them.
Make them a priority.
*mwah*
Good night.
pie |
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01.11.08 - 9:57 pm | #
I put up sheets for dialpeople
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01.11.08 - 9:57 pm | #
Wolcott writes about "Tommy"
Then there's the 50 greatest movie soundtracks. Purple Rain is number 1. Viva Las Vegas is 50th.
I didn't see Jonathan Livingston Seagull on the list.
After our conversation last night I realized a couple of things. I realized that you are a little more vulnerable than I had first thought (and I really appreciated your openness; and then, after you left, [her son] began sobbing becasue you left and he kept saying he loved you. While you have many qualities that I am attracted to--funny, intelligent, and cute--I really feel more toward you lilke a brother.
I have no idea what this means.
Anyway, thanks to all. Good night.
Sinfonian, Friday I'm bored |
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01.11.08 - 9:58 pm | #
Either she doesn't know what's good for her, or she does - either way, meh.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant |
01.11.08 - 9:59 pm | #
I must say Steele is very good talking to Moyers. But Moyers is a truly gifted interviewer of most people, especially with those with whom he may not naturally agree.
Steele now talking about his dropping the mask blacks are required to wear. In academia black faculty are expected to be challengers--and he didn't feel like one. Didn't want to be a surrogate for blackness--price is a kind of exile from the group. Not sure I get what Steele is saying here.
Moyers thinks no longer penalized for being black conservative...Steele says indeed one is. If not a Democrat not altogether black. Liberalism is what Obama has to offer blacks (Obama does a pretty good imitation of Dr. King--puts on his challenging mask). Obama is the anti-Al Sharpton--Obama relieves the anxiety of being white.
Steele says Obama is not a revolutionary, not a reformer--but he knows how to manipulate whites. Makes for being a very good politician. Whites love a black who's not angry--which Obama says he learned early on. Has the Stokely Carmichael mask, as well as the MLK mask.
Steele relates to Obama in that Steele's mother also was white.
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01.11.08 - 9:59 pm | #
She thinks of me as a brother, she said, and she can't get past that.
Well, it's tricky when the child's feelings are so strong. She may feel that she has to be absolutely sure of her own feelings to proceed, for otherwise she might hurt her son by taking another person he loves from his life.
Echidne |
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01.11.08 - 10:04 pm | #
Well, it's tricky when the child's feelings are so strong. She may feel that she has to be absolutely sure of her own feelings to proceed, for otherwise she might hurt her son by taking another person he loves from his life.
Echidne | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:04 pm | #
That's why I don't think she should have involved her son until she was sure of her own feelings. Thoughtless, really.
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01.11.08 - 10:07 pm | #