In academia, if a faculty member is not too swift but otherwise likes bureaucratic wanking, he often ends up as a Dean of something.
Tralfaz |
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02.16.08 - 4:48 pm | #
Zero my diet-shrunken ass. De-lurking to say hello..... and boy, do I miss bread. Food group, not the band.
emma, voting Dem in O.C. |
02.16.08 - 4:49 pm | #
He gets paid to write this. It's just wrong.
shawk |
02.16.08 - 4:49 pm | #
I bet columnists hate it when you remind them of the stupid stuff they've said in the past.
They didn't have to worry about that so much when their only medium was print.
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 4:49 pm | #
Broder should be cast as the dumbest fucker in the United States.
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 4:51 pm | #
How will history mock those who have acted as public fluffers for the most-hated president ever?
puppethead |
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02.16.08 - 4:51 pm | #
Sadly, Atrios appears to not have bounced. His latest approval is in the teens.
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 4:51 pm | #
In academia, if a faculty member is not too swift but otherwise likes bureaucratic wanking, he often ends up as a Dean of something.
And when you look at pay raises, all those faculty who do dean-type stuff end up getting more money.
leibniz, monadΩ |
02.16.08 - 4:51 pm | #
When he eventually joins the choir invisible, that column should be carved onto Broder's headstone, along with an image of him eating quail at Karl Rove's table.
Richard |
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02.16.08 - 4:51 pm | #
Bush in the remake of "Shaft In Africa":
Are you man enough...big and bad enough?
Are you gonna let 'em shoot ya down?
When the evil flies, and your brother cries,
Are you gonna be around?
Someone needs a friend, just around the bend.
Don't ya think you should be there?
Are you man enough...when the goin's rough?
Is it in your heart to care?
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 4:52 pm | #
Can't we just replace Andy Rooney with David Broder? Broder would finally be treated with all the gravitas he deserves (none) and Rooney could finally retire to his crypt.
sister of ye |
02.16.08 - 4:52 pm | #
I think I might be coming down with a cold
After sleeping 5 hours since I woke up, yeah, there's something of a cold/flu coming on in my body.
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 4:52 pm | #
Ah, Broder.
SteveNS
Wotta putz!
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 4:53 pm | #
when you look at pay raises, all those faculty who do dean-type stuff end up getting more money.
I'm hoping that next semester I'll get a raise to 29 cents an hour since I'm caught up with my grading for the first time in 5 years. We adjuncts do it for love.
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 4:54 pm | #
Thanks, but I don't want to join FaceBook.
I used a synomyn and my quiltsquito account at operamail. Just think of the time you could waste playing Sinf, NTodd, Racymind, Trifecta, Molly, and so on.
Heh, I beat Jeff Co today.
qlª | Homepage | 02.16.08 - 4:52 pm | #
qlª |
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02.16.08 - 4:54 pm | #
your job is so easy.
mickslam |
02.16.08 - 4:55 pm | #
Barndog,
You ate Bambi's heart?
/bursts into tears
res ipsa loquitur |
Homepage |
02.16.08 - 4:55 pm | #
I thought that was Dougie Feith.
Feith has the planet.
Just Another Zero |
02.16.08 - 4:55 pm | #
You ate Bambi's heart?
It wasn't bambi. It was a distant relative.
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 4:56 pm | #
CNN: Senate considers allowing loaded weapons in National Parks.
Well, guess I'll never go to a National Park again.
Barndog, sunny
I'm sure the rangers are just thrilled.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 4:56 pm | #
Heh, I beat Jeff Co today.
I beat him and tigre in a 3-way today. I'm smoking a cigarette right now.
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 4:56 pm | #
Senate considers allowing loaded weapons in National Parks.
Soon you'll be able to buy commemorative ammo-and-creationist-literature sets at the gift shops.
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 4:57 pm | #
Can't wait for Pumpkinhead to ask him about that.
Liars for Bush |
02.16.08 - 4:57 pm | #
You ate Bambi's heart?
Didn't you ever watch Red Dawn?
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 4:57 pm | #
Heh, I beat Jeff Co today.
And me. My impressive collection of i's is not going to catch you.
Molly Ivors, Blue |
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02.16.08 - 4:57 pm | #
RIL - and that was years ago, since the state can't manage the deer herd - and now there all sorts of neat diseases.
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 4:57 pm | #
I beat him and tigre in a 3-way today. I'm smoking a cigarette right now.
NTodd, Änti-VNF
Coming first is not winning.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 4:57 pm | #
By the way, what happened to der Fueher's plan to postpone his Africa trip until after the House sucked his cock?
Richard |
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02.16.08 - 4:58 pm | #
By the way, what happened to der Fueher's plan to postpone his Africa trip until after the House sucked his cock?
They found out he was dickless.
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 4:58 pm | #
By the way, what happened to der Fueher's plan to postpone his Africa trip until after the House sucked his cock?
They bit.
Molly Ivors, Blue |
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02.16.08 - 4:59 pm | #
CNN: Senate considers allowing loaded weapons in National Parks.
I posted that earlier. Apparently the thugs are trying to get ion a wedge issue so the yahoos can scream that someone wants to take away their guns.
You can't hunt in national parks, right? What's the purpose of having a loaded gun?!
pie |
02.16.08 - 4:59 pm | #
I beat him and tigre in a 3-way today. I'm smoking a cigarette right now.
Just wait until tigre gets back. I played a 102-pointer to open our new game.
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:00 pm | #
You can't hunt in national parks, right? What's the purpose of having a loaded gun?!
pie
To make them safer, of course.
May God help us, because we seem unable to.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:00 pm | #
CNN: Senate considers allowing loaded weapons in National Parks.
I posted that earlier. Apparently the thugs are trying to get ion a wedge issue so the yahoos can scream that someone wants to take away their guns.
You can't hunt in national parks, right? What's the purpose of having a loaded gun?!
Terrorists might come and attack?
Echidne |
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02.16.08 - 5:00 pm | #
You can't hunt in national parks, right? What's the purpose of having a loaded gun?!
I think there are some areas you can hunt it, but I could be mistaken. Maybe they could shoot all the snowmobilers...
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 5:01 pm | #
BTW, if you go to a recent Broder column, you can email the old coot.
Send him a "Happy Anniversary" message and include a link to the column mentioned:
You can't hunt in national parks, right? What's the purpose of having a loaded gun?!
To keep Yogi Bear from stealing your pic-a-nic basket?
sister of ye |
02.16.08 - 5:01 pm | #
That guns-make-you-safer argument is really warped. The more guns there are among my neighbors the less safe I feel. I also want to check their medicine cupboards.
Echidne |
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02.16.08 - 5:02 pm | #
By the way, what happened to der Fueher's plan to postpone his Africa trip until after the House sucked his cock?
Richard
I am reluctantly forced to conclude that we can believe nothing of what our president says.
SteveNS, if you live in Chicago, I'll bring you some of the hot soup my wife just made. I hate to see a brother forced to down frozen 'za on a cold Saturday night.
PopeRatzo |
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02.16.08 - 5:03 pm | #
If people aren't allowed to have guns in national parks, then only the animals will have guns.
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 5:03 pm | #
You can't hunt in national parks, right? What's the purpose of having a loaded gun?!
To keep Yogi Bear from stealing your pic-a-nic basket?
Or nail Smokey right between the baby-blues.
Sufferin' Succotash |
02.16.08 - 5:04 pm | #
Trust me, it's the fucking snowmobilers who are the type who want this.
The only good thing is, as addicted to the internal combustion engine as our gun freak friends are, you just stay away from the car campgrounds and you should be ok.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:04 pm | #
There were a handful of nice young people about 50 miles from me in DeKalb that guns didn't make safer.
PopeRatzo |
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02.16.08 - 5:04 pm | #
Just wait until tigre gets back. I played a 102-pointer to open our new game.
if the last two games haven't taught you anything...
watertiger |
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02.16.08 - 5:04 pm | #
If people aren't allowed to have guns in national parks, then only the animals will have guns
Yeah, you wouldn't want a squad of bears ambushing you or anything.
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 5:04 pm | #
Do you think Atrios puts entries for this stuff in his Outlook, e.g., Last February 15th he wrote, "Broder writes characteristically dickish column claiming Bush is headed for a comeback" with a reminder to cite same a year from that date?
res ipsa loquitur |
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02.16.08 - 5:04 pm | #
if the last two games haven't taught you anything...
Shut up and fetch me an eclair, bitch.
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:05 pm | #
SteveNS, if you live in Chicago, I'll bring you some of the hot soup my wife just made. I hate to see a brother forced to down frozen 'za on a cold Saturday night.
PopeRatzo
* checking flights and connections *
I can be there in... um, under 24 hours!
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 5:05 pm | #
I think there are some areas you can hunt it, but I could be mistaken
I know the Senecas can hunt in the state park in western New York, but that's because it's on their land. I don't think it's open to anyone else, even during deer season.
pie |
02.16.08 - 5:05 pm | #
Broder is dumber that a bag of bricks.
mer |
02.16.08 - 5:05 pm | #
Do you think Atrios puts entries for this stuff in his Outlook
No, he encodes it with tats on his cock.
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:05 pm | #
I can be there in... um, under 24 hours!
Sorry pal, it'll be all et up by then.
PopeRatzo |
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02.16.08 - 5:06 pm | #
Luckily, I really only go camping (in a campground) in one spot. I've known the owner for over 20 years, and we have a good time while I'm there.
Like I really camp in that 28' 5th wheel anyways.
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 5:06 pm | #
By the way, what happened to der Fueher's plan to postpone his Africa trip until after the House sucked his cock?
I wish he'd spend the whole trip in Kenya - and that his secret service detail in Dubai or something.
res ipsa loquitur |
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02.16.08 - 5:06 pm | #
Broder is dumber that a bag of bricks.
mer
Hey! I resent that!
Bag o bricks |
02.16.08 - 5:06 pm | #
No, he encodes it with tats on his cock
Well, you know them irish guys...
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 5:06 pm | #
Sorry pal, it'll be all et up by then.
PopeRatzo
'Sokay, dude. I appreciate the thought!
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 5:07 pm | #
David Broder is a lot like the Grandfather from Texas Chainsaw Massacre - they wheel him out every once in awhile and he tries his damnedest to smack someone with his hammer, but doesn't really do any damage.
Karatist Preacher |
02.16.08 - 5:07 pm | #
No, he encodes it with tats on his cock.
Good to see that pacifist stuff hasn't taken away your edge.
PopeRatzo |
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02.16.08 - 5:07 pm | #
Maybe they could shoot all the snowmobilers...
When I was a kid in Canada, there was an incident in my hometown. There was an asshole who liked driving his snowmobile at high speed through the backyards of his neighbours. Finally, one angry neighbour decided to lower his cloth's line. The unfortunate result of this bit of payback was that the snowmobiler was decapitated, Saddam style.
Richard |
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02.16.08 - 5:07 pm | #
Shut up and fetch me an eclair, bitch
/me envisions a spinning backkick to the left temple
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 5:07 pm | #
If people aren't allowed to have guns in national parks, then only the animals will have guns
Yeah, you wouldn't want a squad of bears ambushing you or anything.
Barndog, sunny
4 school shootings in one week.
When do we start issuing gun to students at enrollment?
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:08 pm | #
By the way, what happened to der Fueher's plan to postpone his Africa trip until after the House sucked his cock?
Richard
I was going to ask about that when I saw Chimpy was off to see his tree-swinging relatives in Africa.
Must be he beat a hasty retreat when the House refused to capitulate (for the first time ever).
pie |
02.16.08 - 5:08 pm | #
[plots next devious win]
FETCH ME MY GODDAMNED ECLAIR FIRST, YOU COCKSUCKER!
Good to see that pacifist stuff hasn't taken away your edge.
The unfortunate result of this bit of payback was that the snowmobiler was decapitated, Saddam style.
Richard
I know a farmer in Wisconsin who buries pipe in the ground, sticking up about a foot.
When the snow falls, you don't see 'em, but they sure wreak havoc if you run over 'em at high speed.
Bag o bricks |
02.16.08 - 5:08 pm | #
/me envisions a spinning backkick to the left temple
the come-from-behind wins are the game equivalent.
watertiger |
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02.16.08 - 5:08 pm | #
Happy blogiversary, wt!
(I missed the earlier thread.)
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 5:08 pm | #
When do we start issuing gun to students at enrollment?
Rmj, Theologist
For you, that's snark.
For Glenn Reynolds, it's a policy paper.
res ipsa loquitur |
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02.16.08 - 5:09 pm | #
Like I really camp in that 28' 5th wheel anyways.
Barndog, sunny | 02.16.08 - 5:06 pm | #
reminded of the old line. 'to me, roughing it is a holiday inn without a pool...'
fokowi, cabinless |
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02.16.08 - 5:09 pm | #
It may seem perverse to suggest...
"Perverse" isn't the word I'd have used....
Southern Beale |
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02.16.08 - 5:09 pm | #
4 school shootings in one week.
When do we start issuing gun to students at enrollment?
In many countries the media doesn't report on suicides because doing so always causes copycat suicides. I think one of the reasons for these things are the reports. I understand that the media can't not report on something like a mass killing but perhaps the tone of the reports could be changed to make the mythologizing of the killers less.
Echidne |
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02.16.08 - 5:10 pm | #
When do we start issuing gun to students at enrollment?
Rmj, Theologist
For you, that's snark.
For Glenn Reynolds, it's a policy paper.
res ipsa loquitur
Well, it's that or gun control.
Was noticing how easily the news accounts focus on the shooter, who is always crazy, and never on the fact even a crazy person can't commit a mass killing with a butcher knife.
Well, not as easily, anyway.
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:11 pm | #
'to me, roughing it is a holiday inn without a pool...'
No pool. But, the furnace and A/C work great.
Try that in a fuckin' tent.
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 5:11 pm | #
the come-from-behind wins are the game equivalent.
I'm not very pleased with you right now. I'm so not putting out for you in Philly.
[considers list of hot Atriettes in little black book he'd liked to get slapped by]
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:11 pm | #
I wonder if people like mimi regret pissing off so many people and not participating in our fun stuff like scrabble.
qlª |
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02.16.08 - 5:11 pm | #
t perhaps the tone of the reports could be changed to make the mythologizing of the killers less.
Echidne
We're all sensitive to ridicule.
How about a headline like "Stupid Asshole With Tiny Penis Wastes 7"?
Bag o bricks |
02.16.08 - 5:11 pm | #
DON'T. EVER. EVER. CALL. ME. A. FUCKING. PACIFIST. BITCH.
you burned my eyebrows off.
I'm being summoned to the kitchen.
Later, all.
I'm getting a cold, too I think. Fuck.
PopeRatzo |
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02.16.08 - 5:11 pm | #
hillary never praised nafta
**************************
cult of white sisterhood |
02.16.08 - 5:11 pm | #
That guns-make-you-safer argument is really warped. The more guns there are among my neighbors the less safe I feel. I also want to check their medicine cupboards.
Echidne | Homepage | 02.16.08 - 5:02 pm | #
Actually have a coworker who said yesterday that the problem was none of the students in that class at NIU had a loaded weapon. He felt it would never have happened if the other students had been armed.
What a nut case.
Shared Humanity |
02.16.08 - 5:11 pm | #
GD it, that was me.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:11 pm | #
In many countries the media doesn't report on suicides because doing so always causes copycat suicides. I think one of the reasons for these things are the reports. I understand that the media can't not report on something like a mass killing but perhaps the tone of the reports could be changed to make the mythologizing of the killers less.
Echidne
David Broder is a lot like the Grandfather from Texas Chainsaw Massacre - they wheel him out every once in awhile and he tries his damnedest to smack someone with his hammer, but doesn't really do any damage.
Give the old fart a break, will ya?
Shrub's approval rating is almost as high as it was a year ago.
If that isn't the comeback trail, I don't know what is.
Sufferin' Succotash |
02.16.08 - 5:12 pm | #
I wonder if people like mimi regret pissing off so many people and not participating in our fun stuff like scrabble.
"mimi" hates us for our freedom.
Richard |
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02.16.08 - 5:12 pm | #
When do we start issuing gun to students at enrollment?
Southern Beale |
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02.16.08 - 5:13 pm | #
That guns-make-you-safer argument is really warped. The more guns there are among my neighbors the less safe I feel. I also want to check their medicine cupboards.
Echidne
Actually have a coworker who said yesterday that the problem was none of the students in that class at NIU had a loaded weapon. He felt it would never have happened if the other students had been armed.
What a nut case.
Shared Humanity
A guy drove his truck into a Luby's and shot the place up in Texas a decade or so back. Result? A concealed handgun law, so the patrons of the restaurant can shoot back next time.
No such incidents since, which is good. But the first time it does happen....well, I think it will only be worse.
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:15 pm | #
Try that in a fuckin' tent.
Barndog, sunny | 02.16.08 - 5:11 pm | #
i was like 3 merit badges away from eagle scout, then i discoverd girls.
i can handle my own in the wildoo...
did you ever get that fucking driftboat you were talking about awhile back?
fokowi, cabinless |
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02.16.08 - 5:15 pm | #
Okay, off to drink beer with meat people.
♥
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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02.16.08 - 5:16 pm | #
Do you think Atrios puts entries for this stuff in his Outlook, e.g., Last February 15th he wrote, "Broder writes characteristically dickish column claiming Bush is headed for a comeback" with a reminder to cite same a year from that date?
Totally. Probably Outlook with a backup old fashioned leather datebook, in case the computer crashes.
Karin |
02.16.08 - 5:16 pm | #
That first one REALLLLLY didn't want to go it. I felt kinda bad.
Until I ate his claws in drawn butter.
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:16 pm | #
Imagine the bloodbath if everyone was shooting at each other, willy-nilly.
No, we'd just start seeing the stories about Student Accidentally Shoots Self While Cleaning Gun and Student Accidentally Shoots Roomie ("I Didn't Know It Was Loaded" etc. etc.).
Sufferin' Succotash |
02.16.08 - 5:16 pm | #
did you ever get that fucking driftboat you were talking about awhile back?
Ayup. Waiting for the paperwork on the other end to arrive, so I can license the trailer. (boat needs no license, since it isn't motorized)
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 5:16 pm | #
A guy drove his truck into a Luby's and shot the place up in Texas a decade or so back. Result? A concealed handgun law, so the patrons of the restaurant can shoot back next time.
No such incidents since, which is good. But the first time it does happen....well, I think it will only be worse.
Rmj, Theologist
Minnesota passed a concealed carry law a few years ago, for just this reason.
Haven't heard of a single case of anyone with a permit stopping a crime, but I'd bet there have been plenty of fatal accidents with the hardware.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:17 pm | #
i was like 3 merit badges away from eagle scout, then i discoverd girls.
I was 3 gym credits from a PhD...
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:17 pm | #
They blasted his once-high-flying lifestyle, belittled his claims of innocence and branded him an “overgrown frat boy” fueled by greed and avarice.
At minimum, Wilkes should receive no less than 16 years and eight months in prison, prosecutors said. That would be exactly twice the length of the sentence Cunningham received after pleading guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion.
Wilkes deserves 25 years, what about an “overgrown frat boy” who employs torture?
Richard |
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02.16.08 - 5:17 pm | #
I just got home, and apparently there's been another mass shooting, in MD this time?
Karin |
02.16.08 - 5:17 pm | #
It's not too late.
Go Stupid, Go!!!
Culture of TrÜth |
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02.16.08 - 5:18 pm | #
I think one of the reasons for these things are the reports.
I think it's the *kind* of reporting. It really does glorify the violence. CNN had Sanjay Gupta on the scene reporting on how these catastrophes "overwhelm small community hospitals" and whatnot.
You know, maybe they should focus on the victims, telling us what kind of people they were. But when I mentioned that, Mr. Beale said HELL NO he hates that sappy shit.
So, how about not trying to pimp these tragedies for ratings and whatnot, OK? How about that?
Southern Beale |
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02.16.08 - 5:18 pm | #
i was like 3 merit badges away from eagle scout, then i discoverd girls.
girls can be found with somewhat less effort here in california
Apparently, Headline news thinks the "Camping World 300" is far more important than some little mass shooting.
Barndog, sunny |
02.16.08 - 5:20 pm | #
I think it's the *kind* of reporting. It really does glorify the violence. CNN had Sanjay Gupta on the scene reporting on how these catastrophes "overwhelm small community hospitals" and whatnot.
You know, maybe they should focus on the victims, telling us what kind of people they were. But when I mentioned that, Mr. Beale said HELL NO he hates that sappy shit.
I think they should focus on the victims, too. I don't care how sappy it is, it is also where the pain is and where lives were destroyed. If it was sappy enough, maybe would-be-killers would just off themselves alone.
Echidne |
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02.16.08 - 5:20 pm | #
Was it ever actually disallowed? I don't remember rangers ever checking for guns.
Lumpenprolitariot | 02.16.08 - 5:19 pm | #
Too busy checking for pot and DFH's!
Shared Humanity |
02.16.08 - 5:21 pm | #
Broder = The Cooler
Culture of TrÜth |
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02.16.08 - 5:21 pm | #
I'm watching a movie on Showtime or HBO or something. I'm not buying Gretchen Mol and Elizabeth Reaser as lesbians.
Southern Beale |
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02.16.08 - 5:21 pm | #
Oh, my bad, the people in Maryland got plowed down by a car in a street race. I just walked in and saw '8 dead' on the CNN ticker and assumed it was guns. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/16...s.ap/
index.html
Karin |
02.16.08 - 5:22 pm | #
Broder was right about the surge working
The surge was successful in the only thing Bush ever intended it to do - get the media focus off what a disaster Iraq is. All the other "goals" touted then and since are just standard Bush BS.
sister of ye |
02.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
I'm unaware of a shooting incident in Maryland -- maybe you're thinking about this car crash.
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
Drag race with 8 fatalities in MD is what I say. Lotsa death by stupidity.
bo |
02.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
somedays you're the particle, somedays you're the accelerator...
fokowi, cabinless |
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02.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
Wasn't there an incident in Florida a few years back where a foreign student happened to knock on the wrong house door, was shot and killed by the homeowner, and the killer was later found not guilty of any wrongdoing?
Richard |
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02.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
Apparently, Headline news thinks the "Camping World 300" is far more important than some little mass shooting.
Wasn't there an incident in Florida a few years back where a foreign student happened to knock on the wrong house door, was shot and killed by the homeowner, and the killer was later found not guilty of any wrongdoing?
Richard
There was one like that in Louisiana, I believe, 'bout 10 years ago. Dunno about Florida.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:24 pm | #
Was it ever actually disallowed? I don't remember rangers ever checking for guns.
I worked at one. There were signs everywhere saying no firearms or alcohol allowed.
Obviously exceptions are made during hunting season. Actually, I worked at National Recreation Area, not a National Park. Do they allow hunting in National Parks?
Southern Beale |
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02.16.08 - 5:24 pm | #
there's been another mass shooting, in MD this time
wow, i am still scratching my head in some weird mixture of anger and sorrow over the 8 people killed when they came out to "watch" a drag race ... good fucking grief
focus, Cultivating |
02.16.08 - 5:25 pm | #
Yes, wasn't it a Japanese kid a halloween costume. The homeowner saw someone on his doorstep so naturally he shot him.
Drag race with 8 fatalities in MD is what I say. Lotsa death by stupidity.
Yeah, that's the HuffPo headline:
"8 Killed As Car Hits Crowd At Maryland Drag-Race"
Southern Beale |
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02.16.08 - 5:25 pm | #
Wasn't there an incident in Florida a few years back where a foreign student happened to knock on the wrong house door, was shot and killed by the homeowner, and the killer was later found not guilty of any wrongdoing?
Richard
Wasn't there an incident in Florida a few years back where a foreign student happened to knock on the wrong house door, was shot and killed by the homeowner, and the killer was later found not guilty of any wrongdoing?
Well, to be fair, the knocker was foreign.
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02.16.08 - 5:26 pm | #
I was 3 gym credits from a PhD...
I know a place where you can get a Bachelor's degree in "outdoor recreation". Courses include skiing, snowshoeing and theory of recreating.
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02.16.08 - 5:26 pm | #
fokowi
I didn't understand the part about "dominant"
could you re-phrase?
mimi | Homepage | 02.16.08 - 3:19 pm | #
"But he tastes so gooooooo-hoooohooooo-d"
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:27 pm | #
I think they should focus on the victims, too. I don't care how sappy it is, it is also where the pain is and where lives were destroyed. If it was sappy enough, maybe would-be-killers would just off themselves alone.
Echidne
I'd settle for: "Why the hell do these people get guns!!!!!???????!!!!!!!"
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:27 pm | #
there's been another mass shooting, in MD this time.
i blame myspace. oh, yeah. and facebook...
fokowi, cabinless |
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02.16.08 - 5:27 pm | #
Drag race with 8 fatalities in MD is what I say. Lotsa death by stupidity.
bo | 02.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
Cars don't kill people. People kill people. It's just easier to do it with a car.
Shared Humanity |
02.16.08 - 5:27 pm | #
In "Back to the Future Part III," you were supposed to leave your iron outside the town party, but then they were pansies.
Culture of TrÜth |
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02.16.08 - 5:28 pm | #
She's 27, and she was with her child at an illegal drag race at 3:40am?
Awesome parenting skills on display there.
Not surprising if you know anything about the area.
"There were just bodies everywhere; it was horrible," said Crystal Gaines, 27, whose father was among the dead.
Gaines said she grabbed her child but could not help her father, William Gaines Sr., 61.
(snip)
The white sedan hit people standing on the side of Route 210 around 3:40 a.m., Prince George's County Police Cpl. Clinton Copeland said.
She's 27, and she was with her child at an illegal drag race at 3:40am?
Awesome parenting skills on display there.
SteveNS
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Can't imagine where she learned to behave that way....
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02.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
More Than Tissues in a Box of Kleenex
Greenpeace Denies Sanctioning Notes
(Kimberly-Clark has battled Greenpeace over recycled fibers in products. )
The battle over the environment has found a new front: the inside of a Kleenex box.
"Wiping away ancient forests," warned a note found inside a box bought recently at a drug store in New York by a stuffy-nosed reporter. "Here's a little secret that Kimberly-Clark, the largest tissue maker in the world and parent company of Kleenex, does not want you to know."
The not-so-secret secret is that Kimberly-Clark has been fighting with Greenpeace for nearly three years over recycled fibers in its products. Greenpeace says the company is destroying the boreal forest of Canada; Kimberly-Clark says it has begun testing new tissues made with recycled materials. But the bigger mystery is how the leaflet got into the box.
"We take any and all comments about any foreign materials in products extremely seriously," said David Dickson, a spokesman for Kimberly-Clark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Yos...shihiro_Hattori
Yoshihiro Hattori (服部剛丈 Hattori Yoshihiro) (November 22, 1975 - October 17, 1992) was a Japanese exchange student residing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States at the time of his death. Hattori was on his way to a Halloween party when he mistook the address and entered the wrong suburban property. The property owner, Rodney Peairs, mortally wounded Hattori with gunfire, thinking he was trespassing with criminal intent. The controversial homicide, and Peairs' subsequent acquittal in the state court of Louisiana, received worldwide attention.
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02.16.08 - 5:30 pm | #
FUCKERS! From AP:
Feds Nip State Efforts to Slash Mercury
By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer
Feb 16th, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- While arguing in court that states are free to enact tougher mercury controls from power plants, the Bush administration pressured dozens of states to accept a scheme that would let some plants evade cleaning up their pollution, government documents show.
A week ago, a federal appeals court struck down that industry-friendly approach for mercury reduction. It allowed plants with excessive smokestack emissions to buy pollution rights from other plants that foul the air less.
Internal Environmental Protection Agency documents and e-mails, obtained by the advocacy group Environmental Defense, show attempts over the past two years to blunt state efforts to make their plants drastically reduce mercury pollution instead of trading for credits that would let them continue it.
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02.16.08 - 5:30 pm | #
She's 27, and she was with her child at an illegal drag race at 3:40am?
Awesome parenting skills on display there.
SteveNS
I'm not even alive at 3:40 a.m.
And anyone who wakes me at that hour had better have a damn good reason for doing so.
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Is it true the VA Tech killer and the Illinois guy bought their guns from the same dealer???
Culture of TrÜth |
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02.16.08 - 5:30 pm | #
I'd settle for: "Why the hell do these people get guns!!!!!???????!!!!!!!"
Rmj, Theologist
But it's their Constitutional right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(what with them being in a well organized militia, and all).
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02.16.08 - 5:31 pm | #
The property owner, Rodney Peairs, mortally wounded Hattori with gunfire, thinking he was trespassing with criminal intent. The controversial homicide, and Peairs' subsequent acquittal in the state court of Louisiana, received worldwide attention.
Richard
I saw a report on "American Justice" about that story.
The shooter? Let's just say he looks like consummate Bush supporter.
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 5:31 pm | #
Can't imagine where she learned to behave that way....
Rmj, Theologist
Yep, that's a real mystery there...
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02.16.08 - 5:31 pm | #
Police said the white sedan was not involved in the street race but accidentally drove into the crowd of about 50 people that had spilled onto the highway to watch two racing cars speed off.
[snip]
"It's probably one of the worst scenes I've seen," Copeland said. "This is a situation that could have been avoided, and it's a very tragic situation."
[snip]
According to police, two cars had lined up for a race on the smooth and relatively flat and straight stretch of highway. They spun their wheels, kicking up smoke, then sped off, Copeland said.
The crowd then moved into the road to watch the cars drive away. The combination of the smoke and the dark morning likely meant the driver of the approaching white sedan could not see the crowd. No charges were pending.
Yeah, this sounds like a breeding ground of geniuses...
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:34 pm | #
Are the GOP going to recommend allowing handguns into the GOP convention in Minnesota?
Popcorn!
Just Another Zero |
02.16.08 - 5:34 pm | #
Of course. VA Tech killer was the inspiration for NIU killer. Wanted to be just like him.
Snow (D-SC)
Friendless and alone? Crazy? Despised by all?
Well, he certainly achieved that, didn't he?
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02.16.08 - 5:34 pm | #
That tyrant Hugo Chavez is at it again. This time he’s picking on poor lil’ ExxonMobil by outrageously choosing the interests of Venezuelan citizens over those of foreign corporations. It’s a shame that Chavez is preventing Venezuelans from enjoying the same level of corporate-sponsored democracy that we have here. What a dictator.
The state oil company of Venezuela said on Tuesday that it has stopped selling crude to ExxonMobil Corp in response to the US oil company’s court bid to freeze billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.
Yeah, this sounds like a breeding ground of geniuses...
Rmj, Theologist
I think it's a fairly common scenario.
And the cynicism ill-becomes you. After all, 7 people died, and they did do it at 3:30 am.
It's not like they were standing in the middle of the 410 at rush hour.
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02.16.08 - 5:36 pm | #
Is it true the VA Tech killer and the Illinois guy bought their guns from the same dealer???
Internet sales have gone through the roof.
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02.16.08 - 5:36 pm | #
criminy -- i just saw a predator drone commercial run during the nba pregame show.
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02.16.08 - 5:37 pm | #
The state oil company of Venezuela said on Tuesday that it has stopped selling crude to ExxonMobil Corp in response to the US oil company’s court bid to freeze billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.
The sabre-rattling in Iran is for show. The next US invasion's going to happen in Venezuela, you just watch.
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02.16.08 - 5:37 pm | #
Hey Terry,
You might want to get up. There's a white sedan COMING OUR WAY!
Adam Hominem
Oh, not ME, dude!
I'M where I'm supposed to be at that hour.
And I prefer MY forms of entertainment to be a bit more cerebral.
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 5:37 pm | #
VA Tech killer was the inspiration for NIU killer. Wanted to be just like him.
"Pajamas Media blogger Rob Port takes the students of Northern Illinois to task for not throwing their laptops at the gunman in the recent shooting tragedy there:
In a recent post about the campus shooting at Northern Illinois University one reader, who lives near the campus, posted this:
"I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me."
That’s a great point.
This kind of compassionate conservatism is always a winner!
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02.16.08 - 5:38 pm | #
Haaretz is reporting that Hezbollah is sending 50,000 'activists' into Southern Lebanon.
Also, I believe Iran's oil bourse opens on Monday.
Dr Wombat to the thread! Stat!
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02.16.08 - 5:39 pm | #
"The sabre-rattling in Iran is for show. The next US invasion's going to happen in Venezuela, you just watch."
And it will take this admin 5 years just changing out the desert cammies for the troops.
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02.16.08 - 5:39 pm | #
In a recent post about the campus shooting at Northern Illinois University one reader, who lives near the campus, posted this:
"I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me."
Another armchair commando speaks.
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 5:39 pm | #
"I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me."
It's your mind-numbing stupidity that troubles me.
pie |
02.16.08 - 5:40 pm | #
Oh, GREAT way to piss off Latino-Americans.
Terry C
The Venezuelans just want to be freed from under the heel of history's worst monster -- Hugo Chavez!
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02.16.08 - 5:40 pm | #
I just got stung by a bee! On my chest.
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers
Dr Wombat to the thread! Stat!
Adam Hominem | 02.16.08 - 5:39 pm | #
screw that. i'm pre-eagle scout.
i say suck the venom out...
fokowi, cabinless |
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02.16.08 - 5:40 pm | #
I just got stung by a bee! On my chest.
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers
Dr Wombat to the thread! Stat!
Fuck that, we have mimi.
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:40 pm | #
Haaretz is reporting that Hezbollah is sending 50,000 'activists' into Southern Lebanon.
-GSD
According to mrs. al-jafaari a few threads down, this is going to lead to another splendid victory on the part of Hezbollah.
You know, the kind where the dead bodies are stacked so high the IDF tanks can hardly get through.
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02.16.08 - 5:40 pm | #
""I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me.""
Pajamas Media blogger Rob Port takes the students of Northern Illinois to task for not throwing their laptops at the gunman in the recent shooting tragedy there:
While sitting on his fat ass in his mommy's basement.
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 5:41 pm | #
Are the GOP going to recommend allowing handguns into the GOP convention in Minnesota?
how do you conceal a handgun in a wet-suit?
focus, Cultivating |
02.16.08 - 5:41 pm | #
QL, the answer is "no"
I have never played scrabble and don't intend to start
I prefer vigorous love-making as we just finished doing here
Is it true the VA Tech killer and the Illinois guy bought their guns from the same dealer???
No, the VT shooter bought his guns there. The NIU shooter only bought clips and a holster. Dealer is in Green Bay.
Ralphie |
02.16.08 - 5:41 pm | #
"I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me."
And the cynicism ill-becomes you. After all, 7 people died, and they did do it at 3:30 am.
It's not like they were standing in the middle of the 410 at rush hour.
Adam Hominem
1) a drag race
2) on a public road.
a) is this legal in MD? If not, why did it happen (surely the police knew; 60 some-odd people did). And why no charges?
b) there was also an 18 wheeler that ran off the road trying to avoid the crash.
c) no charges? Really?
That was the aim of my comment. Lots of people doing something dangerous and stupid (there's a reason most states outlaw this kind of thing). Pointing that out is not excusing the deaths, it's damning the fools, from the drivers to the spectators to the police, who allowed it to happen.
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02.16.08 - 5:41 pm | #
I prefer vigorous love-making as we just finished doing here
You and your hand. How sweet.
pie |
02.16.08 - 5:41 pm | #
"Pajamas Media blogger Rob Port takes the students of Northern Illinois to task for not throwing their laptops at the gunman in the recent shooting tragedy there:
wasn't it Derbs who was disappointed that the students didn't rush to disarm the Va. Tech. gunman?
watertiger |
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02.16.08 - 5:42 pm | #
better than leaving the kid home alone.
qlª |
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02.16.08 - 5:42 pm | #
I prefer vigorous love-making as we just finished doing here
One person and a table leg counts as "we"? Interesting.
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 5:42 pm | #
how do you conceal a handgun in a wet-suit?
focus, Cultivating
Next to the dildos?
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:42 pm | #
"I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me."
Next time this person is in a room with a person shooting a gun, I'm sure throwing a book will be his/her first thought.
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:43 pm | #
VNF provides TMI about her fantasy life again.
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:43 pm | #
I don't know if you would call Laurent "my hand" but whatever
and I just needed to re-start the musical background which is on my computer
""I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me.""
Tears hair out and lights it on fire.
Echidne |
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02.16.08 - 5:43 pm | #
All these copycat crimes are strange. Seems like they all started with a crazed postal worker and spread from there.
Lumpenprolitariot |
02.16.08 - 5:43 pm | #
I don't know if you would call Laurent "my hand" but whatever
mimi
Just make sure "he" doesn't spring a leak at the crucial moment.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:44 pm | #
""I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me.""
Passivity, like not enlisting in the military?
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 5:45 pm | #
Tears hair out and lights it on fire.
Echidne
As opposed to throwing books? Might work!
I keed, I keed!
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:45 pm | #
Cars don't kill people. People kill people. It's just easier to do it with a car.
I'm not sure most people driving at night are expecting to come upon a street race with spectators in the road.
Snow (D-SC) | 02.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
One of the commentors at the WP article was hoping there would be a murder charge. He didn't get specific, but I'm presuming he meant charges for whomever organized this.
I don't really understand why someone would want to be outside at three am on a February watching any drag race, never mind an illegal one.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
02.16.08 - 5:45 pm | #
All I'm saying is that (a) it hurts like hell (despite the cortisone cream and the antihistamines) and (b) teh pollinators are back! Woooohoooooo!
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers |
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02.16.08 - 5:45 pm | #
Who has sex then runs to a blog to brag about it?
People who imagine they've moved to Moscow to have sex with Frenchmen.
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:46 pm | #
Who has sex then runs to a blog to brag about it?
Zap Rowsdower
Hey! Those lifelike blowup dolls are expensive!
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:46 pm | #
I don't really understand why someone would want to be outside at three am on a February watching any drag race, never mind an illegal one.
Looks cool when you're on meth?
Zap Rowsdower |
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02.16.08 - 5:46 pm | #
Hmmm...finish making love. Next? Dash off to a blog!
Wow. If that's what the kids these days call "being comfortable with technology," I'd rather be very uncomfortable.
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:46 pm | #
Just make sure "he" doesn't spring a leak at the crucial moment.
Bee sting - take some Benadryl, it minimizes reactions. You also might take some Alleve as its an anti-inflammatory. But be sure to eat before taking Alleve or it will tear up your stomach. You can take 2 Alleve at once, I used to take that dosage when it was prescription only years ago. (And when I weighed 105 pounds, sigh)
TEBB, uppity female |
02.16.08 - 5:46 pm | #
Tears FREEPER'S hair out and lights HIM on fire.
Echidne
Fried yer tomatoes!
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 5:47 pm | #
All I'm saying is that (a) it hurts like hell (despite the cortisone cream and the antihistamines) and (b) teh pollinators are back! Woooohoooooo!
I love a silver lining!
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 5:47 pm | #
(b) teh pollinators are back! Woooohoooooo!
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers
Well that is good news. Had they disappeared from your area?
qlª |
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02.16.08 - 5:47 pm | #
I don't really understand why someone would want to be outside at three am on a February watching any drag race, never mind an illegal one.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
There's actually a fair amount of this going on, I believe.
But I take your, and rmj's, point.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:47 pm | #
Oh, that different then.
Well, yes. A clip is pretty useless without a gun. I'm not trying to condone the guy. He should have lost his Federal firearm license after VT.
Ralphie |
02.16.08 - 5:47 pm | #
that drag race was at 3 a.m.? what morons. at that time of night standing by any road is stupid given the number of drunk drivers weaving their ways home.....
TEBB, uppity female |
02.16.08 - 5:47 pm | #
Conservatives Denounce Proposed Increases In Mandated U.S. Education Requirements, Cite Constitutional Right To Be Stupid
"if stupidity is criminalized, only criminals would be republicans!"
Renew Vow To Bring U.S. Back To Peaceful Days Before The Communist FDR When All Americans Lived Prosperously In Their Own Suburban Homes And All Children Kept Their Mouths Shut And Did What They Were Told So There Shut Up You Socialist Radicals
mimi got a hand named lowrent?
Forrest |
02.16.08 - 5:48 pm | #
Who has sex then runs to a blog to brag about it?
People who imagine they've moved to Moscow to have sex with Frenchmen.
NTodd, Änti-VNF
"Laurent" = cold cream and a box of tissues.
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 5:48 pm | #
(b) teh pollinators are back! Woooohoooooo!
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers
Sorry you were a snack, but that is good news.
pie |
02.16.08 - 5:48 pm | #
Who has sex then runs to a blog to brag about it?
Fat trannies named Butler
Edwards Is Her Hand |
02.16.08 - 5:48 pm | #
(b) teh pollinators are back! Woooohoooooo!
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers
Are you sure it wasn't a hornet? I've got lots of those in my yard. Tehy even look sorta like bees.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:48 pm | #
You know you put too much horse radish in the barby sauce when your eyes are watering and your not even in the kitchen.
qlª |
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02.16.08 - 5:48 pm | #
"Pajamas Media blogger Rob Port takes the students of Northern Illinois to task for not throwing their laptops at the gunman in the recent shooting tragedy there:
wasn't it Derbs who was disappointed that the students didn't rush to disarm the Va. Tech. gunman?
watertiger | Homepage | 02.16.08 - 5:42 pm |
I am pretty sure that if I were in a situation where a shooting were going on, my first thougt would be to get the hell out of there, and to hope like hell I don't panic (too much).
Someone needs to be airdropped into Iraq.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
02.16.08 - 5:49 pm | #
And now the Elias cunt emerges
Edwards Is Her Hand |
02.16.08 - 5:49 pm | #
that drag race was at 3 a.m.? what morons. at that time of night standing by any road is stupid given the number of drunk drivers weaving their ways home.....
TEBB, uppity female
Like I said, I think there's more of this going on than we realize.
It's just a shame this time the road was such a poor choice.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:50 pm | #
that drag race was at 3 a.m.? what morons. at that time of night standing by any road is stupid given the number of drunk drivers weaving their ways home.....
TEBB, uppity female
According to the news report, the crowd moved into the street as the cars took off, to get a better view. The car that crashed came upon this scene and, by the time it was visible, it was too late.
3:40 a.m., and I'm standing in the middle of a dark road (I presume) to watch a drag race. I don't deserve to get run over, but I'm a damned fool if I didn't consider the possibility....
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:50 pm | #
I prefer vigorous love-making as we just finished doing here
No doubt wiping up with your favorite pages from the JC Penny women's clothing sections...
racymind |
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02.16.08 - 5:50 pm | #
Someone needs to be airdropped into Iraq.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
A parachute would be strictly optional.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:51 pm | #
I just got stung by a bee! On my chest.
at least you are now pollinated and so you are fertile and will flower gloriously in the spring
Why just the other day at a rally before a group of union members, she grabbed her crotch.
How classy.
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 5:51 pm | #
I don't really understand why someone would want to be outside at three am on a February watching any drag race, never mind an illegal one.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
There's actually a fair amount of this going on, I believe.
But I take your, and rmj's, point.
Adam Hominem | 02.16.08 - 5:47 pm
Oh, I know it's very common. But still very stupid.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
02.16.08 - 5:52 pm | #
and they walked into the street after the cars took off?????
geez, this may be ugly of me but anyone who dies at something like that, other than some little kid taken there by an adult, is just one more moron out of the gene pool.
TEBB, uppity female |
02.16.08 - 5:52 pm | #
It's just a shame this time the road was such a poor choice.
Adam Hominem
I understand drag races got started on fire roads and emergency roads that were about 1/4 mile long (hence the regulation length), and also didn't have traffic on them.
And at the time (about 50 years ago) there were far fewer cars on the road.
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:52 pm | #
"
Are you sure it wasn't a hornet? I've got lots of those in my yard. Tehy even look sorta like bees.".
Pure bumble bee, not even Africanised. Like I don't know the difference between honey bees, hornets and yellow jackets.....
On the whole I think I'd have preferred being poked at by one of the hummingbirds hanging around here, but good to see the bumbles are back. Didn't really want to be beestung.
Oh jeesh, we have another personality!
qlª |
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02.16.08 - 5:52 pm | #
No doubt wiping up with your favorite pages from the JC Penny women's clothing sections...
racymind
Victoria's Secret
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 5:52 pm | #
""I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me.""
It's like taking Monty Python's self defense against fruit seriously.
Falstaff |
02.16.08 - 5:52 pm | #
And now the Elias cunt emerges
Edwards Is Her Hand
Lovely.
Stealing lines from Jane Fonda.
Pathetic.
Elias, it's about meme. |
02.16.08 - 5:53 pm | #
i've been having online gender instead of online sex
Pajamas Media blogger Rob Port takes the students of Northern Illinois to task for not throwing their laptops at the gunman in the recent shooting tragedy there:
A flying text book would certainly counterbalance a homicidal maniac with a fully blazing automatic weapon.
In fact, Rob's idea is so great, we should just equip the Army with laptops and books instead of guns - the best part is, when they weren't on some mission to smoke out terrarists from hidey-holes, they could get a good game of Donkey Kong on, or read some Tolstoy.
Stinky |
02.16.08 - 5:53 pm | #
A drag race, and Ghouliani wasn't invited. What a shame!
Ralphie |
02.16.08 - 5:53 pm | #
On the whole I think I'd have preferred being poked at by one of the hummingbirds hanging around here, but good to see the bumbles are back. Didn't really want to be beestung.
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers
I'm just glad your aren't allergic. (I have family members who are.)
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:54 pm | #
Pure bumble bee, not even Africanised. Like I don't know the difference between honey bees, hornets and yellow jackets.....
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers
I didn't mean to insult you. I didn't know the difference till someone told me that the bugs whose lives I was carefully protecting (despite their stinging ways, every time I went out to mow the lawn) were hornets, not bumblebees.
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:54 pm | #
""I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me.""
Well, he's right. The shooter could have been decapitated with a well-flung MacBook Air, in frisbee mode.
Gromit |
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02.16.08 - 5:54 pm | #
""I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me.""
It's like taking Monty Python's self defense against fruit seriously.
Falstaff
and they walked into the street after the cars took off?????
geez, this may be ugly of me but anyone who dies at something like that, other than some little kid taken there by an adult, is just one more moron out of the gene pool.
TEBB, uppity female | 02.16.08 - 5:52 pm |
That seemed to be the consensus of the WP commenters.
One one hand, the families of the vicitims are suffering. OTOH, the families of victims are suffering because the victims were breathtakingly stupid.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins |
02.16.08 - 5:55 pm | #
Oh jeesh, we have another personality!
qlª
You still have me laughing from that comment earlier today when you went all gansta on someone.
"Fok dat shi mofo! So what do you think of my new stitch?"
Elias, it's about meme. |
02.16.08 - 5:55 pm | #
Well, he's right. The shooter could have been decapitated with a well-flung MacBook Air, in frisbee mode.
Gromit
Wasn't the asian hat guy from Goldfinger in that class?
Falstaff |
02.16.08 - 5:55 pm | #
The shooter could have been decapitated with a well-flung MacBook Air, in frisbee mode.
Wasn't the asian hat guy from Goldfinger in that class?
Falstaff
Odd Job!
Now, if I only could remember useful things...
Adam Hominem |
02.16.08 - 5:56 pm | #
Who has sex then runs to a blog to brag about it?
I find it kind of funny; I find it kind of sad.
JeffCO |
02.16.08 - 5:57 pm | #
Who has sex then runs to a blog to brag about it?
The ass of Elias bleeds
Edwards Is Her Hand |
02.16.08 - 5:57 pm | #
""I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me.""
Unless this refers to a Creationist conference, I suspect I disagree.
Little Boots |
02.16.08 - 5:57 pm | #
""I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me.""
Well, he's right. The shooter could have been decapitated with a well-flung MacBook Air, in frisbee mode.
Gromit
That shooting in Montreal I mentioned earlier?
Some knucklehead wrote to the local paper and expressed regret that "one or more of those girls weren't armed."
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 5:58 pm | #
So, I got over 100 (huge for my "Z" list blog) Google hits yesterday for quoting Whitman's line: "the beautiful uncut hair of graves." (A long time back, but Google is good to me that way.)
This was apparently from all over, so it wasn't 100 English students in the same course.
Was there something in the news I missed, or was it just coincidence?
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 5:58 pm | #
and it wasn't just the dopey 20 somethings -- one of the victims was a 61yo man who was there with his daughter.
"
I'm just glad your aren't allergic. (I have family members who are.)"
I am, terribly. It's why I'm staying online here for a little bit to see if the anaphylactic shock kicks in or not. So far, so good - throat's open, breathing's good. Chlorotrimeton is good stuff.
Mmmmm...I'm gonna have the Flautas de Pollo tonight. Haven't had that in ages.
Zap Rowsdower |
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02.16.08 - 5:59 pm | #
I'm glad that Democratic men are coming to their senses and pushing Obama to the top. An African American friend of my put it best, "we don't want no pant suites wearing bitch tellin' us what to do."
Dasgor |
02.16.08 - 5:59 pm | #
The new Oddjob's weapon in the next Bond flick...
He can still be defeated by a well-placed Swedish penis enlarger pump...
NTodd, Änti-VNF |
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02.16.08 - 5:59 pm | #
""I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me.""
William Kristol and Rush Limbaugh threw young Dominican boys in front of the shooter.
leibniz, monadΩ |
02.16.08 - 5:59 pm | #
dang Dr. Barmpot, do you have an epi pen there just in case?
TEBB, uppity female |
02.16.08 - 5:59 pm | #
I am, terribly. It's why I'm staying online here for a little bit to see if the anaphylactic shock kicks in or not. So far, so good - throat's open, breathing's good. Chlorotrimeton is good stuff.
Dr. Barmpot Shouty-Crackers
well, then I will still worry about you for a bit.
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 6:00 pm | #
Another who fears The Scary Vagina.
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 6:01 pm | #
Stay away from the farting fish.
C'mon, not with the whole "wet farts" thing again...
Zap Rowsdower |
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02.16.08 - 6:01 pm | #
The ass of Elias bleeds
Edwards Is Her Hand
(Let's see.
Snow or Ntodd, my guess.
The same level of linguistic mastery; a similar familiarity with the fetish culture; and the intellectual gravitas to pull off such an historically impressive rip.
Yep, definitely one of those two.)
Elias, it's about meme. |
02.16.08 - 6:01 pm | #
Throughout the history of the world, most of the people killed by arms were armed themselves.
Ralphie |
02.16.08 - 6:02 pm | #
Who has sex then runs to a blog to brag about it?
OK, gang. Everyone go have sex. Report back when finished. Synchronize your Swiss watches on my mark...
Gromit |
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02.16.08 - 6:02 pm | #
Well, he's right. The shooter could have been decapitated with a well-flung MacBook Air, in frisbee mode.
But more likely probably would have made the thrower look like Sponge Bob Squarepants in about 10 seconds.
Stinky |
02.16.08 - 6:02 pm | #
Throughout the history of the world, most of the people killed by arms were armed themselves.
Ralphie
Actually, I don't watch any TV.
Ralphie |
02.16.08 - 6:03 pm | #
And stay away from Echidne's description of ludefisk
I'm sure it can't be worse than the real thing.
Zap Rowsdower |
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02.16.08 - 6:04 pm | #
No worries. Just ouchies!
Glad it's not worse. Maybe you can find someone to kiss it and make it better. Maybe Arthur, if no two-footers are available.
sister of ye |
02.16.08 - 6:04 pm | #
I didn't bring my 'A' game.
I think I'm getting a cold, and my elbow is sore.
SteveNS |
02.16.08 - 6:04 pm | #
OK, gang. Everyone go have sex. Report back when finished. Synchronize your Swiss watches on my mark...
OK, gang. Everyone go have sex. Report back when finished. Synchronize your Swiss watches on my mark...
Gromit
Spoken like the dog that you are!
Elias, it's about meme. |
02.16.08 - 6:04 pm | #
But more likely probably would have made the thrower look like Sponge Bob Squarepants in about 10 seconds.
Stinky
Everybody knows that, when the good guy shoots, the bad guy can't shoot back, or shoot at all until the good guy ducks again, usually behind a cardboard wall or something equally impenetrable.
And when the bad guy shoots at the good guy when he's running, all the bullets are drawn to the floor long before they reach their target. This is especially true for any kind of automatic weapon.
I seen it in the movin' pictures!
Rmj, Theologist |
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02.16.08 - 6:04 pm | #
Get out your handkerchiefs.
Owls.
shawk |
02.16.08 - 6:05 pm | #
Dr. Barmpot, if you were to have a reaction, it would have occured almost at once. I am allergic and have to carry atrophine in the warmer months. The only advantage to winter.
Ralphie |
02.16.08 - 6:07 pm | #
I just realized that this will be the first sitting US Senator elected President since 1960.
Elias, it's about meme. |
02.16.08 - 6:07 pm | #
AAA rated commenter
How old are you?
13?
Terry C - Hates Republicans |
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02.16.08 - 6:08 pm | #
Actually, I don't watch any TV.
You're totally missing "Storm Stories" on the Weather Channel, then...
Stinky |
02.16.08 - 6:08 pm | #
Dr. Barmpot, if you were to have a reaction, it would have occured almost at once. I am allergic and have to carry atrophine in the warmer months. The only advantage to winter.
Ralphie
For those too young to remember Lippmann; he was actually brilliant.
Bright enough to engage George Kennan in foreign policy at the highest strategic level.
Can you imagine Broder engaging anybody in anything at any level, except for maybe mind numbing stupidity.
No fun witnessing ongoing decline.
cal1942 |
02.16.08 - 6:28 pm | #
Here's how I figure:
When Broder runs another "Bush comeback" column he's just making a long odds bet.
Bush stays down... what has Broder lost? His reputation is locked in (for good or ill with villager or netroots). Do any readers here think any worse of Broder this time than the last time?
On the other hand...
Bush miraculously rises... Broder is a prophet. He's got a great I-called-it marker.
Michael Markman |
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02.16.08 - 7:08 pm | #
"I bet columnists hate it when you remind them of the stupid stuff they've said in the past."
If they hate that then they really hate googling themselves only to find some unanointed blogger calling them on their stupid.
gibbon1 |
02.16.08 - 7:22 pm | #
The comeback is coming............Now! No, wait...Now!