I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
HUCK SMASH
PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-NIS!
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I don't see no stinkin' sheeps.
Make up your mind, man!
Huckster or Mittens?
Well?
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Huckster/Mittens '08
In case people didn't see: Rin Tin memorial photoblogging.
So, how was Cloverfield?
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Huckabee?
I'd rather see Dead Fred win this one.
From TPM-
Zogby: Late SC Movement Towards Huckabee
http://tpmelectioncentral.com/
20...be_slipping.php
I've lived here all my life, and I've never walked on a frozen lake.
Zap Rowsdower
Then get on your Carhartts and go down to the lake with your ice fishing rod and your spud and a stool and get going on the experience. (Don't forget to blow up your Mickey Mouse Boots)
The Cornholers are really pushing Fredmentum.
The more the Republican base gets atomized, biting each other's butts while chasing folk who wouldn't appeal to anybody else, it's a good thing...
From below:
There's a website called zillow.com on which I can get a detailed map from space of my neighborhood, complete with real estate evaluations of the houses on it.
ProfWombat
It has to be recognizable. One roof looks pretty much like another, until you paint "Fuck you" on it.
It's not the information that is problematic, it's the picture itself.
I think P O'Neill just called em a Cornholer.
I guess it really is all about who the Republican is going to be at this point. I see precious little difference between Hillary and Obama.
NTodd, OB-GYN
My condolences. That's quite a menagerie. How do you keep the doggies from eating the kitties?
Holden's here on a Saturday?
What gives???
All the financial analyst on Fox Business News just agreed the stock market has tanked since New Years because it fears a Democrat will win the White House next years and will destroy the economy with there tax and spending. Wall street is terrified of a Democrat win.
That's all that was in the advert, too. I looked at it twice before I recognized the street.
NTodd,
Rough losing a pet. Sorry to hear it. Best wishes.
from below
the reason why is that with my new work commitments the dates when it is being held is unavailable for me to take time off for a holiay
How do you keep the doggies from eating the kitties?
Bitter apple.
There was a Dixie dusting this morning, a half-inch or so of snow around the Jackson MS area, rare, with even 1-3 inches souther. Now it shows mainly on roof shadows, etc., but still excitinger than the usual Saturday morning.
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Radical Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr put the United States and the Iraqi government on notice Friday that he may not extend a six-month cease-fire by his militia.
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Harry Reid has quietly affirmed that in the absence of sufficient votes to do otherwise, Congress will pass legislation to fund the militias for 180 days even if the cease-fire isn't extended-- but they'll revisit the issue after that, and they'll be taking a really hard look at al-Sadr's next funding request.
Bitter apple.
NTodd, OB-GYN
I'm trying to imagine bathing a cat in bitter apple...
Wall street is terrified of a Democrat win.
Odd, since the market always goes up when there's a Dem in the WH.
NTodd: bittersweet pictures of your late dog. Thanks for sharing; hang in there.
the reason why is that with my new work commitments the dates when it is being held is unavailable for me to take time off for a holiay
Moonbootica, Employed
Oh, hell!
be careful what you wish for....
I thought we were rooting for Romney.
I'm so confused...
Jed Clampett for Preznit!
The Cornholers are really pushing Fredmentum.
I wasn't aware the ACO was united behind (heh) a candidate.
http://www.americancornhole.org/
Holden -
Shouldn't you be keeping banker's hours?
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I thought we were rooting for Romney.
Is that like rooting for truffles?
the reason why is that with my new work commitments the dates when it is being held is unavailable for me to take time off for a holiay
We warned you about getting a job.
Hell, I'm rooting for Giuliani at this point. Freakazoid.
First Draft Crack Van tonight! Be there or be unelectable.
A.
In case people didn't see: Rin Tin memorial photoblogging.
NTodd, OB-GYN
Very sorry to hear about him. At least he had a good last month.
Moon - time to learn the art of "giving two weeks' notice."
CRACK VAN!!!!
That's all that was in the advert, too. I looked at it twice before I recognized the street.
ProfWombat
If any private property was recognizable (eg, can read street numbers), then it needs permission from the owner.
The street was not "incidental", it was the main point of the picture. It's not "public interest", it's a commercial enterprise.
In Canada this is skating on or over the privacy laws line.
I reckon we're rooting for anybody but McCain, who seems to have this magic power to make people vote for him in spite of all his asshole mainline Republican positions on everything.
Awwww.
A small North Dakota town is getting a bit of foreign aid to help build its community center: a $75,000 donation from Iceland.
Officials in Mountain, a northeastern North Dakota community with a rich Icelandic heritage told Iceland Prime Minister Geir Haarde about the $1.3 million community center project when he came to the town last year for the 108th annual August the Deuce Icelandic Celebration. It commemorates the beginning of Iceland's journey to independence from Denmark.
It would be perfect if we had some Fredmentum in Florida.
I doubt Wall Street is terrified of a Democratic win, especially given that neither Clinton nor Obama are wild-eyed economic radicals. It's clearer by the day that Republicans haven't done so well by the economy in many ways. They've enabled a lot of folk to get stinking rich, and now the piper must be paid; that's been the Democrats' brief, again and again, and they've generally done well with it.
CRACK VAN!!!!
[wookie]
How do you keep the doggies from eating the kitties?
Here, it's the other way around.
Romney eats truffles.
You are what you eat.
So, yes, liebniz...
Dead Fred compared himself to the movie character of Buford Pusser. The real Buford Pusser never admitted to avenging his wife's death.
the reason why is that with my new work commitments the dates when it is being held is unavailable for me to take time off for a holiay
We warned you about getting a job.
Harry Doghiney (D-TX)
In life, you start with time to do whatever you want but no money, then you get money to do whatever you want but you have no time, and finally you have both time and money but no more stamina.
JR: I'd doubt that that'd be true here. The envelope, after all, had my name and address on it elsewhere...
Wall street is terrified of a Democrat win.
That explains all the money Wall Street is pouring into Democratic coffers for presidential and congressional races.
Rorsach or other Minnesotans--
Friends in Minneapolis told us a couple of years ago that there was a winter prostitution bust on one of the lakes out there. According to the story, the prostitutes were knocking on doors of the fishing shanties.
Does this explain the popularity of ice fishing?
Moonie,
We might not be able to make it either. Due to Mrs. G's operation and subsequent recuperation, time & money will still be tight then.
But we've reserved a room anyway, just in case we can work it out.
Ntodd, I'm so sorry to hear. What a sweet boy he was.
A.
Prof, IIRC, the only time the Dow has had a significant bump of more than a hundred points in this new year was the day after Hillary won NH.
Not that there's an actual correlation, but...there it is.
(o)(o)
Now that's some guano!
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All the financial analyst on Fox Business News
All one of them?
I doubt Wall Street is terrified of a Democratic win...
Old Republitard meme. A rightie friend made this dire pronouncement to me before the 1988 presidential election, that the financial markets would "hunker down" and go into defensive mode if a Democrat took the White House. Yawn.
Oh boy. Greenwald lays into Klein again and it aint pretty
I reckon we're rooting for anybody but McCain, who seems to have this magic power to make people vote for him in spite of all his asshole mainline Republican positions on everything.
blerb, born-again stoner | 01.19.08 - 11:49 am | #
I was for Huckabee, on the theory that the American people need to see how batshit insane he and his fundie pals actually are, but I've changed my mind.
As somebody at Digby's place observed, back in 1964 everybody laughed at how batshit insane Barry Goldwater and his pals were, but by getting the presidential nomination they mainstreamed themselves even in defeat.
Huckabee's even crazier than Goldwater, and his pals are light years more dangerous. They really want to install a Christian theocracy in the world, not just this country. They have to be resisted on every fricking level....I'm not saying the rest of the Republicans aren't evil and a threat to everything that America is supposed to represent, but Huckabee is truly frightening on a whole other level.
Wall Street certainly didn't have a problem with the last Democrat who occupied the White House. Only on Fox can they keep every last person who would point that out away from the camera.
Crack van!!!
Athenae is indeed a goddess.
(polizia)
I just got back from the supermarket, which as of this year is now open til 6 on Saturdays. (Closed Sundays) It was an absolute madhouse.
Is there a way for all the Goopers running in the primaries to lose?
That's the scenario I favor.
The envelope, after all, had my name and address on it elsewhere...
ProfWombat
The thing is about information is completely irrelevent to the laws regarding photographs, though.
Can someone take a picture of you and publish it for profit without your permission? Does it matter that your name is public information?
Is there a way for all the Goopers running in the primaries to lose?
A five-way tie for last place?
Moon, I just read that you can't go to EschaCon after all.
Damn.
Can you, Smitty and Arkenor get together that Saturday night for an EschaCon-UK?
Marcellina are they having a can-can sale at your Shoprite too?
Friends in Minneapolis told us a couple of years ago that there was a winter prostitution bust on one of the lakes out there. According to the story, the prostitutes were knocking on doors of the fishing shanties.
Does this explain the popularity of ice fishing?
Yeah, I remember that.
But you'd better re-watch Grumpy Old Men for the definitive answer as to why ice-fishing is popular. Ann-Margaret's everywhere. 
my dad saw how disappointed I was that I would not be able to go and so as a consolation prize offered to buy me an X-Box 360 with the money he had allocated for the flight
.I was for Huckabee, on the theory that the American people need to see how batshit insane he and his fundie pals actually are, but I've changed my mind.
It's true that Huckabee taps into something dangerous, but he just won't get the same kind of MSM red carpet treatment that McCain does. He certainly doesn't poll anywhere as well as McCain does.
Mittster Romney is the most deceitful Gooper running for POTUS and that says a lot considering St. Rudy, St. Huckabee and St. McStain who pontificate and distort at every opportunity.
Does this explain the popularity of ice fishing?
Gromit
In some parts of the state you get ice fishing villages, it's almost like the nearby people create temporary towns on the ice for the winter. They seem to live out there around the clock.
Moon, I just read that you can't go to EschaCon after all.
Damn.
Can you, Smitty and Arkenor get together that Saturday night for an EschaCon-UK?
Marcellina | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 11:55 am | #
now thats a great idea!
It has to be recognizable. One roof looks pretty much like another, until you paint "Fuck you" on it.
It's not the information that is problematic, it's the picture itself.
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 11:43 am |
I knew GoogleEarth had the wrong house when I typed in my sister's address in California: they've got a slate blue roof, everyone else in their neighborhood has a shake roof (why do people living in California fire zones have flammable roofs?)
GOPerverts
"The district attorney who defended the Texas law criminalizing homosexuality before the US Supreme Court is desperately trying to keep his job following the discovery of e-mails containing sexually explicit videos, racist jokes and what is described as torrid love notes to his executive secretary."
I've spent a lot of time on lake ice. Fell through once, submerged up to my face, it was very scary.
Bush on my teevee demanding immediate gush of money and none of this public works projects which would take too long.
NBC White House reporter repeats word for word white house position saying this is a "bare bones" stimulus package cause you know, doods, "this isn't Christmas."
Also it's very exciting that this is bipartisan so finally DC is getting something done but she is worried partisanship "will rear its ugly head."
Moon your dad sounds like a sweetie.
It sucks that you won't be able to come.
Maybe next year.
I knew GoogleEarth had the wrong house when I typed in my sister's address in California:
I think Google is deliberately vague about such things.
are they having a can-can sale at your Shoprite too?
No, they are celebrating the fact that we will have almost normal store hours like the rest of the world. Even German stores are open til 8pm.
JR, that's one hot catch. Thanks for the link!
Is there a way for all the Goopers running in the primaries to lose?
Ron Paul "wins"?
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I've spent a lot of time on lake ice. Fell through once, submerged up to my face, it was very scary.
Did you learn how to escape from Jeff Passolt?
Athenae is indeed a goddess.
Oh, yes.
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Moon your dad sounds like a sweetie.
It sucks that you won't be able to come.
Maybe next year.
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 11:58 am | #
yeah
The pukes are "good" for the individual assholes that actually run wall street, by letting them offshore their salaries and taxing them at a long term investment rate. Dems are good for "wall street" as a whole, where you know, stocks go up and the shitpile don't stink as bad.
Moonboo, it is unfortunate that you aren't free to attend Eschachon.
On the other hand, as a working woman you can save your farthings, ha'pennies, tuppence, groats, sixpence(s), florins, half crowns, and sovereigns in an empty tea tin, and in no time you'll have your very own X-Box 360!
So there are compensations.
Moon,
I was looking forward to meeting you.
But, if it's any comfort, I'll have many drinks in your honor.
The district attorney who defended the Texas law criminalizing homosexuality before the US Supreme Court is desperately trying to keep his job following the discovery of e-mails containing sexually explicit videos, racist jokes and what is described as torrid love notes to his executive secretary.
It gets better. Said Republican District Attorney Rosenthal of Harris County (Houston) also dismissed arson-related indictments against sitting Republican Supreme Court Justice David Medina and his wife in connection with torching their own home (as well as a neighbor's home) last year.
Read all about it at www.chron.com (Houston Chronicle), which is doing yoeman's work on this story.
Bush on my teevee demanding immediate gush of money and none of this public works projects which would take too long.
If only we had 130B to spend, you know, on healthcare for kids. That would probably stimulate as much as anything else, save maybe the mortuary business...
The Bushboy solution to the economic mess his administration and Greenspan created by their deregulation mantra of the credit industry and other inane acts against the middleclass:
More tax cuts!
Which might prime the pump of spending but when Bushboy is already running deep deficits, this will only make them deeper.
But what does he care? He'll borrow more billions $$$ from China and Japan and pass it on to the next generation!
Makin' a deposit in the Bank of Holden!
I've spent a lot of time on lake ice. Fell through once, submerged up to my face, it was very scary.
Glad you're still with us. I only go out when the ice is very thick and it's very cold. Even then, the ringing cracks and vibrations creep me out.
For the first time, the bay in front of our house is still ice-free in January.
Moonboo, it is unfortunate that you aren't free to attend Eschachon.
On the other hand, as a working woman you can save your farthings, ha'pennies, tuppence, groats, sixpence(s), florins, half crowns, and sovereigns in an empty tea tin, and in no time you'll have your very own X-Box 360!
So there are compensations.
Visitor Online | 01.19.08 - 11:59 am | #
indeed
Does this explain the popularity of ice fishing?
Yeah, I remember that.
But you'd better re-watch Grumpy Old Men for the definitive answer as to why ice-fishing is popular. Ann-Margaret's everywhere.
Zap Rowsdower | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 11:56 am | #
Ice fishing is an obvious allegory for sex.
If only we had 130B to spend, you know, on healthcare for kids. That would probably stimulate as much as anything else, save maybe the mortuary business...
I hear Linday Lohan doesn't like kids.
Mortuary it is then.
ProfWombat,
Musical mail for you.
I hear the bell a-ringin'...
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I knew GoogleEarth had the wrong house when I typed in my sister's address in California:
I think Google is deliberately vague about such things.
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 11:58 am
Tis possible, they were several houses off on my childhood home. It's easier to note when one's roof is distintive.
And they did get my teen years house correct.
Alright...gotta go out to the various home-improvement stores here on Robert Street.
If my face freezes off, I was pretty. Later!
But what does he care? He'll borrow more billions $$$ from China and Japan and pass it on to the next generation!
Rudy | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:00 pm | #
Wise man say "He no shit where he eat".
Can someone take a picture of you and publish it for profit without your permission? Does it matter that your name is public information?
JR, kerosene and a match
You live in Canada? I happen to know something about the law in this area in the U.S., and the short answer to your question is yes. For example, paparazzi, or unauthorized biographies such as the new Tom Cruise book with his face on the cover. Also you take and use pics of others' private property freely.
Makin' a deposit in the Bank of Holden!
(Psst...bad investment.)
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My blogwhore on Mysterious European Medicines
Ice fishing is an obvious allegory for sex.
Drilling a hole in frigid ice...marriage?
JR, that's one hot catch. Thanks for the link!
Daddy-O
Here's some more fun
"The civil lawsuit that led to Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal's downfall by exposing romantic e-mails he sent to his executive secretary actually began six years ago as a fight over cameras in a low-income, predominantly Hispanic part of town...
The brothers — Erik Adam Ibarra, 27, and Sean Carlos Ibarra, 37 — say the deputies stormed their home without probable cause, drew their guns, arrested them, seized their cameras and confiscated or destroyed their film."
Bush on my teevee demanding immediate gush of money
No reporter will mention that the R's killed Bill Clinton's stimulus package. Their ideology just can't stand too much prosperity.
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Drilling a hole in frigid ice...marriage?
NTodd, OB-GYN | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:03 pm | #
With very low odds of success.
OK, let me rephrase that:
Moonboo, it is unfortunate that you aren't free to attend Eschachon.
On the other hand, with a sympathetic and generous dad, in no time you'll have your very own X-Box 360!
So there are compensations.
Glad you're still with us. I only go out when the ice is very thick and it's very cold.
That was the flukey weird part. It was very cold, ice was thick. But, unbeknownst to me, there was warm water being dumped into the lake from a nearby large building, creating a weak spot in the ice.
I managed to pull myself out and walk the 500 yards to shelter, but I didn't think I was going to survive the cold.
its like when you have lots of free time your skint but when you get work you find yourself with no time
i mean what a topsy turvy world we live in!
If only we had 130B to spend, you know, on healthcare for kids. That would probably stimulate as much as anything else, save maybe the mortuary business...
NTodd, OB-GYN
gaii
My batshit crazy fundie comrade (who is also my backup) put in for the days I wanted for Eschacon before I had a chance to. Even though I had told her when I made the hotel reservation that I wanted those days off.
Of course she's just sore because our new borg masters made me an offer to relocate of a retention bonus and they didn't offer it to her.
She has the typical christozombiefacist sense of victimhood.
I just want to yell at her "have you never considered that maybe you're just that good at the job?"
She always says that my boss is setting her up for failure.
I hates her now.
I hear Linday Lohan doesn't like kids.
Is Lindsey the suicidal on?
I can't keep 'em straight.
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Putting my ballot in the mail today! Wooohooo - early voting!
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Kids without medicine? Tough. Bear Stearns reducing bonus money? Call the helicopter!
"one"
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*maybe you're just not that good...
regrets.
simels.
Moonbootica-Get a Wii. Forget the xbox crap.
We might not be able to make it either. Due to Mrs. G's operation and subsequent recuperation, time & money will still be tight then.
But we've reserved a room anyway, just in case we can work it out.
Gummo | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 11:52 am | #
Gosh, I hope you guys can make it....
I hates her now.
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:04 pm | #
Oh, no!!! Does that mean you won't be there?
Moonbootica-Get a Wii. Forget the xbox crap.
leibniz, monadΩ | 01.19.08 - 12:07 pm | #
yeah but i doesn't have Halo 3!
good morning moonbats. windy & cold her in C.TX hope you are all doing well.
Strangely enough, Heidi and George RSVP'd for Eschacon.
But we've reserved a room anyway, just in case we can work it out.
Gummo | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 11:52 am | #
Gosh, I hope you guys can make it....
steve simels | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:07 pm | #
Oh, no!!! Not the Gummos, too?
Moonie --
Go here to see "Time Crash", the mini-Dr. Who episode I was telling you about:
http://www.stage6.com/user/unico...0126/Time-
Crash
Moonboots:
Philadelphia.
You better goddamn be there.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON: �500,000.00 (Our Grand Prize). We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one of our new winners of the UK LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME,held on the 17th of January 2008. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of �500,000.00
British Pounds.which was credited to file
Awesome.
Marcellina-- Great post on meds. I was in a little village in the black forest (Bad Herrenalb) last fall, and wandered into an Apotheke to get something I'd forgotten to bring on the trip. If the German for Tylenol had not been "Tylenol", I would have been doomed.
Instead of begging the Saudi King to lower oil prices (which Bushboy won't do), how about a national conservation plan for the US that would reduce demand (also something Bushboy won't do).
Instead of more tax cuts, how about enforcing the tax code against rich tax cheats and closing tax loopholes for corporations? Estimated windfall = $300 billion.
With that we could announce a major national infrastructure rebuild, implement healthcare for all children and amply fund renewable energy technologies.
All of which will create US jobs and help reduce the deficits and mitigate recession.
Of course, Bushboy won't do any of the above.
The information watchdog is to grill the Ministry of Defence over its data protection policies after it lost the personal details of 600,000 people.
Defence Secretary Des Brown will also speak in the Commons next week about the latest loss of personal data, which went missing when a laptop was stolen.
The data includes passport and National Insurance numbers and bank details.
They relate to people who had expressed an interest in, or joined, the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the RAF.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/71.../uk/
7197628.stm
For example, paparazzi, or unauthorized biographies such as the new Tom Cruise book with his face on the cover.
Culture of TrÜth
Tom Cruise is a public figure. Different can of worms entirely.
Also you take and use pics of others' private property freely.
You can take any pictures you want, to a limit... it's the publishing that's restricted.
Oh, I guess that I'm not going yet.
BTW, I think that I'm bunking w/ SteveLG @ EschaCon.
I'm bringing the strobe lights.
BG I'll be there.
Just have to leave on Friday and come back on Sunday.
I wanted to see the Kahlo exhibit that's going to be there at that time but might not be able to.
That fucking bitch. I haven't spoken a word to her since then and she's been acting crazier and crazier.
Hungree.
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I hates her now.
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:04 pm
Tell her to go to Minnesota and wait on a lake for the Rapture.
I wanted to see the Kahlo exhibit that's going to be there at that time but might not be able to.
One word: awesome.
It's closing here this weekend. Alas, no time to get back there.
If the German for Tylenol had not been "Tylenol", I would have been doomed.
Ibuprophen's the same too, ya just pronounce the vowels differently (EE-boo-proFANE)
CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON: �500,000.00 (Our Grand Prize)....
Awesome.
That's not so great. I've won that lottery three or four times just in the last month.
Okay...now 'mout.
Later.
Dear Sir/Madam,
CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON: �500,000.00 (Our Grand Prize). We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one of our new winners of the UK LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME,held on the 17th of January 2008. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of �500,000.00
British Pounds.which was credited to file
Awesome.
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:09 p
I've won that, plus the Euro and Irish Lottos, this week alone.
Oh, no!!! Not the Gummos, too?
Brooklyn Girl, sane again | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:08 pm | #
I know -- doesn't that suck?
Hungree.
So you're a Hungarian?
I never knew.
Say something Magyar!
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CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON: �500,000.00 (Our Grand Prize)....
Awesome.
That's not so great. I've won that lottery three or four times just in the last month.
Facebook keeps giving me the stupid flashing banner proclaiming me the 94,635th visitor.
THE Taliban has seriously rejoined the fight in Afghanistan, an NGO security group said in a report that concluded the country was at the beginning of a war, not the end of one.
The Afghanistan NGO Safety Office (ANSO) said the Taliban's "easy departure" in 2001, when a US-led invasion drove them from power, was more of a strategic retreat than an actual military defeat.
"A few years from now, 2007 will likely be looked back upon as the year in which the Taliban seriously rejoined the fight and the hopes of a rapid end to conflict were finally set aside by all but the most optimistic," ANSO said.
About 1980 civilians were killed in 2007 - half by insurgents and the rest almost equally by soldiers or criminal groups, the group said.
Abductions and killings were likely to escalate this year, with growing links between insurgents and criminal gangs increasing the threat, ANSO said.
It said the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is helping the government fight insurgents, is "in fact just now entering a period of broad and deep conflict, the outcomes of which are far from certain."
ISAF may number about 41,000 soldiers but "realistically" could not have more than 7000 for combat, with the rest mostly support staff or prevented from fighting because of national restrictions, the group said.
The size of the Taliban force was unknown, but estimates ranged from 2000 to 20,000.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4022...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
Mmmmm, home from the shops with a jar of pickled eggs. This night I shall feast on protein!
A friend in SC says he has been getting tons of phone calls to vote for certifiably insane warmonger McCain for days now.
Say something Magyar!
Elian! Egashegadreh!
Afternoon, folks.
Man, I haven't lost my shit yet today. Has Obama mentioned Reagan in passing recently?
JR, kerosene and a match
Well I work on cases like this all the time. It depends.
thanks DWD
We ever meet, we'll probably startle horrified passers by with the lack of excellence and exuberance of our singing voices...
Jesus, good bloggers are at it again. Zogby is God! Zog really isn't a shaman who dabbles in divination and is often dramatically wrong, no,no, Zog is Truth!
Zog really is good at making zombie followers with spells cast by math. I'll grant him that.
Bobby Fischer died yesterday at 64 years of age.
Certainly one of the greatest chess players ever. Some of his games are as brilliant as anything the human mind could construct.
It was tragic that his brilliance was tarnished by a virulent schizophrenia that turned him into a recluse and hater.
Elian!
That's South Florida.
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Rudy: and Fischer was the one we all wished we could play like. No plodding, painstaking Karpov-like positional play...
The bodies of six kidnap victims were found inside a house in Mexico yesterday following a three-hour shootout between gunmen and soldiers and police.
The victims, all male, were blindfolded and gagged and had been shot in the head. The authorities in the city of Tijuana, near the US border, said the men had probably been abducted for ransom, or picked up for association with a rival gang.
The three-hour battle between a handful of gunmen in a house and about 100 soldiers and police outside has highlighted fears that a military-led offensive aimed at quelling a gruesome turf war between drug cartels is turning into a more general conflict.
Soldiers and state and local police were sent in to help control the gunfight, which began when federal agents prepared to raid a house police now say was a shelter for a cell of the Arellano Félix drug cartel.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
intern...2243305,00.html
It depends.
Culture of TrÜth
the "by"s here are public interest (news, educatonal, etc) and "incidental". I can publish a crowd scene without a model release, and any private property that is open to the public that doesn't expressly forbid photography, generic street scenes, etc.
The thing is that the recognizability of the properties were the sole purpose of publishing the picture.
ProfWombat,
The other chess greats I would compare Fischer to are Kasparov, Capablanca and Tal.
Actually, any Dr. Who fan should get a kick out of this:
http://www.stage6.com/user/unico...0126/Time-
Crash
Awight...I'm out.
.
I with Steve Simels on this
we want the Huck
A friend in SC says he has been getting tons of phone calls to vote for certifiably insane warmonger McCain for days now.
Ensley
What?? how dare you say anything against St. McCain - after all the "surge" is working and that proves that St. McCain was right about Iraq all along. /snark
PS - According to St. McCain - he opposed Rummy when it wasn't popular to do so. riiight.
(yawn)
Rudy: yup, I'd add Alekhine and Morphy. Going for victories, occasionally indulging in brilliant combinations. You don't wish you were Nimzovich unless you have a desire to win so strong that you adopt the least colorful, and most powerful, of weapons.
That's the danger of watching the Patriots be methodically perfect in their games: that they'll be seen as the Karpovs of football rather than the Tals...
I saw Bobby Fischer once in a chess emporium in Greenwich Village in 1965.
The emporium was run by chess grandmaster Rossolimo who was wonderful man and USSR expatriate.
The two men couldn't have been more different. Rossolimo was kind, trusting and friendly. Fischer was furtive, suspicious and cold.
i don't get the appeal of chess either
seems rather boring to me
It was tragic that his brilliance was tarnished by a virulent schizophrenia that turned him into a recluse and hater.
Rudy
Good afternoon, friends.
Rudy, well put.
I'm going to make two sausage, egg and cheddar biscuits.
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Blogging the Qur'an: Is religion still the Opium of the People.
seems rather boring to me
Moonbootica
Have you ever played?
ProfWombat,
The Patriots should win tomorrow but San Diego surprised the Colts and they are a better team on the field than they are on paper.
I just hope Tom Terrific is terrific and we get to play Green Bay in the SB..
In case people didn't see: Rin Tin memorial photoblogging.
NTodd, OB-GYN
You did your best to make his last days happy, NTodd.
For that, I salute you.
Have you ever played?
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:26 pm | #
nope and when people explain it to me i still find it hard to understand
i'm useless at games like that and card games as well
i just don't seem able to pick it up
I worked it all out, and I'll be quite broke shortly before the end of the month.
Huckabee's even crazier than Goldwater, and his pals are light years more dangerous. They really want to install a Christian theocracy in the world, not just this country.
Did you see Salon's piece on Huckabee's many connections to far-right religious fanatics? It was posted yesterday.
Huckabee's radical religious friends
i just don't seem able to pick it up
Moonbootica
Not everything is for everyone.
How about Medieval: Total War? I'll let you play the Byzantines....
*pick them up
Moon: chess can be beautiful, exciting and great fun. The trick is to invest it with the importance appropriate to your life and ability. My peak as a chess player was being able to squeeze three kibitzing, over the top, chance-taking games into a lunch period in school, rather than, say, rigorous study and play at a tournament level. I'd always rather try something and find it didn't work out. Same thing as music, actually; Bach and Beethoven are wonderful, but hardly exhaust the possibilities.
A friend in SC says he has been getting tons of phone calls to vote for certifiably insane warmonger McCain for days now.
Ensley
I remember the night of the 1988 Presidential election and I call a call to go vote for Poppy.
Needless to say, the Hitler Youth member on the other end of the line got a four letter sonata.
Not everything is for everyone.
How about Medieval: Total War? I'll let you play the Byzantines....
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:28 pm | #
I think I could manage that!
Not to worry, Moon. You have such lovely Social Skills and things to pass the time -- concentrate on those.
I call a call to go vote for Poppy.
Oops - not awake yet.
I GOT A CALL to go vote for Poppy Bush.
Moon: chess can be beautiful, exciting and great fun. The trick is to invest it with the importance appropriate to your life and ability. My peak as a chess player was being able to squeeze three kibitzing, over the top, chance-taking games into a lunch period in school, rather than, say, rigorous study and play at a tournament level. I'd always rather try something and find it didn't work out. Same thing as music, actually; Bach and Beethoven are wonderful, but hardly exhaust the possibilities.
ProfWombat | 01.19.08 - 12:29 pm | #
see a lot of that goes over my head.
just doesn't appeal to me personally
Rudy: I see the Chargers as more of a threat than Green Bay, actually...
Chess can be like a beautiful poem or any other elegant construct the mind can conceive.
Instead of using words and grammar, it's done with chess pieces that move in different ways and can occupy spaces in an infinite number of ways.
Chess games can be witty, charming, funny and/or amazing, just like any other human endeavor.
The Timmeh Show is actually kind of good today.
plantsman -- Shoot me your address in an e-mail; I'll send ya a tide-over.
.
The Giants are gonna suprise all'a'ya!
And I'm going to post this damn link one last time --
http://www.stage6.com/user/unico...0126/Time-
Crash
When have I ever steered you wrong!?
I think I could manage that!
Moonbootica
I'll take the Italians. Wave goodby to Naples....
I know -- doesn't that suck?
steve simels | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:13 pm | #
Yes, it does.
Chess can be like a beautiful poem or any other elegant construct the mind can conceive.
Instead of using words and grammar, it's done with chess pieces that move in different ways and can occupy spaces in an infinite number of ways.
Chess games can be witty, charming, funny and/or amazing, just like any other human endeavor.
Rudy | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:31 pm | #
well i'll have to take your word for it
to me it just seems dull
Man, I haven't lost my shit yet today. Has Obama mentioned Reagan in passing recently?
mikeg
If he did - it doesn't mean that he likes Reagan's ideas or policy.
Didn't you get the meme from the Great Orange Satan himself? When Obama said this:
I think it’s fair to say that the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10-15 years in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom.
he didn't say they were the party of "good" ideas. Uh huh.
IOW - Kos props up Obama for skillfully straddling the line politically. awesome.
I'll take the Italians. Wave goodby to Naples....
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:32 pm | #
sounds like a plan
JP, email at the Home Page?
Mr. QL used to visit Ed Lasker and play chess. He had a fantastic apartment but in the end was lonely. He was always happy for a game.
eventually I will get myself a new laptop
Check this out; this is a famous, wild combination known as 'the immortal game':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imm...i/
Immortal_game
plantsman: JP, email at the Home Page?
Yup -- in the graphic at the top of the page.
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I think it’s fair to say that the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10-15 years in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom.
Until then-president Bill Clinton stole their ideas and made them the norm.
ProfWombat,
The last game I saw Green Bay play they were awesome.
Favre, a great qb, seems to be at his lifelong best and that new running back, Grant, is as good as they get.
I expect they'll shred the NYGiants and will be formidable in the SB.
Rudy, I bet you and Mr. QL know each other through chess in the Village.
Kos props up Obama for skillfully straddling the line politically. awesome.
The best thing about Markos is that he harbors no irrational hatred of Kucinich at all.
Bubba was pissed cause Barack said Reagan "changed the trajectory of the country, in a way Clinton didn't ".
sounds like a plan
Moonbootica
All I have to do it tie you up until the Golden Horde show up.
Of course, the Pope is a pain in the arse, as are the Germans.
Gail Collins needs a good eyebrow wax.
I'm having a fried green plantain for lunch.
I spent almost $100 at the supermarket yesterday and have nothing to eat in the fridge.
How did that happen?
When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of time replaying matches in IA Horowitz's "Golden Treasury of Chess". Loved the stuff.
We're gonna see some serious injuries in the progressive blogosphere soon from all the people bending over backwards trying to justify all of Obama's pandering to the far right.
I spent almost $100 at the supermarket yesterday and have nothing to eat in the fridge.
How did that happen?
HoneyBearKelly
That happens to me all the time. Today, for a change, I made sure I picked up some turkey to have a sandwich when I got home.
When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of time replaying matches in IA Horowitz's "Golden Treasury of Chess". Loved the stuff.
leibniz
Fred Reinfeld: Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters.
Reinfeld is an awesome chess writer.
I spent almost $100 at the supermarket yesterday and have nothing to eat in the fridge.
How did that happen?
HoneyBearKelly
Shit, happens all the time, doesn't it?
You get home and find you have all the fixings for meals except the main ingredients....
Rudy, I bet you and Mr. QL know each other through chess in the Village.
qlª
I haven't played chess in the Village in 40 years and haven't been to the Village in 20 years.
If we did know each other, we've probably forgotten what each other looked like.
I spent almost $100 at the supermarket yesterday and have nothing to eat in the fridge.
How did that happen?
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:36 pm | #
That happens to me all the time. I even feel that way when I'm in the supermarket! Sometimes I can't find anything I want to eat ...
But that will change when the Trader Joe's opens up around the corner ... yay!!!
(does happy dance)
Cookie! How, um....sexist.
Cookie! How, um....sexist.
plantsman
Hey there. Just baiting you. LOL!
Actually, I make the same observations about men--equal opportunity in the makeover dept.
Brooklyn Girl, a TJ's you won't have to drive to?
I'd kill (a plant) for one!
We're gonna see some serious injuries in the progressive blogosphere soon from all the people bending over backwards trying to justify all of Obama's pandering to the far right.
Gummo | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:36 pm | #
Yeah. I don't feel comfortable about him at all.
"Shit, happens all the time, doesn't it?"
especially when all the other things come due - shampoo. razor blades. things like that.
s why I always have a big jar o peanut butter around - then I know I'll have something to eat.
I haven't played chess in the Village in 40 years and haven't been to the Village in 20 years.
Neither has he. Or close enough.
Were you a tournament player?
Reagan changed the trajectory of many people's lives into poverty and homelessness.
Brooklyn Girl, a TJ's you won't have to drive to?
I'd kill (a plant) for one!
plantsman | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:39 pm | #
Yup! Right around the corner, which is particularly good because I don't own a car ...
Mike Huckabee should not be confused with this character...
http://www.golfcomicbooks.com/
Hu...HuckHound40.jpg
i iz quite tired, my niece is a bundle of energy
and unusually for a child her age she likes to start up conversations with you not the other way round
being a bright child one has to keep her occupied/stimulated otherwise she can get a bit naughty if bored
being a bright child one has to keep her occupied/stimulated otherwise she can get a bit naughty if bored
Moonbootica
How old? Should be easy to throw her a book...
trying to justify all of Obama's pandering to the far right.
obama's playing chess.
obama's playing chess.
lloydCARROLL
Yeah.
Sure.
Just keep telling yourself that.
If it's any consolation, after I developed diabetes and my memory came back, the requirements of the diet caused me to stop buying stuff I can't eat -- though there are still 2 boxes of brownie mix that will never get made.
"We're gonna see some serious injuries in the progressive blogosphere soon from all the people bending over backwards trying to justify all of Obama's pandering to the far right."
sucker bet. I'll still vote for him over the repug if he gets the nomination, but Obama is not impressing me at this time.
Were you a tournament player?
qlª
I played in tournaments in the Boston area after I left NYC in 1969.
Prior to that I was satisfied with pick-up games in Washington Sq. Park in the summer and Rossolimo's in the winter.
obama's playing chess.
lloydCARROLL
Line drives work in GEV, not so much in chess....
all you have to remember about Kos is that he isn't really a liberal.
the thing is the liberals have been 'triangulated' against since the bosses dumped Henry Wallace in 1944.
Seity is not that old, I think.
How old? Should be easy to throw her a book...
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:41 pm | #
two and a half years
she turns 3 in May and starts pre-school around the same time
I'll still vote for him over the repug if he gets the nomination, but Obama is not impressing me at this time.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
I'll vote for ANY Democrat over ANY Republican, but... yeah.
back in a few
two and a half years
she turns 3 in May and starts pre-school around the same time
Moonbootica
I was reading at three, so soon, soon...
How old? Should be easy to throw her a book...
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:41 pm | #
Ouch!
Before I could read, my favorite toy was a stove-top percolator, although I apparently got particularly bored one day and took all the labels off the canned food ... my parents weren't too thrilled with that one ...
Reagan changed the trajectory of many people's lives into poverty and homelessness.
That's more or less what I thought when I heard Obama say it -- though I guessed his intent was more hidden.
she does like reading Dr Seuss books and lots of Thomas the Tank Engine
hah I had to sing the theme tune to Postman Pat for her, I found a clip of it on youtube and she likes to join in as well
problem is Edwards doesn't seem to be breaking through. I know the media is part of the problem, but it's not the whole problem. His message just isn't resonating.
Obama really turned me off with the Raygun rant.
I just hope he was using that as a strategem to woo Raygun-Democrats (what a vile and contrary term) and wavering Goopers.
the thing is the liberals have been 'triangulated' against since the bosses dumped Henry Wallace in 1944.
That sounds correct. Not sure why.
i think i must of started reading around 3 or so
my parents really liked to encourage it
His message just isn't resonating.
refried boggie.
problem is Edwards doesn't seem to be breaking through. I know the media is part of the problem, but it's not the whole problem. His message just isn't resonating.
qlª | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:45 pm | #
A friend of mine told me that Edwards was too "southern" ...
Before I could read, my favorite toy was a stove-top percolator, although I apparently got particularly bored one day and took all the labels off the canned food ... my parents weren't too thrilled with that one ...
Brooklyn Girl, sane again
When I was little, I loved to take things apart. I couldn't put them together again, of course, but I LOVED taking them apart.
I once took apart one of my mom's favorite clocks....
problem is Edwards doesn't seem to be breaking through. I know the media is part of the problem, but it's not the whole problem. His message just isn't resonating.
qlª
I think the problem is the messenger. His views are most like mine but he strikes me as a phony and I found him a big disappointment as a VP candidate in 2004.
I once knew a loquacious 3-year-old girl who had an uncanny knack for ruthlessly seeing thru people and sizing them up verbally. Luckily for us all, her precocity waned as she grew older.
I once took apart one of my mom's favorite clocks....
Gummo | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:46 pm | #
Oops ...
Out of here. Cyall anon...
I think the problem is the messenger. His views are most like mine but he strikes me as a phony and I found him a big disappointment as a VP candidate in 2004.
Cookie Fleck `08
Sadly, yes. There's something very slick and used-car-salesman-like about Edwards, even when he's being his most sincere. I wish it weren't true but it's always bugged me about him.
I like him better when I DON'T see him.
"I just hope he was using that as a strategem to woo Raygun-Democrats (what a vile and contrary term) and wavering Goopers."
maybe he was - but I still don't like it.
Rayguns represents everything I hate about the repugs and everything that has gone wrong with this country over the last 30 years or so.
might add - sucking up to the reaganuts might be a better idea after the nomination is won.
"problem is Edwards doesn't seem to be breaking through."
There is one absolute negative I see with Edwards when he is speaking. He never has a new story, comment, bit or anything. It doesn't generate an image of depth and diversity in experience.
I want to see the guy as President, but he needs someone to drag more out of him.
When I was little, I loved to take things apart. I couldn't put them together again, of course, but I LOVED taking them apart.
Apart from reading by age 3, I like to wander off to investigate stuff. The only way to keep me out of "trouble" was to wave a book in front of me.
my niece is also potty trained
apparently last week she decided she wanted to use a toilet and not her nappy
My best reference about John Edwards is that he reminds of how I felt about Steve Perry in Journey.
We're gonna see some serious injuries in the progressive blogosphere soon from all the people bending over backwards trying to justify all of Obama's pandering to the far right.
Gummo
I am less than thrilled with Obama right now.
These damned Thermolon pans are freakin' amazing.
.
Needless to say, the Hitler Youth member on the other end of the line got a four letter sonata.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 | 01.19.08 - 12:29 pm | #
This is a great sentence.
apparently last week she decided she wanted to use a toilet and not her nappy
Moonbootica, Employed
Heh.
When I was 3 or so, one afternoon I somehow climbed out of my crib, marched into the kitchen and announced to my mother that I wasn't going to take naps anymore, since I didn't sleep anyway.
Didn't phase her. I still remember being braced for an argument.
I was reading at three, so soon, soon...
Same here. Got into a lot of arguments with NTodd's Pa's Wife about pronunciation and other things.
You know those childproof gates? They aren't.
heh when my brother was younger he was found reading the Times while sitting on his potty
my mum wished she had taken a picture then
and apparently he used to like speed reading and mum would always try and catch him out
My childhood was not childproofed for my protection.
Gummo; When I was little, I loved to take things apart. I couldn't put them together again, of course, but I LOVED taking them apart.
You are eligible to join DHS, where they're busy taking apart the homeland. See it means 'to secure' when it's in Chertoff's pockets.
see http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
might add - sucking up to the reaganuts might be a better idea after the nomination is won.
Uncle Blodge,
Obama and Hillary have to be very careful because anything they say now will be used against them in the general.
I swear when I hear the rethugs talk it's like we're living in two different worlds. Rudy yammering about Dems wanting to raise taxes on the middle class 20-30%. Not one Dem has ever, ever advocated such a thing. McCain, the surge is working, Iraq was good thing. And don't get me started on Huck-a-Muck.
Needless to say, the Hitler Youth member on the other end of the line got a four letter sonata.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 | 01.19.08 - 12:29 pm | #
This is a great sentence.
rootless-e
And I WASN'T talking about the car OR the pharmaceutical product.
When I was 3 or so, one afternoon I somehow climbed out of my crib, marched into the kitchen and announced to my mother that I wasn't going to take naps anymore, since I didn't sleep anyway.
I didn't announce it, I just did it.
I think the phrase "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" was directed at my dad *a lot*
I want to see the guy as President, but he needs someone to drag more out of him.
On Potatohead's MSNBC just now Gail Collins alleged that Bloomberg told Hillary and Obama's folks that he won't get in if they get the nod. So he would only get in to stop Edwards.
Follow the money.
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I swear when I hear the rethugs talk it's like we're living in two different worlds.
qlª
Bizarros.
My childhood was not childproofed for my protection.
Cookie
Those were the ones in the hospital, we didn't have any at home.
Republicans have edited the raygun legacy for their own purpose
there is also the raygun of an bringing in more citizens, raising taxes and not going to war. The goopers have edited that raygun out.
My mom was trying to potty train my bro, when I started going on the potty and announcing "BiG BoY".
I'm still not wearing the pants in the family.
"I think the phrase "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" was directed at my dad *a lot*"
I know that when I used to report the latest outrageousness of one of my sons my mom used to laugh at me.
Aren't they! I forgot to turn off the stove after scrambling some eggs in mine and burned some
"butter" brown on mine. I'm hoping "The Grease Bullet" I hope to order takes care of it
You know those childproof gates? They aren't.
JR, kerosene and a match
Maybe they should be relabeled 'non-literate proof'
DL Hughley on last night's Maher show said that calling up the confederate flag is a signal.
"We'll protect you from n**gers and fags".
I think calling up the ghost of Raygun is the same thing.
Even if Obama is black he's sending a signal that white folks needn't be afeared cause he's not "that kind".
You know, uppity.
we had a childproof gate
and the one we brought when Seity was born is stored away for the next grandchild heh
know that when I used to report the latest outrageousness of one of my sons my mom used to laugh at me.
Uncle Blodge
your kids are your parents revenge.
the msgop crapfest with veg head is dishonest
Bloomberg polls behind Clinton and Giulinai in friggin new yok city
and Rudee is done
this is just an opportunity to bash clinton
I did not watch the last debate because all the nbc people make me vomit
"I swear when I hear the rethugs talk it's like we're living in two different worlds.
qlª "
Liberals tend to play Neo to their Cypher.
there is also the raygun of an bringing in more citizens, raising taxes and not going to war. The goopers have edited that raygun out.
Liars for Bush
They tend to get all pissy when you talk about all those Marines in Lebanon who were killed.
And St Ronald of the Monster Deficit DIDN'T nuke the entire country off the map.
when i was at infant school I was badly behaved, very bolshy.
i just wouldn't settle down.
and one time I was given the lead in the school Christmas play, as a Fairy, at the time i attended ballet classes, so they thought the role would be perfect, so on the night I throw an almighty tantrum and refused to go on
Child-proof gates stymie puppies pretty well.
Even if Obama is black he's sending a signal that white folks needn't be afeared cause he's not "that kind".
You know, uppity.
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:54 pm | #
Yeah, that sounds right.
I hate when our candidates pander to the worst in us.
I calmed down by the second year, thanks to Mrs Pierce, a truly great teacher and she managed to rein me in so when I start Primary School I was a much more calmer individual
Child-proof gates stymie puppies pretty well.
plantsman
Except when they eat them.
And I'm outta here.
ql, that 'two different worlds' idea is the basic Newspeak from Orwell. Two totally different and contradictory ideas at once.
DHS has three.
http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
Nevada a bit nasty
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2008...ratic-
side.html
mainly Obama zig-zagged. On the one hand he called Clinton shameless, on the other hand he suddenly liked Ronald Reagan. Dont know whether this isnt shameless.
I know that when I used to report the latest outrageousness of one of my sons my mom used to laugh at me.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
My sister (15 months my junior) was a holy terror. So when her only child (who's now 35) was little and he was a holy terror, my mom told her "See, it comes back!"
she does like reading Dr Seuss books and lots of Thomas the Tank Engine
hah I had to sing the theme tune to Postman Pat for her, I found a clip of it on youtube and she likes to join in as well
Moonbootica, Employed | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 12:44 pm
She's old enough to have Marx and Lenin read to her.
The real Reagan legacy, courtesy of Steve Gilliard, who I think would have been disgusted at the pandering of a certain presidentail candidate.
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.co...-1911-
2004.html
I am pretty much over any inclination I may have had to support a certain presidential candidate, BTW.
much more calmer
Moonbootica, Employed
Okay, hand back your English Grammar O Level!
I am pretty much over any inclination I may have had to support a certain presidential candidate, BTW.
steve simels
Hate to make your head explode, steve, but the more I hear her speak, and the more the media piles on, the more I find myself warming up to Sen. Clinton....
Sen.Claire McCaskill gave a pretty succinct version of her support of Obama on MSNBC -- It was rather compelling.
My childhood was not childproofed for my protection.
Cookie
When I was a kid we would climb the mountain across the highway from our house. Sometimes two or three of us, sometimes I would be up there by myself. Could easily have fallen and if I had not come home it would not have been easy to find me. Of course before WWII my father worked up in the bush cutting railroad ties. Two of them would be up there all winter cutting ties which would be floated down in the spring. If anything had happened there was no way anybody would have known about it until months later, so I guess what I did was not a big deal to him. Don't know how my mother felt about it though.
In 2004 before she ran for the Senate Claire McCaskill said she hoped Hillary Clinton would not run
Hate to make your head explode, steve, but the more I hear her speak, and the more the media piles on, the more I find myself warming up to Sen. Clinton....
Gummo
Yesterday, even ErinPDX, said she wasn't quite as opposed. Still not supporting, but not frothing at the mouth against anymore.
McCaskill is my grandkids Sen, and they made a great choice.
But I have to go read how to operate the new microwave, which replaces the Kenmore I bought in 1987.
The real Reagan legacy, courtesy of Steve Gilliard, who I think would have been disgusted at the pandering of a certain presidentail candidate.
When Nixon croaked and got the whitewash treatment, there were SO many letters on the editorial pages in my neck of the woods.
The theme was:
"Were these people asleep during the entire 1970s?"
or
"Did I IMAGINE Watergate?"
My childhood was not childproofed for my protection.
Have you seen Mad Men? There is a scene in which a child has the plastic from dry cleaning over her head and body, and the mom scolds her -- about the dry cleaning.
Hate to make your head explode, steve, but the more I hear her speak, and the more the media piles on, the more I find myself warming up to Sen. Clinton....
Gummo
If Edwards (god forbid) has to drop out, Senator Clinton is my choice.
Even if Obama is black he's sending a signal that white folks needn't be afeared cause he's not "that kind".
You know, uppity.
HoneyBearKelly
"You folks can keep the money. I'm the safe bet."
To support him, I have to pretend he's a pretender.
-
I know it's difficult, but try to imagine how different Edwards' campaign would be if the MCM had treated him as legitmate candidate, had written about him as a man of poor beginnings who had singlehandedly done well in school and then in a legal career, then achieved the American Dream of becoming rich. Imagine if the press had presented his policies in this light, as someone who knew what it was to be working poor, had made it, and now wanted to make sure that the educational opportunities were there for everyone. Who wanted to free people from the bondage of health insurance available only through their employers. Who wanted to find ways to ensure corporations would create jobs in this country. Etc.
I think Edwards' campaign is a prime example of how the MCM
* is controlling our political discourse. They moved early and they moved fiercely to marginalize him. The 3H's which equal the Big H--Hypocrisy.
It was more difficult to marginalize with Al Gore because he had a better known public service history and was, like, the actual Vice President. But they worked to create an image of him which was almost the exact opposite of what his real record and previous image had been (wonky Boy Scout) and they succeeded.
What I find amazing is how similar the MCers' reactions to Hillary are to they way they had felt about Al Gore. The juvenile mocking, the glee at coming defeats. WTF is with these Heathers--er--journalists?
We theorize they do what they perceive to be their employers' desired approach. But, the almost childlike bullying of Dem pols spooks me. They are destroying our democracy.
Damn--sorry about the bolding slanties.
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November 01, 2006
McCaskill campaign: Kerry should apologize for comments
Claire McCaskill's campaign called on Sen. John Kerry to apologize for a "botched joke" he made on Monday
Tweety calls Nevaaadaa for the dog torturer.
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November 01, 2006
McCaskill campaign: Kerry should apologize for comments
Claire McCaskill's campaign called on Sen. John Kerry to apologize for a "botched joke" he made on Monday
Liars for Bush
I remember that - what a stupid moment.
1 - He didn't botch the joke.
2 - He didn't say what he was reported to have said.
3 - Dem pols should know better than to accept ANY media representation of their peers.
Sen. John Kerry to apologize for a "botched joke" he made on Monday
You see, if Big John had been a 'puke, he could make all the jokes he wants.
He could talk about WW III and laugh about it.
He could go crawling under a table "searching for WMDs". All that good stuff.
But, since he's a Democrat, he's automatically a bad guy.
IMO McGaskill has been disappointing.
So has HRC and Obama.
They need to get in front of something like Dodd did.
Well, rather than fall for the media narrative, I sent John Edwards another $100, yesterday. I'll do it two weeks from now, too.
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Amen, jawbone.
ql, the teen made it to your neck of the woods safely. She'll be heading back shortly.
Hate to make your head explode, steve, but the more I hear her speak, and the more the media piles on, the more I find myself warming up to Sen. Clinton....
Gummo | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:00 pm | #
Well, via Digby, here's the problem with both her and Obama:
In a time tailor-made for progressive ideas, when the conservative brand is almost entirely trashed, we have two centrist candidates running to lead the party.
I have basically abandoned any optimism that it will matter particuarly even if we have a big Dem win come November...
Tweety calls Nevaaadaa for the dog torturer.
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QuentinCompson | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:05 pm |
What? It is only 10 AM there.
jawbone, you make some good points.
What I see also is that the media simply wasn't interested in Edwards. Hillary — ooh, a woman, and Bill's wife! and Obama (oooooh, a black man! — quite simply captivated the interest more of the journalists who were not against him, but not for him either. The few who fought for him and the wingers who ridiculed him were not swayed, but that middle ground, they went with the stuff they assumed people think is news.
Which was unfortunate for Edwards and the others.
"If after negotiations with you, we are unable to agree on a price for the necessary property, the Government will return to court to seek title and possession, and the court will determine fair market value," the letter read
Live free, or something.
Hey simels-- Schlussel is moving in on your movie review bidness. It's really quite pathetic.
I have basically abandoned any optimism that it will matter particuarly even if we have a big Dem win come November...
A progressive, assertive Congress is the key, not the Presidency.
Molly - good.
That was quick.
A progressive, assertive Congress is the key, not the Presidency.
Is Snow on the ballot in SC?
I saw that botched joke ref in a circulating military email just a couple of weeks ago, amidst otherwise somewhat interesting and insightful writing. That's got legs, Murtha etc. - all now in the RW and even MSM basic principia.
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I have basically abandoned any optimism that it will matter particuarly even if we have a big Dem win come November...
steve simels | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:10 pm | #
I'm more optimistic than in the past. I think both Hillary and Obama have shown good signs recently (bad ones, too, but I expect that). And the thugs are in trouble.
Perhaps your expectations are too high. I hope to avoid open police state and full time war.
Hey simels-- Schlussel is moving in on your movie review bidness. It's really quite pathetic.
I caught some of that last week. Terrible.
Molly - good.
That was quick.
She swears she didn't speed.
What? It is only 10 AM there.
____league
At a caucus meeting it is called to order, those present pick sides (which takes only a few minutes usually), the count results are recorded and that's it. You're not getting paid by the hour.
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BTW, it's your turn, NTodd.
bye for now
Perhaps your expectations are too high. I hope to avoid open police state and full time war.
rootless-e | 01.19.08 - 1:13 pm | #
And isn't it sad that's the best we can hope for?
And isn't it sad that's the best we can hope for?
I dunno--maybe they'll take Bob Herbert's advice from this morning. I was genuinely excited reading that.
Larry Lessig's endorsement of Obama.
http://www.lessig.org/blog/2007/...11/
4barack.html
That happens to me all the time. Today, for a change, I made sure I picked up some turkey to have a sandwich when I got home.
Cookie Fleck `08 |
01.19.08 - 12:37 pm | #
I understand that grocery prices are anticipated to increase 4-7% this year. Which should just about consume the raise I was given.
Fuel prices continue rising and I won't be able to afford to get to work.
And isn't it sad that's the best we can hope for?
Brooklyn Girl, sane again | Homepage | 01.19.08 - 1:18 pm | #
No. It's great that we have realistic hope for even that after 8 years of Bush.
sheets
In a time tailor-made for progressive ideas, when the conservative
brand is almost entirely trashed, we have two centrist candidates
running to lead the party.
Why should Progressivism require a prostrate Republican party to be effective? We really do have to find a way to beat them even when they are on their feet.
No. It's great that we have realistic hope for even that after 8 years of Bush.
rootless-e | 01.19.08 - 1:21 pm | #
It's sad that we got to that point in the first place, and now have to undo all the damage he did just to get back some semblance of sanity and accountability.
Tweet is so into the violence and mayhem metaphors for the Clintons--they always go back to the 90's, they wait for someone to stick their neck out and then they bite their heads off.
Just now talking to an Obama spokesperson.
Gail Collins was on Timmeh's Saturday show and said, about Obama, that he seems like the neophyte politician who's just gotten into office and thinks everything would be wonderful if everyone just was totally honest and just said what they think.
I'm not sure what she meant--seemed to be implying that he was not just a neophyte in DC but naive. I don't think it was praise...but hard to know with her.
do it for Chuck Norris
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