I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Haloscan sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeezaloo
Had to work for that first
so it's not Doc Severinson
bear penis alert!
Seen the Johns 4 times since 85, great live show, especially in small venues.
Did I fail to mention how much haloscan sucks the big one?
Is it truly back or just toying with me?
Is this working again now?
Lord, the last thread defeated me and I realized that my knowledge of the LOTR is not as fine as some. I am shamed.
Oh well, I will probably have to live with it.
I am so uncool it's cool!
Unlike haloscan.
fuck this, I'm going to bed.
god this is fucked up, up, up.
thanks for the gypsy shit atrios. sounds GREAT with the sound off 
I was right! BEAR PENIS!
BEAR PENIS.
It's not just for breakfast anymore.
If we could only shrink haloscam down to the size where we could drown it in the bathtub.....
You can't spell happenis without penis.
Patrick McHenry?? Voter fraud connection??
There is a god.
Cheers, all
Hey, it could be worse. We could have to deal with an IRC channel. #eschaton on EFNET or something.
OK, I changed my mind, that isn't worse, it's an alternative idea...
#6,7,8,9,10,11.
Hey, is this thing on?
Just to repeat, what was lost.
Every time I watch SNL I am amazed at how much worse it is getting.
Tonight the audience volume is double the cast volume.
34
the "f5" key is your friend..just hit a few times...:-(
TMBG channeling Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Good evening. Everyone's well, I hope?
OK, I changed my mind, that isn't worse, it's an alternative idea...
#6,7,8,9,10,11.
catalexis Cmdr. re-ed camp 6
Are the IRC trolls as stupid as in many years past? Been a while.
This is how the world ends, not with a bang but with goddamned heckofascam choking the life out of every attempt at communication.
Good evening. Everyone's well, I hope?
Haloscan's tripping, I'm not.
Take that as you will.
Wow, that Severensen band seemed to enjoy those Giants!
Nice to have a little rhythmic complexity for a change I guess.
Wow, two reloads in a row, could halocrap be back?
Nah, too much to hope for.
That seemed to work.
Mink Car rocks!
Are my comments floating out in the cyber ether?
Well, I was saying really profound stuff. Even I was amazed at my brilliance....
Are my comments floating out in the cyber ether?
Mine are floating in a huge jar of brine and hardboiled eggs.
Mink Car rocks!
It really does.
She Thinks She's Edith Head is one of my favorite TMBG songs.
"They Might Be Giants" is a great movie with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward, I'd love to see it again. I saw it only once, years ago in the days when I would drop acid at the movies.
All songs should try to be more like that.
(ht: the Editorz)
All songs should try to be more like that.
I thought it could have used a bit more cowbell.
On c-span2/BookTV now:
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Philip Zimbardo
In "The Lucifer Effect" psychologist Philip Zimbardo explains how particular situations and group dynamics can lead normal, moral people to behave in immoral ways. He cites the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib as an example. Mr. Zimbardo draws on the findings of his Stanford Prison Experiment, in which a group of student volunteers were arbitrarily divided into "guards" and "inmates" and then placed in a simulated prison environment.
Philip Zimbardo is professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University. He has also taught at Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University. He is the author of "Shyness" and co-author of "Psychology and Life." In 2004, he was an expert witness in the court-martial hearings of one of the American army reservists charged with criminal behavior at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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I thought it could have used a bit more cowbell.
Bullwhip.
More bullwhip
butter bar on, butter bar off, did Ted Stevens park his intertube truck in the way?
Asian Slurs End Shock Jocks' Show on CBS
May 12, 3:39 PM (ET)
By LARRY McSHANE
NEW YORK (AP) - One month after CBS Radio fired radio host Don Imus, it has permanently pulled the plug on a pair of suspended New York shock jocks for a prank phone call rife with offensive Asian stereotypes.
"The Dog House with JV and Elvis," hosted by Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay, "will no longer be broadcast," CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo said Saturday.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/.../
D8P31G880.html
Poor things.
...
From below:
Minnesota's also burning. -NTodd, Just Not PC
Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!
I spent parts of four summers on Gunflint Lake on the US side of the narrows into Magentic Lake. I know that Luthern Camp you mentioned, too. Breaks my heart to know that area's burnt. Damn!
any body else gonna spent all day on the road for Mother's Day?
Made a big batch of s'getti & meatballs & fudge brownies. 3 hrs down, 3 hrs there....
No, I haven't said this yet...
Five US-led troops were killed on Saturday in a pre-dawn insurgent attack south of the Iraqi capital that left three soldiers missing and feared captured, the military said. “As a result of this attack, five soldiers were killed in action and three are currently missing,” Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said, without specifying whether the dead were all US soldiers or whether the Iraqi interpreter was among those killed.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05...ay-be-captured/
'kay, hillaryscan and my flaky intertubes are making me sleepy. 'mout. l8rh9rs.
Thanks for the heads up on cspan. Watching Zimbardo now.
Has Atrios ever heard of TypePad?
testing...
my gawd, it works!
my gawd, it works!
Don't bet big money on that.
let's try it with a link. Kitty porn:
http://www.dailykitten.com/
More Tiny Tunes stuff-
Particle Man
my gawd, it works!
Plum P
That's what you think. Haloscan is toying with all of us tonight, big time.
Don't bet big money on that.
crypto
yeah, just saw what you mean
I still think someone is flipping a toggle switch in the Haloscan server room and laughing hysterically....
Seems to take three attempts to get one refresh. Haloscan, you amaze me.
I suggest you read Paul Bremer's Op-Ed in the Sunday Washington Post..."What We Got Right in Iraq". It will reveal many of the successes that the Bush Administration can rightfully say they accomplished and be proud of.The Bush haters will never accept the successes there.
Haloscan is not allowed to be more tempermental than I am!
*walks off in a huff, slamming behind her*
I think Zimbardo's insights and demonstrations are truly revealing.
I confess many moons ago in college to have been studied unwittingly in a Zimbardo-style experiment, about learning nonsense words and 'mild' electric shock, and was not proud, upon reflection even shortly afterward, of my performance. I didn't seek to learn my deviation from median behavior or whatever, and I'm still glad I didn't.
Sometimes we only think we know ourselves.
.--.
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
If you're familiar with the original version this will make you laugh.
I still think someone is flipping a toggle switch in the Haloscan server room and laughing hysterically....
ellroon
"In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said, 'Cut it out.'"
-- Steven Wright
I confess many moons ago in college to have been studied unwittingly in a Zimbardo-style experiment, about learning nonsense words and 'mild' electric shock, and was not proud, upon reflection even shortly afterward, of my performance. I didn't seek to learn my deviation from median behavior or whatever, and I'm still glad I didn't.
If it will make you feel any better, Zimbardo himself failed to shut down his Stanford prison experiment until his future wife told him he was way out of line letting it continue.
Sometimes we only think we know ourselves. .--. QuentinCompson
I know full well that the only thing that kept me from committing murder at age 8 was that my classmate, Steve, was far too nimble for me to catch him. I was totally given over to rage.
Welcome to LuciferEffect.org, official web site of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Random House, 2007). In this book, I summarize more than 30 years of research on factors that can create a "perfect storm" which leads good people to engage in evil actions. This transformation of human character is what I call the "Lucifer Effect," named after God's favorite angel, Lucifer, who fell from grace and ultimately became Satan.
http://www.lucifereffect.com/
Just one thing, Dr. Z: W never had grace to fall from.
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well, that explains the Rev Phelps' bunch, I guess.
I know full well that the only thing that kept me from committing murder at age 8 was that my classmate, Steve, was far too nimble for me to catch him. I was totally given over to rage
You do know that Steve went on to enable the neo-con movement? You failed at the one task for which you were chosen in life.
I'm still a little numb over just hearing about the Gunflint Trail fire. When I was going up there in the 60's, we'd get there the 3rd week of June and the ice had broken up and flowed out only two weeks earlier. Now it's forest fires in Mid-May. Fuck Brownback, Inhofe and the other global warming "skeptics" with flaming birchtree branches.
Edwards may prove to be a more formidable contender than Hillary or Obama.
The Phelps clan aren't much different than the ass-raping hillbillies in Deliverence.
The difference being they all have law degrees.
You do know that Steve went on to enable the neo-con movement? You failed at the one task for which you were chosen in life. - spinoza
Nah, that was the older brother of another classmate, Jed. He went on to become a big time wonk at Hoover Institute as it became a neocon whorehouse.
I hate my children
Edwards is certainly attracting the early artillery, if that's any measure - and it usually is, a la Dean last cycle.
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Sallyh,
Grey Goose in order, m'dear.
The difference being they all have law degrees.
Ergo, all lawyers are ass-raping hillbillies? I like it.
Bo, why thank you, my love! You knew what I needed!
Top o' th'evenin', denizens.
I hate my children
Sallyh
[hugs for Sallyh]
Everythin' ok, cher?
Did you ever notice that, as pronounced, there's not a great difference between "lawyer" and "liar"?
I just watched "Jesus Camp" for the first time tonight. Can someone please give me a reason not to shoot myself in the face?
I'm flashing hearing Zimbardo talk Attica. Too much green tea.
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I just watched "Jesus Camp" for the first time tonight. Can someone please give me a reason not to shoot myself in the face?
The ammo would be much better used shooting Pat Robertson in the ass.
geor3ge, had to go all Judge Judy on them.
I just watched "Jesus Camp" for the first time tonight. Can someone please give me a reason not to shoot myself in the face?
Some scary stuff right there. I don't think I could watch it again.
geor3ge, I saw Jesus Camp.
I was horrified. It was child abuse.
I just watched "Jesus Camp" for the first time tonight. Can someone please give me a reason not to shoot myself in the face?
geor3ge
It's sitting by my TV, the DVD cover with the little teary-eyed praying girl daring me to watch. I haven't gotten the nerve yet to travel down that dark road.
Did you ever notice that, as pronounced, there's not a great difference between "lawyer" and "liar"?
Hearsay and irrelevant.
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Sallyh, hugs again, sorry to hear that.
Child abuse it was. I felt sorry for that poor Rachael.
OTOH, our party host managed to turn it into a semi-amusing drinking game.
Back in a bit.
If anyone needs good news, I'm proposing to future Mrs. Geor3ge next week.
geor3ge, I'm fine. But my best Mom's Day gift would be for them to not have a crisis tomorrow
Mlle is in a severely depressed period. She's bipolar, she had a miscarriage, she just detoxed recently...I told her, get in touch with your psychiatrist, like Monday.
had to go all Judge Judy on them
I had to go all R. Lee Ermey on mine once during a Jerry Springer period.
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I'm proposing to future Mrs. Geor3ge next week.
Best wishes to both of you.
You know, the History Channel was running a repeat of one of those "end of the world" hack jobs the other night, and who pops up in it but Ted "Meth Massage" Haggard.
I guess no editing is necessary, because the rebuke of holy men trumps the speedy rush of manly fingers.
Thanks, Mr French
Sallyh, hugs yet again. If it's any consolation, FMG and I have worked past our problems. I think things are looking up for both of us.
If anyone needs good news, I'm proposing to future Mrs. Geor3ge next week. - geor3ge
You'll look much better if you still have a face.
Way OT: is NTodd still accepting submissions for "Atriots" photos?
geor3ge, they will work out their problems. And congratulations on proposing to Future Mrs. Geor3ge!
Quentin, I look better in lace than a bazooka
You'll look much better if you still have a face.
[joke flies over his head]
Thanks, Sallyh. I'm a happy man.
Proto-mazeltov, geor3ge.
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My local station is playing video of Johnny Cash performing "A Boy Named Sue" for inmates at a prison.
I had no idea this video existed.
I wonder if anyone has ever proposed using Powerpoint and handouts?
Cook County Jail, maybe?
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Uncle Smokes, my strategy
I just watched "Jesus Camp" for the first time tonight. Can someone please give me a reason not to shoot myself in the face? - geor3ge
You'll look much better if you still have a face.
[joke flies over his head]
geor3ge
Lying, Miers, stealing, Gonzalez, Halliburton, Foley, Ken Lay, Ashcroft, Tenet, 16 Words, DSM, Abramoff, Peppering, WMD, Cunningham, Katrina, Iraq, Greenburg, Neocons, Surge, WTC7 Pulled, Stovepiping ...
So can we impeach the SOB's already?
My local station is playing video of Johnny Cash performing "A Boy Named Sue" for inmates at a prison.
I had no idea this video existed.
Mr French
Great video! CMT occasionly plays Cash's "San Quention" performance on its more inspired evenings.
If anyone needs good news, I'm proposing to future Mrs. Geor3ge next week.
geor3ge | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 1:19 am | #
That's adorable!!!
That's adorable!!!
steve simels
[blushes]
I'm posting pictures of the ring as soon as it's official.
Cook County Jail, maybe?
No info, but Youtube has it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x...h?
v=xui3sLVgi7w
Youtube never ceases to amaze me.
geor3ge
marriage has important things to tell us. good luck.
Cook County Jail, maybe?
No info, but Youtube has it.
That's not the San Quentin performance, but it still rocks.
BTW I just picked up Cash's complete Sun Records collection last month. Highly recommended.
Evil, evil is his one and only name
Evil, in his mind there is no other game!
When your name is Evil, that is good or so you think,
but you're so very wrong.
It's evil!
But being wrong is right, so then you're good again,
wich is the evilest thing of all...
Do you find his sudden ways, invite you? does he excite you?
If his contradictions should atract you, should he distract you?
Heaven help you then...
You're finished, it's the end...
There'll be no retrieval...
From the evil...
The evil,
he will
do.
He's evil,
he's Doctor Evil.
His name is Evil.
Simels, I'm pointing everyone I know to that Nina Simone video.
He's Doctor Evil.
His son's name is Scott.
Scott Evil.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari | 05.13.07 - 1:32 am | #
Many thanks.
Uncle Smokes, my strategy
Sallyh
I picturing a guy on one knee, with a ring in one hand and a pointer in another.
"As you can see from this scatter plot, the number of lingering, direct-eye contact incidents correlates to number of times my knees went weak. It is my proposal that, pending further inquiry, I cannot live without you, and that a totally proactive mindshare paradigm synergy outside the box would be awesome."
geor3ge,
Afore gettin' married there's two things ya gotta understand as a man.
1. As a married man, the two most important words in your vocabulary will be "Yes, Dear". If you don't understand that, you're not ready to get married.
2. If your not prepared to spend the rest of your life saying "Yes, Dear" the person of which you are enamored, this ain't the one to marry.
;^)
Evil, evil is his one and only name
Another TMBG tune.
I do so love those Johns.
In my faith tradition, marriage has little significance. It is an incidental meaningless ritual.
bo | 05.13.07 - 1:39 am | #
Someone told me that years ago. And, yes, I'm quite ready, no doubt.
It would be meaningless...except there's cake!
It would be meaningless...except there's cake!
NO FROSTING.
How's that surge working out?
Apologies if it's been posted before
geor3ge,
Blessings on both of you. Live long and prosper.
Take no wooden nickles and never bet on filling an inside straight.
In my system of worship, the man makes promises to the woman, then violates the promises, and continues to lie to the woman.
These are the eternal truths of the relationship between man and woman.
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 1:38 am | #
Were the good FMG not a PhD in clinical Psych, that might fly.
Good evening folks.
Anything crazy going on?
Anything crazy going on?
fourlegsgood kittenslave
Barring formalities, I are engaged.
Anything crazy going on? - fourlegsgood kittenslave
Only haloscan.
Barring formalities, I are engaged.
Congratulations!!
Oh dear.
After a peaceful night snoozing, the gurlz are awake.
They've been storing up their energy.
"I used to have really long hair, and people thought I was high on stage, because people associate long hair with drug use. I wish long hair was associated with something other than drug use, like an extreme longing for cake. And then strangers would see a long-haired guy, they'd say 'That fucker eats cake! He is on bundt cake!' Mothers saying to their daughters, 'Don't bring the cake-eater over here anymore, he smells like flour. Did you see how excited he got when he found out your birthday was fast approaching?'"
-- Mitch Hedberg
flg,
What's the idea in showing up here without any fresh plush?
Sallyh could use some. Come to think of it, so could I.
Congratulations!!
fourlegsgood kittenslave
Merci. BTW, I pimped your kiddies to my parents during their semi-annual visit. They're enchanted.
What's the idea in showing up here without any fresh plush?
Hey, even centaurs need a day off, and I see that Atrios filled in admirably for me.
In my faith tradition, marriage has little significance. It is an incidental meaningless ritual. -badjim
maybe so, but you should have seen things before - people fucking all over the place and fighting over the bathroom indescriminately ... it was chaos, so I said, "hey, have a ceremony" ...
Congrats geor3ge. Is she also a musician?
Congrats geor3ge. Is she also a musician?
spinoza
She double-majored in music and psychology at Vassar. Quite an excellent singer and an even better neuropsychologist.
it was chaos, so I said, "hey, have a ceremony" ...
focus
It's called "moving".
George, thanks.
I am quite enchanted with Ripley. She's turned out to be a sweet little thing.
N scholars contend for N - 1 forks to eat N + 1 strands of spaghetti.
[At a round table.]
Who wins?
it was chaos, so I said, "hey, have a ceremony" ...
focus
It's called "moving".
JR, kerosene and a match
"Moving" is not a ceremony, it's a form a torture.
4Legs, how are the Gurrlz?
(Was off putting the new sheets I lusted after for Mom's Day on my bed )
She double-majored in music and psychology at Vassar. Quite an excellent singer and an even better neuropsychologist.
Yikes! I may have taught her.
Is Hecate around?
The large-bodied Homo may have had reduced dimorphism comparable to that in recent humans. Yet, many people have suggested that this least dimorphic species should have been the one where males and females had the greatest ecological differentiation.
Paleonthro kicks the patriarchy in the nuts again.
Yikes! I may have taught her.
spinoza
Do tell!
"Moving" is not a ceremony, it's a form a torture.
This is why 20 years later, we're living in our 'starter' home.
Hey, it means we have money to travel.
Who wins?
Bathroom
The FSM
"Moving" is not a ceremony, it's a form a torture.
geor3ge
It beats Scarborough.
JR, I owe you a beverage. That's what I was thinking
JR, I owe you a beverage.
Sallyh
Anything caffeinated. I napped this afternoon, now I have to catch up on shit that needs doing.
Obviously I'm not doing it.
First, we must define "winning."
BC, are you a statistician?
If you are, my condolences.
Hey, if it doesn't work out, geor3ge, I'll step in. Sure I'm not the gender you're looking for, and I'm a middle-aged fat man whose used being independent and alone and quite set in my ways, but the constant getting on each other's nerves would make for great music!
"Bicker in D minor," a duet for harpsichord and polo mallet!
"Unfinished Dishes," a symphony with whinging chorale!
SallyH, GP, I am kufr, and now all of you can shower your calumny upon me.
Thanks for the condolences!
(Slides a giant double espresso towards JR)
golly, I loved the musical treats this eve.
4Legs, how are the Gurrlz?
They are good.
http://plush-life.blogspot.com/2...ch-
whiners.html
Ripley cracks me up. Last night I was taking a shower and I hear this frantic, "mew mew mew mew mew mew!!" outside the shower.
I look out there and Ripley is sitting there screaming, apparently appalled that I'm getting wet.
kufr Lurks In The Most Unexpected Places.
4Legs, didn't you know? You're supposed to lick yourself clean. And here you are, getting water all over yourself.
Quel horreur!
Hey, if it doesn't work out, geor3ge, I'll step in. Sure I'm not the gender you're looking for, and I'm a middle-aged fat man whose used being independent and alone and quite set in my ways, but the constant getting on each other's nerves would make for great music!
You'll have to fight Prior Aelred for me. First sign of trouble and I'm joining the Benedictines!
And a pleasant evening, denizens.
I'm dreading moving, but I need more room for these kitties.
And for my books.
Where/when ya moving, 4lg?
"Unfinished Dishes," a symphony with whinging chorale! - Uncle Smokes
These folks would add it to their repretoire
4Legs, we've needed that for like forever, but we've simply resigned ourselves to living in a less than perfect space.
What the hell, it's home
(Slides a giant double espresso towards JR)
Sallyh
Oh, ta.
I spent most of the day wreaking doom upon the pachysandra and solidago population in my yard* and forgot to eat. I really should stop doing that.
*Where "yard" is a rough aproximation for "snail ranch".
4Legs, didn't you know? You're supposed to lick yourself clean. And here you are, getting water all over yourself.
Quel horreur!
Oh, of course.
Maddie doesn't mind the water. She sits in the sink and lets it run on her haid.
we've simply resigned ourselves to living in a less than perfect space.
Sallyh
A perfect space would violate the Second Law.
We are all familiar with Unitarian Jihad, yes?
"Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one God, with two abstentions. Brother Flaming Sword of Moderation noted the possibility of there being no God at all, and his objection was noted with love by the secretary."
Speaking of Ripley, it's so nice to see how she's changing since I adopted her.
When I first brought her home she looked fine, but her fur was kind of coarse, and I could feel her little ribs.
Now she's a little butterball and her coat is becomming soft and shiny.
She also follows me from room to room and sleeps in bed with me.
These folks would add it to their repretoire
bo
Oh, that was brilliant...yes, the ringtones are annoying!
Where/when ya moving, 4lg?
My lease is up at the end of June, so I'm looking for a two bedroom.
Have to have wood floors and decent light.
She also follows me from room to room and sleeps in bed with me.
fourlegsgood kittenslave
Hee.
Hidey has figured out that Spring has returned, I can't make a move towards the sliding glass door without here making a bee line for it.
There's new tender grass to be had outside!
we've simply resigned ourselves to living in a less than perfect space.
I don't really need a "perfect" space, but I do need more than I have.
And I want washer/dryer connections and a private balcony or patio.
Well, I'm just home from the gig to check in, and that's quite a performance there on the videomonitorthingy. Good fun. Now I'll go catch up a bit on the thread, see what's happnin'.
"
There's new tender grass to be had outside!"
It is a time when cats becomes cows.
We are all familiar with Unitarian Jihad, yes?
Oh yes. I forget what my Jihad name is.
It is a time when cats becomes cows.
EkCenTriK
JP was going on about kittycows a few weeks ago.
My lease is up at the end of June, so I'm looking for a two bedroom.
Have to have wood floors and decent light.
fourlegsgood kittenslave
Well, we've got bamboo "hardwood" in the study, otherwise it's all carpet. And we're in Indiana.
Hee.
Hidey has figured out that Spring has returned, I can't make a move towards the sliding glass door without here making a bee line for it.
Ripley goes and sits by the door when I leave in the morning. I have to throw a toy to escape.
I really don't want them going outside. Not here.
ronjazz, I'm actually starting to improve on the violin. It was really infinitessimally incremental in the beginning, but once I began to get past certain points, I started to hear a difference.
I'm being totally lame right now and listening to James Taylor Live. So what? I like it 
I really don't want them going outside. Not here.
fourlegsgood kittenslave
Well, Hidey is chaperoned the whole time she is out, and only in the fenced back yard.
Well, we've got bamboo "hardwood" in the study, otherwise it's all carpet. And we're in Indiana.
Bamboo would work.
I'm allegic to dust, so I hate wall to wall carpeting.
Also, kitties can't do the skitter slip-n-slide on carpet.
"JP was going on about kittycows a few weeks ago."
I see it is a shared phenomenon.
I'm being totally lame right now and listening to James Taylor Live. So what? I like it
Sallyh
JT's my homeboy. Won't fault you for that. Anyway, I grew up listening to the Bee Gees. We all have our deep darks, no?
Really must to bed now. 'Night, kiddos.
It is a time when cats becomes cows. - EkCenTriK
Cows don't leave green salads in gastric foam on the rug.
I can only wish I could write a song like "Fire and Rain."
Sallyh, you should play along with JT. That would be good practice for your ear, to find the notes without music in front of you.
I'm being totally lame right now and listening to James Taylor Live. So what? I like it
Never apologize for your musical taste.
I like James Taylor too. And I was listening to something that qualifies as "new age" earlier today.
(Max Lasser's Earthwalk) I figure people who don't like it can fucking sue me.
Cows don't leave green salads in gastric foam on the rug.
bo
They would if they didn't have 3 extra stomaches to ralph into.
I'm being totally lame right now and listening to James Taylor Live. So what? I like it
NTodd is listening to Carly Simon's "How Sweet it is to be loved by you with a bear penis."
Ah. Here it is:
http://whump.com/dropbox/other/u...her/
ujname.html
The biggest problem with lefty blogs is that people listen to whatever they like. Filthy fucking hippies.
"Cows don't leave green salads in gastric foam on the rug."
No one appreciates felinical performance art.
Cows don't leave green salads in gastric foam on the rug.
If you've never had a cow in your living room, how do you know?
They would if they didn't have 3 extra stomaches to ralph into. -Barry from Alaska
And on that note,
G'night, all.
Cows leave green salads in large brown lumps on the rug.
NTodd is listening to Carly Simon's "How Sweet it is to be loved by you with a bear penis."
"If you've never had a cow in your living room, how do you know?
fourlegsgood kittenslave |"
House cows. Can't wait to see the Cowy Toys. Think they would insane over feathers like Maddie does?
Does anyone want to play a game?
Cows don't leave green salads in gastric foam on the rug.
If you've never had a cow in your living room, how do you know?
You want a cow ruminating in your living room.
My listening this past month has been totally dominated by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Oh, I am so lucky.
Both my girls like to greet me by giving me a kiss on the lips.
So sweet.
ronjazz, I can actually pick out music by ear. I have discovered how out of practice I am playing by sight.
Cows leave green salads in large brown lumps on the rug.
ronjazz©
Well, have you seen how big their sand boxes are, they take up a whole bedroom.
Uh, add a question mark to that last comment.
Spinoza, it's Saturday night, and I'm not grading you, for God's sake
Think they would insane over feathers like Maddie does?
Good grief. One would hope not. Think of the racket a bunch of cows chasing after a feather toy would make.
Just remember the cardinal rule of improvisation:
Once is a mistake, twice is jazz!
Maddie is having such a good time with Ripley.
4Legs, it's the one advantage of 2 kids: they entertain each other
Spinoza, it's Saturday night, and I'm not grading you, for God's sake
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 05.13.07 - 2:19 am | #
I am so sorry. Your statement indicates that you have failed the NCLB criteria. You will now be de-tenured and sent to Iraq.
I had to make an arrangement for solo guitar of the Bach 3rd Brandenburg for a wedding tomorrow. What a dumb thing to take on.
grades:
the petit-bourgeois' contribution to Western Civ. and I mean that in only the friendliest way!
(sallyh: we are so at the beach manana)
Now I picturing a bunch of cows leaping up the sides of barns, big brown eyes ablaze with frenzy over a bunch of hay...that is, "cownip."
I had to make an arrangement for solo guitar of the Bach 3rd Brandenburg for a wedding tomorrow. What a dumb thing to take on.
Too bad Hendricks is dead.
Barry, did you see the girls in the window yesterday?
http://plush-life.blogspot.com/2...n-
blogging.html
Mrs. Ibrahim, may this coming year bring you both a Mother's Day and Father's Day.
And as for the beach, I hate you already
Have fun with Maxine Bodine!
Now I picturing a bunch of cows leaping up the sides of barns, big brown eyes ablaze with frenzy over a bunch of hay...that is, "cownip."
Barry, did you see the girls in the window yesterday?
http://plush-life.blogspot.com/2...n- blogging.html
fourlegsgood kittenslave
Yes, I saw those, "Please don't leave us!"
I am so jealous.
I am so jealous.
Of course Maddie is about 7 1/2 pounds already. She hardly seems like a kitten at all.
Until she starts bouncing off the walls.
"
Now I picturing a bunch of cows leaping up the sides of barns, big brown eyes ablaze with frenzy over a bunch of hay...that is, "cownip.""
All doing the Guernsey stomp.
Until she starts bouncing off the walls.
fourlegsgood kittenslave
I like Rip's pink nose.
Well, it's time to say good night.
Congratulations again to geor3ge.
Hoping for a better day for Sallyh.
All the rest of y'all take care of your good selves, too.
"I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows till you come home."
-- Groucho Marx
"I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows till you come home."
-- Groucho Marx"
Way ahead of his time. Imagine if he had a blog.
I like Rip's pink nose.
Me too. She has pink paw pads too, and a spotted tummy.
EkCenTrik, I don't know. We've got more than a few dead people here, say, for example, bebe rebozo and William Rehnquist.
Well, I just took the local house cow off the grill.
Dammit dog, you are not starving.
Way ahead of his time. Imagine if he had a blog.
EkCenTriK
He would be yelling at us to get off his lawn.
Sally, what happened today?
"He would be yelling at us to get off his lawn."
You know... THis makes me wonder about Ntodd a bit.
4Legs, my kids are being brats. Mlle really needs a meds adjustment. SIL needs to cool his jets.
I had to do the Judge Judy routine on both of them.
We're ALL Wearing The Blue Dress Now
4Legs, on the other hand, ma maison is CLEAN. I wailed on it today.
911truth, don't you be dissing my blue summer dress. It's lovely.
4Legs, my kids are being brats. Mlle really needs a meds adjustment. SIL needs to cool his jets.
Tuning up the cluebat?
4Legs, my kids are being brats. Mlle really needs a meds adjustment. SIL needs to cool his jets.
I had to do the Judge Judy routine on both of them.
Oy. Sorry.
Something bugs me when watching a Cisco Telepresence commercial that shows the wonder of technology by bringing class rooms in two different countries together for a blink off. This just sums up the IT world for me.
JR, I slugged both of them with it tonight.
Gah. Couple of old queens, they are
And now, I'm sufficiently drunk, and it's nonny nonny time
It's too bad Tavis Smiley and "Dr." Cornell West now hate France and everything it stand for....
Gee isn't it a bit late for the trolls to be out and about? I guess they don't feel the need to thank their mommies for bringing them the endless supplies of cheetohs on any day.
I am easily amused
It's safe.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: -- there was this debate about some of this information? LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Not a bit. In fact it was presented in the firmest language possible that the mobile biological labs and the sketches we had drawn of them for the Secretary's presentation were based on the iron clad evidence of multiple sources. DAVID BRANCACCIO: Maybe they at the most senior level, like you, just didn't know? LAWRENCE WILKERSON: I have to believe that. Otherwise I have to believe some rather nefarious things about some fairly highly placed people in the intelligence community and perhaps elsewhere. DAVID BRANCACCIO: What do you think really did happen with regards to this-- disconnect between what we now know about these profound questions about some of these key sources and the fact that somebody had these questions in real time? LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Well, I've been a consumer, a user of intelligence at the tactical, operational and strategic level for close to 35, 36 years. And I've seen many errors in intelligence. And I know it's not a perfectible business. Not by any stretch of the imagination. However, I am astonished at the failures of our intelligence community over the-- last decade in particular. We failed to predict the demise of the Soviet Union. We failed to predict the Indian nuclear test in 1998. We bombed a Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999. We failed to detect the five year planning cycle of al Qaeda, the operatives who conducted 9/11. And we failed in terms of predicting Iraq's WMDs. So we have a significant problem in this nation with our intelligence community. And, by the way, I don't think it's fixed in any way. Yet. This administration has really done nothing to fix it. And-- so I-- I'm familiar with intelligence failure. However, this particular one seems to me to warrant a lot more investigation than it has to this point. And I take in the recognition the Robb Silberman commission, the 9/11 commission and a host of other lesser-- investigations that have attempted to look at this and the phase two investigation.---------------------DAVID BRANCACCIO: We've been talking grand policy. The then director of the CIA, George Tenent, Vice President Cheney's deputy Libby, told you that the intelligence that was the basis of going to war was rock solid. Given what you now know, how does that make you feel? LAWRENCE WILKERSON: It makes me feel terrible. I've said in other places that it was-- constitutes the lowest point in my professional life. My participation in that presentation at the UN constitutes the lowest point in my professional life. I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council. How do you think that makes me feel? Thirty-one years in the United States Army and I more or less end my career with that kind of a blot on my record? That's not a very comforting thing. DAVID BRANCACCIO: A hoax? That's quite a word. LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Well, let's face it.
Great, another C&P troll
In spite of all the other "worst things" about the US being in Iraq, there's this one "worst thing" that really ought to fuck with the Bushies a lot more than it does: we have totally blown our military mystique. The Big Stick is a whole lot scarier if you don't use it, and especially if you don't use it and allow people to discover that it's not all that big, and not all that scary, regardless of how deadly and messy it might be.
DAVID BRANCACCIO: A hoax? That's quite a word. LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Well, let's face it, it was. It was not a hoax that the Secretary in any way was complicit in. In fact he did his best-- I watched him work. Two AM in the morning on the DCI and the Deputy DCI, John McLaughlin. And to try and hone the presentation down to what was, in the DCI's own words, a slam dunk. Firm. Iron clad. We threw many things out. We threw the script that Scooter Libby had given the-- Secretary of State. Forty-eight page script on WMD. We threw that out the first day. And we turned to the National Intelligence estimate as part of the recommendation of George Tenent and my agreement with. But even that turned out to be, in its substantive parts-- that is stockpiles of chemicals, biologicals and production capability that was hot and so forth, and an active nuclear program. The three most essential parts of that presentation turned out to be absolutely false.
Great, another C&P troll
Barry from Alaska |
At least this one doesn't have "sensitivities" about PhDs. Now what is it about Jose Chung and his alter ego that might find PhDs so objectionable? *cough*academic and blogging miserable failure*
'allo.....
This is a real fun place. Lively.
“In the Army, you communicate up the chain of command, and I communicated vehemently with my senior commanders while I was in Iraq,” he said. Of his departure from the Army, he said: “It was the toughest decision of my life. I paced my quarters for days. I didn’t sleep for nights. But I was not willing to compromise my principles for one more minute.” -General Batiste
And that's why an actually free America within any actual meaning of the word must have both military and police acting under strict constitutional civilian authority, unless you're a brownshirt sellout coward who doesn't mind in the least if your genuine American Liberty is hijacked by a massive historical conspiracy of anarcho-cryptofascists, and that's why Benjamin Franklin told us we had been given "A Republic, If You Can Keep It, and that's why anything at all other than our UNSHREDDED American Constitutional Rights founded on the ancient Great Writ of Habeas Corpus, AND a genuinely Free Press carefully regulated under our 1949 Fairness Doctrine, Equal Time, and Truth In Media Provisions, AND Triple-Verified Citizen Hand-Counted PAPER Ballots is the fastest way to LOSE the tiny spark of American Liberty still alive. Wake up and smell the fucking coffee already. We've all Been Wearing The Blue Dress For Well Over SIX YEARS. We are living in a reality which is overwhelmingly constructed for us in millions of ways, out of technology that has existed centuries longer than you believe, on a planet that is many millions of years older than we are taught. Some people have known this for alot longer than others, plenty still don't, and some never will. While ignorance may be bliss, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." By the way, the self-proclaimed rulers of the world who pull Cheney and Bush's strings are getting ready to tell you this is no longer America, but MexAmeriCanada, you cannot use dollars, only the Ameros they already have minted, and they are going to force you to be implanted with microchip. But you're up for that right, cause you gotta run around in your esyouvee no matter what.
Kled sha bu, etkan nayed Kled shom sketta barhu.
She was the daughter of a wealthy Florentine Pogen.....
The Independent says...
Simon Cowell losing out to Hugh Laurie
one hour homer? Myth or possibility?
U.S. officers rejected Haditha probe request
:::"It wasn't the Marines who instigated this. Having (bombs) and attacks in the neighborhood was also their (the residents') responsibility, they had some responsibility," {Maj. Dana } Hyatt said, in testimony at the hearing into the killings at Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base in Southern California.:::
Yup, Security is not the responsibility of the occupying force cuz the Geneva Conventions are quaint...
I am watching my g'dtr fade away, day by day. I watch her lose weight, and she was slender to begin with. I listen as her voice threads and weakens. I watch as the fucking cancer claims her like the parasite it is.
And, I hate, and I weep.
Heh. The president's annual fundraising gala took in about one third less than in previous years.
No one around but troooooools
Ach, Sarah, I am so sorry. I take it the new round of chemo isn't helping.
Sarah, my heart goes out to you.
and the one hour homer is still an unattained myth.
ql, nothing helps. This is one m-fucker of a cancer. It is aggressive, and, it's the one that, if one were to respond "favorably" to chemo/radiation, comes back even after it seems it's defeated. It's vicious and ugly.
Sorry to be such a downer. Carry on, please! Just succumbed to the temptation to grieve. I will try not to do th is again until she has closer to death, during which time, all bets are off.
Hey, Sarah, bitch, moan, groan, whatever it takes. every time you rant and carry on here is one less time you do it in meat space. We can take it.
ql..."meat space".....
thanks.
Sarah, you aren't a downer. I suspect everybody here would like to help if they could.
Good evening, bats.
Are we irked?
I'm irked for every mother who has lost a child in this insane war.
Sarah, our host used it awhile back, I like it too!
Ror, how's the bachelor life?
Ror, how's the bachelor life?
ql in ny | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 4:57 am | #
Well, I worked about 70 hours this week, then took miriam to the airport. Since which time, I've been reading, sleeping, and drinking, usually with a cat on me.
Not too shabby, I have to say.
Well, that seems rather to've killed the thread, eh?
Well, I worked about 70 hours this week, then took miriam to the airport. Since which time, I've been reading, sleeping, and drinking, usually with a cat on me.
That all sounds OK to me.
Except the work bit.
Are we irked?
rorschach, migozarad | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 4:55 am | #
Hell yeah.
Not completely sure why, though.
Hope you don't mind me adopting your catchphrase, simels, but it's just so damned... catchy.
I am irked. Tait is up and feisty this morning.
Except the work bit.
Barry from Alaska | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 5:24 am | #
Indeed. And it's only gonna get worse, and then worse, and then I'll be unemployed again.
So it goes.
Hope you don't mind me adopting your catchphrase, simels, but it's just so damned... catchy.
rorschach, migozarad | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 5:26 am | #
Not a problem.
How is everybody this morning?
With a headline like The Dirty Mistress Club, one would think the article concerns Cheney.
Whodathunk all that unbridled liberalism lurked in Kansas City? And do people there actually use the phrase "Bushvolk"?
Grrrr, gravatar not showing up, sound card has taken a dump despite all day efforts to revive it.
I think I'll find a cat and go to bed.
Before kids I had to have just so many pillows and covers and the bed needed to be made exactly right. Then I could sleep well. After kids, I can nap standing up on the subway in rush hour.
Nothing like waking up in the early morning and finding that Starship Troopers is on, I have to say.
I am a much lighter sleeper since kids. I used to just be able to crash for 8 hours. Now, everything wakes me up.
It's kind of weird. I feel like we're in a holding pattern and all hell can break loose at any moment. This constantly being on pins and needles interferes with my creative live. Dick's threat to the Iranians certainly didn't help.
Whodathunk all that unbridled liberalism lurked in Kansas City? And do people there actually use the phrase "Bushvolk"?
pixie |
Coulda been Busheviks.
But it is a nice takedown of the Cheney bitching about Syria.
Governors agree.
Bush sucks ass.
As wildfires, floods and tornadoes batter the nation, the readiness of the National Guard to deal with those disasters, as well as potential terrorist assaults, is so depleted by deployments to foreign wars and equipment shortfalls that Congress is considering moves to curtail the president's powers over the Guard and require the Defense Department to analyze how prepared the country is for domestic emergencies.
The debate over the state of the National Guard has been intensifying for several years, but a powerful tornado in Kansas early this month has spun the topic back into the spotlight.
When the small farming community of Greensburg was effectively wiped off the map, leaving 11 people in the area dead and miles of rubble to be searched and cleared, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was direct in her explanation for why the response had not been faster: The policies of the federal government, she said, had left the Kansas National Guard understaffed and underequipped.
...
The bitter exchange represented a familiar debate to governors across the U.S., many of whom have long feared and predicted that a catastrophic event could find their National Guard units woefully hard-pressed to react to mass casualties or chaos after four years of war in Iraq.
not much to say, is there, when talking about death.
not trolling, just realizing I need to find a relevant support group for this.
apologies.
It doesn't get much better than "Birdhouse in Your Soul" , now does it?
Sarah, may you find what you need to weather this passage. It is a supremely lonely journey, but the magic of being alive persists.
As you know, Deere, anything I can do, it's yours for the asking.
Frank Rich beautifully says exactly what I've been thinking about The Grand Old Party today. Barry Blitt marvelously captures the MSNBC GOP Republican debate as only he can:
http://thumbsnap.com/v/SBGshuPV.jpg
Atrios reverted to CATS!
P 
Here are Rich's 2nd and 3rd paragraphs (but the whole piece bristles with rectitude):
Since then, panicked Republicans have been either blaming the “Let’s Make a Deal” debate format or praying for salvation-by-celebrity in the form of another middle-aged white guy who might enter the race, Fred Thompson. They don’t seem to get that there is not another major brand in the country — not Wal-Mart, not G.E., not even Denny’s nowadays — that would try to sell a mass product with such a demographically homogeneous sales force. And that’s only half the problem. The other half is that the Republicans don’t have a product to sell. Aside from tax cuts and a wall on the Mexican border, the only issue that energized the presidential contenders was Ronald Reagan. The debate’s most animated moments by far came as they clamored to lip-sync his “optimism,” his “morning in America,” his “shining city on the hill” and even, in a bizarre John McCain moment out of a Chucky movie, his grin.
The candidates mentioned Reagan’s name 19 times, the current White House occupant’s once. Much as the Republicans hope that the Gipper can still be a panacea for all their political ills, so they want to believe that if only President Bush would just go away and take his rock-bottom approval rating and equally unpopular war with him, all of their problems would be solved. But it could be argued that the Iraq fiasco, disastrous to American interests as it is, actually masks the magnitude of the destruction this presidency has visited both on the country in general and the G.O.P. in particular.
((Very quiet round here.))
HELLO PLANTSMAN!
Better?
I am prepping breakfast. I always make pancakes and bacon on mother's day for Mrs. Trifecta.
Much better, after a night of bad dreams.
Sarah Deere:
I have nothing eloquent to add, but I'm sending good thoughts your way.
Hang in, kiddo.
Sorry to hear about the bad dreams, plantsman. I've been sleeping only sporadically and not remembering my dreams of late.
I like Rich's point that the Iraq war is only serving to mask the greater harm these baffoons have done to the country.
Morning all. The back's holding up, but there's still a lot of digging to do.
While haloscam was down yesterday I finished the second seat cover and made great strides on the third. You can check the home page.
I wonder why Simels doesn't irk me when he talks about "that woman" and other people do. BTW, Hillary has now become my first choice.
(if this doesn't get the conversation going, nothing will)
I wonder why Simels doesn't irk me when he talks about "that woman" and other people do.
Do I, one wonders?
I must admit, Hillary is quick on her feet and impressive extemporaneously, Edwards seems to keep shrinking, and I haven't got a bead on Obama yet.
These aren't horror-film bad dreams; more dreams of absent friends and intractable problems, like.
Plantsman, was the lawyer able to give you some good advice?
A beareded frat boy posted the following at his piece of shit blog.
Christian Domestic Discipline
Come on people. It's not a Christian site. It's a front for selling porn books.
Link to stupidity.
Although I will admit I just may submissively request of Shoe that he buy me the chemise.
Of course he'll probably refuse on the grounds that the site is blasphemous, but it's worth a shot. I hope he doesn't get angry, he's told me before that I buy too many clothes and that I need to learn to show restraint. That I'm too proud of my appearance and that I need to learn to be humble.
Once I even purchased a dress that he told me was too revealing, I didn't care, I was willful and I bought it anyway. I decided to wear it to a party we had been invited to, he was working late and I was helping to host the party, so I was already there when he arrived.
I was busy making sure that the hors d'oeuvres were perfectly spaced on the serving tray when I looked up into his insanely angry eyes. Right away I knew what I had done wrong.
I dropped to my knees and averted my eyes as the room fell silent.
"You fucking whore," he spit out at me. "You filthy little Eve, how dare you go against the order of thy Husband thy God?"
I knew I was in for it as he pulled my leash out of his pocket and attached it to my ever present collar. (gucci of course girls, make him dish out!)
As he dragged me out of the party I could feel the disappointed gazes of my friends and I knew I would never be allowed back into their inner circle again.
I had failed.
All the way to the car he alternated dragging me on my knees, making them bloody and sore, and kicking me in my ass, which is in no way at all fat.
I've learned my lesson already, make no mistake of that!!!
posted by AnnieAngel @ 2:30 PM 0 comments
A Republican transvestite bondage freak for Jesus. Wow.
It is now obvious to me that Shoelimpy is (a)a brilliant ironic performance artist and (b)a deeply disturbed piece of shit.
Hats off, kids -- there's a psycho in our midst.
These aren't horror-film bad dreams; more dreams of absent friends and intractable problems, like.
plantsman, plant geek | 05.13.07 - 6:42 am | #
Those can be worse.
My least favorite, though, are dreams in which life is just as it should be, and then you awaken to a feeling of ultimate loss.
I'll admit that Hillary annoys me. Part of that, and I like to think it's the main part, is that like Bill she's over-calculating, triangulating, playing to what she sees as the theatre of the moment, and never mind the real world consequences (see: her continued dissing of the Palestinians). There are of course hundreds of examples of this.
And sure, lots and lots-- maybe all-- politicians, and especially Dems, do likewise. So why am I singling out Hillary? Well, first of all we have the historic example of how she botched healthcare reform by compromising herself out of the game before it even started. Second, rightly or wrongly, I judge her in part by her husband's presidency-- welfare "reform", NAFTA, don't ask don't tell, etc.
Am now without transport, so planning a very necessary jaunt to Costco for monthly meds, supplements and diabetes testing supplies. It's possible, but the route the transit district has laid out is wildly circuitous!
The lawyer was "lawyerly", no false hopes, no brutality of words, but a firm recognition of the length of time involved at a minimum. Good, if not welcome, advice.
I wonder why Simels doesn't irk me when he talks about "that woman" and other people do. BTW, Hillary has now become my first choice.
(if this doesn't get the conversation going, nothing will)
ql in ny | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 6:38 am | #
Really? She is?
Why?
My idol, Athenae has a good post re the Giuliani reaction to getting slammed for dissing the poor farm folk.
Watched "Gilda" last night on TCM. Great, well-restored print; bad, bad, Rita!
History Teaches Nothing (If We Don't Learn)
Dear Rudy:
Don't be surprised if what sounded reasonable to you at Houston Baptist University does not penetrate the brain cases of Baptists.
*Sting* has a loverly song, "History....Will Teach Us Nothing."
And things are getting mighty testy between the WH and repuke congress critters.
Why Hillary? Because she amply demonstrated a firm grasp of the issues and was able to articulate areas that need work. Edwards came off as too mild and Obama needs work. I don't like him invoking religion at every turn.
Happy Mothers' Day, mothers.
gwb:drf
The Bill Clinton years had a lot of sloppy compromises with conservatives, but I personally felt a lot more hopeful, which I preferred.
Edwards too mild?
He's the only one who even approximates a class warrior, which is what we need right now.
Rove getting all miffed at "moderate" Repukes telling what actually happened! That ice is looking mighty thin, KKKarl!
I also wouldn't look forward to the press going in full Clinton mode if Hillary won.
Like it or not, the press hates the Clintons. The entire administration would be non stop Drudge inspired pseudo headlines covered by the MSM.
This is a repeat from a few days ago, but some guy rips into power company execs.
Edwards too mild?
That's the hit I get, for good or ill. Like a class warrior in a tutu, sort of......
I hope you're not planning on electricity at home, Moe.
As usual, a real knock out Moe. It does kind of make you want to throw up your hands and give up though.
Moon's Eurovision Song Contest verbiage was terrific!
They take my money too, plantsman.
Is there organized crime among Canadarians?
Any more cool rocks in the garden?
trying again;
morning all.
Arabella, the mom in me is grateful. my kid asks me what do I want for mom's day, whadda I answer?
Took my mom a jug that dispenses tea ffrom standing on the table by being pushed from the top and this solves a lotta problems for her.
And Edwards just doesn't convince people by being about equalizing opportunity, or does that threaten too many people? i wonder.
I have an "unique" mother's day video up on the blog.
( I wonder what sort of Hostas Molly got, and if her shoulders and upper back survived the roto-tiller.
That is one hard-charging woman!)
Good morning folks.
I'm sure I'll go see the new film "Away From Her" probably sooner rather than later... but after watching the trailer http://www.apple.com/trailers/li...te/awayfromher/
I suspect it won't be a "date movie" for me.
I mean, when the trailer makes ya dissolve in tears....
Didja know that the director, Sarah Polley, played the little girl in Baron Munchausen?
Why Hillary? Because she amply demonstrated a firm grasp of the issues and was able to articulate areas that need work.
ql in ny | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 6:57
Well, okay. If that's the bottom line, then she's the one.
But I think we can do better.
Of course there's organized crime up here. The Montreal mob boss just got sentenced in a New York court-- I have no grasp of the details, however.
Rocks, rocks, and more rocks. Yesterday I came across last year's giant. Was tempted to try again, but slept on it, and now think it'll just continue as a dead spot in the garden. I should be able to finish up my main vegetable garden today, I hope, and then onto my new and improved strawberry beds.
plantsman - Thanks for the link to to lizard debate cartoon.
I have crazy dreams too. since my sister died last month, my sleeping brain is a horror show.
Last night I dreamed that I was back in the corporate world again. Horrible.
gwb:drf
(Mom's gone, and I miss spreading that love to her a great deal.)
haven't read it yet, about to, but btw Moe, our local power co. exec is the grandson of the Rep. in Congress, you can imagine what sort of connection that is.
ql-- don't give up hope! We, humanity, can do this. I have a hugely long article on all this, just waiting to be published. I'm somewhat annoyed they keep moving publication date back, but it'll be out in a few weeks, and I'll post it here.
At least 32 people are killed and 115 wounded by a suicide truck bomber near a Kurdistan Democratic Party building in northern Iraq, a spokesman with the Kurdistan Regional Government tells CNN.
The Surge: Feel it!
oh and coal can be burned without polluting the environment, the technology is there but it needs to be installed.
Reading C J Cherryh again right now, and her characters so enjoy hot tea, it works like a charm on me, drumming up interest I don't normally feel.
(Advertising works on me, too. *sigh*)
My mom is 80 and she still works. She had nine kids. She hates mothers' day. ("Ridiculous.")
She's going into the city today to see the play about Lotte Lenya.
What a woman.
gwb:drf
I should drink more tea. Earl Gray in the morning is very lovely. It's usually too chaotic to enjoy a nice slow cup though.
Liquid fuel can be synthesized from all that Western US coal, too; but it's dirty and pricey business, yet.
Reading C J Cherryh again right now, and her characters so enjoy hot tea, it works like a charm on me, drumming up interest I don't normally feel.
(Advertising works on me, too. *sigh*)
plantsman, plant geek | 05.13.07 - 7:15 am | #
Me, I'm reading Doctorow, and am happy.
Morning y'all. Happy day to all the Mom's out yonder.
Coffee. Wheres my coffee?
Didja know that the director, Sarah Polley, played the little girl in Baron Munchausen?
SteveLG | 05.13.07 - 7:11 am | #
I have -- and have had for several years, since seeing "Go" -- a hugely inappropriate thing for Sarah Polley.
Smart, gorgeous, and a lefty.
What a rockin' package.
Good morning, insomniacs. It's probably hopeless trying to catch up with the last few days' postings, but I see I missed lots of kitties, and some gypsy stuff, and the usual atrocities.
Ruth-- to add carbon capture technology to an existing plant-- which means capturing the carbon, obvioulsy, but missing the sulphur-- costs about $200 million per plant. To build a new "clean coal" plant with carbon capture technology of the size of the existing NS plants costs about $1 billion per plant.
It's cheaper to do other things-- up here use tidal and wind power, and also, way, way, cheaper to simply become more effecient. Energy efficiency saves about 30 percent of electrical usage.
When I was in London I stayed at an internet friend's house. She brought me a cup of tea every morning before I got out of bed. If I were still snoozing, she'd leave it on the night stand.
gwb:drf
But I think we can do better.
steve simels
Great, who. The first primaries are seven months away.
Plant a spot of Bergamot mint in the yard, plop a sprig in Black tea, and you've got Earl Grey fit for Picard, anytime!
Never give up.
lurve,
Great, who.
How 'bout that whacky Alaskan guy?
Good morning, insomniacs. It's probably hopeless trying to catch up with the last few days' postings, but I see I missed lots of kitties, and some gypsy stuff, and the usual atrocities.
Karin | 05.13.07 - 7:18 am | #
Some catch-up kitties for you!
Tista was staging a peaceful protest, to prevent me from going to Germany with miriam. It worked.
me, i culd do a great job as president.
but I'm really not awake yet. going to dive back in for a bit.
love ya all and see you l8r
oh, and wind and SEA would be good generators.
Oh, Gravelle , you mean?
I'm with Arabella's mom, I'd just as soon skip mother's day. And the kids know it and will call anyway.
Morning, kids.
Damn, I loves me some Johns.
Hppy Mother's Day!
Thanks, ror.
Arabella, please let me know what she thinks of the play. I'm a Brecht/Weill-o-maniac. The review I read said the songs/performances by the leads were great, but the plot was a mess.
Molly, Happy Mother's Day. how'd the hosta-fest go?
You are more than welcome, Karin.
morning Karin and Molly.
Happy mother's day to those who loins have produced fruit.
I don't think anything in particular is scheduled for Liberal Mountain today. More rototilling and yard work is all. But I need that bed to dry out some, so I have to wait until pm.
But I need that bed to dry out some, so I have to wait until pm.
Um, no flirting?
I'll post mom's review for you, karin. When are you usually here?
lurve.
Why Hillary? Because she amply demonstrated a firm grasp of the issues and was able to articulate areas that need work.
ql in ny
Assuming that this is so, is there any way of knowing what kinds of policies she's apt to pursue with regard to any of them?
My problems with Hillary are primarily two.
First, I'm not convinced that there's really anything she absolutely and irresolutely believes in.
Second, the last time there was an American presidential election without a Bush or Clinton on the ticket was 1976. Are we really that far gone that there's no one else?
But there are a number of people I know and respect who've cast their lot with Hillary, primarily because they desperately want to see a woman president, and if she's the nominee I'll certainly support her.
But I suspect she's the best chance the Democrats have of losing in 2008.
Anyone in the family give an upper-back massage worth a durn, Molly? After tilling and with a cocktail, it might hit the spot!
Molly, Happy Mother's Day. how'd the hosta-fest go?
They look lovely, and I interplanted them with morning glories and mini-sunflowers (just unfurling). The main point was stealing pavers to edge the new big bed, but as these projects always do, it took on a life of its own.
"Happy mother's day to those who loins have produced fruit."
You have apples and oranges coming out of your penis?
gwb:drf
Um, no flirting?
Oooo, work in my leaf mulch, baby!
I'm usually here around this time or a little later in the morning, although I've missed the last few days.
Haloscan is eating me this morning.
And I don't mean that in a good way.
I love cut small sunflowers and a blue and yeller
French Breafast-y theme -- gets my Van Gogh working!!
You have apples and oranges coming out of your penis?
That sounds painful.
Arabella, how's your mom handling your recent loss? When my sister died, I think it was hardest on my mom.
I'm a professional depressed pessimist, but I chose to be contrarian about it.
gwb:drf
Hey, Moe; how was the Municipal Green Compost?
Oooo, work in my leaf mulch, baby!
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 7:27 am | #
Heh. Now that is some esoteric flirting right there.
I'll trim your hedges any time.
I ♥ Molly.
plantsman,
And that's the front of the house, which is east facing and very sunny in the mornings. Yesterday, I stopped during my planting and ate out there. But I hear hostas love morning sun/afternoon shade, so they should do really well there. I also fixed some loose stones and picked up some inexpensive solar lights for that new rock path I made a few weeks ago.
steve simels, have you seen "Away From Her" yet? I really want to see it, and I will, but I know it's going to rip me up.
And yeah, Sarah Polley, is definitely fantasy material, in all possible respects.
Morning, rational people.
But I think we can do better.
I will find it hard to support a candidate who doesn't fully support a single payer National Health Care System and Ms. Clinton apparently does not. That is the most important thing to me.
Molly - My mom's OK. She's Lithuanian and she has peasant endurance.
This is the third child she's lost. She just picks herself up and gets along with it.
gwb:drf
When I popped out Serbia was leading the Ukranian drag-queen in the Eurovision Song contest, and I was wishing it was broadcast here.
plantsman-- I'm still working it in. Funny, my next door neighbour has had to cut down a maple in their front yard, because it's clogged up their sewer line. (Good news: more sun for me.) The work crew has been watching my garden digging, and keep commenting on the fine quality of the soil I got dumped on my driveway.
I have to wheel-barrow it back, one load at a time, as I dig out my expansion. A lot of it is going into the strawberry and herb gardens as well, and now that we have this extra sun, I'm going to put a line of low-bush blueberry out font. Lots of work yet.
Molly, it sounds like you're making a dreamy garden and home-place for the family!
Sarah Polley, even before Baron Munchausen, was in some Disney Channel attempt to spin the CBC's excellent Anne of Green Gables miniseries into a regular show, and also played one of my fave children's lit characters ever in Beezus and Ramona.
My mom's family had grim view of like. They act as if any day your neighbor will steal your last pig and poison your well.
Grim.
gwb:drf
They act as if any day your neighbor will steal your last pig and poison your well.
So they were well prepared for the Republican ascendancy.
We're Irish, and so depressive. My mom looked at my sister in the casket and said, "That's supposed to be me."
Living in Northern Europe will grim-up a person.
Why does haloscan hate mothers?
gwb:drf
My mom's family had grim view of like. They act as if any day your neighbor will steal your last pig and poison your well.
Grim.
That is a grim view of "like."
One hesitates to ask how they felt about love.
My garden ambitions are modest this year. Maybe half a dozen tomatoes & peppers, and move a few perennials around. Steal a few more square feet from the lawn, as I do every year.
Why does haloscan hate mothers?
The 'Scam hates everyone, so don't feel too put upon.
Molly - My dad was Irish. I have the poetry and blarney of the Irish and the endurance of the Lithuanians.
gwb:drf
Sarah Polley, even before Baron Munchausen, was in some Disney Channel attempt to spin the CBC's excellent Anne of Green Gables miniseries into a regular show, and also played one of my fave children's lit characters ever in Beezus and Ramona.
Molly Ivors
Very nice interview with Ms. Polley at salon.com for those who subscribe, or don't mind the ad.
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/...html?
source=rss
The "stealing a bit of lawn" ambition is an admirable one.
We're Irish, and so depressive. My mom looked at my sister in the casket and said, "That's supposed to be me."
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 7:36 am | #
I'm of German descent, but that is how I felt when I looked at my brother in his casket. And still feel at times.
Sarah Polley, even before Baron Munchausen, was in some Disney Channel attempt to spin the CBC's excellent Anne of Green Gables miniseries into a regular show, and also played one of my fave children's lit characters ever in Beezus and Ramona.
Of course, she doesn't have to worry about working for Disney these days:
When she was 12, during the first Gulf war, she attended a children's awards show in Washington, DC, and was seated at a table with some representatives from the Walt Disney Company. They asked her to remove a peace symbol that she was wearing but she refused. Disney has blacklisted her ever since.
plantsman,
Well, we have over an acre and a smallish house, so lots of room to experiment and build.
I lost a couple of hours yesterday to lawnmower maintenance--Thers put in too much oil and it took a while to troubleshoot and repair.
But it's all part of the same thing--the expanded beds and such are really an attempt to limit the necessary mowing.
plantsman, my ambition is to get the lawn small enough that I can cut it with a rotary push-mower.
Well, rors, she was a year or so into cancer treatment at that point, and so did have a point. But I think no matter how stoic you are, losing a child must be the hardest thing.
She just picks herself up and gets along with it.
Not to sound morose - but the reality is, losing a sibling or a child requires this type of behavior. It took me a couple years to come around when I lost my son.
You never forget, you just keep moving on.
Disney has blacklisted her ever since.
Their loss.
I've stolen over half my grass for the garden, and have finally gotten Mrs. Moe on board the project. We'll have a bit of lawn for the nephew and neice to play on for a while, but as they age, it's coming out too.
Really though, the kids love the garden, and are learning a lot. The 4-year-old knows all about manure and the cycle of life, hee.
I bring my autistic 50 year old brother to visit my Mom every Saturday. He likes to listen to my mom say the rosary.
My mother gets all doom and gloom and she prays. Our family always said "Hail Holy Queen" at the end of the family rosary time.
Part of it is "mourning and weeping in this vale of tears."
I think that's mom's favorite part.
gwb:drf
I totally don't get the open casket thing. Luckily, none of my family is into that-we are the 'no funeral' type; but I've had to see a friend in an open casket recently, and that was horrible.
Well, rors, she was a year or so into cancer treatment at that point, and so did have a point. But I think no matter how stoic you are, losing a child must be the hardest thing.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 7:40 am | #
That is awful.
And I feel so sorry for my own mother for having to endure the loss that she did. It's unimaginable to me.
My niece is expecting, and she told me the other day that it's a girl, who she is naming after me and her late mother: Mary Margaret.
Karin-- that's very doable, as I've demonstrated. Three years now, have never used a combustion engine for any yard work.
Barn dog - I totally agree.
gwb:drf
Disney has blacklisted her ever since.
Their loss.
I agree. The few things I've seen her in, she's fantastic.
Moe, I can't keep Rosie from running through the garden--she thinks the raised beds are trampolines or something. Dad and I decided yesterday that we need a gate.
Good morning.
Happy Mother's Day moms.
Today is so beautiful. I think I'll go out and dance.
gwb:drf
Today is so beautiful. I think I'll go out and dance.
Sure you don't want to rototill?
Disney has blacklisted her ever since.
Their loss.
Molly Ivors
One shudders to think what they and their focus groups would have made Polley do with this material (based on an Alice Munro story). "Away From Her" is a Canadian film and made with public money, which is really the only way Polley was able to retain so much creative control.
How old is Rosie?
Raised beds are like cake layers for plants, with frothy soil for roots to stretch out into.
Rosie - Can you read yet?
Go dance on the raised beds.
lurve,
Raised beds are like cake layers for plants, with frothy soil for roots to stretch out into.
Lovely. That's my thought of the day.
lurve,
Moe-I already rake & cut the hedges without power tools. That's partly for ecological reasons, partly the noise, and partly because I'm a menace with power tools. I space out, and would probably end up cutting my foot or my arm off. Right now we have a lawn service, we don't own a lawn mower.
Rosie's 2 1/2--she'll be three in August.
People's connection with the natural world vary so widely, it's amazing. Some are dumb-struck with reverence, some don't see it at all, or dismiss its centrality to life.
The garden is my space for collecting myself, sorta meditative without the foo-foo nonsense. So I get out there, working and zoning out, and about half the time some neighbour has got a lawn mower buzzing along, giving me a headache.
People's connection with the natural world vary so widely, it's amazing. Some are dumb-struck with reverence, some don't see it at all, or dismiss its centrality to life.
plantsman, plant geek | 05.13.07 - 7:48 am | #
Tuber or not tuber, that is the question.
Good morning, HBK.
Bigger gravatars - easier to see - me like!
Tuber or not tuber, that is the question.
(Groan.)
Molly Ivors --
Assuming Haloscan doesn't eat this ---
Happy Mom's Day, kiddo!!!
Foo-foo is not nonsense if you need it and it works. Sometimes, I'm a blunt instrument, sometimes not.
Tuber or not tuber, that is the question.
(Groan.)
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 7:52 am | #
I actually was ashamed of myself even as I was typing that.
simels regrets my error.
Thanks, steve! Youtube seems to be having issues, but there's something I really want to post.
Okay, all this garden talk is making me feel guilty. I've got plenty to do, so better get at it. See ya'll later.
about half the time some neighbour has got a lawn mower buzzing along, giving me a headache
Every. Fucking. Night. of the week, one of our dumbass neighbors has their mower running. Fucked up thing is - at least some of them are home during the daytime - when I mow my lawn.
I'm going to have to resort to more annoying tactics.
Happy Mother's Day moms.
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage
And back at ya!
Let's go spit on a one-legged Iraq vet!!!!!
Nature is my spiritual place.
gwb:drf
Well, it's after 8 in the Maritimes, innit?
I'm going to have to resort to more annoying tactics.
Barndog, certified alpha hippy
Lawnmines.
It's damn near 9 o'clock. Gotta go!
Thanks, steve! Youtube seems to be having issues, but there's something I really want to post.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 7:53 am | #
I await it with breathless anticipation.
Potlach. On a day you're feeling extra-good, mow THEIR lawn.
I never was much of a gardener, but I sure do appreciate those who do all that hard work.
On my walk home I pass by a couple of houses with absolutely gorgeous floral displays lining their drive ways. One place in particular has the most amazing grouping of spring blooming plants. Each day something new appears to have popped up.
Most of our neighbors also use the lawn service, so the noise happens in the morning, during the week, when I'm usually not here.
Barndog, you're in Michigan, right? What's the morel season like this year?
May I just go on the record here as saying --
the next time somebody tells me my objections to the HRC candidacy are sexist and misogynistic I swear to god I'm gonna take a hostage.
STEVE!!!!
Yes!
Lawnmines.
I can tell the dogs to go crap in their yards, basically on command.
Hardly slows them down anymore.
the next time somebody tells me my objections to the HRC candidacy are sexist and misogynistic I swear to god I'm gonna take a hostage.
steve simels | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 7:58 am | #
Your objections to the HRC candidacy are sexist and misogynistic.
(But then, so are mine.)
steve - Should the need arise,ntake a republican hostage.
gwb:drf
In this part of Orygun, most Rhodies and azaleas (Queens of the flowering Shrubs) do so well on their own that somehow the notion that any combination of ghastly mis-matched colors can be used together gained currency. Oy!
What's the morel season like this year?
My fishing buddy Rocky, has combed off around 50# worth so far this spring. To many things need my attention around the house this year.
Happens when you can't walk for a few months.
ghastly mis-matched colors can be used together gained currency. Oy!
I hate that too.
gwb:drf
Good morning, Eschamoms and not-moms.
I am probably the luckiest person in the world. My landlady, who lives next door, has a glorious yard with mature trees and borders of azaleas, peonies, lilacs, rhododendrons, mock orange, iris, cannas, spring bulbs, rose of sharon...constant color about ten months out of the year. And she divides what needs to be divided and plants things around the house where I live. So I have all the joy and none of the work (although I would garden again if I had my own place, and I do have things in pots).
Your objections to the HRC candidacy are sexist and misogynistic.
(But then, so are mine.)
rorschach, migozarad | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 8:00 am | #
I don't think so.
If her hubby was running, I'd have exactly the same objections.
Simmels!
I understand your objection to Mrs. Clinton.
Quite frankly I just want to win.
see you later
gwb:drf
David Broder. The hackery today is Super Broderific.
Mehr Kaffee, bitte!
My fishing buddy Rocky, has combed off around 50# worth so far this spring.
Picture me drooling with envy. Serendipitously, although most mushrooms don't go all that well with fish, morels are an exception.
I don't think so.
If her hubby was running, I'd have exactly the same objections.
steve simels | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 8:04 am | #
Word, that.
I grew up in Arkansas, and so have many formative-years' experience watching them work.
And they work every angle, always.
Feliz Dia de la Madre.
One last shot. Broder now looks like Dobby the house elf.
bye-bye for real.
gwb:drf
, Arabella, lovely day to ya!
David Broder. The hackery today is Super Broderific.
trifecta | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 8:05 am | #
Jesus Mary and Joe Pepitone.
What a tool.
(The birds are starting up. Must be light I can't see yet.)
(The birds are starting up. Must be light I can't see yet.)
plantsman, plant geek | 05.13.07 - 8:09 am | #
Yah, the mourning doves are crooning away here; dawn is nigh.
Hillary can crush a coconut between her thighs, which is more than you can say for the other candidates.
Hillary can crush a coconut between her thighs, which is more than you can say for the other candidates.
Lime Rickey
Obama looks better in a swimsuit, and Edwards has prettier hair.
The two greatest videos of all time at the homepage, peeps.
Molly, you owe me a huge Mr. T coke
Molly, you owe me a huge Mr. T coke
Updated to acknowledge the debt.
The two greatest videos of all time at the homepage, peeps.
Molly Ivors
Oooh. I watched the FoW one at their website this morning.
If you liked that one I recommend Gomez' video for "girlshapedlovedrug."
http://www.gomeztheband.com/
(left column)
I am just joking Molly. I didn't create the wonder that was Mr. T.
Rich is really good today, peeps!
I think I could have lived without seeing Mr. T in hot pants.
But thanks anyway.
Hillary can crush a coconut between her thighs, which is more than you can say for the other candidates.
Lime Rickey
If that's your criteria, Condi can do it with 2 fingers
Yanno, I was pleased that the presidential campaign started so early this time. I figured that with a Democratic congress and more GOP indictments, the Dems would have plenty of time to thrash out the issues and to generate the enthusiasm of the electorate.
Silly me!
I am already tired of the bullshit, and we still have a year and a half to go.
Oooh. I watched the FoW one at their website this morning.
Me too. YouTube was being cranky. I think it's pretty new--a week or so.
If that's your criteria, Condi can do it with 2 fingers
I believe, in that photo, she was giving a description of the President.
trifecta--It's bound to be all over the place today. It was on The Soup this week.
That "They Might Be Giants" clip on the Eschaton home page is sehr schoen, too!
TMBG have another album coming out in the next couple of weeks, too.
Me too. YouTube was being cranky. I think it's pretty new--a week or so.
Molly Ivors
If you haven't seen the Gomez one, do check it out... it's great.
"An umlaut's just an "e", but I don't have that key"....
By David S. Broder
Sunday, May 13, 2007; Page B07
A bill that is headed for early action in the House of Representatives threatens to create a major controversy over the conduct of the 2008 election.
Whatsa matta you, Broder? Afraid your Republic buddies won't be able to steal this one?
NYMary:
That FOW video is...
well, I'm speechless.
Apparently, somebody was secretly videotaping me at age 27.
Oh an update to my Broder rant.
The Election Center has come in for criticism after reports that the nonprofit, nonpartisan group accepts contributions from voting machine manufacturers. Two members of the task force are former local election administrators who’ve formed their own election-related businesses.
Diane,
Because it's not about issues. It's about haircuts and scary vaginas and racism and posturing.
I heard on NPR yesterday about a consortium of business owners rallying for national health care. I want to poll the candidates on that. I would argue that the three issues are:
1. The War.
2. The Environment
3. Health Care
So far, no one I've seen has been unequivocal about all three.
TMBG have another album coming out in the next couple of weeks, too.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 8:20 am | #
Yeah, I was just saying they're not prolific enough.
election-related businesses. ????
If you haven't seen the Gomez one, do check it out... it's great.
Will do!
If that's your criteria, Condi can do it with 2 fingers
Karin
Condi, is that limp or at attention?
1. The War.
2. The Environment
3. Health Care
(4. Searching for oil alternatives)
If that's your criteria, Condi can do it with 2 fingers
Karin
Condi, is that limp or at attention?
Lime Rickey
That's full on "Commander Guy Size".
(4. Searching for oil alternatives)
I consider that part of 2.
I knew you'd say that. Me, too - really.
Morning, Moonbats. Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers.
That FOW video is...
well, I'm speechless.
Apparently, somebody was secretly videotaping me at age 27.
steve simels
I could say the same about the Gomez video and my marriage.
TMBG just singing "put a litle birdhouse in your soul" was impressive....in that era, one of my faves was World Party....Ship of Fools (save me from tomorrow)
So far, no one I've seen has been unequivocal about all three.
Molly Ivors
Bingo!
And rarely are any of the four (including plantsman's) issues discussed beyond mouthing bumpersticker phrases.
steve,
Answered your question at our place.
Good morning all.
(4. Searching for oil alternatives)
plantsman, plant geek
I consider that part of 2.
Molly Ivors
Actually, it's part of all three: War is waged to control oil, the extraction, processing and burning of which wrecks the environment and our health.
Loved seeing Doc Severinson and all that grey hair playing brass with TMBG!
To wit: the neighbor behind us is currently mowing his yard.
I can't wait to move into the country somewhere.
We're setting sail for that place on the map from which no one will ever return.
You all were speaking about Sarah Polley above.
I loved her in Doug Liman's GO. Put it in you NetFlix queue if you haven't seen it yet.
I can't wait to move into the country somewhere.
'S Funny, that's where I always picture you.
HICA!
.
Never Shortchange Curly Green Eyes!
DEBBY HOWELL:
Worst Ombudsman Ever!
Y'all know of this? There was a machine in that Scottish place I visited yesterday morning, with a "coming soon" sign on it.
.
The Election Center has come in for criticism after reports that the nonprofit, nonpartisan group accepts contributions from voting machine manufacturers. Two members of the task force are former local election administrators who’ve formed their own election-related businesses.
trifecta
Wow.
I wonder what sort of condescending non-answer Broder will give during his next online chat if asked why he didn't think this was worth noting when he cited their "expert."
It's amazing how many news talking heads pronounce "cavalry" as "cow-vurry".
I have CSpan on as background noise.
Craig Crawford is on.
So far every caller has asked him about Imus.
Ugh!
Oh I see we're starting that cookie thing again.
Happy Mothers Day to all the moms here.
I have CSpan on as background noise.
Craig Crawford is on.
So far every caller has asked him about Imus.
Too early for giggles.
'S Funny, that's where I always picture you.
Well, for the city - we aren't in too bad of shape. This is a half mile dead end road with 20 homes - on 1 acre lots. There are no houses beyond either side of this road. Only a large church, and the community college Tech center.
Wonder if Mick Hucknall gets a royalty on the "redbox" thing?
Y'know, I don't miss seeing tension between Deidre and Don Imus early in the morning at all!
plantsman: Wonder if Mick Hucknall gets a royalty on the "redbox" thing?
Who dat? I'm assuming he's not the inventor of the vending machine...
.
Al-Qaida is now claiming to have captured the US soldiers everyone is searching for in Iraq.
It's amazing how many news talking heads pronounce "cavalry" as "cow-vurry".
MP
I'm just grateful when they don't say "calvary."
"Holding Back The Years" was a favorite video, back in its day.
Molly Ivors ~ !!!
I think you'll appreciate this. I lost or misplaced my "Imperial Bedroom" cd, much to my dismay. I really wanted it on my iPod. So I've spent the last month looking high and low and everywhere in between for it. I couldn't find it anywhere, not even in the stores to replace it (and I went to several).
So what does Audrey get me for Mother's Day? "Imperial Bedroom," re-released, with a 23 song bonus disc!
Woo Hoo!
I'm not worthy.
HOLY CRAP!
From Josh Marshall:
The new frontrunner for "worst idea in modern journalism" has to go James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the two-year-old site pasadenanow.com, who recently ran this job posting: "We seek a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA."
OUTSOURCING the Local News!
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com...ives/
014105.php
Al-Qaida is now claiming to have captured the US soldiers everyone is searching for in Iraq.
MP
Does anyone know what, if anything, Al Qaeda in Iraq has to do with Bin Laden?
I assume they're a franchisee of some sort, but that the affiliation is pretty fucking loose if not non-existent.
Mick Hucknall was the lead singer of Simply Red.
Too early for giggles.
Not if you've got a gun and an extra tv.
we killed dudallah omar or some such person in afghanistan...the media tells me it is a big blow to teh taliban...
i remember the taliban - didn't we chase them out of power in 2001-2002? 6 years ago...and yet our super-powerful military cannot KEEP control of a country...shit of 2 countries!
i wonder if our military needs more hearts and minds training?
Does anyone know what, if anything, Al Qaeda in Iraq has to do with Bin Laden?
I assume they're a franchisee of some sort, but that the affiliation is pretty fucking loose if not non-existent.
SteveLG
It's not even on the level of a MickeyD's franchise. It's a name adopted for propoganda purposes for the most part, though Al Zawahiri has used it the same way.
However, just like a MickeyD's EVERYBODY'S A MANAGER!
Helps the U.S. too because no matter who they kill, they are a No. 3.
"Holding Back The Years" was a favorite video, back in its day.
plantsman,
hardly anyone as young as mike could croon at all, let alone crooning with such believability and power...simply red was simply outstanding
plantsman: Mick Hucknall was the lead singer of Simply Red.
Aha... or, "not Aha!"
Did he have a redbox?
I'm surprised they didn't partner with Target...
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Want Cookies, do you, TurdOScan?
We seek a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA."
What was Broderella saying just last week about pundit job security?
However, just like a MickeyD's EVERYBODY'S A MANAGER!
Except Al Qaeda's catch phrase is, "Would you like an IED with that meal?"
So what does Audrey get me for Mother's Day? "Imperial Bedroom," re-released, with a 23 song bonus disc!
Now that's the kind of Mother's Day present I could appreciate!
He wrote and sang a song called, "Open the Redbox."
So what does Audrey get me for Mother's Day? "Imperial Bedroom," re-released, with a 23 song bonus disc!
Woo Hoo!
I'm not worthy.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 05.13.07 - 8:40 am | #
Yes you are. And Audrey is a real hep kitten.
The country is something better honored in the breach....
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from McHenry's local paper:
McHenry defends former campaign worker
However, just like a MickeyD's EVERYBODY'S A MANAGER!
"Think you could manage to clean those johns, son?"
Does anyone know what, if anything, Al Qaeda in Iraq has to do with Bin Laden?
Sadly, Bin Laden failed to trademark the name, so any and every attention seeking group uses it.
"Holding Back the Years" was a cross-over hit on "urban" radio, too, iirc.
Hmmm. Marcy's not very happy about Monica Goodling's immunity deal.
Does anyone know what, if anything, Al Qaeda in Iraq has to do with Bin Laden?
I assume they're a franchisee of some sort, but that the affiliation is pretty fucking loose if not non-existent.
SteveLG
I'm not really clear what Al-Qaeda anywhere has to do with Bin Laden. I guess he arranges financing, or very broad policy, but I'm not sure he's involved in daily operations, or that they even want him to be.
Sadly, Bin Laden failed to trademark the name, so any and every attention seeking group uses it.
I understand K-Mart is going to be coming out with the Al-Qaeda line of kidswear.
Martha Stewart's "Al-Qaeda Everday" Kids Wear!
Hmmmm, Ana Marie Cox has the lamest tattoo I've ever seen.
She and Joke Line must have gone out one night and gotten them.
More updates on the Broder hackery today. My blood is boiling.
"Holding Back The Years" was a favorite video, back in its day.
plantsman,
hardly anyone as young as mike could croon at all, let alone crooning with such believability and power...simply red was simply outstanding
mogwai | 05.13.07 - 8:44 am | #
Not a big fan, but I once got jumped to a Simply Red song, so I have a, er, knee jerk positive reaction when I hear them on the radio.
Excuse me while I go take a cold shower...
Time for my breakfast, according to my stomach, so I'm off for a while.
Enjoy the morning, or if you're determined to be pissed off, go read about the latest tool in American churches' tool box.
She and Joke Line must have gone out one night and gotten them.
probably temporary.
starfucker, indeed.
Hmmmm, Ana Marie Cox has the lamest tattoo I've ever seen.
In all honesty, I don't get the celebrity of Ana Marie Cox. She's attractive, I guess. The tatoo is lame - agreed.
Seems like someone like watertiger is more deserving of the fame and the bucks that come with it.
Good morning, watertiger, Vicki.
I've been here since an ungodly hour this morning.
People still get temporary tattoos?
I thought that fad stopped like a dozen years ago.
But then again, I stopped going to prom about a quarter century ago.
I wish joke line never admitted wandering his house at midnight drinking vodka martinis and writing. That image disturbs me.
Ahna Marie brought buttsex into America's home Offices!
Ana Marie married the right person, Vicki.
i know Atrios doesn't think she's all that bad, but I don't understand the appeal.
but I once got jumped to a Simply Red song, so I have a, er, knee jerk positive reaction when I hear them on the radio.
(gasps for air)
Ever get jumped to Asia?
Seems like someone like watertiger is more deserving of the fame and the bucks that come with it.
Vicki
Oh, I agree.
Plus, I'd get more second-hand traffic and that's really why I'm in this game. (Shakes fist at Wolcott's blogroll)
People still get temporary tattoos?
Maybe that's the admittance stamp to get into the party.
I wish joke line never admitted wandering his house at midnight drinking vodka martinis and writing. That image disturbs me.
trifecta
He does it in only a thong.
You see, it can always get worse.
I understand K-Mart is going to be coming out with the Al-Qaeda line of kidswear.
watertiger, P.I. Staker | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 8:48 am | #
I'm actually wearing the anklets right now.
I never get invited to any of the fun parties.
http://www.ambrel.net/2007/0508-
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(same source as the ana marie pix)
Ana Marie married the right person
Well, I suppose that makes sense. You're a much better writer, though. The differences in depth and breadth of topic are profound.
Hmmmm, Ana Marie Cox has the lamest tattoo I've ever seen.
She and Joke Line must have gone out one night and gotten them.
attaturk | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 8:49 am
who's the saggy, old, whkte geek it all the chins?
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(So, in order to get to and from the Tigard Costco from my house on the Bus, I have to ride into downtown Portland and transfer on the way home.
On the upside, the fare round-trip is $3.70 -- a taxi would be like $50.00.)
I understand K-Mart is going to be coming out with the Al-Qaeda line of kidswear.
I love their "Born to Jihad" night shirts.
She and Joke Line must have gone out one night and gotten them.
attaturk
She's within striking distance of jello arms.
Hi Karin!
Lovely day for gardening here!
People still get temporary tattoos?
Sure! The children of Liberal Mountain are very fond of the lick-'em-stick-'em kind.
I'm actually wearing the anklets right now.
Oooh, you go, girl!
I understand K-Mart is going to be coming out with the Al-Qaeda line of kidswear.
watertiger, P.I. Staker
"Mommy's Little Sociopath"
Ironically, Babs pet name for Li'l George (and Toby)
The children of Liberal Mountain are very fond of the lick-'em-stick-'em kind.
Molly Ivors
NO FLIRTING!!
Ever get jumped to Asia?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 05.13.07 - 8:53 am | #
Thank god, no.
Otherwise I'd get a full court stiffy everytime the radio plays "When the Heart Rules the Mind" or whatever that stupid song was called.
This Elvis Costello cd is so fucking good - I'm so lucky to have a thoughtful kid!
plantsman: (So, in order to get to and from the Tigard Costco from my house on the Bus, I have to ride into downtown Portland and transfer on the way home.
On the upside, the fare round-trip is $3.70 -- a taxi would be like $50.00.)
You sound like you have my problem. Even if I were to join the Costco (which is a few hundred yards closer to me than the Scottish opium burrito place), how would I get 60 rolls of toilet paper back to the condo, let alone any OTHER purchase...?!?
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SteveLG,
As you noted, the Gomez song & video are terrific, Thanks for the tip!
Lovely day for gardening here!
Yep, I need to get out there. Wisteria & lilacs are in full bloom.
Speaking of tattoo, I met Herve Villaichaise once.
just saying
Speaking of tattoo, I met Herve Villaichaise once.
Now THAT'S a celebrity spot.
Speaking of tattoo, I met Herve Villaichaise once.
Did you look up to him?
FYI: Don't ever put your name into a People Search engine. Tomorrow will be a busy day for me.
I belong to Costco to buy the meds and diabetic supplies I have no insurance for, with a membership which pays a 2% rebate on purchases annually, which should work out to be free just from meds after a year. I don't even glance at the
"consumer goods."
The morning tradition at the Curly condo...
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who's the saggy, old, whkte geek it all the chins?
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WoodyG'sGuitar, tokin' librul |
Woody - got the coffee, it is excellent this fine morning....muchos gracias
...reminiscing about zappa watching him on crossfire from 1986 - sweet jeebus how white teevee was back then...zappa would be one conservative i could vote for - probably the only one!
we were about the same size. I was seven at the time, and a bit taller than him.
plantsman: I belong to Costco to buy the meds and diabetic supplies I have no insurance for, with a membership which pays a 2% rebate on purchases annually, which should work out to be free just from meds after a year. I don't even glance at the
"consumer goods."
I see. Disregard last transmission.
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This HAS to be the best picture from that Time 100 party series:
http://www.ambrel.net/2007/0508-
...1_polaroid.html
WTF?
Chris Wallace is about to grace my 7" screen.
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I don't even glance at the
"consumer goods."
plantsman, plant geek | 05.13.07 - 9:01 am
i belong to costco cuz they sell JW Red for $31.50/1.75 litres, and for the dog-food...
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Is this thing working now?
This HAS to be the best picture from that Time 100 party series:
Yo! What's up with the Pierrot costume?
Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers here! Here's my blogwhore on mothering:
Time For A National Mother
Chris Wallace is about to grace my 7" screen.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
You still using K!TV?
This HAS to be the best picture from that Time 100 party series:
Nancy Kissinger is the alien opera singer from "The Fifth Element."
Only without the blue skin or the singing ability.
This HAS to be the best picture from that Time 100 party series:
Was there some discount on short people?
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MP: You still using K!TV?
No; a little mini-undercounter LCD.
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Costco does not sell distilled spirits in my State, dammit!
Okay, kids, I'm off to bail out Thers from Sp, who's teething.
Besos, mothers, others, and lovers of truth!
Loved me The Diva!
Molly, I'm glad you liked the Gomez video.
... but if HaloScan is up to its tricks again today, I'm outta here.
in 1986 frank zappa (conservative);
"the biggest threat to america today is not communism, it's moving america towards a fascist theocracy"..."and everything that's happened during the reagan administration is steering us down that pipe"
Three American GIs are missing in Iraq.
Clearly, we must mount a massive assault on the Iranians.
Oh, it is Mutha's Day, eh? Reckon I should call mine, once she gets out of choich.
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SP teething on Thers is a very good use of the equipment available.
Okay, breakfast and the morning gasbags beckon.
Back later....
I have no idea who these two gals are but i'm betting the gal on the right wields a mean strap-on...
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I have no idea who these two gals are but i'm betting the gal on the right wields a mean strap-on..
NO FLIRTING!
fuck you AND your cookies, haloscan.
BTW, it's nice to see that John Solomon can write a hit piece about a Republican, for a change.
Not that I'm complaining.
I have no idea who these two gals are
A tag-team?
Time For A National Mother
Litz, hey, I've got a blog! | Homepage | 05.13.07 - 9:06 am
that's a really nice lil piece of writin' there, young lady,...
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Three American GIs are missing in Iraq.
Clearly, we must mount a massive assault on the Iranians.
steve simels
How long do you suppose it will be before it's suggested that all servicepeople have encrypted GPS chips implanted?
So I gather from the photos that this Time thing was a black-and-white ball, a la Capote.
Good Morning, Karin!
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How long do you suppose it will be before it's suggested that all servicepeople have encrypted GPS chips implanted?
Was suggested here yesterday. Obvious drawback:
ANYONE can track them.
Btw, the new laundrette equipment -- AWESOME. I think the reason the dryers only need 45 minutes (instead of 80) is because the washers actually spin out the water in these new machines.
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I have no idea who these two gals are
had i been invited (lol), i could be convinced to wear a ball gown, like cobain and the southpark guys...would have given all the schmooze-schmucks something to talk about
Peas and Corn kernels are "starchy" vegetables. I miss them.
Good morning, Jeffraham
Happy Mothers' Day to all the Moms of Eschaton.
Probably you already know that Mothers' Day was not invented to make a profit for Penney's or Wal-Mart, but was actually founded out of respect for the mothers of the children slaughtered as soldiers in the Civil war. Julia Ward Howe wrote a poem about it. Robert Greenwald has made a short film. My mother is deceased, and her sons never felt the mortal pang of battle. But I still offer this in her honor...
My mommy is the best.
Just saying.
Probably you already know that Mothers' Day was not invented to make a profit for Penney's or Wal-Mart
I thought it was Hallmark?
s h e e p s
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My mom was the best, too. Luckily, I dreamed of her vividly not long ago!
So why did Georgetown hire the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the Earth as a visiting professor?
Voyez-vous, le petit Klein!
Give bigger government a chance
For too long, we've bought the idea that government has failed us.
By Ezra Klein, EZRA KLEIN is a staff writer at the American Prospect. His blog is at www.EzraKlein.com.
May 13, 2007
ON APRIL 2, this newspaper reported that the Los Angeles Police Department had asked Philip Morris USA for a $50,000 donation to help fund its investigation into counterfeit cigarettes. That makes a lot of sense: If TV cop shows have commercials, why shouldn't real police work have corporate sponsors too (you know, aside from the obvious reasons of favoritism, bias and perverse incentives)?
For that matter, what's wrong with wealthy families in La Cañada Flintridge, San Marino and other communities holding constant fundraisers to pay for the unfunded needs of their local public schools — drama societies and marching bands and that sort of thing? Or with parents having to go out and purchase body armor on their own so that their sons are protected in Iraq? What's so odd about the crown jewel of the University of California graduate system, Boalt Hall Law School, having to move toward "privatization" so that it can raise more money and better compete with its private counterparts in an era when state funding has dried up?
What's so wrong, in other words, with hollowing out the public sector and replacing it with a pay-as-you-go society? It is the natural endpoint, after all, of the privatization craze, of the gospel of tax cuts and of the smaller-government-is-better-government mentality that has been on the ascendancy in the U.S. for nearly 25 years....
This HAS to be the best picture from that Time 100 party series:
http://www.ambrel.net/2007/0508- ...1_polaroid.html
WTF?
Pilate's wife!
Look under Frank Rich's editorial:
Tips
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gwb:drf
McCain's little child hands are disturbing to me for some reason. He's droning the same crap on MTP that he has for years. He's just a tape loop of vague platitudes.
L Paul Bremer - What We Got Right in Iraq.
(Don't have the heart to look but I cannot imagine the WaPo printing a blank page, right?)
that's a really nice lil piece of writin' there, young lady,...
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WoodyG'sGuitar,
Awww, thanks!! That's sweet!
There's a typo but I can't figure out how to edit a post once it's been posted. Still figuring out this "Blogger" thing. Ah well.
Haloscan was pitching a fit last night so the thread is probably long dead but that was great.
Love the band - and "Little Birdhouse of Your Soul" is one of my favorite songs, eveh.
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