I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
hey
ho.
heee
Penile implant.
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light posting?
Disregarding el and wt,
FIRST!
Light posting my ass
. . . and leibniz and TKK and JP . . .
Atrios is an infamous liar.
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Maybe light posting is like a light saber.
"Informal coercion"
I suppose there's no formal way to twist an employee's arm...
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Light posting, AFTER the next expresso.
I understand.
bottom line; corporations want everyone to whore for them. no one is clean.
I've only had two cigs today... arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
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it's all fucking stupid...the owner-class has gotten 527 laws passed in the name of 'free speech'....bah!
i am hoarding my popcorn for the asshole 527 ad's this late summer/fall...it should be good
instead of erections being about platform and policy; they are about nuance and subtlety, fucking pathetic ass-sniffing dogs we seem to be
and there might be some informal coercion which gets employees to contribute to them.
Like, "Contribute or don't let the door hit you in the ass."
There's also the fact that people don't always tell the truth when listing their employer on a donation form.
It's kind of a silly requirement considering there's no verification involved.
I've only had two cigs today... arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
__
congratulations
Give me money!
inside Gitmo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=p...feature=related
instead of erections being about platform and policy; they are about nuance and subtlety,
You obviously have not been behind the tastee freeze.
Go get some more of that ham and settle down.
I missed an entire thread waiting for the page to load.
it's all fucking stupid...the owner-class has gotten 527 laws passed in the name of 'free speech'....bah!
Mogwai, the sword cuts both ways - we libs can haz 527 too...
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light posting -- hmmm ---
BTW, I think it is pretty common knowledge that right wingers (like the owners of Outback Steakhouse) basically require their employees to donate to right wing causes -- it's illegal?
So?
The employees usually get reimbursed for the money as well. Per diems get expanded etc.
I see Tralfaz Wizard is up (or someone has broken into his Facebook account to send me good karma)
the sword cuts both ways - we libs can haz 527 too...
Yes, but our 527s are EEEEE-VIL.
Theirs, on the other hand, all represent truth, justice, and the American Way.
At least, that's what I remember from the pundit talk in 2004.
McCain was all about campaign finance reform, remember?
McCain was all about campaign finance reform, remember?
noblejoanie
Of course he is!
Who's more repentant than a crook caught with his hand in the till?
Just a reminder: For those who use Facebook, and send me all manner of things to which I do not respond, it's nothing personal. Facebook is too needy for me, so I don't use it, but I have to keep an account open for work purposes.
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GWPDA-- How goes the remodeling? Are living amid wreckage or in a shiny, fixed-up abode? (Too delicate to ask about the new toilet)
I saw over on Drudge that this Randy Rhodes female radio host got fired by “Air America.” I saw the foul clip of her rant – calling Hillary a whore and such. Evan for a republican who enjoys watching a little democrat cannibalism found it foul. My comments, in no particular order:
1. I always thought Bill was the whore and Hillary supposed to just be a victim
2. Air America is still on the air? Who knew?
3. I guess two of her three listeners called in to complain
4. Why not fire her? Imus got it MUCH worse for FAR less – y’all are hypocrits.
5. Randy Rhodes is right - the Democrats prostitute themselves to whoever they think will help them to win. Anyway, they have no real principles.
6. What we have here is a typical case of what Texans call BDS ... “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”
7. I think her meds wore off ...
Operation Chaos is working far better than expected... Viva Rove and Limbaugh!!
it will be most funny if the repiglicans have to go on public funding and the dems outspend them.
Auntie, I am doing a roast tonight. Wanna do something different. You have a good recipe?
Railing against corporate interests guarantees you will be accused of being a Communist.
On a philosophical note, we all would like to think that we are free people, living in a free society.
In fact all of our choices are influenced by outside pressure (coercing us) and the most perncious restriction on real choice, our own perspectives and biases.
noblejoanie birthday girl -- Reformer McCain: "That was then and this is now" -- OR This is actually reform in a higher sense (or something)
BTW -- if we solved all the world's problems a week ago, whjy are things still so screwed up?
Startling statistic for the day:
Americans spend more on debt service than food!
Mounting debt payments are also making shoppers cut back on stuff they can live without. U.S. families now spend more money on debt service, absorbing more than 14 percent of disposable income, than on food, which accounts for 13 percent, according to a Merrill Lynch & Co. report. That is higher than during the last recession in 2001 when 13.2 percent of household disposable income went toward debt, Merrill Lynch said.
That shows how "deep the credit problem is in terms of its impact on household cash flow, " wrote Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg
I saw over on Drudge...
Now there's a lede that will get a lot of attention here.
Railing against corporate interests guarantees you will be accused of being a Communist.
SteveNS
Is that before or after you're accused of that most dreaded crime of all, CLASS WARFARE!!
Texas takes custody of 18 girls
They are among 52 living at secret retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs
Michelle Roberts, Associated Press
Saturday, April 5, 2008
(04-05) 04:00 PDT Eldorado, Texas
Child welfare officials following up on an abuse complaint took custody of 18 girls Friday who lived at a secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.
A total of 52 girls, ages 6 months to 17 years, were bused away to be interviewed on Friday, but only 18 were immediately taken into state custody, said Marleigh Meisner, spokeswoman for Texas Child Protective Services. No arrests have been made. Meisner said welfare officials were looking for foster homes for the girls, most of whom have rarely been outside the insular world of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They were being housed for now at a civic center, she said. Authorities had interviewed about half the girls since they arrived Thursday evening at the remote compound with law officers, she said. Interviews were expected to continue over the weekend. The investigation began with a call alleging physical abuse of a 16-year-old girl living there, Meisner said. On Friday afternoon, Texas Department of Public Safety officials began executing a search warrant.
The warrant seeks records dealing with the birth of children to a 16-year-old and any records listing a marriage between a 50-year-old man and the girl, according to the San Angelo Standard-Times, which
cited court records released late Friday in Tom Green County. Prosecutors in Tom Green, a larger county north of Eldorado, were handling the case. The YFZ Ranch - whose name stands for Yearning for Zion - is down a narrow paved road north of Eldorado, a town of two stoplights. Authorities blocked access to the compound's gate, keeping people miles outside the area.
Only the compound's 80-foot-tall, gleaming white temple is visible on the wind-swept desert horizon, but Tom Vinger, a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman, said the ranch has many buildings. Local
authorities in 2006 put the population at about 150 as members of the reclusive church moved from a community on the Arizona-Utah line.
The congregation, known as FLDS, has been led by the reclusive Jeffs since his father's death in 2002. It is one of several groups that split from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints based in Salt Lake City decades after it renounced polygamy in 1890. In November, Jeffs was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of five years to life in prison in Utah for being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old girl who wed her cousin in an arranged marriage in 2001. In Arizona, Jeffs is charged as an accomplice with four counts each
of incest and sexual conduct with a minor stemming from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives. He is jailed in Kingman, Ariz., awaiting trial. The group's retreat, about 160 miles northwest of San Antonio, is on a former exotic game ranch. The group bought the property in 2004 for $700,000 and began an ambitious construction program anchored by the temple.
"We know they're violating the law, but someone has to raise their hand and testify, and until that happens we don't have anything," said James Doyle, the local justice of the peace, who frequently flew over the compound in his private plane. Texas officials have been deeply concerned about the YFZ Ranch and have been working to ensure that any confrontation with the members of
the polygamist sect ends without the type of chaos and bloodshed that marked the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. That confrontation ended in the deaths of 82 of the church's members, including its leader, David Koresh.
The Los Angeles Times contributed to this report.
Texaschilibean | 04.05.08 - 10:57 am | #
This is a cannibal.
6. What we have here is a typical case of what Texans call BDS ... “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”
You Texans have the BDS down; you're the ones who unleashed his evil filth on the world. And your pissy moaning about imus is pretty funny, since he's back on the air spewing his racist filth every day, when he should be collecting cans for his income, like you. thanks for '06, by the way, and enjoy your next 40 years in the minority.
BTW -- if we solved all the world's problems a week ago, whjy are things still so screwed up?
Prior Aelred
We sobered up?
BTW -- if we solved all the world's problems a week ago, whjy are things still so screwed up?
Prior Aelred
Rome wasn't built in a day? Or something like that.
Can it only been a week since our lively, lovely chat?
Okay, Duncan. You and the Mrs. will be sitting Orchestra Center, Row G, Seats 123,124. Enjoy the show. Don't run on stage and slap Stipe when he sings "What's The Frequency, Kenneth". 
Preview should be my friend...
"Can it only been a week since our lively, lovely chat?"
it was a long wait
"PAC money gave me a chubby"-Al Wynn
week dammit week.
(pours more coffee)
I saw over on Drudge...
Might as well say that you read Bush's fortune in the shit you just took.
Americans spend more on debt service than food!
That is disturbing. I have had two credit card companies end my accounts because I pay my balances off each month.
Texaschilibean will be coming for you with snagle thoots chomping.
Rainforest fresh!
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Must be fine, the frog looks healthy.
(poor froggie!)
Orchestra Center C.
Might as well say that you read Bush's fortune in the shit you just took.
NTodd, Part Of The Pile
I wish.
Then I could just flush it away.
"you read Bush's fortune in the shit you just took."
I know I did
I was happy to hear violence was down in your classroom this week, Uncle Blodge. I've thought about what you said alot during this past week.
I honor your service. Words that have been made trite over the last seven years to be sure, but nonetheless most true about the work you do.
Friend working for local high tech firm - it was strongly suggested he donate to Bush campaign as the CEO was a bush man. Friend was very upset by the pressure.
Just in case you aren't waiting breathlessly for updates on this thread, I'll email you the details.
Startling statistic for the day:
Americans spend more on debt service than food!
Actually this is the same thing. We are merely paying today for the food we ate last September.
SteveNS
Have you seen any of this "mud" that Gromit was bragging about earlier, or, is it as mythical as I suspect?
ronjazz - just remember, operation chaos operatives are everywhere, even here, and are documenting the americahate rhetoric you and others use. keep it up - we have quite a collection already.
~~don't mess w/ Texas
Gromit - new sink in place, in newly re-tiled counter - http://www.gwpda.org/sink3.jpg
and new bathtub in newly re-tiled niche -
http://www.gwpda.org/bath3.jpg (in this pic, not yet grouted nor fixtured.)
"I was happy to hear violence was down in your classroom this week, Uncle Blodge."
till Thursday, anyway...
then we had ourselves a day.
Saturday to Saturday -- tonight will be the full 7 days of 24 hours -- amazing ain't it?
Sobered up? Speak for yourself!
Why are the innertubes so blocked up this morning? I blame Vicki's boyfriend!
Wow, Monica_A! What a sweetie!
Uncle Blodge--what happened?
Texaschilibean | 04.05.08 - 11:03 am | #
please do not feed.
Trolls indulging in fanatasies of power and influence.
(a) Funny?
(b) Pathetic?
(c) Both?
just remember, operation chaos operatives are everywhere, even here, and are documenting the americahate rhetoric you
ROTFL.
We sobered up?
Speak for yourself.
Friend working for local high tech firm - it was strongly suggested he donate to Bush campaign as the CEO was a bush man. Friend was very upset by the pressure.
HowdyDoody | 04.05.08 - 11:03 am | #
the best little democracy money can buy. Didn't Randi Rhodes say that?
please do not feed.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Sorry, won't happen again.
GWPDA-
Very nice!
Wow, Monica_A! What a sweetie!
SteveNS |
Suuuuuuuuck uuuuuup!
Have you seen any of this "mud" that Gromit was bragging about earlier, or, is it as mythical as I suspect?
aangus
We've had some mud here, but then it just gets covered up again by snow.
This cycle will continue into May.
Gotta eet.
bbl
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aangus-- Where is this mud-free environment in which you live. Somewhere in Canuckistan?
the best little democracy money can buy. Didn't Randi Rhodes say that?
Greg Palast?
We sobered up?
Speak for yourself.
NTodd, Part Of The Pile
I think I might attempt an alcoholic beverage today, see if my liver tries to escape through my navel or not.
Texaschilibean will not hesitate to eat you in the future.
Zounds!
I can't even get the NYT Opinion page to open!
I was willing to give Jesus and Mo a pass this morning, but I suspect a Rovian plot!
leibniz - QuiltLady will recognise the pattern, I think.
Suuuuuuuuck uuuuuup!
V for Virginia
If there's a chance that kissing ass now might get ME tickets later, then yeah.
Barry's awake.
This cycle will continue into May.
Thanks for your encouraging words.
Both, definitely both.
If there's a chance that kissing ass now might get ME tickets later, then yeah.
SteveNS
I was actually taunting Monica
But, yeah, I'm also wondering how to get some of that lovin' . . .
GWPDA
So that's where the Spring tulips went! I thought the deer ate them. Very nice.
I can't even get the NYT Opinion page to open!
I was willing to give Jesus and Mo a pass this morning, but I suspect a Rovian plot!
Prior Aelred | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 11:07 am
Opens fine from here.
"Uncle Blodge--what happened?"
1. one student got caught with another's cellphone, after he ran up a 400 dollar bill and deleted all her settings. she had to be restrained from pulling the money out of his ass.
2. 1/2 of the seniors tried a walkout, and I had to stop it.
3. kid who stole the phone got kicked in the ass by another girl, he then face planted her into a wall.
4. two guys fought over a girl. guy one opened the other's eye up with a right hook. the hittee had to be literally bodyslammed to get him to stop. (he told me he will get him in the neighborhood)
5. 6 sophomores spent most of the day in offices because of a feud in the neighborhood they brought to school.
a full day to be sure - but not unprecedented.
Americans spend more on debt service than food!
umm, that's meaningless: a flat screen teevee can cost more than 2 months of groceries...it's all about getting teh mindless to mindlessly consume mass quantities both of food and of goods
We are close to mud. But the backyard is still major snow. We're about a week from serious heat, if usual patterns hold. Things will be sloppy.
That's a really nice sink, BTW.
I was willing to give Jesus and Mo a pass this morning
Glad to hear you're a fan. I love that strip.
But, yeah, I'm also wondering how to get some of that lovin' . . .
I'm sure you agree that Monica_A is as generous as she is beautiful.
Later...I'm going to go talk to the wall.
"new sink in place, in newly re-tiled counter"
nice! how did the doors come out?
Tom - 大肚腩 | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 11:10 am | # admits to being part of Rovian plot!
Where is this mud-free environment in which you live.
Mo-ray-al.
Someday the ground will thaw and my mud will come.
~~don't mess w/ Texas
Texaschilibean | 04.05.08 - 11:03 am | #
you're nearly as scary as incog, you pansy coward. Rove and Limbaugh, two fat, child-molesting morons. some heroes. enjoy the minority, TCB, and get used to it.
Barry's awake.
Tom - 大肚腩
Yep, just got the call.
7 hours to Sharjah carrying 112 thousand kilos of something.
a full day to be sure - but not unprecedented.
Uncle Blodge
So, "use your words" isn't an effective strategy. Nor would "Don't make me count to three", I suspect.
Damn
Suuuuuuuuck uuuuuup!
V for Virginia
If there's a chance that kissing ass now might get ME tickets later, then yeah.
Our Friends of the Mann usually goes to waste because we only attend piano recitals and the like. Why not let Mr. and Mrs. Atrios have some fun on my dime. I did a quick search a few minutes ago to see what ticket brokers were charging for the same section. $348 a ticket! The lawn area was even worst.
But, yeah, I'm also wondering how to get some of that lovin' . . .
I'm sure you agree that Monica_A is as generous as she is beautiful.
SteveNS
When I think of Monica_A the word that comes most easily to mind is "saint." With "phenomenal beauty" close behind.
she had to be restrained from pulling the money out of his ass.
heh.
ronjazz, after about 5 days, will eat your pickings.
Tom - 大肚腩
Look here
http://www.haloscan.com/comments...86852/
#11650111
and here
http://www.haloscan.com/comments...86852/
#11650128
Time for shower.
7 hours to Sharjah carrying 112 thousand kilos of something
International Man of Mystery.
I'm sure you agree that Monica_A is as generous as she is beautiful.
SteveNS
When I think of Monica_A the word that comes most easily to mind is "saint." With "phenomenal beauty" close behind.
For a minute there I thought my chair was on fire from all this smoke being blown up my ass. This only applies if you're in Philadelphia.
When I think of Monica_A the word that comes most easily to mind is "saint."
For me it's, "Ouzo is going to kill you."
"So, "use your words" isn't an effective strategy. Nor would "Don't make me count to three", I suspect."
if it's just one kid maybe...
if it's several, no. and there are almost always several.
I've calmed down kids in rage attacks if i can talk to them uninterrupted for a minute or two, but that is not always possible.
A little too much Bible-thumping, Promise Keepers going on here in the coffee shop. I took their picture. Is it kosher to Saturday Promise Keeper Blog it?
Someday the ground will thaw and my mud will come.
aangus: Waiting for mud!
What, like it's cold?
My friend who lives there has spent the week in Cuba. Probably gave her a chance to thaw a little before Spring: Winter, Part Deux.
Gromit -- "two prophets living together" -- the monastery even has the books! (of course, we ARE Episcopalians -- my auto sig on Gmail is "Cogito ergo sum Episcopalian" -- I forgot to delete when writing an RC nun -- fortunately, she thought it was great)
If Atrios would stop eating all that gross food he would probably have more energy.
(note to self: get to know this 'monica' person)
For me it's, "Ouzo is going to kill you."
Don't think he's forgotten.
When I think of Monica_A the word that comes most easily to mind is "saint." With "phenomenal beauty" close behind.
Interesting. I usually think "ethereal" and "pinnacle of human evolution".
McCain's Last Mission
After a series of accidents resulting in the loss of aircraft (and one in which he was responsible for sucking a flight-deck crewman into his plane's jet intake), hard-drinkin' John McCain had developed a morbid fear of landing on a carrier deck.
His plan was simple- bail out during a mission, faking injuries serious enough to prevent his return to the flight line.
During his final mission he failed to reach his target. Instead he released his bombs on a "target of opportunity," which, as it turned out, was a Catholic mission. 132 innocents lost their lives there.
McCain then throttled back and ejected from his aircraft, first reporting that he'd taken enemy fire and giving his precise location. On reaching the ground safely, and hearing that rescue was on the way, he set fire to his own hands, knowing that this painful ruse would convince anyone of his sincerity.
Sadly, the rescue chopper was shot down by enemy rocket fire on its way to McCain's location, the 5 man crew lost.
"heh."
I have been informed that the money WILL be pulled out in the future.
the cops are now involved, btw.
For me it's, "Ouzo is going to kill you."
That shit is dangerous.
Blodge-- I just don't know how you do it. I'm glad you do, but I don't see how.
"That shit is dangerous."
made me blind for hours.
GravatarFor me it's, "Ouzo is going to kill you."
That shit is dangerous.
billy b
Well, only if you choke on the coffee bean.
I've offered tickets in the past. Ani DiFranco is coming to town. James Taylor is in town a few months from now. Just ask and I'm happy to give them to you.
Don't think he's forgotten.
Fortunately I'm more than 45 minutes away now.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher -- I suspect that "time out" is not to helpful, either...
Ever think of a career change to something easier & safer -- like skydiving without a parachute?
Very sweet, Monica_A, truly.
That shit is dangerous.
Try grappa. It has an octane rating.
Vietnam Era POWs For Truth
I think this be Topic One on Tweety's show.
"McCain a War Criminal? Is this True or Not?"
I have been informed that the money WILL be pulled out in the future.
I can imagine.
Very sweet, Monica_A, truly.
V for Virginia
All jesting aside, I agree.
Monica_A, while I'm still in raising-money-for-E08 mode, it occurs to me that if you brought Ouzo next time we could sell tickets to the NTodd smackdown. We could all go home first class!
"Ever think of a career change to something easier & safer -- like skydiving without a parachute?"
nah i like what i do.
Monica_A, while I'm still in raising-money-for-E08 mode, it occurs to me that if you brought Ouzo next time we could sell tickets to the NTodd smackdown. We could all go home first class!
... I'll need 5% of the door, but it's doable.
Well, only if you choke on the coffee bean.
Barry from AK in Hong Kong | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 11:17 am
Just don't taste the chilibean.
And it's okay to post the photo of me.
Comcast is sucking the big one today.
"I can imagine."
she's a nice kid, but she's not going to take this.
NTodd -- Did I read that you're doing a photo tour of VT? If so, have you made it over to the B&PT puppet barn in Glover yet? The photo opportunities there are great.
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Uncle Blodge --
My hat's off to you! We need lots more like you, but are a rare one!
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org
if the ouzo don't kill you
the pernod sure will
sipping pastis in the cafe
guzzling absinthe late at night
chugging everclear with liquorice
you'll soon exit from this life
Internets is slow all over.
... I'll need 5% of the door, but it's doable.
Monica_A: Rejuvenated!
Absolutely, if you prefer that over a guarantee. But I think the percentage is probably a safer bet.
Big crowd. Huge.
Monica A -- got any tickets for Kalamazoo?
I don't think it is just Comcast -- or maybe it is -- I don't know what John's connection is -- whatever it is, it totally sux this AM!
BTW -- good to meet you at EschaCon08 & too little time (like everyone else -- SIGH!)
jdw - The doors came out rather well, but working with the gel stain is a challenge. Very good for vertical surface, but it dries in -very- quickly, whch makes any sloppiness punished instantly. Ruined my hands of course - the stuff eats thru gloves.
NTodd -- Did I read that you're doing a photo tour of VT? If so, have you made it over to the B&PT puppet barn in Glover yet? The photo opportunities there are great.
Indeed I am, but Haven't done Bread & Puppet yet. I do this haphazardly...
Sorry, Prior. Nothing for Kalamazoo.
I hate weddings.
Remind me never to have one.
FReeper sez "democracy" is not in the Constitution:
Liberalism is socialism which is caused by democracy..
Democracy is regressive to this republic..
There are three words NOT used anywhere in the United States Constitution..
1) democracy...
2) democractic...
3) and democrat..
For good reason.. democracy is NOT progressive but regressive..
The more democracy the LESS freedom.. always in every iteration wherever it is tried..
"Asshole" ain't in there, neither, yet here you are.
But most people who give money aren't doing so because they think they're pushing the interests of their employer, they're just normal citizens donating to their favorite candidate.
Zat may be true, but if you're getting 400K from Skadden Arps, them optics are a little peculiar as the corporate types say.
The more democracy the LESS freedom.. always in every iteration wherever it is tried..
Quite the student of history.
Uncle Blodge,
Spring does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?
(Reading your post reminded me of what I am missing this year. I had a class one year of mainly girls - good, right? They formed into three little groups and fought all year.)
Later, all
Peace.
For good reason.. democracy is NOT progressive but regressive..
The more democracy the LESS freedom.. always in every iteration wherever it is tried..
The Freeper speaks like a true Bushevik.
FReeper sez "democracy" is not in the Constitution:
Actually it is.
I hate weddings.
Remind me never to have one.
mimi
Oh, no worries on that front, you supercilious cunt.
it turns out that food colouring is a very bad thing for children and will be voluntarily banned in the EU.
This has been known for quite a few years.
I am losing any trust I had in any government. It seems they are on the side of business, not on the side of the people.
Remind me never to have one.
Five times a day if you want me to.
I hate weddings.
Remind me never to have one.
Blatant baiting, or MOST blatant baiting?
Yicki, I am afraid you are quite wrong there.
Laurent proposes to me every single day.
MOST.
But most people who give money aren't doing so because they think they're pushing the interests of their employer, they're just normal citizens donating to their favorite candidate.
I think Gary from Florida discovered that first.
"Attention must be paid", said Mrs Willie Loman.
We should make an exception, sometimes, no?
MOST.
for sure
okay, so I see only the sex-starved and grumpy are online. I'll drop in another time.
supercilious
Adjective of the day! Good morning, Vicki.
this is what I meant to attribute to Gary from florida
I am losing any trust I had in any government. It seems they are on the side of business, not on the side of the people.
Please, I beg you all, resist.
Peace, Gromit!
Laurent proposes to me every single day.
Getting proposals from a pet dog does not count.
Ah, I'm finally off work. I did six days this week and 7 the last.
As normal the new projects, have the usual amount of teeth gnashing and ripping hair out from the head. I finally got the project managers to quit putting 'hot' on everything.
I pointed out that an AZ resident when he sees that it's hot everywhere around will just settle down with a cool drink and move slowly.
Okay, who ate my gravatar?
"Please, I beg you all, resist."
ok
what am i resisting?
Okay, who ate my gravatar?
Sorry, I was hungry.
Okay, who ate my gravatar?
noblejoanie | 04.05.08 - 11:36 am
I suspect a polar bear is somehow involved.
Okay, who ate my gravatar?
Jesus Christ. He was hungry and an eucharistic wafer wouldn't cut it.
Taking the troll bait, Uncle Blodge
what am i resisting?
Feeding of the mememememememememe
Jesus Christ was a polar bear?
what am i resisting?
Uncle Blodge
The urge to point out tht mimi's chances of getting married are nil to none as longas there are bestiality laws on the books?
Okay, who ate my gravatar?
noblejoanie
*burp*
Not me.
Okay, who ate my gravatar?
Noblejoanie, I found, quite by accident, that gravatars care deeply about capitalization in the email address that's entered with your post.
BREAKING: Clintons own, operate successful small business, pay taxes on it
Today's first exhibit in corrente-dementia.
will resist troll baiting
Taking the troll bait, Uncle Blodge
noblejoanie | 04.05.08 - 11:37 am
Where there is no temptation, there is no bait.
Jesus Christ was a polar bear?
No, but he was a Capricorn and ate organic food.
I knew I had a gravatar in this tile stack somewhere.
When Hesus was alive there wasn't anything but, organic food to eat.
Did he turn water into tofu?
You're tiling? What geometric pattern?
When Hesus was alive there wasn't anything but, organic food to eat.
Doug | 04.05.08 - 11:40 am |
Hippies.
My gravatar keeps me safe from namestealers. I need it back!
GWPDA-- What's the half of your gravatar that isn't the Canuckistanian flag? Tibet? A provincial flag?
[note to self, get new eyes]
Buzzwinkle is dead.
Oh dear.
"we've been in South Korea for 60 years and nobody's objected."
Really?
That's a line from an OLD Kris Kristofferson song.
Jesus was a Capricorn
He ate organic food
He believed in love and peace
And never wore no shoes
Long hair, beard and sandles
And a funky bunch of friends
Reckon we'd just nail him up
If he came down again
You can even get a ring tone of this song.
My gravatar keeps me safe from namestealers. I need it back!
noblejoanie
It keeps you safe from completely stupid namestealers.
It is not a guarantee
Jesus Christ was a polar bear?
No, but he was a Capricorn and ate organic food.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 04.05.08 - 11:39 am
Yes. But if polar bears eat humans, would the polar bear eat Jesus?
Fixed the Korea link I hope
hello?
Speaking of animals in demise, poor Buzzwinkle, my dog had a grand mal seizure at the dog park yesterday after hitting his head. He got tangled up running with another dog, rolled and hit his head hard.It was awful.
Where did Buzzwinkle get his arrow wound from?
I suspect a polar bear is somehow involved.
Tom - 大肚腩
The bears are getting swift boated by the ringed seals.
m'kay, I'm outta here.
It keeps you safe from completely stupid namestealers.
It is not a guarantee
But it does increase the trust factor, particularly if you have a unique-ish gravatar and don't use a published e-mail addy.
my dog had a grand mal seizure at the dog park yesterday after hitting his head.
My deceased Golden Retriever, Checkers, used to get those. I didn't know what to do, so I'd just lie down next to him and hold him as tight as I could.
whiskeyina !!
howzit
mimi--how are the alps today?
Hullo Ina.
That's pretty much what I did, Vicki. The poor little guy was so freaked. I wasn't far behind.
Greenwald:
In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to "domestic military operations" within the U.S. The U.S. Attorney General appears to have fabricated a key event leading to the 9/11 attacks and made patently false statements about surveillance laws and related lawsuits. Barack Obama went bowling in Pennsylvania and had a low score.
Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:
"Yoo and torture" - 102
"Mukasey and 9/11" -- 73
"Yoo and Fourth Amendment" -- 16
"Obama and bowling" -- 1,043
m'kay, I'm outta here.
Barry from AK in Hong Kong | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 11:45 am
Go flip those three switches and push those two buttons, m'kay.
Safe travels.
howzit
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 04.05.08 - 11:46 am |
It's Saturday! I am still recovering from last weekend -- we didn't make it to the school bus once this week 
How's things with you? Do you have some weekend ways that help you recover from your work week?
Tis the State flag of Arizona, Gromit.
Doug - it's a variation of the old Wild Goose quilt pattern, freely interpreted. The geese are all migrating from south to north.
mimi--how are the alps today?
heh...heh...heh...
"She's" snowboarding down the Matterhorn.
The poor little guy was so freaked. I wasn't far behind.
Awwwhhh. I'm so sorry. I totally empathize.
It always freaked me out, too. My dad was particularly touched and troubled by the seizures (dad was a soft for dogs, as is mom).
Hello billy b.
Any Saturday adventures planned for you?
WE MUST NOT ALLOW A BOWLING GAP!
United States Patent Application 20070078663
Kind Code A1
Grace; Ryan Thomas April 5, 2007
Method and instrument for proposing marriage to an individual
Abstract
The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved method of proposing marriage to an individual. The method of proposing to an individual generally comprising the steps of meeting the individual; exchanging names with the individual; dating the individual (not necessary); drafting a government document having a proposal to marry the individual incorporated therein; and showing the government document to the individual. The government document may be a patent application. The patent application may claim the method by which the proposor will make a marriage proposal to the individual. The proposor could then use the method claimed in the patent application to propose to the individual. The patent application could be the actual marriage proposal.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/...=DN/
20070078663
Bowling Green, are we?
"Do you have some weekend ways that help you recover from your work week?"
sleep. read. hug kids.
Any Saturday adventures planned for you?
Rain is coming in later on. I'll probably finish mowing the back yard.
My daughter and her boyfriend are coming in later and want to go out for a beer, so I'll join them.
Quiet day.
sleep. read. hug kids.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
Hey! Just like me!
Going back to bed, because it's Saturday, and I can.
Plus, I had a dream last night about where the three rivers converge, and I need to linger in it.
Bowling Green, are we?
My county seat when growing up.
sleep. read. hug kids. hang out here.
fyt
.
noblejoanie,
my sainted first dog jake, the yellow lab, got those too. he lived for a couple of years and had them occasionally.
I would pet him and hold him and he would usually empty his bowels during them.
once he had one while we were walking past/through a movie shoot in our neighborhood--you know the ones that take an hour to set up between each take, with the asst types who are so so superior cause they work in teh film industry.
one of the AD's came up to me while Jake was seizing out on the ground, foam coming out of his mouth. Jake was in some far off world and in some far off part of the camera angle. The AD asked me if I could move my dog. I looked at him like the scumsucker he was and said: i dont know, why dont you try it. I usually just let him finish his seizure.
he was a very good dog. used to swim everywhere and I would hold his tail and he would tow me around.
sleep. read. hug kids. hang out here indeed!!
Quiet day.
billy b
Sounds good. It was supposed to be raining here this morning, but it's sunny. So hopefully the girls and I will take a hike in a few. They are currently watching Mary Poppins...
WE MUST NOT ALLOW A BOWLING GAP!
NTodd, Part Of The Pile | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 11:50 am
Next week on American Idol, songs by Camper Van Beethoven.
Plus, I had a dream last night about where the three rivers converge, and I need to linger in it.
No flirting.
thers is like Mary Poppins, except that he is a lout and drinks.
moutforabittoplaywithdogzl8rh9rz
Poor jake, peterboy. Really sensitive movie guy, that. Of course, he could have figured it would work well in the background and used your dog. Not sure what would be worse.
I'm hoping this is seizure activity linked to head trauma not an underlying epilepsy. I'm already dealing with an elderly epileptic cat. I suppose now when she yorks up her phenobarb and the poodle eats it, he might actually get some benefit from it.
Arthur's never had a seizure, but during the late summer thunder and lightning storms he is surely taking in more electrical disruption than is good for him. I'm hopeful that these two new closets will provide really good safety caves for him.
thers is like Mary Poppins, except that he is a lout and drinks.
leibniz♘☮
Hey -- thers sweetly compared me to Janis Joplin after my set last Saturday, so he can be as Mary Poppins as he likes!
But it does increase the trust factor, particularly if you have a unique-ish gravatar and don't use a published e-mail addy.
NTodd
Trust no one.
please do not feed.
greasemonkey + killfile is your friend.
(at long last Web technology catches up with the "trn" Usenet newsreader of 1987).
---------
a long long time ago,
on a Usenet far far away,
Heather Henderson wrote:
Let me quote a few lines from the Dhammapada, as translated by Juan
Mascaro:
206. It is a joy to see the noble and good,and to be with them makes one happy. If one were able never to see fools, then one would be for ever happy!
207. He who has to walk with fools has a long journey of sorrow, because to be with a fool is as painful as to be with an enemy; but the joy of being with the wise is like the joy of meeting a beloved kinsman.
And for this reason, the killfile was invented.
Que pasa?
paraphrasing the poet Alan Iverson:
we talking about bowling, man, bowling. we not talking about issues, we talking about bowling. bowling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e...h?
v=eGDBR2L5kzI
Hey -- thers sweetly compared me to Janis Joplin after my set last Saturday, so he can be as Mary Poppins as he likes!
Hmm, who was that at 200 feet with an umbrella over part of New York state yesterday>
Whiskeyina--was listening to some Janis last night--still holds up perfectly.
Enjoy your Saturday!
My county seat when growing up.
NTodd, Part Of The Pile | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 11:53 am | #
You grew up?
http://www.correntewire.com/
fan_...m_some_flounder
in which it is explained that the leftie stalwarts at Correntewire have to lambast Obama's ham sandwich consumption instead of providing clear eyed analysis of US infrastructure problems, because of Daily Kos makes 'em.
You grew up?
Buckeye
Are we talking mentally or physically?
a funny on the NYT oped page about a fintional "legacy plus" program at Harvard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/0...nyt&
oref=slogin
whiskey!
It's been a week!
BTW, you are great (just sayin')
Whiskeyina--was listening to some Janis last night--still holds up perfectly.
peterboy
Oh yeah
"It's been a week!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j...h?
v=jy7tiCwDHQQ
BTW, you are great (just sayin')
Prior Aelred
And thank you so much for sayin'.
I'm looking forward to when next we meet...
"I'm looking forward to when next we meet..."
I know we'll talk more
You grew up?
Buckeye
Are we talking mentally or physically?
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 12:05 pm
Both.
Vicki -- I live in Three Rivers, you know
Que pasa?
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Nada mucho. Como estas? (Damn, I've forgotten my high school spanish)
"I live in Three Rivers, you know|"
you must get wet a lot.
"It's been a week!"
Alas, this video cannot be shown to Communistic Canuckistanis.
Both.
Buckeye.
*You* check his pants.
"I've forgotten my high school spanish"
I didn't ever take spanish in high school, but I did have a french teacher in 8th grade that I still fantasize about.
Damn, I've forgotten my high school spanish
I never knew it. But, to borrow from the late Redd Foxx, "beans and disease to you, too!".
you must get wet a lot.
NO FLIRTTING!!!
The Portage, the Rocky & the St. Joseph -- not really navigable unless you are in a canoe (as the first fur traders were, but the HQ of Three Rivers Furs has moved to Kalamazoo -- don't tell my PETA friends)
I know we'll talk more
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
I'm picturing a more rustic setting for the next convergence. With more opportunities to sit in the sun or shade and talk...
whiskeyina -- you ever in Michgan?
I agree no flirting -- I hate wasting time -- money on the dresser, right?
Where did everybody go?
I like the rustic idea, with maybe some water flowing or falling nearby.
campfires?
whiskeyina -- you ever in Michgan?
Prior Aelred
My dad grew up in Lansing and my gramma lived in Lake City in her last years of life (before her final move to Florida).
I am hatching a x-country summer road trip with the girls, but we'll see if it materializes...
Lunch time?
whiskeyina--we best be careful or they will ask us to organize it. (shhhh)
"I like the rustic idea,"
rustic = mildew, bugs, and having to walk 1/4 of a mile to take a piss, right?
Oh, yeah-- I haven't submitted my Marriott customer-service survey thingy. Anything I need to bitch about?
I like the rustic idea, with maybe some water flowing or falling nearby.
campfires?
peterboy
Yes! Exactly.
Where did everybody go?
Prior Aelred | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 12:15 pm
*mumble mumble mumble* Rovian plot*mumble mumble mumble* monasteries must be sealed off from the public to ensure harmonious society *mumble mumble mumble*
I'm sitting near 15 of the stupidest men on earth. Lordy, lord.
Anything I need to bitch about?
Lax security.
and they're ll wearing MILFish jogging suits.
I like the rustic idea, with maybe some water flowing or falling nearby.
campfires?
peterboy
Yes! Exactly.
whiskeyina
Florida in the winter!
rustic = mildew, bugs, and having to walk 1/4 of a mile to take a piss, right?
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Bugs. Features. What's the difference among friends?
yea, they let me spill feral liberal's wine on my laptop and the keyboard is fried. I had to switch to the Mac the U let me keep when the new dean booted me for being hired by the old dean.
whiskeyina -- we are in the southwest -- between Kalamazoo & South Bend -- let me know ... (we have three guest houses -- timing is everything)
I'm sitting near 15 of the stupidest men on earth. Lordy, lord.
WalterNeff, kingpin
[looks around, wonders which one is Walter]
Drive-by greetings, anyway.
Both.
Buckeye.
*You* check his pants.
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 12:11 pm
No.
Good gawd!
Watch this Wal-Mart "growth" video.
In fact, I know the perfect place; it's on the Suwannee next to the closet thing we have to a waterfall. Very pretty, outstanding campsite.
whiskeyina--we best be careful or they will ask us to organize it. (shhhh)
peterboy
I vote for Vermont or New Mexico or Mammoth, CA!
No.
Buckeye.
C'mon, somebody's got to do it.
mimi?
Or, or, or -- one of the state parks with cabins.
Prior -- Thank you. I will keep you posted if it gets closer to a reality.
Ughhh....no go on reading anything by DHinMi and I won't click on that link....he's one of the biggest most arrogant, hostile, and divisive hacks out there in the left blogosphere. Imo he does a tremendous disservice to it by being thought of as a spokesman for it. I have no respect for him, but I do realize that even a stopped watch is correct twice a day...and maybe this link is one of them. But overall I take everything he writes within the context of his history and as Bradblog (and others)showed he's just another political hack with a horrible attitude to boot. Certainly Not the face or person I want to put on the left blogosphere. Sorry.
whiskeyina --
In the monastery we have broadband limits on our satellite connection so, visiting friends, I have been indulging myself with Marshall Crenshaw videos on You Tube -- seriously great! I found the idea of a Bette Midler cover odd, but it seems to work!
So - do I venture over to Guadalupe today, where "Sheriff Joke" was running a sweep against visually identified 'illegals'? Or do I just accept the likelihood that I am going to end up being harassed?
"...E-Verify has at least one significant flaw -- its treatment of naturalized U.S. citizens.
Between October 2006 and March 2007, about 3,200 foreign-born U.S. citizens were initially improperly disqualified from working by E-Verify. Their status was later corrected.
Because many did not register their citizenship with the Social Security Administration, they are often listed as possible illegal workers.*
That's what apparently happened to Ochoa, 47, who became a citizen in 2000. He quit his job as a car salesman at the end of last year and got hired by a local Dodge dealership in February. Days later, his new employers called him with bad news -- E-Verify classified him as a possible illegal immigrant. He only had a couple of days to convince Social Security that he wasn't.
He had lost his naturalization certificate,** so Ochoa took his U.S. passport, Social Security card, driver's license and Arizona voter identification card to the local Social Security office. He was told he'd have to request new papers from the Department of Homeland Security, which could take up to 10 months.
"I love this country, I'm happy in this country," said Ochoa, a father of two, who escaped eviction this month only because a church group paid his rent. "The guy who made this law, I don't know him. He's started destroying a lot of families."" (LATimes)
--------------------------
*Register with Social Security? I have no idea what this means.
**Lost naturalisation certificate - I have a citizenship certificate - so rare that the only people who recognise what they are, are in Dept of State. So what - do I now have to carry the thing in order to demonstrate my status?
I vote for Vermont or New Mexico or Mammoth, CA!
whiskeyina
Of these I vote for Vermont. But keep it under your hat; we don't want the Wrong Sort of People to show up.
Or, or, or -- one of the state parks with cabins.
V for Virginia |
V -- I've never been to Florida, and have a lingering sounthern californian's prejudice against it, but with you there, I must reconsider.
A young marine of my acquaintance wrote his wrote his mother the Bush adminstration is planning a major post November surge in Iraq. They are extending the tours for soldiers/marines with combat experience for this event.
rustic = mildew, bugs, and having to walk 1/4 of a mile to take a piss, right?
Just find a tree to stand behind.
ina -- parts of it are truly beautiful.
Zapette was just at a cabin that some-what resembles Groundskeeper Willie's beloved "shack".
(and there's some purdy jewelry in that post, too)
ina -- parts of it are truly beautiful.
V for Virginia
I believe it. I will open my mind to it.
I'm no fan of Arlen Specter's but Bill Maher was a real prick to him last night for implying he brought his cancer on himself.
The Witchpointer-General [Mark Steyn]
One of the striking features of my current troubles with Canada's "Human Rights" Commissions is the way, in the name of ersatz "human rights", these pseudo-courts trample on one of the bedrock human rights: the presumption of innocence. Instead, you're presumed guilty unless you can prove that you're not.
If the RCMP say you're guilty, that's the end of it. They always get their man, even if they have to follow his snowshoe tracks in the snow.
(and there's some purdy jewelry in that post, too)
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Beautiful Zap -- the place, the jewelry, the girl
The more democracy the LESS freedom.. always in every iteration wherever it is tried......
Ahhhhh.....the neocon agenda finally articulated.....what everyone knows to be true.....these people are guilty of treason and are enemies of this great nation.
he's one of the biggest most arrogant, hostile, and divisive hacks out there in the left blogosphere.
I read none of that in the post at the link.
V4VA says Florida is like the curate's egg.
Greetings and salutations.
"The more democracy the LESS freedom.. always in every iteration wherever it is tried......"
jeebus who says this?
OK, simple question....how do I get the stuff that I'm copying from another post to be in Italics?
(Afraid to look stupid, he ducks out of room.)
One of the striking features of my current troubles with Canada's "Human Rights" Commissions is the way, in the name of ersatz "human rights", these pseudo-courts trample on one of the bedrock human rights: the presumption of innocence. Instead, you're presumed guilty unless you can prove that you're not.
Hey Mark, take it up with John Yoo. And be sure to blow simels on the way.
Is that too English a reference? The story is that the poor curate (i.e., assistant priest in a Church of England parish church) was served a rotten egg which he hungrily devoured -- when asked how it was, he replied, "Parts of it were quite good!"
Zap -- pretty! I hope she had a great time.
OK, simple question....how do I get the stuff that I'm copying from another post to be in Italics?
Put your text between these tags:
< i > and < /i >
but without the spaces in the tags.
Shared -
Mark the text - then click on the little 'I' on the top right side of text box.
in which it is explained that the leftie stalwarts at Correntewire have to lambast Obama's ham sandwich consumption instead of providing clear eyed analysis of US infrastructure problems, because of Daily Kos makes 'em.
rootless-e | 04.05.08 - 12:05 pm | #
This has been a very illuminating few months.
Shared Humanity :
http://uncletomfoolery.blogspot....ml-
sandbox.html
Never a dull moment:
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki suddenly reversed himself on Friday, pledging a freeze on attacks on militias. Just a day before he had been saying that he would send the Iraqi military in after the Mahdi Army in Baghdad. Given what happened to the army in Basra, where the Sadr Movement isn't all that strong, I wouldn't have advised him to do that. Apparently someone with some sense got al-Maliki's ear.
Meanwhile, Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr is pursuing his plans to hold a million-man march on next Wednesday, the anniversary of the fall of the ancien regime and the beginning of the American military occupation.
http://www.juancole.com/
DR GWPDA If you go anywhere near the bowder you will be harassed.
Politico Headline
"TAX RETURNS SHOW CLINTONS GOT RICH QUICK"
This cries out for further investigation which I assume the cable channels will begin
Uncle Blodge -- trolls, I would guess -- maybe Mugabe ... (BTW -- the average mortality in Zimbabwe has dropped from 60 to 35 since Mugabe became president -- OK -- partly it is AIDS, but still ...)
Shared -- you use italics tags:
< i >paste quote here < / i >
Remove the spaces.
This cries out for further investigation which I assume the cable channels will begin
Fuck off, little poodle.
Put your text between these tags:
Put your head between your legs and kiss your stupid ass in joy!
Thanks, SteveNS.
"Put your head between your legs and kiss your stupid ass in joy!"
if only I could...
Put your head between your legs and kiss your stupid ass in joy!
My work here is done.
DR GWPDA If you go anywhere near the border you will be harassed.
Yes. Unfortunate about where I live, ain't it?
Damned Canadians.
Prior --
No, I think people associate it with beaches and strip malls. I love the beach, myself, but not just any beach -- some of them are dreadful. And most of the urban areas are awful.
But when you get into the interior of the state, along the rivers, particularly, it's quite beautiful.
"TAX RETURNS SHOW CLINTONS GOT RICH QUICK"
This cries out for further investigation which I assume the cable channels will begin
The horror that Democrats use capitalism...
All of you fuckers are so damn helpful! It's brought tears to my eyes.
you can google html tags and learn more stuff than you can stand.
The horror that Democrats use capitalism...
NTodd, Part Of The Pile
They must have done something illegal. Of course, Republicans who get rich are serious and gifted.
A new Portishead album is coming out in a few weeks, and it's (unsurprisingly) darn good.
Brokaw's "1968" just showed a banner from the 1968 Repuke convention saying "Republicans Really Care."
"For money and power" was left out.
The horror that Democrats use capitalism...
What would the nasty little poodle's reaction be if it were known how much money Little Boots and Pork Chop have stolen?
$100 mill is chump change.
"TAX RETURNS SHOW CLINTONS GOT RICH QUICK"
McStain got rich even quicker by dumping his sickly first wife and taking up with a beer baroness.
V4VA -- I was last in FL when LBJ was prez (Orlando) -- we went 2 C a movie starring Leo McKern & some Liverpudlian singing group -- the first time I was in FL there were no Cubans in Miami (but I was in diapers at the time & don't remember it -- they tell that Truman was a great president -- only after he was dead ...)
A new Portishead album is coming out in a few weeks, and it's (unsurprisingly) darn good.
Oooh, really?
Thanks for the head's up. We just bought the new Cat Power. That's quite good.
Damned Canadians.
GWPDA
What did we do *this* time?
*ladles extra gravy on GWPDA's poutine*
On msnbc, Sully and Snitchens demo Timmeh on US race/politics. Just sounds weird, the snooty Brit voices complete with revisionist backgrounds.
-
the propaganda has been seeping in from the other room.
while the movie was on pause, I said we would have lunch then they could have some sorbet (when choosing any kind of ice cream at the store yesterday, they were unbelievably able to agree on a flavor, and not on any super chunky chocolatey-ness, but lemon sorbet. why do i consider this a parenting triumph?).
the 5yo said, "I wanna have the sorbet straight-away."
then mary poppins was singing, "feed the birds. tuppence a bag..."
so the 5yo sang, "tuppence sorbet."
I thought wealth was a sign of God's favor??
Did I miss the Dogma 2.3 service pack update?
Oooh, really?
Thanks for the head's up. We just bought the new Cat Power. That's quite good.
Yup, in a few weeks. It's only been 11 years since the last one!
And I'll have to check out Cat Power, too. I've heard good things.
This one's for Walt - Humane Society Gala Benefit Buffet Blogging!
we went 2 C a movie starring Leo McKern & some Liverpudlian singing group.
I'm going to steal that one.
what susie said...
What would the nasty little poodle's reaction be if it were known how much money Little Boots and Pork Chop have stolen?
This: ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Susie (HEY!) -- great wealth is a God given opportunity to pay great taxes!
No.
Buckeye.
C'mon, somebody's got to do it.
mimi?
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 12:21 pm |
OK. O maybe Butler.
As I understand it, only 'thugs get rich as a consequence of being noble and worthy; if a Dem does it, it's proof positive of their absolute lack of ethics.
I think this is in the Bible somewhere but I couldn't quote chapter and verse.
Hey aangus -- howz things in KAY - BECK?
Drive-by; didn't read the whole thread. But I don't seem to recall Republicans, or many others, objecting to Rudolph Giuliani's making $10 million plus giving speeches a year, including private jet transport for himself, his retinue, and his trained seal, Bertha...
And as God knows, they sure did!
tata to y'all.
i have ambition to do a few things and get some exercise today. maybe turn the garden and find some heirloom tomatoes to seed.
On msnbc, Sully and Snitchens demo Timmeh on US race/politics.
What are they drinking?
we went 2 C a movie starring Leo McKern & some Liverpudlian singing group.
Favorite line:
"I don't subscribe to your religion!"
-Ringo
-
we went 2 C a movie starring Leo McKern & some Liverpudlian singing group...
____________________________________
It's astonishing that you don't remember the name of the movie, but I'm sure you honestly can't help it.
you can google html tags and learn more stuff than you can stand.
SteveNS...you're good but aangus: Waiting for mud! is a philosopher king and the font of all true knowledge.
The horror that Democrats use capitalism...
NTodd, Part Of The Pile
How dare they make money off writting best selling books. For Shame! At least Romney did it the old fashioned way, private equity and layoffs!
"I like you, Sully! That's why I'm gonna kill you last ..."
I'm watching that awful weight-loss show on BBC America where the weight-loss Nazi berates people over their "poo."
I need a life.
Also, let's not forget Karl Rove's $40,000 speaking fee to the University of Iowa.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/elect...rotests-in-
iowa
I don't seem to recall Republicans, or many others, objecting to Rudolph Giuliani's making $10 million plus giving speeches a year, including private jet transport for himself, his retinue, and his trained seal, Bertha
They admire his getting rich off 9/11. They all wish they could have done so, too.
howz things in KAY - BECK?
Still pretty well frozen & white.
Peachy keen otherwise.
How's the foot?
How dare they make money off writting best selling books. For Shame! At least Romney did it the old fashioned way, private equity and layoffs!
tim
That's not fair. He couldn't have done any of that if he hadn't inherited a pile to start with.
Visitor Online -- I just need "HELP!" since "It's Been a Hard Day's Night."
aangus: Waiting for mud! is a philosopher king and the font of all true knowledge
If he's so smart, he'd have mud by now.
I think this is in the Bible somewhere but I couldn't quote chapter and verse.
V for Virginia
________________________
I'm pretty sure I've seen it, too. It's somewhere towards the back, I believe.
okay. off to take the children outside.
see you later.
Gateway Pundit ^ | 04/05/08 | Gateway Pundit
It's a bummer when an online slime machine is outed.Media Matters was an extremely effective leftwing propaganda outfit until it was found out that they were linked directly to Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as billionaire leftist George Soros.Copious Dissent explains what happens to a liberal slime machine like Media Matters after being exposed. It looks like Think Progress may be following in their footsteps.
Uh-oh! And the Dems have so few slime machines to work with.
Susie if you turn to TLC at one o'clock this British motivational speaker will Make You Thin!
I may or may not stick with Fahrenheit 451.
"Also, let's not forget Karl Rove's $40,000 speaking fee to the University of Iowa."
My alma mater does that and I never give them a quatloo again.
ANOTHER SURE SIGN OF SPRING:
We're taking the plastic off of our windows today!
Shared Humanity:
Make sure that you bookmark that site so that you can pay it forward to other commenters in the future.
Thanx.
aangus -- still knitting -- should be over halfway done by now -- I need to go try to find a souvenir type bell for my mother's collection
billy b,
And if you also read my whole post I said even a stopped clock is right twice a day and this link Atrios gave might be one of those times. I won't read the link but that's just my experience and history with this particular individual.
But overall imo he should not be thought of as a spokesman of the left blogosphere and yes I have seen his arrogance, hostility, and generally horrible attitude in the works for years over at the Orange site toward many people who participate in that community and others. I've been lurking and participating in blogs pre-Iraq War and watched how he operates and don't find it particularly helpful or informative as a whole. But that's just me (and I'm basically just a commoner in the blogosphere)and others are free to disagree. Put it this way, I feel very strongly about it, enough to get out of my lurking mode to make these comments. In a thread that's pretty much about everything else at this point but the post and link....just sayin.
And yes I've made my opinion known many times in threads directly to DHinMi (I post under a different handle over there a name from long long ago and don't actually visit the site much for many reasons).
We're taking the plastic off of our windows today!
... the cycle of life
ANOTHER SURE SIGN OF SPRING:
Have my kitchen window open and both cats are wild with joy!
I just need "HELP!" since "It's Been a Hard Day's Night."
I've got Eight Arms to Hold You and a Prick Up My Arse-- er, Ears!
Atrios says, "But most people who give money aren't doing so because they think they're pushing the interests of their employer, they're just normal citizens donating to their favorite candidate."
Um, Atrios.... I think you might oughta check with corporate employees who donate. I can guarandamtee you that an employee of Exxon who donated to Al Gore would find his career options somewhat limited.
There is a LOT of pressure on employees, especially senior employees who have the money to make big contributions, to give the way their employer would like.
Yes, it's a little journalistically shady to conflate employees with corporations, but as a practical matter, it's more or less accurate.
How dare they make money off writting best selling books. For Shame! At least Romney did it the old fashioned way, private equity and layoffs!
tim
That's not fair. He couldn't have done any of that if he hadn't inherited a pile to start with.
BlueinColorado
Very True
But that's just me (and I'm basically just a commoner in the blogosphere)and others are free to disagree. Put it this way, I feel very strongly about it, enough to get out of my lurking mode to make these comments. In a thread that's pretty much about everything else at this point but the post and link....just sayin
No worries. You like who you want to like and vice versa.
Have my kitchen window open and both cats are wild with joy!
And here, this morning's snow has changed to an icy rain/snow mix.
But I'm not bitter.
I work for a living....I am not my corporation.....merely a serf trading the sweat of my brow for some food on my family.
All right - I'm going to Guadalupe now. If I get nabbed for being Canadian and shipped back to Calgary, somebody call renato and get him to mail Arthur up there, c/o my Uncle Bob, QC, eh?
Tragically, I have moved beyond the passive put-it-in and move-to-dryer portions of the laundry exercise, to the fold-all-this-crap phase.
Later, lovely batties!
We're taking the plastic off of our windows today!
And Zapette can wear it during the evening's entertainment!
/Phyllis Schlafly
Humor for Atriots: Sully and Chris Hitchens taking apart HRC on Timmeh's eponymous show on MSNBC.
If anyone's in need of a potent emetic, Sully and Hitchens are having multiple orgasms over Margaret Thatcher.
Good luck, GWPDA!
I'm out as well.
got to move to the reading/napping part of the day.
later!
I read none of that in the post at the link.
You're not very familiar with good ol' Dana Houle, are you?
And Zapette can wear it during the evening's entertainment!
/Phyllis Schlafly
Hee!
We are well on our way to 62 degrees today, so I'd better get a-cracking. Later.
Sullivan and Hitchens in the same spatiotemporal zone is a dangerous experiment. There's a minuscule, but real, chance, that they'll mutually annihilate andd destroy the solar system...
"Sully and Hitchens are having multiple orgasms over Margaret Thatcher."
that is just - wrong.
margaret thatcher is anti orgasms.
out for real
Speaking of Orange Satan, I see they've decided to believe the word of some hospital's PR flack regarding the shoddy treatment of one of their patients because, you know, it sticks it to Hitlery.
I wouldn't believe a fucking thing any of the hacks running that site say these days, to be honest.
It's 43 and raining. Great day for reading and naps, but that is not gonna happen. Way too much to do.
Back later.
ANOTHER SURE SIGN OF SPRING:
We're taking the plastic off of our windows today!
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas | Homepage | 04.05.08 - 12:50 pm |
When you are done, can you help me with mine?
Gonna go work in the yard and admire the crocii!
in re: Spring
Still at least three feet of snow around the house, can't even see the silhouette of my grill yet
Timmeh on Sully: He blogs every day for The Daily Bush.
I was briefly, but only briefly, put off by George Harrison during the "All Things Must Pass" era at the beginning of his solo career, when during an interview he explained solemnly that the subject all of his songs, e.g. "If Not for You", was "God". It was just too smarmy to take.
Years later, a less lofty version of this occurred when a friend and I ran into a guy who used to deal coke, and with whom I'd hung out and jammed with occasionally during that phase. This guy (call him "Joe") had been through a personal crisis-- his beloved paramour of several years had dumped him for a bigger coke dealer, a guy with a real hook prosthesis who looked like Captain Hook. I'm not making this up. We'd heard that Joe had gone into a tailspin, then had become "born again".
We made chit-chat, including the suggestion that we'd have to get together and jam again some time-- without Peruvian stimulants, of course. Then Joe noted cheerfully, but quite seriously, that he didn't do the Dead's "Friend of the Devil" any more, because he was now only a friend of Jesus.
We backed away slowly; that was the last I saw of him.
All this to say that I hope that the Prior can listen to "A Hard Day's Night" without interpreting the lyrics as:
"But when I get home to You
I find the things that You do
Will make me feel alright."
Please, I beg you all, resist.
noblejoanie
Just took a nice two mile walk in our state park. Very pretty.
Still at least three feet of snow around the house, can't even see the silhouette of my grill yet
BlueinColorado
Somehow, knowing that makes me feel better. Thank you.
You're not very familiar with good ol' Dana Houle, are you?
Nope. About the only time I visit kos is because someone here links to something posted there.
As far as being a nasty, arrogant, etc., that applies to me also.
heh.
well, it must be traumatic to lose a girlfriend to captain hook.
Another Million Man March.
Iraq's Sadr calls million-strong march against U.S. on April 9
Amazingly, my smoking's been more than cut in half, eight days into the QuitKey.
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Another Million Man March.
Iraq's Sadr calls million-strong march against U.S. on April 9
Troutski, my friends
I denounce it.
One has to get out front early on these things.
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Iraq's Sadr calls million-strong march against U.S. on April 9
Suppose only 900,000 show up? Will you admit defeat?
he money still doesn't come from the firm itself, but obviously they exist to advance the interest of the firm/industry and there might be some informal coercion which gets employees to contribute to them.
The shift to corporate serfdom began when the fortune 500 realized that people would not only buy their products but also don their corporate logo proudly.The first was izod lacoste with their alligator golf shirts.Nike was a big one.
The ceo's began to consider us a bunch of shmucks,just sheep to shear.
Welcome to the new high tech feudalism,where the corporate charter replaces the lords castle.
Sullivan and Hitchens in the same spatiotemporal zone is a dangerous experiment. There's a minuscule, but real, chance, that they'll mutually annihilate andd destroy the solar system...
ProfWombat | 04.05.08 - 12:58 pm | #
I saw them both on screen at one time and just turned the channel.
Why is Pumpkinhead such a sadist to his viewers?
Oh, and regarding the topic: I didn't interpret either the Kos post or Atrios as denying that corporations may indeed pressure employees, particularly management employees, to donate to a particular candidate. Or that corporations would sanction* employees who don't cooperate.
I understood the critique to be that campaign watchdog groups gather the employment data required from donors, and equate a donation from a person employed by a given employer as equivalent to being virtually from that employer.
This critique doesn't dismiss the reality that employees may indeed be coerced or otherwise induced to make contributions to the employer's preferred candidate, just that the above-cited equivalence is bogus, inaccurate, and unreliable.
*I am perpetually confused regarding use of the term "sanction", since it annoyingly has diametrically opposite meanings. It's worse than "flammable" and "inflammable". 
Sunny & mild here in Chicagoland, so I'm out to play in the yard. Whoopeee!
Another Million Man March.
Iraq's Sadr calls million-strong march against U.S. on April 9
Troutski, my friends.
Are they finally greeting us as liberators?
Still at least three feet of snow around the house, can't even see the silhouette of my grill yet - BlueinColorado
I'm guessing you're in the mountains since it's closing in on 60 degrees here.
i heard it once snowed in denver on july 4th.
Are they finally greeting us as liberators?
Pretty much in the same sense that the French greeted the Germans as liberators in 1940, yes.
Iz chilly in Gnashvegas. Yet, I scoot, therefore I am.
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50F and damp in alabama. trying to get excited about hopping on the bike and riding to the gym.
Are they finally greeting us as liberators?
Rmj, Unfashionable Theologist | 04.05.08 - 1:31 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
A million marchers with candy and flowers...what a beautiful sight that'll be.
it's beautiful in dallas. if only we had this kind of weather all the time...
55 degrees, partly sunny, and a siamese cat asleep on my lap in Dutchess County NY.
Jeffraham, would the quit key work for a teen? They notoriously have no discipline. But I know one who is trying to cut down by himself.
I predict 0 chance for success on that program.
Are they finally greeting us as liberators?
Improvised explosive flowers.
springing owls!!!!!!!!
If the Million Man March takes place as advertised, we'll find out from the international media, probably via the Internet.
The US authorities and their embedded journalists will merely report that a few thousand people attended the march, and focus their coverage on a vocal counter-demonstration of a dozen Iraqi Freedom Fighters obsequiously expressing solidarity with, and gratitude for, the US forces.
The counter-demonstration will be staged deep inside the Green Zone, perhaps in front of a green screen to permit a life-like background to be inserted afterwards. Because there's too great of a chance that the real marchers will burst from the confines of their designated Free Speech Zone and treat the counter-demonstrators like they treated the Amerikan mercenaries in Fallujah.
el: The QuitKey site has a research section that says 'yes' to helping teens quit / reduce smoking.
http://www.quitkey.com/research.html
Vicky, I've seen that guy before. He's actually pretty good - it's basic behavior mod. The part I like is when you tells you not to eat anything you don't love.
Spring owls.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. State Department's renewal of Blackwater's contract to provide security in Iraq "is bad news," an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said.
A woman passes a burned car in Baghdad where Blackwater guards killed 17 in September.
Blackwater guards shot and killed 17 people, including women and children, last September, prompting an outcry and protest from Iraqi officials.
"This is bad news," al-Maliki adviser Sami al-Askari said. "I personally am not happy with this, especially because they have committed acts of aggression, killed Iraqis, and this has not been resolved yet positively for families of victims."
About 25,000 private contractors from three companies protect diplomats, reconstruction workers and government officials in Iraq. Under a provision put into place in the early days of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, security contractors have immunity from Iraqi prosecution.
Al-Askari said he would push for the Iraqi government to contest the contract renewal.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/
me...=rss_topstories
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/
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Obama praises radio host who calls John McCain a 'warmonger'
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