HULK SMASHED
hey
ho.
heee
Penile implant.
.
light posting?
Disregarding el and wt,
FIRST!
Light posting my ass
. . . and leibniz and TKK and JP . . .
Atrios is an infamous liar.
.
Maybe light posting is like a light saber.
"Informal coercion"
I suppose there's no formal way to twist an employee's arm...
---
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!
.
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...
---
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.
.
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!
.
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
.
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.
.
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.