HULK SMASHED
I can't believe this post doesn't link to Whiskey Fire =o
I enjoyed the column
Coffee is for Firsters.
That usually goes without saying.
You know, if ever the word "cunt" needed to be applied to someone...
Molly Ivors picked the wrong week to quit bitchslapping Dowd.
FIF
It's a lovely, rainy Mother's Day and there is no way that I am going to click on a link to Maureen Dowd. Na gonna do it.
I really can't figure out the reason why NYT keeps Dowd in their stable, though it must be that she's so scandalously weird and now it's all circus for the papers, to stay alive.
But she's a very odd choice for the one woman to write on politics, given that her politics are so intimately linked to her warped views of sexuality and her intense hatred of almost all Democrats.
Molly Ivors picked the wrong week to quit bitchslapping Dowd.
The Kenosha Kid
WHAT?
Molly isn't puncturing that evil person's liver?
Damn. I was so looking forward to that.
Letsee, how much more telegraphing can be done that Hillary is done and she is networking for the Vip position.
Brought up from below:
A few years ago I read an article about building Hobbit-like houses in fire prone areas of southern CA. Supposedly the fire burns right over them without causing damage.
She fucked up her Monty Python reference too.
Alec Baldwin is not sucking on 60 Minutes.
Then again, these primaries seem to have been greatly affected by each person's private feelings so maybe Dowd is just the right representative of that.
She fucked up her Monty Python reference too.
for that, she needs to be excoriated.
"building Hobbit-like houses in fire prone areas of southern CA."
Get those damn Motocross bikes off my Roof!
I used to write on Dowd a lot. A lot. I've grown tired of repeating myself, so I stopped.
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moe
"show all bookmarks"
click and drag the line to where you want it
WTF is up with Dowd's sudden britishness? Verily, a sticky wicket? Bitch, you're in New Fuckin York, get over yourself.
The Trojan Rabbit never made it past the gate, you moistened bint!
I used to write on Dowd a lot.
Wasn't that a Peter Greenaway movie?
el, thanks, I get that. How do I make a new folder. It's counterintuitive, coming from an Explorer and Firefox background.
Wasn't that a Peter Greenaway movie?
No, it's Dangerous Liasons.
The Trojan Rabbit never made it past the gate, you moistened bint!
watertiger
When I grow up, I want to use the language as stunningly as WT does.
Aside from the delight Bill would get from living at the Naval Observatory and having a huge telescope to window-peep with,
That's just brilliant. Really brilliant. It is on the grounds of the Naval Observatory, not in the same fucking building.
Anyway, there is an opening for someone to write on McCain in similar terms. The chipmunk that dared all!
Moistened Bint would make a great name for a band of a certain persuasion...
KBR's gonna have to go to court after all.
The chipmunk that dared all!
ROTFLMAO
(pasta everywhere)
As Buckeye said above (and maybe others as well), Daley gets excellent marks on environmental issues.
I suspect he's corrupt as hell, but I cannot recall any big city mayor planting so much, making so many roofs green, landscaping every square inch of downtown, improving the parks, and so on.
No doubt many of his cronies have made out like bandits, but the city looks great, and the green roofs are a wonderful addition.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. | 05.11.08 - 7:53 pm |
I actually don't think he's more corrupt that his father was, and I think he's more competenet in many ways.
But the green thing is legit, and I give props for keeping at it, thought I might wish for a little more to be spent on the CTA than, say, permeable alleyways.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins | 05.11.08 - 7:55 pm | #
If you avoid these people, you will feel much better about yourself. And Morley Shaffer is a bit sanctimonious. Other than people who don't have children, what parent hasn't said something regretful and ugly to their child?
KBR's gonna have to go to court after all.
Good news.
I have to say, if someone starts writing about Maureen Dowd's sexual behavior, things are going to be much more along the lines of the DSM-IV than anything else.
She's fucking nuts. Unless she thinks she's funny.
No, strike that; if she thinks she's funny, she's also fucking nuts.
When I grow up, I want to use the language as stunningly as WT does.
Would that I came up with that. "Moistened bint" is from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
"add bookmarks folder"
it appears in the far left column.
rapidly triple click the "untitled folder" words until you get a window
type name in the window
The Trojan Rabbit never made it past the gate, you moistened bint!
watertiger | Homepage | 05.11.08 - 7:53 pm | #
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d...h?
v=dOOTKA0aGI0
She's fucking nuts. Unless she thinks she's funny.
No, strike that; if she thinks she's funny, she's also fucking nuts.
Sometimes in my feminist paranoia I think that all this is intended so that one day the NYT powers that be can say: "We once tried a woman as a writer and she was nuts."
One of the reasons that Daley's been pushing for it in Chicago, help reduce the heat sink effect.
In urban areas, extensive use of green roofs would yield greater energy savings with the decrease of the urban heating effect.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 05.11.08 - 7:45 pm |
Having several hundred people die during the 1995 heat wave pushed Daley to go more 'green'. At least it was a major contributing factor.
At least Daley is trying to do something about it. Bush would have 'heh hehed' and poured more concrete.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins | 05.11.08 - 7:53 pm |
Andy Rooney is riffing delightfully on junk mail. What a card!
Thank GOD I do not live in that skull...
No, it's Dangerous Liasons.
The Pillow Book (1996)
directed by Peter Greenaway
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a "parfait mélange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images
"If I went around saying I was an Emperor because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"
This is from memory, not from google!
I believe the Trojan rabbit DID make it past the gate.
Later it was catapulted onto Sir Arthur and company.
"We once tried a woman as a writer and she was nuts."
Echidne
I don't understand what they see in her. She's just DREADFUL. They could've figured out in 2000 she had issues, if they wanted to try that dodge.
"add bookmarks folder"
it appears in the far left column.
No, it doesn't. I'll pester my tech guy tomorrow...
Trojan Rabbit got in, but they forgot to put people inside it (at least in the movie).
Imagine the White House with a green roof.
I don't understand what they see in her. She's just DREADFUL. They could've figured out in 2000 she had issues, if they wanted to try that dodge.
She writes well. But that's not quite enough, because you also have to have something sane to write so well about.
I believe the Trojan rabbit DID make it past the gate.
Ta. After King Arthur and his men ran down the hill and hid, of course.
And then, when the Trojan Rabbit was captapulted over the ramparts, it crushed Terry Gilliam.
OK, command of the language and Monte Python scripts.
But then writing well doesn't seem to be a basic requirement in the NYT stables. David Brooks writes as if he has pebbles stuck in his dentures and he's still there, too. I'm not sure what the selection principles might be.
OK, command of the language and Monte Python scripts.
*mwah* to you, Diane.
I've lost count of how many times I've seen that movie.
Not to mention "Spamalot".
She and Brooks and Kristol have the same sense of humor. In Der Neue Berlin Times of 1944 they would have been writing about the hilarity of jews and gypsies perhaps needing little practice ovens.
The target of Monty Python's satire, of course, was people like MoDo. They're usually too stupid to realize it, tho.
Imagine the White House with a green roof.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 05.11.08 - 8:01 pm | #
I've said it before, but one of the first things I want Obama to do is to have the WH and other gov't buildings go green: solar panels, green roofs, etc.
from that authoritative source, epinions:
One such line was delivered in a letter from Valmont to the Marquise written upon the naked back of a long-time lover. The beginning of the letter, riddled with double entendres, stated in part "My dear Madame de Tourvel, I have just come to my desk in the middle of a stormy night during which I have been tossed from exultation to exhaustion and back again. Yet, despite these torments, I guarantee at this moment I am far happier than you." How delicious the look on the Marquise face upon reading it.
The woman is insane... still obsessing over The Clenis*.
The target of Monty Python's satire, of course, was people like MoDo. They're usually too stupid to realize it, tho.
"And now for something completely different. A man with three buttocks."
I tend to think that in some perverse way, MoDo thinks that now that Judith Miller is gone, she has the limelight and a tradition to enjoy.
And, I must admit, as a Heather she is pretty good.
As a human being, eh, not so much.
Modo is kinda the poster child of our current cultural cynicism, that hates EVERYTHING...it's adolescent in some ways I think. It's perfect for avoiding any responsibility for anything. She can point and squeal at how awful everyone is while avoiding having to do fuck all to make a difference...I don't mind it that much with the asshats in my office, but she is in the paper of record for crying out loud.
It's all like some side show entertainment performed for her amusement, without circumstance. And so, in the end, her scribblings are worthier of People or something...we suck or what?
I want Obama to do is to have the WH and other gov't buildings go green: solar panels, green roofs, etc.
That really isn't his call. But it will happen regardless.
"And now for something completely different. A man with three buttocks."
watertiger | Homepage | 05.11.08 - 8:08 pm | #
"He's not dead ... he's just sleeping!"
I want Obama to do is to have the WH and other gov't buildings go green: solar panels, green roofs, etc.
That really isn't his call. But it will happen regardless.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 05.11.08 - 8:09 pm |
I think it is, how else did Carter get the solar panels on the WH?
"And now for something completely different. A man with three buttocks."
The fish dance always makes me less bitter.
The target of Monty Python's satire, of course, was people like MoDo. They're usually too stupid to realize it, tho.
The upperclass twit of the year competition seems to have been composed with George W. Bush in mind.
I've said it before, but one of the first things I want Obama to do is to have the WH and other gov't buildings go green: solar panels, green roofs, etc.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins
Stopping the war would save a billion bbls. a month. well at lest a whole bunch.
I've lost count of how many times I've seen that movie....
M. Palin's "Diaries: The Python Years" is a looong drink of water, yet a really fun read.
Stopping the war would save a billion bbls. a month. well at lest a whole bunch.
1Watt,
Obama ain't gonna stop the war.
In other things that piss me off: it snowed this morning.
I refer to my child as a jackhole. Thoughtless little pig? Alec Baldwin ain't got nothing on me!
think that all this is intended so that one day the NYT powers that be can say: "We once tried a woman as a writer and she was nuts."
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding! Winner!
The fish dance always makes me less bitter.
Pour toi.
I thought there was a fatwa here againt Monty Python quotes?
And a big "E" goes up on the scoreboard as Bill Buckner gets the slanties.
In other things that piss me off: it snowed this morning.
Moe Szyslak
Oh, crap, Moe. I am so sorry to hear that.
I thought there was a fatwa here againt Monty Python quotes?
What? Impossible!
Bill Buckner gets the slanties.
Stanley didn't covet first...
Homeland Security Director Chertoff has just announced a manhunt and high security alert for a group of al qaeda operatives called the Piranha Brothers. It is said that some have seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than speak to one of them. Chertoff said that superintendent Harry 'Snapper" Organs was in charge.
I refer to my child as a jackhole.
One day that clone will be the size of Ouzo and then you will wish you had been nicer.
Carriers, fighter jets, tanks, etc., do consume a bit (nuclear vehicles excepted). I'm sure that current generation jets are more efficient, but I know that a single F-105 could burn through 40,000 pounds of jet fuel in a pretty short amount of time when using afterburner. That's why they had those big-ass external tanks if they had to go very far.
Obama ain't gonna stop the war.
You’re never going to say anything interesting.
bill b -- saw your movie recommendation and it's next on my list. thanks
Obama ain't gonna stop the war.
In other things that piss me off: it snowed this morning.
Moe Szyslak
Oh contaire, there is no choice. We're whipped, no win situation. Worse than 'Nam. International pressure will force it.
This makes me smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U...h?
v=U0kJHQpvgB8
But usually I call the boy a jackhole and I feel much better.
Oh contaire, there is no choice. We're whipped, no win situation. Worse than 'Nam. International pressure will force it.
1Wat
The Americans don't give a shit about international pressure (and where is it, anyway?) and won't leave until the Iraqis chase them out.
Hillary has made it to I can haz.
http://tinyurl.com/58c8jk
One day that clone will be the size of Ouzo and then you will wish you had been nicer.
I've put the fear of death in that kid. If he even thinks about it, I break his thumbs.
From the MoDo column:
Hillary has a strange, unnerving effect on Obama, and whenever he is around her, he’s unable to do his best. Probably, it’s because she’s furious, always shaking his hand off her arm, ignoring him, giving him the evil eye and emasculating him, and the Golden One is not used to such rough treatment.
Anyone who can read that and not conclude that Dowd has (putting it politely) serious issues just isn't paying attention. And by that, I mean her editors at the Times. The fact that they continue to let this obvious madwoman continue to vent this shit on the most prestigious Op-Ed page in the world is conclusive proof that the Times is in the grip of some kind of bizarre institutional nervous breakdown.
Yes, I've said it before, but...And in any case, how else do you explain the presence of serial fabulist and professional Republican propagandist Bill Kristol?
Not that it matters, I believe that Obama will run from the middle, and govern from the left.
Again, this may be wishful thinkin'.
The long piece in today's Times is worth a read.
At some point we simply won't be able to afford the war any more. The key question is whether it'll be before or after the Chinese dump our treasury bonds.
V for Virginia
You're welcome. I also second "The Lives of Others," and lessee, mebbe "Army of Shadows" and that Clifford Irving thing w. Richard Gere. "Hoax?"
(Watcing "American Gangster" right now - not great, but very watchable..
I'm not sure that KFC using dollars as lettuce is gonna make me buy one of their "snackers" anytime soon.
The Americans don't give a shit about international pressure (and where is it, anyway?) and won't leave until the Iraqis chase them out.
See what I mean?
1Watt, it's about 97 here this afternoon. Just watched our Gila woodpecker getting a drink from the hummingbird feeder, which pissed off the house finch that nests near by. The teenie little finch drove that woodpecker right off. Pretty cool to watch, but annoying as I really want to get a good shot of the Gila doing his hanging-upside-down-while-drinking trick.
And while I'm at it: the only columnists at the Times who are not certifiable are Frank Rich, Bob Herbert and Paul Krugman.
(All right, I admit: Gail Collins isn't certifiable, but she's completely useless.)
I don't even look at the front of the NYT when I pass by the news stand in the grocery store any more. It's completely worthless.
At some point we simply won't be able to afford the war any more.
"We" can't afford it right now. We're expecting our grandchildren and great grandchildren to pay off Chinese kids not yet born. I imagine our heirs may not thank us.
how else did Carter get the solar panels on the WH?
Through the Park Service budget.
" international pressure (and where is it, anyway?) "
The longer we are caught up in this the better for them to build themselves outwards.
that was one f'ed up piece.
Ob' magical powers drained by HRC.
HRC would get a chance to return stuff she stole from the WH.
snark for snarks sake.
and this from a woman who celebrates the fact that she is so out of touch that she cant operate an ipod.
how is she supposed to understand how OB raised $80 million in the interthingamuhjig and what it means for registering voters--young and black--and inspiring change.
Ouzo and I watched "The Third Man" today. We thought Joseph Cotten should have gotten on the plane. Anna was never going to love him like she loved Harry.
Moe,
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Worse than 'Nam. International pressure will force it.
Eventually the financial realities will force their will on the US. We are bleeding how much money a year on that war? I think the physical war deaths have more meaning. But do they to the public and it's elected officials?
No,
it will be financial ruin to end it.
Obama ain't gonna stop the war.
Then I hope a one-term presidency is something he enjoys.
I don't even look at the front of the NYT when I pass by the news stand in the grocery store any more. It's completely worthless.
Tralfaz
I don't agree, but it is a long, long way from the paper it was twenty years ago, and light years from what it was in the late 1960's.
I've said it before, but one of the first things I want Obama to do is to have the WH and other gov't buildings go green: solar panels, green roofs, etc.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins
Stopping the war would save a billion bbls. a month. well at lest a whole bunch.
1Watt, Hermit | Homepage | 05.11.08 - 8:11 pm
Actually for me this wouldn't be about the money, it would be about setting an example by doing.
I know that a single F-105 could burn through 4,000 pounds of jet fuel in a pretty short amount of time when using afterburner.
Slight modification.
The Americans don't give a shit about international pressure (and where is it, anyway?) and won't leave until the Iraqis chase them out.
Moe Szyslak
Bullshit. Brand America is suffering, the only reason the trade deficiency has declined is the monetary policy has weaken the dollar.
Sweet dreams, you lovely Moonbats. Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers.
The ending of The Third Man is brilliant.
The whole !@#$%ing movie is brilliant.
Cuckoo clocks.
Zithers.
Anna.
Orson.
The sewers of Vienna.
That Ferris wheel.
Certainly among the top ten of all time, in my humble opinion.
And while there are some good people doing what they can, there's basically no anti-war movement in the United States to speak of. Once a year ANSWER has a march, but where are the student strikes, the worker movements (the longshoremen's one-day strike is notable for being the lone exception), the mother's day marches, etc., etc.?
People say they're against the war, but they certainly don't act like it.
Obama ain't gonna stop the war.
That won't be his call either.
BTW, the White House has solar panels and two solar water heating systems. The Park Service must use energy conservation methods wherever it can.
Obama wins, we're outta Iraq in 24 months. Bet on it.
Brand America is suffering
Yes, the trade boycotts are overwhelming. Oh, wait, there are now boycotts.
how else did Carter get the solar panels on the WH?
Through the Park Service budget.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 05.11.08 - 8:20 pm
If the president of the US wanted to put solar panels back on the WH, I don't think it would be that hard for him to do it.
Yep, we're hopeless.
Jeez.
People say they're against the war, but they certainly don't act like it.
Moe Szyslak
Yeah, they’ve been sold on this crazy “more better Democrats” concept.
I wish we could solar panels, but I don't think our condo association would approve.
Yep, we're hopeless.
Jeez.
Zap Rowsdower
...and doomed.
You forgot "doomed."
*no* boycotts.
There's more "international pressure" on China than the US, and that certainly ain't much.
The institutional support for this war is centered in the executive. It is delegated to the Military, intelligence and diplomatic services to 'figure out'. My thinking is that the minute there is a new administration the wind will come out of those sails, Pretaeus notwithstanding.
Not that it will be at a pace or in a way that will jeopardize the forces on the ground. But it will be possible.
The Iraqi's will be left in the cold.
And one way or the other we have lost an enormous amount through the effort.
the smoking heap of rubble that remains of international institutions will have the 'honor' of putting it all back together again.
BTW, the White House has solar panels and two solar water heating systems. The Park Service must use energy conservation methods wherever it can.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 05.11.08 - 8:24 pm |
Then Obama needs to publicize that, and encourage ways to make it affordable, the leading by example thingy.
http://www.ecomall.com/
greenshop...rwhitehouse.htm
The fish dance always makes me less bitter.
Pour toi.
Merci!
Then the Silly Job Interview...
No matter who wins, we're in Iraq to stay......
until we're bankrupt and the whole fucking empire collapses like the house of cards that it is.
No one gets within sniffing distance of the WH without the corporate stamp of approval on their ass.
I don't agree, but it is a long, long way from the paper it was twenty years ago, and light years from what it was in the late 1960's.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed.
Perhaps so, David, and I intend that to indicate that I agree with you to the extent that it is not the paper it was back in the day.
Still, if (like WaPo and Dow-Jones MultiNational), the editorial pages are filled with garbage, the news pages do have substance a great deal of the time.
I will scrupulously avoid blogwhoring right now, but I've found some interesting and revealing journalistic efforts in all three newspapers. The problem is that they are never on the front page, but buried deep within the papers.
Perhaps angryspittle would enjoy watching Putney Swope?
File under "No Shit Sherlock! What Was You're First Clue":
AP IMPACT: Number of disabled veterans rising
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080...e0X93wLr22s0NUE
The fact that the NYT pays Brooks, Dowd and Kristol calls into question the integrity of the entire operation, in my view. People at the NYT who consider themselves serious journalists need to know that people like me will not buy their newspaper again until they demonstrate some integrity by firing these people.
I'm under no illusion that the NYT cares what I think. Fine. As long as they are under no illusion that I'll ever subscribe to their paper again.
Sorry. Your Clue. I hate when the obvious is passed off as surprise.
Fair enough, Tralfaz. But you should write them to let them know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z...P0sqRMzkwo&
NR=1
The Silly Job Interview
Most everyone in Mexico has solar hot water heaters. Big black tanks on the roofs. Simple and easy if you live in a warm climate.
Fuck.
You.
Haloscan.
People say they're against the war, but they certainly don't act like it.
Moe Szyslak
There is no draft. I got out of the Navy in 72 to go to school. The campus protests were very effective.
Hawaii too
Thanks, Snow. 40K is about what the plane weighed, I think... It's been a long time and I was a flight simulator tech, not flight line. Still, I did get to fly backseat in an F once. One of the great days in my life.
Tralfaz, the refusal of a lot of us to frickin' pay to see the op-ed writers on line meant that there were fewer eyeballs seeing the ads for the various columns, which then meant that the NYT was losing money.
Once that was clear that whole nonesense of Times Select went away.
Once again, I agree with David Derbes. Let them know.
Fair enough, Tralfaz. But you should write them to let them know.
David Derbes
I used to do stuff like that. But I ran out of energy. The MCM seems to be completely insulated from criticism. When the definition of journalism became balancing truth with lies, the cause was lost.
Cataloging music is hard work.
Last year I cancelled out probably 25 years of subscribing to the NYT when I realized all I was doing was figuring out the Thursday through Saturday crossword puzzles.
And thanks, Diane, for your piece about taping the defense counsels at Gitmo at
Outrageous.
You might not plug your web site, but surely I can.
(oops: delete the last "at". Were he not at dinner, Steve S. would regret the error.)
I keep saying it, but Happy Birthday, Minnesota!
Forget all the highly paid pundidiots - four words stop me from thinking the corporate media give a rat's ass what I think: Tucker Carlson Glenn Beck.
If they were motivated by the profit motive these guys would have been shitcanned before they started. Their continued existence on the TV demonstrates the agenda.
We thought Joseph Cotten should have gotten on the plane. Anna was never going to love him like she loved Harry.
We're not sure whether he will or not.
Maybe he'll give up on Anna when he realizes how hopeless it is.
But then again maybe he won't.
Welcome to Greeneland!
Thanks, David.
Candace Gorman has become one of my heros.
She's stopped by the blog and left comments and even emailed. She's clearly got a rough row to hoe, yet she's still hanging in there.
The one bright spot of news with her is that she's currently at The Hague on a fellowship. I hope she's learning a lot, teaching a lot, and frickin' NAMING NAMES.
If they were motivated by the profit motive these guys would have been shitcanned before they started. Their continued existence on the TV demonstrates the agenda.
JeffCO | 05.11.08 - 8:40 pm
I applaud your analysis. The right is making a serious effort to control the propaganda apparatus.
Welcome to Greeneland!
Hey, kids.
Scott missed the money quote in today's Dowd, however--that he "loses his magic touch" when she's around.
I just put up a new post on my blog. Hint hint.
When the definition of journalism became balancing truth with lies, the cause was lost.
You should realize that the media must steer a responsible middle course between conservatism and Fascism.