I am the Lord thy blog. Thou shalt have no other blogs before me.
Chairman Mo |
06.23.07 - 4:01 pm | #
I'm going out to a charity shop to buy the embroidery threads they have there. I fought over this in my mind last night, because I really don't need any more thread. But it is there.
Echidne of the snakes |
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06.23.07 - 4:01 pm | #
Just because I went out to Glen Echo this morning and they have pottery yurts with gorgeous plants outside and weeds growing on the roofs doesn't mean that I'm going to take a pottery class at Glen Echo. I have more discipline than that.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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06.23.07 - 4:04 pm | #
You'll use it eventually. Embroider on!!!
smooches
I have in mind a breast triptych. With naked breasts padded with filling, in all sorts of shapes and colors. To go with the idea of a breast examination. But I'm not sure if I ever get to any of my ideas at this rate.
Echidne of the snakes |
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06.23.07 - 4:04 pm | #
Just heard on the History Channel that people ate cats and rats during the Seige of Paris "in the 1890s." They flashed it on a graphic too.
What the fuck; close enough.
stencil |
06.23.07 - 4:04 pm | #
From down below, for your amusment, comment, and smartass retorts:
Modern accounting requires that corporations, state governments and local governments count expenses immediately when a transaction occurs, even if the payment will be made later.
The federal government does not follow the rule, so promises for Social Security and Medicare don't show up when the government reports its financial condition.
Not to mention the clusterfuck in Iraq being paid for "off budget", therefore never showing up in the "official" accounting of Federal spending.
This is a trick that El Fucktardo's dipshit of a father used to cover up the S&L bailout that one of his other wastrel sons, the bankrobber Neil, particpated in.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
06.23.07 - 4:05 pm | #
Hecate,
You gonna be a potter, eh?
DWD |
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06.23.07 - 4:05 pm | #
It will be so easy to place blame for who lost Iraq on your shoulders and the other far left blogs. Bill Kristol will roll it out on Fox News Sunday. Follow up by Barnes and Kondrake to hammer it home. We will hang this war's conclusion around the necks of the left and they can do nothing about it,as always. They will trot out Donna Brazile to say it wasn't her fault. Gotta love them apples.
Big Fitz |
06.23.07 - 4:06 pm | #
There are OTHER blogs? I once found something with a name like "Doughy Mere", got scared and turned my computer off.
How do I find the others?
.
Agent Orange |
06.23.07 - 4:06 pm | #
My asparagus, planted 3 yrs ago, has gone ape shit. Should have harvested some about a month ago. Huge, not sure what to do next.
ErinPDX |
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06.23.07 - 4:06 pm | #
I have in mind a breast triptych. With naked breasts padded with filling, in all sorts of shapes and colors. To go with the idea of a breast examination.
You are amazing. That sounds like something that a huge conference of docs should commission and for which you should get paid thousands. How much nicer that would be to see when I go for my mammogram than those deliberately calming and neutral watercolors of the sea that hang in my radiologists' office.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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06.23.07 - 4:06 pm | #
Just heard on the History Channel that people ate cats and rats during the Seige of Paris "in the 1890s." They flashed it on a graphic too.
What the fuck; close enough.
It will be so easy to place blame for who lost Iraq on your shoulders and the other far left blogs. Bill Kristol will roll it out on Fox News Sunday. Follow up by Barnes and Kondrake to hammer it home. We will hang this war's conclusion around the necks of the left and they can do nothing about it,as always. They will trot out Donna Brazile to say it wasn't her fault. Gotta love them apples.
Big Fitz
so, you admit to uding liberaqls as scapegoats?
that really is a weak arguement
based on the early work of goerbelslls, I believe
olexicon, at woik |
06.23.07 - 4:10 pm | #
Auggy got an A in abstinence education, the only non failing grade in tenth grade.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 4:11 pm | #
Echidne sez:
I have in mind a breast triptych. With naked breasts padded with filling, in all sorts of shapes and colors. To go with the idea of a breast examination. But I'm not sure if I ever get to any of my ideas at this rate.
I think he's actually admitting the war is lost.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted |
06.23.07 - 4:11 pm | #
Auggy got an A in abstinence education
it only counts if it is voluntary.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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06.23.07 - 4:12 pm | #
It's not solid when I get done with it Snow. The steaks are battered, egg yolk washed, battered again, fried, then put in a caramalized onion gravy for 3 hours in the onion. Tait or Ted Stevens could eat it easily.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 4:12 pm | #
In her mind the sensual aspects of creating her art were the very best part of the experience. Though she was proud of her work when it was finished: this was not the primary motivating factor. Long after finishing something she refused to simply see it. Instead she chose to remember what if felt like when she was creating it. This difference was important and would continue to lead her onward pursuing her ultimate goal: being able to express physically the thoughts and feelings that she was experiencing at that very moment of creation.
Still, seeking the understanding of the physical need for creation had always been, since she was a child, her primary motivation. Because the experience was all-encompassing, she spent a considerable amount of her time and motivation trying to understand the satisfaction she received when she molded the material with her fingers.
Even when she was not working, her world had become dominated by the physical aspects of our existence. Everything in her life had been measured for its value on a scale whose gradations were placed by her perception of their physical attributes. It was no longer good enough to have a simple cup of coffee: something more was demanded. Instead of grocery store-bought coffee she now went to a specialty store where the owner created blends that satisfied her needs. Instead of the homogenized and manufactured brands sold in the stores, it was wild, free, and intoxicating. Even the smell was enough to bring her good feelings. Every time she purchased another pound the smell would permeate her car and more often than not she would undo the clasp on the bag and breathe in the rich aroma.
It was not longer good enough to just eat whatever was convenient or easy. Instead her state of acuity demanded something more. Whether it was the homemade pasta or soups she created herself from the freshest ingredients: whatever she prepared had to pay homage to her sensual needs.
These demands went far beyond the mere physical need of eating and extended so deeply into her life that she did not even recognize the tendrils that surrounded and encompassed her being. Whether it was the satin sheets on her bed or the lufa sponge in the shower or soft snug-fitting clothing she preferred — all of these things were expressions of her physical being.
Even though she had never been athletic as a child: she now taken up a regimen of daily exercise and running. She was not doing this for the health benefits — though she accepted these — rather it was for the experience of pushing her body physically. It was not the jogging that was important. Rather it was the level of physical consciousness that the running brought her. For with each mile she ran, her body became more alive
This need for physical sensation had been a part of her life since her mother had first guided her hands into the clay of the pottery she was forming. Her mother was a potter of some renown
DWD |
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06.23.07 - 4:12 pm | #
I think he's actually admitting the war is lost.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted
that too
olexicon, at woik |
06.23.07 - 4:12 pm | #
Watching President Bush getting pilloried by grassroots conservatives and his Republican allies alike usually tops any progressive's list of life's simple pleasures. But as Trent Lott and Mark Kirk showed this week, seeing the Congressional GOP get its hate on when it comes to Bush's immigration initiatives has become a truly disturbing spectacle.
I read the blog today, oh boy
1000 comments in a pun-filled thread
And though the snark was kind of mean,
And made you feel unclean,
Now they know how many posts will crash the Haloscan machine
I'd love to roll your blog...
Woke up
Fell out of bed
Dialed up and scratched my head
Found my way downstairs and read a post
Looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my blog, grabbed my board
Made a post in seconds flat
Opened Eschaton and had snark
And somebody whored and I click onto a dream
The steaks are battered, egg yolk washed, battered again, fried, then put in a caramalized onion gravy for 3 hours in the onion.
Why put them in an onion?
Snow, Contrary |
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06.23.07 - 4:15 pm | #
tri -- before you leave for bypass surgery --
Is there anyplace online to find out who's playing where in Asheville? I combed the tubes the other night and found bupkis. (No, on the paper's website I found some band profiles that sounded interesting, so there's one thing.)
Or is there an alternative paper? I looked online -- no luck.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 4:15 pm | #
Seige of Paris "in the 1890s." They flashed it on a graphic too.
What the fuck; close enough.
I am skilled that way Snow.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 4:17 pm | #
I'm going out to a charity shop to buy the embroidery threads they have there. I fought over this in my mind last night, because I really don't need any more thread. But it is there.
Echidne
I have this discussion with myself every time I go to a fabric store. I have already grown out of my sewing room. Heehee.
ql-white haired |
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06.23.07 - 4:17 pm | #
I am skilled that way Snow.
Well, I am now hungry for chicken fried steak. What temp is the oven?
Snow, Contrary |
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06.23.07 - 4:18 pm | #
I'd love to go out and do something, but after my Friday shots, I got nothing.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted |
06.23.07 - 4:19 pm | #
I think maybe the History Channel has the doughy pantload as a fact checker.
stencil |
06.23.07 - 4:19 pm | #
I have this discussion with myself every time I go to a fabric store.
Listen to your Inner Light. And if it says not to buy stuff, tell it to fuck off.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 4:19 pm | #
Christine Todd Whitman to Testify Monday
Despite initially refusing, Whitman agreed to testify about how her agency handled airquality issues at Ground Zero.
It will be the first time a top federal official will publicly respond to questions about the thousands of Ground Zero workers and lower Manhattan residents who believe they were sickened by toxins in the dust.
She will face Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan), who has already slammed her as a liar for calling the air quality safe.
"I don't think it's going to be any fun at all," she told Thompson. "[But] I'm tired of having to be on the defensive about something I think we did very well."
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 4:20 pm | #
US band The Killers are preparing to headline Glastonbury Festival's second full day as festival-goers shrug off muddy conditions on the site.
Further showers have hit an already-muddy festival site at Worthy Farm near Pilton, Somerset.
But the conditions have not deterred most of the 177,500 festival-goers, who are seeing acts including The Kooks, Paul Weller and Babyshambles.
Iggy and the Stooges, Editors and Paolo Nutini are also on the bill.
The weather has been less severe than at 2005's festival, when flash floods hit the Somerset site.
It's a 375 oven. I take 3 onions, dump them in the frying oil. (It's a shallow fry) caramalize them, make a roux with flour, then add half milk, half beef broth, pour the gravy over the steaks, and 3 hours in the oven, served over rice.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 4:22 pm | #
Despite initially refusing, Whitman agreed to testify about how her agency handled airquality issues at Ground Zero.
They should haul Rudy in front of that committee as well. He's an accomplice to that act of mass murder.
Richard |
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06.23.07 - 4:23 pm | #
Sounds like I should update my sucky blog.
Gomez - Sucky Blogger |
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06.23.07 - 4:23 pm | #
It's a 375 oven. I take 3 onions, dump them in the frying oil. (It's a shallow fry) caramalize them, make a roux with flour, then add half milk, half beef broth, pour the gravy over the steaks, and 3 hours in the oven, served over rice.
I can boil water.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 4:24 pm | #
Just reading this thread.
Very interesting! From contemplating pottery to embroidery skein to breast art to a blog-version of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" to elitish Chardonnay.
This is why I love Eschaton, and this is why I come here.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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06.23.07 - 4:24 pm | #
trifecta, do you use cubed steaks, or what?
mer |
06.23.07 - 4:25 pm | #
yeah, I use cube steaks mer.
I call bullshit on NTodd. He doesn't know how to boil water.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 4:25 pm | #
one day I will go to Glastonbury, gotta do it once in ones life!
Moonbootica, Ninjabi
The Killers are teh HOT, even though the lead singer is a devout Morman.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 4:26 pm | #
I can boil water.
HA!
I got you beat, you wanker. I can make Coffee.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted |
06.23.07 - 4:26 pm | #
i tried to boil once, but i couldn't keep myself from watching the pot.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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06.23.07 - 4:27 pm | #
I call bullshit on NTodd. He doesn't know how to boil water.
Do so! I have a book with a recipe for hot water.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 4:27 pm | #
They should haul Rudy in front of that committee as well. He's an accomplice to that act of mass murder.
Rudy is far too busy trying to get firefighters that don't know him firsthand to endorse his candidacy based on repeated bleatings of 9/11! 9/11! 9/11!
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
06.23.07 - 4:27 pm | #
Why doesn't Mr. Atrios want me to read his blog? Has he been talking shit about me?
Allie |
06.23.07 - 4:27 pm | #
one day I will go to Glastonbury, gotta do it once in ones life!
Go before you wake up one day and say "who ARE all these bands??"
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.23.07 - 4:28 pm | #
Why doesn't Mr. Atrios want me to read his blog? Has he been talking shit about me?
Allie
I got you beat, you wanker. I can make Coffee.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted
i can boil coffee.
once in high school i tried to make water, but blew up the beaker.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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06.23.07 - 4:28 pm | #
Just reading this thread.
Very interesting! From contemplating pottery to embroidery skein to breast art to a blog-version of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" to elitish Chardonnay.
This is why I love Eschaton, and this is why I come here.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 4:24 pm | #
Condi Rice made no friends when she visited Blackburn, Lancashire and had no idea of the reference.
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 4:28 pm | #
Well, I've been cooking all week since there is no take out delivery except really awful pizza so we're gonna have hamburgers and french fries for dinner. Enough with the health crap.
ql-white haired |
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06.23.07 - 4:29 pm | #
This is why I love Eschaton, and this is why I come here.
This is why I love Eschaton, and this is why I come here.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
I come here for the free food.
Gomez - Sucky Blogger |
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06.23.07 - 4:29 pm | #
Yes.
trifecta
Figures. Maybe I should follow him around and heckle him.
Except I have to work...
Allie |
06.23.07 - 4:29 pm | #
If they want Rudy there should bury a firefighter during the hearing.
THEN he'll show up!!!
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.23.07 - 4:29 pm | #
When boiling water for coffee, start with cold water.
mer |
06.23.07 - 4:29 pm | #
I come here for the free food.
The tiger prawns are fabulous!
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
06.23.07 - 4:30 pm | #
Why doesn't Mr. Atrios want me to read his blog? Has he been talking shit about me?
Allie
Something about a scar and a butt.
Gomez - Sucky Blogger |
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06.23.07 - 4:30 pm | #
I come here for the free food.
Gomez - Sucky Blogger
i came here for an argument.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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06.23.07 - 4:30 pm | #
I come here for the free food.
Gomez - Sucky Blogger
Have you tried the olives stuffed with feta, packed in oil? My heart is saying no, no, no, but my mouth is saying, OH, YES!
Allie |
06.23.07 - 4:31 pm | #
Hmm. Another sign of boredom. Anybody been banned for it yet>
blerb |
06.23.07 - 4:32 pm | #
Following Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that his office is not a part of the executive branch of the US government, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) plans to introduce an amendment to the the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill to cut funding for Cheney's office.
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 4:32 pm | #
Go before you wake up one day and say "who ARE all these bands??"
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 4:28 pm | #
Looks like I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted |
06.23.07 - 4:37 pm | #
I'm always amazed when someone posts something in comments that has been the subject of a thread a few hours earlier.
Doesn't the past exist on blogs?
stencil |
06.23.07 - 4:37 pm | #
The civil defense (tornado) sirens here...that's what Puck howls at.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
He also barks at your daughter's Ex-boyfriend Who Looks Like Glenn Beck.
Gomez - Sucky Blogger |
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06.23.07 - 4:37 pm | #
Doesn't the past exist on blogs?
In the realm of the infinite, there is no past.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted |
06.23.07 - 4:39 pm | #
Puck like Gomez. Gomez smell like biscuit to Puck.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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06.23.07 - 4:39 pm | #
With that, I'm off to play Resurrection Of Evil.
smalfish, tinfoil hatted |
06.23.07 - 4:40 pm | #
Do yer dawgies howl along with ambulance sirens ? Man, I love that...
The civil defense (tornado) sirens here...that's what Puck howls at.
Sirens? They don't hear those. Wind. Other dogs. Skunks. Cats. Nothing. They bark at those.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 4:41 pm | #
"Doesn't the past exist on blogs?"
--stencil
Probably happens when someone enters and doesn't read previous posts that require scrolling down.
mer |
06.23.07 - 4:41 pm | #
Doesn't the past exist on blogs?
Those who ignore the archives are doomed to repeatedly link.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 4:41 pm | #
My friend Nick has a Japanese GF. I love it when she calls him Nick-san
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 4:42 pm | #
trifecta -- sorry, not sure if you didn't see my question or are ignoring it: Can you give me a hint where to find info about what bands are playing where next weekend, or even what clubs tend to have live music?
(And if you ignore this I'll probably, finally, get the message :>) )
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 4:42 pm | #
Hey, did you folks know we invaded Iraq? WTF? That's so STOOPIT!
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 4:42 pm | #
NTodd,
How do you start a computer when the person who had the computer before had passwords but then forgot them. Can you hack into it to get the OS going?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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06.23.07 - 4:42 pm | #
No sorry Virginia. I was lost in space.
Let me look it up real quick.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 4:42 pm | #
Hey, did you folks know we invaded Iraq? WTF? That's so STOOPIT!
NTodd, Boring MEQUA
You obviously didn't watch the Family Guy time travel episode.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 4:43 pm | #
let's get meta
Jim
Let's go Mets.
R. McGeddon |
06.23.07 - 4:44 pm | #
The takeover of Gaza by Hamas was a "coup against legitimacy" according to the president of Egypt.
The comments came on Saturday, two days before Hosni Mubarak hosts a regional summit that is seen as an attempt to isolate the group
isn't it a bit hypocritical for Mubarak to criticised Hamas when his own record of democracy is so shit?
Moonbootica, Ninjabi |
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06.23.07 - 4:44 pm | #
Time to marinate my chicken and then start my black-eyed peas cooking. I haven't quite decided what to put in them yet, other than some chicken stock and onions. The usual smoked pork poducts are right out, due to the intended recipients. Maybe I'll toss in a chipotle or two....
blerb |
06.23.07 - 4:44 pm | #
Hey, did you folks know we invaded Iraq? WTF? That's so STOOPIT!
NTodd, Boring MEQUA
amazing but dood we covered that on a thread on april 11, 2003 weve moved on sucky recipez and live music venuz
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.23.07 - 4:45 pm | #
Time to marinate my chicken and then start my black-eyed peas cooking. I haven't quite decided what to put in them yet, other than some chicken stock and onions. The usual smoked pork poducts are right out, due to the intended recipients. Maybe I'll toss in a chipotle or two....
blerb | 06.23.07 - 4:44 pm | #
I'm making Coca Cola Blak, Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts, and Kozy Shack Rice pudding for dinner tonight. Yum!
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 4:46 pm | #
The Smashing Pumpkins are playing here Friday the 29th Virginia at the Orange Peel. Eeek. just checked. They are sold out.
I will look around for smaller clubs now.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 4:46 pm | #
dood u could hack into the os but i would find yur friend and torture him to give u teh passwordz
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.23.07 - 4:47 pm | #
The Smashing Pumpkins are playing here Friday the 29th Virginia at the Orange Peel. Eeek. just checked. They are sold out.
Yeah, saw that, not what we had in mind, anyway. We were thinking more along the lines of pub-crawling related activities.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 4:47 pm | #
I'm making Coca Cola Blak, Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts, and Kozy Shack Rice pudding for dinner tonight. Yum!
Gilly Gonzylon
And a syringe of insulin for dessert, perhaps?
blerb |
06.23.07 - 4:47 pm | #
The Smashing Pumpkins are playing here Friday the 29th Virginia at the Orange Peel. Eeek. just checked. They are sold out.
I will look around for smaller clubs now.
trifecta
The World is a Vampire!
DWD |
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06.23.07 - 4:47 pm | #
How do you start a computer when the person who had the computer before had passwords but then forgot them. Can you hack into it to get the OS going?
Yes, there are ways. Do you need to recover data from the harddrive, or just want to be able to use it as a pre-owned machine?
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 4:47 pm | #
I'm making Coca Cola Blak, Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts, and Kozy Shack Rice pudding for dinner tonight. Yum!
Gilly Gonzylon
I'm having Kashmir Spinach and JW Black and soda...I may make onion soup later, or just eat Firey Habanero Doritos -- I haven't decided.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 4:48 pm | #
We will hang this war's conclusion around the necks of the left.
Big Shitz
"We"???
Terry C, End Bush's War Now! |
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06.23.07 - 4:48 pm | #
NTodd,
How do you start a computer when the person who had the computer before had passwords but then forgot them. Can you hack into it to get the OS going?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 4:42 pm | #
Easiest thing to try is to boot the machine in safe modeby tapping on the F8 key as the computer starts up, then trying to change the passwords while the system is in safe mode.
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 4:48 pm | #
"They're" really quite butch.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 4:49 pm | #
I think I'm going to have some leftover cheese enchiladas, refried black beans and rice. And salsa. And chips.
mer |
06.23.07 - 4:49 pm | #
And I got the blues damn it.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 4:49 pm | #
Do you need to recover data from the harddrive, or just want to be able to use it as a pre-owned machine?
It's Gomez', actually. His secretary had it for a while, but she forgot the password and she doesn't have the OS boot disk (XP). I think he just wants it to work to play on the Internet and look at WORD documents from home.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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06.23.07 - 4:49 pm | #
Sorry, Ntodd, didn't know you read the vicki question. Over to you, aYUP.
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 4:50 pm | #
Thanks, tri! We are really looking forward to our excellent adventure in the montains, with a nice stopover in your lovely burg!
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 4:50 pm | #
Just heard on the History Channel that people ate cats and rats during the Seige of Paris "in the 1890s." They flashed it on a graphic too.
What the fuck; close enough.
Oy vey.
Try 1870, dumbshits.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
If it's not about Hitler.........
Terry C, End Bush's War Now! |
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06.23.07 - 4:50 pm | #
The civil defense (tornado) sirens here...that's what Puck howls at.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
The noon test used to set off every dog on the block.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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06.23.07 - 4:50 pm | #
Try the microbreweries out Virginia. They are mighty fine. Mapquest is your friend. Look up Highland brewery and Asheville brewing company and give them visits.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 4:51 pm | #
I think I'm going to have some leftover cheese enchiladas, refried black beans and rice. And salsa. And chips.
mer | 06.23.07 - 4:49 pm | #
Would that be refried-refried black beans then ?
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 4:51 pm | #
why settle for 2nd suckiest?
jdw
Variety? Point of reference? Kinda like when you only watch the top 5 figure skaters in the world, all those quad sowcows (or whatever they are) look pretty standard. But if you watch the bottom 5, you get unjaded very quickly.
Or maybe Mr. Atrios is trying for a better class of commenter.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 4:51 pm | #
a glitch in the matrix
pigboy |
06.23.07 - 4:51 pm | #
Look up Highland brewery and Asheville brewing company and give them visits.
trifecta
Cool, will do, and thanks again!
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 4:51 pm | #
Easiest thing to try is to boot the machine in safe modeby tapping on the F8 key as the computer starts up, then trying to change the passwords while the system is in safe mode.
Uh oh - Lets Get Ready to Rhumba !!!!!
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 4:53 pm | #
Typical rightwing scumbaggery. Their cowardly leaders, who "had other priorities during the Vietnam War," start the Iraq War, based on lies, an atrocity they then compound with gross operational incompetence, thereby bringing about a murderous insurgency and civil war that kills Americans and Iraqis indiscriminately.
Then after four years of war and death and $500 billion pissed away in one egregious failure after another, they say they will "hang the war's conclusion around the neck of the left!"
'Cause you can just thow them out since they're garbage anyway? :P
I don't really know what I'm talking about....
Allie |
06.23.07 - 4:54 pm | #
Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the blog. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no blog.
Neo: There is no blog?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the blog that bends, it is only yourself.
pigboy |
06.23.07 - 4:54 pm | #
Salsa restaurant downtown is very casual, but you will enjoy. Just heading downtown is a can't miss for food. Thai, lebanese, greek, cuban, japanese options all available.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 4:54 pm | #
dood that story is true tehy raced ambulances from teh front and they had a battle of a sedan and then they ran out of food so they invented ratatouille.
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.23.07 - 4:54 pm | #
Then after four years of war and death and $500 billion pissed away in one egregious failure after another, they say they will "hang the war's conclusion around the neck of the left!"
Fat chance!
Rudy - Free Woody
All but the very dumbest wingers know that.
Terry C, End Bush's War Now! |
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06.23.07 - 4:55 pm | #
You'll have a good time, I'm sure.
mer
I'm sure; one of the friends who's going along has been there several times and loves it. We're just passing through for a night, but we want to get the most from it.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 4:55 pm | #
Caesar Salad was actually invented in the 1920s by Caesar Salad
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 4:55 pm | #
It's Gomez', actually. His secretary had it for a while, but she forgot the password and she doesn't have the OS boot disk (XP). I think he just wants it to work to play on the Internet and look at WORD documents from home.
Ah. Either get a 3rd party cracker tool or just reformat the sucker (easiest to do if you don't care to recover any data/apps).
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 4:55 pm | #
"Would that be refried-refried black beans then ?"
--Gilly Gonzylon
Depends. If I put then back on the stove, yes. If I am lazy and zap them in the microwave, no.
mer |
06.23.07 - 4:56 pm | #
The entire Bush clan should be exiled from the USA. This should include Bushdaddy, Bushboy, Bushbarbara, Jeb, Neil and the other wastrel, lying siblings of the current pretend POTUS.
I would suggest either Afghanistan or Iraq as possible relocation venues.
Rudy - Free Woody |
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06.23.07 - 4:56 pm | #
Thai, lebanese, greek, cuban, japanese options all available.
trifecta
Great. How's Ed Boudreaux's BBQ? Or Ruby's? (The music at ruby's doesn't excite me, but I can get hot over barbecue.)
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 4:59 pm | #
Just heard on the History Channel that people ate cats and rats during the Seige of Paris "in the 1890s." They flashed it on a graphic too.
What the fuck; close enough.
sorry, i never get sick of doing that.
life is brutal, but death...
charley |
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06.23.07 - 5:00 pm | #
Ah. Either get a 3rd party cracker tool or just reformat the sucker (easiest to do if you don't care to recover any data/apps).
NTodd, Boring MEQUA
I'm trying a cracker tool tonight.
If that fails its reformat time.
Gomez - Sucky Blogger |
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06.23.07 - 5:00 pm | #
Sorry to butt in, but don't they need the OS boot disk if they're going to do that?
Boot disks are easy to create.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 5:00 pm | #
How about Bora Bora...
Allie
Bora Bora is almost heaven on earth. The Bush clan deserve something more like hell.
Rudy - Free Woody |
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06.23.07 - 5:00 pm | #
today is spicy saturday at jdw's, which my wife loves because i'm cooking.
tonight is tabasco shrimp and a nice garden salad, fresh from the back yard.
jdw |
06.23.07 - 5:01 pm | #
1890
United Mine Workers of America is founded.
Wilhelm II of Germany fires Otto von Bismarck.
Britain receives Zanzibar from Germany in exchange for Heligoland.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Sherman Silver Purchase Act become United States law.
Battle at Wounded Knee, South Dakota: the US 7th Cavalry Regiment tries to disarm camp & shooting starts: 153 Lakota Sioux and 25 troops are killed; about 150 flee the scene (see Wounded Knee Massacre).
Vincent van Gogh shoots himself in the chest and dies two days later.
This could turn into one of the worst droughts in american history.
suo
Wow! I thought that said this could turn into one of the worst donoughts in american history.
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06.23.07 - 5:01 pm | #
I think you should all stop reading this blog and find some returning soldiers to spit on.
Of course, most of them have had their tours extended, so they won't be returning until the war is over, so you'll have to save your spit. And when they get home they'll either be so brain-damaged from wounds, or so insane from stress and PTSD, they won't know the difference between spit and rain. But if it wasn't for you waiting to spit on those returning soldiers, they'd all be home by now and we'd have won this war.
""...they say they will "hang the war's conclusion around the neck of the left!'
Fat chance!"
--Rudy
What I find amazing it that they finally are admitting defeat and trying to find a place to hang the blame. I thought we were "going to win, no matter what it takes," or some such.
mer |
06.23.07 - 5:01 pm | #
The Bush clan deserve something more like hell.
Rudy - Free Woody
Send them back to Texas, then.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 5:01 pm | #
Bora Bora is almost heaven on earth. The Bush clan deserve something more like hell.
Rudy - Free Woody
I was trying to come up with somewhere that cannibals live...
Allie |
06.23.07 - 5:01 pm | #
I thought Casear Salad was invented by Cesar Romero
olexicon, at woik |
06.23.07 - 5:01 pm | #
The problem isn't too little insurance, the problem is too much health insurance.
Yes, that's exactly what the scores of millions of uninsured are saying.
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 5:01 pm | #
Only been to Ed Boudreaux's. It's good. Nothing special. It's notcajun. The name makes you think otherwise.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 5:02 pm | #
Britain receives Zanzibar from Germany in exchange for Heligoland.
and a conditional draft pick.
Richard |
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06.23.07 - 5:02 pm | #
I would suggest either Afghanistan or Iraq as possible relocation venues.
Rudy - Free Woody
He and Dick will build a fake ranch in Dubai.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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06.23.07 - 5:02 pm | #
Send them back to Texas, then.
V for Virginia
Good choice. Ozona. With no pensions.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 5:02 pm | #
Trust me on eating at Salsa.
Temptations for dessert. Great upscale desserts and cocktails there.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 5:02 pm | #
Employer based health insurance has been so successful, and so economically efficient, that it has led to employees demanding more and more coverage, which has driven up the costs of care. Employer based insurance needs reformed not abolished.
glen |
06.23.07 - 5:02 pm | #
This could turn into one of the worst droughts in american history.
suo
The Okefenokee is on fire, Tennessess is suffering the worst drought ever recorded, and Houston is so far ahead of normal rainfall we all think we've been relocated to the Seattle area (minus the cool vibe of grunge and caffeine).
Employer based health insurance has been so successful, and so economically efficient, that it has led to employees demanding more and more coverage, which has driven up the costs of care. Employer based insurance needs reformed not abolished.
glen | 06.23.07 - 5:02 pm | #
The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony in northeast Africa.
Léon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest Constans as French Minister of the Interior.
The longest bridge in Britain, the Forth Bridge (1,710 ft) in Scotland, is opened.
The first ever official County Championship cricket match begins in Bristol. Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by eight wickets.
King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir, and his daughter Princess Wilhelmina becomes Queen, causing Luxembourg (who required a male heir) to declare independence.
There's no evidence large and medium sized employers are dropping there health insurance obligations. Coverage is unchanged since 2000.
glen |
06.23.07 - 5:05 pm | #
I thought Casear Salad was invented by Cesar Romero
I have to chuckle about the Gore-Obama link...they're doing the video to Sweet Home Alabama, and, as always at kos, the commenters lose the over-riding context of the post and start to get meta about the fact that Lynryd Skynryd was a confederate lovin', racist band. I'm sure that most people who haven't listened to their music in any depth would not have known that, including the Young Turks.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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06.23.07 - 5:05 pm | #
glen | 06.23.07 - 5:02 pm | #
Oh, I know what you should do!!!! You should bite me!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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06.23.07 - 5:06 pm | #
Why do you have to be employed by a company who provides health insurance, or be the spouse or daughter of such a person? Isn't it enough to be an American that you don't have to be "owned" by someone to get healthcare?
Allie |
06.23.07 - 5:06 pm | #
Oh, I know what you should do!!!! You should bite me!
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
There's no evidence large and medium sized employers are dropping there health insurance obligations. Coverage is unchanged since 2000.
glen
Saying it doesn't make it so.
Rmj, Sylar's Evil Twin |
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06.23.07 - 5:06 pm | #
arge and medium sized employers are dropping there health insurance obligations
AHHHHHHHHHH! Hecate! Save me!
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 5:06 pm | #
Why do you have to be employed by a company who provides health insurance, or be the spouse or daughter of such a person? Isn't it enough to be an American that you don't have to be "owned" by someone to get healthcare?
Allie | 06.23.07 - 5:06 pm | #
why not ask someone who'd enjoy it? i know just the person....
jdw |
06.23.07 - 5:07 pm | #
Eliminate the "middleman" in healthcare, which is the Insurance Industry and you eliminate the "marketing, advertising and paperwork costs of healthcare."
Put it all under Medicare as a singlepayer, cover everyone, focus on preventative care and streamline claim payments.
The net result would be a healthcare system that costs less than our current one and provides better healthcare for everyone.
Rudy - Free Woody |
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06.23.07 - 5:07 pm | #
Why do you have to be employed by a company who provides health insurance, or be the spouse or daughter of such a person? Isn't it enough to be an American that you don't have to be "owned" by someone to get healthcare?
Allie
Well, obviously, this should apply to women and children.
So, what's the problem?
Rmj, Sylar's Evil Twin |
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06.23.07 - 5:08 pm | #
There's no evidence large and medium sized employers are dropping there health insurance obligations.
Really? Tell that to my ex-husband, who now works for a major corporate bank and has shitty health insurance. Tell that to the people who work in manufacturing in my city. At my last job, they raised the deductibles, and we had to kick in the first $ 1,500 during my final year of employment. Coverage went down, and the out of pocket costs to employees went up 15 times.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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06.23.07 - 5:08 pm | #
I had a girl friend like that once. She passed a lot of other tests though.
spinoza |
06.23.07 - 5:09 pm | #
"Large and medium sized employers" are offshoring their jobs, so that's a small problem.
Local call center just announced 400 layoffs to move the work to "united states and dominican republic" work sites. Wonder how that'll break down? Anyway, that 400 folks won't have health coverage unless and until they find other jobs, which may or may not offer health insurance.
I don't know why I'm bothering, I guess I'm just bored.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 5:09 pm | #
"
"The Vice President has a choice to make. If he believes his legal
case, his office has no business being funded as part of the executive
branch. "
We live in surreal times.
EkCenTriK |
06.23.07 - 5:09 pm | #
I'll never settle for second-suckiest.
Don't be fooled by cheap imitations.
SteveLG |
06.23.07 - 5:09 pm | #
I've always wanted to go to Marfa.
I don't know why.
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spork_incident
Marfa Stewart? I hear she can stuff a mean turkey.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 5:10 pm | #
"...Tennessess is suffering the worst drought ever recorded,..."
--Rjm,
Yes. In East TN, we have had rain twice (not very much either time) in the last six weeks, if I remember correctly. Everything is brown.
Last weekend, I heard that most of the crops are failing. Agriculture is a huge part of TN income.
mer |
06.23.07 - 5:10 pm | #
Many employers have expressed serious concerns about rising health care costs; to date, however, aggregate data indicate that any reductions in employers’ offers of insurance or the scope of coverage they provide have been modest.
Peter Orszag, Democrat, Congressional Budget Office.
Maybe around the time Botswana, Congo, and the Central African Republic institute free high-quality healthcare for everyone, the assholes who run our Media Industrial Coplex will get so ahamed that they'll let us have it, too.
Naah. They have no shame.
blerb |
06.23.07 - 5:10 pm | #
In india, there is a soap opera based on a call center and the mean spirited American callers. True.
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 5:10 pm | #
The conflict in Darfur has been driven by climate change and environmental degradation, which threaten to trigger a succession of new wars across Africa unless more is done to contain the damage, according to a UN report published yesterday.
"Darfur ... holds grim lessons for other countries at risk," an 18-month study of Sudan by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) concludes.
With rainfall down by up to 30% over 40 years and the Sahara advancing by well over a mile every year, tensions between farmers and herders over disappearing pasture and evaporating water holes threaten to reignite the half-century war between north and south Sudan, held at bay by a precarious 2005 peace accord.
"ast weekend, I heard that most of the crops are failing. "
why don't they get a sprinkler?
jdw |
06.23.07 - 5:12 pm | #
I had a girl friend like that once. She passed a lot of other tests though.
The Driver's Door Test?
NTodd, Boring MEQUA |
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06.23.07 - 5:12 pm | #
It was tough work being a Marfa Steward.
Who would win in a fight between Rachel Ray and Martha Sewart using spatulas and Black Hawk helicopters?
spinoza |
06.23.07 - 5:12 pm | #
Hey QL, I'm in the midst of a baby-quilt frenzy (there's a damn population explosion going on among friends & family) and I'm so sick of pastels & cute little pink & blue log cabin blocks I could scream out loud.
So I think my next project will be jewel-tone batiks.
Or should I go with skulls and flames and motorcycles?
strawhat ♥'s Al too |
06.23.07 - 5:13 pm | #
Healthcare should not be a "for profit business."
Getting rich on the misery of others is reprehensible, and the Health Insurance Executives who pay themselves obscenely high salaries to deny people care or only offer coverage to healthy people, prove it.
Rudy - Free Woody |
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06.23.07 - 5:13 pm | #
I hear she can suck a golf ball through a garden hose, too.
I have friends who know her. Es veridad.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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06.23.07 - 5:13 pm | #
I had a girl friend like that once. She passed a lot of other tests though.
The Driver's Door Test?
I am a fox rather than a hedgehog when it comes to human relations.
spinoza |
06.23.07 - 5:13 pm | #
"The most recent estimates indicate that about 45 million people were uninsured at any given point in 2005. Both the high cost of health care and the evolution of employer-based health insurance affect the number of people who have coverage. Higher premiums discourage people—especially those who have lower income and who perceive themselves as healthy—from purchasing insurance. People who are not employed or who choose to work at a firm not offering insurance may have to seek coverage in the individual market, where policy terms and tax benefits are generally much less attractive than those for employer-sponsored plans."
"Choose to work at a firm not offering insurance" -- you gotta love it.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 5:13 pm | #
Martha would kill Rachel Ray. I would be glad too.
It would be totally delish!
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 5:13 pm | #
Eight American servicemen and one British soldier were reported today to have been killed in Iraq, bringing the four-day death toll to at least 25 as insurgents continue to use huge roadside bombs to rip through combat vehicles.
trifecta |
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06.23.07 - 5:15 pm | #
There's no evidence large and medium sized employers are dropping there health insurance obligations. Coverage is unchanged since 2000.
glen
you have no idea what you are talking about.
linda |
06.23.07 - 5:15 pm | #
1890
The Early Bird Society celebrates the millenium.
"Fred Basset" debuts in the London Times.
North Carolina declares it's version of barbecue superior to that of South Carolinas, sparking a bar-b-war that endures to present day.
Popeye goes on first date with Olive Oyl.
Al Gore Sr. invents the telephone.
Father Time |
06.23.07 - 5:15 pm | #
I hear she can suck a golf ball through a garden hose, too.
V for Virginia
I heard that about Christy Brinkley. Although it was my sister who told my, so I question her source of information.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 5:16 pm | #
But that's not me...nope.
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spork_incident
Well, I guess you could refer to the South Park episode where everyone was eating backwards...
Allie |
06.23.07 - 5:17 pm | #
bringing the four-day death toll to at least 25 as insurgents continue to use huge roadside bombs to rip through combat vehicles.
trifecta
Dog DAMN it.
V for Virginia |
06.23.07 - 5:17 pm | #
SteveLG,
Bought a dozen bottles of Rapidian River Riesling. v. stupid???????
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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06.23.07 - 5:17 pm | #
cool program on history(!?) channel: 'an alien history of planet earth' -- nazis, foo fighters galore...
linda |
06.23.07 - 5:18 pm | #
But if it wasn't for you waiting to spit on those returning soldiers, they'd all be home by now and we'd have won this war.
Dirty blogging hippies.
Rmj, Sylar's Evil Twin
on my new job i met a master sargent. pulled a tour of duty in both theaters. 25 years of service is making him think he should get back in, but i have a feeling that i know why he got out.
just before i took this job i accepted a position for a water restriction enforcement company. annual rainfall in Fl. should be 60 inches, it's 30.
the reason i took the other job, health benefits. they are still too expensive.
my facts may be wrong, but i know how i come down on the right track/wrong track question.
charley |
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06.23.07 - 5:18 pm | #
Hmmm, I guess I've decided. Dinner will be Firey Habanero Doritos and Scotch and water.
To think, yesterday I was doing the Master Cleanse.
I really go to extremes for a Libra...
Allie |
06.23.07 - 5:18 pm | #
And in the meanwhile, Glen, another automotive supplier shuts down in Grand Rapids. 100+ people are losing their jobs and their health care benefits.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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06.23.07 - 5:20 pm | #
Hmmm, I guess I've decided. Dinner will be Firey Habanero Doritos and Scotch and water.
F-U Atrios...we're sticking with you whether you like it or not.
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zoot |
06.23.07 - 5:21 pm | #
"Hey QL, I'm in the midst of a baby-quilt frenzy (there's a damn population explosion going on among friends & family) and I'm so sick of pastels & cute little pink & blue log cabin blocks I could scream out loud."
why do people assume babys only like certain colors? I'd think stronger colors would be just as interesting to a baby/toddler.
Lumpenprolitariot |
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06.23.07 - 5:21 pm | #
And in the meanwhile, Glen, another automotive supplier shuts down in Grand Rapids. 100+ people are losing their jobs and their health care benefits.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
jack never lets a little thing like reality interfere with his rants.
Terry C, End Bush's War Now! |
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06.23.07 - 5:22 pm | #
And in the meanwhile, Glen, another automotive supplier shuts down in Grand Rapids. 100+ people are losing their jobs and their health care benefits.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 5:20 pm | #
Perhaps, but Ann Coulter said that those people are witches and lazy.
glen |
06.23.07 - 5:22 pm | #
media matter type owls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
spinoza |
06.23.07 - 5:22 pm | #
Owls attend the Goddess Lilth. Her feet are owls' feet.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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06.23.07 - 5:22 pm | #
And in the meanwhile, Glen, another automotive supplier shuts down in Grand Rapids. 100+ people are losing their jobs and their health care benefits.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
They should have worked harder. Like Paris Hilton. Or Jenna Bush.
Allie |
06.23.07 - 5:22 pm | #
Perhaps, but Ann Coulter said that those people are witches and lazy.
glen
IXnay on the ITCHway!
Terry C, End Bush's War Now! |
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06.23.07 - 5:22 pm | #
Well, tomorrow's dinner is going to be smoked BBQ chicken, black-eyed peas, mustard and collard greens from the garden, and cornbread.
Tonight it's going to be grassfed ribeye steaks, baked potatoes, grilled asparagus, and salad from the garden.
blerb |
06.23.07 - 5:22 pm | #
girls are too smart to troll.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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06.23.07 - 5:23 pm | #
girls are too smart to troll.
You should see some of the bars I've been in.
spinoza |
06.23.07 - 5:23 pm | #
Well, tomorrow's dinner is going to be smoked BBQ chicken, black-eyed peas, mustard and collard greens from the garden, and cornbread.
Tonight it's going to be grassfed ribeye steaks, baked potatoes, grilled asparagus, and salad from the garden.
blerb | 06.23.07 - 5:22 pm | #
How can you think that far in advance?
Gilly Gonzylon |
06.23.07 - 5:24 pm | #
Or should I go with skulls and flames and motorcycles?
strawha
tell me about it. I made new seat covers and decided, heck I'll quilt curtains too. Oy. Almost finished with cafe curtains for kitchen. The living room will be a bitch. All dull colors. And huuuuuge. Will have to use a very simple pattern.
Damnit, why don't you post some of your work. I hope you are signing the quilts and taking pictures.
ql-white haired |
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06.23.07 - 5:24 pm | #
Lynryd Skynryd was a confederate lovin', racist band. I'm sure that most people who haven't listened to their music in any depth would not have known that, including the Young Turks.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
i'm sure Backslider would have had a comment or two to make about this observation.
i like Skynyrd, even if they are wrong about Neil Young. a southern man definitely needs him around.
charley |
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06.23.07 - 5:37 pm | #