I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
so we'll get bruceblogging. nice.
Must be nice to do nothing but go to ball games and concerts all the time ... 
turd
Bruuuuuuuce!
Have fun, hippy!
A little fishing is good, too, Sinfonian.
~
and
haloscan = sux
Sixth!
Hi virgotex! 
I suggest viewing "McCain's Crazy Laughter" at:
http://www.jedreport.com/
sinfonian just does game shows and Chippendale stuff.
I don't want pix, I want mp3's.
Burrito accomplished!
And yes, I did look douchey in shorts and a leather Titans jacket on the Vino. But I am no longer hungry!
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Oh, yeah, and fishing, too.
I'm thinking I might grow roots on this couch today. Football and such ...
hey Tlazo
There is a very unhappy cat out in the rain next door.
Deadthreaded:
Obama and Biden are radical liberals. They're for raising taxes, federally funding abortions, naming activist judges, and losing wars.
jack
1. Obama will raise taxes on people with an income over $250K. McCain wants to tax health insurance premiums.
2. Federally funding abortions. No. That's a lie.
3. Activist judges? A recent study show that conservative judges are more activist in that they struck down more laws than did liberal judges.
4. Republicans lost the Vietnam War drew the Korean War and mismanaged the Iraq war. Democrats won WW1 and WW2.
Fishing's not a bad way to spend some time....
If you don't put a hook on the line...
Chippendale?
Oh, shit, believe me, no one wants that. No one.
The Kenosha Kid: I don't want pix, I want mp3's.
Okay.
Oh. That's not what you meant?
.
It's trying to rain here. Mom hopes we get at least 1/2" because the sagebrush pollen is driving her crazy.
I swear, that caught my attention, that did, JP.
Question: Is Bruce campaigning for Obama in Philly?
He was hear yesterday or the day before in Ypsi for Obama.
Must be nice to do nothing but go to ball games and concerts all the time ...
not to mention brunches in Barcelona.
not to mention brunches in Barcelona.
Chairman Mo
I guess. If your idea of "nice" is eating stringy, vaguely fish-like things.
Must be nice to do nothing but go to ball games and concerts all the time ...
not to mention brunches in Barcelona.
I'd rather brunch in Barcelona that go to a ball game.
i like this new way of blogging with just single words.
dems = loosers
rethugs = closeted
fundies = neandertals
Bob Herbert: Palin's Alternate Universe.
oog-neet-o = Buttle.
Wrong!
Plantsman, so you are telling us who I am, but what do you say? It was trademark dave that was the 99.9% guy and Chairman mo don't you think?
Oops, now with link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/0...ion&
oref=slogin
i like this new way of blogging with just single words.
dems = loosers
rethugs = closeted
fundies = neandertals
chicago dyke, mellow
Heh=indeed.
Hey Sinf -
Did I miss the memo wherein the "Devil Rays" morphed into the more ecumenical "Rays?" Did little fundies on cat feet lobby for this, or was I just not paying attention?
I wouldn't mind lunching in Barcelona.
plantsman: I swear, that caught my attention, that did, JP.
The geezer grunts, y'mean?
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I don't care who was whom, but your shtick is unmistakeable.
The Undemocratic Party [Jonah Goldberg]
A reader pointed me to this from one of Obama's community blogs:
Sarah Palin is coming to Carson this Saturday. Two days after the Vice Presidential Debate, she wants to show the world that she can come to one of the bluest areas in the bluest state in the Union and have over 10,000 people show up for a rally for her. This is outrageous!!!
Ah, yes, outrageous with three exclamation points that the vice presidential candidate of one of the two major parties wants to have a rally in California. I suppose by this logic Obama should be barred from ever speaking in Red States?
Why don't you try to stop him, Pantload? I'd like to see Obama kick your cowardly fucking ass.
Oh, fuck, not "I know you are, but what am I?" again?
Who cares which troll is what? It's a troll. Fuck 'em and feed 'em beans. End of story.
Hey there, Virgotex!
I think I'll pass along to everyone here a fun thing you turned me on to...
Target Women: Number Two
(Sarah Haskins is wonderful.)
[I know I risk causing the poop troll to break his "regular" schedule and start posting crap now.]
barcelona = neat
calamari = fried
JP's last link = wtfomgbbq
Morning, all
Yup, them weird grunts.
chicago dyke: i like this new way of blogging with just single words.
All the kewl kids use Twitter, yeah.
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I don't care who was whom, but your shtick is unmistakeable.
Wrong!
Did I miss the memo wherein the "Devil Rays" morphed into the more ecumenical "Rays?" Did little fundies on cat feet lobby for this, or was I just not paying attention?
'Twas the fundies, my friend.
chicago dyke = hotinaughtyness
hello
I am here
Did I miss the memo wherein the "Devil Rays" morphed into the more ecumenical "Rays?" Did little fundies on cat feet lobby for this, or was I just not paying attention?
bill buckner
That happened during the offseason last year. It was a long time coming and had been discussed for several years.
The team won't admit it, preferring to have people think that they changed to be more like sun rays, but yeah, I think there was a fundie influence on it.
Then how come I saw him in Hackensack last week?
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 11:05 am
Yesterday, for some unknown reason, the line from Superman was going through my head "But Lex, my mother lives in Hackensack!"
Uncle Blodge: I am here
How ya feelin', ref?
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I'd like to see Obama kick your cowardly fucking ass.
heh...heh...heh...
Tampa Bays Rays aren't ecumenical. They're secular.
Brave man, Unka Smokes. 
less is more, chidy...
bailout = fucked
Saturday=lazy
trolls = morans
blodge = hello
vicki = needsome
mah kittehz = frisky
devil = anti-ice
What kind of Caturday would it be without Curly and LarryElvis?
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As a Vanderbilt alum, I can only say, with regard to ESPN's "Gameday" broadcasting from the Vandy campus, "holy fuck."
cog-neet-o = cool
"How ya feelin', ref?"
still assessing - but not too good.
I still have that all over body ache thing
What is this Twitter of which the peole speak? Is it magic? Is it wisdom? Is it Engery? Is it Love?
chicago dyke
hello and nice to see you
cog-neet-o = cool
if you call yourself cool, princess, you ain't.
well, fine then. see if you get invited to play reindeer games next time, feh.
Goddamn Accenture ad at the NYT making reading Herbert almost impossible:
"In her closing remarks at the vice-presidential debate Thursday night, Ms. Palin referred earnestly, if loosely, to a quote from Ronald Reagan. He had warned that if Americans weren’t vigilant in protecting their freedom, they would find themselves spending their “sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like in America when men were free.”
"What Ms. Palin didn’t say was that the menace to freedom that Reagan was talking about was Medicare. As the historian Robert Dallek has pointed out, Reagan “saw Medicare as the advance wave of socialism, which would ‘invade every area of freedom in this country.’ ”
vicki = needsome
I'm just 70 miles and a strap-on away, babe.
As a Vanderbilt alum
No shit?
My mother went to Vandy.
They do have a pretty salty football squad this year.
bloody mary = delicious
bruce is a demolibfag
Oh the stories I could tell.
moose-toque = french
It's another way to gaze into the navel of your cell-phone.
Chairman Mo: What is this Twitter of which the peole speak? Is it magic? Is it wisdom? Is it Engery? Is it Love?
Unexplainable mass communication app.
Twitter
.
pud = asshole
I thought the devil rays shortened their name much as the Philadelphia 76ers often are called the sixers, even on their jerseys.
if it was fundies they need to get a life
pud is a chickenshit worm
(=)(=) = !=
[A twitter summary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka]
I'm just 70 miles and a strap-on away, babe.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 11:50 am | #
do a pay per view on that and you could probably become rich.
I'm just 70 miles and a strap-on away, babe.
oh my
if you call yourself cool, princess, you ain't.
Anon, temporary | 10.04.08 - 11:50 am | #
And the wise man/woman/thing spoke.
I'm just 70 miles and a strap-on away, babe.
Weekend Brunches here are getting weirder.
Reagan was sure the docs would be cool with it because of their hypocritical oaths.
As the historian Robert Dallek has pointed out, Reagan “saw Medicare as the advance wave of socialism, which would ‘invade every area of freedom in this country.’ ”
Is this before or after Ronnie lost his marbles?
May I hazard a blogwhore?
If so, over at Box Office, I sing the praises of a fantastic new DVD version of "Les Doulos," a fantastic 60s French crime flick starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Tres cool, as we say. Plus: The Greatest Gangster Movies Ever Made!!!!
http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve...nia-spec-
18.php
As always, leave a comment and I promise to continue referring to Palin as Lucrezia Barbie.
do a pay per view on that and you could probably become rich.
That would really give Lowry some material to spank his monkey.
pud is a chickenshit worm
billy b
pud is more a Criss Cross sort of "guy".
Blodge -
This book has been helpful to me in resolving some of my various orthopedic maladies: http://tinyurl.com/4jh2ye
(And - God help me - I have become a Phillies fan...)
Winking wankers.
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plantsman,
I liked this passage from Charles M. Blow's column:
Palin launched into her charm offensive — winking, smiling, dodging questions and speaking in her signature Sarah-phonics , a mash up of sentence fragments and colloquialisms glued together with misplaced also’s and there’s — gibberish really. Everyone in the bar lapped it up. It was The Sarah Palin Show.
(He went to a young rethug gathering here -- in Chelsea, of all places.)
billyb, shouldn't dissing the boss qualify as bannable?
"I'm just 70 miles and a strap-on away, babe."
isn't that a springsteen lyric?
Is this before or after Ronnie lost his marbles?
Ronnie had lost his marbles about the time he thought he was gonna kick Jerry Ford's ass in 1976. If they'd let him go the GOP would have been fucked about 30 years earlier.
"“saw Medicare as the advance wave of socialism, which would ‘invade every area of freedom in this country.’ ”"
Remove the traffic lights, stops signs, lane lines! They are making us drive in an orderly fashion against our will!!!!
strap-ons = scary shit
Gail Collins: Talking in Points.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/0...tml?
ref=opinion
pud is more a Criss Cross sort of "guy".
Nice lowering of the boom, my boy.
As the historian Robert Dallek has pointed out, Reagan “saw Medicare as the advance wave of socialism, which would ‘invade every area of freedom in this country.’ ”
Is this before or after Ronnie lost his marbles?
You want to pinpoint one root cause of the huge mess we're in, point straight to swiss-cheese brain Ronald Reagan.
I couldn't catch a fish if I had the world's biggest net.
It's a standing joke with our guests at our house.
They come down and instantly hook a huge bass.
My bait is hitting the bass on the head, and they swim away bored.
"I'm just 70 miles and a strap-on away, babe."
isn't that a springsteen lyric?
jdw
"I'm in my Chevy
just 70 miles
and a strap-on away
babe, I love your smile."
She's part Irish and a lapsed Catholic. Just channeling Molly Bloom.
billyb, shouldn't dissing the boss qualify as bannable?
I would think so.
RIL: movie?
(And - God help me - I have become a Phillies fan...)
welcome!
and I will look at the book.
Oh, and in the WaPo, Kathleen Parker went back to the Dark Side.
Tonight is the night the Cubs prove anyone can have a bad century.
"You want to pinpoint one root cause of the huge mess we're in, point straight to swiss-cheese brain Ronald Reagan."
I must agree.
and Res - howaya
I think ESPN is set up on the side of the new Commons Center, there on Peabody Campus.
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I'm just 70 miles and a strap-on away, babe.
"verb-deprived" heh
TKK: No can do today. So sorry. 
Next week...
Oh, and in the WaPo, Kathleen Parker went back to the Dark Side.
Of course. They don't stray for more than a column. Krautfucker will be back on the dole when he next posts his inane drivel.
The factory closed
On the road, I'm driving like mad
Your strap-on in sight
A Bruce Springsteen Haiku
Tell that to the Republicans, res. They won't buy it.
I do, and I have for decades, but they still want his mug on Mt. Rushmore.
Tell us about the site of the next debate, JP. It's a college in Gnashvegas, apparently.
Tonight is the night the Cubs prove anyone can have a bad century.
Looks like the Angels are about to take a long vacation, also.
"Reagan proved deficits didn't matter."
Except when they did.
Like now.
Ronald Reagan is the start of this whole mess and every time a Republican waxes rhapsodic about him they should be pelted with rotten tomatoes, globs of James Sensenbrenner's wattle, and dogshit.
"I'm in my Chevy
just 70 miles
and a strap-on away
babe, I love your smile."
HU HA!
Res Ipsa Loquitur: hates the troops
I love when res has her groove.
I'm just 70 miles and a strap-on away, babe.
"verb-deprived" heh
oops, pasted the wrong two things together....
"verb-deprived" was from that Gail Collins article that plantsman linked to.
I regret the error
Looks like the Angels are about to take a long vacation, also.
billy b
White Sox as well. I had someone get pissed at me at work yesterday because I said I wanted to see "The Devil Rays!" do them in.
Fuck it.
TKK:
Revised ... I could do it this afternoon, but I have to get free by about 6:30 PM.
Do you want to come in this afternoon?
Ronald Reagan is the start of this whole mess and every time a Republican waxes rhapsodic about him they should be pelted with rotten tomatoes, globs of James Sensenbrenner's wattle, and dogshit.
Personally, I think it goes back to Nixon and the development of the intelligence agencies after WWII but that's just me.
Palin Family Values
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phillyjojones
That little girl -- Piper or Cessna or whatever her name is -- head those dead doll eyes and a sour demeanor. You can see it hasn't been a pleasant upbringing.
"Reagan proved deficits didn't matter."
He also proved what happens when you let an idiot become president.
springsteen doing war
McCain War Room: What we have here, is a failure to communicate.
Ronald Reagan is the start of this whole mess and every time a Republican waxes rhapsodic about him they should be pelted with rotten tomatoes, globs of James Sensenbrenner's wattle, and dogshit.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 11:59 am | #
Hey, didn't David Brooks scientifically prove that Reagan wasn't being racist when he kicked off his 80 campaign in Philadelphia Mississippi and talked about states rights?
You're so shrill....
So is this:
Since then, she has spent most of her time going from one Republican rally to the next, repeating chunks of her convention speech, which have grown more disjointed with every stop. (In an airplane hangar in Ohio recently, she told the people of Youngstown she was happy to be there because Alaska has, per capita, the nation’s most “small planes and small pilots.”)
Oh hell, I almost got in a fistfight at the gym for reminding a wingnut that Saint Ronnie had cut and run from Lebanon...
plantsman: Tell us about the site of the next debate, JP. It's a college in Gnashvegas, apparently.
Yeah, Belmont. It used to be strongly tied to the Baptist Church, but those ties have weakened quite a bit in recent years.
I've only been on campus there, once (although it's just a few blocks away from where I worked at Vandy), and that was to attend the FCC Comissioners' hearing on media consolidation. Naomi Judd, Porter Waggoner, George Jones and other music biz luminaries were there, too.
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Gail Collins is getting really funny.
I could come into NYC this afternoon. For a movie? Which one? I can be anywhere by 2:30
No shit?
No shit, indeed.
Earned my master's degree, in education, from Vanderbilt, way back in 1990.
Kudos to your mom, billy b. And the Commodores!
Does Peggy Noonan (aka "some famous person") get a royalty check every time somebody mentions the "shining city on the hill"?
Brooks is another one who should be pelted with stuff, in his case Applebee's Quadruple Cheese omlettes, Outback Steakhouses 48 ounce steaks, and Fudrucker's double deep dish apple pie with peanut butter hot fudge and mock-whipped cream.
"I almost got in a fistfight at the gym for reminding a wingnut that Saint Ronnie had cut and run from Lebanon...|"
weinberger was askd if the marines were retreating and answered no - they're being redeployed several miles tot he west.
which of course was where the ships were
He also proved what happens when you let an idiot become president.
heh...heh...heh...
[reposted]
And now -- STEVE'S MOVIE REVIEWS!!!
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
I'm sick of Michael Cera getting the girl, but on the other hand you'll never see the ladies room at the Port Authority Bus Terminal look so romantic.
Religulous
I'm guessing Bill Maher is going to hell.
Flash of Genius
The "Citizen Kane" of 60s windshield wiper inventor movies.
Sinfonian: Earned my master's degree, in education, from Vanderbilt, way back in 1990.
Yup. You're a P-Buddy!
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I could come into NYC this afternoon. For a movie? Which one? I can be anywhere by 2:30
Stand by, please ... checking ...
I had the misfortune of reading Bobo's latest turd in my local fishwrap this morning.
He's gonna need an industrial-sized Chapstick after all the Palin ass-kissing he did.
Hey, didn't David Brooks scientifically prove that Reagan wasn't being racist when he kicked off his 80 campaign in Philadelphia Mississippi and talked about states rights?
Local repubs had a large, prominently displayed portrait of MLK at their booth at a politico event we worked a couple of weeks ago. We just laughed and laughed...
Reagan created this entire culture of "Hey, you don't have the money, no worries. FUCKING FINANCE IT!"
"Religulous, if I had a vote."
Oh hell, I almost got in a fistfight at the gym for reminding a wingnut that Saint Ronnie had cut and run from Lebanon...
I often remind them of that. They don't like to hear it, so I really get obnoxious when I point it out.
TKK,
I'm thinking "Nights in Rodanthe".
(Kidding! Still checking ...)
I could come into NYC this afternoon. For a movie? Which one? I can be anywhere by 2:30
Stand by, please ... checking ...
res ipsa loquitur
I saw Burn After Reading last night. It was quite good ...
Plus Tilda Swinton always reminds me of someone I know in NYC ...
Hey, didn't David Brooks scientifically prove that Reagan wasn't being racist when he kicked off his 80 campaign in Philadelphia Mississippi and talked about states rights?
That was a political move writ large in crayon.
Tonight is the night the Cubs prove anyone can have a bad century.
Supreme Commander Thor | 10.04.08 - 11:56 am | #
(sobs uncontrollably)
Just in case anyone's curious about such things, if you're somewhat hirsute and you have to go get a echo stress test, the next day itches...
So 2 of the 3 debates in Dixie, huh?
That was a political move writ large in crayon on toilet paper.
slight fix there.
Why didn't Saddam get Manuel Noriega's cell?
CNN just did a smirking pseudo-hit piece on Obama for getting which wedding anniversary he was having wrong. I wonder if they realize how much that helps him.
Why didn't Saddam get Manuel Noriega's cell?
Hate to say it but Saddam went to his death with class. Bush would have been sobbing like a baby and shitting himself uncontrollably.
I'm thinking "Nights in Rodanthe".
PS already saw Burn after Reading
TKK,
Tell No One (Ne le dis a personne) (Not Yet Rated, 125 min.)
11:10am | 1:40pm | 4:20pm | 6:55pm | 9:30pm
@ LIncoln Plaza
Rachel Getting Married (R, 116 min.)
11:00am | 12:00pm | 1:10pm | 2:10pm | 3:30pm | 4:35pm | 5:55pm | 7:15pm | 8:20pm | 9:40pm | 10:40pm
@ Lincoln PLaza
I'm just 70 miles and a strap-on away, babe.
NO FLIRTING!
"Why didn't Saddam get Manuel Noriega's cell?"
because he's dead
Ronnie Reagan financed the whole economy...ran up deficits, encouraged us to run up deficits, started slashing regulations so we COULD run up debt ...
Okay chat with you all later. I need to herd some cats.
Oh hell, I almost got in a fistfight at the gym for reminding a wingnut that Saint Ronnie had cut and run from Lebanon...
I often remind them of that. They don't like to hear it, so I really get obnoxious when I point it out.
billy b | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:05 pm |
Apparently they'd also declared Mission Accomplished in Lebanon before cutting and running.
Hate to say it but Saddam went to his death with class.
A better man than Bush, Gunga Din.
Watch Elisabeth Hasselbeck get slapped around for being a bint on The View:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...b_n_130913.html
Hey, you don't have the money, no worries. FUCKING FINANCE IT!"
It would be one thing if Reagan applied classic Keynesian "use government spending to prime the pump." He didn't. He set the country on a deliberate path toward short-circuiting the growth of wealth distribution and income equity that had occurred since FDR introduced the new Deal. He used the "Laffer curve" to justify cutting taxes, while pumping military spending, which creates fewer jobs, per dollar spent, than any other area of government spending. This is how he planted the seeds to send this country hurtling blindly toward Plutocracy.
A better man than Bush, Gunga Din.
Remember the end of "Fargo" -- when the comes come for Jerry Lundergarten?
That's how Bush will behave if the cops ever come for him.
I'm just 70 miles and a strap-on away, babe.
NO FLIRTING!
I'm drivin' in my car
Your strap on waits for me
I was flirting on a blog, man
soon I'll be with Vicki
I know she won't kiss me
though I shot for the sky
I just hope she uses
K-Y--
With the party already struggling to generate enthusiasm for its brand, Republican strategists fear that an outpouring of public anger generated by Congress's struggle to pass a rescue package for the financial industry may contribute to a disaster at the polls for the GOP in November.
No wonder the trolls are getting more virulent. What's teh blogging equivalent of going postal?
Just in case anyone's curious about such things, if you're somewhat hirsute and you have to go get a echo stress test, the next day itches...
atablarasa | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:07 pm |
Poor dad. He had lots and lots of heart problems and lots of chest hair, so there were also small spots on his chest that had been shaved. Drove him nuts.
You guys want to read a good article from the Boston Globe?
Losing hope in Michigan
IT IS NO WONDER John McCain pulled the plug on his Michigan campaign this week when you listen to Scott Laskey. The 42-year-old regional manager for a compressed gas company was laughing at himself at his Wednesday bowling night in this suburb of Grand Rapids. Laskey voted for President Bush both times. The war and the economy has him voting for Democrat Barack Obama.
"What was I thinking?" Laskey said. "How many times do I have to be hit over the head? Bush hasn't done anything."
He said that with gasoline prices and other belt tightning, he had to put one of his three cars in the garage to afford car insurance for his son, and now Laskey, his wife, and their son have to share two cars in the suburbs. "The whole economy is out of control," Laskey said. "I think my insurance was like $45 when I was a teenager."
And it goes on to say how McCain is not convincing voters in West Michigan that he can bring the change we need.
If we see a french movie, can we see the one that has Ludivine Sagnier in it (if it's still playing)?
"What was I thinking?" Laskey said. "How many times do I have to be hit over the head? Bush hasn't done anything."
Thank CHRIST! I was always wondering re Michigan and Ohio, "How much pain do you need?"
Hey, a Snorgette t-shirt I can endorse: π says to i: Get real! And i replies to π: Be rational!
Seriously, though, fivethirtyeight pretty much writes off McCain.
If this election goes the way it is trending, Sarah Palin won't be able to win the dog-catcher nomination after November 4. And if she does, she may finish off the job Bush only mostly completed, the destruction of the GOP for at least a generation.
I could come into NYC this afternoon. For a movie? Which one?
Well, "An American Carol", natch!
http://willyloman.files.wordpres...0/palin-
36a.jpg
oh no, was Carabu Barbie wired?
Thank CHRIST! I was always wondering re Michigan and Ohio, "How much pain do you need?"
Is youbetcha a safeword?
"What was I thinking?" Laskey said. "How many times do I have to be hit over the head? Bush hasn't done anything."
that's funny, if a little sad. i wonder how many people are having the same thoughts.
Plus Tilda Swinton always reminds me of someone I know in NYC ...
Sinfonian, gimpy lucky ducky | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:05 pm | #
I suppose it's worth throwing the Nixon Shock into the "where did this economic mess start" mix.
You know, I was going to spend election day in silent meditation, assuming nothig, imbibing nothing, doing nothing to set my self up for anguish.
Now, I'm more thinking what is a realistic champagne price point, and how much would a Kobe prime rib cost.....
"What was I thinking?" Laskey said. "How many times do I have to be hit over the head? Bush hasn't done anything."
Thank CHRIST! I was always wondering re Michigan and Ohio, "How much pain do you need?"
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:15 pm | #
i'm surprised by how many Obama signs i'm seeing on my walks here in East Dayton. It's still pretty white and with a lot of roots in Appalachia. But we're hurting, badly. So when I do see a mccain sign, I want to go up and ask, so how long do think we'll have a job in a McCain/Palin admin? How long do you want to suffer (and bring everyone with you)?
Well, "An American Carol", natch!
dave™©
Just wait till it comes out in the $5.99 DVD bin at Wal-Mart. Won't be long ...
Tell No One (Ne le dis a personne) (Not Yet Rated, 125 min.)
11:10am |
OK, I've gone through this whole thread and I can't find this post...
Morning
My only question is how will the Cadillac welfare queens make out with this trillion dollar Wall Street bailout?
"i wonder how many people are having the same thoughts."
I wonder how many people are unable to have those thoughts.
they'd have to believe everything they knew is wrong
Just wait till it comes out in the $5.99 DVD bin at Wal-Mart.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
That one's headed straight for the Dollar Store...
""What was I thinking?" Laskey said. "How many times do I have to be hit over the head? Bush hasn't done anything.""
Meanwhile V-8 sales have soared.
oh no, was Carabu Barbie wired?
1Watt, Hermit
Reading cue cards AND wired. No wonder she was almost coherent.
Sinfonian: Just wait till it comes out in the $5.99 DVD bin at Wal-Mart. Won't be long ...
Overstock.com... where all anti-Michael Moore DVDs go to die.
It's all about the O, baby.
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Good afternoon, folks.
County has free rabies shots for pets so I just got back from getting that little errand done.
Now, I'm more thinking what is a realistic champagne price point, and how much would a Kobe prime rib cost.....
blerb | 10.04.08 - 12:17 pm |
I'll wait until the Sunday before to purchase a small amount of bubbly. And probably tissues. When/if Obama is declared the winner I'll start bawling like a baby.
So when I do see a mccain sign, I want to go up and ask, so how long do think we'll have a job in a McCain/Palin admin? How long do you want to suffer (and bring everyone with you)?
That's why my kid is so irritated with her dad. His wife is supporting McCain, and she is strong-arming him to do the same. (You don't want to get me going on his wimpiness...)
Anyway, they both lost their jobs last month. They have no health care. She was just diagnosed with a hernia, and he's still recovering from a broken tibia that required surgery. They have nothing. His mother is helping them pay for their house.
She's such a fucking idiot; there's NO logical reason for her support of McCain, other than "Palin speaks for me."
But my ex-husband was always liberal - that's one of the reasons I married him, intelligent, and thoughtful. WTF?
Veeva La BarraCuda! Heh. Heh! Heh!
County has free rabies shots for pets so I just got back from getting that little errand done.
Terry C
...but I like it when you froth at the mouth a bit
"At her feet was a footloose man"
I never understood that lyric.
Hey, res (and Steverino) - did you see my latest million dollar idea?
SPOCKO SQUAD!
(A Quinn Martin Production)
Starring SPOCKO as Lt. Dan Spocko!
Co-starring DUNCAN BLACK as Police Commissioner Atrios!
Guest starring STEVE SIMELS as Det. Nancy Drew!
Special guest star: RES IPSA LOQUITER as "Judith"!
Tonight's episode: SUPERTRAIN OF FEAR!
HAW!
.
I wonder how many people are unable to have those thoughts.
they'd have to believe everything they knew is wrong
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:18 pm |
Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me
http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-W...23137072&sr=8-
1
they'd have to believe everything they knew is wrong
Uncle Blodge
Most people have this experience at some point during adolescence, when they realize their parents aren't perfect. If you can get through that you can get through finding out that you've been railroaded by a bunch of bloodsucking thieves like the Republican party.
TKK,
Call me if you want to come to town.
I gotta go.
Used to think that show about the Las Vegas police farce was a comedy. Should have known better.
they'd have to believe everything they knew is wrong
This is what happens when you don't listen to Firesign Theatre albums in your youth...
County has free rabies shots for pets so I just got back from getting that little errand done.
Terry C
...but I like it when you froth at the mouth a bit
FireFox
Oh, not for me.
For the pets.
I want to stay angry at least till after the election.
got to go
feeling dizzy all of a sudden (same stuff as yesterday) it should pass
bye
I gotta go, too.
I need to do some work around the hacienda today.
I'm out for a bit, too. Things to see, people to do ...
Catch you patriotz laterz.
Nick Danger: Third Eye.
(besides, these football games aren't going to watch themselves!)
Well, don't everyone leave cuz I showed up....fuckers
I want to stay angry at least till after the election.
We should probably be very vigilant till 1-20-09.
And even after then.
"they'd have to believe everything they knew is wrong"
A friend who says he is voting for Obama still defends St. Ronnie and all the myths.
I basically ask him what do you know and how do you know it? Confuses the hell out of him. They maintain their view of the world and are afraid to fact check themselves.
Nick Danger: Third Eye.
"Yeah, I wanna pizza to go and no anchovies."
"You've got the wrong number. I spell my name - 'DANGER'!"
"What?"
I must have missed something because I STILL don't see what was so bloody marvelous about Reagan!
Locally based Pizza chain: Rocky Roccoco's
I loved that picture of a Chimpy Alfred E. Neuman.
And the caption just said "Worry".
Morning, again, good people.
You know what disappointed me about yesterday's House vote for corporate welfare?
How cheaply our Dems' votes can be bought.
You know, back in the late 80's when Rush first came on TV and they had Morton Downey and all the other hate shows on the tube, that shit really spoke to my late teen angst.
Now, here I am with Dennis Kucinich my favored candidate. Heh, edjumaction is a good thing.
This is what happens when you don't listen to Firesign Theatre albums in your youth...
dave™©
Good times, good times
A FReeper's game plan:
McCain's last chance.
vanity | 10/4/08 | jdfromny
Well folks, here we are. Crunch time. Team McCain trails with two minutes left in the game. He's banged up. His whole body badly beaten from the early years against Team Obama's friends. He did well with that unbelievable touchdown pass to Palin. Let's face it though, he may have sustained a concussion. His passes and play calling are off lately.
John, run a reverse and get the damn ball into Palin's hands! She is the ONLY thing keeping this game close. Besides being able to catch very well, she has great legs. Perhaps a Statue of LIBERTY play where she throws the ball...to the American People.
You're a fucking prevert, jdfromny.
You would have the American people vote for McStain just because his running mate has "great legs"?
Vicki: my guess is that he's feeling the victim, and that victimhood often translates, contrary to conservative dogma, into angry embrace of rightist rhetoric, looking for someone to blame.
Here's ellen Goodman from the Globe this morning, reminding us about the Supreme Court being at stake in November:
In the cold world of actuarial tables, the next president is certain to have one choice and probably more. Candidates for retirement are Stevens, the 75-year-old Ruth Ginsburg, and the homesick David Souter. That's three of the four moderate and liberal justices on a bench that has made an art of 5-4 decisions.
You do the math. If Obama is elected, the court will stay pretty much the way it is. If McCain is elected, Katy bar the door.
McCain, who plays a maverick on TV, promised the court to the right wing. He told the women of "The View": "I want people who interpret the Constitution of the United States the way our founding fathers envisioned for them to do so." This prompted Whoopi Goldberg to ask if she should worry about being returned to slavery.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglob...court_at_stake/
Supreme Court nominations are one of the things McCain has been unequivocal about. He'll look for more Scalias, more Alitos.
I have three daughters. I'd appreciate all the support for them you can muster this November.
But, but, Reagan thought it was Morning, all the time!
Palin doesn't understand why the McCain campaign pulled out of Michigan.
Er, because they don't have a snowball's chance in hell in that state?
Damn, she's dumb!
Rocky Roccoco's
dmark
At your cervix!
How many here actually see Obama making real change in teh way the gov does business? For instance, will he rule the republicans, or will they rule him? Do you really think he's going to clean house of all the poison this administration has left in every govt division? Or will he just let bygones be bygones?
McCain's last chance.
vanity | 10/4/08 | jdfromny
They truly live in a fantasy world.
McCain HAS no chance.
Whatever chance he did have Psycho Sarah destroyed Thursday night.
A friend who says he is voting for Obama still defends St. Ronnie and all the myths.
Beware of the invasion of the phoney liberal. Hell, they're tryin to sell haircoloring for men on TV as if I'd buy it because they played some 60's psychedelic tune in the background. Stereotypical - and insulting.
i have no doubt whatsoever that obama will give good ear to the left when he's president...
Palin doesn't understand why the McCain campaign pulled out of Michigan.
Er, because they don't have a snowball's chance in hell in that state?
Damn, she's dumb!
Terry C, Obama/Biden 2008
And I'll bet the McCain advisors just loved those comments from her.
Nick Danger: Third Eye.
dmark | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:28 pm | #
Pyramid Patchouli...there was only joker in LA sensitive enough to wear that scent...
"Todd thinks we have a chance in Michigan."
Oh, OK.
Oh crap, Obama or McCain will be lucky as shit to get a second term, having to deal with the triple decker shit sandwich Chimpy will hand over.
How many here actually see Obama making real change in teh way the gov does business?
change from bush? sure. the kind of sea change we really need? not so much.
the key, then, is building a truly progressive congress. obama will have no inclination to fight serious social legislation from his own party.
smalfish, That is the $64 question. Some of my initial opposition to Obama was the fear he would be another Carter. Good intentions but unable to control the Washington good ol boys.
AP reports that Obama is trying to register EX CONS and FELONS to vote for Obama. How low can Obama go ??
Push to register felons to vote could aid Obama
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20081...Suj8B_4X_qs0NUE
there was only joker in LA sensitive enough to wear that scent...
...and I had to find out who he was!
John, run a reverse and get the damn ball into Palin's hands! She is the ONLY thing keeping this game close
Typical of rightards.
Women are THINGS.
They accuse US of being sexist when we criticize Palin but they speak of her as if she was a piece of meat and they were hungry dogs.
the key, then, is building a truly progressive congress. obama will have no inclination to fight serious social legislation from his own party.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Bingo!
Of course, this means a helluva lot of work from 1/20/09 until November, 2010.
And I'll bet the McCain advisors just loved those comments from her.
Diane C. Barking-Mad | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:35 pm | #
campaign nothing. i wish i could have heard what mccain said behind closed doors about her.
and no, i'm not going to take a stab at it.
Bruce?
yawn
What's low about registering people who are legally
eligible to vote?
Melanie Haber?
Audrey Farber?
Betty Jo Bialasky?
Also, have to love their football analogy.
Is everything a GAME to those assholes?
Push to register felons to vote could aid Obama
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ 20081...Suj8B_4X_qs0NUE
jack | 10.04.08 - 12:37 pm | #
well, at least he's not filling his administration with them, as the GOP does. That's how low he could go. As low as the gutter-feeding Republicans.
Right with ya, Erin.
Jack, have you been fitted for your turban yet?
Obama is not Carter.
Betty Jo Bialasky?
Oh - you mean Nancy!
Jack, have you been fitted for your turban yet?
heh.
And Michelle is not Rosalynn.
jack | 10.04.08 - 12:37 pm |
Just 31 days until I get to watch your ultimate meltdown. Fun!
The felons are hoping Obama will deliver some high class cellmates.
Obama is not Carter.
Not by a long shot.
the key, then, is building a truly progressive congress. obama will have no inclination to fight serious social legislation from his own party.
dirk gently, sociopathetic | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:36 pm | #
I've said it before and I'll say it again -- the only tactic I can see having a snowballs chance in hell of initiating real progressive change after an Obama win is to somehow mount well-financed left-wing primary challenges to every goddamned DLC Democrat.
Starting with the two senators from New York, I might add.
Other than that, I'm convinced everything else is so much chin music.
And Michelle is not Rosalynn.
plantsman
not by a damn sight
Thank God the AP is shining a light on these vile maneuverings by team Obama. McCain should run a 30 second ad, Obama signing up child molesters, rapists, 125 th street thugs to vote for him.
Bruce?
yawn
Aye. I've got his entire studio collection on my hd and not one of his tunes can make my playlist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i...h?
v=iZsO7dZ__iw
Letterman flambes sarah palin "You betcha'!"
tabernac! (
Oh - you mean Nancy!
dave™©
She's up at the old same place!
smalfish: while I anticipate being annoyed at Obama from the left, I also think he'll clean house a bit, if only to get things done. The Republicans will have a great deal at stake in his administration's failure. They don't want the electorate to witness a Democrat to succeed after Bush has so dramatically failed. Further, any successful government cuts to the quick of their overall notion that government, of necessity, is a problem more than a solution. Were Obama to, say, introduce a successful health care plan with government as a central actor, it'd be viewed with horror by the right.
So Republican opposition to Obama--from whispering campaigns to leaks to kneecapping to the worst kind of scurrilous crap--will be consistent, obvious, and require forthright action. I don't think they'll give him a choice about it. They'll make him fight.
jack is such a fucking bore.
And the desperation....
Each post is more and more desperate.
Thank God the AP is shining a light on these vile maneuverings by team Obama. McCain should run a 30 second ad, Obama signing up child molesters, rapists, 125 th street thugs to vote for him.
jack | 10.04.08 - 12:41 pm | #
Watch out, the Dems will riun a 30-second ad about Mark Foley and Dennis Hastert, child molesters, thugs and perverts actually on the GOP payroll.
Yes, vile manuverings which are completely legal.
Mother-stabbers and father-rapers for Obama!! HORRORS!
Bruce?
yawn
ErinPDX | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:38 pm | #
Them's fightin' words, toots.
steve hüssein® simels | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:40 pm
What steve said.
I would add at least one senator from California and a whole bunch of House members.
For chrissakes, even Adam Schiff caved in.
Sharing a cell is more fun if the con in the upper bunk has conned both the government and the private sector.
Thank God the AP is shining a light
The AP should publish more full frame photos of McCain - he truly looks like a TROLL....
jack would rather have criminals running the country.
Like Bush and Cheney, war criminals both.
Just in case anyone's curious about such things, if you're somewhat hirsute and you have to go get a echo stress test, the next day itches...
atablarasa
Been there, done that, in my twenties, not long after the barium milkshake, then they strap you into a gurney and rotate you ass over teakettle to coat your intestines and x-ray the hell out of your midsection. Had another stress echo cardio a few years ago.
Lotsa laughs.
Billy Mays is yelling on the TV hawking the Awesome Auger with the complimentary Power Extender complete with powerful drill.
A $40 value for $19.95.
Great country, innit?
the only tactic I can see having a snowballs chance in hell of initiating real progressive change after an Obama win is to somehow mount well-financed left-wing primary challenges to every goddamned DLC Democrat.
as well as local elections.
but yeah, that's right. every election should be a step to the left. replace repubs with blue dogs if needed, replace blue dogs with liberals, liberals with socialists.
keep a steady pressure leftward. obama, at least in his first term, cannot stand against his own majority even if he wants to. which, i think, he may not anyway.
Chimpy: OK, I ran it into the iceberg. You take over now.
She's up at the old same place!
You can wait here in the sitting room or you can sit here in the waiting room.
I'm soooo tired, I haven't slept a wink...
I don't understand "Bruce this afternoon".
Te only way to save the USA is to move as far left as possible, as quickly as possible, and get back to the founders' LIBERAL ideas.
bruce who?
First thing we do is rearrange the chairs on the poop deck.
Obama signing up rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists to vote for him.
Flipped your tittle.
The Awesome Auger, the Power Tool Extension for Gardeners who can't bend at the Waist!™
Them's fightin' words, toots.
I don't think Bruce is going to bother...
Flipped your tittle.
atablarasa
it feels good to - shake off the morning blues
The Awesome Auger, the Power Tool Extension for Gardeners who can't bend at the Waist!™
No Flirting!
First thing we do is rearrange the chairs on the poop deck.
More poop jokes?
You do the math. If Obama is elected, the court will stay pretty much the way it is. If McCain is elected, Katy bar the door.
Oh, yeah?
And why does Ellen think Scalia's long for this world, or Thomas or Roberts long for the Court?
Thomas could yet be impeached, and Obama is just the man to do it.
Shorter Jack:
That n****r is signing up more n****rs!
Obama signing up rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists to vote for him.
Now go do --- that voodoo --- that you do --- so well!!!
Pootie: "First Dude is not scaring me. I fight him to the death for hand of Sarah."
Terry C., where did your gravatar go?
ErinPDX | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 12:38 pm | #
Apparently it's all rainy up there in Cascadia?
Yeh, so the next time some yahoo claims we need $700 billion for a Wall St. bailout the deal is that we also get at least $700 for national healthcare.
They'll make him fight.
Good point.
The President it a ni!
It's windy right now, and it's been raining pretty seriously.
Woman called me up for the DCCC about twenty minutes ago.
I explained, patiently, that I wasn't supporting DINO's, and instead sending my little buckaroos to Donna Edwards, Darcy Burner, Scott Kleeb, and so on.
Rahm can go piss up a rope.
More poop jokes?
NTodd, Famous Person
that was a deck joke
Thomas could yet be impeached, and Obama is just the man to do it.
Somehow, I just don't see Obama as the sort who will pick a fight.
Mother-stabbers and father-rapers for Obama!! HORRORS!
Even as we speak, McCain is ordering 8 x 10 glossy photos.
The President it a ni!
Deacon Blues
We need to get Barack a Palomino and a Gucci saddle.
The President it a ni!
And a LOL right back atcha!
Michelle Obama just emailed me. I'm much more inclined to listen to her than Rahm.
I think I should take this time to nap.
bbl
.
It was actually a lawyer joke.
I'm with you, plantsman.
My congresscritter, Peter DeFazio, voted against the "new" bailout as well.
He's the kind of Dem we need to lead the new party after it's been purged of corporatist swine.
Obama signing up rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists to vote for him.
Now go do --- that voodoo --- that you do --- so well!!!
Batches? We don neeed no steenkin batches!
Speaking of free concerts...
I'm gonna try to hit it tomorrow for the Elvis show...
Even as we speak, McCain is ordering 8 x 10 glossy photos.
Gromit
With th' circles an' arrows an' paragraphs on the back?
so the troll thinks if someone has committed a crime and served their time they shouldn't be eleigible to vote?
maybe he didn't read the article and thinks they're trying to get people inside the big house the vote???
anyhoo - I noticed this bit from the troll link "We still find election officials at the polls in too many cases only ask African-American males if (they) have a felony offense," said Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP Washington bureau.
I guess that describes the "America" he's rooting for... and seperate water fountains too! woo-hoo!
We need to give the guy a chance.
Here's my odds on who will be our president on Jan 31, 2009.
Obama 40%
McCain 25%
Bush, G.W. 35%
Desperate
Republican state legislators, at the behest of the McCain campaign, have now filed an emergency appeal with the Alaska Supreme Court trying to shutdown the 'Troopergate' investigation. The plaintiffs (echoing the Bush v. Gore decision) claim "the plaintiffs and Alaskans will suffer irreparable harm" if the Branchflower report is released, as scheduled, next Friday, October 10th.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Oh my...
I don't understand "Bruce this afternoon".
Atrios has an Australian visitor. Expect barbecue blogging.
Batches? We don neeed no steenkin batches!
You will be risking your lives, while I will be risking a certain Academy Award nomination...
Atrios has an Australian visitor. Expect barbecue blogging.
Gromit
Fair enough, but who's this E Street character, anyway?
I can't imagine Thomas being impeached off the Court. But neither Thomas, nor Scalia, nor Roberts are the pictures of health.
I can, though, imagine Obama, Harvard Law graduate and former teacher of constitutional law at Univ of Chicago, will appoint decent folk, with a sane view of the Constitution, whom the Senate will confirm, as judges and justices. That's an area in which he has my confidence.
With th' circles an' arrows an' paragraphs on the back?
David Derbes
Those would be the ones.
(Hoping that the Sox mount something of a comeback)
Fair enough, but who's this E Street character, anyway?
Have you met his friend... something Floyd... oh yeah - Pink!
daschle will make an excellent chief of staff.
But neither Thomas, nor Scalia, nor Roberts are the pictures of health.
What's wrong with Roberts?
I'm with ProfW.
Them's fightin' words, toots.
you know i love to agitate when it comes to springsteen and dylan
I'm actually starting to think that not only will Obama win, he will kick McCain's ass.
But then again, "The Year Of The Cat" was considered a top ten song when I graduated high school.
...neither Thomas, nor Scalia, nor Roberts are the pictures of health.
What's wrong with Roberts?
Republican state legislators, at the behest of the McCain campaign, have now filed an emergency appeal with the Alaska Supreme Court trying to shutdown the 'Troopergate' investigation.
Oh, the moral conundrum! Should we sign up Sarah Palin after she gets out of the slam....?
(Hoping that the Sox mount something of a comeback)
Gromit
Thanks, O Gromit. Tomorrow tells the tale.
Have I told you lately how much I hate those damned Florida cowbells?
Bush, G.W. 35%
cog-neet-o,
Nah.
It's no fun anymore for Chimpy.
Besides, I think Pickles wants it over with so she can go live in Dallas.
You will be risking your lives, while I will be risking a certain Academy Award nomination...
What in the wide wide world of sports is goin on here? Who put this toll gate out here? Who's got some dimes?
What's wrong with Roberts?
IIRC he went to the hospital a couple of times because he just passed out.
Well, aside from the robotic adopted children from the 1950's, probably a lot.
Now if that don't beat all. Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the West, and for what? So we can elect a president that's blacker than any Indian. I AM depressed.
/troll
I never realized how prescient Mel Brooks was...
Roberts has a seizure disorder. Probably not significant, seems under control, but you don't know.
Roberts has had two, count 'em, grand mal seizures.
Scalia is overweight, smokes, drinks to excess. He's a coronary candidate, doncha know?
And I stick to my original prediction: Thomas is gonna find himself in perilous legal straits.
Besides, I think Pickles wants it over with so she can go live in Dallas.
Just rub it in, Terry. That's OK.
Who put this toll gate out here?
What's that asshole gonna think of next?
you know i love to agitate when it comes to springsteen and dylan
Good on ya!
We need some more Dream Theater videos!
IIRC he went to the hospital a couple of times because he just passed out.
Toonscribe: Obama/Biden 08 | 10.04.08 - 12:55 pm | #
he's possessed by witches.
Roberts has a seizure disorder. Probably not significant, seems under control, but you don't know.
I'm sure it doesn't help that Nino drinks his blood every full moon.
I liked Born To Run. After that, the lack of dynamics bored me. So sue me.
so the troll thinks if someone has committed a crime and served their time they shouldn't be eleigible to vote?
jack has no idea what the hell he's talking about 99% of the time.
He just regurgitates what he hears from Rush and O'Reilly.
Roberts has had two, count 'em, grand mal seizures.
Oh, yeah... I vaguely remember that now...
Whatever else may be true about him, Obama will take office with the biggest Democratic mandate in many many years. What Clinton had will be as nothing to it, and there will be no Gingrich Revolution in 2010. Given that and how extremely low the bar has been set by Bush, it's hard to believe we won't see some very welcome changes.
I think Shrub wanted it over pretty much about August of 2001. Interfered with his naps, his exercise and his vacations, you know...
Besides, I think Pickles wants it over with so she can go live in Dallas
They both want it over. Chimpy so does not want to deal with this economic crisis.
And Cheney is in his crypt.
Besides, I think Pickles wants it over with so she can go live in Dallas.
Just rub it in, Terry. That's OK.
FireFox
Oh, I'm sorry!
David: jeez, I'd just love to see Thomas forced out, deprived of every last bit of legitimacy.
One of the silliest things I've read this year was William Kristol saying that Clarence Thomas was the most compelling conservative figure in the country, and would make a superb choice as vice president.
Stay outta downtown L.A. today, my friends. This will be gridlock you can believe in.
Dodgers/Cubs at the Stadium at 7
UCLA/Washington State at the Rose Bowl at 7
USC/Oregon at the Coliseum at 5
Neil Diamond at Staples Center at 8
But then again, "The Year Of The Cat" was considered a top ten song when I graduated high school.
MP | 10.04.08 - 12:53 pm | #
Oh, crap.
I am old.
I think Shrub wanted it over pretty much about August of 2001. Interfered with his naps, his exercise and his vacations, you know...
atablarasa
He REALLY wanted it over with 9-11-01.
NOBODY told HIM that he actually had to handle a CRISIS.
plantsman, the boxed Bruce set has a version of "I'm on fire" that is stunningly beautiful, and "Because the night" ain't chopped liver.
whom the Senate will confirm, as judges and justices. That's an area in which he has my confidence.
ProfWombat
What is needed are justices who will over turn Buckley v. Veleo and a host of corporate personhood rulings of the past.
If we have dodged the bullet, by the narrowest of margins, we've got to take a damned hard look at what almost destroyed representative democracy and change that. Pretending that broadcast and cable media almost didn't usher in fascism is the beginning, corporate concentration of the media isn't an option, it's essential and it's going to take some basic rethinking of a host of theories that have proven themselves incompatible with The People casting an informed vote.
I'd put the bones of Rehnquist on trial too. When he snuffed it, I wept for I'd hoped to see him hanged.
He just regurgitates what he hears from Rush and O'Reilly.
Terry C, Obama/Biden 2008
I would think mcnutty has sewn up the thugs bullies and murderers vote anyhow. They're his freaking base!
Al Stewart's "Roads to Moscow" is pretty good. Just sayin'.
Given that and how extremely low the bar has been set by Bush, it's hard to believe we won't see some very welcome changes.
blerb | 10.04.08 - 12:57 pm | #
yeah, we can have anything we want.
we should have asked for more to begin with.
Thank Gawd I won't be able to hear "I Am...I Said"
from here.
My parents, who were big Mel Brooks' fans from the "2000 Year Old Man" days, saw "Blazing Saddles" the weekend it opened. When they came home, my father insisted that I HAD to see this movie!
My parents were also the only ones in the theater that laughed at the name "Gov. LePetomaine"...
IIRC he went to the hospital a couple of times because he just passed out.
Toonscribe: Obama/Biden 08 | 10.04.08 - 12:55 pm | #
he's possessed by witches.
Hmmm...has the SC been infiltrated? Hecate?
Who put this toll gate out here?
Better send somebody back for a shitloada dimes!
Nah, smalfish and I are gonna visit the new library and hock up decorations for stuff.
afternoon moonbats
i've been entertaining my niece (she loved my gift of fairy wings and a fairy skirt, she insisted on wearing it all afternoon and going round town) and also packing my suitcase.
as I am off to Cairo tomorrow, a 9.15 flight but as we have quite a drive to Heathrow its a 5am start for us
oh joy!
Those are good tunes, it's true.
I am a fan of 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights". And I'm not afraid to admit it.
One of the silliest things I've read this year was William Kristol saying that Clarence Thomas was the most compelling conservative figure in the country, and would make a superb choice as vice president.
ProfWombat
William Kristol is the smiley face on the jackboot.
And evidence that it really is congenital in his family.
They both want it over. Chimpy so does not want to deal with this economic crisis
They're both going to have to live under a rock for a long time after he leave office. Staying within the republican media bubble counts as living under a rock.
Meh. I think we have about a 50-50 chance of getting to make a real change on the SCOTUS. But at least we will be able to make sure the line is held where it is for the forseeable future.
My parents, who were big Mel Brooks' fans from the "2000 Year Old Man" days, saw "Blazing Saddles" the weekend it opened. When they came home, my father insisted that I HAD to see this movie!
We did, too. Dragged my M-I-L to see it and she laughed so hard at the "Mongo only pawn" line that she literally slid off her seat.
Have a lovely holiday, Moon; and be safe.
It's amazing how much the Republicans are completely ignoring Chimpy.
They fellate St. Reagan, and act like the last eight years never happened.
Pretending that broadcast and cable media almost didn't usher in fascism is the beginning, corporate concentration of the media isn't an option,
Didn't Obama say that he would do something about the media some time back? That should be his first priority, fix the FCC and break up the media monopoly. Everything else flows from that.
My parents, who were big Mel Brooks' fans from the "2000 Year Old Man" days, saw "Blazing Saddles" the weekend it opened. When they came home, my father insisted that I HAD to see this movie!
My parents were also the only ones in the theater that laughed at the name "Gov. LePetomaine"...
dave™©
I got a kick out of hearing that Mel wanted John Wayne to be in the movie.
He turned down the role but said he'd one of the first in line to see the film when it opened at the theaters.
gridlock you can believe in.
And no SUPERTRAINs go near any of these venues. Ahhhh, the city of the angels.
Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the West, and for what?
Race didn't become an option on the U.S. Census until 1860. The smart ones that year paid their local enumerator for a big W in that column.
My parents were also the only ones in the theater that laughed at the name "Gov. LePetomaine"...
dave™©
What's the gag on LePetomaine?
Al Stewart's "Roads to Moscow" is pretty good. Just sayin'.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed.
I don't know dude. A lot of stuff didn't age well and leaves me to doubt my own musical tastes - Al Stewart albums are at the top of that list for me... "you go strolling through the park like Peter Lorre conetemplating a crime." kitchy kitchy koo!
my brother was telling us that this bailout will have little effect and that more banks will go down
for example Goldman Sachs is to all sense and purpose insolvent
and Merill Lynch is also in a spot of trouble
basically its not over and anyway the bailout is just to small
so really it was a waste of money and screws the little people
It's amazing how much the Republicans are completely ignoring Chimpy.
They fellate St. Reagan, and act like the last eight years never happened.
MP
Reagan is responsible for Chimpy.
grandkid blogging:
it's almost halloween
time to pick out a pumpkin
I got a kick out of hearing that Mel wanted John Wayne to be in the movie.
IIRC, didn't Kubrick want him for Major Kong in "Strangelove", too?
ProfW: One of Barack's main money guys, I am not at liberty to say more, hates Thomas more than you and your nearest hundred friends together can imagine.
Anita Hill is alive and well, not to mention the other two or three women with nearly identical stories to tell, who never had a chance to speak to the Senate.
This could get very bleak for a certain strange justice.
Le Petomaine sang from his butt.
Best rock song I've heard in a long time is Chuck Leavell's 'Compared to What', from 'Live in Germany: Green Leaves and Blue Note'. Propulsive, first-class blues-based music, great band. The kind of music that forces you to drive over the speed limit...
Rest of the record's pretty good, too
http://www.amazon.com/Live-Germa...23139364&sr=8-
1
there is no fix
What's the gag on LePetomaine?
It's kinda obscure...
They fellate St. Reagan, and act like the last eight years never happened.
Well, St Reagan is eternal and always with us, but the last eight years would be lookin' backwards, don't cha know. You betcha!
I am a fan of 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights". And I'm not afraid to admit it.
Gromit
I like that movie, too.
Then again, I liked "When Things Were Rotten."
Hi Buckeye,
yeah, left the window open a crack but had to close it last night when the wind whipped my shades
Le Petomaine, the fart-oholic sensation of Paris, did a lot more than sing from his butt.
Nah, smalfish and I are gonna visit the new library and hock up decorations for stuff.
I'm not going to piss for a week before our trip to the presidential library.
Best rock song I've heard in a long time is Chuck Leavell's 'Compared to What'...
The Les McCann tune?
Moon-- Have a wonderful trip to Egypt.
Didn't Obama say that he would do something about the media some time back?
If Democrats get the two elected branches back it will be the Supreme Court which will block them from doing anything to reestablish things like the right of people to vote. They choose Federalist Society fascists for a reason.
Liberals have got to get over the romantic view of the court, Earl Warren has been dead for a long, long time. The court has reverted to its traditional role as the most undemocratic of the branches, one which is constantly hacking away at the roots, The People.
Nah.
It's no fun anymore for Chimpy.
Besides, I think Pickles wants it over with so she can go live in Dallas.
Terry C, Obama/Biden 2008 | 10.04.08 - 12:54 pm | #
I don't think Chimpy or Pickles will have any say in the matter. Plus, I think W would get a kick out of being the only president who declared himself president and stopped the outcome ofan election.
Let Pet was before my time, and far away. I've only heard tales.
Pretending that broadcast and cable media almost didn't usher in fascism is the beginning, corporate concentration of the media isn't an option
thet're the fuckers that created left blogistan!
fuck you haloscan
Moon-- Have a wonderful trip to Egypt.
I'll second that motion -- and add: take lots of pictures.
Have fun.
dave(c)(tm): that I can't tell you...
Speaking of Blazing Saddles, what did Lili whisper in Bart's ear?
I never got this one, either.
Lili Von Shtupp: Well how about a little...
[whispers in his ear]
Bart: [shocked] Baby. I'm not from Havana.
"The plaintiffs (echoing the Bush v. Gore decision) claim "the plaintiffs and Alaskans will suffer irreparable harm" if the Branchflower report is released, as scheduled, next Friday, October 10th."
I thought Scalia said that was kind of a *one time only* thing.
HaloScan is going all freaky-deaky cause it "knows" Atrios is going out.
Let Pet was before my time, and far away. I've only heard tales.
plantsman
My father's family is from Toulon. As for stories of his performances, ...
... we'll have to ask Simels.
cigar?
What's the gag on LePetomaine?
The Question Is Moot!
This could get very bleak for a certain strange justice.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed.
how does one make life uncomfortable for a guy who has been appointed for life?
Continued repuke bullshit on CNN: It wasn't Wall Street or the financial markets, it was the government's fault.
Where else, but on a fucking "business" show--Your Money, Now Our Money.
I thought Scalia said that was kind of a *one time only* thing.
Lumpenprolitariot
Yeah, that's a line that worked up till the point when he has to re-lie the case.
It's kinda obscure...
Mel Brooks you too funny!!
And no SUPERTRAINs go near any of these venues. Ahhhh, the city of the angels.
Deacon Blues
Actually, not true.
The Dodgers are running a shuttle between Union Station (the transportation hub in LA right now) and the stadium.
UCLA has a shuttle from the Memorial Park Station of the Gold Line Metro Rail to the Rose Bowl.
The Blue Line Metro Rail stops across the street from the Staples Center and just a few easy walkable blocks from the Coliseum.
The problem is that Metro has not done a very good job promoting the accessability by public transportation.
Anthony: yup. The Warren Court was, in the context of American history, an utter aberration. The Supreme Court was designed as, and mostly has been, an instrument of reaction. The rare bits of courage, progressivism and expansion of human possibility stand out against the overall record.
That said, it's remarkable that Boumedienne v Bush and Hamdi v Rumsfeld were so decided, particularly by the COurt as currently constituted...
One answer to the Havana question:
"During the 1950s, there was a male erotic dancer in Havana, Cuba who went by the professional name of "Superman." "Superman" was renowned for his spectacular . . . er, size and stamina, and his live sex shows were very popular."
15 Turkish troops killed in Clashes with Kurds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europ...ope/
7652246.stm
It wasn't Wall Street or the financial markets, it was the government's fault.
Toxic Main Street.
how does one make life uncomfortable for a guy who has been appointed for life?
necesity is a mother!
Because, o necessity, there are remedies to corruption even in the Supreme Court.
That's why we have this swanky document called a Constitution.
I wonder what the White House Marine Sgt. will do on Jan 21.
Actually, I don't, He'll snap a crisp salute.
cigarette?
I'd recall Justice Abe Fortas in that regard...
I don't think Chimpy or Pickles will have any say in the matter. Plus, I think W would get a kick out of being the only president who declared himself president and stopped the outcome ofan election.
cog-neet-o,
Na ga happen.
cigarette?
billy b | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 1:11 pm | #
tiparello?
Remember the looks on the faces of the troops Obama met in Iraq?
schnitzengruben?
Dumbya usta wanna be Dictator -- now that the toy is broken the thrill is gone.
Na ga happen.
Terry C, Obama/Biden 2008 | 10.04.08 - 1:11 pm | #
already did.
coffee?
For all you "Mad Men" fans, here's 10 Creepy Old Ads!
I esp. like the last two...
Because, o necessity, there are remedies to corruption even in the Supreme Court.
please whisper more of these sweet nothings in my ear kind sir! thomas has broken the law? Which ones and when and there is proof of said malfeasance?
The hell you say!
I thought Scalia said that was kind of a *one time only* thing.
The line was that it established no precedent. That still leaves open the possibility for the reptilian Scalia to make up similar bullshit whenever he wants to in the future.
Oh, look; a new troll. Neat.
Remember the looks on the faces of the troops Obama met in Iraq?
plantsman
Certainly do. Joy!
Because, o necessity, there are remedies to corruption even in the Supreme Court.
Impeachment has actually happened to a Supreme so it's not the myth that presidential impeachment being carried through is.
If they could find grounds and think they could do it, I'd be in favor of it. But since every one of them lied when they said they hadn't decided cases already, a lie everyone with a brain knew was a lie as they told it, purjury wouldn't seem to do it.
Alito's confirmation was especially disgusting, with his wife's performance directed by the Senator from S.C. He was also giving Palin stage advice.
meet the new troll, same as the old troll...
need to clean the coffee maker. what proportion of vinegar to water should i run thru it? thanks
Hi Buckeye,
yeah, left the window open a crack but had to close it last night when the wind whipped my shades
ErinPDX | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 1:04 pm
Snow in the mountains?
one of my friends was 'but it's all rainy in the PNW?' True, in the winter, but then you can just go to the train and head south, in a few hours you'll be in California.
Of course, it just might be misty for my boss-she'll be in PDX the middle of November, but there's plenty to do indoors. I think she'll have fun.
I got a kick out of hearing that Mel wanted John Wayne to be in the movie.
IIRC, didn't Kubrick want him for Major Kong in "Strangelove", too?
dave™©
Yep.
For all you "Mad Men" fans, here's 10 Creepy Old Ads!
I esp. like the last two...
dave™©
Those are great!
i might go swimming today.
meet the new troll, same as the old troll...
FireFox
Same old shit.
...that I can't tell you.
Apparently, it IS the Les McCann-Eddie Harris number. Great song!
please whisper more of these sweet nothings in my ear kind sir! thomas
has broken the law? Which ones and when and there is proof of said
malfeasance?
"The Judges, both of the
supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior."
Congress has a check on the SCOTUS...
PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 1-3 finds 50% of registered voters supporting Barack Obama, and 42% John McCain, for president
Dancin' Dave (yesterday): "Why can't Obama reach 50%?"
Which ones and when and there is proof of said malfeasance?
Ever hear of an investigation?
Please pay attention.
Pure white vinegar, followed by pure water would be my recommendation.
I actually prefer Chief Executives without military experience.
There have been pretty good ones in the past.
It just seems to me to be a shallow benchmark.
John Kerry was in combat in Vietnam, and it was worked against him in 2004.
need to clean the coffee maker. what proportion of vinegar to water should i run thru it? thanks
I use straight vinegar.
1:1 should work ok.
Who the hell DEFENDS Clarence Thomas??????
I use 100% vinegar. You're not going to hurt the coffemaker with vinegar.
AP reports Obama is trying to register EX CONS and FELONS to vote for Obama.
All things being equal, I think such people would be inclined to vote Republican.
Remember the looks on the faces of the troops Obama met in Iraq?
plantsman
Certainly do. Joy!
necesity is a mother! | 10.04.08 - 1:15 pm | #
One of my friend's friends is on leave this month from his 2nd tour of Afghanistan. I'll have to ask how his troops feel about Obama.
dave: Chuck's not too keen on the war, either, on the basis of the song.
Just a great cut, really well suited to Leavell's style...
Dancin' Dave (yesterday): "Why can't Obama reach 50%?"
Lime Rickey | 10.04.08 - 1:17 pm | #
going to be 70%.
pony please!
Who the hell DEFENDS Clarence Thomas??????
Teh Buttle
AP reports Obama is trying to register EX CONS and FELONS to vote for Obama.
jack prefers that criminals be running the country.
Corporate criminals, that is.
IIRC, didn't Kubrick want him for Major Kong in "Strangelove", too?
dave™©
Slim Pickins owns that - I think he's a better pick than Wayne. He's just loonier.
Our water is not very alkaline, so there's usually not much buildup even over a long period of time.
I use 100% vinegar. You're not going to hurt the coffemaker with vinegar.
Adam Hominem | 10.04.08 - 1:18 pm | #
kind of a waste of vinegar, though. 1:4 is plenty.
and be sure to use white. balsamic is right out.
Who the hell DEFENDS Clarence Thomas??????
Teh Buttle
billy b |
True.
ANYTHING to be a total asshole.
Brandeis wrote Zionism into the constitution along side of labor's right to organize and much of the basis for civil rights law. Zionism was pretty obscure in his day, but that deep rooted conservatism provided the counterweight to elevate his liberal and progressive vision.
All things being equal, I think such people would be inclined to vote Republican.
Thread Theorist
Wasn't that one of the things they found out in Washington State when the Republicans tried to steal the governorship? Most of the thugs I knew in my youth were Republicans. I remember one of them telling me she was making her living stealing clocks from summer cottages right before telling me that she was going to vote for Ford. She'd been to jail at least once before that I remember.
back for a moment
someone was defending clarence thomas??
What's the gag on LePetomaine?
Deacon Blues | 10.04.08 - 1:02 pm | #
He was an artist!!!!
Obama is looking GREAT in Virginia right now.
Black suit, nice black tie.
You know he got some lovin' last night from his wife.
Just a great cut, really well suited to Leavell's style...
I'll have to check it out.
The Les McCann version was a big hit on "underground" radio in the early 70s.
I actually saw McCann around '75 in, of all places, Stockton, CA! The only number I knew from him was "Compared to What".
ErinPDX. i like taking shit apart so that's how i do it. i even unplug it first.
Gallup-- O-50 M 42
Kos O-52 M-40
Ras O-51 M-45
Hotline O-48-M41
Average: McCain 42 Obama 50.25
someone was defending clarence thomas??
the resident texas aggie.
please whisper more of these sweet nothings in my ear kind sir!
*pssssst* - that's my pubic hair!
The last time I bought white vinegar "Not Made From Petroleum!" was on the label. Thought that was odd.
Our water is about to get nastier than usual when it starts cooling off and the lakes start turning over
He was an artist!!!!
steve hüssein® simels
He's an artist, a pioneer
We've got to have some music on the New Frontier.
-DF
"the resident texas aggie."
of course
had to be something like that
CNN is pimping 'Economy Hotline - Glenn Beck takes your calls'
Slim Pickins owns that - I think he's a better pick than Wayne. He's just loonier.
Sellers was also supposed to play that role, but he couldn't get the accent and was so freaked out about it, he feigned injury (a broken arm?) to keep from playing the part.
Legend has it Pickens wasn't told he was performing a comedic role.
Our water is about to get nastier than usual when it starts cooling off and the lakes start turning over
FireFox | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 1:22 pm | #
lake laniere is so low that the bottom is already the top.
Who the hell DEFENDS Clarence Thomas??????
Terry C, Obama/Biden 2008
a trool?
I was just asking what crime mr pubic hair might be in trouble for as was posted by david
and people ask why I'm a misanthrope
We need a good snowpack or the water could come from wells.
Obama live on MSNBC in Newport News, VA.
I'm telling you, he's looking confident and saying ALL the right things.
CNN is pimping 'Economy Hotline - Glenn Beck takes your calls'
Karatist Preacher
Wow, CNN's starting a low cost phone sex service?
kind of a waste of vinegar, though. 1:4 is plenty.
and be sure to use white. balsamic is right out.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Well, both of which recommendations I was about to make.
I'll just add one more: be sure to run plain water through at least three times before making the next pot of coffee.
"Glenn Beck" -- "More of A Dick Than Tucker Carlson!™"
Gallup-- O-50 M 42
Kos O-52 M-40
Ras O-51 M-45
Hotline O-48-M41
Average: McCain 42 Obama 50.25
Great to see that chirpy Palin made such a difference in the first post-VP debate tracking result. Wink-wink.
And the desperation....
Each post is more and more desperate.
Terry C, Obama/Biden 2008
Reminds me of the night in the Holy Grail who still wants to fight although he has no limbs left.
"You're a loony."
and people ask why I'm a misanthrope
necesity is a mother! | 10.04.08 - 1:23 pm | #
i assumed that it was because you aren't a married anthrope.
be sure to use white. balsamic is right out.
EEEEEEEWWWWW!!!
Legend has it Pickens wasn't told he was performing a comedic role.
dave™©
Wow. Just wow. Because he comes across as such a parody of himself. In a good - no, great - way.
But I'm not sure I could believe the legend, I mean, whoopin and hollerin waving his ten-gallon hat as he rides a nuclear bomb out of the bottom of the B-52? Who's not going to see that as comedic in the script?
Obama live on MSNBC in Newport News, VA.
He's going to carry Va. I just feel it.
And I live in a neighborhood run through with McCain/Palin signs.
this isn't good - The US government is cutting its funding for the supply of contraceptives to family planning clinics run by Marie Stopes International in Africa, alleging that it condones forced abortions in China.
MSI has categorically denied that it supports forced abortions or coercive sterilisation in China or anywhere else in the world, and says that the actions of the Bush government will result in more abortions in Africa, as women will be unable to get contraceptives and will end up with unwanted pregnancies.
One of George Bush's first acts after becoming president was to stop all US funds to foreign organisations that helped women in any way to get an abortion, including providing advice. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) lost $34m that Congress had appropriated for it in 2002.
In a letter to Dana Hovig, chief executive officer of MSI, based in London, the assistant administrator for global health at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Kent Hill, noted that MSI did not currently receive any funds from the US government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/
...danddevelopment
Even name-brand white vinegar is pretty reasonable, really.
And with more bad news on the economic front, McCain was to retreat to his Arizona ranch for the weekend, in a highly unusual disappearing act at the height of the campaign.
Must be phoning it in...
Great to see that chirpy Palin made such a difference in the first post-VP debate tracking result. Wink-wink.
Thread Theorist
She made such an ass of herself.
i think one guy invented deer whistles, head on, and that shit you spray on your head for baldness. that, or 3 different inventors going after the same demographic.
KNIGHT DAMMIT I CAN'T WORK AND LURK AT THE SAME TIME!
McCain, going down; one more time.
OK, time for my first nap of the weekend.
Enjoy the afternoon, bats.
Bruce? Oh Yeah! Bruce Tinsley, his comic is sooo funeeeeeeee ha ha! I would not miss him!
McCain was to retreat to his Arizona ranch for the weekend, in a highly unusual disappearing act at the height of the campaign.
It's probably the wisest move they've got. You realize, it's been more than a week since he's done something massively loopy? I'm getting worried they got his meds right or something.
The US government is cutting its funding for the supply of contraceptives to family planning clinics run by Marie Stopes International in Africa, alleging that it condones forced abortions in China.
If women had access to contraceptives, there would be a lot fewer abortions.
But rightards just do not seem to be able to grasp that fact.
i assumed that it was because you aren't a married anthrope.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
that would be ms.anthrope then
Legend has it Pickens wasn't told he was performing a comedic role.
I think Mel Brooks said that Frankie Lane didn't know the song was for a comedy.
McCain, going down; one more time.
plantsman
He can't be doing it right, cuz Cindy never looks very happy.
I used to have an incontinent cat--turns out vinegar is real good for getting the smell out of things.
Seems to me you could buy a gallon of cheap white vinegar for under 4 bucks. And you don't need near a gallon to clean a coffemaker.
dave: got the Les McCann version off iTunes; it's great. Thanks...
SHEETS
The last time Virginia went blue was the year that the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
KNIGHT DAMMIT I CAN'T WORK AND LURK AT THE SAME TIME!
Virginia, no, I'm working!
Kin....nigggggggggggggit!
Addiction to pornography,
If rotting to the brain,
Would have by now caused Thomas's
Head to completely drain.
This doesn't make me so depressed:
Though Thomas is here still, you
Can take a little solace from
The fact that smut won't kill you.
The last time Virginia went blue was the year that the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
MP
For LBJ.
That's what I thought.
You realize, it's been more than a week since he's done something massively loopy?
Acting like a magician doing a disappearing act is fairly loopy I would think...=P
I think Mel Brooks said that Frankie Lane didn't know the song was for a comedy.
atablarasa
Best movie theme evah!
Those lyrics are so over the top, he HAD to know! "He conquered fear and he conquered hate, he turned dark night into day, he made his blazing saddle, a torch to light the way!"
Via Wikipedia (and I've read the same in other places):
Fellow actor James Earl Jones recalls, "(Slim) was Major Kong on and off the set—he didn't change a thing—his temperament, his language, his behavior." According to some sources, the British film crew, unaware that that was the way he really behaved, thought Pickens was a method actor, and his mannerisms were his way of "finding" his performance for the character. Pickens was not told that the movie was a comedy and was only given the scenes he was in and not the entire script, in order to get him to play it "straight".
It's really the background music and the framing with the rest of the movie that gives Pickens' scenes their comedic flair. Kubrick shot those sequences in an ultra-realistic style (the scenes where the missle explodes near the plane are esp. harrowing).
But I'm not sure I could believe the legend,
i don't believe it either. pickens was a serious actor, i'm sure he read the script and probably the book.
it's just that kubrick (and sellars) understood that great comedy sometimes relies on playing the roles as though it is not.
Woody Allen made some movies that weren't comedies. Mel Brooks made a few comedies that weren't funny. Blazing Saddles wasn't one of them. Anybody in a Mel Brooks production knows that it's a comedy and that it's supposed to be funny.
Those lyrics are so over the top, he HAD to know! "He conquered fear and he conquered hate, he turned dark night into day, he made his blazing saddle, a torch to light the way!"
Deacon Blues | 10.04.08 - 1:31 pm | #
Frankie Laine was a hepster in real life...trust me, he got the joke.
Just listen to the way he sings the line "And Bart...was his name!"
Elections Canada sets up polling booths inside the prisons. Court order, some time back.
dirk gently, sociopathetic | Homepage | 10.04.08 - 1:02 pm | #
...
Not just one ginger but two! Beautiful children. (And I am doing the Greek 'protect them from evil eye' thing.)
please whisper more of these sweet nothings in my ear kind sir! thomas has broken the law? Which ones and when and there is proof of said malfeasance?
The hell you say!
necesity is a mother!
He hath committed perjury, in case you are interested, during his confirmation hearings in the Senate.
Thus far no one seems to be interested.
Things may change.
Jeebus,Chicago Dyke. Calamari fried?? I could never stand it, but we usta have a nice Spanish/Cuban restaurant in Miami (El Viajante) that served it stuffed and baked over a bed of rice with a martini and six montecillo olives. Very nice. Unfortunately, they widened 7th Street and tore the place down. Now I can't find it anywhere except fried (like eating sliced-up innertubes). Blech!
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