HULK SMASH
Peace
"I heard it round the beltway....."
it's like any other professional cult.
They build up relationships and shameless self and cross promotion is the norm
ror,
What about The Gate to Women's Country?
If we took all of the not insignificant Democratic campaign managers, sewed them into a cloth bag, and threw them over the side of a barge, it would not be a bad thing.
OK, I'll go say "Owls"
Repost...
Have not seen Stardust, however.
Speaking of a character named Stardust, here are some seriously fucked up comics...
http://www.themysterywalk.com/St...acter-
Page.html
Tim Johnson, wasn't it?
Just like Begala on the Ed Schultz show yesterday. Literally right after he said he has no conflict of interest pushing for HRC as a "CNN political expert" he tells Ed, "she treats me like one of the family. She called my wife right after the baby was born, and my father when he was in the hospital. We're like family." But nope, I'm not at all a biased political reporter.
If we took all of the not insignificant Democratic campaign managers, sewed them into a cloth bag, and threw them over the side of a barge, it would not be a bad thing.
The pollution could be catastrophic to the ecosystem. Shame on you.
Two firsts in a row for Hecate.
Good afternoon, my children.
The words "a very good friend" says it all.
Iggy is an ugly little dog, kind of.
Good afternoon, everyone 
This book talk reminds me that when I was taking lit courses in the late '70s, writers like John Barth and Jerzy Kosinski were teh hot.
I was OK with "Being There", although I thought the concept was better than the execution.
But I balked at "The Sot-Weed Factor"; I very dimly recall that it was written in a synthetic argot; IMO, it proved the point that writing in dialect is perilous and best done sparingly. The professor, or instructor, or whatever she was just loved the book, and claimed there were "jokes within jokes" on many levels, etc. I still think she gave me a lower grade for the course because I didn't play up to her enthusiasm for the book.
Real breakthrough stuff, supposedly. I'm not sure if they're still considered masterpieces, but I don't hear much about either writer any more. Incidentally, Vonnegut was dismissed out of hand as primitive dreck-- by faculty members, that is.
I know someone who's been a career English teacher and administrator in both high school and college, and I notice that he too seems to cozy up to certain writers. But it seems to do more with how much he likes "teaching" these authors, and how accepted or hyped they are by his peers.
When his son, a smart kid, was assigned Updike in high school, the guy announced, "Dan is reading Updike" clearly dropping the name as if he were announcing that Dan was accepted as a cello pupil by Yo-Yo Ma or something.
Jeebus Chripes on iceskates!
http://www6.comcast.net/news/art...cher.Sex.Abuse/
Feel free to name names Atrios.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Arthur Carlson
hahahahahahaah!
Funniest wkrp evah!!
Duane V | 10.20.07 - 2:03 pm
Thought that was Les Nessman?
Don't become a screenwriter, dude.
A friend of Democrats but not to Democrats, I guess.
Funny.
Jesus Christ, even the yeast for making bread is made in China.
ql optimist |
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that reminds me, I need to make a sourdough starter. There is going to be a dutch oven gathering (DOG) soon and I am making big loaves of sourdough bread.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Fearing Chaos, U.S. Officials Review Stance on Pakistan.
And yes, there is a "No one could have anticipated..." paragraph in here.
"we can't withdraw before 3000"-Shailagh Murray
Les Nessman LOVED CHEYE-CHEYE RODDRIGWEEZ!
"The" devil? There's only one?
I don't know, the "giant _lizzard is bearing down on St. Louis" episode is certainly on the list, if not first.
Shailagh Murray
I think Shailagh actually means "devil" in Celtic or some language that's close to same. Or is it a big stick with a knob on its end?
Shrum? Carville? Brazile? Estrich?
Can't go on-- beginning to throw up a little in my mouth.
Dutch over gathering?
A bunch of guys gathered around with their women and pulling the blanket over their heads when they fart? Dang!
I guess it's made the rounds that Limbaugh mocked Graeme Frost's speech impedident on his show yesterday according to COUNTDOWN. Obermann of course is going to get hell for referring to Limbaugy as a 'failed baseball executive'. Civility! Sir, we must have civility!
what I want to know is why Mrs. Dalloway is considered to be such an excellent tale. I couldn't develop any interest in the characters. They seemed to be cardboard cutouts moving through scenery, and maybe that was the point.
Look, the "professional politcal consultant" is just a subspieces of the most malignant, parasitic "profession" of all.
The marketing asshat.
Those who take some idiotic "trend" and conflate it into "the solution" to sell crap to the masses. Crap can be soap, it can be an automobile, or it can be political candidate. The idea is to sell, based on image, not substance. The purpose of soap is to clean you, not to make you tingle with cleanliness. The purpose of an automobile is to get you from point a to point b, not to attract a mate.
But then again, we live in a society where, as Fernando taught us, it is much more important to look good than to feel good.
But other current and former officials cautioned that the administration had invested so much in General Musharraf’s success that its leverage was now limited. Similarly, they and Pakistan experts said that a series of policy miscalculations had left the administration with few good options.
Isn't that just great news. 
But you have to have an actual policy in order for there to be a miscalculation, don't you?
I guess it was "moving in on" or something, not "bearing". But, whatever.
*oven
I hate this friggin' laptop
double negatives scare me.
from below and ot
Jesus Christ, even the yeast for making bread is made in China.
ql optimist | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 2:10 pm | #
It's a paralyzed vocal cord from the brain damage
Graeme suffered in the accident SCHIP covered him for. Limbaugh is so gleefully tasteless.
Shayla sha(y)-la is pronounced SHAY-lah. It is of Gaelic origin, and its meaning is "from the fairy palace". A variant of Sheila (Irish, Gaelic) "blind". Also possibly a short form of Micheala, from Michael (Hebrew) "who is like the Lord?" or a rhyming name based on Kayla.
Shayla has 12 variant forms: Shaela, Shae-lyn, Shaila, Shailagh, Shailyn, Shaylah, Shayleen, Shaylene, Shaylyn, Shaylynn, Shaylynne and Shealynn.
Names that sound like Shayla are Shyla, Sheyla and Shaylla.
Shayla is a popular female first name and a very rare surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census). Displayed below is the baby name popularity trend for the girl's name Shayla.
Limbaugh mocked Graeme Frost's speech impedident on his show yesterday
Well, that's what they've come to. Mocking the speech impediment of a 12 year old accident victim. It's sad
double negatives scare me.
oui oui
double negatives scare me.
You can't not be wrong about that.
But you have to have an actual policy in order for there to be a miscalculation, don't you?
What, cross your fingers and hope that the kettle on the boil does not explode even though you're boiling nitroglycirine isn't a policy?
res: I'm entirely flabbergasted at the idea that the Bushists might have overly embraced a marginal client, converting him to our only option in a volatile area. That's never before happened in the past, say, 60 years or so...
Hate to say it, but liberalism is a lost cause.
Everyone that we think may rely on to be the agent for change is himself/herself is a fascist. Some overt, some not so overt.
Why else would Nancy Pelosi rebuke Peter Stark for his fighting words?
That's not really a double negative. It's more like a negative, then another negative.
I participated in one of Murray's recent on-line chats for the Post. I kept sending in questions like, "How much could the Post save by firing Shailagh and just printing RNC talking points verbatim?" They finally posted something about how they were getting too many questions about the practice of journalism and those should be sent to Howie Kurtz instead.
So I asked why The Village was such a thoroughly corrupt place, both politically and socially. Murray took that one and answered something along the lines of, "Because everyone is spending someone else's money."
I figure you can interpret that one of two ways: either Murray was admitting to being on the take, a la Armstrong Williams, or Murray is too stupid to realize that I include the Beltway punditry as part of the corruption.
Video of the climax of the WKRP turkey drop episode...
http://video.google.com/videopla...earch&
plindex=0
even the yeast for making bread is made in China.
And we know how safe their food products are!
"Limbaugh mocked Graeme Frost's speech impediment"
Ignorant, evil fat fuck that he is.
Jesus Christ, even the yeast for making bread is made in China.
You could always ask Jeri Thompson to help ya out.
Okay, I'm really, really sorry I said that.
even the yeast for making bread is made in China.
I've been wondering about that. I wonder if sour dough works in this climate.
ProfWombat,
What is the definition of "insanity," again?
Also, your comment earlier about the NYT's wealth worship was spot-on.
Well, that's what they've come to. Mocking the speech impediment of a 12 year old accident victim. It's sad
Well, this is the shitstain who mocked Michael J Fox's Parkinson's, after all.
Uh...how much more proof do we need to understand that the Democrats can not be counted on to do the right thing or represent our interests ever?
A Russ Feingold or whoever notwithstanding, the party is almost hopeless.
A bunch of guys gathered around with their women and pulling the blanket over their heads when they fart? Dang!
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Oven..sorry, I need shorter fingernails or a new keyboard.
Actually, it takes place in an oak grove on the banks of the Blanco river. The oaks are turning and the cottonwoods have gone red. There is a cool breeze which blows the smoke over the mown fields...its a wonderful time. There is always more food than one can eat.
This time the theme is wild game. So I figured that wild yeast in the form of sourdough would qualify. I just have to trap some of my own.
Hey, Erin Burnett says China is our best friend.
Tim Johnson, wasn't it?
plantsman, areligious
Tim Reid
Carville? Brazile???
I think Shailagh actually means "devil" in Celtic or some language that's close to same. Or is it a big stick with a knob on its end?
_________________________________________
I think you're confusing "Shailagh" with "Rush".
But then again, we live in a society where, as Fernando taught us, it is much more important to look good than to feel good.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
¿Quién Fernando?
ror,
What about The Gate to Women's Country?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 2:05 pm | #
Now, there's an idea...
What brand of yeast? Fleischmann's? Red Star?
Mother Carlson is a personal hero of mine.
Moe,
If you've got a warm spot by the oven, I think you can do sourdough. SF's not exactly warm and they're known for sourdough. I used to have a great starter; but it did require you to make a lot of sourdough regularly
One of our favorite double negatives: it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
There's a story about Sidney Morgenbesser, a (wonderful) philosophy professor, who heard a lecturer wax wroth on the notion that there are many linguistic examples of double negatives advanced as positives--'No, no, really? Wow!', for instance--but none of double positives advanced as negatives. Morgenbesser shook his head, and muttered, so everybody could hear him, a disgusted, 'Yeah, yeah.'
Rorsch, I'm sure you have "Chicken Soup for the Soul" on your list, right?
Well, that's what they've come to. Mocking the speech impediment of a 12 year old accident victim. It's sad
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
As my Mom likes to say, HIS life isn't over yet. He doesn't know what is in store for HIM down the road.
And what goes around DOES come around.
I hope that's true in Limpballs' case BIG TIME.
Yeah, "best friends" always try to give kids lead poisoning.
The captain on the jetliner was named Wong, and just before takeoff he was stricken with a digestive ailment and he handed the contols over to the co-pilot, also named Wong. He also had eaten the same bad batch of clams, so the flight was cancelled.
Moral of the story: Two Wongs don't make a Flight.
I just made that up.
Okay, I'm really, really sorry I said that.
watertiger | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 2:18 pm | #
Go to your room, young lady...
Off to soccer game...they're old enough so there's actually position play and passing; fun to watch...
Uh...how much more proof do we need to understand that the Democrats can not be counted on to do the right thing or represent our interests ever?
It has been blatantly obvious to me for some time now, Steve.
Hecate-- we set our furnace for 12 Commie degrees overnight-- something like 55 Freedom degrees, I think. Would that work?
ror,
What about The Gate to Women's Country?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 2:05 pm | #
Now, there's an idea...
rorschach, meh | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 2:20 pm | #
I was also thinking about He, She, and It.
Also, perhaps, The Female Man by Joanna Russ.
Okay, I'm really, really sorry I said that.
watertiger
Ewww. Now you've woken up the cat.
..
Limbaugh mocked Graeme Frost's speech impedident on his show yesterday
________________________________________
It's even funnier when he does his impression of Michael J. Fox doing an impression of Graeme.
Bonjour!
this is brilliant and it's EXACTLY how Henriette wakes me up on a saturday morning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1.../cute_overload/
and you?
res: well, psychosis is defined as a defect in reality testing. There's a lot of philosophical agrument there, but it's in DSM like that...
Rorsch, I'm sure you have "Chicken Soup for the Soul" on your list, right?
watertiger | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 2:21 pm | #
Well, if I didn't, I'd be downright motherfucking unChristian, now, wouldn't I?
Also, "Left Behind."
There is comedic value in watching the younger kids play soccer....a huge wad of legs all trying to kick the ball at once
I thought insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Have fun at soccer!
your conversation was very like the best bit of dialog in the great Paul Newman film, The Verdict:
Mickey Morrissey: [Mickey is trying to convince Frank not to take the case to trial] Do you know who the attorney for the Archdiocese is? Ed Concannon!
Frank Galvin: He's a good man...
Mickey Morrissey: He's a good man? Heh, heh, he's the Prince of fucking Darkness![...]
Apparently Michael J. Fox proved to difficult an opponent so Limpdick chose a target he thought he could beat. And he still lost. What an asshole.
plantsman
Fleischmann's
Moe, sourdough actually does better in a cool climate. It allows the flavors to develop more slowly. Hecate is right though, you will be making lots of pancakes, bread etc. once you get a starter going. I once accidentally left mine outside in 32* weather and it came right back with a little warm water and flour.
Mmmm... Warm water and flour...
A campaign manager (particularly one who is also a media consultant) makes a huge slice of his pay from making nice with the media.
I hate dusting.
Especially for vomit.
Mmmm... Warm water and flour...
rorschach, meh |
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a little oil....
Hecate-- we set our furnace for 12 Commie degrees overnight-- something like 55 Freedom degrees, I think.
32+1.8*12= 53.6 F
therealhellkitty-- thanks. I'll look into it.
So I wonder if all the different Pakistan initiatives were never coordinated because the person running each initiative wanted to steal from it in peace.
I hate dusting.
Especially for vomit.
watertiger | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 2:28 pm | #
I think that's a different verb. Dusting is about the dust.
Cleaning up vomit... that's a whole 'nother thing.
32+1.8*12= 53.6 F
Richard
Like I said, something like 55 degrees.
You know, some days I really miss Katie Winters and Manners the Butler.
A campaign manager (particularly one who is also a media consultant) makes a huge slice of his pay from making nice with the media.
Sleeping with the enemy.
a little oil....
therealhellkitty | 10.20.07 - 2:29 pm | #
Are you asking me out? Cuz if so, yes. 
Why is cleaning up dust called dusting while cleaning up vomit is not called vomiting?
plum
That is so funny that I laughed out loud.
So I wonder if all the different Pakistan initiatives were never coordinated because the person running each initiative wanted to steal from it in peace.
res ipsa loquitur
That's certainly a large part of it, I'm sure, given this administration.
Still, I wonder if we just plain got played. The Good General discovered that having those religious folks raising cain in his country was getting tiresome, and all he needed was a sugar daddy to help get rid of them without looking like a despot.
Especially for vomit.
--
aging it a bit helps, if it is in the far corner behind the piano
Okay, what did he do NOW???
"Another idiot member of my party AGAIN thinks he can beat Hillary by acting like a homophobic moron and appealing to a base that is not even his own. I was always a little weary of Obama, and now my suspicions are confirmed. Fuck him. I hope he chokes on this. Let him run as VP with Mittens Romney. That's the kind of hell he deserves. Reaching out to "values voters" in an unconventional manner. Hey, Obama, kiss my fat gay ass in an unconventional manner. And he has some fucknut "ex-gay" appearing with him besides. I can see the contributions drying up already. Boy, this is one helluva gift to Hillary. When are the Dems going to understand that the only way these batshit crazy right-wing Christo-fascist mother-fuckers are ever going to support the Democratic Party is if every Dem candidate gives up every principle we have supported for the last 75 years? Fuck you, Barack. Yeah, FUCK YOU!"
Dom
Moe,
I'd give it a try; if it dies, you're not out too much.
Cleaning up vomit... that's a whole 'nother thing.
Not according to Spinal Tap.
Why is cleaning up dust called dusting while cleaning up vomit is not called vomiting?
spinoza Neque lugare, neque in
That's sickening.
Why is cleaning up dust called dusting while cleaning up vomit is not called vomiting?
spinoza Neque lugare, neque in | 10.20.07 - 2:31 pm | #
Exactly my point!
And if cleaning up dust is dusting, then what hell is all this shit in our houses called "sweep" and "mop"!
What is sweep? What is mop? And what is it doing to our children?
Okay, Hecate, I will.
I gotta go. Later.
That is so funny that I laughed out loud.
Hecate
innit!
i've some more silly cats in my bag, you know
http://icanhascheezburger.com/20...t-eatz-spinach/
the car mechanic cat
Zogby reports that the number of likely voters who state they will NEVER vote for Hillary Clinton has now reached %50.
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNe...ews.dbm?
ID=1376
Lovely.
It's not too late to get a better candidate, is it?
ql optimist, we get our yeast at the local food coop.
It's also very fresh.
Plum, that explains the bruises on my shins!
the Gitmo cat:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/20...07/10/19/now-u/
plum - got both mr. ql & me laughing out loud.
the too-cute-for-words kittens:
http://ittybittykittycommittee.b...e.blogspot.com/
Are you asking me out? Cuz if so, yes.
rorschach, meh |
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10.20.07 - 2:31 pm | # too bad there isn't an icon for a cryptic smile.
the i-love-dental-flossing cat:
http://www.dailykitten.com/archi...385-
brutus.html
Frost family is refusing to back down. I'm sure Pelosi and Reid will begin criticizing them soon.
too bad there isn't an icon for a cryptic smile.
therealhellkitty | 10.20.07 - 2:36 pm | #
But on the other hand, "cryptic smile" has a nice ring to it.
It's not too late to get a better candidate, is it?
Addison | 10.20.07 - 2:34 pm | #
I don't know if you guys saw the piece in this week's NYPress, but it's pretty much a done deal that Bloomberg's gonna declare to run for pres as an independent early next year.
He's willing to spend up to a billion on the race.
And unlike Perot, he's got a record to run on.
I think he actually could win...
I have no new kitty pics, but I have this
http://a687.ac-
images.myspacecdn...d5877baf40e.jpg
the too-cute-for-words kittens:
http://ittybittykittycommittee.b...e.blogspot.com/
plum p, plummy pudding
The kitty named Nenna that is "adoptable" looks as though she has a LOT of Siamese ancestry.
She looks like one of my next door neighbor's kitties, who is half-Siamese.
Will you guys keep it down? I'm sick and you're all being too loud.
Apparently Michael J. Fox proved to difficult an opponent so Limpdick chose a target he thought he could beat.
As I recall, Matt Lauer on the Today show joined in with Limbaugh and suggested that Fox was acting to exaggerate his symptoms, as if Fox had only just started showing the effects of the disease recently.
There is video of Fox from ten fucking years ago where his Parkinson's symptoms were obvious.
the "kittens-and-babies-are-the-same" cats:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
pages...in_page_id=1770
Will you guys keep it down? I'm sick and you're all being too loud.
Thers, Last Ethical Man | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 2:39 pm | #
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Matt Lauer on the Today show joined in with Limbaugh
Matt Lauer makes me sick.
And someone bring me ginger ale and saltines.
Steve, I don't know anything about Bloomberg what is he like?
Will you guys keep it down? I'm sick and you're all being too loud.
Thers, Last Ethical Man
But DaaaaaaAD! We're booooorrrrred!
not a cryptic smile, but it usually works for me
http://www.dawggpownd.net/phpbb/...s/
quagmire2.gif
Srry if I haven't been reading the background, but my superior deductive reasoning skills tells me that it was Thers that puked behind Watertiger's piano last night.
I still haven't figured out the weapon yet.
And someone bring me ginger ale and saltines.
Thers,
Sounds like someone had a wee bit too much last night.
My grandmother (the Quaker one) would always vacuum under the bed when grandpa was trying to recover.
I don't know anything about Bloomberg what is he like?
Someone who can run as both a dem and a repub.
Perfect candidate. He'll get all the votes.
And someone bring me ginger ale and saltines.
Thers, Last Ethical Man | Homepage | 10.20.07 - 2:40 pm | #
Here ya go, darlin'.
Plus, you totally missed my "Help me build a Modern American Literature reading list" thingy.
Matt Lauer is the one guy dumb enough to look when Chimp said, "Now watch this drive."
And someone bring me ginger ale and saltines.
Thers, Last Ethical Man |
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10.20.07 - 2:40 pm | #
I have a nice pot of cabbage and turnip soup with bacon...won't you have some?
I don't know anything about Bloomberg what is he like?
Rich white guy (albeit one who used to get high).
Do you need to know any more?
the Jeffraham cats
http://jprestonian.blogspot.com/...ay-
kittehs.html
Steve, I don't know anything about Bloomberg what is he like?
A smart, pragmatic, reasonably liberal billionaire businessman.
We could do worse....
I have a nice pot of cabbage and turnip soup with bacon...won't you have some?
therealhellkitty | 10.20.07 - 2:42 pm | #
Damn, you gettin' all Twin Peaks on his ass.
Isn't Bloomberg net worth more than all than all the other candidates' combined?
And unlike Perot, he's got a record to run on.
At least as much of a record as Giuliani does...
We can't keep electing rich guys and expect them to give a shit about us plebes
Do you need to know any more?
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Not really...I do know that a lot of southerners won't vote for a yankee. And keep your eyes open...I think that Rick "the Haircut" Perry is angling for a veep position with the Giuliani campaign.
I think Kay Bailey Huchinson knows more than she's saying...all that talk of coming to TX and running for governor.
Run Bloomberg, run. New York mayor versus ex-New York mayor versus New York Senator.
The other 49 states will be spellbound.
Matt Lauer makes me sick.
It's funny, as he's lost his hair, it seems like he's been getting progressively stupider and wingnut.
Makes you wonder if there's a connection.
Conscientious liberal owls.
now i have to go buy kitty litter
au revoir!
PS: one last cat for the road.
the "cat eating Dr. Hibbert head" cat
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/inde...php?
itemid=5524
see ya tonite,folks
Copperfield, what's your real name?
You'll have to give it up when they book your ass.
Damn, you gettin' all Twin Peaks on his ass.
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10.20.07 - 2:44 pm | #
just another step on the road to a stable horizontal hold/
Frost family is refusing to back down. I'm sure Pelosi and Reid will begin criticizing them soon.
cosmosis
How nice of them to run such effective interference for Bush and Cheney!